The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

Almost kicked by the old cat and kicked out of the cabin, the passing person shot out a walking rope, one end of the rope was hooked on the hull of the star of the distant voyage opposite, he and you took the other end, shoulder to shoulder, together Jump up to the little door that was open for them.

"Where did all those wasps go?" You held up your gun and asked in confusion.

When he and the first time passing by came to the Voyage Star one after the other, the surface of the spaceship disguised as a planet was full of drones, and the whole spaceship was like a giant beehive.And now, the spaceship in front of them is deserted, and those drones have disappeared, as if they never existed.

"Maybe it's inside, or maybe...they're here." Pu Yiyang stared at the pure black hull on the air screen, and a somewhat absurd thought came to his mind, "Tell me, could it be this ship? Is it alive in itself?"

One shot at you: "What do you mean?"

Pu Yiyang said: "Those hornets, I mean, drones. Could it be that they are not the guards of the Voyage Star, but the Voyage Star itself?"

He pointed to the slightly swinging door in front of him.

How this door was born out of thin air, he and you can see it with a single shot.He also saw with his own eyes how the first bee swarm devoured Cui Jiu's No. [-] boat, and then gave birth to an identical replica.Perhaps, those wasps are not independent individuals, they are connected with each other, just like human hands and feet, they cooperate seamlessly, they are cells one after another, and together constitute the macroscopic existence of "Voyage Star".

That is to say, when they first wanted to log in to the Voyage Star, they might have taken this big thing as an annoying fly, stretched out their hands and slapped them a few times, but they didn't kill them, and then sent out the immune cell vanguard , I want to purify their dirty things.

"You mean, we are going to enter the belly of this living thing." If you shot your brains and connected with a computer, your face must be blue, "let's go in from the...entrance below."

The outstretched foot was stiff, and he seemed to want to turn around and walk away.

Pu Yiyang didn't expect that the elder brother's mind was more out of bounds than his, so he immediately found the most ecstatic metaphor for the door in front of him.He laughed dryly, pretending he didn't hear it, and lowered himself to get into the "entrance" that was opened for him.

Moments before entering the door, he caught a glimpse of a small plume of black smoke in the lower left corner of the screen.

This stream of black smoke has been lingering near the doorknob, it looks like it wants to get in the door, but it seems to be hesitant.As soon as the passers-by approached, the black smoke rushed over like someone who had waited and wanted to wait.

Pu Yiyang remembered how this thing mercilessly took Cui Jiu's life just now, and his first reaction was to withdraw his hand.But as soon as he withdrew his hand, the black smoke stopped. Not only did it not swarm up like a crow seeing carrion, but it retreated a little.

Could it be that after swallowing Cui Jiu, this thing became a little more human?

Pu Yiyang felt that his idea was so ridiculous that it was ridiculous.

DELTA is a game. Even after the appearance of the Voyage Star, the rules he knew so well before faintly showed signs of collapse, but it has not reached such a fantasy level.He approached the black smoke tentatively, and glanced at his system interface.

There are no interactive popups.

In other words, at least in the system, this black smoke is not a weapon or item that players can pick up.

What are you still sticking to him for?

The behavior of this black smoke was not set by the system, so his previous absurd conjecture had a faint possibility of coming true.A certain association popped up in Pu Yiyang's mind. In the real world, the act of devouring may cause the fusion of DNA between the devourer and the devoured.If Professor Cheng's guess is correct, the Voyage Star has induced the separation of consciousness of some players through some means, and generated a consciousness double A-VATAR, is it possible? The so-called means are these small drones—— Or the devouring of players by the cells of the star of the voyage?

If it is understood in this way, the black smoke in front of him may indeed be the afterimage of Cui Jiu's consciousness.

He boldly stretched out his hand a little.

Hei Yan seemed to have finally got permission, and happily slid towards him.

At this time, the Tyreans finally prepared their minds, took a deep breath, and were about to make up their minds to accompany a passing person through the "back door" of the Voyage Star, when they happened to bump into the moment when the passing person stretched out his hand.

The black smoke whizzed up faster than the wind, and got into the pockets of passing by without a sound.

With one shot, you stared at the passing hand that hadn't had time to retract, and asked in a strange tone: "Why are you stretching out your hand?"

Pu Yiyang: "..."

It was obviously not something shameful, but for some reason he still felt a little guilty.

"Tsk," the Tyrian suddenly turned his head away, and muttered in a low voice, "Forget about coaxing little girls."

Having said that, he still responded with great reluctance and restraint.

Pu Yiyang looked at the extra hand passing by on the screen, and was stunned for a few seconds, his ten fingers pressing the air keyboard were trembling, and he almost couldn't breathe due to holding back his laughter.

Smiling, he still held hands without hesitation, holding that person, it didn't seem to matter what door he got through, as mountains of knives and sea of ​​fire can walk into a road of flowers.

After passing through this door, they officially entered the belly of the star of the voyage.

"Is this the cabin?" Pu Yiyang frowned and muttered, "It's so different from when I came here before."

When he came in last time, what he saw was an ordinary spaceship cabin. Whether it was furnishings or decorations, it was a common style in DELTA. It was full of technology and beautifully lit.

And the cabin in front of him looks like it has been deserted for hundreds of years. The floor and walls are dark, uneven and mottled, as if full of rust stains. It looks really dirty and dilapidated.The operation panel embedded in the cabin is also flickering, and most of its functions have been lost at first glance.This is a genuine abandoned ship, and there is a long-lasting dead silence everywhere, similar to the underwater sunken ship in archaeological documentaries.

With one shot, you have rejection written all over your body: "This is the boat of the Wa people? It's a garbage dump."

Pu Yiyang said: "The Wa tribe has been extinct for a long time in the setting. If it is really the boat they left behind, it is normal for it to become like this after sailing for thousands of years."

The problem is, it's a game.

DELTA is lifelike, but after all, it is for players to explore and play. If it is not intentional to create an atmosphere of a barren ship, no one will deliberately make the environment so that it is difficult to get on.

Who made Voyage Star like this?

Of course that person is not from the Wa clan.The Wa tribe is a legend that only exists in DELTA, and the real creator is naturally outside the game.

"That door is open," complained Gui complained, you wouldn't stand still after a shot, he pointed to the next door outside the passage, "It seems that the horse face went in first."

He said he was going to follow.

"Wait a minute," Pu Yiyang said, "There seems to be something on the wall."

The passer-by bent down, stretched out his fingers without feeling dirty at all, and wiped the rusty wall beside him.

It was miraculous to say that as soon as he rubbed it with his fingertips, the black rust changed suddenly, like ink soaked in water, it disappeared without a trace.

Pu Yiyang looked at his fingers in reality, almost thinking that he had acquired some new skill of "cleaning the wall with one click".

Soon he discovered that those rust spots had not disappeared, but had seeped out of the wall again. This time, it was as if an invisible pen was dipped in ink, drawing a picture on the wall stroke by stroke.

Not long after, there were a lot of thick and thin curved lines on the wall, winding the entire cabin.

With one shot, you said unceremoniously: "What the hell is this ghostly drawing?"

"It seems to be a mural." The tip of his nose almost touched the wall as he passed by. He bent his waist like an old pedant, started from the entrance, looked a little, and then moved a little to the side. His attitude was so careful that he almost picked it up on the spot. Get a magnifying glass.

The reason why he thought it was a mural was because of the similar pattern, which he seemed to have seen when he first came to Voyage Star.

"These circles, are they planets?" He narrowed his eyes, took out a star map of Delta from the package, stretched and rotated the small window, fixed an angle, and pasted it on the wall.

It fits perfectly, exactly.

With one shot, you squeezed out a sentence: "I'm playing tricks again."

Pu Yiyang knew that he was not the one who scolded him, but subconsciously he didn't think that he was pretending to be a ghost.If the people who created the voyage star were just to create A-VATAR, they only need to release a swarm of bees to capture the player's consciousness.The person who designed this cabin and intentionally painted such a mural here has only one purpose. He wants people who come here to see this, and he wants to convey certain messages.

What will this message be?

He tried his best to distinguish and analyze the highly abstract graphics with a strong retro flavor in front of him.

"The one with the long tail, who holds the entire galaxy in his arms, let's just take him as the Wa tribe," Pu Yiyang said, pointing to the humanoid pattern that appeared later, "The image of the Wa tribe has never been officially set in DELTA. It appeared in the episode, I guessed it based on the legend of Nuwa in the legend."

A beam of light hit the passing head, illuminating the originally dim next pattern.

The Tire figure seemed to have made up his mind, and was ready to play this guessing game with pictures: "Then what does this mean, the Wa people are dead?"

In the pattern, the long tail that wrapped countless planets was broken. Suddenly, the planets have different brightness and darkness. Although the position has not changed, the star map of DELTA still matches the universe on the mural. , but compared before and after, this galaxy is no longer a whole, as if it is falling apart.

The two continued to walk a little to the side.

This wall seems to have been splashed with extra ink. Those large and disorderly ink dots are rushing from the edge of the galaxy to every planet, and every planet is getting darker. From those light and dark changes, anyone can Read out the sense of struggle coming to your face.

After that, there were more and more ink stains, and the sticky black ink swallowed up most of the planet, as if it had become a monster with a swollen abdomen, and there were countless black ink stains like tentacles stretching out from the monster's body , without exception, all point to the last planet.

That planet was drawn in more detail than any of the previous ones, with light and shade, and a vivid coastline.

This is a planet that does not exist in the DELTA galaxy, but Pu Yiyang and another person are more familiar with it than any other planet.

Because that is Earth.

The earth that suddenly appeared in such a strange mural is like a line poking out from the screen, which connects reality and illusion together.

Why is the earth drawn here?What is the meaning of this mural?

Pu Yiyang couldn't wait to look to the side, but the next picture was cut off in the middle.To see it any further, they had to go through the next door first.

He walked towards the door without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, just as he arrived at the door, the door that was slightly open suddenly closed with a bang.

Not only that, but the murals on the wall gradually faded away, and the slashing ink marks moved again, forming new characters——

leave here! ! !

There are three thick and colorful exclamation marks, one is thicker than the other, until the last one, the bottom point has been splashed, and the edges are extremely rough. This line of flamboyant characters jumped into Pu Yiyang's sight, as if smashed into his brain In general, left a deep echo.

This voice has been following him ever since he started thinking about coming to the Voyage Star.The words on the tents in Siam City, and the prompts on the bridge when I came here for the first time, all sent a strong signal.

Someone didn't let him come to Voyage Star.

While he was staring blankly, there was another upheaval in the cabin.Together with the sentence above, the bulkhead in front collapsed with a click.Starting from the suddenly closed door, the floor was shattered inch by inch, falling down together with the wall.

One hand firmly grabbed the passerby.

With one shot, you backed away from the door when you were carrying him as you walked back and forth quickly.

The Tyrian said eagerly, "Don't go."

The emotion contained in this voice was even more frightening than those passing by. At that moment, Pu Yiyang vaguely felt the man's hesitation.

That line of words was repeated over and over again, still dancing in front of his eyes, he let the passing backhand grab you tightly and shot you.

"No, I must go," he said.

Not only for Qian Yiyi, but also for Cao Yiclump, but also for himself.He has been chasing the answer for ten years, and he has a strong premonition that the tip of the iceberg will be revealed this night.

A large piece of darkness struck, and he and the Tyrians on the screen fell into the abyss at their feet.

Pu Yiyang sat cross-legged off the screen, his chest rose and fell several times, and he held his breath.