The girls screamed and fled the box. Fang Chiqiang endured the dizziness that had not yet subsided, and retreated to the corner behind the singing table in the box.

"What people!"

Meat twitched the wound on his head and shouted.

The man in the mask didn't say a word, picked up two more beer bottles and smashed them down on him. Meat twitched his arm, and the beer bottle cracked on his arm, and the yellow frothy liquor spilled to the ground.

This man is so fierce. The bottle smashed into the head of the meat pump, without the slightest hesitation, let alone the slightest measure of strength, it was all with all his strength, and he was not afraid of smashing the meat to death!

Fang Chi saw that this man was wearing a black T-shirt and jeans, and his figure was tall and slender, and he suddenly felt familiar. At this time, several other men also reacted, and they all picked up the cups and bottles on the table and threw them at the man. One of them pounced and was violently thrown to the ground by the man wearing the mask over the shoulder, and he didn't move for a moment. Another wine bottle hit the man with the mask, he staggered, turned around and grabbed the man's hair, and slammed it on the edge of the coffee table, the man's nose bone was immediately broken, the nosebleed rushed, and he screamed. The other three men didn't dare to fight alone with the man in the mask, and the three rushed up, the man in the mask was thrown on the sofa, and one rolled over and rolled behind the sofa, and he saw Fang Chi hiding on the side.

When his eyes met, the man in the mask hesitated for a moment. A broken wine bottle flew towards Fang Chi behind him, the man with the mask stretched out his hand to block it, and the bottle flew out diagonally, and Fang Chi saw that his arm was suddenly dripping with blood.

"Get out!" Fang Chi heard the man in the mask shouting in a low voice.

"Kill him! This little bunny! "Meat Pump was already angry and barked like a mad dog. The man in the mask picked up another broken bottle from the ground and pounced on the meat pump. The tip of the glass went down at once, both accurate and ruthless, piercing one of the meatballs.

"Ahhhhh

"Ahh

Meat smashes and kills pigs like screams! The man in the mask slipped his hands from his side to the end, took something out of his leather pants pocket, and quickly got up and rushed out of the door!

"Chase, !!" "No!! Take me to the hospital first!! I'm blind!! I'm blind!!! ”

Fang Chi calmly walked out. Outside, she slammed off the heels of her shoe on the steps, tore open the slit of her tight skirt, and chased her way out of the labyrinthine of lights.

She forced the masked man to the point where she had no way out on the roof of the Bukchon subway station. Under the night breeze, the makeup on her face was so heavy that she felt like she had an extra layer of mask, and the young man was still wearing a pale blue disinfectant mask. But that doesn't stop them from recognizing each other.

The blood stains on the young man's arms dried in the night wind, almost the same color as his black clothes.

"See you again."

The man was silent.

"Don't you know?" Fang Chi said.

"Not interested." The young man stood on the edge of the unprotected rooftop, looking at Fang Chi warily.

"I want to know someone who I can't refuse."

"There is no one I don't want to know, and there is nothing I can force to know." His feet landed in mid-air and pressed backwards, and behind him was the boundless night, like an ocean. A narrow line of railroad tracks winds its way from under the subway station, drowning in darkness. His actions like this are thrilling and exciting.

He said coldly: "The avenue is facing the sky, go to each side." ”

"Really?" Fang Chi chuckled lowly, "I especially like to walk with others. She stretched out her hand, and under the full moonlight, the white palm seemed to hold a full hand of moonlight.

"Give it to me."

"What?"

"Something taken from the meat pump."

"What's that?"

"'Ice cracks.'"

"Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying."

Fang Chi smelled the smell on his body, which was indifference that rejected people thousands of miles away. She could keenly feel that his indifference was different from hers. She is open, and the thousands of thorns are outward. But he was the opposite, with a hard shell wrapped around his body, and even if there were thorns, the thorns grew in them, piercing himself.

Tick-tick-tick-tick three sounds of the door closing of the city railway carriage sounded, and Fang Chi flew over, but the young man had already jumped off the roof and landed on the roof of the carriage with ease.

The city railway started, and Fang Chi braked on the edge of the rooftop. The young man was half-crouched on the roof of the railroad carriage, and without looking back, he galloped away with the railway.

Fang Chi was angry.

What the hell.

It's the first time that someone who isn't a professional has slipped out from under her in Yan City. Is it because she has not trained for six months and has been severely injured, and all aspects of her body, including intelligence, have declined?

Who is this person?

……

Fang Chi put on virtual reality glasses, and his entire field of vision was completely sealed. Pressing the start button, a light but soft green light flashed through the glasses, sweeping through Fang Chi's retina. As the force feedback system of her whole body tightened, just like the tightening of the sleeve on her arm during a blood pressure checkup, Fang Chi's whole body was in the void, and she felt as if her body was floating in the clouds.

"Welcome back, Lacrimosa. Please verify your identity. ”

She stretched out her right arm and spread her fingers. Above the clouds, a red light swept across her arm, turning green.

"Verify the pass guò. Lacrimosa, welcome to Maandala! ”

The feeling on the cloud faded, and when I was about to officially enter the virtual reality, a line of small words appeared in the field of vision:

Freedom is the only rule

This phrase existed at the time of Maandala's birth. Later, various rules were indeed born in Maandala, but this phrase has always appeared in the moment before entering the virtual reality. Many people like Teng Hua, the founder of Maandala, precisely because of this sentence. In their opinion, this sentence represents Teng Hua's original intention that has never changed from beginning to end. No matter what Maandala has to make due to the constraints of reality, such as setting up safe zones and competitive zones to ensure the basic safety of players, its ultimate will is freedom.

Lacrimosa's Avatar appears in a small room that belongs to her. After each player just registered, the spawn point and the upline point are random, it may be on the oasis, it may be in the desert, and there are also those who are unlucky, born in the sea, directly drowned, and then have to re-register. This state lasts until the player buys a house in Maandala, buys a bed, and wakes up sleeping in the bed, where the spawn and upline points are fixed. If you don't want to buy a house, you can also live in a hotel, so the online point will be changed to a bed in a hotel.

As soon as it was launched, Fang Chi received a message from Reboot:

"How's the 'Ice Crack' investigation?"

Reboot is an acute sub. However, Fang Chi also appreciates this efficient way of communication, which is one of the reasons why she can be friends with Reboot.

Fang Chi opened Maandala's virtual dialogue system, and Reboot's Avatar was instantly projected into her room, with a glowing halo around her to distinguish it from the Avatar who was actually standing in front of her.

Reboot is a big fat man in reality, but Maandala is tall and handsome, in his own words, "one centimeter taller than Sheng Yan, handsome one Leonardo DiCaprio than Sheng Yan". But Fang Chi felt that Reboot's Avatar was just a middle-aged version of Leonardo than Sheng Yan.

Fang Chi gave Reboot a concise account of the entire process last night. Not wanting to expose herself in Maandala, her voice has been changed through a sound synthesizer to become more slender and crisp, like a nightingale.

"You mean to say that the maker of 'Ice Crack' puts the replica in an old-fashioned storage device like a USB flash drive, and hands it over to someone like Meat Pump to spread it?"

"Yes. They call this replica 'seed'. Each 'seed' is capable of generating a virtual reality experience. ”

"And then the motivation for them to spread is that when someone is addicted to 'Ice Cracking', they will come to him and continue to buy 'seeds'."

"That's right. The first people they deceive now are the girls in the service - curious, vain, and eager to experience the latest O-Mark virtual reality glasses, but they don't know much about the nature of virtual reality. They are the most susceptible to instigation and the least capable of resisting. Once addicted, there is no other choice but to give the hard-earned money to the meat smoker. ”

Reboot's Avatar thumped the table. "It's no wonder that only two cases of 'ice cracking' have been reported so far. Those girls who have been deceived, who would think to ask us Maandala for help? Smoking these wicked people is really making money with a clear conscience! You deserve to be poked blind! ”

Fang Chi said: "This 'ice crack' should still be in the early stage of the real yàn, so the maker strictly controls the number of 'seeds'. I've been walking around several entertainment venues for the past two days, asking a lot of people, most of whom haven't heard of 'Ice Crack'. It is likely that the makers also considered that if they were discovered by you Maandala too soon, it would be troublesome to spread it on a large scale. ”

Reboot's Avatar furrowed his bushy and straight eyebrows, "Frankly, 'Ice Crack' should be relegated to the category of virtual reality shorts. We at Maandala want to restrict this kind of content, and it's a bit of a hassle. He glanced at Fang Chi, "You know, in Maandala, 'freedom is the only rule'. ”

Fang Chi understood what Reboot meant. She was in the nineteenth game before, and she knew that if she wanted to ban certain content in Maandala, it really wasn't something that some powerful person said a word.

There is a complex and meticulous set of criteria in Maandala that strictly rate all content and limit the permissions of different types of users to view different levels of content. For example, users under the age of 18 will never be exposed to the sexual/sexual/violent/violent content in Maandala.

For content such as "ice cracking", it must first be determined by a professional to be dangerous and addictive. However, in terms of addiction, it needs to be supported by a large sample of statistics.

"Your investigative team should be up to the action." Fang Chi said to Lacrimosa, "Find the victims who have watched the 'ice crack' for investigation, and write a report and submit it to the 19th Bureau for the record." ”

Reboot's Avatar nodded solemnly, "I'll report to Big Daddy immediately." ”

"Big Daddy" is Teng Hua, the founder of Maandala. Teng Hua started his business very early, when he was still in the middle and second stages of his life, and Avatar's name in Maandala was deadboy. The disadvantage of becoming famous too early is that before you have time to change a decent name, this name full of strong middle and second winds has been handed down.

It's just that there is not much difference between the pronunciation of "dead" and "dad" in the Maandala company, and in the Maandala company, deadboy was gradually nicknamed dad, and later became "big daddy".

Reboot thought for a moment and asked, "Did you record the girls watching 'Ice Cracking' last night?" ”

Fang Chikong nodded at Lacrimosa, "Recorded." But she quickly remembered the scene where the young man in the mask attacked the meat smoker, and said, "I'll cut it for you." ”

Reboot's Avatar nodded knowingly.

"By the way, what that person took from the meat pump is the seed of 'Ice Crack', right?"

"I guess so. I asked him for it later, but he didn't give it. I don't know what kind of enmity he has with Meat Smoking, but it doesn't look like a gangster fight. Fang Chi thought back to the scene at that time. From her past experience, she judged which young man wearing a mask did not belong to any organization, but was at most a bounty hunter.

"Could it be that his friends or relatives were tricked into watching 'Ice Crack'? He's here for revenge? ”

"Not really." Fang Chi said, "If that's the case, his goal should not only be to smoke meat, but also to smash the virtual reality glasses of meat smoke." What she didn't tell Reboot was that the same person also appeared at her and Sheng Yan's funeral. If this is the reason that Reboot says alone, it does not explain the presence of that person at the funeral.

"Could that be...... That guy is also working on 'Ice Cracks'? ”

"It's hard to say." Fang Chi said thoughtfully.

"In any case, you must pay attention to 'Ice Cracking'. Although it has not yet seen very obvious damage and has not begun to spread widely, it is highly likely that after they are upgraded, they will be virtual poisons/products that have never existed before. ”

"It doesn't cost to produce, and it can be replicated and spread infinitely. Can you imagine if it was embedded in every VR movie, every VR game? How dangerous it will be! ”