Fifty minutes after the invasion began, the game space. oM
Mall, area 101.
"Huh...haha...hahahaha..." Looking at the wreckage in front of him that dissipated into data fragments, Atobe wiped the blood on his face, let out a long breath, and laughed, "Finally...finally all of them are killed! Hahahaha... "
Atobe's lunatic reaction is also understandable, because he has just escaped from a fierce and suffocating battle.
In addition to him, the gods, Hongying, Jianghu, and members of the second team of Order in the same area also showed expressions of relief.
In the nearly half an hour just now, the members of these top-notch teams joined hands for the first time and worked hard to eliminate a total of five "giants".
This group of giants also has a specific title - [The Devourer].
The difference from ordinary redundant soldiers and sweepers is that... Devourers are not a kind of original data soldiers, they are "combined" from other redundant soldiers.
Generally speaking, three hundred ordinary redundant soldiers can be fused in the form of data to generate an embezzler.
The combat power of the Devourer is determined by the total strength of all the redundant soldiers participating in the fusion. If there are sweepers among the redundant soldiers participating in the fusion...then their combat power will also be counted.
To sum up, this is a very powerful data soldier, and it is also the ace unit of the redundant army.
Although the top players in Area 101 managed to eliminate the five Devourers, they also paid a heavy price.
Ice Emperor's "Naming Trio" was the first to die in battle. They made great contributions in the process of fighting the first embezzler. Red Sakura's Tie Haitang and Hyacinth, as well as the brave invincible, brave without fear, Ye Zhi of the second team of Order, and Wudao Ke of the Jianghu, were all killed in the process of fighting the second and third invaders. kill.
So far, the players have basically figured out how to deal with the embezzlers. And there are only two devourers left. Therefore, the ensuing battle was relatively simple.
The death toll did not increase until all five devourers were killed.
but. Overall, the losses in this battle were quite serious. The only team with one main player intact is the team of gods (only four people came). The other teams suffered losses of varying degrees.
"Oh... why can't I laugh at all..." Looking at the laughing Atobe, Barcode raised the sniper rifle in his hand, sat down on the ground, and let out a sigh.
The ace sniper of the Order studio is now the only surviving member of the second team of the Order, and his mood at the moment can only be described as lonely as snow...
"You all have worked hard too." Xiaowen Cangtian immediately turned to look at the non-professional players outside the battle circle, and said, "Thank you."
What he said was definitely not to win people's hearts. Instead, thank you from the bottom of your heart.
Just now, when their five professional teams joined hands to fight against the Devourers, other players in Area 101 spontaneously united to help them block the ordinary redundant soldiers and raiders on the periphery, and cleared away their worries.
Without the assistance of these players, I'm afraid this battle will become even more tragic...or even a disastrous defeat.
"Nowhere, if you hadn't blocked those giants, we would have been desperate."
"Yeah, we just tried our best to do what we can do."
As soon as Xiaowen Cangtian finished speaking, Passerby A and Passerby B who were closer to him politely responded to the president of Jianghu on behalf of the general public.
at this time. The emotion of "fear" has basically disappeared from the hearts of the players, replaced by a sense of accomplishment after a catastrophe...
Humans are highly adaptable animals. Fear, too, is something you can get used to. For example...a horror movie can scare you once or twice, but after you watch the movie three, five, or even ten times, the feeling of fear will fade away; After watching it a hundred times, the fear will completely disappear... because when you watch it one hundred and one times, you already know exactly what will happen in the next second, that is to say... "unknown" becomes "Known"; without "unknown", there is no fear; this is... adaptation.
In the same way, when facing a sudden crisis. The same is true for people's psychological reactions... Fear will make people feel astonished and at a loss, at this time. "Instinct" will replace "thinking" and take over human behavior.
instinct. It is a precious wealth acquired by organisms in the process of evolution, and it is one of the guarantees for species to survive and reproduce. Most creatures in the food chain have a similar reaction process when encountering unknown dangers—run away, hide, wait and see, test...
Human beings are no exception.
The development of technology and the maturity of cognition have not changed our instincts much, but fortunately, as a highly intelligent creature, human beings can overcome their instincts through training.
In a crisis situation, individuals who have more "overcoming experience" of fear will adapt to the situation faster than other individuals. It only takes a short time for them to allow "thinking" to return to the high ground occupied by "instinct". And play a very good leading role. (ps: Feng Bujue should be excluded from this type of people, because the highland in his mind has been occupied by "thinking" for a long time, and "instinct" can only wait on the mountainside)
As long as there is a small group of people, or even one person, who can quickly make a thought-based and correct response, there is a chance to affect all the same people around. Because... "imitation" is also an important part of human adaptation. When they see someone of their own kind do something and get away with it, people feel a little less intimidated about it, and they feel like... they, too, can do it to some extent.
The battle situation in area 101 is roughly like this... Led by a few elite players, ordinary players quickly put their fears behind them and participated in the battle.
Facing the desperate battle situation, no one gave up, and no one ran away; in the end, they successfully wiped out all the derivatives who invaded here.
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It is worth mentioning that... In this battle, two groups of people played a particularly critical role.
The first batch is an organization wearing a long white trench coat with the big character "Shang" written in blood on the back—"ShangのPro-Guards"; while the other batch is wearing a long blue trench coat with the words "Shang" written in blood on the back. An organization with the word "Shang" - "Xu Huaishu Official Fan Club".
The nature of these two teams of men and horses could not be more obvious. There is not much to introduce... Among the large group of non-professional players, these two groups of people are like death squads. After the first Devourer appeared, most ordinary players flinched. Only these two groups of people... were completely unmoved. From the beginning to the end, I stayed behind the five strong teams (in fact, it was just the Red Sakura team), and resolutely carried it to the end.
Regardless of their motives, their actions really inspired passers-by players around them. Their attitude of "seeing death as home" also inspired the momentum of the crowd, and they managed to maintain the nearly collapsed front.
I have to say... a certain female player contributed a lot to the victory of this battle...
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All in all, after an extraordinary battle, this area finally returned to tranquility.
The safety at this moment is undoubtedly the result of the joint efforts of everyone present.
For those passer-by players, they feel at this moment... like a group of recruits who have just participated in the first battle. Just survive. It is also enough to cause a great change in their minds. When faced with similar situations in the future, they will "adapt" more quickly.
In reality, the difference between veterans and new recruits is roughly the same... It is this "adaptability" that determines whether you will be confused or violent in unexpected situations. Believe me... Most of the time, you are confused the one who will die.
"Then here comes the question..." After a moment of silence, Shiva looked at the people around him and said, "... Is this the end?"
As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at the border of the area. At this time, apart from the dome, even the walls next to the shopping mall were torn open with a huge gap in space. Even in the distance, the distorted space-time composed of data optical flow can be clearly seen.
"When the third, fourth, and fifth giants came in...the outer walls of most of the area were knocked down, and the elevator doors leading to the login space were also destroyed. How should we go back?" Shiva read road.
"Anyway, forced retreat is still not acceptable." Da Fantian replied quickly. "I just tried that too."
"Well... And those players who have already hung up are still in a state of being unreachable." Hei Hei Hui also rubbed his chin and read.
"Could it be..." At this moment, a very bad idea flashed in Xu Huaishang's mind, "...the system wants us to kill each other until the last one?"
Her words made everyone present gasp.
Fortunately, the mutation that happened in the next second... negated her hypothesis.
hum—
At that moment, a strange sound sounded in the ears of all the players, and their eyes were blinded by white light.
The next somatosensory. It's similar to teleportation, but slightly different... It's just that players can't tell the specific difference.
After about five seconds. When the players came back to their senses, they had come to a brand new space.
This is not a mall. It is a white, boundless world.
The sky and the earth in front of me are the same pure white, and the whole sky is like an unreachable ceiling, exuding moderate light. On the white land, there are many scenes of different sizes... There are high-rise buildings, trees and forests, mountains and flowing water, etc. These scenes are all pure white, with only outlines and no details. Standing there like geometric building blocks.
In addition to these "big scenes", there are many relatively small things in this space, such as cars, street light poles, carousel horses, dressing tables, bathtubs... these countless objects are also white outlines, And there is no rule to follow in terms of species, as if they were picked randomly from an encyclopedia, scattered evenly on the white ground.
"Eh? Isn't that the master of speech in heaven and earth?"
"Yeah, and heartbreak."
"That is the autumn wind of mountains and rivers, right?"
"Hey! Over there are the Four Heavenly Kings of the Gods!"
"Eh? Are you not afraid of Jianghu's Mad Zing Sword Shadow and the one who was in the same area as us just now?"
"Wow! I saw Goddess Xu, am I dead? Is this heaven?"
Not long after the teleportation ended, the players discovered a situation... It seemed that the survivors from various shopping mall areas were all sent to this strange space.
Just when the players were still confused, suddenly...
Boom—boom—boom—
The sound of rhythmic, heavy footsteps came from all directions, and the ground under the players' feet trembled.
"What's going on? Are there still giants?"
"Ah! There!"
"It's there too!"
Indeed, these sounds and vibrations are the footsteps of the devourers.
At this moment, there are four encroachers running towards the more than 3,000 players gathered from four directions...
"Cut... Who is afraid of whom!"
"Wipe! If you don't accept it, just do it!"
"The comer is not good, everyone is ready to deal with the shock!"
The players who can stand here alive are strong players who have survived the offensive and defensive battles in various areas. Although not every area has been attacked by multiple encroachers (redundant soldiers track targets through sniffing data, area 101 has the most and strongest troops because of the accumulation of a large amount of powerful data, while other areas are at most There was an embezzler), but everyone present was very confident that they could withstand the attack of these four giants.
However... they misunderstood one thing.
These four devourers are not charging the players, but...
bang bang bang bang—
But see, the devourers have jumped up before they come to the players. The timing of their take-offs was almost identical, and they jumped extremely high. When they reached the commanding heights, the four invaders unfolded their bodies at the same time...and blew themselves up.
"What is this for? Fireworks..."
"If you want to blow yourself up, you should be closer. Jumping so high has no effect on us."
In the first three seconds, the players were still wondering what those "giants" were trying to do, until the fourth second... The four light sources in the sky suddenly turned into four streams of light, which spewed and converged towards the middle.
hum—
boom-
Immediately afterwards, the players heard two loud bangs.
The first sound was a long buzzing.
The second sound was a bang.
Accompanied by the sound, a wave of sound like a tsunami swept out and pressed towards the players.
Even though all the players hurriedly raised their hands to cover their ears, they still felt pain in their eardrums and their legs were weak from the sound of the explosion above their heads. Some players with low survival values... were immediately turned into white light by this wave of sound.
"This is terrible..." Twelve seconds later, the explosion stopped, and Shiva, who was kneeling on one knee, resisted the dizziness and raised his head to look at the sky.
At this time, at a height of about 100 meters above the ground, where the four streams of light just converged...a spherical space crack with a radius of about 20 meters has appeared. Lightning is moving.
Shiva was very impressed with this thing. In fact, before he looked up, he had already guessed what he was about to face.
"... another blasting tunnel."(.)