The scorching sun scorched the yellow sand everywhere, and a disgusting rancid smell could be faintly smelled in the hot air.

"I ...... Where is this? ”

Luo Jie stood up from the ground with his forehead covered, and the vision was a vast desert Gobi, the road under his feet was hot, and the outline of a city was clearly visible in the distorted scenery at the end.

There was a dull ache in his head, and scattered fragments of memory were like ill-touched light bulbs, constantly flickering and disappearing in his mind.

Around him, nearly 100 men, women and children began to wake up one after another, and the spectacular scene of collective confusion was quite a variety show-style joy.

Luo Jie suddenly found that this scene was surprisingly familiar.

As if finding some key piece of the puzzle, a large number of fragmentary memories began to automatically reassemble in his brain.

A moment later, when he opened his eyes again, his face was full of disbelief and shock.

"I was reborn ......"

Luo Jie recalled everything.

It was his seventh year as a Fantasy player, and after becoming a mercenary, he and a few of his companions took on a mission issued by a grand guild to go to the "subhuman" fantasy realm to protect the bastard son of its leader and complete the career progression.

I don't know if someone leaked the news, or if that kid was unlucky, and he accidentally encountered the main force of the rival guild in the illusion.

What everyone didn't expect was that although the bastard's strength was not very good, he actually carried the EX-level one-time prop [Ivan's Diary Fragment] from the "Butterfly Effect" illusion, which directly detonated the space-time turbulence and razed the entire city to the ground.

It's just that Luo Jie couldn't figure out how he survived that terrible space-time storm at all, after all, the best equipment on his body was just a B-level individual power armor, and it was impossible to resist the terrifying power of time and space tearing.

Ulla——!

A piercing sound of electricity interrupted Luo Jie's thoughts, and at the same time attracted the attention of everyone present.

"Hey, sir, please give me back my megaphone......"

A young tour guide who looked like a trainee blushed and asked a strong man in sunglasses for a mini megaphone, but unfortunately the little girl-like figure was too short, and the appearance of jumping with her feet crossed was quite cute.

"Okay, got it, I'll pay you back when I'm done in a while, good."

The strong man in sunglasses stretched out his big fan-like hand, coaxed the little tour guide's head and rubbed it like a child, making the little girl cry and laugh.

Listening to the familiar conversation between the two, Luo Jie couldn't help but feel a sense of trance as if he was in another world.

Seven years later, many inconsequential memories have long been blurred.

He only remembered that this strong man in sunglasses was the only senior player present who had experienced the illusion, and if it weren't for the other party taking the initiative to disclose the information of the illusion, he was afraid that few people present would survive.

Of course, the other party did not do this because of a heart attack, but simply forced to comply with some kind of rule.

"Hey——! Everyone, gather here with me, thank you for your cooperation! ”

The strong man in sunglasses tried the microphone and nodded with satisfaction, the effect of the megaphone is good, and it can basically make his voice heard by the nearly 100 people present.

The people who were not sure about the situation saw that someone took the initiative to stand up and speak, and immediately subconsciously gathered together.

"You can call me Sunglasses, but of course, that's just a code name." The strong man in sunglasses tapped his finger at the black and gray toad glasses on the bridge of his nose to help everyone deepen their memories, "It doesn't matter who I am, if you are lucky enough to leave here, you will naturally understand, I will now talk about the situation that everyone is facing in front of me." ”

"Remember the dark purple fog that suddenly appeared on the highway before? It wasn't some haze, but a special area similar to a space-time portal, connecting to a different space-time world called a 'fantasy land'. ”

"The cause of the illusion is still a mystery, and its main body often comes from all existing human literary and artistic creations, including history, mythology, drama, film and television, literature, animation, games, and so on."

"Every illusion has its own set of world laws, and the most basic general law is data. In the world of illusions, everything can be measured and expressed in data, even yourself. If you don't understand it yet, you can also think of Mirage as a big VR game, except that everything in this game is real...... And, of course, death. ”

The explanation of the strong man in sunglasses did not dispel the doubts in everyone's minds, and many people have begun to look around for hidden cameras, probably thinking that this is the studio of some tricky reality show.

It is not to blame that these people are so slow to react, and anyone who wakes up and finds themselves in a strange place will not be able to think that they have left the earth.

"Have you made enough of the trouble! Tell me where the exit is! I have a very important contract to sign in the afternoon, and that's a multimillion-dollar order! ”

A man in a suit with a briefcase on his face was full of anger, and he had looked at his watch several times after talking for so long.

With the man in the suit taking the lead, the others also began to make trouble, most of them had their own things to do, but they were not interested in participating in any "reality show".

The strong man in sunglasses was not angry, he made a gesture of invitation with a smile, and said with a joking face: "If you think that this is a studio, you can leave now, and if you can go out, I will lose." ”

"Let's go! When Lao Tzu is scared? ”

The man in the suit walked out more than ten meters angrily, and when he saw that no one was following behind him, he hesitated for a moment, and then turned around and walked back.

After all, the man in the suit is not stupid, he can see from the surface sand and vegetation that this is definitely not a studio, even if he doesn't believe in any other space, but he doesn't think that he can walk out of this desolate Gobi that is not in sight without any equipment and supplies.

The corners of the strong man's mouth in sunglasses were raised, but there was no hint of ridicule, and his performance when he was first involved in the illusion was not much better than the man in the suit in front of him.

But then again, being swept up in the illusion that was opened for the first time twice in a row, the strong man in sunglasses felt that his luck was simply back home.

"Thank you very much for your trust in me, so I'm going to teach you the most important step to survive in the illusion - please say 'open the main panel' or something like that in your mind."

Finally this part has arrived.

Luo Jie's familiar heart silently recited "Open the main panel", and there was a faint light flashing in his black pupils.

A huge screen, like a game menu, is projected directly onto his retina, and the pale blue translucent hue is imbued with a futuristic sci-fi feel.

Name: Luo Jie

Order: Zero

Constitution: 75 (Strength, stamina, physical resistance, speed, etc., standard human maximum value of 100)

Spirit: 180 (mental power, mental resistance, reaction, perception, etc., the highest value for standard humans is 100)

Suddenly, Luo Jie's eyes widened in disbelief just like everyone else who saw the attribute panel for the first time.

On his attribute panel, which should have been completely whitewashed, there was actually an extra item before his death.

【Subhuman】

Type: Descent.

Quality: EX.

Grade: LV1.

Skill 1: New Human (Passive) - +100% Basic Spirit Attribute. (Non-upgradeable)

Skill 2: Death Reforge (Passive) - Resurrect in a complete state within a certain period of time after death (10 seconds + body defect percentage X 30 seconds), and clear all positive and negative effects from yourself.

Skill 3: Black Ghost (Active) - Summons a black ghost, entity, physical attack, invisible to the naked eye, and the strength is 100% of the basic spiritual attributes. (For unknown reasons, the Black Ghost is sane and unable to move autonomously.) ）

Introduction: Death is eternity.

Luo Jie didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Where did the pedigree come from?

He dared to vouch for it with his head, there was absolutely no such thing in the attribute panel before rebirth.

Could it be......

Luo Jie's heart suddenly beat wildly, and he thought of a strange rumor that had been circulating among the Fantasy World player community before he was reborn.

It is said that there is a hidden easter egg in the "subhuman" fantasy realm, as long as you die in any way in the fantasy realm, there is a very small chance of obtaining an EX-level rare bloodline - [subhuman].

Of course, no one is stupid enough to die for an unsubstantiated rumor, and no player who accidentally dies in the illusion will come back to life with a magical full health in place.

So even before he was reborn, this rumor was always a joke on the lips of all players.

But now it seems that he obviously won the jackpot, or the kind that emptied the prize pool at once.

"EX-class bloodline, ......"

Luo Jie muttered to himself in an almost inaudible voice, the expression on his face extremely complicated.

For him, who didn't even have A-level equipment before his rebirth, the psychological impact brought to him by the EX-level bloodline [Subhuman] was really a bit big.

Strictly speaking, the EX level does not mean a grade, but rather "special and difficult to assess".

The basic stats of EX-tier equipment fluctuate greatly, from the highest SSS level to the lowest F-rank, and many are even slightly lower than similar equipment.

But at the same time, EX-level equipment often has one or several extremely special equipment skills, so that they can burst out with some kind of super-level effect under certain conditions.

In layman's terms, it is the best of the same rank.

However, the [subhuman] bloodline in front of him was obviously not covered by a "superlative" sentence.

Putting aside Skill 1 and Skill 3 that are not yet obvious, the [Death Reforge] effect of Skill 2 alone is enough to make people shocked.

Maybe it's not intuitive to look at it this way, so let's find a reference.

Luo Jie remembered that before he was reborn, the price of the S-class prop [Tail of the Immortal Bird] with the same resurrection effect was about 100,000 points, and most of the time it was still priceless.

And [Death Reforge] is equivalent to [Tail of the Immortal Bird] that can be reused indefinitely.

Luo Jie quietly closed the attribute panel, closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to remain as calm as possible.

To be honest, even in the EX class, such an unreasonable feature is rare, and it is obvious that it has touched the edge of some kind of law.

But before he was reborn, he had seen too many weak counterattacks and strong falls, and he had already understood a truth - don't believe in any kind of ability or equipment, even if it seems to be unusually powerful.

Immortality does not mean invincibility.

Resurrection can only be a layer of insurance, not a habitual dependence.

Of course, vigilance is vigilance, and this is a good thing after all.

If rebirth gave Luo Jie a surprise by surprise, then the EX-level [subhuman] bloodline undoubtedly added the icing on the cake to this surprise.

With seven years of experience and information accumulation in his previous life, coupled with such a strong hole card start as the EX-level bloodline, Luo Jie is full of confidence in the future.

In his previous life, he could only look up to the peaks, but in this life, he finally had the opportunity to stand on the top and look at the scenery in the distance.

Or even the mysterious sequence of the impact.

- Ready Player One.