Chapter 40 NPCs Kill All Players (2)
I chatted with the woman for a while.
From the other party's few words, Jin Shu roughly understood her current identity.
As the strongest woman in the Six Realms, Jin Shu reacts quickly and has a strong ability to adapt.
She knew she was in a virtual world, and her role was to prevent players from completing the game.
The word "game" is familiar, but this "holographic survival game" that completely surpasses Jin Shu's knowledge and imagination is quite unfamiliar.
She closed her eyes and reached out to touch her forehead, where a burning pain still lingered—a brief but intense ache that troubled her.
Because the "colleague" next to me just said that their level is too low, and they are basically just for game players to practice on.
The mission to complete the game is to kill them, and the players have all sorts of tools, including knives, guns, swords, axes, and more.
The pain they experienced was real.
My colleague said that if I collapse any time, I might never wake up again.
Jin Shu nodded and looked around at her surroundings.
Dilapidated, rotten, dark, and damp, with large patches of water stains and mold seeping from the walls, and rustling sounds coming from the corners from unknown creatures. Behind them were a dozen simple iron-framed hardboard beds, all covered with dirty white sheets and blankets.
Jin Shu saw the words "Fifth Mental Hospital" on the blanket.
The "colleague" rubbed his head and went out.
Jin Shu was left standing alone in front of the mirror, staring at herself.
Suddenly, a voice appeared in her mind.
"This world may be unfamiliar to you, but that's okay. In the game world, you can play freely and make good use of your strengths."
This is the voice that gives her the task every time.
What do I need to do?
Jin Shu knew that the price she paid for her last revenge was helping Arno complete his mission.
She is not a person who breaks her word; having completed her task, she naturally has to keep her promise.
"All you need to do is make the most of your time and survive."
"What did she mean by the holographic survival game she just mentioned?"
Arno smiled.
"You can think of it as a trial that can be taken by any ordinary person."
This is the training ground, and the players are the disciples of the trial. They will be given new identities and abilities upon entering, and will upgrade their abilities by defeating monsters.
And you are one of the monsters here, what they commonly call an NPC.
"Okay, I understand."
Jin Shu never imagined that one day she would become a monster in the trial level.
"So all I need to do is survive?"
"Yes, NPCs will be eliminated if they die more than five times, and you have already died twice."
You can judge your health by looking at your health bar; not every player can kill you in one hit.
Jin Shu seemed to remember something else.
"I just heard a very strange question, and when I couldn't answer it, I couldn't move. What is that?"
Players have one chance to compete against an NPC, and the loser will temporarily lose all mobility.
Therefore, answering questions quickly is key to your survival.
Just a reminder, only by finding the final truth can you truly survive. I hope you complete your mission successfully.
Arno's voice disappeared.
Jin Shu noticed a round plate hanging on the wall. Inside the transparent cover were three slender pointers that slowly moved around a circle of numbers.
Jin Shu stared at it for a while, and slowly she found the pattern. Combining it with her own guesses, she roughly knew that this was a tool for recording time.
Jin Shu learned a lot of information from her "colleagues".
For example, they are just NPCs in the first level of the game. Their main task is to hunt down the player as nurses in a mental hospital. However, they are not strong in attack and not very intelligent. For experts, this level is not difficult at all.
The game is called Holographic Survival Game. All players can realistically experience all the scenes in the game. If you get injured in the game, you will also get injured in real life. However, if you die in the game, you can save your game and spend money to start over from the first level.
The game, titled "First Night," is currently the most popular holographic game, with a peak of over 100 million concurrent players per day.
These numbers meant little to Jin Shu.
But in short, there are a lot of them.
"We are just NPCs in the third community of the first district. There are many beginner levels, and our level is not very interesting, so few people will play it."
Thank goodness there weren't many people, otherwise I would have been killed three times in one day!
The "colleague" is named San San, and is an NPC who is very similar to Jin Shu in both figure and appearance.
They wore clothes that were too tight around their bodies, and when they sat down, horrific scars were visible on their legs.
San San noticed Jin Shu's gaze and smiled.
“You’re new here and you’ve only been killed twice, while I’ve been killed four times.”
"Um."
"It's okay, you'll get used to it. Most players don't kill people, so knocking us out is enough to clear the game."
"Does it have to be a beating?"
"Um?"
San San didn't react.
Jin Shu repeated the sentence.
"Are we always the ones who get beaten up?"
"Not necessarily. If we're lucky enough to run into a newbie or someone who's AFK, we might be able to turn the tables and get a kill. Each time we get a kill, we get an extra life. I've encountered that once, so I still have two lives."
Despite her terrifying makeup and her eyes bulging out when she speaks, San San is still an optimistic and cheerful NPC.
Jin Shu asked her a few more questions, mainly about what kind of questions the system would ask when players chose to ask questions.
San San thought for a moment, then pointed to the box under the bed.
"It's full of data. The system usually presents math and physics problems, matching the difficulty level to the player's intelligence."
There's just too much data to read; we can only hope the players are a little less intelligent than us.
Of course, most of the time the players are smarter than those two dumb, terrifying nurses.
"The game has a shutdown time every day, so let's take advantage of this time to rest and cooperate well. Maybe we can scare two players to death tomorrow."
San San lay down to rest.
Even when she sleeps, she has to wear terrible makeup and clothes that are so tight she can't breathe, making her look cramped and depressed.
Jin Shu couldn't sleep.
She dragged the box out from under the bed.
When opened, it was filled with heavy books.
Jin Shu was somewhat familiar with mathematics, as she had encountered this knowledge before, and it was very similar to the arithmetic in one of the magical arts she cultivated.
It was mainly physics, which was completely unfamiliar to Jin Shu; she had never been exposed to it before.
But it's okay, she can learn.
This time, the 48-hour system will be activated during the eight hours the game is closed.
(End of this chapter)
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