The Truth of Magic

Chapter 320 Number of people online: 1

Zhao Xu's eyes fell directly on the countdown that had already returned to zero, and several guesses flashed through his mind, and he was a little uncertain for a while.

Playing the game "Arthur", Zhao Xu did enjoy some extraordinary treatment, but these were basically the results of the interaction between the characters in Arthur and him.

The only thing that surpassed the game mechanism was that he bought a double elite account with potential points on the first day, and then used the characteristics of double elites to continue snowballing.

In fact, the double elite is also a burden for players in the early stage.

Because professional training itself took a lot of time, if a player like Zhao Xu chose the mage and priest for the dual elite route, it would probably take two months to get out of the mountain.

In fact, two months later, there are basically very few test accounts left in the game.

Only a small number of successful snowballs are still alive and nourished.

To log in or not to log in?

At this moment in the whole world, only Zhao Xu, who knew Arthur's inside story, was so entangled.

Because he was connected to a real world, he used the legendary energy transmission channel.

After two days of careful consideration of the magic circle on the mithril panel, even without any first-hand information, Zhao Xu guessed the truth that best fit the facts.

In that mysterious research institute, when the senior researchers of the Mage Association activated the material transmission channel, they also affected the energy channel, which directly interrupted the energy channel of all players projecting past on the earth.

And I'm afraid that 80% of the factors are because Zhao Xu stood too close, and he had enough spell slots and magic equipment, so the strength of the aura exceeded the limit.

Even Zhao Xu suspected that it was caused by Lux possessed by him, and even the fragment of the godhead.

Because of these two, it was beyond the expectations of the Mage Association.

In just a few seconds, Zhao Xu resolutely clicked on login after deliberating about seven or eight situations he would encounter.

As the confirmation button was pressed, Zhao Xu suddenly felt a strong wave coming from the brain imaging helmet.

Colorful lights kept flashing in his pupils, as if he had fallen into a pool filled with rainbow starlight, and the strong visual impact of colors continued to cover his field of vision.

This strong stimulus immediately swept through his entire consciousness, causing him to fall asleep instantly.

At this time, Zhao Xu didn't notice that there was a row of the current number of players online on the upper level of the identity information input interface.

The moment Zhao Xu logged in, the bright red and dazzling "0" turned into a "1" with a slight jump.

At this time, many players who also went to bed, some directly entered the movie immersion mode, watching movies.

There are still a few who don't give up, just click all the way to enter the game interface, and they suddenly see that the number of online players in the game is not zero, and they are immediately happy.

I haven't felt it yet after playing every day, and suddenly I haven't entered Arthur for a whole day, which has made many players a little uncomfortable.

A bunch of fighters on the forum complained that their combat skills were almost unfamiliar.

It's just that when these crab-eating players entered the official login interface, what they saw was the cooldown countdown at 09:51:23.

Players who discovered this basically thought it was just their computer stuck, and those who reacted quickly went directly to find their game friends to try to log in.

Some even posted on the forum to notify other players to verify.

Many players on the forum thought it was a boring prank at first glance. This scene of wolf coming has teased many people as early as these two days, and also made the moderator seal a batch of accounts with rhythm.

Just seeing the screenshot of the post, when the login interface reads "Current number of people online in the game: 1", some people still feel itchy, so they pick up the helmet to load the interface.

Then had the same encounter.

The screenshot of the "number of people online: 1" on the forum instantly confirmed its authenticity, and the focus changed from suspicion of PS to server display failure. Of course, some privileged conspiracy stories were indispensable.

Since the first ten hours before the official landing, there have been quite a few fluctuations.

Many good players are guessing who is the real "1".

After Zhao Xu regained his consciousness for a while, he found that in front of him was still the mysterious research site where he last disappeared.

The researchers and those instruments in the field still exist, except that there are fewer observers in the corridor on the second floor.

Comparing Zhao Xu with his memory two days ago, there are still 70 to 80% of the people there.

However, the style and color of everyone's robes are slightly different, otherwise Zhao Xu would have thought that he was only offline for a while, not for more than a day and a half.

That way, he would guess a terrible result - the time of the two worlds is out of sync.

At this moment, Zhao Xu realized that Antinoya was still standing in a similar position as before, and the other party also noticed his presence.

In other words, all the researchers present, including all the sorcerers in the corridor on the second floor, all focused their attention on Zhao Xu, who had disappeared and then suddenly appeared.

It's just that I don't know why, and no one came forward to ask.

At this time, Zhao Xu was probably the most critical candidate for the accident in the experiment.

After paying attention for a few seconds, the researchers below resumed their busy work on the channel device below.

"Back again?" At this moment, Antinoya's soul-linked voice came into Zhao Xu's mind.

"You guessed that I would be back?" Zhao Xu asked immediately.

Naturally, it is impossible for these people to stay in this research site by such a coincidence for two consecutive days.

Zhao Xu guessed that there was some kind of change that re-gathered 70% to 80% of the observers.

Especially at this time, it was also Arthur's late night, and everyone should have fallen asleep.

For mages who need to rest to recover the consumed spell slots, they will implement the simple principle of going to bed early and getting up early

After hearing Zhao Xu's rhetorical question, Antinoya replied with a smile, "Just over two hours ago, they informed that a small part of the energy channel had temporarily recovered. So we rushed over to check the situation."

Immediately afterwards, Antinoya also began to explain to Zhao Xu why he suddenly stopped disappearing two days ago.

Basically, it was roughly the same as what Zhao Xu had guessed.

The only difference was that Antinoya explained to him more about the principle of the spell, and made Zhao Xu understand that the sudden disconnection was due to the "time retrospective amulet" on his body.

The "Time Regression Talisman" itself does not point to Arthur's spell, but a "psychic power" with nine rings.

However, "psychic powers" did not exist in Arthur's world. All psychic power items, including the "suppression skin" on the back of Zhao Xu's hand, were products of other universes with psychic power inheritance.

Naturally, Zhao Xu, who was wearing these two psychic items, invisibly contaminated the energy channel with the power of other universes, causing its stability to collapse.

"Originally, this matter-energy transmission channel has taken measures to prevent psychic powers, but I didn't expect that you were wearing two psychic power items, and one of them was particularly powerful, so there was such an omission. But This loophole has been filled, even if you are a psion now, you can still hold on." Antinoya explained.

"The fact that you were able to enter Arthur's world ahead of time is naturally because of special optimizations to fix this loophole. The current channel is actually in a semi-incomplete state, and the official opening still needs to be restarted at ten o'clock tomorrow. And you Because of the optimization, it came in ahead of schedule."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu couldn't help squinting at the eight mithril panels, and even made special optimizations for him?

Generally, this kind of transmission channel has its own self-protection mechanism. For example, if the player's emotions fluctuate too much, or some special means are used, the channel will automatically cut off the player's connection.

And Zhao Xu now, on the basis of the original, has gained greater authority, that is, he can be more "willful."

This kind of willfulness is also equivalent to leaving a back door for Zhao Xuri to use this channel in advance.

"If you want to mess around, you have to tell me first." Antinoya looked at Zhao Xu's gaze staring at the Mithril panel, and immediately knew what the other person was thinking.

"Because you act rashly, you may never come back." Antinoya said with a pun.

And Zhao Xu immediately understood what the other party meant.

That is to say, in the game, it is possible for him to rely on this passage, bring this power back, and appear on the earth as a three-ring mage.

At that time, relying on those three-ring spells, especially those spells such as suggestion, charm human, transformation, and detect thoughts, he will undoubtedly be able to do whatever he wants on the earth.

But because of this, he will not be able to return to Arthur by the normal way of landing.

Because at that time, the original him on earth was still sleeping on the bed in the dormitory. And his soul is manifested as a projection of a three-ring mage, appearing on the earth.

It is similar to the legendary nine-ring spell "Astral Projection" that can possess a soul in a clone to go out for adventure.

It's just that the sorcerer who casts the "astral projection" can undo it by himself, but Zhao Xu, who smuggled himself through the tunnel, has to let the projection smuggle back. Otherwise, the suicide souls cannot return to the temple of creation.

"Then tutor, what are they still studying down there?" Zhao Xu continued to ask.

"Investigate why the channel automatically restarted and connected two hours ago." Antinoya said casually, "Suddenly there was a mysterious energy resonating between the two worlds, which directly made the channel a semi-connected state. The original channel was already in the formal process Restart, and wait for ten o'clock tomorrow morning."

"So let's come over and study what kind of power is affecting it."

two hours.

It was also two hours ago that this situation occurred in the passageway, which made Antinoya and the others come back again.

Unfortunately, Zhao Xu had an impression of this time.

It was the moment when Zheng Xinyun recited the prayer mantra, which caused the divine power in his body to vibrate.