Chapter 28 Social Darwinism
When Zis returned to the community where his family lived, it was already midnight.
Old neighborhoods are the scars of the city, rotten from the inside out.
The first batch of residents moved out one after another, leaving behind garbage including the poor and the elderly. As the poor became poorer, new poor people moved in, and after the old people died, new old people came in to wait for death.
Since countries around the world were reduced to counties and under federal rule, poverty has spread like a plague around the world; except for a few important areas, most places are truly averagely wealthy.
The water and electricity are cut off every ten days and a half, the sputum and bird droppings on the road have not been cleaned for a long time, and the gaps in the trash cans are overflowing with smelly water. There is no need to worry about the flow of people, because 99% of places are in the same bad condition.
Chis has no idea about external labels such as rich and poor. Entrepreneurs with ugly appearance cannot escape the fate of being sent to pig farms, while poor people with good looks may have a place in the collection room.
But he still hates poor cities, just because he hates the rainy days here.
The industrial areas that have drained the city of resources are backlogged like clouds, and even the falling rainwater is filled with heavy metal dust and particles of unknown composition.
After the rain stops, there will be stagnant water with pollutants floating all over the ground, reflecting suspicious light spots under the street lights, and popping up a few herpes-like bubbles from time to time, which is reminiscent of the witches in fairy tales. poison.
No matter where you stand or what angle you look at, you can hardly see a place to stay under the light. Even the sparrows hopping on one foot will sigh in disappointment after seeing it.
When Qisi walked to the door of the unit, his trousers were completely soaked.
He pushed open the door, walked straight into the elevator, and pressed "11".
With a "creak" sound that seemed to be a metaphor for disaster, the elevator successfully reached the eleventh floor; then, amid a new unbearable "creak" sound, it tremblingly dropped to the first floor.
Qisi stood outside the door of Room 1101 and entered the password into the electronic lock.
This was a house bought by his parents. After his parents died in a car accident when he was sixteen, he used some complicated and less legal means to become the independent property owner of the property.
I have lived here for six years. I can’t tell whether it’s nostalgia or habit.
The couplets on the door were so faded that the handwriting could not be seen clearly, and they were as tattered as the scabs peeling off an injured person.
The two rooms and one living room behind the door are unusually neat and tidy. The snow-white walls and shiny floors make people doubt that not a speck of dust can be found here.
The master bedroom has been closed for many years, and the fully utilized space is actually only the second bedroom, kitchen and toilet. The cleaning task is not heavy.
Ziss threw the suitcase containing the body into the toilet and rinsed his hands in front of the sink with the faucet turned to the maximum.
Until now, he still has some things that he has not figured out, such as why "Liu Ajiu" chose to rob his studio and was subdued by him so easily...
Hmm , forget it, it’s not important.
Qisi wiped every fingertip with soap and rubbed his hands until they were red before he could give up.
He walked into the kitchen, grabbed a pack of instant noodles and cooked it. He finished the meal slowly and slowly, hastily finishing his long-late dinner.
At 1:30 in the morning, Qisi took a shower, took a white shirt from the closet and put it on. Unconsciously, he felt a little sleepy.
Although the copy of the weird game does not take up real time, at the conscious level, it is really tense for these days.
In the last curtain call, one person was very busy and acted with all his heart. He also witnessed a high-rise building collapse at close range.
The lead actor Youyou yawned as she returned home happily, took out her mobile phone and searched for "weird game forum".
Human beings are a species that likes to stay in groups for warmth. They are very good at dividing themselves into groups through various labels, either to exclude others or to find similar groups.
Most players who are accidentally pulled into the "weird game" will feel helpless and desperate, and will inevitably gather with similarly "unlucky" people out of a sense of balance to exchange tragic experiences.
Chang Xu said before that information related to the "Xila Guild" can be found on the "Forum", implicitly and implicitly that "players entering the game for the second time" can easily access it.
Considering the current average information gathering ability of human beings, Ziss is inclined to believe that this forum exists on the public network and can be obtained through ordinary searches.
It turned out that his guess was correct.
The page loaded, excluding the previous irrelevant novels and comics, Qisi quickly found a web page with silver characters on a black background.
#Come out a prop that may be related to the main god. If you want it privately, trade it with federal currency and bring banknotes offline#
#I am a female high school student and I have brought my own team props. Please bring them with me.#
#Payipa Tingfeng Guild’s new vice-president Yu Jinsheng’s unknown things#
# The first NE clearance of "Screaming Amusement Park", 80,000 words of analysis strategy, including a copy Introduction to the whole process#
# Self-retention Fu Jue support building, water experience, level up, hey hey hey#
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Just like other forums, the homepage of this special forum is also full of mixed information.
Of course, for Qisi at this stage, basically 90% of the information is useless to him.
The top post is a science popularization post for newcomers. Chis spent half an hour reading it from beginning to end and roughly figured out some facts:
First, the weird game first appeared in 1999 It has been thirty-six years since January 1, 2011; as of now, there are at least four million people involved in the game.
Players have different opinions on the causes and solutions of the game, and theorists have yet to come to a unified conclusion. But one thing is certain: "Rules cannot be disobeyed."
As for what the rules are, the replies on the floor were very noisy. Some said it was a strange rule, some said it was a natural law, and some said it was a natural law. It is the law of operation of all things.
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Second, players who are not selected by the game cannot know the existence of the game, and those who know the existence of the game will inevitably be selected by the game.
For those innocent passers-by, even if you keep talking about things related to weird games in their ears, they will automatically filter the information, either not hearing it, or thinking that what they hear is the plot of a novel; even if they watch If you go to the Weird Game Forum, you will skip it as if you haven’t seen it.
No wonder Qisi’s previous investigation was stuck at a critical point and hesitant to move forward.
However, according to what is said here, Qiss should not have discovered even the slightest clue - but the actual situation is somehow far different.
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Third, players have formed major guilds based on different concepts. Although most guilds bully newcomers and squeeze points and props, newcomers without guilds often die. Faster.
The more famous guilds are Jiuzhou, Tingfeng and Xiela, and there is also a guild called "Tianping", which has the same name as an illegal church in reality. I wonder if it is a coincidence.
[We are all human beings, with connected destinies, shared emotions, and common positions and pursuits. In the fight against the strange, we can only achieve the final victory by working together and helping each other! 】
This is the declaration of the Kyushu Guild.
When Qisi first entered the forum, he was confused by this disgusting rhetoric. As a result, in the replies introducing the guild, he encountered a bunch of people using this set of quotations.
Combined with his experience in "Rose Manor", he almost laughed out loud. ……
Fourth, players who have cleared three dungeons or below are considered newcomers. Only after clearing the third dungeon can they be promoted to official players and unlock complete functions including game space, player square, and mall.
Copies for newcomers come from the novice pool, and copies for regular players come from the official pool. In terms of average difficulty, the official pool is higher than the novice pool; but it is not absolute when it comes to a single copy.
The novice pool also has life-giving dungeons, and the official pool also has point-giving dungeons.
It is generally accepted that the third copy is a threshold. Many players will die inexplicably before becoming official players, and die without logic. The situation of "the strong dies and the weak survive" often happens.
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Fifth, it is said that there is a final copy, with unknown trigger conditions and unknown content, but as long as one player clears the final copy, any wish can be realized, including re-formulating the rules of the weird game, resurrecting and releasing everyone, or even closing the game forever.
Currently, the most popular player who is believed to be able to pass the final dungeon is a player named "Fu Jue". He ranks first in the comprehensive strength list and is the vice president of the Kyushu Guild. He is called "Chief" or "Chief" in the replies. Fu Shen" has countless fans and is likely to be promoted to the throne of the savior.
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"Is it the final copy? It's just a piece of cake full of loopholes... Does the being who makes the rules of the game actually reserve rules that are unfavorable to itself? It's interesting."
Qisi smiled sarcastically, feeling that this weird game was a mess from both the mechanism and the players.
——It’s like there have been several batches of production teams and planners, each with their own ideas, but it’s all different.
He put aside his miscellaneous thoughts and searched for the word "Xila" in the forum.
Many results were found, and the discussion was quite high. Most of them criticized the Silas Guild, as if it was an unmistakable target, a black sheep among the sheep.
Qisi learned that Xiela, known as "Sariel" in English, is one of the earliest guilds established in the weird game. There is a president code-named "Puppet Master", whose true identity is unknown. Shenlong meets the leader No tail in sight.
The entire guild claims to pursue social Darwinism, advocating killing weak players to the maximum extent in order to fight against the weird "survival of the weak" law of the weird game; at the same time, it allocates resources to elite players in order to trigger and clear the final dungeon.
What worries Chiss the most is that Xila's official account has said that once someone kills a member of their guild and they find out, they will definitely pursue it to the end.
“Didn’t we agree to engage in social Darwinism? Why do you want to do this again?” Zisi complained with empty eyes, “We are all huddled together to keep warm, and we still talk about social Darwinism, just to satisfy the president. A secondary fantasy? "
Being targeted by a group of unreasonable lunatics is definitely not a good thing, it will be very troublesome.
Although Qisi knew that he was not a reasonable and normal person, he still thought that his husband would treat him as a newcomer and be very unethical.
Well, we severely condemn this double standard behavior.
Being idle and bored, Qisi searched for the keyword "Rose Manor" and found a lot of strategy posts. It seemed that this copy had been thoroughly studied.
But what’s interesting is that dozens of strategy records are all [NormalEnd-“Bloody Bonds”]. The way to pass the level is to abide by the rules and ensure that you survive to the end.
A player fearfully wrote in the post:
[This is my second dungeon, plus I only have three players, but there are eight rules to abide by! To put it bluntly, the reality of the rules has to be tested with human lives. It was the third time for both of them. I really didn’t expect that I could come out alive! 】
【In the past two days, I followed the rules carefully, but they broke more rules than me, and they died one after another in the night. To be honest, I didn’t believe in the guaranteed death toll mechanism at all at that time. They are all dead, and I can't find any way to pass the level. Do we still have to go to the third floor? 】
[On the third night, Miss Anna broke open the door and came to chop me with a two-meter-long sickle! Just when I thought I was dead, a red skirt suddenly flew out from under the mattress and disappeared in front of my eyes. I realized that the time had gone back five minutes! 】
【I thought that instead of waiting for death in the house, it would be better to see if I could run out of the manor, so I immediately went downstairs. I walked out of the castle, but I didn't expect Miss Anna to be waiting in the garden, chasing me with a knife! I ran desperately, and an old woman in red clothes appeared out of nowhere, pestered Miss Anna, and told me to leave quickly...]
[The housekeeper also came, I thought he would help Anna The lady dealt with me, but unexpectedly he led me to the door, opened the door and let me go. I just passed the level in a daze. After I came out, I had a high fever and almost lost half my life...】
From the posts in the forum, I was previously matched with a copy of "Rose Manor" Players have all triggered the "guaranteed number of deaths" mechanism to clear the level, and they are also confused about the triggering conditions of the time reversal mechanism.
However, this post still answered some of Qisi’s questions:
It turns out that the red dress he found under the mattress was not only a clue, but also a one-time life-saving prop.
After the player encounters the point of death, the red dress will be automatically consumed to perform a short time travel.
If you take the TE route to clear the level, you will use the red dress in the first room on the third floor like Qisi and Chang Xu did, and smoothly obtain clues about Miss Anna's parents.
If you take the NE route to clear the level, you will be able to save your life and escape in the battle royale session on the third night, as the original poster said in the post.
At this point in the review, Zeiss couldn’t help but sneered: "I shouldn’t be the first TE to clear the level, right? No way, no way?"
At the relevant recommendation office, a solicitation post issued by the Jiuzhou Guild popped up in due course.
Qisi clicked in.
This is an old post that has been posted for tens of thousands of pages. The general idea is to call on all players to record their dungeon experience and how to achieve each ending as much as possible.
[Now we are alone in the sea of people. People who have not been selected by the game do not know what we are encountering, and we cannot expect them to understand. 】
【Leave your record here to point the way for those who come after you, or as proof that you have been here, so that all of us can remember your existence. 】
[One day, we will be able to clear the final copy and close the weird game. The dusty past will be revealed again, contributions and sacrifices will not be buried, memories will still be there, souls will be immortal, and we will look forward to a future without weirdness together! 】
Qisi read the main building’s mobilization essay for two seconds and was disgusted by success, so he immediately looked for the option to block him.
After searching for a long time and not finding it, he could only fork out the post that was full of chicken soup flavor and exit the game forum with full of displeasure.
No matter what, he does not intend to be a good person and post to share his experience of clearing the level.
God knows which force is behind the forum. He posted a post on the front foot, and maybe his address was leaked on the back foot.
After reviewing information security from beginning to end in his mind, Qisi reached under his sheets and fumbled around, pulling out a huge piece of rubbing paper and raising it to his eyes.
The rubbing paper is printed with words such as "Go to hell" and "You are not a human being". It looks like it will break through the paper at any time and slap the young man holding the paper.
Qisi admired it in fascination for a while, finally getting rid of the false harmonious atmosphere created by the Kyushu Guild and returning to the reality of malice.
He yawned with satisfaction, turned off the light in the room, wrapped himself in a quilt, and fell asleep.
(End of this chapter)