2022-03-09

End of Chapter 1

“It feels like it’s almost time.”

Zhou Mu murmured across the seemingly endless “completed task list”.

More than 200 main quests, more than 2,000 side quests, more than 1,000 hidden exploration elements, and all collections, all achievements… It is no exaggeration to say “The Last Watcher” In this VRRPG (Virtual Reality Role Playing Game), the developer thought of the game content that didn’t expect and let him experience it all over the place.

The so-called “licking graph flow” players also merely this.

Zhou Mu lamented how much energy he put into this game while flipping through various statistics records in the game.

“By the way, more than 13,000 hours of game time? This is too exaggerated for a single-player game, there will be a second game in this world with more than 10,000 hours of time. People?”

When Zhou Mu saw the game time on the statistics panel, he was shocked.

Zhou Mu has always had a concept: During the more than ten hours of being a social animal in the company, he did not really live as a person.

If you calculate your life like this, and then deduct the time you sleep every day, then compared to the real world, you are more like a person living in the sword and magic world of “The Last Watcher”. people.

But there is no lasting feast in the world, and today is the time to say goodbye to this world.

Thinking of this, Zhou Mu, who felt his heart gradually become heavy, waved his hand and closed the statistics panel.

It’s not that he’s tired of the game–compared to the real world where he has to deal with all kinds of pressures every day. On the Vic continent in the game, even just looking around at the scenery makes him feel incredibly relaxed.

If possible, he really hopes that this second life in the game can go on forever.

But it’s the same sentence – the pressure of reality.

Zhou Mu, who has passed the threshold of 30 years old, has become more and more able to feel the invisible shackles that are gradually tightening: the data from the horrible to see on the medical report, the pressure of housing and car loans, Rumors within the company about “optimizing” old employees, etc…

Now even if it’s just an hour or two of the entire game time every day, it needs to be squeezed out by sacrificing sleep. And his body, which has been in a sub-healthy state for a long time, has begun to constantly sound the alarm.

In the past six months, he had fainted twice without warning, and after that, his doctor and Boss had more than one serious conversation with him.

“Sudden death” or “optimization”, neither of which was the ending he expected. Under the balance, it was time to seal the file.

Zhou Mu raised his head and looked around all around. At this time, he was in a grand and magnificent hall like the Roman Pantheon, sitting beside the huge obsidian round table in the center of the hall.

This is the Round Table in “Twilight Fortress”.

“Twilight Fortress” is the headquarters of The Last Watcher, a Salvation Army organization without borders. It is the closest place to “home” for players, and it is also the first place players reach in the main story. a base.

Before leaving completely, Zhou Mu intends to give himself a ceremony goodbye, and choosing this place as the end is of great commemorative significance.

It is both the beginning and the end.

Zhou Mu sat for a while longer when he heard cluttered footsteps outside the door. Immediately, the heavy gold door was pushed open, and the entire round table hall was divided into two halves by the light projected from outside the door.

Twelve men and women of different races and dresses filed against the light and went to their respective seats in front of the round table.

The Thirteenth Tribunal of The Last Watcher, in the game, players can directly incorporate twelve core NPCs of their own team, and save the world’s partners with the protagonist in the game plot.

Zhou Mu’s eyes swept across all the people sitting, of course, not necessarily all human beings, but also companions of other races. Involuntarily, he recalled the stupid things he had done before.

At that time, in order to achieve the “perfect clearance” in his mind, basically every NPC who was included in the courtroom had to do dozens or even hundreds of file refreshes, just to get a satisfactory result. Initial attribute and attribute entries.

And after that, he will choose the perk points and equipment matching that best suits them. It can be said that the character build of each member of the Tribunal may be better than that of most ordinary “The Last Watcher” players.

“Judge William Kane, do you have something to announce when you called us here this time?”

Probably the system decided that Zhou Mu had not spoken for a long time. A character wearing a pitch-black half-armor and carrying a giant sword as thick as a door opened the mouth and said.

William Kane is the name of Zhou Mu’s character in this archive.

Zhou Mu returned sobered up, he cleared his throat and said.

“Yes, Blake Seba, I am calling all members of the Tribunal to come here today. There is indeed an important matter to announce.”

Zhou Mu said taking a deep breath , then opened his arms.

“I’m leaving you, forever.”

As soon as these words came out, all the NPCs on the round table showed disbelief, panic and even panic.

The production company of “The Last Watcher” is equipped with extremely powerful AI programs for the important NPCs in the game. As long as they don’t talk about things that are too detached from the game framework itself, their dialogues and reactions are very close to daoist.

Of course, this is essentially a chat program. Zhou Mu himself knew that he was doing this kind of thing to say goodbye to the NPC, which was pure stupidity.

“William my friend, do you mean you’re leaving the Vic continent to venture somewhere else?”

A man with scales all over his body and horns on his head, The man with a thick tail behind his back asked in a rough voice.

“No, Dowa Kim, I’m leaving not just this continent, but the entire world.”

As soon as these words came out, there was another burst of excitement. commotion.

“Are you saying that you plan to leave this world and go to the realm of the moon, to the realms ruled by the Void Kings? If so, please allow me to accompany you there.”

A “human figure” wrapped in a cloak and emitting an ominous black mist constantly asked in a singing tone.

“I don’t mean the world or the Moon Realm, Kos, I mean the entire world, everything, beyond the world, beyond the moon, beyond the realm of light, beyond The farthest frontier you can understand. I can walk this road alone, and there is nothing you can accompany except my memory of you.”

A lightly dressed leather armor , asked the elf girl with a transparent bow and arrow like glass behind her back.

“Can you tell us why Lord Kane decided to leave?”

“Because I had to leave, if possible, I would like to be with you forever. But in the distance , there are existences heavier than the Seven Calamities and the Void Kings that I need to confront.”

“What is that?”

“Reality.”

The scene was silent, and every member of the tribunal seemed to be thinking hard about what Zhou Mu meant by “reality”.

Of course, Zhou Mu knew that this was impossible, but the system detected the dialogue outside the game frame, making the NPCs seem to be thinking, and they would immediately change the subject.

“Then…”

The youngest boy among the twelve spoke up. He wears a cloak of black feathers and has amber eyes like some kind of bird of prey.

“Will you come back then?”

“I don’t know… Coles, I don’t know. But if there ever comes a day, I hope to see you again Everyone, I will look forward to the day of our reunion.”

Zhou Mu said and stood up with his hands on the obsidian round table, and the other twelve people in front of the round table also stood up with him. He looked at his buddies, dazed for a moment.

If this world were real…

“Then, I hereby declare that The Thirteenth Tribunal is dissolved. Victory over the calamity and expelling the illusory prince, we have This world has brought a thousand years of peace, and it is time for everyone to pursue their own happiness. This is my last order – everyone, do what you want to do!”

Really Stupid speech…

They are obviously just programs stored in the computer, as long as he goes offline, they will stop forever in this brief moment. But he also said nonsense to them, “Let them pursue their own happiness”.

What is the “day of reunion”? He even sold the game warehouse on Xianyu, and tomorrow he will pack it and send it to someone else. What about reunion?

Zhou Mu thought of this, but still gave a salute to everyone, and then silently activated the array on the obsidian round table.

[Transmission]

After a short loading screen, Zhou Mu came to a different space filled with stars.

Here is his treasure temple.

Because the number of rare items in his collection is too large. As a collector, not only the things that can be obtained in the game process, but also the waste cases that the developer did not put into the game in the end, he got them out through the console.

The entire “Twilight Fortress” used as a treasure hall would not be enough to hold half of his collection, if only on display. So he created such a different space through the game console, specially used to store his massive collection. Every star in this boundless starry sky is a rare item wrapped in a space-time bubble.

Zhou Mu finally looked up at the starry sky.

“Goodbye then!”

He took a deep breath, then brought up the game menu and pressed the “Exit Game” button.

It was pitch black in an instant.

Soon, as long as the bell that prompts the success of going offline rings, he will completely return to the real world.

Zhou Mu silently counted his breaths, waiting for the bell to ring. For some reason, the subtle and complicated mentality that I had previously had at this time became extremely calm.

…………

However, a few minutes later, the bell to remind you to go offline still does not ring.

(End of this chapter)

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