Hearing Sun Baiyuan's words, Chen Xi couldn't help but burst into tears, and he was so excited that he didn't know what to say. Sun Baiyuan sighed, patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said solemnly: "But when it comes to the ugly words, the self-rescuer will always save him, and the key to whether you can get through this level depends on yourself." Brother, if you choose to let me help you, it may be an extremely difficult, painful and torturous road, you can only break through by self-improvement and survive the past, if you can't persevere, you will still be unable to escape death. ”

Chen Xi looked at Sun Baiyuan's serious expression, gritted his teeth and said, "Brother Sun, don't worry, I understand, if I can't support the wall with mud, it won't help me no matter how you help." I'm going to do my best to get through this! ”

Sun Baiyuan nodded with satisfaction, and drove away from the hospital with Chen Xi, at this time it was almost dawn, and the eastern sky had revealed a touch of fish belly white, Sun Baiyuan and Chen Xi chatted a few words in the car, and after learning about Chen Xi's life experience, age and other specific circumstances, he said: "I am 26 years old this year, two years older than you, and I will call you a brother in the future." From now on, I will take you to our team's base for devil training for three months, you think about it carefully, the best way to deal with the affairs of Jianghai over there is a phone call, time is pressing, we have to race against time. ”

Chen Xi thought about it, thought of the work of a small leather bag company with a monthly job of 1,000 yuan, the evil boss nicknamed Zhou Papi, the landlord who chased the rent every day and blocked the door and scolded the street, and those large and small creditors, and thought of the 920,000 yuan that Carry sold his 92-year-old life in exchange, and his heart was suddenly relieved.

"Brother Sun, don't worry, give me a few minutes and it will be dealt with."

Chen Xi said, picked up his mobile phone and began to transfer money, first paid off all the debts of 60,000 or 70,000 yuan, and then paid money into the landlord's account, paid the rent owed and paid it for three more months, and then sent a message to the landlord, saying that he was on a business trip, and the house continued to be rented, and he paid three months' rent in advance, and then guaranteed that there would be no more rent arrears. Finally, he saw that it was past seven o'clock in the morning, hesitated for a moment, and finally made a call.

The phone rang in the receiver for a long time before it was connected, and a voice that seemed to be awake rang: "Hey...... Who, annoyed to death, disturbing people's dreams early in the morning. ”

"Feikun, it's me, Chen Xi."

The voice on the other side of the telephone receiver immediately rose an octave: "Chen Xi! You kid, do you have eyebrows about the order, tomorrow is the end of the month, and Zhou Papi is holding back to lay you off at the end of the month! ”

Chen Xi sneered and said, "Fei Kun, you go to work today to help me talk to Zhou Papi, Lao Tzu is gone!" I don't want this month's salary, let him keep it for himself to buy the stygian coin. ”

"Damn, you're ruthless! But quit your job, what do you live on, are you kid looking for a better job? ”

Chen Xi smiled silently and bitterly: "You don't care about this, anyway, he can see each other one day, I invite you to drink." With that, he hung up. Turning his head to Sun Baiyuan, he said, "Brother Sun, my affairs have been dealt with, and I will listen to you in the future and teach me how to escape this catastrophe." ”

Sun Baiyuan praised while driving: "Brother, it is not easy for you to adapt to this crisis with one year left in your life so quickly, and to handle your own affairs so cleanly!" If it were a group of people, they would have collapsed a long time ago, or they were mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law, crying and wiping tears to deal with their own affairs, tossing the old for a long time. Now I'm a little more sure that you've passed this level, brother, remember, this is a big disaster, but it's also a big opportunity, as long as you get through it and become a senior player, you are just like us, with super power. Trust me, you'll be thankful for the opportunity. ”

More than half an hour later, the Land Rover had driven to the northern outskirts of the imperial capital, and at the foot of a large mountain, a large courtyard covering an area of thousands of square meters appeared, surrounded by a red brick wall, which looked very dilapidated. Sun Baiyuan drove straight into the compound, and two yellow dogs rushed out from the side, chatting excitedly around the car.

"Let's get here, get out of the car!" Sun Baiyuan greeted, casually took out a bag of beef jerky from the car, and then got out of the car with Chen Xi.

"Rhubarb, Erhuang, while playing!" Sun Baiyuan tore open the beef jerky and threw it into the distance, and the two yellow dogs that had been circling around him immediately rushed towards the beef jerky like arrows.

Chen Xi looked around at this place, but saw that on the left side of the compound is a row of bungalows covering an area of hundreds of square meters, similar to a small factory-like building, but very dilapidated, in the center of the courtyard is a machine well, there are two vegetable fields next to the well, and on the right side of the courtyard is a white two-story building, although it looks very rustic, but it looks relatively new, it should be newly built in the past year or two.

Sun Baiyuan patted Chen Xi on the shoulder and said with a smile: "This is our base, it was originally a small township hardware factory, but it closed down because of poor management, and we took it over, let's go, go and sit down first." With that, he led Chen Xi into the two-story building on the right.

As soon as he entered the house, Chen Xi was startled, the original decoration of the house was completely different from the rustic rural villa on the outside, but he saw that he was facing a huge screen inlaid on the wall, and the walls of the whole room were shining with milky white light, and a series of furniture such as white sofas, coffee tables, and tables were novel in shape and very fashionable. Several pots of greenery are planted in modern utensils, which not only match the tone of the overall room, but also bring a sense of vitality.

Sun Baiyuan asked Chen Xi to sit down on the sofa, poured him a glass of water, and then took out milk, ham, bread and other food from the refrigerator for him to fill his stomach first.

Chen Xi didn't eat last night, and he was so hungry at this time, he ate and drank at the moment, and at the same time couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked: "Brother Sun, what's going on with this video game city, how can it have such a magical power, it can transform people's lives into game points, and it can also give skills in the game, and it is also a magical space that can connect major cities, what kind of multiverse theory or parallel space or something, in short, it's incredible!" ”

Sun Baiyuan laughed when he heard this, and said, "Okay, you eat slowly, just let me give you a rough explanation of what's going on, so that you won't be confused." But I don't know a lot of things, because this video game city is based on the gamer's ability to improve, so gradually increase your ability to grasp the information, the higher your ability to improve, the higher the level of the membership card, the more things you can know. First of all, behind this video game city is an extremely mysterious organization, you are right, it does involve parallel space and multiverse level, we speculate that behind the video game city should be a cosmic space, and the master of space should be a god-like civilization or a group of non-living things. This space connects more than just our world, and the reason why this space attracts us gamers through the way of video game arcades is by no means purposeless. ”

As he spoke, he took out his membership card and put it on the coffee table, and then said: "Look at this membership card, when Xiao Chuan and I first entered the video game city, the silver pattern on the back of my membership card is one, symbolizing the silver primary level, and Xiao Chuan's card is a bronze pattern three, symbolizing the bronze high-level ......"

When Chen Xi heard this, he hurriedly took out his membership card from his pocket and saw that there was a bronze pattern on the card surface, and couldn't help asking: "Brother Sun, is my bronze pattern the first level of bronze?" ”

Sun Baiyuan nodded: "That's right, when we press our palms on that palm print instrument, our body information is collected, and the initial membership level is determined through comprehensive analysis." As far as I know, human beings should also be divided into five levels: dark gold, gold, silver, bronze, and black iron by the mysterious space behind the video game city, but I have never seen a membership card below the black iron level in the video game city, and even the bronze beginner level has hardly seen it. The lowest ones are all bronze intermediate rank, according to our analysis, because it should be bronze primary and black iron level are not in the candidate range of the video game city. I have been told by a gamer that not everyone can see the arcade, most ordinary people can't see the arcade at all, only people like us can see and be attracted to it. So we gamers call ourselves candidates. ”

Chen Xi listened attentively, and when he heard that his membership card was only a bronze beginner, which was the minimum standard selected by the video game city, he couldn't help but become anxious, and said eagerly: "Brother Sun, I'm only a bronze beginner, isn't it very bad, like me, can I still get game points in the future and live?" ”

Sun Baiyuan raised his hand to signal Chen Xi not to be excited, and smiled and comforted: "That's just the initial attribute, the membership card is also growth, I was only a silver beginner at the beginning, and now I am a gold beginner." Three points depend on talent, and seven points depend on hard work. If this space only values the initial attributes, then as long as the initial attributes are extremely high, why do we have to make these games, let us keep fighting, keep gaining skills, keep improving our abilities, and even use the means of playing once a year of life to spur us on. I once talked to the old man with the clown mask, and he told me that the standard for judging the attribute level of a gamer in space is a total of ten attributes, which are divided into six visible and four hidden. The five dominant attributes are Attack, Defense, Stamina, Agility, Intelligence, and Mental Power. The four hidden attributes are spiritual power, charm, fortune and potential. And the four hidden attributes are much more important than the six hidden attributes, even if it is a rookie, as long as you work tirelessly, plus your own potential and enough luck, you can also become a master of the golden level or even the dark gold level, in other words, a special warrior or martial arts master who has reached the peak of combat effectiveness and physical fitness, maybe his six hidden attributes are off the charts, but if the four hidden attributes have no possibility of growth, it is impossible to become a candidate, and even the video game city can't be seen.

Chen Xi listened to the blood boiling, and immediately ate the bread in his hand in two bites, wiped his mouth and said eagerly: "Brother Sun, when I hear you say this, my whole body is full of energy, didn't you say that you were going to conduct devil training on me?" Let's get started now! ”

Sun Baiyuan looked at Chen Xi and nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart, this young man who looked a little weak and decadent was really not optimistic at first, and ordinary people were afraid that they would have a nervous breakdown when they encountered this kind of flying disaster. But this kid was panicked for a while at first, but he quickly accepted the ruthless reality and quickly adapted to the situation, and it seems that he is really a malleable talent. He didn't know that Chen Xi's parents died when he was a child, and he and his grandmother, who had been widowed for many years, had experienced many hardships and hardships since he was a child, and his mind had already been honed and tenacious.

"Okay, time waits for no one, so let's start here!" Sun Baiyuan stood up as he spoke, raised his hand and looked at his watch, and found that it was just past eight o'clock, and then said: "Now start the first item, Chen Xi, you go out and run to the top of the mountain outside and run down again, with a time limit of one hour." ”

"Ahh Chen Xi was immediately stupid when he heard this. Seeing Sun Baiyuan's serious expression, he immediately jumped up from the sofa and immediately went out to run towards the mountain.

"By the way, I forgot to tell you that while you are running, Rhubarb and Erhuang will chase you, and if they catch up, you will have to be bitten. Rhubarb, two yellow, chase! Sun Baiyuan shouted at Chen Xi's back again, and then gave an order to the two dogs in the courtyard.

"Ahh Chen Xi, who was running, shook as if he had been electrocuted, and at this time, the barking of two yellow dogs had already come from behind him. He screamed and immediately accelerated and ran up the hill with all his strength.

More than an hour later, the door opened, and Sun Baiyuan, who was playing with his mobile phone, raised his eyes to see that Chen Xi almost crawled into the door in embarrassment. I saw that he was covered in dirt, his hair was full of withered grass, his face was blue and purple, apparently he had fallen on the mountain, and his clothes were torn in many places, like a beggar's outfit.

"Brother Sun...... I—I'm finally back. Seeing Sun Baiyuan, Chen Xi was like seeing a relative, and his voice was crying, you must know that running down from here to the top of the mountain, and that mountain is a wild mountain, there is no decent road at all, it is all rugged and wild, he almost ran and climbed up the mountain, and it was even worse when he went down the mountain, because the mountain road was steep, and he fell seven or eight heels, and his face, hands, and legs were all scraped. The most hateful thing is Sun Baiyuan's two yellow dogs, who have been chasing after him on the back of his ass, once he slows down, he immediately comes up with a mouthful, of course, every time he is very measured, he bites his trouser legs, but there are also several times when the dog's teeth have rubbed his neck or calves, that kind of horror, people who have not been chased by dogs have not experienced it.

It was in this way that Chen Xi broke out of the small universe at a super level, and it only took more than an hour to run up and down the mountain back and forth, you must know that according to his usual physical strength, even three hours would not want to complete such a round. At this moment, he felt as if a fire was burning in his lungs, and his whole body was about to fall apart.

Sun Baiyuan scolded with a gloomy face: "Why is it so slow, the time limit is one hour, this is almost two hours, today is the first time, if you don't finish it on time in the future, there will be no lunch!" ”

Chen Xi was immediately dumbfounded, is this still the kind-faced, warm-hearted Brother Sun just now, he is simply a Lord of Yama! However, he also understands in his heart what the so-called devil special training is all about, and there are many special forces and the like in film and television works these years, but he can't change his feelings for a while.

"Okay, today's morning run is over, let's start the morning training, follow me." Sun Baiyuan didn't give Chen Xi time to breathe at all, and immediately took him out of the house and came to the abandoned hardware factory on the left hand side of the courtyard.

When I entered the factory, I saw that the inside was even more dilapidated than the outside, a rusty machine, several rows of crooked iron shelves, and scattered debris and garbage all over the ground. Sun Baiyuan walked straight to the corner, and on a wall with old newspapers, he pressed lightly, and the floor in the middle of the factory suddenly clicked, and an underground entrance slowly opened.

Chen Xi was dumbfounded, damn it, this is the rhythm of the secret base, in an instant, the secret bases of Batman and Iron Man suddenly appeared in his mind.

Sun Baiyuan beckoned to him, and then took the lead into the underground entrance, and Chen Xi followed closely. When I went down to the underground, I found that the basement covered an area of about 200 square meters, and there were fitness machines in it, most of which Chen Xi had never seen. In the middle of the basement there is a single room separated by clear glass, I don't know what it is for.

He was looking around excitedly when he heard Sun Baiyuan's voice say coldly: "This morning, there are two hundred push-ups, two hundred pull-ups, and two hundred sit-ups, start immediately." ”

"Ahh Chen Xi immediately made a bitter face.

"Today is the first day, so the number is halved, and from tomorrow it will officially begin, and all items will be four hundred." Sun Baiyuan's other words suddenly made Chen Xi ......

Since then, Chen Xi's regional devil special training began, getting up at six o'clock every morning, first coming to the mountain to run back and forth, or being chased down by two dogs, as long as you slow down, there is a danger of being bitten. After the round-trip run, it was half an hour of breakfast time, and then the morning exercise of 400 push-ups, 400 sit-ups, etc., started at 12 o'clock for an hour of lunchtime, and the afternoon workout started at 1 o'clock, the content was combat training, specifically Chen Xi was abused by Sun Baiyuan, Sun Baiyuan could easily knock Chen Xi down with only one finger, and every afternoon, he had to knock Chen Xi down at least 100 times. Although Sun Baiyuan's control of the strength has reached the point where he can send and receive freely, and he will never let Chen Xi suffer any injuries, but the pain of skin and flesh is still inevitable. Often after an afternoon, Chen Xi couldn't even stand up.

Every night is Chen Xi's heavenly time, there is no physical exercise at night, but Sun Baiyuan explained the rules, common sense and the situation of several games to him in detail one by one.

In this way, the training continued until the morning of the fourth day, Chen Xi turned back from the mountain and ran back, pushed the door open with a sad and angry face, limped in, and said loudly: "Brother Sun, this is ...... It's too much, it's a bite! As he spoke, he kept his calf, and saw that his pants were torn, and the dog's tooth marks oozing blood were clearly visible.

It turned out that Chen Xi had been running for the past few days, and he had figured out that these two yellow dogs would not really bite him, but only scare. People are inert, when a person has carried out overload exercise every day, the next day in the cold wind of the morning, endure the soreness of the limbs and climb over the mountains, this taste is really uncomfortable. At first, there are vicious dogs chasing them, and they can explode a small universe under fear, but when it is clear that dogs do not bite people but only scare people, human inertia will still prevail. Chen Xi began to be lazy, no matter how much the two yellow dogs bit his trouser legs, he was not in a hurry or slow. As a result, he was bitten hard by Erhuang.

"Brother Sun, this is too much bullying, I admit that the training is hard, but I still want to let the dog bite me, this ......," Chen Xi cried.

"Then what do you want, raise you like an uncle!" Sun Baiyuan, who had been silent, suddenly broke out, "You can't stand it from the beginning, don't you know how terrifying that video game city is?" That's to play the game with your life, it seems to be an easy game, in fact, it has extremely high requirements for people's physical fitness, strength, willpower, and reaction, the better your physical fitness, the stronger your physical fitness, the better you can play in the game, and only then can you get advanced cards in exchange for more game points! At the same time, if you use the skill card in the game, the physical fitness requirements of the player are also extremely high, just like the trick you used that night 'Warhammer Throw', after using it, your weak arm immediately strained the muscles, which is still the lowest level of black iron level skills. ”

Chen Xi looked at Sun Baiyuan's angry look, and couldn't help but be stupid, since they met, Sun Baiyuan has always been kind to him and took good care of him, but he didn't expect that at this time, it was like a different person.

I only heard Sun Baiyuan continue: "I told you at the beginning, if you want me to help you, it is this extremely difficult road, you can only grit your teeth and go on, if you can't stand the hardship and want to give up, it will be easier." Don't you have the money in your hand to sell your life to the crow, hehe, you go now, you can live comfortably for a year with this money, every day the mountains and seas, drunk and dreaming of death, and then a year later like a wild dog silently die, how about it? It's also a way to live! ”

After he finished speaking, he raised his chin and looked at Chen Xi coldly, Chen Xi looked at his extremely contemptuous expression, his brain exploded with a "boom", his face turned red, and he yelled: "Don't look down on people, I still have to persevere, what silver level, gold level, I must surpass you to become the top master when the time comes!" ”

"Good boy, ambitious! I hope you never forget your words at this moment. Sun Baiyuan laughed and stood up, patting Chen Xi on the shoulder, "Okay, don't be angry here, I'll give you some medicine, we still have the morning training." ”

"Oh, Brother Sun, you patted me lightly, I fell the mountain today, and I almost broke my arm. By the way, I said Brother Sun, I was bitten by your dog, I won't get rabies or anything, do you need to take me to the hospital for an injection? ”

"Don't worry, don't say you can't get rabies, even if you do, I also have good medicine drawn out of the video game city card, absolutely sure you're okay!"

So, a small turmoil disappeared, and since then, Chen Xi has been crazy and devoted himself to the devil's special training, no matter how hard and tired he is, as time goes by, Sun Baiyuan has increased the amount of training again and again, and he has gritted his teeth and survived. Just one month has passed in an instant, and Chen Xi has changed as if he was reborn. The original thin urban dick silk youth has become a muscular and powerful man. At this time, his daily training volume has become a sandbag tied to his legs, a backpack on his back, and a weight of 30 kilograms on his body, running up and down the mountain every day, and the amount of various exercises has increased to 800. His physical strength has reached the strength of a military or professional athlete, even in the combat training with Sun Baiyuan, Sun Baiyuan can use one-tenth of his strength, he can hold out for a round or two.

That night, after finishing the analysis and explanation of the game God of Fighting, Sun Baiyuan said to Chen Xi: "Take a good rest tonight, tomorrow we will start to go to the video game city to fight." ”

Chen Xi was refreshed when he heard this, and the day of returning to the video game city is finally coming!