The Fourth Quadrant of Online Games

"Sea of ​​Nothingness? You mean the wormhole on the edge of the Moran [-] galaxy?" The passer-by stroked his chin and said, "I have indeed heard the rumors before, and I actually went there."

You frowned and said, "Why didn't I know?"

"Because that's not the map in the DELTA formula book." Passing explained, "But this is not the same as the situation on Daya Star. The wormhole has been there since the beginning of DELTA's launch. At the beginning, some people speculated that it was a system loophole. But DELTA has never been officially repaired, the wormhole has been there for ten years, and the name 'Sea of ​​Nothingness' was also given by the players themselves. Qian Qiu is right, I have really tried to break through a few times in these years. The secondary wormhole has never been successful. Perhaps it is indeed a place that non-access players cannot enter."

After a shot blasts you, you are still puzzled: "What does that have to do with the present?"

"I suspect that place can completely wipe out the black mud monster." The passer-by stared brightly at An, who had basically recovered his original size, "The wormhole is very likely to act as a data filter, and it only exists in DELTA. The data of the player will be deleted when they enter. The data of non-access players only exists in DELTA, so of course they are dead if they pass by. Weapon sanctions. I have already verified that An's target is me and the glass crystal in my hand, as long as I take the crystal through the wormhole, it will definitely follow me..."

You interrupted with a single shot: "It's not that simple, is it? Filters, wormholes, you can break through them as if you want to go on an outing?"

The passerby shot you blankly and said, "It's so dangerous."

The Tyrian stared at him for a while, stretched out his hand, and grabbed him tightly: "So, don't say anything to force me to leave. Listen carefully, I won't be fooled twice in the same place. Put away your insincere little tricks, even if you want to say something here and you always think I'm a scumbag, I won't let you go alone again."

The passerby was stunned for a moment, and the smile on the corner of his mouth gradually widened.

This guy is really capable. He has never seen someone turn sweet words into a kidnapping threat with a serious face. However, his brain has already developed an automatic filtering function, and he only heard the core idea of ​​​​"I want to accompany you" from the other party. Unexpectedly, it aroused a surge of excitement for a while.

If you can't get rid of it, he thought to himself, if you provoke it yourself, don't even think about getting rid of it in the future.

This person's temper can explode at the first flirt, but his mind is tougher than ordinary people.Talking badly will only make the other party go away once, and it is absolutely impossible to succeed a second time.With this guy's spirit of never giving up until he achieves his goal, if he doesn't agree today, he won't be able to go on the road alone if his arm is chopped off.

"Let's go then," he took your hand and pointed the slender fingers at his temples, "Sir, if the black mud is about to swallow me, I still need you to give me a bite." The gun set me free."

You looked at him and said jokingly, "Don't worry, I won't let you die at the hands of other people or monsters."

It sounded like he was very interested in the proposal to take his life, and the passerby couldn't help touching the back of his neck that was steaming.

After a shot exploded, you said seriously: "Similarly, you are the only one who can kill me."

The passerby laughed.

He turned his head and said to Qianqiu: "Change the course and go to the sea of ​​nothingness."

As the passers-by expected, as soon as their boat sailed, Hei Ni followed closely.

"You didn't tell me that there is such a large cloud of dust here," outside the Moran [-] galaxy, after flying faster than the speed of light, a shot blasted you, staring at the dense celestial debris in front of you, "don't tell me , you just want to drive such a boat through here?"

This tone, full of disgust as always, is destined to make the old cat far away on Dai Yaxing fly into a rage.

"I drove in the woolen ball back then." Mr. Qianqiu, who was passing by, gave up his seat, and sat in the driver's seat of the big hairy ball, "Come on, sit still."

As soon as you hear the word "sit tight", you will recall the escape experience in the game where you almost suffered a heart attack the day you first met in the game.

As it turns out, the experience of riding a roller coaster in person is not the same as watching someone else ride it.

A series of sharp turns and a second of braking made the Tyrian's face even paler than the one in the setting, which made the rhythm of his words tremble: "Remember to remind me, Never let you drive again."

The passer-by continued to play Speed ​​Speed, while turning his head and grinning at him: "Don't worry, I don't have a driver's license."

These words did not seem to reassure the Tyrians at all.

There are a large number of star fragments blocking the way in front, and the black mud behind does not stop.Probably because he noticed their passing direction, Hei Ni sensed some kind of crisis, changed his previous quietness, and started a frenzied attack again.

A heavy blow was given to the black mud tentacle, and the tail of the Big Hairball was damaged, and it almost hit the star fragments in front of it.

"I'll tell him to get away." The Tyrian suppressed his nausea, turned around and grabbed the light cannon sight, and almost couldn't wait to fire at the black mud.

Sparks exploded in the nebula one after another, and ignited all the way behind them. It was like dragging a long burning tail behind their spaceship, preventing the black mud from getting too close.

"Nice job!" The passer-by gave a thumbs up to the Tyrian without looking back.

He had already seen from the main screen that the Tyrians seemed to be fighting indiscriminately, but in fact they blew up a wall in the shortest possible time. Those exploded star fragments were like stones stuffed into the black mud's mouth. Unless An digested them all, don't even think about biting a corner of the big hairball.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and the black mud learned to behave. It didn't foolishly swallow these obstacles one by one, but quickly disintegrated into thousands of strands, which drilled from the burning star fragments, entangled to The boat that flies ahead.

The hull shook violently, sparks splashed out from the light cannon launcher.

"System warning, system warning, engine damage, hull stability less than 70.00%..."

Amidst the sharp red siren, you still firmly grasped the ignited sighting frame and launcher after a single shot, swished a few torpedoes, and made several holes in the body of the black mud that rushed over.

However, this had little effect, those slender black mud tentacles still climbed onto the Big Hairball, and with just one click, they attacked and easily destroyed the gun barrel of the spaceship.

The aiming frame was blown to pieces at the same time, and you were sent flying half a meter with one shot, leaving many scars on your cheeks and shoulders.

"They seem to be heading towards the engine, and they probably want to keep us here." The passer-by observed the next move of the black mud, and after thinking for a while, he called out, "I can try to hack the system from the boat, Change it to autopilot, so unless it destroys the ship, it won't let us stay. Qianqiu old!"

He shoved the direction stick in his hand into the NPC's hand.

The black mud started the next wave of attacks, and the stability of the hull dropped to 50.00%.

The passers-by raced against time to enter commands in front of the console, and when they turned around, they saw a gunshot and rushed towards you.

Another explosion.

The flames exploded above the passing head, and he watched the fragments of the cabin fall rustlingly on the intact control panel, together with several drops of purple blood.

He looked up and saw a shot blasting you with one hand on the half-collapsed bulkhead and the other on the console by his side.

"You continue." The blood-stained Tyrian said lightly.

The passerby looked at the pair of silver eyes staring at him, and his heart trembled suddenly.

When did this person, bathed in blood and fire, be able to appear so calm?

It's as if as long as you look at him, you can risk everything and ignore it.

He murmured silently in his heart over and over again, this is in the game, even if the Tyrians are injured, they will not feel pain, as long as they can control the bloodline... But when he forced himself to turn around, His hands were still shaking violently.

"System warning, the stability of the hull is less than 40.00%..."

"30.00%..."

"20.00% five..."

Just like a countdown, the interval between explosions has become shorter and shorter, and the passing fingers flew like flying, and finally entered the last line of code.

finished!

All the attacks of the black mud turned into a meaningless struggle, unless it could go all out and swallow the people in the boat and the glass crystal in his hand, it would not be able to change the fact that it would sail into the wormhole with the boat.

The passers-by breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to shoot you, only to see that the Tyrian was motionless.

Half of his body was soaked in blood and riddled with holes. The man still insisted on using his flesh and blood to support a safe world for those passing by, but until now, even the slightest tremor of those silver eyes looking at humans has disappeared.

The passerby raised his hand and used his palm for the first time to touch the bloody face that he had watched thousands of times in the game.

"You are so pretty." He whispered, "Ever, forever, the prettiest in my heart."

With a shot, your eyelashes trembled slightly.

The passerby laughed.

He remembered that if you were really dead with one shot, the body of the Tyrian would disappear in the game.The situation in front of him is simply that the Tyrians are struggling around the coma line, and the brain-computer access signal sometimes does not exist.

He heard Qian Qiulao shout.

"Sea of ​​Nothingness," he turned his head and saw the wormhole signal appearing on the main screen, "we are here."

After the spacecraft visualized the received signal, the mysterious wormhole became a blue fluorescent hole, rotating and shrinking quietly in space, like a vortex on the dark sea.

The Big Hairy Tuan has left the dusty nebula with treacherous terrain, and is flying straight towards the vortex.

"Can you really clear these codes that shouldn't exist in DELTA?" The passerby took out the crystal that caused too much trouble, and met the blue light not far away.

Whether it is a "glazed crystal" or dark, as long as it enters the sea of ​​nothingness, it will theoretically cease to exist.

"It will definitely." The aged NPC turned his head from the bridge, with a gratified smile on his wrinkled face, "Son, take this crystal and go in, the sea of ​​nothingness will answer your desire, Take you to meet the person you most want to see."

Those who passed by hadn't reacted yet, but the person who was supposed to be about to faint first made a movement.

"Don't go." You said suddenly.

He obviously hasn't gotten rid of the restrictions of the system. The words are not clear. I don't know how much effort he took to say them.

"Why do you say that?" Elder Qian Qiu frowned, loosened the directional lever that was just a decoration, and took a step in the direction of the two of them, "Isn't it what you all want to do most to get DELTA out of the nightmare? See Now, this is the dawn, and in two minutes you will be sailing towards the dawn!"

There was a sudden bang in the cabin.

A beam of light flew out from your hand, passed through Qianqiu Lao's chest, and shattered the main screen of the Big Hairy Tuan.

The hopeful blue light just disappeared.

The short old man looked down at the big hole in his chest, nothing happened, he just frowned, and said to you, "You, you are really bad."

"The most impossible thing for me to do is to make your wish come true." You held up the gun and stared at Mr. Qianqiu with a single shot, "Disguised as an NPC in the game, is that all you pursue?"

Qian Qiu asked: "When did you see it?"

"Just now. You learned NPCs very hard, but you forgot that the expressions of NPCs are all set by the system. No one...no one will smile like you just now." You sneered and said, " Do you think you have won?"

Qian Qiu always touched his face.

He seems to be just like what you said, he gave up his disguise, and his every move and gesture is much more flexible than ordinary NPCs. He looks like a non-access player who used a connected device in seconds.

"I forgot, you are quite smart after all." He tilted his head and smiled, "But there is one more thing you said right, that is, I really win."

"Anyway, as long as it doesn't turn into pieces, this ship will sail to the sea of ​​nothingness." The passer-by said silently, "Anya has stopped moving. You are the one who controls it, right? Your purpose has always been They are all using it to lure me, you know that I want to save Delta, and once you know that what An wants is the glass crystal, you will take this crystal away from it at all costs. So you spent a little effort to get close to Brother Cat, to deceive I won his trust and came to me on the Big Hairball. You told the old cat about the existence of the Sea of ​​Nothingness, right? You know the old cat will tell me. Even if he didn’t say it, or I didn’t think about it until the end Get rid of An in this way, and you will remind me at the right time... right?"

Qianqiu applauded sincerely: "Sure enough, you are also a smart kid, and you are very well-behaved. As long as you give me many hints, you will immediately follow my design."

"You have worked so hard to get me into the sea of ​​nothingness with the glazed crystal. Why?" The passerby thought for a while, "To meet the person I want to see the most... Could it be that your real purpose is to ..."

His eyes widened suddenly, staring blankly at the pitch-black screen and the wormhole that was getting closer and closer outside the screen.

"Yes, you guessed it right." Elder Qian Qiu also turned his head to look at the screen, and he walked towards the dazed passerby step by step, his tone was like a poisonous snake coaxing Adam and Eve to eat an apple, "Don't you want to see him? It's been ten years, boy, I've watched you go round and round in the delta, looking for it, I know you're like me, we both want to find the same shadow... Now you have a chance, take me in, boy, we Let's go meet that person together..."

The Tyrian interrupted his sleepy words with a low growl: "And then? Then realize your evil plan? Go and dream of your dreams!"

The shriveled white-haired old man withdrew his dazed stare, and looked at you coldly: "You are really just like your mother, like a stinky, hard and boring iron lump."

He waved his hand as he said, and there was another crashing sound outside the cabin, it should be An that started to move again.He looked at the Tyrians as if he were looking at a pile of space junk that would soon be crushed, and the smile of hopeful victory appeared on the corner of his mouth.

No one expected that he would be caught the next moment.

The Tyrian, who was hovering on the line of coma, somehow broke through the shackles of brain-computer access, urged his own bloody arm, and clasped his shoulder like a dead zombie. .

At that moment, An just shattered the cracked bulkhead, and at the same time as the air flow gushed out, he fell out of the cabin together with you.

At the moment when he grasped Qian Qiulao and floated into the space, the Tyrian passed by the same unsteady passerby.

"Don't go." That whisper drained the last bit of his strength.