The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

"It's nothing, I just suddenly remembered," Li Can said, changing the subject. "Go ask him, I'll get the soup bowl too."

Li Can could feel his heart pounding fiercely, and his blood felt frozen cold. He tightened the hem of his clothes and walked away with his back to Wang Qing and the others.

If we calculate based on the timeline of the collapse of the Moon Tower, then the day he traveled through time was the beginning of the end of Earth.

The players he's currently interacting with are all humans who lived within a month of the apocalypse that struck the original Earth.

He was a player who entered the instance from the wasteland of Blue Star, which was on the verge of destruction and collapse, and he was the only one left on the planet. Ten years later, he was the only one left in the wasteland.

By sheer coincidence, they met in the same game at different points in time and space...

My experiences over the past few hours can no longer be described as magical.

Am I really not dreaming? He picked up the soup bowl and poured it down his throat in one gulp. The cold, fragrant, and oily liquid washed over his entire intestines.

Those clear and real tastes and touches constantly reminded him that all of this was a real fact.

"If these people could survive with me in the instance, and after leaving the game, unite with the humans of ten years ago to intervene in the crisis in advance, wouldn't Earth not be facing destruction now, humanity wouldn't be extinct, and maybe the apocalypse would even be over?"

A bold idea surged into Li Can's mind, more outrageous than any of his previous thoughts.

However, he himself is still unclear about the exact cause of the complete extinction of humanity.

Furthermore, based on the descriptions of the players regarding the current world situation, it seems that a new power system has emerged as a way of survival, and it doesn't appear to be something that will simply disappear.

What exactly happened on Earth after he traveled there?

Li Can was somewhat frantic. He desperately wanted to go out and find the garbled cloud to discover the reason on Blue Star ten years later, but at the same time, he was also worried that this encounter in the misaligned time and space of this instance was just a coincidence.

If this is the only chance to contact someone from the past, what if they don't have that chance again when they enter the Vortex instance next time?

Even more pressing crises are pressing him now. If he can't complete the game and can't get out alive to retrieve the sphere to extend Earth's life, all his crazy plans will be in vain.

"What way is there to balance all of the above and bring things to the best possible outcome...?" Li Can pulled himself out of his overwhelming and chaotic thoughts, his eyes sweeping over each player on the field.

Holding the soup bowl, Wang Qing stood respectfully before the NPC old woman. "Excuse me, was she murdered?"

"Yes."

"A woman who was murdered in Wenxin Mental Hospital..." Chen Qi thought to himself, arms crossed, and muttered to himself.

"Hello, Grandma, I want to ask, is she also a test subject?" Xiao Mo mustered up her courage, walked to the soup pot, sat next to the NPC's recliner, and asked clearly.

When it was the little girl's turn, the grandmother suddenly changed her posture, turned her head to face the little one, and after a long while, she pondered, "Yes."

Xiao Mo instinctively took a step back, startled and staggered. Xiao Yu quickly grabbed her sister's arm.

She gasped, turned to look at her brother, her brows furrowed, her hands trembling uncontrollably, her whole body shaking, her little face deathly pale.

"Brother, she was also a test subject..." Xiao Mo repeated in a very small, tearful voice.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid, we've already escaped." Xiaoyu gently patted her back to comfort her.

As the little boy lowered his head, his slender, fair neck was exposed behind his collar. In the firelight, a dozen or so festering needle marks could be vaguely seen.

"What happened to you?" Chen Qi wanted to check again after seeing it.

But Xiaoyu flinched in panic and quickly retreated several steps, adopting a defensive posture.

Li Can had already noticed this, and the fact that the two children had just mentioned "having escaped" further corroborated the story.

Their real-life fates are strikingly similar to, and strangely coincide with, the identity cards in the game.

At the same time, he felt angry. What exactly did the surviving humans do in the post-apocalyptic world ten years ago?

What kind of experiments and research would be conducted on such a young child after they were captured? A cure for the zombie virus? Or the development of a new bio-virus?

Thinking of the zombie virus, Li Can found the toy box in his mind, which contained 11 puppet gashapon toys, 10 of which were zombies and 1 was a zombie vulture.

I didn't have time to study it carefully before entering the vortex dungeon, and then I had to start analyzing the tense situation. Now I finally have a little time to open this cheat code that suddenly appeared.

Of the three gashapon machines, only the puppet gashapon machine is still active and lit up.

However, the number of uses has been reduced to zero.

He currently only has one empty gashapon capsule to absorb the puppet, and he had previously discovered that this puppet had usage limitations.

It can only absorb life forms that are completely dead and devoid of thought; zombified creatures are the most suitable puppets.

Things like flowers, trees, objects, machinery, and humans are all unacceptable.

What Li Can was most eager to do was actually those eight-legged humanoid spider monsters in the dark jungle, but since he was new to the place, he didn't dare to make any rash moves and hadn't taken any action yet.

Furthermore, his puppet egg was also quite eager to use the corpse of Zhou Yong, player number 1612, who had already died. If Li Can wanted, his corpse would also be used by him.

But he didn't want it.

Just as everyone gathered around to check the two little ones' injuries, Li Can silently walked to the edge of the jungle and quietly released the zombie vulture from the puppet egg in the toy box.

In an instant, he could receive information from the puppet, and the real-time scene was split in two before his eyes.

It allows you to select a primary and secondary viewpoint and switch the screen size.

Under Li Can's command and control, the vultures flew through the forest without disturbing the monsters below. The vultures seemed to be born to be part of this place, and they did not reject each other.

This surprised Li Can. He had been worried that his actions were too bold and would alert the monster, so he tried to keep the vulture flying high in the sky.

Now it seems that this is not necessary; even when vultures get tired of flying, they can perch on a tree for a while to rest.

The prolonged operation was extremely taxing on his mind and energy, leaving him feeling as exhausted as if he hadn't slept for three days and three nights.

This is different from the short-term exhaustion he experienced when he simply controlled the vulture, grabbed himself, and jumped into the vortex.

After releasing the puppet eggs, Li Can walked back to the edge of the crowd. Xiao Yu unbuttoned his shirt, revealing his scarred face.

"Dear uncles, brothers and sisters, Xiao Mo and I are indeed experimental subjects who escaped from reality. We entered the instance because we would rather die here than be tortured to death outside."

"We are in pain every day, and we are still in pain now."

"But please don't dislike or reject us because of this. We are very useful, and we can do many things."

Chen Qi knelt down to undress Xiaoyu's clothes, then asked, "No, you guys are really great. There's something else I've wanted to ask you for a long time: where are your parents?"

"They're the ones who do the experiments," Xiaoyu replied in a low voice, her head down.