The old man with a cane slowly walked through the streets full of corpses and walked into the poisonous gas that had not yet dissipated. The thin white clothes on his body seemed to have a gray smoke screen, and his whole body disappeared into the air like ashes dissipated in the wind.

Two seconds later, Lin Chi, who was running backwards on the street next to him, suddenly fell to the ground without any warning, struggling to get up, but his body seemed to be pressed by an invisible air wall and could not move at all.

"What are you doing..."

Lin Chi turned over with difficulty, and went from lying on the ground to facing the sky. Faced with the sudden terrifying pressure, this was the limit he could do.

He raised his head with all his might, and saw that a scarlet blood mist suddenly appeared on the street in front of him.

The crutches hit the sidewalk bricks, making a rhythmic clatter, and a white figure slowly walked out of the blood mist.

"Who are you?"

Looking at the old man in white who was slowly walking towards Lin Chi, an ominous premonition emerged in his heart.

It seems that this guy should be Hoffman's subordinate. And this seemingly weak old man is obviously not comparable to those pig-headed men who were killed by poisonous gas!

(&!*&%

The red skeleton marked with a hero-level NPC and a string of garbled codes emerged from the old man. This person's identity cannot even be parsed by the game system. It must have been through some "special means" that he became what he is now.

"Old man, are you cheating..." Lin Chi cursed.

No matter how strong his skills are, it is impossible to win in the face of such blatant "plug-in players". In fact, under the incredibly powerful pressure, Lin Chi can still make a sound, which is already incredible.

"Hello, young man?"

The old man who used some skills, lowered his head and put his face in front of Lin Chi, showing a distorted smile: "Are you a newly found lackey of the observer?"

"Ha." Lin Chi laughed out loud and said sarcastically: "The miscellaneous who were given power by Hoffman is not qualified to talk to me, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the smile on the old man's face disappeared. He stood up and raised his crutch, aiming the black muzzle at Lin Chi's head at the top of the crutch.

"Mr. Hoffman and I are just a partner relationship, die, the War Observer will meet you in 'that world' soon!"

Bang!

The golden light exploded in front of me, and the smell of gunpowder filled my arms. The high-temperature steam rushed towards me with thousands of projectiles. At the last moment of "life", Lin Chi still opened his eyes and witnessed the entire process of the old man shooting.

——Is it over like that?

The scenery in front of him turned into a complete scarlet red, and then... fell into the boundless darkness.

...

Drifting in the endless darkness, Lin Chi couldn't see his body, but his consciousness was still very clear.

"What's going on?" he muttered in a low voice, his voice as if it was swallowed by the darkness around him, and it disappeared instantly as soon as it sounded.

According to Lin Chi's experience in brain imaging games, when the player's character dies, the game link should be directly disconnected and the consciousness will return to the body lying in the real world game warehouse.

However, this completely dark space is obviously impossible to be inside the game warehouse.

So, where is this? Could it be...

Recalling the scene when the executioner was dragged into the "temporary data channel" when he was confronted by the executioner in the frozen Savia Valley, Lin Chi couldn't help but wonder if he had gotten stuck in the bug.

While he was guessing whether he had entered the temporary data channel, a bright color suddenly appeared in front of him.

The first thing that appears in sight is the scarlet sphere hanging in the air, and it is impossible to tell whether it is the sun or the moon.

What followed was the boundless desolate land beneath our feet.

The land here is a bit desertified, and the breeze brings up a large area of ​​dust. Lin Chi finally saw his feet and body. Fortunately, his body seems to be still in the state before the war begins.

——Is your head still there?

Lin Chi stretched out his hands that had just "appeared", touched his cheeks, and touched the rubber of the gas mask. It seemed that his head should be fine, because the gas mask on his face was intact.

“…”

Lin Chi looked around silently and saw some dark-toned buildings beginning to appear from his side in sequence.

Like the dark sky and desertified land here, these buildings did not always exist here. Instead, under Lin Chi's gaze, dark outlines first appeared, and then slowly became clear.

Appearing less than ten meters away from Lin Chi is a dark red house with a gloomy atmosphere. The walls of this building are all made of red steel, which is more like armor than walls.

Except for this building, all nearby buildings are dark tones, and under the illumination of scarlet spheres, these buildings appear even more gloomy. They are like black pigments splashed on dark canvases, as if they blend into the dark brown sky.

"What the hell is this?" Lin Chi raised his eyebrows in surprise.

In any case, the style of this map is a bit different from that of Alvara City. This situation is a bit like a bug stuck and "traveling" into other game maps.

Could it be that he suddenly understood the barbarians' switching map method at the critical moment of life and death? Lin Chi did not think he would have such good luck at all.

While he was wondering, a voice suddenly came from beside him. Some translucent human-shaped objects with extremely low resolution began to appear from all directions, as if they were not caring about outsiders like Lin Chi at all, and while chatting, they walked past nearby in groups.

"... Have you seen it? It's very good!"

"Ha, yes..."

“…is it really good?”

These guys' words were intermittent, and the key parts were completely unaware. Realizing that they might have met the indigenous people here, Lin Chi asked loudly to a figure beside him:

"Hello, I'm new here, I want to ask a few questions."

The other party did not answer him, and didn't even look at him. He just turned around and walked to the other side. His translucent body "passed" through Lin Chi's body and disappeared under a dark castle at the far end.

Seeing this scene, Lin Chi took off his gas mask and put it back in his backpack, opened the game menu bar, and confirmed the current situation.

Obviously, I am still in the game. Because the character's attribute bar is still displaying normally:

Character name: Countercurrent.

Position points: 300.

Prestige: 300.

Kills: 3

Strength: 16 (10 for ordinary people).

Agility: 16 (10 for ordinary people).

Endurance: 15 (10 for ordinary people).

Lucky: 15 (10 for ordinary people).

Seeing that his attributes were still in the same state as before being shot, Lin Chi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Then, when he saw the lines of small characters above the map brought by the player, the smile on his face disappeared.

The name of this area is marked above the map. It was originally "City of Alvara", but now the name has disappeared. Instead, it is an easy-to-understand name that is marked in both Chinese and English. Anyone knows the name of the place:

hell.

HELL.

Seeing the name of this map, Lin Chi couldn't help but fall into a long silence. After two minutes, he finally slowly sighed:

"Damn...so I'm going to hell?"

If he remembers correctly, there is only a map called "Hell Capital" in the game, which should not be the same place as this "Hell". Since he came here after being shot, that is...

"Will the NPC in this game be 'going to hell' after the death of the NPC?" Lin Chi opened his eyes wide in surprise.

In ordinary games, after NPCs or monsters are killed, they will refresh from their original position after a period of time. If they are active bosses that can only be killed once in the entire server, they will disappear directly after being killed and will not appear until the event is turned on again. Simply put, it is temporarily deleted.

This method, which is used in old-fashioned games, is still the standard configuration for most in-brain imaging games. After all, for ordinary games, it is completely a waste of time to design a special area for dead NPCs, and it is meaningless. But...

Does the game "War Paradise" also create a "new world" for dead NPCs and monsters?

Thinking of this, Lin Chi began to observe the vague translucent human figures nearby, trying to see some clues, but the guys looked like they had their own mosaics and could not see any details at all.

The "residents" coming and going here do not look like those NPCs in war paradise with fine workmanship and independent consciousness. Character modeling alone is incredibly rough.

In Lin Chi's opinion, these guys are a bit like red and white game characters from the 1980s, and they are simply out of touch with the brain imaging game and are completely out of touch with the times.

——Is this a rough model used to save system resources?

Lin Chi just thought of this, and a figure in black suddenly appeared in his sight. Unlike the walking mosaics nearby, this guy's appearance and outline are very clear, and he finally looks like a "human".

It was a soldier wearing a tight black combat uniform with a black oil paint on his face. Seeing this guy's outfit and appearance, Lin Chi immediately remembered the "man in black" he had seen once under the building, so he immediately asked:

"Are you a member of the Cobra Unit?"

"Yes."

The soldier, who was covered in darkness, nodded, his face covered with oil, seemed to have no emotion, and his voice sounded extremely cold: "Our leader would like to meet him, he just brought you here."

——War observers hide in this hell?

Realizing this, Lin Chi nodded without hesitation: "Okay, take me over quickly."

Although the current situation is not clear, he is still very clear that he is likely to be the first player to enter this "hell". More importantly, he may have begun to approach the truth!

As the number of players increases, not only Lin Chi, but more and more players find that the AI ​​and maps of this game have mystery. Everyone has also put forward various speculations, such as "NPC is a real person" or "using a large number of dialogue options to create a real atmosphere". There are all kinds of statements, and they are often discussed in the forum.

However, even though many people are interested in the secrets inside "War Paradise", they find it difficult to find any clues and can only make conjectures without evidence.

But now, the situation is obviously not the same...

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Lin Chi's face again.

Two "people" with normal appearance walked quickly on the deserted sandy ground, passing through the mosaic crowd with extremely low resolution. Soldiers from the Cobra unit led Lin Chi to an inconspicuous black metal house and said, "It's here."
To be continued...