Point of difference doom

Zhou Baiyu slumped on the chair, as if he had lost his soul.

The information he collected showed that everyone was challenging survival missions of no more than 8 hours in versions between 1.01 and 1.04, with corruption levels ranging from E to C.

So in theory, the most difficult task is to go to the C-level corruption area in version 1.04 and survive for eight hours.

He originally thought that his task would most likely not be more difficult than this.

But the actual situation seems... slightly different from what he thought:

[Version 2.21 Update Announcement: With the overall increase in global corruption levels, we have decided to add some IQ to monsters to make monsters think more comprehensively about problems closer to humans. This will further reduce the possibility of human survival.

And due to the overall improvement in the level of corruption, we decided to increase the probability of humans being affected by "plagues", "natural disasters", and "corruption" to further reduce the population.

At the same time, considering that the human race may completely withdraw from the stage of history, we let the succubi, who are already very close to humans, have more advanced pursuits and desires and become more like humans in order to replace humans.】

Zhou Baiyu didn't know what the status of humans was in versions 1.01 to 1.04.

But in the world after version 2.0, humans are obviously in a miserable state.

"This update does not seem to give humans any chance of survival, and they look like they are going to kill them all..."

Below this line of fine print, there is also a task prompt:

[Preliminary trial, difficulty: S level.

Trial requirements: Survive successfully for seven days in the Fifth People's Hospital of Linxiang City, which has been occupied by succubi. The hospital's corruption level is Level A.

As a punishment for failing the challenge, the pioneers will commit suicide in a random manner in the world of version 1.0.

Challenge success reward: "We" will be joined, as well as unknown rewards related to difficulty.】

After reading these messages, Zhou Baiyu had only one thought:

"The good news is that I'm going to punish the succubus. The bad news is that with this difficulty, it's better to just let me commit suicide."

Complain is all about complaining, but you must never give up on life. After being depressed for dozens of seconds, he began to slowly analyze the current situation:

"My update announcement, at least compared to others, is more detailed... no, it is much more detailed."

"Maybe this has something to do with the difficulty?"

"Forerunners? That's quite appropriate. After all, they are the ones heading to the future version."

"It seems that in the world of version 2.21...monsters have occupied the core buildings of mankind. What kind of world is that?"

"etc!"

Zhou Baiyu suddenly realized something very important.

"The essence of version update is actually the advancement of history. I am about to enter the future! Although I don’t know how long it will be between 1.01 and 1.0, it is definitely a time period in the future!"

"So assuming I can survive and go to version 2.21, doesn't that mean..."

"In that timeline, can I learn about many important things between 1.01 and 2.20?"

If you can collect information about the world of version 2.21, and then return to the world of version 1.0 alive...

"Then don't I become a prophet? With the information obtained in version 2.21, through the butterfly effect, can mankind... be less miserable in the future?"

Go to the new version to get information, then go back to version 1.0, and then create a new version of the future where humanity is less miserable...

There was light in Zhou Baiyu's eyes, and he suddenly became excited.

But soon, his eyes returned to darkness.

He realized that it was no different from thinking of a child's name after seeing a beautiful woman smile at you.

"I think too much. The possibility of me returning alive is basically zero, let alone gathering intelligence and saving the world."

Shaking his head, Zhou Baiyu changed his attention:

"If you succeed in the challenge, you will join 'us'. Is this 'us' the same as the 'us' that adjusts various matters in the update announcement?"

"To understand the premise of all this... I still have to come back alive."

He suddenly wanted to take a screenshot, but when he thought about it carefully, it was meaningless.

Those who have not seen the countdown will not believe in the so-called end of the world in this age where everything can be faked and entertained until death.

After all, for the contemporary people who have long been unable to roll up, if you tell them that the next version is the end of the world, they will only say: Is there such a good thing? Then hurry up and destroy it.

As for the soaring suicide rate... Blue Star kills about 150,000 people every day. Except for those who really pay attention to the data, most people will not notice it.

Therefore, in the eyes of people other than Zhou Baiyu, the world was still the same world, and he even had no way to ask for help.

Zhou Baiyu wrote everything down and then restarted the computer.

He looked up at the ceiling.

After finishing the second will, he only had the last four hours left.

If there are only the last four hours left in life...

"Then I should really pick up the knife and go to urge the Secret 2 to benefit the common people."

From the moment he returned to this room, Zhou Baiyu seemed to be no longer the gentle and clear person he used to be.

He closed his eyes and a smile appeared on his face.

This smile seems to be the same as before, but for some reason, it looks a little... dangerous.

His whole temperament has changed tremendously.

"There is no point in being gentle in a dangerous world."

Zhou Baiyu closed his eyes and let time pass by. It was as if he was completing some kind of "account switching" operation.

But he does not have multiple personalities, nor is he schizophrenic or mentally ill.

A few years ago, Zhou Baiyu became a lecturer for a health care product company in Linxiang City because of his talent in arousing emotions.

The kind of success lecturer who gives people a boost.

Tell people about wolf culture, tell people that our talents will be useful, and tell people that opportunities wait for no one.

Then - buy the company's health products and become the company's leek.

Many of those who were excited and bought the product temporarily ended up losing their wives and everything.

At that time, Zhou Baiyu didn't realize how terrifying his talent was.

Until one day, when he passed by the entrance of the company--

With a bang, a corpse fell to pieces in front of him.

He was an honest man who was deceived by other lecturers and spent all his wealth to buy the company's products.

Later, the honest man's house was foreclosed on, and his wife ran away with Huang Mao. In the end, he couldn't bear the pressure of life...

Commit suicide by jumping off a building.

This man's death actually had nothing to do with Zhou Baiyu. It was another lecturer who brainwashed him.

But this corpse happened to fall in front of Zhou Baiyu.

The splattered blood stained his fine suit and stained his clean face, and the flesh and blood of Mohu shocked him greatly.

After that day, Zhou Baiyu left the company.

He chose the wrong career to make money and gave some people false hope.

After witnessing the death of life with his own eyes, he began to atone for his sins and bring real hope to those who wanted to commit suicide.

But that requires him to become gentle and clear, so Zhou Baiyu has been pretending.

After pretending for a long time, he seemed to have two completely different personalities.

There is a gentle male protagonist who is as gentle as jade, like a female-oriented game, and there is a coquettish and bold protagonist who is hard to guess what he will do in the next second.

Now, a life-and-death game and challenge is before him, and he needs to make himself... more "self".

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In the last few hours, Zhou Baiyu replenished food, water, took a short rest, and even watched an adult movie.

He puts himself in the best shape possible.

When there were only ten seconds left in the countdown, he lay quietly on the bed and touched the big banana in his pocket.

His squinting eyes showed that he had been staring at the countdown.

Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four...

three……

two……

one……

The lights in the room were still on, but Zhou Baiyu disappeared.