deep sea.

It was a darkness that even the hottest and most scorching sun could not penetrate.

It doesn't matter whether you are hundreds or thousands of meters deep. Without any protection, the huge water pressure does not directly crush the human body. This is a miracle that can only appear in the game.

In the dark sea, there live many marine creatures that can glow. However, at this moment, countless lights are scattering and fleeing madly.

The violently turbulent sea water makes it difficult for them to control themselves, and they can only be washed in other directions or dragged into the battlefield.

There were countless tentacles entangled, and it was impossible to tell how many creatures were entangled together. They were so huge that they turned the sea water upside down and startled all creatures within a hundred miles.

Suckers and hooks battled each other, with poisonous stingers of jellyfish in between. The giant primitive creatures wrestled together, blood and broken limbs flew, floating in the sea.

The surging sea water made it impossible for Chen Nian to control his body. He felt like he was sucked into a washing machine, rolling back and forth and left and right. He felt dizzy and his collar was suddenly grabbed.

Long platinum-blond hair fluttered before his eyes. It was Shaflay!

Chen Nian grabbed Shafulai with his backhand, and the two finally reunited after going through numerous hardships.

It was too dark around, and Chen Nian couldn't find any trace of other people. The feeling of suffocation was quietly surrounding him, and he could only focus more on holding his breath.

It was at this time that Poseidon suddenly appeared.

It drilled out from the sand below and rushed into everyone's sight unexpectedly. The body of the giant worm left a circular channel dozens of meters wide on the seabed, and even caused a collapse!

Countless bubbles emerged, making the already chaotic sea water even more blurry.

For a moment, Chen Nian thought he saw a dragon.

The purple-red steel worm rushed over, and several giant primitive creatures that were grappling with each other were unable to dodge and were swallowed directly into its mouth!

The giant octopus and jellyfish that had frightened countless fish and shrimps couldn't even struggle in front of this horrible monster and became a delicious meal.

The worm swam, creating a huge vortex, and turned into gray pupils in the dark deep sea, sucking them all in.

Plop into the water.

Once again, I saw the strange sea kings that were completely beyond my imagination. These creatures that had appeared in the fantasy kingdom and were defeated by players as bosses were so terrifying and hideous that when they appeared in front of them in human form, all they could feel was shock and fear.

The ocean nurtures the most primitive, powerful and mysterious creatures in the world.

I can't tell how much time has passed.

They kept shuttling back and forth in the sea or on the surface of the sea, being swallowed up, targeted, and affected. In the end, they would be swallowed up by huge heterochromatic eyes and enter a new time and space.

Red, blue, gray, purple, green...

The feeling of being attracted, called, and tested becomes stronger and stronger. A woman with long, silver-white curly hair sits on the reef, her dark skin wet by the sea water, looking fit and full of vitality.

It sang a vague song softly, and when it looked back, its lips were cracked all the way to its ears, and its skin was peeling off like paint, revealing the metal shell underneath.

It is looking forward to swallowing more lives as nutrients to feed the unborn fetus in its belly.

Countless silver fish spun and condensed into a whirlpool, swallowing up all the lives that dared to approach, and finally transformed into a silver-gray eye, drawing in the world's water to rush in.

I was sucked to the deepest point without any struggle, and when I was almost suffocated, the surroundings suddenly became empty.

Then he fell heavily to the ground.

There was a "slap" sound when they fell, just like a few fish being pulled ashore.

Even though they had adjusted their pain sensitivity to a very low level, the five people were still lying on the ground, unable to get up for a while.

After a long time, Bai Gei Yingtao pinched her own neck, gulped a few times, and spit out the sea water she had swallowed before.

He panted and asked weakly: "Is this the end..."

He had been playing this game for such a long time, but this was the first time he felt so dizzy that he wanted to vomit up his overnight meal.

"It should be quiet now." Chen Nian climbed up with difficulty and found that the sea water that soaked his body was disappearing quickly.

In less than ten seconds, they were all fucked from head to toe.

Chen Ci looked around silently. Unlike before, this time they came to a very spacious room.

It might be more appropriate to call it a lobby. The lobby is a very standard rectangular block, closed on all four sides. Chen Ci took a quick look around and couldn't find any structure similar to doors or windows, not even a gap for the ventilation duct.

Well, maybe the meat in the tin can looks the same.

Chen Ci is not sure if they are out of danger yet. Perhaps soon deadly tentacles or teeth will tear the room apart, and they will face the new look of Poseidon and be sucked into his eyes.

Those were eyes he was very familiar with.

While stranded on the island, he and Chen Nian developed a connection and dreamed of his brother's experience in the game, from which he learned that Aurora's true identity was Poseidon Sheila.

At the end of the dream, two huge eyes, one red and one blue, were in the sky, staring at him silently.

Later, Chen Ci found out that it was Chensha and Sanshui who were monitoring him.

Before using the neural adapter this time, he saw the red eyes representing cinnabar again and wanted to chase after it, but failed to catch up with it.

To be precise, Chen Ci had been counting quietly. The dramatic scene change just now occurred seventeen times, in a total of seventeen completely different locations, and seventeen sea kings that had been heroically defeated by the players in the main storyline of the game.

But there are only five eye colors.

Red is cinnabar, blue is sanshui, and green, silver gray and purple should also be related to other beacons.

The only thing missing is the eyes that represent the moonlight.

As for the others, except for giving away the cherries for free, they should be able to think of this as well.

Chen Ci turned his gaze towards Shafley's friend, who was lying half-dead on the ground.

During their brief interaction, Chen Ci could see that he was not a person who liked to use his brain very much.

This is indeed the case. Bai Zui Yingtao didn't mind at all after experiencing so many strange scenes. He always had the same idea when playing the game: just rush in and it's done.

This also saves everyone from having to explain things to him.

After a few minutes, everyone had almost recovered from their dizziness and began to explore the closed room.

The rows of incandescent light tubes above illuminate every corner, leaving no room for darkness.

The imagined scene of the wall being torn open by the monster did not appear. The surroundings were terrifyingly quiet, as if being sealed in a coffin and buried a thousand meters underground.

After searching, no useful clues were found, but a wall suddenly lit up without any warning.

Chen Nian subconsciously looked towards the center of the room, thinking that someone had turned on the projector and projected a PPT onto the wall.

A line of small words appeared on the wall that turned into a screen.

When the five people came to the wall and were about to take a closer look, they found that the line of words moved.

The blurred picture replaced the blank space as the background, and the words began to run wildly, quickly reaching a certain node, from which countless branches extended.

At a glance, Shafley recognized that this was a graphical representation of a multi-branch program, with each branch representing a possible outcome.

At the same time, a 60-second countdown appears in the upper right corner.

Obviously, they need to choose among the many branches derived from the node.

Chen Nian: "What is this?"

There were probably tens of thousands of branches, and the words on them were as small as ants. It was impossible to see clearly, let alone make a choice.

Everyone moved closer, and only the line of words on the main trunk was the clearest.

[Sea Journey: Please build the first human settlement outside the beacon]

Baige Yingtao exclaimed: "Isn't this the first major version? I remember it was the main quest that was released first, right?"

“Yes.” Shafley confirmed. At that time, the game had just been released and neither he nor Bengshemailu had yet to get into it.

But the two are experienced players after all, and they have a lot of understanding of the original content. "Building a human base outside the beacon" is the first main task after the version update of Electric Fantasy Kingdom.

"What does this mean? Are we going to make choices based on what happened in the game?"

Bai Ge Yingtao quickly scanned the options in the numerous branches. The dense black text almost made his eyes dizzy. After reading for only ten seconds, he began to feel dizzy.

The countdown was already halfway through, and Shaflay quickly recalled what happened at that time.

The background setting of the fantasy kingdom of God is in the future world. One day, the water level suddenly dropped, and the flooded land reappeared. In order to compete for living space and regain their former home, humans naturally need to fight with the original creatures.

In the first major version of the game, "Sea Journey", the water level dropped to 2,200 meters. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the largest landmass in the world, expanded rapidly outward, and island groups in other regions also expanded to form land masses.

Humans finally no longer have to hide inside beacons.

Poseidon did not understand why the water level suddenly dropped, or perhaps he could understand it but could not accept the reality that his territory was shrinking.

In short, when the players were excitedly reclaiming land and building their homes on the wet beaches, the Sea Emperor led millions of primitive creatures to launch an attack.

The first battle between humans and Poseidon took place in the waters near the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

At that time, everyone had just started playing this game and their levels were quite low. They couldn't find any guides or other information for reference. They were killed again and again by the primitive creatures and didn't even get to see the Sea Emperor.

In the end, the desperate players simply referred to many real-life battles, including the textbook battles led by Marshal Chen Weiyuan.

After an arduous battle, they finally defended the lost land and drove the sea emperor to deeper and farther waters.

With ten seconds left on the countdown, Shafley made his choice.

[Yinshan Mountain Range, Daqing Mountain.]

In the background, mountain ranges stretch out over the sea. The peaks that once grew lush forests and wetlands are now bare, but not desolate. Many marine animals and plants live in the final silt, and it won't be long before they dry up and die under the scorching sun.

New trees will grow.

The selected branch continues to extend, while all other possibilities stop.

However, within a few seconds, the growing branches began to diverge again, becoming new roots, leading to countless futures and possibilities.

The countdown refreshes and they are faced with new choices.

“Again?!” Baige Cherry wailed, “Wait, are they going to keep choosing our version? How long will it take!”

"It shouldn't be long." In comparison, Shaflay was frighteningly calm.

He knew that in this situation, complaining and getting anxious was useless, and he had to focus all his energy on recalling the past and making a choice.

After all, the choice he just made was the first main mission of the Electric Fantasy Kingdom, so he remembered it more clearly.

But the following is not so easy to deal with. After all, the previous Electric Fantasy Kingdom is just a game. Who would have the leisure to memorize everything that happened in it?

Of the five people present, only Shafulai and Baige Cherry had played this game before.

The UI interface has long disappeared, and they have no way to find past screenshots and data to help recall. They can only make choices based on their memories and current circumstances.

Fortunately, the branches selected based on impression seem to be correct, and after the branches are selected, they continue to develop.

Then, as a node, countless new options extend out and spread out densely again.

Just like a lush tree grows branches, and then uses the selected branches as roots to grow another equally lush tree, and this process continues endlessly.

All the major decisions that tens of millions of players have made in the fantasy kingdom over the past nine years, which were enough to change the course of the gaming world, are being reviewed again after a lapse of several years.

Shafulai and Shirogane had no time to think about anything else and focused all their energy on recalling the past.

Chen Nian, Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe, who were unable to participate in the incident, noticed more of what was happening around them.

The brown pus had quietly spread out from the corner, crawling up the wall, and moving towards them step by step along the floor.

The speed at which they spread seemed to be related to the speed at which Schaeffer made his choices.

"Shafulai." Chen Nian wanted to speak up and tell Alpha the news, but was stopped by Chen Ci.

Chen Ci shook his head, signaling him not to interrupt Shafley's thoughts.

The three of them watched the pus bag approaching. At this moment, the background became the vast East African grassland. The choice between Shafulai and Baizai Cherry had already reached last year's "Crimson Abyss" version.

But there was a little dispute between them.

SHAFFLEY: "We set out from N'Djamena, didn't we? I was the one who planned the operation."

"Yes, Benji. It's true that you made the operation plan, but you were too busy at the time and didn't go online much. There were many unexpected situations during the actual operation, and we made adjustments on the spot."

Bai Gei Yingtao clicked his tongue and said, "Really? Trust me, Benji. I guarantee it will be right."

Shafley frowned and thought. He was indeed busy with the military academy assessment at that time last year. If someone else had said this to him, he would definitely listen to the other person, but now this person was giving him cherries for free.

Having known each other for nine years, he already knew how unreliable this guy was. There had been many times before when Bai had assured Yingtao that he had definitely seen something and that she must believe him, but in the end, it turned out to be completely untrue.

And he really didn't do it on purpose, he just had a bad brain and was a bit stupid.

The countdown passed by minute by minute, and the argument between Shafulai and Baige Cherry had no result. There were many things that I could no longer remember the more I thought about them.

In the end, Shafley chose to trust Bai Juying once again.

He pressed the [Benji] branch option.

The branches grew rapidly, and Shafulai breathed a sigh of relief when Baifu Cherry took credit for it by saying, "See, I told you so."

However, by this time, the abscesses had spread to their feet.

Chen Nian, Chen Ci and Fu Tianhe stood closer together. Fu Tianhe jokingly said, "Will these things break and block us all out?"

Chen Nian: “…It’s hard to say.”

Chen Ci had not given up hope of breaking the impasse. He looked up and saw that even the incandescent lamp was covered by pus. The optical fiber was affected to a certain extent and the room became dim.

The Tsavorite and White Cherries, which have been carefully selecting, have also noticed the changes in the environment.

The tin-can-like room was filled with brown pus bags. Each of them was extremely swollen, and the surface was even slightly translucent, and you could see that it was filled with sticky juice.

Shafulai was shocked. He and Bai Gei Cherry could only seize the time and try to make all the choices before any accidents happened.

According to the current trend, the choice they make should end with the remake of this main mission, and what happens after that belongs to the future.

The closer the memory is to the present, the clearer it is, and the faster Shafulai and Shirogane make their choice.

The branches of the tree continue to grow, and the picture continues to extend, expanding from one wall to the entire room.

Above their heads, beneath their feet, and all around them are choices that are constantly being made, covered in pus.

The "Return to Eastern Europe" version is launched, and Poseidon Gale and Sheila appear. Facing Sheila's temptation, Athanasius did not fall for it, so Poseidon changed his target to the Abandoned Gods Guild, and chose sound waves as a weapon in the subsequent boss battle.

Afterwards, they went to Brown Castle and found the fetus in the body of the fish monster deep in the dungeon. They brought the fetus back to the guild.

The pus bag completely obscured the light tube above their heads, and the last ray of light disappeared. The two brothers and Fu Tianhe turned on their flashlights to provide light for Shafulai and Bai Geyingtao.

Then the front was pushed forward continuously, with new areas revealed every day as the water level receded.

The wet mud will soon dry up under the sunlight, and the creatures living in it will quickly wither and die, leaving behind only dehydrated corpses and the remains of human construction thousands of years ago.

New cities and civilizations will emerge on it.

Click.

The sound of the cracks was so obvious to everyone.

A pustule in the corner finally grew so big that it could no longer grow and burst.

The sticky juice splashed, turning everything it touched into a blurry mosaic.

The first domino fell, and with it as the center, the remaining pus bags nearby also burst one after another, causing the surrounding areas to explode. For a moment, the popping sounds were almost connected into a chain.

The entire wall turned into a colorful mosaic. From the gaps between the countless leaping blocks, Chen Ci keenly discovered that outside this square iron room, there was nothingness.

The chain reaction spread to the ceiling, and the pustules attached to the light cabinets burst open, pouring brown liquid down on them all.

Shafley's head turned into a mass of color, Chen Nian's right arm disappeared, half of Chen Ci's body turned into data, and a large part of Fu Tianhe's chest disappeared.

The digitization quickly spread along their characters' bodies to other parts, and Shaflay's shoulders and above became a blur, leaving only a hand hanging in the air.

New choices presented themselves to him.

【██████████】

The question is no longer clear, but there are only two options.

Yes, or no.

Bai Gei Yingtao screamed, pus spread from the ground to his feet, his legs turned into mosaics, and he fell to the ground.

He subconsciously reached out to support it, but his hand also touched the sticky liquid and he fell into it, turning into a pool of unknown substance.

“Oh shit!”

Amid the panicked cries of Baige Sakura, Shaflay made his final choice with his only remaining finger.

【yes】

The moment he pressed the button, all the existing pustules burst together, and brown liquid poured down like a flood, engulfing all the matter in this empty space and turning it into a chaotic stream of data.

At this final moment, Chen Nian had only one thought in his mind -

Oh no! All the game data that Shafley had worked so hard on for nine years would be gone. How sad he would be!

It's hard to describe what this feeling is.

The body turns into data and moves rapidly along a specific path. The mind becomes exceptionally agile, breaking free from the constraints of the shell and roaming freely with unprecedented freedom.

He got rid of his human form and his identity, and became just a consciousness born together with the universe. He went to the end of time and space to witness the truest appearance of this world.

【Backstage login... completed】

The numerous data that were galloping, flowing, and wandering around him and in front of him re-condensed, bringing with them dazzling particle effects, condensing into the ground and the sky, and extending endlessly ahead, filling in the blanks.

Until the visual effect becomes indistinguishable from reality.

Green gentle hills and a blue sky with white clouds.

The scene before me seems familiar. Have I seen it somewhere before?

Chen Nian thought about it carefully for a long time, and suddenly realized that this was Bliss, the original default desktop wallpaper for Windows computers, taken in Sonoma County, California, USA in 1996.

Did he enter an ancient computer screen?

While thinking, Chen Nian noticed three spots of light falling from the sky, leaving long tails, just like him.

The virtual ground was getting closer and closer, until it was finally within reach. He landed on it in the form of data and could actually feel the presence of two feet.

Chen Nian looked down and found that his body was reassembling itself starting from his feet.

It’s just that the skin color...seems a little strange?

He paused for a moment and blinked.

Other spots of light also fell around him, forming human figures. In just a dozen seconds, the four of them reappeared in this strange space.

But... is there something wrong?

Everyone is like a cow, with patches of black and white, and the white is not the same.

The cold white of ice and snow, the warm white of milk, the healthy wheat color, and the pitch black that I don't know what words to use to describe, the four skin colors mixed together, piece by piece, like a cloth bag with many patches, forming the skin of the four of them.