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Chapter 435 Chapter 430 · "Please choose your hero."

When being wrapped in the teleportation light, Su Mingan noticed something was wrong... The direction of the teleportation seems to be different this time.

Before he felt it carefully, he felt that his eyes were dark.

He saw a pure pitch-black space, and there was no real feeling of landing under his feet. He was floating in the void.

In the upper right corner, the live broadcast that should have been turned on is now turned off.

He stood quietly in the void, did not speak, and there was no drastic expression change on his face, just waiting.

About ten seconds later, a pink light appeared in front of him.

Long ears, white fluff, giant body, noodle-like limbs, the white fluffy figure moved slightly, revealing a pair of blood-like eyes.The boss rabbit with a blood-red scale on its chest appeared in front of him.

"Are you going to have a candlelight dinner here?" Su Mingan looked around, but it was still pitch black where he couldn't see his fingers clearly: "Don't even turn on the lights."

Boss Rabbit opened his blood-red eyes and gave him a "gentle" smile.

Such a gentle smile appeared on Boss Rabbit's face, which looked extraordinarily unusual.

"The eighth world, the pinnacle competitive world." It spoke, the voice had a mechanical fitting quality, and the tone was not as yin and yang as usual, but mechanical and cold: "——those in power, in this world, your shoulders Additional tasks."

Su Ming'an's expression did not change.

He had already guessed that if he called himself to a space alone at the beginning of the game, there must be other things to say.

... Is the result the task of those in power?
Previously, the task of receiving the person in power was received directly through the system prompt, but this time the boss rabbit actually needs to issue it to him in person.

"In this world - you need to designate your avatar to replace an NPC in the eighth world. After replacing the npc, your avatar needs to temporarily act as an npc, travel around the venues of this world, and observe the entire The structure of the world."

Su Mingan was a little surprised when he heard this.

——In this world, he unexpectedly has two identities of [npc] and [player].

The main body participates in competitive competitions as a player, and the avatar wanders around the venue as an NPC to observe.

He remembered that in the past, the tasks of those in power were to protect a certain npc, or to reach a certain place—to guide him to take the most difficult plot line and complete the most hidden plot clues.

Today, however, his role as a powerholder seems to be on a higher level.

...He was given the task of "observing the copy".Similar to a bug-fixing programmer.

Walk around the venue, observe dungeons, and dig up secrets to see if there are "bugs" in this world.

"I'm... upgraded to GM (game manager)?" Su Mingan said.

"It doesn't count." Boss Rabbit continued: "Those in power, your avatar can only wander around the field as an npc, responsible for observation and recording, and is not allowed to modify the rules of the game, and is not allowed to intervene in the competition."

"An outsider." Su Mingan narrowed his eyes: "A question, after becoming an NPC, can the avatar still be my battle aid?"

He has realized that if his avatar becomes an npc observing the world, how can he summon the avatar to help him fight?

And... in view of the particularity of this task.

This avatar skill looks even more suspicious.

After all, with its bug level, it doesn't look like something that can be fished out in the red-level skill pool.

What is it... He became the one in power because he acquired the avatar skill.Or, the avatar skill was just an accident, and it was really a good thing he caught with E-level luck?
"Avatars can't help you fight." Boss Rabbit said: "Since your avatar is temporarily unavailable in the Eighth World, for the sake of fairness, the game will give you additional benefits."

"What benefits?"

"Secret."

"It's not good." Su Ming'an said helplessly, "As a person in power, I would be suppressed like this. My most critical professional core skills were banned because I became an NPC, but I was not told about the benefits as compensation. ...For me, this opening is too unfair. This can't help but make me a little sad..."

His emotions came as he said, and his tone was full of indignation at this "unfairness".

"No, our game." Boss Rabbit interrupted him directly: "It's absolutely fair."

...It is really a familiar answer.

Su Mingan restrained his emotions.

"For you, this compensation is equal to the cost of temporarily losing the skills of the clone. As long as you live, you will definitely experience it." Boss Rabbit added: "You have not completely lost the skills of the clone, you will still have the ability to control the clone. Control, after the avatar completes the inspection mission of the venue, you will regain absolute control over the skill."

"Is that so..." Su Mingan nodded, and suddenly raised his hand like a studious elementary school student: "Ask me. To what extent can I control the npc clone?"

"As long as it is within the scope allowed by the world inspection mission, you can try it out at will." Boss Rabbit said.

Su Mingan understood.

In other words, it is equivalent to his avatar accepting an additional task of "pretending to be an npc to inspect the venue", as long as it is within the range allowed by the system, he can still control the avatar.

...In this way, for him, the avatar cannot participate in the competition between players as a direct combat force, nor can it be used as his resurrection substitute.But he got an npc who can wander around the venue and collect clues.

He seems... to have jumped out of the purely "player" level, and moved closer to the design of the dungeon itself.Although it's just the "Wandering" and "Observation" dungeons at the moment...but what about after that?What about after going to the next level? "Power holder", as the highest level of identity, is not limited to the favor of npcs, it has already faintly involved things in dungeons.

The boss rabbit stretched out his big white hand.A giant blue screen lights up.

On the screen, transparent characters were outlined, with names marked under the characters.

[Day Chess], [Day Calendar], [Kelsey], [Broken], [Meiyatu], [Liu Changqing], [Ghost Old Special], [Guangli], [Rococo], [Qin Huanya]... …

There are thousands of densely packed names appearing on this blue screen. These characters have different shapes, including men, women, old and young.

And the clothes on them can be called "a mix of Chinese and Western", including armor, robes, commoner clothes, sacrificial robes, cheongsam... Su Mingan even saw people wearing Hanfu, Lolita, bikinis...

The characters are arranged in a dazzling array, just like "please choose your hero".

"These are the npcs in the eighth world." The boss rabbit said: "You can choose a replacement for your avatar in it. After the replacement is successful, your avatar is best to patrol without arousing the suspicion of other npcs. The venue—because once the avatar is killed by any unit before completing [-]% of the inspection progress, it means that the task of the ruler has failed."

"I see." Su Mingan nodded.

He immediately began to screen these various NPCs and choose suitable replacements.

Frankly speaking, one can tell what kind of world it is by looking at all the npcs in the world.But judging from the appearance and clothing of these people, Su Mingan was completely unable to make a definite judgment.

…These people are dressed in a "cultural hodgepodge", not only a mixture of Chinese and Western, but also a combination of ancient and modern. Apart from judging that this is not a future technological world, they can't see the specific type of this world at all.

There was no introduction to these characters, only their names, and he could only judge each other's identities from their costumes.

Su Mingan thought for a moment.

First of all, if you want to choose an alternative npc, you must not choose the one that looks like the big boss of the faction. The boss has many subordinates, and it is easy to see that something is wrong with the clone.

Second, you can't choose the one that is particularly weak.

Third, choose someone who seems to have a simple interpersonal relationship, and there should be no familiar seven aunts and eight aunts around.

Fourth, you can't choose someone who looks bullying.The avatar should try to avoid fighting with the top players.

Su Ming'an's thinking was very clear, but looking at the rows of NPCs with only names, he felt a little bit troubled.

Through the previous dungeons, he has already understood that it is not advisable to judge a person by his appearance. It is a very stupid behavior to judge a person's identity from his appearance-after all, in the Seventh World back then, who would have thought that the seemingly mediocre start Will the Viscount be the god of the final boss Cloud City?

Judging identity purely from the image of a character is a very blind behavior.

He raised his eyelids and glanced at Boss Rabbit.

The rabbit's eyeballs shone mechanically under the pink light. At this time, it didn't have the spirituality it used to, just like a rabbit-shaped robot.

...Like a machine possessed and manipulated by someone behind the scenes.

"You still have 2 minutes to choose." Boss Rabbit said, "Now, all players are assigned their initial identities. In another 2 minutes, everyone will be teleported."

Su Ming'an looked at the panel again, still thinking - just looking at the appearance of the character in this way, there is no way to choose, it's almost like a blind choice.

But after thinking for a while, he had a new idea.From the perspective of game mechanics... he may have a better choice.

"Boss Rabbit... No, the organizer." Su Mingan raised his head: "Can I know the information about this dungeon in advance?"

"No, you still have one minute and 45 seconds to choose." Boss Rabbit said.

...can't get any information in advance?

Su Ming'an has already learned that, according to the copy of Terry Town in the Fourth World, a purely 'competitive' world will need a 'guide' to introduce the rules of the entire world.

In the copy of Terry Town, it was the key figure 'Mayor' who introduced the rules.

...And according to the clues that Noel told him, the eighth world is a multi-copy game, and things like 'silver stars' need to be collected... The rules of this world should be similar to a level-breaking copy, which requires players to go through a A small level, and in order to determine the final 'only' winner.

According to what Boss Rabbit said just now, "In another 2 minutes, everyone will be teleported together", he can guess that in a multi-dungeon competitive world like the Eighth World, the dungeon needs a "rule introducer" at the beginning. Have players identify the rules for collecting 'Silver Stars'.

This 'rule introducer' may be an npc from the original dungeon world, but in this way, it would be a bit OOC to introduce this kind of npc that is too gamified.

Therefore, he believes that it is more likely that the spokesperson, Boss Rabbit, will introduce the initial rules.

Well, Boss Rabbit...

- Does it count as a replaceable "npc"?
Su Mingan found that he seemed to have found the best choice.

(End of this chapter)