Five people sat in a private booth.
They each had a drink in front of them, and several plates of sweets and snacks were placed in the center of the table.

Zhou Guang sighed, “I didn’t know anything nor have any points when I first entered this game, so I didn’t dare crave for a cup of coffee.
But now, not only can I have anything, but also some snacks.”

Liang Xi, ” I don’t seem to age here.
In my previous copy, I met a player who has been living in the game lobby for more than ten years, and he was still in the state when he first entered.”

Li Cancan, “Immortality, housing, food.
This place would have been a paradise for many if it weren’t for the thrilling copies.
The longer you stay here, the easier it is to lose morale.
I met an old player in my last copy, he has stayed in this game for more than 20 years and usually stays in the tower.
He would not participate in this game if it weren’t for the 50 points daily consumption.”

“He has been here for so long that he even forgot why he came here.”

“In fact, it’s terrible to think about it, aren’t we like frogs getting boiled in warm water?”

“I thought of myself when I saw him.
Would I forget my original intention and my grandmother if I continued to clear copies like this?”

Xia Chi, “You won’t, Sister Cancan.
You will leave the game world soon, not only you but also the rest of us.”

“It seems that you have gone through many copies in the past few days,” Bai Lixin said as he stirred his coffee.
“How was the clearing process? How many floors have you climbed?”

Bai Lixin’s questions seemed to make the group a little embarrassed but one by one, they still answered them.

Zhou Guang was the first to open up.

“I’ll be honest.
I have entered two copies since our last meeting.”

“Who made me fall so far behind? I was scared at first.
I moved carefully for fear that there would be any problems in the last hours.”

“*Eat a cut, and grow wiser.
Everything I ate and drank in the copy was my own food and I didn’t ease up until the first copy was cleared successfully.
I’m now on the 33rd floor, and I am very satisfied with the result.
Of course, it’s a lot worse than the rest of you.”

*To learn from one’s mistakes.

Li Cancan, “You’re awesome.
Just two copies and you climbed more than ten floors up to the 33rd! I entered only one copy and I’m now on the 45th floor.”

Liang Xi, “I also entered one copy, and I am on the same floor as Li Cancan.
Xia Chi is the amazing one, he is now over the 80th floor.”

“Well, I’m just lucky,” Xia Chi smiled shyly.
“It’s not worth mentioning at all.”

“But speaking of good luck,” Xia Chi smiled and took out an envelope from his backpack.
He patted it on the table mysteriously.
“Do you know what this is?”

Zhou Guang, “From the shape, it looks like a card? Is it a prop?”

Xia Chi nodded his head, “Yes, guess what card this is.”

Li Cancan, “You just mentioned ‘luck’ and took it out.
Is it a card to increase the lucky value?”

“Wow,” Xia Chi looked at Li Cancan in surprise.
“Sister Cancan, you are so good, you guessed it in one go.”

Li Cancan blushed shyly, “I just guessed at random.
I’ve listened to people analyze so many times, and I am now familiar with it.”

Xia Chi pushed the envelope to Bai Lixin, “Brother, I picked this card in the gaming lobby on the 50th floor.
It would be of great use to you.
I did you a disservice in the copy earlier, and this is my apology.”

Bai Lixin opened the envelope and drew a card from it.

It was an A-level point card to increase one’s luck value, and was a great existence for players above the 50th floor.

However, Bai Lixin was an exception.

He consumed five S-level cards in a row but they didn’t improve his situation at all.
It would be a waste for him to use this.

Bai Lixin took the card, and looked at the number on the card with complex feelings.
Under the envious eyes of everyone, he returned the card to Xia Chi, “You can keep it, it’s useless to me.
I’ve used five S-level promotion cards before, but none of them have been of any use.”

Everyone: “…”

The listener was sad, and the listener wept.

*Someone or something that makes the person who sees or hears it sad.

Xia Chi was embarrassed, “It’s also useless to me.
My luck value has already reached the upper limit.”

Everyone: “…”

Bai Lixin: “…”

Xia Chi, “Perhaps we should give it to Brother Zhou Guang.
I remember that his luck value was low.
A better luck value will help when clearing copies.”

“I noticed that the selected copies have a lot to do with the luck value.
Those with good luck don’t get bad copies that often.
You must have entered that copy of the undead last time because your luck value was too low.”

Zhou Guang, “Why don’t we choose randomly? There is no reason why the resources should always come to me.”

Xia Chi thought for a moment, “Then let’s have a game.
Whoever loses gets the card.”

One minute later, Zhou Guang lost completely.

Who made him unlucky.

After happily solving the problem of who gets the card, a system prompt rang out above everyone’s heads without warning.

[Ding! Dear players, I’m sorry to disturb your game experience time.
The game system will be updated in ten seconds.]

[The contents of this update package are as follows:]

[1.Modification of the disharmony problem of NPC dialogue.]

[2.
The frequency of bugs in copies will be fixed.]

[3.
Three new copies will be added, including a 100-player copy, a 50-person medium level copy, and a 10-player low level copy.]

[The update will take 3 minutes, and during the process, the game lobby will be temporarily disconnected and your vision will be plunged into a 3 minute dark space.
This is to ensure the stability of the system and prevent malicious attacks by virus programs.]

[Players in the copy will not be affected in any way, please rest assured.]

The information on the three new copies will be as follows:]

[One hundred player copy: [Campus Strange Talk] copy.
Fifty player copy: [Dead Cruise] copy.
Ten player copy: [FairyTale Kingdom] copy.]]

[Since this update will affect the game experience, the system will randomly issue compensation prop cards to the players.
Thank you for your support.]

[The update will start after a 10-second countdown.
]

[10, 9, 8…]

The group looked at each other.
Through the curtain of the private rooms, Bai Lixin could hear the restlessness outside.

“Fuck, wasn’t the game updated more than a month ago? Only one copy was uploaded, but three copies will be uploaded this time? Is the system crazy?”

“That’s right.
There are so many copies, and it is still adding more.
How much does this game like updating?”

“Bugs are also fixed? The more they are fixed, the more trashy the game is.”

The countdown numbers above his head were getting smaller and smaller, and Bai Lixin looked at the coffee on the table in front of him.

The copy was just updated more than a month ago.
That was around when he first entered the game.

The system said that the signal to the game lobby would get cut off to prevent external virus attacks.
That sentence was intriguing.

[3, 2, 1! The system update will now begin.]

With that, sound and light disappeared instantly.

In front of Bai Lixin was complete darkness.

He tried to reach out and touch himself, but the touch he should have wasn’t there.

This was not simply blocking of sight, but the consciousness was pulled away into a dark field.

Bai Lixin shouted into the void: [S419M, can you hear me?]

The wait was especially long in the dark without a reference.

Just when Bai Lixin thought that S419M was also in the dark, two intermittent current sounds came out, and the faint sound of S419M’s voice came in his mind: [I’m here, Lord host.]

[I got dizzy a moment ago.
I was hit by a huge electric shock wave.
The escape system was immediately asleep but I was able to turn on the shielding system before I fell unconscious in order to resist the shock wave.]

[But the shock wave was not that simple.] S419M’s words made Bai Lixin vigilant.
[This shock wave was scanning the brain.]

Bai Lixin: [What was it scanning specifically? The memory?]

S419M: [I don’t think it’s the memory, but the activity value of the cerebral cortex.
Lord Host, the electric pulse is coming again.
I will temporarily shield it.]

Bai Lixin: [Okay.]

S419M: [Ding! Turning on the defense avatar mode.
Ding! Defensive avatar mode has been enabled.]

[I simulated and made decent fake brain waves to replace yours, so that the system doesn’t discover you.]

[Please be careful, Lord host.]

Before S419M’s voice could dissipate, a powerful impact suddenly rushed to him.

Nothing could be seen in the darkness, but Bai Lixin could feel ripples in the darkness.

With the power to destroy everything, Bai Lixin could feel the impact make his brain buzz.

When the second shock wave faded, S419M spoke up once again: [I detected that the shock wave has been changing its frequency.]

Bai Lixin: [Maybe it’s the [virus] mentioned in the system announcement.
It is either trying to find the same brain wave through resonance, or it is trying to exclude something.]

S419M: [Exclude something?]

Bai Lixin: [Perhaps the virus the system mentioned.
Then we can treat this shockwave as an antivirus.]

S419M: [What virus? Sorry, Lord host, I haven’t detected it yet.]

[It doesn’t matter,] Bai Lixin calmly said, [If the system is going to update like this every time, we can always use it to get information, no hurry.]

Bai Lixin looked ahead, vaguely aware that a very weak light had appeared in what should have been darkness.

The darkness was so strong that it occupied the whole world while the light was so small that it was even inferior to the dust in the air.
It jumped gently and slowly landed in front of Bai Lixin.

It was so small and weak, but it took all his attention when it stopped before him.

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