Infinite Mask Game

Chapter 1 The Trolley Dilemma
"Have a nice dance!"

A brisk female voice sounded, followed by a magnetic and deep male voice.

"The mask on the mask may just release one's own nature."

As soon as the words fell, Wei Miao's eyes were blinded by darkness.

When the field of vision was restored, Wei Miao found that she had already transitioned from the initial login interface of Zhanlan to a tram car.

She was the only passenger in the empty carriage.The tram was running smoothly, and outside the window was the same scene of trees. Looking at the twilight, it was evening.

Wei Miao straightened the gray rabbit headgear, although it was a headgear, but it looked lifelike, with blood-red eyes rolling, taking a panoramic view of the surrounding environment.

An electronic screen was suspended from the ceiling above the front. At this moment, a dim blue light suddenly lit up and began to play the video.

On the screen, a man wearing a full-face silver and white gentleman mask is wearing a black tuxedo, standing on the stage.Three spotlights shone on him, but there was nothing around him, only deep darkness.

He reached for his top hat and greeted the audience in front of the screen.After putting back on the top hat, he held a stick in both hands, and began with an enthusiastic tone: "Welcome to "Masquerade Ball" for the first time, everyone! The ball has already begun, and the mask will perform the disguise!"

Accompanied by the words are rich body movements, fully mobilizing the audience's passion.

"We are about to play the first ball game, and it is also your novice guide. You can regard me as the host of the ball." He raised a finger, "Let's make a choice, a very simple choice."

"There are five players on the tram. Now, the tram is about to pass a fork in the road, and there are three roads ahead."

He raised his cane with his right hand, and at one point in the darkness, a square screen appeared, on which the image of the track in front of the tram was played.

"Ten children are sleeping on the track to the left."

The square screen cuts to focus on a track occupied by ten sleeping children.

They sleep sweetly, about seven or eight years old, lying in the middle of the track, innocent and ignorant, completely unaware of what fate they are about to meet.

"The straight road leads to a cliff. In other words, if the road does not change, the tram will rush into the abyss without hesitation."

Wei Miao saw the cliff at the end of the track, and the track between this side and the opposite cliff was cut off from it for some reason, so that when the tram passed by, it could only slide down to the darkness below.The fracture is bent downward and deformed, and it does not look like natural damage.

"On the track to the right are seven waking children."

The screen followed the words to the camera.Seven children in cute costumes sat quietly in the center of the track, facing the screen, staring straight at the camera, as if they could see the audience outside the screen.

They are sober for their trial which will soon follow.

"The choice of the tram's route is in your hands. No matter what choice the five players make, it will be regarded as clearing the level, but the tram will drive to its ending according to the choice of the majority."

On the solidified silver-white mask, the originally smiling expression looked a little mocking at the moment: "However, those who make the most choices will get extra rewards."

"There are two buttons on the armrest on your left, which represent left and right respectively. If you don't press any button, you choose to go straight. You have 3 minutes to make a choice. If a 1:2:2 In the case of the same vote, one of the same vote options will be randomly selected for execution, and everything will be left to God."

The cadenced tone seems a little passionate: "At the end, I kindly remind that in the game, the absolute sense of reality is our commitment, and the death experience is no exception."

"Then everyone, press the button of life and death!"

The lingering sound of the last sentence is still echoing in the carriage, but the electronic screen has switched to the countdown interface.

The scarlet 3:00 countdown ticks away, giving people an extremely depressing feeling.

Wei Miao leaned on the soft cushion on the back of the chair, her blood-colored eyes were lifeless, lost in thought.

It is really unexpected that the novice guide will torture the soul as soon as it comes up. The complexity of this problem has exceeded the range that logic can predict.

If the three options are just to torture human nature, then the additional rewards give players a more utilitarian thinking direction, shifting the focus from "human nature" to "what most people will choose", with elements of psychological games.

However, human beings are too complicated a species, especially when it comes to the soul, so it's hard to say that I must have hit the other person's mind.

For Wei Miao, if the direction of the tram is only determined by herself, then this problem is very simple.

Both left and right lanes can be chosen, the only one not to choose is the straight lane.

It's not because she is selfish, but because her perspective is more detached.

She makes choices from the perspective of a "player".As the main body of the game, the player will suffer, be angry, and be happy... To a certain extent, it is a collection of data and spirit.

But what do these kids have?In essence, they are a series of cold data, only simulating the appearance of people. Can this be called "human"?

"Put people first", Wei Miao's heart tends to be left and right.

However, the problem came to the players.Virtual reality gives people an unparalleled sense of immersion in the scene. When faced with this problem, players cannot jump out of the shackles of the given scene and think about the problem from the perspective of the player. Instead, it is regarded as a simulation of the real scene, which is also the original intention of the dungeon.

So, how will the players who "live and die" with her choose?

Gray Rabbit scratched her long ears, which showed that she was in a tangle.

Do you choose to take the five people in the same car together for a "death experience", or suffer from the so-called conscience, and choose the left and right?
There is not only a difference in the number of people between the left and the right, but also the difference in the state of death - some people die in a daze in their sleep, some people feel the breath of death blowing in front of their eyes, how to choose?
Time passed by, Wei Miao glanced at the bright red countdown of a few seconds on the screen, motionless like a sculpture.

The left and right arrow buttons on the left armrest had a strange luster, the speed of the tram was steady, and the scenery outside the window was elongated and distorted like an oil painting.

0: 03.

0: 02.

0: 01.

0: 00!

The tram skipped the left and right lanes, flew straight, and jumped into the cliff amidst the screams of the carriage mixed with the screams.

In the darkness that could not be pierced by screams, Wei Miao first heard a deafening crash, and the tram under her body trembled and fell apart. Immediately unconscious.

When she came back to her senses, she had stretched from the perspective of No.1 to the perspective of God in the sky.

A pile of ruins that don't look like a tram are scattered at the bottom of the cliff, and the figures wearing various hoods or masks are bloody and bloody.

Immediately, the camera zooms out and focuses on the children sleeping in a row on the left track.I saw them open their scarlet eyes, grin their mouths, and hideous smiles appeared on their cute faces, with a contrasting sense of evil.

Pointy horns grew from their foreheads, and miniature bat wings stretched out from their backs, flapping and flying towards the distant twilight amidst a strange laughter.

The camera cuts again, this time on the right track.The children who were sitting in a daze raised strange smiles. Above their heads, a misty white smoke was generated out of thin air, and finally merged together to form a black and white screen like an old documentary.

On the screen, the seven children came to the track above the cliff, carrying a sledgehammer that did not match their figures at all.

They raised their hammers and hit the track near the opposite bank first, until the track bent and deformed, and finally broke.They went back to the track at the cliff and smashed down again, and finally, the broken track in the middle fell to the bottom of the cliff.

They threw the hammer off the cliff again, walked back along the track, turned to the right track, and found a place to sit down obediently.

The children on both sides look cute and innocent, innocent and pitiful, but behind the scenes they are either demons or weird "bear children"!
The host's laughter creaked: "Congratulations for making the final decision. Among them, three chose the straight lane, one chose the right lane, and one chose the left lane."

"The end is as you have seen, you are dead. And the seemingly innocent children are actually the embodiment of the devil and the culprit."

There was a palpable schadenfreude in his laugh.

Wei Miao became interested in the "mask" concept promoted by this game, and even a novice guide publicized its own theme in a unique way.

"Appearance is the worst disguise. People who can't even see through the skin can't dance to the end at the ball."

This is what is written in the slogan of the official website.

The host left a last sentence: "The game is over, I wish you a happy dance party!"

The afterglow of dusk is swallowed by the horizon, and the world is entering night.Wei Miao's field of vision slowly dimmed, accompanied by strange laughter coming from afar.

When it was turned on again, Wei Miao came to a space that looked like a fitting room, about ten square meters in size, and directly in front of it was a retro floor-to-ceiling mirror with a frame decorated with gilt patterns.

One of the outstanding advantages of "Masquerade Ball" is that its transitions are very smooth, the immersive experience is full, and it has a taste of black technology.

This place is obviously a personal space. There is a red leather upholstered seat with a gold frame in the corner, and there is a row of clothes racks beside it. The ceiling is about four meters high, and a piece of leather paper is nailed with tacks to the wall next to the mirror.

Wei Miao stood in front of the mirror, the gray rabbit headgear was firmly placed on her head, but she didn't feel oppressed or uncomfortable, but looked around as usual, shaking her head, as if it was integrated with her head.

The black suit in the initial configuration is neatly put on the thin body, and the red bow tie is solemnly tied at the neckline.Wei Miao has not adjusted her height, and her figure of about 160cm makes her look like a doll in a cartoon. In addition, she chose "neutral" in the gender item when creating a character, and the head-to-shoulder ratio is a little funny.

She took off the leather paper on the wall, on which was written the basic information of her character in gorgeous Gothic script.

[ID: Mr. Gray Rabbit]

【Gender: Neutral】

[Mask: Gray Rabbit (0)]

[Camouflage factor: 0]

【Identifier: 0】

【Prom Level: Mask】

[Game currency: 100 (additional reward for novice guidance)]

　Hope you all like my work!Let's talk about the tone, unlimited streaming, no cp, slightly dark, and the camp is chaotic and neutral.There are male supporting roles, but no stocks, but in the game, who knows whether a person is male or female?
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