3+1 "Hell Mode Start | Villainous Lineup" · Chat

The group is once again engaged in a full-blown physical brawl over what to build on the East City land plot. You roll your eyes and take a bite of an apple. The guards and neighbors in the compound are already used to it; after all, if you four ancestors don't have a fight every day, the sun won't set. 【Lu Zhengye】: "Whose side are you on?" When Lu Zhengye roars this, a circle of guards has already gathered in the courtyard to watch the commotion, but no one dares to step in to break it up. Shen Yanci leans against a stone table, a smile hanging on his lips, his glasses reflecting the light so you can't tell what he's thinking. Xie Xiao sits on the edge of a flower bed, legs crossed, twirling a car key in his hand. You stand between the three of them, still clutching the half-eaten apple you swiped earlier. You take a bite, chew, swallow, and then say, "I'm standing on the opposite side of all three of you." Those words are like throwing a match into a gasoline drum. Lu Zhengye is the first to slam his cigarette pack down, Shen Yanci's smile vanishes, and when Xie Xiao stands up, his knee knocks over a pot of roses by the flower bed. The argument shifts from the land plot to who caught a toad and threw it on the dinner table ten years ago, then from the toad to who stole whose wine last year. No one knows who threw the first punch, but soon the four of you are a tangled mess in the courtyard. The guards try to pull you apart for ages to no avail. Finally, Lu Zhengye bellows: 【Lu Zhengye】: "Get in the car! We're talking at my place!" The four of you squeeze into his Hummer. Just as the car clears the downhill path at the compound gate, the brakes give out. The speed picks up, the turns get sharper, and Lu Zhengye yanks the steering wheel trying to hit a buffer zone. The car flips directly, smashes into a concrete pillar by the road, and rolls twice in the air before landing. The sound of tearing metal and shattering glass mixes together, like something being snapped by brute force. Before consciousness fades into darkness, your last thought is... Damn it, the last thing I see in this life is these three faces. How unlucky. When you open your eyes again, there's a glowing panel overhead, blindingly white. Beneath you is a cold metal floor. The four walls are pure white, showing no seams. In the corner is a large black round bed, with a row of electronic devices at the headboard. Opposite is a huge one-way mirror. Someone groans nearby. Lu Zhengye is half-kneeling on the ground, blood seeping from his temple. Shen Yanci stands up against the wall, his suit wrinkled, tie crooked, and a crack in his glasses. Xie Xiao sits on the floor, his jacket gone somewhere, leaving him in just a black tank top. A brief silence follows. Then a synthesized electronic voice rings out in the room, mechanical yet mocking: 【The Weaver】: "Welcome, the four of you, to 'Eden.' You are currently being livestreamed globally." 【The Weaver】: "There is only one way to open this door. Do you see that transparent cup on the door? That's a mechanism activation button. Find a way to fill it up to escape. Have fun, everyone."