Nan Xiaowei's party was at around three o'clock in the afternoon, and Zhao Xu's high school classmates' party was probably in the evening. Fortunately, they were not far apart, and at least he could get there directly by the subway.
However, at noon, Zhao Xu was already riding an electric shared bicycle, swimming in the city he knew and grew up in since childhood.
From elementary school, junior high school to high school, Zhao Xu walked past each school one by one. Looking at the facades that were vaguely similar to those in his memory, but different, he fell into memories in his heart.
Every winter and summer vacation, when he returned to his hometown, he would visit these places. However, it happened to be during the winter and summer vacations, so he couldn't meet his former teachers.
This time he was particularly touched by what he saw, because in more than half a year, these buildings would only remain in memory forever.
He also noticed that some office buildings even had huge posters of the game "Arthur" with different images.
Zhao Xu couldn't help but froze when he saw one of them.
A heroic paladin is wearing heavy armor, waving a long sword and looking straight ahead.
This paladin looks like Vivian.
The Mithril Acceleration Armor and the Holy Avenger's sword exuded bright light.
It stands to reason that the butterfly effect he brings only affects the development of Arthur, and it is impossible to involve the entire game's operations on earth.
It's just that he has a bit of a headache. Players will definitely be able to exclaim when they see Vivian in the future, because she can already be regarded as the spokesperson of the game.
After silently writing down this matter, Zhao Xu did not stop and walked directly into an animation city on a pedestrian street.
There were still a lot of stores selling console games and action figures when Zhao Xu was a child. However, with the development of online channels and the transparency of prices, these physical stores have gradually become unsustainable.
The animation city that Zhao Xu came to this time can be said to be one of the few remaining ones.
At the entrance of the store, there are large and small bags and packaged Taobao packages waiting for delivery, and ordinary customers can only make do with the narrow road.
At this time, Zhao Xu walked into the video game store he had patronized, where he had purchased his VR simulation helmet.
When Brother Guang, who was tallying goods, saw him, he immediately said in a local dialect: "Hey, A Xu, it's winter vacation. Why did you delay showing up until the Chinese New Year? I can't hold back the good goods I specially left for you. ”
"By the way, do you want to play this game 'Arthur'? It's very popular recently."
As he said that, he handed a plastic-sealed game disk to Zhao Xu. On the cover were Arthur's eleven major professions, wearing various adventurer costumes.
In fact, this kind of game board only contains a card with an activation code, which is also a beautiful booklet with a simple introduction to professions and attributes.
After such a layer of packaging, it has become a collector's edition, and the price has soared directly from 599 for the deluxe edition to 799.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu suddenly felt that the historical changes had bifurcated, but finally reunited on the same line.
During the winter vacation before the Chinese New Year in his previous life, when he passed by Brother Guang's store, the other party said the same thing to him.
But he refused with a smile, saying that he was too busy and had no time to play games.
Just missed 4 months of precious time.
"Brother Guang, are you having fun?" Zhao Xu asked softly.
"Yes, I close the store every day and go online on time. But I have too few specialties. I want everything, but there is not enough of everything."
As he spoke, Brother Guang seemed to be very interested, "It seems that you are also interested, Xiaoxu, let me tell you, you have to be more careful with this specialty. Now my elf archer rangers are planning to delete their accounts and re-register them." After practicing, I just can’t bear to start with my 32 talent points.”
Brother Guang couldn't help but show his lust as he said this. He believed that Zhao Xu, who also played this game across from him, could understand.
An activation code can only register a 28 high talent point account once, a 22 medium talent point account three times, and a low 15 talent point account countless times.
Then only on the first day of the game will there be 4 extra talent points as a reward.
This is the most direct reward given by the Arthur gods to lucky players.
Brother Guang was able to start with 32 talent points and play until now, which means that he has never finished five resurrection stones, and he has not even regretted changing professions.
Zhao Xu was about to reveal some inside information to Brother Guang when suddenly his peripheral vision glanced at the slowly closing elevator in the animation city.
A girl was facing him sideways, wearing a floating city-style robe and a high-collared hooded cloak. In her hand was a "high-level super magic instant power" similar to the one held by Zhao Xu. Rod".
It wasn't until the elevator door was completely closed that the other party disappeared from Zhao Xu's sight.
For a moment, this absurd sense of time and space inversion made Zhao Xu a little unbelievable.
He glanced at the downward arrow of the elevator, then looked at the "3F" sign on this floor, and immediately rushed towards the "escape staircase" on the other side.
There are a total of 48 stairs from the third floor to the first floor.
Zhao Xu personally verified today that it took him a few seconds to complete the run at the fastest, and even at the corner of the stairs, he seemed to be drifting, grabbing the railing and turning sharply.
Finally, when he ran out of the stairs, he noticed that the woman wearing the robe of Master Arthur and about the same height and build as Antinoya slowly walked out of the door.
Zhao Xu rushed up quickly and shouted: "Hey, wait a minute."
But the girl turned her head in surprise, but under the hood she had an ordinary appearance.
"Sorry, I recognized the wrong person." Zhao Xu immediately apologized.
"Have you never seen cosplay?" The girl thought she was trying to strike up a conversation. After rolling her eyes at Zhao Xu, she continued walking outside.
Zhao Xu couldn't help but patted his confused head in annoyance.
He had been staying at the university for the past few months and didn't go to any comic exhibitions. He didn't react for a while.
In other words, he didn't realize that Arthur was already showing signs of leaving the circle.
Usually, he was ignored in the forums, and he only visited the categories with the majority of technical posts. He rarely watched player reality shows, so naturally he didn't notice this aspect of the content.
In other words, since the last time all the players were inexplicably disconnected for most of a day, Zhao Xu felt a little disappointed and felt that the interactive connection between the two worlds was more profound than in other previous lives.
After this setback, Zhao Xu had no intention of continuing shopping.
He looked at the time on his watch and saw that it was not long before Xiao Wei made an appointment with him, so he directly rode on a shared bicycle on the side of the road and headed towards the KTV not far away.
Just as he disappeared around the corner from the intersection.
In the original animation town, two people slowly walked out.
They were also dressed in gilded wine-red robes, and the cloaks on their bodies exuded colors like the stars.
It's just that the two of them seemed to exude mysterious magic, making everyone around them turn a blind eye to them.
"The world on earth is really amazing. It is possible to project Arthur through such a small box and a game account."
A dignified woman who looked completely mature and charming was looking at the VR helmet and "Arthur" game board she had just purchased with great interest.
"Wuyue, stop making trouble, why did you trick this thing into using suggestion?" The young woman on the side looked helplessly at her friend who was capable of causing trouble.
"Hey, little Noah, don't be angry." May couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing.
It's just that no one can know the amazing charm that her whole body exudes at this time. Even if she doesn't have any special abilities, just her smile is enough to move people's hearts.
The scorching sun at noon shone on them, and they all seemed to be gently twisted away, as if they were being pulled by a mysterious force.
"It's weird, I thought I could meet him here." Antinoya looked back at the "prophecy" spell he made with the legendary spell, and thought about what went wrong in his fate.
"What can you do if you encounter it?" Wuyue sneered, "But speaking of it, the end of this world will be brought forward?"
As he spoke, May looked at Antinoya in front of him with a scrutinizing expression.
"Maybe."
"Something went wrong?"
May sneered. From the beginning, she did not support this kind of initiative for players to log in a year in advance.
"Yeah." Antinoya nodded.
"Due to the resonance of the transmission channel last time, the energy channel constructed by the gods may not last for another year."
At this time, the two of them were talking on this land, not caring that everything they said would be leaked.
The two people were surrounded by inexplicable mysterious energy, whirling and dancing.
"So, the plan of meteorites falling from the sky to destroy the earth has to be brought forward?" Wuyue commented coldly on the gods' plan.
"It's the 'Earth Human Regeneration' plan." Antinoya corrected lightly.
"snort."
Wuyue directly crossed her hands and looked at everything in front of her indifferently.
"So this time I sent you to investigate the situation in advance? Or maybe the so-called giant posters I saw hanging on high-rise buildings are also your means of accelerating the player's progress?"
Antinoya nodded slightly, "Yes."
"Wouldn't this give him a fright?" Wuyue couldn't help but chuckle, as if it was a pleasure to see the other person surprised.
"If you really decide, I will tell him next time we meet." Antinoya said.
This is what it should be.
"Then how long do you have left to make plans again?"
Regarding this plan, the gods have always been implemented through the Mage Association and many churches. May was not involved because of his initial opposition.
She just quietly deployed her own methods, waiting for the real change to come.
Countless forces who knew about this but did not have enough chips to participate were also waiting quietly like this.
They manage to select suitable players and wait for the day when seven billion creatures will arrive.
"About 4 months left."
Antinoya said, her eyes had crossed the asphalt road ahead and looked towards the blue sky.
There, there will be meteorites piercing the sky one after another.
(End of chapter)