This Game is Too Real

  Since she can remember, Yinyin has lived in her own garden. She still remembers that two years ago, when she was six years old, she sat on her father's shoulder and glanced at the world outside the farm. His father asked her how she felt. After thinking for a while, she shook her head and said that although the outside world is vast, It is still far behind the garden in the manor.

  She still remembers that her father seemed to laugh heartily, and then said something. She couldn't remember the specific words, but she only remembered that soon the forest outside, the mountains, and the plain would all become part of the farm, and they would have a bigger manor.

   And when the time comes, she will go from the farmer's daughter to the princess of the kingdom.

  At first she didn't understand her father's idea, until later she learned the word ambition from her governess.

   But it still baffles her that, when the idea doesn't sound bad, why is everyone trying to get away from here, so much so that her father has to take a child about her age as a hostage, who is still a friend of hers.

   Of course, this is just one of many confusions.

   What confuses her even more is that the idea doesn't sound bad

  But why since that day, the outside of the fence is still the barren wasteland, but the inside of the fence is getting more and more like the outside day by day.

  When she opened her eyes again, what she saw was a pure white space, and the soft light shone on the light eyelashes, but she didn't feel the slightest glare.

   She looked around blankly.

  I found myself in a pure white space.

  「Where am I?」

  The strange voice seemed to come from far away.

  「Welcome to the main **** space.」

  Yinyin was stunned for a moment, looking at the stranger who suddenly appeared in this space, she didn't come back to her senses for a while.

".what?"

   "I'm sorry," Chu Guang planned to make a harmless joke in order to keep the atmosphere from being so heavy, but just after he said the words, he remembered that people in this world could not understand what he knew, so he coughed lightly.

  Looking at those confused eyes, he adjusted the expression on his face and continued.

  「This is the sanctuary.」

  Yinyin looked at him blankly.

  「Sanctuary?」

  Chu Guang nodded slightly.

"Um."

  The confusion in her heart did not decrease at all, Yinyin looked at him nervously, and asked in a low voice cautiously.

  「Then who are you?」

  Chu Guang continued speaking in a gentle tone.

  「I am the manager of the alliance.」

   Manager?

  Yinyin's face was filled with bewilderment.

  She has heard of the alliance, and seems to have heard the word manager somewhere, but she doesn't know what he does. Speaking of

   Am I not dead?

  The memory covered with a layer of white mist gradually became clear in her mind, and she gradually recalled the last second before she closed her eyes.

  In order to save her best friend, she stood in front of the lamb, and the bullet hit her back and passed through her.

  The man walked in front of her and was about to make a move. It seemed that someone rushed over suddenly and wrestled with the man. The two of them fell out of the window together.

And then.

There's no after that. …

   "Little Sheep—"

   Knowing what she wanted to ask, Chu Guang looked at her and said.

  「Thanks to you, she is still alive and is now protected by us.」

   Yinyin breathed a sigh of relief.

  After a long silence, her lips trembled slightly, and she squeezed out a word from the slit in a small voice.

  「Am I already dead?」

  Chu Guang was silent for a while, thinking whether to tell her the truth, but after thinking about it, he finally nodded slightly.

"Um."

  Yinyin had such an expression on her face.

   But to his surprise, she was not sad, but relaxed her tense shoulders, and smiled softly.

  Although that smile is somewhat lonely and forced.

  「So this is what death feels like.」

  She looked at her hands, then raised her head to look at the pure white ceiling, and said with a smile as if talking to herself, "It doesn't seem to hurt as much as I imagined."

  Chu Guang didn't know how to answer this sentence.

  Regarding the memory of death, he mostly only sees it in dreams

   However, maybe his little players will have more say.

   Pausing for a while, he decided to answer her previous question first.

"Back to the previous question, although your body is dead, your consciousness is preserved in a bionic chip. Its name is Sanctuary, which is the space under your feet, and this is where we can communicate face to face. s reason."

  The memory in my mind is completely clear.

  Yinyin nodded with a vague understanding, then lowered her head and said after a while.

   "Sanctuary. Is it the place where the Holy Son lives?" Chu Guang nodded, then shook his head slightly.

   "The person who has been communicating with you all this time is actually named Luo Gan. He may have told you that he is the Son of God, but in fact the Son of God is someone else."

   She wasn't angry at being deceived, she seemed to have expected his words, she just glanced around and asked with a trace of curiosity in her voice.

  「Does he live in a place like this?」

   "And lived here for nearly twenty years," Chu Guang nodded slightly, then continued after a pause, "He gave this place to you in the end."

   "Then what about him? Where did he go?" Yinyin looked around the room, as if she wanted to find the person who had been communicating with her all this time.

   people.

   "I don't know, that guy may have been poked into a sore spot by me, and he has been ignoring me. After doing everything, he disappeared from this space."

  Chu Guang looked towards the center of the room. There was an ordinary chair there before, and the old man was sitting there.

   Paused, he continued.

   "There is no more data about him in this chip, including the apostle. His existence can no longer be sensed. I am more inclined to think that he may have given you this world."

  「Give it to me」

"Um."

  Yinyin looked at him in confusion and asked.

"Why did he do this."

   "No one knows. You may be the only person who communicated with him as a human being. I think you may know the answer."

  「That kind of thing. How could I know,」

Yinyin hugged her head with a painful expression, "I also have a lot of questions to ask him, I said I would believe him, but why did he make everyone like that, what kind of heaven needs it?" Do those things to achieve, can we not go there.”…

  When she was dying, she had figured everything out.

  Including why everyone became like that, including her father

  Why did my mother die, including why those people came to kill her friends again? But she was still not smart enough, and it was too late to figure it out.

  If she had realized all this earlier and realized who was the real culprit, she would have been able to tell the secrets about herself to those brothers and sisters who reached out to her in time.

  Maybe those tragic things don’t have to happen, and the big brother doesn’t have to die to save himself and the lamb.

  There is only one thing she is lucky about. She was standing next to the lamb.

  At least at the end of her life, she didn't make the mistake she regretted—killing her best friend because of her blind trust.

  「.Choice is more expensive than survival.

We have been fighting for this right all our lives," Chu Guang sighed softly and said in a moderate tone, still unable to bear the sad look, "We will try to let you walk in the original world, but it will take Take a moment, this time may require you to stay here for a while."

  「If you think of something, you can call my name.」

  He is planning to leave this space.

  At this time, Yin Yin, who was holding her head, suddenly raised her head and stopped him.

"Wait a moment."

  Chu Guang stopped in his tracks, and cast a questioning look at her.

"What's wrong?"

  「That fog」

   "Fog?" Chu Guang frowned slightly, "What did you think of?"

  Yinyin nodded lightly, her face pale.

  「I might have remembered what that fog was.」

   That person had spoken to her. And more than once --

   She recited that sentence softly in her mouth.

  「.The eternal kingdom of heaven will descend on the land of mortals when the gray mist rises, and the creatures shrouded by the kingdom of heaven will return to eternal peace and serenity.」

  Chu Guang's pupils shrank slightly. He seems to have guessed something in Jinhe City.

  Cold and dead city.

   Watching the gray-green smog that gradually spread over the abandoned buildings and the setting sun that was gradually blocked in the distance, the hunchbacked High Priest Gomo frowned slightly and muttered softly.

  「The time is coming sooner than expected.」

  Standing beside him, Chi Gan said with a blank expression.

  「Wouldn’t it be better to go earlier.」

   is different from Gomo.

  His eyes were fixed on the steel airship in the distance.

  Compared to the plan of the Church of the Torch, he wanted to know how to defeat that guy.

  Even if the kingdom of heaven comes to earth and the sheep in the sheepfold are made more docile, if they want to expand the size of the ethnic group, they still have to do it through external wars.

  The north is undoubtedly the most ideal target.

   I heard that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Boulder City, surrounded by towering walls, which can be used as a natural pasture.

   But the problem is, those guys wield such terrible weapons.

   Just a few hours ago, that towering steel behemoth projected terrifying firepower towards the west of Pine Cone Farm.

  Even if separated by more than ten kilometers, he could still feel the trembling of the earth and the air.

It is clear--…

  The ferocious firepower was aimed at Kuru, the commander-in-chief under his command.

   To be honest, Gann doesn't like those magic sticks. After all, even though those guys promised them many benefits, they are still old humans in the final analysis.

  However, he had to admit that his tribe really needed the power of those magic sticks.

  Compared to those old human civilizations that have accumulated thousands or even tens of thousands of years, the civilization of mutants is still too young.

  Only the wisdom of the old man can stand against that terrible power.

  Occasionally he needs to compromise with reality.

  Gomo knew what the leader was anxious about, and said with a light sigh.

   "I don't feel bad, the sooner the kingdom of heaven will come to earth, the stronger our dominion over this land. I just wonder if it's too hasty."

   Gann looked at him and asked.

   "Where's that Luo Gan? Just ask him."

  A look of embarrassment appeared on Gomo's old face.

".I can not reach him."

   Gann frowned.

"could not be reached?"

  The final "ritual" is about to begin, the thick gray

  The fog has already pervaded Jinhe City, and soon this area spanning dozens of kilometers will be swallowed up.

   Can't contact that guy at such a critical moment?

  Gomo hangs his head

   Not daring to look at the leader, he whispered.

   "Actually, it doesn't matter. The plan has already been made, as long as it is carried out step by step, it is the same for us to perform the final ceremony."

   Gann clicked his tongue and looked at the distant sky with hatred.

   "None of these two-legged beasts can be trusted"

   He swore.

  He's going to kill them all sooner or later!

  The area around Jinhe City is like boiling water, and so is the forum on the official website of "Wasteland 0l".

  When the brothers of the Jungle Corps brought back the achievements of Brother Chicken Killer to the forum, 666's reply immediately spread across the results reporting posts.

  Although there are many more frustrated and sad people in the casino, but more of them are the people who directly call the experts and the awesome people who eat melons.

  Outlaw lunatic: "Chicken is amazing!! (Broken sound Don't talk about it: "Twenty-one! It's too strong!"

  Makabazi: "It's not like a certain lizard, 嶸! (Funny

   Picking up trash level 99: "%￥#＠!"

  Tail: "Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo on envy!

  Sisi: "Touch Awei, don't cry, don't cry. ヾ(··.

  Roshan Damomo: "Hiss height of 2.5 meters, shoulder width of 1 meter tail? I can't imagine it at all!"

  Aoao Sesame Paste: "Ahaha, Rourou will be crushed to death. (*_~_x)

  Midnight Killing Chicken: "Transfer to NPC coordinates, Boulder military engineer Ibers! Don't brag or criticize, it's really easy to use! (Silly smile

   Picking up trash level 99: "Damn, you guys don't call me when you start a group!"

  Xiao Xiaoxiao bookworm: "You're not from our group, why call you?"

   Picking up trash level 99: "Gee! Are you so ruthless?"

  Hard to do: "Damn it, I forced this guy to act alone!"

   Voldemort: "Brother Mouse, where are your little brothers. (Funny

  Hard to be strong: "I picked it up a long time ago, and I will only have a CD for one day after resurrection. (Show teeth

  Model Voldemort: "6666!"...

   Speaking of this matter, there is an episode. After the strong man turned into a ray of light and disappeared on the battlefield, his younger brothers did not leave too far.

   It's not because of loyalty to the boss, it's mainly because rats are not taboo, and the leftovers left by mutants are enough to eat for a long time.

  So, after only a few minutes of grief, the little rats ate and started the party at the place where their bosses died.

   And on the second day when all the rats were eating happily, the big horned rat who had just been nibbled clean by them suddenly came back.

   This move of "resurrecting in situ" stunned all the mice, and they kowtowed and bowed.

  Although he couldn't understand what those rats were talking about, it was hard for a strong man to clearly feel that his image in the hearts of the rats was even more sacred and majestic.

  I wanted to be quiet: "But why is the fog still not clearing?"

  Ye Shi: "I always have a bad feeling."

  Smoking cessation: "What a hunch."

  Ye Shi: "According to the general rpg routine, shouldn't there be a boss fight or something after clearing the miscellaneous soldiers?"

  Quit smoking: "Fuck?! You're all down, don't be crowed!"

  Irena: "Yeshi's sensory system, I believe in Yeshi.

   (funny)”

  Fang Chang: "Well, this possibility is indeed not ruled out. The Torch Church seems to be very sensitive to our research on the antibody that inhibits Nago mycelium. It would be a bit too hasty if that mutant army is all their backs."

  The mole on the run in the canyon: "And it's strange. The only thing that needs to be eliminated is the antibody carrier, right? Is it really necessary to send an entire mutant army?"

   With such a big fanfare, even if they arrive at the Pine Cone Farm, the alliance will have enough time to send a plane to pick up the key personnel.

   It is better to send a few more assassins.

  Commander Spring: "Well, I always feel that the fog is not so much covering the march of the mutants, but more like the latter covering the former."

  Ye Shi: "What do you think it will be?"

  Commander Spring: "I don't know, anyway, brothers who are still alive, be careful."

  Facts have proved that although he died early, Ye Shi's crow's mouth seemed to be fulfilled again.

  According to the reports from the players stationed in the Pine Fruit Farm area, the local residents all entered the fugue state shortly after the fog started.

   And this is without the influence of the mind interference device!

  Fortunately, the players have covered the brainwashing of the 03 band through that device, otherwise the disaster that happened last night might have to repeat itself again.

  Because of the preparations made in advance, the survivors mostly stayed at home, even if they entered the fugue state, they just stood or sat motionless.

   But what is disturbing is that the fog with a radius of more than ten kilometers is slowly spreading to farther places, and by dusk, it has spread to the edge of Jinhe City.

  The fog is gradually thinning, and visibility is recovering, but the area covered by this thick fog is getting wider and wider.

   Not only that, the area where the spore cloud stays is no longer limited to the one on the surface, but spreads to the sky, and even begins to touch the edge of the cloud.

   This is what is happening in Jinhe City at the moment. …

  「.It feels like a stone has fallen into the lake. The height of the ripples is decreasing, but the circles of outlines spread from the center of the lake to the shore.」

  Enter the Heart of Iron.

  After listening to the captain's explanation of the current situation, Chief of Staff Vanus, who rushed to the front from the rear, pondered for a moment, and then expressed his opinion.

  The captain frowned slightly

  「What the **** are those magicians trying to do?」

   Chu Guang, who had been staring at the floor-to-ceiling window without speaking, said suddenly.

  「I actually care about another thing more.」

  Vanus looked at him and asked.

"What's up?"

   Chu Guang continued.

  「What is that eternal kingdom of heaven?」

  Vanus was lost in thought.

  At this time, the hatch of the bridge opened, and Frost walked towards everyone from the direction of the door.

  「...Our air force’s reconnaissance drone cruised to the south for a distance of about hundreds of kilometers, and then photographed these things.」

   As he spoke, he handed a tablet to Chu Guang's hand.

   Taking the tablet from Hanshuang's hand, Chu Guang looked at the screen with a hint of surprise on his brows.

   I saw patches of gray-green thick fog covering the ground, only occasionally a few mountains and forests slipped through and were not swallowed.

   In places further south, the thick gray fog is like an impenetrable wall, as if freezing the entire space.

   It is impossible to see the situation in the fog clearly from the outside.

  His brows were slightly frowned, and he looked at Frost and asked.

"This is where?"

"The southern part of Jinchuan Province is the Haiya Province located on the southern coast of the Central Continent. Our drone was attacked by signal interference and electronic warfare when it entered the sky above the Haiya Province, but our AI technology is better. It's back now."

  When she said this, Frost had a hint of pride on her expression.

  Manipulating drones is her forte, and electronic warfare is a unique skill of the solar eclipse. A group of laymen who want to rely on the technology of the three-legged cat to take down the aircraft it controls are still a little far away.

   But Chu Guang didn't care about these minutiae. He had already experienced the technology of the Torch Church.

  He cares more about another thing

   "Since when did it become like this?" Staring at the screen in surprise, the captain standing aside asked Chu Guang his doubts.

   of course

   And Frost obviously couldn't know that it was just a bionic person, and shook his head in embarrassment.

  Vanus, who stood aside, thought for a long time before speaking.

  「I guess it should be these few months, when we are fighting the legion, otherwise such a big thing, it is impossible to

   Not a single word of wind reached Dawn City. "

   Chu Guang nodded.

"I think so too."

   But this is only speculation based on limited information.

  In fact, even if the gang of magicians completed the plan they said a long time ago, they are fully capable of blocking the news on their own territory.

   Judging from their behavior in Jinhe City, they will promise some benefits to the local survivors in the early stage, and then gradually reveal their fangs when the local survivors can't do without them.

  In this process, the animals and plants corroded by Naguo have spread all over the land, and the pervasive mycelium has eroded almost every inch of soil. …

   Adding the influence of the mind interference device.

  When the realm called Heaven was fully unfolded on this land, the local survivors had long been captives of the church.

   It is reasonable that there is no news.

If it wasn't for the fact that there were a large number of merchants and mercenaries from Jinchuan Province in the alliance, and if it wasn't for some players who had already gone to the south, I'm afraid they would still be kept in the dark when Jinhe City completely became part of the "Heavenly Kingdom". Nothing is known about things here. Chu Guang looked at Frost.

   "What about the council's opinion?"

   "The council believes that this is undoubtedly an emergency, and" Frost swallowed the words in the middle of his mouth.

  Chu Guang knew what the second half of the sentence she didn't say was.

  All the suffering here is inextricably linked to the conflict a century and a half ago.

  Even if Ideal City was not the direct cause of this disaster, as descendants of the production department, they still bear the inescapable responsibility for what is happening here.

   But now is not the time to hold anyone accountable. Chu Guang skipped over this heavy topic and continued.

   "Our researchers believe that the release of spores is the third stage of the biological evolution of the nago flora. According to the existing experimental results, the infected people shrouded in gray fog will gradually enter the fugue state within 12 to 72 hours."

  「People who have not eaten Naguo will also be slowly poisoned in this field until the immune system is broken down, and eventually become part of this field.」

   "And this is the essence of 'Kingdom of Heaven'."

  If it is said that whether to swallow Naguo at the beginning is the voluntary choice of the survivors, then the third stage of "Heaven Comes" has nothing to do with the word voluntary.

  The originally mild flora will force the spores secreted all the time into the respiratory tract and mouth of every organism.

  Whether local survivors accept or not—

  The eternal kingdom of heaven in the mouth of the Torch Church will come. The organisms shrouded in heaven will lose all suffering forever, and the price is to lose themselves, live as a seedbed for the growth of nago fungus, and be manipulated by the mind interference device to do some simple work.

   Except for the more powerful mutants, the chosen apostles, and the Gestalt life form they are designing, no creature can live in this area for a long time.

   Before the technology of the Gestalt life body is finally completed, there is no doubt that this place is hell.

  Looking at Frost with slightly dilated electronic pupils, Chu Guang continued.

"According to the conclusion of Heya's research, this gene is after all a fragment cut from the dna of the slime mold, and referring to the mother nest in Qingquan City, the essence of the spore is a medium for transmitting information, so it can be inferred There must be something like a brood in this area.”

  The sanctuary is a decentralized network without a core, but the heaven that descends on the earth is different. It is purely a pseudo-utopia built by biotechnology.

   The sanctuary that does not exist on the ground is its essence

  The spiritual core, and its physiological core must be somewhere in this land. It's at the heart of everything—

  It gives orders to all mycelium, let this piece of heaven be

   to sustain it.

   Frost looked at him seriously and asked.

   "Where do you think it is?" Chu Guang looked at it and said.

   "The most likely thing is what are you going to do with the Biological Research Institute of the Champion Group in Jinhe City?"

   Frost said seriously.

   "I would recommend that the council use strategic weapons to destroy it. The harm caused by this research project has gone far beyond the scope of regional harm."

  Chu Guang seemed to have guessed what it would say, and sighed lightly.

   "The underground experimental facility there is at the level of a nuclear bunker, like an unnumbered shelter. What weapons are you going to use to deal with it?"

   This is what he saw in the memory of the apostle named Yule. The elevator is not so deep, and it takes a long time to stand on it to reach the surface.

   Frost froze for a moment.

"what"

   Before it could analyze the alternatives, Chu Guang went on first.

  「We need that artificial brood, only by understanding it can we

   can fix it. Our men will try to grab it, but the mutants there won't let us get it easily, and I need your support. "

   Appears to have taken permission from somewhere.

  Hearing these words, Frost nodded and agreed without any hesitation.

   "No problem, we will provide all necessary support."

  「This is no longer just a threat from you.」

   "It's ours too."

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