War Paradise

Three steps in two steps rushed to the ninth floor. Lin Chi stood at the top of the stairs and listened. He confirmed that the footsteps in the corridor had disappeared, and finally heaved a sigh of relief.

Having already fought the guard once, he knew very well that the guard's IQ was not very high. Presumably now, these stupid people in black should still look at each other at the murderous "scene" on the fifth floor.

However, after experiencing brutal close combat, new problems emerged:

You must find a way to change your clothes, otherwise the guard will still look at yourself.

——Wearing a shirt dyed dark red to the street, fools can see that there is a problem. Even if the guard doesn't want him, other players will definitely see through the own player's identity at a glance. It is equivalent to the "full-band scanning" effect that comes with it.

Maybe in the office, there will be suits left by office workers or something?

Mindful of this, Lin Chi first observed the map and confirmed that there were no other players nearby. Then he opened the wooden door closest to him and walked into an office.

Since he was not sure whether the sniper was still aiming at this building, he was also more alert this time, avoiding the position of the window, bending over and turning around in the office. No clothes were found.

Leaving this office and opening the door next door, I saw that the shutters in the room were closed, making the light in the room a bit dim, but at the same time blocking the sniper's view.

Lin Chi narrowed his eyes and stared at the neat desk in front of him.

"Is anyone there?" he said.

The coffee cup on the table wafted out of white air, and the computer chair on the opposite side was still trembling slightly. Obviously, someone is hiding in this office, and-it can't be a player.

Recalling what the chef in the small restaurant downstairs said to him, "NPC seems to have feelings", Lin Chi didn't say much, just pulled out the carbon steel saber and held it in his hand, and walked into the house lightly.

——"Whether AI can develop self-awareness" is a common topic, but it is one of the few topics that interest Lin Chi.

As for why he cares so much about AI, it is also due to an experience five years ago.

The faint sound of breathing from behind the desk interrupted Lin Chi’s "Memories Kill". He walked over slowly, before he could see what was behind, the first thing that caught his eye was a sharp cold light——

The moment the knife stabbed, Lin Chi had already stepped forward, staggered the tip of own's knife, and then grabbed the opponent's thin wrist and twisted it slightly. The knife in her hand immediately fell to the ground.

"I'm going to call the police!" A painful female voice shook Lin Chi's eardrums.

"Shhh... don't call." Lin Chi put down the saber in his hand, put her index finger on her lips to signal her not to make a sound, and at the same time, he didn't forget to kick the fruit knife that fell on the ground aside.

He squinted his eyes and looked at the long-haired spectacles who was holding her wrist: This woman was wearing a dark professional outfit with a very frightened facial expression, and his visual age should be around twenty-five years old.

Lin Chi stared at the woman for a few seconds, and no name or symbol popped up on her head.

In this way, she should be an ordinary NPC like those passers-by on the street.

"I won't harm you." Lin Chi whispered.

Although his voice sounded very sincere, it was a pity that the blood-stained clothes on his body and the scarlet spots that were not cleaned on his face suddenly reduced the persuasiveness of this sentence to a negative number.

"Don't kill me...Don't kill me..." The woman's slender body kept trembling, obviously frightened.

"I won't kill you." Lin Chi took the woman's wrist and retreated two steps, pulled a computer chair next to her, and motioned her to sit down: "I just want to ask you a few questions."

"..."

Although the woman wearing glasses was still shaking, she sat down obediently. She clearly knew that even if she resisted, she was not the man's opponent.

Seeing that the other party finally calmed down, Lin Chi did not immediately ask questions, but stared at the other party's face with interest and the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose.

——Is this woman really just an ordinary NPC?

Even after only a brief exchange, Lin Chi could still see that this woman's IQ level was nowhere higher than those of passersby and city guards outside.

She did not scream, run away, and call the police like other NPCs that were set up. Instead, he hid in this room and took a fruit knife to defend himself. Although this response may be designed, but...

"What are you asking?" The woman rubbed her right wrist with her left hand. Looking at her with her eyes closed, she seemed to have resigned herself to her fate.

"Are you an aboriginal here?" Lin Chi asked the first question.

"No, I just came here to work, and I don't know any secrets." The woman spoke quickly, and added: "Don't kill me..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Chi asked again: "How long have you been here?"

"It's been about three months." The woman cowered.

"Oh."

Lin Chi glanced at the blinds thoughtfully.

——The three months in the game, if calculated on the basis of ninety days and converted according to the time ratio between the real world and the brain imaging game, only Nine Heavens has passed in the real world.

If he remembers correctly, the game "War of Heaven" happened to be officially opened for testing before Nine Heavens.

Is this a coincidence?

Realizing that the situation is not quite right, Lin Chi continued to ask, "In your opinion, is there anything weird about this city?"

The woman did not speak, but just glanced at him tremblingly.

"I mean except me." Lin Chi added.

"Ah..." The woman came back to her senses and said: "It's actually pretty good here, but it's a bit messy. Every day you can hear gunshots and explosions. I heard that there are a lot of murderous criminals. In the city..."

Having said this, the woman took another look at Lin Chi's blood-stained shirt, and then looked away as if terrified.

"A'cruel criminal'?" Lin Chi repeated her words secretly in his heart.

It sounds like the "cruel criminal" should say that the player who entered this map is right. And the three months she said fits the length of time since the game was launched.

But Lin Chi knew that things were obviously not that simple--

From the start of the server to the present, the number of players participating in the test is countless. While he was ranked on the map of "City of Chaos", tens of thousands of people also ranked on this map.

If the game's NPC has self-awareness, how should this "parallel world" problem be handled? If you put different independent AIs in each map in the game, the workload is too much, even if you use the most powerful supercomputer at present, it is difficult to do it.

——This woman is really just an ordinary NPC, are her words just a game egg?

When Lin Chi was thinking about it, the explosion from outside the window interrupted his thoughts. He stood in front of the blinds, opened a corner, cast his gaze on the street below, and then frowned slightly:

The tank that had been killed out of the weapon shop was driving by on the street below, followed by several military-green jeeps, one of which was already on fire, as if it was about to explode.

"Why are you again?" Lin Chi laughed, turned and left.

As soon as he reached the door, he heard the woman ask again: "Where are you going?"

"I still have something to do. You can hide here first." Lin Chi said without looking back, "Remember not to go to the street. Now the street is a bit...unsafe."

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