The little octopus used its tentacles to cling to the edge of the red bucket, trying hard to climb out, its big watery eyes staring at Zhou Zhou.
Zhou Zhou also lowered his head and stared at the little octopus. It was still so cute with its pink and tender appearance, and its chubby tentacles were waving, as if greeting him. After walking a few steps toward the captain, Zhou Zhou squatted down, leveled his eyes with the little octopus, and gently touched the little octopus's head with his fingers.
As if frightened by Zhou Zhou's bold action, the little octopus climbing the bucket suddenly fell back into the bucket from the edge of the bucket, splashing a few drops of water. Zhou Zhou continued to stretch his head to look into the bucket. The little octopus was waving its tentacles in the bucket, looking very lively.
Zhou Zhou’s head was almost in the bucket. How could the captain not notice such an obvious action?
He looked down at Zhou Zhou who seemed to want to get into the bucket, and stood aside with the bucket in his hand. As a result, Zhou Zhou squatted there and moved forward.
captain:"……"
In the end, he put the bucket on the ground so that Zhou Zhou could see enough.
The players present seemed to be frightened by the sudden appearance of the captain, and no one spoke for a long time.
Seeing everyone's suspicious faces, the captain stroked his beard and said, "You just said that the copy I designed is perverted?"
Seeing that the captain was actually standing here alive and talking to them, the players increasingly suspected that they were hallucinating.
"Or you can slap me and I'll try to wake me up." A Jiang murmured to his companion next to him.
The companion stretched out his hands and slapped both sides of Ajiang's face, one slap on each side, very evenly, without missing either side. The crisp sound brought everyone back to their senses: "Does it hurt?"
Ah Jiang's cheeks were red, and the red handprints on both sides of his cheeks were very symmetrical: "...It hurts!"
Keli was speechless when he looked at these people. Even if they were hallucinating, it was not difficult to simulate the pain in the game. It was not like they could wake up by just slapping them twice. He shook his head and found that Zhou Zhou was still playing with the little octopus with great interest. Al was watching Zhou Zhou playing with the little octopus, and neither of them had any intention of speaking.
Keli: "You said that the thing in the deep sea is a copy designed by you? So you designed a captain role for yourself?"
Seeing that someone finally paid attention to him, the captain laughed and said, "Yes, I designed it. What do you think? Isn't it very creative?"
One player didn't care if it was an illusion or not, and said indignantly: "Just that exit alone is not something a normal person can think of."
Others followed suit, saying, "There are also loops and the dead floating from the bottom of the sea. If we hadn't discovered the anomaly, wouldn't we have to spend the rest of the days in a loop? I'm going to collapse mentally."
"Also, there is only one main quest item, and players are fighting for it. But in the end, they have to give the sword to you so that everyone can complete the main quest. Don't you think it's inexplicable? Who would give the sword they worked so hard to get to an NPC?"
Everyone complained about it, thinking about swimming in the sea after the ship capsized, falling into various traps on a ghost ship, being chased by skeletons, being forced to look at the corpses of various passengers in a cycle on the seabed, and finally being eaten by an octopus. Every thought was disgusting.
The captain calmly watched everyone complain about the copy he designed: "If you don't mess around on my ship, most of the plots I just mentioned won't happen."
“……”It seems so.
"What's with that octopus? When seeing a monster that big, a normal person's first reaction would be to run away. Who would have thought that the exit is in the octopus's mouth? Isn't this considered abnormal?"
The captain stroked his beard and said to himself, "Really? I think this exit is very novel, and didn't you all pass it successfully?"
Player: That's called a successful clearance? Wasn't he caught?
Shirley hadn't spoken a word. Seeing everyone suddenly start discussing the rationality of the dungeon with the captain, she couldn't help but ask, "Isn't the game dungeon automatically generated by the system? Why was it designed by an uncle, and this uncle was selling ships here before the dungeon started?"
The players who were trying to argue with the captain also realized that something was wrong. They stopped and looked at the captain in confusion.
The captain stroked his beard and explained after hearing Shirley's question, "Most of the dungeons in the game are automatically generated by the system, but a small part of them are designed by players. For example, the Deep Sea Thing was designed by me, but few people have been able to clear this dungeon before, and even if there were, there were only one or two. This time, more than ten people cleared it, and your scores are very high, so of course I have to come out and take a look."
Keli discovered the key words in it: "You mean players can design their own copies?"
The captain nodded. His smiling face and bulging belly made him look very kind. "When your accumulated points in a dungeon exceed one million, you will become an intermediate player and can design your own dungeon. The faster the player's mental strength, brain value and other data improve in the dungeon you designed, the more points the dungeon designer can get, which is much more than the points you can get by completing tasks in dungeons one by one."
Keli was confused: "I have never heard of this in the game before."
"Hahaha, after all, the game has just started, and no player has reached one million points yet."
"Then how did you become an intermediate player?"
The captain was a little proud: "I entered the game during the internal beta test, and my accumulated points have only recently reached one million. The Deep Sea Object is the first copy I designed."
The players all said that they had learned a lot and wanted to learn more from the captain. It turned out that they could not only do dungeon quests, but also design dungeons themselves. Thinking of the hardships, tears, and frights they had experienced in the dungeons, they suddenly became motivated. If players were scared and screamed in the dungeons they designed themselves, wouldn't it be cool to see... hehehe.
Shirley quickly took a few steps back. What was wrong with these people? What were they thinking? Such a strange expression.
Zhou Zhou was squatting on the ground with a small octopus crawling around in his hand. After hearing what the captain said, he finally understood. In fact, some of the content had been vaguely mentioned by the other party in the previous conversation with the resentful woman Molan, and the other party asked him to complete the dungeon as soon as possible to accumulate points.
So that's how it is. After your level is raised, you can design your own copies. So in the previous copies, not only did real NPCs participate in them, but they also designed the copies themselves?
But why don’t most people in the game know about this? Even when Molan told him, she only briefly mentioned that he should do more dungeons to accumulate points, and that the points would increase faster if they were marked with black stars.
Zhou Zhou thought of this and naturally asked.
The captain was very nice and answered every question: "Because the game has not been open for long, many people don't even have 10,000 points to revive. I guess the upgrade information will be announced in a while."
Zhou Zhou blinked and asked in confusion: "Then can you tell us in advance?"
The captain was suddenly stunned, and his hand stroking his beard also stopped: "...It seems not to work."
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly disappeared from the spot.
"Where's the person? Offline?"
"Why did you leave without saying hello?"
"Is it really an illusion?"
Elvia: "I think I was banned from logging in."
The level system will indeed be announced to the players only after the points ranking list is released, so the captain who carelessly told the players about the level system will probably not be able to log in for a short period of time, and even if he can go online, he will be banned.
Elvia was not very clear about the details of the game, but Zeus often talked about it, so he knew the general situation.
The players looked at each other and said, "So we can't talk about **** about the game? Hey? Why is it muted?"
"It seems that I really can't tell you. Forget it. I'll just try to accumulate points during this period. I guess after a while, when some players reach the required points, the information will be announced."
The players agreed.
Zhou Zhou was still squatting on the ground, looking at the place where the captain disappeared, then looking at the little octopus in his hand, and was a little dumbfounded.
The captain is missing, so what should the little octopus do?
He looked at Alvia: "Do you know when the captain will be back?"
Alvia shook her head: "I don't know how long the system will ban me. The shortest is one or two hours, and the longest is a few days."
The level system and dungeon design of Nightmare City are no secret to a small number of beta test players. Although they only account for a very small proportion of all beta test players and are prohibited from revealing the information in advance in the game, there are always people who get the news from various channels. Therefore, the ban on the captain revealing the news in advance should not be very long.
Zhou Zhou looked at the little octopus and said, "Well, I'll wait for him to come back here."
After all, if he left, what if the captain came back and couldn't find the little octopus? Now that he was not there, he didn't know his contact information, so he could only try to wait for him here.
Shirley: "Zhou Zhou, there's no need to wait here all the time. What if he comes online in a few days? Then you will have to wait here for several days. Anyway, he said before that he only has this one instance, so he will come back here sooner or later. Besides, isn't he still selling ships here? If you come here every day, you will meet him sooner or later."
Zhou Zhou also knew this, but he still insisted: "I'll wait here for a while, just in case he comes back later. If he doesn't come back, I'll take the little octopus back and come to see him tomorrow."
After adding contact information for the remaining players, Zhou Zhou put the small octopus back into the bucket. Then he sat on a small bench by the lake with the bucket in his hand. This small bench was actually left by the captain when he went fishing before, and there was a fishing rod next to it.
All the players had left. Shirley and Keli originally wanted to wait with Zhou Zhou, but they spent too much time in the dungeon and had to log off to eat, so they could only agree to come and accompany him after dinner.
In the end, only Elvia was left.
"Aren't you going to eat?" Zhou Zhou asked.
Alvia: "I'll go later."
"Then do you want to sit?" After looking around and finding that there was only a small bench here, Zhou Zhou moved to the side, leaving half of it for him.
The small stool is rectangular, slightly longer than the average square stool, and just right for the chubby captain to sit on. But if two adults sit on the stool, they would probably have to lean against each other to avoid falling off.
Alvia: “…No need.”
"Oh." Zhou Zhou moved back to the middle and looked down at the little octopus crawling around in the bucket.
Elvia herself was not a talkative person, and Zhou Zhou was also unusually quiet at this time, so the two of them suddenly became quiet, with only the sound of the little octopus paddling in the water being clearly audible.
After a long while, Zhou Zhou stared at the little octopus and suddenly said, "Al, if you are eliminated in the dungeon, do you mean you will die?"
Alvia looked at the lake in the distance, heard Zhou Zhou's question, and replied: "There are resurrection items."
Zhou Zhou lowered his head and hummed, "That's right."
Before the Deep Sea Objects copy, he had never thought about this problem. After all, the previous copies had always gone smoothly, and when players died in the copies, the people around them seemed very calm. For them, being eliminated means either being offline or being resurrected at the resurrection point.
But what about him? If he was eliminated in the dungeon, it would be impossible for him to log off. Could he be resurrected at the resurrection point?
When they were still in the underwater cave, Ajiang died because his health points dropped to zero. His companions said that dying in the game is also a kind of death. So, as an alien in the game, will he be resurrected like other players or will he really die and never appear again?
Zhou Zhou didn’t know.
"Do you think that if the NPC in the copy dies, they will be resurrected?" Zhou Zhou asked again.
Elvia's gaze turned from the lake in the distance to Zhou Zhou: "NPC is set by the system. Even if you die, you will be refreshed next time and will be resurrected of course."
This sentence gave Zhou Zhou some comfort. That's true. After all, he can earn points by completing tasks in the game. Maybe it's true as Al said, he will be resurrected even if he dies.
Zhou Zhou looked up and smiled at Alvia, but found that Alvia was looking at him with a frown, her eyes full of inquiry.
Zhou Zhou:!
Why are you looking at him like that?
Zhou Zhou stared at Alvia, and at this moment he suddenly remembered something. In the copy, Al knew that he couldn't swim. Could it be that he had discovered his identity?
Zhou Zhou: ToT
Help! How to make it work?
Is it too late for him to say now that he is allergic to water and cannot swim?
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