Chapter 68 Player
At that moment, Lin Han was terrified.
He felt the skin on the back of his neck tighten, his hairs stood on end, a chill spread outward, and finally a patch of small bumps appeared on his arms.
He didn't know how long Feijia had been watching there, whether she had just arrived or had been quietly watching him since he approached her workstation.
Lin Han didn't know.
This game copy appears too normal from the beginning, without showing any horror elements. The environment is just a very ordinary and miserable summer. Although the key character Guan Shasha looks very weak, she is still a normal person after all.
When the competition was not between players, Lin Han subconsciously positioned the difficulty of this dungeon below that of "Factory" and "Haunted House", treating it as an "Escape Room", and naturally searched for information in the first scene he appeared.
More importantly, he had treated Fei Jia as an NPC in the dungeon from the very beginning, and after sending her away, he thought he had prepared a safe environment for himself.
He found the information he wanted, received positive feedback, and confirmed his guess. Then, as his confidence increased, he forgot to observe his surroundings at all times.
Lin Han's perception of the environment was not very sharp. He usually confirmed danger through new discoveries and subtle changes he noticed. But he was particularly slow today. He should have remembered the moment he saw Fei Jia's address that no matter what the layout of Chunhua Community was, she, who lived in Building 12, could not take the same route home as Guan Shasha, who lived in Building 3.
Therefore, he didn't know when Fei Jia returned.
Perhaps when he came out of the bathroom, she was already hiding in the corridor on the other side, watching his every move.
Thinking of this, Lin Han took another step back.
But unlike what he expected, Fei Jia's face behind the glass did not undergo any unusual changes.
Behind her black-framed glasses, she blinked her wide-open eyes, and Lin Han realized that the two "cold rays" in her eyes were not the embodiment of crisis, but the reflection of the incandescent light in the office.
She didn't look dangerous.
After realizing something, Lin Han lowered his eyes, his gaze fell on his toes, and he waited quietly.
After a moment, Fei Jia pushed open the door and the night wind blew in, carrying with it the still sultry heat. She turned around and closed the door, locking all sounds inside the room.
"So you are a player too," she said.
Lin Han looked up at her, pretending that she didn't have any strange reaction to her words. She turned sideways and put her hands behind her back to hide the slight trembling of her fingertips.
He didn't need to say more, Fei Jia would tell him the rest of the information himself.
"I've been here for half a month. You've been acting normal these past few days, going to and from get off work on time, just an ordinary dungeon NPC. Until today, before leaving get off work, you suddenly changed." Fei Jia sat in her seat, her movements no longer slow as during the day, and her eyes no longer narrowed deliberately. Instead, her gaze at Lin Han became shrewd. "I thought our progress was too slow and we were being forced to advance the plot, but I just checked the quest interface, and the number of players has finally reached 15. With your little annoyance, I'm sure you're the 15 who's late."
Fei Jia's words gave Lin Han too much information.
He joined this dungeon halfway through, half a month later than the other thirteen players who arrived early like Fei Jia.
But his body was still his body. Lin Han had confirmed it in the bathroom just now. And the body he had been with Fei Jia in before was also his body. This was also the first time Lin Han was called an NPC...
As soon as Lin Han entered the game, Fei Jia noticed his change. If it was a new Lin Han who came in and replaced the original one, with Fei Jia's keenness, she wouldn't even need to keep testing him until this time.
There is only one possibility. The moment the copy began, Lin Han's body in the new world had been sent into this copy, and was moving around in the copy step by step like an NPC. It was not until Lin Han's consciousness entered this body just now that he truly began to dominate this body to play the game.
This also explains why Lin Han was clearly sleeping in the dormitory when he left the new world, but appeared directly in the copy when he came back.
Lin Han even had a guess about what Fei Jia had just said, "The progress is too slow and the plot has to be forced forward."
Alfred promised him that he could wait until the so-called "tomorrow" that he felt was appropriate, so this copy of the freshman entrance examination could not be completed before that day.
Because it can't be too fast, it becomes very slow.
Without a clear goal to complete the game and without detailed information, the other fourteen players were unable to complete the dungeon in a short period of time. The sense of pressure was gone, and they themselves would not force themselves to complete the game quickly, which gave Lin Han enough time.
There is also a health value related to Sasha's head.
She should have been at 100, or just slightly lower than 100, but the time of the copy cannot stand still, the plot cannot be advanced but it cannot really stand still, so she will slowly drop until she reaches 62, which is about to fall below the critical point as Lin Han sees.
It's like a copy made completely for Lin Han.
And it is indeed so.
But is this fair to other players?
Lin Han was late for half a month, but it was only three and a half days in reality. What if he was late for even longer?
One week, two weeks, reflected in the game, do these players have to wait for one or two months?
Can Guan Shasha’s body wait that long?
It is true that he is an internal beta test player, but that does not mean his experience is superior to that of other public beta test players. Once this matter is exposed, it will be a huge scandal.
How could the New World disregard the principles of fairness to this extent?
When they were exchanging information with Song Ziyi, Liu Guoqiang and others before, they had a question that they still couldn't answer. Currently, there is no qualifying competition in progress in the entire New World. The one closest to the start is the one that Song Ziyi is about to participate in, but Lin Han is not on the list.
When Lin Han entered the new world, Song Ziyi's ranking match had not yet started, but Fei Jia said that this copy had already started for half a month.
According to New World, it seems that Lin Han is the only one participating in the internal test. Then is the other players in this copy, including Fei Jia in front of him, really a player?
Lin Han seemed to be trapped in a fog. All the directions he could see, forward and backward, were filled with questions, and he couldn't find a way to grope his way forward.
But he couldn't think anymore.
He had been silent for far too long, far longer than normal, and Fei Jia looked at him without the initial patience.
"Yes," Lin Han confirmed Fei Jia's guess before she could speak again. "I am a player who must participate in this dungeon, but something special happened before. I temporarily entered another dungeon and came here after I cleared that one."
For this body in the new world, when Lin Han left the new world, it was as if he had gone to another world to participate in a game copy.
The special case is because of Alfred. The reality is a copy called "Tomorrow", and returning to the new world means that Lin Han has successfully passed the level.
He had some guesses of his own, so he mixed his guesses into the reasons and made an excuse that was false but with a little truth in it.
Fei Jia frowned and looked Lin Han up and down, looking quite confused and a little disappointed: "You?"
Lin Han nodded without hesitation: "Accident."
Fei Jia was still hesitant, but what Lin Han said matched the information she had seen, so she had to believe it even if she didn't. "Okay, let's share the information."
She took off her glasses, threw them casually on the table, and pulled her chair towards Lin Han. Lin Han followed her instructions and sat back on his stool. Although he looked calm, his heart was in turmoil.
Fei Jia agreed with his reason. She just felt that Lin Han did not look as strong as he said. Because she had noticed that something was wrong with Lin Han a long time ago, and Lin Han's little tricks did not successfully guard her, so even if Lin Han made an excuse and said it was an "accident", she was still confused.
But Lin Han could tell from her reaction that in her eyes, it was normal to enter another copy immediately after completing one copy.
But the key problem is that there are simply not that many copies in the New World for players to participate in.
Lin Han, who had only been playing New World for a short time, knew the news, so how could other players not know it?
Unless Fei Jia is not a real New World player at all.
The other players Lin Hanzhi encountered in the same dungeon were not like this either.
Perhaps he has been playing customized copies since the very beginning when he entered the new world, and it has been a so-called internal test from the beginning.
Only then does everything make sense.
Fei Jia sat down next to Lin Han and said, "You speak first."
Lin Han, whose thoughts were interrupted, didn't plan to hide it anymore. He tried hard to pretend to be calm.
"I don't have any special information," Lin Han warned her. "I'm Guan Shasha's neighbor. Guan Shasha got beaten up after her ex-boyfriend cheated on her. I helped her out, so we should have a good relationship."
After all, she was able to greet him from afar just now, and since she had helped him before, they should be able to exchange a few words.
Fei Jia frowned, and when he saw that Lin Han couldn't seem to come up with any other information, his face fell. "Can you tell me something I don't know?"
Lin Han: “…”
Is there anything else he should know?
"Forget it, it's not reliable at all." Fei Jia scratched his hair, thought for a while, and said, "Just listen to me."
"There are fifteen of us all in Chunhua Community. Including you and me, there are nine of us living here. I've also managed to arrange for the rest to come in."
Arrange it in?
Lin Han thought of the two registration forms on Fei Jia's desk: "Security?"
Fei Jia nodded. "Yes, we have no idea why that woman became like this. She looked like a normal person when she first arrived, but there was nothing around her. We had people watching her day and night, but we didn't find anything."
Lin Han was stunned.
The follow-up incidents of complaints in the owners' opinion book are real, not imaginary.
The key victim is Guan Shasha, and the remaining complaints come from incidental victims.
And the one who followed Guan Shasha was the player.
It seems that the community has made great efforts for the owners and has also recruited new security personnel, but the new security personnel are also part of the team monitoring Guan Shasha.
In the place where Guan Shasha thought she was safe, she was actually never truly safe.
Lin Han looked at Fei Jia, who was talking and didn't seem to think there was anything wrong with it.
That strange feeling surged in his heart, and Lin Han lowered his eyes: "Please tell me more in detail."
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