Chapter 1: The New Man Is Dead The Beginning of the World
"Congratulations, you're the first to wake up."
The voice rang in my ears.
It's nice to hear, but with a compassionate comfort, it makes people feel uncomfortable.
The boy opened his eyes at such a voice.
He appears to be in a small alley, surrounded by vermilion brick walls with scribbles haphazardly scribbled on them.
The boy didn't stand up, just looked around out of the corner of his eye.
He wasn't alone in lying on the ground. There were seven or eight men lying beside him, and beside him was a woman squatting, staring curiously at herself. In addition to this, there were three people standing not far away, leaning against the wall, looking into the distance.
They were dressed very strangely, the woman was dressed in a linen corset, and her head was covered by a hood; Among the other three, one of them was wearing a silver soft armor and looked very imposing; The other two were dressed in civilian clothes, one was tall and thin with high cheekbones, and the other was glasses.
"Where is this?"
Sanity returned to him, and the boy seemed to be able to speak.
But after muttering a question, the silent memory began to revitalize.
Blood burst out of memory.
Soak his hands.
He remembered him trying to grasp something.
But in front of me was a completely shattered picture.
I can't see anything clearly.
Nothing can be reached.
But he wanted to catch it, because he remembered that it was something very important!
What is it!
"What's wrong with him?" Seeing that the young man froze for a moment, the woman next to him curiously shook her hand in front of his eyes.
"Elf, come back, this is the memory reset after the newcomer comes in."
"Is it what you told me before, that logical thinking is afraid that the spirit will not be able to withstand the impact of death?" The elf looked away disdainfully, "It's really something that only the weak do." ”
The boy didn't notice the conversation between the two, and countless memory fragments rolled and reorganized in his mind like a storm, only to be broken again and again by his subconscious, which wanted to insert a more logical result to prevent the scene from harming his memory.
That's what the man said, memory reset.
It's just that the boy repeats that last moment in the storm of memory.
There are some things that cannot be forgotten until death.
For example, his name is Jiang Chuge.
For example, he is dead.
……
Because of the teenager's persistence, the memories began to become clear beyond the subconscious.
He finally remembered what his hands were trying to grasp.
What he wanted to grasp was his mother's hand.
But he couldn't catch it, and could only watch his mother shatter before his eyes like a porcelain doll.
"Hey, isn't he stupid?" The elf stayed for a while, and saw that Jiang Chuge still hadn't come back to his senses, so he couldn't help but turn around and ask the soft-armored man.
"Elf, you've been through the world several times, don't squat there all the time to see if the newcomer is awake?" The man replied angrily.
"I just think the moment of horror when they woke up was funny," the elf seemed to be laughing, but the smile was a little cruel, and then she turned her head slightly to look at Jiang Chuge, "But I don't like his expression, sometimes it looks too scary." ”
The people next to him began to wake up one after another.
The elf's attention was drawn to the past, so no one noticed, and the boy's expression became extremely hideous at the last moment, like a man-eating beast.
Jiang Chuge woke up.
In front of me is still a broken picture before death. He covered his eyes slightly, trying to block them, but how could something that existed in his memory be covered with his fingers.
Not wanting to touch it, the boy could only reluctantly look elsewhere.
So the boy looked up into the alley.
It was a main road, with convenience stores and train stations lined up one after another, and the buildings were low and old, all of which were built with classical red brick walls, and there were many tall buildings in the distance, as if to show off the prosperity of the place where they were located.
There are a lot of pedestrians, mostly white. But no one noticed the pedestrians lying in their alleys, and even if anyone looked at them, they just turned their heads indifferently, as if they were oblivious to all this.
No, it's not that it's blind to it, and any person who sees a large number of people who have fallen to the ground will at least have a change in their eyes.
But they didn't, as if they were ......
It was as if something was blocking their view and making it impossible for them to really see us.
Jiang Chuge didn't know what was going on, but after seeing that it was unreasonable, he subconsciously touched it out, and it didn't take long for his fingers to poke out before he touched a transparent thing. It's hard and feels a little like glass, but you can't see the shape at all......
"It's the protective shield of the Final City, protecting us from being stabbed in a coma when we first enter the mission world. Once the mission begins, the protective shield disappears and we become completely integrated with the world. ”
I don't know when, the elf appeared by Jiang Chuge's side again and explained to him.
The Final City, what is that?
Mission World? And what is it?
Why does it all sound like a copy of a game?
After forcing myself to start thinking, the chaotic fragments of my memory began to be ignored, but everything in front of me was even more unbelievable.
Jiang Chuge understood every word of what the elf said, but after connecting it, it was extremely unfamiliar, and he thought about it attentively. Hang the elf aside.
The latter pouted, "Sure enough, as I thought, not a likable person." ”
At this time, a series of applause attracted the attention of most people.
All the people lying on the ground woke up, and they got up from the ground, or patted the dirt off their bodies, or began to ask what was really going on.
The noise began to grow louder and louder, but the soft-armored youth just clapped his hands lightly and silenced all the sounds.
"Congratulations to all the rookie adventurers on their new lease on life."
This was the young man's first sentence, which confirmed Jiang Chuge's initial idea.
He was indeed dead, otherwise he would have been reborn.
"Maybe you are still wondering, and you are still troubled by the memories that you think are wrong, but what I want to tell you is that your memories are not wrong, and every one of you, including us veterans, is dead, and it is a death." The soft-armored man stood up straight, and Jiang Chuge realized that this Chinese man was very burly and tall, and he looked like a knight.
Everyone listened to the words of the soft-armored man, and involuntarily opened their mouths wide, because the man's words were too shocking.
If it weren't for the fact that there were indeed remnants of such memories in their memories, it is estimated that everyone would have begun to complain.
The soft-armored man was satisfied with the reactions of the crowd and continued to talk about other things.
Although everyone was still ignorant, it did not prevent them from continuing to listen to the words of the soft-armored man.
Only Jiang Chuge, staying in the crowd, had a turbulent wave in his mind. He didn't accept a memory reset, so he accepted the fact that he was dead before everyone else.
But he was the only one of them who couldn't accept the fact that he was here.
That guy actually said they were in New York at the moment?
What are you kidding, how could he stay in this place 108,000 miles away from his home.
He had to go back, because his mother's body was still alone with those two guys!
How could he get those two people close to his mom!
So even if that man says they're no longer in the same world.
He must go back, even if it is through the entire universe!
"Lies, all lies!"
Just as Jiang Chuge was about to stand up, another middle-aged man finally questioned it, and he staggered to his feet, "This is just your prank!" You think I don't know, there must be cameras all over here! ”
He was wearing a suit and looked like a white-collar worker on weekdays, even a company executive.
He refused to believe that all this was true, refused to believe the memories in his head.
If a person persists, he can deny everything he sees, and the more rational he is, the less able he is to accept cognition beyond common sense. This is most vividly demonstrated in middle-aged men.
Jiang Chuge watched the man in the suit stand up, and the newcomer who had already been ordered began to be noisy again. Immediately after that, at the signal of the soft-armored man, Jiang Chuge saw the woman named Elf walking towards the man in the suit, standing less than a meter in front of the man in the suit.
Imaginary persuasion and conversation did not happen. The elf was so quiet that she didn't know where she took out a giant bow that was more than a man tall and a wooden arrow.
The huge bow suddenly appeared in everyone's field of vision.
The bow was slowly straightened, and the sharpness of the arrow shone with a cold light.
The elf looked at the middle-aged man indifferently, "It's a pity, if you don't believe it at all, then do you believe that I will shoot a bow and arrow through your head in the next second?" ”
Silence, gasp.
The people around felt the chill emanating from the elf, and they all involuntarily shrank back, because they felt that the woman seemed to really do that.
And Jiang Chuge's eyes lit up again, and he was the only one among them who had ever felt the chill, not long before he died.
That's murderous.
It's something that only people who have actually killed people.
The middle-aged man had collapsed to the ground under the pressure of the sharp arrow, the chill was only cold in the eyes of others, but in his feelings, it was like a knife, gently scraping on his cheeks, not knowing when it would be cut off fiercely.
She's going to kill herself! Definitely!
Heat flowed out of the crotch, and the small space suddenly became unpleasant.
The people around him immediately dispersed, but unfortunately they couldn't get too far away when they touched the shield.
"That's enough."
A hand actually put on the elf's tense right arm at this time, and the elf turned around, only to find that Jiang Chuge had stood up at some point.
"You want to help him get ahead?" The elf looked cold.
"It's not that it is outstanding," Jiang Chuge was not weaker than the elves in terms of momentum. He frowned, his other hand slightly over his forehead, as if enduring unimaginable pain. He looked slightly at the middle-aged man on the ground who had completely fainted, and said in a low voice, "You have already used your killing intent to make him collapse, and Liwei has done it." If you can't kill people too much, why bother him again? ”
The boy stood between the elf and the middle-aged man, and he actually blocked the elf's chill.
"You ......"
The elf was about to say something when another voice rang out.
"He's right, that's enough, Elf," the soft-armored man walked up to the Elf, "We're not here to be bad guys, and if we do it, they're making them hostile to us. ”
The elf stared at Jiang Chuge with hatred, and then withdrew his bow and arrow.
The soft-armored man walked in front of Jiang Chuge, his expression was a little bright, because his intuition told him that this young man was not simple, and he might be a good seed......
But before he could speak, the wind blew in, blowing away the fishy smell that filled the air, and at the same time the sound came in with the wind, whirring through the alley.
Jiang Chuge knew that this was what the elf said, and the protective shield disappeared.
He was silent for a moment, and did not pay attention to the man who came over, and prepared to go out.
"Where are you going?" The soft-armored man stopped the young man, "Don't you believe what we say?" ”
"No," the boy did not turn around, "I believe everything you say, but unfortunately I don't believe you. ”
When this sentence was said, the other three people immediately stood up.
The soft-armored man stretched out his hand to stop those people and stopped Jiang Chuge again.
This time, Jiang Chuge turned his head, and the young man in the white shirt was already full of vigilance.
"Don't worry, we respect your choice, but I think you might be able to use these things." The soft-armored man smiled, and then threw a small bag to the young man.
As a result, the young man nodded his head to show his appreciation, he originally wanted to smile to show his sincerity, but the pain of his memory and the current situation made him unable to laugh, and in the end he could only turn away in silence.
The tall and thin man who was standing on the side at the beginning looked at the young man's distant figure, turned his head to look at the soft-armored man, and whispered, "Boss, do you want me to ......?"
"Forget it," the soft-armored man also came back to his senses, "we are not a breeding team, nor are we robbers, as I said, all choices are voluntary, if he doesn't want to, just leave it." ”
"It's a pity that a good seedling died in the first mission world."
The soft-armored man sighed, not seeming to be optimistic about the fate of the young man who left alone.