Fang Liang, Lu Ming, Cao Zhengfei, and Li Xiaoyu crossed their arms and stood quietly in the four corners of the office wall.

Like four ghost snails, crawling slowly on this non-existent timeline.

Although Li Xiaoyu was inexplicably detained in takeaway clothes, her brain was not amused: "No matter from which point of view, the people here are a group of ordinary office workers, everyone is concentrating on work, is there a problem with this memory entry point?" ”

As he spoke, Li Xiaoyu raised his hand to activate the system panel, which had some preset materials related to investigation and puzzle solving.

Fang Liang dragged the system panel and glanced at it, and casually picked out an old newspaper stained with blood at the four corners:

"In the Tyndall Science and Technology Building homicide, the victim was a front-end program worker wearing glasses, and the suspect was a professional manager, and the suspicion lies in the method of murder and the real time of death."

"Front-end programmers with glasses?"

Fang Liang swept his gaze, the map of the office area was on the system panel, and he quickly found the programmer.

Li Xiaoyu pushed the disc glasses: "What, don't tell me it's a case of sudden death of a programmer working overtime, right?" It's almost the same thing to replace the adjective with 'the sorrow of good fortune'. ”

Fang Liang approached the busy figure, and in a trance, he felt as if he smelled the greasy smell of the programmer's hair, and there was a faint smell of bitter plasters that promoted hair growth.

The programmer's hands were not honest, touching his neck at one moment and his waist at the other.

"What is this program brother writing about?"

Li Xiaoyu opened the system panel, and his hand speed suddenly became rapid, and a string of codes was copied and rubbed by him to retain.

"He seems to have hidden some encrypted information in the code of the web page, does every programmer like to play with code?"

Cao Zhengfei pulled the security guard hat on his head: "Is he the deceased?" At present, he looks like a very normal office worker, except that his sitting posture is not very standard, his head is crooked, and he blindly guesses that he slept with a stiff neck yesterday. ”

Lu Ming looked left and right: "Then how do you make a copy, I will now pick up a set of keyboards and shoot this ghost to death on the spot?" ”

Li Xiaoyu simply sat in an empty seat where no one was: "What the hell is not a ghost, it is currently the stage of memory playback, and it is not yet time for you to contribute." I'll study what he's hiding first, so as not to interrupt my train of thought. ”

After some tapping, Li Xiaoyu quickly parsed out a certain site.

However, at this moment, the entire outside world gradually moved from dusk to night, and it was clear that the speed of time was also changing.

One by one, the staff in the office said goodbye and left, and after the programmer said goodbye to the last person, only one light was left on in the entire office area.

I don't know if he had an emotional breakdown, or if his mental condition had deteriorated due to too much work pressure, he frantically typed on the keyboard, strings of characters quickly filling the screen.

"Oh my God, I really can't do it, I feel like I'm going to die, oh my God, I really can't do it, I feel like I'm going to die......"

Fang Liang glanced twice, and the programmer covered his face again and took a deep breath for at least half a minute.

After a moment of silence, he sat up straight and let out a long exhale, deleting everything he had just punched.

Still a little worried, he turned his head to look at the partition door of the office area again, and then he used a little trick to block the network data monitoring on the computer and start his own private chat software.

Do they not allow them to use private chats in the office, but only the company's office software?

Fang Liang and Cao Zhengfei glanced at each other, and everyone tacitly did not interfere with each other.

When this programmer was working overtime at night, he secretly used private software to chat with his wife and children, and it could be seen that he was under a lot of mental pressure, and every time he made a lot of complaints, he finally deleted them silently.

After saying goodnight to his family, he slowly took out the thermos flask and poured himself a cup of coffee.

As if to confirm that the office was really empty, his fingers slid over the keyboard, and a new document was created.

"Curse."

He suddenly typed out a title, as if he didn't think the word was flavorful enough, and deliberately marked it in red and bold.

"But the doctor said that this is an abnormal self-fulfilling prophecy, similar to the effect of stimulants and cardiotonics, self-hypnosis for a short period of time to improve work efficiency, but after the state is over, you will feel very tired."

"It can be said that in the short term, the power in the body's cells has been overdrawn by madness, but is this really the case?"

He muttered to himself and couldn't help but rub his neck.

Then he pulled out a red marker, aimed it at a certain spot on the screen, and drew a line vertically.

Then, the eccentric programmer pulled up his sleeve again and drew a line on his wrist.

He took out the mirror and drew a line against his neck.

Then he unbuttoned the two buttons and drew another line from the waist to the back.

It can be seen that this is not the first time that the programmer has done this kind of thing, and he is quite proficient in his movements.

But after the painting, the person frowned: "It's the fourth time I've used it, is it really an illusion?" ”

He glanced at the sticky notes for the project's delivery date, changed his hand, and drew half of the red line on his other wrist.

Then, to the surprise of the four, the programmer did not work hard to work overtime, but leaned back, holding coffee and wearing a U-shaped pillow to close his eyes and recuperate.

"That's it?" Li Xiaoyu was stunned, this was obviously fishing during overtime at night.

"What the hell are you kidding me?" Lu Ming had already rolled up his sleeves and was ready to fight, he had seen this situation for the first time.

"Uh, what is he doing here? He couldn't finish self-hypnosis, so he simply gave up on himself? ”

Fang Liang pinched his chin and sat on the desk opposite the programmer to observe and think carefully.

As the minutes ticked by, the programmer not only showed no signs of waking up, but even started snoring with a smile.

Cao Zhengfei just glanced at his watch, and then resumed his posture of crossing his arms.

"Ding."

The hissing sound of metal sliding came from outside, and it wasn't a microwave oven, of course, but an elevator slowly opening.

A professional manager in a suit is holding a woman in an elevator cuddle.

I don't know where this shiny man has worked hard, I don't know how many sweaty palms have been pinched on his chest, anyway, he worked overtime to have lipstick and foundation marks on his shoulders and collar.

Suddenly, the manager stood still, and as he unlocked the lock, he seemed to see a light in the office area.

Within minutes, the sneaky manager spotted the programmer who was napping fish.

He pulled out a mobile phone and took a picture of the programmer sleeping with a wicked smile.

But at this moment, the manager's smile froze, and he even threw away the phone at once.

"Huh?" Fang Liang jumped off the table and picked up the phone in two steps, only to find that the picture in the phone was not sleeping with a fish, but a strange world shrouded in red.

In that world, the office area seemed to be in a strange state of weightlessness, with pages and potted plants floating in the air, a cloud of smoky dust, and only the programmer in front of the computer typing hideously.

As if noticing someone secretly filming, the weird programmer turned his head with a smirk.

Feeling that some snowflakes appeared in front of him, Fang Liang hurriedly put the phone back into the distance.

The elevator door slowly closed, followed by another ding, as if someone had come to this floor again.

The manager seemed stunned and stood outside the door, not daring to move, and the programmer's smile disappeared.

Immediately after, he began to gasp frantically, gasping for breath, and his face cramped as if he had fallen into some kind of nightmare.

The coffee was spilled, the U-shaped pillow was thrown away, and Fang Liang suddenly saw the red thread on his neck begin to move, and the two ends gradually lengthened.

As those lines lengthened, there was a tendency to form a closed loop.

The programmer screamed in his dream, struggling to kick the main chassis, and the entire screen turned blood-red. Through this blood-red halo, you can see a lot of code being written frantically.

I don't know if this is a kick that caused a memory error on the computer, or if some anomalous force is starting to invade.

The lines that formed the closed loop were shrinking and tapering, from the red marker mark to a tear.

At that moment, the four of them only saw the programmer's torso falling like a building block, the manager's screams came from outside the door, and the screaming woman seemed to have escaped from the stairs, and the scene in front of them suddenly fell into darkness.

In the end, Fang Liang even faintly heard the manager's screams of being dragged away in panic.

Obviously, the beginner's onboarding part ends here, and there is enough time for players to get used to the environment and familiarize themselves with the scene, and then there is the actual combat mode.

When the vision was restored, a pizza delivery man discovered the crime scene in horror, and then the security guard was called over, and two male colleagues also found out about the tragic scene and called the police.

As soon as the camera turns, four players stand at a turning point in their fate, waiting for the game to begin.

"My mom, what's going on here? All the key plot changes have been compressed to less than a few seconds! ”

Li Xiaoyu's face was not very good, and she seemed to be frightened by the sudden change in the plot.

Fang Liang was silent, he needed to obtain more information before he could draw conclusions.

Lu was obviously a little confused, after all, he was not a civilian who was good at reasoning and guessing, he was a force thug.

Cao Zhengfei shook the blood-stained newspaper in his hand: "The novice challenge only requires survival and escape, and the monster that chased us should be the invisible individual who just killed the programmer and the nightclub manager, right?" ”

Fang Liang felt a little funny: "The nightclub manager is okay, after watching this live-action short film, we don't even know what that monster looks like, we don't know where the safe zone is, where do we have to run in a while?" ”