Shen Junyao sat in the café and felt that her whole person was not good, because she seemed to have encountered something more magical than ordinary supernatural events. There was a man and a woman sitting in front of her, the black-haired girl in the aqua blue dress was called Chiyo Dong, and the young man in casual clothes wearing gold wire glasses was called Qi Ming. Looking at Shen Junyao's entire life experience so far, she definitely doesn't have any connection with these two names, but why does she know their names? That's because of a dream she had last night, a game-like dream with a terrifying and weird content that makes people wonder and curiosity.

"It's a dream, but it's not just a dream." Chiyo Dong said with a smile, Jun Yaosheng looked at her without love.

Do you listen to what you're talking about? Is this any different from Schrödinger's cat "this cat is both dead and alive"? We're not here to discuss some classical philosophical question!

Qi Ming knocked on the table, attracting Jun Yao's attention, "Let me explain." ”

Jun Yao nodded, okay, big brother, you say, I think you can name a flower?

"Before entering the quest "Wish", you should have seen a book in a pure white space, and that book can reflect a lot of things, maybe you haven't looked at it closely." Qi Ming said that a book appeared in his hand, it was an ancient book with a blue cover, it looked a little old, the way to turn the page was the order of the ancient people looking from right to left, the blue cover had a white box on it, and the word "Spirit Butterfly" was written in Junxiu's font.

Jun Yao was so frightened by his move that she leaned back, after all, this thing was too weird! Inexplicably, a book appeared in my hand, and it was all warriors who could not be scared!

Qi Ming ignored Jun Yao's little action, he stood the book on his side, pointed to the English letter T on the narrow strip and said, "Each player has their own book, the title of the book hints at the final mission, a book may correspond to two or three mission types, and you will meet these corresponding mission types later." This is the book code, the book code only determines the type of your final task, and the same letter code is the same task type. ”

"You can summon your book out and see your own book title and book code." Chiyo Dong also spread out her palms, and a hard-shelled reddish-brown book appeared in front of her, her book title was "Sacrifice", and the book code was H, "Qi Ming's code is T, which is the terrifying Terror." And my code is H, which is History. ”

"Summoning ......?" Jun Yao's brain hurt even more, what is it? Why is the supernatural finished and the second middle school is coming up? Is this the 20s? Why is it still popular to call? Is it balala energy, or is it the key that hides the dark power? These two are so good-looking and eye-catching, but it's a pity that there is a problem with the brain.

Seeing that Jun Yao didn't move for a long time, Dong thought that she couldn't summon, so he closed his palm again and spread it out again, "It's just like this, it's a very simple way to summon." ”

Who wants you to teach me! I'm not going to do it!

Jun Yao sighed helplessly, and spread out her palms as if she was fated, so that the dark red rococo art style book that appeared in the dream appeared in front of her, and Jun Yao's eyes widened with an incredulous expression.

Oh, my God! Oh my God! Did it really show up? Am I right? I'm going to magic? This book it's real! You can touch it! Oh my God!

Shen Junyao, who was turbulent in her heart, was very calm on the surface, she flipped through the book, but there were two book codes on the side of "Revelation Record", one was M and the other was *.

"You actually have two codes? How could this be ......" Qi Ming had never encountered such a situation, so far on the registration list of the Dream Traveler Union, all of them were one code, and it was the first time he had seen a Dream Traveler with two codes, and it was even more unheard of for a code of *.

"This ...... I don't know, huh? Jun Yao shook her head and said, what is the use of asking me what you don't know? You're veterans, you're here to explain the rules, and I'm just a mediocre little expert at complaining.

"M stands for Mythology, but I don't really know what this * is, I've never seen it. Shen Junyao, you are very special. ”

What a thing! I'm special, how does that sound weird? It's like that kind of romance drama in which the female protagonist says to the second male protagonist "You are very special, you are very good"?

"Well, maybe it means unknown?" Jun Yao said tentatively, "In the game I play, sometimes some information is not found, and * will be displayed on the page to represent unknown, maybe this code also means the same." ”

Qi Ming glanced at Jun Yao meaningfully, didn't answer her words, and just continued to explain things related to this book, "Dream travelers of the same mission type will enter the same mission, and in this task, they will deduce the winning conditions according to the background of the system and the task and achieve them. Each time a mission is successfully completed, the content of the mission will appear in your book, and the story ending corresponding to the winning condition will appear in the book under what condition the Dream Traveler wins. Of course, the Dream Traveler can also collect other winning conditions for the quest by trading with books and other Dream Traveler endings. Each Dream Traveler needs to complete seven missions, not including the necessary Starter Missions, and when all seven missions are completed, the Dream Traveler has the right to start the final mission. ”

"Wait, you've just talked so much about this book about quests and stuff, but why should I complete seven quests and then start the final quest? If you hadn't come and told me, I wouldn't have known how to summon it, and I wouldn't have seen it, and maybe it wouldn't have happened what you're talking about. Jun Yao understood what Qi Ming said, but she was really puzzled, she was too puzzled, if she didn't know these things, she wouldn't care, if she didn't do them, there would be no progress, why did she have to do these things?

Qi Ming was silent, he looked at Jun Yao quietly, Chiyo Dong beside him lowered his head and stirred back and forth in the cup with a spoon, the air seemed to be solidified, and the sugar cube was thrown into the coffee and splashed a few drops of water stains, finally breaking the rigid atmosphere, "Shen Junyao, do you remember what we said to you at the beginning of the mission?" ”

What was said? When I first went in and got to know everyone, they seemed to talk a lot, right? But this was originally a dream, or the kind of game play, and I felt like I had been there for a long time, so do you remember the things in front of me? Human memory is limited! I'm not a genius memory maker, where can I remember.

"What do you mean?" Jun Yao really couldn't think of it.

"About the difference between the game and the quest, about death." Qi Ming crossed his hands to support his chin, "At that time, or even now, you didn't take the things in your dream seriously, did you?" You still think it's just a game, right? ”

"That's true, that's why I wonder why you attach so much importance to it."

"I said back then, it's not a game, it's nowhere near as simple as a game. I have just talked so much about the tasks of this book, but I did not explain it thoroughly, and I did not explain the source of this book, in fact, I should talk about this first. ”

"We are the cursed. Anyone who can get his hands on such a book is a cursed person. Only those who complete seven missions to start the final mission and then win from the final mission can escape this curse. We don't know where the curse came from or why it came to us, but if they refuse to enter the mission, refuse to complete the mission, or die in the mission, they will be left in the book forever and become an illustration in the book, and they will die completely in reality. ”

"This ...... How can it be? How can it be! Such a ridiculous thing...... It's just a dream, it's just a game that failed......" Jun Yao obviously couldn't accept this statement, but her heart was too uneasy, and there was a voice telling herself that what they said was true, and what they said was the truth.

"You just went to the police station, were you questioned?" Chiyo Dong reached out and patted Qi Ming's shoulder, signaling him to stop talking, and now she was in charge of the conversation, "I think it's because of the girl who committed suicide by jumping off the building at Dongchuan University, right?" Her name is Zhao Fuxue, and you're her roommate, right? ”

"You ...... How will you know? ”

"We are also students at Dongchuan University, and we are witnesses to her suicide by jumping off a building, and most importantly, we actually know her."

"You guys, do you know Xiaoxue? No way, I've never heard her say you'......."

"I didn't know it through school, but because of the special identity of Dream Traveler." Chiyo Dong explained, "Zhao Fuxue is also a dream traveler, and her book is a book with the code H "Spring Banquet". We met her in the first official mission "Demon Cave", and at that time we found that her potential was good, and her sixth sense was too accurate, so after that mission, we discussed it and decided to invite Zhao Fuxue to join our organization. Yesterday we were going to ask her to talk about it, and who knows that we witnessed her death due to a failed mission. ”

"Xiaoxue's suicide...... Does it have anything to do with the failure of this mission? Could it be that this death will be presented in various unexpected ways? ”

"Yes, the more common mission failure is refracted to the reality of death is suicide, of course, there are also some people who will die because of sudden disasters and irresistible accidents." Chiyo Dong nodded, she looked at Jun Yao's face with a bit of temptation in her eyes, "It's just that Zhao Fuxue's fourth mission failed with something else." You probably know this better than we do. ”

"Strange ......? Indeed, Xiaoxue had mentioned 'props' and 'robbing' to me many times before committing suicide, and I didn't understand why she would say such a thing until I sat in this café. I always thought that props were something in the game, but she never played them. If she is a dream traveler, then everything can be explained, but Xiaoxue said that the props were robbed...... Is there really anyone maliciously stealing other people's props? ”

"Yes, and it's been a lot of the last year. Ren Yao, do you remember? When we were in the living room, Yi An made sarcastic remarks about him many times, and we didn't mean to stop her at the time. Because Yi'an's lover Zhao Fusheng was robbed of the props by Ren Yao's design, and then died in the mission. It was Yi An's second mission, and then Yi An and Ren Yao Jian Yilin met in the fourth mission, so Yi An deliberately triggered the death condition and wanted to kill Ren Yao, who knew that Ren Yao had a life-saving prop that could be offset by the number of tasks, so the two of them completely made a feud. ”

"Can the number of tasks be offset?" Jun Yao felt that she had heard new rules again, why were these rules so complicated? How long has this curse been in existence can be summed up with so many rules.

"Yes, there are roughly three types of task offsets. The first is what we said before, every time you complete a mission, you can get the whole story ending corresponding to the winning conditions you choose, which is very similar to the game you play, a mission has multiple win conditions, and these different win conditions correspond to different endings. Generally speaking, the vast majority of Dream Travelers get the ending corresponding to the main quest, and a very small number of people get the side quest ending or the hidden quest ending. When it came to the rules about the task, it was Qi Ming who explained it, and Jun Yao couldn't help but interrupt when he heard half of it, "But what do these different mission endings represent?" ”

"The information obtained from the different outcomes of the seven missions is related to the final mission. I've also said before that it's only possible to get rid of this curse if you complete the final mission. This final mission is very special in that it doesn't have a background and doesn't tell you what the winning conditions are. Your own quest and how to complete it are all inferred from the story endings of the seven quests you've completed before. Therefore, the ending of the previous task is particularly important, the higher the completion of the task, the more complete the ending will be, so that the more information can be reasoned, and the greater the chance of winning in the final mission. Qi Ming paused, "The final mission is different from the previous mission, its mode is different, the previous mission is the PVE Dream Traveler cooperation mode, everyone works together to complete the task." And the final task is the PVP Dream Traveler confrontation mode, that is to say, the winning conditions between the two Dream Travelers may be conflicting, A's winning condition is to let the boss die, and B's winning condition is to let the boss escape, so in order to win and survive, there will inevitably be a conflict between A and B, and one between the two must die, so the higher the information awareness of the final mission, the greater the chance of winning and surviving. ”

"To put it mildly, the first way to offset the number of missions is to complete another mission with the same difficulty as the mission ending you want to unlock, and if you succeed in this mission, you can unlock all the mission endings. Of course, if you fail in this mission, it will not affect life or death, after all, it is an additional transaction, and you don't have to pay the price as long as you don't get any gains. ”

"The second and third methods of task cancellation are mandatory by the system, if you steal someone else's props, or if you deliberately trigger the death condition to kill your teammates, then when the task is completed and settled, the system will automatically deduct the number of tasks corresponding to the level of behavior. But generally speaking, the maximum deduction is three times, so more and more people are embarking on this evil path. ”

Jun Yao was silent, and after a long time, she finally spoke, "So, Xiaoxue was also maliciously killed?" ”

"If she really said those things to you before she died, then eight or nine would not be far from ten."

"Who is it?"

"We don't know much about this, but there are more and more people doing this kind of thing, and many of them don't leave a trace, so we need to take some time to investigate."

So Shen Junyao took a deep breath, "I understand, your purpose today is not this, right?" I don't think you're really kind enough to take the time and effort to explain this to me, what is your real purpose? ”

Qi Ming and Chiyo Dong glanced at each other, and then Qi Ming nodded, "That's right, Shen Junyao, we are very optimistic about you, you are very suitable for the mission, so-we hope that you will join the Red Crow and become one of us." ”

"Would you, would you like to?"

Shen Junyao took out the key, gently twisted it twice and pushed the door open, casually put the bag and key on the top of the shoe cabinet at the entrance, put on the slippers, the sensor light in the living room turned on itself, Junyao leaned back, planted on the soft sofa, she closed her eyes, and let out a long breath. The vibration sound sounded in time, so Jun Yao opened her eyes, turned her head and reached out to take the mobile phone that was casually placed on the small coffee table, but her hand paused in mid-air, and the vibration sound went from nothing to nothing.

The phone was pressed off, Jun Yao took the photo frame on the coffee table, the two girls in the photo were smiling brightly, and the warm sunlight was shining on them, as if all the beauty in the world was on them.

"Jun Yao, do you think it's good for us to travel on vacation? Just go here! ”

"It's so beautiful here!"

"This is a place I've been planning for a long time, and the most important thing is that I have to go with you to be interesting!"

"Then you have invited me like this, how can I refuse? Show me your strategy! ”

"That's not going to work! For the sake of surprise, no spoilers are allowed now! ”

"What...... Let me see! Xiaoxue, you're the best. ”

"No, you can't."

……

The phone vibrated again, and Jun Yao finally picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

"Jun Yao, it's me Chiyo Dong. Tomorrow you come to the union, we need to discuss your first mission. ”

"My first mission? Is it so fast? ”

"That's right, your first mission, Eternal Sleep, will start in three days."

"Good ......"