This is the terrifying thing about Qiu Tianhao.

In the past, he still needed to carefully lay out and close the net carefully, but his power has developed to the point where it is now. Just one word is enough to block the path of any player.

Even if they already knew his purpose, they had no room for resistance and could only act according to his ideas.

Otherwise, let alone Lu Miao, all of them would die in the dungeon.

Lu Miao was not infected by his despair. He thought for a moment and asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Zhou Dongfeng, do you think we can really return to reality?"

Zhou Dongfeng did not speak. He had never thought about such a thing, or rather, he did not dare to think about it.

Lu Miao dared to say: "According to the system's usual practice, if you really can leave the game after entering the high-play area, then when the players leave here, the system will definitely hold a grand farewell ceremony to encourage those who are still playing.

Players in the game - look, as long as you go to the high-play area, you can leave this terrifying game and return to normal life."

"But the system didn't. Not only did it not happen, the players in the high-play area were even affected to some extent..." Lu Miao paused for a moment, as if he was considering the wording, and then continued after a moment: "...shielded.

"

Lu Miao had this feeling from the beginning when he checked the information on the forum.

In the entire forum, I couldn't find any content related to the real situation of the high-playing area. All that could be searched were "supposedly", "heard of", and "possible", and the sources did not stand up to scrutiny at all.

This made Lu Miao feel very subtle.

The interstellar world he is in actually has related technologies. Some information can only be found and browsed by those who hold the secret key. No one else can find relevant content on the star network.

However, this kind of blocking usually targets information such as personal privacy, company secrets, and technological cores that you do not want others to know. It is very unreasonable to use it in a place that can obviously increase the enthusiasm of players.

The existence of the high-playing zone is like a myth to the players in the novice zone.

It's ethereal, but it reflects the inner desires of players in the novice zone.

Rather than saying that the information in the high-play area comes from advanced players, Lu Miao feels that this is more like the self-comfort fantasy of players in the novice area.

With Zhou Dongfeng's mind, it was impossible to think of this. Lu Miao looked at him intently.

Zhou Dongfeng raised his hands to cover his face, avoiding Lu Miao's sight, and his body began to tremble.

For him, or for any player, what Lu Miao said now was enough to subvert all their understanding of the game, and even set off a riot.

This level of fear was completely beyond what Qiu Tianhao could bring about. Zhou Dongfeng felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave for a moment, and even the fingers covering his face began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Lu Miao, stop talking." Zhou Dongfeng said weakly, "Stop talking, I don't want to hear it. Don't say these things to others in the future..."

Lu Miao didn't think what he said was scary. His tone was as usual: "Zhou Dongfeng, I don't believe you haven't thought about why a game can dominate the life and death of so many people? Why is it in the game copy?

If we die, we will also die in reality?"

"Also, why does the system clearly want to protect the players, but every copy tries to kill the players?"

"You guessed before that I was 100% sure of opening the new dungeon, and that's indeed the case." Lu Miao didn't shy away from it, "Because I already know that the system allows us to break into these dungeons and encourages us to collect intelligence, but in the dungeon

After clearing all levels, I closed these dungeons. What is the purpose of all this?"

Zhou Dongfeng looked at Lu Miao's unwavering eyes and began to feel difficulty breathing.

Emotionally, he didn't want to continue listening and let Lu Miao break this beautiful dream that enveloped all the players.

But rationally, he knew that the truth he had been chasing was right in front of him. This young man who had just entered the game on his third day and had already cleared two new copies of the game seemed to be able to see through everything.

Zhou Dongfeng's eyes went straight, and everything in front of him was blurred, leaving only Lu Miao's lips opening and closing: "——For repair."

Lu Miao looked at Zhou Dongfeng, who seemed to be greatly shocked. There was no emotion in his eyes, but he described the truth in a calm tone:

"The system doesn't give us task descriptions because the system doesn't know what happened to the creatures in these copies to turn into such terrifying shapes. The system asks players to investigate again and again and compiles error reports.

, sent to other players, so that these players can find more errors based on the known errors, so as to complete a complete error report and repair the copy."

"The repaired dungeon will naturally be taken offline. Unexplored dungeons are of course very dangerous." Lu Miao said, "This is just a battle between fixes and bugs. The so-called players are just a group of

It’s just a tool that’s cheap and can be replaced at any time.”

"Now, do you still think that as long as you can live a little longer, it doesn't matter even if you are drained of value?"

After Lu Miao finished speaking, he was quiet for a long time and just looked at Zhou Dongfeng quietly.

Zhou Dongfeng felt numb all over. He had never thought that there might be an extremely desperate reality behind the game. However, because he did not dare to think about it and did not want to think about it, Zhou Dongfeng never realized that this reality was so cruel.

kind of situation.

He felt dizzy and couldn't help but hold on to the wall behind him and slowly sat down.

The clothes on his back were caught on the rough wall, causing the whole thing to stand up, making him look extremely depressed. Even the thin cigarette rod that never left his hand was thrown to the side without any awareness.

.

Maybe it was because he couldn't bear to see him like this. Lu Miao hesitated for a while and added: "Of course, this is just my guess. Maybe this horror game is an existence that surpasses all our worlds, and it can take us away."

If you absorb it, it can also send us back and fulfill all our wishes."

Zhou Dongfeng closed his eyes and interrupted him with difficulty: "Okay, stop talking. The more you talk, the more I feel that returning to the real world is a luxury."

Lu Miao smiled and did not continue.

"You will die if you resist, and if you don't resist, you will die. Aren't you just trying to convince me to enter the dungeon together and compete with Qiu Tianhao?" Zhou Dongfeng was angry when he saw Lu Miao now, but he was powerless, "

But I really wasn’t trying to scare you. With our current strength, we have no chance of winning against Qiu Tianhao. So let’s talk, what do you want me to do? Let’s fight Qiu Tianhao directly with you?”

"That's not true. I'm not stupid." Lu Miao's tone finally relaxed a little, and he smiled and said, "Compared with our strength, we may be a little behind, but it doesn't mean we will lose."

Zhou Dongfeng frowned: "What do you mean?"

Lu Miao smiled meaningfully, "He used force to suppress us because he was sure that we were not as powerful as him. In this case, we can also suppress him with an existence that he cannot resist. This is called -"

"A dog relies on the strength of a human being."

"..." Lu Miao narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhou Dongfeng with disdain for a while. He had every reason to suspect that this guy was taking this opportunity to point out that he thought Su Anqi was a golden retriever.

But he is not someone who suffers in silence.

"Okay. Since you are willing to compare yourself to a dog, I won't stop you." Lu Miao said nonchalantly, "We interstellar people have always been very open-minded."

Zhou Dongfeng: "…………"

shift!!!

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When Qi Huai and the others came back, they saw Zhou Dongfeng looking like he had been ruined and hopeless, while Lu Miao was smiling and informed them that he had read the information and could enter the dungeon at any time.

Several people suddenly looked like they had seen a ghost and looked at Zhou Dongfeng with wide eyes.

Wu Haitao blurted out: "No, Mr. Zhou, didn't you persuade him? Why does he still want to go?"

Yu Qian hugged his head with a painful expression: "Blame me, blame me. I should have known that Lu Miao's grades were so good, and he would be targeted. I shouldn't have given him those materials..."

Qi Huai frowned, glanced at Zhou Dongfeng coldly, then looked at Lu Miao, was silent for a moment, and sighed.

"Forget it, don't force him. Don't you know Lu Miao's temper?"

The other two people thought the same thing. When they were in the dungeon, Qi Huai used force and couldn't stop Lu Miao from looking for the wizard. What's more, they were in the game hall now and couldn't do anything to Lu Miao.

They didn't know what Zhou Dongfeng and Lu Miao said, but Zhou Dongfeng put on such a tortured look, so he must have tried his best to persuade Lu Miao.

But it was obvious that Lu Miao's rebuttal was more powerful than his persuasive reasons. Zhou Dongfeng now seemed to be doubting his own life.

There was no way. When it came to brainstorming, they were like bean sprouts to Lu Miao. A few more would not be useful.

Several people looked helplessly behind them, showing expressions of helplessness.

Lu Miao followed their gaze and looked over there, only to realize that they had brought Su Anqi with them.

It's not that Lu Miao didn't notice, it was mainly due to Su Anqi's skills. Every time she appeared in front of others, she reflected a certain existence in others' hearts. But this time, Su Anqi's image in his eyes was actually not the same as before.

Just a golden retriever.

Appearing behind several people was the image of a man covered in a black robe. He was tall, and the thin black robe couldn't cover the other person's strong body. Just standing there, he looked unreasonable.

It feels a bit oppressive.

Lu Miao had a preconceived idea of ​​what Su Anqi's image would be like at the beginning, and what she would be like later on. He didn't expect that she could change, so he didn't think about it at all.

Looking at Su Anqi in front of him who was very similar to the wizard in the previous copy, Lu Miao was silent for a while.

"..."

She thought he still regarded her as a golden retriever, and she tried to conquer her the day before, but now she became his thug. Su Anqi felt a little embarrassed when she returned to her own body, and she never spoke, facing him with a speechless expression.

See.

Lu Miao didn't realize this at all. He just looked at Su Anqi's golden hair emerging from under her hood in shock. He turned to ask everyone: "...Do you think there is any change in her appearance?"

Yu Qian and others looked in the direction of his finger, their faces all red.

Yu Qian quickly looked away and then said, "No."

Wu Haitao's face was dark and red, and he made a couple of angry noises. Although he was embarrassed, his eyes were a little presumptuous: "She's still so pretty."

Qi Huai had a cold face, while Zhou Dongfeng was still immersed in the huge shock that Lu Miao had brought to him. He could not recover for a long time and did not answer.

But judging from their looks, they probably had similar answers to those given by Yu Qian and Wu Haitao.

"..." Lu Miao was even more confused.
To be continued...