Chapter 12: Conspiracy and Deception

Ma Le was lying on the ground, enduring physical pain, countless black strange tissues visible to the naked eye were entwined and shuttled around his body, making people shudder to watch. Ma Le looked at several veterans in the room coldly, gritted his teeth and spit out a few words: "Why? ”

"You're asking why a few of our veteran adventurers want to play tricks on you as a newbie? Or are you asking why you entered a world of seniors? Or both? Xia Yingying squatted down on one knee, lowered her head and smiled face to face with Ma Le. At this time, Xia Yingying has long lost her previous innocence and shyness, replaced by an indescribable ability and calmness, faintly revealing a queen's temperament that reigns over the world. She turned to Jiang Dahua and said, "Heavy artillery, show him our real mission description, let him die and understand!" ”

Jiang Dahua sighed, walked up to Ma Le, took out the necklace-shaped miracle badge, removed a transparent film from it (Ma Le estimated that this was their hands and feet, changing the display of the miracle badge), and once again showed the mission description in front of Ma Le:

Plot World: Torture and Killing the Original Form

Cut-in time: 10 days after the spread of infection

Entry Location: Manhattan, New York City

World Difficulty: Advanced

Trial Mission: Survive for seven days and cannot leave Manhattan during the mission. Completing it earns you the Miracle Badge and the qualification to enter Miracle City. (A veteran adventurer has been detected in the world of Trials, and the veteran adventurer can choose to return at any time!) Difficulty: Easy

Side Quest: Top Secret Text, hand over the CD with the latest black light virus research materials to the Janetek Institute or Alex, and adventurers can freely choose the direction of the mission. Difficulty: Medium

Detected that a Trials World is mixed with a Senior-level Adventurer, all system rewards received by the Senior-level Adventurer are reduced to a quarter, and when the Trial-World is detected as Advanced-level, all system rewards received by the entry-level Adventurer are quadrupled

Background: In the 60s of the last century, the U.S. Department of Defense and its subordinate High Planning Agency established a special unit called "Black Watch", which was intended to use biological and chemical warfare to defend against the United States and overseas hostile forces. A few years later, Blackwatch discovered a special virus that could greatly increase the physical abilities of living beings at the genetic level, and launched a research project codenamed "Black Light" for it.

At the end of the eighties, Mark Mullen, a doctor of biology, founded a biotechnology company called "Janetek", which became a research institute under "Black Watch" to conduct further research on the "Black Light" project.

Recently, due to the leakage of the "Black Light" project for unknown reasons, Black Watch decided to destroy the evidence and purge people in the know in order to block the news. Alex Mercer, a researcher at Jantek, secretly investigates and learns of the military's purge, and in order to protect himself, he steals samples of the black light virus and escapes from Jantek, hoping to threaten the military. However, at Pennsylvania Station, Alex is found and killed by Blackwatch soldiers, who release the Black Light Virus before dying.

The Black Light Virus devoured Alex's corpse and scattered memories, eventually constructing a prototype of the virus that was identical in appearance to Alex and possessed part of Alex's personality. Now, the archetype considers himself to be Alex after amnesia and begins a quest to find the truth.

Now, ten days after the virus was released, more than 60% of Manhattan's population has been infected, and it has become a purgatory city.

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After reading the task description, Ma Le not only did not understand, but became even more confused. These veterans must have used some special means to turn a high-level world into a world of trials, and at the same time, they were punished for it, and the reward was only a quarter, so why did they put so much effort into it?

Xia Yingying seemed to see through Ma Le's thoughts, and smiled faintly: "Is it strange?" A few of our veteran adventurers tried their best to play the role of newcomers, and when we came to this extremely difficult world, we could only get a quarter of the reward. ”

"Actually, we have paid more than you think, in Miracle City, only one person is allowed to enter each trial world, and it is against the rules to intervene in other people's trial worlds, not to mention that we have forcibly promoted your trial world to the advanced level. If this kind of thing is detected, we will be punished in unimaginable ways. But even so, we are here for the sake of our old captain! ”

"Old ...... Team...... Long? Ma Le endured the severe pain and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, the five of us are actually a team, and you should be able to tell that I am the captain of this team!" Xia Yingying explained: "But it was only a month ago that I became the captain, and before that, our captain was a strong and kind old man, and we all called him Fu Lao. And a few of us joined after he saved our lives in the mission world, so it can be said that Fu Lao is the benefactor of all of us! ”

"However, more than a month ago, Fu Lao suddenly left, handed over the captain's authority to me, and disappeared from then on. We've tried to find out his whereabouts, but there are nearly 10,000 adventurers in Miracle City, and there are hundreds or thousands of missions in each open world, so it's not easy to find one. But just three days ago, Fu Lao contacted us in the real world, hoping that we would do him a favor. ”

He ...... I want you to help him...... Take the world ...... Make it a world of trials? Ma Le guessed a clue and couldn't help asking.

"Yes, very smart. As for the reason, you're going to die anyway, so it's okay to sue you. The beautiful girl praised him with a smile on her face, but Ma Le could only read contempt and mockery in this smile.

"It turns out that Fu Lao is a billionaire's henchman butler in reality, responsible for taking care of the rich man's only child, and recently, Fu Lao's owner has some problems, and the young master he serves may be in danger. Even though Fu Lao is powerful, he can't protect him twenty-four hours a day, not to mention that in the real world, the adventurer's ability to exert himself is subject to various restrictions, and it is difficult to protect the young master. In desperation, he revealed a little bit of the existence of Miracle City to the young master under the punishment of strict zhòng, and that young master also chose to enter Miracle City to become an adventurer! ”

"However, there is no pattern to the selection of adventurers in Miracle City, and even if they are selected to enter Miracle City, the danger is much stricter than in the real world. For this reason, Fu Lao asked around for methods, adventured alone in the mission world, experienced countless hidden plots, and finally got a few special props after nine deaths. Using these items in a certain way, he can designate a world of difficulty that does not exceed the senior level as the trial world of that young master. And we can cooperate with Fu Lao, also use some special props, enter the same world with that young master, help him complete the task, get the biggest reward possible, and then count the four times the difficulty reward, that young master will be far ahead of other adventurers of the same level after spending this trial world, and can become a superman the fastest! ”

"In that case...... Ma Le forced a sigh of relief and asked puzzledly, "Why...... Coming here...... It's me? ”

"That's weird to us, too!" Xia Yingying said, reached out and grabbed Ma Le's hair, raised his face, and said to him: "I don't know why, you confused newcomer came here and completely ruined our plan!" ”

"But this kind of accident is never uncommon in the world of adventurers." Xia Yingying let go of Ma Le, stood up and sat on the chair next to her, crossed Erlang's legs and continued: "When we saw your face, we immediately realized that the plan was wrong, and just when you were unconscious, we made a new plan, since the original plan failed, then it is the purpose of all adventurers to get the maximum benefit from the current world as much as possible!" ”

"Tasks or anything must not be considered, there is a difficulty punishment. That's when we thought of the gossip we heard from a certain adventurer a long time ago that Alex could be recruited! ”

"Recruit, recruit?" The corners of Ma Le's mouth twitched in pain, and he stammered a little when he spoke.

Xia Yingying stroked her chin and said leisurely: "Yes, as long as certain conditions are met, adventurers can take a certain plot character out of the world and follow adventurers on adventures together." But if the conditions are not met, the adventurer will not be able to inform the plot characters of the existence of Miracle City at all, and even the conversation about Miracle City will be blocked. ”

"Alex, as the protagonist of the torture and killing form, coupled with his extremely strong strength, is theoretically impossible to recruit him. But some adventurers have put forward a bold conjecture, Alex's signature ability is absorption, which can decompose and absorb any living thing in an instant to strengthen itself, and at the same time, at the same time, it can also read the memories of the absorbed person while absorbing! ”

"In other words, if Alex absorbs an adventurer, then he will know about the existence of Miracle City, and he will question the authenticity of his own world, as long as he is guided, it is very likely that he will agree to the adventurer to leave the world of torture and killing!"

Ma Le understood now: "It seems that ...... I am...... That one...... ...... to be absorbed Unlucky, with your abilities...... You can force me...... Why bother to be absorbed...... Lie to me......"

Xia Yingying frowned slightly, but instantly regained her calm expression, and said lightly: "If it is forced, Alex will also know our plan when he absorbs you, in case there is a rebellious mentality, we are not stealing chickens and rice?" The best way to guide you to your own death. You should also know the concept of the trial world in the marginal space, and if you come in and find five veterans, you will definitely be suspicious. Therefore, we simply disguised ourselves as newcomers and let Jiang Dahua act as the captain to guide newcomers and gain your trust. ”

"But we are lucky, according to the original estimate, it will be at least a few days before we can grasp Alex's movements, I didn't expect to accidentally hit and stumble, so quickly received a side quest about Alex, and successfully led him to appear, coupled with the illusion that I secretly laid on you before, in Alex's eyes, you are actually a black watch officer with special genes, and he really tried to absorb you, although I don't know why it failed...... By the way, did you tell me that sometimes you see me blushing involuntarily and my heart rate decreases? Hmph, that's also the subtle influence of my charm technique, every time you doubt us, I will disturb your thoughts! ”

"You...... This slut ......" Ma Le gritted his teeth, if he could still move his hands and feet now, he couldn't wait to rush up and strangle Xia Yingying to death, "But it's a pity, even if it'...... Alex sucked me up...... You can't ...... Succeed...... He just had to read ...... My memory...... will know...... In my head...... This world ...... Is it Resident Evil...... Instead of abusing the original form! ”

Xia Yingying was slightly stunned, she didn't expect Ma Le to think of this kind of "loophole" at this time, she smiled slightly: "Do you think that as a plot character, Alex will know whether his world is called Resident Evil or torture the original form?" ”

Ma Le was speechless, staring at Xia Yingying fiercely, the beautiful girl seemed to enjoy this hateful look, stood up with a smile, picked up the pistol she picked up from the black watch soldier, and aimed it at Ma Le's forehead: "Okay, I have already sued you for what you want to know, do you have any last words?" ”

Ma Le stopped talking, just stared at Xia Yingying.

"Don't you want to say anything? Forget it! As soon as the words fell, a gunshot rang out, and Ma Le's forehead had an extra black hole in the gun, his eyes lost focus, and his head slammed on the ground......