dramatic death

What is an "NPC" that is not an NPC?

Xia Zexing froze in the dormitory, looking at Chen Yan in disbelief.

"Is it a player?" He heard Yin Tong ask.

"It might be the GM." He heard Chen Yan answer.

If Xia Zexing could make a sound at this moment, he would have interrupted the conversation between the two by shouting.This kind of development is too strange, shouldn't the NPC in the game be just a piece of data?Why is there the possibility of "player playing"?What the hell is Hakoniwa Online playing, are they killing each other?

Can this game pass the review?Aren't developers imprisoned in the White Tower at birth?

He curled up in the chair with his neck stuck, staring at a pair of copper bell-like eyes and gasping for breath.This chair seems to have been broken by his swing of the hand just now, and now there will be a whining sound of "squeak" at the slightest movement. It is as pitiful as a small animal caught by the back of the neck. During the conversation with Chen Yan, he kept trembling.

Chen Yan turned his head to glance at him, and was taken aback for a moment, as if he was amused by the shock in his eyes.

"It's not as complicated as you think," he waved his hand. "You can properly understand it as - this game is not only a **G, but also an MMORPG."

MMORPG—massively multiplayer online role-playing game, most of the current online games—such as XX Love, XX World, X Water Cold, etc. With various interactive channels, it can be called a game platform for the two-way development of competition and friendship.

The biggest feature of this kind of game is that it has a high degree of freedom and various types of monsters. In addition to the fixed size monsters in the game, players can also conduct one-on-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many "comparisons".

and so……

Xia Zexing's Adam's apple rolled, and he tried to understand what Chen Yan meant, trying to stick the eight words "I might have misunderstood it" on his face.

However, Chen Yan looked at him and shook his head, and slowly affirmed: "You are not mistaken, the NPC you met may be the player who directly started the 'combat' mode."

"...So Hakoniwa Online's 'Discussion Mode' doesn't have prompts?" Dong Tiantian sneered, "This degree of freedom is too high."

Chen Yan didn't reply.On the other hand, Yin Tong pursed his lips on the opposite bed, and interrupted Dong Tiantian: "This 'attack' may not be included in the scope of 'discussion'." He paused, as if he felt that his explanation was not clear enough, and frowned. For example, "Think of it this way, assuming that the task you accept from logging in to the game is: 'Kill 15 slimes and get item rewards'."

"Do you suspect that slime is a player?"

"Do you doubt that slime is real?"

"No way," Yin Tong smiled, "'People who are looking for a sense of reality in virtual games have brain problems', but what if Hakoniwa Online is such a game mechanism?"

"Because we didn't suspect the opponent's instinct, we would act maliciously unscrupulously; because we regarded the monster opposite as a monster, so we never showed mercy."

— Do you feel familiar?

Yin Tong's voice gradually softened, and he folded his hands and smiled with difficulty, as if he heard someone blinking his eyes slowly outside the window.

It was the sound of flapping the wings of a cicada when the slender eye feathers fluttered.

——"Do you feel familiar?"

He heard a voice say so.

—— "Just like the school violence we are experiencing now."

——"Because we were not regarded as each other's 'companions', we were persecuted as a matter of course. Because they didn't realize that the persecution was a 'human being' like themselves, so they abused without restraint."

——"Once human beings lose their restraint, they will never reach utopia."

The voice stopped for a moment, and a suppressed muffled laugh escaped from his throat.

——“They actually call this place utopia”

——"If one day, I will also create such a game. I will bury countless hints, but never take the initiative to declare. I let all the 'players' enjoy the pleasure of killing and cruelty, and let them poke through the bedroom plush toys in the hallway, tear up the disgusting poisonous insects in the corridor, and kill the beasts on the road all the way until you get the treasure at the end."

— "Then they'll find out."

——"Toys are children, poisonous insects are wives, beasts are pedestrians."

——"The only treasure is a pool of rotten meat mixed with dirty blood."

Who said that?

Yin Tong blinked, only to feel that there was something pinching his neck behind him, forcing him to look up at the person opposite.

Looking at the girl opposite.

It was a girl in a school uniform with a bright smile.

She was sitting on the desk in the classroom, with a bright red sunset behind her, and the dim daylight leaked in through the window frame, and along with the gentle evening wind, traced the burning clouds in the sky on the floor.

Yin Tong saw that she was holding a round apple in her hand, and the white teeth left a clear tooth mark on the vermilion peel.

"Click"

The crisp gnawing sound was magnified countless times and hit Yintong's ear like a stone, causing a messy tinnitus in his mind.

"Okay." Seeing the girl shaking her legs, he raised his lips and smiled at him.

"Then I'll make a game like this (Hakoniwa)!"

……

"Tongtong...?"

"Tongtong?"

Yin Tong suddenly withdrew his thoughts and looked up at the place where the sound came from.

An Qi was still sitting on his left, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and his smoky eyes were full of worry.

"Are you ok?"

He heard his cohabitant ask.

It took Yin Tong 10 seconds to realize that he was still in the dormitory, and it took 5 seconds to realize that everything just now was his hallucination.Chen Yan and Dong Tiantian were still sitting on the opposite chairs, and Xia Zexing was still waiting for the answer with a dazed expression.

Where did I just say that?

He opened his mouth and let out a meaningless gasp from his throat.On the left, a bottle of mineral water with the cap unscrewed was stuffed into his hand, he heard An Qi clear his throat, and said slowly: "According to Mr. 'Hunting time' is the counterpart."

"When the hunting time is on, that is, the period from 7:45 to 18:45 during the day, it is actually the time for the two players to hunt each other."

"We can all be counted as 'hunters' and we can all be counted as 'prey'."

Chen Yan lowered his eyes and smiled: "It can be said that, but the lunch break time should be cut off. This so-called 'hunting time' corresponds to the original class time. I am grateful that the school does not have a late self-study system, otherwise we would have to go to school in the middle of the night. You have to face a lot of hostile players who 'don't know if they have a brain or not'."

Dong Tiantian rolled his eyes leaning on the back of the chair.

He couldn't agree with his remarks at all, but the dizziness from excessive blood loss deprived him of a lot of fighting power, and even though the pain on his wrist was weakened by most of the props, it still tirelessly tormented his tense nerves.

He really couldn't muster the strength to argue with Chen Yan, and he was too lazy to refute the other party's ridiculous point of view. He slumped on the back of the chair and looked at the ceiling for a while, and asked lazily with a long voice: "Then according to what you said, How do we distinguish who is the player?"

"Why do you need to distinguish 'who is the player'?" Chen Yan turned his head and looked out of the window. The dormitory building shrouded in white mist was still sunk in a gloomy sun, and the sky at noon looked so gloomy that it was about to rain heavily." What is your definition of a player?"

His voice didn't stop, as if he didn't care about anyone's answer: "After the New Era, our life span has been extended to 370 years, and our soul can be broken into data particles, recombined in another place - space or time, our Thoughts can be fused with mobile terminals and uploaded to the central network, aren’t we — ‘human beings’, just a piece of data? How is this way of living different from NPCs?”

"It's still different," Yintong tried to deny him, "Human data particles can change independently, and you can treat us as a small terminal that is constantly updated—we sometimes don't need to rely on the central network. But NPC—— I am referring to the NPC in Hakoniwa Online, well, it can be defined as 'Cheng Mingque' in your place."

He paused for a moment, as if hesitating whether to say such a serious word, but after looking up at Chen Yan, he somehow made up his mind, sighed and said word by word: "Your 'Cheng Mingque' , is a piece of data that has stopped updating."

"He's not self-aware."

Chen Yan smiled: "How do you know? I tried 35 times, and his reaction is always as vivid as a normal person, and his mental state is complete, because his whole body has been preserved in this Little Garden."

"Cheng Mingque hasn't left this Little Garden since three years ago."

Chen Yan looked up at Yin Tong, the corners of his lips curled slightly, as if telling a trivial joke.

"How can you conclude that he is not a 'person'?"

……

Xia Zexing froze in this unusual conversation.

He didn't know whether he should be astonished by Chen Yan's way of thinking, or by the fact that "Cheng Mingque is an NPC".He sat stiffly in the chair, looking at Dong Tiantian at a loss, only then did he notice that his roommate's face was more than one shade paler than usual, there was a handkerchief wrapped around his wrist, and there were still dark brown stains on the port. Blood.

what happened?

He looked at the fracture that obviously didn't belong to the "hand" and gasped for breath.

What happened without me knowing?

He tried to squeeze out a hoarse voice from his throat, trying to figure out the ins and outs of all this, but his throat was like a broken woofer, no matter how hard he squeezed it, he could only make a hoarse breathy sound.

At this moment, he heard Chen Yan's laughter.

He said: "It doesn't matter, we don't really need to make it so clear."

"As long as we reach the end, whether it is HE or TE, we can get a chance to start over."

"We can go back to the beginning of the game and get back what was lost."