Chapter 1: The End of the Dream
In 2012, the smog on the earth became more and more serious, and there were more and more sinkholes in the downtown area, but the so-called end of the world on December 21 did not come. The earth is running as usual every day, and everyone on the planet continues to repeat their days as they should.
In the blink of an eye, more than two years have passed since 2012. Ma Zhan is also repeating his dull life as a petty civil servant in a government department.
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In March, Ma Zhan, who was covered with a thin quilt, suddenly woke up from a nightmare with a cold sweat, looked at the glow-in-the-dark alarm clock on the bedside, and the pointer pointed to 3:05 in the morning.
Ma Zhan, who was in a trance, took out a lighter and a cigarette from the bedside in the darkness, lit one and took a sharp puff, then raised his head to look at the dark roof in the void.
It's the third time I've been woken up from a nightmare tonight? The fifth? Or is it the 10th time? These days, for more than half a month, Ma Zhan is awakened by cyclical nightmares every day!
Every nightmare is exactly the same, but the experience is a little different, in the dream, a bloody picture of a sea of corpses and bones overwhelms Ma Zhan!
In the dream, the entire earth is already in the apocalyptic world......
In the dream, I have been in the apocalyptic world for ten years......
In the dream, himself, including his followers, was all killed by a team of Hell Clan's sixth-level fire monsters......
Ma Zhan has been tormented by nightmares in the past few days, and has made repeated mistakes at work for several days, and has been seriously warned by the department director several times.
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Damn, what the hell is going on?
Ma Zhan sat in his office and shook his head, which was dormant due to severe lack of sophistication. Orcs, monsters, zombies, treasures, battles and other messy things all ran into his mind at once, and as a bunch of information was completely sorted out, Ma Zhan suddenly felt how this was so similar to the single-player game Heroes Invincible 3 that he had played before.
When Ma Zhan thought of the game Heroes Invincible 3, a piece of information appeared in Ma Zhan's mind:
The countdown to the end of the earth has begun, with a 12-hour countdown.
As this information appeared, an illusory three-dimensional panel appeared in front of Ma Zhan, and Ma Zhan was shocked to find that this panel was the interface of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.
I saw that the unreal three-dimensional panel in front of me was divided into four, with three one-meter-square golden-colored square interfaces on the left, middle and right on the top, and a narrow rectangular interface horizontally below.
The gold cube on the far left is split in two, with the character status bar on the left and the equipment bar on the right.
The gold-colored square interface in the middle of the top is also divided into two, the information bar at the top of the left, at this time, there is a row of irregular characters written in blood and a clock on the information bar, and the bottom of the big characters keeps dripping blood:
The countdown to the end of the earth has begun!!
The time on the clock reverses in a counterclockwise direction, second by second. The information bar at the top right is empty, and there is no information recorded.
The third square on the far right above has only a blue-gray illusory three-dimensional castle.
The narrow rectangular interface at the bottom of the panel is the same as the one above, and it is also divided into two, with only seven squares on the left, and three spearmen and one griffon in the first and second squares, respectively, and the remaining five squares are empty.
At the top of the right are the spaces, and the information shows that the spaces here represent the location of the warehouse! I saw that there was a very strange treasure chest like gold in the warehouse!
Ma Zhan, who was sitting in the office, was startled by this strange interface, Ma Zhan rubbed his eyes, stretched out his right hand to touch the interface, and saw that his right hand passed through the entire interface without hindrance and very strangely.
I looked left and right, and Sister Yang, the only colleague in the office, was sitting there weaving cross-stitch!
Ma Zhan shook his head and looked at the interface, only to see rows of his own information on the status bar:
Name: Ma Zhan (No. 918)
Class: Knight
Level: Level 0
Experience Points: 0/50
Battle Points: 50 (not tradable), Note: Each of your future battles will cost 1 Battle Point
Luck: 0, Morale: 0, Health: 10, Mana: 10
Attack power 2 (1), defense 1 (1), strength 1 (1), knowledge 1 (1), note: normal human 1
Specialty: Defense, Note: Effective after level 5, increases defense by an additional 5% on the basis of defense.
Skills: Leadership (Beginner), Defense (Beginner)
Ma Zhan saw his skill information, and as the memory in his mind became more and more, he suddenly scolded Ma Zhan, and after scolding, Ma Zhan immediately regretted it. I saw that the only colleague in the same office, Sister Yang, who was nearly forty-six years old, was glaring at him.
Ma Zhan looked at his mouth regretfully, and then said with a smile: "Sister Yang, I'm sorry, I suddenly remembered a very important thing and forgot to do it." It's scolding me for being too stupid, not scolding you. ”
Although Sister Yang looks average, she is not too bad, after all, there is no background in the local history office of the district government. Besides, in addition to Ma Zhan and Sister Yang, there is only one director Wang Hong left, and there are only three people in the department.
"Count, count, ponies, I don't think you're in good spirits these days, or you can rest! It's nothing to do today Friday, the director is on a business trip! You just have to leave. ”
"That's okay, thank you, Sister Yang." Ma Zhan agreed without thinking about it, he didn't even clean up the things on the table anymore, and ran out directly, when the memory in the dream returned, Ma Zhan's heart kept trembling, there was panic, excitement, a faint fear, and more surprise.
At the moment before going out, Ma Zhan paused, turned around and said, "Sister Yang, you also get off work early, don't go out tonight, buy more food by the way." After saying that, Ma Zhan hurriedly ran out.
After leaving the district office and coming to the street, Ma Zhan looked at the clear sky and then looked at his mobile phone, which showed that it was 9:05 a.m. on March 13, 2015.
Ma Zhan stood at the door of a 20-square-meter SF store at the entrance of the district government, and pulled out the interface again, only to see that the countdown information on the interface had changed to 11 hours and 55 minutes, and the time was still changing, decreasing second by second.
It seems to be true, Ma Zhan kept repeating in his heart.
"Hey, pony, what are you doing there! I didn't hear you when my eldest sister called me! The proprietress of the SF store stuck her head out of the small counter.
"Ahh Sister Hui, I'm sorry, I was thinking about something just now, I was distracted, I'm sorry! ”
"I said, why don't you ignore it for a long time." Choi Hye-hye, a beautiful proprietress in her early thirties, is not ugly at all. Ma Zhan thought for a while and said, "Sister Huihui, bring me five hard sands!" ”
"Okay" Cui Huihui said with a smile while filling the cigarette: "Xiaoma, you should also change your taste, smoke this every day." ”
"There's no way, Sister Hui, who told us that we are addicted to smoking, our wages are relatively low, and we have no extra money! Besides, we don't have to tie up the leader, seven pieces of hard sand in a pack are fine. Ha ha! Ma Zhan said as he handed over 320 yuan to Hui Hui, and then walked into the distance.
Ma Zhan looked at the instructions on the interface, walked to the bank, and when he arrived at the bank, he took out his 10,000 yuan deposit plus his parents' original 50,000 yuan pension. Soon after, Ma Zhan arrived at a cemetery in the suburbs with a few bottles of wine, some fruit, and cigarettes he had just bought.
Ma Zhan's parents were laid off to work, in order to live, opened a small vegetable shop in the vegetable market, five years ago Ma Zhan was in a car accident when he was just in college, since then, Ma Zhan has become an orphan.
The parents' car accident happened five years ago, it was more than 4 o'clock in the morning, and the parents' car accident happened on the way to the wholesale market to buy goods, the driver who caused the accident drove away, and has not been caught so far, and 50,000 yuan is a pension given by the government. Ma Zhan has always suspected that there must be some reason for the death of his parents, because the location of the car accident at that time was at the main intersection, but Ma Zhan at the Public Security Bureau has not been able to find the surveillance video of the intersection at that time, and the explanation given by the public security department is that the monitoring is broken. Since then, Ma Zhan was originally a staff member of the information department of the district government, but he was suddenly marginalized to the local chronicle.
"Mom and Dad, my son was powerless before, but now that God has given me a chance, I will definitely find out the matter and avenge you!" After paying homage to his parents, Ma Zhan touched the tears in the corners of his eyes and walked out of the cemetery.
I looked at the time, it was half past eleven, and after returning home, Ma Zhan first turned on the computer and typed the words "The End of the World", March 13, 2015, zombies, and heroes in Baidu, but none of the messages found were useful.
Next, I thought about it, and directly studied the information of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 from the Internet, while studying the things that I sorted out from the memories of my dreams.
In the blink of an eye, the countdown on the time interface was only seven hours, Ma Zhan turned off the computer and looked at his house, which was the only property left to him by his parents, a set of seventy square meters with two bedrooms and one living room, and it was a seven-story top floor.
Judging from the complete memory in the dream, I have a total of ten years of memory.
In memory, the whole event can be called the end of mankind, or the invasion of the invincible world of heroes, the moment the interface countdown ends, that is, at 9 o'clock tonight, the entire earth world land, sea, extinct volcanoes, and even city centers and other places, there will be countless portals at the same time, from which countless zombies, skeletons and other monsters will emerge.
Human society was caught off guard by this unguarded mutation, and the world's human beings and countless billions of animals and plants were directly infected, and the six billion people of human society dropped by two-thirds, leaving only about two billion human beings alive.
In the first ninety days of the mutation of the world, humanity was caught off guard and could only rely on machine-type weapons to fight against all kinds of huge monsters, and then on the ninetieth day after the beginning of the apocalypse, the hot weapons that the entire human race relied on for survival suddenly failed.
Just when the human race was panicking, the surviving human beings suddenly opened the career interface and became various professions, and the human race slowly became stronger and gained a firm foothold on the earth.
If the guess is correct, the ninety days before the opening of the professional system should be a kind of cleansing of human beings, a kind of survival of the fittest, but fortunately, the life in my dream survived in embarrassment.
However, unlike the memory in the dream, in the memory, he also started his profession on the ninetieth day when the thermal weapon lost its effectiveness, and his profession in the dream has been familiar with it for ten years, it should be a druid, and the specialty is a second-level water-based magic thunderbolt ice.
But now my own career system has not only been opened 90 days in advance!? And it was before the end came.
Ma Zhan opened the interface again, number 918, the number of his own ten years in the dream is also this number, but unfortunately although he ranks in the top 1,000 among billions of humans, it proves that he became a professional at that time, but he has been fooling around for ten years, and he does not have the strength of the first 1,000 human beings.
The profession has changed from the druid of the barrier clan to the knight of the castle clan, which is a good phenomenon, and I have played the stand-alone game of Heroes Invincible 3 before, and my favorite at the time was the cemetery clan, as long as the cemetery professional is strong enough to conjure spirits, plus a set of cursed armor is simply invincible.
Although the Castle Clan is not his favorite, it is also more fun than the Barrier Clan.
Looking at the overall attributes, the specialty defense is more realistic! In the dream for ten years, the defense perk, among the main perks of all human survivors, can also be ranked in the top 100.
After all, in the memory of the dream, those cattle who survived the apocalypse basically have twenty-eight main specialties, and even nine superlative specialties such as the eldest angel, Beamon, bone dragon, etc., dozens of peculiar specialties, and even god-level, saint-level, and even legendary-level specialties and so on.
Ma Zhan pulled the interface out again.
Name: Ma Zhan (No. 918)
Class: Knight
Level: Level 0
Experience Points: 0/50
Battle Points: 50 (not tradable) Note: Each of your future campaigns will cost 1 Battle Point
Attack power 2 (1), defense 1 (1), strength 1 (1), knowledge 1 (1), note: normal human 1
Luck: 0, Morale: 0, Health: 10, Mana: 10
Specialty: Defense, Note: Effective after level 5, increases defense by an additional 5% on the basis of defense.
Skills: Leadership (Beginner), Defense (Beginner)
looked at his attributes, Ma Zhan suddenly felt more, ** can be digitized, although Ma Zhan also reads fantasy novels every day, but when such a bird thing happens to him, there is still an unreal feeling spontaneously.
Let's think about it, Ma Zhan thought as he observed the spearmen and griffins in the position of the class, which is a treasure and has a great advantage in the early stage.
Junior Spearman:
Health: 10
Attack: 4 (6)
Defense: 5 (6)
Damage: 1-3
Speed: 4
Morale: 0 Lucky: 0
Skill: None
Quantity: 3
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Junior Griffons:
Health: 25
Attack: 8 (10)
Defense: 8 (9)
Damage: 3-6
Speed: 6
Morale: 0, Luck: 0
Skill: None
Quantity: 1
Looking at the spearmen and griffins in the iron-clad blue uniforms, the confidence of the horse battle has been greatly increased.
His attack power and defense are only 2 and 1 respectively, and the spearmen are already 6 and 5, which is almost two of them! Not to mention that there is also a griffin, even if this is really a game, it can be played even if the monsters are not strong in the early stage, because although these troops are weak, they are more practical and powerful.
Ma Zhan has played the game of Hero Invincible and knows that this is a slowly developing game world, so Ma Zhan summed it up, even if it really happened in the real world, he couldn't send himself a few spearmen on the first day! Griffin, the next day a bunch of angels appeared and killed themselves.
If that's the case, I'm still the protagonist of a fart, and the supporting role will have to stand aside.
After thinking about it, Ma Zhan looked at the warehouse, only to see the golden treasure chest lying there quietly, and as Ma Zhan's eyes moved, an extra line of words appeared on the treasure chest:
Not available for the time being!
Nima, why is that? Ma Zhan tried several methods, but he couldn't open it, and Ma Zhan temporarily chose to give up in impatience.
Since God rehearsed the next ten years to himself twelve hours in advance, and opened the interface ninety days in advance, I would be too sorry for myself if I was so miserable in the end of the ten years as I dreamed.
While thinking, Ma Zhan continued to flip to the professional interface, and if such a thing really happened on the earth, what would he do first, and then what he would do! People have to live!
First of all, food needs to be prepared, there is no need to think about it, there are too many in the novel, Ma Zhan looked at the time, it was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the end was only six hours away.