Chapter 3: The Present World

You are disconnecting your nerves.

【3......】

【2......】

【1......】

With a few electronic sounds, the light in front of me gradually dimmed, and then it went dark. Blinking his eyes, the darkness in his vision was like the thickest ink, and he was a little unsure whether his eyes were open......

He twisted his stiff body and tried to sit up.

"Knock———— ahhhh

The head that had just been half-raised suddenly bumped into something, which made him scream, and then, with a small sound of "———", a circle of golden outlines slowly bloomed on the edge of the darkness, and those rays of light became brighter and brighter, and more and more wanton shot in, and above his head, there was something like a lid rising little by little.

Finally, the lid opened......

The man sat up straight and looked around, a room of less than four or five square meters in size and without any decoration, and in front of it, a window, the curtains were gently swaying with the evening wind, and the golden afterglow was scattered on his face through the gaps in the edges. His eyes were shaking a little painfully, but he didn't want to close them, so he greeted the sunset, like a chick that had just pecked its eggshell, attracted by the light, and slowly climbed to the window......

Nervous, uneasy, frightened, but incomparably curious.

Lifting the curtains, a gust of cold wind blew, making him shiver...... Looking past the window, his pupils opened uncontrollably for a moment. As far as the eye can see, there are towering buildings, like steel forests, gradually lowering, with gold-trimmed silhouettes revealing through the cold cracks, and in the distance, the blue river bank and the huge tower reaching into the clouds at the other end. It was all bathed in the glow, he froze, even forgot to breathe, perhaps, he never really breathed, in short, at the moment when the suffocating sense of dying hit, he finally inevitably took a deep breath, and at the moment when the cold soaked into his lungs, the noisy traffic roared up and rushed into his ears. Shouting, roaring, traffic, passing through the railroad tracks between buildings, countless sounds and things are interwoven into a thrilling picture.

He was stupid, just lying in front of the window, looking at the ...... Listen...... His mind went blank until the sunset sank into the other end of the building, and the sky was a little dark, that he finally came to his senses.

"This ...... Is it the outside world? ”

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He reluctantly reluctantly took his gaze back, and the lights in the room were already lit at some point, and these lights may be automatically adjusted according to the change of light.

At this moment, his gaze fell on a machine behind him with a rich sense of technology, but the shape was like a coffin, and just now, he sat up from here.

The man leaned down, and carefully observed this strange thing, the outer texture of the metal, the soft cushion on the inside, which was designed to lie more comfortably, and soon, he found a string of signs on the side of the lid.

【Ark Game Warehouse ——— Standard Edition】

"The Ark?" He muttered.

In fact, he had realized a long time ago that he should be a character in the game, but there seemed to be a force in his head that always prevented him from confirming this, and at this moment, after leaving the game world, he could naturally recognize this reality without much thought.

"Sure enough, I'm just a ......" He hesitated for a moment, not saying the word 'NPC'. Then, without wasting much time on the subject, the man got up and went to the wall on the other side of the small room.

There are two doors on this wall.

He opened one of the doors first...... Then it was discovered that behind this door was a restroom.

With a toilet, a sink, and a shower head hanging in the corner, that's what a bathroom in a small apartment should look like.

Although 'Mad Doctor' had just come out of the game world, he didn't seem to know anything about this world, maybe it was in his own stat settings, or some other reason, but he naturally walked to the sink, and on top of it, there was a mirror covered with dried water stains.

He pressed the switch on the faucet, dipped his hand in some water, and wiped it on it.

In the mirror, there was a somewhat emaciated face, about 25 years old, with no bright eyes, some long hair, obviously not washed for a long time, messy nest on the top of the head, it should be a long-term failure to eat on time, plus staying at home without contact with the sun, in short, this body does not have a little bit of vitality at this age, but a sense of decadence of eating and waiting for death.

"An otaku ......"

This is something that he instantly determined after seeing this face of his own.

After that, he washed his face hastily, walked out of the bathroom, and then pushed open the remaining door......

As the door opened, a foul smell slipped in...... Leaning out, I found that outside was a living room, the size of the room was about two sizes, and it was obvious that this was a small one-bedroom apartment.

Similarly, there is no decoration in the living room, a table for eating, a computer in the corner, and a large pile of leftover takeout boxes next to the door not far away, and white tissue paper is crumpled into large and small balls, thrown everywhere......

He frowned, he walked to the living room window, opened it, and waited until the air had circulated for a while, and the smell of the room finally made people feel better.

After this, the man did not rush to clean up the pig-like otaku room, but came to the computer.

Just sat down.

"Huh?"

He found that in the corner of the computer desk, there was an ID card.

He picked up his ID card, and the photo on it was the face he had just seen in the mirror, and the name was written [Lu Yuan].

Lu Yuan...... Lu Yuan...... Is that my name? He muttered to himself a few times, and for some reason, when he learned that he had a name, his mood suddenly seemed to be much better, so he opened his mouth with joy and laughed.

In the next two minutes, Lu Yuan held the document in his hand and repeated his name like a treasure, until he felt that the muscles on his face were a little stiff, and he reluctantly looked away from the word [Lu Yuan].

Then, he turned on his computer.

As he said before, Lu Yuan was no stranger to the items in this world, so he easily opened a search page and typed the word 'ark' on it.

In an instant, a large amount of search data poured into the screen, and the page number at the bottom of the search interface directly topped the upper limit.

This result made Lu Yuan slightly surprised, but this was exactly what he expected, as a data that had just been out of the 'game', the most important thing now was to understand the origin of creating himself, so he quickly flipped through it in order.

A ...... Two ......

Probably because of data thinking, Lu Yuan's reading speed is very fast, he just browsed the web page one by one, whether it was useful, useless, or even the whining posts made by some players, he read it word for word.

The night is getting more and more intense...... Gradually, the sky turned white, and the sun rushed out of the obscuration, crossed the sky, and slanted westward again, until the darkness came again, and Lu Yuan finally rubbed his sore eyes.

For nearly 30 hours a day and a night, Lu Yuan took the trouble to browse all the information about the Ark, until he had begun to lose the link due to the long time on the web page, and he gradually got out of the high-speed reading mode, and at this moment, he finally had some understanding of the game "Ark".

As I said before, this is a virtual reality game, and its type doesn't need to be talked about, the only thing that surprised Lu Yuan was that this game has actually been around for nearly 100 years, and several generations have grown up playing Ark.

It can be said that the 'Ark' has become an indispensable part of this world, and it is precisely because of the advent of this game that the violent conflicts in the world have dropped sharply, because those superfluous violent emotions can be vented in the game world, and the number of unemployed vagrants is also very small, because the money conversion in the ark is enough for a person to live a life of starvation, and there are various large enterprises, all based on the Ark.

Of course, during this time, Lu Yuan not only learned about the Ark, he also focused on the posts about [Crazy Doctor], and said before that before he caught Lu Yuan, many players were also knocked out by him and taken over to do experiments, but these experiments failed.

So, will this group of victims post their experiences online after they leave the game?

And it turned out that Lu Yuan's worries were completely unnecessary, because, he checked all the posts about [Mad Doctor], and there were only a few of them, and almost all of these posts were pushed into a corner that no one cared about in a few seconds, and as for its content, most of them talked about the bad taste of this copy designer, and no one would believe that a set of data could really try to get out of the game.

After doing this, Lu Yuan sat in a chair in a daze, he looked out the window at the night that had come again, and began to think about some questions such as who I am, where I am, what am I going to do, and as a result, he naturally did not get any answers.

And just after 1 hour of this meaninglessness, Lu Yuan suddenly thought of something, he stood up and returned to the cabin where he woke up yesterday.

He looked at the game warehouse, hesitated for a long time, and then ...... I bent down and lay down.

It's hard to tell what kind of psychology this is, as if he was unwilling to just learn about the 'ark' that gave birth to him from the words on the Internet. Anyway, he wanted to go back and see it now...... From a different angle?

So......

As the 'coffin lid' slowly descended, darkness reigned in all directions.

The electronic sound rang out again

【Game Warehouse to Launch】

【Welcome】

【Ark ......】