The glass cover opened, and Zhuo Lin sat up from inside, her body submerged in milky white liquid. The damp feeling was extremely uncomfortable.
What made her even more uncomfortable was Zhong Yan’s gaze just now.
That kind of resolute, unwilling, painful…
“What’s going on?”
She thought this thing was gone.
[Host, where did you go? I couldn’t contact you as soon as you entered.]
“Game world, what’s the mission this time?”
[Main quest: Clear the villain Zhong Yan’s blackened value, current blackened value… 80.]
It wasn’t like this before. The host suddenly decreased when she woke up just now.
What’s going on?
[Host, I’ll transfer the plot to you first. You can receive it while you deal with your… this looks really uncomfortable.]
It was indeed uncomfortable.
The sticky, damp feeling was indescribably strange.
She followed the original host’s memories to the bathroom to clean herself, while receiving the plot belonging to the villain Zhong Yan.
This was a very special world. Hundreds of years ago, when the internet developed to a certain point and needed to transform, people researching the internet worldwide split into two factions.
One faction advocated moving from virtual to real, making the internet tangible so that more people could benefit from it and promote the development of the entire world.
The other faction advocated moving from real to virtual, using holographic technology to immerse the poor worldwide into a virtual world, letting them indulge in pleasure there, while the world’s wealth and resources were entirely controlled by the rich.
Their country, H, advocated the first option, that is, expanding the scope of internet beneficiaries and making the internet tangible so that more people could benefit. This was originally something good for the whole world, but it was completely destroyed by the advent of a catastrophe.
The catastrophe caused global resource imbalance, and technological development presented two extremes: some people reached their peak and dominated the world, while others struggled to survive at the lowest level.
Virtualization technology was abused on a large scale. As the rich wished, they invested a little technology and capital to send over 90% of the poor worldwide into the virtual world, leaving the rest to become their dependents and slaves. They controlled wealth and resources, enjoying a good life in reality.
Zhong Yan was once one of the researchers who advocated the tangibility of the internet, and the world’s foremost holographic technology researcher.
But with the arrival of the catastrophe, his technology was stolen, and his family and friends betrayed him, sealing his consciousness within the game, making him a murderer in the game.
They thought it was over then, but they didn’t expect Zhong Yan to kill so many people in the game. His resentment grew heavier, and with the promotion of some ambitious individuals, one day, as the rich people were as usual holding a party to celebrate the world belonging to them, the entire world collapsed.
The poor, the rich, resources, wealth, everything accumulated by capital, with a “bang,” vanished completely.
The rich created horror games with the purpose of eliminating the poor who were deemed “unworthy of living,” offering generous rewards, making them enter the game world without hesitation, and then destroying their consciousness, causing brain death.
Those people had no emotions at all, they were completely a group of cold-blooded beasts. They used their means to breed women for them to produce offspring, killed the “inferior” ones or threw them into the slums, and divided this planet into heaven and hell.
The original host, Jiang Lin, was someone thrown from heaven into hell.
Her mother was a mistress of a rich man in heaven, but she gave birth to her, a “defective product.” The rich man wanted to kill her, but it was the woman’s desperate plea that saved her life.
However, the rich man’s other children did not intend to let her go. They monitored her and modified the settings in the game, causing her to die of fright the moment she entered the game.
And now, she had come back to life.
Zhuo Lin smiled a sinister smile at the mirror.
[Host, what are you laughing at?]
“Nothing.” Zhuo Lin returned to her original expression in an instant: “Why couldn’t you contact me before?”
The system was also a little confused: [It should be the influence of the game world. I won’t be able to follow you from now on. Host, you must remember to maintain your persona?]
“What persona?”
She looked at herself in the mirror, gently combing her hair with her hand: “As an orphan, what should the persona be?”
[Weak, timid, insecure, introverted.]
“I have blackened.”
The system: […]
She smiled like a blackened lunatic, and said softly with a smile: “An orphan abandoned by her biological father, and almost killed by her half-brothers and sisters, shouldn’t she make a change?”
The system: […] Your change is to blacken?
But he couldn’t refute it. The original host had lived alone for many years and had no sense of presence in everyone’s eyes. It could be said that she was pretending before, and now she had blackened after being stimulated, which was also plausible.
No one had taken on this mission, and now that someone had finally accepted it and made progress, he couldn’t ask for too much.
He had to cling to the host’s golden thigh; perhaps he could find a partner at the next system matchmaking convention.
[Host, I haven’t detected the villain. You might have to find him yourself.]
“It’s okay.” She tied up her hair with one hand: “I’ve already met him.”