doomsday beta

Renamed the mainland map of Jiuzhou.

Outside the central city, it was desolate.

In the central city, except for the wandering NPCs, there is no popularity.

The newly appointed NPCs are idle, and this kind of boredom will probably last for a long time.Before the player level is high enough to enter the third floor map.

Only high-level NPCs—these NPCs originally converted from high-level players can freely enter and exit maps of different levels through NPC channels.

"I knew that working hard to upgrade would be useful here, and I would have studied it carefully back then."

Jiang's father's old friends, who were stuck in the central city because of the script, gathered in the teahouse to chat and chat. Seeing Jiang's father going to Xinshou Village to visit the eldest son who is the village chief, they were envious.

Back then, these "elderly people" had to move online because of the disaster. They pretended to be their family and country, and made another glories. They couldn't help but drink tea, play chess, and give advice. I saw Jiang's father being called away by his youngest son. ——Big and young people, old arms, old legs, old waist, being urged, supervised, and driven at every turn, working hard to level up like a young man who is jumping around, is really unfilial to his descendants!

Who would have imagined that today, the children and grandchildren actively accept the role of oppressing players in Xinshou Village, and they are stuck in the scope of the script every day and cannot leave. They want to go and have a look, but they can't leave.

"Ah~"

Jiang's father walked with a group of old and young, walked into the teleportation array, closed his eyes and opened them, and arrived at the residential areas of various Xinshou villages.

"It's much more convenient than flying by high-speed rail before."

Several people bid farewell, looking for the house number of the building gate, and each looking for the children and grandchildren of each family.

Li Chui, Huang Sunyang, Li Liangfeng and other rich second-generation hair groups all work as "little bosses" in Geda Village corresponding to the Dongshi Line.

Knocking on the door, and bumping into the strange-looking creature, all the parents were startled, and they all expressed similar helplessness as usual: "Don't play with the skin after get off work, it's scary."

The background structure of Geda Village comes from the "Goosebumps" series of books, and the NPCs are also playing some scary characters, so the skin is naturally not very pleasing to the eye.

While Father Jiang was chatting with Jiang Xun, Fang Zhou also visited Li Chui, who was the manager of the escape room store.

The former members of Li Chuan's studio hid in the game early because they were given invitation codes when they left the company, and transitioned from a player to an NPC steadily. Therefore, they are grateful to Li Chuan and are extremely loyal. .

Before it was time to open the shop, Li Chui sat on the sofa and took stock of his belongings, complaining to Fang Zhou:

"This game exploits people to the extreme! The property that the players have accumulated with great difficulty will now be distributed to the players as mission rewards! Could it be that these 'little bosses' in the audition at the time were just to see who was rich and easy to kill? Bar?"

"I also bumped into Noah's team in this world! I don't know why I was so unlucky! Being targeted by them and masturbating so hard, it almost knocked me out!"

"I went to village head Jiang to ask for compensation, but he still pretended to be stupid with me, so don't worry about it!"

Fang Zhou, who had been going in his left ear and out his right ear, raised his eyelids, "What do I care?"

"I'll go! Are you really ignorant or are you just pretending to be stupid with your eyes open? Even a blind person can see that that guy has something wrong with you!"

Fang Zhou raised his eyebrows and didn't continue the topic. He opened the package and funded a wave of props for Li Chong, glanced at the time, and went to visit Li Liangfeng and others at the urging of his friends.

This group of Fa Xiao happily discussed how to use the rules to bully players to the maximum extent, and sighed: "Feng Shui turns!"

After a circle of condolences, he walked back to the teleportation array, but was blocked by Jiang Xun who rushed over after hearing the news.

This person's unruly intentions were made public as early as in the "Glory" record of character cards in cross-server battles because of Little Noah's deliberate targeting:

Because of the confession, Ark dropped out of high school and went abroad to study.

And because of "sickness from longing", he gave up his thriving e-sports business abroad, returned to China, and switched to holographic games.

Fang Zhou didn't pretend not to know, but didn't care about it. ——It's just that after discovering that Nian Beast, who has been with him for a long time, also has the same face, his attitude towards him becomes subtle.

At least in the face of this kind of stalking and blocking behavior, he became much more tolerant.

In fact, he never knew what Jiang Xun liked about him?I don't know how long this kind of fearless and extraordinarily passionate relationship can last because of being young and frivolous?He feels that there is nothing static in this world, and so are feelings. As long as there is no response, these passions will fade and dissipate with time sooner or later...

Fang Zhou spent a few minutes dealing with Jiang Xun, then turned and went to the second floor map.

This fantasy map based on "Harry Potter" has various magical creatures and magnificent scenery.

The invisible human-shaped Nian, with his farewell face on his face, walked beside Fang Zhou, accompanying him to roam the magic town.

Occasionally, looking at the tall humanoid Nian Beast, Fang Zhou wondered how he died?

But when he asked little Noah, the other party would only tell him: Jiang Xun's ending in every world is similar, and Fang Zhou can get the answer as long as he pays attention to the present world.

Sitting in the empty tower, Fang Zhou looked at the monitoring screen in this world, and would occasionally pay attention to Jiang Xun among the thousands of busy beings.

Since returning to China, Jiang Xun has been taking care of his online game business while also asking someone to inquire about Ark offline.

Because Fang Zhou lost his parents since he was a child, he was adopted by his grandfather later. He has a withdrawn personality. After being admitted to Dongshi No. [-] Middle School, he had a cold relationship with his peers. Later, he was isolated. Time was also unable to find out about Fang Zhou from his high school classmates, and even the teacher didn't know which school Fang Zhou applied for.

In the end, I asked about Grandpa Fang Zhou’s colleagues when he was a guard in No. [-] Middle School. When he attended Grandpa Fang Zhou’s funeral, he asked about Fang Zhou’s university and major.At that time, Fang Zhou was already there, and it was already a week after Jiang Xun inquired about his work in Li Hammer's studio.

On November 2030, 11, it has been more than a month since the launch of "Noah's Ark" before ushering in the first "Singles' Day" event.

Jiang Xun was full of joy to get the address of the studio that he had just inquired about, and he had no time to participate in the activities at all. He arranged for his teammates to move freely, so he got up early in the morning and began to change his clothes and hairstyle in front of the mirror, dreaming about the dream of meeting and confessing to leaving the singles the next day, toot Muttering, "If you're lucky, you'll be celebrating the last Singles' Day..."

He rushed outside the studio in good spirits, only to find that the studio was closed on a working day on Wednesday.

Posted a note:

[The boss has something to do, everyone is on holiday, and work will be suspended for one day]

Jiang Xun could only dejectedly write down the contact number on the note and go back online.

The fangs of the game have not yet been revealed, and there is a festive atmosphere full of joy.

Singles' Day, burn couples.

Players hold the torches purchased in the temporary mall, and they can find "couple" monsters in the illuminated area. They are all over the back mountain. They are all 1005 players who died accidentally during the Valentine's Day event. Under the siege of the surrounding players, they fled in embarrassment .

Facing the residential area of ​​the back mountain, a window was opened, looking at the "monsters" who were beaten and tortured by the players, maybe one of them was their relatives and friends.

They watched everything in silence.

Watch them suffer.

Watch them howling.

Watch them run around.

Watch them outnumbered.

Look at them covered in bruises.

Watch them come crashing down.

But powerless.

The players reveled around the corpses, and the random items dropped after death were just items that these monsters had worked hard to accumulate in their parcels when they were players.

Countless people upgraded rapidly during the event, and were elated.

Jiang Xun, who had stagnated at the fourth level for a long time, finally stepped into the ranks of the fifth-level "big boss", one step closer to leaving the village.

When Jiang Xun was about to leave, Fang Zhou was at Li Chui's home. The tall and handsome man came down from the back mountain with a lot of harvest. line of sight.

Jiang Xun was stunned for some reason.

It was only after being pushed and shoved by his teammates that he came back to his senses, and was constantly urged to leave absent-mindedly.

Fang Zhou slowly closed the curtains as he looked back frequently.

With the mask and such a long distance, Fang Zhou felt that Jiang Xun should not recognize him.

[I can recognize it. 】Little Noah chatted with Fang Zhou privately, 【Why do you always have doubts about relationships? 】

"I'm also wondering, as an artificial intelligence without emotion, how do you recognize such illusory things more than me, a living person?"

Little Noah fell silent again.

When Jiang Xun received the call, he was still exhausted after a long game.

He climbed out of the game cabin, took a shower, sat on the bed with a little emptiness in his mind, and opened the screen with his wet fingers—he didn't know if there was something wrong with his unlocking posture, or if mental exhaustion exceeded physical load. auditory hallucinations

The brain is blank.

It seems to have lost the ability to think.

After a while, Cai repeated a little dullly: "...I want to ask you about Ark, not about your whereabouts today."

"Don't you fucking understand human language?" The other side roared angrily, only to realize that he was in a bad mood and out of control, apologized, and said something hoarsely...

For a moment, there was a buzzing and a long whistle in the ear, covering the voice at the other end.

"Sorry, I didn't catch you."

A wave of white noise rolled up, interfering with "sizzling la la".

"Please say it again..."

It was as if something suddenly collapsed and shattered.

"Excuse me, please—"

"—beep beep!!!"

The call stopped abruptly, and the other side seemed to be tired of coping. Jiang Xun called again, but the other side hung up again. He persisted in calling again, but he was blocked.

Jiang Xun put down the phone in a daze, his head seemed to be burned.

Because the amount of information is too large, it cannot be processed for a while...

What was said there?

Said the Ark...is no longer there.

Prostate cancer.

Been dead for a year... Today is the first anniversary of death.

How can it be?

really?

Must be fake!

Through the monitoring screen, Fang Zhou saw Jiang Xun staggering out of the bedroom, looking for his omnipotent brother to illegally invade the household registration system, and finding out the death information of Fang Zhou whose household registration had been cancelled, and went out regardless of his brother's dissuasion.

Went to the cemetery.

Jiang Zejiu could not wait for Jiang Xun to come back, so he followed Jiang Xun's travel information.

——Yes, Jiang Ze.In this world, the twins who died prematurely became Jiang Cheng, and the one who came back to life became Jiang Ze. It was like exchanging lives—or plundering lives. Another young genius with a mole on the corner of his eye helped his brother clean up the mess since he was a child.

When Jiang Ze drove past, Jiang Xun had already walked out of the cemetery in a daze.

In the middle of the night, there was very little traffic. Jiang Xun was driving a sports car at a high speed, and hit a turning truck at the intersection.

When Jiang Ze arrived, the truck had already fled, and the overturned sports car was on fire, and Jiang Xun was lying on the steering wheel with a bloody head, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Regardless of the danger, Jiang Ze rushed into the car to rescue Jiang Xun, but unfortunately Jiang Xun got stuck in the car with one leg, and when he struggled to get him out of the car, he was also seriously burned.

Fortunately, the sports car exploded after Jiang Ze rescued him.

Unfortunately, Jiang Xun did not wake up again and became a vegetable.

Seeing this, Fang Zhou felt a little complicated.

In the dim tower, the humanoid Nian Beast was sitting next to him, with bloodstains on his head, a face similar to Jiang Xun, the blue light from the screen hit his face, his face was expressionless, his eyes glowed with silver, and he couldn't see what he was doing for a while. idea?