At the end of February and the beginning of March, the days are still short and the nights are long.

At this time in previous years, he was still wrapped in a coat and wore velvet shoes, huddled indoors, shivering to keep warm.

Now the weather is unusually hot.

The scorching and somewhat distorted air and the dog days of the big sun hanging in the sky are not seen with their own eyes and experienced by themselves, and no one will believe it at all! At least people in the northern hemisphere won't believe it.

"Yesterday was winter, so today is the summer, or the dog days of summer! What the hell! ”

In a community in H City, Tang Yan, who had just returned to his rental house from his hometown and was ready to do a big job in the internship, was ruthlessly defeated by the weather of this ghost animal before he had time to put it into action.

In the rental house, wearing only a pair of big pants, he turned on the 16°C low-temperature air conditioner while enjoying the cold breeze on his face, while mercilessly chattering about the ghost weather outside, while complaining about his ideals and ambitions.

"Lao Tzu's great ambitions and great ideals! And so it left me! Tut-tut, die before you get out of school! ”

While complaining, while looking at the scorched and twisted air outside the window through the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony, Tang Yan shook his head with a look of regret on his face.

After saying that, he withdrew his gaze and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall in the room.

"It's 12 o'clock! Is it so fast? ”

After being startled by the time displayed on the clock, Tang Yan silently turned his head to look at the big sun outside the window.

"This weather, this time ......"

Silently muttered, and after a moment of silence, he resolutely walked towards the somewhat messy bed, which had not yet been made.

It's time to take a nap at noon in this weather!

Approaching the edge of the bed, without any hesitation, he quickly threw his body on the bed, turned around in the air for a week and a half, and lay down on the bed gorgeously, and the soft quilt instantly wrapped his whole body.

Refreshing!

He lived like this all this time, and usually he had to criticize himself a little - wasting time.

However, today's strange ghost weather is the perfect excuse for him to take a nap.

Today's lunch break is not too pretty!

In the scorching afternoon, the cool breeze of Xi Xi blew away the heat indoors, and there was no annoying cicada song of summer cicadas outside, so that Tang Yan, who was lying on the bed, quickly fell asleep.

After a long time, Tang Yan, who had fallen asleep, was in his ears.

"Genomic Data Matching......

"Match successful, host core number: 1996001, code: TY......"

"Updated, ...... in the process of digitization"

"Virtual Cohomology: Normal, Data Correction: Normal, Rule Instruction: Normal......"

“…… Numbering Code...... Warning, an unknown error has occurred! Urgent repair! ”

“…… Fix failed, execute the second command, data synchronization formatting ......"

Formatting Process: 5% ......

“20%……”

“60%……“

“99%……”

“100%！ Formatting is complete and data re-entry is in progress......"

"Entered, database re-tested!"

"Virtual Cohomology: Normal, Data Correction: Normal, Rule Instruction: Normal......"

"Numbering Code: Normal! Error Troubleshooting! ”

"Virtual Channel Established, World Correction ......"

“…… Deviation correction completed! The passage is complete! Docking to open ......"

"The docking is complete, the rules are corrected, and the virtual embodiment is ......"

"Is it coming when the embodiment is complete?"

“……”

“……”

“……”

After a long series of mechanically textured voices, Tang Yan's ears fell into silence again.

But it was himself, who may have been vaguely annoyed by this string of voices in his sleep, frowned impatiently and waved his hand, muttered like a mosquito, turned over and continued the journey in his dream.

"Detected that the host's body is dormant, the brain domain is mentally active, the command is changed, the dream is replaced, and the virtual advent is made!"

After a long silence, the sound of mechanical texture, which had been quiet for a while, sounded again.

As the last word in the words fell, Tang Yan's body in the room suddenly became virtual.

After a moment, the virtual form distorted, and the next moment, he was already missing from the rental house.

All that remains of the empty house is the subtle hum of the cold air from the wall-mounted air conditioner.

At this moment, Tang Yan is here.

He was still scolding Fang Yu in his dreams, but suddenly the scene around him changed.

The bright sky was replaced by gloom in an instant, and the paradise-like scene was replaced by a lifeless barren land.

A second ago, Tang Yan was still full of majestic momentum swallowing mountains and rivers, and he laughed heroically.

At this moment, he was instantly oppressed by countless negative emotions, and the smile on his face instantly stiffened.

All that filled my heart was palpitations, depression, and panic......

"! What a situation! ”

Tang Yan, who was stunned for dozens of seconds before he reacted, wailed on his back.

Where's my paradise?!

Where's my great rivers and mountains?!

Where's my full eye?!

How did it suddenly become this desolate and dead land!

I finally had a sweet dream!

Can't even afford to dream these days?

Good heart!

No, wait! Why would I know it's a dream!

"The replacement is successful, the advent is complete! Synchronization rate correction ......"

“！！！”

Before he could jump out of the confusion of how he knew he was dreaming, the mechanical sound without emotion hit his nerves again.

Unclear x2!

"Detect violent fluctuations in the host's mood, and it is recommended to calm down."

Who am I still circulating in my head? Where am I? What am I doing? The classic three questions, the mechanical sound sounded again.

Tang Yan, who was interrupted by the sound, suddenly fell into silence.

emm……

Fluctuating violently, meditating and concentrating......

Calm down!

You tell me how to calm down in this situation!

"It is recommended to take three deep breaths for 20 seconds each to calm your mind."

“……”

I actually answered!

Tang Yan fell silent again, but his mind was running rapidly.

This distinctly mechanical voice responds to what is in your head.

In other words, to be able to read one's own thoughts, and, to be able to have a conversation?

So, this is a dream?

"This is not a dream, this is a virtual manifestation."

That's it! Able to read what is going on and then have a conversation.

But.

Virtual, embodied in the world? Virtual reality?! It's a virtual world?!

"Think so."

OK?

Hearing these two words, Tang Yan's expression became a little subtle.

In the case of the virtual world, how did he get in? I seem to have heard about substitution, advent, correction or something, but what the hell is going on? He's got a bit of a brain ache!

After struggling for a moment, Tang Yan, who couldn't figure it out at all, shook his head and began to look around.

If you don't know how you got in, let's figure out what kind of virtual world this is.

The first time he looked around the scenery, he saw a huge tree, and he couldn't see the top of the giant tree!

"Withered World Tree: LV0

The World Tree, which bears the foundation of the world, has been greatly damaged by the apocalypse, and is now in a state of withering, and its vitality is passing, so please hurry up and obtain the Source to help it reawaken.

Vitality remaining: 1% (gradually passing, 167h58m43s left before complete death)

Recovery Demand: 20,000 copies of the world's origin. (Current Acquisition: 0)"

The trunk, which is so thick that a thousand people may not be able to close it, would have been absolutely shocking if it weren't for the fact that the tree was black as a whole and only its bare branches remained.

Of course, even so, the fact that there are only branches of an ancient tree is shocking enough.

But now is not the time to shake the size of this ancient tree.

What did he see?

Attribute data!

LV0！ There is an introduction! There is a demand! Isn't this a special online game?

No wonder I said before that the virtual embodiment of the world, this is a virtual reality online game!

Then the one who talked to me before was the GM of this game!

But being able to read what the player is thinking and give a reply, this GM is a bit of a cheat.

But that's not something that's acceptable to players.

Shaking his head, he didn't think about it for the time being, and his attention was now back to the introduction of the World Tree in front of him.

Doomsday.

That is, the current setting is a post-apocalyptic world.

What about the causes of the end times? There is still time left before the death of the World Tree,

emm……

168 hours, 7 days.

There are seven days left, and this should be the main quest now.

Seven days, whether it is long or not, whether it is short or not, depends on what the so-called origin of the world is.

If it's easy to obtain, just 20,000 copies, you can get it in seven minutes.

But if it's hard to obtain, let alone seven days, even seven years may not be able to complete.

While thinking about it, Tang Yan's brows gradually tightened again.

I should have triggered the task now, after all, I have already found the task point.

Just, what about the prompt for posting tasks?

Or do you think of this task point and have already defaulted to accepting the task?

Or did you not meet the criteria for triggering the task?

If not, what is this standard?

Thinking of this, his gaze couldn't help but look at the World Tree again.

What catches your eye is still the familiar attribute data, the only difference is that the remaining time counts down.

“……”

Well, it seems that this method is not right, and I was about to ask directly what the GM task receiving mechanism was, when a cool breeze suddenly blew, making his body subconsciously shiver, and then he couldn't help sneezing twice.

Got a cold?!

The sudden two sneezes made him subconsciously look down at his body, and then, he was directly shocked.

"I'll go, where's my clothes? What's the right pair of pants? Is that real? ”

He now has no clothes on his body except for a pair of pants.

This reminded him of some survival simulation games, but those games were much inferior in terms of realism and handling of some of the surrounding temperature changes, weather changes, etc.

Moreover, he tried to move his body, and both the fluency and flexibility were exactly the same as in reality.

Even the pants he wore when he was napping were the same......

it! Wait!

The pants that I left when I took a nap!

Damn! Think about it!

Who!

Which pervert, TK his personal private life!

This is a crime to know or not! Don't think it's a game, it's just some data and you're fine!

The unexpected discovery made him immediately start calling the GM, he didn't care about the real or unreal questions here, it was already a threat to his privacy, and if it continued, the hell knew what would happen to him even more shocking in the future.

“GM！ Come out! Do you know if you have committed a crime? Immediately dismantle my camera! Otherwise, I will sue you for violating my privacy and personal security! Feed! What about people! Say yes! I have the ability to make these things, but I can't have the ability to admit that it's not! You're out! Hey......"

However, no matter how he called, the GM who had been talking to him before was completely silent at the moment.

Even when he sent a cordial greeting to his friends at home, he didn't get any response from the GM.

After chattering for a few minutes, Tang Yan, who was a little dry and didn't see any reaction from the GM, simply didn't say anything, and directly called the attribute panel to prepare to log out of the game.

However, when he did it, he was quite shocked to find that he didn't seem to be able to call out the attribute panel!

I tried all the logout methods I could try and then tried again, but there was still no sign of logout.

This is especially forced!

Staring, Tang Yan looked at the game world in front of him with some doubts.