Start being the boss today

Azure Star, Huaxia, Lin'an.

A few days ago, due to overwork, the left director of the Star Whale incident command center was carried directly to the hospital by an ambulance. He had just successfully fought against insomnia and managed to enter the half-sleeping room when he was woken up by the ringing of the mobile phone.

The moment Director Zuo opened his eyes, he felt his heart beating fast, the sound was loud and deafening.

Already in his fifties, he was so frightened that he tightly squeezed the emergency call button beside the hospital bed, and after a long delay, he pressed his cell phone out of breath.

The subordinate who called him had already hung up and called again because no one answered for a long time.As soon as the call was connected, the subordinate didn't even have time to ask Director Zuo about his condition, so he shouted, "Director Zuo! Watch the live broadcast in our app!"

After speaking, the subordinate hung up.

Director Zuo frowned, but he was not angry. He put on his reading glasses with one hand, and clicked into the confidential communication program of his department with the other.

The verification of this program is a bit cumbersome, and it is already 1 minute after he logs in.

Their department often holds some meetings in this confidential procedure, especially during this busy period, there may be four or five live broadcast rooms open at the same time.Director Zuo was thinking about which of these meeting live broadcasts his subordinate wanted him to watch. As soon as the program opened, he automatically entered a live broadcast room without him clicking.

"Um……"

In the dark ward with no lights on, Director Zuo adjusted his glasses.

The shooter must have used a mobile phone camera, so the video is very blurry, but even so, Director Zuo, who has been in the hospital for several days, can still tell at a glance that the shooter's environment is also a hospital.

It is also a single room.

In the brightly lit single ward, lying on the bed was a young woman familiar to Director Zuo, a dozen doctors and nurses, and people in suits and military uniforms, surrounded by the bed, making people watching the live broadcast think that, This young woman on the bed is an important leader of which country.

But Director Zuo recognized in a second that the young woman on the hospital bed was the well-known anchor of "Heavenly Man", and Xiaoxue was falling.

The real name is Huang Xue.

She is wearing various instruments, electrodes, and various LED lights flashing, all of which look very advanced.

And a doctor who was closest to Huang Xuexue was asking her.

The doctor raised two fingers and said solemnly:

"Ms. Huang, what is one plus one?"

Director Zuo watching the live broadcast: "..."

Chief Left: "???"

Elderly people in their fifties suddenly have the urge to pull down the screen of their mobile phones to see if today is April Fool's Day.

But at the next moment, his eyes, which had been slackened due to surprise and confusion, suddenly froze and were firmly fixed on the screen.

In the live video, not half the size of a palm, on a hospital bed surrounded by brightly lit crowds, the young female anchor looked anxious, opened and closed her mouth desperately, and waved her hands desperately, but she couldn't make a sound, and she didn't even use her fingers. Compare a "two".

After the doctor had demonstrated a "two" for her, the female anchor, who had always been strong and intelligent in the live broadcast, still couldn't compare "two".

In the speaking area below the video, comrades known or not known by Director Zuo are all speaking.

"...It's Xiaoxue!"

"Is Xiaoxue like this too..."

"At least Xiaoxue can still respond to the outside world."

"Is this the seventh one? Of the 15 members of the Seven Stars Wild Dragon Club who entered the Darkness of the Void, except for the three players who successfully escaped, only one of the others can remain awake even if they escape urgently."

"Yes, through various means, eight players who entered the Darkness of the Void and disconnected from the main server have been forced to escape urgently. Except for one player who is not abnormal, there are five players who are unconscious, and two who are awake but unable to communicate with others... ...No, there are three of us!"

The person's words had just been posted, and within five seconds, the live broadcast of the diagnosis to the anchor Huang Xuexue was suddenly cut off, and the screen went black for a few seconds.

Just when Director Zuo started to check the network.A new live signal is inserted.

It is the inside of an ambulance, where a policeman and a nurse can be seen huddled together, while the doctor is questioning the person on the stretcher:

"How are you feeling? What's your name? What's the last thing you remember?"

The person on the stretcher was a middle-aged man, probably also a player of "Heavenly Man".

Next to him, a woman who seemed to be a family member was looking at him, crying intermittently, while the middle-aged man himself blinked at the doctor desperately with an anxious expression on his face.

Blink very hard, once, twice.

In an emergency, the doctor who was called in didn't know what was wrong with today's patient, so he could only ask repeatedly in vain, but he couldn't get any normal response from the middle-aged man.

The family members cried even louder, and for a moment, across the screen, sorrowful emotions echoed in this confidential live broadcast room.

Putting the mobile phone aside to play, listening to the crying, the left director pursed his lips and found the notebook, plugged it in and connected it to the work group.

He quickly scanned through the minutes the secretary had compiled for him, and finally understood what happened.

"Players who enter the Darkness of the Void cannot go offline freely, and can only exit in an emergency through the external buttons of the game helmet. After exiting, there is a high probability of falling into a coma or causing communication barriers. This..."

Chief Zuo covered his chest and thought for a while, and said to the secretary who was videoing with him:

"Did Comrade Xiaoxia know about this? What did he say?"

"Because of Professor Xia Xing's application, Head Xia is currently in the secret base code-named 02-12." The secretary said, "After receiving the news, Head Xia has checked the firewall urgently, and he confirmed that the firewall that protects the players' spirits is indeed got hit."

"Can you confirm the reason for the shock?!"

Director Zuo asked a little excitedly.

"...still under inspection."

The secretary answered with a condensed expression.

He and Director Zuo looked at each other through the blurry camera, with exactly the same gloomy faces.

At this time, there was a beeping sound of new news coming from the secretary.

He lowered his head to watch, then raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and said, "Director, there is another piece of bad news that you must know, but your current body...does it need time to prepare mentally?"

The left chief waved his hand.

He said directly: "You say."

The secretary slipped his Adam's apple and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

He said softly: "Director...

"The news that the player who entered the darkness of the void had an accident in reality has already spread."

***

"Scary!The Tianxia anchor was broken into the residence by the police and carried into the ambulance during the live broadcast! "

"Who told you that using Star Whale equipment is very safe?" "

"Sword Art Online in Reality!Can a microwaved brain still be used? "

"Just after taking off the label of the game helmet Sanwu product, the Star Whale equipment had an accident? "

"SW2 or diving price reduction?The winter of high-priced game helmets is coming"

"...what the hell?"

Yan Huiyun murmured.

Early this morning, as before, she got on the bus to the library, and on the bus, she saw these news pushed over.

After quitting the game, Yan Huiyun spent a few days to cheer herself up. She originally planned to find a job directly, but found that she was not really short of money right now.

She spent a day thinking about the future carefully, and finally planned to take the general college entrance examination for university, so she got ready, went to the Education Bureau to inquire about filling out the form, and took second-hand textbooks every day to find a nearby library to study.

Back in real life, the world of "Heavenly Man" seems to have disappeared in an instant, and no one will point at her and say all kinds of shameful words that make people laugh and cry, which really makes Yan Huiyun breathe a sigh of relief.

Until I saw today's push news.

The photo accompanying the news is a photo of Huang Xuexue when she was still a singing and chatting anchor more than half a year ago.

Yan Huiyun gripped the phone tightly.

The rivers and lakes have never gone far.

At the same time, at Li Pei's home.

Father Li, who had just finished his night shift, drove the car back to the community.

As soon as the car stopped, Li's father stumbled and ran to the parking lot elevator leading to his unit, completely ignoring the open car door and a big scratch on the road because he bumped into the trash can too quickly.

After half a minute, he opened the door of the house.

"Son! How are you, son!" shouted the usually gentle doctor, "I came out of the night shift and saw the news about your club..."

Suddenly breaking into the living room, Father Li who was yelling suddenly stopped talking.

In the living room, Mother Li and Li Pei, who were in a faint confrontation, looked at him together.

Father Li froze in place: "..."

Are the faces of his wife and his son black?

Father Li took a step back subconsciously, and it was this movement that woke up Mother Li and Li Pei who were also frozen there.

Li Pei: "Dad."

Mother Li: "His dad, close the door and come in. We are holding a family meeting now."

Father Li who calmed down a bit: "Wait, I didn't seem to close the car door just now..."

He went down to the parking lot and closed the car door. Fortunately, no thieves came over during the few minutes when the door was wide open.

When he got home, Father Li had completely calmed down and was able to listen carefully to Mother Li and Li Pei's discussion.

The focus of this family meeting is the recent debate on whether Li Pei should continue to enter "Heavenly Man".

The affirmative is Li Pei, who thinks it should continue, and the opposing is Li's mother, who thinks it shouldn't.

"At least in the last two or three days, it really shouldn't be." Li's father took the opposite side, "Wait for the official notification of those players who have problems, and then we can discuss whether to join or not."

"But!" Li Pei stood up and said loudly, "Since the news came out, the online rate of "Heavenly Man" players has dropped to only 30.00% of the previous daily average!"

"Exactly. Everyone knows it's dangerous, so we didn't re-enter the game." Mother Li persuaded seriously, "Honey, let's wait for the official announcement first."

"But the various jobs of the Thirty Thousand Heavens can't leave the players now." Li Peidao, he just came of age not long ago, but his face is still immature, and he fought hard, "There are so many people waiting to be saved, why let them go? dead?"

"Based on the current analysis of various companies, players can only save people for a while in the [-] heavens." Father Li said, "The reason for the darkness of the void is completely unknown, and it will be in danger of expanding at any time. Once it suddenly Expansion, son, you happen to be nearby, and you want us to... no, I mean, this..."

"Your father wants to say," Li's mother looked at Li Pei and said earnestly, "No matter what, we want you to be well."

Li Pei was speechless for a moment.

The boy finally said weakly: "I will not go near the darkness of the void, and, how could it happen that the darkness of the void expands... Even if it expands, as long as I log off before being swallowed, I will—"

Before he could finish his sentence, a burst of new news interrupted him.

The mobile phones of the three members of the Li family rang at the same time, and they looked down at their mobile phones.

"--Do not."

Li Pei grabbed his hair.

Just when batches of players received news that they were going offline, the darkness of the void suddenly began to expand rapidly!