I lingered for nearly a day at the brokerage company and school-running institution introduced by Chun. When Zheng Ming dragged his tired body back home, it was already dark.

"Ming, why did you come back so late?"

Zheng Ming glanced at Yan'er who was blocked in front of him with a tired face, suppressed the little impatience that rose in his heart, and asked patiently: "Some things have been delayed." Did you make dinner on time? ”

"I can't wait for you to eat it yourself."

Hearing Yan'er's reply, Zheng Ming was relieved.

"That's good, I ate it before I came. I'll go take a shower first, and you play by yourself. He waved his hand at Yan'er, ignoring Yan'er's eyes, and walked towards the bathroom.

Zheng Ming returned home and took a comfortable cold shower, then threw his body on the spherical soft chair.

With a slightly skewed, upside-down field of vision. The login capsule, which had just been delivered during the day, suddenly came into view.

The login compartment is about 1.5 meters wide and 2.5 meters long, and 1 meter high, and is laid flat in the corner of the living room. The overall shape resembles a coffin made of obsidian, and the silver lines scattered all over it are smooth and smooth. The silver lines in the center intersect into a rectangle with the green number "00213" written on it.

Draw the bracelet on the outside of your wrist against the number, and the number on it disappears, and "Identity confirmed." Whether to open the game warehouse. ".

Stretched out his hand to confirm, with the sound of the machine starting, the game compartment "snorted~", opened from it and slowly flipped to the sides.

The interior of the login chamber is not large, and there are weak cushions on the four walls and the bottom inside. Lying comfortably in the game compartment, with the matching game light helmet, Zheng Ming beckoned outside, and slowly rose and closed with Zheng Ming's action hatch.

[It has been detected that you are using the latest limited edition home game warehouse, and you need to obtain the authorization of the intelligent assistance chip and bind your identity.] Select whether to perform the authorization operation. 】

Looking at the bold eye-catching text appearing in front of him, Zheng Ming spoke.

"Agree to authorize. Bind identity. Connect to a private smart butler. ”

"Hello, host. Lucy is at your service. It has been detected that the owner already owns several of the company's game products. Please be patient while the data is being transferred. ”

"The transfer is complete. Enter the game space. ”

Zheng Ming didn't wait long, and slowly closed his eyes with a crisp and pleasant voice in his ears.

"Welcome to the virtual world."

Zheng Ming slowly opened his eyes and found himself standing in the endless grassland. Half in front of you is a row of rectangular icons floating in the air.

"Well, these are all games that I used to buy. It seems that this is the 'virtual world'. ”

Simply swiping the familiar icons in front, Zheng Ming carefully observed the unfamiliar icons.

Directly below, a black figure stands in a translucent room and looks up at the starry sky, and a large moving image with the golden letters "world" in the middle comes into view.

"Huh? This is? ”

As soon as the right hand pulled the icon in front of it, it flew to the front, and the thumb and index finger pinched together and pressed it outward, and the icon suddenly enlarged. Zheng Ming looked fixedly, and there was a faint black shadow emerging from the stars, and each star was a world.

Looking at the excellent game icons, Zheng Ming's interest soared, and he couldn't wait to reach out and press on the icon of the "virtual world".

As Zheng Ming stretched out his hand and pressed it to the virtual world, the system prompt sounded.

Zheng Ming, male, 22 years old. Citizen ID202709110213. Meet the age requirements of the game limit, be in good physical condition, and meet the requirements of the game...... The following are the terms and conditions related to the game, so please read them carefully. ”

A rectangular scroll with black characters on a white background appeared in mid-air, Zheng Ming stretched out his hands and pinched the upper and lower sides and pulled it, and dense handwriting appeared on the long light curtain. Out of curiosity about this epoch-making new game, Zheng Ming patiently forced himself to read it.

"It's like a normal game protocol. It's nothing more than what the final interpretation right belongs to me. ”

"This is the article, 'This game can obtain real-time monitoring information of the host's body by the auxiliary chip, and has the right to kick the player out of the game at any time.'" There is also this article'Because this game is too real, in order to prevent addiction, the game duration will be specified according to the player's identity information, and after the time, the experience will be halved to prompt the offline, and those who repeatedly do not listen have the right to force the offline. 'It's special. ”

Zheng Ming touched his chin and groaned for a moment, then reached out and touched the agreement at the bottom of the agreement.

As the protocol vanished, a flash of white light flashed, and the sensation of feet off the ground was suddenly heard, and at the same time, the surrounding environment passed by, becoming blurred. It's like galloping through a colorful pipe, so brilliant that the eyes of a flower sparkler.

Feeling the sensation that seemed to be galloping, Zheng Ming closed his eyes, too lazy to look at the colorful light spots in the eyes of the people who had been staring around for a long time. It wasn't until the feeling of being down-to-earth came that Zheng Ming slowly opened his eyes.

At this time, Zheng Ming was standing in a room that was exactly the same as the cover of the game, and the words "Initial Room" on the translucent wall in front of him flashed and disappeared. Looking out, the stars in the cover were just empty and lonely darkness.

"Character setting."

As Zheng Ming shouted, the surroundings turned into reflective mirrors, and in the mirrors reflected a three-dimensional image of Zheng Ming, which was indistinguishable from the real world.

Unlike other games, this one can only create one character, and if you want to create another one, you have to delete the previous one.

The character model is automatically generated based on the body data of the auxiliary chip, and the player can only fine-tune some subtle points. Such as hairstyle, hair color, eye distance, pupil color, etc. As for being tall, short, fat and thin, gender and age are unchangeable.

"This is your first time logging into the game, please enter the nickname you use in the game."

"It has been detected that you are entering the virtual world for the first time, and for the time being, only the public areas of Starlanding City are open to you. If you want to go elsewhere, you'll need enough permissions and Fortune Shop to unlock. ”

After listening carefully, Zheng Ming nodded and said to the surroundings: "Confirm." Enter the virtual world. ”

"Coming to the virtual world. Be prepared. Countdown to five seconds, five, four, three, two, one. ”

Just as Zheng Ming was waiting for the system's voice to read to zero, the surroundings suddenly darkened, and Zheng Ming only felt that his eyes suddenly went dark and he passed out.

"Warning! Warn! Unknown code detected and cannot be cracked. An error has occurred. ”

A piercing alarm suddenly sounded in the login cabin, and a pitch-black flame rose from Zheng Ming's body in the real world.

The black flames burned without damaging the game equipment in the slightest, and a looming translucent black vortex slowly formed around him. However, at this time, the consciousness had entered the virtual world, and it was even more unconscious, but Zheng Ming didn't know anything about .......

I don't know how long it has been since entering the game, when Zheng Ming came back to his senses, he found that he was locked in a small black box, surrounded by pitch black and unable to move, and the cage that imprisoned his consciousness was his body at this time. Zheng Ming could clearly perceive the soft and warm touch of the quilt covering his body, and when he heard the movement around him, he just couldn't open his eyes and move.

Suddenly, the crisp sound of keychains colliding in the distance sounded. The sound is rhythmic, accompanied by a clear sound of footsteps approaching from far and near.

Zheng Ming could even imagine a figure with a bunch of keys hanging around his waist, leisurely walking towards him, the leather shoes on his feet slapping on the smooth ground, and the keychain also shaking as he walked, and the sound of colliding sounds.

Clearly audible footsteps and crisp metal crashes are getting closer and louder. Finally, it came to an abrupt end in a place close to Zheng Ming's ears.

Time passed little by little, and he could even feel a gaze piercing his face with his eyes closed at this time, and a sense of fear for unknown reasons emerged, quietly occupying his heart at this time.

Zheng Ming struggled frantically to scream, to open his eyes, to sit up. However, just like the unlucky guy who was pressed on the bed by a ghost in the urban weird talk, no matter how hard he tried, his body couldn't move at all.

The figure who walked to the side looked at Zheng Ming silently for a while, and suddenly lifted the quilt covering him.

With a gust of cold wind blowing, Zheng Ming's heart sank to the bottom. Lying flat, he felt drops of liquid dripping onto his half-open chest.

A broad, cold, calloused hand pressed against Zheng Ming's chest, followed by a sharp tingling.

A needle pierced Zheng Ming's chest, and he felt the hot liquid injected into his body along the hollow silver needle.

A feeling of exhaustion came, and Zheng Ming, who was frantically trying to struggle and scream, fell unconscious again.

"Uh...... Yes. ”

Like a person rescued after drowning, Zheng Ming, who woke up again, sat up suddenly. Only low, rapid gasps echoed in the silent room.

Zheng Ming, who was full of horror, touched his whole body, and only relieved himself after seeing that he was not missing arms or legs, and it seemed that there was no big problem.

"Damn. Is it a dream? But that's all too true. ”

Touching his chest, which was still aching, and seeing that there were no traces of pinholes, Zheng Ming had time to look around. I saw that there were snow-white walls all around, and only the one in front of me was slightly different. The whole wall is like a computer interface from the early 21st century in the previous life, and Zheng Ming even saw the legendary Windows XP icon.

Zheng Ming walked closer and looked carefully, the software opened on the desktop was suspected to be office software Excel, and after some operation, Zheng Ming was sure that this was a 95 American version of Excel software.

As an office software that first appeared in the early nineties of the last century and has been popular for decades. The 95 version of Excel has an interesting nickname, "Hellbringer", or "Purgatory".

For every student party and office worker, Word, Excel, and PPT are circulating boring work every day, day after day, year after year. Purgatory is a fitting name.

These names are derived from an interesting easter egg in the software. It's not just a year and a month now, there are very few people who know how to trigger easter eggs, but Zheng Ming is fortunate to be one of these very few people. No way, who told him to be idle in his previous life and have a wide range of interests?

According to the operation method in memory, Zheng Ming opened Excel95 and built a new task. Once you are on line 95, select the entire row, tab to column B, select the "HelpAbout" button at the top, hold down ctrl+alt+shift and mouse click the "TechSupport" button.

With Zheng Ming's operation, the picture changed abruptly. A small room suddenly appeared in the frame. The name of the room above has also been changed to "HallofTorturedsouls". Transliterated, it is "the tormented temple of souls".

Although I have always heard of this urban legend, because it is too old, I can't find a way to download the original version, so Zheng Ming is also the first time to see the strange scene at this time. Looking at the strange space that quickly grew and covered all the walls, Zheng Ming, who stepped forward, stretched out his hand curiously. I saw ripples in the picture, and his whole person pierced through as if he was passing through the water.

This is a small room, the ground is covered with grass-green floors, purple pillars stand on both sides of the room, the four walls are composed of snow-white square squares, and even the place where you come in behind you has become a wall, and there are blood-red things on the walls on both sides that seem to be windows, Zheng Ming looked up and saw that on the snow-white ceiling, there was a square hole, and the black hole inside extended to an unknown place.

Walking through the narrow corridor, Zheng Ming walked into a door that was wide open directly opposite. Behind the door is a staircase that climbs up a deep purple color, and the surrounding white walls have turned a pitch-black hue, and the dark walls on both sides are covered with strange words of unknown meaning. It all feels oppressive.

Zheng Ming forcibly endured the discomfort and walked up the stairs, and entered a strange room with a dark red color, a huge display screen was facing the staircase, and the words of unknown meaning were written in red on a black background.

After returning to the hall downstairs, Zheng Ming searched carefully, hoping to find a way to leave. Eventually, a keyboard-like place was found in front of a white wall.

RECALLING THE OPERATION METHOD ABOUT EASTER EGGS, HE HURRIEDLY TYPED "EXCELKFA".

"Boom. Click, click. ”

A white wall disappeared in response. A hallway of blood-red walls appeared in front of him. A narrow black passage appears on the ground.

Zheng Ming stood on the narrow passage like a single-plank bridge and looked down, only to see that both sides of the passage were as unfathomable as an abyss, pitch black. As if he fell down, he would fall endlessly, which reminded him of a description of hell in a movie.

Afraid that he would accidentally fall down, Zheng Ming walked through the narrow corridor tremblingly, and finally arrived at a secret room. The walls on both sides of the chamber are blue, and there are portraits of twenty-four people. These vague, expressionless people are the developers of this software.

When Zheng Ming looked at it one by one, it was really like a rumor, like a famous painting "The Last Supper". The one that corresponds to Jesus is the one directly opposite the black wall. The walls are littered with codes of unknown meaning, which may well be this digital world itself!

The red codes flipped over quickly, exuding a mesmerizing charm, and Zheng Ming, who was watching them, couldn't help but step forward and stretched out his right hand. As his right hand touched the wall, a dazzling white light suddenly lit up, and Zheng Ming, who was close at hand, suddenly covered his eyes with a scream.