Garton Galaxy, Ninth Sector, Seablue Star.
Nanzhou in summer is experiencing scorching heat, the sun is hanging high, and the air is distorted by the high temperature.
At the moment when version 2.0 opened, inside the third sanctuary, in the originally empty square, players appeared one after another. Hundreds, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands... The originally very empty square became crowded in a few seconds.
Before the version update, due to the [Last Position] quest left by Han Xiao and the analysis of the 2.0 mainline by "Star Sea Times", hundreds of thousands of players from Seablue Star gathered in the sanctuary and chose to go offline here. When version 2.0 was launched, the place where these hundreds of thousands of players went online was the third sanctuary.
Hundreds of thousands of people crowded around, looking around curiously.
"It's version 2.0 now?"
"It seems that nothing has changed."
"Hey, the level cap has been raised, and experience can continue to be used to upgrade. It is indeed a new version."
"Is there no other changes, I really just want to try shitting in the game."
"Pants-off party, please respect yourself."
The players talked a lot, and opened the panel to check the attributes. Except for the capped level that can be upgraded, there is no other change in personal information.
However, someone soon discovered that the prompt of a task had changed. It was the [Final Position], and the task status had changed from "frozen" to "open".
This is the prize pool quest left by Han Xiao before he left. The quest requirement is to protect the third sanctuary, which is to warm up the alienation disaster and attract players to gather here. As he expected, this quest is suspected by the players to be related to the 2.0 plot.
And now, the mission has started!
Doesn't that mean that the "catastrophe" in the quest prompt has already begun
Many players suddenly became excited. Thanks to the Black Ghost, they hardly participated in the main storyline of the previous version. This time, there is finally a serious event!
By the way, the NP who posted this quest is still Black Phantom... Oh, now it's called Black Star, is he still in Interstellar
Thinking of Han Xiao, many players couldn't help but envy the group of professional players who were taken away by him. They stepped into the interstellar space earlier, and dumped them a few streets for food and clothing.
Just as the player was observing, a broadcast suddenly sounded inside the shelter.
"All aliens please stay where you are! Repeat, all aliens please stay where you are!"
Soon, a large number of guards surrounded the square, their faces were uncertain, and they stared nervously at the huge crowd of players.
The aliens from the entire planet disappeared for a whole year, but they suddenly appeared today, which really scared the managers of the third sanctuary. Bennett hurriedly sent people to control the scene.
At the same time, the players of the Third Vault trigger the same quest.
[[stay on the spot]]
[Task introduction: During the period of your disappearance, a lot of things happened to Seablue Star. At this time, it is at the juncture of the survival of civilization. Stay in place and wait patiently for the relevant people to explain the situation]
This is a small task, there are not many rewards, and the players just want to understand the situation. Hundreds of thousands of people are obediently staying in the square because they are surrounded by guards. God knows if they will be attacked if they leave rashly. No one wants to start the version. When you lose the goodwill of the Refuge.
It didn't take long for Bennett to come in a hurry, looking at the crowd, his eyes flashed with joy.
He remembered what Han Xiao once told him, saying that Yiren was the backbone to resist this catastrophe. At this juncture, Yiren reappeared. He didn’t know the reason. He only knew that Yiren came very timely. .
Bennett took out his loudspeaker and said loudly: "Everyone, Seablue Star is suffering from an unprecedented disaster and urgently needs help..."
He quickly explained the situation, and the player realized that it has been more than a year since the last version. Just over a month ago, a strange phenomenon spread rapidly in Seablue Star, and finally turned into a game catastrophe sweeping the globe.
Seablue Star called it the "disaster of alienation".
At this time, it has been a month since the full-scale outbreak of the Alienization Disaster, and the pattern of the entire planet was greatly turbulent, and the regime of the Six Nations almost collapsed in just one month.
No one knows the cause of the disaster, only that this is some kind of virus, which is called "alienated virus". Countless creatures, human beings, beasts and even plants have been infected, but the appearance of the alienated virus, the transmission mechanism and the How it works, no one knows if they are infected or not.
When the virus does not break out, every infected person is no different from usual. Once the virus breaks out, the infected person will suddenly have unusual desires, including but not limited to killing, destructive, anger, sadness, madness, lust, Hunger, thirst and other tendencies, a weak person may become a murderous butcher in the next moment, a normal person may suddenly squat down and frantically swallow sand until he swells to death, a dignified woman may suddenly become a slut.
The most terrifying point is that when the attack occurs, the patient remains sane, which means that it is not out of control or impulsive, but these desires guide their thoughts and make various actions.
According to the survivors’ recollections after the incident, these desires came from their hearts and were their real thoughts at the time, as if their personalities had been tampered with, and they became another person, but they could not detect it themselves. I feel like my behavior is normal.
Bennett gave a few examples, and the bewildered players immediately knew the horror of the Alienization Disaster.
Hongfeng was the first place where the disease occurred on a large scale. The infected people in the army took up guns and shot their comrades frantically. The army fell into chaos in an instant. No one knew which soldier who shot was the infected. A civil war broke out and tanks were used. , helicopters, rockets and other weapons, a large-scale disease, almost disintegrated half of Hongfeng's military strength.
The president even has a serious tendency to violence. He wants to grow mushrooms all over the world. Fortunately, launching a nuclear bomb requires a complicated process. If the nuclear bomb launch button is on the president's desk, I am afraid that the world has been leveled by now, and the president was arrested after the incident. .
All kinds of absurdities that can't happen under normal circumstances are staged without warning. It's not terrible for one person to be crazy, but the scary thing is that the whole world is crazy, it's like a group of demons.
No one knows when the people around them will have an attack, or even guarantee whether they are normal or not. This panic is unparalleled, as if the whole world has become an enemy, and they can no longer trust other people.
The Alienization Disaster broke out for a month, the social order collapsed, and many originally prosperous cities became wasteland. Citizens had to move or find a place to hide for safety. Pessimism became the mainstream. One view of the Alienization Disaster is in There is a global epidemic that nuclear radiation is responsible for the emergence of the virus.
So countless civilians began to scold and accuse the budding war that brought them peace, thinking it was retribution, this is the end!
After listening to the introduction, many players felt chills and put themselves in their shoes. This virus is too terrifying. Originally, players had various speculations about the so-called "disaster" in version 2.0, but they did not expect such a strange situation.
What the hell is an alienation virus
For a time, the players were a little confused. During the update, the time flow was not synchronized. The update time in the eyes of the players was only a few days, and the familiar world was overturned
Is it that exciting? !
"Isn't this virus unsolvable?" a player asked.
Bennett shook his head, "At present, we have discovered two ways to resist alienation viruses. First, power users are not easily infected, which has been verified. Second, our third refuge has developed an inhibitor. , the virus can be immunized for a period of time, but the production capacity is limited, and the cultivation of raw materials is being stepped up, but the number is far from enough."
The voice fell, the players' panels moved, and the main quest was triggered at the same time!
[[Alienation Disaster]]
[Mission introduction: Seablue Star is suffering from an unprecedented disaster, and it is the responsibility of all creatures on this planet to resist the disaster of alienation! ]
[Task requirements: Contribute to the fight against the alienation disaster]
[Progress: 0/3000]
[Success condition: Complete the progress before the alienated virus becomes a complete body]
[Failure conditions: Seablue Star civilization collapsed and all survivors were forced to evacuate]
[Reward: Depends on personal progress contribution (Note: Even if the total progress is reduced due to the growth of the virus, the progress accumulated by the individual will also be included in the reward evaluation)]
The quest requirements for hundreds of thousands of players are similar to those of Han Xiao, except that the player’s [Alienation Disaster] quest requires only the 30 million progress of Seablue Star, while Han Xiao’s quest requirements include all other planets where the Alienization Disaster has been cast. , Obviously, the task of Han Da technician is more complete.
This is a large-scale main quest jointly undertaken by all players. The contribution of each player will be counted into the total progress, and it is necessary to work together to achieve the task goal.
"We triggered the main quest as soon as we went online? The plot of this version is coming so fast!"
"I don't need foreplay, just hit Huanglong directly. I like to be so direct."
"...No, we got the main quest directly. It should be because we are online in the third sanctuary, and we can enter the main line early. The analysis of Xinghai Times is correct."
When everyone recalled it, they were all stunned.
Sure enough, this is true. If it was elsewhere, no one would have explained the situation carefully, and just now Bennett said that the third sanctuary was the only place with inhibitors, which means that this is the key scene of the 2.0 mainline. It was the mission left by Black Phantom that led them here.
He is our guiding light!
With the main quest, the players were in high spirits, and they all asked how they could help. Hundreds of thousands of people caused the scene to fall into chaos. Bennett finally stabilized the order and asked his subordinates to list various jobs. Missions vary in content, but the rewards are to increase the progress of the main mission.
The manpower required for each task was limited, which immediately caused a frenzy.
The big guild grabbed the most quests, and some single-player players didn't grab the official quest of the sanctuary, and their faces were a little depressed.
One player couldn't help asking: "Can I leave the shelter now, I want to go somewhere else."
Bennett looked helpless, "You'd better go up to the city wall and take a look."
The steel giant wall of the shelter completely blocked the outside scene. Hearing this, many players became curious, and a group of players climbed up the wall and looked outside the shelter.
After just one glance, these players were stunned, with shocking expressions on their faces.
I saw that within a few dozen kilometers of the shelter, countless tents were densely connected, like a gray cloud covering the maroon earth, like a huge open-air refugee camp, I don’t know how many people stayed outside the shelter and refused to do so. Leaving, from time to time, there are sounds of angry drinking and fighting from a certain position, and it is not known whether someone is sick, or is fighting for scarce water or food.
"The news that we have inhibitors spread, and countless people come here every day, wanting to inject inhibitors and seek our shelter."
Bennett followed, looking at the refugee camp with no end in sight, with a sad tone.
"But our inhibitor production is limited, we can only inject a certain number of refugees every day, and we can only make others camp outside and wait. The more the number of people, the more incidents of disease. Many people die outside every day, but I can't. Put everyone in or there will be riots inside... I'll just watch them die."
The whole world is helpless against the disaster of alienation. There is only a third refuge. As a result, it is obvious that this place has become a pure land in the eyes of refugees, carrying the last hope, and countless people have flocked here.
After the outbreak of the alienation disaster in the previous life, everyone became headless flies, panicked, without a destination, and the situation was very chaotic. Now, due to Han Xiao's influence on the plot, the refugees of the entire planet have a goal, that is, the black ghost The third sanctuary, regarded as the only savior.
However, the inhibitor made by Yiye Qing and Aurora can only work for a short time and cannot permanently expel the virus. Bennett has absolutely no idea how to solve this catastrophe, and no one in the entire Seablue Star knows. He couldn't help thinking of the reason why Han Xiao went to Interstellar. Black Specter was going to find a solution to the disaster. Does this mean that staying in Seablue Star cannot solve the alienation disaster
Bennett can only pin his hopes on Han Xiao... If he really can come back.
"There are no other shelters now..." Bennett said heavily, "This is the only shelter."