319. It's not a ghost story, girl
For social events at that level, even though Shino is actually a 'little transparent' who has very little interaction with her classmates in class, she doesn't care about current affairs anymore and is forcibly poured into her head by all kinds of talk around her every day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and later played GGO, like SAO, which is not only the first VRMMORPG ever, but also caused panic in the 'legendary game', there will definitely be no shortage of people talking about it in GGO. When it comes to death in the game, not only Shino, I'm afraid that any VRMMO player, the first thing that comes to mind will be SAO back then.
"It's not entirely certain who killed those two players, or whether they were 'killed' or not. But what is certain is that those two players are indeed dead, and the reason why they are not logging in to GGO again is because they can't log in anymore. ”
Lévy tried to tell the story in a more flat and straightforward tone. This is not a summer horror story conference, and he doesn't have to tell this story very scary to scare other girls. What's more, this thing is already scary enough for people who play VR games every day. Just knowing the facts is creepy, and you don't need to go into any more exaggeration - thanks to the SAO precedent. Otherwise, no matter what Levi said, even if she put the death report of Zxed and Thin Salt Cod Roe in front of Shino, she would at most believe that the two were indeed dead, but it was impossible to believe that the death of the two was related to the game of GGO. No one would believe in such an unscientific thing, even if it was a coincidence that two veteran players both died while playing the game.
"Dead ...... Dead?heart attack or something...... Those professional gamers are originally otaku who stay at home all day and don't do anything but play games, so it's normal for poor health to be poor. And those two are said to be very veteran professional gamers, who were also active in other games before GGO. In this way, their gaming age should be very long, and their age is not too small. It's reasonable to live this kind of life all year round, and all kinds of problems accumulated in the body, right?"
There was a little inappropriate expression on Shinon's face, but the eyes and the corners of her mouth were a little stiff still made people see that she was not calm inside. She neither believed Lévy's words nor did she want to believe Lévy's words. Although she didn't directly accuse Levi of lying by saying that the two players were dead, she did try to give examples of how the deaths of the two players might not have anything to do with GGO. But rather than refuting Levy, Shino looked a bit like she was convincing herself. Maybe it's because the role of age and occupation has finally come into play at this time.,In fact, Levy, who hasn't shown much seriousness since he met Shino.,Now it's unexpectedly easy to get Shino's trust.。 If it weren't for someone who was already an adult and still a teacher, Shino would definitely not even bother to listen to this kind of thing.
"It's possible what you're talking about, in fact, it's said that the results of the autopsies on those two men were death from something like a heart attack. If you don't exercise all year round, have an irregular life, and have an unhealthy diet, even if you are not too old, it is not unlikely that you will have heart disease or other heart and blood vessel problems. With a little external stimulation and the like, it is indeed normal for the heart to burst out. And those two players live alone outside, even if the heart problem is not too serious, it is possible to die unexpectedly because no one is around when the disease occurs. ”
Lévy seemed to follow Shinon's words to help her supplement, but the more she listened to it, the more she felt that it made sense, but Shinon began to doubt it.
At the end of the day, no matter how much bizarre social news you've read that makes you sigh that 'even in fiction there is no such plot', who wouldn't be surprised that two famous players in the same game die in the same way?
In reality, when a relatively bizarre piece of news appears in a certain media, it will often cause widespread doubts among the public. Even if it turns out that it was indeed such a coincidence in the end, there will still be many people who will not believe it or hold conspiracy theories or the like. Most people subconsciously deny things that go against common sense, things that are contrary to common sense that people have formed over the years, and they will not believe it no matter how others explain it.
The human subconscious tends to guard one's long-formed cognition and reject external shocks from what is inconsistent with cognition. Don't you see, for some people, even science has become a kind of religion that is absolutely unquestionable? In fact, the reason why scientists continue to promote the development of science is precisely because they question and deny the truth studied by their predecessors. If everyone is only scient, believing that what does not correspond to the known laws of science is a deception, then the earth's science and technology will probably stay at the current stage forever, and there will never be any progress.
"By the way, doesn't it seem like it's time for a satellite scan?"
As soon as Levi finished speaking, there was a slight vibration on Shinon's wrist. It was a signal from Shino's watch that she had ten seconds left to scan a satellite. Although there were still many doubts and things that he wanted to deny and disbelieve, Shino first took out the instrument that received the satellite feedback information from his pocket. No matter what, the game will go on, and this opportunity to get information cannot be missed.
"Shino, you try to confirm the name of the cloaked player on the map, and I'll look around again, maybe he'll come out of the water not too far away. ”
"I see. ”
Shinon shook her hand a little impatiently, and although she didn't want to believe what Lévi had just said, it still upset her. Levi stared at the water near the iron bridge twice, then took out his binoculars and looked around.
There were no fluctuations everywhere on the surface of the water, which indicated that the man in the cloak was diving very deep. Shino said that the player will continue to reduce HP in the water, but as long as the level is long enough, it will probably take a long time to reduce HP to a dangerous level. Since he chose to dive away knowing that Shino, a tough sniper, was present, it means that the man in the cloak has the confidence to swim out of the range of Shino's sniper rifle underwater. Besides, I couldn't see any waves at all, and I didn't even know which direction the cloaked man was swimming, and it was even more difficult to find him.
Shino looked at the map in his hand and waited for the information to update, and after counting down to a few seconds, the spy satellites left over from the Space War era in the game setting skipped from the distant sky.