A brave player who started by touching corpses

The existence of monsters is diverse, including self-mutation, external corruption, and visitors from other worlds.

If we use game vocabulary to classify them, the "local" monsters that mutate themselves and are corrupted by external factors can basically be divided into the categories of elites, small bosses, and even bosses, while the categories of miscellaneous soldiers and leaders are basically occupied by visitors from other worlds.

And the main appearance of the miscellaneous soldiers of foreign visitors, who are large in number and occupy 99% of the number of monsters in this world, is the "Monster Lair".

At the same time, the entire 911 convenience store where Luke is located has a distortion as if it has been eroded by the digital world, and the gate that originally sounded the familiar welcoming music has also become a pixel module-type portal that invites people into a trap.

This phenomenon means that this 911 convenience store, which does not occupy a large area and is a flat building, is being eroded and transformed into a "Monster Lair".

Under normal circumstances, the newly-born monster nest will continuously refresh the corresponding monster units, causing indiscriminate damage to the surrounding areas of the nest, but there is a situation that will temporarily stop the monster refresh.

That is when there are humans in the monster nest.

The first priority of the monster to attack is always the human group that stands on the opposite side of it, so when there are humans in the monster nest, the refreshed monsters will first attack the humans inside.

Until the human side inside is eliminated, the monster side will start to attack the human world again.

Or the human warriors will completely destroy the core part of the monster nest while resisting the monster attack, and the whole incident will be over.

Theoretically, the monster nest transformed by the rules can only be destroyed by "destroying the core". At least so far, all external violent destruction cannot bypass this mechanism.

Of course, it may also be that the equivalent is not enough.

However, at this moment, no new monsters have been refreshed at the gate of the newly-born monster nest.

In this regard, some experienced people near the nest immediately judged one thing.

That is, all the people who were originally in the store should have been forced into the monster's lair at this time. The monster has already had a priority target to attack. Before killing all the unlucky people in the store, the monster will not come out of the portal.

Among this group of unlucky people, there is our comrade Luke who just wants to get some books and check information.

Once people encounter something they are interested in, they will probably be more crazy about obtaining information than when they were students. Since traveling through these few days, Luke's desire for knowledge has been stronger than at any time in the past few decades.

Accompanied by a sense of weightlessness, Luke felt that his body was falling rapidly, and his soft face and not-so-dangerous hairline were swaying in the wind.

But the lush ground was approaching.

Almost instinctively, Luke, who instantly recalled the plots of so many Jackie Chan movies he had seen, made a not-so-standard receiving action of holding his hands on his chest and rolling forward at the moment of landing.

Slight pain came from the parts of his palms, wrists, neck, back and other parts that were in contact with the ground, but Luke still managed to land safely with only a few scratches.

But before he got up, he heard a series of heavy objects falling to the ground from behind and beside him, followed by screams of pain of varying volumes.

As the experienced people outside the nest judged, the customers and employees who were originally in the store were all unlucky like Luke, and all of them appeared in mid-air after being forcibly taken into the nest.

However, not everyone present had Luke's physique and reaction, and most of them fell firmly on the unusually flat ground.

However, judging from the fact that everyone could still scream in pain, it was not life-threatening... Of course, this premise is that the monster will not appear.

But this is impossible.

Luke and his group did not have any opportunity to adjust and observe. The monsters in this nest had already entered Luke's field of vision.

He was a thin man wearing a simple and plastic red armor, with a bulging back, running at a steady speed in his direction like a humanoid soldier.

Suddenly, the red soldier stopped running, raised his hands, pointed the object in his hands at Luke, who was stunned, then surprised, and then his eyes began to shine almost visibly, and finally pressed his index finger.

Bang!

Luke, who had obviously realized something, almost predicted and rolled over in advance, making himself full of grass fragrance.

And there was already a small crater at the place where he was originally.

Rifleman! The lowest-level soldier of the Red Falcon Organization!

Luke, who had this name in his mind, had a stick of the right size in one hand.

Not many people are familiar with the term "shooter", but when it comes to the hunchbacked red-clad soldier that players can encounter in all levels in the most famous action shooting game on the Famicom/FC platform, many people may have started to automatically play the familiar 8-bit machine BGM in their heads.

The starry sky, the calm sea, the large and small rock islands covered with green plants and staggered in height...

This scene alone makes Luke feel very familiar.

When the "hunchbacked" red-clothed soldier with a strange backpack shot at him, Luke basically determined the source of the game corresponding to the current "Monster Lair".

Contra!

And it is most likely the first generation of Contra on the Famicom/FC platform, with the protagonists being Stallone in blue pants and Schwarzenegger in red pants!

Just when Luke established a firm understanding in his mind, his "mission record" panel lit up slightly, obviously activating something, but he didn't notice it yet.

As one of the unlucky guys who was forcibly involved in the lair and might face the unfortunate situation of being besieged by monsters at any time, the panic and fear in Luke's heart were quickly covered by positive emotions such as excitement and excitement.

It may be difficult for a non-game player to understand the weird mentality of Luke, a senior hardcore game fan. For a moment, he really had the idea of ​​"it's worth it even if he dies now".

However, this idea was fleeting because his body moved.

No! Can't die yet! I haven't gotten the hang of it yet!

As a law-abiding adult man who can only trace his experience of fighting back to fifth grade, facing monsters and gunshots, he had an extremely strong urge to smash the opponent's head with the stick in his hand.

Then he really did it.

The short staff of the mage, which was originally a noble weapon of the mage and used to mobilize elements to release magic, was used by the barbaric Luke as a short javelin and thrown forward with all his strength!

Fire bomb? Ice bomb? Lightning bomb?

What is that?

Although there is no sharp part on both ends of the short staff, it still pierced the neck of the Red Falcon soldier without armor protection quite accurately under Luke's adrenaline-fueled full-strength throw, and the residual force also dragged his body several meters backwards.

Luke said that he didn't want to become a mutant muscle tyrant in the future, but at the most critical moment, he still followed the instinct of a barbarian.

If we make an analogy, Luke's behavior is not much different from Harry Potter stabbing Voldemort's throat with his magic wand.

After a successful strike, Luke's hands and feet suddenly became weak, and his body began to tremble violently, almost uncontrollably.

This is a typical stress response of a non-fighting person after a sudden conflict with others.

If Luke were to speak now, it would definitely be the extremely magnetic Yang Kunyin.

The barbarian template made Luke hard, but it only hardened for a pinch and then softened again.

Luke, who killed something other than seafood for the first time in his life, half-knelt on the ground, looking beyond the corpse of the Red Falcon soldier with a wizard's short stick stuck in his neck.

Over there, more soldiers began to appear.

Luke frowned when he found this situation, and was already planning to try to control his body and "jump off the cliff" as quickly as possible.

To be more precise, it is diving.

In the settings of the first and second generations of Contra, hiding in the water is equivalent to being invincible in disguise.

Although he didn't know if this setting would work in the materialized monster's lair, Luke still planned to struggle. His weak hands and feet wouldn't affect his swimming proficiency.

But at this moment, the Red Falcon soldiers who had come to reinforce all stopped in unison after seeing their colleagues with staffs stuck in their necks, and then raised their guns of all sizes and aimed at Luke who was crawling with his hands and feet.

Damn! The Red Falcon soldiers' AI that had turned into living creatures was not as stupid as in the game!

Although he knew that this was almost inevitable, this thought still popped up in Luke's mind as he was being targeted by a dozen guns.

At the same time, even though he didn't know if it would work, he still freed up an arm that was not so strong to his ear, half-crouched and continued to rush forward, trying to reduce the damage he was about to suffer from being shot.

A series of bangs rang out, but what followed was not Luke's screams of pain, but a series of metal collisions.

Luke ran with his head down, not knowing what the ding-ding sound behind him meant. He just ran with all his might until he ran to the cliff of the island below, which was as straight as a knife or an axe. When he jumped down to the shimmering sea surface more than ten meters below without hesitation, his head turned down and his vision turned 180 degrees. He took advantage of the situation and saw a woman at the place he just passed by.

A strange woman with dark skin, messy hair, wearing a standard sailor suit, but holding a short knife with a glittering pink light in her left hand.

Luke's mind instantly connected with the list of heroes he had watched repeatedly in the past few days, and quickly found a person among the E-level heroes who had a high degree of overlap with the holder of this pink knife.

The new generation of black hot girl JK-type heroes-pink Kodachi.

With this thought, Luke tried to straighten his body, raised his hands above his head, and plunged into the calm sea with a splash.