Abyss game

Qiao Jingting opened his eyes.

He wasn't quite sure if he really did the "open" action, because it was pitch black in front of him.

The surrounding is so quiet that you can hear a needle drop, and it seems that there is nothing. He can't feel pain, temperature, wind, or even his own breathing. He seems to have lost... the feeling.

is he deadWhere is he?The afterlife?

He touched his body, then froze.It was a unique experience where he could feel his own body, like, he knew he was making a fist, or getting up, or taking a step, but he couldn't touch them, he couldn't touch anything, including his own body.

Is it like this after death?He turned into a ghost?

He looked around and wandered around. There was nothing here, including his own body. He was like a ray of lonely soul, exiled to the edge of the world, surrounded by impenetrable darkness and loneliness.

He didn't know how long he had been wandering like this, but when he was so depressed that he wanted to scream, suddenly, a small group of faint lights appeared in the distance.He was overjoyed, thinking of the light that appeared when he fell into the sea, he walked in that direction with a little hope, if he could be given another chance to be reborn, he would cherish it, even if it was for his grandma, he would bear the humiliation and not try his best A moment of ferocity.

He felt that he was walking, but this place didn't seem to be bound by space or geography. The bright light seemed quite far away, but he arrived there in a few steps.

Walking into the light, he could see clearly that it was a big gray-haired mouse about the height of a human being. To be precise, it was a robot mouse. Behind, it looks very dilapidated.

Qiao Jingting felt unbelievable. Is this heaven or hell? Why is there a broken robot mouse?

He couldn't help being curious, and wanted to touch the mouse's fur, but at this moment, the mouse's eyes suddenly glowed green, its tail flicked up, and it raised its big paw and waved at Qiao Jingting.

Joe was startled, and instinctively hid back. He wasn't sure if he dodged, he didn't even know if his body moved.

In short, he didn't feel any pain, just watched the mouse waving its paw, once and then a second time, the more he retreated, the more the mouse chased after him, chasing, waving its paw, biting, a series of actions, As if determined to put him to death.

Qiao Jingting backed away desperately at first, but soon he found that the mouse couldn't touch him, and he couldn't touch the mouse either. Watching the mouse attacking the air funnyly could relieve a little boredom, so he went to the side He stepped back and watched the mouse, since he had nothing else to do anyway.

Until he got tired of looking at the big ugly face of the mouse.

The distance between the two of them fluctuated from distance to distance. Qiao Jingting knew that the space here could not be judged by common sense, so whether he could get rid of the harassment of the rats, whether he ran fast or far away, seemed to have nothing to do with him. It all depended on luck. Or some law he didn't understand yet.

Just when he was about to give up, a white light suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and his consciousness instantly blurred.

He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw a familiar face, half handsome, half hideous.

"Ah..." The girl let out a low cry, then quickly covered her mouth, her eyes widened, and she looked at him in shock.

Qiao Jingting also looked at her in surprise, unable to recover for a long time.

what happened?Isn't he dead?He was cut off by the gang, then entered a mysterious space, was chased and bitten by a robot mouse, and...then?

"You, you're not dead?" the girl stammered.

"I..." As soon as Qiao Jingting opened his mouth, the pain that he had temporarily forgotten surged up like a tide and invaded his whole body in an instant. He let out a cry of pain, and his facial features were distorted.

"Don't move, your whole body is covered with wounds." The girl still had a strange expression on her face, "Why aren't you dead? You, you obviously haven't breathed."

"I... don't know..." Qiao Jingting gritted his teeth, resisting the pain, "Where are those people?"

"Let's go." She pursed her lips and frowned, as if she didn't know what to do with Qiao Jingting.

"My, my hand..." Qiao Jingting thought of the hand that rolled on the ground. Those who have never experienced it cannot understand the pain of limb separation. It is not only a physical pain, but also a psychological one. devastated.

"It's on your body, I picked it up for you." Her eyes wandered back and forth on Qiao Jingting's body, as if to determine whether he was a human or a ghost.

Qiao Jingting grabbed his severed hand, not knowing what it was like.

She sighed, and muttered: "It's my bad luck. I could have earned 30 points for collecting corpses, but if you come back to life, I'll post it upside down..." Suddenly there was a yellowed sheepskin in her hand. reel.

Qiao Jingting recognized that thing, which was exactly the same as the scroll used by the system elves to repair the wound on his arm.

The scroll floated over, unfolded, revealing the pattern of green leaves, and then turned into a ball of green light, covering Qiao Jingting's severed wrist and hand. Qiao Jingting watched in surprise as his hand was joining with the severed wrist, Bones, blood vessels, nerves, texture, and flesh are all reorganizing and communicating, and finally, his hand returned to his body!

Qiao Jingting endured the pain and propped up his body excitedly. He turned his wrist and moved his fingers. Except for the cut around his wrist and the dazzling silver ice bracelet, everything was as new.

Qiao Jingting let out a heavy breath, as if reborn, no matter how many doubts he has in his mind, at least he is still alive!He looked at the girl and said solemnly, "Thank you, I owe you a favor."

"More than one favor, you still owe me a scroll, which is very expensive." The girl said again, "You can take care of other injuries, or find a way to earn points yourself to buy a healing scroll."

"I'll pay you back."

"You should think about how to save your life first."

Qiao Jingting moved his wrist desperately, feeling the reality of his hand returning to its original position.

At this time, he had the leisure to observe the surroundings. They were in a dark forest, it was already late, and only the sparse moonlight provided weak illumination. Under such light, half of the girl's face looked particularly terrifying.He asked curiously, "That scroll, can any damage be repaired?"

"As long as there is one breath left."

"Then..." Qiao Jingting looked at her face, hesitant to speak.

She said calmly: "This is a memorial."

Qiao Jingting didn't ask any more questions, and said again: "Thank you, my name is Qiao Jingting."

"Shu Ai, the moxa of wormwood." Shu Ai looked Qiao Jingting up and down, "How did you survive?"

"I don't know either... I entered a very strange place, it was pitch black..." Qiao Jingting described his experience just now.

The more Shu Ai listened, the more she frowned: "I've never heard of such a place."

"Will you go to that place if you cut off your hand?"

"People in the village are injured in various ways every day, so it's nothing to cut off their hands. However, the robot mouse you're talking about isn't the squirrel outside the village, right?"

"Squirrel?"

"Well, it's the lowest level of spawning points. Killing one can give you 3 points."

Qiao Jingting opened his mouth: "So, this world is really like playing an online game?" He really didn't have the strength to sit up straight, so he wanted to move to the big tree next to him, and every movement affected the whole body. The wound was so painful that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

"Don't move around." Shuai took out a few boxes of medicine and threw them on him far away, "The medicine is still very cheap. It stops bleeding, reduces inflammation and relieves pain. Take it first."

Qiao Ting let out a breath, and swallowed the sour and bitter pill along his saliva.Then he touched the injured area. Two ribs were broken, and the spine must have been split. I don’t know how the head was damaged. Anyway, he was in pain, dizzy and nauseous. Except for the broken hand, the whole person was like a disabled person. almost.He whispered: "Can you buy everything in the system?"

"Seems to be."

"Online games don't sell food and medicine."

Shu Ai said: "This is a 'real' online game. It's not some virtual character that is fighting for your life, but yourself."

Qiao Jingting was silent for a while: "Why am I here? Where are those people?"

"They chopped off your hand, and then you didn't breathe and didn't move. They thought you were dead, so they asked me to collect the body." Shuai pointed to the pit next to him, "After dark, I dragged you here, I want to bury you."

Only then did Qiao Jingting notice the newly dug hole, and he was surprised: "You dug it?" Such a thin girl dragged a 140-jin man here, and dug such a big hole?

"Oh, this incident makes you feel very strange?" Shuai's tone was a little sarcastic.

Qiao Jingting laughed at himself. None of the things that happened that day exceeded his imagination. He said, "You have also strengthened." Accept your situation.

"Well, I'm level 4." Shu Ai said, "Those who beat you just now, Fatty is level 4, the others are level 3, Brother Wei is level 5. Every time you level up, you will get bonus points, which can be used to strengthen yourself."

"Is Brother Wei their boss?"

"Zheng Wei? No, the boss of Xinyuehu is a man of level 6." Shu Ai's calm eyes suddenly burst out with strong hatred.

Qiao Jingting saw it in his eyes, and he turned his wrist: "You saved me, I will definitely return you, and return what you want."

Shu Ai raised her eyebrows: "Oh?"

"I will strengthen myself, and I will kill Fatty, Brother Wei, and the boss of Xinyuehu." Qiao Jingting squinted at her, "You want to kill him, right?"

Shu Ai's chest rose and fell violently, and his voice trembled slightly: "He... killed my brother, I must see him die in my lifetime!"

"You will see, just take it as a thank you gift from me." His beating would not be in vain, and his hands would not be broken in vain. He wanted those people to be ten thousand for everything he had suffered. Pay back twice!

"What are you going to do?"

"The system elf said that if you kill people with a higher level than yourself, you will get extra bonus points. As long as I recover from my injuries, I can sneak in while they are sleeping..."

"No, people who have been strengthened have extremely sharp nerves. With your current strength, night diving will definitely be discovered." Shuai said seriously, "Don't judge the people here by your standards in the real world. You can't even judge me." Can't beat it."

Qiao Jingting squinted his eyes and looked at her, clearly disbelieving, he had already suffered a series of setbacks, and now a girl half a head shorter than him said that she was better than him?

Shuai glanced at him, turned around and ran towards a nearby tree.With a run-up, she quickly kicked up the tree trunk with both feet. Using the momentum, she ran up the tree trunk three to four meters in one breath, ignoring gravity. Then she jumped, grabbed the thick branch with both hands, turned around, and jumped down. It landed firmly on the ground.She looked at Qiao Ting in shock and raised her chin, "Can you do it?"

Qiao Jingting's mouth twitched, unable to speak for a long time.

He can't.

"This is the strengthened strength, as long as you have a little points, you can get much better physical fitness than normal people."

Qiao Jingting coughed lightly: "You and the fat man are both at the fourth level, but I think you are faster than the fat man."

"That's right, his enhancement is not as good as mine." Shuai said, "My enhancement is not good enough, but it is already very powerful compared to ordinary people. Before entering here, I failed the [-]-meter run."

Qiao Jingting pondered: "'Strengthening' can directly change a person's physical fitness..."

"Yeah, and that's just the most common thing about this weird game."

"Why?" Joe said in a hoarse voice, "Why are we here, what is this place, and who built it?"

Shuai shook his head, his eyes dimmed: "No one knows, we are like a group of monkeys locked in a cage, killing each other, maybe somewhere, someone is watching us, maybe for experiments, maybe for Just for fun. In any case, this is beyond the reach of human technology. If you can’t figure it out, just don’t think about it.”

"...you've seen hackers..."

"Look, everyone has the same idea as you, like, we are going through the same thing as the 'Matrix', our bodies are put in the nutrition tank, the body is full of tubes, and the only ones in this world are us Consciousness, everything is simulated by the program, so it is easy to explain." Shuai looked at Qiao Jingting, "However, no one can prove it, and no one wants to use death to prove it. Moreover, even' The level of technology in The Matrix is ​​far from the world we live in."

Qiao Jingting was silent for a moment, Shu Ai was right, don't think about things that you can't figure out, there are more important things right now.He took a breath, then coughed a few times, spit out a mouthful of blood, and then said: "You said that Fatty's enhancement is not as good as yours? Why?"

"I'll tell you about the situation in the village, and you'll understand." Shuai sat down on the grass, holding her knees with her hands, which was a very insecure posture, "Xinyuehu's boss is called Han Bin, He is a very sinister man. After he gained power, he became the emperor of the earth in Xinyuehu. The points earned by everyone in the village must be reported regularly and distributed by him. Eighty to ninety percent of them will be donated to him to buy various The remaining items can be used to eat, drink and strengthen oneself, and he even controls whether everyone can upgrade or not." Shu Ai tightened her arms, her voice was trembling, "Xinyuehu's men are all his. Slaves, women, as long as they are a little bit pretty, they will be..."

The more Qiao Jingting heard it, the colder his heart became. In any place where barbarism replaces rules, the bestiality hidden in people will be released.

Shu Ai laughed at herself: "I have this face, and my level is still high, so I am safer and more free. All your own information cannot be seen by others, but you are close to Han Bin. How many points I earn can be roughly estimated, but I act a lot myself and report a little less every time, so I have accumulated some points and secretly strengthen myself.”

"What are the ways to earn points?"

"The fastest way is to kill people." Shuai stared straight at him, "Of course, you can only kill people who are at the same level or higher than you. The system elf must have told you this."

"Ah."

"Killing a person who is at the same level as yourself, you can get 1000 points while upgrading. Killing a person with a higher level than yourself will give you an extra 3 points for every 500 levels higher than yourself. Up to level 4, an extra 6 points will be rewarded. For example, if you are now level 1000, if you kill a level 2, you will get 4 plus 1000 plus 500 points, but if you kill a level 500, you will get 6 points 1000 plus 500 plus 500 plus 1000 rewards."

"The higher the level, the more rewards...very good."

"That's right, everything in the game requires points, exchange for daily necessities, scrolls of various functions, purchase weapons and armor, open maps, especially strengthening and 'cleansing the essence'."

"'Washing the marrow'?"

Shu Ai sighed softly: "If strengthening is only to make people become superhuman, then washing the essence can make people become ghosts and gods. But this is too far away from us. In the whole Xinyuehu, only Han Bin can achieve it." If the standard is met—level 6, points not less than 3000, he should be cleansed soon, and by then, no one will be able to kill him."

"What does washing the marrow look like?"

"I don't know, you can only choose when you reach level 6, and I've heard it all." Shu Ai's dark eyes looked deeply at Qiao Jingting, "If you want to kill him, you have to do it as soon as possible. If you get the essence, you have to leave Xinshou Village, even if he doesn't leave, you can't kill him."

"Level 6, 3000 points..." Qiao Jingting chewed these words softly.

"Han Bin will not allow two people to reach level 5 at the same time. In Xinyuehu, only Zheng Wei, whom he trusts, is level 5. He will not let anyone accumulate a lot of points. In fact, even if he does not deduct points, we will It is also very difficult to accumulate 3000 points, it takes a lot of points to strengthen and exchange items, but if you don’t strengthen, you can’t protect yourself, it’s too far away if you want to wash your soul.”

Qiao Jingting suddenly felt his heart beat faster and his blood boiled a little. If others can do it, there is no reason why he can't. He will definitely become a "Zun" and leave this world!

Just when he was about to ask what "Zun" is, he suddenly remembered a more important thing: "Wait a minute, if the person who cut off my hand killed me, will he be punished by the system?"

Shu Ai was stunned: "I didn't expect that." She blinked her eyes, and after a while, she frowned deeply again, "No, I checked all those people, and no one was punished by the system."

"Can you check their rank?"

"Yes, as long as you know the name, if someone is punished by the system for killing someone lower than your level, there will be a special mark after the level."

"So that means... I'm not dead?"

"Yes, if you die, it is impossible that nothing happened, and I also found your name. But you did not have breathing and heartbeat at that time. It is probably the first time that Zheng Wei and his group have encountered such a situation. In such a situation, I don’t know how to deal with you, so I left you there.”

Qiao Jingting thought about what happened before and after, and suddenly caught something. He looked down at the silver ice device on his wrist.

Shu Ai followed his gaze, and said in surprise: "The silver ice device is a port for accessing the system, and no one can take it off. Could it be because they chopped off your hand, so you..." She pondered for a few seconds The wording, Cai said, "Did you get disconnected?"

"And you put my hand on me, and the silver ice device touched me again, so I'm back again."