【Heart of Freedom】

[Volume 1 • Chapter 1 • GAME OVER MAN!] 〕

[Introduction: Who do I want to be]

〈Section 0 • Game Over〉

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Beaches and land, as far as the eye can see, are densely packed with the Dark Empire's self-replicating intelligent defensive weapon platforms.

In this fortified coastal defensive position, there are still a small number of prototype defensive weapons distributed on some important defensive nodes.

These prototype defensive weapons with strange shapes and various abilities are the latest super defensive weapon platform developed by the Dark Empire.

The overall number of superweapons is small, but their almost terrifying defense and firepower output capabilities greatly improve this already almost unsolvable coastal defense front.

Turning his gaze, the Dark Empire was opposite the Allied fleet on the sea, with no end in sight.

In front of the Allied fleet, countless amphibious armored landing craft with bright white air cushions and dark blue shells departed from the fleet one after another, heading for their intended assembly points.

In the rear of the Allied fleet, in a large group of support warships shrouded in red and purple light, a giant multi-purpose battleship with the bright red word "Great Luck" stood out.

According to the Allied Headquarters, the Great Fortune was the flagship of the commander-in-chief of the general offensive operation.

At this time, a man in the uniform of an Allied admiral was at the highest point of the giant battleship, on the reconnaissance lookout.

The man stood against the wind, his serene gaze looking into the distance. He suddenly said that it was time to start, and a large virtual screen appeared in front of the man out of thin air.

The man withdrew his gaze from afar, and his gaze shifted to the big screen.

I saw that the screen was neatly divided into countless small grids, and each of these grids represented an Allied detachment commander who was at his peak.

Seeing that the time had come, the man gave instructions in calm words that would determine the future of countless people.

"All the commanders listened to the order, and the 'death squad operation' was fully launched."

The man didn't talk nonsense, and everyone present knew it very well in their hearts.

The commanders who have been able to persevere to this day also share a strong common belief.

After the order to move was given, the battleship group had already included enemy positions along the coastline into the range of attack.

After entering the fire support point, the giant battleship, as the flagship, fired the first shot of the endgame.

The flagship's artillery fire is a signal flare that everyone can see.

In an instant, countless fires streaked across the sky.

The dense artillery fire was overwhelming, and the sky changed color.

At this moment, whether it was in the Allied fleet or in the defensive positions of the Dark Empire, only the roar of artillery fire remained in people's ears.

After the intensive tactical bombardment, the long-awaited group of landing craft at the assembly point also began to rush to the beach.

Viewed from the sky, the amphibious armored landing craft that washed up on the beach unleashed a crushing army.

Steel roared, war roared, and wave after wave of Allied fierce attacks were like black tides, eating away at the last reliance of the Dark Empire.

When the Allied advance stormed the beach, the man who had just given the order was not idle.

He descended to the landing bay of the giant multi-purpose battleship, got on the landing craft bound for the beach, and prepared to participate in the next wave of landings.

The man's name was Blackjack, and he was the commander-in-chief of the Allied general offensive.

As an Allied commander-in-chief, Blackjack's only duty is to serve as the spiritual leader of the entire fleet.

All the spiritual leader needs to do is boost morale and give the order to attack. As for the specific command after the start of the offensive, it was up to the commanders of the individual detachments to decide on their own.

After completing his duties as commander-in-chief, Blackjack, who was also the commander of the detachment and the leader of the team, began to fulfill another duty of his own.

A heroic character who loves destruction and destruction as a fanatical war gamer will certainly not give up his duties.

The Allied offensive on the beach, though fierce, was not overwhelming, and the artillery of the enemy counterattack never stopped. From time to time, some missed shells rushed into the sea, stirring up the sea surface and making the sea rough.

The turbulent waves swayed the landing ship left and right, and Blackjack's body swayed with the landing ship.

In the landing craft, Blackjack ignored the turbulent ups and downs of the outside world, his expression and expression still seemed calm.

In fact, Blackjack's mood at the moment is like the beach that has been plowed over and over again, and it is difficult to calm down.

And his mind returned to those unforgettable pasts. Fragments of memories of the past slipped through Blackjack's mind one by one.

In his memory, he grew from a lonely island to a famous island overlord.

With enough strength and resources, he created his own Allied Task Force in order to defeat the evil Dark Empire once and for all.

After creating the task force, he led the Allied commanders who shared his ideals through one difficult battle after another.

The task force's counteroffensive grew in size and popularity, and more and more brothers joined the task force, until the task force led by Blackjack became the only task force.

After going through more battles than he himself can remember, the day finally came to attack the headquarters of the Dark Empire.

The long-suppressed emotions in Blackjack's heart were finally released, and his almost unbearable emotions can only be described in seven words, "small universe explosion".

Turn your gaze again.

Even though there are thousands of movements in the game, in reality, Blackjack's body is just lying there quietly.

That's right, you read that right, Blackjack is playing a game, and it's the most popular immersive full-sensory virtual game [Second World].

Second World is the latest entry from Bluestar's currently largest gaming group, Penguin Empire.

Despite its name Second World, there are many strange things inside.

A variety of worldviews, whether realistic, sci-fi or fantasy, are like the constant friction and overlap between dreams and reality.

Countless people are drunk in it, releasing and enjoying desires that cannot be satisfied in the real world.

Blackjack is very different from those who are willing to fall and lose themselves, and despite the countless temptations involved, he just silently hides himself in this dungeon world called Raiders on the Island.

The quest world is a quest world that is attached to the overworld. Usually, it is not uncommon for a dungeon world to take as little as three or five months to clear the customs, and as long as three or five years.

Once a player enters a certain dungeon world, they will appear directly in the dungeon world every time they go online in the future.

There are only two ways to get out of the dungeon world, failing the quest and clearing the dungeon.

Even though the dungeon world has various limitations, the various rewards that the dungeon world brings are also frantically pursued by players.

Blackjack's dungeon world is a large dungeon that has lasted for more than five years, and he has been working in it for a long time, and his feelings for this dungeon have long exceeded the scope of liking.

This time, the battle plan, codenamed [The Expendables], is the final battle of the Allies against the Dark Empire, and it is also the last time Blackjack will enter this dungeon world.

Five years in the second world, but only a few months are actually spent in the real world. Even so, Blackjack still couldn't let go of the emotions in his heart.

His heart at this moment, just like the protagonist of those bloody romance stories, wants time to stay forever at this moment, and fight forever on this blood-boiling and wanton battlefield.

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The sound of artillery fire on the battlefield is becoming less and less, the landing offensive and defensive battle is coming to an end, the footsteps of the Allies are irresistible, and the last reliance of the Dark Empire is in ashes.

The besieged Führer, who had no time to retreat, refused to surrender and was wiped out on the spot by the Allied vanguard. Having lost their leader, the remnants of the Dark Empire eventually gave up their resistance.

The Allies have won the final victory, and the island world has been truly liberated and freed!

…

On the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, Blackjack's slightly lonely figure loomed in the thick fog. The elongated figure is like a hero's twilight, and it is particularly desolate under the fainting halo of light in the sky.

It's time to clear the level, and most people quit the dungeon as soon as possible and return to the second world to claim their hard-earned rewards.

It was all over, and Blackjack stood stunned in the middle of the ruins, his eyes fixed on the virtual screen in front of him.

In the screen is the dungeon world clearance settlement, which shows a large number of clearance rewards. Looking at this rich reward, if it were someone else at this moment, I am afraid that I would have jumped up with joy.

Blackjack just stared blankly at the screen, his gaze once again passing through time and space, returning to the various scenes that glided through the background of the screen.

For a long time, it wasn't until the virtual AI assistant began to prompt the countdown to close the dungeon that Blackjack silently turned off the screen and chose to quit the game. As for the rewards displayed on the screen, he didn't see any of them.

So he didn't know that at the bottom of that screen, in the last row of the reward list, there was a special and unique reward, [Door to the Sea].

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Since the end of his expedition to the island, Blackjack has been through a difficult time for more than ten days.

Originally, he planned to give up and never enter the second world again, as a way to remember the time when he couldn't go back.

But he couldn't stand the phone calls of many friends one after another, and even a few who had a particularly good relationship came to talk to him.

After hesitating for a long time, Blackjack was still ready to go online again. But there may never be such enthusiasm in the future, just play and pass the time, this is how Blackjack comforted himself.

Putting on a gaming helmet and sipping off a matching can of energy drink, Blackjack puts down his recliner and activates Second World.

Entering the World Hall, there was no imaginary discomfort, and Blackjack smiled bitterly. I thought in my heart that I didn't know whether time was the best antidote, or whether I liked the new and hated the old to describe him at this time.

Blackjack then summons a virtual screen, and just as he wants to contact his friends, he catches a glimpse of a new message alert at the bottom of the screen.

Click on it, a few of them were sent by friends, and the rest were the rewards for clearing the island last time.

At the beginning of entering the second world, Blackjack didn't feel anything, making him mistakenly think that he was thinking too much. Now that he saw the familiar logo and all kinds of related props again, his heart stirred up waves.

Calming down, he began to claim the rewards in the mail one by one, taking a look at what they were.

In the first email, as the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces and leading the Allied forces through the island raids, the clearance reward, 1 million world gold.

This is a gold coin that can be used in the entire second world, and can also be exchanged for Blue Star Soft Sister Coins, the ratio is 10:1 for the international standard, and ten world gold coins can be exchanged for one soft sister coin.

The second is the reward for the number one rank in the world of dungeons, the colorful item "Lord Token".

With this item, you can buy a planet of the corresponding level in the second world as your territory. According to the grapevine, the cheapest planet is measured in at least 100 million dollars.

The rewards are just some common world items and generic items, among which it is worth mentioning that Blackjack's closest item in the island world, his exclusive car, the multi-purpose battleship Dajidali.

After the battleship was generalized, it was no longer the peak state warship of the previous island world, but was transformed into the most basic second-world general-purpose multi-purpose warship.

After receiving a lot of rewards, what is left in the end is a mysterious item for unknown reasons.

Blackjack looked at it for a while, but he didn't see anything strange about this prop called [Door to the Sea].

Although it is marked "special and unique" at the back, there is not even a display picture, and the introduction and attribute bar are also a bunch of question marks.

Anyway, you won't know what it is when you get it. Blackjack didn't think much of it, and pressed the pick sign.

Shock, a flickering and distorted vision.

Click... After a bang, Blackjack's avatar appeared in a pitch-black space.

The only light in the space was a row of capital letters floating in the sky.

[GAME OVER MAN！ ]

A few seconds later, Second World automatically shuts down, and Blackjack is bounced out.

Blackjack, who looked stunned, suddenly became extremely irritable, and scolded me Tefak?

He stood up, took off his helmet and threw it on the chaise longue, pacing the room with his head in his hands, and it took him a while to calm himself down a little.

After two more turns, probably because the matching energy drink he had just drunk was not fully utilized, Blackjack suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom.

Scratching his head vigorously, he turned and walked towards the toilet.

Along the way, Blackjack's mind was reminiscing about the only item that made him reimburse, the door to the sea.

In front of the toilet, Blackjack, who was on the doorknob, was about to twist the handle, and he whispered a silent sentence in his mouth: "The door to the sea?" ”

As the mechanics interlocked, the deadbolt receded into the tongue groove, and Blackjack pushed the door in.