Bai Zhi stretched out a finger in front of him and shook it, then spoke calmly.
"If you remove the additional information assistance that the system gives us, it is actually obvious that this is a very ordinary horror story about monsters, and we are going to use ordinary people in this horror story. Identity survives.”
"Then the scoring criteria are..."
"Let's put it this way, do you think this is a story that has already been written, or is this a story that we are writing?"
Bai Zhi shook his head.
"My personal preference is the first one. In a story that has already been determined and written, we play the role in the story and make a series of fine-tuning to the story itself."
"... Just like the unlimited streaming of online articles?"
After thinking for a moment, Xia Wen looked thoughtful.
"In fact, you can say the same, but it is slightly different. For example, we cannot expose ourselves... You can think of this as a movie being shown."
Bai Zhi snapped his fingers.
"We are like actors in a movie story, and the people who rate the movie are the viewers. Once the audience feels that there is something wrong, the rating will go down, but if the plot is exciting, the rating will go up. In the same way, in this case we are indiscriminately involved In the story we play, if the direction of the story becomes more exciting than the original story, then our score will be higher, but if the story collapses, then the score will be lower... This is the so-called scoring standard."
"Hmm... I probably understand."
After frowning and thinking a lot in his mind, Xia Wen nodded.
"Actually, it doesn't matter whether it's scary or not, but the plot has to be exciting, right?"
"Although this is the case, under the framework of this story that has already set the background and premise, no matter how exciting the plot is, how exciting can it be?"
Bai Zhi yawned again and curled his lips.
"The background of horror, mystery and thriller has already been set. Based on this framework, if other additional factors are extended, the whole story will become completely different. So in fact, we have nothing... wait and encounter danger. When the time comes, you immediately pretend to be dead."
Suddenly he glanced out the window, narrowed his eyes slightly, stopped what he was originally saying, and spoke to Xia Wen beside him.
"There is a lot of wine here, so remember to put more in your backpack, but you have to make sure that all the wine you put in your backpack can be consumed before leaving the story, do you understand?"
"Uh... the heroine shouldn't die that easily, right?"
After listening to Bai Zhi's words, Xia Wen's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.
"And there are so many more here..."
“We need a great story.”
Turning back and giving the other party a thoughtful look, Bai Zhi reached out and patted Xia Wen on the shoulder, encouraging her.
"Come on, you're the best."
"???"
Volume 1 The Gap between Virtual and Real: Chapter 565 Chapter 557 Bai Zhi Never Holds a Grudge (4k)
The cold wind howled and the snow fell heavily.
After finally seeing the bright light projected from the villa, Claude, whose whole body was almost frozen, couldn't help but burst into tears.
At this time, the snow was already calf deep, and it was quite difficult to trek through the snow. If he still couldn't make it, Claude felt that he wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
So he couldn't figure it out. Even if his body couldn't compare to Abel's, why couldn't he compare to Victoria as a girl? Is my physical fitness that bad
Judging from the relaxed energy of the two people in front, it seems that without him being such a dragster, the other party would even be able to fly back to the villa...
As they approached, Rohard and Smith, who were guarding the window on the second floor, also discovered them. However, before Claude could wave to them, he saw them roaring towards him. He raised his shotgun and shouted something to stop himself.
"..."
Hearing the fragmented words carried by the cold wind from the other side, Claude stopped in confusion.
...around? What else is there beside me
Moving his gaze a little strangely, Claude could clearly see the two deep pits at his feet through the light reflected by the snowdrifts... or rather, the palm prints.
In an instant, it was as if a basin of biting cold water was poured on his head, and he felt as if his blood had solidified.
Turning around blankly, he saw the traces left by the invisible monster that had accompanied him all the way and had been by his side.
At this moment, the numb feeling like an electric shock that he had felt in the cabin once again spread throughout his body. His body began to become numb, and his movements became slower. His feet seemed to be struck by several hands. The hands grabbed him together and dragged his body towards the snow.
This series of changes happened extremely briefly, in just a few seconds. When Abel and Victoria walking in front realized something was wrong and turned around, with the sudden increase in strength coming from their ankles, they The figure disappeared silently into the snow.
"..."
Seeing the scene in front of him, Setsuna's expression suddenly darkened.
He raised his hand to stop Victoria from stepping forward to find out. Setsuna walked to the place where Claude disappeared and leaned down with his back to Victoria.
After a while, he stood up again from the snow.
"The other party disappeared without any clues."
Looking back at Victoria behind him, Abel looked expressionless.
"..."
After staring silently at Abel in front of him for a while, the other person didn't speak.
… … … … … … … … … … …
Ten minutes later, on the second floor of the villa.
Although they expressed regret for what happened to Claude, who was innocently killed, Rohard and Smith expressed their eager welcome to Abel's return.
—The opponent is very capable of fighting, and that alone is enough.
At this point, with the return of Abel and Victoria, the number of people in the villa returned to eight people.
There are six people on the second floor of the villa, and two in the hidden basement of the villa.
"Victoria? Didn't you hide in the basement with Mike and the others before?"
Looking at Victoria, who was as dusty as Abel and walked into the room covered in snowflakes, Xia Wen couldn't help being slightly stunned.
"The basement is safe, but I was worried about Abel's comfort, so I chased him out."
Turning her head and looking at Abel who had walked to the window, Victoria answered with a smile.
"Really? But before dawn, there is no safe place in the villa."
Lifting his head and glancing at the other party, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Honestly, in this case, your own safety should be the first priority."
"A towel fell on the floor, so I picked it up, washed it, wrung it out and hung it back on the shelf."
After finding a seat next to Xia Wen and sitting down, Victoria spoke nonchalantly.
"At the same time, on the premise of ensuring your own safety, it should be a very simple thing to protect innocent people, right?"
“Some things may not be what they seem, because sometimes it’s best to let things take their own course.”
Bai Zhi looked noncommittal.
“Letting nature take its course is not the same as looking on indifferently.”
Victoria shook her head.
"How do you know that I just let nature take its course and just watch with indifference?"
Bai Zhi yawned and rolled his eyes.
"have witnessed."
Victoria kept her eyes on him.
"Oh, sorry, you might be blind."
Pouring his lips, Bai Zhi stood up from the chair and tried to end this unprovoked conversation, but the other party obviously didn't want to give up and started talking again.
"...Can you listen to me one more word?"
"What?"
Bai Zhi turned his head and looked at the other party.
"Even the deepest darkness will be swallowed up by the turbidest light, no matter how slim the possibility is..."
Looking up at him, Victoria spoke every word.
"It's also hope."
"hope?"
After waving his hand, Bai Zhi turned around and responded lazily.
"Hope exists in those who believe in hope, but if you don't even believe in me, how can you believe in hope?"
"..."
This time, Victoria didn't speak again.
Never abandon, never give up, and do your best to save those innocent people while ensuring your own safety. This is the education she has received since she was a child.
[The moon reflects the snow and the clouds disperse], she has lived in an almost desperate world since she was a child. In that world where she can never see the sun and can only survive underground, tall closed apartments stand on the ground. , human beings are bred by ghost stories, and players are the results of human beings being bred.
Breeding humans have no rights to freedom and are deprived of the inheritance of knowledge and civilization. Just like humans raising livestock, humans are also being raised like livestock by those weird stories.
But in such a dark world, there are still lights of hope flickering.
The world that was once nearly destroyed by a disaster is still surviving. The players who were almost all killed or injured in that final catastrophe are now gradually developing and growing.
—The final catastrophe, a peerless natural disaster that almost completely destroyed their world.
The players who know the inside story of that natural disaster no longer exist, and those who are latecomers can only piece together some historical truths based on the fragments of words left by their predecessors.
In that unparalleled natural disaster, the world would have perished. Except for a small number of top players, all the rest of the people in the world would have died, and everything would have turned into nutrients for the birth of the final ghost story.
Players who could have abandoned their own world and escaped, standing at the top of the world, made a decision at the last moment.
In a decisive way that almost sacrificed 99% of the players, they made the world that was about to be destroyed survive at the last moment. As long as they lived, there would be hope... even if they lived in such a humiliating way.
At this point, the world has been plunged into complete darkness by the monsters. The remaining players can only hide underground and survive, silently waiting for the day when light once again covers the earth and mankind regains freedom.
-This is the story of their world that she has heard since she was a child.
She was born in an underground ark where players huddled after the catastrophe. It wasn't until she was qualified as a player at the age of 12 that she saw the sky for the first time during a novice mission.
… That was the first time she saw such a beautiful scenery.
Even if their world itself is in darkness and despair, even with the power they have accumulated until now, they still cannot shake the order established by ghost stories in their world... But she always believes in one thing.
[Even the deepest darkness will be swallowed up by the turbid light. Even the smallest possibility is still hope.]
-This was a sentence left by the strongest person in their world before that unparalleled natural disaster.
The distance between hope and despair is just a wall, a word.
On the premise of ensuring your own safety, do your best to save the people you can save. This is the belief of this player named [Yeyue Yingxue Yin Yun San].
In this story called "Monster", after realizing that these people may be innocent humans captured by ghost stories, she wanted to save people.
But whether it was Bob at the beginning, or Eric, Claude later... on the premise that she could not expose herself, she could not save anyone.
Although she is said to be a player from another world, she is actually not very strong, otherwise she would not just appear in A-level stations.
She obtained the player qualification when she was 12 years old, and now she is 17 years old. It took her a total of five years to barely raise her level to... level 15.
The strength of the world itself determines the player's upper limit and development speed. The two are complementary to each other. The stronger the world, the stronger the players, and the stronger the players, the stronger the world.
… But the world they live in is shrouded in a bone-deep darkness.
So she envied people in this world, and also envied ordinary people in this world who could enjoy the sunshine freely.
She had no way to deal with that monster, but as the other party was a top player in the first echelon in this powerful world, she thought that the other party must have a way to solve the problem and save those people.
But from the beginning to the end, the other party didn't do anything at all. He just let nature take its course, and everything developed according to the story's own course.
At least in the beginning, Setsuna stopped the three people who wanted to go out to die, and then actively chased them out to ensure the safety of those people, but... where was the other party
As the protagonist in this story, shouldn't he do something? Or maybe he is a cold-natured being...
She couldn't figure it out.
"Well... I finally understand what you are talking about."
Xia Wen, who was sitting aside with his hands folded across his chest, nodded thoughtfully.