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When they left, the NPCs in Central City had already woken up one after another.

When Fang Zhou walked out of the bookstore, he felt a thorn in his back.

He looked back and saw that the window on the second floor of Shuge had been opened, and there was a figure standing behind the window.

The morning light outlined his slightly curly hair.

On the white mask, where there are a pair of eyes, there are two deep holes, fixedly looking at the ark.

This picture is a little creepy.

It reminds Ark of the time when the Nian Beast was active a long time ago. ——Firecracker crumbs were flying in the air, filled with the pungent smell of sulfur dioxide that was gradually dissipating, and the strong smell of blood that lingered for a long time.He looked back inadvertently, and saw silent figures standing behind the windows of the residential area, looking at the messy back hill full of corpses of year-old beasts, their eyes piercingly cold.

After more than ten seconds in silence, the black eye hole moved away, and the "air" that fell on the side of Fang Zhou's eyes warmed up.

Fang Zhou seemed to be able to see the NPC's doubts from the slightly skewed curvature of the NPC's head, but he didn't know, what about the Nian Beast made the NPC doubtful?

When Fang Zhou returned to his home in Central City, he took out the wishful thinking pill and stuffed it into Nian Beast's obediently opened mouth, wondering what changes would it bring?

This Nian Beast, which he was originally ordinary, was able to escape from the imprisonment of activities and survive, and it became more and more unusual.

The red sun in the distance leaps out of the horizon.

The huge body of Nian gradually shrinks and elongates, depicting a slender human figure, and then slowly sculpts the limbs, bones and facial features.

Tall and handsome.

——If it wasn't for having a face identical to Jiang Xun's.

Fang Zhou subconsciously thought that Nian Beast wanted to be Jiang Xun to imitate the shape like this, until he found a bright red trace in the thick black hair.

He stepped forward, pushed back the piece of hair, and saw that there was a piece of dried blood where the red horn used to grow.

Just at this moment, Jiang Cheng had already finished counting the data, with a total of nearly 14 billion pages, of which the gray pages were as high as about one billion, the red pages were more than 4 million, and the white pages only occupied a fraction of them, tens of thousands.

"Does it feel familiar? The total number of pages is close to the population of China, and the red pages plus white pages are similar to the total number of sold out official invitation codes. So the remaining one billion gray pages are newborn players extradited to the Internet through household registration?"

Fang Zhou thought of his gray page.

Jiang Cheng was still guessing the connection between the player's information and these household registration page numbers on the other end of the communication, and said enthusiastically: "Every setting of the game has ulterior motives, especially the color is distinguished in this way, and each color is a kind of information. In the past, Red conveys in the game: red name, hostility, danger warning, blood death, etc. signals; gray is like inactive or something; white, um, I can think of white masks? Anyway, use color to classify the player's file , there must be some information marked..."

Fang Zhou saw the humanoid Nian Beast looking at him without blinking.

Thinking of the past, players helped kill the legendary Nian Beast that would slaughter villages during the event, but were hated by NPCs instead.

And those Nian Beasts who are similar to each other have more or less red markings on their bodies, some on their noses and mouths. The Nian Beast with Jiang Xun's face in front of him has red horns and turns into a pool of blood. It was like hitting my head and bleeding.

He suddenly understood the content of the fourth letter: [The dead spirits who lost their homeland will be reborn in "Noah's Ark", and the human beings who are vying to be executioners know nothing about their evil deeds. 】

"This is not the player's household registration information." Fang Zhou said, "This is the NPC's information file."

Only then did Fang Zhou talk about the Nian Beast.

There used to be more than 4 million Chinese players who died accidentally offline and became those wild monsters. They returned to online, killed a wave, died a wave, and recorded it on the red page.It is also possible that after an accidental death of a high-level player, it will become a boss in the dungeon, which is not a one-time consumable, but repeated death again and again.

The living players eventually became NPCs, recorded on the white page, and participated in the distribution of game tasks;

And those gray ones...

She Mei thinks of cancer that should be incurable in normal society;

Think of the "death notice" that the system once issued to him through the dark web;

Thinking of the healing recipe that I couldn't wait to jump out on the day of the Chinese Medicine Festival;

Thinking of Noah's repeated "targeting" of the Chinese service area in order to force him to go online before the death deadline;

Thinking of the day when he settled online, it was ordinary, but it became "Noah's Ark Destiny Day".

and so……

Those gray pages—there were billions of citizens who died in this world before they had time to touch the game.

"A warrior who slays a dragon eventually becomes a dragon."

"You mean—this is a reincarnation mechanism? A parallel world?" Jiang Cheng was extremely shocked!

He couldn't believe it, but he also vaguely realized that this speculation from Fang Zhou's mouth, no matter how bizarre and shocking, might be the answer closest to the truth.

In fact, there is no sign of it.

Now in 2029, the establishment year written in "Fable Village Chronicle" and "Shanhai Town Chronicle" is 2030, which has not yet come.

"Reincarnation, fate, Noah's Ark...you are the variable in this game! What about Jiang Jingze? What is his secret?"

Jiang Cheng began to flip through the screenshots of "Jiang", but he couldn't find Jiang Jingze anywhere.

"I still have to check it out again."

That night, Fang Zhou and Jiang Xun came to Shuge again, and finished flipping through the white pages of "Jiang" with only a few surnames, and there was no "Jiang Jingze".

But Fang Zhou thought of the village chief Aesop and the mayor Guan Shanhai in the village and town records, which seemed to be just "stage names" close to the map, and maybe Jiang Jingze was just a "stage name" that was out of the household registration file.

So, who would Jiang Jingze be?

Jiang Jingze, Jiang Ze, the premature twins with moles at the end of their eyes who shared the same face as Jiang Cheng...

The East City Disaster Response Office, Jiang Cheng was silent for a long time, "Assuming that in another world, Jiang Zeping grows up safely..."

Jiang Cheng followed the setting, "Identical twins have the same genes, and my thinking patterns will be very similar to his."

Thinking becomes clear.

"If I were Jiang Jingze, I would wear a mask because I know that mediocre people have thousands of reasons to be mediocre, but most successful people have the elements of success. Therefore, the final player , there are always such and such special features. Under different environments and opportunities, there may be some differences, but they are generally the same. The successful class is solidified. However, all high-level NPCs wear masks, perhaps to cover up the people behind the masks. Those faces must have faces we are familiar with. It may be another self."

"Then here comes the question—the motivation for wearing a mask is to be on guard. Why am I being on guard against another similar me instead of wanting to form an alliance? Is there an irreconcilable contradiction hidden in it, so I must not choose Alliance! So, what is this irreconcilable contradiction?"

The answer to this is still unknown, but the main task has already had its results.

"Jiang Jingze's Secret" has been completed, and the settlement reward is a new item:

Another key.

Named: Door Card to the Unknown.

"Unknown, what is it?"

Fang Zhou returned to his residence in Central City, woke up in the morning, and still saw a standing figure standing in front of the window, tall and leggy, with a human-like appearance.

Jiang Xun came to the door with the props and keys, and saw the familiar figure in front of the window. Even though he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked.

The humanoid Nian Beast ignored him. He walked around to the window, facing the exact same face, and said in surprise: "So, in another world, did I accidentally die after becoming a player? Look at the bloody head, Misstep at high altitude? Or a car accident?"

Fang Zhou ignored Jiang Cheng's boring curiosity, and took the invisible human Nian Beast to the deepest hidden tower.

The unknown of the game.

That night.

The white to gray tower reaches into the sky.

After using the key to enter the tower, the main task is easily refreshed, as if it was given for nothing: "Looking for the Secret of the Reincarnation Tower".

"So this tower is called the Reincarnation Tower?"

Jiang Xun looked up at the top of the tower, which was as black as a chimney and had no windows.

The endless tower, like a thousand-story theater, is full of circular seats on one floor after another, but there are no spiraling stairs or direct elevators at all.

In the center of the first floor stands a teleportation stone, leading to the pool on the first and second floors of the tower, which requires the seal of the city lord to use.

To obtain the seal of the city lord, you must capture the central city.

Obviously, he entered the camp mission.

These days, it's not that there are no players who belong to the NPC camp. On the contrary, Fang Zhou, who was "recruited" by NPCs from the beginning, has never been bought by NPCs again.

Fang Zhou is in a respected but not close position in the NPC camp. It seems that all the acceptance, favor, and tolerance of NPCs to him are just driven by some kind of higher-level pressure.

The one who controls everything behind this is obviously the game mastermind named "Little Noah".

The early see-saw of camp missions lasted for a long time, and there was no official battle.

The world channel is full of quarrels. They are talking all day about which force forms the Human Alliance, or which force has joined the NPC. In China, there are some folk forces that have no "freedom" space under the high control of the state machine to join the NPC. embrace.

Until the first month of 2030, the first anniversary of the launch of "Noah's Ark", the game finally "joyfully" announced the end of the release of the offline world expansion pack.

Since then, the camps have officially declared war!

The Ark is located between the two camps of NPCs and players, and is outside the camp war. Every day, one person and one "beast" sit firmly at home and watch the siege battles raging on the five continents.

Even if some players have defected to the NPC camp, compared to the huge player base, especially the terrifying number of military players in China, who are well-trained and quickly captured the central city, the defeat of the NPC camp is predictable.

They were beaten and fled in all directions, and finally had nowhere to escape, and hid in the tower.

But he was resurrected in the tower, returned to the city, and regained the lost ground.

It was only then that Jiang Xun and the others realized that in the tower called the Tower of Samsara, one floor of the underground pool was the resurrection pool for NPCs.

The main task has not yet been prompted to complete. Obviously, the real secret of the reincarnation tower has not been revealed yet.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

The player's camp has changed from siege to real push tower.

One tower after another collapsed under the concerted efforts of the players to eradicate it!

The collapse of each tower can cause an earthquake-like hum, resounding strangely across the continents.

At the moment when the faction battle ended, the entire ancient continent suddenly burst into white light, piercing people's eyes, and a voice from the system sounded in their ears:

[World Announcement]: "The 1005th episode of "Noah's Ark" is over, please enter the waiting area for the winner..."

The white light gradually faded with the sound of the announcement, and the new towers in the white light were regrouped, pieced together, and built again.

The player's eyes are clear again, and he is already in the tower.

Hundreds of millions, an unprecedentedly large group of people with different skin colors filled different towers. Inside the tower, there are layers and rows of seats, all the way to the zenith.

At the position of the teleportation stone in the center, a virtual screen surrounded by a circle is erected, facing each seat, tens of thousands, layer upon layer.

On each side of the screen is written impressively:

[Celebrate the official conclusion of the 1005th issue of "Noah's Ark"! 】

"Fuck! What's going on?"

"A moment ago, I was responding to the call of my motherland's father, and followed the soldiers to fight head-to-head. How did I get here in the next second? Where is this?"

It was a mess, and the players were at a loss.