In the base of the third area, Ling Yun and his party underwent space repair after returning. This time, Shen Tinglan's condition was much better than everyone expected. After a few minutes, he regained consciousness and recovered from his coma. Wake up.

Shen Tinglan rubbed his forehead, his body was still a little weak. Just as he was about to stand up from the floor, a pair of hands stretched out in front of him.

"Is everything okay?" Although his tone was as indifferent as ever, Shen Tinglan still saw concern in Su Li's eyes.

"Thank you, I'm fine." Shen Tinglan slowly walked to the screen with her support, and then, Ark's familiar voice sounded again:

[Congratulations to all the players for your successful return, the score calculation will begin now:]

[Zhao Sicheng’s basic score: 75 ]

[Wei Chongming’s basic score: 70]

[Ling Yun’s basic score: 70]

[Shen Tinglan’s basic score: 75, due to killing the dungeon boss Warden Xu Lin, he received 100 extra points]

[Since the upper limit of ordinary mission points is 100, as a reward, the remaining 75 points will be automatically converted into double values ​​and stored in the player's account. ]

"Wow, the points are overflowing again! Brother Shen is awesome!" Tang Yao and Pan Rong saw each other at the side, almost grinning from ear to ear in shock: "Didn't Brother Ling say that the boss of this instance is a ghost? I am still the third Once seen, a ghost can be killed!"

"As expected of Brother Shen, he easily accomplished what we couldn't do."

Zhao Sicheng touched his chubby chin and exclaimed: "That's weird. Ordinarily, if you and Ling Yun killed the boss together, why didn't he get extra points..."

"I lied to you before."

Ling Yun said from the side: "Because there are other people at the scene, I can't reveal it conveniently, so I can only make up an excuse. In fact, the triangular head you saw before is the spiritual incarnation of Brother Shen."

"ah?!"

Hearing what he said, Zhao Sicheng and Wei Chongming's eyes widened immediately. Not only them, but other players present were also full of curiosity about this mission.

"Shen Tinglan, have your abilities evolved again?" Lin Yuanqi circled around the other party several times, pinching Shen Tinglan's biceps dishonestly with his hands, and then touching his chin. As if he was sizing up some alien creature: "After you fused with Alessa, you won't have mutated into a non-human, right?"

"Go, go, brother Shen, please don't talk nonsense." Ling Yun grabbed the opponent's dirty hand and threw it aside, thinking that the protagonist must have some special abilities. Unlike himself, since the last treasure hunt game, he melted I got an S-level prop, and so far nothing has happened.

Ling Yun even had to wonder if that thing only had a repair function and had no other uses besides that?

"Quick, quick, make some room for Brother Shen. Come on, tell everyone what's going on with your ability?!" While Ling Yun was thinking, Zhao Sicheng had already pulled Shen Tinglan to the sofa. , pressing the other party down on the seat.

Xiaolong, Li Xinjian and others even took out the small notebooks they carried with them and imitated Lin Yuanqi, and began to record key information.

Seeing everyone surrounding her, with pairs of novel eyes staring at her, Shen Tinglan smiled helplessly: "That is one of Alessa's most powerful abilities. Anyone who has watched "Silent Hill" should know it. , the other world is a different dimension parallel to the real world, and it is the product of Alessa's mental power, which reflects her inner world."

Everyone nodded. The other world was like a mirror, reflecting Alessa's inner pain and depression, and was controlled by her evil power and hatred.

Shen Tinglan said that since he absorbed Alesha's dark power and became her host, a link has been created between his spiritual power and Alesha.

"And the manifestation of my powers can turn things created by mental power into reality. Therefore, Alessa's powers can also be used by me." Shen Tinglan looked at the palm of his hand and said calmly: "This process was very painful at first. If I'm not careful, there is a risk of being backlashed by Alessa. But fortunately, I persevered. Of course, all of this is inseparable from everyone's help. Whether it is daily Training, or cooperation and rescue in actual combat."

Shen Tinglan looked at everyone: "I hope that I can become stronger and stronger, and join hands with everyone to break through the levels and leave the space."

"Don't worry, Brother Shen, we will continue to work hard!" After Li Xinjian finished speaking, Hubert, Pan Rong and others also responded excitedly.

"Old rules, find a place to eat and review this mission." Although moved, Zhao Sicheng did not forget to fill his stomach: "You don't know how the brothers got here during the three days in prison. No, no, I have to have a good meal."

"No problem, I'll reserve a private room!" Probably because the atmosphere at every dinner party was very lively, Lin Yuanqi, who had always been used to being alone, changed his attitude from being disgusted before to becoming more proactive.

This time, it was rare for Ren Yao to participate in an event. His younger brother was about to take the college entrance examination, and he was studying on his own at school, so he finished class late. He happened to attend the party, and she could pick him up from school.

Everyone hit it off immediately, and Shen Tinglan and the other two also went to the dressing room, planning to change into clean clothes and go out.

In the dressing room, Zhao Sicheng took off his dirty prison uniform and suddenly thought of something: "Hey, tell me, how is that boy Wang Qin doing now?"

"To be fair, if this happened in the real world, they would still be caught. The French Open is very open and there are no leaks," Wei Chongming said.

"Well, no matter what, he killed someone after all, and he still has to take responsibility for it." Shen Tinglan opened the closet: "But the ghosts in the prison have been eliminated. Even if they are recaptured, nothing will happen to them. Bar."

Hearing what he said, Ling Yun also nodded. Although he had known Wang Qin for only three days, through this period of contact and his performance at the critical moment of life and death, Ling Yun could tell that the nature of the other person was not bad.

"Actually, since I came back from Quest for Survival, I have been curious about what will happen to those dungeon NPCs after the players leave the game." Wei Chongming was the first to change his clothes and leaned against the wall: "Will they? Are all memories about us erased by ark?"

"Yes." Ling Yun on the side responded without thinking.

When I first wrote the book, I set it up like this. In order to ensure the balance of each parallel world, after the player clears the instance, Ark will reset everything, eliminate the existence of dead NPCs, and erase the minds of those surviving NPCs. All the memories in the world allow them to continue living with a new look.

"How did you know that Ark would do this? You are not from Space." Zhao Sicheng complained and murmured: "What if Ark is more ruthless than you think?"

"How to say." Shen Tinglan also suddenly became interested.

"Have you ever seen a science fiction movie? It's about human cloning." Zhao Sicheng said cheerfully: "It wasn't until the protagonist died at the end that everyone discovered that he and everyone in that world were just clones created by the mother's body. Even if they die, the second and third generations implanted with new memories can still take their place and continue their original work."

Zhao Sicheng's words made Ling Yun's back shiver: "Take the Road to Survival as an example. The dungeons we have experienced have also been executed by other players. What if those were not multiple parallel worlds that coexisted, but only one? Would it be possible? Ark just replaces all the NPCs inside, waits for the previous wave of players to clear the level and leaves, then shuffles them all, resets everything, and waits for the next wave of players to enter?"

"Damn it, Fatty, you have such a big idea. Then according to what you say, the NPCs in the dungeon are too miserable." Wei Chongming crossed his arms: "Stop talking, I have goosebumps."

Ling Yun stopped listening carefully to the subsequent conversation between the two. At this moment, his mind was filled with what Zhao Sicheng had just said.

Space... is probably still performing its own tasks according to the settings in its novels.

After experiencing a series of changes, Ling Yun's heart began to waver at this moment: after all, when he was writing the book, he had not had time to give an explanation to the readers. Until the end of the novel, he still had no idea how to explain the true face of space. .

Now that I have traveled through the book, without the author's control, there is only one real god in this world, and that is Ark. Even if he is the author, he is just a chess piece and a plaything in Ark's hands.

Ling Yun was a little scared. Where he couldn't see, was everything still going on as in the original plot of the novel?

"Ling Yun, what's wrong with you?" Shen Tinglan suddenly noticed that Ling Yun, who was chatting and laughing just now, suddenly became very worried.

"Ah...it's okay, I'm a little hungry." Ling Yun forced a smile.

At this moment, his mobile phone placed in the cabinet suddenly vibrated.
Chapter completed!