Xu Langku sat in front of the window, the ashtray in front of him was already full of burnt cigarette butts, and the whole room was surrounded by a strong smell of smoke, choking heart and lungs.
But this point was completely ignored by Xu Lang now, and he didn't even stretch out his hand to open the window in front of him, as if he had completely closed himself up, and the chaotic mood was immersed in deep contemplation, unable to withdraw for a long time.
Xu Lang's complexion was even uglier than during the mission before. The pain of the broken leg had long since disappeared with the newspaper's repair function, but it brought a deep sense of fatigue and weakness.
But these are not the reasons for Xu Lang to be like this. The most fundamental thing is the message that squeezed in his mind.
That was the moment when the newspaper was fully tasked, it was reported mechanically!
This is not a long message, only a few short sentences, but it has disturbed Xu Lang's heart-shaking changes. The emotions that had not changed before the Taishan collapse finally broke out at that moment!
This is a very unique message. It may be said that it is a special instruction given by the newspaper to employees who have completed seven tasks.
Xu Lang rubbed his stiff face vigorously, took a long sigh of relief, faced the glass window, and muttered: "So that's why you chose to break with me..."
"Employee Xu Lang completed the seventh mission and was qualified as a candidate for captain. In the eighth mission, he will compete with the remaining candidate captains for the official captain status.
Note: The team leader is different from ordinary employees and has independent authority, allowing the use of time backtracking power.
Note: The range of backtracking is any time period within 24 hours, and the permission will be withdrawn immediately after one use.
Note: In the eighth mission, the candidate will be judged based on the performance of the candidate captain, and the official captain will be announced after the return.
Note: If all the candidate captains die in the eighth mission, the captain’s qualifications will be refreshed and wait for the appearance of employees who have completed seven missions. "
Xu Lang rubbed his swollen temples, got up, poured a glass of clean water, and drank it all in one fell swoop.
The news was too deeply involved and too involved, and Xu Lang was completely shocked by the concise information the first time he heard it.
"Back in time!" Based on Xu Lang's experience in performing tasks many times, this power has surpassed the ability of most evil spirits, and middle-level evil spirits may not have such terrible abilities.
Once the evil spirit has the terrifying ability to fix time and regress arbitrarily, it can be used completely when the executor fails, and the executor is dead and dead.
And if the executor has this ability, it will also have great convenience for subsequent tasks.
Escape from the chase of evil spirits is no longer a problem, even immediately before death, as long as the consciousness is still in, you can choose to rewind the time at will, especially when facing the life path, this ability has too much influence on the mission. Big.
Xu Lang uses one word to judge this ability, that is "abnormal"!
Xu Lang wanted to change all the mission evil spirits he had experienced before with this ability, but they didn't possess this ability.
The only thing close to it is the evil spirit in Room No. 7 just now, who has the ability to limit time and space, but he can only limit and stagnate, and it is impossible to regress and retrospect!
If among the evil spirits Xu Lang has seen, who is most likely to have such a terrifying ability, then only the third-party forces in the "Yin Yang Road"!
Xu Lang didn't know exactly what the third force was, but it was clear that it was an organization composed of evil spirits, and it seemed to be unrestricted and could use their abilities at will. They were insoluble.
It's far from what those evil spirit passengers could compare to in the original mission.
They are an existence equal to, or even higher than, the existence of the newspaper, and according to Xu Lang's understanding, this level is no longer in the category of evil spirits, but an evil god that is hard to reach!
Xu Lang’s thinking has returned to the information itself. Although this time-retrospective ability can only be used for scenes experienced within 24 hours, it is also abnormal enough. In other words, once you have this ability, you will have the second one. Life!
Even in a sense, the value of backtracking is far more precious than one more life!
"Judging based on the performance of the candidate captain in the task..."
Xu Lang's eyes looked a little lonely, and he couldn't help thinking deeply about this seemingly ordinary word.
Judging by performance, this is an extremely subjective vocabulary, which is like a variety show on TV. There are contestants and referees!
The referee will score based on the players' performance and announce whether to advance!
The eighth mission is a platform to show the minds of the performers, and everyone is on the same starting line.
For a candidate for captain like Xu Lang, this is not just a task of struggling to survive, but also to show his strengths and take that precious qualification into his arms!
But what worries Xu Lang's heart is not this competition, but this subjective vocabulary!
This is the only time a newspaper used such subjective vocabulary to describe tasks and report news!
He once communicated with Yan Yan that the newspaper sometimes looks like a machine and sometimes has a subjective consciousness, but now it seems that this can be determined.
"The true creator of the newspaper!" Xu Lang shook his head a little after saying this. This description is not particularly appropriate. "It should be the master of the newspaper now, with absolutely independent thinking and consciousness. It is like a wise man. The creature has its own criteria for judging!"
This is even more terrifying. The newspaper office is an elusive and imaginative existence in the hearts of all employees. It is above humans, even above evil spirits!
However, Xu Lang felt even more suspicious when he thought of this.
Above the evil spirits
"No! Whether it is the third-party forces on the Yin-Yang Road, or the skinning evil spirits in the human skin lanterns, they have faintly exceeded the control of the newspaper!"
Xu Lang did not think about the existence of the third force for the time being, it was another more mysterious force.
However, he can see some clues from the skinning evil spirit in the human skin lantern. The most important point is that this unsolvable evil spirit once tried to snatch people from the newspaper!
At that time, Xu Lang had already fulfilled the conditions for completing the task, and even the white light from the newspaper had already appeared and began to teleport him, but the unsolvable evil spirit used its full strength to snatch people from the newspaper!
This was clearly manifested in Yan Yan's body!
Xu Lang's face has some concerns. The newspaper is not above all evil spirits. To be precise, it can control most of the evil spirits in the world. However, through the weirdness of skinning evil spirits, it can be seen that the newspaper can only restrict them. , But can't fully control it.
Xu Lang has always believed that there is no force in this world that can cover the sky with one hand, which means that "the newspaper still has evil spirits that cannot be controlled!"
If the evil spirit is also a kind of race, the newspaper is obviously one of the top existences, and there may be many others on the same level.
Those organizations may also be hidden in the real world, but they cannot be discovered by humans, and they pretend to be ordinary.
They can be apartments, movie theaters, subway stations, even airports, etc.
Maybe they have existed for a long time, and they have already appeared when humans appeared.
At that time, the newspaper was not called a newspaper, maybe it was called Di Baoguan? Is the apartment called an inn
But above this, there are also more advanced existences. They may also create a space to create games and fool living people, but they may also be just skirmishers, relying on powerful abilities, and exist alone!
"The newspaper is also an evil spirit, but it can already be called an evil god, and there are still many of its kind hidden in this world!"
Xu Lang was shocked by his own conjecture, even frightened!
This is obviously a height that cannot be seen at the human level, but Xu Lang has indirectly understood through the tip of the iceberg....
But even if this is just a conjecture, Xu Lang's body is a little trembling, is this the truth of this world
Worlds, full of wonders!
But Xu Lang couldn't figure out after repeated thoughts, how did the evil spirits come from
Where did their bloodthirsty and living human nature originate
Alien creatures? Or is it that the shadow hidden in the long river of human history for tens of thousands of years has been unknown
Xu Lang's mind is more biased towards the latter, because throughout the ages, the shadow of the ghost has always been an unsolved mystery, but no one can conclude that this is really just falsehood and fantasy.
Even today, atheism has become popular, but there are still many phenomena that science cannot explain.
Xu Lang can't tell if this situation is caused by evil spirits, but above science, there may be theology!
It's just that there was no god in this world, but there really existed evil spirits!
Xu Lang's body trembles more and more, he knows what he is about to face, that is the truth of the world, the truth that has not yet come!
This point may become the mainstream in the near future, or the evil spirits will still be hidden under the surface of Shenghua's reality a long time later, but Xu Lang can already conclude that they will not be able to hide for long.
Sooner or later, the world will collapse. Maybe at that time, human beings are not the masters of the world, but employees like Xu Lang are reduced to prisoners and game participants!
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The game mission in Room No. 7 is over. Next, I will introduce the follow-up plots separately, but the most important thing is to unfold this mission.
"Infernal Prison" is a rather weird name, but it is very meaningful. The name of this mission and the characteristics of the mission are very important. I believe you can see it through this chapter.
Every sentence and every word in this chapter is very important. It is not only related to the construction of my worldview of this book, but also my thoughts on the next book are revealed between the lines.
And it will have a lot to do with the next task, and in a sense it is also foreshadowing the next book. (End of this chapter)