What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

In the city of newborns, in the fringe area.

Huiying 3rd Street, deep in the alley.

This is the most desolate area in the fringe area, and it is rarely visited by people. Jason didn't go to work today, and was standing there fully dressed.

He wears a dainty red electronic pen pinned to his neckline, and wears an artificial mask—the cheaper ones he bought. Although it can effectively cover his original appearance, the overall mask is too pale, and his facial features are stiff. Matched with his old mechanical body, it is indescribably weird.

But for Jason now, it doesn't matter. Nothing matters.

Behind him is a small empty house that he bought just yesterday. The door was closed at the moment, and no one knew what was inside.

Someone came along the alley. He also wears an artificial mask on his face, and a red electronic pen pinned to his neckline.

As soon as Jason saw the other party approaching, he immediately cheered up. When the other party approached, the two nodded to each other tacitly and gave the signal. Jason immediately opened the door and motioned for the other party to enter.

The other party's body language revealed her nervousness, and her fingers were still trembling when she entered the door. Jason closed the door for her expressionlessly, and after waiting quietly for about ten minutes, the door opened again.

The man walked out with his head down. Even through the mask, Jason could feel her strong mood swings.

"Did He answer your prayer?" He couldn't help asking in a low voice.

"Yes. The almighty and omniscient God gave me the gospel." The man nodded excitedly, and approached Jason carefully, "Also, He let you in."

After finishing speaking, he distanced himself from Jason, and reached out to tap the red electronic pen on the collar.

"Thanks to the Almighty God."

"Thanks to the Almighty God." Jason's heart trembled, and he made the same movement. The man nodded again, turned and left. Jason stood alone in the depths of the alley, looked around vigilantly, and quickly opened the door to enter the room.

In the room, the curtain fluttered, accompanied by a strange aroma. Jason came to the curtain with his head down, and held down the red electronic pen on the collar with one hand:

"Great all-knowing God, my compatriots just said, you call me..."

With a snap, the wall behind him lit up. The display screen hung on the wall was turned on, and Jason turned following the sound, and saw the elegant and sacred writing on the screen:

【Yes. My faithful disciple, I have an important task for you. 】

Jason's heart moved, recalling the command of "His" before, he had a faint guess in his heart, and lowered his head more humbly.

On the other side, the red writing on the screen continued:

[I need you to continue to spread my teachings and spread my existence to everyone I know as much as possible. Let them enjoy the same blessings as you, and I will give you more blessings. 】

really.

Jason's body trembled uncontrollably, and he could even hear the creaking sound of his internal parts. He lowered his body and said several times, "Thanks to the Almighty Almighty God", paused for a while, and opened his mouth cautiously:

"Almighty and omniscient God, your gospel still cannot reach Alan?"

Alan is Jason's colleague, with a higher position than him. He has been taking good care of him at work. It’s just that for some reason, when the Almighty God asked him to spread the gospel, he specifically emphasized that he could not tell Alan, and even avoided her.

What responded to him were two big red letters on the screen:

[No. 】

Immediately afterwards, the original handwriting was erased and replaced by a new divine language: [Except for Alan. There are also some people, you should also pay attention to avoid them. I will make a list for you later. Remember, they are all people who cannot be blessed, and you must not let them know my existence. 】

Do not bless.

The gears in Jason's chest were clogged for a moment because of these four words. When he recalled himself who was still in pain and despair not long ago, he suddenly felt as if he was in another world.

"Yes." He took a deep breath and lowered his head deeply again.

"Almighty and omniscient God, your faithful servant will obey all your instructions."

the other end.

Inside Zhang Baixue's apartment in the sub-city district.

Xu Tuoran and Shiyue studied several identity cards for a long time, and finally roughly finished changing their points.

The values ​​of the eclipse moon are already high, especially the combat power, HP and speed. After enhancement, the displayed data is even more beautiful. And Xu Tuoran, just like she said before, did not "full up" herself.

Instead, it subtracted a little.

However, this deduction point is actually more troublesome than adding points. Because Xu Tuoran's own stats are generally low, and she hopes to reduce the stats while maintaining a certain combat capability, so the lower limit of the stats must also be considered. After trial and error, Xu Tuoran finally decided to deduct three to ten points from all numerical columns except HP.

As for HP, six points are added correspondingly—she needs to consume physical strength when using "absolute kingship". If the blood bar is too short, she might die just after setting the rules. So a little strengthening is still necessary.

"It's okay to have a speed of seventeen, and the total combat power is only ten points. Isn't this too extreme?" Shiyue looked at Xu Tueran's changed identity value, with a worried face, "Auntie, what exactly are you trying to do? "

Xu Tueran couldn't tell him that he suspected that the appearance of the death value was related to the difference in the identity value, so he deliberately lowered the value to see if he could increase the death value—although this guess was not completely confirmed. Confirmed, but at present, she has received two hundred death points from the energy body, one hundred and two of which were obtained when she provoked those security personnel just now.

The leading security officer had shown her ID card when she opened the door. His total value points also coincided with the characteristics of being twice as many as Xu Tuoran. Even more.

This gave Xu Tuoran the courage to try. When faced with the question of the eclipse moon, she only said vaguely that she wanted to try something.

Shiyue tactfully didn't ask any more questions, but only reminded, "Then auntie, be careful." After checking the time, he said goodbye to Xu Tuoran in a hurry, and went out through the window.

— It has been a long time since those security personnel left. Maybe it's time to check their trajectories.

Shiyue sneaked into the alley, followed the guidance of the stray dogs, and secretly rushed to the place where the security personnel had been.

According to Xu Tuoran's summary, besides the two of them, there should be two capable people dragged in at the Taobao shop. If the two of them were also in the secondary city, they would probably be questioned after the point modification machine was lost.

But those security guards seem to have other things to attend to. After leaving Xu Tuoran's house, they divided into several teams. Shiyue carefully analyzed the information collected from the stray dogs, selected one of the tracks, and chased after it.

Facts have proved that his judgment is not wrong. It really allowed him to successfully touch the residence of one of the ability users - the place where the other person was cast was a few streets away from Xu Tuoran's place. When Shiyue tentatively went to knock on the door, he was hiding in the room with a nervous face to make up the talisman arts.

Yes, runes.

This man's situation can be said to be a combination of Shiyue and Xu Tuoran, unable to actively use abilities, and at the same time often attacked by capable people. The good news is that he has a normal appearance when he comes, so he won’t be kicked out by the landlord and lose his place like the eclipse moon; Self-defense is still possible.

When Xiyue met him, he was almost surprised by his room. The runes inside are painted like street art.

Seeing the eclipse, the other party was a little defensive at first. Shiyue was anxious to investigate other places, so she had to draw a rune on the spot to show her innocence, and left him Xu Tuoran's current address, and then left quickly.

The next place to visit is a few streets away. The eclipse moon ran all the way there, and when it got there, it was already dark. He quietly knocked on the door, but no one opened it for a long time. He tried to get in through the window, only to find that no one had lived in this room for a long time.

There are also traces of runes drawn on the wall, but the traces are already very dim. Shiyue suspected that the security personnel didn't know where this person moved, so they came here again after the incident.

He walked around the empty room alone, finally found a small torch pattern on the windowsill.

The flame on the torch was very rough, but Shiyue quickly saw the mystery, jumped out in the direction it pointed, searched, and found another torch pattern not long after.

After going back and forth like this, I finally found the little figure hiding here in an abandoned warehouse.

It was a girl who looked no more than fifteen or sixteen years old. When she was found by Eclipse, she was gnawing on a snack stick with her feet up. There was a small tablet next to her, which was playing the news.

Shiyue cautiously leaned over, observed carefully for a moment, and said in disbelief: "Jiaojiao is the cutest?"

The girl with the snack stick in her mouth turned her head and looked him up and down, showing the same incredulous expression: "Moon Eclipse?"

…

The two looked at each other in silence, and the atmosphere suddenly fell into a subtle embarrassment.

"Jiaojiao is the cutest", this name is very familiar to Shiyue. It was the one who took the mission together with him and played games with mic.

Then Shuangshuang was dragged into the game and separated for more than a month.

Although the other party always used a male voice when connecting with the mic, all the details made Shiyue have another guess about her gender. Now it seems that he really guessed right...

"For your size." "Jiaojiao is the cutest" with a look of not wanting to talk to me, "I'm a foot-picking man who runs around, my daughter is four years old, okay. Who knows why she changed like this after she came in. "

Make it awkward for him.

Eclipse Moon: "..."

He couldn't just say that it was probably my brain's fault, so he had to quickly bring up this topic, quickly exchanged a wave of information with the other party, and then also left Xu Tuoran's address.

"You go to this place first, there are people there to pick you up, remember to hide." Shiyue patted the stray dog ​​walking around at his feet, "I have other places to go, and I will meet you later."

After finishing speaking, he quickly left the warehouse. Guided by the stray dogs, they moved to the next location.

It stands to reason that Xu Tuoran had already found both of the two ability users that Xu Tuoran mentioned. But according to the information disclosed by the stray dogs, those security personnel found another address after leaving the initial residence of "Jiaojiao the cutest"...

Shiyue suspected that there were capable people they didn't know existed in this city, so he went over to take a look.

But he didn't seem to come at the right time. When he rushed over, the cars of the security personnel were still parked outside the building, apparently not leaving yet.

Shi Yue faintly felt strange, and didn't understand why these security personnel would stay here for so long. He purposely walked around to the back of the apartment, wanting to observe from a different angle, but an old man on the second floor who was closing the window raised his head suddenly, caught off guard by the moon, and the two looked at each other.

After a while, the old man lowered his eyes without changing his expression, closed the window tightly, and drew the curtains. Shiyue turned around in a daze, and after walking in a daze for a while, she suddenly woke up.

"Eh, that's strange. What was I going to do?"

He scratched the back of his head in confusion and turned to look at the apartment building behind him. He left blankly.

at the same time.

In the apartment building behind him.

Hungry and hungry, he pulled the curtains tightly, turned his head to look at the security personnel who were **** and placed all over the floor, and patted his palms easily, with a faint look of expectation on his face.

He actually didn't understand why so many takeaways would suddenly come to his door in broad daylight.

But anyway, it's coming. He can't always go back.

The problem is, he prefers to eat fresh. This amount has to be eaten at one time, and it seems a bit much...

Hungry and hungry, Fanfan twirled his mustache thoughtfully, and met the horrified eyes of those security personnel, showing a bit of genuine distress on his face.

When Shiyue returned to Xu Tuoran's residence, it was almost nine o'clock in the evening.

He groped through the back door familiarly, and bumped into an acquaintance before he got into the elevator.

I saw "Jiaojiao is the cutest" and another capable person hovering near the elevator. As soon as they saw him appear, they rushed over.

"What are you two doing down there?" Shiyue was puzzled, "Go up."

"I don't know the exact location." Jiaojiao said angrily, "No, are you sure the address you gave is correct?"

Eclipse Moon: "...?"

He walked into the elevator with the two of them, and said strangely: "That's right, what's wrong?"

"That's not right. You said that the household is on the third floor. 301. But there is only one resident on the third floor, and she is an old aunt."

"Oh yes, she is the only one." Shiyue nodded quickly, "She is the respondent I mentioned, and she is also a big boss."

"Really?" Jiaojiao looked unbelievable, "But when we went up, she was sitting in the corridor crying?"

As soon as the voice fell, the elevator stopped and the door slowly opened. The sobbing voice of the old aunt came from the corridor, very clear.

Eclipse Moon: "..."

He poked his head out to take a look, and saw Xu Tuoran sitting on the corridor wiping tears again, the door behind him was closed tightly, and there was a faint smell of engine oil.

He was silent for a moment, gestured to the two people next to him, and walked over very skillfully.

"Auntie." He knelt down and talked to Xu Tuoran, "Those people are here again?"

Xu Tuoran was adjusting his breathing, and nodded casually upon hearing this.

Shiyue glanced at the door behind her, and asked again: "How many people are there this time?"

Xu Tuoran casually raised his hand and made a gesture of "six".

"Oh, fine." Shiyue nodded clearly, "Then shall I go in and tidy up now?"

Xu Tuoran didn't answer, glanced behind him, pointed to the two people behind him: "You found it?"

Shiyue nodded hurriedly, and Xu Tuoran let out a long breath: "Say it earlier...you go through the window and go in. I didn't bring the key. Also, I accidentally broke one of the inner liners, um, maybe something. The house is full of smells now. Beware of being rushed."

She was so smoky that she ran to the corridor to breathe. Unexpectedly, an elevator came up suddenly. She was afraid that outsiders would find out that something was wrong, so she quickly closed the door.

After closing it, I remembered that I didn't bring the key.

Eclipse Moon: "..."

No wonder, such a heavy smell of engine oil can be smelled through the door.

Shiyue thought about the tragic scene in the room, closed his eyes and made a mental construction for himself. Immediately, he stood up under the stunned eyes of the other two, gave them a brief introduction to each other, and took the elevator down by himself.

The three people in the corridor are left. Two were looking at each other, and one was crying to himself.

After a while, "Jiaojiao is the cutest" Fang took the lead to find his voice, and said carefully, "How are you, auntie? I am Jiaojiao's father, and this is Old Wang. Excuse me...what's your name?"

Xu Tuoran raised his red and swollen eyes to look at her, and said vaguely, "Papa Jiaojiao? I don't remember seeing this ID before."

"Oh, my daughter's nickname is Jiaojiao. So you can call me that. My ID on the forum is 'Jiaojiao is the cutest'." Jiaojiao's father said, taking out his ID card and showing it to Xu Turan.

When she and Lao Wang were waiting for the eclipse, they had already confirmed each other's identities. There is no need to do so now.

Xu Tuoran's eyesight was blurred from crying, and he only glanced briefly before looking away. He silently took out his own card and handed it over.

Jiaojiao's father took a look at it, and opened his mouth slightly: "Wow, auntie, your value...is a bit dangerous."

Except for "HP" which is slightly higher, the other values ​​are all moderately low. Especially intelligence, only ten points... It's too low.

Xu Tuoran rubbed his head that was so dazed from crying, and nodded with difficulty: "You are right. It is indeed dangerous. I didn't expect that lowering intelligence would affect memory... I have to add a little more. "

"That's right, this value is indeed... eh?" Jiaojiao's father paused in the middle of speaking.

What did she just say? Add a little to what?

Before she could react, the door behind Xu Tuoran opened with a click.

"Auntie!" Shiyue came out pinching her nose while talking, holding a bulging bag in her hand, "I found that smelly inner liner! I'll throw it out now, you wait for me a bit-"

"Don't bother, let's put the toilet first." Xu Tuoran wrinkled his facial features and waved his hands, "Come on, don't stand around stupidly, go in first. Really, at least you guys have a secret signal when you come up, I thought it was a note It’s here again, I was so scared that I closed the door…”

She said, standing up with the support of Shiyue. Jiaojiao's father saw her old arms and legs, so he couldn't hold back and went up to help her. He inadvertently raised his head and looked behind the opened door, and he froze suddenly.

I saw that the small room was full of dead bodies.

"In order not to misunderstand, let me first say that these are all energy bodies. And they are the first to move." Xu Tuoran said slowly, was helped to sit on the sofa by Shiyue, coughed twice, and looked up at the two of them , "Then who, please close the door."

"Sorry, my brain is really not working. I can't remember the name."

"Oh... oh. It's okay, it's okay." Old Wang who followed in at the end was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly turned around and closed the door. When he turned around again, he was taken aback again.

I saw that the old lady named "Zhang Baixue" already had a small machine like a code scanner in her hand.

After all, Lao Wang has been in this domain for a while, and he recognized it at a glance. This is a machine used by the residents of this world to modify their points.

This realization made his breathing quicken, and then, an even more unbelievable scene appeared.

Xu Tuoran pointed the machine at his ID card, and pressed it lightly a few times.

A beep sounded, proving that the point modification was successful. Under his surprised gaze, Xu Tuoran exhaled with relief.

"Okay, IQ has improved, and my mind is finally clear."

She passed the ID card and the phone to the side, and Shiyue took it sweetly, and placed it on the table.

"Okay, now let me introduce myself again. I, Zhang Baixue, a new employee of Old Man Jiang's Taobao store. The current tendency that can be disclosed is order and natural disasters."

She pushed her gray hair behind her ears, leaned back on the back of the dilapidated sofa, stretched her shoulders, and slowly raised her eyes: "Now, all the capable people I know are here. If you don't mind, everyone First, let’s talk about our respective discoveries during this period of time?”

at the same time.

Inside the huge black space.

The huge worm is sleeping. Thin blood vessels and wires spread out from it, connecting with countless computers.

This is the top level of this domain. It is the lair where the domain owner sleeps and works. In the "New City", it has a special name - "Main City".

When the residents in the domain meet certain standards, they will be brought here from the "secondary city". Then he will find that this place is actually different from the paradise described by others.

But at that time, none of this mattered—for him, there were only two endings. Either they are swallowed by the domain master or other companions because of insufficient qualifications, or they are given the qualifications of companions and become one of the many working parties in this space.

Yes, working party.

There is a "person" standing in front of almost every computer here. The body is deformed, the arms are numerous, and the thin and long fingers are typing on the keyboard quickly, making continuous sounds.

…

In a certain corner, the hand that was typing on the keyboard suddenly stopped. The corresponding accompanying creature suddenly raised its head, looked nervously at the huge sleeping worm in the center, then turned its head and beckoned to its companion:

"hey-hey!"

The companion called by it looked up blankly, looked around, and approached cautiously: "What's wrong?"

"I seem to have encountered some problems here." The monster lowered his voice, "In the area I manage, a lot of energy bodies are missing."

"How could it be missing all at once?" The companion was puzzled and came to look at its screen. The monster shook his head ignorantly, and pointed to it: "Look, at this time period, the number of energy bodies decreased by six at once. In the previous period, one less at once. Going forward, seven or eight less at once..."

"Your loss rate is too high." The companion was surprised, "Have you checked how it was lost?"

"I don't know. I touched fish for a while and watched humans play games. When I came back..." The monster was dumbfounded, "The problem is such a big gap, how can I fill it?"

The essence of the energy body is produced by the domain master. It's just that the domain owner usually needs to sleep and rarely wakes up, so he divides the domain into pieces, together with the internal energy body, and hands them over to these accompanying creatures for management.

Of course, not all companions play this role. Their offices are partitioned, and their corners are all in charge of Newborn City, while the rest of the companions are either responsible for making games, or for recruiting people in the game, or for being a sailor in the live broadcast room... each perform their duties , each tube has its own kpi.

And once a serious mistake is made, it will inevitably be punished by the domain owner. Like last time, a companion creature of the game team was assigned to other project teams to eat because it mistakenly put in a human that the domain owner didn't want...

Although it took a bite at that time, it was very happy to eat. But if you put yourself in, you're not happy at all.

That's why it's in a panic right now—without so many energy bodies at once, there will definitely be problems with its area management.

"Hey, don't worry, let me think about it..." The companion nibbled on his fingers and thought for a moment, then he came up with an idea, "Hey, it's better like this. You first transfer some energy bodies from other areas to maintain normal operation. Then the domain owner Wouldn’t some new energy bodies be generated regularly? Just wait for the newcomers to fill the positions, and then return the seconded ones.”

"Oh, but how do you adjust it?" the monster whispered.

"Then you first ask whose energy body is in the area..." Its companion said, looking around, the colleagues who were eavesdropping immediately lowered their heads and tapped on the keyboard as if nothing had happened.

It rolled its eyes, caught a glimpse of an empty computer inside, and clapped its hands: "Yes."

"Have you seen that computer? That one corresponds to the fringe area of ​​Xinsheng City. No one is in charge of that computer, and usually the domain owner rarely cares about it. You go directly to operate it, and transfer some energy bodies to you It'll be fine there."

"Can it still be like this?" The monster was so surprised that its eyeballs fell out, and it bent down to pick it up and stuff it back. And just for a while, several accompanying creatures surrounded him:

"Eh, is it really okay? Then I'll adjust some too."

"Me too. I also lost a lot of energy bodies for no reason, and I didn't dare to say."

"Which area do you care about? I'm from Caiying Bridge. Not only the energy body, but also the consciousness body is missing a lot. I don't know why they always fight in groups, but I'm so worried."

"I'm from the Caiying New District! I don't have any consciousness here! And they were all hacked to death. I'm still investigating the reason. But I don't know what happened."

"It's not that my side was hacked, it's that someone committed suicide here. I'm also in a daze."

"Then what, there is no lack of energy body or consciousness body here. But I don't know why in my area, there are a lot of unknown energy groups, the number has been increasing, and they are crawling around, like insects. I don't even know if I should kill..."

"Hush!"

As soon as someone said worms, everyone's expression became solemn. One of them looked at the huge sleeping worm and took a breath:

"Here, don't mention such taboo words!"

"Anyway, let's deal with the energy body first." Another person echoed. The accompanying creature who came up with the idea first pointed to the empty computer in the corner again: "Let me tell you first, there are not many energy bodies in the fringe area. It may not be enough. You should divide them first and then adjust them."

At that moment, someone was ready to move. One of them tilted his head and thought for a while, and couldn't help but said, "But I don't understand. How should this inter-district transfer be made? It's very troublesome if you want to upgrade from the fringe area to the sub-urban area?"

"Hey, what's the trouble here." The other person waved his hand, "Death escape, understand? Set the original identity of the energy body to death, then create a new identity in another area, and just put it in. Silly of you..."

Before he could finish speaking, he saw several accompanying creatures yelling "lack of energy body" swarming towards the empty computer, and began to bite each other and grab the keyboard.

companion:"…"

"It's a good thing I'm only in charge of the security team and the church." It paused for a few seconds, then exhaled happily, "It's still a safe job, at least you don't have to worry about losing people for no reason..."

the other side.

City of Rebirth·Fringe District.

It has been almost two days since the last time the omniscient God issued his will.

Jason conscientiously fulfilled the oracle of the omniscient God, and did his best to preach. However, while working hard, he inevitably had some doubts in his heart.

Why can't Alan? She is so cute and so kind. When I first entered the production plant, only she would take the initiative to help me...Why is such a good person named "unable to be blessed" by the omniscient God?

Jason didn't understand. Although he didn't want to admit it, in his heart, even because of this, he felt a little dissatisfied with this omniscient god.

God, must it be right?

This question rolled over and over in his mind.

Until he came to the production plant again today.

"What did you say?" He opened his mouth in disbelief when he heard the gossip from his colleagues, "Is Alan dead?"

"Yes!" The colleague nodded desperately, "I heard that she died of a sudden illness...God, it's so pitiful. She's so nice..."

Jason: "..."

For some unknown reason, a terrifying thought suddenly popped up in his heart. He couldn't continue his work, so he turned around and rushed to find his immediate superior, stumbled and found an excuse, and wanted to ask for another half-day leave.

Because Jason's recent work results are very good, his boss did not make things difficult for him, and easily approved the vacation. Jason rushed to the factory room, took out the list written to him by the Almighty God, and began to investigate one by one.

Because the Almighty God emphasized that these people should not be allowed to know of His existence, so Jason had already checked their information beforehand. It's not that difficult to check them one by one now.

But the result of the investigation made his legs go weak, and he almost fell to his knees on the street.

Alan—Suddenly fell ill and died.

Sean - accident at work.

Jenny—traffic accident.

Ah Tang—jumping off a building to commit suicide...

None of the people on this list survived, and all died of various reasons during these two days.

...Jason's heart echoed the words of the Almighty God again.

【They cannot be blessed. 】

Do not bless. Do not bless. So this is the reason?

Had the great all-knowing God anticipated all this?

And he dared to question the decision of the omniscient God before—how foolish and arrogant he was!

"Almighty Almighty God, Great Almighty God, forgive me, forgive me... I am your slave, I did not deliberately blaspheme you... I will offer my loyalty, from now on I will offer all my loyalty, please don't abandon me ..."

Jason muttered, stumbled to the side, leaned on the wall, and slowly slid to the ground.