"You're playing a game" is a phrase my mother used to say when I was a child. www.biquge.info At that time, he hid in his small room and played games, and his mother would come in from time to time to conduct surprise inspections, and if Yue Qiang was doing his homework, his mother would praise him; if he was playing games, his mother would come to such a sentence, and then there would be a lot of criticism.

This is a very common phrase.

But now this very ordinary sentence suddenly becomes less ordinary, because, the person who said it...... Inside the game.

Yue Qiang felt that something was wrong.

It's a bit like ...... It's a bit like I'm playing the King of Fighters stand-alone machine with Yagami to fight the computer-controlled grass child, grass child did not mock Yagami, but mocked himself outside the screen: I can't even connect Sunflower Three, look at how I abuse you!

No, no, this metaphor is inappropriate, and this feeling, if you think about it from the perspective of sound...... It's like my mother went into the house to make a surprise attack and found that she was playing a game, and instead of criticizing herself, she said: Your data is meaningless, so let's delete it, and then I was cleared as a piece of data, leaving no trace in the world.

That's how it feels!

Yue Qiang closed his eyes fiercely and shook his head vigorously to clear out the extremely bad feeling. He forced himself to calm down, put his hands back on the keyboard, and typed a few words: "Yes, I was just playing a game." ”

"Actually, I'm a little scared too." Yin was silent for a long time, and then said, "This fear comes from the unknown. ”

When she heard the girl on the screen say that she was also a little scared, for some reason, Yue Qiang's sense of fear suddenly subsided a lot. From the sudden appearance of the girl to the death of the enemy in this short period of time, no matter how dangerous the situation, or even several times when she faced the situation of death, she faced it indifferently with a calm expression, and she was not like a normal person at all.

However, at this moment, when she calmly admitted that she was also a little scared, Yue Qiang found that this was just a little girl, a weak girl who needed to be taken care of. At the very least, the girl is a lot like a real person, more like a person than anyone in his real world.

A person who is most like a human being, on the contrary, is in the game.

In-game Tone was still sitting on the ground in a curled position, a little helpless, her eyes closed: "I don't know why I was suddenly in this cave, I don't know what happened to me before." When the imminent danger comes, I can only use all my energy to eliminate the danger, but once the crisis is over, I calm down and feel a sense of ...... Unspeakable loneliness and fear. ”

She continued: "Not only that, but when I found out that everything in you was not in harmony with the world, when I found out that you could ...... It may be someone outside the world when this feeling of fear becomes even stronger. ”

Yue Qiang could feel her loneliness. From this girl's point of view, it is easy to understand her feelings: inexplicably appearing in a cave full of dead bodies, without any familiar people and things, not remembering anything that happened to her, and the only temporary teammate also indirectly verified that she was in a game, and she was likely to become a mess of data at any time...... When you calm down, you will definitely have that fear of being alone.

As for Yue Qiang himself, this feeling is even more obvious.

Because the real world he is in is far less real than the game.

He sits in front of the computer, controls the mouse and keyboard, and operates the characters to live and explore in the game world. Everyone in the game is fun, real, and it's getting more and more real.

Yue Qiang's brain was a little in a trance.

At this time, Yin spoke again: "I think, in your world, you must have encountered a difficult problem to solve, even a terrible problem, right?" ”

Yue Qiang was silent for a long time, and typed in response: "Yes." ”

"Do you have a solution?"

"I ...... No clue. ”

"I think the reason for the change must be this game, right?" The tone of the voice was still so flat, and she calmly analyzed, "Although the whole world has changed, and the change is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, there will always be a reason for change. If you don't have a clue, then you might as well start with the source of the change and slowly look for it, as you say...... The world I live in is a game for you. Then, the clue to solve the problem must be in this game! ”

The clue to solve the problem is in the game, and this sentence is not the first time Yue Qiang has heard it.

The mysterious female fitness coach Lu Qiu Duanyi also reminded him of similar words, and she said it more specifically. "Only by quickly improving your strength can you solve the problem", this is her original words. Not only that, Luqiu Duanyi also helped him increase his attribute values a lot, and learned two very powerful skills. She seemed to know more than Yin, but she couldn't say it because of the need to suppress the blue progress.

Yin doesn't have this concern, because she's in the middle of the game, and besides, she's smart.

"Do you have any clues?" She asked.

"I think...... I may have been hypnotized, or I may have simply had a dream. When I wake up from the dream, or the hypnosis is over, I will realize that it was all just a joke my friend played on me. ”

Yin shook his head solemnly: "This is an absolutely impossible explanation. ”

"Whenever you find a grotesque and irrational phenomenon, it is very irresponsible to use dreaming or hypnosis to explain it." "Any phenomenon must have its cause, and if it cannot be explained, then it is likely that there is a lack of knowledge, and more often, it is due to a lack of sufficient information." ”

"Change comes from the game, so the clues to solve the problem will inevitably appear in the game." "Tell me about the game, maybe I'll help you find something out of the details." Then we can get out of the current predicament. ”

"Okay. I've been doing a main quest since I started the game......" Yue Qiang began to narrate his experience in the game. He said it very carefully, putting this game's super realistic graphics, sound effects, equipment in the game, skills, those NPCs with personalities, and ways to improve strength...... Said it in one go.

Yin listened quietly, nodding her head from time to time, and when she was done, she said, "You said in detail, and from what you said, you should be able to make a lot of inferences." One of the things that interested me the most was the words you said at the beginning - realistic. How realistic is it, can you describe it? ”

"It's realistic. I couldn't find any traces of pixels, I couldn't find any traces of textures, and I even suspected that if I were given a microscope, I would be able to see bacteria on the ground. Yue Qiang pondered for a moment and expressed his opinion.

"You're playing on a computer, right?"

"Yes."

"Has the computer ever restarts?"

"Hmm."

"There are still a lot of questions, but it's safe to assume that this place, where I'm located, where you're on your computer screen, should be a real world. I don't have to worry at least, if you unplug it and I'll become rootless and the data disappears, this happens. ”

This is the only explanation, Yue Qiang closed his eyes and thought.

The "game is the real world" that Yin said was something he had been guessing about, and by now, he was almost completely sure of it. It's just that there are still a lot of things I don't understand.

"The idea of seeing this as a real world, and your computer as a device that connects your world to the game world, can explain a lot of things. However, there is one very critical issue that cannot be ignored! ”

"That's the problem." Yin exhaled a long breath, "Main quest!" ”

"It's completely incomprehensible for a main quest to appear in a real world." She said, "Using the real world you are in as an analogy, it is normal for everyone to go to school, work, and live every day. There will never be a main quest that suddenly appears, allowing so-and-so to follow a group of clues and defeat a certain boss to occupy the world. On the contrary, in the game world, the term 'main quest' will appear. ”

Yin's words were irrefutable, and she then put forward a further thought: "There are many kinds of games, will things like 'main quest' appear in 'online games'?" ”

Yue Qiang thought about this question for a while, and said in an affirmative tone: "It won't appear." Online games are actually an existence similar to another world.,There will be a variety of NPCs in it to release missions.,Treasure hunting、Exploration and the like.,But there is no absolute main quest.,The most similar,Maybe it's the so-called'world mission',But that's just a collection of people in the whole server to fight a world boss.。 In fact, the main quest of the online game is just to level up. ”

"But as you said, the characters in this game can't be upgraded."

Yin said in an affirmative tone: "So, this game should be a single-player game, only in single-player games will there be a very clear main quest, and after the main quest is completely completed, the game will end!" ”

"And you're the only player in this single-player game!"

One player, one player...... Yue Qiang silently read these four words, and suddenly asked, "What about you?" Why aren't you a gamer? ”

"I'm sure I'm not a gamer." "I know what you're trying to ask, I can't be the kind of player who just enters a game world with my consciousness, but my body is outside of the world, I ...... I'm different from others, and if that were really the case, I would feel it. ”

"If you're not a player......"

"Look for it in the game, and I think there will be people like me who can't remember everything; But players like you, you should be alone. Yin continued, "So, let's move on to the main quest. I'm almost certain that finding other people and gathering more information must be part of the main quest. ”

"Main quest? All right. ”