As the sun set and night came, in the sky that had completely darkened, the entire building fell into a deathly silence.
In this deathly silence, a light suddenly came on in a room on the sixth floor. In the dark night, Bai Zhi could clearly see a slightly older figure appearing at the window. , looking towards him with a calm face.
Bai Zhi didn't have time to see too much, because just a second after he stepped out of the orphanage, everything behind him seemed to have fallen into a dull and chaotic darkness and could no longer be distinguished.
[The mission has been completed and the rewards are being settled...]
The next second, a prompt from the system rang in the minds of all players.
When Bai Zhi opened his eyes again, he found that he had been teleported back to the toilet where the mission began.
Ignoring the relevant task settlement content, Bai Zhi suddenly opened the toilet door and strode towards the door. At the same time, he took out his mobile phone that automatically connected to the Internet from his pocket.
He accepted the mission and was transported there around ten o'clock in the morning on Sunday. Theoretically, he stayed in that mission for almost three days. However, the time displayed on the network now is one o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday. , only three hours have passed.
While he was waiting to get on the bus after selling his tickets, Bai Zhi searched for the latest news about his orphanage on his mobile phone.
Due to years of disrepair and some reasons that have yet to be ascertained, the entire orphanage collapsed at around 7 o'clock last night, causing a large number of casualties. After a night and a morning's efforts by the rescuers, it is now clear that The number of survivors found was only two…
Volume One: The Gap between Virtual and Real: Chapter 108 Chapter 106: Real Players Opening the Server
[mission completed]
[Rewards are being settled...]
[The player’s comprehensive performance evaluation this time is B, and the game currency and experience value rewards obtained are 100%]
[The player gets experience value 100x8=800 points, the player gets game currency 100x8=800 points]
[The total number of monsters eliminated by all players is 25. Calculated according to each player’s contribution, you will receive additional game coins and experience points as rewards]
[Players will be rewarded with 1,500 extra experience points and 1,500 extra game currency points]
[The player obtains x1 rare quality random item, which has been automatically included in the backpack, please check it yourself]
[Player level: LV 6 (1200/2400)]
[Players level up and gain free attribute points]
[Game currency: 3000]
Sitting in the last row of the bus as usual, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the system prompt popping up in front of him that only he could see.
It is understandable that the overall performance evaluation is B. After all, the second file read was caused by him. Originally, he thought that the evaluation he received would be lower...
Generally speaking, this mandatory mission is actually not very difficult. Generally speaking, players can complete this mission after loading the file for the first time. This is just because there is a high probability of a fallen person in the team. Due to various reasons, the mission this time was not carried out perfectly.
Originally, in Bai Zhi's plan, he planned to first find and eliminate the fallen species in the team, and then lead the team to eliminate the strange stories in the building one by one in order to obtain greater benefits. However, his cleverness was used instead. If he's too smart, he's considered a smart guy.
Based on the total number of monsters eliminated by all players, which was displayed in the settlement, Bai Zhi could vaguely deduce the process of this mission.
First of all, the reason for the first file load was most likely due to the sudden darkening of the sky, which led to a surge in the number of strange stories in the building, which led to the attrition of team members and a full file load.
After the first file loading occurs, the survivors will quickly deduce the conditions for loading and then inform everyone. Even if the traveler does not speak, he will share this kind of thing.
However, after loading the file for the first time, maybe his group did not encounter the strange story turned into the corpse of the player who died during the last file loading, or maybe the first time loading the file was a safe period to protect the players, so he There is no rule that can infer that a dead player will turn into a monster, and the number of monsters will accumulate.
—His biggest mistake was showing up here.
Different from the situation where everyone is exploring in groups before loading files for the first time, everyone who understands the rules of loading files after loading files for the first time should adopt a group mode. At the same time, because there is no pressure of death, people loading files for the first time should After that, everyone must have been crazy and gossiping about strange things in the building.
Regarding the extra rewards, not to mention him, the traveler alone could definitely deduce that it was related to the number of monsters eliminated by everyone.
Most of the exaggerated value of the extra rewards, which totaled twenty-five monsters destroyed, should have been accumulated after loading the file for the first time.
- Even though they used gasoline to block the path of those monsters when they finally escaped from the roof, in fact they didn't kill even a single monster.
High risk, high reward, this sentence is not unreasonable. Under the premise that there is no pressure of death, everyone is completely floating... maybe
Take Bai Zhi as an example, even if there were some accidents in the final plan and the process of this task was not perfect, the extra rewards he received were real. Isn't it nice to have an extra reward that is almost twice the basic reward?
But it is a pity that between the first load and before the second load, some accidents occurred in the team, and most of the people died, which led to the second load.
Of course, this accident may be due to the large number of monster spawns that caused the BOSS to be spawned in the area, causing heavy casualties to the team, but Bai Zhi is more likely to have an insider in the team.
The perfect skills he has mastered may not be very powerful in terms of offense, but they are absolutely top-notch in terms of life-saving. This is why he has been able to become the last survivor from beginning to end.
With perfect skills that should not appear at this level, if he wants to save all his teammates, not just all of them, but there is still no problem if he wants to save one or two. After all, the conditions for loading all the teammates are not He will only load files when one of them is dead. He has the possibility to save one or two other teammates.
… Unless there’s a problem with teammates.
This general information was the inference and conclusion he had already made in his mind when he walked into the orphanage and saw the other six teammates gathered downstairs.
Except for him, everything went back to before loading the file for the first time.
He did not stop group exploration. After all, this would allow him to find out the mole in the team more effectively. As long as he found the mole in the team and eliminated it, he would Confess this information to other teammates, and then lead them to continue to farm monsters in the building to gain greater benefits... This is the plan he made after loading the file for the first time.
However, due to the discovery of the player's corpse at the traveler, he realized the seriousness of the problem and had to modify his plan midway. He no longer focused on obtaining more benefits, but chose to clear the level quickly, and at the same time, he missed the opportunity to detect the occurrence. In the orphanage, there is a chance to find out the truth.
As the saying goes, every wrong step leads to a wrong step. The so-called wise man must make a mistake after thinking a lot. This is probably the truth.
"The old dean is definitely related to what happened in the orphanage. The figure I saw at the end was definitely him... And judging from the contents recorded in the diary, this abnormality occurred in several cases. It happened months ago..."
Reaching out and biting his thumb, Bai Zhi frowned slightly and looked out the window.
"If it is inferred from this aspect, the old dean should also be a player, and may even be a server player... If this is the case, then some things can make sense, such as the predecessor The source of tuition fees in college…”
Thinking of this, Bai Zhi frowned.
The predecessor grew up in the welfare home since he was a child, and the welfare home was already in disrepair. If the old director really saved a pension fund, based on his memory of the other party, the old director would It is impossible not to use that money to repair the orphanage.
Three months ago, it was exactly the time when the strange rumors broke out and the players appeared.
"Wait, if that's the case..."
As if he thought of something, Bai Zhi quickly took out his mobile phone and started searching. The focus of the search was mainly on the children in the orphanage.
Then, he found this result.
—Before the orphanage collapsed for no reason, the children in the orphanage happened to take advantage of the weekend to go camping together, so they were lucky enough to escape.
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Volume 1 The Gap between Illusion and Reality: Chapter 109 Chapter 107 Night Watch
After several hours of driving, Bai Zhi arrived at the area around the orphanage.
It's just that the building that originally stood there has collapsed into ruins at this moment. The perimeter of the orphanage has been cordoned off. There are still many related personnel busy in the ruins over there.
After thinking for a moment, Bai Zhi walked forward directly.
In a sense, the orphanage was his home, and the old dean was his only relative in the world. It was impossible for him to ignore this kind of thing and sit idly by.
According to official estimates, the number of people killed in the accident is expected to be around 5 to 7, and the ruins are expected to take three to five days to be completely cleared. It is not ruled out that there will be other deaths in the future, and the accident caused The reason is that the orphanage is in disrepair.
—A rather formulaic answer.
And for safety reasons, no unrelated persons were allowed to approach the ruins. Even if Bai Zhi revealed his identity and intentions, he was also rejected by the police.
Seeing that he couldn't get any more clues from here, when Bai Zhi was slightly disappointed and planned to go to the hospital to visit the school beauties to see if he could get any clues from their mouths, an uninvited guest suddenly came to see them. door.
"Night watchman?"
Looking at the handsome man in front of him, who was about in his twenties, but still wearing a scarf around his neck to protect himself in this hot weather, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows with interest.
"Yes, guarding the dawn in the dark is the purpose of the night watchman. Mr. Xu should have mentioned us to you in a subtle way."
Smiling, the man reached out and placed a few photos on the table and pushed them over.
"You hid it well, but in the end you still chose to save people and exposed your identity. This time we came with sincerity."
…hide? By the way, am I really hiding something
With an unusually delicate mentality, Bai Zhi reached out and picked up the photos on the table.
The content on the photo was a photo taken by surveillance cameras when he went in and out of the hospital to rescue comatose students.
"Were those unconscious students revived by you? I have learned the specific details from the two girls. Although Mr. Xu has repeatedly emphasized that you are just an ordinary person, let us not involve you. In the midst of this kind of thing, in fact, you have already secretly become a player without telling Mr. Xu, right?"
Inside the box, the man had a look of emotion on his face.
"Mr. Xu is just too stubborn. In order to protect you, he is unwilling to say anything to you. In fact, it caused you two to have a few big fights. It's a pity... But you kid is really tolerant. Is it out of anger?"
"...What is the Night Watch?"
Bai Zhi looked expressionless, looking like he didn't know what you were talking about but still felt great about it.
"Also, what happened at the orphanage?"
"Before I answer your questions, let me ask you something first... Do you think these weird stories that are common nowadays have only appeared during this period of time, or did they already exist before?"
The man asked, leaning back slightly on the back of the chair.
"Did those weird things exist before?"
Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.
"In the past, these ghost stories were called supernatural beings, ghosts, monsters, and myths... But with the development of the times, they are now collectively called ghost stories."
The man shook his head slightly.
"Existences awakened from ancient myths, existences crawling out of history, existences descending from outside the world, existences materialized from fantasy... Although I am reluctant to admit this, the world is gradually changing. Falling into darkness, the purpose of our Night Watch organization's existence is to watch for the arrival of dawn in the long night."
"..."
Inexplicably, Bai Zhi suddenly thought of the text messages he had received from the fake school beauty on the bus to hell, as well as the images of the so-called lost world that he had visited. country.
[... I have learned about the mythology and history of your world, but I can tell you clearly that when they come to your world, there will no longer be any immortals or Buddhas in the world... ]
… Is that fake school beauty an existence that came from outside the world
"As for what happened in that orphanage...don't you find it strange why Mr. Xu is unwilling to leave there even if he dies?"
Turning his head to look in the direction of the orphanage, the man's words seemed a little low.
"Because he can't leave, there is an unsolvable ghost story sealed in the place where the orphanage is... Let's call it that. If no one volunteers to guard it, the scope of the unsolvable ghost story will expand to An entire county or even a city?"
"..."
After hearing what the man in front of him said, Bai Zhi couldn't help but be silent for a while.
The word "unsolvable" alone represents a lot of meanings for unsolvable weird stories, but anything with these two words is a very troublesome existence that cannot be eliminated and can only be controlled by choice.
And if this unsolvable type of weird talk breaks out of control, the consequences will be simply catastrophic.
The most obvious example is an unsolvable strange incident that occurred in North America.
The strange story called [Falsehood Hell] first broke out in an apartment building in a small town. At first, players or official organizations in North America did not pay too much attention to this kind of thing, but later, as Players who went to solve this strange story disappeared one after another. The scope of the strange story covered the small town in the shortest possible time, causing tens of thousands of casualties.
—To this day, that town is still classified as a restricted area under military control.
After sighing, the man continued to speak.
"In the long time, we have lost too much inheritance. When the long night is coming, we are already unable to do anything. We can only place our hope on the new generation... Are you willing to join the Night Watch organization?"
"How many organizations are there like the Night Watch? Are you affiliated with the government? What is your relationship with the relevant departments?"
Without any intention of answering urgently, Bai Zhi asked the other party several questions in one breath.
"Although there are not many, there are definitely many. There are several abroad... such as the Holy Church of Light. Those foreigners like to name them like this."
The man laughed.
"We have a cooperative relationship with the officials, or in other words, all the organizations, large and small, that are voluntarily established by players in the country have a cooperative relationship with the officials, but we have to be special, probably in depth. Let’s be cooperative.”
"last question."
Bai Zhi took a deep breath.
"Is the old dean really dead?"
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"have no idea."
Facing the question raised by Bai Zhi, the man finally sighed in his mouth.
"… have no idea?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly.