Killing Mary Sue [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

The ID "MarySue" has blown up the headlines of major media in the past six months.

Not only because this player has found the legendary hidden missions in the new version of "Oasis" one after another, but also discovered several unknown game bugs and reported them to the administrator, thus becoming the successor to Wadeworth's virtual The second ID to appear in the system announcement after the character "Parsifal", and received sincere thanks and generous rewards from the company.

Taking advantage of the moment when the limelight was in full swing, MarySue applied for the right to organize the guild, successfully established a game group called "Rebirth", and recruited a lot of old and new players by virtue of her fame and ability.On the first day of the establishment of the guild, "Mary Su" led the first dozen players to the Marvel plane. After a day and night of arduous battles, she was the only one who survived with heavy casualties. , and finally completed the first kill against the BOSS Thanos——

When this well-known ID sounded again in the world news column, everyone acquiesced to a tacit fact at the same moment: this MarySue has become the number one player since the establishment of New Oasis, TheReadyPlayerOne.

In the game, the paparazzi who sell gossip news for a living immediately came after hearing the news, bought several core members who were said to be the core members of the "Reborn" guild, and verified some questions that were questioned by everyone: this great god is indeed female , aged between 20 and 27, with a calm and confident personality, and likes to be alone.She seldom goes to places like arenas, and she has never fought face to face with others, so she is not sure about the level of game skills.What's more interesting is that after the Great God became famous, he attracted the admiration of many outstanding men with money and power. These people are usually in the top ten on the "Money Ranking List" or "Level Ranking List". In reality, they are also hot elite talents, but now they all pursue this mysterious and powerful female player by coincidence—as for whether it is out of sincerity or for other purposes, no one knows.

Despite the turmoil on the Internet, Leia, who was dubbed "the number one female player in Oasis" by the good media and fans, is now caught in a dilemma after half a year of glory.

Those hidden missions found and opened by others in the previous life were completed by her first in this life, and she gained both fame and fortune in one fell swoop.But Leia herself is well-known. This thing comes and goes quickly like a storm. Now she is the leader of "Rebirth", with tens of thousands of members, and many core members are in reality. The world is full of prominent figures, and with her own skills and experience, she is absolutely unable to deal with these old fritters—the only way to maintain her prestige is to constantly discover new epic tasks, or complete the first kill of the boss, otherwise She will gradually pass away, decline, and hide like countless players who have become popular in the past. This is the ending she least wants to experience.

Man, once you reach the top, it's hard to bear the troughs, especially for people like Leia who desperately want to be famous to satisfy their sense of existence. It is as unbearable as the lice hiding on it.

Leia sat alone on the balcony of a modern building in Gotham City, looking at the dark and gloomy sky. The flash of bat lights in the distance lit up almost half of the night, and the screams and gunshots of police cars whizzed away from the street. -Voice.There is no doubt that this is an extremely ordinary late night in Gotham City. Chaos is synonymous with this place. Every minute and every second of the player's life safety is being tested. Walking on the road is very likely to meet someone wearing a green suit and a top hat. The guy grinned and posed riddles to himself.But still, Gotham City won No.9 in last year's "Top Ten Human Livable Cities"-given that the first and second places are "New York" and "Tokyo".

But Leia likes this city very much. She feels that Gotham can give her a sense of security inexplicably, probably because it is "lively" enough here, and many people will involuntarily ignore the little secrets hidden in the shadows.Whenever Leia is in a bad mood, she will come here for a stroll. The police cars that are always chasing criminals and the explosions that resound through the night sky from time to time are like a gentle lullaby. The notes here fall asleep peacefully and wake up in the morning.

Leia was sitting on the railing, and below was a suspended [-]-meter-high building. If she was not careful, she would fall to her death.She shook her legs and looked down at the whole city, thinking about what to do next: she had exhausted all the mission guides she could remember, and now her inspiration was exhausted, and she couldn’t find a way to get herself to the top again: yes, Since she was reborn and used those quests to make a fortune, what Leia wants is no longer such a vulgar material as money. Now she desires more and more eternal things, such as: being famous in history and lasting forever.

Then she has to do a mission that is enough to shock the world: to find the legendary, only one player can open it, only one chance to complete it, it is closely related to the entire Oasis universe, and even changes its history, future and destiny. Big event--

"The Legend of OASIS", Legend of Oasis.

Leia thought hard about those NPC candidates in her memory who might carry this hidden mission, constantly screening, eliminating, and removing those who were not intelligent enough and would only copy questions, existed for too long and had no new ideas, purely using Because of the commercial function... Looking at the remaining NPC names, Leia's attention suddenly focused on one of them.

J——she heard that players called this mysterious new highly intelligent NPC.No one knows exactly which plane of the oasis she came from, but it is known that she often travels between divisions and travels around the world.Two of the five most popular posts on the forum are about J: one is a bounty for her real-time geographic coordinates, and the other is opened by a player who received an epic mission from her, and according to his reply: J is very It may be the NPC who knows the most hidden mission clues in the entire oasis.

Leia, who was famous at the time, didn't take it seriously, but now that the player's speculation about J is not groundless: maybe he can really pry out the information of the legendary mission from her mouth?Why not try it, with her in trouble?

Just doing what she said, Leia immediately logged into the forum and entered the player exchange area. At a glance, she saw the title post on the top of the first page, offering the real-time coordinates of J.She clicked in, and found that the reply speed here was astonishingly fast. The coordinates provided by everyone were still in Stormwind City one minute, and the new reply immediately changed to Elm Street in the next second.The key is that these people’s replies all have real-time screenshots, proving that J has indeed been there—isn’t this guy really played by a relative of the chairman?Even teleportation can't keep up with her flying speed all over the world!

Also, are these players really so idle and bored with nothing to do?Obviously there are countless opportunities to make money and become famous in the oasis. They don't fight for it, but they run around with a virtual NPC every day, and they still enjoy it?I really don't understand what is going on in the minds of these parasites——

Leia curled her lips, but still seriously read the posts one by one. When she saw the screenshot of the coordinates of the plane closest to her, her eyes were fixed, and she teleported there without hesitation——

……

The small town of Revansfair.

When Leia came here, she first smelled a burning smell in the air.

The weather was cloudy, and the surrounding area was covered with skinny and rotting trees, with bare and scorched branches, showing a twisted and stretched posture, like a silent screaming for help.A gust of cold wind came from nowhere, brushed the corner of her skirt and rolled up the dead leaves on the street, Leia looked in the direction of the leaves, and saw the old and deeply scratched sign at the entrance of the town at a glance , on which was written a line of large characters that looked like blood: DEADSILENCE.

Leia shuddered, feeling that "Levansfair" was a little familiar with the atmosphere here. She was just about to search the origin of this world, but a very strange nursery rhyme suddenly sounded in her mind. It was played by an old and gloomy The voice sings, erratic, and makes people feel chills in the back——

"bewarethestareofmaryshaw bewarethestareofmaryshaw

shehadnochildrenonlydolls

andifyouseeherinyourdreams

besureyounevereverscream don't scream when you see her in your dream..."

Leia was taken aback, and instantly recalled a horror movie she had seen, as well as the horror stories circulated in this movie, and the real terrible curse that happened in the small town of Revansfair——

"Dead Silence".

Legend has it that in the 40s, a tragedy happened in a small village called Revansfell: a child was brutally murdered. The villagers believed that the murderer was a local man who made a living by performing ventriloquism with a puppet. Woman Mary Shaw.That night, the angry people arrested the puppeteer Mary and cut off her tongue alive, and then put her more than 100 puppets into the fire and burned them.Not long after, someone saw with their own eyes that those puppets that disappeared would appear in the village from time to time, and every time they appeared, someone died. The death was extremely tragic, with their jaws torn and their tongues cut off.So a legend has gradually been left in the village: When you see Mary's puppet Belgium, don't scream!

What makes Leia even more creepy is that the interesting thing about the Oasis game is that each world has its own settings and regulations, which cannot be broken by ordinary people.In the field of future technology, magicians cannot cast spells. In Xianxia Fantasy Land, English will be automatically converted into classical Chinese—and in this "dead" world, ghosts and curses really exist, and players can see them with the naked eye. Wraith, and once the curse is triggered, it will have a debuff effect on itself, the character becomes extremely weak, and the blood bar keeps dropping until the character is completely dead.

Thinking of this, Leia couldn't help but gritted her teeth at the NPC she hadn't met yet: Where is the best place to go, why come to this damn world!As a girl, what she is most afraid of are those ghosts with hideous, terrifying and unpredictable faces. If she is unlucky, she will bear with it for a while, and then report J's unreasonableness to the official when she gets something from the NPC. Not too late—

Leia endured the chill that shot up from her feet, and walked into the town with fear.As soon as you step into the world of "Dead Silence", the scene in front of you changes quietly: the color of your field of vision becomes gray and white, filled with lingering fog, and you can always faintly hear Mary Shaw's weird laughter, Far and near, it's like installing a 3D surround sound in your ears——

Players can choose to turn off the sound effects and special effects interface, but in order not to let go of the slightest details and clues about the mission, Leia chose to be patient, walked into the small town of Revansfell tremblingly, and carefully observed everyone passing by. In a desolate house, the voice trembled imperceptibly, "Please, may I ask... is anyone there?"

"Ye-s, Madam."

A high-pitched voice sounded close to her ear, startling Leia to jump away immediately, turning around in horror——

A puppet with an extremely terrifying and strange shape stood less than one meter away from her, looking at her with a grin and a smile. It was "Billy".

The puppet stared at her with motionless yellow-green eyes, pupils as thin as pinpoints, so frightened by such a face-to-face relative that she almost screamed!She didn't see the puppet's mouth and tongue moving at all, but there was a sound coming into her mind all the time, accompanied by a strange and shrill laugh that echoed repeatedly——

"Hee hee." Billy, wearing a black suit and a red bow tie, stood abruptly on the street without blinking, but Leia could hear the creaking and creaking of its joints, like old wood slowly moving. The friction and collision made the limbs feel cool.

"Did you hear her singing, MyLadyLady?" The puppet asked her with a playful tone and a smile. buried here.

Leia forced herself to calm down, not to look into proportional eyes, her voice trembling, "I, I'm here to find J... Do you know where she is?"

"Ah..." Billy sighed softly, looking full of regret, "MissJ...yes, she's here, she's such a lovely girl, everyone loves to chat with her—and you, Lady , do you also like our MissJ?"

The puppet suddenly tilted its head and stared straight at Leia, its tone sounded innocent and cute, but Leia felt cold on the soles of her feet for some reason, couldn't help but forced a smile, and replied, "Of course—of course Excuse me, where is she now?"

Billy grinned and pointed his knuckle-streaked fingers behind her.

The fog gradually dissipated, and a small bungalow appeared at the end of the road. The bright red door was closed tightly, and the windows were dark, like the silent pupils of a monster.

"Thank you." Leia nodded perfunctorily, and rushed there impatiently, not wanting to stay with this puppet for a second, his eyes that can't move or smile, pale face and torn weirdness Seeing a smile just once turns it into a haunting nightmare.She has to find J as soon as possible and get out of here, yes, get out of this damn place, and never come back—

Leia rushed toward the house without stopping.Billy stood motionless and watched her rush away, his figure was covered by the gradually closing fog.

……

Leia stood in the doorway of the house, hesitating for a few seconds to decide whether to really go in—what if the puppet was just lying to her?Ghosts don't care about the truth or lies, especially the ghosts with deep grievances. The only meaning of their existence is to persecute the living.

Leia was wavering in her heart, but after thinking about it, all this is just a game. Mary Shaw is not real, the puppet is not real, and everything around here is not real. It is just a replica of a horror movie. There is nothing to be afraid of. It's—comforting herself with this thought, Leia mustered up her courage, and closed the doorknob—

Unexpectedly, the door opened as soon as it was pushed.

The creaking sound was particularly harsh in the dead of dusk, and the room was pitch black.It took Leia a few seconds for the characters to gradually adapt to the darkness. She walked in cautiously, and the door closed behind her without a sound. The home here is exactly the same!

What - how, how is this possible! —— Leia took two steps back and slammed into the wall, staring at everything in front of her in horror: the familiar arrangement, the old photos of her and her mother and father hanging on the wall of the stairs, her childhood The bright smile of skiing for the first time, the loving gaze of mother and father... even the slightly yellowed carpet on the floor, the dining table with a broken wooden leg, and the dream net she made by herself hanging on the floor-to-ceiling windows, peacock Feather stared straight at her like an eye——

Leia covered her mouth, and even in panic, she still didn't forget to stop the scream that was about to come out: don't scream, absolutely don't scream, otherwise you will--

Just when she started to retreat and turned around to escape from here, a brisk singing suddenly came to mind in the quiet upstairs. She stopped and listened for a while, and then recognized it was a rock song sung by the "TEARS FORFEARS" band, But now it has become a free and cheerful blues style, which sounds gentle and soothing, as if comforting someone softly.But in Leia's ears, this place, this song made the atmosphere of this world even more terrifying and weird——

"Welcome to your life

welcome to the world

There's no turning back

no way out

Even while we sleep

even when you fall asleep

We will find you acting on your bestbeh□□ior

Still personable”

Leia couldn't help following the singing, walked up the stairs tremblingly, and walked towards the only room on the second floor where the light was on and the sound came out.She could hear her panting of fear echoing in her ears, accompanied by a low humming sonata——

"Help make the most

Save me from the swing of fate

Offfreedom of pleasure

save me from freedom and joy

Nothing ever lasts forever

everything is always

Everybody wants stories to rule the world

No one wants to be called emperor..."

Leia came to the door of the room quietly, the door was not locked, leaving a gap that wanted to be concealed, and the singing came from there, it was the voice of a young woman, accompanied by rustling noises , Leia inexplicably thought of a warm picture of a mother gently combing her daughter's hair and laughing.

She shook her head, brushed away the memories in her mind, clenched her hands, pushed open the door amidst the singing voice gradually fading away, and looked up——

"Sogladwe'vealmostmadeit

Why not be high-spirited if you want to achieve success

Sosad they had to fadeit

After all, the dust will be dejected..."

The dark-haired woman in a long velvet dress stood in the middle of the room with her back to Leia. The children's room that Leia remembered as her own and brought her good memories was now used by her stepfather as a warehouse.And just as she imagined, the black-haired woman held the wooden comb that Leia had disappeared since she was ten years old, and there was also a unicorn graffiti drawn by herself on it, so gently and gently, again and again , combing the hair of the girl sitting in front of her, humming softly and joyfully:

"Everything is always

No one wants to be called emperor..."

squeak.

The sound of the wooden door being pushed open interrupted the warmth of the room.

The brunette's movements froze for a moment.

Then, Leia saw a scene that could be called a nightmare in her life——

The woman held her wooden comb and slowly turned around with the little girl in her arms.There was a gentle and sweet smile on her face, and the girl in her arms was not a child, but a humanoid puppet exactly like Billy, with a weird smile and stiff limbs——

Leia's pupils shrank, and she couldn't help screaming out in horror, "Ah—you, you are—"

Creak creak, the puppet's neck made a toothache, like a discarded product that had been in disrepair for a long time.It and the black-haired woman turned their heads to look at Leia, with the corners of their mouths slowly raised. Hearing the scream of the No. [-] female player who stirred up the situation in the oasis, it backed away again and again. It looked at the black-haired woman and said at the same time The creepy classic line in the movie came out, one voice was soft and laughing, and the other was shrill and terrifying.

"Now, Who's thedummy?"

——Now, who is the puppet (fake)?

The author has something to say: PS:

"Everything has its end, no one wants to be emperor" comes from "Everybodywantstoruletheworld", which has appeared as the theme song in "Assassin's Creed" and "The Hunger Games", and is also one of the episodes in "Ready Player One".

"Dead Silence" is simply a shadow of high school... Although it is beautiful, it is definitely not recommended for the faint of heart.

In other words, this model seemed to be very popular in the past: rebirth→go back to the past→suddenly doubled IQ and EQ→use the memory of the previous life to take the opportunity in advance→slap the enemy in the face, and every female supporting role will die→surrounded by beautiful men→reach the pinnacle of life ...

The similar simmer was so hot that I once seriously doubted my three views == it is still the same now.