The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

They knew a lot about the city through the gold-streaked nobleman Yi.

This city is called [City of Melancholy]. In addition to various NPCs in the city, there are a total of more than 30 permanent residents.For cities of the same size as it, there are four other cities to accommodate players from other time zones and nationalities.

"So many people..." Zhou Yao frowned.

"City of Melancholy..." Wen Zheliu thought about the name, "It seems that it is prepared for players who have cleared the first world."

Jin Yi laughed and said: "That's right, and this is only the first floor. Do you know tower defense games? The kind where one floor is higher than the next. It is said that on the top of Melancholy City, there is such a thing as Midnight City, Snow mountain giant city and the like, there are many famous places."

Zhou Qing murmured: "Nine worlds, nine capitals."

"Climb up layer by layer, newcomer, there is still a long way to go." Although Jin Yi was frightened by Wen Zheliu just now, he quickly regained his demeanor as a veteran player, "They all said , When you reach the ninth floor city, you will be able to see that damned woman in white robe. Take the final key from her, and you can go home."

Du Zijun sneered: "Go home...how do you know that she will keep her promise? Look at this ghostly place now, can you tell the difference between virtual and real? When she makes a random place to lock you up, don't you Blind both eyes."

"One must have something to look forward to in life." Jin Yi shrugged, "Besides, if you don't go up, what can you do?"

Wen Zheliu suddenly asked: "Then why don't you go up, but choose to be an information dealer here?"

Jin Yi looked at him, with a complicated smile on his face, he pointed to the pedestrians coming and going outside the alley: "Did you see the bodies of those people outside? The game world in Uncanny Valley will not give you those flowers For Lulu's skill card, all you can rely on are props and your own mortal body."

He lifted up the leather jacket and showed the torso under it to the group of people. His belly still had the texture and color of flesh, but it faintly reflected an inorganic light in the night light.Wen Zheliu frowned, and heard him say: "You have also dealt with those tongue-long creatures, the first time they saw me, they ate one of my companions, and then hooked my intestines with their tongues .After I survived, I swore I would never try that feeling again."

"So, you transformed this part into metal?" Muto was stunned, "God, human body modification violates the science and technology ethics law in real life..."

"But this is the uncanny valley." A sneering smile appeared on Jin Yi's face, "So, without powerful props to save my life, I won't rush into the second world and give away my life for nothing. My life."

Wen Zheliu asked: "Does everyone here think so?"

"No." Jin Yi replied, "Most, maybe quite a few people don't want to transform themselves into half-human, half-mechanical monsters, who knows."

"Take us to another place." Wen Zheliu said.

Jin Yi got up from the ground and patted the dirty ashes on his butt: "I thought you would let me sit here until I die."

"If you want." Du Zijun said coldly.

Under Jin Yi's guidance, the six people took a suspension cable car and ordered an online dinner on the car. While eating, they roughly toured around the structure of Melancholy City.

This place is like a small city of new stars, with shopping malls, restaurants, underground black markets, entertainment venues, and all kinds of infrastructure...It is not difficult to get familiar with it.

Several people observed the scene below. Compared to this place, the City of New Stars is bigger, brighter, opener, warmer and more tolerant.But here... Looking down from the top, it looks like a city of steel full of violence and crime, and the npcs acting as guards are just to collect the corpses of players who died in street brawls, and let them not damage the city by the way. public buildings.

"It's scary..." Zhou Qing couldn't help shrinking her neck, she murmured, "It's too messy here."

Du Zijun pressed the cigarette butt on the seat of the suspended cable car, his black pupils reflected the bright colors of the whole city, colorful and bizarre, he said: "There is nothing to be afraid of, trust me, you will get used to it soon."

They gradually approached the center of the city, where there was nothing but an ice-blue spire higher than everything else, mysterious and beautiful, standing there silently like a mountain, emitting a majestic blue light enough for the entire city to see.

"what is that?"

Jin Yi glanced down and replied casually: "That's the leaderboard."

"Ranking list?" Wen Zheliu was a little interested, and stretched his neck to look up the steeple.The cable car was floating smoothly forward, leading them around to the other side of the steeple, "What row..."

His eyes were fixed, and the words that came to his mouth could not help but die down, and the sound was slowly silenced.A group of six people followed him and looked over there, and fell silent for a while.

[Leaderboard of Clearance Players]

[no.1: Wendi, customs clearance time: 105:37:48, collection achievement: full story achievement]

Wen Zheliu opened his mouth wide, and could hardly believe his eyes. He rubbed and rubbed again and again, before he was sure that the name that shone with gold was his own.

He is actually No.1 among all the players who cleared the level? !

The rest of the people also quickly held their breath and concentrated on finding their own names on it.

【no.9：冷傲、狂爷，通关时长：105时37分52秒，收集成就：2/3剧情成就】

……

【no.13：小透明也有春天，通关时长：105时38分01秒，收集成就：2/3剧情成就】

……

【no.18：天之遥，通关时长：105时38分02秒，收集成就：2/3剧情成就】

【no.19：水之清，通关时长：105时38分02秒，收集成就：2/3剧情成就】

……

【no.32：追猎人，通关时长：105时38分09秒，收集成就：2/3剧情成就】

...The six of them actually squeezed into the top 30 on the ranking list with a total of more than 600 people but only counting the top [-] people.

but……

"Who is that Lengao, Kuangye?" Zhou Qing said "uhhh", this player ID is on the same team as them in terms of time and color, "...this is too earthy."

There is no doubt that Tian Zhiyao and Shui Zhiqing are the two brothers and sisters Zhou Yao and Zhou Qing; Xiao Transparent also has Spring as Xie Yuanyuan; as for the hunter, remembering the profession that Muto said, the hunter should be Muto; the rest ...

...The few people slowly twisted their necks and turned to the cold and arrogant Du Zijun.

Du Zijun: "..."

The slender girl in a white dress took out a lady's cigarette from the cigarette case and lit it with an old lighter. Then he took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, allowing the smoke to spray on the transparent window of the cable car for a long time.

The hand holding the cigarette trembled slightly.

"This name should be given to him by his subordinates... the staff helped him, right?" He said with difficulty and obscurity, trying not to let the only outsider on the field catch the clue, "It's possible that he doesn't know it himself, but he does. It's already too late, can't we go out again?"

Jin Yi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if it's soil or not, in short, this group of people came out like a dark horse yesterday, and they just bit off a few of the front row positions of the big group. Especially the one named Wen Di Yes... four days to clear the level, and the story achievements were unlocked without even completing the side missions. I don't know what kind of Qiqiaoling|Longxin monster it is. The other five people in his team were probably brought up by him, right? Not to be underestimated."

Du Zijun thought in his heart that there was an even bigger monster on top of this little monster, but it's a pity that you didn't have the chance to meet him, leaving us blindfolded for nothing.

"So it's like this..." Wen Zheliu said with a smile, "Those people in the big group must have worked hard to know the information of these six people, Jin Yi?"

The intelligence dealer whose name was suddenly called was taken aback for a moment, then looked at him in the blink of an eye.

Wen Zheliu's expression remained the same, but the smile on his face deepened. The young man's sly and intelligent gaze was like a small sword, and before he could react, he nailed it in place.

"So, it's not difficult to recognize the six of us, right?" He asked softly.

The muscles on Du Zijun's face also twitched slightly, he reacted suddenly, and kicked heavily between the intelligence dealer's legs, shaking the suspension cable car, Jin Yi also yelled out in fright, "So, It's not your accomplices who are following behind, but those so-called big groups?"

Zhou Qing said in shock: "Someone is following?!"

Du Zijun frowned fiercely, and grabbed Jin Yi's neckline: "You laymen are still a little tender for playing this trick of hiding your head and showing your tail with me! Tell me honestly, or I will burn the middle of your forehead with a cigarette end, and you will be burned." Be a Tieguanyin."

Seeing the flickering cigarette butts close at hand, Jin Yi couldn't help screaming in fright, a few locks of purple hair dyed on the top of his forehead trembled in panic, he shouted: "Don't, don't, sister, don't do it! I said, I said!"

"Why do those big groups of players follow us?" Zhou Yao asked calmly, "The mastermind of Uncanny Valley imprisoned human players here, do they still care about the empty rankings? People who are a little smarter, all If you know, hurry up and break through the barriers, end all this and return to the real world, right?"

"Unless, for players, the ranking has any substantial benefits that can affect their strength." Wen Zheliu continued slowly, and at the same time glanced at the holographic light screen on the right side of the cable car, "The cable car still has 12 minutes 35, 34 You can walk the whole distance in seconds, this time should be enough for you to speak clearly."

After cleaning up the information dealer who left half of his words, everyone learned about the current situation of the players in the City of Melancholy from him.

When the first batch of players came to the city of depression, this leaderboard began to record the ranking of those people.For the top-ranked players, the convenience they get in this city is much more than that for the lower-ranked players.Including item discounts in the shopping mall, human body transformation experiments in the research institute, and even going to some feasting places to become adults, you will also get preferential treatment from NPCs and look at them differently.

What's more, the top [-] players can choose an additional product "not exceeding the third level of the best item they carry" in the item store for free before leaving the city of depression, and take it to the next level. world.This is undoubtedly a huge guarantee for the player's survivability.

"So..." Muto understood, "They are chasing us, but they want to kill us and get back the ranking?"

"Not exactly," Wen Zheliu said, "I guess, maybe they are still not sure whether we are the six people on the leaderboard."

Zhou Qing wondered: "Why? I guess there are very few teams that clear the escape mode with all members. Thinking about it this way, we are quite conspicuous."

Wen Zheliu raised his eyebrows and smiled—he was already very similar to He Qin when he made this expression, but he was not as wily and calculating as his brother, but a little more flamboyant and jumpy. He asked Jin Yi: "What do you mean?" , How many people are there in our team?"

"Five people." Jin Yi blurted out without thinking, and then felt that something was wrong, "Eh? Like... six? No, no, wait for me to count, is it six or five..."

Xie Yuanyuan curled up in the corner and rolled his eyes.

Du Zijun smiled coldly, bit the cigarette holder with one side of his teeth, took out a silver coin from his pocket, and slapped Jin Yi on the face.

His eyes were resolute and sharp, like the cold black light from the muzzle of a gun: "I'll give you another piece of white, the one he gave you just now is for payment, and the one I gave you is for medical expenses."

Jin Yi froze all of a sudden, he could tell that this kind of look is not something ordinary people can have!

He suddenly struggled: "No! I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong...forgive me! Please, please..."

Du Zijun pressed him hard against the wall of the cable car, with five fingers together, he raised the knife and dropped it, and knocked him over inside the seat neatly.

The cable car shook slightly, and after a while, it stopped at the intersection of an aerial walkway.

Several groups of people watching in the distance frowned, and one of them reported to the light brain in a low voice: "A tall man got down and took a taxi...the cable car continued to drive forward."

After a while, he reported again: "A man and a woman with similar appearance came down, and the cable car is still moving forward."

At the last fork, he said: "This time, there are three... No, two people, one man and one woman, the cable car is going to the end."

"They went in different directions, but no intelligence dealer came down. Boss, do you want to investigate separately? Yes, yes, there are five people in total, that's right."

"……Ok, I see."

From the steeple in the center of the city, blue light is still radiating.The next moment, a name emerged from the top without a sound, gently put Wendi, the player ID, in the no. above.