doomsday beta

On August 8th, the seventh day of the lunar calendar, the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day, in the game of reversing day and night, the high-hanging sun is like a dazzling pink light.

Just after zero o'clock, game announcements arrived, and a love event that fit the festive atmosphere was held.

Originally, this had nothing to do with the lonely Ark.

It's a pity that due to his special nature, the son and others naturally refused to let him go to dig out the hidden benefits that may exist in the activity.

The game is also too open and does not limit the gender of love.

So, when Fang Zhou took the invisible Nian Beast and went out according to the appointed time, he saw Jiang Xun waiting downstairs, looking up at him with a slightly guilty and flattering face.

"Actually, that's fine."

Jiang Cheng, who was planning to watch the whole process, shrugged at Fang Zhou without looking. Although his brother was a bit stupid, he could only help him make up for it.

"I was originally curious about whether the relationship between you and "Noah's Ark" had some kind of connection. Taking this opportunity, I happened to observe them together."

Only then did Fang Zhou nod, accepting the temporary companion who was arranged for him, "Let's go."

Jiang Cheng turned his head to motion for Jiang Xun to follow, but was stared at.

Jiang Xun seemed to think that his well-intentioned seeking for love was all speculation with ulterior motives, Jiang Cheng rolled his eyes and didn't bother with this idiot.I really can't figure out how such a mindless guy can have anything to do with this devastating doomsday horror game.

The two of Fang Zhou went to the household registration office to get married first, and rushed to the central city according to the coordinates given in the announcement.

The three of them are no strangers to the central city. The glittering golden light occupies position C on the map. When players enter the ancient continent, they all look up at the closed city gate and the bulletin board at the gate at night. Even when the city gate is opened during the day, the NPC city guard He also conscientiously prevented every player from breaking in, and could only see the residents of the city going in and out with question marks on their heads. They were undoubtedly unfathomable high-level NPCs.

After leaving the teleportation array, there were crowds everywhere.

Players who were overcrowded due to the immigration project blocked in front of the city gate, mostly in pairs.

There are also some middle-aged and elderly couples who should not be good at these young people's games, and they shuttle through the crowd accompanied by game companions.

There were a few familiar faces. People from Noah's studio watched Fang Zhou and the others approaching from a long distance, winking at Jiang Xun with meaningful expressions.

Jiang Xun didn't bother to talk to them, and just followed Fang Zhou wholeheartedly, explaining the event to Fang Zhou as if he didn't want money all the way, looking for performance like a peacock spreading its tail.

"The Qixi Festival event is a running mission. You can get rewards every round, ranging from regular potion equipment to precious recipes and recipes. What you get depends on the mood of the NPC—that is, the character of the player."

While talking, the three of them walked to the gate of the city. As soon as the city guard, who was reviewing the player's identity, saw Ark, he enthusiastically persuaded him to return to the central city again. The old-fashioned rhetoric said that someone as prestigious as Ark should be conferred a title.

Jiang Cheng watched silently, and waited for Fang Zhou to refuse without hesitation. After the three entered the door, he said: "...in order to explore the mysteries of Central City earlier, some people on the prestige list were actually sent to apply to settle in Central City. It's a pity did not succeed."

He paused under Fang Zhou's gaze, and said: "In the eyes of the NPC, it seems that they are in an irreconcilable opposing lineup with the player, and it is not so easy to accept the player."

"what do you want to say in the end?"

"So, what's the benefit to them if they want to recruit you? Or—" Jiang Cheng's eyes darkened, "Even the NPCs know about your specialness in Little Noah's place?"

Ark naturally had no way of answering this point.

Jiang Xun pushed Jiang Cheng down, changed the subject, pointed to the front and said, "Look!"

Looking from a distance, I saw a tall tower that was invisible outside the city, standing in the depths of the central city, soaring into the sky.

"Isn't this tower too exaggerated?"

"What is it for?"

"Do you want to push the tower? But the only thing planted in the tribe is the flag, and there is no tower after the founding of the country. Why is there only one tower here?"

Many players around were also attracted by the majestic tower and screamed again and again.

Three or two masked NPCs in the roadside shop looked over. The two black eyeballs in the hole made people feel scared. The player rubbed his neck, put down his doubts about the tower, and turned to find the NPC Cowherd and Weaver Girl to do it. Task.

Jiang Cheng carefully looked at the tower for a while.

The towering spire is like a mysterious lair inhabited by witches in Western fantasy. It is incompatible with the entire antique city. It stands there abruptly like a flock of chickens. The whole body is gray and white. There are no windows on the body of the tower. Seeing the looming flashes under the cover of the sky, it seems that some "eyes" are condescendingly looking down on the common people.

"Stop standing stupidly."

Jiang Xun urged his dazed younger brother to quickly follow the boat and head towards the scenic spot, Magpie Bridge.

The Magpie Bridge is indeed a bird bridge built by a group of magpies, linking both sides of a silvery river, which cannot be stepped on by manpower.

Find the Cowherd on one side of the river bank to take the task. You have to go round and round and go around half of the central city before you can go around the other side of the river bank and find the Weaver Girl to hand in the task.

Jiang Cheng observed all the way, feeling that this mission exists simply to allow players to have a glimpse of the city.

"Did you find anything strange?"

After successfully completing the last round of tasks and waiting for the reward to be settled, Jiang Cheng skipped to accompany Jiang Xun all the way and asked Fang Zhou.

Fang Zhou glanced at the hem of his clothes, calmed down the restless Nian Beast, glanced at the surrounding NPCs, and did not speak.

The vague peeping and thorns in the back did not finally dissipate until the three of them left the central city.

Only then did he say: "The NPCs wearing masks should be the management of Central City."

Jiang Cheng wasn't surprised, he just said, "How did you find out?"

"Although the general NPC has the same IQ as the player, it just follows a certain procedure and participates in the game task chain, just like within the delineated range, there is an established logic pattern. And those NPCs wearing masks, the game Walking in an ordinary NPC, both in terms of freedom and intelligence, are far superior to ordinary NPCs."

"Is it because they have been scattered around you since you entered the city, following you and observing you—that's why you think so?"

Fang Zhou nodded and shook his head, "It's just a feeling."

The three of them returned to Dongshi, and Fang Zhou checked the rewards for the 77th ring task. The number of rings increased from low to high, and the value of the reward items became higher and higher, each of which was in line with the festive atmosphere.

No. [-]: Truth Pills.

As the name suggests, it is the pill that can make people tell the truth.This thing can be obtained in Novice Village.

The result of the appraisal is: ordinary to superb.

"How does the two-level difference between ordinary and superb reflect?" Jiang Xun was full of doubts.

"Is it reflected in the object of use?" Said so, Jiang Cheng looked at the wizard NPC wandering in Dongshi.

This guy frequently conveyed the will of "God" at the beginning of the tribe, and retired after successfully building the city, with few prophecies.

In the back, there are tears of true love and other materials that Ark once obtained.

The name of the last ring reward is unremarkable:

All wishes come true and pills are made.

The appraisal result is: god level.

The synthetic materials listed above are the sum of the previous 76 rounds of rewards.

Sure enough, Ark ran the circle very smoothly this time, and other players probably didn't have such good luck, and the rewards they got in each round were just right.

Otherwise, you may not be able to gather a complete set of materials after running many times, and you have to go on missions all over the world to find the corresponding materials.

What's more, they may not even get this recipe.

——So, besides meeting the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl on the Magpie Bridge for the occasion, what value does this god-level wish come true?

Jiang Cheng didn't know, so he could only leave it to Fang Zhou himself to play freely.

Fang Zhou took the things and turned around and left. Jiang Xun hesitated for a moment, unwilling to go up to him again, but Jiang Cheng pressed his shoulder, "Your friend is back, I seem to have something to tell you."

"What's the matter? They're all a bunch of idlers." Jiang Xun, who was agitated in his heart, was forcefully turned in another direction by his younger brother. Seeing his teammates approach him, he chattered about the business of running around and playing with each other.

"Do you think it's strange? I looked at the back at the time, but when I turned around, it was an NPC? Wearing a strange mask, I was shocked!"

Coincidentally, Noah and the other five people ran around the city and all missed the NPC.

After a few people finished speaking, Jiang Cheng fell into deep thought.

Jiang Xun also realized that the situation was a bit unusual, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. He followed his silent brother back home, and no one was at home in the small villa.

Chairman Jiang, whose family has retreated to the Internet, must not be able to stay at home anymore, so he ran to the next door who didn't know who was gathering for tea and chatting about his family, country and world.

When he was stupefied, he saw his younger brother put up a few printed photos, all of which were materials for investigating the game.

The first one is a meticulous painting hanging in the offices of Xinshou villages: a masked man with Korean curly hair.

The second one is the small portraits of people hanging in the offices of the towns, with the same Korean curly hair.

"This thing has a secret place on each level of the map, it's almost like a game NPC monitoring the eyes and ears of others."

Jiang Xun sighed, and Jiang Cheng glanced at him.

Jiang Xun: "What kind of eyes do you have?"

Jiang Cheng: "It seems that you are not hopelessly stupid."

This painting hangs in the office where players of all levels of the map must pass, which undoubtedly makes players invisible in front of high-level NPCs—he always feels that the existence of NPCs is like a poisonous snake with a ring neck. It may startle the snake, but the existence of this painting may reveal the meaning behind the mask.

Jiang Xun heard Jiang Cheng's plan to steal the painting, "What do you want to do?"

Jiang Cheng held up the painting, "Who do you think the person in this painting looks like?"

Jiang Xun looked at Jiang Cheng, looked at the picture Jiang Cheng held up to compare his face, and gradually frowned at the similar outlines of the two, "You doubt..."

He suddenly remembered the premiere of "The Sinking of Japan", Jiang Jingze, the chief planner of the event, had a face very similar to Jiang Cheng's.

"These high-level NPCs wear masks in the game to cover up a face similar to the player's?" Jiang Xun understood what Jiang Cheng meant, but he was still puzzled: "If you want to verify it, just ask the Red Devils to find those who admit their mistakes. The NPC in the painting took off the mask, why bother to steal the painting, and the mask in the painting can't be taken off."

"You always make me doubt your IQ."

After Jiang Cheng sighed, Jiang Xun came to his senses, "That's right, NPCs can't do it with question marks on their foreheads, so it's better to steal." If this person is really Jiang Jingze, there should be a burn scar on his chin, but in the painting The neck of the person is smooth and clean. What kind of information might this painting really hide?

Jiang Xun has been crushed by his younger brother's IQ all year round, so he skipped his bad words and underlined the point.

"How are you going to steal it?"

"If NPCs can only move within a certain range, and paintings are the eyes and ears of monitoring players, then paintings at other village and town levels must not be moved. Only in the ancient continent, a map where NPCs themselves sit in the town, the existence of paintings is like a chicken rib. Relax."

"...You mean stealing paintings from the library in Central City?"

"if so."

Today's event is an open day, which is the opportunity to enter.Jiang Cheng did it when he thought of it, and asked Jiang Xun to take his teammates in the studio to steal the painting, and turned to find the son.

After the two finished chatting about the situation, Jiang Xun and his party also came back with a sad face.

"Not smooth."

"More than that."

According to the map, the library is in the innermost part of the central city, beyond the range of the player's activities, and all the people living around it are NPCs.

A few people walked over with the eyes of the NPC all the way, and when they stood at the door of an ancient garden-style building, they saw the towering white tower standing in the center of the courtyard.

When the few people were surprised, they suddenly found that all the NPCs around them stopped their actions, and the windows of the nearby residential area were opened one by one, and black-eyed holes wearing masks looked over, under the watchful eyes of everyone, even I didn't even have the courage to raise my hand to push the door.

After Jiang Xun finished talking about the situation, Jiang Cheng and the young master looked at each other with vigilance and attention.Obviously they have touched the bottom line of NPC.