Quadruple split

October 4, 2049 AD

Real time AM07:23

City G, [Strange and Weird] Branch No. 268.

"welcome."

Ferry Rice appeared at the corner of the stairs as soon as the store door was pushed open. He smiled at the blond, blue-eyed, rather reserved young man at the door and said, "Would you like a poop candy?"

"What's big?"

The visitor was stunned for a moment, then shook his head vigorously, waved the parchment in his hand with a somewhat awkward expression: "No, no, I just want to add some essential oils, aromatherapy and arrows."

Feli immediately snapped his fingers and said with a smile: "No problem, we have imported snow animal fat aromatherapy, black iron magic arrows from the underworld, and more than twenty kinds of essential oils that can effectively deal with various situations. , whether it’s meditation or cooking, there’s something for you.”

"Ah, thank you."

The young man who spoke with a standard London accent nodded vigorously, and then carefully walked to the counter to make a purchase based on the parchment in his hand, looking nervous.

"Relax, man."

Ferry shrugged, leaned on the counter and said in a brisk tone: "Although the number of witchers traveling to this country is very small, I can assure you that no one will want to tie you into a zoo for everyone to admire. .”

The young man pursed his lips, and after a while he smiled bitterly and said, "Sorry, I'm actually very uncomfortable with my current status. You know, just half a year ago, I was just a simple graduate student."

"You can be that now too."

Ferry grinned, raised his eyebrows and said, "To be honest, leaving aside Europe, this country already has no aliens to 'hunt'."

"I know……"

The young man touched his nose coquettishly and said with a complex expression: "To be honest, I am practicing hunting in games now."

"oh!"

Ferri suddenly understood, clapped his hands and said, "Are you planning to cheat?"

"It's just a ritual to strengthen thinking and perception before entering the game. It shouldn't be considered cheating, right?"

The young man whose ID was ‘Devil Hunter’ in [The Realm of Innocence] and who passed all the way to reach the top 32 coughed slightly and said seriously: “I just used my advantages flexibly.”

"It makes sense, then why don't you try this aromatherapy that can greatly improve your perception in a short period of time? It will definitely make you even more powerful during the competition."

"Okay, okay."

…

Real time AM07:35

Red Constellation Club, public rest area

"In short, the first batch of key observation objects in the team competition are these teams. In addition to our old rivals Po Fengniao and Pai Lao, there are also many teams with considerable competitiveness."

Hanmei patted the pages of A4 paper in front of her and said sternly to everyone: "Go back and look at the information on it carefully. Don't let the colleagues in the technical department stay up all night in vain."

"yes--"

Han Guang, Xue Ran, Yin Yue, Gentleman, and Pioneer all responded in unison, looking very well-behaved and docile.

"Everyone remembers to balance work with rest, and don't put too much pressure on yourself."

Kokonoe distributed milk tea to everyone and said softly: "Although our results in the individual battle may be somewhat unsatisfactory, [Innocence Boundary] is a new track after all, so we are enjoying the sense of crisis and urgency. While feeling grateful, you must also remember not to push yourself too hard.”

Xueran, who was squatting on the chair, pouted and whispered: "But I still feel so frustrated..."

"There's nothing to feel bad about. Your loss yesterday was not unfair at all."

Jiuzong shook his head, and then looked at Han Guang, who had an equally depressed expression: "And Xiao Han too, I know you are not willing to give in, but there is no point in immersing yourself in past failures. As professional players, all you have to do is learn from Learn a lesson, and then adjust your mentality as quickly as possible to face the next game in the most perfect mental state."

"yes."

Seeing Jiuzhong enter the preaching state, Hanguang and Xueran immediately sat upright and responded loudly in unison.

"very good."

Jiuzhong smiled, and then turned his attention to Xinglong, who had been silent since just now, leaning on the back of the chair as if dozing off, and asked: "Captain, are you okay with this? Can you help them get revenge? No?"

"able."

Xinglong opened his eyes slightly and said calmly: "Although it probably has no reference value."

"What reference value?"

"Way to win games."

…

Real time AM07:40

City B, in front of the [Wild Rose Garden] theme boutique

"Ugh! The motherland is so scary!"

In the middle of the long queue, Gu Xiaole, who had left the game before dawn and came to queue here, looked around in the crowd with lingering fear and whispered: "No matter how you say it, it is too exaggerated. What era is this?" They came out with tents to queue up! I’m afraid those people at the front have been queuing up here since last night, right? That’s it! It’s just an anniversary-limited figure!”

It can be seen that although the girl had been mentally prepared early, she still did not expect that the scene would be such a grand scene. In other words, although she had the foresight to come early and queue up, but in those almost After all, the fanatic fans who played 12 hours in advance were a little bit disappointed.

"Oh, I hope there are enough goods..."

Desperately suppressing the dangerous thought of using onmyoji to jump in line, Gu Xiaole sighed deeply: "If I had known earlier, I might as well have given up and logged off yesterday to come and queue up."

…

at the same time

"belch--"

The morning glory who had just finished breakfast at a roadside stall burped, stood up with great satisfaction, and walked along the road with his hands behind his back like a retired cadre. He seemed to be in a good mood.

There was really no reason for him to be unhappy. After all, in Dahua Qianniu's view, he was able to break into the top 32 in a daze because he was just a piece of shit luck, and he was already taking advantage of it.

It is true that the strength of Big Flower Morning Glory is actually not bad. Although it is not comparable to the players on the rankings, it is not much worse than the Great Bright Knight Kevin and others. Although it is not strong, it is The combat power of 0.75 Yuying is still there, but this strength may be acceptable among ordinary players, but if it is thrown into the top 32 of the [Inquisition Battle] individual battle, it is really not enough.

So the question is, how did Petunia dahua get to this point despite its lackluster strength?

First of all, and the most important point, the fortune of Petunia dahua is very good. Although he was defeated frequently in the audition stage, since he stumbled into the main competition, his opponents have basically not been particularly strong. , so at least in the first few rounds, Petunia dahua is indeed an opponent that can be defeated based on its strength.

After that, as the overall level of his opponents improved, Petunia dahua soon realized that it was difficult for him to defeat his opponents in a head-to-head confrontation, so he entered the 'bad' mode, focusing on muddling through, always Maintain the mentality of 'make money when you win, but not lose when you lose'.

And guess what?

Maybe it's because Petunias has no special features from equipment to appearance. Ever since he started to show off, none of his opponents could catch him. In other words, no one could catch him. Realize this guy is a player.

Under this premise, the system’s limited ‘balance adjustment’ becomes extremely valuable.

In this way, on the basis that the opponent fails to recognize the identity of the player of Petunia grandiflora, the latter who has the advantage in time, location, and people can always inexplicably gain a huge advantage, and occasionally even appear A situation where the opponent is killed by an NPC despite doing nothing.

In short, Petunia Grandiflora reached the top 32 unreasonably. By the way, his opponent in the game of 64 and 32 was a sneak attack on an NPC who was counter-killed due to 'mistaken identity'. Get rid of it.

Of course, it's luck, but how to disguise yourself as an NPC and how to successfully annihilate everyone is also an art in Dahua Petunia's opinion, so much so that he even wanted to write a book "How to Make a Triumph" .

However, Dahua Petunia also knows that although his routine of pretending to be an NPC is useful, in the final analysis it is just a little cleverness that is difficult to achieve. It is okay to deal with ordinary masters, but if you really bump into those top players, you will be in trouble. Jiuhui will be sent away directly.

[And starting from today, every game will be broadcast live. The days of my face being ‘public’ are coming to an end. 】

Big Flower Morning Glory smacked his lips, but did not show the slightest melancholy. After all, in his opinion, he had already made a lot of money, and if he tried to go further, he would be in trouble with himself.

"Eh? What's so exciting about this?"

At this moment, Big Flower Morning Glory suddenly noticed that there was a burst of cheers in front of a building with rather flamboyant decoration not far away, and then saw all kinds of ribbons, fireworks, etc. spraying all over the sky. I immediately walked over out of curiosity, and within a few minutes I discovered that this was the theme store of a well-known animation IP.

"Please line up, everyone! Please line up!"

Two clerks holding loudspeakers rushed out of the store with small steps, maintaining order with ease and calming the "long queue". The big flower morning glory smacked its lips and muttered, " I don’t understand your two-dimensional character very well, so he took steps to leave.

The result was just then——

"Little brother!"

Soon enough, a livid-faced middle-aged man suddenly grabbed the arm of the petunia and said with eyes wide open: "Help me get out of the queue!"

"ah?"

Big Flower Morning Glory was confused at that time.

"please!"

The man held the morning glory's arm tightly with one hand, and covered his stomach with the other hand. He gritted his teeth and said: "Help uncle line up, wait for uncle to come back after finishing, I will give you zero... pocket money money!"

After saying that, the man suddenly dragged the morning glory into the team, and ran away without looking back, clutching his stomach.

"ha?"

The big flower morning glory looked at the uncle's back with a blank expression, and after a while he murmured: "I remember there is no toilet nearby..."

Just like that, Big Flower Morning Glory stood in line in a daze. Although he didn't know what everyone was doing in line at first, he watched the people at the front walking out of the store happily holding figurine boxes. He gradually understood what it looked like when it came out.

"Isn't he just a little plastic man..."

While Dahua Petunia was bored and searching for the current anniversary on the Internet on his mobile phone, he slowly followed the team forward. Slowly, there were fewer and fewer people in front of him, and he was getting closer and closer to the store, and that The uncle who asked him to help queue up showed no sign of coming back.

[Let me just say there are no toilets nearby. 】

Big Flower Morning Glory smacked its lips, and was just about to leave the team to do whatever it was that they wanted to do, but suddenly came across a comment saying, 'As of now, the price of the limited-edition figure [Major] has been increased to five times the original price.' The leg that had already moved halfway was retracted at that time.

About another ten minutes passed, until Big Flower Morning Glory walked into the store, but the uncle still hadn't come back, so he spent five hundred yuan with peace of mind to buy the last 20th anniversary limited edition [Major 】Figure.

And as the clerk said, "Thank you, everyone, the limited edition items in this store have been sold out," the girl in line behind the morning glory suddenly turned pale and froze in place as if struck by lightning.

【Just a little bit! 】

Gu Xiaole stared at the man holding her 'husband No. 7' in his arms, feeling filled with grief and anger for a moment.

After noticing Gu Xiaole's gaze, Big Flower Morning Glory was obviously stunned for a moment, and then turned to face the other person and showed a refreshing and bright smile.

Obviously, Gu Xiaole, the great onmyoji who always lingers on the first page of the list, is much more famous than the big flower morning glory who has made it to the top 32 and is still unknown. And the big flower morning glory who happened to have watched Gu Xiaole compete , and immediately recognized this beautiful girl who looked exactly the same as in the game.

So he smiled politely at Gu Xiaole, taking it as a greeting.

However, in Gu Xiaole's eyes, Petunia's polite smile was downright provocative.

He is a person who can be caught in a queue to buy limited edition items just for a walk. He is the ultimate, ultimate, ultimate mockery of himself, a person who rushed out before dawn and queued for half an hour and got nothing.

"snort!"

Forcibly suppressing the urge to show off this guy, Gu Xiaole finally gritted his teeth and chose to leave.

The Big Flower Morning Glory looked at the girl's angry back with curiosity. After a while, he muttered in confusion: "Speaking of which, why is she here?"

…

Game time AM07:05

"ladies and gentlemen."

"Men and women!"

"Welcome to the final day of the [Crime Debate·Individual Competition], where 32 will advance to 16 in Group AB."

"I am the narrator Smiley."

"I'm the handsome commentator."

"I'm the commentator beauty."

"I am the Narrator Wife."

“Well, without further ado, what’s coming soon is the first round of Group AB——”

"Windbreaker Club [Netherworld], fighting against the unnamed beautiful girl professional player [Rebbe Hopkins]!"

Chapter 1996: End