Chapter 6: The Overlap of Reality and Virtuality
Asking this question, as if touching some kind of taboo, Zou Xia's pupils shrank suddenly, and he fell silent.
He was silent for a long time.
I couldn't hear the sound on the other end of the phone, not even the sound of breathing, and just after the other party thought that maybe the signal was not good, and 'hey' it several times, Zou Xia suddenly reopened his mouth.
"You check, who pulled me into the 'game' this time!"
"The clue is...... Last night, I stuffed a blank envelope without a signature and address into the crack of my door, and I used 'opening the envelope' as a medium to conduct a 'qualification test'. ”
Hearing the clues given by Zou Xia, the other party was silent for a short time, as if he was in thought, and then spoke:
"Using 'opening the envelope' as a medium, it sounds fresh, it feels like a hire, but there is nothing written in the envelope, and there is no employment fee."
"Strange ......"
"I'll start an investigation as soon as possible and email you the results!"
"No problem!"
Ending the conversation, Zou Xia pinched his eyebrows, and did not rush to deal with other things, but remembered the problem in Hongsheng's apartment.
In Hongsheng's apartment, he encountered something 'unclean'.
He doesn't deny that when he talks about 'unclean' things, he first thinks of ghosts, but there are other things hidden in the apartment besides ghosts.
In Hongsheng's apartment, there are not many people who have intersections with Zou Xia, and Zou Xia can clearly distinguish the difference from these people.
For example, a noodle restaurant owner who will suddenly 'turn into a corpse'.
For example, the 'amiable' old lady to the door.
They are all obvious corpses, Zou Xia is very familiar with corpses, most people will use the word 'pale' when describing corpses, but in fact, this is just an adjective of temperament.
Maybe after watching too many criminal investigation dramas, most people will say that the corpses lying in the mortuary, in the morgue, and on the dissecting bed are not 'clean and white' with a complexion.
But those corpses have been artificially disposed of many times.
The corpse of true nature, on the contrary, is dull and yellow, like a handicraft sculpture.
Combined with other obvious features, such as pupils, corpse spots, and tactile ......, Zou Xia is almost certain that neither the noodle shop owner nor the old lady are alive, but corpses that have been dead for at least 30 hours.
And the old lady's little granddaughter, Jiao Manqing, who found Zou Xia, did not have any characteristics of a corpse on them.
Their skin was white, at least two shades whiter than a normal yellow would have been.
Although they are not like the ghosts in horror movies, they float in mid-air, but they all have 'inhuman' characteristics.
When Jiao Manqing is exposed to the sun, her body will emit cold air, as if she has just come out of the freezer layer of the refrigerator, and the shadow will turn into a green-faced fang, waving her teeth and claws towards Zou Xia.
Logically speaking, this is the characteristic of ghosts.
If the dirty things in the apartment are only corpses and ghosts, then it is not worth Zou Xia to go online, but it is obviously not so simple in Hongsheng's apartment.
For example, the monster that crawled out of the mirror.
Zou Xia couldn't tell what it was, but he knew that it was the 'unclean' thing in Hongsheng's apartment.
Halfway through thinking, Zou Xia's mobile phone suddenly vibrate, and he glanced at it, it was an email reminder.
The person who wrote was 'Qu Mei', the girl who spoke to him not long ago.
Open the mailbox.
The content inside is simple, a short video that is only a few seconds.
Click play, and then quickly pause.
There was only a short pause in the middle, about two seconds.
In the video, a little girl who is only five or six years old, with a double ponytail tied behind her head, runs out of the surveillance corner, and then stops at her door.
As if checking the house number, he raised his little face and tried to look at the top of the door.
Seeing this face, Zou Xia's pupils shrank, and the whole person instantly seemed to have fallen into an ice cellar.
That face, he knew!
It's the little granddaughter in the 'eligibility test', where the old lady has to lock in the room.
But how could it be her?
'Game World' and 'Overworld', as the name suggests, are two different worlds.
It is quite unreasonable for a character or a certain being that appears in the 'game world' to exist in the 'overworld' as well.
Unless she ...... It's the player.
However, the 'eligibility test' is 'single-player mode'.
During Zou Xia's testing period, there will be no encounters with players in the entire 'game world'.
This is some kind of 'rule mechanism', in order to ensure the pass rate of the new 'qualification test', so that the big players will not interfere with its process.
So it doesn't make sense, she can't be a player.
With a question, Zou Xia clicked on the video again, and this time saw the end of the video.
At the end of the video, the little girl pulls out a white envelope from her body and stuffs it through the crack in the door.
Just looking at the style of the envelope, the envelope in Ryoki's hand was indeed stuffed in by the little girl through the crack in the door.
However, even if all the confusion is put aside, there is a major problem that cannot be ignored in essence.
For some reason, after clearing the current game world, Zou Xia can be 'pulled' into other game worlds by players, and then pass the 'qualification test' to become a 'resident player' in that world.
He paid a lot for this, even this body......
Although these problems have been plaguing Zou Xia, these are not the focus at the moment.
Now the real thing to pay attention to is the premise that he can be pulled into the game by the player.
The 'big problem that can't be ignored in essence' is that in order to trigger the setting of 'pulling Zou Xia into the game', you must use 'player' as a precondition.
So if the little girl is not a player, and Zou Xia did enter the game world with an envelope, then it should be that this letter is not owned by the little girl, but that a player specially handed the envelope to her.
Thinking of this, Zou Xia was silent for a moment, as if thinking, and then typed 'Hongsheng Apartment' in the search bar.
Web page refresh.
'Hongsheng Apartment, a fire broke out in 2006, the entire apartment building was burned down in a large area, and more than 100 casualties were recorded......
'14 years have passed, who still remembers the Hongsheng apartment, which was the apartment that was inexplicably burned to ruins by the fire because the cause was a mystery, and the ruins are still in ruins......
'Adventure revealed, rumors have it that someone has seen a terrifying unknown creature near Hongsheng's apartment, is this true? Today, the UP master will bring 4 supernatural players to find out! ’
On the afternoon of April 12, 2020, 1 'Adventure Player' and 4 'Psychic Players' disappeared mysteriously after exploring Hongsheng's apartment...... The mutilated bones have been found one after another......
Looking at the various information on the webpage, Zou Xia's thoughtful look gradually disappeared.
Hongsheng Apartment turned out to be a real building in the main world......
Connecting the clues of the two worlds, the truth naturally surfaced, and he seemed to finally know what the game world was like this time.