20 hours after the launch of "True Apocalypse", at 8 pm on January 1, 2022, in the game section of the New World Games website, a post caused a heated discussion among players.

[100 yuan is gone after 20 minutes of playing?

The landlord's ID is "sharp", and the landlord records his misdeeds in a very innocent and angry tone.

"You all comment, I opened such a pipe (there are pictures and truths downstairs), and in less than a minute, I was declared dead by the game?

The post was written by Wang Feng of H City, because he was busy packing up his things and closing, he opened the game there, and then packed up the money, pulled the roller shutter door, and then walked to the parking lot, put on a helmet, and then began to look for monsters everywhere.

Of course, blame him for not finding it, but he found the fluorescent tube, and the game seems to be a bit of a pit, who would have thought of picking up a prop and then really died.

And the most deplorable thing is that once this gamer dies, he will not be able to resurrect, and a hundred yuan will be gone!

Of course, most players have carefully read the friendship reminder and the three lines of information displayed on the helmet, and more people have begun to pay attention to the fluorescent tube in the picture than the unjust death of the landlord.

Combined with the "countdown to the release of the virus" at that time, and the "tragic death" of the landlord, it is actually easy to think.

For the landlord who is still in a state of confusion, everyone is also a black line.

"Big brother, you didn't die unjustly! really, you're so awesome!"

"Is the landlord an undercover agent in the new world?

"Landlord, do you know what you released? Human extinction is your pot!"

"The landlord must not have taken a good look at the game information.,At that time, the game showed that the virus delivery time was zero, indicating that the virus had begun to be delivered.,What you picked up should be the virus.。 ”

"When the landlord released the virus, he was infected by the virus and died, and this post ended. ”

"It's good to release the virus.,Anyway, I can't do anything now.,It's a little interesting to have a virus.,The landlord's sacrifice is valuable.,Praise the landlord!"

After reading so many replies, Wang Feng now finally understands that the thing he picked up is a virus!

"! Lao Tzu's luck! Billions of people around the world have picked it up for Lao Tzu!

But then again, it's actually quite cost-effective to be a celebrity in the forum because of this incident.

Continuing to look at the post, Wang Feng suddenly saw a reply.

"Is that you?"

The home supermarket is the name of the supermarket opened by Wang Feng, and if you can say this name, you must be an acquaintance.

"How do you know the name of my supermarket?

"I'm San'er!"

"Damn! ”

"This post has been pinned to the top, can you not find it? By the way, you said you died?"

"Yes, he played for 20 minutes, and the hundred yuan was gone, and he didn't let him download it again, and the new world was also sick, and he didn't make any money!"

"Huh~ When did you die?"

"Early in the morning, around two o'clock. ”

"No, when I was playing the game in the afternoon, I saw you online in my friends list!"

The landlord is chatting with acquaintances, and the chat between these two people is quite terrifying, what is not dead, but everyone is playing games, of course, they can understand it, but when this "San'er" said the last sentence, the onlookers suddenly fell silent.

These two people don't know how many people's eyes are glued to the two of them now, and they still continue to talk.

"How is it possible, I can't enter the game anymore, and as soon as I enter the game, it prompts "Your character is dead". ”

"I'm lying to you as your grandson, really, you wait, I'll take a look online. ”

The group couldn't help but hold their breath and waited for San'er to come back.

Ten seconds later, San'er came back.

"You, you're still online!" Not only that, San'er also sent a screenshot casually, and in the friend list, "Sharp Edge" was really online.

The landlord replied with a picture in seconds, which was a prompt for him to log in to the game.

[Hello Blade, your character is dead, and you will not be able to enter this game until the game resets.] 】

Both pictures were taken directly from the game, and as a result, this contradictory glance suddenly made the majority of players who had been holding it go completely crazy.

"What's the situation? Don't be scary, okay?"

"Is the landlord dead or alive? ”

The landlord and San'er are almost back in seconds: P picture dies the whole family!

Seeing that these two people were so determined, everyone was even more panicked.

"Why did a game post suddenly become a supernatural post?"

It's really weird to say.,The real player.,Forbidden to enter the game.,But the "he" in the game is still alive?

Immediately, a player replied: "Is the system showing a glitch?"

This player's guess is very likely, but San'er immediately released another picture.

He sent a message to "Sharp Edge", "Are you there?"

Sharp replied, "What are you doing?"

Things seem to be going further and further down the supernatural route...... Especially the last sentence "Come and play", it sounds particularly crazy. When Wang Feng saw the reply of his other self, goosebumps fell to the ground.

In the rounds of replies, one player finally gave the most logical answer.

"Don't be nervous, think about it, the game has prompted,If the player character dies,The system will recycle the player character!I remember this word,I also paid special attention to this word at the time,"Recycling"! Now think about it,It's likely that this sharp edge is now revealed,It's no longer the landlord is using,But the system!"

After the player's reminder,Many people also recalled the friendly reminder of the game at the beginning,There was indeed this one,At that time, many people paused for a moment on the word "recycling" when they were reading,How can the word "recycling" be used in general games。

"What I said upstairs makes sense, I think so too, but I think it's not accurate to control this character now, and it's probably not accurate to say that it's a system, I think it should be the "virus"! The landlord character is infected with the virus, there should be no doubt about this, and then the character's brain has died, so the landlord is banned from entering the game, but the character's body is not dead, but is controlled by the virus...... This is my guess, I don't know if it's right. ”

To be honest, this guess doesn't seem to be a little better than any supernatural event.

If what this player says is true, the virus can control the player's body after death, and can also interact with friends, then in other words, at this stage, you don't even know if your friends around you are infected by the virus!

The key is that from the perspective of the degree of artificial intelligence of the game assistant, New World is fully capable of achieving a relatively high degree of artificial intelligence, so it seems that there are no loopholes in the reasoning of the layer master......

In the post, it exploded again.

"I'm going! It's a little crazy to think about it! I suddenly feel like I'm playing a brain-burning horror game!"

"The virus actually makes the layer master "come over and play"? It's a little scary to think about it!"

"How many people have died? Does it mean that I can't even trust my friends anymore? Do I have to call my friends after a while to ask about the situation?"

"I finally know why this game is called "Real Apocalypse", it's really a comparison!

"I was a little bit sorry to download the game and didn't have anything, but now I realize that I was wrong. ”

"Upstairs, I'm already repentant, I really shouldn't download this game! ”

……………………

More and more paranormal posts appeared.

In fact, according to Lindy's setting, there is no need to open the fluorescent tube at all, and the players who touch the tube are all judged to be dead by the system! But their friends, all of them, believe that in the game, their characters are alive and well, and they can even do simple interactions, and almost every "dead" character will let his friends "come over to play"......

The words "come and play" suddenly became a buzzword in the forum.

"I received a message of confidence from my friend today, come and play!

"Play with your sister, Lao Tzu plans to retreat at home for a year and then come out!"

"Let's hurry up and pull your friends into a group, otherwise it's really a bit scary, who knows when you will be infected!"

At 1 a.m. on January 3, three days after the launch of "True Apocalypse", people discovered a strange phenomenon, the "number of survivors in the world", which had been constantly growing, stopped growing, and a minute later, the number actually began to decline.

Soon everyone reacted to what was going on, and the speed at which the virus infected players had exceeded the rate at which new players were added.

At this time, the number of survivors in the world is 974331811.