No one is a self-contained, isolated island,

Everyone is a part of the vast continent.

If the waves wash away a rock,

The world will be reduced.

Like a promontory, losing a corner,

Like your friends or your own territory losing a piece.

Everyone's death is my sorrow,

Because I'm a member of the human race.

So, don't ask for whom the bell is tolling,

It will sound for you!

- John Donne, For Whom the Bell Tolls

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As Li Oz and Du Zexin enter the elevator, the film ends here.

Lu Run sat dumbfounded beside the monitor, but the cold floor made him feel extremely awake.

Is this really a game?

From Nomi to Qiu Ran to Li Oz, and even Jane, Anna, and the members of the Metro Brotherhood, each of them is lifelike, flesh and blood like real characters.

When he saw Qiu Ran having two emotional breakdowns, and finally being unconditionally sent to the subway by Li Aozi of the 'Murderous Demon King', Lu Run felt that he was no longer watching a game plot alone.

Everyone is really alive, and for the sake of his beliefs, he is insensitive and tries his best to crawl forward, vomiting blood while running a marathon, and this heavy sense of reality makes him feel physiological discomfort for a while.

"Damn, Qiu Ran is so cute, I declare her my wife!"

Compared with his mood swings, Luo Le, a straightforward old brother, immediately said excitedly:

"Have you seen it, that girl is really interesting, she looks soft, she is a simple and silly big sister, and the result is more sensitive and delicate than anyone else, do you need to say? This is the best candidate to be a daughter-in-law! In the future, you will have to choose this kind of marriage partner. ”

"Okay, okay, okay, I know you like redheads and single ponytails. There's no need to advertise it everywhere. ”

Xue Nian pushed the other party in disgust:

"You guy, didn't you see Qiu Ran's eyes looking at Li Aozi. First of all, I'm not Lalang, although Qiu Ran didn't say a word, but his eyes were full of dependence. There are also her unconscious little actions - eh, secondly, I'm not a Lalang match, but if a girl doesn't really like and trust, how can she keep tugging at the corners of each other's clothes and leaning on each other from time to time? In the end, grass, I don't pretend, I'm just Lalang matching, Qiu Ran x Li Aozi, this is not tolerated together. ”

Luo Le glanced at his colleague with disdain:

"What age are you still knocking on the traditional CP (couple, couple pairing), don't be stupid, where does love come from in the capitalist world? This kind of virtual character, to put it bluntly, is all cool for players by the developer, and if you don't do it, you have to be criticized for 'male gaze' and 'stereotype', so it's better to have something real. ”

"What kind of mess of yellow scrap are you thinking, shut up, we're live."

"It's not that you got into the play too deeply, to put it bluntly, this plot is indeed quite realistic, I watch it so well."

"Rebirth: The Great Age of Waves"

"Wait a minute."

Lu Run calmed down and suddenly realized a problem:

"Brother Luo, Brother Xue, if Li Aozi and Du Zexin join forces, it should be easy to deal with that 'professor', right?"

"I don't know."

The two replied in unison.

“…… Yes? ”

Lu Run was at a loss:

"I think Li Oz is already very strong, that Du Zexin is also very strong, or beta level (β, the second Greek letter), according to the previous statement, the beta level NPC, the main class should also have level 40, right? It should be easy to deal with that 'professor', right? ”

"Not really, NPCs are not the same as players, they may be a few levels lower, but they can go up first. It's strange - but if you think about it, many people in the real world are like this - the strength on paper is boasted very well, but in fact, it is revealed when you poke it. ”

Xue Nian said as a matter of course:

"Players are different, we have strict conditions for promotion level, and there is moisture in the NPC level, and we don't necessarily know it."

"Back to the question just now." Luo Le explained: "Li Aozi and Du Zexin are two NPCs, there must be water in the class, and the two strangers may not necessarily cooperate tacitly. ”

"What's more."

He knocked on the display screen of the Shadow Humane, and the dazzling array of experimental items and the labels of [Implemented] made him unconsciously feel heavy:

“…… The professor, though I don't know what the situation is. But look at this - just these projects that obviously surpass the frost-plated intellectual class, coupled with Li Oz's description, I'm afraid they won't be lower than the beta level, and it's hard to say who wins and who loses in the fight. ”

"What do you think, Li Oz is still wanted, and he is alive and well. Must have crushed the professor. ”

Xue Nian rolled his eyes:

"Did you watch it as a TV series? Still thinking about speculating on the plot of the next episode? ”

"Don't say it, it's really ...... Aren't you too? The one with the deepest empathy and substitution, isn't it you, damn, I'm embarrassed to say me. ”

Luo Le flipped through the video files, and the video files left behind by the shadow were no longer related to Li Aozi.

"Tsk...... It's useless here. ”

He pursed his lips and kicked Lu Run, who was sitting paralyzed on the ground:

"Let's go, photographer, let's go to the lower floors to have a look, these are the progress of completing the task."

"Hmm."

Lu Run got up, he stored the video file, and backed it up to prepare it for editing back.

The battle between Li Aozi and Du Zexin can easily give people the impression that [Mutant] is better than [Mechanic], and if it is used as publicity material, players who are attracted by Li Aoz and plan to enter the [Domination] system can probably have a basic judgment.

"With a little editing and two handsome lines, you can point out the identity of the tutor of the [Juggernaut] Department - just do this, and the effect of the promotional video will come out at once."

Lu Run thought so in his heart, but he kept feeling prickly.

I really want to see the plot behind Li Oz!

The details of the game and the complex image of the characters are too real, the more you watch the plot, the greater the stamina, and Lu Run is unconsciously immersed in it.

Luo Le and Xue Nian opened the way in front, and occasionally saw charred corpses, and they didn't feel terrible.

Lu Run walked past the room covered with rotting bones, which had once been the place where Li Oz indulged in killing.

Previously, they thought that Li Aozi was cruel, but now they felt that Li Aozi was too gentle.

For the anti-human existence of the Underworld, no matter how cruel the means of revenge, it is merciful.

"Oh, this isn't an ICU!"

While searching, they found the place where Yin Shi was killed, and there were not many intact corpses in sight here.

"The body of that Nordley head nurse is indeed gone."

Xue Nian pointed to the corner of the wall, where there was a residue of burning coke, which should be the traces left by Qiu Ran's Ao Neng.

"It's strange, it stands to reason that Azure Star has no magic, is there any use for corpses?"

Luo Le muttered.

They left the ICU and rummaged all the way, but found nothing, and in order to find the relevant footage of Li Oz, they had to go to the lower floors.

"Oh, the elevator is broken."

Luo Le tried to hack into the elevator, but unexpectedly found that the entire elevator had fallen to the lowest level.

Xue Nian checked the steel cables, three of them were broken, and there were obvious signs of corrosion at the fractures, but one of them was intact, only some strange mucus remained.

He simply took out the electric lifter, hung it on the steel cable, and carefully dived into the dark abyss one by one.

"Why don't you lose a glow stick or something?"

Lu Run asked, he was a little afraid of the elevator shaft of the black goo in the middle of winter.

"I didn't buy it, anyway, it's only fifty meters, and the elevator fell to the position on the second floor - what, are you afraid of heights?"

"Sort of—"

Bang!

Luo Le raised a foot and kicked directly on Lu Run's buttocks, a strong wind swept across his face, Lu Run screamed, and a few seconds later, he fell deep in the elevator shaft, and a steel cable pierced his lung lobe. His whole body was almost shattered, and the severe pain made him almost pass out, and his health was at the bottom, and he entered a near-death state on the spot.

Snort –

Xue Nian and Luo Le hung down one after another, Xue Nian complained about Luo Le's recklessness and rudeness, and then gave Lu Run a shot of healing mixture, skillfully bandaged his wounds, and even didn't bother to straighten his bones, so he patted his ass and left.

Lu Run sat on the ground, hurting for a while, and curiously stuffed back the bones that had broken out of his body.

"Uhhh

After the pain in the heart, Lu Run jumped up directly, and with the increase in blood volume, the fractures and pain on his body were relieved or even almost disappeared, and after the wound healed, the health value did not continue to fall.

"Whew. Scared me to death, almost died. ”

"Holy! What the is this? ”

"Hey, photographer, come and see this! This one is absolutely shocking! ”

Luo Le and Xue Nian in front shouted loudly, and Lu Run patted his heart and limped to the front.

"It's coming, it's coming!"

The second layer of the Underworld was filled with the stench of burning, and the power had been completely cut off, and it was completely shrouded in darkness where you couldn't see your fingers.

Lu Run cautiously moved forward in the dark, fortunately, his psychological quality has improved a lot now, and he will only feel sick when he touches the severed limbs, skulls and internal organs casually.

He vaguely felt a little strange - is the sensory system of the game "Star Abyss" too delicate?

When his fingers touched the corpse, he could even feel the wriggling of the muscles caused by ulceration and decay, and this kind of scary detail made him can't help but have a conjecture:

Is it because the countries around the world are supporting Star Abyss so much to build people's resilience to fighting and violence? ’

A long time ago, when virtual games were still considered electronic poison, people regarded games as flood beasts, and then the virtual world matured, and one by one they rushed to join it.

If, just to say if, "Star Abyss" is not a simple game, but a real world-

Impossible.

Lu Run immediately denied this idea.

Not to mention how much it contributes to discovering a real electronic world, the discoverer himself can win the prize - the ability and identity of these players to be almost immortal are completely inconsistent with the understanding of a normal world.

But isn't that too true......

The images of Qiu Ran, Nomi, and Li Oz crossed in front of his eyes one by one.

'Could they be living people?' ’

With such thoughts, when they were about to get close to Luo Le and Xue Nian, Lu Run suddenly tripped over something at his feet and fell to the ground.

"Ouch - sorry! I'm so stupid! ”

Lu Run hurriedly got up and apologized to Luo Le and Xue Nian, who were standing in place in a daze.

However, the two did not reply to themselves.

Lu Run raised his head and followed their gaze forward.

The snow-white flashlight lit up in front of him, allowing him to see the huge things that filled the entire field of vision and the underground space.

It is like the twilight of the gods of the old, spreading despair and ugliness into every inch of the air with teeth and claws, and the knotted flesh and blood are like thousands of earthworms and poisonous snakes, gathering together to form a majestic figure that can hardly be described in words.

It was like a giant, but if it was a human, Lu Run couldn't feel the slightest resemblance from the other party.

Not only that, but what he felt was a horror that was hundreds of times more terrifying than corpses and monsters.

From the deepest part of the gene, the memory of 'death' and 'natural enemies' was instantly awakened, as an ordinary person, he really couldn't resist this physiological discomfort and fear, and instantly fell to his knees, as if he was worshipping in front of the gods of the fallen world.

"This ...... What is it? ”

Xue Nian muttered distractedly.

Luo Le held his forehead, he turned on the cognitive filter, and then he eased up and activated the [Investigation] system of the prosthetic eye plug-in, and then he saw the true identity of the other party:

[Name]: BOW - Baio King Kong (deceased)

[Level]: Lv.60 (Before Death)

[Hierarchy]: Gamma level (γ, the third Greek letter)

"This is the professor's research—"

Luo Le lost his voice:

"Beomjou, a biochemical giant god!"