Chapter 54 Question

The game cabin opened, Song Ziyi half-stuck his body out from inside, and the nutrient solution spilled all over the floor.

"What's the matter? What's the hurry?"

He hurriedly logged off after seeing the comments in the live broadcast room.

Song Ziyi has always maintained a good relationship with the people at the New World Strategy Center. Most people know this. People who connect with Song Ziyi will use their own accounts to reach a certain level in Song Ziyi's live broadcast room to facilitate their contact.

After all, when Song Ziyi is in the game, although there are channels to communicate with other players, it is not convenient to contact each other inside and outside the game. Special levels and gift effects are particularly important, so that they can stand out in the rapidly refreshing barrage and be seen directly by Song Ziyi.

However, this method is only useful during non-qualifying matches. Once the qualifying match starts, players will not be able to interact with the live broadcast room and naturally will not be able to see the barrage.

Song Ziyi had encountered this kind of thing before, so he had some experience. However, Liu Guoqiang would never speak to him so rudely, so the person who was using Liu Guoqiang's account to flood his live broadcast room was definitely not him, but Lin Han.

Sure enough, as soon as Song Ziyi climbed out, he saw Lin Han. He was curled up on the sofa not far away, his face pale, and Liu Guoqiang was sitting next to him.

When Lin Han met Song Ziyi's gaze, Song Ziyi could actually sense a hint of resentment in his eyes.

Song Ziyi: "......"

It's over.

The living room of Lin Han's house was packed with people from the "New World Strategy Center". When Song Ziyi finished cleaning up and returned to the living room, all kinds of equipment had been moved out and placed, waiting to be used on Lin Han.

As soon as Lin Han came out of the game cabin, he contacted Liu Guoqiang, but unfortunately he didn't get the answer he wanted.

This time, the account arranged by Liu Guoqiang and others still could not see the "haunted house" copy he experienced, and the prompt displayed was still similar to the previous one.

[Because the dungeon the player is in is a special dungeon, the live broadcast function is temporarily unavailable in this dungeon]

Up to this point, from the time Lin Han entered the game until he experienced two unimaginable qualifying matches, no information had been leaked. Even according to Liu Guoqiang, during the period when Lin Han was conducting the so-called "qualifying matches", the official information released by New World did not include any ongoing or upcoming qualifying matches - the most recent one was the one that Song Ziyi was going to participate in, and he was still in the preparation stage.

Lin Han: “…”

He had felt a long time ago that the game he played was not the same as the one Song Ziyi played. At that time, he also thought he was joking, but now it seems that it may not be a joke.

However, even so, Lin Han could still find a relatively suitable excuse. Every time he entered the copy, he received a special prompt sound "College Freshman Entrance Examination Copy". Given the special nature of the "College" itself as a hidden dimension, it is not open to the public, and it is normal that the copy belonging to it is not open to the public.

I just don’t know where the other players who entered the dungeon came from, and no information was leaked at all.

In the "Factory" copy, Lin Han had no idea what was happening outside the room, but other players except him and Yin Yue would not have been able to survive the siege of the pigs. If they survived by chance, they would have to face the female butcher who was so angry that she didn't know where to vent her anger after hitting a wall with Yin Yue. There was a 99% chance that they all died. After all, in the end, even Lin Han failed to pass the level successfully.

As for the "haunted house" copy, it was even simpler. Among ten people, only Lin Han survived, so there was no need to guess.

A total of 24 players died in the two copies, and 24 people lost the opportunity to continue to the "New World". Unexpectedly, no one stood up to criticize the devilish difficulty set in the "New World", and no one shared the copy situation. It is really unreasonable.

Neither Liu Guoqiang nor Song Ziyi could think of a reasonable explanation and could only blame it on the internal test which was kept very confidential.

Another point is the strangeness of the copy themes that Lin Han experienced.

In fact, similar weird and bloody copies have appeared in the ranking competition. It has certain requirements on the physical condition and psychological quality of the participating players, as well as the audience.

New World has its own unique review mechanism. People who do not meet the standards will not be able to enter even if they disguise themselves or provide false information. All appeals arising from this will be rejected, and all rights of interpretation belong to New World.

Song Ziyi had participated in it once, but a copy of that level, coupled with no restrictions on players using their own abilities, was really not enough for a cultivator like him. Adhering to the truth that "all fear comes from insufficient firepower", Song Ziyi was busy sending other players out the whole time and was not scared at all - a small mantra could illuminate the room in every detail, and if he wanted to be afraid, he had to solve the problem of being blinded by the flashing light first.

The average level of players' strength has exceeded the upper limit of the dungeon difficulty. The entire ranking dungeon plot is almost not very entertaining, and it all depends on players fighting each other to show their various strengths.

It was completely different from the copy Lin Han had experienced.

For a "student" character like Lin Han, entering a horror copy is truly hellish, because he has no ability to resist disasters.

Song Ziyi was stunned by Lin Han's description, but after all, he had not been in the situation himself. After playing a powerful role for a long time, Song Ziyi inevitably acquired some courage of the strong and did not understand Lin Han's panic at that time.

The equipment Liu Guoqiang brought was to capture Lin Han's imagination and restore the actual situation he experienced.

This is a new technology obtained from the "New World" called "Illusion Capture". It is still in the familiarization stage. Lin Han is unable to perfectly restore everything in the copy with words, so he tries it out on him.

Lin Han put on a helmet as instructed by Liu Guoqiang. Countless cables extended from the helmet, connecting to more than a dozen devices with lit screens. After he closed his eyes, the screens began to flash rapidly.

Lin Han recalled everything he had experienced in the copy. He actually couldn't remember it clearly, and Liu Guoqiang didn't ask him to recall every scene clearly. He just needed to repeat and recall everything. "Illusion Capture" would automatically intercept fragments of his memory, gradually fill in the parts he had overlooked, and then present the most original scene.

Soon, more than a dozen photos were delivered to Lin Han and others.

In the scene of "Thriller High School", in a dim corridor, the lights are about to go out. The vague black shadow at the corner is hunched over, and black liquid is dripping from its fingertips onto the ground.

It was only at this time that Lin Han discovered that in the room opposite him, there was a dusty doll in the shadow near the door. Its head was broken off and it was looking at him with its head tilted.

This was an insignificant episode, but he hadn't noticed it before. He and Wen walked out after avoiding the ghost and had no time to pay attention to anything else.

The pink woman was hiding in the cabinet under the counter, filling up the entire space. When she reached out her hand, a small silver plate was squeezed out from the pile of flesh, with her name written on it, "Xiaoyuan".

Lin Han was impressed by her, but had no impression of the name tag that also flashed a silver light. It disappeared too quickly.

The dark emergency exit and the dilapidated escalator reflected the dim light of the corridor on the next floor. Looking downward, in the center was Lin Han's own shoes. Less than half a meter away from him, in the dark corner close to the handrail and the edge of the floor, there was a black handprint.

Lin Han once encountered a crisis on the escalator. He didn't seem to encounter a physical ghost during that time. Now it seems that the ghost was probably hiding in the invisible shadow under the escalator.

In the dark toilet, in the mirror was his pale face with his head down. Behind him was Wen, the man who had been disguised as a player and had always been by his side. He had dark brown pupils, and high brows that caused the light slanting in from the window to cast a shadow around his eyes. Only his pupils were lit with a spark-like light.

Lin Han in the mirror lowered his head and could not see himself or Wen, but perhaps he had once looked at Wen's mouth very carefully, so this scene was particularly clear. The chaotic black lines made Wen look like a fierce ghost that appeared silently behind Lin Han and was ready to attack him at any time.

But until this moment, when Song Ziyi and Liu Guoqiang looked unhappy, Lin Han could still get a sense of security from Wen's expressionless face.

There was also the escape room poster that Lin Han had pulled out and spread across the floor, the dirty keychain that Wen had hooked on his fingertips, the door that had been opened a crack and the corner of the red veil that floated out, and the hideous ghost trying to squeeze out from the glass...

Nothing is normal.

Lin Han's personal strength upon entering the dungeon didn't match the difficulty; this wasn't normal; the dungeon gave almost no information other than the requirements for completing it; this wasn't normal; he couldn't exit the game during the dungeon, and couldn't contact his guide; this wasn't normal; and most abnormal of all, everything felt too real...

It was not until this time that Lin Han realized the seriousness of the problem.

He thought that he couldn't quit the dungeon midway so that he could have a better gaming experience, but in fact, players can log off freely in any scenario, but they need to bear the consequences of their choice to log off, such as suddenly logging off in the dungeon and being caught off guard, leading to failure in the competition, and similar possibilities. The system will remind players to pay attention, but there are no restrictions.

The minefield that all holographic games cannot touch is "restricting players from freely logging off."

Once this happens, it is not people playing games, but games playing people. The ensuing panic can easily destroy people's psychological defenses.

Lin Han was not familiar with New World and it was all thanks to Song Ziyi's sincere recommendation. He should have known this, but during the game experience he found a relatively reasonable explanation for himself and successfully convinced himself.

The bigger problem is the horror and authenticity of the copies shown in these photos. The question he wanted to ask Song Ziyi before about how to deal with the murder was also answered.

In the new world, you will indeed bleed when you get hurt, and the blood effects are quite good. However, for large wounds, such as severed limbs and dismembered bodies, although there is blood splattering, it is almost all flash cross-sections and particle scattering effects. After the player dies, the corpse will gradually become transparent, and the onlookers will not feel fear, even if they are the ones who did it themselves.

The last time Lin Han, Song Ziyi and Liu Guoqiang complained about the horror in the "Factory" copy, they thought that Lin Han was just timid because it was his first time experiencing it. After all, the splattering blood was quite scary. It was not until now that they saw what Lin Han saw through "Illusion Capture" that they realized the seriousness of the problem.

Coupled with the premise that you cannot exit the game midway through the copy, and the fact that Lin Han’s hidden character currently does not have any superhuman strength, what is the difference between this and throwing an ordinary person into a terrifying infinite flow world?

Brave people can dance around ghosts in online horror games, but how many people can actually dance if a real person is thrown into the screen?

Song Ziyi felt guilty. Although he didn't know what went wrong in the new world, it was ultimately because he insisted that Lin Han play games with him that he ended up like this.

He was about to apologize when he saw Lin Han put the last photo in front of him.

"So this is really strange. I thought my imagination was real, but the scene I captured was exactly the same as my memory." Ever since seeing the juicy cabbage, Lin Han had already stopped caring about the big problems of the game in the new world. "Look."

Song Ziyi looked over and saw a cabbage running wildly in the dark corridor, shaking its green leaves, and the lines of its eyes were particularly clear.

Song Ziyi: “?”

It doesn't seem so real anymore.