My players are grinding in the apocalypse

North of the Four Mountains, on the way to the City of the Colossus, is a plain terrain, where you can see traces of what once was a small town or county seat.

Autumn has just entered the wasteland now, and it is neither cold nor hot.

After walking all morning, Agent Feng, who had run away from Sishan, stood on a small hill and looked at the vast but dilapidated world.

"True open world map."

The so-called open world means that all locations on the map can be reached without plot or air wall restrictions. This is the practice of many mainstream games now.

But it’s still shocking to see it in a fully immersive virtual reality game.

Agent Feng is different from those gamers in Sishan. He is not keen on upgrading and killing monsters. He wants to explore an unknown world and solve the puzzles hidden in the game world.

He likes the games between humans and ghosts that his high school classmate told me about.

"So, it is known that there is a very awesome female ghost in Sishan, so why was she sealed there? And according to the information given by other players, the female ghost did not choose to leave immediately after being unsealed, but Is she still hiding in Yanjing Town because there is something she cares about there?"

There are no clues to these, and with his current strength, there is no need to think about challenging the female ghost to find out.

Agent Feng also took a trip to the ethereal illusion. This one-time copy gave him 200 experience points and relived a battle he had participated in. In that battle, his instructor died in the line of duty. In the illusion, he I chose to sacrifice myself in exchange for the instructor, and then I passed the level.

At that moment, he seemed to let go of something in his heart.

Agent Feng looked at his smart watch, which had a map drawn on it. Except for the four mountains, the surroundings were dark.

On the map, he opened an exit to the north from the circle representing the Four Mountains area.

The map in the game is shared. As long as the player backs up the data, his map information will be uploaded to the data center of the natural disaster base, and other players will synchronize the map information when they enter the base.

Therefore, Agent Feng is the first player to get out of the Four Mountains.

Looking to the north, there is a town not far away that seems to have been abandoned for a long time. Agent Feng plans to explore it.

"The Four Mountains are too barren. If you want to obtain high-quality materials, you have to explore the large map of the open world."

"I may not be able to defeat the mobs, but... I'll just pick up something and run away."

With this thought in mind, he walked into the abandoned town ahead.

I searched for a full hour and found nothing.

Not to mention picking up high-level props, there were not even the expected high-level monsters.

"Huh? The game has designed a completely useless scene. It shouldn't be. From a psychological point of view, players are creatures that need timely rewards. They can have livers, but they cannot run empty. That will greatly consume their patience in the game. , it shouldn’t be unexpected that a designer can create such a huge game.”

"Then why was a completely worthless town designed on the way out of Sishan? Is it just the background of the world?"

"Something's wrong, something's definitely wrong."

Agent Feng seemed to sense an unusual smell.

He went in and explored again, checking every place carefully, and this time he found many traces left by people.

"The game background design was hundreds of years after the war. According to the logic of the open world, even if we haven't reached a map, the people or monsters on that map will act according to their logic, so... Wasteland Humans should have emptied this town of supplies long before we players did.”

"So, this place may be a game background texture intentionally left by the designer. There are no people or monsters."

"However, it does not mean that there are no humans and monsters."

Agent Feng walked towards the roadside of the ruined town. Through the cracks in the stone slabs, he could see the town's sewer below. Standing inside was a pale boy with two rouges of blush on his face. Smiling at him.

Agent Feng also showed his big white teeth.

"That doesn't mean there aren't ghosts."

He felt his eyes flash, and the boy's figure disappeared from the gap in the sewer.

If you were an ordinary person, you might think you were dazzled just now.

But Agent Feng is no ordinary person.

"This body has almost no shortcomings, how can it be dazzling?"

He found a wooden stick, knocked the stone slab open, and jumped into the sewer.

"Actually, Ethereal Illusion is an introductory welfare copy that allows us players to understand the attack methods of creatures like ghosts. According to the logic of this game, attacks by ghosts on humans are likely to be a kind of mental infection. If Finding ways to cope doesn’t have to be fatal.”

The sewer was dark, and there were faint sounds of women crying and children laughing, and everything was full of weirdness.

Agent Feng closed his eyes and walked forward with a wooden stick in his hand, beating it.

Here, his eyes are his burden.

There was something pulling on his clothes behind him, something blowing in his ear, and something seemed to be staring at him in front of his face, making him instinctively want to open his eyes.

"Noisy!"

Agent Feng remained unmoved and strode deep into the sewer where he couldn't even see his fingers.

Except for the wooden stick in his hand, he didn't believe anyone at this moment.

[You are receiving continuous blur damage, hp-1hp-1hp-1]

He slowly continued to lose blood, but his blood volume was also recovering at a rate of 0.5 per second.

"My limit is 16 minutes, but considering that too much blood loss will affect mobility, my safe time should be about 12 minutes, that is to say, if you can't find something after walking forward for 6 minutes, you have to come back. .”

Da~da~da~

Agent Feng kept walking forward, beating the surroundings with wooden sticks.

As a professional police academy graduate, he had learned to deal with such sight-unfavorable situations.

At the 6th minute, he had three more things in his arms, which he picked up based on feeling.

"It's time to go back."

Snapped!

Agent Feng's wooden stick hit a crisp object.

He knelt down and touched it with his hands.

"Hiss~ It's so cold!"

An irregular but smooth metal-like object, about the size of a standard airplane cup.

At this moment, a terrifying howl came from my ears.

"ah!!!"

As if being attacked by a ghost, two lines of blood flowed out of Agent Feng's ears.

[You are attacked by a blur, HP -50. 】

Agent Feng smiled.

"Found something good."

He picked it up and walked back quickly.

The dark sewer was covered with the sound of intensive beatings of small sticks.

Four minutes later, Agent Feng returned to the original position. He felt the sunlight shining from above and touched it from memory with his eyes closed.

Then he opened his eyes.

What came into view were two twisted figures in the sewer, a long-haired female ghost and a blushing boy. They were about to rush out. They were hideous and terrifying, scarier than the most terrifying horror movie shapes.

"If you could have come up and hit me, you would have come up long ago. Save yourself the trouble."

Agent Feng stepped away and looked at the pile of things in his arms.

A gold watch, a bag of lustrous iron coins printed with sculptures, a delicate-looking metal top, and the cold white "metal" he finally found the size of an airplane cup.

It feels like metal, but the surface looks more like a crystal with nice patterns inside, and it feels cold to the touch.

"Good, this thing looks good."

There is gain.

He stood up and put the things into his backpack, which Forgive Hat bought for him at the lord's shop before going out, each worth 10 iron coins.

"Let's go shopping again and pick up some props."

His gameplay is just one word: stealing chicken.

"The sewers just didn't reach the end. Maybe there are other props that can be obtained after upgrading and come back with more health."

At this time, he only had 150 health points left, and it might be dangerous to walk a little further.

After eating a few mouthfuls of beans, Agent Feng patted the dirt on his body and walked north out of the town.

Da da da~

Da da da~

Two humans on horseback rushed towards them, wearing clothes with yellow and green stripes crossed with multiple sculpture patterns printed on them.

When Agent Feng saw it, he felt happy.

"Isn't this the pattern on the iron coin?"

If Xigou and the three of them were here, they would definitely recognize this pattern. This pattern appeared on the caravan train in the City of the Colossus.