Chapter 70 Alienated Spiritual Realm
Seeing this row of yellow words, Give me medicine & Ji Tang, the two brothers were silent for a while...
"Secret realm means...copy?" Ji Tang, who hadn't played online games for several years, said dryly.
"It should be." Miaobishenghua said expressionlessly.
Ji Tang gestured a few times feebly, but still couldn't figure out where he wanted to start. He could only stare at the wonderful writing with a melancholy look...
As the saying goes, a man's reputation is like a tree's shadow. Although the players are divided into three parties and have been competing for the mayor, if they encounter a difficult task, no matter which side the players are on, their trust in the two girls, Miaobishenghua and Entropybutzeng, will not be shaken because of their different positions.
The reason is very simple. On the one hand, these two girls are smart, and on the other hand, they have a high standard. People with good character are always more popular than those with no standard.
"Really - the event announcement is so misleading!" Miaobishenghua said with a fucked-up look on his face, "I thought the monster that couldn't be attacked was a civilian NPC that was transformed after being 'corrupted', but I didn't expect it to be a high-level NPC... That's fine, but who would want to associate the vague description of 'successfully resisting corrosion' with a dungeon?!"
"This is outrageous!" The man who gave me medicine complained with a grim face, "Is it necessary to warm up the dungeon to this extent? Even the opening of Ahn'Qiraj wasn't so mean! Can we die if the process is clearly stated in the announcement? Do the bastard planners want us to die a lot before they are satisfied?"
Ji Tang: “…”
Even though he hadn't played online games for many years, Ji Tang, who was born in the 1990s, knew what a "copy" was.
It is normal for a multiplayer online game to have copies, but in this game... how is it possible?!
Isn't this game "alien"? Shouldn't the NPCs in the game be considered "close encounters of the third kind"? ? How can this be opened as a dungeon?
Ji Tang simply couldn't understand...
Miaobishenghua was more open-minded: "Forget it. It's not the first time that the planner has been made a fool of himself. Here... eh?"
The "copy" space where the three of them were located was a seemingly unremarkable forest. At first glance, it looked like a wilderness somewhere outside the exile town.
But upon closer inspection, I found that it was wrong.
Although the background setting does not mention the Tarantan Wasteland where the Exile Town is located, after leaving the town and going on an expedition, players can basically determine that the geographical location of Tarantan is not high, and should be located in the temperate or tropical zone - the wild primitive jungle that fills the wasteland is full of common southern trees such as palm trees, camphor trees, privet, and fir trees. Swamps that have accumulated for who knows how many years can be seen every few steps, and there is no sign of freezing in winter.
Of course, the most obvious evidence is the clothing of the civilian NPCs... Although the female civilians wrapped themselves very thickly when first seen, there were no cotton-padded jackets or the like on their clothes, only single clothes.
At this moment, Miaobishenghua glanced around and saw almost all deciduous trees.
"Considering the style of this game that focuses on details... ...is this design hinting that the plot in the dungeon doesn't take place in Tarantan, but in the north?" Miaobishenghua muttered.
"Huh? What the hell?" This was a nonsensical sentence and I didn't understand anything while taking the medicine.
Ji Tang suddenly raised his finger at the two of them: "Shhh..."
The two looked at him, and Ji Tang gestured to them to hide in the bushes, and he himself went in first with light footsteps.
Seeing this, Miaobishenghua and Give Me Medicine followed suit.
The three men had just squatted down in an indecent manner when they heard the sound of Lin Ye being stepped on.
"rustle……"
“Wow——”
The first one was the sound of footsteps.
The latter... was like the sound of something heavy being dragged across the thick leaves in the forest.
The three of them looked at each other and quietly poked their heads out at the same time.
Through the overgrown and messy bushes, they saw... a young man who looked like he had walked out of a 19th century European nostalgic movie, wearing a peaked cap and a gray thick woolen windbreaker, carrying a shovel and dragging a heavy woven bag, walking slowly towards the bushes where they were hiding.
The surprising thing is that they are all very familiar with this young man.
Although his face was very childish and full of panic and nervousness, his facial features and contours showed that he was the assassin's mentor Hal Maxwell.
What's even more shocking is that the woven bag that the young version of Hal was dragging was still oozing blood...
The stunned Ji Tang, the dumbfounded Miao Bi Sheng Hua, and the mouth-opening Take the medicine for me, all three of them had the same thoughts in their minds at this moment:
——Hal, you are a werewolf who has killed people and committed crimes?!
Ji Tang's eyes immediately became sharp.
Just at this moment... the young version of Hal, who was dragging a heavy woven bag and carrying a large shovel, suddenly stumbled and fell.
The mouth of the woven bag that he was holding tightly in his hand loosened.
A...hairy arm fell out of the bag and rested on Hal's ankle.
"ah--!"
The young Hal kicked the hand away and crawled back in horror.
"It wasn't me! Jim! I didn't kill you. I just took their money to bury you—"
The arm that was kicked away suddenly grabbed the mouth of the bag and turned it outward by itself .
A bloody, young-looking face emerged from the blood-stained woven bag...
"No! No!" The young version of Hal fell to the ground and screamed and stepped back, "It's not me, Jim! Don't look for me! It's none of my business!"
The direction that the young version of Hal retreated to was the bushes where the players were squatting.
The three players just thought that the so-called "secret realm of the inner demon" they were going to "witness" was referring to the bad things Hal had done in the past, such as killing people and burying bodies (or burying bodies for money). They never expected that they were still too young...
The person who crawled out of the woven bag was a young man covered in blood and scars, who looked about the same age as the young version of Hal.
After the fake corpse revealed its entire body, a head suddenly appeared on its chest...
The head started to grow out of Jim's chest like a bean sprout. First the head, then the neck, then the shoulders, and then the two arms...
After half of it emerged, the "bean sprout" finally stopped "growing", and the same bloody, vicious and resentful face grinned at the young Hal and the three players.
The author, who was already insensitive to horror elements, lowered his chin to his chest.
And this strange "perversion" has not stopped yet. A new "bean sprout" has begun to grow at the neck of the "bean sprout" that just emerged...
“Ahhhhhhh——!” X3.
The first cry was made by the young Hal.
The second and third tones were called out by "Miaobishenghua" and "Give Me Medicine".
In fact, men's tolerance to fear is similar to that of women. There is no such thing as having more testosterone and thus having no fear nerves. Usually, men appear to be braver, but that's just because they want to save face.
But when it comes to the extreme, face is no longer useful.
Miaobishenghua, who was frightened to the point of losing his mind, jumped out of the bushes and fled frantically. He didn't even care about whether it was embarrassing to give me medicine, and ran out after me...
"Hey, hey--" Ji Tang stretched out his hand weakly towards the two people who were running away.
When he turned around, he saw that the "corpse centipede" composed of three corpses had already moved and was moving towards the frightened boy Hal. Ji Tang had to draw out his dagger and take on the enemy himself.
The corpse centipede in the dungeon is much smaller than the one outside, at least it is not so small that people can't reach it even if they want to chop it; but after this miniaturized corpse centipede becomes a physical monster, it will not be something that players can fight alone...
With Ji Tang's strength, he could only barely reduce half of the health bar that appeared after attacking the monster, and then he died.
Miaobishenghua and Wobeihouyao regained some sanity, remembered that this was just a copy in the game, and returned to help. However, when they ran back, Ji Tang was already at a dead end. Miaobishenghua used all of Lantian to madly refresh the dark power but still failed to bring his health back; and Wobeihouyao was a fragile walker, and couldn't even help Ji Tang share the pressure...
“Nima——!”
The brilliant writer who was hanging down the line roared and sat up from the recliner.
The cat raised by Miaobishenghua was frightened and looked at her nervously.
Miaobishenghua had no time to pet the cat. He took off his U-shaped neck pillow and helmet, and hurriedly turned on his computer to log into the player forum to post.
“《Weekend Event Strategy Guide! Don’t be fooled again!》”
"Don't fight the newly spawned monsters in Exile Town! Don't fight them! Don't fight them! I have to say this three times!"
"These active monsters are not for players to kill, but are the entrances to dungeons!"
After sending out this main post with great effort, Miaobishenghua, who was full of annoyance, patiently described the process by which she, Ji Tang and Give Me Medicine accidentally found the way into the book.
"...It is not certain that three people can enter the dungeon by interacting with monsters at the same time. If someone online tries and finds that it does not work, I think there may be a hidden limit on potential or level."
"First of all, Boss Ji Tang has a potential value of 125, and after I took the medicine, the potential values of the three of us exceeded 200 points. This may be a restriction on players entering the dungeon. You need to gather 200 potential points to enter. In other words, four players above level 1 must enter together to open the dungeon."
"Secondly, Boss Ji Tang is at level two, and Chi Yao and I are both at level one. If there is a level restriction, then we may need a level two player to lead the team to enter."
"I personally think the latter restriction is unlikely. The current mainstream player level is level one. The event dungeons opened during this period cannot force level two players to lead the team. So I think the most likely restriction is the potential value. If online players are trying to complete the event, they can give it a try."
"Also, the monsters in the dungeon are disgusting! Not only are they disgusting, but their attacks are also very high! Teams that want to enter the dungeon must bring knights! Without knights, you can't defeat them at all!"
Players were very interested in the activity missions opened this weekend at the beginning. Many people, like Tang Jia, hurriedly logged off after nightfall to gather their relatives and friends.
Then... within an hour of the event starting, at least a quarter of the players died and logged off...
The players were not discouraged. They waited until the death penalty time was over and continued to log online to fight... and then died offline one after another.
From 10:30 noon to 1:00 pm, the dead players can surround the Exile Town...
Players are not afraid of death, but that doesn't mean they are willing to die meaninglessly, so these players who were online almost all day on the weekend went offline one after another, and went to the forum to post crazily and scold the planner - this was the reason why Ji Tang couldn't see anyone when he went online.
Amidst the numerous spam posts criticizing the planner, an activity strategy post suddenly appeared. The poster was still a big shot named Shenghua who was also named after Entropy. All players, whether they were fighting passionately or cursing without thinking, temporarily stopped attacking and clicked into the post.
Afterwards, those irritable guys who had just cursed their planners for getting hit by a car and that their game "Another World" would go bankrupt tomorrow, those who had death penalties quickly found a way to notify their online friends, and those who didn't have death penalties immediately went online to call their friends to form a team...
In the town hall, Yang Qiu, who turned a deaf ear to all the criticism and watched the development of the situation as calmly as an old dog, showed a mysterious smile.
Very good...the plan works.
It's not that he doesn't want to be a human being and disgust players by creating a weekend-limited event copy, but the existing conditions limit him as the chief planner to do only this.
After all, the other world is not a real game, and there is no way to write a code or program to create a copy that is indispensable for online games...
First of all, establishing a stable plane in the material plane that allows players to repeatedly enter and spawn specific monsters is a big problem that even the great magician is helpless to solve.
Space magic has always been limited to people with special talents, and Yang Qiu is not a person with special talents... otherwise he would not have insisted on pursuing black magic.
The subspace barrier commonly used by spellcasters can temporarily create a "second plane", but this barrier is extremely fragile and can only temporarily mislead the perception of ordinary people. People with stronger mental powers can see through it.
Throwing monsters into this fragile temporary plane and asking players to spawn them is absolutely not feasible... In the words of the players, it will definitely cause a lot of bugs.
So Yang Qiu simply launched the "Realm of the Void" into the Exile Town at night - to put it simply, it was an enhanced version of the "Breath of Hell". He used the evil power obtained after devouring the tentacles of the ancient gods to transport a large amount of breath from the void.
These auras from the void were not created for some boring reason like adding more atmosphere to the Exile Town during the event, but were used to strengthen the mental shadows of the three people he chose as "copy monster providers", Hal, Tuttle, and Rex...
Everyone, including Yang Qiu, has a part of their spiritual core that is caused by psychological shadows or spiritual fears, which are negative, dark, and untouchable wounds.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of mental scar will not affect people's lives too much. It will only pop up to show its presence when people's spirit is in a fragile state, out of control, and collapses.
The combination of the "Realm of the Void" and Yang Qiu's black magic successfully materialized the psychological shadows of the three people within the scope of the "Realm of the Void". This is how the three terrifying monsters appeared, which only roamed in the Exile Town and would not stray too far from the "host".
This spiritual monster, which is materialized by black magic and can only maintain its presence in the "Void Realm", is essentially invincible; as long as the Void Realm is maintained and the host itself is not harmed, let alone the players at the low level, even if Lowell monitors it, it will be in vain...
The "copy" that the player enters after meeting the conditions is not a real copy, but the alienated spiritual realm of Hal and the other two.
Yang Qiu deliberately misled players in an ambiguous manner in the event announcement, and this is the reason: this extremely alienated spiritual realm is, firstly, very unstable. Whether one can successfully enter the game depends not only on the conditions summarized by his brilliant writing, but also on metaphysics - in short, even if the conditions are met, they will collectively go offline during the game.
Second, the monster scenes inside will be very curious. Compared with this "activity copy", the spider's nest is just like the peaceful little garden in Li Ziqi's home.
So, Yang Qiu had to reluctantly torment the players, giving them a kind of reward that they had to go through a lot of hardships to enter the game, and artificially create a sense of happiness...
"If you want to play this game for a long time, you will have to get in touch with the essence of this world sooner or later. Enter the dungeon more often to kill monsters, so as to avoid making a fuss one by one in the future. If you want to become stronger, how can you do it without a strong spirit!"
Yang Qiu took a sip of milk tea and glanced at Supervisor Lowell standing in front of the window.
Although the black-robed inspector was wary of the "Realm of the Void", he was not panic-stricken, which made Yang Qiu certain of one thing - the Prosperous Church must have a seal that could restrain the aura of the void; and the level of this type of seal within the Prosperous Church would not be too high, at least with the status of the black-robed inspector, he should be able to use it.
This made Yang Qiu a little excited.
