Garden System, Ninth Sector, Aquamarine Star.

In summer, Nanzhou is experiencing a scorching heat, with the scorching sun hanging high and the air distorting in the heat.

At the moment when version 2.0 opened, inside the third vault, the originally empty square, the figures of players appeared one after another, hundreds, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands...... What was once an empty square became crowded in a matter of seconds.

Before the version update, due to the [Last Position] mission left by Han Xiao and the analysis of the 2.0 main line by "Star Sea Times", hundreds of thousands of players from Hailanxing gathered in the refuge and chose to go offline here.

Hundreds of thousands of people crowded around curiously.

"It's version 2.0 now?"

"It doesn't seem to have changed."

"Hey, the level cap has been raised, and the experience can continue to be used to level up, it's indeed a new version."

"There are no other changes, I really just want to try to in the game."

"Take off your pants, please respect yourself."

Players talked a lot, and each opened the panel to check the attributes, and there was no change in personal information except that the capped level became able to continue to be upgraded.

However, it was soon discovered that the prompt of a mission had changed, it was [Last Position], and the mission status had changed from "Frozen" to "Open".

This is the prize pool mission left by Han Xiao before leaving, and the task requirement is to protect the third vault, which is to warm up for the disaster of alienation and attract players to gather here, as he expected, this task is suspected by players to be related to the 2.0 plot.

And now, the mission has begun!

Doesn't that mean that the "Havoc" in the quest hint has begun?

Many players suddenly became excited, thanks to the blessing of the black ghost, the last version of the main story, they almost didn't participate much, this time there is finally a serious event!

By the way, the NPC that posted this quest is still the Black Ghost...... Oh, now it's called Blackstar, is he still in the interstellar?

As soon as they thought of Han Xiao, many players couldn't help but envy the group of professional players who were taken away by him, who stepped into the interstellar arena earlier, and threw them a few streets away with food and clothing.

As the player observes, an announcement suddenly rings inside the Vault.

"All Inhumans, please stay where you are! Again, all Inhumans, please stay where they are! ”

Soon, a large number of guards surrounded the square, their faces suspicious, and they stared nervously at the huge crowd of players.

The Inhumans of the entire planet disappeared for a whole year, but today they suddenly appeared, which really frightened the management of the Third Vault, and Bennett hurriedly sent someone to control the scene.

At the same time, players in Vault 3 triggered the same mission.

[[Stay put]]

[Description: During your disappearance, a lot of things happened to Aquamarine, and at this time it is at the juncture of civilization's survival, stay where you are, and wait patiently for the relevant people to explain the situation]

It's a small quest with few rewards, and it just so happens that players want to figure out the situation, and hundreds of thousands of people obediently stay in the square - mainly surrounded by guards, God knows if they will be attacked if they leave rashly, and no one wants to fall out of the favor of the shelter at the beginning of the version.

It didn't take long for Bennett to hurry over, and his eyes flashed with joy as he watched the crowd.

He remembered Han Xiao's previous instructions, saying that the Inhumans were the backbone of the resistance to this catastrophe, and at this juncture, the Inhumans reappeared, he didn't know the reason, only that the Inhumans came in a very timely manner, and now was the time when the Inhumans were in urgent need.

Bennett took out his bullhorn and said loudly, "Ladies and gentlemen, Aquamarine is suffering from an unprecedented disaster and urgently needs to help......"

He quickly explained the situation, and the player realized that it was now more than a year since the last version, and just over a month ago, a strange phenomenon spread rapidly in Aquamarine, and finally turned into a catastrophe that swept the world.

La Mer calls it the "Plague of Alienation".

At this time, it has been a month since the disaster of alienation broke out in full force, and the pattern of the entire planet has been greatly shaken, and the regimes of the six countries have collapsed almost in just one month.

No one knows the cause of the disaster, only that it is a certain virus, which is called an "alien virus", and countless creatures, humans, beasts and even plants have been infected, but they have no way to find out the appearance, transmission mechanism and operation mechanism of the alienated virus, and no one knows whether they have been infected or not.

When the virus does not attack, every infected person is no different from usual, once the attack occurs, the infected person will suddenly have unusual desires, including but not limited to murderous intent, destructive desire, anger, sadness, madness, lust, hunger, thirst and other tendencies, a weak person may become a murderous butcher the next moment, a normal person may suddenly squat down and swallow sand and soil frantically until she swells to death, and a dignified woman may suddenly become a slut.

The most frightening thing is that at the time of the attack, the patient is still sane, which means that it is not out of control, nor impulsive, but these desires lead their thoughts and thus make all kinds of actions.

According to the survivors' later recollections, at the time of the onset of the disease, these desires came from the heart, and they were what they really thought at that time, as if their personality had been tampered with, and they became another person, and they themselves did not realize it, and they felt that their behavior was normal when they became ill.

Bennett gave a few examples, and the bewildered player immediately understood the horror of the Plague of Alienation.

Red Maple is the first place to get sick on a large scale, the infected people in the army picked up guns and shot their comrades wildly, the army fell into chaos in an instant, no one knew which soldier who shot was the infected, a civil war broke out, using tanks, helicopters, rockets and other weapons, a large-scale illness, almost disintegrated half of Red Maple's military force.

The president even has a serious tendency to violence, wanting to grow mushrooms around the world, but fortunately, launching a nuclear bomb requires a complicated process, and if the nuclear bomb launch button is on the president's desk, I am afraid that the world is now nuclear, and the president has been arrested afterwards.

All kinds of absurdities that cannot happen under normal circumstances are staged without warning, it is not terrible for one person to be crazy, but what is terrible is that the whole world is crazy, it is simply a group of demons dancing.

No one knows when the people around them will have a seizure, and they can't even guarantee that they are normal, this panic is incomparable, as if the whole world has become an enemy, and they can no longer trust other people, and they can't live in fear.

A month after the outbreak of the plague of alienation, the social order collapsed, many prosperous cities became wasteland, and citizens had to move or find a place to hide for safety, pessimism became the mainstream, and a view of the plague of alienation became popular around the world, believing that nuclear radiation was the cause of the emergence of this virus.

As a result, countless civilians began to angrily accuse them of the budding war that brought them peace, believing that this was retribution, that this was the end of the world!

After listening to the introduction, many players felt chills in their hearts, and put themselves in their shoes, this virus is too terrifying, originally players had various speculations about the so-called "disaster" of version 2.0, but they didn't expect it to be such a strange situation.

What the hell is an alien virus?

For a while, players were a little confused, the time flow rate was out of sync during the update, and the update time in the eyes of players was only a few days, and the familiar world was subverted?

Is it so exciting?!

"Isn't this virus inexplicable?" A player asked.

Bennett shook his head, "At present, we have found two ways to resist the alienation virus, first, the superpower is not easy to be infected, which has been verified, and second, our third vault has developed an inhibitor that can immunize the virus for a period of time, but the production capacity is limited, and we are stepping up the cultivation of raw materials, but the quantity is far from enough." ”

When the voice falls, the players' panels move, and the main quest is triggered at the same time!

[Scourge of Alienation]

[Mission Description: Aquamarine is suffering an unprecedented catastrophe, and it is the responsibility of all living beings on this planet to resist the disaster of alienation!] ]

[Quest: Contribute to the fight against the scourge of alienation]

[Progress: 0/3000]

[Success Condition: Progress achieved before the Alien Virus becomes a fully human]

[Defeat Condition: The Aquamarine civilization collapses, and all survivors are forced to evacuate]

[Rewards: Depends on individual progress contributions (Note: Even if the total progress is reduced due to the growth of the virus, the progress accumulated by the individual will be counted towards the reward evaluation)]

The task requirements of hundreds of thousands of players are similar to Han Xiao's, but the player's [Alienation Disaster] task requires only 30 million progress of Sea Blue Star, and Han Xiao's mission requirements include all other planets that have been put into the Alienation Disaster, obviously Han Da's task is more complete.

This is a large main quest that all players work on, and each player's contribution will be counted towards the overall progress, and they will need to work together to achieve the mission objectives.

"We've just launched the main quest when we launched? This version of the plot came so fast! ”

"No need for foreplay, go straight to Huanglong, I like to be so direct."

“…… No, we got the main quest directly, it should be because we went online in the third refuge, and we were able to enter the main quest early, and the analysis of Star Sea Times was correct. ”

When everyone thought about it, they were all stunned.

Sure enough, if it were somewhere else, there would certainly be no one to explain the situation in detail, and Bennett said just now that the Third Vault is the only place with inhibitors, which means that this is a key scenario in the main story of 2.0, and it is the mission left by the Black Ghost that leads them here.

He's our guiding light!

With the main quest, the players were in high spirits and asked themselves how they could help, hundreds of thousands of people made the scene fall into chaos for a while, Bennett finally stabilized the order, and asked his subordinates to list various jobs, these are all tasks, the content is different, but the rewards are to increase the progress of the main quest.

Each task requires a limited number of people, which immediately caused a rush to rush.

The Grand Guild grabbed the most quests, and some solo players didn't grab the official quest for the Vault, and their faces were a little depressed.

One player couldn't help but ask, "Can I leave the vault now, I want to go somewhere else." ”

Bennett's face was helpless, "You'd better go up to the city wall and take a look yourself." ”

The huge steel walls of the vault completely obscured the outside scene, and many players became curious when they heard this, and a group of players climbed the fence and looked out of the vault.

After just one glance, the players froze, and a look of shock appeared on their faces.

I saw that within a radius of dozens of kilometers around the shelter, countless tents were densely connected, like gray clouds covering the maroon earth, like a huge open-air refugee camp, I don't know how many people stayed outside the shelter and refused to leave, from time to time from a certain location came the sound of angry shouting and fighting, and I don't know whether someone was sick, or fighting for scarce water or food.

"The news that we have inhibitors spreads, and countless people come here every day to get the inhibitors and seek our refuge."

Bennett followed, looking at the camp with no end in sight, and his tone was sad.

"But we have limited production of inhibitors, we can only inject a certain number of refugees every day, we can only have other people camp outside and wait, the more people there are, the more cases of illness, and many people die every day outside, but I can't let everyone in, otherwise there will be riots inside...... I could only watch them die. ”

The whole world was helpless against the scourge of alienation, and there was only a third refuge to do so, and it was clear that it had become a pure land in the eyes of the refugees, carrying the last hope, and countless people flocked to it.

After the outbreak of the Alienation Disaster in the previous life, everyone became headless flies, panicked, without a destination, and the situation was very chaotic, and now, due to Han Xiao's influence on the plot, the refugees of the entire planet have a goal, that is, the third refuge of the Black Ghost, which is regarded as the only savior.

However, the inhibitors made by Yiye Qing and Aurora only had a short-term effect, and could not permanently drive out the virus, and Bennett had no idea how to solve this catastrophe, and no one in the whole of Aquamarine knew about it. He couldn't help but think of the reason why Han Xiao went to the interstellar in the first place, the black ghost was going to find a solution to the disaster, did this mean that staying in the Sea Blue Star would not solve the disaster of alienation?

Bennett could only hope for Han Xiao...... If he can really come back.

"There's no other refuge now...... Bennett said in a heavy tone, "here, that's the only refuge." ”