Life is an adventure, and the debt-ridden eye has always enshrined this sentence as a creed.

So—

Even the occasional pit is not a big deal.

In fact, as early as when he saw the list of agents, he had a faint sense of foreboding, but when he heard the agent's promise that the public beta version would be served in its original form, he believed it with suspicion.

It turns out -

He is still too honest, he believes what others say, and forgets that not everyone is as real as Brother Guang.

When he saw that the mosaic had become a mosaic, and finally he had become a mosaic, the star field in his pupils at that moment finally turned into horror.

What the heck?!

Why can't he control his body!

And so on –

it!

"Don't come here!"

His soul was out of body.

It turned into something of another shape.

And then it wasn't just his spirit, he felt like his own existence was being brutally infused with harmony.

When the dust settled, the debtor watched the balance disappear from the account and the "-10% stamina, duration for half an hour" debuff, and his eyes gradually lost light.

Just now......

What's going on?

Where did I come from and where am I going?

Why do humans hurt each other?

And—

What really happened before the Big Bang?

He gradually began to think about what the meaning of life was, like a true sage.

From now on, there will be another good man in this wasteland...... Probably.

It's no longer a question of whether it's realistic or not.

It's also so educational!

……

"Ahh

At the same time, Chu Guang, who had just returned to the safety zone from the leech cave, sneezed, rubbed his nose and muttered.

"Who is praising Lao Tzu for being handsome behind his back......"

Never mind.

It didn't make sense to wonder who it was, and he was calloused to hear similar words.

Just when Chu Guang stretched his waist and was about to go offline, he suddenly bumped into an acquaintance.

The reason why they are acquaintances is because the 1.8-meter-tall man and heroic mind are simply carved out of a mold.

It's not even just modeling.

Even the silly cuteness is exactly the same, and it's not very smart to look at.

Chu Guang jumped out of the small map and clicked on the ID to take a look, and even the ID was the same.

[Player ID: Raven Raven7778]

Well.

It seems that a lot of numbers were added before it was registered.

It's me, yes.

Seeing that she looked around and seemed to be looking for something, Chu Guang thought about it and finally didn't go up to say hello.

Because the action of force is mutual, so is embarrassment.

However, just as he was about to get around, the eyes that looked around looked at him for a moment.

“…… Wait! Please wait a moment! ”

Although he always felt that it would be very troublesome, but since they were all discovered, Chu Guang still stopped, and casually threw a team invitation over, and said in the team channel.

"What's wrong?"

The crow who stopped blushing and hesitated for a while, and finally held back a sentence.

"Are you Ah Guang?"

Hearing this, Chu Guang didn't have to guess to know that it must have been the kid at Night Ten who shook himself out.

Otherwise, even if she knew that her nickname and the public beta was taking the face of the deity, it would be impossible to accurately locate the region and come to the door.

But then again, he didn't ask his good brother to keep it a secret for him.

Straight to the point.

Looking at the crow whose face was blushing into an apple, Chu Guang didn't know what to say for a while.

How so?

This guy is a bit different from other players.

As the first player to awaken the Poison Recognition talent on the whole server, he has indeed used this guy a lot, especially when he can't decide whether a mutated creature can be eaten or not.

When the alliance faced a food crisis in the early days of its development, she and Lao Na could be said to have contributed a lot to the recipes of the survivors of the River Valley Province.

Later, the alliance had a biological research institute, but there was no need for crows to try one by one, but every time Chu Guang wanted to order takeout and didn't want to spend a lot of time, he would still trouble her to run errands.

Although she is also a casual player herself, she didn't delay her anything, but there is indeed something bad about her self who has delivered thousands of takeaways with "brushing up on favorability to unlock hidden tasks".

In addition, he did passively listen to her many little secrets and real troubles...... Even if he didn't want to hear it, and more than once hinted that this guy should pay attention to privacy and not throw anything on NPCs.

In short, it's really embarrassing.

But he really didn't have a better way than to hold on.

“…… It's me, what's wrong? ”

"So you're really a real person......"

"Yes."

"Why, why are you pretending to be an NPC......"

"That's a long story, because of all kinds of hardships, although I don't expect you to understand, it's okay to hate me if you can't do it."

"Hate...... Not really. ”

Raven's face was already red as a lantern, like a teapot boiling with water.

Her lips twitched for a moment, and she finally said something that had been holding back in her heart for a long time.

"Then what I said before......"

Chu Guang looked to the side with a subtle expression.

"I didn't tell anyone."

That's why I heard it!!

At that moment, as if out of a pain mask, Crow squatted on the ground with his head in his hands.

Those eyes lost their dreams.

It's like losing the big eyes of your dreams.

"Hey, are you okay?"

Unable to hear the outside world, she squatted on the ground with her head in her hands, and said in a hollow voice.

"It's over...... My life...... It's over......"

Chu Guang said with a sigh.

"It doesn't have to be like this, I'm from the α universe, and you can completely treat what happened over there as a dream. Even if the person in the dream knows your secret, it will not have any effect on your real life. ”

He's not very good at comforting people.

After all, in the past 200 years, he has not even had time to catch his breath, let alone being comforted by anyone, and it is a new beginning when his eyes are closed and opened.

The only one who has always been by his side is Xiao Qi, who has experienced 777 reincarnations with him.

Sometimes he can't figure out how many people are left in him.

Or maybe as a gestalt being, he was not fully human from the beginning.

It's a god created by some human being.

Just when Chu Guang was thinking about what to do, the crow who had been squatting on the ground for a long time suddenly stood up again with a red face as if he had finished venting.

To Chu Guang's surprise, there was no resentment or other negative emotions in her pupils, but rather an unexpected sincerity.

"That...... Thank you. ”

"Huh?"

Facing Chu Guang's inquiring gaze, Crow smiled shyly, and after a moment of hesitation, he finally confided in his unspeakable heart.

"Actually, at first I thought it was just a more real game, but suddenly someone told me it wasn't a game, but another world......"

"To be honest, I was really taken aback, but when I calm down and think about it, it's a bit of a surprise...... Surprise? I didn't expect that the people I helped were real, and I didn't expect that ordinary people like me in reality could help so many people. Maybe it's not appropriate for me to say that, but that's what I think in my heart......"

"There's nothing inappropriate, I'm glad you think so," Chu Guangwan smiled and continued in an appreciative tone, "Also, this kindness is not ordinary, many people have lived in hostility to themselves, others, and the world all their lives, and I hope you can continue to share this kindness with the people around you...... Whether it's your world, or ours. ”

"Thank you......" Raven smiled embarrassedly and continued, "Actually, you too, you can say nothing, right?" And then secretly ...... like before"

Not knowing how to describe the feeling, she made a scissor clicking gesture.

If it weren't for her inspiration, she added another sentence "...... Cutting leeks or something", Chu Guang almost thought of the emojis that Fuji Teng often posted on the forum.

Looking at the overly innocent crow, he said with a faint smile.

"Maybe, maybe I'm going to cut leeks more conveniently, after all, I've never said I'm a good person."

To his surprise, Raven became serious after hearing this.

"I know you are! You're actually a ...... Very gentle, very kind people, not as black as everyone says. ”

"Sometimes you can be a little more ruthless, or a little less human, but in the end you try to find the best of both worlds...... Is that what you always call a win-win situation? Hehe, although I don't know much about it, I am a sixth sense of perception after all, and I can feel it! ”

"Anyway, thank you for the game!"

Raven bowed deeply.

The moment she raised her head, she seemed to feel a little embarrassed again, scratched her cheek with her index finger, and frantically exhaled out the system interface offline.

The public beta server is more convenient in this regard, and the safety zone offline can disappear out of thin air, without leaving a clone in place like a "closed beta".

Thank you......

I didn't expect that I didn't come to "ask the teacher to ask for guilt".

Looking at the direction in which the crow crow disappeared and the crowd of people coming and going, the corners of Chu Guang's mouth curled up with a smile, and he said in a very soft voice.

"You're welcome."

It always feels like it's worth it.

……

Time passed, and as the calendar flipped from the beginning of December to the end of December, the two parallel universes also embraced the new year.

β Universe, 2027.

The open beta of "Wasteland Online" has been running smoothly for a month, with the number of players worldwide easily exceeding 100 million, and the number of simultaneous online users peaking at 40 million, successfully breaking the world record and constantly breaking the old record.

Nothing major is happening on the whole planet.

Topics similar to "how to avoid entering the wasteland era" have replaced the earlier quarrel about "how to get along with extraterrestrial civilizations" without any sense of disobedience.

It was suggested that a seat should be added to the α Universe Alliance at the United Nations, but there was no response from those involved, so I had to give up.

Strictly speaking, the form-forming field is the work of Vault 404, and the Coalition is not a do-it-all agency, and indeed has no business in this area.

Only Closed Beta players who actually stand on Alliance soil with their feet on their feet are considered to be people who really live in α universe.

I'll talk about the rest later.

At the same time, with the operation of the "Wasteland Online" open beta server, there was also an interesting vignette.

The number of netizens on a small island in the South Seas with a population of less than 100,000 has exceeded 10 million, just because the island is suspected to be able to play the most original unrevised version of "Wasteland OL".

Due to the vastly different laws and regulations in different regions, the castration posture is different, so that more and more people are curious about what the full version of "Wasteland Online" looks like.

Although the helmet can't be black, there is no shortage of smart people in this world, and soon someone hit the idea on the router.

It's not enough to have a router, you also have to have server nodes.

Thanks to this, the pleasant scenery of the resort island has been in the limelight for a while, relying on a small territory of less than 100,000 people, it has actually obtained hundreds of billions of funds in data center investment.

Due to the surge in demand, the area has also attracted a large number of IT practitioners and even digital nomads.

Although the human connection that once appeared in the α universe is still far away, countless non-governmental cross-regional cooperation organizations dedicated to eliminating information boundaries have been born in the player community.

Some people are for the realization of self-worth, and some people are just for the sake of being with paper people.

Not only do they erase the boundaries of information, they are also committed to preventing epoch-making technology from being used for evil, and to establish an order that matches technology within their power to avoid β the universe to a dystopian end.

After all, it is not the real extraterrestrial civilization that has given the advanced technology of human civilization in β universe, but another "them" in the future, and it is even more unrealistic to expect those people to "come" out of pity.

Their own order must be established by themselves, and those who wait forever will only wait forever.

All "they" can do is push them.

After all, they have to walk the road under their feet, after all, only they know where they are going......

On the other hand, the α universe also ushered in the second year of a new era.

Although Chu Guang's "retirement" caused a large number of alliance citizens to spontaneously miss and retain, fortunately it did not affect the order of the alliance.

What they didn't know was that their esteemed administrator hadn't actually gone anywhere, just played the game in the Vault for a month, going from level 0 to level 30.

In fact, as early as the day the alliance was founded, Chu Guang was preparing for this day.

Long before the expedition to Luoxia Province, he had told Xiao Qi about this problem......

On the shore of Linghu Lake.

The original rampant claw crab has been eaten to extinction by players, and the reed-dotted beach has become a strolling spot for nearby residents and a playground for children to play.

Unlike the beta server, everything here is a completely different art style.

Walking on the secluded sidewalk, Chu Guang looked at the thriving scene with a smile, and said to Xiao Qi, who was sitting on his shoulder.

"Remember what I said a long time ago? The Alliance's greatest danger is not the threat of the wasteland, but if I die or am not there one day, I will be left with a warlord-held province of Riverdale, and each legion will fight in my name......"

"But now, I'm 100 percent confident that this last weakness doesn't exist anymore."

Even the most tenacious Lu Bei, under his continuous training, finally comprehended the true mission of the Guards Corps-

What they really need to defend is not the dignity of the manager, but the dignity of the law.

The Alliance's armies are drawn from the citizens of the Alliance, and henceforth they will only be loyal to the citizens of the Alliance.

"Hmmm! Remember! Xiao Qi thought that you were going to a far, far away place again...... Although Xiaoqi doesn't know where you're going. ”

Sitting on Chu Guang's shoulder, Xiao Qi, enjoying the evening breeze by the lake, squinted his eyes comfortably, like a real living elf.

It is undoubtedly alive.

Even the body of a machine.

He knew better than anyone what the little guy was going through behind the scenes.

"Good work."

Chu Guang smiled, raised his index finger and touched its forehead, and said in a very soft voice.

"No matter how far you go in the future, I will take you with me."