Garton Galaxy, Ninth Sector, Aquamarine Star.

In summer, Nanzhou is experiencing a scorching heat. The sun is high and the air is distorted by the high temperature.

At the moment when version 2.0 was launched, players appeared one after another in the originally empty square inside the third shelter. Hundreds, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands... the originally empty square became overcrowded in a matter of seconds.

Before the version update, due to the [Last Position] mission left by Han Xiao and the analysis of the 2.0 main line by "Xinghai Times", hundreds of thousands of Aquamarine players gathered in the shelter and chose to log off here.

When version 2.0 was launched, the location where hundreds of thousands of players came online was the Third Refuge.

Hundreds of thousands of people were crowded, looking around curiously.

"Is it version 2.0 now?"

"It seems like nothing has changed."

"Hey, the level limit has been increased, and experience can continue to be used to upgrade. It is indeed a new version."

"Are there no other changes? I really just want to try shitting in the game."

"If you take off your pants, please respect yourself."

The players started talking a lot and each opened the panel to check the attributes. Except for the capped level that can be upgraded, there were no other changes to the personal information.

However, someone soon discovered that the prompt for a mission had changed, it was [The Last Position], and the mission status had changed from "frozen" to "open".

This was a prize pool mission that Han Xiao left behind before he left. The mission requirement was to protect the third shelter. It was to warm up the alienation disaster and attract players to gather here. As he expected, this mission was suspected by players to be related to the 2.0 plot.

And now, this mission has actually started!

Doesn’t that mean that the “catastrophe” in the mission prompt has already begun?

Many players suddenly became excited. Thanks to the Black Ghost, they barely participated in the main plot of the previous version. This time there was finally a serious event!

By the way, the NPC who issued this mission is still Black Ghost... Oh, now it’s called Black Star. Is he still in the interstellar?

When they think of Han Xiao, many players can't help but envy the group of professional players who were taken away by him. They entered the interstellar earlier and had better food and clothing than them.

While the players were observing, a broadcast suddenly sounded inside the shelter.

"All strangers, please stay where you are! I repeat, all strangers, please stay where you are!"

Soon, a large number of guards surrounded the square, with expressions of surprise and uncertainty on their faces, nervously staring at the huge crowd of players.

The aliens on the entire planet disappeared for a whole year, but suddenly appeared today, which really frightened the management staff of the third shelter. Bennett quickly sent people to control the scene.

At the same time, players in the Third Sanctuary triggered the same mission.

[【stay on the spot】]

[Mission introduction: During the period when you disappeared, many things happened on Aquamarine Star. At this time, it is at the critical moment of the survival of civilization. Stay where you are and wait patiently for relevant people to explain the situation]

This is a small mission with not much reward. Players just want to understand the situation. Hundreds of thousands of people stay in the square obediently mainly because they are surrounded by guards. God knows if they will be attacked if they leave rashly. No one wants to do it at the beginning of the version.

When you lose the favor of the shelter.

Not long after, Bennett hurried over and looked at the sea of ​​people, his eyes flashing with joy.

He remembered Han Xiao's instructions, saying that the aliens were the backbone of the resistance to this catastrophe. At this juncture, the aliens appeared again. He didn't know the reason. He only knew that the aliens came very timely. Now is the time when manpower is urgently needed.

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Bennett took out his loudspeaker and said loudly: "Everyone, Planet Aquamarine is suffering from an unprecedented disaster and is in urgent need of help..."

He quickly explained the situation, and then the players realized that more than a year had passed since the last version. Just over a month ago, a strange phenomenon spread rapidly in Aquamarine Star, and finally turned into a war.

A catastrophe sweeping the world.

Aquamarine calls it the "disaster of alienation".

At this time, it had been a month since the Alienation Disaster broke out. The entire planet was in great turmoil, and the regimes of the six countries almost collapsed in just one month.

No one knows the cause of the disaster. They only know that it is some kind of virus, which is called "alienated virus". Countless creatures, humans, beasts and even plants are infected, but the appearance of the alienated virus cannot be found at all. The transmission mechanism is the same as that of the alienated virus.

The principle of operation is that no one knows whether they are infected or not.

When the virus does not attack, every infected person is no different from usual. Once the virus attacks, the infected person will suddenly have unusual desires, including but not limited to murderous intention, desire for destruction, anger, sadness, madness, and burning desire.

Due to hunger, thirst and other tendencies, a weak person may turn into a murderous butcher in the next moment, a normal person may suddenly squat down and crazily swallow sand until he swells to death, and a dignified woman may suddenly become a slut.

The most frightening thing is that during the attack, the affected person still remains rational, which means that they are not out of control or impulsive, but these desires guide their thoughts and make various actions.

According to the survivors' subsequent recollections, during the onset of the disease, these desires came from their hearts and were their true thoughts at the time. It was as if their personality had been tampered with and they became another person, but they themselves were not aware of it.

Sometimes you feel like your behavior is normal.

Bennett gave a few examples, and the confused players immediately understood the horror of the Alienation Disaster.

Hongfeng was the first place where a large-scale disease occurred. Infected people in the army picked up guns and shot their comrades wildly. The army fell into chaos instantly. No one knew which soldier who shot was the infected. Civil war broke out and tanks were used.

, helicopters, rockets and other weapons, a large-scale attack almost disintegrated half of Hongfeng's military strength.

The president even showed serious violent tendencies and wanted to grow mushrooms around the world. Fortunately, launching a nuclear bomb requires complicated procedures. If the nuclear bomb launch button was on the president's desk, I am afraid that the world would have reached nuclear peace by now, and the president was arrested afterwards.

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All kinds of absurdities that are impossible to happen under normal circumstances are staged without warning. It's not scary if one person is crazy. What's scary is that the whole world is crazy. It's like a group of demons dancing wildly.

No one knows when the people around them will have an attack, and they can't even guarantee whether they are normal. The panic is unparalleled, as if the whole world has become an enemy, and they can no longer trust other people, and they are in constant panic all day long.

One month after the Alienation Disaster broke out, social order collapsed, and many originally prosperous cities turned into wastelands. Citizens had to move or find places to hide for safety. Pessimism became the mainstream. One view of the Alienation Disaster was in

There is a global epidemic that nuclear radiation is responsible for the emergence of this virus.

So countless civilians began to curse and blame the budding war that brought them peace, thinking that this was retribution and the end of the world!

After listening to the introduction, many players felt chills. Thinking about it, this virus is too scary. Players originally had various speculations about the so-called "disaster" in version 2.0, but they did not expect it to be such a weird situation.

What exactly is an alienated virus?

For a moment, the players were a little confused. The time flow was out of sync during the update. In the eyes of the players, the update time only lasted a few days. Has the familiar world been overturned?

Is it so exciting?!

“Isn’t there no solution to this virus?” a player asked.

Bennett shook his head, "Currently we have discovered two ways to resist the alienated virus. First, superpowers are not easily infected, which has been verified. Second, our Third Vault has developed an inhibitor.

, can be immune to the virus for a period of time, but the production capacity is limited, and we are stepping up efforts to cultivate raw materials, but the quantity is far from enough."

After the words fell, the players' panels moved, and the main mission was triggered at the same time!

[[Disaster of Alienation]]

[Mission introduction: Planet Aquamarine is suffering from an unprecedented disaster. It is the responsibility of all living things on this planet to resist the disaster of alienation!]

[Task requirement: Contribute to combating the alienation disaster]

[Progress:0/3000w]

[Success condition: Complete the progress before the alienated virus becomes a complete body]

[Failure condition: Aquamarine civilization collapses, all survivors are forced to evacuate]

[Reward: Depends on personal progress contribution (Note: Even if the total progress is reduced due to the growth of the virus, the progress accumulated by the individual will also be included in the reward evaluation)]

The mission requirements of hundreds of thousands of players are similar to Han Xiao's, except that the player's [Alienation Disaster] mission requirement is only 30 million progress of Aquamarine, while Han Xiao's mission requirements include all other planets that have been hit by Alienation Disaster.

, obviously Technician Han’s mission is more complete.

This is a large-scale main mission jointly carried out by all players. Each player's contribution will be counted into the total progress, and they need to work together to achieve the mission goal.

"We just launched the main mission and triggered the main mission? This version of the plot comes so fast!"

"No need for foreplay, just go straight to the sex. I like it so direct."

"...No, we directly obtained the main mission. It should be because we went online in the third shelter. Here we can enter the main mission early. Star Sea Times' analysis is correct."

Everyone was suddenly enlightened when they thought about it.

It is indeed true. If it were elsewhere, no one would have explained the situation carefully. And just now Bennett said that the third shelter is the only place with inhibitors. This shows that this is a key scene in the 2.0 main line.

It was the mission left by Black Ghost that led them here.

He is our guiding light!

With the main mission, the players were in high spirits and asked how they could help. Hundreds of thousands of people threw the scene into chaos. Bennett finally stabilized the order and asked his subordinates to list various tasks. These are

The tasks have different contents, but the rewards all increase the progress of the main tasks.

Each task requires a limited number of manpower, which immediately caused a frenzy of looting.

The big guild grabbed the most tasks, but some single players didn't get the official tasks of the shelter, and they looked a little depressed.

One player couldn't help but ask: "Can I leave the shelter now? I want to go somewhere else."

Bennett looked helpless, "You'd better go up to the city wall and take a look yourself."

The huge steel wall of the shelter completely blocked the scene outside. After hearing this, many players became curious, and a group of players climbed up the wall and looked outside the shelter.

After just one glance, these players were stunned, with shock on their faces.

Within dozens of kilometers around the shelter, countless tents were densely packed together, like gray clouds covering the brown earth, like a huge open-air refugee camp. I don’t know how many people stayed outside the shelter and refused.

As he left, the sound of angry shouting and fighting could be heard from a certain location from time to time. It was not known whether someone was sick or fighting for scarce water or food.
To be continued...