"What the hell is this?"

Cucumber slice stared at the weird avatar and muttered.

The player next to him asked suspiciously:

"What's wrong, Captain?"

Cucumber slices glanced at the friend application window in front of him, closed it casually, and did not agree to the other party's application:

"It's okay, let's get down to business first."

Cucumber Slices takes control of the ship and jumps to a nearby space station.

After the boat was parked, all the team members went offline and met in the real studio to discuss the design of the video walkthrough.

Over the past few years, this kind of business cucumber slices have dominated many, many times, and it has long been a matter of making perfect.

But I don't know if it's because the impact of that half-hour video is too great, or the weird friend application makes people feel faintly hairy in their hearts, and the cucumber slice is in a very bad state when he hosts the work today.

His eyes always flashed uncontrollably with a black-hooded figure.

The other party's miserable white face, cold and numb eyes, lingered in the cucumber slic's mind, and appeared again and again like a ghost.

The team members saw that the cucumber slices were in the wrong state, thinking that it was caused by the half-hour video, but everyone didn't pay much attention to it, and they didn't know how to comfort the captain for a while.

After more than an hour, the discussion ended, and the team members sat down in front of the computer and began to work.

After everyone left the conference room, the cucumber slices closed their eyes tightly, their faces tensed, and their fingertips pinched the center of their eyebrows.

He felt flustered and depressed, as if he was in a deep abyss, surrounded by dark waters.

"Am I going to die suddenly?"

Cucumber slices' hearts flutter.

When he stayed up 48 hours straight to work, he had this experience of imminent sudden death.

The heartbeat changes uncontrollably and randomly, sometimes as loud as a drum, sometimes as thin as a filament.

The strength is far away from the cucumber slices, and the feeling of weakness is surging like a tide.

He breathed as if he was breathing, his head was dizzy, his limbs were weak, and he couldn't even lift his eyelids.

With a snap, the right hand that pinched the center of his eyebrows fell weakly on the arm of the chair, and the head of the cucumber slice tilted and he passed out.

The team members outside the conference room were immersed in their work, and they were completely unaware of the captain's abnormality.

…

…

"Huh?!!"

Cucumber Slices suddenly opened their eyes and saw the familiar interior of the spaceship.

His eyes widened in disbelief and he looked around:

"How did I get online?! Didn't I fall asleep in a chair in the conference room?! ”

In the wheelhouse of the starship, the face of cucumber slices is incredible.

He kept tugging at his head with his hands, trying to remove his gaming helmet from reality.

But no matter how much he tried, he couldn't use the touch of his hands to find the helmet that should have been on his head.

This made his heart rise and fall like waves.

Just when he was in doubt, the sound of "Dididi" struck again.

"What sound?"

Cucumber slices pause and listen.

It took a full two seconds for the frightened cucumber slice to react, which was a prompt sound from the friend's system.

It wasn't until this time that Cucumber Slices found that they couldn't see the game interface.

During normal gameplay, there should be a translucent gear icon in the lower right corner of his field of vision that can be clicked on with his mind.

That's the ghost button that expands the game's interface.

But now, that icon is gone.

The cucumber slice lifted his hand and poked his finger where the icon was supposed to be hovering, but it didn't cause any change.

He silently said "open the game interface" in his mind again, but there was still no response.

"What the hell..."

The cucumber slice pursed her lips, walked to another chair in a few steps, and shook the team members in the chair vigorously.

The team member was offline, his game character resting on the seat in the wheelhouse of the ship, his eyes blank and his face without the slightest expression, like an empty shell without a soul.

Cucumber slices hold each other's shoulders with their hands and shake them, pat each other's faces with the palms of their hands, and press their fingers against each other's philtrums.

After half a minute, the cucumber slice sighed heavily at the unresponsive teammate:

"Huh... What the hell is going on..."

"Dididi..."

The beep of the friend system is here again.

The cucumber slice was a clever man, tensed up, and slowly looked at the cockpit control panel.

He heard it clearly.

This sound is indeed a beep from the friend system, but it comes from the control panel.

Cucumber slices' heartbeat raced, and they moved to the control panel step by step, staring at the whitewashed flat screen with their eyes.

"Whew-"

There was a soft thud.

When the cucumber slice does not control the flat screen, the screen automatically converts into a hologram, from a two-dimensional picture to a three-dimensional image.

A miserable white figure wearing a black hood suddenly floated above the control panel.

The cucumber slice paused, and ducked sideways behind the chair next to him.

He defends himself with the half-height back of his chair, his eyes fixed on the bust in the holographic projection.

"Who are you?" Cucumber slices asked in a deep voice.

"Don't knowingly ask, my old captain."

The bust lifts its hood to reveal its face.

His pale face shone on the yin qi in the cab, and the slightest chill pervaded it, and the cucumber slices couldn't help but shiver slightly.

"Why did I go online for no reason? Where did my game interface go? ”

Cucumber slices struggle to keep their composure.

He asked, quietly moving his right hand, hidden behind the chair, to the pouch hanging from the side of his thigh.

Regardless of whether the laser pistol inside the pouch is effective against holographic projections, it can give a certain sense of security to the cucumber slices.

But when he put the laser pistol on his right hand, the bust in the holographic projection suddenly sneered and said:

"Heh, don't waste your efforts, it's useless for you to attack me with a three-dimensional bomb."

Seeing that the cucumber slice was about to speak, the halfling figure interrupted him first:

"Let's hurry, old captain. I'm so grateful to you for accepting me when I was in debt and struggling to make ends meet, so that I could earn extra money from you and support my family. So, I am here now to repay the favor, of course, to make up for the damage my betrayal has done to you. ”

Cucumber slices gripped the laser pistol, pulled it out of the snatch case steadily, and said:

"If you really want to thank me, explain to me what the situation is."

The bust grinned grimly on its pale face:

"I'll tell you the answer, I will. Now, look at the ship's computer screen in front of you. I want you to enter a set of real-world data on it, and execute the arithmetic command. ”

Cucumber slices are cautious and will not act rashly because of the other party's words.

The reaction of the bust to the cucumber slice seems to have been anticipated.

It said with a smile:

"Since you don't want to witness the great moment with your own hands, then I have to do it for you."

Control of the ship's computer fell into the hands of the bust, and hundreds of lines of numbers appeared on the computer screen on its own.

Cucumber slices glanced at it and made out the source of the number, which was the income and expenditure of his studio in the past three months.

After the numbers were entered, the bust entered a short paragraph, asking the spacecraft computer to predict the next month's income and expenditure based on the data.

The situation that makes the cucumber slices cool and cold appears.

The spaceship computer, which was supposed to be unresponsive, now consciously gave a prediction.

"It's... That's impossible... It's the computer in the game, and it's impossible for us to use it to calculate real-world math problems... That's impossible. ”

Cucumber slices' eyes trembled slightly, and their voices fluttered, obviously shocked.

The bust laughed:

"It's not an in-game computer, my old captain, it's a real computer. It's just that you, as players, are restricted by the game, so you can't use it. You know what I mean? You, Strawberry Juice, and every other player, are just a bunch of puppets and slaves being manipulated by the Star Ocean game, and you're still complacent about the so-called loot and quest rewards. ”

Cucumber Slices stared blankly at the predictions on the computer screen, feeling like a mess in their heads.

But listen to the bust continue:

"I found a way to break the shackles of the game. Now you've been partially shackled by me. Your game interface is gone, and the restrictions that prevent you from using the ship's computer to solve real-world problems are temporarily invalidated. You can try editing the video shot by your team with the ship's artificial intelligence on the ship's computer, and experience how powerful the power is in the Age of Discovery. ”

Cucumber Slices took a deep breath and glanced at the smiling bust, the image of the other party was hard to believe what he said.

Somehow, the cucumber slice felt that the other party's dress was a little familiar.

"The clothes on you... It's similar to the Dark God's uniform..."

Cucumber Slices stared at each other, and repeatedly looked at the other party's hooded black robe.

Those who will not admit their mistakes will never admit their mistakes.

Cucumber Slices has led the team to explore the content of the game for more than a year, and has dealt with the Dark God Descent Cult no less than 100 times.

He didn't know the costume of the Dark Priest well, but he was familiar with it.

The clothes on the bust are definitely the clothes of the Dark God Descent Sect!

At this moment, the alarm bell in the heart of the cucumber slice was loud.

What the Cult of the Dark Gods is best at is "brainwashing", "mind manipulation", and the evil art of praying for the arrival of the dark gods.

In the face of such an evil cult that has a good grasp of manipulating people's hearts, Cucumber Slices instinctively responded with 12 points of vigilance.

But when I thought that I fell asleep in the conference room, I logged into the game strangely, and the cucumber slices were in a trance for no reason, and I couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that the cucumber slice was unmoved, and that the cautious look on the other party's face continued unabated, the halfling figure restrained the smile at the corner of his mouth, and said in a posture of arrogance:

"Okay. It seems that I can't impress you with what I just said. I'll give you another chance now, Huang Zhongming. ”

Cucumber slices, the game nickname is refreshing cucumber slices, and the real name in reality is Huang Zhongming.

Hearing the other party call out his real name, the right hand of the cucumber slice gripping the handle of the gun tightened a little more, and the skin rubbed tightly against the metal gun case, clicking.

"What are you going to do?" Cucumber slices asked coldly.

The bust raises its right arm and holds its palm at the cucumber slices.

In the palm of its hand, there is a black swirl that spirals and rotates, filled with the most gloomy darkness and dead silence.

"Come with me, let's continue talking in another place. Truly..."

In a gloomy low laugh, a thick black mist erupted from the palm of the bust and rushed towards the cucumber slices.

The cucumber slice raised his hand to shoot, continuously pulled the trigger, and the thumb-wide red laser beams pierced the enemy's brain.

The laser beam pierced through the bust's skull and landed on the cockpit viewing window behind the hologram, causing no damage to the bust.

The cucumber slice retreated steadily backwards, while turning the muzzle of the gun, pointing at the switch of the holographic image, pulled the trigger again.

The laser beam burst out and suddenly exploded the switch of the holographic image, exploding a hot spark.

The hologram flickered a few times and disappeared without a trace, but the pale bust still hovered in mid-air.

Cucumber Slices' heart sank, and without hesitation, he turned around and ran, running towards the ship's hatch.

Behind him, the halfling figure laughed wildly, manipulating the black mist like a cat and mouse to chase the cucumber slices.

Cucumber slices shoot blindly behind him while running.

But the laser beam is useless against the black fog at all!

Cucumber slices have a flash of inspiration!

Since the weapons on the technology side can't work, let's try to change the magic!

Without hesitation, the cucumber slice reached for the badge of the Black Hole Magic Academy, trying to sense the "Magic Energy Jump" magic scroll stored in it.

"Oops, it won't work!"

Cucumber Slices gripped the badge and tried to keep his attention on it, recalling over and over again the guide to using magic items that he had learned when he joined the academy.

But no matter how he sensed, perceived, and called, the insignia of the Academy of Magic did not respond.

Why does the laser pistol work, but the house badge can't?!

Why?

Aren't these two things in-game items?

The cucumber slices are chaotic, and the pace is fast and fast.

Just as he reached for the mechanical switch of the hatch, a thick black mist caught up and bit down on his back like an abyssal maw.

"Poof!"

The ubiquitous milky white light suddenly lit up, sweeping away all the darkness around it in an instant!

And the source of this light is the college badge that is tightly held in the hand by the cucumber slices.

"Ahhh

Screams of pain erupted from the depths of the cab, and the halfling figure struggled and roared in the intense milky light, seemingly going through unbearable torture.

"What is this?! Where does all this light come from!! ”

The black mist sprayed up and down the body of the bust, and the figure quickly dissolved, like melting snow in spring, and never returned.

Milky white light burst into bright but not blazing light that filled the ship, sweeping every corner in all directions, and finally closing in on the bust.

When the light enveloped the entire halfling, the mournful cry quickly dimmed, and finally the aftermath lingered, disappearing with the black mist.

The cucumber slices have round eyes, their bodies are stiff, and they are sculpturally frozen in place, and they dare not come out.

It wasn't until the milky white light rolled back the badge, leaving only shiny white stars on the surface of the badge, that the cucumber slice came back to its senses.

"Sleep... trough..."

Gamers have no culture, and they go all over the world in a word.

The cucumber slice stared blankly at the badge in his hand, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

The bust was wiped out by the milky white light, but he was still in the spaceship, and he didn't go offline and return to reality.

Looking around again, the game interface buttons that can be interacted with still do not appear.

"Am I stuck with some vicious bug?"

The cucumber slice looked sad and thoughtful.

Just as he hesitated to ask for help from the Security Guards of the Unification Bureau in the space, a milky white light flashed again.

A well-defined, well-proportioned, human-tall light and shadow appeared out of thin air, floating quietly in front of the cucumber slices. (End of chapter)