The old man on crutches slowly walked through the streets full of corpses, walked into the poisonous gas that had not yet dissipated, and the thin white clothes on his body seemed to emit a gray smoke screen, and the whole person disappeared into the air like ashes dissipated by the wind.

Two seconds later, Lin Chi, who was running backwards on the street next to him, suddenly fell to the ground without warning, struggling to get up, but his body seemed to be pressed by an invisible wall of air, and he couldn't move at all.

"What ...... to do"

Lin Chi turned over with difficulty, from lying on the ground to facing the sky on his back, facing the sudden terrifying pressure, this was already the limit of what he could do.

He raised his head with all his might, only to see that the street in front of him suddenly filled with a scarlet blood mist for some reason.

The crutches struck the pavement bricks, making a rhythmic clicking sound, and a white figure slowly walked out of the blood mist.

"Who are you?"

Looking at the old man in white who was walking slowly, Lin Chi had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Looks like this guy should be Hoffman's subordinate too. And this seemingly weak old man is obviously not comparable to those pig-headed people who were killed by poison gas!

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A red skeleton identified with a heroic NPC and a string of garbled characters emerged from the old man's side. This person's identity can't even be analyzed by the game system.,Presumably through some kind of "special means", it became what it is now.。

"Old man, you're cheating......" Lin Chi scolded.

No matter how strong your skills are, it is impossible to win in the face of such blatant "plug-in players". In fact, under incredibly strong pressure, Lin Chi could still make a sound, which was already very incredible.

"Hello, young man?"

The old man, who didn't know what skills he had used, lowered his head and brought his ravine-criss-crossing face in front of Lin Chi, with a distorted smile on his face: "Are you the newly found lackey of the observer?" ”

"Huh." Lin Chi laughed out loud and sneered: "The miscellaneous who was given power by Hoffman is not qualified to talk about me, right? ”

As soon as these words came out, the smile on the old man's face suddenly disappeared, he stood up and raised his crutches, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole hole at the top of the crutches at Lin Chi's head.

"Mr. Hoffman and I are just partners, die, the war watchers will soon meet you in 'that world'!"

Bang!

The golden light exploded from in front of his eyes, the smell of gunpowder filled his surroundings, and the high-temperature steam carried thousands of projectiles head-on, and at the last moment of "life", Lin Chi still opened his eyes and witnessed the whole process of the old man's shooting.

- Is that the end of it?

The sight before his eyes turned to complete scarlet, and then ...... Plunge into the boundless darkness.

……

Drifting in the endless darkness, Lin Chi couldn't see his body, but his consciousness was still very clear.

"What's going on?" He muttered something in a low voice, as if swallowed up by the darkness around him, and disappeared in an instant as soon as it sounded.

According to Lin Chi's experience in the brain imaging game, when the player's character dies, the game link should be directly disconnected, and the consciousness should return to the body lying in the real-world game warehouse.

However, this completely dark space obviously cannot be the inside of the game warehouse.

So, what exactly is this place? Could it be......

Recalling the scene when he was in a duel with the executive officer in the frozen Savia Valley, he was dragged to the "temporary data channel" by the executioner, and Lin Chi couldn't help but wonder if he was stuck in a bug.

He was wondering if he had entered the temporary data channel when a bright color suddenly lit up in front of him.

The first thing that comes into view is a scarlet sphere suspended in mid-air, and it is impossible to tell whether it is the sun or the moon.

What followed was the boundless barren earth beneath our feet.

The land here is a little desertified, and the breeze brings up a large cloud of dust, Lin Chi finally saw his feet and body, fortunately, his body still seems to be in the same state as before the war.

- Is the head still there?

Lin Chi stretched out his hands that had just "appeared", touched his cheeks, and touched the rubber of the gas mask, it seemed that there should be nothing wrong with his head, because the gas mask on his face was intact at all.

“……”

Lin Chi looked around in silence, only to see some dark-toned buildings beginning to appear from his side one after another.

Like the dark sky and desertified land here, these buildings did not always exist here, but under Lin Chi's gaze, dark outlines first appeared, and then slowly became clear.

Less than ten meters away from Lin Chi was a dark red house with a gloomy atmosphere. The walls of this building are all made of crimson steel, and they are more like armor than walls.

With the exception of this one, all nearby buildings are dark-toned, which is even darker when illuminated by the glow emitted by the Crimson Sphere. It's like black paint splashed on a dark canvas, as if it blends in with the dark brown sky.

"What the hell is this?" Lin Chi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Regardless, the style of this map is a bit different from Alvara. This situation is a bit like getting stuck in a bug and "traveling through" into other game maps.

Could it be that he suddenly comprehended the barbarians' method of switching maps at the moment of life and death? Lin Chi didn't think he would have this kind of good luck at all.

When he was wondering, there was a sudden sound of voice around him, and some translucent humanoid objects with extremely low resolution began to appear from all directions, as if they didn't care about outsiders like Lin Chi at all, chatting and walking in groups of three or five nearby.

“…… Have you seen it? Very good! ”

"Hah, yes......"

“…… Is it really good? ”

The guys' words were staccato and the key parts were completely inaudible. Realizing that he might have encountered the aborigines of this place, Lin Chi asked loudly to a figure beside him:

"Hello, I'm new here and would like to ask a few questions."

The other party didn't answer him, didn't even look at it, just turned around and walked to the other side, and the translucent body "pierced" directly from Lin Chi's body and disappeared under a dark castle at the far end.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chi took off his gas mask and put it back in his backpack, opened the game menu bar, and confirmed the current situation.

Obviously, I'm still in the game. Because the character's attribute bar is still displayed normally:

Character Name: Countercurrent.

Domination Points: 300.

Prestige: 300.

Kills: 3

Strength: 16 (10 for normals).

Dexterity: 16 (10 for normal).

Stamina: 15 (10 for normals).

Lucky: 14 (10 for normal).

Seeing that his attributes were still in the state before he was headshot, Lin Chi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, when he saw the small print above the map, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared.

The name of this area at the top of the map was originally "Alvara City", but now this name has disappeared, replaced by an easy-to-understand place identified in both Chinese and English, and anyone knows what the place is:

Hell.

HELL。

Seeing the name of this map, Lin Chi couldn't help but fall into a long silence, and after two minutes, he finally sighed slowly:

"it...... So I'm going to hell? ”

If he's not mistaken, there's only one map called "Hell Capital" in the game that is related to Hell, which is probably not the same place as this "Hell". Since I came here after being shot in the head, that is to say......

"When the NPCs in this game die, will they 'go to hell'?" Lin Chi's eyes widened in surprise.

In normal games, when an NPC or monster is killed, it will spawn from its original location after a certain period of time. If it is one event boss that can only be killed once on the whole server, it will disappear directly after being killed, and will not appear until the event is opened again, which is simply deleted temporarily.

This method, inherited from older games, is still standard in most brain imaging games today. After all, for a normal game, designing a special area for dead NPCs is a complete waste of time, and it makes no sense at all. But......

Is "War Paradise" a game that also creates a "new world" for dead NPCs and monsters?

Thinking of this, Lin Chi began to observe the vague translucent human figures nearby, trying to see some clues, but the appearance of those guys was like a mosaic of their own, and they couldn't see any details at all.

The "residents" who come and go here don't look like the well-crafted, independent-minded NPCs of War Paradise. The character modeling alone is unbelievably crude.

In Lin Chi's view, these guys are a bit like the characters of the red and white machine games in the eighties of the twentieth century, and they are completely out of touch with the times at all.

- Is this to save the resources of the system, so the rough model is used?

Lin Chi had just thought of this, and a figure dressed in black suddenly appeared in his sight. Unlike the walking mosaics nearby, this guy's appearance is very clear, and he finally has the appearance of a "human".

It was a soldier in a tight-fitting black combat uniform with the same black oil paint on his face. Seeing this guy's outfit and appearance, Lin Chi immediately remembered the "man in black" he had seen once under the building, so he immediately asked:

"You're from the Cobra Force?"

"Yes."

The soldier in pitch black nodded, his face covered in oil paint seemed to be without the slightest emotion, and his voice sounded unusually cold: "Our leader asked you to meet him, he was the one who brought you here just now." ”

- War watchers hiding in this hell?

Realizing this, Lin Chi nodded without hesitation: "Okay, take me over quickly." ”

Although the current situation is not clear, he is well aware that he is likely to be the first player to enter this "hell". What's more, you may have started to get closer to the truth!

As the number of players grows, not only Lin Chi alone, more and more players find that the AI and map of this game have mysteries. There are also all kinds of speculations, such as "NPCs are played by real people" or "using a lot of dialogue options to create a real atmosphere", all kinds of theories are readily available, and they are often discussed in the forums.

However, even if many people are interested in the secrets inside Paradise of War, they have a hard time finding any clues and can only make speculations without evidence.

But now, it's clear that the situation is different......

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Lin Chi's face again.

Two normal-looking "people" walked briskly across the barren sand, through the mosaic crowd of unusually low resolution. The soldiers from the Cobra Force led Lin Chi to an inconspicuous black metal house and said, "This is it." ”

With a shrill creak, the heavy black metal door slowly opened back, and Lin Chi stepped forward without hesitation and stepped into the small living room of the house.

In the small rectangular living room, there is no furniture other than a plain wooden chair. Lin Chi was about to go to the other rooms to have a look, when he heard the mysterious voice of the war observer, which sounded from the room again:

"You may be seated, my friend!"

The man's tone was as exaggerated as ever, sounding like he had been drugged. Realizing that he could communicate directly with the other party, Lin Chi also decisively took off his headphones, sat on a wooden chair and faced a dark wall, and asked bluntly:

"What is this place?"

"As you can see, welcome to Hell!" The tone of the war observer is still exaggerated, but it sounds very infectious.

Although this person's voice was obviously processed, Lin Chi still caught a hint of familiarity in the tone of a war observer, and suddenly asked:

"You're not the bastard who said 'Welcome to War Paradise' before the game started, right?"

Lin Chi is still familiar with the prompt sound in the game: in addition to the female electronic voice without the slightest emotion, there is also a very infectious male voice that occasionally appears.

- And there is a subtle resemblance between the man's voice and the voice of a war observer!

"Ah......h

There was a slight frustration in the voice of the war observer: "Has it been recognized? I've already taken care of sounds......"

"So that's really what you said?" Lin Chi continued to ask.

"Yes, it's just a recorded voice. Of course I don't talk every time, and I'm not crazy! ”

Speaking of this, the war observer suddenly became excited, completely lost the frustration just now, and instead appeared a trace of pride: "I'm a real boss, why don't you hurry up and hug my thigh?" ”

If it had been before, in the face of this kind of bastard with mental problems, Lin Chi might have been difficult to deal with. But after recruiting Crazy Ivan, he is already familiar with communicating with "special people".

"No, no, no, are you saying the opposite?"

Lin Chi smiled and retorted mercilessly: "I guess, according to the current situation, it should be you hugging my thigh, right, friend?" ”