Life Copy Game

"So Xiao Ao, are you going to the ruins? Hahaha, you are indeed my Xiao Ao. Even the dean is so optimistic about it. Come over here and let me see it."

On the small computer screen, Wu Lan put her face in front of the camera and looked at He Ao carefully.

"alright,"

Yang De, who was closer to the camera, pulled her away. He stared at He Ao outside the screen, "The transport plane to Ellen has already departed. I applied for a prop for you to bring over. The ruins are not safe. ,protect yourself."

"Um."

He Ao nodded slightly.

"Hahaha, Xiao Ao, you have to thank Yang Bu this time. The thing you brought this time is the extraordinary item that Yang Bu bought with his life. The dean promised Yang Bu at the beginning. Although this item belongs to the research Courtyard, but only Yangbu can use it.”

Wu Lan poked her head over again and said with a smile.

"ah?"

He Ao was confused.

"Okay, stop making trouble."

Yang De pulled Wu Lan back impatiently. He looked at He Ao and smiled, "It's just a C-level extraordinary item. It's not particularly precious. Maybe you can use it. You can use it with peace of mind. It shouldn't be too big." burden."

Then he paused, "I heard from World Tree that in the information about the opening of the channel this time, it seems that Class C can only bring three extraordinary items in at most. Have you decided what to bring? The extraordinary item in your hand Is it still useful? If it’s not enough, I can find a way to get you two more extraordinary items with less side effects.”

"Enough."

He Ao nodded. In fact, the ruins passage has always had restrictions on the extraordinary items that explorers can carry. However, the previous limit was five items for D-level and below, but for C-level, there are only three items this time.

But usually, the extraordinary people who go in only bring one or two items, or they don't bring any extraordinary items at all.

Because almost all extraordinary items have side effects, and there are too many unknown relics, if you bring temporary extraordinary items that you have not touched before, the danger of these extraordinary items is often greater than their safety.

According to previous statistics from the research institute, explorers who bring unfamiliar extraordinary items have a much higher mortality rate than those who bring familiar extraordinary items or those who do not bring extraordinary items.

Based on the accounts of those who have entered the ruins with strange supernatural objects and then returned safely from the ruins, the institute has now concluded that:

After extraordinary items enter the ruins, they will be "activated" due to the rich extraordinary power in the ruins, which will increase the pollution and increase the possibility of attracting abnormal monsters, which will greatly increase the overall mortality rate.

People who have been holding this item have a better understanding of the characteristics of the item, have their own methods of solving side effects, and can control extraordinary items well. Moreover, such people are generally stronger, so their survival rate is higher. high.

According to this conclusion, for those who hold this extraordinary item for the first time, or just start to hold it for a short period of time, the extraordinary item in their hands is not a help, but a danger.

Therefore, in the later period, the research institute was more inclined to allow ruin explorers to carry technological weapons with no side effects, rather than allocating extraordinary items.

In fact, even if you have extraordinary items that you are very familiar with, the institute does not recommend bringing too many extraordinary items in, because it is impossible for a person to be familiar with every extraordinary item.

However, this restriction has little impact on He Ao.

The extraordinary items he planned to bring in were the Miracle Wand, the contaminated mechanical core, and the pirate treasure chest.

The Miracle Wand was brought out from the ruins, and He Ao was already very familiar with the situation in the ruins.

Strictly speaking, the contaminated mechanical core is not an extraordinary item. Its biggest problem is its own contamination, and He Ao is still somewhat resistant to this aspect.

As for the pirate treasure chest, it is a storage item. Its side effect is that if you open the chest and take out something, you must put an extraordinary item in it. If there is no extraordinary item to put in it, you must put in a soul.

But He Ao never opened it when he used it. He always used the ability of "retrieving objects from the air" to directly bypass its rules.

And if the pirate treasure chest can be brought in, it must be brought in, because He Ao wants to control the 'Hao Yi clone' through the puppet crystal ball.

The space inside the pirate treasure chest seems to have a certain isolation effect, which can protect the puppet crystal ball from the environment of the ruins to a certain extent.

Of course, carrying extraordinary items through the ruins passage is an act of exploiting loopholes. He Ao doesn't know if it can succeed. If the pirate treasure chest cannot be brought in, He Ao is prepared to go in directly with the puppet crystal ball.

These items were also chosen by He Ao after weighing the possible risks. Their side effects are all controllable, and they will enhance his strength more than they cause trouble.

"OK,"

Yang De nodded, and then thought of something, "By the way, the thing has arrived. See if the side effects are acceptable. If you can't accept it, don't be pushy no matter how good the thing is."

"Um."

He Ao nodded.

"Xiao Ao, protect yourself. You have to come back and stay up late with your sister online. Let me tell you, didn't you agree to me using your photos for publicity before? You are very famous within the institute now... ····”

Wu Lan looked at He Ao, smiled and blinked, "And don't lose Yang Bu's things, it's his fate...well..."

Yang De stretched out his hand directly to pull him out of the camera, looked at He Ao, and said with a smile, "Protect yourself, don't be brave, if you lose something, you lose it. Life is the most important thing. The dean will directly give this quota to you, it must be Seeing that you have hope of being promoted to Class B, the future funding problems of our field department will fall on your head. "

"good!"

He Ao smiled and nodded.

Although he wanted to ask Wu Lan what "famous" meant, but after thinking about it, it probably didn't matter.

After the previous Mysterious Shadow incident, He Ao's identity was no longer kept secret as he had been exposed to the World Tree and Moonlight. At that time, Wu Lan did ask if his photos could be used for publicity, but He Ao did not ask in detail. , and agreed directly.

After all, his photos are just those ID photos posted on the official website of the institute. Since there is no confidentiality requirement, it is not surprising as long as internal personnel can see them.

"That..." Ji Po scratched his head. He had just been watching a few people chatting without saying anything. After a short pause, he looked at He Ao, "Come on! I'll wait for you to return to China." Come on, I’ll be the host and treat you to dinner!”

"Ji Po, you iron rooster has actually plucked its feathers..." Wu Lan rushed back into the screen, baring her teeth and rushing over, "We have been colleagues for so many years, and I have invited him to eat every time. I am so emotional. Well, it’s not love enough, right? Xiao Ao can eat it but I can’t eat it, right..."

He Ao smiled as he watched the two people fighting. He turned his attention to Yang De, "Yang Bu, who is the other one of the two quotas this time?"

"Oh, yes, that's what I was going to tell you,"

Yang De patted his forehead, "Those are also the young talents produced by the institute in the past few years, but they are not from our field service, but from the back office... Lao Zhang, Zhang Anxia and the others are from the back office.

"The kid selected this time is also pretty good, but you haven't been in the institute for a long time, and you've been sent abroad all the time. You probably haven't seen him before. His name is Ye Yun, and he's the person in charge of Nandu."

"Don't listen to Yang Bu's bragging,"

Wu Lan came over again, "Buy Yang hates that kid. The back office has been bragging about that kid before, saying he is a 'young talent'. He is the fourth B-level in the institute. Is there no one in your field department~ Every time Department Yang comes back from a meeting with the back office, he always stares."

When Wu Lan spoke, she pinched her orchid fingers and spoke in a high tone, as if she was imitating the tone of the back office staff.

"In the past, when Yang went to have a meeting with the internal staff, he would walk with his head drooping and his ears drooping, and he would sigh when he spoke.

"Ever since you came, especially that time on the Velora, you rushed in to save people and killed so many C-class World Trees and Moonlights. After that, Yang rushed out of every meeting with high spirits. , He didn’t even bring anything to eat, and when he came back from the meeting, he even described to us the miserable faces of the back office staff during the meeting.”

"You have a lot of idioms, right?"

Yang De finally picked up Wu Lan this time and threw her out of the camera frame.

"Well..." Yang De turned around and looked at He Ao with some embarrassment. Finally, he said softly, "Pay attention to safety."

"Um!"

He Ao nodded.

End of the meeting.

He Ao raised his head and looked out the window at the sunset setting at the end of the city.

Night has come.

——

At the same time, in a cafe in the corner of Ellen City.

He Ao's Hao Yi clone logged into the information network jointly established by the three organizations that Li Cheng gave him.

At this moment, this information network only has a rough framework. Most of the information you click on is in the process of being uploaded, and only some old information can be accessed.

There is a lot of information in it, even more than what He'ao could have obtained by directly accessing the institute's intranet using his deputy ministerial authority.

Of course, major organizations are not all fools. You can't just believe what He Ao says. What they are giving now are empty promises.

We must wait until the ruins are opened before we can gradually fulfill our promise.

He Ao logged out of the website and logged into the official website of the institute using the account given to him by Li Cheng.

The institute is very honest. All materials are open to the public, but they cannot be copied or copied, nor can they be browsed too quickly.

The institute's information is updated very quickly, so there should be a dedicated research team doing this.

Compared with the other two major organizations, Moonlight and World Tree, the institute spends the most money on research every year, even several times that of Moonlight and World Tree.

Of course, these funds are worthy of the name of the institute.

The original intention of establishing this organization was to study extraordinary events and strange phenomena. However, during the research process, it continued to expand and became a comprehensive organization.

But even so, the institute still maintains some of the styles established in its early days, such as extensive investment research and pure high-level relationships.

Even in the field department, which is facing direct impact from the outside world and has the most serious interest entanglements and risks, several high-level ministers still maintain relatively simple social relations.

We are more friends than colleagues.

Of course, He Ao himself would rather be in such a relationship than those internal strife.

He casually clicked on the latest updated information.

Read it quickly.

Most of this information is a study of this ruins passage, from the opening area, to the opening time, to the opening process, and the coverage.

Well, most of it is useless information and has no practical conclusions. It is just an obvious hot topic, just looking for a hot topic to defraud funds.

However, He Ao saw something mentioned in many papers.

This time, the ruins passage opened much faster than before.

According to the institute's past experience, most of the time from the time signs appear in the ruins to the opening of the passage takes half a month, or at least thirteen days.

Even if there is a major change, it will only be a fluctuation of one or two days at most on the basis of fifteen days.

In this situation where the maximum level limit for entry is increased, the corresponding activation time is often extended. Currently, the several times recorded by the institute were activated about seventeen days after the signs appeared.

But this time, it started in less than ten days.

All the papers and materials have noticed the anomaly in this matter, but no one can draw an accurate conclusion.

He Ao turned to look out the window at the completely dark night.

This may already involve the core thing that affects the opening of the ruins passage.

There is something that affects the opening time of the ruins.

——

Deep inside Rodan National Park.

A figure shrouded in the night crossed the position where the gendarmerie was stationed, stepped on the blind spots of all the gendarmerie, and entered the center of the pit with a flickering figure.

He walked to the charred corpse and looked down at the handwriting written on the corpse.

At this moment, the unfinished handwriting has been circled and protected by the gendarmerie.

This is a word written in the local language of Ruodan, and its meaning is very simple, that is,

[Ruodan]

What's the meaning? Is this thing related to the local people in Ruodan?

Seeing this word, the figure was a little confused.

"Who is there?"

The light of a flashlight shone over.

It was a patrolling military policeman, and his eyes followed the light of the flashlight and swept over the place where the charred corpse was.

It was empty, nothing.

——

At 22:00 sharp in the evening.

The bright moon hangs over the ancient city.

He Ao himself stood on the tall building and looked at the city under the night.

The whistling wind brought by the propeller blew his face and hair.

A huge helicopter was slowly falling towards where He Ao was standing.

This building is one of the few tall buildings in Ellen City with a large parking area.

He Ao watched the helicopter parked in front of him.

As the dark transport helicopter came to a stop, a man wearing a gray shirt and overalls jumped out first. He immediately saw the motionless He Ao standing under the wings of the propeller that had not completely stopped.

"Are you He Ao?"

He walked over excitedly and stretched out his hand, "Ye Yun."

"Hello."

He Ao shook hands with him.

Ye Yun is similar in height to He Ao. He looks to be in his twenties, with broad cheeks and a slicked back hair. He looks somewhere between mature and youthful, with a vague sense of vigor.

Behind him, some extraordinary people who seemed to have obtained quotas got off the helicopter. Staff from several institutes were organizing them, while staff from several other institutes were carrying the cargo on the helicopter.

At this time, Ye Yun looked around carefully, and after making sure no one was looking here, he lowered his head, came over, and whispered to He Ao, "Can you sign your name for me?"

He Ao:?

"That's right, my sister is your fan."

Ye Yun looked around again and added, "She wants your signature."

He Ao:?

"Why do you want my autograph?"

He Ao pointed to himself in confusion.

"Don't you know?" Ye Yun's expression was even more confused than that of He Ao, "You are now famous in the institute. In our department, many girls use your photos as desktop wallpapers."

"What desktop wallpaper photo?"

He Ao was even more confused.

"This one."

Ye Yun took out a paper photo from his pocket and handed it to He Ao.

In the photo, there is a young man covered in blood. He stands under the clear sky, with mountains draped over his shoulders. Half of his cheeks are stained with blood. The howling wind blows his hair, outlining his perseverance. Outline.

He stood there, looking back and looking behind him. Behind him, there seemed to be thousands of troops, and the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, but he remained motionless, like a young general who fought bloody battles to the last moment, watching the final battlefield.

Strictly speaking, this photo does not outline He Ao's full face, but under this composition, coupled with the blood-stained cheeks, the person in the photo reveals a kind of heroic young man, who else can I do? And heroic, everyone who looks at the photos will be unnaturally impressed by this temperament.

He Ao:?

He Ao recognized this scene as the valley where he obtained the Velora. He looked back to see the effect of using landslide and tsunami for the first time.

But at that time, he still had Luo Luo in his hand, and Yang De was standing next to him, so he didn't take any pictures.

And if this lens is slightly lower, you can take a picture of his tattered clothes due to the battle.

······

Is this the art of photography?

"Look, this photo of you was published in the field department's promotional article."

Ye Yun opened the phone and handed it to He Ao, "It has been in the top ten of the hot list for two consecutive days."

He Ao looked at the post that Ye Yun opened. There was also a soft article introducing the Velora's achievements. The poster was Himu Chichi.

Higurashi Chichi is Lin Chichi's ID. This girl is good at writing promotional materials.

"Don't you usually visit forums?"

Ye Yun was a little confused.

He Ao shook his head.

In the past two days, he has been practicing when he has free time, either dealing with the follow-up matters of Mysterious Shadow, or downloading dungeons, and basically has no time to visit the forum.

He himself is not a person who likes to visit forums.

"Did Wu Lan take this photo?"

He Ao looked at Ye Yun.

She finally understood what Wu Lan meant by 'famous'.

"Uh-huh,"

Ye Yun nodded. He took out a pen from his pocket and smiled awkwardly, "He Ao, can you help me? My sister heard that I was coming over and squatted at my door for a day. I couldn't resist her. She I really like you, I just want an autograph, just sign it on this photo.”

It seemed that he was indeed embarrassed.

According to the information obtained by He Ao, Ye Yun is also a resolute person.

"OK."

He Ao took the pen, turned the photo over, quickly signed a name on the back of the photo, and then handed it to Ye Yun.

"Wow, it's so beautiful." Ye Yun looked at the signature on the photo, "Did you ask someone to design it?

"No, I designed it myself."

He Ao said slowly.

With Vian's artistic memory he inherited, designing a signature was easy.

"sharp."

Ye Yun gave He Ao a thumbs up.

"Minister He, Minister Yang asked us to bring this to you."

At this time, a cargo handling staff came over holding a suitcase.

Ye Yun quickly stuffed the photo and pen into his clothes.

"OK, thanks."

He Ao took the suitcase and slowly opened it, revealing the items inside.

It was an old one, with a pull-tab, and the lid was pulled open a little, and it looked like a food can.

He Ao reached out and took out the can. The packaging on the can seemed to have fallen off, revealing the silver body.

At this moment, He Ao was feeling the information conveyed into his brain by this can.

The name of this can is very simple, it's called 'Nutritional Can'.

Every twelve hours in the can, a nutritious piece of meat is produced.

In a can, there will be up to three nutritious meat chunks at the same time. Eating one nutritious meat chunk will restore at least half of the injuries. At the same time, you will feel very hungry and need to eat a lot. If you don't get food, a lot of food will be produced. The desire for flesh and blood, and the originally recovered injuries will gradually reappear.

Eating two pieces of nutritious meat at the same time can immediately restore at least 80% of the injury. This time, if the desire to eat is not satisfied within two hours, you will directly enter a state of near death.

The information didn't say what would happen if you ate three nutritious meat pieces. It might have no effect, or the effect might be more terrifying.

However, this can is only effective for C-level. When it reaches B-level, the effect will be greatly reduced.

"What is this can?"

Ye Yun looked over with some confusion.

"What Yang Bu brought me."

He Ao smiled and put the can into his bag.

Ye Yun didn't know, it should be that this can was kept highly confidential.

As He Ao said these words, Ye Yun also understood, and he did not continue to ask.

He Ao touched the can in his pocket. This was the first time he had seen an extraordinary medical item. This kind of item should be extremely rare. Yang Deyou was willing to go against all objections and give it to He Ao. , which He Ao did not expect.

After all, after entering the ruins, this thing may be lost.

——

Inside the Velora

He Ao leaned against the cubicle door and watched the text on the monitor gradually turn into

[Startup completed]

"8753, did you ever ask the human before me to seize the space-time beacon in the ruins?"

he asked softly.

When he first encountered the 'boss' men in the tower, the 'boss' was trying to take away the 'space-time beacon' inside the tower.

Later, this space-time beacon fell into the hands of He Ao, but it was damaged.

"...Checking information...Data error...Unable to answer," 8753's mechanical voice sounded in the narrow space, "Your Excellency, human being, 8753 can only give information, Can’t make suggestions.”

"good,"

He Ao stared at the monitor and thought for a moment, "I need the method of repairing the space-time beacon and how to use it."

"To repair space-time beacons, you need to use a basic equipment detector... a spatial positioning corrector..."

——

23:55

Lochlan Street

A huge old-fashioned train appeared from the void, and He Ao's clone jumped out of the car and landed on a balcony on the street not far away.

This is where the ruins passage descends.

Appearing here at this moment, He Ao could clearly feel that detailed information was flowing into his mind.

As he had expected before, the time and space anchor point of the ruins passage itself will not be brought into the ruins, even if the time and space anchor point is combined with a living person.

Now, as long as He Ao remains in this range, the ruins will open normally.

At this time, the selected explorers were standing on the street.

Most showed obvious nervousness, with only the three at the front remaining steady.

These are the three C-levels who have obtained the quota to enter the ruins.

He Ao's body, Ye Yun, and Yin Weir of World Tree.

Moonlight gave up its C-level quota to obtain more low-level quotas.

When He Ao's clone looked at these people, the people below were also looking up at him.

Obviously, most people are still very interested in the sudden appearance of 'Hao Yi'.

He Ao also made eye contact with his own body.

As time passes by.

The zero o'clock bell rang on time.

A huge and vast force descended on this street instantly.

——

squeak——

The sound of arc flowing reached He Ao's ears.

He Ao's body slowly opened his eyes and looked in front of him.

A broken, huge sign full of history appeared in his field of vision.

This sign was written in multiple languages. Although it was extremely damaged, He Ao still recognized the line in the middle, which belonged to the second federal district, which is the text of the current copy world.

[Welcome to the Navigator]

Behind this sign is the dark starry sky.

Beside He Ao, the confused people slowly opened their eyes.