at the same time.

Jubilee Hub, the former temporary base of the Black Star Mercenary Group.

Dozens of glimmers of light flashed, and professional players following Han Xiao appeared one after another. It was Crazy Blade, Haotian, Roubao and others. They all went offline here during the version update.

The habit of high-level players is to open the panel immediately and check the version changes. As a professional player, he is most concerned about personal attributes, equipment and other practical factors.

After confirming that the level limit had been increased, everyone looked at each other, then looked around, and were stunned.

There was no one in the stronghold, only the monotonous lights were shining lonelyly, and the metal walls and floors reflected a faint white light. Although the entire stronghold was spotless due to the cleaning equipment, the open door and the silent atmosphere were enough for the players to

I noticed that no one had lived in this stronghold for a long time.

Everything in every room disappeared, including Black Star's private warehouse and mechanical modification room. If not even the furniture was missing, they would have thought that the stronghold had been broken into.

"Why is there no one, where is Black Star?" Crazy Blade was confused.

"I don't know how much time has passed, but it seems they are no longer here." Haotian said in a deep voice.

"It's also possible that they are all dead." Li Ge pondered, attracting glares from everyone, but he had historical reasons for thinking this way. He still remembered that the guild under their Temple Club encountered a mission issue during the closed beta.

The location of the cup was bulldozed.

"How stupid, just look at the camp information." Maple Moon rolled her eyes at them. As a member of the mercenary group, she can check the basic information of the camp to know the status of the Black Star Mercenary Group. There is no need to guess.

However, players don’t know that they can see the camp information because Han Xiao deliberately added this information to the camp interface in order to let players clearly understand the improvement of the mercenary group and to enhance their sense of belonging. Great Technician Han has always implemented it

, all the conveniences given to players are for the purpose of better grabbing money.

Opening the mercenary group interface, information jumped into view, and the advanced players looked surprised.

"There are more people in the camp, there are more than 400 people, and more hirings have been completed... Oh, look at the review, it says that the base of the Black Star Mercenary Group is located on Kinmen Planet at this time. It turns out that the mercenary group has moved...

But where is the Golden Gate Star?" Crazy Blade asked.

"It's not over yet. Look at this deed. Black Star actually killed a natural disaster-level super user in Norios! Damn, that's awesome..." Roubao was about to marvel, but suddenly felt something was wrong, "Wait a minute,

What is the level of natural disaster?”

Players at this time don't know that A-level is also called natural disaster level. They haven't heard of this term... but it feels so cool.

Anyway, players can only look up to the power above C-level.

These high-level players were in a daze, what exactly happened to the Black Star Mercenary Group while they were away?

At this moment, the doorbell of the stronghold suddenly rang, and the senior players were startled. Before they could react, Tai Erzi had given up thinking and opened the door directly. There was a man with a triangle snake head standing outside the door.

"Are you members of the Black Star Mercenary Group?" the snake man asked.

All the senior players looked at each other, then nodded.

"I am a captain of the Crown Tour Group. Your Excellency Black Star asked me to send you to Planet Aquamarine." The snake man spat out the message, "Please follow me."

Hearing this, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on everyone's faces. They didn't expect that Black Star would send a ship to pick them up. Is this so impressive!

…

The alienation disaster has drastically changed the global structure. The rule of the six countries has almost collapsed, most of the land has fallen into chaos, and the government has lost control.

Because the alienated virus puts everyone at risk of getting sick, including public officials, agencies at all levels are paralyzed. If a regime loses the people who work for it, it loses all its power and exists in name only. The six countries are sliding towards this

abyss.

In all aspects of society, classes are composed of people. The essence of order is to make people actively obey. There are many factors, such as law enforcement agencies, the military, the economic system, cultural traditions, moral concepts, mainstream values, etc., all in order to make people obey.

People understand the consequences of violating the rules and thus restrain their behavior. However, the alienated virus destroys people's normal logic and fear. When they become ill, they will not consider the consequences at all, and these factors lose their effect. The seemingly unbreakable order has disappeared overnight.

turned into fragile porcelain.

chaos.

This is the most appropriate definition of today’s social structure.

No living thing can be trusted, only cold machinery is the only reliable thing.

After the catastrophe broke out, the governments of the six countries put aside their past grudges. In the face of the disaster, their respective interests were no longer important. They had no other choice but to join forces. At this time, the senior leaders of the six countries were conducting a video conference.

"As early as twenty days ago, we jointly applied for assistance from the Gedora civilization. Gedora said that we would come as soon as possible, but it has been so long and they haven't shown up yet!"

The Disaster of Alienation was like a martyr girl wearing chastity pants. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pry open the door. The Six Nations knew that this catastrophe could not be solved with Aquamarine's technological level, and no method could be effective, so they reported the disaster situation.

The six countries have channels to contact Gedora, and they are looking forward to a more advanced civilization to save them.

However, no spacecraft has arrived until now, which makes the top management of the six countries anxious. They keep urging, but they always get only formulaic answers from artificial intelligence.

In fact, the Six Nations didn't know that Aquamarine was not the only place where the Alienation Disaster broke out. The Garton Galaxy was blooming all over the place, competing for beauty. Gedora was also in a hurry and looked confused. Han Xiao hadn't revealed that this was Dusky Star's conspiracy, so

Godora was kept in the dark, and his attention was not raised to a very high level.

"We cannot control when Gedora will arrive. Now a new situation has arisen. Not long ago, the alien who disappeared for more than a year reappeared."

"What a coincidence, maybe they brought the alienated virus!" someone said angrily.

The Six Nations have always suspected the origin of the aliens, who are not of our own race, and prejudice and discrimination have never disappeared.

"Anyway, most of the aliens are superpowers. They may be able to help. No matter who they are, I just want to wake up from this nightmare as soon as possible. In this situation, I don't even dare to meet my wife.

I'm afraid that one day I won't be able to control myself and hurt her." An official frowned.

"Although Bennett announced the formula of the inhibitor to the world, only the Third Sanctuary can produce it stably. He said he couldn't give us more medicine. I don't believe it. They must be hiding more inhibitors."

As soon as this statement came out, the current leaders of the six countries fell silent. They all knew that everyone here coveted the inhibitor.

When a disaster occurs, and you have the only thing in your hand to resist the disaster, then the meaning of this thing exceeds its own function. In order to suppress it, everyone can only obey, even if Bennett has no other thoughts.

, at this time, the Third Refuge has become the center of the world, and countless people are rushing there.

The six countries really want to control the inhibitor in order to unite the people and restore the collapsed political power. However, if they try to rob it, the situation that the world has struggled to adapt to will be broken again, which will cause greater risks. One mistake may cause

Irreversible consequences, is the consolidation of political power more important than the survival of the entire civilization?

Some people can't convince themselves, and some people can, but no matter which school they belong to, their ideas are not so firm and they swing between the two.

"If you really want to do it, it's best to do it as soon as possible..." Ruilan's leader said solemnly: "Time waits for no one."

…

Two days flew by.

Hundreds of thousands of players stayed in the Third Refuge to adapt to the new version and participate in the main missions.

Although there are many players, there are almost endless tasks in the shelter at this time. The official tasks with the most rewards are naturally the official tasks released by Bennett. The number of such tasks is limited every day, while other tasks are triggered by different characters and are stranded in the shelter.

Countless refugees outside the shelter have various requests and cannot finish them. These tasks that others may think are arduous and boring, but the players do it with joy, serious attitude, and enthusiasm for work. They all look like models of good citizens.

A pacesetter, but putting the guards of the shelter itself to shame.

The reward for most of the tasks is to obtain the progress of [Alienation Disaster]. After two days of actions by all players on Aquamarine, the total progress has reached 730,000. It should have been more, but the damage caused by the Alienation Disaster every day will reduce a part of the total progress.

Progress, players must keep accumulating progress, otherwise they will retreat if they do not advance.

Although the principle of the alienated virus is not clear, players don't care about it. As long as they are guided by the task, they can just do it.

Since the 2.0 version will enter the interstellar world, players know that this main plot is only the first big plot of the new version, not the whole story. Players on other planets also basically have the same experience. The opening is a crisis, but the events are different. Frost

The funniest thing is the Winter Star. As a planet stationed by the Legion of Extinguishment, it was actually sent troops to conquer it. How annoying.

In comparison, Aquamarine players are the fastest to enter the main line, but the specific situation is very different from the previous life.

The activity level of the forum is the same as before the update, or even more popular. With the new version opening, many players are sharing information, and the posts are refreshed very quickly.

Bennett stood on the city wall and looked down at the noisy shelter. Hundreds of thousands of strangers were everywhere, solving the urgent need for manpower. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help but relax a little.

"Fortunately, we have the help of this group of strangers. I didn't expect that the influence left by the black ghost is still protecting us." Bennett sighed with a complicated tone.

Hela was behind him, leaning against the wall, expressionless, silently looking at the endless refugee camp outside the city.

"Ahhhhh"

Suddenly, strange screams erupted one after another in the refugee camp, and countless people fell ill at the same time without any warning. This is the terrifying thing about the alienated virus, which can break out at any time.

The refugee camp, which had barely maintained order, instantly fell into chaos. Millions of sick people fought and fought with red eyes. The scene was particularly spectacular. The noisy sounds mixed with the rumbling sound waves were deafening.

A small number of refugees who were not sick had a look of fear on their faces and sat on the ground shivering. The guards on the walls of the shelter were also stunned.

Bennett's expression suddenly changed, and he grabbed the wall with both hands, leaving fingerprints on the concrete.

"With so many people gathered here, if they get sick collectively, the consequences will be very serious. By the time the symptoms subside naturally, the death toll may have already exceeded one million!"

Many players stopped the task at hand. This was the first time they had seen a collective illness. They were so surprised that some people turned on the recording function.

They had seen war scenes before, but this was the first time they had seen a mass brawl involving millions of people. The refugees hardly used weapons and only used fists and teeth to fight. They were like wild beasts, extremely brutal and bloody.

"It must be stopped, otherwise many people will die. Let our people take action and knock out all those who are sick!"

Bennett immediately ordered that every infected person had a chance to be saved. With so many people killing each other in front of his eyes, he couldn't just sit back and watch.

rumble

At this moment, there was a shaking sound in the distance, getting louder and louder. Looking around, I saw countless beasts galloping towards me in a mighty and mighty way.

The beasts of Aquamarine are also infected by the alienated virus. The wild environment was originally very dangerous, but now it has become even more difficult to survive. Moreover, unlike the disease state of humans, although the sick beasts are violent, they will form groups one by one.

Acting for the unit, sometimes they fight each other, and sometimes they attack the city.
To be continued...