Soul echo

Chapter 636 Magic City

After leaving the building of Elf Mall, Qi Jingshu walked into a dark world.

Here, you can't see the sky when you look up, but only the square floor extending from the middle of the building.

Intertwined neon lights illuminate the lower city, and mottled asphalt and cement form the ground streets. Such streets are definitely not flat, but the people living here have long been used to these things.

It's night now, but Qi Jingshu thinks that even in the daytime, this place will look like this.

Neon lights are not the only light source here, as there are cars speeding by on the road from time to time, and smart devices in people's hands also emit light.

The number of people on the ground in New York is not less than the number on the upper floors, but compared to the people on the higher floors, they are somewhat shameless and don't use 'drugs' in broad daylight, but the New Yorkers on the ground don't care so much.

They will use 'drugs' on the street and ignore the side effects no matter what.

—'Let's have fun' is the best description of these New Yorkers.

Qi Jingshu walked among those drug addicts, frowning slightly on her face behind the mask.

The mask helped her block out all the smells, so she couldn't smell the smells emanating from those addicts, but the way they swayed from side to side was really hard to see.

Not only the people on the street, but even the staff in the shops on both sides of the street are using 'drugs',
However, they are all equipped with auxiliary brains, which can cut off all the pleasure when the guests arrive, which also leads to their bad temper and poor service attitude.

Even so, they will not be fired because they have a large and bloated institution behind them-the union.

As long as they pay dues on time, they will always be members of the trade union and enjoy the benefits brought to them by the union.

In Qi Jingshu's eyes, changing the name of the union in New York to "Gang" and changing the "membership fee" to "protection fee" did not feel inconsistent.

"Hey! Girl, come here."

Two gangsters on the street yelled at Qi Jingshu. After speaking, the person who spoke couldn't help laughing with his friends.

Qi Jingshu stopped and walked towards the two gangsters.

The eyes of the two gangsters lit up, and they couldn't wait to take off their pants.

Qi Jingshu walked up to them, turned her palms over, took out the electric shock baton, and slammed it on the head of one of them, knocking him to the ground, then raised her leg and kicked the other person in the crotch, causing that person to faint in pain past.

After doing these actions, she turned and left without saying a word.

People around who watched the whole process burst into laughter, and some ran to the two fallen punks to take selfies.

Some backhanded Biye, some stepped on the two thugs, and soon the two thugs woke up, but then they yelled at the people around them, and they didn't expect people to explode at once, and immediately swarmed up , knocking them out again.

Even with a weapon on her body and good skills, Qi Jingshu still chose to walk on the avenue as much as possible.

Darkness and neon lights of various colors alternated on her body, and Qi Jingshu silently observed everything in this place.

Da da da!
At this moment, there was a sudden gunshot, and Qi Jingshu hurriedly hid behind a pillar in fright. She turned her head to look in the direction of the gunshot, and saw a small shop across the street.

The store was brightly lit, and with the help of the light, she saw the store owner in body armor holding a rifle in his right hand, and dragging a dead body out of the store with his left hand that had been replaced with a prosthetic.

The store owner randomly dumped the corpse into the alley next to the store, which was full of garbage wrapped in black plastic bags. A layer of black plastic bags.

The street panicked for a moment, then returned to normal.

Qi Jingshu was also silent for a moment, and then she started to walk towards her destination.

A few minutes later, Qi Jingshu came to the front of a five-story building, and opened the door of the building with a smart watch bought from a vending machine earlier.

——She used this watch to contact the hackers of the Confederate States of America before. There is a program sent by the hackers in the watch, and the door of this building can be opened by using that program.

Unlike the streets outside where there is only darkness and neon signs, the interior of this building is filled with light.

Just after Qi Jingshu entered, a distorted voice came out from the speaker at the door: [Ms. Qi Jingshu, please board the elevator. 】

Hearing this, Qi Jingshu's muscles tensed up, and she hurriedly grabbed the stun gun in her backpack with her backhand.

[You can rest assured that we have a common goal, so you don't have to worry about us hurting you. 】

[I can honestly explain to you that the reason why you were introduced here was not a coincidence, it was deliberate - since you started investigating the Phantom Company, we have been paying attention to you. 】

what?
Qi Jingshu's face changed behind the mask. Since then, have you been paying attention to her?What is she interested in?
【Your investigation method is very clumsy. If it weren't for our help to cover it up, you might have been discovered by the phantom company long ago. 】

Hearing this, Qi Jingshu frowned even more.

What exactly are they trying to do?Why help her cover up?

[Now you must be wondering why we did this, and what are the benefits of doing this—about these questions, please board the elevator, and I will answer them one by one when you are in front of me. 】

[Of course, if you want to leave, that's fine too, it's just that what we did also involved 'Zhong Ye', I hope you...]

Before the voice could finish speaking, Qi Jingshu let out a breath and walked towards the elevator.

Ding!
Before Qi Jingshu reached the elevator door, the elevator door opened automatically. When she walked in, she found that there was no button in the elevator.

However, when Qi Jingshu stood firm, the elevator started automatically, closed the door, and began to ascend.

The elevator came to the fifth floor before it stopped and opened the door.

After the elevator door opened, what appeared in front of Qi Jingshu was an extremely spacious and luxurious apartment.

The floor is paved with brown wooden boards, a long sofa is placed in the middle of the living room, and there is a coffee table in front of the sofa. Besides, there are several lazy sofas placed randomly.

There is a bar counter on the right hand side of the entrance, and the wall on the left hand side is concave, and a shoe cabinet is embedded in it.

When Qi Jingshu came here and stepped on the doormat, a robot woke up next to her and brought her a pair of guest slippers.

Qi Jingshu put on her slippers and walked into this luxurious apartment.

She didn't see half a figure in the living room, and just as she was about to ask, the door of a room opened.

"Welcome to my home, Ms. Qi."

Qi Jingshu turned her head and saw a young black man sitting on a suspended wheelchair.

The young black man drove the wheelchair to the living room, clicked his finger on the armrest, and the monitor hung on the wall started up.

"Let me introduce you to our organization."

The monitor screen flickered for a moment and jumped to a video conference.

Dozens of faces appeared on the monitor at the same time, and Qi Jingshu glanced quickly over those faces, and found a familiar face among them.

"We come from all walks of life, but without exception, we are all "Echo of Soul" players."

The young black man turned his head to look at Qi Jingshu, with a serious expression, and said: "Then, during the process of playing, we discovered the weirdness of the game "Echo of Souls", that is 'reality'!
"That game is so real, it's so real that it's like another world. Many of us are curious about it, so we tried to pick up the source code of "Echo of Soul". At this time, we noticed that Something is wrong."

Qi Jingshu raised her eyebrows. She doesn't know much about programming. Although she has learned some, she can't detect the secret of "Echo of Soul" like these hackers.

"—We couldn't find the server of "Echo of Soul" at all!"

"What?" Qi Jingshu was stunned.

Even though she doesn't know much about programming, she knows that any online game needs a server. If there is no server, the player's data cannot be stored, the real-time calculation of the game cannot be performed, and the players cannot connect to each other.

The basis of online games lies in the server, so it is impossible for there to be no server.

"It's not just me." The young black man pointed to himself, and then to other people on the monitor, "It's all of us, 'none' can't find the server of "Echo of Souls"!"

(End of this chapter)