This was the first time Molan met someone like Zhou Zhou. She had a very good impression of him. Unlike other players, he was indifferent and would explain everything she asked in detail. Even though the questions he asked were too simple, they were not perfunctory.
The resentful woman's voice was not pleasant and she spoke very slowly, but she explained the term NPC in great detail, and Zhou Zhou listened to her explanation patiently.
But gradually, Zhou Zhou's serious and curious look changed. He bit his lower lip tightly, and his hands grabbed the corners of his clothes, rubbing and twisting them constantly. After the resentful woman finished explaining, he lowered his eyes and thought for a long time before asking: "Are you saying that NPCs are people who already exist in the game?"
Without waiting for the resentful woman to nod, he quickly asked, "Does the NPC have no home or family? Are they really created by people? Can they only exist in the game?"
Although the resentful woman was puzzled as to why Zhou Zhou asked such a question, she saw that he was anxious when asking, so she answered slowly: "They were created by the designers specifically for the game's plot. Their appearance, personality, and every word they say were all designed in advance. Without the game, NPCs would naturally not exist. They are just a program, not a real person, so of course they don't have a home or family."
Zhou Zhou wanted to refute that what he said and what he did were what he wanted to do, and they were not planned by others in advance. However, when he thought about how he sometimes said things for no reason and he didn't understand them, and that he had been like this since he could remember, he was not sure anymore.
"Then, will there be NPCs running out of the game?"
According to what Molan said, if he was really an NPC, then he would have been staying in the Love Academy all along. He was the NPC that existed in the copy itself and could only stay there and do some specific, pre-designed actions and words.
But he came out, came out of the Love Academy, and came to the Nightmare City. He could do dungeons like everyone else and had the same points. Except that he could not log off, he was no different from everyone else.
Molan thought he was asking if any NPC would behave abnormally and do something that was not in line with the setting, so she replied, "Of course ~ yes."
Is there anyone like him? Zhou Zhou's eyes suddenly lit up.
"However, the abnormal NPC should be discovered soon, and we can fix it then."
"Repair? How do you repair it?"
The hometown of the resentful woman is very remote, and its technology is even hundreds of years behind that of the empire. Even the Nightmare City was only recently exposed because of the empire's support policy, so naturally she doesn't understand these things.
"Maybe ~modify~ the parameters, or ~delete~ and create~ a new NPC?" she guessed.
Revise? delete?
Zhou Zhou leaned forward and asked nervously, "Are we going to kill this NPC?"
Resentful Woman: "Kill him? That's about it."
As long as people find out that he is an NPC, or an NPC that ran out from a dungeon, he will be killed.
Zhou Zhou immediately thought of the scene where he was discovered and then captured and killed by many people. Or will they create a new Zhou Zhou to replace him, since he was just an NPC who was disobedient and ran away on his own.
He doesn't want to die.
He still has a lot of things to do, no love life, and only a few friends. He also wanted to continue doing dungeons, continue to earn points, buy a house, and... and... oh, he had just promised Al to treat him to a meal.
He didn't have time to do anything, he didn't want to die.
Zhou Zhou's panicked and frightened look was too obvious. The resentful woman thought about it for a long time and it seemed that she didn't say anything. She just answered a few questions.
"What's wrong with you?" asked the resentful woman.
Zhou Zhou suddenly came back to his senses and looked at Molan, who was sitting opposite him and looking at him with concern. Although her eyes were dark and lifeless, Zhou Zhou could still see concern in them.
His mouth pursed, and he wanted to tell the person in front of him who cared about him about his fear and terror. But he knew very well that before he found a way to survive, he couldn't tell anyone that he was an NPC, no one.
Trying hard to suppress his chaotic emotions, Zhou Zhou had not yet learned the human ability to be two-faced. He said aggrievedly, "I thought of some bad things. I'm not happy."
The resentful woman stretched out a dry white hand and touched his head across the table. Zhou Zhou also lowered his head and let her touch his head gently.
Before Nightmare City was launched, there was actually a period of public beta testing, but most people didn't know about it.
At that time, the empire invited some minority races to participate in the game. These minority races basically had appearances that did not conform to normal human aesthetics, or had special abilities that made humans feel terrified.
But they are not only the earliest participants in the game, but also the creators of copies. Although there are only a very small number of copies created by these people, most of them were created by Zeus and many game designers.
But the empire gave them a guarantee that through this game, these races that looked like evil spirits in the eyes of normal humans would be able to appear openly anywhere in the empire in the future, without being excluded or insulted, and without having to hide.
It was precisely because she believed in these words that she actively participated in the game and upgraded her level to the intermediate level before the public beta. Moreover, after the official launch of the server, their accounts were retained and their levels were not lowered.
Although some specific details of the game cannot be revealed to others, her gaming experience has not been very good so far.
In the dungeon, she felt very uncomfortable when she saw those players screaming in fear because of her appearance. She is also a girl and hopes to be treated fairly and like a normal person, instead of just being scary.
Only Zhou Zhou approached her actively, and she could see that his actions and words were from the heart, so she came out of the copy and wanted to get to know him.
Even now, Zhou Zhou did not lie and say that he was fine, he was okay, he still honestly told her his inner feelings. Perhaps it was because he was so frank that she felt very comfortable getting along with him.
"Do you want to visit my house?" Molan asked. "It's beautiful there, and my people will love you."
After Molan said this, Zhou Zhou felt even sadder. He raised his head and said pitifully, "I want to go, but I can't."
He had no way of getting out of the Nightmare City, he could only stay here.
Molan touched his head again, rubbing the small curls on Zhou Zhou's head until several strands of hair flew up, then she withdrew her hand and said, "It's okay, I'll wait for you~You can go now, you're welcome anytime~."
Zhou Zhou nodded solemnly. If one day he could really get out of the game, he would definitely go.
Afterwards, Molan told Zhou Zhou that when selecting a copy, there is a small black star below the task panel. Click it and then select confirm. In this way, the copy you are teleporting to will have a certain probability of being teleported to a copy played by a real person.
Nightmare City has not been open for long, and everyone is still exploring it. She doesn't know if any players have discovered this.
These copies played by real people are more difficult and have a very high mortality rate, but if it is someone like Zhou Zhou, the chances of getting a high score are also very high.
"I hope you can level up as soon as possible. If you need me in the future, I will come to help you." This was the last sentence Molan said before she left. She didn't have much time and had to go back to the dungeon to wait for the next batch of players.
After Molan left, Zhou Zhou also came out of the restaurant and wandered on the street alone. Thinking that he was just a program and could only live cautiously in the game, he couldn't be happy at all and even felt like crying.
The Imperial Palace.
After Alvia went offline, she asked Ryan to inform Heya that he didn't need to continue with this mission.
No matter what happened at that time, after Heya got involved in personal emotions, it was no longer appropriate to continue tracking Zhou Zhou. After all, he felt guilty, and in the worst case scenario, he might be deceived and turned against the other party.
Leaning back in her chair, Alvia closed her eyes and tapped her fingers on the table, wondering what to do next.
Zeus looked at Elvia left and right, with an excited expression as if he wanted to speak, and Elvia could sense it even with her eyes closed.
"What do you want?"
Zeus immediately ran over with his short legs, looking at Elvia and laughing.
Alvia opened her eyes, looked at the other person's strange smile, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zeus waved his hand, and several virtual images shaped like white paper immediately appeared around him.
"What did you do in the game? Your mood swings are so severe."
In addition to the SAN value and brain area fluctuation graph related to mental strength, a lot of data will be generated after the copy is completed, which are important bases for settling points.
Judging from the numerical value of Elvia's emotional fluctuations, the changes are actually not that big, but for someone like him who has very weak emotions, such changes are already very large.
"Nothing."
"You must have done something? Hehe, you wouldn't have done anything bad, right?" Zeus smiled slyly.
He could actually see all of Elvia's actions in the Nightmare City, but it would be more interesting to ask the person himself about such an interesting matter.
"No."
"Of course! You were really distracted at that time."
Elvia: "If you keep using nonsense words, I'll put you in solitary confinement."
Zeus shut up immediately. What he feared most was being put in solitary confinement. There was nothing in there and it was not fun at all.
Looking at Alvia's indifferent expression, he imitated an adult and coughed twice maturely: "I saw Zhou Zhou hiding alone in a small alley in the Nightmare City. He seemed very sad. Do you want to go and see him?"
Alvia looked down at the documents in his hand and said indifferently: "It's none of my business whether he is in trouble or not. I just want to know who is behind him and what their conspiracy is. The rest has nothing to do with me."
Zhou Zhou was walking alone on the street, no longer looking at the various novel things that he would always stop to look at before.
He was very scared. What if the players on the street noticed that his words and actions were different from others and found out that he was an NPC?
The more I thought about it, the more scared I became. I didn’t even dare to go back to the room I had rented before. After all, I didn’t know how many people I would meet along the way.
Finally, it hid in a dark alley, like a stray cat with nowhere to go, curled up for fear of being discovered.
Alvia followed the address given by Zeus and came to a small alley. Outside is a brightly lit street with busy traffic, while inside is a dark alley without a sound.
He immediately saw Zhou Zhou huddled in the corner with his head drooped.
He walked up slowly, looked down at the man who seemed to be in a daze, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Zhou Zhou huddled here and thought about a lot of things. He thought about his previous life, the days when he stayed alone in school, Shirley, Keli, and many, many other things.
Hearing someone talking, he slowly raised his head and looked at the person in front of him: "Al, why are you here?"
“Just passing by.”
It was the first time that Alvia saw Zhou Zhou like this: "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was thinking about something."
"What are you thinking about?"
Zhou Zhou lowered his head and stopped talking.
After a long while, he whispered, "Al, what would you do if you found out that your every move was planned in advance?"
Alvia looked at Zhou Zhou, who was curled up on the ground. She narrowed her eyes, not revealing any emotion, and continued to answer in a cold voice: "I think what happened in the past is in the past. What matters is your own thoughts. If you can reflect on yourself in time and give up evil and do good, you can still be forgiven."
Zhou Zhou raised his head and looked at Elvia in confusion. Why did it seem like he didn't understand?
He thought for a moment and asked again, "What if I find out that I could die at any time?" If his true identity was discovered by others, he would definitely be killed.
Are you threatened?
Alvia guessed that Zhou Zhou might have realized that what he was doing was wrong and was unwilling to continue doing it, and as a result he was threatened by the people behind him.
He looked at Zhou Zhou and said meaningfully: "You can seek refuge with someone more powerful than them."
Hope lit up in Zhou Zhou's eyes: "Will someone really protect me?" Will the NPC who knows he is an abnormal one protect him and protect him from being killed by others?
Alvia could tell that he was seeking a promise from her. Although Zhou Zhou's behavior was indeed wrong, he was still young and immature, and he had already realized his mistakes. As long as he could confess everything, he was willing to give him this chance.
"As long as you tell me everything you know, I will protect you."
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