Chapter 1 The Scene

"You guys didn't see the state they were in when we found them today!"

"Oh my, what happened to those two? It's a miracle they survived!"

By the campfire, the Zhen brothers were describing the events of their hunting trip earlier that day when they found Wang Wenfei and Merida.

Several girls in the team had participated in the rescue after they brought Wang Wenfei and Merida back. Looking at the visible external injuries on the two, everyone couldn't help but gasp.

Their bodies were covered in a crisscross of new and old wounds. It was a stroke of luck that these external injuries hadn't become infected or attracted wild beasts.

Mingmei had just wondered how they had avoided the beasts when she heard Zhen Hu say that they had found the two women clinging to the back of a large herbivorous dinosaur, barely hanging on by a thread.

"From a distance, I thought, 'These two are awesome, daring to ride even an ancient behemoth!' But when I got closer, good grief! They were just lying there!

The moment they saw us, they almost fell headfirst off the beast. You know, it was seven or eight meters high. If my brother and I hadn't been quick enough to catch them, whew! They wouldn't have died from the fall, but they would have broken their arms and legs for sure!"

"Seven or eight meters high, and you two dared to catch them directly? That's amazing!"

"Hey, they weren't falling straight down. They slid down the beast's belly a bit, so the actual vertical drop was only three or four meters."

"Still impressive."

"Hahaha, it was alright!"

Zhen Hu and Zhen Po accepted the praise for a while, but eventually the topic returned to the two unconscious women.

"I wonder if they'll make it through this," someone in the team said softly, filled with worry.

"They should. They don't have a fever. Didn't Mu Chen identify some herbs that could stop bleeding and reduce inflammation a few days ago? We've used them all. If they don't have any internal injuries, they should wake up in a few days."

Mingmei said softly, looking at Mu Chen, who was organizing herbs beside her.

He heard Mingmei call him and looked up at her with a gentle smile. The tenderness flowing between them made the other players turn away in tacit understanding.

Oh, right, they should be concerned about the two lying down, not the two sitting there.

With this thought, a player quickly changed the subject: "Well, it's good that they're alive."

After that, the other players echoed similar sentiments one after another.

"That's right, it's better than being eliminated. I originally thought it wouldn't be difficult for anyone to earn another 90 points in this game... But after actually being in the game, I can only think that I must have had too much nutrient solution in the game pod and waterlogged my brain!"

"You've already been through two deadly group games, and you can still think so simply? As for me, I only have one attitude in each game: just survive. But I didn't expect it to be even harder to survive this time than the last."

The players who had experienced the zombie副本 (fùběn, instance/scenario) were still haunted by the opening and closing kills of that instance. Only after entering this game did they realize that this game was deadly from beginning to end.

It wanted you to make the character you were playing cast off the habits of beasts and move towards civilization, but it also plunged you into the fear of being hunted by beasts every day. In the desperate flight, you broke your own moral bottom line time and time again in order to survive.

They were constantly jumping back and forth between deducting points, adding points, deducting points, and constantly provoking their fragile nerves.

Moreover, compared to adding points, most players initially faced only two choices: live and deduct points, or die and not gain points.

What a tangled and explosive game!

Damn planners!

……

"Achoo!"

This time, Yan Hui didn't enter the virtual space to watch his niece play the game.

Because a guest he expected arrived at his temporary residence: Doctor Feng Jia from the Psychological Counseling Department of the Central Military Academy Hospital.

"Mr. Yan Hui, are you alright?"

The two were sitting on the sofa, drinking coffee. Suddenly, Yan Hui sneezed, and Feng Jia asked with concern.

"It's nothing. I've been making games too much, and people are always talking about me."

Yan Hui, who was very self-aware of his reputation outside, had a thick skin and joked about himself effortlessly.

"Mr. Yan Hui's game is indeed refreshing. I've played a few, and they are indeed very good and make your heart race."

Before coming, Feng Jia had naturally done his homework and even played the games designed by Yan Hui.

It had to be said that some of the things in the other party's game made him even more determined to meet Yan Hui.

Yan Hui smiled when he heard his answer. Seeing Feng Jia's performance was indeed remarkable, he was completely worthy of Mu Chen's description of this person: a refined pervert.

The first half was the perception before knowing the person's details;

The second half was from Mu Chen's intuition.

"Refreshing? There are too many games, and the types are always somewhat homogenized. It's not as good as you said." Yan Hui smiled modestly, "I'm just providing everyone with various different death experiences."

"So, is Mr. Yan Hui very afraid of death?"

"Not really."

Yan Hui picked up his coffee and drank it casually, without sugar or milk. The bitter taste of the coffee, wrapped in a unique fragrance, permeated his lips and teeth, and his mind became more and more clear.

"Is it that you are not afraid of death, or do you think you will not be threatened by death at all?"

The words "eternal life" were not mentioned, but they were already revolving around it.

Feng Jia was naturally prepared to sit here at this moment, but the only thing that surprised him was that the person he found was not surprised by his appearance.

However, all he got in the end was the other party putting the cup back on the coffee table, neither lightly nor heavily, after drinking the coffee, without saying a word.

After a moment,.oΓg

"I thought the Mei Qiu incident had already taught your Zerg a lot of lessons."

Yan Hui's words were always so straightforward when he wasn't playing 太极 (tàijí, being evasive), so straightforward that Feng Jia felt that the person in front of him was bluffing him.

How did he discover that he was a Zerg?

Even the latest detection equipment updated by the military academy didn't find it. This person—was he talking nonsense?

"You can't wrongly accuse people like that. However, I don't understand. Mr. Yan, your tone seems to be very familiar with the Zerg."

Feng Jia also put down his coffee cup, silently retracted his hands and placed them on his side, and the tone of his speech slowed down with his breathing.

"Ha, okay, I'm not kidding..." Yan Hui smiled sarcastically, "However, Doctor Feng, you'd better not talk nonsense, or I'll sue you for defamation~"

"Ah, it's my fault, the joke was a bit too much." Feng Jia suddenly smiled, tapping his optical brain with a faint tone, "Speaking of which, I remembered a message I heard a few days ago, saying that you came from the Research Institute?"

"Ha? Who's spreading rumors?" Yan Hui raised his eyebrows, "What kind of people are at the Research Institute? They stay up all night working overtime 007, get up earlier than chickens, and sleep later than dogs. They are research madmen.

I'm not, I'm just a social animal who likes to make money and play games."

"Is that so? So it's just the same name."

Feng Jia said, lowering his eyelashes. There was no trace of abnormality on the other person's face.

Although the appearance of the person in front of him didn't match the information from the Research Institute, based on the network of contacts and the trajectory of this person's actions that he had found, the person in front of him was Yan Hui, who disappeared from the Research Institute for no reason a hundred years ago!