The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

Are you dead?

Pu Yiyang waited and waited, but he still couldn't wait for DELTA's system prompt.After another two seconds, the screen turned on again, and he realized that the black screen just now was not the death of the character, but a scene switch.

Passing by and a shot blast you did not die in the collapsed cave, but was teleported to a new scene.The place in front of me looks like a church, with a very high dome, and a long aisle leading straight to the front.The walls are so white that they don't look like marble or metal, but they are bright and spotless, like the white of a freshly peeled egg, which is completely different from the previous cabins and cave structures.

Are they still on Voyage Star? There shouldn't be a hidden copy called Paradise in DELTA.

Pu Yiyang observed the environment, and then turned his gaze back to another person.When the two teleported, they still maintained their posture in the cave. The Tyrian hugged him tightly and lowered his head slightly, as if the sky was falling to cover him.Until now, that person has remained motionless, presumably because he was too nervous and hadn't had time to glance at the screen.

He secretly laughed twice in his heart, and shot into your ear and said: "You still don't open your eyes, do you want me to kiss you?"

The Tyrian exploded in an instant, and hurriedly pushed the passerby out, halfway through, and seemed a little hesitant, pinched the two arms of the passerby stiffly, and said angrily, "Are you playing with me again?"

These words seem to want to be fierce, but no matter what, Pu Yiyang looks at the beautiful and flawless face on the screen, regretting in his heart, but it is a pity that there is no brain-computer connection, He couldn't see the guy's real expression at this time.

He has long noticed that the domineering and fierce Mr. Xiang is sometimes unexpectedly innocent.

When people are dying, it is easy to tell the truth. At that juncture just now, he really thought that the passer-by would go to heaven, and he was outside the screen, so he was not immune to infection. He accidentally told the little Jiujiu hidden in his heart. come out.Right now this person is not dead, they are still facing each other, and he is not sure how to proceed.

Words spoken are like water poured out, and Xiang Hong is not a fool, he joked a lot, anyone can smell some truth from it.

And now that Pu Yiyang is here, he doesn't want to continue joking with Xiang Hong anymore.

In his life, he has spoken insincerely often, but when he really wants to say a few serious words, he is stiff and stiff, for fear that the words will not convey the meaning.As soon as the brain was hot, the hands preceded the will, and issued a command to the passing people.

The human youth approached the Tyrian man who was standing stupidly like a ghost, pulled the man's head lower, and quickly stuck his face against it.

Pu Yiyang swallowed, and said to himself, same-sex people can still kiss, the game of DELTA is really unfathomable.

The Tyres were even more stunned than before, standing as horizontally and vertically as in the formula book, and the whole person was completely unresponsive.

Shouldn't it be disconnected?

Pu Yiyang scratched his eyebrows, and glanced at the closed door guiltily, feeling as if he heard some noise from inside, maybe Xiao Xiang always kicked something over.Will that person become enraged later, rush out of the room, call him shameless for being whimsical, and then angrily beat him up?

It would be nice to really beat him up.He thought, so he would be sober.

But the room was quiet again, and the man obviously didn't want him to get what he wanted.

"Hey," the Tyrian in the game said in a low voice, "you, cough, you're blocking my screen."

Pu Yiyang: "..."

Passing by too close, it stands to reason that it would block most of that guy's line of sight, but is this something he should think about at this time?

The impulse in his heart to rush to the next door to get that person out grew wildly again, but in the end, he still made the passers-by back away a little obediently.

Tire seemed to be finally satisfied, and took a few steps forward like a normal person.

Pu Yiyang's heart sank a little.

Then the man suddenly turned his head again.

"You," the voice that shot you out still maintains the tone just now, trembling and with a little high pitch, as if squeezed out of the mouth of the flower, very awkward, "Are you real?"

Pu Yiyang nodded solemnly off the screen: "Really."

You raised your hand, pointed at yourself, and said in a complicated voice, "Why?"

what why?To confess to someone these days, do you still have to give a reason in [-] words?

Pu Yiyang was a little confused about this CEO Xiang's tricks, and he said something very aggressive: "That's not because you are so cute."

The Tyrians didn't immediately rush up to fight him desperately.

"Just because you're good-looking?" He touched his face, his voice erratic and thoughtful.

Pu Yiyang always felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't explain it when he wanted to explain it. As he was thinking about it, he saw a light on the dome.

"It's a mural," he shot your arm, "the mural has appeared again!"

The ink blot continued the previous trajectory, wriggling and twisting, slowly enveloping the planet in the middle of the dome.The planet is shining brightly, but it still can't resist the invasion of the ink marks. It's like facing a huge tsunami, seeing the end of its own destruction, but there is no way to escape.

Perhaps knowing that it was Earth, the discomfort of the image was multiplied.After a while, the ink stains covered the dome, completely engulfing the lonely planet, and even the last gleam of light sank into the ink sea.

The two people standing under the dome seemed to have witnessed the death of the earth, and they were silent for a while.

"Do you think this dark thing is the one in the cave just now?" Pu Yiyang said suddenly.

This hardly seems like a coincidence.The black mud that has absorbed many consciousnesses will gradually grow and swallow everything. What the mural tells them is logically connected with what they saw in the cave.

Perhaps these three scenes themselves are connected together.They entered the Voyage Star, and the first thing they saw was the dilapidated cabin, which was what they imagined a ship might look like; then the cabin was broken, they entered a cave, and found the A -VATAR, thinking that they have found the plausible truth.The murals in the cabin only reached the point where ink stains rushed to the earth, and the black mud in the cave was rampant. When they arrived here, they saw the end of the murals.

The earth is dead.

So what happened in the cave is actually part of the mural, but it is not painted on the wall, but directly expressed.

In this way, in a sense, this strange space in front of him can indeed be called the world after death.

"Who?" At this moment, a gunshot fired and you suddenly shouted, "Who is playing tricks here?"

Pu Yiyang also followed the eyes of the Tyrians.

A door emerges from the end of the hallway.The door itself is translucent, and there are patterns similar to the mural style floating on the door leaf, with circles and long snakes swaying their tails.

Pu Yiyang opened his eyes wide: "I saw this door when I first came to the Voyage Star."

At that time, he was still puzzled, this door looked so simple and weird, it was like walking on the wrong set, somehow it was connected to the bridge of the Voyage Star.

You stared at the door and obviously recognized it, and you were even more excited than Pu Yiyang. You pulled out the gun and held it in your hand as if you were facing a big enemy.

A few meters away, those crystal lines twisted, drifted around, and soaked into the air. At the same time, the door opened.

A dazzling light shot directly from the door, almost brightening the screen by tens of percent.Pu Yiyang blinked several times, resisting the urge to shed tears, finally got used to the light, and then looked inside the door.

He saw the familiar blue beam of light again!

When they first came to Voyage Star, on the bridge, they saw the beam of light.

The beam of light was once wrapped with glass crystals, but you took it out with a single shot, which caused so many troubles later.

And right now it's empty.

"Hello, No. 1701, No. 1702, welcome to the Voyage Star again." A female voice appeared out of thin air.

A shot exploded and you turned around, looking around.

Pu Yiyang asked: "Didn't you hear last time?"

A shot blasts you and you say strangely: "No."

"Okay, last time I thought it was the AI ​​of the Voyage Star, now..." Pu Yiyang looked at the beam of light and asked tentatively, "Cough, ma'am, who are you?"

The female voice replied: "You are right, I am the AI ​​of the Voyage Star."

Pu Yiyang: "..."

"Say something quickly," you raised the gun impatiently, "Otherwise, I will control you as an AI and blow up this place immediately."

AI said: "Hello player 1702, I regret to tell you that none of your weapons can harm the Voyage Star."

There are a few "clicks", and the gun in your hand is really dumb.

The Tyrians didn't believe in evil, and took out a new gun, and the result was the same.

"But I do have something to say," the AI ​​said slowly, "I think you must be very curious about the story of the Voyage Star."

Pu Yiyang twitched the corner of his mouth, and whispered to you, "This is DELTA's usual routine. After you finish the dungeon, there will be AI who will come out to talk to you. Most of the time, it is to announce rewards, and occasionally to explain. Drama."

The Tyrian, who had never played a dungeon seriously, was speechless: "You mean to say that we just opened up the dungeon of Voyage Star?"

Pu Yiyang: "I'm afraid it's about the same."

One shot blasts you looking at a speechless face that wants to call the game "idiot".

"As you all know, the Star of the Voyage is a spaceship of the Wa people, and it has been sailing in the universe for thousands of years." AI continued on, "But you may not know that the Star of the Voyage was built by the Wa people." s reason."

Pu Yiyang: "What reason?"

A shot blasts you and mutters: "Are you really into the drama?"

Pu Yiyang glanced at him, and smiled: "Listen and watch. Someone has created such a complicated set of battles just to tell us a story. Wouldn't it be a waste if we don't cooperate?"

One shot at you: "You have a big heart."

"The people of the Wa tribe are avoiding a catastrophe." The ethereal female voice answered Pu Yiyang's question.

"Big disaster?" Pu Yiyang was taken aback, and immediately thought of something, "You mean, black mud monster... a new species?"

The AI ​​replied: "New species, or other names. This creature came from another universe, it invaded our universe, and appeared in thousands of worlds. Each world gave it a different name. We The people of the Wa clan call it, An."

A transparent Chinese character floated out of the air and dangled in front of the two of them.

"An, then this thing," Pu Yiyang sorted out the cause and effect, "They also invaded the world of the Wa people. So the Wa people built the Voyage Star and escaped."

AI said: "The Wa people did not escape."

Pu Yiyang couldn't help but startled.Could it be that the Wa tribe, known as the strongest god race in Delta, has already been extinct in the settings?Then this voyage star, which flew here after traveling an unknown number of light-years, is really a huge coffin in essence?

"During the long years of fleeing, the people of the Wa tribe struggled against Angu, and in the end, they became what they are now." AI's tone remained the same, but his words were inevitably sad, "Our ship has been swallowed by An , and become one with the dark."

A shot blasts you and you say in disgust: "It's disgusting."

So they really stepped into the belly of the monster named An.

"It was you who brought An to the Delta Quadrant, together with the Voyage Star," Pu Yiyang asked bluntly, "Now An is destroying the Delta Quadrant, don't you know?"

You glanced at him with a shot, and the look in his eyes was a bit weird.

The AI ​​was silent for a few seconds and said, "We want to help humans too."

Humanity!Pu Yiyang grasped this word. This AI is talking about human beings, not Gomangs, Gangamos, or the various game races that exist in the DELTA quadrant in these settings. What she is talking about is humans!

He glanced at the dome, and behind the cloud-thick black mud, he seemed to see the outline of the earth.In this dungeon named Yuan Voyage Star, every picture he saw and every story he heard seemed to be fake, but it happened to reflect reality in some places.

Just like those A-VATARs lying in the cave, maybe they are really just a virtual replica, but outside the game, there are really a lot of players who are suffering from the separation of consciousness.

What are the people who carefully designed this dungeon, wanted to tell this story, and actually did something outrageous?

"How do you help humans?" Pu Yiyang asked.

"The essence of An is to swallow everything as a part of itself. It is a whole, a growing whole," AI said. "To fight a whole, we must gather scattered forces together."

Pu Yiyang: "How to do it?"

AI said: "Need something."

Pu Yiyang: "What?"

"Glass crystal." AI slowly said these four familiar words, "This is the crystallization of knowledge of the Wa people, it is the mystery against the darkness, and it is also a gift from the Wa people to human beings with their lives."

Hearing this, the Tyrians sneered disdainfully.

"Okay, isn't it just glass crystals?" He took out such a thing, "I don't care about it at all, if you want to get it, you can take it—"

A spark flashed in Pu Yiyang's mind. He reached out his hand before the Tyrian moved, and firmly held the five fingers that you spread out with a gun in his hand.

"No, not to them," he said.

You are obviously a little confused when you shoot it off: "Why not? Don't you always think this thing is troublesome, thinking all day long that I will take it out and it will be all right? Now I promise you."

Pu Yiyang shook his head firmly for those passing by.

You let out a "tsk" sound and put down your hand.He looked at the door in front of him and said, "What exactly do you want?"

"I want to save the world." A voice interface said.

Not the AI ​​female voice, but a male voice, a male voice that had never appeared before.

Immediately afterwards, a figure slowly emerged from the open door. He was not tall, wearing a gray cloak, with a big hood covering most of his face, walking slowly through the door. out.

A shot exploded and you raised your gun.

Beside him, Pu Yiyang's breathing gradually became suffocated, and his eyes stared at the figure on the screen in disbelief through the passing perspective.

"You, you are..." His eyes widened.

That person was not afraid to shoot you in the muzzle, slowly walked up to the passerby, raised his hand, and took off his hood.

"Long time no see, Xiao Yang." The man smiled slightly.

Pu Yiyang saw a face that had been away from him for ten years.