In the safe house, the system 3780 told Mu Qin that he can not only improve his physical fitness, improve his strength, intelligence, agility, etc., but also learn a skill.
The word "skill" aroused Mu Qin's interest, so he asked the system, "What skill?"
"All human beings have their own talents." System 3780 used her sweet and pleasant voice to echo in Mu Qin's ears like singing. The system said: "Some people are good at observing, some are good at thinking, and some people have extremely powerful abilities. Some people are endowed with creativity and can always come up with all kinds of weird ideas."
"In the edge world game, the system will not give you a fixed skill, but tap your talent, transform your best and best ability into your skill, strengthen it and enable players to be more autonomous and comfortable control these skills to escape."
The words of the system gave Mu Qin some ideas, and he proposed this idea to the system: "I understand what you mean, you can turn someone's 'passive ability' into an 'active skill', probably this is the feeling …but what I do know is, if someone is really, really good at cooking, do you turn that goodness into a skill?"
The system replied: "The system will select those talents in the player that can increase the survival rate for transformation. If this person is very good at cooking, it proves that his knife skills are very good when cooking, and I will turn his knife skills into skills. "
Mu Qin asked again: "If you turn his knife skills into skills, will he have to use skills to chop vegetables in the future?"
"That's not the case, because his knife skills are his own talent, and I will not take away other people's talent."
Mu Qin roughly understood: "I will not steal talents, but only tend to choose those talents that can increase people's survival rate... So what talents in me are worth digging for you?"
"I have scanned your physical fitness." The system said, "You have excellent will and mental power, I can transform this mental power into your skills, but you need to pay 10,000 bonus points, use To strengthen skills and open skill slots."
When the system mentioned skill slots, Mu Qin thought of something, and asked again: "Skill slots... Does this mean that players can bring a lot of skills?"
"Yes." The system replied: "If you get more bonus points in the future, you can use them to open your second skills and skill slots. As long as you still have talents, as long as you can learn, you can have Your skills are unlimited, but every time you enter the game, you can only bring up to three skills.”
Mu Qin nodded. He lowered his head and thought for a moment, and felt that instead of spending money to buy those seemingly useless item cards in the mall, it would be better to start a new skill now, so he took a deep breath and said: "I understand Alright, then give me a skill first."
"Okay, please wait a moment." After the system on the virtual screen finished speaking, it was silent for quite a while. During this time, Mnuchin didn't feel anything unusual, but after waiting for a few minutes , Mu Qin suddenly felt that his body was a little hot, like the feeling of being sick and having a fever, especially his head, which was so dizzy that he was a little confused.
Mu Qin couldn't help reaching out to support his head, he shook his head, and just when he was about to continue asking the system what happened, the system took the first step and finally said: "I have successfully activated the first skill for you, you The name of his skill is 'Death Awareness', and you can see the detailed settings and effects of this skill on the virtual panel in front of you."
After all, the system changed the picture on the virtual screen, and then Mu Qin saw an additional icon next to his personal panel. It was still a small icon with a snake wrapped around a cross, but it was blue. Mu Qin reached out and touched the small blue icon, and then a description of the skill popped up, which read as follows:
Skill Name: Death Awakening
Passive 1: Fear diminishing (death once made you fearful, but also once made you sober, the more you are in danger and crisis, the more determined your will will be, you are difficult to be shaken, and you are always calm and composed , Fear is just a tool for you to analyze the situation. ps: This passive cannot be strengthened.)
Passive 2: Concentration (When you are attacked or extremely nervous, your mental power will be concentrated like never before, your thinking and insight will be enhanced, and you have the ability to find the one that can make you escape in the first time. A natural way. ps: This passive cannot be strengthened.)
Active Effect: Increases your physical coordination and reduces any lapses in your movements.
After reading this skill with such a high-profile name as "Death Awakening", Mu Qin felt baffled. He felt that whether this skill was passive or active, it didn't seem to have much effect, especially the passive of this skill. When Mnuchin was training in the military, he had already learned to remain calm, think and gain insight in a crisis.
He asked System 3780: "Is this skill really useful?"
System 3780 replied gently: "You can try to use and experience your skills. As long as you think about using this skill in your heart, you will show it naturally."
Mu Qin obeyed the system and tried to use the so-called "death awareness", and then he felt that his body seemed to become a little lighter, but it was only a little lighter, and his hands and feet were more flexible than usual, but Other than that there is no other effect.
"That's it!?" Mu Qin swayed his body ridiculously, deeply feeling as if he had been tricked.
However, the system's services are still very comprehensive. The system continued: "If you have problems with your skills, or feel that your skills need to be adapted, I can provide you with a primary training room and place training dolls in the training room. You can put your skills to good use by competing with puppets in the training room."
Mu Qin nodded and said, "Okay, give me a training room."
"Please look to your left." The system reminded Mu Qin, and Mu Qin followed the system's instructions and turned his head to look to the left. Then he saw a door appeared on the wall on the left without knowing it. A crimson... door also carved with the Serpent's Cross.
The system continued to add: "Please push open this red door, behind it is the training room."
Mu Qin licked his dry lips and walked to the red door. Before he pushed the door open, he asked the system another question: "Is the snake cross a symbol of the fringe world?"
"Yes." The system replied, "The snake cross is the symbol and belief of the marginal world. We all firmly believe that before we succeed, we must be tempered by endless fire."
Mu Qin thinks that the words of the system are very meaningful. The system is obviously just an artificial intelligence, but it can say such words that seem to be spoken by some "believers".
Then Mu Qin entered the so-called training room. He felt that the training room was a sports gym filled with all kinds of fitness equipment. The robot, faceless, is a pure white humanoid doll.
There were five dolls in total, and they all stood motionless in the corner, but when Mu Qin climbed onto the platform, one of the dolls moved, moving as flexibly as a living person, standing in front of Mu Qin, and posing Preparing for the attack.
Mu Qin didn't go to bed early that night, but stayed in the training room for several hours. After a few hours, Mu Qin, who successfully killed all the puppets in the training room, crawled out of the room and returned to the safe room Afterwards, the recovery buff of the safe house took effect, and the injuries and bruises caused by Mu Qin's exercise in the training room disappeared completely in an instant.
"I need a room to sleep, and preferably a bath." Mu Qin made a request to the system.
The system quickly responded to him, and opened a dark blue door on the right. After Mu Qin pushed through the door, he found that behind the door was a five-star hotel room, with a soft and comfortable double bed, wool carpet, and a single room. There is a sofa and a bathroom.
After entering the room, Mu Qin quickly took a shower, soaked in the bathtub for a while, and then went to bed. He found that there was a regular electronic alarm clock on the bedside table, so he set the time so that he could get up on time at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.
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The day in the safe house passed quickly, and Mu Qin had no dreams at night and slept very deeply. In the morning, he was woken up by the alarm clock, and when he opened his eyes and saw the strange room he was in, he realized after a while... He was really trapped in a terrible killing game, and he couldn't get out up.
Mu Qin got up from the bed naked and opened the closet next to him. There was a row of casual and simple white clothes and black trousers of the same style, and a lot of underwear hanging. Mu Qin picked out a set at random and found that they all fit perfectly. After putting on the clothes he was wearing, Mu Qin washed his face and brushed his teeth. When he came out of the room, there was still the pure white safe house outside. There was nothing in the safe house except the floating virtual screen.
"Good morning, do you need any help?" The system seems to be on standby 24 hours a day. Just as Mu Qin went out, the soft female voice spoke to Mu Qin like a bird chirping early in the morning. Mu Qin Rubbing his flat stomach, he said, "I think I need to have breakfast."
The system quickly prepared a dining table and chairs for Mu Qin, and a set of Chinese breakfast that perfectly suits Mu Qin's appetite. After Mu Qin sat on the chair and ate these slowly, he said to the system: "I feel your The service is really good.”
The system replied: "I will provide the most comfortable environment and conditions for the players. If you need it, I can even provide you with psychological counseling."
Mu Qin didn't need psychological counseling, he asked the system: "You said that each system corresponds to only one player, I am player No. 3780, and you are system No. 3780, then If I die in the game, will you die too?"
This question caused the system to pause for a moment. Although she paused for a short time, Mu Qin noticed it.
The system said: "I don't have the concept of 'death', but you are right, if you die, I will disappear from the marginal world. So during the time you and I coexist, I will do my best at your service."
"Are you willing to just disappear like this?" Mu Qin could almost imagine his own death. In this vast and boundless world, Mu Qin was just an existence that couldn't be more insignificant. He knew that he would face death, and he quietly Say, "I'm going to die someday."
Although the female voice of the system is sweet, she lacks emotional fluctuations. She said mechanically: "I don't have the feeling of 'willing or unwilling'. I only follow the instructions... Excuse me, player, do you have any other needs?"
Mu Qin shook his head, he left his dining table and came to the wall behind the virtual screen. From 8:00 am to 10:00 am is the time period when the safe house opens this communication method between players by default. Mu Qin only needs to wait a little longer. After 8:00 am, he can continue to write messages on the wall and talk to Zhou Yue up.
Thinking of Zhou Yue, Mu Qin's depressed mood improved slightly. No matter what, this time, Mu Qin will never run away again. He will stay with Zhou Yue and stay together forever.
As soon as 8:00 a.m., there were indeed many strange scratches and writings on the wall. However, because it was still early in the morning, there were not many players who got up early in the morning to write on the wall, so there were not many writings on the wall. Mu Qin took a knife to write and draw on the wall. He engraved Zhou Yue's name on the wall in seal script, but after waiting for a long time, he did not see Zhou Yue's reply.
It's amazing that someone else accosted Mu Qin.
Next to Mu Qin's engraved message with Zhou Yue's name, someone wrote this sentence in simplified Chinese:
"I can understand some seal characters, may I communicate with you?"
This sentence made Mu Qin slightly stunned. He hesitated for a moment, and began to hesitate whether he should talk to a completely unfamiliar player.
At this time, the other party saw that Mu Qin hadn't answered for a long time, so he continued to write: "Please, I am a newcomer to this game. I have survived the first game in a daze, but the next new game I have to face , I’m not sure at all, I still don’t understand a lot, please tell me some information you know.”
Mu Qin still decided to communicate with this "newcomer", because Mu Qin is also a newcomer, and communicating with people in the same situation will give Mu Qin an inexplicable sense of belonging.
Mu Qin replied: "I am also a newcomer to the game. I probably can't tell you how much information you want, and most of the information you can get from your system."
Immediately afterwards, Mu Qin wrote: "What do you want to know?"
When Mu Qin wrote that he was also a newcomer, the other party seemed disappointed. After a long silence, he replied to Mu Qin: "I bought a death card in the mall, but later I found out that the person holding the death card will Became a killer, I regret it but can't return it, this card cost me all my bonus points again, I don't want to bring it into the next game because I have no idea what the consequences will be, and I didn't become a 'ghost ' mental preparation, do you have any advice for me?"
To be honest, Mu Qin was taken aback by the other party's words. He remembered that when he saw the main moon card on sale in the mall, he thought vaguely that since the main card could be bought in the mall, Is it possible to buy the death card exclusive to the killer? If you enter the game with this death card, will you become a killer
Mu Qin was just thinking about it in his heart at the time, but he didn't expect that he would see a living example so soon, and he didn't know how to reply to the other party.
People who survived this game are basically no longer innocent people. When they pass the first novice level, when they realize that the only way to survive is to sacrifice others, they are ready to fall. Mentally prepare for the abyss.
However, this psychological preparation is not something that everyone can do immediately and take it calmly. Just like the person who is talking to Mu Qin now, the handwriting written by this person is getting more and more flustered, as if he is a little out of control My own emotions: "I also heard that in this game, players can trade with each other..."
"So you want to sell this card to others, right?" This sentence was not written by Mu Qin, but by Zhou Yue, whose handwriting Mu Qin recognized at a glance.
Zhou Yue did not know when she went "online", and wrote under the message of the person who talked to Mu Qin: "This game does have a trading system, but you must know the system number of other players to trade, so you want to find it here. Find the right buyer and 'sell' your card."
The other party stopped answering.
Zhou Yue continued to write: "However, your promotion is successful. You can sell it to me. The price of the Death Card in the mall should be 10,000. I can give you 10,000 reward points."
This time the other party replied very quickly: "Really!? Great! My system number is 3746, please tell me yours!"
Zhou Yue replied: "1309"
After the two reported their system numbers to each other, the two sides stopped writing any messages for a while. Mu Qin waited for a while, guessing that Zhou Yue might be trading with the other party.
After a while, Zhou Yue seemed to come back, changed the font, and wrote in seal script on the wall: "Mu Qin, are you still there?"
"I'm here." Mu Qin immediately began to engrave, "Did you really buy that person's death card?"
Zhou Yue wrote: "Yes."
"Are you going to use it in the next game?" Mu Qin felt that he didn't quite understand Zhou Yue's thoughts. He knew Zhou Yue well before, but now he felt that Zhou Yue seemed a little strange. I feel that I can no longer understand the other person clearly and clearly.
Mu Qin continued to write: "Did you buy this card simply to help others, or did you buy this card because you wanted to be a killer?"
Zhou Yue replied bluntly: "Killer players will get a special reward after the game is over. Human players don't have this special reward. I mainly want this, so I try to hope that I can become a 'ghost'."
"For the reward, you can kill wantonly, right?"
"Yes." Zhou Yue didn't seem to feel that there was anything inappropriate about her behavior.
He has always been this kind of person. Mu Qin should have understood it long ago. Zhou Yue had already shown this kind of trait when he was in school. But if what he does is detrimental to other people's interests, but can indeed achieve the result he wants as soon as possible, Zhou Yue will still choose to do it without hesitation. The only person he has ever cared about in his life is Mu Qin .
Zhou Yue's special treatment is a right that only Mu Qin can enjoy.
Zhou Yue seemed to have noticed something, and wrote on the wall: "Don't you like me like this? I'm like this..."
"No." Mu Qin replied, "Our current situation requires us to do everything that is beneficial to our own interests. If becoming a 'ghost' is beneficial to you, of course you can do it. I am just worried...becoming Killer, you are only one after all."
"But I still have you." Zhou Yue also wrote: "Honey, no matter what happens, I know you will stand by my side, right?"
Mu Qin touched Zhou Yue's self on the wall and took a deep breath: "Yes, I will always be by your side."
If indifference and selfishness can protect Zhou Yue, Mu Qin doesn't mind being such a person.
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At twelve o'clock in the noon, Mu Qin and Zhou Yue agreed on the time. Although he was still a little hesitant in his heart, when it was almost time, Mu Qin ate the delicious lunch prepared for him by the system early and ran for a while in the training room Treadmill, and then told the system to help him start a new game on time at twelve o'clock, not a minute or a second away.
The system naturally fulfilled Mu Qin's request perfectly. The moment the clock struck twelve o'clock, Mu Qin felt his eyes go dark and he lost consciousness.
When he woke up again, he found himself in an... amusement park.
An abandoned amusement park.
Mu Qin clearly asked the system to send him in at 12:00 noon, but after entering the game, it was pitch black night. If Mu Qin's guess is correct, the time on the game map seems to be always night, or it is extremely dim day or night. At dusk, in order to match the horror color of the killing game, it deliberately created a dark and strange atmosphere.
Maybe it was because of the strengthening in the system—Mu Qin spent 10,000 points to buy that skill, and then used all the remaining points to strengthen his physical fitness. 7 was added to 10, and this actually used up 3,000 bonus points. It is equivalent to saying that a thousand reward points is a little strengthening value.
After maxing out his agility, Mu Qin obviously felt that his body was too light, and inexplicably felt that there seemed to be a pair of wings inserted on his back.
He began to look around at his surroundings.
This is indeed an abandoned amusement park. He appeared in front of a canteen in this amusement park. Next to him was the small house of the canteen. The glass of the locker was also broken, and the whole canteen looked dilapidated at first glance.
Although everything in the canteen was tattered, Mu Qin noticed that there was a painting hanging in the canteen, a painting with a snake cross symbol.
Then Mu Qin looked at other places, and Mu Qin saw a huge Ferris wheel not far away, but the Ferris wheel seemed to be very old, not to mention rusty spots, and the Ferris wheel was even covered with creepers - a kind that can take you The whole house turns into a green horrible plant.
There is a carousel farther away, and the carousel is actually active! The colorful lights are on, and the cheerful music of jingle bells is playing, and the wooden horse is slowly rotating with the music.
Mu Qin glanced at the Ferris wheel and the merry-go-round horse, then turned his head and looked at the area behind him. There was also a wide but darker area behind him, and the entire area was pitch-black.
Mu Qin thought: This place is very big, it seems that it will take a lot of time to explore.