Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"So the flight system that will appear later means that Infinity has already found a lot of capabilities in this area, but it has not been fully researched yet. Do you plan to use this as a breakthrough?"

On the beach where the forest extends, Garcia and Han Zu were lying on the soft sand with their backs against a tree trunk. Next to them was an assembled game cabin transporter, and the two were talking.

"almost."

"Being able to fly is certainly amazing, but I think, according to our previous speculation, even if you can gain the ability to fly before the flight system appears, Infinity should have a countermeasure. And if we follow the conspiracy theory, they should have someone who has gained the ability to fly now."

"You make sense. Since Infinite Company has corresponding countermeasures for all my abilities, it doesn't really matter to them whether I can fly or not."

"Then why are you so obsessed with this?"

"In my opinion, the ability to fly is never an ultimate result. It is just an additional product of certain capabilities. For example, a spacecraft can fly thanks to a reactor that can produce powerful energy, and the energy used for flying only accounts for a small part of the total energy."

"So what you actually want is to get that reactor... No, according to your idea, you want to get the ability to build a reactor, right?"

"Yes, and I must be one step ahead of Infinite Company. For some reason, every copy will be completely destroyed after I clear it or obtain something. Some are my ideas, but some are self-destructed for various reasons. I just need to step into the area that Infinite Company has not fully developed, gain some abilities from it, and then destroy that place. I can find things that Infinite Company has not yet finished researching. Little by little, there will always be a day when I can overturn the table."

"And the flight capability that Infinity Corporation has recently been researching is the most recent goal."

"Yes."

"But when I was at the rat removal company, I saw experimental subjects with the ability to fly. Doesn't this mean that it's too late for this line?"

"When I participated in the flight system test of Infinity, almost all flight capabilities had many restrictions. One of them was the same, that is, there was a test area. During the test, the researchers mentioned several times not to let me fly out of the test area."

"I guess you left the testing area on purpose, but made it look like an accidental operator error."

"Yes, I discovered one thing. Almost the moment I left the test area, my ability to fly disappeared."

"That is to say, the Unlimited Company can only guarantee energy delivery within a fixed area, and there is a maximum range."

"Yes, and what I have to do is to find a stable energy source, absorb it, and then find a way to merge it with the Gift of the Dead Realm. In this way, I will have an endless source of energy. In other words, when the flight system is officially launched in Infinite City, I will have the ability to go beyond the range explored by Infinite Company, and find more abilities that they have not yet studied or even discovered. Then the snowball effect will roll."

Garcia nodded. She agreed with Han Zu's statement, but she also pointed out some problems, the most important one of which was the scope.

According to Han Zu's previous statement, all the dungeons were places developed by the Infinite Company. If this was true, then according to the previous statement, the size of the dungeon in Chuan Gu County was almost as large as three or four cities. It would be very difficult to obtain energy that exceeded this concept.

"Not really. According to the Infinite City, Kawano County should be considered a super-large instance, but to me, that place feels like a rough house with only one room decorated."

"You mean to say that Infinite Company has encountered a bottleneck in expanding its energy range?"

"Yeah, so that gives me time to outpace them."

"But those areas that have not been studied or developed should not appear in the matching system of Infinite City, right? Then how can we get to those places that have not been discovered or are just beginning to be developed?"

"Use the special passages that appear in the existing copies. I went to the Creation Engine this way before. That was also the only time I returned here without going through the game cabin of the Infinite City."

"So the solution we have now is just luck. That's not good."

"Not entirely. The Gift of the Dead Realm in my body always draws me to places where unknown anomalies occur. But its concentration is too low right now, so the information is very vague. But your presence might be able to solve this problem."

"You want me to do some field tests and analyze the general direction from them? So, your decision to let me join was also influenced by the Gift of the Realm of Death?"

"There is this factor, but not entirely. I think the so-called "system" in the Infinite City also has some problems. Sometimes the system prompts you hear are completely different from normal system prompts and are more humane."

"Not to mention your system has failed several times."

"Yes."

"Then what do we do now?"

"Activate the transmission device and lure that thing over here to the Infinite City. Use some relatively stable large energy sources to attract its attention, and then increase the energy output so that it has to use its abilities to resist being blown up, while not giving it a chance to escape."

"You want to weaken it and then absorb it?"

"Yes, there is no description of the black shadow in the documents found by the monitoring team before, so the monitoring team should have never seen it, or they have not found a way to study it."

"If that's the case, we'll need a large reactor and a place with a retardation field or a stasis field. An energy laboratory might be a good choice."

"Energy laboratory... Hmm... Let me think..."

Han Zu quickly thought of a place and input the corresponding information into the transmission device converted from the game cabin. As the energy device was activated at full power, the transmission portal gradually began to take shape.

"Is that it? But why does it feel a little different?"

Following the direction of Garcia's finger, Han Zu saw the black shadow hiding in the forest. It quickly crawled in the shadow of the bushes and arrived next to the operating transmission device in a flash.

"This is..?"

A small portion of dark green on the originally blurry black shadow destroyed the overall sense of integrity, just like a small pool of paint on a neat black cloth.

"The Gift of Death in your body seems to have some effect on it."

Han Zu stretched out his finger and touched the dark green spot on the black shadow's body. This time, Han Zu's body did not suffer any damage. Han Zu could even feel a small amount of energy being transmitted into his body in a certain direction.

"It seems my idea is feasible."

As Han Zu and Garcia talked, the black shadow opened its body and turned into something like a piece of silk, slowly crawling onto the teleportation device. The portal generated a strong suction force and sucked it in within a few seconds.

"Let's go, it's time to start working."

Following the black shadow, Han Zu and Garcia also stepped into the portal.

"Om~"

Somewhere in an unknown location.

A dazzling light appeared in Han Zu's eyes and it took a while to dissipate. Although the system of Infinite City was still online, there was almost no voice broadcast this time, only a name.

"Crash Point 19-2-A"

No one knew where the black shadow had gone, but Han Zu was not worried for the time being. As long as he found a large enough energy device, he could attract it back.

"This doesn't look like an energy laboratory."

Garcia raised his head and looked around. There was a patch of grass around him, but it was dense and messy, with a large number of unknown species growing on it. It was even difficult to determine whether they were plants. There were also some things that looked like huge rocks, slowly moving. There were some species standing in groups of three or two nearby, which looked like big trees in appearance, but their trunks were slowly producing some gas. Although the color of the gas was very fancy and there were all kinds of things, it should be completely non-toxic.

Around Garcia and Han Zu, some unique-looking creatures of varying sizes were eating what we will call plants on the ground or on tree trunks, or were being eaten by those plants. Occasionally, some creatures flew by in the sky, similarly, either looking for food or being eaten by what they found. Except for the occasional unique calls, the surrounding environment achieved a strange harmony.

"There's nothing wrong with my body. The air here should be breathable, at least for us to breathe. There are no allergic symptoms on exposed skin. The atmosphere here is completely harmless to us. What does your system say?"

"They only provided a name, no other information. The crash site is 19-2-A. It looks like we're lucky. This should be a place that Infinity Company hasn't had time to research yet."

"So what direction should we go in?"

"Here, my physical characteristics seem to have found a big guy."

Walking through the plains with strange plants and animals, a refreshing breeze occasionally blew over the body. It seemed very peaceful here. Most of the animals they encountered were not hostile to Han Zu and Garcia, nor were they curious about them. They were doing their own things. On the contrary, the plants were more aggressive, but the ones they encountered so far did not pose any real threat to Garcia, let alone Han Zu.

Occasionally, when I look up at the sky, I can see clear and bright stars. The sky is clean and transparent, with few clouds, but the surrounding environment does not become very dark. This may be because many plants and animals have luminous properties.

"These animals and plants feel strange to the touch, like..."

"They all have a thin film of gas on their bodies."

"Yes, that's the feeling. Also, these animals and plants don't seem to react much when they are hunting or being preyed on. Why is that?"

"You're doing live-action research, and you're asking me? All I can say is that maybe we haven't seen the top predator yet. Oh, here we are, right here."

Following the direction of Han Zu's finger, Garcia released a strange little animal and looked in the direction of Han Zu's finger. A huge spaceship crashed not far away. A deep sliding mark appeared on the ground at the tail of the hull. The bow tilted downward and inserted into the mud. The hull tilted to the right. It should have slid a long distance before stopping here after an emergency landing.

Using swarm drones to observe first, it was found that there was basically no one outside the spacecraft. However, in front of some hatches on the rear side of the spacecraft, some temporary camps built by humans were found. However, they were less than half built, and some of them had not even completed the framework.

The information was shared with Garcia, and the two walked towards the spaceship while talking. Garcia raised some questions.

"According to the information you received, and of course I can see it with my own eyes now, there is no sign of damage on the outside of this huge spaceship, but it was forced to land in this place, and there are many temporary camps being built around it, so it should not have been attacked. Why did it crash here?"

"The power unit is malfunctioning? But it doesn't look like it?"

"Go in and take a look?"

"Walk."

With the help of the swarm, the two quickly found an open hatch on the spacecraft and walked towards it.

"Wait a minute, Han Zu! I think I stepped on something, and it doesn't feel right!"

"Let me see."

Garcia was only wearing a lab coat he had found in the research institute, and Han Zu was only wearing a pair of beach shorts he had found somewhere, so both of them were walking barefoot on the ground. Garcia had clearly stepped on something strange, and it felt completely different from the ground.

"This is... Let me clean up these plants first."

Han Zu knelt on the ground, stretched out his hands and touched the thing that Garcia stepped on, but it was covered by some strange plants that looked like a mixture of lichens and weeds. After cleaning it up, Han Zu took the thing out from under the plants that covered it.

"Space suit?"

"It looks like there's someone inside."

When he opened the mask of the space suit, a strong fragrance wafted out, a bit like an overly strong perfume. Although the smell was not pungent, it was as disgusting as the thick smell of car perfume in a closed car in winter with the heater on.

"Uh! It reminds me of those elderly taxi drivers in City C. The smell is so unpleasant."

"There is indeed a person in here, but it looks... rotten? No, I'll take a closer look."

Garcia looked carefully at the remains inside. The body was not swollen and rotten, but looked like a moist mummy infested with parasites. It was covered with things similar to parasitic plants. Judging from the depth of color, those parasitic plants were still alive, but their activity had become much weaker, probably because the nutrients were almost absorbed.

"This should be infected by the spores of something?"

"You're right, Han Zu. That's the case. However, there is no sign of damage to the mask on his space suit, and there are no gaps in other places. The plants that covered him before only covered him and did not pierce his space suit. What's going on?"

"Look for nearby camps or terminals scattered around. I have a feeling that he might not be the only one dead."

Han Zu pointed to the huge spaceship next to him.

"It looks like it can hold at least a few hundred people."

After searching the area, Garcia found some terminals and documents on a table made of storage boxes. The terminal was still on, but its battery was almost exhausted. Based on the power required for standby mode, this terminal had been turned on at least four months ago.

"So this spaceship crashed here four months ago. If you look at the logs above, there should be some information from that time."

Garcia checked the logs on the terminal, while Han Zu released the two death hounds to let them breathe. However, as soon as the hounds appeared, they ran back into Han Zu's body. Han Zu was a little surprised. From the induction with the two hounds, Han Zu learned that although they were fine, they hated this smell very much. This smell made the two hounds feel uncomfortable as if they had heatstroke.

"Maintenance log... Cargo list... Project objectives... Ah! Found it, the crew log is here."

"I wanted to take the dog for a walk, but I'll just take a look."