Time is like this, it is six days and nights in a flash, today is the last day of leveling, and after practicing this level, this secret journey will be successfully completed.

Early in the morning, everyone got up at dawn, put away the narrow sleeping bags, and the five of them went about their own things very tacitly: the tall berserker was naturally responsible for the dismantling and recovery of the tent, and Jin Hongming took out the pots and pans that had been put in the inventory in advance, and after a brief freshening, he began to prepare for breakfast. Today's food was different from the previous days, and after washing his hands with precious cooking water, Ge Lan, who was in charge of storing the trophies, carefully took out a dozen white meat pieces of the same size and spread them flat on an iron plate. On the other side, Zhan Mu walked quickly with a round heavy shield, and the four of them didn't need to look at it to know that the heavy shield contained the flesh of the cut cactus. Renault seemed to have nothing to do, and if making a fire was a job, he did his part. In fact, only Renault has the skill of burning fire, of course, in the desert in a dry environment, drilling wood to make fire is a way to do nothing.

The iron plate was baked red by the dancing flames underneath, and the white pieces of meat on the iron plate made a sizzling sound, and the high temperature melted the fat from the unknown pieces of meat and flowed onto the fiery red iron plates, and soon the meat pieces were fried to a mouth-watering golden brown.

Jin Hongming, who was standing in front of the fire, used a one-handed sword borrowed from Zhan Mu as a shovel, jerky and carefully turning the pieces of meat that were about to be burned.

Whenever the fire is in place, Jin Hongming always inserts the tip of the sword into the meat piece, slowly picks it up, and then places it in a ceramic plate on the ground.

Ge Lan, who was in charge of the serving dishes, took out several small bottles out of nowhere and scattered various colors of spice powder on the golden pieces of meat.

Because he did not practice cooking skills, Jin Hongming's level of frying meat was really not flattering, and there was inevitably a small scorch mark at the bottom of the meat piece.

Although the flaws are small, they will eventually affect the taste of the food.

But compared to the brown bread that I had eaten for six days, it was already a big meal. After eating a bite of the crispy red scorpion meat and scooping a spoonful of the cool cactus pulp, everyone couldn't help but recall the colorful past in the real world.

"It would be perfect if there was a beer." The sea tiger chewed the scorpion meat that had just been sent to his mouth and sighed.

"In my opinion, it is imperative to improve Hongming's cooking skills, you see, each piece of meat has a different size of scorch. Such a precious and delicious ingredient as scorpion meat is too tyrannical. Glenn is quite content with the virtual world, and judging from his usual modest behavior, Renault mistakenly thinks that he is a person who is strong on the outside but fragile on the inside.

Jin Hongming picked up a piece of meat with a one-handed sword, looked at it for a while, and then put it in his mouth, closed his eyes and chewed it carefully, looking very enjoyable. It took a long time to chew this small piece of meat to smash before swallowing it. He wiped the remaining grease from his mouth with the back of his hand holding the hilt of his sword, and said, "You said that it is light, cooking is a waste of valuable skill points. If you improve a certain skill to the extreme, you will consume no less points than learning combat skills, and the ghost will learn the cooking skills of the pit father. Our goal is not to enjoy the delicious food, and let's not forget that only by defeating the final boss test can we return to the real world. Isn't it possible to become a greedy mouth for a while, and waste valuable skill point resources? ”

"Hey, I said second brother, don't use my weapon as a meat fork, you see, it's stained with the oil of a sword, don't rust." Zhan Mu looked distressed at the fact that the weapon was ruined by Jin Hongming.

Renault said: "Hongming is right, we can't squander any resources in the game like other online games, this is the world of life and death, any negligence may trap us in a place of no return, there is no need to deliberately pursue ingredients, the bread sold in the prop NPC is enough to fill the stomach." ”

Zhan Mu grabbed a piece of hot scorpion meat with his bare hands, sent it into his open mouth in a panic, and muttered half-gurged: "Boss, you can't say that, as the saying goes, people are iron and steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry." I eat dark and hard dry bread every day, and my mouth fades into the smell of birds. I don't think this game can end for a year and a half, but it's better to enjoy it and eat well. Didn't that Dr. Bastard say that the world here flows ten times slower than reality. Our physical estimates in reality should be transferred to the hospital. Relying on medical equipment to stay alive, we can live for at least a year or two, and at ten times the flow rate, we can live for another one or two decades. If you are lucky, the hospital is well-equipped, and it is not a problem to persist for four or five years, doesn't that mean that you can live for forty or fifty years? ”

The four of them were stunned when they heard this, since they were involved in the game, they had already thought about the way to leave the game, but they never thought of Zhan Mu's meaning.

If you really stay in the game world safely, cut off the urge to risk and upgrade, and live an ordinary life until the end of your life, it is also a good destination. In fact, the vast majority of players still like a comfortable life, adventure, play life may be exciting, but too much excitement, too much stimulation will also make adventurers nervous numb.

Becoming bland is the real blessing.

The sea tiger waved his huge palm and slapped it heavily on the back of Zhan Mu, who was still chewing, almost choking the shield warrior: "Good boy, I usually look at you stupidly, I can't imagine that you will really think about it, chief, Zhan Mu's statement is very reasonable." Modern medicine has made it clear that we have no problem maintaining our bodies in the real world for seven or eight years. Maybe we've lived a lot longer than we really are. ”

With the beginning of the sea tiger, others also raised their hands in agreement, but Renaud was silent in thought.

After a long while, Renault expressed his doubts: "I don't think things are as simple as they seem, Dr. Oberstein is recognized as an immortal genius in the world, how can he forget the bugs that we can all think of." Actually, I noticed this problem for a long time, but I didn't understand one thing yet. ”

"Boss, I also think that Zhan Mu's words make sense, if there is anything you don't understand, let's brainstorm and maybe solve your doubts." Concerned with the fate of everyone in the future, Ge Lan, who doesn't talk much, also expressed his thoughts.

"yes, let's hear it." The sea tiger also said.

Renault sorted out his thoughts and said, "I remember when I first arrived in the center of Ebudera, there was a large clock tower there to show the time. But there is also a strange set of numbers on the top of the clock tower. ”

At Renault's prompting, the crowd began to recall the full view of the clock tower. The North District, where the Tigers live, is located close to the center of Ebudera, and they are woken up every morning by the punctual ringing of the bell, and after a little recollection, they remember that there is indeed a strange set of Arabic numerals on the hour and minute hands of the clock tower, and everyone does not know what the three digits on it represent. The only thing that is certain is that this set of numbers is constantly changing. But what kind of change, the four sea tigers who lived nearby did not deliberately observe.

Seeing that everyone's memories came to a standstill, Reynolds continued: "You may not have paid attention to this detail, but I remember that when I first arrived in Ebudera, the clock tower displayed a set of numbers that happened to be '671'. ”

“671？ What does that mean? The sea tiger scratched his head and tried to recall all the details of the clock tower, but he never had a clue.

Jin Hongming suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "I think about it, I vaguely remember that the numbers on it are slowly decreasing, but I can't say how to subtract." ”

Renault nodded and said: "Hongming is still more attentive, when I saw '671', like everyone else, there were no clues, so before I set off to come here, I deliberately observed the clock tower, and found that the number on it had changed, becoming '670'." ”

Except for Jin Hongming, the others said in unison: "670? How a number is missing. ”

After everyone was quiet, Renault said: "That's when a terrifying speculation popped up in my head. ”

Renault's tone was still flat, no different from what he spoke on a regular day, but in everyone's ears, it was like a muffled thunder, and his heartbeat involuntarily began to accelerate, as if the unannounced horror speculation in Renault's mouth was a nightmare that everyone could not accept.

"I suspect that the set of numbers on the clock tower is a countdown watch for the 4D true dimension."

"Countdown?" Jhammu didn't understand the meaning of the four words.

Among these people, Jin Hongming's brain turned the fastest, and as soon as Renault's words fell, he knew the real horror contained in the four simple words of the "countdown table". His face immediately turned from red to white, and then from white to blue: "Boss, do you say...... Say...... I said ......" and "said" three times, but I was never able to express the appalling second half.

In fact, how much he wished in his heart that his assumptions were not true. Before he could say anything, Renault agreed, and he nodded heavily, saying, "That's right, '670' means that we still have 670 days to go." ”

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the other three people also changed from sunny to cloudy, and their eyes were round and their mouths were wide open, as if they wanted to swallow this terrible conjecture in one gulp.

Haihu was the first to return to normal, raised his fist and coughed, adjusting his chaotic state of mind, but his incoherent words showed that his mood was not so easy to adjust: "Boss, everything is just your reasoning, and things may not be as bad as you speculate." Are you sure that the numbers represent the rest of the time? I mean......, I mean there could be other meanings in numbers that we didn't think of. ”

Renaud said lightly: "As you know, because of the accident that I fell into purgatory mode, the time and space there were very chaotic, but in just one night, I spent a full fifty-six days of game days, if you add the fifty-six days of confusion, then the starting time for me to launch the clock tower is '730', which is exactly two '365' days, that is, two years." This is the best explanation in my opinion, and it also explains the bug that the game time is ten times faster than reality. If we had the idea of Jammu and getting by in the game, we would end up with no more than two years for the rest of our lives.