midnight ten

Dungeon time, seven days ago, the 1/10 checkpoint just opened.

The square became a pot of boiling water, and everyone rushed towards the subway entrance.

But Yu Fei left quietly at this moment, followed a figure into the dark alley.

It was a man in a black cloak, his face was deeply hidden in the hood of the cloak, without the lights of the square, he almost blended into the dark alley.

If this attire were thrown into reality, it would attract people to watch every minute, but in the dungeon, people could wear anything, the darker the color, the less conspicuous, not to mention that today was the day of breaking through, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the subway entrance.

If Yu Fei doesn't break through, his task is to follow this man.

The other party stopped at the end of the dark alley, raised his head slightly, and looked at the empty mid-air.

Yu Fei hid behind the corner, the alley was very quiet, and all the conversations came to his ears verbatim.

"Are you going to break through the gate again?"

"Let me help you screen first, let me tell you, there is a very interesting guy this time."

"Every time you say it's interesting, you end up bored to death...It's time, let's stop talking..."

The conversation was short, and it was the other side who ended the communication first.

Yu Fei could see clearly, from beginning to end, there was only the man in the cloak at the bottom of the alley.

So there should be a projection screen that you can't see in midair?Just like the interface that pops up with the arm pattern?

But in the arm pattern of the level breaker, there is no communication facility.

And the dialogue between them is also very strange, what screening, what time is it?

Yu Fei's thoughts were fast, but he turned around with questions, and when he realized something was wrong, his whole body was shrouded in shadow.

Yu Fei raised his head, and the cloaked man was standing in front of him at some point, taller than him by half a head.

"Caught a little mouse." The cloaked man announced with a smile.

Yu Fei finally saw his face clearly.

His facial features are deep and his skin is cold and white, like a vampire in the night.

[Follow him and see where he goes, but if you are found, run immediately, if you can't run away, you have to run, absolutely don't fight him! 】

Yu Fei remembered the organization's reminder.

The feet seem to have taken root.

"Who are you?" He desperately wanted to know the answer.

The cloaked man tilted his head slightly, and a strand of hair fell to his forehead.

Yu Fei was taken aback for a moment, pale golden in color.

"Demos." The man in the cloak spit out three words softly, as gentle as water.

Yu Fei didn't expect the other party to be so happy.

In the next second, my heart suddenly throbbed.

Demos looked at Yu Fei who was covering his heart for a moment, and his smile became more beautiful, as if the person suffering in front of him was not a person, but a mouse in the gutter.

"I quite like you explorers, but you have to be interesting." Demos grabbed Yu Fei's collar and lifted him up easily, his face that was so white that there was no blood color slowly approached, "You If it’s boring, just stay in the cage and be obedient, okay?”

The voice fell softly, and the pain in Yu Fei's heart suddenly intensified.

It's not pure pain, but psychological pain mixed with fear, timidity, withdrawal, wanting to escape but unable to escape.His body can bear it, but his spirit is on the verge of collapse.

In the increasingly blurred field of vision, he saw Li Zhan's figure.

He knew it was a hallucination, but this hallucination woke up his paralyzed nerves.

"Shh-"

The icy sword light came towards him, with the determination to kill him.

Demos didn't expect him to be able to attack, so he turned his head to avoid it, and the next second he threw the person away with force, like throwing a piece of garbage.

Yu Fei flew out uncontrollably, but the unbearable pain in his heart disappeared the moment Demos threw him away.

Almost instinctively, he started his own stationery tree...

Demos watched him fall in the distance, his figure disappeared into other streets and alleys, but he didn't hear the expected muffled sound of falling to pieces.

Frowning, he was not very satisfied with the result.

However, there was an annoying urging in my ears all the time——

[Demos, you have deviated from the area of ​​responsibility, please correct it immediately... Demos, you have deviated from the area of ​​responsibility...]

"Troublesome." He muttered willfully, and Demus pulled off the cap of his cloak, covered his face in the shadow again, and then walked slowly back to the bottom of the alley.

It was a dead end.

But he just disappeared at the end.

At the other end of the dungeon, Yu Fei limped back to his residence.

His injuries were not serious, but his face was covered with small scratches, and he looked very embarrassed.

This is a shabby house. When you enter the door, there is an old dining table and a few broken chairs. You sit by the table with a black mask and a shallow iron plate with disinfectant and gauze in your hand.

Yu Fei sat down opposite him, and confessed first: "I didn't listen to you."

The black mask pushed the iron plate over: "I expected it."

Yu Fei didn't use the medicine, and his eyes were provocative: "Then do you expect me to come back alive?"

The black mask shook his head with a calm tone: "This is nothing to be proud of. If you can come back alive once, it may not be possible to have a second time."

Yu Fei knew that he was venting his anger, but he couldn't control it. Every time the joints in his body hurt, the contemptuous face of the man in the cloak would flash in his mind, arousing his anger.

"I really don't know where your good temper comes from." Yu Fei sometimes suspects that the man wearing a mask on the opposite side of the table is "peace of mind".

The black mask sighed, with only a pair of eyes exposed, innocent and helpless: "Let you little devils who don't know the heights of the world and the depths of the earth grind it."

"Who is he?" Yu Fei stared into the eyes of the black mask, "Why did you ask me to follow him?"

Originally, he and Black Mask were just going to the square to see how they were going through the checkpoint. They accidentally found the cloaked man, and Black Mask asked him to follow him on the spot. The time was too tight for him to ask the reason.

When he was following, he only regarded the black cloak as a passer-by, but after hearing his communication with the "other side", the huge question overturned his previous thoughts, not to mention the cloaked man's terrifying combat power.

Black mask: "Tell me what you found first?"

Yu Fei: "He sneaked into the alley to contact another person. I couldn't see the screen, but it felt like a video communication. The person over there complained about him and went to the gate. He said he would help the other party to screen in advance, and said There is a very interesting person among the passers-by this time."

"Oh yes," Yu Fei raised his head, "His name is Demos."

The black mask nodded casually.

Yu Fei suddenly reacted: "You already knew?"

The black mask has nothing to hide: "We have followed him several times, and one of them was to hear him talking to someone else in the air, and the other party called his name."

Yu Fei now knows why in the square, the black mask recognized the black cloak at a glance. It turned out that black and black attract each other: "Then what did you track out a few times ago?"

The black mask shook his head: "We only know that he is a 'checkpoint man', he likes to wander around the square every time the checkpoint is opened, and sometimes wreaks havoc."

"Checkpoint people?" Yu Fei didn't understand this magical classification for a while.

The black mask explained: "It is the person who appears in this world of breaking through the level and serves the level, but is not the person who breaks through the level."

Yu Fei: "NPC?"

"No," said the black mask, "NPCs in the usual sense should be the ones in the previous levels. Even if they are eliminated by the level breakers, they will appear in the level next time. Every time you meet a breaker, repeat the same memory and behavior, just like a bunch of set data bodies, or artificial intelligence."

"Demos is not." Yu Fei can be sure of this, "When he was talking to the other side, he said 'this time there is an interesting guy', which means that he has a normal continuous memory, and he knows that there are explorers The presence."

The organization Yu Fei joined is called "Discovery", and Black Mask is the backbone of this organization in the dungeon. According to Black Mask, there are similar organizations.

Explorers are collectively referred to as people or organizations that attempt to ascertain the truth of the level world.

"Wait," Yu Fei reacted, and was really shocked at this moment, "You mean, there is a second type of people in this level-breaking world, real people, who don't break through levels, but instead of NPCs, and specialize in serving levels?! "

"Yes," the black mask nodded solemnly, "more importantly, they must know the secrets of this world."

Yu Fei was silent for a while, then suddenly said to himself: "I like you explorers quite a bit, but if you are too stupid, just stay obediently in the cage, okay..."

The black mask looked at him worriedly: "What's wrong?"

"This is what Demos said," Yu Fei understood now, "We are in the cage, and they are outside the cage."

The two sat opposite each other at the old dining table all night.

There is no dawn in the dungeon, only the eternal dim and muddy light.

When the black mask persuaded him to go to sleep, Yu Fei asked the question again: "What is this world?"

The black mask answered patiently like every time: "Let's find out the truth together."

……

2/10 Water World, one day left before the "one-on-one battle".

Fan Peiyang was finally the only one left in the training room.

At first Tang Lin withdrew first, after his wolf shadow was hit by a 5kg dumbbell by mistake.

Then Nan Ge opened another training room on the grounds of "no noise pollution". In fact, she spent most of her time running on the treadmill.

In the end, even someone as strong as Zheng Luozhu couldn't bear it anymore.

He was riding a spinning bike in good condition, and a barbell plate flew past his scalp and hit the wall of the training room on his back.

Emotionally, "you can't leave the devil-trained boss unaccompanied", and rationally, "He is a devil, run away as fast as you can."

Zheng Luozhu ran away.

I also ran back to the hotel in one breath, preparing to buy some wine and snacks, and went to the sea view suite to find the lost sense of security.

Unexpectedly, I ran into an acquaintance in the shopping area—Zhou Yunhui, the leader of the Kongming Lantern Dungeon Branch.

"I heard that you guys have an appointment with the Returning Home Mission?" Zhou Yunhui came over with flip flops, vest, shorts, and a casual island style, with undisguised gossip on his smiling face.

After the subway farewell, they had never seen each other again, but they were not unfamiliar at this moment.

The same goes for Zheng Luozhu.

Passing through the border together, we have both seen each other's most embarrassing side, and we haven't formed any deep hatred with each other. It's really a bit of a subtle class feeling.

"Well, a fat man named Brother Yue." The two walked out of the shopping area and found an empty corner in the lobby. Zheng Luozhu gave him a can of the beer he just bought.

Zhou Yunhui opened it directly, and took a big sip comfortably: "That's the key training object of the Returning Home Mission in 2/10, so be careful."

Zheng Luozhu smelled the information, and immediately asked: "What is the key point?"

"The Water World Branch of the Returning Home Mission has a four-level structure," Zhou Yunhui said, "team leader-captain-team leader-bottom team members. There is only one team leader, three captains, and six team leaders. Under the three captains, the lower-level team members are led by the small captain."

Zheng Luozhu: "Who is that fat man?"

Zhou Yunhui: "One of the three captains, if the team leader breaks through this time, the next team leader of the Water World branch will be selected from the three captains. .”

Zheng Luozhu had to stroke.

If Brother Yue, the fat man, is one of the three captains under the team leader, then the flowered shirt is one of the two small captains under Brother Yue.

Well, the relationship is clear.

"By the way, isn't it one-on-one, which one of you will go?" Zhou Yunhui was most curious about this.

Zheng Luozhu: "Our boss."

"I think so too." Zhou Yunhui's memory of Fan Peiyang when he played against Tyre at the end of the 1/10 round is still fresh.

"Alas—" Zheng Luozhu suddenly sighed heavily.

Zhou Yunhui touched him with a beer can: "Are you worried about your boss?"

Zheng Luozhu raised his head, his face full of humanitarian sincerity: "I'm worried about Brother Yue for the flower shirt."