Shuraba Player

"Why did you come here?"

"This kind of thing has nothing to do with you? By the way, what day did you come here?"

Looking at the man in front of him, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Those people outside are all under your control?"

——Outside the reception room, it was eerily quiet.

"Let's have a chat."

A very stiff smile was forced on his face, and he didn't mean to answer Bai Zhi's question. The man in the black suit sat down in front of him.

"In my place, there is a lot of information you need... It is not certain that we may be able to reach a corresponding cooperation."

Chapter 183: Second Week Players

Countdown to World Destruction, Day 24.

"...Second week?"

After staring at the man in front of him for a while, Bai Zhi suddenly asked.

Under the premise that there is no information source at the moment, someone suddenly jumped out and said that he had a lot of information he wanted, and all Bai Zhi could think of was only the players who reopened in the second week.

"That's right. How is it, cooperation?"

As if it was no surprise that he would guess this, the man pulled a stiff smile on his face.

"I already have some clues about the reason for the death of this world, but there are still a few helpers left. Are you interested?"

"We'll talk about this kind of thing later. It's convenient to ask, how did you fail in the past?"

Looking at the man in front of him, Bai Zhi raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The premise of cooperation is to be open and honest. You shouldn't keep this kind of information secret, right?"

"……Of course."

After staring at him for a while, the man spoke up.

"The arrival of the disaster originates from the fact that there are 21 days before the destruction of the world. On the 21st day, existences similar to players will begin to appear in the world. This is the initial collapse. And unfortunately, Yes, most of these players who initially obtained extraordinary powers were children."

"child?"

Bai Zhi frowned slightly.

"That's right, the average age is under five, including newborn babies. The younger you are, the more immature your mind is, and the more powerful you are, especially those who are just born, with even the power of idealism. Degree."

The man's tone was flat.

"The disaster at the beginning was caused by these children. They basically couldn't control their power, and they could tear off an adult's arm with a single wave of their arm, and countless **** cases were born from this. Those five or six-year-olds are fine, but the most terrifying are the babies. The catastrophes caused by the unconscious thoughts of babies are even more widespread. There has even been a case of turning an entire city into a big lump of marshmallows. "

"Marshmallow... sounds like it's not bad?"

"Really? But when you're a marshmallow, you don't think so."

The man's face was expressionless.

"At the time, one of my teammates wanted to find the source of the disaster in these babies, but when he came to the baby, he was turned into a humanoid under the eyes of all of us. Marshmallows, which the baby happily ate bit by bit."

"Uh...how is your teammate after that?"

"I was lucky enough to get a life back, and the upper limit of sanity was reduced by half, plus those superimposed punishments, the whole person is basically a waste."

The man sneered.

"It was just the effect of one of the babies, just imagine the situation for yourself."

"and then?"

After thinking for a while, Bai Zhi continued to ask.

"And then? Everyone went crazy."

The man glanced at him.

"More and more people have acquired unimaginable abilities. Scenes of gods fighting have become common, rituals are broken and music is broken, and the world is in chaos. You lift an entire building with one hand, and I will transform into a man with a height of several hundred meters. Giant, you turned into a giant with a height of several hundred meters. I raised my hand and pulled out a large knife several thousand meters long. With the passage of time, those abilities began to become more and more outrageous. At the beginning, it was still flying, what is Juli? Yes, in the final stage, moving mountains and reclaiming seas, changing days, time stagnation, immortality... all these things came out."

"...Is it so outrageous?"

After listening to the other party's words, Bai Zhi's expression couldn't help but look very subtle.

"You can choose not to believe it, anyway, I have already said everything I can say."

The corner of the man's mouth twitched slightly.

"Under that kind of environment, it's hard to protect yourself, let alone find out the origin and truth of everything... That's the main reason why I failed. Well, I've said so much, cooperate? "

"...A question for you."

After a long silence, Bai Zhi reached out and pressed his forehead with a slight headache.

"So far, how many steps have you taken in your plan?"

"..."

The man looked at him and said nothing.

"Don't think about denying it, you've started your own plan from day one, right? No, or since the last time you failed, you've already started your own plan."

Bai Zhi sighed helplessly in his mouth.

"That free message was left by you, right? Although I didn't believe much in that message, it was still affected a little... It's a pity."

"The contents of that message are all true."

Just staring at him so tightly, the man finally spoke at this time.

"How did you see through my plan? We've only just met for a few minutes. Also, are you so sure that the message was left by me?"

"I like to collect some details on weekdays, and then when I encounter a suitable line, I can connect those details to all of them, and you are that line."

Leaning back on the back of the chair, Bai Zhi stretched out a finger and tapped his head.

"Indeed, the content of the free message you left is true, but it can only prevent the death of the player, and will not do anything to solve the puzzles of this world. As for what is really uncertain..."

Bai Zhi shrugged slightly.

"It was really unsure just now, but it's certain now. After all, I didn't even say what the content was."

"...Speaking skills?"

The corners of the man's mouth twitched upwards slightly.

"I don't think there was anything wrong with my message."

"There is no problem, but you have successfully used this message to buy enough time for yourself. The accumulated information difference and time difference are enough for you to occupy a great advantage in this."

Bai Zhi pouted.

"The players in the second week, as expected, still took a big advantage."

"What about my plan? You said that you already knew about my plan. Could it be that you also deliberately deceived me?"

The man pulled a stiff smile on his face.

"That said, I don't think you can gain insight into my plan in just a few minutes."

"Why, isn't it difficult to do something like this?"

Bai Zhi rolled his eyes a little speechlessly.

"If I were in your position, I might have made this plan too, plus the fact that you will be here at this point in time, is it obvious enough?"

"So, what's my plan?"

The man was rather reluctant.

"What else could it be? Use the information difference and time difference obtained from the early layout to control those countries in this world, and then rush to destroy the world with large-scale nuclear weapons before the disaster comes, reduce the number of people to the greatest extent and avoid the chaos in the later stage... ...Do I need to go on? How many countries have your team controlled? Six days should be enough for you?"

Looking at the man in front of him, Bai Zhi was noncommittal.

"Although you must have hidden something, the general plan should be like this. As long as no other players make trouble in the middle, then you will definitely be able to win the final prize, am I right?"

Chapter 184 Viruses and Antivirus Software

Bai Zhi's reasoning method is actually quite simple.

Think of the whole picture of the event as a jigsaw puzzle, and those scattered clues and details are pieces of the puzzle.

Jigsaw puzzles, everyone who has done it understands.

As long as more than half of the puzzle pieces are completed, the remaining pieces are well stitched together, and the overall difficulty trend is from difficult to easy.

Therefore, it is precisely because of this that Bai Zhi pays great attention to the collection of details.

It's just that although this way of reasoning looks simple, it is actually the same as putting together a puzzle without knowing the bottom plate. The most difficult part is often the first step.

"...So, do you choose to cooperate or not?"

After a moment of silence, the man spoke up.

"From what you just said, you shouldn't be that Madonna type character."

"Hey, hey, I've said so much, do you still think I'm the kind of person who's been sold and counts the money for others?"

Reaching out and pressing his temple, Bai Zhi rolled his eyes.

"You said it yourself just now that the mutation appeared on the 21st day, but yesterday, two players were eliminated for unknown reasons. Is this kind of thing related to you? Everyone is hiding it. Under the good premise, I have reason to suspect that the two players who were eliminated early are likely to be your teammates."

"If you're worried, we can make a contract."

Seemingly not wanting to continue this topic, the man took out a parchment scroll from somewhere and placed it on the table.

"Notarized by the system, those who violate the contract will be punished. Also, are you sure you don't want to listen to the content of the contract first?"

"What is the content of the cooperation?"

Glancing at the sheepskin scroll on the table, and after thinking for a while, Bai Zhi asked.

"The destruction of this world stems from the outbreak of uncontrollable forces. Although the methods of destruction are different, the reasons are the same."

While drawing a faint phantom in the air with his fingers, the man said.

"The first time, this world was destroyed by the tearing of the sky. The second time, this world was destroyed by the disintegration of the earth. The third time, this world was destroyed by disorderly cannibalism."

Following the man's movements, he outlined those lines in the air to form three gif animations, vividly showing the scene of the destruction of the world in front of Bai Zhi.

"Even the world itself does not know where those large-scale forces beyond the normal world come from, and what we have to do is to explore the source of this power."

"so what?"

Looking at the shattering scene in the three moving pictures in front of him, Bai Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly.

"From the perspective of the world itself, on the 21st day, he noticed that the strange talk had quietly invaded the world, so from that day onwards, players appeared in the world synchronously."

When he said this, the man glanced at Bai Zhi.

"Player, the system, and the connection between the world, you should have a general understanding, right? Generally speaking, the world itself has its own protection mechanism, which I call the world's own protection mechanism. Firewalls, those hacking rumors are equivalent to viruses, and players are antivirus software.”

As he spoke, the man continued to draw graphics in the air with his fingers.

"In most cases, because of the existence of the firewall, the intrusion of this kind of virus is about a step-by-step process, and whether the system will eventually collapse or not depends on how far the anti-virus software of the player can develop... In this way, you can Do you understand?"

"According to your statement, being targeted by the Heretic God and Doomsday is equivalent to directly physically destroying the host?"

It was the first time I heard this kind of metaphor, and Bai Zhi started to discuss it with great interest.

"And what about memes? What's a meme equivalent to?"

"...Existence outside the specification will not be discussed for the time being. I know too little about those things to give an accurate definition."

The extra one glanced at him, and the man paused slightly in his mouth.

"All in all, the situation in this world is equivalent to a very strong virus bypassing the world's own protection mechanism. The world itself can't even react in time, and it quickly fell in just over 20 days."

The man's face was expressionless.

"And if this kind of situation can happen once, it can happen countless times in the future. If we can't seize the time to find the body of the virus and the way to bypass the firewall, countless worlds will be destroyed because of this kind of weird talk."

"So the meaning of a mission like this is that we have to find that bug and fix this terrible loophole?"

After hearing the other party's words, Bai Zhi frowned slightly.