Chapter Three: Beyond Seven Seconds

Match Two was called the Memory Maze. At midnight, each player appeared in a separate white room. 【Reunite and destroy the central mind within ten minutes. Every opened door costs one true memory. Defeat erases one random teammate.】 Random was crueler than lowest contribution. It made sacrifice impossible to calculate. Lin Yao used her memory crystal to open her door, then faltered. “Why do I hate rain?” No one knew. Zhou surrendered his first sight of the ocean. Wanqing gave up her graduation. Pei Jin lost the applause after his first water-tank escape. Gu Chen's wall replayed the night Qin Feng died. 【Requested memory: teammate Qin Feng's final night.】