The other players also looked at the man warily.
However, they did not choose to move rashly. They even saw the speed of the man's attack, which meant that the man's strength was far above theirs. If they rashly provoke him, they would probably die without knowing how.
The man stopped what he was doing, and turned his masked head slightly towards the player who had just spoken.
The pitch-black mask that reflected the light was cold and mysterious. The players could not see the expressions of these people through the mask. Except for the man who just spoke, they didn't even know whether the other party was a man or a woman.
The venue, with nearly 200 people, was unusually quiet.
There was only the faint sound of the wind blowing the sand into the black and red soil.
Suddenly, everyone heard a soft groan, accompanied by a painful sound, and the "crackling" sound of dislocated bones.
They were attracted by the sound and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a player who should have been dead struggling to stand up from the ground.
The player's face had been torn off in half by the zombies, and his abdomen was also bitten to pieces. The twisted intestines and liver were trembling and falling out from the wound one after another.
The players' faces all changed.
Even a fool could see that the player standing in a twisted posture like a puppet was very weak, extremely weak.
Their long experience in dungeons instantly gave them a sense of crisis.
The leading man in protective clothing glanced at his companions behind him, and the next second one of them jumped in front of the zombie player and was about to cut off the zombie player's neck with a knife.
When the knife was about to reach his neck, the zombie player roared, raised his arm and caught the knife in his protective suit.
After the protective suit was controlled, he reacted quickly. He tried to pull out the knife but couldn't, so he decisively gave up and retreated.
As he retreated, the zombie player had already attacked, and the protective suit was still knocked to the ground. Thanks to the protection of the protective suit, otherwise the protective suit would have been scratched.
"Look at his hands!"
Someone in the crowd shouted, and everyone immediately focused their attention on the arm of the zombie player. His arm turned black, which was completely different from the rest of his skin.
"It's the result of a mutant being infected. Not only do they become extremely powerful and ferocious, they also have supernatural abilities." The leading man in the protective suit explained, "And mutants are infected faster than ordinary humans. Ordinary humans take three days or even half a month to completely turn into zombies, but the fastest record of mutants becoming completely sick after being infected is five minutes."
"It's ridiculous for people with special abilities to talk about feelings. The person who was your comrade in the last second may become your enemy in the next second. Be cautious and vigilant towards everyone and everything. This is the first doomsday rule I will teach you today."
The man threw down a sentence and jumped directly in front of the zombie player. He pulled out his knife as fast as lightning, and before the zombie player could react, he stabbed it into the zombie player's forehead.
The slender tip of the knife, like light, was inserted into and stretched out from the back of the head. At the tip of the knife, a small blue diamond-shaped crystal core was firmly inserted.
The man took a look at the crystal core and said, "It's a blue crystal core. The quality is pretty good. Who wants it?"
Everyone looked at each other, and no one spoke.
With the support of the crystal core, the zombie player collapsed to the ground, without any movement.
The players sighed.
Just a dozen minutes ago, they were comrades fighting side by side, but now they just wanted each other to die quickly.
Damn, if it had bitten me while playing just now, I would have turned into that ugly look.
The man returned to his previous position with the crystal core picked up by the tip of his knife, and threw it to his companions behind him when he saw them.
The man then "looked" around and said, "Then shall I continue?"
The players who were bitten retreated cautiously, and some even looked at the players who were injured by zombies with a wary attitude.
The injured players had almost been sentenced to death. They stared at the men in protective suits with broken faces, praying that they would not be infected.
The man in protective clothing raised the tester in his hand and continued the test.
The first player whose arm was scratched was also infected.
Just as the player was waiting for death with cold legs and feet, the man in protective suit took action.
The man avoided him and checked the other players behind him one by one.
There were more than thirty players injured by the zombies, and only three of them showed green safety.
Leading the three surviving players to a man in a protective suit, the man began to speak to him.
"The next three."
"Take them to the lab and give them to Dr. Adolf."
Seeing that they were about to be taken away, the three people panicked again, and one of them asked quickly: "Where are you taking us?"
The man spoke slowly: "Although you appear to be safe, there is still a risk of infection with the zombie virus. Before we can confirm that you are actually infected, you need to go to a designated place for quarantine and observation."
"Dr. Adolf is a highly accomplished expert on our Ark. He will take good care of you."
The three of them looked at the players who looked ashen, then looked at the Ark behind them, and finally chose to accept it.
Two NPCs in protective clothing brought the three people to the bottom of the Ark. After some unknown operation, a dark hole appeared at the bottom of the closed Ark, which looked like an elevator.
The elevator then closed, and the few people eventually disappeared from everyone's sight.
Man: "It's time to deal with you next."
The man's voice was as flat as ever, as if what he was "dealing with" were not human lives but pieces of tofu.
"I don't want to wait for death! I finally climbed to level 400, and completed 95 of the main missions. I only have 5 more to leave this crappy game. If you and I can mutate, will I mutate? Maybe I have resistance." Finally, a pale-faced player shouted in despair, "I promised you that I won't go to the Ark. Can you let me go?"
While begging desperately, the player's eyes fell on the player whose face and body were intact, "You should help me. We are on the same side. Can you guarantee that you will never be hurt by zombies? Then you will die too!"
"We have nearly two hundred men in Calais, and they only have six. They are not our hands at all."
"Join forces, it's your turn."
The man snorted, "A trapped beast's fight. Let me answer a few of your questions."
"First, I don't understand what you mean by the number 5, but even if you don't go to the Ark, I won't let you go. If I let you go, you might infect hundreds or thousands of normal creatures. If I let you go, I would be a traitor to the entire Blue Planet."
"No. 1, I'm answering you seriously. Even if you join forces, it's still not my hand. Psychics are also divided into different levels. I'm an A-level psychic, and you rookies are only E-level. It takes 100 E-levels to fight against D-levels, and 100 D-levels to fight against C-levels."
"If you're not bad at math, you should be able to figure out how many people are needed to defeat me."
"Of course I have something to say to you. No one is sure whether they will be infected in the future. Normally, after being infected, a normal superpower warrior should handle himself while he is still sane. However, after being infected, the fear of death of humans will take effect, and at this time, they will need help from others. This is also a cruel test that superpower warriors need to go through during their training."
The man paused, and looked at the infected players with his black mask, "Warriors, use your skills to send them off."
The moment the man finished speaking, the system's voice came out at the same time above everyone's head.
Ding! The main quest is now released.
Please kill the infected. Only after killing them all can you enter the Ark and officially start the main storyline.
After a successful kill, all players can get 6000 mall points and 3000 watch points. At the same time, the direct killer can get an additional 6000 mall points + 3000 watch points/1 infected unit.
If the mission fails, all players will not be able to board the Ark, and what awaits you will be the first wave of zombies.
The voices of the NPC and the system were like two giant bells striking on their heads. The injured players stared at the man and the players in front of them in disbelief. They could not imagine that they did not die at the hands of monsters, but at the hands of the same players.
"ah!!!"
The pressure of death, betrayal by one's peers, failure of the game... all these emotions instantly flooded into the minds of these players at the same time.
Finally, several of the infected players could no longer endure this kind of psychological torture. They roared, and their eyes, which were originally black and white, instantly turned into the unique black and red color of zombies.
"Don't waste time, let's kill them, or it will be us!" A healthy player shouted, using his supernatural power to attack. "We are helping them, and we will do the same in the future. No one knows who will come first, the outside world or tomorrow."
As the first player started to move, the other players followed suit.
Baili Xin pinched the Mermaid Heart on his neck and frowned slightly. The black pearl was emitting a faint light. He had been using the power of the Mermaid Heart to treat the infected players, but it had no effect.
He glanced at Song Yuantian who was standing beside him and asked in a low voice: "It was the same when you entered?"
Song Yuantian's skin color was not much better than those infected people. "It was not that harsh last time. In our time, people with special abilities were immune to infection. I didn't expect that people with special abilities would be infected. It may be caused by the awakening of the zombie king and the upgrade of the zombie virus. Your mermaid heart?"
Baili Xin looked at the increasingly chaotic battlefield in front of him and nodded, "What? The zombie virus can't be cured."
After hearing this, Song Yuantian coughed violently several times. He lowered his head and whispered in a low voice that only the two of them could hear: "I hope she has it, otherwise I..."
Song Yuantian's voice was very low, and Baili Xin didn't hear clearly what he said afterwards.
Those injured players were already seriously injured by the zombies and were severely exhausted. In addition, they were outnumbered, so within just over ten minutes, the last infected person fell to the ground.
When the man saw that all the infected had been cleared, he nodded and said, "Congratulations to all the psychics for passing the test. Please come with us aboard the Ark."
While speaking, he operated the electronic watch on his wrist a few times, and opened another huge hole next to the hole where he had thrown the rope just now.
Then a stepped elevator quickly extended down from above, and the system voice rang again.
Ding! Congratulations to the players for completing the first main mission. The rewards have been received. Now the third mission is released: All players are requested to take the elevator to the Doomsday Ark, which will be the key location for completing your mission. Friendly Tips: Talking to NPCs can randomly trigger dramas, but some NPCs are not friendly, so players should be careful when talking.
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It's just... the end of the world.
It was originally a doomsday copy.
The show has not officially started yet, but I can already feel the despair and oppression. If you don't resist the zombies, the Ark will be attacked. But if you resist the zombies, you are likely to be infected, and if you are infected, you will die.
In the end of the world, the so-called rules to protect personal safety have long been invalid. Death and threats are everywhere, and the only requirement is to stay alive.
It's so similar to the apocalyptic zombie movies I watched. After being infected, you will become a zombie. No matter how reluctant you are, you have to get rid of it as soon as possible. Otherwise, you will become a zombie and do anything, even attacking and biting the person you love the most.
In fact, the moment they become zombies, they are already dead. You see, it is not our brain that controls their actions, but that small crystal core. In other words, zombies have a completely different structure from us. The flesh body is just a container for the virus. Under the control of the crystal core, the proud and elegant human beings will become crystal core slaves and zombies. If they are really infected, death may really be the best choice. If it were me, I would definitely let them kill me.
But at the moment of death, people instinctively want to live. Being able to resist the instinct and face death calmly is already very admirable.
Phew… Fortunately, it’s just a copy simulated by a horror game, not a real doomsday world. I hope that the doomsday will never happen to us.
Well, there definitely won’t be any.
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Ding! Congratulations to all players for successfully boarding the Doomsday Ark and officially starting the main quest. There were 200 players in the dungeon, 53 of them died, and there are currently 147 players left. Being able to successfully board the Ark means you are one step closer to success. Congratulations to all players.
When all the players boarded the Ark, the system's voice sounded again.
Although the system kept congratulating them, most players did not look happy.
Some of them even had the blood of other players on them.
Where they were was a pure white passage, a structure a bit like an air-raid shelter, with an arc-shaped roof, and a huge conveyor belt could be vaguely seen under their feet.
"Follow me," the man in protective suit gave an unquestionable order to more than a hundred players, asking them to follow him.
The escape system explained in Baili Xin's mind: The inner layer is a partition layer, not the real upper layer of the Ark. The entrances and exits of the Ark are different. The place where you saw the rope thrown just now is the exit of the Ark, and the inner layer is the entrance of the Ark.
In order to prevent the zombie virus from being brought into the Ark, all personnel must undergo three disinfection operations in the wind forest of the isolation layer after returning to the Ark. Only after the disinfection is completed can they actually enter the civilian area of the Ark.
The man walked in front to lead the way. The tunnel was very long. Just as everyone followed the man onto a conveyor belt, a dozen pitch-black cylinders suddenly extended from the curved ceiling.
The next second, a white spray with a pungent disinfectant smell spurted out from the black barrel.
A disinfection lasted exactly 30 seconds.
The conveyor belt continued forward, followed by the same two virus disinfections.
After three rounds of antivirus, all the players were exhausted.
And at the end of the conveyor belt, a bright light appeared.
Escape system: Okay, the exit is in front. The security measures have been activated just now, which means you are safe.
As the light grew brighter, everyone could finally see the scene behind the tunnel.
What catches the eye is a lush green meadow, on which several clusters of colorful flowers bloom from time to time, and many butterflies and bees float on the flowers to collect honey.
In the middle of the grass was a winding cobblestone path. As they walked along the path, they could smell the rich fragrance of flowers.
After smelling the fragrance of the flowers, a player was surprised and said: "It's actually a real flower? There is such a paradise in the apocalypse?"
"Of course the flowers and plants planted inside are real," the man glanced back at the player, "This ark is called Noah's Ark. The meaning of the name is to imagine that it is like the legendary Noah's Ark, carrying all the surviving lives on Blue Planet to survive and resist the wave of doomsday."
Baili Xin: "An ark this huge cannot be completed overnight."
He looked around and noticed that Song Yuantian's expression looked dull and scary.
Man: "Of course it wasn't built later. In fact, many years before the disaster, out of fear of an irresistible disaster, all countries worked together to build a great ark. It took thirty years from the beginning to the completion of the construction of the ark."
"During the construction process, scientists were very far-sighted and had already preserved the embryos of life on the blue planet."
"But it was still a step too late when it was built. When the Ark was fully built, the apocalypse had already happened for five years. The countries could only send the surviving humans and some animals and plants to the Ark as quickly as possible."
"Then the Ark began its 50-year journey on the Blue Planet."
Baili Xin: "Can't we just settle down in the same place?"
The man glanced at Baili Xin through the black protective shield and said, "We have done this before, but it didn't take long before a large number of zombies attacked us, one after another, and we were done for. There are not many lives on Blue Star for them to eat. They are too hungry, and our taste will drive them crazy, making them keep attacking until they eat us."
"The energy in the Ark can guarantee basic life and movement for up to five hundred years, but if part of the energy is used in an attack, the energy will be quickly depleted. In order to protect the last home of mankind, we can only choose to keep moving on the Blue Planet. Occasionally, we will stay in one place for a few days to collect supplies."
While they were talking, people left the blooming lawn, crossed the huge square, and saw houses and buildings one after another.
But with just a quick glance, players quickly discovered that some of the house structures are very different.
The houses in the easternmost area are decorated very neatly and beautifully, with large spaces between them.
In the middle area, there is a row of closely arranged high-rise buildings, and on the westernmost side, there are densely packed houses like a honeycomb, one layer upon another.
The man finally stopped in front of the building. He turned around, held the peephole on his protective suit with both hands, and took off the huge round black and white cover.
He was a man with short brown hair, probably in his forties, with a green beard on his chin.
The sockets under his eyes were very deep, and he looked cold and gloomy.
"Okay, you've worked hard, go and exchange the crystal cores for what you want, and go back and rest. I have something else to do today, so I'll come see you tomorrow."
The escape system explained: The man is called Sully, and he is your training officer. According to the show, he is the one who is going to let you resist the zombies today.
Lord Baili Xin, what should I do now? Would you like to go back to your room and rest
Baili Xin looked at the three houses with completely different statuses. Where is my room
Escape system: The room for the superpowers is on the middle high-rise. Although the Ark is the last hope of the Blue Planet, it is also true that there is a shortage of supplies. Originally, all humans lived on the high-rise building in the middle. It has been fifty years since the doomsday outbreak. The earliest heads of state in the past fifty years have long passed away. Later, in order to maintain the harmony of the Ark, the so-called Council was formed among humans.
They are the spiritual navigators of humanity in the Ark, and all decisions on matters, big or small, must be approved by the Council.
Firstly, to protect the safety of the council members and to reduce the pressure on materials, they built two completely opposite buildings on the left and right.
The board of directors lives in the east, and a special guard team has been set up around the board members' residences to provide 360-degree protection for the safety of the board members.
Just now a player described himself as a paradise, but this description is not quite accurate. The amount of material possession is directly proportional to the ability.
Baili Xin: Those hives are for civilians with any abilities? And the buildings in the middle are for people with special abilities
Escape system: False.
Baili Xin: Let’s go back to the room first. I’ll come out for a walk later.
Escape System: Okay, Mr. Bailixin, your room is 503 on the 5th floor, there is an elevator next to it.
Following the guidance of the escape system, Baili Xin came to the junction of the civilian area and the supernatural area. From a distance, he saw two people in front of him struggling.
Baili Xin didn't want to eavesdrop, but the two people's voices were too loud, so it was difficult to not hear them even if he wanted to.
"Sir, please, give me more supplies next time. I have a sister at home and I really need supplies. Didn't you give me two kilograms when we got along? Why only one kilogram?"
The speaker was a well-behaved and handsome young man, who looked to be only eighteen or nineteen years old and had just come of age.
He was wearing a somewhat ragged grey linen shirt, and the man standing in front of him was tall and straight.
The young man's somewhat thin arm carefully pulled the man's sleeve, and his foot swept across the man's ankle again and again.
The man pushed the young man hard, and the young man immediately fell to the ground due to the force.
"I'll give you 2 jins on the premise that you serve me well. Have you served me well? You act like I'm a monster, which is really disappointing. I don't know if you'll scare my vitals into any problems. I'll be lucky if I can give you 1 jin. If you keep making trouble, I won't give you 1 jin."
The young man hurriedly reached out to pick up the grain bag that had fallen on the ground, and a few light red marks appeared on his wrist.
Holding the food in his arms, the young man didn't dare to ask for anything more. He quickly hugged the bag, said "thank you", turned around and ran towards the civilian area.
"Bah," the man stared at the young man's back and spat heavily on the ground, "A pair of worn-out shoes is worth two kilograms of food. Do you really think I'm stupid and rich?"
The man turned around and saw Baili Xin walking towards him.
The man's eyes suddenly lit up, and his eyes were fixed on Baili Xin.
"Hello, you look unfamiliar to me." The man saw Baili Xin walking towards the middle high-rise building without looking around, and walked over quickly in two steps. He changed his previous arrogance and said with a smile, "Are you a new psychic?"
Xia Chi had been following Baili Xin. When he saw Baili Xin being teased, he immediately stood between the two of them and said, "Stay away from my brother. Who are you?"
The man glanced at Xia Chi and his eyes lit up. "Are you two brothers? Oh, you two are really good brothers. You look so good."
Xia Chi: “???”
Why do I feel like I'm being teased too
A flash of inspiration came to Xia Chi’s mind twice.
"My name is Billy, and I'm a level A mutant. What about you?"
Xia Chi's pupils shrank slightly, and he looked up and down the man in front of him intently.
A-level superpowers, isn't that the same level as that scary man just now? How could a local thug have such strong abilities
It’s better to avoid provoking this kind of people as much as possible.
Xia Chi glared at Billy fiercely, pulled Baili Xin's sleeve and was about to leave quickly with Baili Xin.
But Billy refused to let them go and stood in front of them again. He was still smiling, but the smile did not reach his eyes. There was a hint of anger in his eyes. "My little beauties, I am rarely gentle. Please don't be so rude to me."
"Otherwise, my brother will be very sad, and he doesn't know what he will do when he is sad."
Baili Xin: "..."
How many years has he been teased in such a greasy way
"Hey, Billy, they are my trainers. Take your lustful eyes off me. Also, Dr. Sand wants you."
A familiar cold male voice was heard, and several people looked over and found that Sally had returned.
Billy's eyes were obviously filled with fear, and he straightened his face and asked, "What does Dr. Sang want me to do?"
Sally walked over with a stern face: "It may be about the transparent crystal core."
Billy's eyes suddenly widened, "Really?! Then I'll go!"
After Billy left completely, Sally looked at Baili Xin and Xia Chi meaningfully.
"I don't know how you got through the past few years, but in the end times, many normal human rules no longer apply. It's not just women who need protection when you go out, good-looking men also have to protect themselves."
"There are many high-level superpowers who are curious about your overly beautiful faces. You should feel lucky that at least you have superpowers. With superpowers, at least those people won't be so blatant. But for civilians with any superpowers who are overly beautiful, the ending is often very tragic."
As if to verify Sally's words, the thin and handsome young man who had just left was carried on the shoulders of a strong man. The young man's face was full of fear, but he didn't even dare to scream. He could only tremble as he was carried away by the man.
Sally pointed in the direction the two men left and said, "Situations like what happened just now happen frequently in the Ark."
Sally looked around and tapped Baili Xin, Xia Chi, Li Cancan, and Song Yuantian with his fingers, "You guys should be careful."
He looked at Lin Jue hesitantly again, and two seconds later he said calmly: "Some people have a rather strange aesthetic taste, and they will also like your style."
Lin Jue: “???”
How can liking me mean you have a weird taste? Is it because I'm not handsome enough or not pretty enough
Baili Xin: "In my opinion, aren't the psychics equivalent to the warriors guarding the Ark? Soldiers bully civilians who need protection, and the council members don't care?"
Sally: "It's been so many years since the apocalypse, and human norms have long faded. Every day is uncertain, and once the superpowers lose control, the situation will be very dangerous. So as long as it is not a mistake that cannot be ignored, the Council will turn a blind eye."
Baili Xin: "..."
Even if the civilians resisted, they could be easily suppressed by the superpowers. So no one else would care about the lives of the lowest-level civilians because they were insignificant.
But the psychics can’t do that.
That's what the board of directors thinks.
Sally suddenly came up with so much, Xia Chi thanked her gratefully.
After Sally left, Xia Chi whispered to Baili Xin: "Just now I thought Sally was a cold-blooded bastard, but now I realize that he is actually a cold-hearted person with a warm heart."
Baili Xin: "After seeing too much death and killing, even a heart as soft as water will become as hard as a rock."
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That ugly guy is called Billy, right? Good fellow, how dare you tease our Master Xin? Master, why don't you come out? Master, come out quickly. Do you know that your wife is coveted by someone
And there's little baby Xia Chi. I've known for a long time that my child is very good-looking. Although he can't compare with our Xin's looks, in our mortal circle, he can still be rated 90% and 100%.
Sure enough, good-looking people hang out with good-looking people.
You guys noticed the NPC named Sally just now. There are many kinds of people among the superpowers, and those like Xin who are good-looking suffer a lot.
Isn't that the case with the beautiful ordinary little beauty just now? In order to survive, she had to be carried and could not resist.
I have heard a saying before that humans are first biological beings, and then human beings. When humans are highly civilized, the knowledge we have learned will help us suppress our most primitive beast instincts. But this suppression comes from the knowledge level and also from the social constraints level.
But when the social constraints are lost, humans will show a more terrifying threat than wild animals. Because for wild animals, hunting is just to fill their stomachs, and they have such high IQ. But humans have high IQ and are at the top of the food chain, so it is easy for them to become arrogant and cruel. So even if you trust and love someone in life, don't be stupid and give everything to them. Keeping a trump card in your hand is not a precaution, but to maintain the relationship between each other.
Wrong. Only with constraints can there be a benchmark. Otherwise, some people will really want to "touch" the stars in the sky.
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The players' dormitories are on close floors, and their rooms are for two people.
I don’t know if Tan Yue did something, but Baili Xin happened to be in the same dormitory with Xia Chi.
At this moment, Baili Xin's room was full of people.
There are five people in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and five people of Baili Xin.
In addition to Lin Jue and Samael, two familiar faces, Song Yuantianbian also brought two people who were very unfamiliar to Baili Xin.
One of them looked a bit old, it was a man, his facial features looked very gentle, and he always had a smile on his face.
The other one was about the same age as Lin Jue, a female player who looked very capable and heroic.
Song Yuantian's sexual desire has been weak since he entered the dungeon. Baili Xin saw this and asked, "What's wrong?"
Song Yuantian gritted his teeth and said, "Sally, there was a period of time when the Ark did not move. That was the period of time we entered."
"I have always given the Doomsday Ark that name because when we entered it, it was just a walled building. At that time, the Ark was parked in the ice belt area where it is cold all year round. If the location of the Ark changed, I could find that place quickly, but the Ark came to the equator."
Song Yuantian hit the table hard, and the back of his hand was immediately broken. "Damn it, how could I have imagined that Fang Zhou was really Fang Zhou!"
Lin Jue: "President, calm down. There must be other ways. At worst, we can take control of the control room and control the Ark to return to the ice zone."
Song Yuantian took several deep breaths before he suppressed his emotions. His indifferent eyes gradually turned cold, as if he had made some decision.