「๐•ᴗ•๐」

Looking at the dialog box that appeared in front of me, the cute and cute emoji.

The simple characters seemed to have some kind of strange and breathtaking magic, which made Su Shu fall into a silence like condensation.

"What the hell are you?"

For his question.

The other party seemed to answer very clearly, but it was as if nothing had been answered.

And in the face of Su Shu's scrutiny.

The brilliant bubble ball of light in front of me flickered as if nothing had happened, and the tone of the subtitles was as polite, respectful and peaceful as ever.

"Your sanity is back to full, do you want to start loading a new game now?"

Just, at this moment.

These words, in Su Shu's opinion, seemed to be full of some kind of black-bellied meaning.

The black-haired youth frowned deeply.

"Little door...... I'll just keep calling you Xiaomen—you didn't answer my question positively at all. ”

There was a pause in the subtitles.

Then it starts to refresh slowly.

"There are always endless answers."

"Just as the mind of man is never-ending."

"The Fourth Catastrophe that swept everything should have its own way of advancing the story."

"All the answers, in the door."

"You're pretending to be a riddler with me here, aren't you? Be careful, I'm pinching your image into a cat lady old lynx - no, I'm going to send the device back now. ”

"Are you willing?"

Look at these four simple words.

Su Shu fell silent again.

"Tsk......"

That's right...... Damn, he can't bear it.

The moment the "killer cat" appeared.

As a creator who makes a living from his imagination, Su Shu's nerves have already realized that he seems to have received something terrible.

How can the characters created in the game become extraordinary abilities that they possess in reality?

Please, this kind of setting is really so clichéd that he didn't bother to paint it when he threw it to Su Shu.

However, if it really falls on your head at this moment, that's another matter.

Who would say no to a pink "killer cat"?

It's super cool to have a stand-in or something!

Even, the reason for being able to obtain extraordinary power was second to Su Shu - mainly because of ...... The small door, its technical work is really great!

Su Shu thought of the fireproof girl, the puppet lady and the senior sister, the witch of the moon in his own house, the thought of making Lenina regret for life, the cute and cute wife group in the game inventory, and the hearts of those heavy and white flowers, he ......

- I'm sorry, my DNA is moving.

Oh no, I have to load it hard.

"Your vow is not yet fulfilled."

"Your journey has just begun."

"Do you want to start loading a new game?"

The brilliant bubbles flickered slightly, as if the bright stars were blinking their eyes slyly.

"Huh...... If you ask me to start it, I'll start it, then wouldn't I seem very spineless. ”

Standing in this brilliant galaxy.

Su Shu took a deep look at the gorgeous bubble in front of him, and directly chose to go offline!

Key to the Door: World, Exit!

"The key to the door is watching you......

The huge silver door, carved with the universe and the starry sky, slowly closed in front of Su Shu's eyes.

The brilliant stars then returned to a silent silence.

In the deep and secluded darkness, the trance consciousness recaptures the presence of the body.

The black-haired youth raised his hand, slowly took the game helmet off his head, and let out a long breath.

"Paid Testing" ...... Is it?

I pondered these four meaningful words in my heart.

Following the strange guidance in his heart, Su Shu slowly tried to spread out the five fingers of his right hand.

The character card that dissolves into the body.

In the palm of his hand, it suddenly rose quietly, and spun slightly:

Back—Inside the layered doors, a pupilless eye peeking out of the fog was hidden.

Front--The black-haired office worker who looks like him stands in the neon of the bustling city, with a faint and gentle smile on his delicate face.

This card.

It's like an extension of your own hands.

A wonderful feeling like "blood connection" inexplicably emerged in Su Shu's heart.

With a slight movement of his mind, the role card of the office worker was suddenly activated.

The moonstone ring, which was as red as blood, suddenly appeared on the ring finger of Su Shu's right hand, as if reminding him that he had an unfulfilled oath with the cold moon on the other side.

The pink "killer cat" appeared beside him with curiosity on his face, and his eyes couldn't help but look at the wall of his wife's figures.

However...... This time, Su Shu had already been mentally prepared, and repeatedly emphasized it in his mind, telling him not to act rashly.

"Buy you cat food to eat! Buy yarn balls to play! Buy catnip to suck! Also introducing a beautiful little female cat! ”

It's still a trouble, so I'll throw you out of the house! This home doesn't have a place for your killer cat!

Perhaps it is such a promise of four bribes that has really had the effect of standing out from the crowd.

The big pink cat blinked its curious vertical pupils, suspended safely behind Su Shu, and finally touched it without touching it cheaply, blowing up the wives of the tree into a ball of ashes.

"Hoo ......"

Su Shu let out a long breath, raised his eyes, and then looked at the character card in his palm, and slowly appeared an interface that seemed to appear in the game.

"Character card for ordinary office workers"

[Current Synchronization Rate: 1%"

"You get a 1% stat bonus to 'Ordinary Office Workers.'"

"The increased synchronization rate will also unlock more traits from this character."

Perhaps it's because the so-called synchronization rate is so pitifully low.

Su Shu could vaguely feel that the killer cat was not like the office workers in the last train, commanding and doing whatever he wanted—instead, he manipulated the commands, and there was a dull and laborious sense of obstruction.

He slowly squeezed his palm.

There was a crunch of knuckles.

It's just 1%......

Su Shu seemed to notice that his strength seemed to have really increased a little?

Ooh......

Is this Reiki revival? Is it an ability awakening? Is it the transcendent advent? Or what is the main god game?

It's kind of interesting.

Su Shu himself is a mental patient who draws comics, as the fourth natural disaster in charge of the galaxy, what big scene has he not seen?

I played with a gun in front of the sadistic seat! Nurgle Gardens has had a soup! I'm here in the battle for heaven! I am the king of the galaxy!

His nerves are naturally much more jumpy than ordinary people.

Even if he got a glimpse of the real transcendental, Su Shu was not shocked or shocked, but felt as if he was stepping into the door of a new world, and gradually glimpsed a corner of its hole.

Worldview.

There is a new breakthrough.

So, how should you improve this so-called synchronization rate?

Unexpectedly.

I can't think of this in my heart.

Obviously not wearing a game helmet and activating the console belonging to the key to the door.

In Su Shu's field of vision, the dialogue subtitles belonging to the Door Key AI system suddenly appeared:

"Synchronisation, literally—as long as you become the character."

"Are you...... Door? ”

Looking at the dialog box that appeared in the field of vision, Su Shu was stunned for a moment, and then opened his mouth, but found that he was not surprised.

Physics...... It doesn't exist anymore.

So what?

Su Shu is not a physicist, but a comic book author who is known as a psychopath.

He's already used up the amount he was surprised with today.

"I obviously didn't wear the console, how can I ......"

"Well, you've never even plugged it in."

“...... Am I grass? ”

Su Shu hissed and rummaged through the box that had once contained the game helmet, and sure enough, he found that the main power cord that looked like it was lying quietly in it, behaving very well-behaved.

"Then why don't you still sit there and shine! I thought I had already picked it up! ”

"It's just a formality, it doesn't matter."

"Tsk...... So you respond to all the "important things" with riddles, right?

"Why, you're able to display subtitles right in front of my eyes?

"Could it be that I'm also a virtual character living in a game?

"This world, in fact, is a Matrix? Brain in a vat? Cyberspace? ”

In the face of all his bold speculations.

The subtitle in front of Su Shu's eyes paused for a moment, and then slowly refreshed a gentle sentence:

"Because, I'm watching you."

“......”

Whew——!

Not sure why.

Su Shu, who felt numb for a while, was inexplicably too lazy to entangle these unanswered questions with it.

"Huh...... The mouth of the AI is a deceitful ghost. ”

With such a disguised sneer, he quickly diverted the subject, returning his focus to the synchronization rate.

"What do you mean when you say you want to be "the character" to increase the sync rate?"

Su Shu lowered his gaze and examined the card face of the office worker.

Standing in the neon night of the city, the black-haired office worker raises his hand to loosen his bow tie, as if to untie some kind of bondage.

I have to say that this painting is really handsome.

"Office worker, looks exactly like me.

"It's better – he's a character I've created myself.

"How can I be myself?"

"He's you, but you're not him."

"This ordinary office worker, who has a strong hand fetish, cruelty, tyranny and neuroticism, is just a 'part' of Su Shu."

"I want to increase the synchronization rate, in other words, to recreate the experience of the character, to feel the experience of the character, to bond with the character."

"I don't think I saw your bad words. As for these: recreating experiences, feeling experiences, bonding ......"

Su Shu whispered these contents, and couldn't help but suddenly realize.

"I see! You're telling me to be active in dating with paper people! ”

「......？」

Xiaomen, fell into an unspeakable silence.

It doesn't bother him at all!

Is he really a genius?

"Huh? Don't you mean that? ”

Xiaomen paused quietly for a moment, and the subtitles in front of him seemed to refresh a little:

「...... I mean, you can go to a factory and go to work, add a night shift in the early morning, and then take time off to kill a few ghosts or something."

Enter the factory or something, let's talk about it again.

Mostly.

"In reality, where are the ghosts that make me ......"

Su Shu's words are not finished yet.

But he paused to himself.

Where are the ghosts...... Is it?

In today's reality, even stand-in messengers can actually appear, can't it be that there are still a few wandering lonely ghosts?

I'm super! New energy research and development has fallen?!

It's just that......

"-It's so troublesome, I don't feel like it's better to touch the little hand of the moon branch."

Su Shu slumped on the recliner like a salted fish, and commanded the killer cat to start kneading and massaging his shoulders.

「...... One thing to say, indeed."

Moonbranch's ...... Small hands.

Thinking of the silver-haired girl's fingertips.

There seems to be some kind of impulse in my heart, as if I have begun to slowly rise and rise again—

"Hand fetish".

It is also a character for office workers.

Originally...... Is it true that I was subtly influenced by the role, and that is not an illusion?

Or are you actively substituting?

Su Shu lowered his gaze and looked at the crimson moonstone ring he was wearing on his ring finger.

His gaze couldn't help but freeze a little.

In the game "The Last Tram", he already knows how to communicate the ritual of the moon branch: calling her name softly to the full moonlight.

The door to the dream will be opened.

So, what exactly is Key to the Door: The World?

As a war criminal player for many years, Su Shu is of course extremely sure that the "Strange Talk City" series is really just a simple horror game.

After all, he's already cleared it several times.

So, your own experience in the so-called "virtual reality".

It's really just a simple game...... Is it?

Since the stand-in can appear, such a complete supernatural fantasy can become his own power.

So......

Is it also possible to call the characters in the game to their own reality?

Su Shu felt a dizzying burst of intense excitement for the thought that popped up in his mind.

Yushan City, it's August.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and the moon is full.

And that pretty much means waiting until 12 a.m. tonight......

- his conjecture can get a chance to be confirmed.

Only, until then.

「๐•ᴗ•๐」

Looking at the cute emoji text sent out by the small door, Su Shu pondered for a moment, and then asked another question that he was very concerned about.

"So, where exactly can I find the goblins?"

Hands must also be touched, and ghosts must be killed, so that you can be called a sound player!

It is better to maintain public order.

Su Shu, who asked this question, quickly received a high-quality answer with a perfect score:

"I don't know."

“...... It's you. ”