Chapter 1: Bizarre Crossing
Sanxiang Town, a relatively backward small county. In a residential area that is too ordinary to be ordinary, there are several old residential buildings.
This kind of residential building is different from the clean and beautiful community in the city, and the outer wall has been covered with all kinds of small advertisements for ringworm, and some people even spray the advertisements for unblocking the toilet and unlocking them on the outer walls of the higher floors. The cluttered wires of residential buildings and residential buildings, as well as the cobwebs that no one cares about, make the residential buildings in this area extremely old.
On the street side of the residential building is a storefront, several of which are convenience stores, which sell all kinds of department stores, such as mops and brooms; dish soap, hand sanitizer and the like; All kinds of canned and packaged food...... You can find one at almost every other distance.
Two mahjong tables were set up in a small open space in front of one of the convenience stores called "Jianhui Convenience Store", where 8 neighbors played mahjong and made a crackling sound of mahjong. It rang out from the player's mouth.
In general, this kind of storefront, which is on the first floor of a residential building, usually has a staircase leading to the second floor. For this kind of small store, the second floor is generally just a place to live, and no one will spend money to spend money on a whole two-story convenience store.
On the second floor, in addition to the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen of the owner and his wife, there is also a room for Su Chen.
There was a dilapidated computer in the room, and there was a noticeable "humming" sound when the main computer was running. Obviously, this computer is not bad, the configuration is very old, at best, it is the kind of checking information and chatting for a day.
A tall and thin 16-year-old boy was leaning on a tattered back chair, and this teenager was Su Chen. He's playing a hardcore-looking gunplay game. The game is really hardcore, but the optimization and machine adaptation are pretty good, and even the lowest-spec computers can be played. Rao is like this, Su Chen's computer is running quite reluctantly, the picture quality is very low, and the frame rate is only about 20 frames. But Su Chen doesn't dislike it, it's good if he can take it.
The game is called "Doomsday: A New Human Civilization", and the name sounds quite lofty. It is a game that belongs to the MMORPG genre, and in layman's terms, it is a role-playing game that can support multiplayer online at the same time. With a high degree of freedom, mainly in the apocalyptic wasteland, dealing with zombies. Of course, PVP is also possible.
After Su Chen went online, most of the people in the camp were offline. After brushing a few copies together at the request of a friend, Su Chen began to run the map and brush materials.
Su Chen and the four major NPC factions in the game, "Alliance", "Empire", "Titan", and "Apocalypse", all have favorability, and the internal currencies of the four forces still have inventory in their hands. Use the shortcut waypoint and the plane to run through the main cities of the four forces, and buy a lot of basic materials and common consumables, such as combat enhancement potions, fast-acting healing drugs, and the like. Then go to the market among the players to buy some special materials.
Go back to your base, make up for your consumption, and then run to the area of the "mysterious ruins". "Mystic Ruins" is the highest-level map, and again, the rarest things are farmed.
The mysterious ruins have some ancient altars, which are easter eggs in the game. Whether it specifically represents Mayan culture or what culture Su Chen doesn't understand. Sometimes the player can trigger hidden dialogues on intact altars, such as "God's Gift", and then obtain some rare materials.
Of course, this is all a video, and Su Chen himself has not encountered any "complete altar" to trigger the so-called "God's Gift" and other hidden dialogues to get rewards.
At this moment, Su Chen, who had just come down from the tarmac and had not yet run out, seemed to see a pillar of light rising into the sky in the distance, and directly below the pillar of light seemed to be an altar.
The map of the mysterious ruins is set against the backdrop of a desert, with yellow sand obscuring the view. Although the distance was only two or three hundred meters, Su Chen couldn't see clearly. I had to speed up the map and go over to see how it went. In case it's really an easter egg "Full Altar" that triggers those hidden dialogues, you'll be rewarded with rare items. Even if it's not very useful to yourself, it's worth selling it to other players.
The distance of more than 200 meters can be run in about 30 seconds, and when the distance is about 50 meters, Su Chen's heart "chuckles".
Su Chen has been to this map dozens of times, and he has seen no less than a thousand altars. The altars were all missing a few horns or simply blown up. Even if there is no missing part, it is almost weathered by the sand, and it is dull. The altar in front of him was intact and glowing with a strange light. From the center of the altar, a magnificent pillar of light shot straight into the sky!
Su Chen was very excited, and rushed directly to the altar, operating as in the video. This altar is indeed similar to the altars in the video, as long as you step on the dots in a certain order to trigger a mysterious dialogue.
It's just that, unlike in the video, this is not the so-called "gift of God".
A few lines of words appeared on the screen.
"The Choice Between Life and Death"
"You have been selected by the Game Masters to participate in our game. In the game, you will be baptized with blood and fire. Choose between life and death again and again. ”
There is also a line at the bottom that reads: "This game is dangerous, and once you participate, you have only two options: "Die, or be stronger." You have the right to refuse the game, please choose carefully. ”
"Yes/No (10s)"
Su Chen was confused, why the easter eggs encountered by other bigwigs were all "gifts from God", or "the power of faith", and he had never seen any "choice between life and death".
"What's this, a new easter egg? Why haven't I heard of ......" Su Chen scratched his head and looked at the countdown next to the word "no", and after 5 seconds, he would automatically select "no". In line with the idea of not entering the tiger's den and getting the tiger, Su Chen moved the mouse and clicked "yes".
The moment he pressed yes, Su Chen thought like this: Hey, isn't it just a game. The so-called baptism of blood and fire, the choice between life and death, must be completed in the game. What kind of death or stronger, isn't it the death of the character in the game, it's a big deal to re-liver materials. Besides, with my strength, what copy can't get by?
The moment you press "Yes", the game screen distorts, and streamers and some light spots appear. These looked like extreme effects, with several corners of the altar emitting pillars of light towards the sky at the same time. At the same time, the mutation is sudden!
It seems that the streamer in the interface is no longer limited to the 2D picture displayed on the screen, but 3D, as if it is a holographic projection, and even turned into a substance. The surface of those streamers has wonderful textures, and these things in the microscopic realm hide infinite mysteries.
The streamer in the screen changes until it becomes a swirl.
In Su Chen's eyes, this is a slow process, but in fact, all this happened in a very, very short period of time. Seeing that the whirlpool was getting bigger and faster, with a strange "whirring" sound, Su Chen panicked and shouted, "This...... What's going on? Save...... Help me...... Help me! ”
But no sooner had the first sound of the first word been uttered than the swirl in the computer screen burst into an irresistible attraction. Su Chen was instantly sucked in.
After being sucked in, Su Chen felt that the sky was spinning, and in addition, he found that he was moving at a very strange speed, moving in a certain direction at high speed. Su Chen had turned from panic to fear, and he instinctively reached out and grabbed around, trying to find a point of focus that he could grasp.
Suddenly, Su Chen seemed to have passed through some barrier, broke through time and space, and entered another strange space. Of course, due to breaking through the barrier, Su Chen's speed of movement exceeded the speed of light by I don't know how many times, and in this case, Su Chen directly lost consciousness.
Now, the speed of Su Chen's movement is getting lower and lower. In the end, Su Chen landed smoothly.
In fact, when Su Chen slowed down to a certain level, he regained consciousness. It still hurt when I landed on the ground just now.
Su Chen got up and looked around. This is a hut, Su Chen observed the interior of the house, and there was a faint sense of familiarity, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
It wasn't until the "bang, bang" gunfire rang out, which scared Su Chen into a rage, that Su Chen remembered.
Isn't that what some kind of house looks like in the game?
Su Chen hurriedly found a window and looked out through the window. The first thing that catches your eye is a street lined with two- and three-story huts on both sides with some graffiti on them. All of this was so familiar to Su Chen's eyes: wasn't this one of the urban districts in Dawn City?
Not far away, there's a sign that says "DAWN CITY."
Su Chen's English is not good, but in the game, he looks down and doesn't look up, what does this word mean, Su Chen definitely knows.
At this moment, a bullet flew from nowhere, hitting Su Chen's head!
In this kind of post-apocalyptic wasteland game, players carry dozens of rifles in a row to get headshots, which is absolutely impossible to do in reality, even if the helmet is advanced. Even if it's CSGO, PUBG, it's not realistic to have a helmet and carry a rifle headshot at close range, and even if you can't penetrate, the huge impact will make you unable to move.
And Su Chen didn't have anything on his head, and most of his head was crushed by the cavity effect caused by the bullet after this shot! Su Chen didn't even feel the pain, and his eyes went black and he fell