[Oh my god, it's already 600,000???]
[Strictly speaking, it's not six hundred thousand anymore. Someone provided some information and deducted a few points, just a little bit (indicating a small amount with hand gestures).]
[Some people are willing to go to extremes for a hundred points to clear an instance, while others offer a hundred thousand points just to find someone. Is this the disparity of the world? Wah, cried out.]
[Sobbing, where are you, my precious six hundred thousand? Let's become good friends. I'm not greedy; you can give me a hundred thousand after it's done, okay?]
Ning Wang closed the forum with an expressionless face.
He had died when the Eternal Life Laboratory exploded. After all, his strength was heavily suppressed, and he couldn't evacuate in time from such a large-scale explosion.
Moreover, at that time, he hadn't even evacuated yet; he still wanted to go save someone.
He was blown out directly.
He had never felt that oppressed before, not even his avatar had been repressed to that extent.
Ning Wang recklessly posted a bounty task and then found the live streams of those players, hoping to see if there was a chance to find that person.
Also, to see if he was killed in the explosion.
The players were far from the Eternal Life Laboratory, and most of them were just slightly better off than ordinary people, still struggling on the brink of life and death.
There was absolutely no chance of getting close to that person.
Just as Ning Wang was about to close the live broadcast, he saw the figure of that person on the screen of one of the players' phones.
He indeed didn't die.
A faint smile appeared at the corner of Ning Wang's mouth, unable to describe his current emotions.
He only knew that his heart was pounding violently.
Ning Wang suddenly thought of a possibility: Did those avatars really have problems?
Or did he meet the same person?
However, those memories were erased by Ning Wang, and it was impossible to determine if it was the same person he had met.
Erasing memories was easy, but it wasn't so easy to retrieve them.
Ning Wang tried many methods, even looked around in the system store, but couldn't find anything specific to his situation.
Ning Wang contemplated for a moment, then vanished on the spot.
Shortly after his disappearance, the cold announcement from the game space system rang out.
[Key NPC missing from the instance <Apocalypse Survival>, storyline undergoing uncontrollable changes, instance entering upgrade phase, please stay tuned.]
The players who were originally discussing the bounty on the forum were immediately shocked.
The instance was entering an upgrade phase?
What's going on?
Why was there another instance that had been upgraded? Hadn't they heard about any instances undergoing upgrades recently?
The game forum exploded once again.
The recent bounty might not have been relevant to every player, but the instance definitely affected every player.
Because players never knew which instance they would draw next.
Players in the main city area immediately checked for details and discovered that <Apocalypse Survival> was a promotion instance among players who wanted to advance from intermediate to high-level.
It was also the legendary instance where no one had returned alive.
[This is the first time I've heard of this kind of promotion instance upgrading, especially this hellish-level advancement instance (shocked.JPG).]
[Help, this is already a no-return instance, and it's going to upgrade!!!? Do they want to refresh the horrific scenes of player deaths? Is dying in the ordinary way not satisfying enough?]
[No, the scariest part is if this instance no longer qualifies as a promotion instance after the upgrade, then the points for purchasing avatars will revert to their original price, and by then, drawing this instance could really mean death.]
[In other words, drawing this instance this time means truly no one will return, right?]
This question didn't need a response; everyone understood. Instances had never downgraded from advanced to lower levels during an upgrade; the difficulty only increased.
The players were silently praying in their hearts, hoping not to draw this upgraded instance.
Normally, instances wouldn't upgrade without reason, especially when this instance report highlighted the absence of a key NPC, signaling an uncontrollable change in the storyline.
Players immediately prepared to investigate what had happened with that instance, but before they could start searching, someone had already posted a reminder on the homepage.
Some players who entered that instance uploaded a live recording of the instance. The post included a link and indicated the key points in the recording starting from a few minutes in.
Players quickly clicked into it, skipped through the meaningless parts at the beginning, and went straight to the crucial section towards the end.
When they saw the young man starting the live stream, the watching players were directly shocked.
[Wow! Can it be like this!!!?]
[I thought this instance was just this island, but there's a map outside the island too!!! And you can even ask for help from outside the island?]
[When I drew this instance, I barely survived until the morning of the seventh day, then I was directly blasted out of the instance. I always thought this instance had no way to clear it, but it turns out I was just too dumb, sobbing.]
[Don't cry, I bet even if you know the way to clear it, can you hack satellites? Can you research the serum antibody for the zombie virus?]
[......Oh, no.]
Even if someone was good with computers, they could at most barely hack satellites, and they definitely could not excel in researching the zombie virus.
After all, everyone had their specialties.
However, being good with computers seemed to be enough. Just pretending to research and delaying until the seventh day could also successfully clear it.
Most players would probably choose to do this.
As long as they could clear it, they generally would choose any means necessary, even if it means deceiving everyone.
The young man might be the same.
After all, with hacking skills so advanced, it didn't make sense for him to actually study the zombie virus.
Although this was just a guess, most players did not skip through the recording and watched seriously.
When they saw the young man's three days of non-stop experiments, players suppressed their previous thoughts one after another, and even felt a bit ashamed.
He was serious.
The young man could have pretended to delay time, but he was actually using his life to save millions of people.
He even experimented on his own body to make others believe that his serum worked.
Some felt it was foolish, yet it left the players in silence.
Since entering this cruel and terrifying infinite game, they hadn't seen such a foolish person for a long time.
This foolishness made people's minds and hearts feel a bit uncomfortable, a bit stifled.
Thanks for the update.
ReplyDeleteim so excited for the next arc!!!! thank you for the updates<33
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