With the experience of dealing with blog emails last time, Xu Jing is familiar with screening and deleting the vast majority of emails this time. In the end, the main ones that are left are emails with business labels and a few emails with special labels.

He looked at one of the emails, and it was someone he had come by.

Andrew:

Congratulations.

First of all, I want to say that I know you, that day at the entrance of the science and technology district on the commercial street, I snatched the Chuck shoes you wanted to buy, I don't know if you still have an impression.

You hide your name, but I can still know because I have a special piece of scouting equipment, and I want to tell you that there is more than one piece of equipment that is rare in the Oasis.

Okay, with all that said, I'm actually trying to ask you, how do you get past the first challenge?

I know you won't tell me easily, but I can exchange it with other information, and I promise that the information will be very important to you, and it will be worth the money.

If you agree to the exchange, come to my chat room and find me, the password for access is MTFBYA.

—Artemis

"Intelligence worth a key?"

Xu Jing suddenly became interested in the information mentioned by Artemis, and the other party had real material in the study of Halliday, and each blog was analyzed thoroughly.

After thinking about it, he searched the other party's chat room, entered the permission password, and entered it instantly.

Artemis set the prompt, and when Xu Jing entered, she followed in, wearing patina armor, carrying a scimitar, and two beam pistols stuck in the holster on her waist, looking like she had just come out of the PVP zone.

After seeing Xu Jing, her face was overjoyed, and she cut straight to the point: "I'm glad to see you again, I won't talk nonsense, the information I want to exchange with you this time is about the third key, and there are also some plans for the sixth person." ”

"Oh?"

Xu Jing was extremely surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that the other party didn't get the first key, so he dared to say that he knew the information of the third key, but he didn't sneer, but asked, "Are you sure?" ”

Artemis said solemnly: "I swear in the name of the hunter. ”

"Then let's talk about it first." Xu Jing is not the one who suffers.

Artemis had expected it, and she had no room for bargaining, so she simply said: "The clue to the third key is related to Arnoke Castle......

She goes on to tell the basis of her judgment, and since the year of Halliday's death, countless hunters have swept through every part of the oasis that seems to have hidden keys, especially those whose code has been written by Halliday.

Among them, the most popular is Ketonia, a fantasy world created by Halliday High School when he participated in the running group, in this world, there is a castle named after Halliday's character, that is, Anoke Castle.

All the while, the castle was sealed off by a strange force, and no player was ever able to enter it, and one could only see its majesty from afar.

Outside of Anoke Castle, there is an Arida 2600 game console, but this one is also under lockdown.

Xu Jing understood when he heard this, but he said: "Almost every hunter in the oasis knows your information, and you have no evidence that Arnoke Castle is related to the Crystal Key. ”

"No, I have." Artemis hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said: "I got the key information from a mission, the crystal key needs to be obtained using that game console, and those who get the three keys can enter it through the power of the blockade castle, which has a gate that requires three keys to open. ”

Xu Jing was slightly stunned, he could sense through his soul that Artemis was not lying, so this was indeed a very important piece of information.

However, he still hesitated: "The information you said is indeed useful, but there are too many people who know, and others will not ignore it even though they have no evidence, so it is not enough to exchange the challenge method of the first level." ”

Artemis smiled, and she looked very confident and said, "The next thing I'm going to talk about is information about IOI, you might as well listen to it first." ”

"Okay, you say."

"Three months ago, when the challenge was first announced, the sixth person secretly set up a fortification outside Anoke Castle while people's attention was being attracted, and I also know that the artifact effect that Sorrento obtained from "Tomb of Horrors" is an Orb of Osevax, a level 99 artifact, which can create a magical shield that cannot be broken, and this shield is indestructible and impenetrable, only the corresponding spell can be lifted, and this shield is enough to seal off the entire Anoke Castle."

"Made!"

Xu Jing couldn't help but scolded after hearing this, he knew that the matter was serious, if this was true, then even if he got two keys, he would not have a chance to get the third key, IOI was simply invincible.

"How? Do I have enough information to exchange with you how to clear the first level? Artemis asked.

"That's enough." Xu Jing admitted that this information was indeed very useful to him, at least there was still a chance to sabotage the IOI's plan, otherwise it would be too late if the other party's conspiracy succeeded.

He didn't rush to say how to challenge him, but asked, "But I still have a question, why don't you contact me instead of exchanging with Parsifal?" ”

Artemis replied, "Because they're in a team, I think you're more credible than you." ”

"I guess it's because you think it's easier to compete with me, right?" Xu Jing smiled and said.

"Whatever you want." Artemis snorted coldly, "I've told you all my information, it's time for you to speak." ”

"Okay." Xu Jing would not be untrustworthy, and he would no longer dwell on the question just now, and said directly: "The first level challenge is very simple, as long as you reverse at full speed, there is a safe and smooth passage behind you." ”

"I see." Artemis suddenly realized and said seriously: "Thank you, I will keep it a secret." ”

She said that she sent a friend application, Xu Jing happily accepted, and then said: "Then good luck to you, I hope you can catch up with me." ”

After he finished speaking, he found Artemis full of surprise and uncertainty, and felt amused in his heart, and left the chat room without waiting for the other party to ask.

After returning to the oasis, he opened the email again, and first browsed a bunch of requests for business cooperation, still without revealing any identity information, but this time his character portrait, name and even voice were sold.

After making a lot of money, Xu Jing first bought a piece of equipment, Superman's camouflage glasses, which can not only camouflage appearance, but also make the character's name no longer be detected by special equipment.

With that done, he continued to look through other emails.

Among the remaining emails, IOI actually sent him more than 10,000 emails, almost bombarding them indiscriminately, sending more than a dozen emails per minute, and it has not stopped until now.

And these emails are all marked with "Major cooperation proposals, please read them now." ”

Xu Jing read a few letters, the content of the emails was exactly the same, it was sent in the name of Sorrento, and he didn't say what kind of cooperation it was, but only asked to contact the other party as soon as possible and negotiate through secret chat.

Although the IOI's email seemed to be deferential, it still couldn't hide the threat in it.

Xu Jing hadn't figured out how to deal with IOI's conspiracy, so he first screened and blocked this kind of email, and then looked at another email.

The sender of the email claimed to be a fan of his, and the label of the email was marked with the words "artifact clue".

For artifacts, he is still very attentive, don't look at the countless Oasis planets, but there are only a few hundred artifacts that have appeared, and most of them appeared in the early days, and now they almost rarely appear.

Each artifact is unique, and few people will take it to auction for auction, and because of this, every artifact that appears at auction will attract many guild forces or rich people to rob it, and every time it is a sky-high price.

Xu Jing began to read the email, which was sent by a person claiming to be a Halliday studies scholar who said he had found a very hidden pizzeria on the planet Agiid.

The pizzeria is ordinary, but it is identical to the pizzeria that appears in Halliday's hometown in the archives.

Seeing this, Xu Jing's expression became serious, when he watched Halliday's experience, there were several scenes of a pizzeria appearing in the video, Halliday often did not go home directly after school at that time, but went to the pizzeria to kill time.

The restaurant is divided into two parts: a restaurant and a game hall, but even the restaurant has a game console where you can eat and play.

The fan of the letter went on to describe the pizzeria he had discovered, which was indeed the same as the one he knew from the footage.

There's a problem here.

Xu Jing asked himself, if he found such a store, he would definitely think about it.

Sure enough, the fan made a major discovery in the pizzeria, where in the store's grocery room, there was a "Pac-Man" arcade machine labeled "damaged".

And this arcade machine is actually not broken, if it is plugged in, it can be turned on and run normally.

What's more, the highest ranking of this arcade machine is 3333350 points, which is only 10 points less than the full score, and the challenger is actually Halliday.

And this arcade machine does not cast in-game currency, but needs to cast a twenty-five cent coin, and everyone only has one chance to challenge.

If you want to break the record, you have to get all the points.

The fans of the letter practiced "Pac-Man" for several months, and in the end the challenge still failed, and the other party told Xu Jing this information, but it was not without requirements.

The other party requested that if Xu Jing's challenge was successful, in case he obtained the artifact, he hoped that he could tell him how to clear the death road race.

Xu Jing's heart was moved, no matter what this person said was true or not, he wanted to go there to see, of course, if it was true, if he got the benefits, he wouldn't mind telling one more person about the method of clearing the brass key, but he had to wait until he thought of a way to deal with IOI and got the second key.

Now that the curator was not there, he happened to have time, so he rushed to the teleportation temple and teleported directly to the planet Agiid.

Agiid is not only a PVP area, but also a dual area, where both magic and technology can be used.

This is the largest old video game museum in the oasis, and there is no land, atmosphere or crater-like surface on the entire planet, only countless green dots, like an end-to-end airport.

The terrain here is more complex than the labyrinth, with underground tunnels, steps, elevators, ladders, slides and secret doors forming a vast network of transportation, like an underground mausoleum.

And no one has the patience to explore this place except for game consoles, so it's not surprising that there is a Pizzeria from Halliday's childhood that has not been discovered to this day.

Xu Jing followed the map attached to the email and came all the way to the core of the planet, he was not worried that this was a trap, first of all, the other party did not know when he would come, and if there was an ambush, his soul scan could find it in advance.

He enters a tunnel, soon arrives at a huge exhibition room, and follows the street all the way to a cul-de-sac at the end, where he finally finds the goal of his trip, the Happy Hour Pizzeria.

"It seems to be true."

Xu Jing was overjoyed in his heart, under his soul scanning, there were no players around, and there were only a few NPC clerks in the store.

He walked into the store, avoided the NPC clerk, and headed straight for the innermost utility room, where there was a Pac-Man arcade with a completely black screen and a damaged label.

He also discovered that a twenty-five cent coin was attached to the hockey stick on the top of the arcade machine.

Seeing this coin, Xu Jing thought of the video of Halliday's will released after his death, in which he was lying in a coffin, his eyes covered with a coin, which was exactly the same as the one fixed on the arcade machine in front of him.

He tried to break the coin with his hands, but it was like it was locked in by a force that could not move a single bit, no matter how hard he used.

"What did Halliday leave behind?"

Xu Jing was even more sure that there was a problem here, he quickly plugged in the power of the game console, and the electronic music suddenly sounded, and the picture was running normally.

But instead of rushing to start the game, he made a little arrangement around the area and locked the door to the grocery room.

There is only one chance, if you want to get the highest score of "Pac-Man", you must play 256 levels without any mistakes, you have to eat all the beans and ghosts that appear on the screen, and you can't die once, this game has been released in the current world for more than 60 years, and no more than 20 people have done it.

Of course, Xu Jing is sure to do it, but he also has to be undisturbed.

He moved his fingers, got ready, and dropped a regular twenty-five cent coin into the slot, then clicked on the single-player mode, and the game officially began.

Control the joystick with your left hand, change direction, and devour the beans for no time.

Wow ka - wow ka - wow ka!

Xu Jing controlled the joystick with ease, his attention was concentrated, and only the two-dimensional game world in front of him was left in his eyes.

Nearly four hours later.

With the sound of the game-ending music, he succeeded, scoring the highest score perfectly.

"What kind of reward will it be?"

He was a little excited, and suddenly his eyes turned to the twenty-five cents that could not be moved earlier.

I saw that the coin fell off the hockey stick and rolled slowly in his direction.

"So that's it."

Xu Jing grabbed the rolling coin, and the coin disappeared into his hand in an instant, and then he actually received a prompt from the system.

The moment he saw the prompt, his heart shook violently.

Level 120 Artifact: Twenty-five Cents.

1. If the host character dies in the oasis, it can be perfectly resurrected once.

2. If the host manifests and brings it back to the Overworld, the user's strength must not exceed Grade A, and it can be perfectly resurrected after death.