Forces of Temptation

The fear that accompanies the hypoxia sweeps through quickly wears down the player's meager physical strength.

A group of people hurriedly fell to the ground, gasping for breath in revenge.

Fortunately, the right to use oxygen only stipulates a time limit, not the amount.

Rabbit Pickup was very unhappy.

"Oxygen" is at the back of the redemption page in the mall.

Therefore, every time it comes to this link, none of the players is scared out of their wits.

It once enthusiastically admired the scene where a certain player was suffocated to death because of panic, unable to maintain normal thinking ability.

...Compared to this, the tests that this group of players have undergone are really insignificant.

Jiang Fang at least gave it some face and stayed where he was.

And that Nanzhou, after making sure that no accident happened to everyone, actually ran to the wishing pool.

He was half-kneeling by the pool with a good temperament, his half-long hair slipped a little from behind his ears, and he looked under the water, not knowing what he was thinking.

The players sat crookedly on the ground, deciding not to care about this abnormal artist.

Zhao Guanglu panted heavily, and asked, "What happened to that game...?"

Wu Yukai swallowed hard to relieve the dryness of his throat, and at the same time gave a simple and rude answer: "It's a bug!"

"Gravity", which has been running smoothly for nearly a year, encountered a catastrophic bug at the end of January this year.

Failure to log out properly has happened to many people.

At first, this was just a normal card bug.

When some players choose to go offline, they need to click several times to successfully log off.

"Tree of Life" received complaints from players, and began to race against time to update patches.

After the patch was updated, the problem disappeared for two days.

When all players thought the problem was solved, a terrible electronic disaster directly caused "Gravity" to cause the biggest scandal in the game history so far.

——A large number of players have the problem of being unable to successfully leave the game, and after going offline, they all have headaches, dizziness, coma, and temporary blindness.

Hundreds of players who were forced out of the cabin and even fell into a severe deep coma.

Overnight, the stock price of "Tree of Life" jumped directly.

When the "Tree of Life" company was first launched the accountability procedure, a strange dialog box similar to system debugging appeared in the sky.

At the time, however, no one knew exactly what this meant.

Until now, they are still ignorant.

Xie Yangyang asked tremblingly, "What happened to those people who were in a deep coma?"

"Dead." Wu Yukai pulled his hair as if venting, "...fuck, one after another, they all died."

In the stifled silence, the rabbit giggled.

"Okay, the time for information exchange is over." Its depressed mood was healed by everyone's desperate expressions, "Now, let me announce the rules of the game for you—"

"Ding ding ding--"

A burst of pleasant music interrupted Rabbit Pickup's schadenfreude.

A hidden ranking list pops up in front of all players.

On the world speaker below, a series of messages flashed out.

[Congratulations to player Nan Zhou for triggering the easter egg reward—the gold coin of Lady Luck! 】

[Reward: 5 points. 】

[Reward: Gold coins from Lady Luck. 】

[Gold coin usage: When making a wish, put the gold coin into the pool, there will be a lucky bonus~]

[Achievement "A Maiden's Prayer"——]

Everyone: "..."

The prayer of God TM Maiden.

Judging by the expression on Rabbit Pickup's face, this is clearly the shortened life of Rabbit.

The hero Nan Jixing bit a gold coin, surfaced wetly, and climbed up the white jade statue of the tree of life: "...squeak."

Nan Zhou opened his palm to him.

Nan Jixing excitedly shook the water on his ear tips, stretched out his sliding membrane, and landed directly in the palm of his owner. Because of the water on his body and unstable standing, he rolled twice in Nan Zhou's palm before stopping the car.

At this moment, there is only one thought in the mind of a normal person.

... Nan Zhou is not only a pervert who puts corpses in his storage tank.

When everyone was discussing the issue of life and death, he actually ran to the pool to fish for gold coins.

Pickup is also very upset.

Those who returned from the dungeon after all the hard work would take the rare oxygen to rest and replenish their strength.

Who would be free enough to fish for coins?

It unilaterally declared that Nanzhou was the most unqualified player it had encountered.

Of course, Pickup would not admit that it hated Nanzhou just because Nanzhou deprived it of some hard-won joyful experience in mechanical work.

Nanzhou doesn't care about the slander of everyone and Rabbit Pickup.

He walked back, and silently spread his palm to Pika, revealing the shining gold coin engraved with the tree of life pattern.

Nan Zhou: "..." How to use this?

Rabbit: "..." Are you fucking showing off to me?

One person and one rabbit, whose brain waves were not aligned, fell into a strange stalemate.

Nanzhou didn't get an answer, and he didn't want to waste everyone's time. Seeing that everyone was sitting on the ground, he naturally chose to be a group, put away the coins, and sat down cross-legged.

Rabbit Pickup didn't react for a while: "..."

Before it could speak, Nan Zhou raised his head and asked seriously: "Didn't you just want to introduce the rules of the game?"

Pickup: "..." Damn it.

Its speech speed suddenly became like the mushrooms on the bus, as if it had eaten Xuanmai.

"The rules of the game are very simple, whoever has the most points wins."

This is obvious.

The game's victory mechanism is almost on the surface: points are king.

The little easter egg that Nanzhou found just now triggered the world trumpet and the current ranking.

The player currently ranked first has the highest points and has reached level 23.

But his name is very strange, called "Eternal Life-Zhang Yi".

Level 5 cutie Nanzhou asked: "What is 'immortality'?"

Rabbit didn't want to say a word: "Team name."

... the game is teamable?

Players who have never played "Gravity" immediately pricked up their ears.

Li Yinhang was not surprised.

She once heard from a colleague who owns "Gravity" that there is a single-player mode and a team mode in "Gravity".

In single-player mode, no matter how much the reward is, it belongs to one person.

In team mode, rewards are shared, and a certain amount of team points will be added, as well as special team rewards that cannot be obtained in single-player mode. The number of players is limited to 2 to 5 people.

What Rabbit Pickup said was indeed similar to the dungeon mode of "Gravity".

"The official game is divided into two modes: PVP and PVE."

"Your trial level is randomly assigned to PVP."

"At the beginning of each level, you have the right to choose PVP and PVE. Of course, the premise is that you have the 'select level'."

After experiencing hypoxic events, everyone has learned to behave.

Select a level, 100 points, on the first page of the mall page.

"After the player finishes the game, they can return to a rest point like 'Rust Capital' and enjoy themselves."

"Of course, any enjoyment comes at a price."

"Cherish every point of your points and make good use of them. They are closely related to your lives."

Someone asked with a little hope: "If we die in this game, then in reality..."

This question doesn't really make sense.

They come from reality.

Those who disappeared in reality, none of them came back.

What's more, being dragged into such a treacherous game simply and rudely, this is already clearly written "Dear player, hello, I'm your father" on the face, what else can we talk about?

Sure enough, Rabbit Pika sneered as an answer.

"Games, there is always a time to clear the level."

Pickup said so many words in one breath, but the bad mood gradually eased.

It raised its head arrogantly, and its ears creaked and shook: "The game is over, and the winner will have a wish come true."

"Here, that's the wishing pool..."

As soon as the voice fell, it remembered the nasty thing that happened just now.

Its three-petal mouth drooped down, and it continued to explain reluctantly.

"Now, you can spend 10 points to make a wish."

"After the game is over, as long as the player's final ranking reaches the first place, whether it's a single player or a team, your wish may come true."

"Of course, you will think, if you make 'one hundred more wishes', is it feasible?"

"The answer is that your wish will be skipped and not fulfilled."

"So, players, please make a wish carefully."

As he spoke, Pickup cast a disdainful glance at Nan Zhou.

"...In addition, the wish made by the person who has the lucky gold coin has a certain luck bonus, and the wish will be fulfilled first."

..."What are you proud of when you get a rubbish skill" written all over your face.

Nan Zhou blinked, not very disappointed.

Sure enough, the rewards given by the easter eggs will not be too exaggerated.

If you want to realize your wish, you still have to win the first place in points.

To put it bluntly, this gold coin is a purely colorful gadget.

Someone dared to ask: "Then... can we still go for gold coins?"

Pickup rolled his huge eyes.

"What does 'Easter Egg' mean? - only the first person to get it will get the reward!"

It also seemed tired of repeating this over and over again. It forked its two front paws, hugged it to its chest, and said lazily: "Please hurry up and make a wish, players."

Just like that, Rabbit Pickup covered up his frenzied heart with a cold demeanor, disappeared with a bang, and went to receive the next wave of guests.

The first person to take action was Nan Zhou.

He walked back to the wishing pool and threw the gold coin back into the pool without hesitation.

At the same time as the small sound of falling into the water, 10 points were also deducted.

Nanzhou didn't care about this.

With his eyes closed, he looked devout and made a wish.

Seeing that Nan Zhou had made his wish, everyone rushed up one after another.

They've already bought oxygen just now, and it's no big deal to spend another 10 points to buy a good fortune.

Some people also took the opportunity to sneak their hands into the pool water, trying to see if they could fish out more gold coins.

...Even if you can earn 5 points, it is good.

But those gold coins seemed to be firmly wedged at the bottom of the pool, no matter how anyone picked them, they would not move.

Only two people did not move.

Jiang Fang, and Li Yinhang.

After Nan Zhou made his wish, he saw the two standing far away from the wishing pool, so he naturally walked towards them.

He asked, "Why don't you make a wish?"

Jiang Fang said with a smile: "There is no rush. There is no time limit for making a wish, so you have to think about it carefully. It's not too late to make a wish when you are about to win."

Li Yinhang's reason is much more simple.

"I want to wait until I have more points in hand before making an application." She said, "I'm afraid that when it's time to use the points, I won't have enough points."

After making wishes one after another, the next question everyone faced was who to form a team with.

Everyone present here counts as one, and no one wants to be a lone ranger.

After going through the test of a dungeon, they can be regarded as having a basic understanding of each other.

They approached and talked in low voices, but intentionally or unintentionally ignored Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou.

If these people were to judge whether Jiang Fang and Nan Zhou were smart, everyone would definitely have nothing to say.

But to say how much everyone trusts them is not necessarily true.

At first glance, Nan Zhou has a solitary personality, and seems to be a pervert who doesn't play cards according to common sense.

Jiang Fang gave people a very comfortable and friendly feeling, but after the analysis of the bus on Nanzhou, everyone can come to the most basic conclusion even if it is cloudy:

... This person is an old Yinbi.

It's okay to yin with others, what if he yin with his teammates.

Everyone has noticed that there is no rule in this game that teammates cannot hurt each other.

If it's a simple game, it's good to have a smart teammate.

Now it is a matter of life and death, and everyone dare not gamble lightly.

With people who are too smart, sometimes they die without knowing how they died.

Xie Yangyang formed a team with the man and woman who got on the bus together.

Zhao Guanglu actually left with Wu Yukai who had had a fierce friction with him at the beginning.

Probably because he doesn't know anything about games, and Wu Yukai is the one who knows "Gravity" best among this group of people.

Adults only consider the pros and cons and will not get angry.

Seeing everyone leaving in groups one by one, Nan Zhou, who was left alone, looked around, and belatedly said "ah": "Why are they all gone?"

Li Yinhang: "..." There is another one here.

Nan Zhou didn't seem too regretful. After stating the fact to himself, he turned to Li Yinhang and said, "Who do you want to form a team with?"

Li Yinhang has always been the most pragmatic and honest.

With a clap of her hands, she hugged her thighs sincerely and said, "Boss, I'm with you. I'm capable and not clingy. I'm obedient and easy to control. I've also worked as a bank customer service for two years. Trust me, what's wrong with me?" can be overcome.”

Jiang Fang looked at the eager Li Yinhang, and a few key words came to mind:

Physically it may be a hindrance.

Obedient, crisp, not sticky.

Budget carefully.

For him, as a teammate, Li Yinhang's functionality is still passable.

In contrast, Nanzhou's judgment of Li Yinhang's keywords is much simpler.

He stared at Li Yinhang and thought to himself, there are three more storage slots.

Nan Zhou clicked on the friend list, asked Li Yinhang for his personal serial number in the game interface, and then turned to look at Jiang Fang.

Jiang Fang stared at him and smiled softly.

Nanzhou grabbed Li Yinhang's sleeve, faced him, and took two steps back.

Immediately, he raised his hand and waved him friendly: "Then, goodbye."

Jiang Fang: "..."

——Nan Zhou, it seems, didn't consider pulling him into a team at all?

"and many more."

Jiang Fang quickly adjusted his mentality and took a step forward: "Aren't you going to pull me into a team?"

"Hmm..." Nan Zhou frowned lightly, "It's ok. But you didn't say it."

Jiang Fang: "I thought...we were handcuffed together in the car, and stayed together after we got off the car. We should be in the same team."

"But you didn't ask me." Nan Zhou showed a puzzled expression, "If you say it, you want to be with me. If you don't say it, I don't understand."

At that moment, the emotions in Jiang Fang's eyes became complicated again.

"I think……"

As if he was not used to such straightforwardness, he took a breath and lowered his eyes.

After a while, he smiled a little, looked straight into Nan Zhou's eyes, and tried his best to complete the simple sentence:

"I want to be with you."

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