A cool breeze blew, and in the blink of an eye, heavy rain poured down. In order to avoid getting wet, Lin Zaishan had to turn into a building to take shelter from the rain.

It is a medium-sized supermarket, and the shelves in the lobby on the first floor are also full of various goods.

Lin Zaishan flashlight, rummaging up and down, found many cigarettes, alcohol, candy, and canned drinks that had not yet deteriorated.

"Oh, this luck is too against the sky, you can make a fortune just by turning a corner."

He couldn't hold it empty-handed, and he couldn't fit it in his backpack, so he dug out a sack in the supermarket warehouse and filled it all in one go.

"If you just survive by yourself, in this big city full of waste resources, it can really be said that rats have fallen into a honeypot, and don't live too happily. However, the mission I have undertaken is too important, and the lives and deaths of many people are all pinned on me. If I don't rush around and fight hard, many people will lose their lives, and even new provincial cities will have to struggle. Alas, I am really a miserable person. ”

He opened a bottle of canned beer, took a big sip, and said to himself, "It's good that there are so many brothers and beauties who care about me." While I was bleeding and sweating, I felt much better when I was alone in the face of endless darkness and unknown dangers, and I felt much better to think that they were still thinking about me. ”

He drank several beers in a row, and the heavy rain outside did not mean to stop.

Lin Zaishan was bored and practiced boxing and knife techniques for an hour, but the heavy rain still didn't stop.

He expected that he would not be able to return to the test site tonight, and wanted to communicate with Zhiyangyang and others, but found that the signal might have been lost due to the heavy rain.

Lin Zaishan simply took out a lazy look, and after some simple arrangement, he found a wide, sturdy shopping cart, sat down in it, and began to fall asleep.

In his sleep, he seemed to sense something, but his body was out of control.

"Oh no, the black and white shadow is here again." Lin Zaishan thought to himself, "If it weren't for my severe hallucinations, this mysterious power really existed." Judging from the experience and various signs since the end of the world, the possibility of the latter being established is extremely high. ”

Although he had maintained a clear consciousness, the special fear from the depths of his soul every time he encountered the black and white shadow still hit his heart involuntarily.

I saw two shadows in front of me, black and white, with very blurred body outlines except for the red terrible eyes.

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The black shadow said: "The punishment of the starfall has been put in place, and the above is still not satisfied, and the calamity of beetle extinction will be added, and now our ranch will be completely finished." ”

White Shadow said: "Speaking of which, it's all caused by the chaos of those guys in the outer area. ”

"But we participated in a gambling match with them, and we couldn't expose them, so we had to swallow our anger."

"When it comes to gambling, we can give full play to the value of this little pet in front of us and make a few more money for us."

"This little guy is too weak, we don't know how big a golden finger we have to give him to make sure he wins all the way."

"In my opinion, we simply don't give anything, let him play on his own, lose without regrets, win and sit back and enjoy the success. After tracing it above, we just followed the convention and left no traces. ”

"yes, it's a big deal, let's raise another capable pet."

"Isn't it a little too heartless just to do that?"

"Ruthlessness is our basic premise. If you have time to intercede with your pet, it's better to spend time currying favor with your pet. ”

"Yes, we have a free day today, so let's have a practice match with our little pets."

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Lin Zaishan suddenly felt a light in front of him, and his eyes were so dazzled that he had to close them tightly. When the light faded, he opened his eyes again, and found himself naked in a rotunda made of red opaque light curtains. The roof, walls, and floor of this rotunda are red everywhere. A hazy white mist shimmered in the round hall.

He was looking around strangely, when he suddenly heard a mellow but emotionless voice, prompting in the same language as the black and white shadow: "The practice match is about to start, your opponent is Professor Gou, a composite of the fifth-level flesh + seventh-level alien + fourth-level soul, please prepare for battle within 10 seconds." There are no rewards for winning this contest and no penalties for losing. ”

The white light flashed, and Professor Gou, who was also naked, appeared in front of Lin Zaishan.

"I didn't expect the two of us to be really fated to meet you in our dreams." Professor Gou laughed.

"You're really a screaming beast?" Lin Zaishan asked in surprise, "Have you noticed the black and white shadows?" Did they get you here? ”

Lin Zaishan was eager to discuss the mysterious power with Professor Gou. Who knows that Professor Gou said, "What black and white shadows? I think you're in a mess. Now, it's just a dream. Professor Gou paused for a moment and continued, "Although I was dreaming, a voice kept telling me that if I devoured my enemies in my dream, I could still absorb the life energy and information they carried, thus promoting my evolution. Now that I've met you on a narrow road, I will never let you go. ”

Lin Zaishan also wanted to explain to Professor Gou, but the latter had already pounced on him regardless of it.

Lin Zaishan moved quickly, dodging Professor Gou's pounce; Professor Gou turned sideways, his thick arms swept towards Lin Zaishan's face with the sound of the wind, and the latter bent down to dodge.

The two attacked and dodged, and fought for more than a dozen moves. Professor Gou slapped Lin Zaishan on the back and knocked him away.

Lin Zaishan struggled to get up and shouted: "You forced me to make a move, don't blame me for being ruthless." Then he concentrated his qi and prepared to activate the aura energy, and he was surprised to find that he couldn't gather the aura at all, and he couldn't even detect the existence of the qi sense.

"What's going on? Is it really because you are deprived of your sense of qi in your sleep? ”

While he was contemplating, Professor Gou was not idle, jumping up and down, flapping his hands over, seemingly unaffected by his body's attack power in the slightest, and still roaring and launching sonic attacks.

Lin Zaishan couldn't help but complain: "The black and white shadow is too unfair, the strength of the Gouling Beast is 100% reserved, but my best aura is blocked." There are not even any obstacles or weapons nearby to rely on, so you can only compete in physical strength and skill. If this continues, sooner or later I will die at the hands of the Howling Beast. No, I'll have to find a way to activate my abilities. ”

Lin Zaishan recited the Star Soul Meditation Mantra and entered a state of cascading meditation. He looked up and down, thought over and over again, but couldn't find any effective way to cope. As soon as he returned to the real-time state, he was immediately kicked by Professor Gou.

Lin Zaishan complained while rolling frantically: "This round hall is too weird, there is not a trace of qi energy, even if you want to practice temporarily to regain your qi sense, you can't get it." If I could talk to the black and white shadows, I would have to fight hard and scold them. ”

Professor Gou jumped high, his feet in the air, and landed heavily on the floor, which was deeply dented under the heavy pressure. Professor Gou continued to chase Lin Zaishan, and the depression disappeared immediately, and the floor was smooth again.

"Damn, even if it's a virtual game, it's not as good as here. So that you can't find any bugs, you can only rely on hard power duels. Lin Zaishan became more and more desperate. He suddenly noticed the hazy white light mist in the round hall, "Strange, why is there a white light mist?" The floor and walls of the rotunda conform to the laws of physics, why does this white light mist not? Isn't it supposed to be dispersed under the onslaught of me and the screaming beast? But why is it as if it has a life of its own, and the shape changes back and forth but the outline remains intact? ”

Lin Zaishan decided that these white light mist were strange, and immediately dodged Professor Gou's thunderous blow and rushed towards a cloud of white light mist. The latter, as he expected, dodged his impact in an extremely erratic way like a martial arts master, and continued to remain intact.

"Do you have to suck it in your mouth?" Lin Zaishan dodged Professor Gou and tried to absorb the white light mist vigorously, but the fog could always be easily dodged.

"It seems that these fog masses are conscious or alive." Lin Zaishan immediately asked, "Who are you?" ”

The fog groups did not answer, but Professor Gou answered: "I am Professor Gou, who is famous, invincible in the world, and will eventually evolve into a god. After saying that, it was another Tarzan blow.

Lin Zaishan once again started the state of cascading and stopping, carefully observed the shape, orientation, and concentration of the fog masses, and found that there were 10 fog masses of different sizes in the round hall. To make them easier to identify, he numbered the 10 bubs of fog from 0 to 9 in size. He took the center of the rotunda as the coordinates, and set the direction of his face when he first arrived at the rotunda to 0 o'clock, and then combined the 10 fog masses clockwise into a set of numerical 1023764985.

He returned to the real-time state, calculated the duration, entered the cascading state again, and wrote down another set of numbers: 4682319507.

And so on and so forth, several times. Soon Lin Zaishan discovered a pattern: although the positions of the fog masses were constantly changing, the number formed by the distribution of their positions with each other was always the same as the last time.

"I'm going, is this going to be a game of numbers?" Lin Zaishan is still inexplicable.

At this time, Professor Gou hit the front with another powerful punch, and Lin Zaishan was still thinking about the various combinations of numbers that the fog would present next, when he received a heavy blow to the shoulder, and the whole person flipped and flew out and crashed into the wall of the round hall. The walls quickly returned to normal, but two large wounds appeared on his head and elbows.

"Something that is really alive cannot be encoded by numbers, and what strictly follows the prescriptiveness of numbers is certainly not life, but some special mechanical thing." This is an "important conclusion" that Lin Zaishan came to before he fell into a coma.

When he awoke, he found himself naked in a large jar of green light curtains, wrapped in a cloud of mist. The mellow but emotionless voice from before prompted: "The practice match has ended, and you have been defeated by Professor Gou, the composite body of the fifth-level flesh + seventh-level alien + fourth-level soul, and you will get zero rewards and zero punishments." ”

Lin Zaishan thought to himself: "I can be regarded as a novice who loses PK during the protection period when playing online games." When he thought that everything was over and that the black and white shadow could put himself back into reality, the voice prompted again: "You found a level 1 mist spirit in the game, and the intelligence attribute is +1. ”

"What?" Lin Zaishan could hardly believe his ears, "What did you say?" +1 Intelligence stat? Playing matches in dreams can increase attributes? Did I hear it wrong? ”

The voice didn't answer his question, but then prompted, "You've completed the damage repair, this repair is free, please return." ”

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With a flash of white light, Lin Zaishan was suddenly sent back under the control of the terrifying gaze of the black and white shadow.

The black shadow said: "Although the strength of our little pet is weak, its spirit is commendable and its understanding is good. ”

The white shadow said: "Okay, let's help him one last time, there will be no more of our golden fingers in the future, life and death, success or failure, ups and downs all depend on him." ”

"Okay."

The black and white shadows chanted together: "Hum beep ha da-na." And then disappear.

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Lin Zaishan sat up suddenly, this time there was no longer the horror and cold sweat that he had when he encountered black and white shadows in the past.

"I can be sure that the black and white shadows represent some unknown mysterious force that can control my mind, and their presence can no longer be explained as something wrong with my brain. But I don't believe that there are ghosts and gods in the world. Everything that seems mysterious and unpredictable must have an objective root, and it can be reduced to some external force. The question is: what kind of power is this? Why can they go straight into the depths of my soul? ”

He was thinking about it when he suddenly heard a burst of footsteps, and when he turned his face, he saw two figures entering the supermarket with flashlights.

After the two came in, they used flashlights to shoot around, and after being sure that there was nothing suspicious, they took off their raincoats and hung them on the shelves.

A man took out an object from his backpack and flicked it a few times, emitting a soft glow, which turned out to be a spherical glass lamp.

Another person stared at the lamp for two seconds and said, "This crystalline battery has hundreds of times more energy than a chemical battery of the same volume and weight." ”

Another said: "If it weren't for the Gamer Club of the Last Days, I would never have imagined that I would still be able to enjoy technology that is ahead of my time in the Last Days." ”

"We were ordered to solve the chaos in the southwest this time, and the task mentioned above is just to kill a few rookies, isn't it a bit overkill, killing chickens with a cattle slaughtering knife?"

"It's nothing to overkill, the key is that the reward points for this mission are very high."

"Yes, I'm here for the big points. Let's finish our mission early and go back early, and don't waste time in this kind of backwood. ”

"Let's review the basic information of the goal and prepare for tomorrow's action. The number one target, Du Ziming, has an ability of invisibility. Did you bring naïve glasses? ”

"Of course, I never leave this thing."

"The second target pig's head is authentic, whose child is this, how can he take such an elegant name? The bomb trap skill is useless when it encounters naïve glasses. Du Zihong, winter melon, night cat, this transformation ability has become scum in front of naïve glasses. It's really boring, these goals can be done with a pair of cheap naïve glasses, damn, just one of the two of us, and the above insisted on asking the two of us to go together. ”

"Let me take a look, huh? There are also several reward goals: Goal 1 He Xiaotian, Goal 2 Ma Youhe, Goal 3 Xu Yuxin, Goal 4 Su Laibao,...... Goal 10 forest in the mountains. These reward targets are all scum, and I really don't understand why the top is fighting for them. ”

Lin Zaishan's body was lying in the shopping cart, covered by many shelves, etc., and the two people didn't notice his existence at all. Their conversation reached his ears word for word.

"What? Am I the target of their reward? It seems that this post-apocalyptic player club is really a kill for all ages. Shall I find out what they are doing? ”