Forces of Temptation

"Cubic Ark" must have captured some kind of information, and learned that the games they are currently playing are one after another exhibition games, and there are people watching them.

But why?

Why do they know that there is an "audience"?

The more the director replayed the film in his heart, the more frightened and sweaty he became.

This is clearly a dense net woven well in advance, dormant in the still water, just waiting for them to invest in it head-on.

You know, if there is no behind-the-scenes planning and no predetermined champion, even if "Cubic Ark" goes to play PVP mode, there are so many players waiting to be matched, they may not be matched with "Adam".

If the first round of PVP does not match "Adam", then their head drop layout will all be in vain.

However, the program team had to target them.

This is what they need.

They knew that "Adam" needed a battle to rectify his name.

They know better, let "Adam" hang on, play some other games, and then use the "drag" tactic, let "Cubic Ark" continue to linger in the garbage copy, let "Adam" and "Cubic Ark" continue to keep the king without seeing the king It is the safest way to never meet each other.

But this kind of boring game is not the best way to boost ratings.

If you want to make the game exciting, and make the audience willing to pay for it, you must let the audience see what they most want to see.

This is the simplest logic.

Therefore, "Cubic Ark" just borrowed the needs and hands of the program group, and dragged "Adam" into their game in a fair manner.

They not only wanted to kill "Adam", but also the program crew.

This fake doomsday dungeon is not only a game between them and "Adam", but also a game with the program group.

Even if the program team detects something wrong and finds out that this "copy" is an illusion fabricated by them, they can't do anything.

Regardless of whether they cut off the live broadcast, "Adam" who has not received any danger warning from them is in danger.

Since the inevitable situation can be foreseen, the program group must make a choice.

A strong man breaks his wrist and cuts off the live broadcast?

No, not possible.

Because, just like the reason why I asked to cut off the live broadcast at the beginning, but the person in charge tried my best to prevent it, when the live broadcast was interrupted and "Adam" died unexpectedly, the program team couldn't explain it to the ordinary audience, let alone explain to the owners and those who invested a lot of money. The audience explained why "Adam", a well-raised golden egg, died.

If no convincing reasons are given, it will inevitably lead to irreparable disputes and conflicts.

Therefore, they could only helplessly continue the live broadcast until "Adam" tried to chat privately, revealing their identity as a special player.

Then, how could they be sure that "Adam" would not notice the abnormality?

You know, just a few days ago, "Adam" could still see the changes in the camera——

Thinking of this, the director suddenly froze, a drop of cold sweat slid down his cheeks and fell to his tight throat, causing another small spasm.

... Why did the visual function of the cameras around "Adam" be turned off?

The origin of everything is that the program team arranged two high-dimensional players, Cao Shuguang and Ma Xiaopei, in the dungeon of "Evil Falling", hoping to get rid of them before the "Cubic Ark" encounters "Adam".

It's very simple, as long as you cooperate with the boss, when the boss intends to get rid of them, just move a little bit.

Who would have thought that those two idiots who couldn't read the air at all could not understand their intentions at all. They turned into retreating first-level performers at the beginning, and after understanding the hints from the program group, they directly chose to ignore them.

As a last resort, the program team sent them a message, ordering them to do something about the "Cubic Ark".

As a result, the reply they got was——

"No way." Cao Shuguang said sincerely, "My pony and I are too useless, let's change to someone else."

And they really live up to the name of trash.

As soon as we had a face-to-face meeting, he was included in the suspicion list by "Cubic Ark" because of the existence of the visible camera, and he failed to respond effectively when Li Yinhang leaked his name, and was caught by "Truth Tequila" in the bar. In the end, it was even under the protection of the "Cube Ark" that it managed to survive in this evolved copy.

Because of this, in order to avoid repeating the same mistakes when "Adam" and "Cubic Ark" faced each other, after urgent discussions, the program team temporarily turned off the visual function.

however……

Whose doubts made them make this decision?

And who is it that lures and schemes every step of the way, taking advantage of the flaws exposed by Cao Shuguang and Ma Xiaopei to fuel the situation in front of him?

If they had known about the existence of the camera, why did Jiang Fang face the camera and list the doubts about Cao Shuguang and Ma Xiaopei?

Is he talking to his teammates, helping them answer questions, or...

Did you tell the show crew?

After discovering that there was no way out for PVE, "Cubic Ark" used all the resources at hand to induce the program group to turn off the camera.

They succeeded.

Then, "Adam", who lost the visual control of the camera and couldn't confirm whether the camera was evacuated, completely ignorantly fell into their carefully woven trap——

Once he figured this out, the director felt like frying oil, and the problems in his mind emerged one after another, each more frightening than the last.

"Adam" obviously entered the game as an ordinary player, and he only had one contact with them from the beginning to the end.

When were their identities discovered and accurately locked by the "Cube Ark"?

When did the "Cube Ark" start planning counterattacks?

Where did the "Cubic Ark" officially start?

Moreover, even if he knew what Nanzhou and the others wanted to do, the director couldn't understand why they did it.

The director spread out his palms and quickly programmed a small live ant with data.

The virtual ant with streamer slowly crawled unsuspectingly in his palm.

As a temporarily fabricated virtual life, it has no idea what it is going to face.

The director used a little strength, twisted the ant's body, and exerted a non-lethal gravity on it.

When the power dissipated, the ants, who felt that their lives were in danger, panicked and began to crawl around.

And when it found that no matter which direction it climbed, it would be under ruthless pressure, it gave up on itself, gave up struggling, and obediently curled up in its original position without moving.

This is the normal biological law, seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and survive within the scope of the rules, isn't it?

The ant "Cubic Ark" is obviously still in the palm of its own side, how dare it do such a thing?

Are they not afraid that after the program team is annoyed, they will use their absolute advantage to give up the game and destroy them and all other players?

How dare they escape the established framework?

How dare they assume that they can escape unscathed?

It is obviously a creature that is as small as an ant and can be manipulated by others——

However, it is precisely these tiny carbon-based creatures that stabbed the sharpest sword at the people who ruled them, at the very foundation of game existence.

The ants they despised created a scene of turmoil.

A staff member timidly asked the director who was in a trance: "Director, what should we do? There are more and more doubts in the center of the forum."

Another staff member got the freshly released data: "The public opinion group also came out with results, and screened the general direction data of the posts with this matter as the topic of discussion: I think there is a bug in the dungeon, 'Adam' recovered 30% remember it; 50% think that the game mechanism is unfair-these people have listed the task list for a longitudinal comparison, think that the "Cube Ark" has been treated unfairly, and question our random system. Problem, there is a scheduled champion in the game... and 20% of the players focused on the special analysis post, analyzing the recorded content frame by frame, saying that 'Adam' did not lose his memory from the beginning to the end, and combined with the structure of the town , the name of the town, and the abnormal black screen on the side of 'Cubic Ark', saying...saying..."

The director tried his best to support the scene, and sneered—but the content of this sneer was closer to a miserable smile.

"What are you talking about? What else can you say?" the director said, "It's nothing more than 'Adam' fell into a trap, this is not a copy at all."

The staff was tongue-tied for a while, and repeated mechanically: "...what should I do?"

Director: "Do nothing."

"Really? Don't you even cut off the live broadcast?"

"Before, it was impossible to cut off; now, there is no need to cut off."

The director stared at "Adam" who was still chatting late at night on the screen, as cold as staring at two old tombstones: "Let all the audience witness with their own eyes how 'Adam' died... This is their last value. "

Naturally, the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties did not know that countless people in the outside world were going crazy for them, and their doomed fate.

Tang Song is sharing the information he has obtained with Yuan Mingqing.

"This small town has a huge area, and the overall activity zones are divided into concentric circles according to the severity of the patients. We are in the fourth circle. Nanzhou and the others should be in the second circle."

Tang Song clicked a point in the center of the simple graphic he drew: "The central location, where the owner of the town lives."

Yuan Mingqing regained his mood a bit: "What is he going to do with gathering so many people with mental problems?"

"I don't know." Tang Song said flatly, "Either he has mental problems, or, with such a clear and strange architectural layout, everyone is divided into circles according to their illnesses, and he lives in the center. A little... I think he must be plotting something."

Yuan Mingqing thought of a possibility: "I remember that the existence of this doomsday is due to the spread of some abnormal mental virus. Then, the purpose of establishing such a patient settlement is to make a huge biological petri dish ? Used to raise Gu?"

Tang Song picked up the words of Yuan Mingqing, with clear thinking, and talked eloquently: "Either to create a newer virus, or he is the virus itself - anyway, I don't believe that he has good intentions, so he used the tram to collect neuropathy from all over the place. Bring back 'Eden'."

Yuan Mingqing: "Is there a way to break the situation?"

Tang Song: "Go to meet this master. Kill him, maybe you can get an achievement..."

The Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties have completely followed the thinking of the Tang and Song Dynasties: "...but after killing the 'Li Ark' with his help."

Tang Song pursed his pale and bleeding lips, and said with a soft smile: "That's right. The existence of normal people is forbidden in the small town."

This was the message given to them by the middle-aged man dressed as a priest they met at the station.

Once they capture normal humans, they kill them immediately and dissect them.

Tang Song said to himself: "...This is the most important reminder that the dungeon gave us."

Yuan Mingqing let out a long breath of frustration: "How can I get close to that master? Is there a channel? How can I win his trust?"

Tang Song's fingertips slowly slid on the quilt: "I haven't thought about this yet. Let me think about it."

Now that he has a direction, Yuan Mingqing is not so anxious anymore.

He raised the corners of his lips and helped Tang Song to lie down: "You should have a good rest first."

"No hurry." Tang Song curled up under the quilt, his spirit was low, but his eyes were shining brightly like stars, "We want to win. As long as we win, I can let my parents enter the high-level 'cloud', and they will have more authority and freedom to dominate and control higher levels of data—”

Yuan Mingqing softened his voice: "This is what they expect of you. Don't be too tense, think about yourself."

Tang Song was extremely firm: "I have nothing about myself. I just want to win. When I go to the high-level 'cloud', I will be your neighbor. I have been with you for so long, and I still don't know what you look like."

It's rare for a tricky person like him to joke, and Yuan Mingqing couldn't help laughing in his tiredness: "Okay."

……

In the early morning of the second day, when Nan Zhou woke up from the bed, the sky was bright, and the other half of the bed was already empty.

He stared at this blank space, and his mind was also empty.

He took the initiative to move over, resting his pillow on the residual body temperature, thinking about a few simple things like when he woke up in the past, and after urging his brain to wake up a bit, he got up and finished washing quietly.

He opened the door and went out.

Jiang Fang was not outside, and Li Yinhang's room was also empty.

So Nanzhou climbed down the broad wooden spiral staircase, looking for traces of his new friend.

When Nan Zhou came to the center of the hall and looked around, suspecting that what he experienced last night was just a fantasy, he reached into his pocket.

Inside was a stack of post-it notes and a pen.

Before he could pull out his hand and confirm from the record that his record last night was true or not, a light and thin white object floated to his shoulder from the corner of his vision.

He picked it up and saw a piece of goose down.

...appears to be in the pillow.

He felt something in his heart and looked up.

Thousands of pieces of snow velvet appeared above his head at some unknown time, dancing and drifting at the same time, one after another, like snowflakes summoned by the tide, reflecting a small section of gentle sunlight, turning the whole room All the furniture was gently swept by the waves shining brightly.

The snow is not cold, it is still warm.

"Mr. Nan, good morning." Jiang Fang leaned on the balcony railing and looked down with a smile on his chin, "Get up to watch the snow."

Nan Zhou brushed off the velvet that fell from his eyelashes, passed through the warm snow all over the sky, and fixedly looked at Jiangfang directly above.

So, it's not a dream.

Jiang Fang stroked his body, and clearly remembered his wish, got up early, and planned and arranged this snow scene without wind for him.

He looked up at Jiang Fang, and in this small winter, he saw a piece of spring in advance.

And Li Yinhang poked his head out from the restaurant door.

She hesitated to say a word of shameful waste, but she swallowed it back.

Holding the plate in her hand, she tapped it twice: "It's breakfast—"

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The set of Cube Ark: Romance

Adam's Set: Inspirational Films

The set of the program group: Horror film