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The small three-bedroom apartment where Cao Yu lives is a staff dormitory. There are five people living there. Except for him who lives in a small room alone, the other four people squeeze into two rooms.
The five people are a miniature game studio. No matter day or night, the computer screens in the studio are never turned off. They do game leveling, help with account training, maintaining and monitoring, help with equipment farming, help with opening treasure chests, help with dungeons, buy back game accounts at low prices and then resell them at high prices. In short, as long as they can make money, they are doing all kinds of game-related business.
The other four people except Cao Yu have a better relationship. They can joke with each other, share resources with each other, and watch movies together in a small window when monitoring the account. If you can't stand it anymore and take a nap, I will help you monitor it.
Cao Yu was always the least sociable. He was aloof, had a quick laugh, and was incredibly pale, a stark contrast to the other rough guys. He had his own little room, which he would sleep in and even lock.
There is such an outlier in the team, and everyone will be unhappy with him, but no one can kick him out of the team because his skills are the best.
When the game "Insect Tide" appeared in the game store, Han Sanyou was the first to discover and download it. They all played it enthusiastically, communicating about the game details and discussing how to pass the game.
Then on the same night, they had similar nightmares. After waking up, they each began to stockpile supplies in a panic, preparing for the coming doomsday.
The moment they heard the gunshot, the other three people looked at each other, then ran to the small room in a hurry and knocked on the door.
Cao Yu had locked the door in advance. He turned around and saw a column of bright red blood still spurting out from Han Sanyou's neck where he was shot. The floor where he was lying had become a pool of blood.
Cao Yu staggered to the table, frantically pulled out tissues, then squatted down, grabbed a handful of tissues with trembling hands and wiped the blood on the floor.
The blood quickly soaked the paper towel and stained his fair, slender hands. The blood was still hot.
He felt sick, his stomach churning and he wanted to throw up. He tore open the whole pack of toilet paper and grabbed some clean toilet paper to wipe his hands, but the blood on his skin wouldn't come off no matter how hard he tried. He rubbed his hands hard until they turned red and broke, but the blood still clung to his hands.
The knocks on the door became more frequent and louder.
Cao Yu scratched his head and cheeks angrily and rolled around on the ground. He suddenly stopped and found that the pool of blood on the floor was disappearing. In just a few seconds, the splattered blood disappeared completely, and along with the blood, Han Sanyou's body also disappeared.
He spread out his hands, his palms were clean, with only marks of broken skin, and no more bloodstains that could not be rubbed off.
Two minutes later, Qin Xiyu kicked open the door and Gao Heng and Guan Yuanxin rushed in together, "What happened!"
"It's okay." Cao Yu was packing his suitcase calmly.
There was no trace in the room. As long as he refused to tell anyone, they would not be able to find any evidence even if they did not believe him.
"Han...what's that Han, Han Sanyou, where is he?" Gao Heng asked. His brain just short-circuited and he couldn't remember it all of a sudden.
He and Han Sanyou lived in the same room, and he clearly saw Han Sanyou come in just now.
"I didn't see it." Cao Yu said.
"Brother Heng, who are you talking about?" Guan Yuanxin scratched the back of his head and asked in confusion.
Gao Heng's face was full of surprise: "If it's not Big Brother, why are you kidding me? Don't you know him? He's with us, Han..." His voice stopped abruptly, and the other two words seemed to be on the tip of his tongue, but he couldn't say them.
He remembered having a roommate who snored so loudly that he wanted to suffocate him with a pillow every night.
But his name is Han what? Huang what?
What’s your last name?
"What the hell, stop talking nonsense. There are only four of us in our studio," Qin Xiyu patted Gao Heng on the head. "Alright, alright, stop wasting time. Go back and pack up and leave quickly. Check for yourself how many days are left in the insect swarm countdown."
"Yes, yes, yes! We can't dawdle any longer, let's go." Gao Heng said as he rushed out first.
After the three people left, Cao Yu sat on the bed, lost in thought. They seemed to have slowly forgotten Han Sanyou. Just as the system had announced, the player Han Sanyou's information had been erased. This person no longer existed in the world, or rather, he had never existed at all.
Cao Yu calmed down and carefully put the fragments of the figurine he picked up into the bag.
Qin Xiyu was the head of the studio, the oldest, most righteous, and the most effective. Initially, he had urged the four of them to continue working together, like switching online from a single-player game. Facing this natural disaster, the four of them could help each other and share resources, greatly increasing their chances of survival.
The only trouble is that they have no money to stock up on supplies right now.
Working as a game substitute is considered profitable for them, but they never treat themselves badly. They order takeout for every meal and rarely drink water, only Coke. They just live a life of spending whatever they earn.
Fortunately, they have a good enough understanding of the game. Even if they cannot get resources in the early stage, they still have the option of working hard.
They found a second-level insect nest by the river as a spawning point, allowing them to attack or defend. The four of them doubled their firepower, not completely destroying the nest, but waiting for the insects to reproduce, then using firepower to control their numbers. They played like they always do online games, taking turns, resting when tired and continuing again when rested.
They worked hard all day and all night, and the several queens of the second-level insect blood became their toys. The experience level of the four people rose quickly.
But they also overlooked one very important thing - the hatred of insects.
In the single-player game "Zongtide", the hatred mechanism of the worms is positively correlated with the damage caused by the players to the worms per unit time. Now the hatred of the four players has increased fourfold. The four of them have been working continuously without stopping for a moment, and the hatred has increased exponentially.
So that evening, a swarm of insects from all directions converged here frantically, filling the sky like a swarm of locusts. Cao Yu still feels a lingering fear when he recalls that terrifying scene.
Before they could evacuate, flying insects attached themselves to the four refuge boats, quickly biting holes in them. Water flooded into the cabins, and the boats sank at a speed visible to the naked eye. Cao Yu looked back in immense pain and despair. His "Qu Wuyi" was still in the cabin.
They were forced to the water's edge, and the encirclement of the insect swarm was shrinking. Even though they had dug ditches to divert water and built a simple defensive structure in advance, they were still unable to withstand the insect swarms that were getting higher and higher.
In order to delay a little more time, they continued to attack the bugs with explosive bombs. The bugs' hatred was still increasing, and the bug tide devoured everything. It was only a matter of time before all four of them died here.
In desperation, Cao Yu closed his eyes and took a deep breath as if he had made some decision. He raised the T7 pistol, aimed at the back of Qin Xiyu's head, and pulled the trigger.
After a bang, subtitles popped up in front of him.
You killed the character [Qin Xiyu, Level 2], and gained 7 attribute points (which can be freely allocated).
[You have acquired the skill [Disguise·C-level]: After equipping this skill, you can freely change your appearance for 30 minutes.]
[You have acquired the skill [Memory D-Rank]: After equipping this skill, your memory will be greatly enhanced.]
[You killed the player [Qin Xiyu], and the player's information has been erased.]
【You grabbed [gold coins x41170]. 】
[Player [Qin Xiyu]'s system carrier has been decomposed. You have seized the following resources: [Bioplastics x283], [Metal x420], [Cloth x79].]
"What are you doing!" Guan Yuanxin saw Cao Yu shooting with his own eyes and yelled at him angrily.
With a bang, the shooter fired a bullet at the center of Guan Yuanxin's eyebrows without any hesitation.
You killed the character [Guan Yuan New·Level 2], and you gained 6 attribute points (which can be freely allocated).
…
"I……"
"Bang--"
Gao Heng had just thrown two explosive bombs at the insect swarm, and before he could say anything, a bullet pierced his right eye and exited from the back of his head.
You killed the character [Gao Heng, Level 2], and gained 7 attribute points (which can be freely allocated).
…
After firing three shots in a row, Cao Yu gained 20 points of freely assignable attribute values, four D-level skills, three C-level skills, 200,000 gold coins, and several materials enough to upgrade the shelter ship to level three.
But Cao Yu knew very well that these were still not enough to help him escape from his current desperate situation.
He opened the [Mall] module and without hesitation spent 200,000 gold coins to buy 10 [Purple Skill Blind Boxes] at one time.
He only needed to unleash a life-saving skill. He knew quite a few, but they were usually B-level or higher. For example, the B-level skill [Fish Dive] allowed a person to breathe underwater, making him invulnerable to insects as long as he stayed submerged. Once the insects' aggro level dropped, he would naturally be safe. There was also the A-level skill [Dispersion], which allowed him to dissipate into a gaseous state, allowing insects to pass through him without causing any harm. Or the A-level skill [Gravity Adaptation], which allowed him to ascend to high altitudes to save his life.
But there are too many skills in the game, and the probability of getting the skill you want is extremely low. Of course, he has an element of gambling, but if he doesn't gamble, he will be swallowed by the bugs in an instant.
He opened ten purple blind boxes at once and got eight B-level skills and two A-level skills. Looking at the introduction of one of the A-level skills, Cao Yu's eyes lit up in a rare moment.
[You have acquired the skill [Space Warp·Level A]: After using this skill, you and your refuge ship will instantly warp to any coordinate within range, with a warp range of 500 kilometers (Note: This skill consumes a lot of energy, please keep your energy at full capacity before using it. Overusing it will cause irreversible damage to yourself or even death.)]
The insect swarm formed a huge wave nearly 10 meters high, and it crushed towards Cao Yu with unstoppable momentum.
Cao Yu drank the [Physical Strength Potion] without hesitation, then activated his skill. Ten seconds later, he appeared on the sea thousands of miles away with his level three shelter ship.
Launching the [Space Jump] at the extreme distance still drained all of Cao Yu's energy. He was completely unable to move and collapsed completely on the deck.
"Mengmeng, we survived." He whispered softly, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, and then evolved into the first wild laughter in his life.
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