Chapter 1: Staring into the Abyss
Thousands of years ago, the moment you open your eyes, many miscellaneous thoughts have become empty.
The ethereal singing voice lingers in the ears, if there is nothing, like crying.
"The soul is back! The north cannot stop.
"Increase the ice, and the snow will fly for thousands of miles.
"Return! No, it can't be longer. ”
Mo Jianchu, dressed in white, was like a baby who had just entered the world, curiously looking at the gorgeous stars under the aurora.
The faint blue light emitted by the metal bracelet reflects the aurora of heaven and earth.
He crawled out of the rotting mahogany coffin, surrounded by countless bright and blood-like flowers, the breeze blowing, and the sea of flowers rippled.
Mo Jianchu took a deep breath, almost choking on the rancid smell.
"Ahem, it's still that familiar taste - the dead foot skin pickled in the old altar is stirred with the fluffy instant noodles, it is a perfect match!" Mo Jian had to sigh in his heart that the current technology has been able to make stealth games as if they were in the real world.
In fact, Mo Jianchu's body was lying quietly in the constant temperature plasma connection cabin, and the dense transistors like hair were staggered and adsorbed on Mo Jianchu's body.
One tube transports the nutrient solution, and the other tube extracts debris from the body.
In order to ensure that the body is not disturbed by the outside world and internal demand, the behavior of one particle will affect the state of the other (two particles are entangled with each other, even if they are far apart). When one of them is manipulated and the state changes, the other will immediately change the corresponding state).
In this way, the condition of "time and space travel" is achieved.
The ontology stays in the real world, while the virtual body is in the game world.
Proprioceptive consciousness manipulates the virtual body.
The five senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch obtained by the virtual body are fed back to the body in real time.
The real identity of Mo Jianchu, who was able to participate in such cross-era experiments, was not a top scientist, but a 21st century college student.
Life is sloppy, muddy, and has no clear goals for life, and it is a loser who does not want to make progress in the eyes of most girls.
But he always has a place at the top of the leaderboards of many stealth games.
Legends about him are everywhere.
Some say he's a "madman who never sleeps", while others say he's "the only true god in the game world".
Although no matter how powerful he is in the game, it is fake, but unexpectedly, this Internet addict teenager received an offer from the world's top game company representativeness and mimicry (R&M, figurative mimicry), and was given the internal test qualification that "tens of millions of yuan can't buy".
That is, the world in which Mo Jianchu lives - the first virtual world that breaks through the barriers of reality and realizes the ultimate sensory experience in the true sense - into the abyss.
"It's not so much a game as a real world that blends East and West, gods and demons and technology! It's just that for [Gazing into the Abyss], the Creator is no longer a god, but a man. Mo Jianchu sighed again.
Suddenly, he remembered something, humming a little song from his hometown while groping in the mahogany coffin.
After a while, a strange smile appeared on his face, which looked particularly terrifying in the sly blue moonlight.
It was only because he felt a rotting finger bone from the corner of the coffin.
The moment you touch it, the information status bar of the phalanx will pop up immediately
- [Celestial Finger Bone (one of the gods): A relic of the ancient gods, after the third war of gods and demons, it was left in the endless sea. 】
The red font indicates that it is the highest grade set by the system and that it is extremely dangerous.
"We're meeting again, I'm forever! Let's fight the abyss together this time! ”
After speaking, Mo Jianchu swallowed the phalanges into his abdomen.
Suddenly, there was a "ding" sound.
Mo Jianchu's body exuded a brief white glow.
He couldn't wait to open the metal bracelet and check his basic attribute panel-
Attack: 100+1
Defense: 100+1
Sanity: 100+1
HP: 1000+10
……
After seeing the 1% bonus behind his attributes, he let out a long sigh of relief.
This means that the abilities of the phalanges have not changed with the full update of the game.
As long as he lives for every day, he will enjoy a 1% bonus to his overall stats.
This bonus is insignificant in the early stages, but as time goes on, the effect becomes more and more obvious.
In other words, even if he lies flat and rotten, he can continue to get stronger.
Of course, this effect alone is not worthy of being rated as a "god product".
The most dangerous feature is the instantaneous beam of piercing damage through the index finger. Although the shooting speed is only 5m, and the cooldown time is as long as 2h, you can kill your opponent quietly!
Mo Jianchu has gone through three internal tests, and the gods and demons he has hunted are as large as thousands, and the treasures obtained can be piled up into a ten-meter hill, and there is no lack of gods.
But every time we entered the next stage of testing, all those treasures disappeared without exception.
Everything had to start from scratch again.
Until, when Mo Jianchu was conducting the last phase of the internal test, he accidentally fell to the edge of the map, where he picked up the special prop "Broken Phalanges".
At the beginning it was just a white quality, no different from useless bones.
But when Mo Jian first reported the mentality of giving it a try and used the [Global Level Super Purification Technique] to purify the finger bones, he found that it actually belonged to an unknown celestial god.
The white font suddenly changed to a dangerous red, and the name changed from "Broken Phalanges" to "Celestial Phalanges".
In order to explore the origin of this finger bone, Mo Jianchu looked through all the background information of the game and tried to ask the game party, but no one knew its cause and effect.
[Gaze into the Abyss] This game has gone through five years from the development to the sixth inside, and as many as 5,000 IT engineers have participated, and they will more or less leave some easter eggs in [Gaze into the Abyss], which is also tacitly approved by the game.
In order to make [Gaze into the Abyss] more diverse, full of challenges and surprises.
But the consequence of this is the creation of unknown derivatives.
There are more or less bugs in these derivatives, and if a vicious bug is detected, it will be repaired immediately or deleted directly.
Tokens that could be detected in the future are left in the corners of the world, waiting for players to explore.
Over time, even developers forgot that they existed.
Derivatives like [Celestial Finger Bone] can only be commissioned to test the effectiveness of internal players such as Mo Jianchu in order to obtain the corresponding data in order to detect whether it has a malignant BUG.
"Uh, what's next? By the way, let's see what tasks are available in the taskbar. Mo Jian first retrieved the taskbar and found a golden task listed in it.
- Choose your position (such options will change the direction of the mission, so choose carefully):
1. Evil.
2. Benevolence.
Mo Jianchu was surprised for a moment, staring at the taskbar and falling into thought.
This task has never been encountered in previous closed betas.
It stands to reason that the core of the game of [Staring into the Abyss] is the ultra-high degree of freedom gameplay, and there is almost no situation that restricts the player's gameplay.
But this kind of task is clearly contrary to the original intention of the developers.
Mo Jianchu hesitated again and again, and finally chose the first option [Evil].
To tell the truth, he wanted to experience what it was like to be a villain.
In the real world, he's used to being a good guy.
Even if he worked as a spare tire for a girl for a few years, but in the end he was picked by his brother, he didn't blame anyone.
In his subconscious, cowardice is already equated with being a good person.
Perhaps, this gaming experience will bring him some changes?
After Mo Jianchu chose the position of the character, the title of "humble little devil" immediately appeared above his head.
"! What kind of evil is this?! I'm going to be a bad guy and I'm going to take it all away for you. Mo Jian was extremely depressed at the beginning.
Soon, Mo Jianchu was tasked with the first evil position:
[Kill a person from Water Lotus City.] 】
Mo Jianchu thought that he had seen it wrong, rubbed his eyes, was silent for a few seconds, and opened his eyes.
It's still a simple eight big characters, and there is no follow-up.
No quest hints, no location tracking, no rewards, no difficulty levels......
Mo Jianchu fell into trouble.
There are five continents in the world, namely the Land of Quicksand, the Land of the Caves, the Land of Ten Thousand Rivers, the Land of Fallen Trees, and the Land of Inferno. There are thousands of cities and towns on each continent.
No matter how small a town is, there are tens of thousands of NPCs.
The place he was in now was on the edge of the Land of Fallen Wood, and if he wanted to find them one by one, he would have to find the Year of the Monkey.
Mo Jianchu simply didn't care, got up and left the original place, and according to the map mark, went to the nearest Burning Sun City.
Taverns in towns usually give quest clues to adventurers.
If you're lucky, you'll even be able to come across some serendipitous missions where you can get nuclear points.
Core points are necessary materials to improve their level, and players can obtain them by trading, looting, and doing quests.
When a player reaches a certain level, they will automatically unlock universal skills. Such as level 5 unlock sprint, level 10 unlock teleportation, etc.
Mo Jianchu's level was level 1 at this time, so he could only perform simple actions such as walking, jumping, and running, and if he ran too fast, he would produce fatigue values.
When the exhaustion value is too high, the player will feel dizzy and even fall into a coma in severe cases.
When players first come into contact with [Gaze into the Abyss], they often encounter the dilemma of being too tired.
But after three internal tests, Mo Jian was not the original newcomer at the beginning, and I saw him take two steps in three steps, on the soft soil, and jump in a regular row, which is much faster than walking normally.
The principle is to use the idle time during the bounce to restore the exhaustion value, so as to achieve a balance of exhaustion value.
Finally caught up with dawn and walked out of the sea of flowers.
Mo Jianchu let out a long sigh of relief, looking at the smoky mountains from afar.
Is this still a game? It's clearly what the real world should be!
The new daylight illuminates the gloomy sky, and the warm yellow glow and the pale gray clouds complement each other, like a dream, like a dream, like a fake.
When the sun came out completely, the chill on Mo Jianchu's body was completely dispelled.