online game world gate

Chapter 104 It's almost time for the protagonist to appear

"This is the first time I've entered the dungeon. It feels very novel." The blond young man folded his arms around his chest, praised, and looked at the other group of people who were busy in front of him with interest. .

"Hey! That guy over there! You're new here! Get moving! Don't hold us back!" Another group of people seemed not surprised by the sudden appearance of the man, except for one person who yelled like that With a sound, the rest of the people continued to be busy with their own affairs without any response, as if they hadn't seen him.

"Red! This time it's red! Get over this wave and you can rest!" Another person also shouted, which caused a small commotion, but it was obvious that not everyone was like He acted so delighted, and even a few, that the look on his face was clearly one of disgust and restlessness.

The young man looked around, and saw that everyone was staring at a translucent crystal pillar standing on the ground.The only difference between this pillar and the others is that a scarlet eye opened on it.The eyes were slightly curved up, as if smiling, exuding a malicious, mocking aura.

The eyes gradually faded, and chaotic patterns began to emerge on the column instead, changing rapidly and seemingly having nothing to do with each other. "The Hanged Man—Plum Blossom [-]—Nanban Invasion—Pyroblast—Blue Eyes White Dragon—Ai Weixin..." The young man muttered with interest, rubbing his chin, "They are all cards. What about the pattern, does it have any meaning?"

That group of people didn't seem to have such profound knowledge as the young man, and everyone seemed a little flustered and irritable.

"What is that? What does it represent? Have the rules changed again this time? Hey, does anyone understand it!"

"Square pieces of paper, round pieces of paper, Go pieces, chess pieces, letters, cuneiform characters, gold, silver..." But the group of people didn't dwell on it all the time, but subconsciously looked at the other pillars around them , something emerged from each of the pillars, but nothing special could be seen, and the heads of the group of people began to sweat.

The person who greeted the young man at the beginning seemed to be a leader, gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "In this case, let's follow the old method, each pick a pillar of a thing, stand by the side, and each will live in peace." -"

"That," the young man walked over calmly, with a very friendly smile on his face, "Although I don't quite understand what's going on, I can assure you that the string of patterns just now represents things that are square. Paper."

Seeing the somewhat distrustful gaze from the leader, the young man shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and spread his hands: "Believe it or not, but I really know. The time I spent learning about this game world must be more than that." You are much bigger."

"Life player..." The leader nodded, "Okay, then trust you. Everyone, stay away from the pillars of square paper! You are the same. Those pillars will explode. It is rare to enter the instance, and you don't want to just Is it back then?"

"Oh..." The young man nodded, then raised his finger and pointed at the group of people, "I said, this situation is no different from the plan you just mentioned, right? Are you kidding me?"

"Huh?" The leader turned his head to look at the group of people, and after a closer look, quite a few people did not stay away from the pillar with the square piece of paper, but leaned towards it actively, and what's more, hugged it directly.

"Ah... there's nothing I can do about it." The leader shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Oh?" The young man was a little curious, "Why do you say that? Are you not the leader? Or they don't trust me that much—or is it your experience?"

"They just don't want to stay in this dungeon anymore." The leader shook his head again, "Do you know how long I've been stuck in this dungeon? Two full days. The time flow in the game is faster than in reality. The world is slow, so it’s really only [-] hours—but for me, it’s really [-] hours.”

"Wow." The young man's expression was a little surprised, "This--this is really, quite powerful."

"A few of those people have stayed longer than me, so it's understandable that they can't bear it?" The leader curled his lips, "This game doesn't allow you to quit the game in the instance, and there is no way to quit the game except forcibly quitting after death." Other means of exiting the dungeon, then, if you really can't bear it, you can only choose to die, right?"

"Well..." The young man nodded, "But you look tired? To be honest, I feel that you are very reluctant to continue playing, why are you still here? Are the benefits very rich? ?”

"This is one aspect. After all, if you forcefully quit after death, all benefits will disappear." The leader said, showing a desperate smile, "but another problem is that an hour after I entered the game, there was a The opened eyes on a pillar are pink. We rested for a while, and the Boss even sent a voice chat with us."

"Well, it sounds like eyes of different colors represent different meanings—it's okay, you can continue."

"At that time, Boss made a suggestion to us that seemed to be very beneficial to us at that time." The leader recalled, with a very strange expression, "He said, if we sign a contract with him, we are willing to return it every time we die. Give him [-]% of the proceeds, and he promises to bring us all back to life immediately after death."

"Oh? This sounds pretty good, but it's very strange... What does Boss want the proceeds from his own dungeon?" The young man opened his eyes in surprise, and asked with increasing interest.

"...Someone asked me that at the time." The leader closed his eyes, "The explanation given by Boss is that all these rewards are directly rewarded to us by the system, but the system does not allow him to grab them directly, so He had no choice but to collect it from us. As for the reason for these things, he didn’t give a clear explanation, he just said, ‘It’s only useful’.”

"Ah, so you can't die even if you want to die now, so you can only get stuck in this dungeon?" The young man nodded, showing a sympathetic expression—but the corners of his mouth turned up slightly abnormally .

"However, this point is also taken into account in the agreement." The leader looked at the pillar behind him, reconfirmed that it was not a square piece of paper, so he didn't pay attention to the expression of the young man, "As long as I pass this node, I will voluntarily Give the Boss [-]% of my earnings, and the Boss can send me out of this copy directly."

"Really..." The young man nodded thoughtfully, and opened his mouth to ask something.

"Okay, let's talk about it later, the time is almost up." The leader said with a sigh of relief, and leaned against the pillar behind him, "I'm going to pass this level soon, and the time is what he said It's almost there. The red eyes represent an explosion, and after the pillar explodes, you can get a period of rest, but this should be the end of this level."

"Oh, by the way, I suddenly remembered, what do black eyes represent?" the young man said suddenly.

"Black? It hasn't appeared yet—since it's about to end, it must be that this color has not been set at all." The leader smiled and said, "Why, do you particularly like black? The second illness is very serious. "

"That's not—it's just that the black eyes in the pillar behind you have been there since I came here?" The young man smiled happily, as if he was talking about something special to be happy about. thing.

"What!" At the same time the leader exclaimed, all the pillars that emerged from the square pieces of paper suddenly turned red and burst open instantly, and those who were leaning nearby were instantly blown to pieces.After a period of time, the fragments of those people's corpses gradually turned into white fragments that looked very unreal, floating up one by one and dissipating in the air.

However, neither the leader nor the young man could see this scene, because at the same time as those pillars exploded, the eyes inside the pillar they were approaching expanded rapidly, and finally turned into a huge black ball , and swallowed the two of them at the same time, after the black ball disappeared, the two of them also disappeared there.

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"It's really disrespectful to lock you in a prison, even though we invited you here. However, the established rules cannot be violated, so I have to wrong you." The young man was awakened by the flat and soft voice , but for a moment he couldn't open his eyes because of an excessively dazzling golden light, but he could only vaguely see a strange figure in a long robe standing in front of him.

"No, it's okay, I originally said that I wanted to take the route of ordinary players." The young man quickly judged that this guy should be the owner of this dungeon, "Speaking of which, who—he is now It's called Xiao Yi, right? Where is that guy? Didn't you come to find me with you? Obviously he came to contact me. "

"Mr. Xiao's words - we are currently cooperating with us to carry out some small experiments to improve some of the infrastructure of this dungeon. For example, resurrection or something, have you probably understood it just now?" Shuang Seqiu said politely.

"Ah, I have a rough understanding. Your setting seems to make the players miserable." The young man laughed.

"Really? At that time, they were full of excitement, as if they had taken advantage of it." Shuangseqiu said casually, "In short, after he finishes his work, I will definitely invite him to catch up with you."

The young man nodded: "Okay, that's it. Then, where is the parasite you mentioned? Also, I asked you to find a person whose mental structure is similar to that one. I found it." No?"

"Ah, for the time being, I found a person who seems to have a similar personality, has something in common with others, and is always in a similar mental state to the forerunner. However, none of us understand the specific mental structure anyway. , I really don’t know whether it meets your requirements or not.” Shuang Seqiu smiled, “If you don’t mind, I’ll invite them over for you to check.”

"Is it here?" The young man didn't seem to be dissatisfied, nor was he particularly curious. He was just looking forward to an answer.

"Yes, the passers-by who are swallowed by the black hole caused by the black eyes must stay in the prison for a certain period of time before they can leave. This is a predetermined rule. Even if I am the master, there is no way now Changed it at will." Shuangseqiu nodded, "So I have to wrong you, is it okay?"

"Well, no." As the young man said, a strange smile suddenly appeared on his face, "Honestly, I'm a little curious, do you trust me that much? Although Xiao Yi is asking me for help, I also I know that the relationship between you and Xiao Yi is not so harmonious. After all, how much do you know about me? Don't worry about letting me help treat that person?"

"Kevin Crews, whose real name is unknown, the current records track him up to half a year ago at most, and the record that can be checked is that he appeared in the capital of the Celestial Dynasty, and then smuggled to the United States through Wang Li, and began to live in the United States." Shuang Seqiu laughed Feeling a little proud, "According to intelligence analysis, the magic it has used so far is very likely to be spiritual-is that enough?"

"... That's quite enough. That's great, you guys, so you can even find out this kind of thing?" The young man said with some admiration.

"That's it--now that you don't know how to read minds, you can basically confirm that these conclusions are true." Shuang Seqiu nodded and said to himself--although he said that, his voice was obviously not talking to himself Degree.

"...What do you mean? You lied to me?" The young man raised his eyebrows and asked with interest.

"Well, a large part of the above words are just uncertain conclusions I have drawn based on analysis." Shuang Seqiu smirked, "I don't say the name, because you are a player, 'real name unknown' is inevitable. You are The matter in the United States has been confirmed, but I think you first appeared in the Celestial Dynasty, so it is likely that you sneaked in. As for magic involving spiritual aspects-judging from your inexplicable lines full of 'spiritual structure', this is simply very Obvious isn't it?"

"Uh...and then?" The young man was amazed, laughed with joy, and asked.

"Wang Li's question - in fact, it was just mentioned by Xiao Yi at the beginning. If a certain collaborator hadn't investigated everything in detail, I wouldn't know that he happened to be the person we need, and I wouldn't know it. I learned so much information about you from him. It's really just pure luck." As he spoke, Shuang Seqiu laughed again, "Oh, I always feel weird when I talk recently. This kind of thing is obviously The guidance of fate is right."

"Oh." The young man seemed really happy, "Okay, let's stop talking nonsense and get ready to start. But, like I said before, at most I can only confirm the location of the seed. It’s really powerless to destroy it on the premise of harming the host. You’d better really have the ability you said.”

"Ah, I see, it is really enough for you to confirm the location. Even if something goes wrong, it is only our own problem, and we will never embarrass you. Seriously, I don't care even if the forerunner is dead, If you are interested, you might as well give it a try."

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Under the premise of being conscious, Wang Li inexplicably shifted his position again, from the original dreamlike place to a dark cell—he didn't know why, anyway, after he came to this place, the first It feels like this is a prison cell.

There were three other people in the cell, the strange golden retriever who had given him his business card and helped to smuggle to the United States, the weird guy who had said something terrible just now, and then pestered him for information, with one eye shining all the time—but , Wang Li's attention was completely attracted by the third person who was completely unfamiliar to him.

Thin figure, pale complexion, the whole body exudes a dead house atmosphere that stays at home forever, his expression seems a little lazy, and the corner of his mouth seems to subconsciously hang a smile that seems to say "it doesn't matter".The third person seemed to be just a decadent otaku, completely different from the self who looked serious, earnest, and hardworking...

However, the moment Wang Li saw him—before that, Wang Li had already noticed his existence and felt his breath—a breath of the same kind.This was a strange experience for Wang Li. He never imagined that he could feel the existence of people similar to himself so clearly.

"Indeed, it meets the requirements." The strange golden retriever said, it sounded like he was talking about himself, but Wang Li didn't know what to do.With a certain intuition, Wang Li knew that the same kind was the one who needed to be unconscious on his behalf.But just because they are the same kind, Wang Li clearly knows that he is really powerless now.

But Wang Li has not completely given up hope, although he himself is not clear, but he has been waiting, waiting for a certain word he wants to hear.What can that sentence do?Wang Li didn't know, but he knew that if they were of the same kind, that person would definitely say such things.

"Ha, speaking of it, it's a benefactor, right?" That kind of person spoke up, but it wasn't what Wang Li wanted to hear. "Is it okay?"

"I'll tell you, I'm all right. Is it all right for me to say that?"

"...Well, I can't say that it's completely okay. But there's no other way, there will be such a fun thing next--I really don't want to miss it." At this time, Wang Li discovered that the same kind of head His face was sweating, and his voice was a little strange. He should be trying to suppress some kind of pain - but that didn't matter. Wang Li just listened quietly and waited.

After saying a few more words, the golden retriever closed his eyes, as if he was using some kind of ability.

The same kind looked at him, and suddenly showed a strange smile.

"Mr. Wang Li, is that right? It's a pleasure to meet you. I feel that I don't need to waste time explaining a lot of things to you. If that's the case, it would be great. Then, let's talk straight to the point."

"Mr. Wang Li, shall we make a deal?"

"Okay." Wang Li heaved a sigh of relief, and for some unknown reason, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)