midnight ten

The last time Tang Lin was poached was a few years ago.At that time, the company had made some achievements, and everyone in the circle knew that he, the chief financial officer, was actually half of the company's partner. As a result, a kid who had just joined the headhunting company found his phone number and called him to ask if he wanted to Job hopping?

He just thought it was funny at the time, didn't take it seriously, and soon forgot about it.I don't want to think that a few days later, the boss of a headhunting company who I know and have a good relationship insists on inviting him to dinner, and he is a little strangely attentive.

After going to the appointment, he heard from the inside and outside of the other party's words that the hoodwinked kid belonged to their company, and he was apologizing for his ignorant employees.

It was just a phone call, Tang Lin felt that the other party was a little too serious, and later found out that on the second day after he answered the poaching call, Mr. Fan specially invited the boss to dinner and had an in-depth chat. Whether the chief financial officer needs to change jobs.

After that, Tang Rin never received a call from a headhunter, not even a misunderstanding.

until today.

Yu Fei asked, do you want to join the explorer?

Tang Lin's first reaction was to look over the opponent's shoulder to see if Fan Peiyang heard him.Fortunately, there is still some distance from the two people here, and the two people who were concentrating on eating didn't look up from the beginning to the end.

Yu Fei noticed his gaze, looked back, and saw Fan Peiyang at a glance—eating steak in the rest area, and it was elegantly served with an ice bucket and red wine, it was hard not to notice.

He turned his eyes back and teased Tang Rin: "Afraid of being heard?"

"You came to invite me, what am I afraid of," Tang Lin retorted confidently, and then turned around naturally and smoothly, "Let's chat in another place."

Yu Fei: "..."

rest area.

Fan Peiyang put down the knife and fork, and looked up at the direction in which the two disappeared, with a gloomy expression.

Huo Xu held half a piece of bread in his mouth, squinted at him, and said mockingly, "Your captain asked you to force me to join the team, but he himself is going to run away with others."

"It's not 'force', it's 'please'." Fan Peiyang corrected Huo Xu's wording.

Huo Xu tugged at the corner of his mouth in disdain: "Oh."

Fan Peiyang looked at the bandaged young man for a few seconds, and suddenly said: "You have a character that doesn't answer anyone, just give him half."

Who?Divorce Tang Rin?

Before Huo Xu could figure out whether to praise him or scold him, Fan Peiyang got up, left the dining table and walked out of the rest area.

Huo Xu was stunned, and lowered his eyes to look at the half of the bread in his mouth, making sure that he hadn't finished eating it yet.

So this guy who has been close to him for a day and a half and is almost suffocating, is going to withdraw so easily?

Walking to the exit of the rest area, Fan Peiyang frowned and turned around: "What are you still doing? Come with me."

Huo Xu was at a loss: "Together what?"

"Eavesdropping." Fan Peiyang replied aboveboard.

Huo Xu was even more inexplicable: "Why should I follow you to eavesdrop?"

"My goal at this stage is to impress you with sincerity," Fan Peiyang said naturally, "so you can only eavesdrop with me, otherwise my sincere recruitment work process will be interrupted."

"Sarah—"

That was the sound of bread bags being kneaded into balls.

The lobby on the first floor, near the stairway.

"You really chose a good place to talk." Yu Fei looked around, not even a ghost.

The elevator is convenient to go up and down, and few passers-by choose to take the stairs, so this area has always been deserted.In the end, Tang Lin didn't give up, and found the most deserted corner in the deserted area.

"You invited me to join, I always have to understand what an explorer is." Tang Lin looked around, very satisfied with this position, "I want to ask too many questions, of course I have to find a quiet place."

"What do you want to ask, I know everything, and I can say everything." Yu Fei showed sincerity.

Tang Lin asked the most curious one first: "Why are you looking for me?"

"I really want to say that I have never forgotten it, and I have been thinking about it for a long time," Yu Fei smiled, "But I can't lie to you. It is true that I saw you in the assembly area, so I just made up my mind."

"temporary?"

"I didn't expect to see you here. I thought my speed was already fast, but you guys are even faster. Speed ​​represents strength, and I don't want to miss such teammates."

"So you actually wanted to invite the three of us?"

"It's better to have three together, but if I can only choose one, I'll choose you."

"Because I found out the fake right in the elevator?"

"Because you were in the elevator... covered him with a coat."

Li Zhan, Tang Lin still remembered that fair and handsome young man, but forgot that he had taken off his coat to cover the other party's body.

But Yu Fei remembered.Everything in the elevator was as clear as yesterday.

Tang Lin stopped and gave Yu Fei time to calm down.

Yu Fei shook his head: "I'm fine. I've answered your first question, what's the second one?"

Tang Lin was in a complicated mood.

The person in front of me is much more mature than when he was in the elevator, but this kind of maturity is not a natural accumulation of time, but an overnight growth in a flash.

"About the explorer, I probably heard some, but I want to hear from you, it must be more reliable than the rumors." No longer thinking about other things, Tang Lin went straight to the point.

Yu Fei said: "I know what you are listening to. A group of weirdos? Crazy? Maybe, but at least we know how to fight, instead of being guinea pigs in the circle drawn by others, and complacent about the so-called customs clearance."

Draw a good circle, little white mouse...

The words are really merciless.

"You may think I'm harsh, but that's the truth." Yu Fei sneered coldly, "We were involved here, we were asked to break through levels, we were unlocked stationery tree level by level, are there any options for these? No. It was obviously forced, but everyone seemed to accept it by default, no one thought about it, why? Why should we do this? Who owns the owl system? Who made these damn rules and levels ?Our good life has been turned upside down, and a living person may die in a second. Where is the culprit of all this? Why should we obediently listen to the owl and let us break through the level? Why don't we find the culprit? Shredded to pieces!"

Yu Feiyue became more and more excited as he spoke, until the last few words even echoed in this deserted area.

There was a fire in his eyes, so hot it could burn everything, including himself.

Tang Lin remained silent for a long time.

Yu Fei's mood gradually cooled down, and he seemed to realize his gaffe, and he said with some embarrassment: "Sorry, I'm still a little impulsive." After finishing speaking, he was half-joking, trying to ease the atmosphere, "However, it's much better than the elevator. right?"

"Well, it's much stronger." Tang Lin smiled, coordinating with the topic, and exposing the previous embarrassment.

Yu Fei returned to the topic: "Don't think that what I said just now is beyond our control. In fact, we have discovered some 'truths'."

Tang Lin's heart was shocked. It's not that he hadn't thought about this possibility, but hearing it with his own ears was still exciting: "What is it?"

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized that he was a little thoughtless, and hurriedly added: "If this is the internal information of the explorer, it is not convenient to disclose it, so you don't have to give me the answer."

"There's nothing we can't reveal," Yu Fei said. "We hope that all the passers-by will know. Only after knowing 'these' will we want to know the unknown 'those'. Curiosity is the best motivation for exploration."

Tang Lin smiled: "Did the explorer provide professional training for your eloquence?"

Yu Fei stared at him fixedly: "If I can persuade you, it will be worth as long as the training."

Tang Lin felt the sincerity of the other party, just like he asked his teammates to treat Huo Xu.

Sure enough, if you come out to hang out, you have to pay back.

Yu Fei didn't talk nonsense, and directly shared the information that the explorer currently has: "As far as we know, this is different from the previous level of the dungeon..."

"I know this." Tang Lin has never experienced it, but he also knows a lot from Zhuzi's narration.

The content and form of those levels are very different from dungeons and water worlds.There is no stationery tree, only disposable stationery, and there is no gatekeeper. Instead, each level is given a different world. People in this world are like NPCs. Even if they die this time, they will still appear next time they pass through the level. .

There are two more important points.

First, the level breaker is only sucked into the level at midnight every day, and then bounced back to reality at five in the morning, just like being forced to work a five-hour night shift every night, not like the level after the dungeon, it is difficult to go back home after entering Even if you go to places like the Water World Hotel and the 3/10 assembly area after clearing the customs, you can use experience points to buy opportunities to go home, and there are strict restrictions on time and times.

Second, there will be no deaths in the previous checkpoints. Once you encounter serious life-threatening injuries on the way through the checkpoints, you will be bounced back to reality immediately.

Yu Fei didn't know that Tang Rin came in from the Wishing House, and he defaulted that he passed the previous level like everyone else, so when Tang Rin said "know", he shook his head: "I'm not talking about the content of the level, but the whole level world form of existence."

"Existence form?" Tang Lin cared.

"Yes," Yu Fei said, "the previous checkpoints, there is no coherence between the checkpoints, it is more like many independent virtual spaces, the cities, buildings, and people inside are more like The virtual data can be restored with one click at any time, and the dead NPC will be resurrected next time, it will still be those lines, or those reactions, and it will never remember that you have passed the level..."

"But it's different here." Yu Fei turned his head and looked out the window. "This is a real place. All levels are built on this land, going down to the bottom of the sea and up to the sky, forming a climbing ladder."

real, world?

Tang Lin was terrified, but still asked calmly: "How can you be sure that this place is real?"

"One of our teams in the later level has been trying to bring the things here back to reality. After countless attempts, they all failed. It turned out that the soles of the shoes after returning to reality were still stained with the mud here... "Yu Fei looked at him, "After testing, they found some known chemical components inside, but there are more unknown substances, one of which will glow under the action of special reagents..."

The existence of soil that can be brought back to reality and even tested is beyond doubt.

But Yu Fei specifically mentioned the test results, could it be...

"Have you found a substance that can also glow under the reagent elsewhere?" Tang Lin guessed tentatively.

Yu Fei: "Yes."

Tang Rin: "Where?"

Yu Fei: "In our blood."

Tang Lin clenched his hands unconsciously, his fingertips were slightly cold: "Everyone?"

"At least there are explorers who can return to reality and cooperate with the inspection." Yu Fei said.

Tang Lin: "Then why don't you announce this in reality and mobilize more people..."

"It's useless," Yu Fei interrupted him, "As long as we want to disclose the information here to people other than the passers-by, even if we just think about it, we will have a splitting headache."

"You don't need to say, just take the soil sample, this is real evidence."

"The soil destroyed itself during the test. At that time, our people had just used reagents to make special substances glow. If we were given some more time, we might have more discoveries."

The level world is real.

The soil here has the same unknown substance as in their bodies.

To sum it up, there seemed to be only two pieces of information, but if you think about it divergently, Tang Lin would be swallowed up by countless possibilities and conjectures.

"Our people speculate that this substance is like a mark and also a kind of energy," Yu Fei continued, "marking the identity of our passers-by to distinguish ordinary people, and at the same time use its energy to prevent us from revealing the pass. world information."

"What about tampering with memory?" Tang Lin remembered that Zhuzi said that when passing through the previous level, if someone happens to see them being involved in the level by purple light at zero o'clock, this person's memory will be modified and become another kind of Memories that make sense without revealing the secrets of the level.

"It may also be related to the energy of this substance." Yu Fei said, "It's a pity that after that, the soil has not been successfully brought out. It is probably discovered by them."

Tang Rin: "They?"

"The people responsible for managing and running this level world, there may be people behind them." Yu Fei lowered his head, looked at the owl pattern on his arm, and said every word with a cold voice, "In short, don't even think about running away."

Killing intent, ready to come out.

In just a few minutes of conversation, Tang Rin met twice.

This is not Yu Fei's excitement at the moment, it is something that has been rooted in his heart.

"Do you know their identities now?" Tang Lin asked as calmly as possible.

Yu Fei took a deep breath and looked up: "I don't know yet, but the gatekeepers must be part of it. They have certain work rules and a shift system, and when I was in the dungeon, I and Demos... ..."

Speaking of the gatekeeper's name, Yu Fei subconsciously paused, and found that there was no sign of a headache, and said clearly, "You were also Demos guarding the gate when you broke through 2/10?"

Tang Lin nodded.

Only between passers-by who have gone through the same gatekeeper, can the content of the level and the name of the gatekeeper be discussed.

"When I was in the dungeon, I had a face-to-face fight with him... Well, I was beaten unilaterally," Yu Fei admitted frankly, "He said, 'I quite like you explorers, but Only interesting people will do. If you are boring, just stay obediently in the cage and be obedient, okay'..."

Yu Fei's tone didn't fluctuate at all, but fortunately Tang Lin was so impressed with Demos, he automatically switched to the tone and demeanor of the blond gatekeeper in his mind, and immediately came to life.

"He knows the explorer. He also mentioned the 'cage'." Tang Lin captured two pieces of information in these words.

"That's right." Yu Fei nodded, "So, the gatekeepers here are not NPCs who can be restored with one click every day. They have flesh and blood and memories, and they even know the organization of the passers-by. As for the cage, it is what I said before. According to the route and scope they have drawn up, to break through the checkpoints they want us to break through is to be played by them in the cage."

The amount of information is too much, and Tang Lin needs to digest it.

There are some of them, he may have doubted by intuition, for example, he once thought that the stationery tree is a kind of energy, and the night monster is also a kind of energy body, so the little wolf that entered his body became the second stationery tree.But these are all vague, they have never been so clear and real as at this moment, and the impact they bring cannot be compared at all.

"Tang Lin, join us," Yu Fei invited again, with fiery eyes, as if shouldering a certain sense of mission, "Let's find out the truth together, and destroy this damn world together!"

Tang Lin admitted that his blood boiled for a moment.

In fact, he and Yu Fei talked so much in depth, but also held the idea that maybe VIP could join hands with the explorer to find the truth while breaking through the level.

But looking at the nearly fanatical young man in front of him, he gradually calmed down again.

Destroy the level world?

Of course he wants to, but what to do to turn goals into results?

"What exactly did you do?" Tang Lin asked.

Yu Fei thought he had finally gotten the hang of it, and immediately explained: "First of all, you have to forget about the levels. Breaking through the levels is just a means for you to expand new maps, but it is definitely not the end. What we have to do is to explore the places where each level is located as much as possible. , especially those places outside the checkpoint route, or even where the rules do not allow, the more we are not allowed to go, the more we go, the more likely we will gain."

Cong Yue said that some explorers once went to areas outside the checkpoint regulations and were directly dealt with.

It appears to be true.

"Be more specific," Tang Lin continued to ask, "Is it just to go to an unknown place? Is there a more systematic exploration plan?"

"Of course, we have to start from the existence of this world, the existence of the gatekeeper, and the content of the level. However, the gatekeeper and the content of the level can only be explored after entering the checkpoint, and the level is designed. After it was decided and presented to us, we internally felt that exploration was not meaningful, so the focus was on the outside of the checkpoint, those places that we were not allowed to go.”

Yu Fei was eloquent, and seemed to have endless enthusiasm when talking about these things.

But Tang Lin only noticed that from just now to now, the other party has mentioned "not allowed" twice in a row.He euphemistically reminded: "If you don't allow it, it means danger, and it is very likely that you will be dealt with directly."

"Any exploration is dangerous," Yu Fei said without thinking, "If you don't have the courage, don't be an explorer."

It's not "at risk," it's simply running into danger without discipline.

Tang Lin exhaled lightly, and raised her eyes with determination: "I admire your courage, but I want to take my partner home even more."

Yu Fei heard the rejection in the words, but couldn't accept it: "Now you have a chance to find out the truth and save everyone here, but you only care about your 'partners'?!"

Tang Lin shook his head: "You think highly of me, I can't be responsible for so many people."

Yu Fei was in a hurry, and said indiscriminately: "Will those of your partners die without you? Even if they would, wouldn't destroying this place and saving everyone's lives be worth the lives of your partners?"

Tang Lin looked at him quietly: "I am the captain of the VIP."

The author has something to say: Huo Xu is still eavesdropping (with Mr. Fan), and he can only join the team in the next chapter. Yu Fei, you talk too much! QQ