[1: Ember World]

What if—

You are walking on the road, and all of a sudden, the color of the whole world suddenly disappears, turning black and white, and then the mountains shake, and a group of faceless figures attack you.

Here comes the main event -

A handsome guy in black rushes at you desperately to protect you......

……

It's a dream.

……

"Little girl, this is not a dream."

A clear voice sounded in his ears, and Bai Chen was stunned.

Not a dream.

Not a dream...... Is it?

……

Bai Chen, 17 years old, a sophomore at No. 3 Middle School in City C - she thinks that in addition to the slightly abnormal attribute of orphans, she is an ordinary student who is evaluated as being disciplined and law-abiding, and she usually doesn't even read ghost stories.

But, just a minute ago, she was still on her way to school......

Crossed the ...... No.

Boom——!

Her thoughts were pulled back by a loud bang - the world before her was black and white.

The scenery was barely recognizable as an abandoned construction site, shattered in the concrete to reveal the shape of steel bars, and strange people formed groups and surged up—

Bai Chen didn't know how to describe this kind of thing that did not exist in the world, at least in her cognition.

- A vague human form, without a face, a mixture of quiet and crazy atmospheres, and a very uncomfortable core.

- Monsters, Bai Chen felt that they could at least be characterized as monsters.

They approached with equally indistinct hands, as if desperate to tear her apart, only to end up slamming into the muzzle of the man in front of them and being repulsed, leaving only a pool of inky black patches of color—possibly "bloodstains".

The man in front of him......

Diverting attention, Bai Chen opened his mouth faintly and looked up at the back.

A black-haired man in a black coat, armed with an antique black pistol that can only be found in museums now, shoots at the strange figures.

Looking at these monsters, the appearance is amazing, as if the situation is urgent, and the meaning of saving life is not urgent, but ...... This man, in the empty world of black and white, faces a group of vague humanoids who don't know what they are...... Start humming.

Bai Chen paused, thinking that there was something wrong with his ears, and carefully distinguished-

That's right.

This man is just humming.

Bai Chen: "......"

She's still dreaming, isn't she?

……

It wasn't until the front circle of figures was cleared that the man turned around—

"Frightened—little sister chicks?"

Bai Chen stood still, listening to this slightly hoarse voice, and looked up to see his face clearly—a beautiful face, with a strand of highlighted gold next to his dark hair, and a triangular metal stud earring on one ear. The dark eyes that hide the nonchalant meaning are bent and smiling, and the light brown tear mole under the right eye looms.

Bai Chen met this smile, was silent for a while, and replied while slowly taking off his glasses: "No, I just didn't think about it...... One day there will be a full-body mosaic thing running in front of you...... Is this making a movie? ”

After saying that, she also took out a cloth of glasses from her coat pocket and began to wipe her glasses.

By the way, I praised that this crew's funds are really sufficient.

Bai Chen hung his head and wiped his glasses intently, looking like a well-behaved and white face, a few strands of soft hair hanging down next to his cheeks, coincidentally, there was also a tear mole under the corner of his right eye, exactly the same.

Seeing this, the man's smile froze for a moment, and then he lost his smile: "Absolutely - you can still wipe your glasses?" It's dangerous right now. ”

As he spoke, he quickly turned around, raised his hand and shot the figure that was very close, and the inky black splashed everywhere, and one of the points fell on the back of Bai Chen's hand.

Cold and piercing-her hand froze instantly, something jumped in her brain circuit, and she raised her head unconsciously: "It's dangerous?"

"Hey, you finally know you're scared? But...... It's not dangerous, the first ash world of the official player is a non-level return to the entry base...... Hawkers,Although it looks weird and scary,It's also a little dangerous.。 The man said, firing another shot.

Bai Chen frowned slightly.

Is this dangerous or not?

Ashes...... World?

Memory Honkai type?

Bai Chen stuffed the glasses back into his pocket, chewed on the word carefully, and searched every corner of his seventeen years of memory—finally reluctantly confirming that he had never heard of these things.

In this process, the remaining human figures got a lot closer, they attacked fiercely, their faces with wide mouths enlarged in front of them, Bai Chen felt as if they had thousands of resentments and nowhere to vent, which was creepy-

She took a small half step back without a trace, the knuckles pinching the shoulder straps of the backpack slightly white, and the long eyelashes under the thick glasses trembled.

……

"Don't worry."

"After all, it's the first time I've encountered this kind of thing, although I don't know when the next time will ......"

"But it's fine now."

"With your brother carp here, rest assured."

——

——

So why did she just sit in the classroom.

Bai Chen's back was pressed against the cold back of the chair, and he felt that his seventeen years of daily life had been hit hard by a nuclear bomb, and he hadn't come back to his senses for a while.

"Bai Chen?" Just then, the next table knocked on her table—

"What did you say?" Bai Chen came back to his senses for a moment and turned his head.

There was no expression, and no emotion was expressed.

The next table blinked before saying, "No...... It's nothing, I just feel that the atmosphere you just now is not quite right, like a crash...... Oh, I'm sorry, but we're crashing all the time. ”

Bai Chen: "......"

Three nothings.

Bai Chen, the attribute is three nothing, so it is three no Chen - the title given by others.

Bai Chen felt that he had nothing to say about it, and then thought of what had just happened, and before the adjacent table had time to turn his head, he asked, "Wait." Have you ever heard of the world of ashes? ”

She didn't know what those things were, and if she really wanted to ask, of course she had to start with the keywords.

As for the exact situation, what are those -

"Have you ever heard of a world that suddenly becomes black and white?"

"Have you ever had a group of mosaic-covered humanoids pounce on you?"

"Do you know what the Memory Honkai type is?"

The above is estimated to be either taken as a joke, or it is likely to be the reason why he was sent to the hospital to see his brain in the next second.

When the next table heard this, he was stunned for a moment, his eyebrows furrowed and loosened—and then he showed a sudden expression.

Bai Chen's dim eyes flickered, and he felt that there was a play.

"What kind of world are ashes? Where is the new Secondary 2 game coming out? ”

Bai Chen: "......"

Before she could explain further, she saw the adjacent table shaking her arms and "hey, hi" three times in the position, attracting the attention of the surroundings and asking loudly, "Do any of you know about this thing in the world of ashes!"

Bai Chen: "......"

……

Of course, no one knows.

Bai Chen sat quietly in his position, holding the black pen barrel with one hand, and the pen cover unconsciously scraped the smooth desktop.

After the man killed the group of humanoids, the people and the black and white world disappeared.

…… So isn't all this really a dream?

But it's so "real" and illusory.

She wasn't someone to be easily swayed by the so-called everyday state, and that explanation didn't hold up in her mind.

Rustling, she wrote two words in the sketchbook.

Player.

It was like a game.

Bai Chen closed his eyes, moved his fingertips, and opened the PCI.

PCI - Personal Core Intelligence.

This is the year 2228 of the ephemeris, the era of AI (artificial intelligence), intelligence accompanied by personalization, and finally ushered in the pinnacle of this technology in the form of PCI.

Almost everyone has something called PCI, which replaces a mobile phone, computer, book, or something else, and is fully functional. In addition, personalization means that it can record the various trajectories of the user's life, so that it can meet the user's needs to a greater extent.

Chat function, comprehensive chat content sorting; Reading function, automatically adjust font size, spacing, and background brightness according to usual reading habits; At the same time, there are all kinds of habit reminders -

It's your own AI.

Bai Chen, who opened it, used it as a computer at the moment, but just wanted to flip out of the browser, but saw that there was an icon called "Ash World" on his PCI desktop.