All players: I can choose my own dungeon rewards

Forty kilometers northeast of Bamo City, a research institute buried deep underground.

Wang Zhifan rushed here from the underground of the city. Thanks to the accurate intelligence of AI Xiaohong, he arrived at his destination very smoothly.

At first, he had the idea of ​​visiting this place formally, but after a secret investigation on the spot for a while, he determined that the other party was a secret and closed organization and did not receive outside visitors at all.

Therefore, he had to change his strategy and sneaked directly into the institute with the help of ghost shadow shoes and space teleportation, and put on the wind-hidden hat to conduct reconnaissance in an invisible state.

At this time, he targeted a middle-aged man who was doing experiments and planned to obtain intelligence through him.

Hearing that several assistants of this man called him the director, he must have a high status in this institute and may know more important information. Wang Zhifan observed and waited patiently for the opportunity.

Suddenly, the door of the laboratory was opened again, and a seemingly ordinary researcher in a white coat walked in from outside, which made the invisible Wang Zhifan frown.

"This person's aura is not right, much stronger than other NPCs... There's something wrong!"

Just when Wang Zhifan, who was in the invisible state, was alert, the researchers who came in sent the assistants in the laboratory away, saying that other laboratories wanted them to help temporarily, and several assistants left quickly.

But this person who Wang Zhifan found to be problematic waited for others to leave, then directly closed the door of the laboratory, and walked slowly to the middle-aged director who was still busy.

The middle-aged director did not notice anything unusual, he was focused on his experiment until the white-coated researcher raised one of his palms and stretched it out to him.

A miniature human face emerged from this palm, and the human face's eyes stared forward and emitted a dim energy that was difficult to detect. The middle-aged director who was conducting the experiment suddenly shook his body, his eyes became confused and unfocused, as if he had entered a semi-sleeping state.

"What is an envoy?"

The white-coated researcher who raised the human face palm to perform the trick then spoke calmly, and the voice was very abrupt.

"The messenger is... a kind of... mysterious... incomprehensible... unknown existence..."

The middle-aged director, who seemed to be hypnotized, immediately answered intermittently, and the sound of his voice showed that he was indeed under control.

"Be more specific, such as what are the characteristics of their appearance? What means of attack? How much damage can they cause? What attacks can hurt or kill them?"

The researcher with a human face on his palm was obviously not satisfied with this answer, and immediately asked.

"I... don't know..."

The middle-aged director, who had lost most of his self-image, responded slowly.

This made the researcher who raised his palm look a little irritated, and muttered:

"If this is the case again... there is definitely something wrong with the NPC here!"

"Master, I have completely controlled his consciousness, and he really doesn't know."

The miniature face in the palm immediately spoke up, indicating that it was not because he didn't work hard.

"Well, you hold on a little longer, I'll try to get him to answer a few other questions."

The researcher then began to ask questions such as when the messenger appeared and what relevant physical materials were available, and was very patient.

Wang Zhifan remained invisible and eavesdropped nearby throughout the whole process, which was equivalent to saving himself from investigating in person.

At this moment, he had already realized that the researcher who had just entered was actually a player in disguise, and his purpose was also to obtain information about the messenger, and it seemed that he had investigated more than one NPC.

"By the way, there seems to be a little thing eavesdropping outside the door. It must be a summon or clone sent by a player, or simply a player in disguise... I didn't expect the place I chose to be so lively."

After Wang Zhifan slightly expanded his perception, he noticed some abnormalities, that is, a fly lying outside the door with a strange breath.

It must be said that the disguise methods of these two players are quite superb. If it weren't for his extremely strong mental attributes, it would be difficult to find that there were two other colleagues gathered in this small place. At most, he could see through the fake researcher who was investigating intelligence.

He quietly maintained his invisible state, without revealing any flaws, and witnessed the whole process of this player collecting intelligence.

But the result was the same as the information he had obtained from Xiaohong before. He could hardly get detailed information about the messenger from the NPC, and could only know some scraps, which was very different from his expectations for this research institute.

After the players left the lab, the flies outside the door also flew away. Wang Zhifan did not continue to follow them, but instead maintained his stealth and headed for the mainframe location of the research institute.

"Xiaohong, what progress have you made in conquering the database here?"

In an empty corner, Wang Zhifan asked the portable AI.

"Sir, it has reached 24.51%, but my cracking program seems to have fallen into a misunderstanding, and the cracking process may be delayed..."

For the first time, Xiaohong's words showed an uncertain judgment. It seemed that the defense strength of the database of this research institute made it very stressful.

"Xiaohong, maybe it's not that you can't crack it, but there are other influencing factors. Let me go and take a look myself."

Wang Zhifan listened and followed the map instructions provided by Xiaohong, and continued to head towards the mainframe location of the research institute.

He passed through walls, used space movement to cross several automatic defense barriers similar to laser walls, and finally arrived at the mainframe room of this research institute.

As a small research institute, it is obviously not normal for their computer room to have such high defense, and it seems to hide some secrets.

But when Wang Zhifan arrived at the location, he did not notice any obvious abnormalities at the first time. It seemed that this place was just a row of computers neatly arranged, running non-stop to perform high-speed calculations.

"Xiaohong, the equipment around here doesn't look very special. Why is it so difficult for you to crack them? Do you want me to make some physical connections to improve your cracking efficiency?"

Wang Zhifan immediately asked Xiaohong in the computer room, intending to help it.

But strangely, Xiaohong did not respond to him this time, and the smart watch remained silent.

"Xiaohong? Xiaohong?"

Wang Zhifan immediately became alert and checked his smart watch, but did not find any faults for a while.

So he quickly evacuated the computer room and called Xiaohong again, and Xiaohong finally responded.

"Sir, I was affected by some strange power just now and lost contact with the outside world, just like being isolated by data."

Xiaohong immediately reported the situation, making Wang Zhifan realize the problem.

"A strange force has affected you? Then why don't I feel anything? Is it because you are attacking that computer room that you are being targeted?"

After thinking for a while, Wang Zhifan took off his smartwatch, put it on the ground, and said a few words to Xiaohong, and then sneaked into the computer room again.

This time, he spread his perception very carefully, not missing any details, even though he didn't know much about the large computers buzzing around him.

But after two minutes, he still didn't find much. He only vaguely felt that something was wrong with this place, but he couldn't tell exactly what was wrong.

"Xiaohong! Can you see me?"

Looking up at a camera in the corner of the computer room, Wang Zhifan then waved his hand over there.

Knowing that Xiaohong had conquered most of the electronic equipment in this institute, he was very secretive in this computer room. After all, Xiaohong would cover up the traces of his appearance in real time if nothing unexpected happened.

But the camera did not flash the light as agreed between him and Xiaohong, and it looked completely unresponsive, indicating that he had lost contact with Xiaohong in the outside world.

"Strange... What's going on?"

At this time, Wang Zhifan was completely confused. He believed that what was happening now was not Xiaohong's deliberate tricking on him, but that there was really some force preventing the connection between them.

"Speaking of which, I carefully explored this place several times and indeed found something wrong... But I couldn't find where the problem was..."

Just when he was racking his brains to figure it out, an unexpected situation occurred. That is, the Qingdi Sword hanging on his waist began to tremble, that is, the legendary sword sent a communication request to it!

"Qingdi, have you found the problem?"

Wang Zhifan quickly pulled out the Qingdi Sword and communicated with it.

As a high-grade spiritual weapon, although the Qingdi Sword is essentially different from real creatures and cannot be completely regarded as an intelligent existence, in many cases, its spiritual intuition as a weapon is much more useful than human wisdom.

This time, it was it that noticed the root cause and provided a solution.

"Are you saying that there is a special rule that restricts this place? Breaking this rule can remove the restriction?"

As the Qingdi Knife conveyed to Wang Zhifan the spiritual thoughts that only he, the master, could understand, Wang Zhifan suddenly changed from confusion to understanding.

"Special rules? What special rules can this place have? This is just a room with computers... Are you talking about some mysterious power? For example, the power from the messenger?"

With the enlightenment of the Qingdi Knife, Wang Zhifan quickly understood the essence of the matter. He held the legendary Qingdi Knife in his hand, suddenly closed his eyes, and tried his best to perceive everything around him.

For a moment, the noise of the computer fan, the sound of the hard disk reading, and even the extremely complex current network were all taken into his mind, but the next moment he abandoned and shielded them all, because none of them were the problem.

His perception then transcended the level of conventional matter and came to the level of the laws of space and time. After confirming that there were no obvious problems in these two aspects, he slightly deviated and headed towards a more mysterious and illusory angle.

That was the rule series mentioned by the Green Emperor Sword, which was lower-level and looser than the world laws of space and time, but it was a mysterious high-end power that might exist under special circumstances.

At this moment, Wang Zhifan's spiritual attribute of 273 points played a key role. If his spiritual attribute had not reached such an inhuman level, he would never have been able to discover what was hidden in the depths of the world.

"Found it! This strange power... It has always been there, restricting the flow of information in the form of rules! There are some other rules in this world, but it seems that they are incomplete. This world is really abnormal... But let's cut it first!"

After realizing the existence of the target, Wang Zhifan immediately mobilized all his strength, concentrated his mind and swung the Green Emperor Sword in his hand, and slashed it out very slowly but with an extremely firm will!

Because what he wanted to cut was not a person or an object, but an abstract and illusory rule! A powerful attack limited to the physical level is meaningless!

It is difficult to explain in detail how to achieve this conceptual attack, but Wang Zhifan, as a person who has initially mastered the laws of time and space, has the strength foundation to do this. Of course, more importantly, the Qingdi Sword in his hand provides Incomparable help.

The ability to cut through nothing is a special property of the legendary Qingdi Sword, which gives this magical weapon the potential to cut through everything, whether it is actual matter or some abstract concept, and the so-called rules are no exception.

Time passed slowly, and with Wang Zhifan's extremely slow slash that could be compared to a hundred times slow motion, something in the void finally broke, and then quickly disintegrated and dissipated.

He opened his eyes, sheathed the Qingdi Sword, looked around, and saw that everything in the computer room was the same as before, but also vaguely new.

"It should be fine."

His figure immediately disappeared, and through dreaming and breaking dreams, he arrived at the location of the smart watch. The watch was currently in the hands of a clone he placed here.

"Your Excellency, Director Qiu! The defense of the database just now suddenly completely disappeared! Did you do something in it?"

As an artificial intelligence, Xiaohong didn't need his reminder. It was attacking the computer room all the time. At this time, Wang Zhifan appeared. It had ended the battle and achieved overall victory.

"I did something, but let's talk about what you found in the database!"

Wang Zhifan is now more concerned about the real harvest.

"There is a lot of experimental research information in the database, and there is also a top-secret information hidden. I have cracked it. It seems to be about the messenger. I will present it to you now."

While answering, Xiaohong controlled the smart watch to emit 3D light and shadow, playing the top-secret images it found.

The beginning of the image is a patch of snowflake-like interference. There is no specific image content, but a man's deep voice sounds:

"Ladies and gentlemen, we think we have found a way to preserve the emissary's details.

That is the highest level of encryption, which cannot be decrypted even by the person who recorded the information, plus the death of all insiders.

This sounds ridiculous, but we have no better way but to place our hope on future humans..."

"Messengers are existences that transcend the physical world. They have no clear malice towards us humans, and no verifiable goodwill.

They only come occasionally and destroy matter and life when passing by this planet, just like when we step on the road and accidentally kill ants, leaving footprints one by one..." (End of this chapter)