Killing Mary Sue [Comprehensive Anglo-American]

"Oasis" company launched an unprecedented meeting today.

The theme is simple and the goal is clear: explore the origin of NPC "J", analyze the deeds of five players in "Oasis" from the game registration to the present, and analyze all the unusual data and events that have changed since the opening of the new game Conduct a cast-net survey.

This time, the order from Chairman Wade Watts used almost all the human and material resources of the entire company. Everyone worked overtime around the clock, and finally got unsatisfactory data feedback after two months——

About J.This miraculous existence, which has been comparable to "Halliday's Easter Egg" in the gossip of insiders, revealed its real body after a phone call to the administrator-interestingly, no one from the top to the bottom of the company admitted that it was J. However, I couldn’t help but secretly observed her through various unofficial channels, approached her, and wanted to find out how the other party appeared—without exception, the ending was tragic. One of the straight steel men He was even directly beaten to the point of being mentally impaired and went offline on the spot.

But since it came from the boss's acquiescence, everyone didn't care too much - in fact, they couldn't do that guy at all, so they could only let her run around the world and molest the NPC that she created by the way. Not to mention how uncomfortable it is like wearing a green hat.This situation continued until the next meeting, and everyone still didn't figure out how J was born and what his ultimate goal was—even if he used the beauty trick that everyone always scoffed at, it failed.

The matter of "how terrible it is to be played by an NPC" was tacitly agreed by everyone not to mention it. On the contrary, the other two goals have achieved remarkable results after a period of investigation——

Everyone found that although the five players mentioned by J have different backgrounds and registered in the game at different times, they have nothing to do with each other, but there is one thing that cannot be ignored: they have all had in-depth contact with mission NPCs. , is the potential carrier of hidden missions. Everyone has been exploring and researching for a long time because they have received information prompts from NPCs, and almost all of them are about to touch the most critical clue—unfortunately, in the end These five players did not succeed, because someone started the mission in advance, forcing them to work hard step by step to get all the clues to fail, and they had to give up halfway.

What's interesting is that this person has the same ID - a name that resounds across all planes and continents of Oasis, is widely circulated among major media and players, stirs up the situation, and is extremely valuable: MarySue.

Everyone has conducted a very detailed and in-depth investigation on this extremely familiar player, and was surprised to find that in the past six months since the opening of the new version of Oasis, this "Mary Sue" alone has contracted about 60.00% of the data changes, not just her alone One person took over five legendary-level missions, but did not go to the library to do any investigation on the background story. It was like a flash of inspiration. He answered all the questions from the NPC correctly and completed the mission without any hindrance.

Apart from the task, everyone also summed up a few very strange things: Although this "MarySue" had received an official reward for reporting a small bug in the game, she happened to use this small bug to carry out She passed the card position, so she was able to successfully pick the "strange flower guarded by the beast on the cliff", and used this prop to complete her first legendary task.

Then they intercepted the video and observed it meticulously, and something more interesting happened: All NPCs with hidden mission clues, no matter how ordinary or desolate they looked, were all treated kindly by the player "MarySue". She would even spend a few days and nights to gain goodwill through short chats with her parents; as for those who seemed to be unusual and glamorous but were not given task functions, she would not say a word of politeness, let alone chat with them. Gossip aimlessly.This is too much of a coincidence, it seems to be able to predict the future in advance, and go straight to the target with precision.

If this fails to convince everyone, the next conclusion will have to make everyone suspicious: After the "MarySue" player has become famous through the legendary mission, she established the "Reborn", the largest guild in the oasis today, She has led no less than dozens of mob spawning activities in groups, and each time she organizes members, the time is almost the same as the first time of the boss, and the interval between before and after does not exceed 24 hours-this is the first time the boss is refreshed, although The official has released news that there will be surprises in the near future, but they have never told the players what month and date, which region of the world they are in--interestingly, the BOSS monsters with the most experience and the richest rewards are all killed. The "Reborn" team members completed the first kill, as if they had learned the news in advance and had insight into all the weaknesses of the boss.The timing of squatting monsters is simply not too coincidental.

If it wasn’t for the information obtained to give feedback that the player is just an ordinary person, everyone should suspect that this is cheating by insiders: too many coincidences and probabilities. Once events occur frequently, in the end there is only one conclusion that can explain it, even if that conclusion In the eyes of everyone, how outrageous, how incredible, and the only reasonable existence.

But before everyone reported the data to the boss, another more interesting thing happened beforehand——

The player played by the administrator has been chasing down "MarySue" for nearly two months, and finally let him catch the real hammer: I don't know why this player is going crazy, a "Buddhist player" who never gets close to the arena Suddenly, Shi Lezhi not only bought a large amount of combat artifacts and equipment, but also squatted in the competition pool every day, and did not accept other people's PK applications. Her goal was very clear: to find those famous masters on the list to get close, and They become online friends.Almost all the players in the oasis don't know "MarySue", and she easily got along with these people——

But there's more to it than that.

Investigators found that “MarySue” is especially close to the eighth to twelfth on the ranking list, and will often give them powerful weapons, auxiliary equipment, or rare ores that can be used to forge equipment from time to time. , it can be said that the shot is very generous.In view of the privacy of personal information of players in Oasis, investigators cannot openly read their chat messages, but judging from the data, their exchanges have been very frequent recently, and during this period, this "recognized Oasis No. A female player" performed the first competitive PK in her gaming career for the first time. The opponent was one of her friends list, now No.10 on the leaderboard.In this peerless PK, there is almost no suspense about the outcome: the player "MarySue" defeated him with an overwhelming advantage, and jumped to the top ten on the list, shocking everyone——

When everyone in the company saw the video of the battle between "MarySue" and the opponent, they were silent.

"How could this happen?" Everyone thought silently in their hearts, "This is the number one player that everyone, including myself, admires and envies. She is called the 'Legend of the Generation After Parsifal'?" In such a sacred place that relies entirely on operational skills and cannot tolerate any mistakes, the means to reach No.10 on the ranking list is actually buying and trading?"

The world of Oasis is so big, and there are many people who take advantage of the loopholes to make money. If this happened to others, maybe the administrators would turn a blind eye and let it go. After all, they can't erase the bad roots in human nature.But if the initiator is her, "MarySue", the number one player who was once considered to be the "Heir of Parsifal"...it would be particularly shocking and disappointing.

If she did it today, what about yesterday, the day before yesterday, every day?Could it be that this is the way to get his current brilliant reputation and achievements? ——In view of all kinds of suspicious data, everyone has to come to this conclusion, and this conclusion is unbearable for every employee who has worked harder to enter the company because of his love for games.

Everyone made a decisive decision and reported all the ins and outs to their immediate superiors. They were meticulous and meticulous.

Their boss listened quietly on the phone for a long time, until Cheng Yuan's indignant voice gradually faded, and he finally spoke, his voice was unexpectedly deep and calm.

"Since everyone has recognized the new oasis, and some people have become famous because of it," Wadeworth said, unable to hear any special emotions, "then presumably virtual fame is far from enough for her—— How about this, let the reporter know that we will hold an official offline meet-and-greet a week later, and invite the top ten "most" characters from Oasis to appear together. Players who agree to show up will receive mysterious rewards from the official, and their names will also be engraved on the On the park stele—"

After a pause, he seemed to have thought of something, and there was a faint smile in his tone, "Of course, these characters don't just include players—anyone who wants to come, we are very welcome."

Program Yuan replied with an extremely cheerful and loud voice, "Yes! Mr. Woz!"

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Leaving aside how chaotic the Oasis Company has been in the past two months, in the game world here, Jane encountered the first problem in history——

She was being stalked by a pervert.

——To be precise, he was targeted by a pervert and a scoundrel.

It's not the first time that Jane has noticed someone sneaking up behind her and showing idiot-like eyes.In fact, not long after the character "J" appeared, she found that no matter where she went, there was always a little tail hanging firmly.It's just that since the other party didn't take the initiative to come up to slap her in the face, she didn't have the leisure to cause trouble, and let the other party follow her unrelentingly from afar, and she had the right to talk to Life No. [-] outside of the mission——

But Jane has not been so happy these days.

After seeing the goddess "J" in his heart haggling for a plum with the aunt who set up a stall in Pompeii for half an hour, this little pervert finally couldn't hold back and took the initiative to come over and silently handed over two gold coins , making the frowning aunt shut her mouth instantly, she rolled her eyes and threw the plum to J like chasing flies.

J glanced at him, and recognized that the player with the face of a puppy in front of him was the stalker hanging behind him. She stared at him inscrutably for a long time, and the ID was "Jokerface" with the face of a human teenager. The half-orc player couldn't help but shook his tail behind him, showing a cautious smile on his face, J withdrew his eyes, said "Thanks, I'll pay you back" without sincerity, turned around and left.

Then, as if he had pressed some unknown mechanism of this guy, he instantly decided to end his long stalking journey, and instead approached the goddess openly, even though his face was swollen every time, he was not discouraged, I must come to report on time every day, and after I slap the right cheek, I will willingly turn the left cheek to her——

Jane was surprised. Could this guy be masochistic?Don't play good games, don't date beautiful girls, don't mess with ready-made bases, squat her all over the world all day long, and chat awkwardly without anything to say.After enduring it for half a month, she finally couldn't help the depression and curiosity in her heart. After deliberately leading the other party to Gayako's residence, she turned around and looked down at the man who was too scared to waver and refused to give up following her. The half-orc boy suddenly spoke——

"I said, did you recognize the wrong person? - For example, you mistook me for a similar-looking sister or lover?"

Otherwise, how can someone be so idle, just follow her all day long, neither level up to fight monsters, nor look for quests, as if the only purpose of coming to the oasis is this.

The other party suddenly raised his head, looked at J in surprise, stammered for a long while, and finally said, "This is the second time you talk to me! I, I—"

Jian Fue said, "Stop, stop, stop talking, and answer my question first."

The boy shut his mouth obediently, blinked his eyes, trying to be cute and get away with it.However, it was obvious that the goddess didn't like this, and stared at him with a half-smile, so he had no choice but to lower his head and start talking about his family background word by word—

It turns out that this little stalker is only 15 years old this year. In reality, he is a young rich second generation who is in his first year of high school.His parents are busy making money and are often away from home. In the empty villa, there are only robots and dogs as companions. He is also very introverted and unsociable. He doesn’t like to go out. Whenever he is at home alone, he always feels very lonely and can only play games to pass away. Time, and deep down I think games are much more interesting than reality.

He is neither short of money nor time. He just wants to find something interesting to do while in the oasis, and has no interest in upgrading or making money.It so happened that during his most boring time, his goddess—J appeared.Just like what Jane thought, he noticed a player's post on the forum in his spare time, and the content in it was probably "Ah, what a bad day, I almost got a heart attack from an NPC. This can't be a bug. How can an NPC have such a vicious mouth and such a bad temper, I must report her hum balabalabala--".

This post that was almost submerged in the water caught his attention, and he immediately ran to contact the person who posted it, trying his best to get the ID of the NPC, and wanted to find the other party through the coordinate search.Unexpectedly, the game assistant, who has always been accurate, could not give him a systematic positioning at all, and the answers he got were all "Unknown" without exception, which made him even more interested.

So this rich and idle rich second generation did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to put a post on the top of the forum, offering a reward for the real-time coordinates of NPC "J" and asking for screenshots.Once he gets a reply prompt, he will immediately rush to the location provided by the player to find his goddess, and he will never tire of it for a long time.

This is a very meaningful thing for him.Not to mention that after a few encounters, he found that J was an NPC who was more humane, intelligent and interesting than he had imagined. He seemed to be able to find something reassuring in her, so he was even more reluctant to let her go.

He knew that J was a very vicious guy, he never showed mercy when he slapped players in the face, and it was not uncommon for him to be taught that he would go offline crying.But for some reason, he didn't dare to make friends with others in reality, but he wasn't afraid to face J's sarcastic remarks at all.He will secretly observe every move of this intelligent NPC, but he will not share this little secret hidden in his heart with anyone, and regard it as an unknown pleasure alone, and he is addicted to it and cannot extricate himself.

The rich second generation thought that this NPC who had never said a good word would continue to ridicule each other after hearing his story.But to his surprise, J was quiet for a moment, not only did not spray the venom, but his expression became a little gentler, and his attitude was so calm that he thought he was dazzled——

"Do you remember what Halliday said?" Standing on the stairs, J rolled his eyes and said, "'This is the world we created, and sometimes we can't tell the real from the fake.' "

The rich second generation was taken aback.

He stared at the enigmatic NPC with wide eyes, opened his mouth, and could hardly believe that it was J's words.He hesitated and endured for a long time, but finally couldn't help it, and asked softly, "What about you, J? Do you think the world you are in now is real or fake?"

The NPC rarely smiled in front of the players, "Life is hard enough, I don't have so much time to distinguish such boring problems. In fact, like you, I came here for my own purpose."

The boy was instantly excited, "Really?! What's the purpose? Can I, can I help?——I swear I won't tell, I can give you money or anything else——"

J raised his eyebrows, seeing the young man shaking his head and tail in excitement, he couldn't help but shook his head, "Hmm...it's a pity, you can't help me with only this purpose."

"Ah?" He was not convinced, "Tell me, I don't believe I'm useless to you—"

J sneered, "Did I not speak clearly enough, or did you do too little homework?"

The rich second generation plucked up the courage to pout at his goddess, and vowed angrily, "I'm not some elementary school student... just look, J, I will definitely find the 'purpose' you mentioned, and you will definitely find it by then. Come to me for help!"

Then he held his head high, turned around confidently and left, and disappeared in place with a bang.

[What an iron-headed baby...] Life No. [-] sighed silently.

J just laughed and said nothing.

The author has something to say: the much-anticipated face-slapping scene is coming.