In that video, Hasegawa Bensaka slowly recounted the past nearly half a month ago in a lifeless tone like a living dead.
Gu Tie watched the entire video quietly without moving. The three-dimensional projection finally captured a twisted smile on the madman's face.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, think about what's going on..." Gu Tie pressed his temples, feeling that his forehead was wet with cold sweat.
That was not long after "The World" started operating. The Japanese were at the "One Hundred Million Jade Broken" North African base camp in Algeria. They had just personally led a team to complete an operation and were in the period of rest.
According to Hasegawa's self-report, they captured a senior engineer from the GTC Communications Department during the last operation. After filming the demonstration video, they brutally executed the engineer. During the interrogation, the GTC engineer confessed that he had recently been working on the "World" project.
Operations support work and claim that "this is a game that can really change the world."
Hasegawa Bensaka is a fanatical IPU enthusiast, but he does not reject all kinds of weird gadgets based on quantum computers. He is very interested in the two sets of implanted clients he got from engineers, and has repeatedly confirmed that there are no security risks.
Under the premise, the Japanese found an insignificant subordinate, injected a chip into his medulla oblongata, connected to the Genesis Network through a satellite antenna, and logged into the game.
One day later, the soldier reported the 24-hour magical experience, "It was a real world, leader. It was so terrifying that one could not distinguish between reality and fiction... This must be a conspiracy of GTC to conquer the ignorance of the world."
The conspiracy of the players is the devil! Izanagi's life is on the line! Leader, I can't hold on anymore, please help me dig this evil thing out of my body..."
"Sorry, Izaki-kun, the implanted chip cannot be removed. We don't have such equipment." After hearing the soldier's complaint, Hasegawa dispelled his doubts.
The next day, a soldier named Isaki committed suicide by caesarean section in front of the Shinto shrine at the North African base. Hasegawa held a grand funeral for him, claiming that the soldier gave his life to resist the evil invasion of the GTC. The soldier's death was actually
It made him a little happy. What else can touch people's hearts more than loyalty? - Although stupid, but loyal, he is simply a perfect soldier.
That night, the madman used a syringe to implant himself with a client chip and landed in the world.
The identity assigned to him by "Genesis" is that of a subject of the small principality "Portian" in the Western Continent. The Principality of Portian is one of the many vassal states of the Kingdom of St. Bollen. Its area is so small that it is usually represented by a dot on the map.
There is only one city in the whole country: the city of Potian. After the fall of the Kingdom of St. Bolun, the Principality of Potian surrendered to the invincible cavalry of Emperor Yelizavitan and survived, and was later renamed the Potian Province of the Zavi Empire.
The Japanese entered the "world" and found that they were the sons of a wealthy businessman with the title of baron in Botian. He had a large manor outside the city of Botian. The change of regime did not affect the career of the baron. On the contrary, under the leadership of the Zavi Empire,
When he was a small principality, the baron spent a lot of money to get a position as the security chief of the Province of Portian in the provisional government, and he became prosperous in politics. Born in such a family, the eighteen-year-old rich man naturally lived a comfortable life.
There is no need to worry about food and clothing, and there is nothing else to do except spend money.
Like most of the descendants, the first thing Hasegawa Bensaka did after acquiring a new identity was to try to figure out the layout of the entire continent, what the world looked like, and learn the most basic geography, history and scientific knowledge. Compared with most
The happy thing for the descendant is that as long as he sits in a deck chair in the garden and snaps his fingers, the servants will bring books smelling of ink to his hands one after another. It only took the Japanese two days to understand
The most requested basic information.
Then, he started to feel bored.
This is a very normal emotion. Everyone longs for a vigorous adventure when they come to another world, even those who live an adventurous life every day in real life are no exception.
However, what is completely different from the basic concept of "game" is that all characters in the "world" are part of normal social relationships. No one walks around with a yellow mission symbol. If you are content with the status quo, a planter
A tobacco farmer will still be a tobacco farmer when he grows old and dies - provided that the descendant has the patience to land in the world non-stop for thirty years to experience the life of growing tobacco.
Crazy Hasegawa is not a person who is content with the status quo. He created some interesting little games for himself, such as killing all the cows in the pasture overnight and stripping the cows' skeletons completely, leaving a corpse that looked like a corpse.
The seemingly unharmed limp corpse. The horrified baron invited a priest from the Anglican Church of Divine Blessing to perform an exorcism ritual. Of course, the result of the exorcism was a more bloody game for the Japanese.
After a few days of this, Hasegawa felt bored again. He didn't want to be trapped in the boring manor anymore, so he sneaked into Portian City and hung out in the tavern every day, hoping to find something more exciting. And so, the nightmare began.
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When the narration reaches this point, the leader of "One Hundred Million Jade Broken" entered a four-minute pause. He stared blankly at the camera and unconsciously grabbed the corners of his clothes with bleeding fingers. Finally, his voice trembled and he continued to talk to himself.
Keep talking to yourself.
On this day, Hasegawa Bensaka met a man in the tavern.
It is customary for Japanese people to sit in the corner of a tavern, slowly sipping sparkling wine, and observing every new guest. The madman’s fingers keep shaking nervously, and his patience has reached its limit. If nothing else attracts his attention,
Hasegawa decided to pull out the enchanted dagger, kill every man in the tavern, and then drag the beautiful waitress into the cellar to do some interesting things.
Although he understands that there are mysterious spiritual powers such as magic and telekinesis in this world, the leader of the IPU who has experienced hundreds of battles believes more in his combat skills. If he kills an enemy, he can accumulate some experience points. Hasegawa Bensaka's ability in the real world
The level has already reached the clouds.
At this time, a guy wearing a worn dark blue sailor jacket walked into the tavern, sat at the bar, and ordered a large glass of the cheapest liquor.
He was chatting with the bartender when he suddenly found that his canvas belt was loosened. "Troublesome guy, please tighten it this time." The sailor muttered, pulling both ends of the belt and circling it several times.
, pulled hard and tied it firmly.
Hasegawa's eyes shone with excitement. The way a sailor ties his belt is the "double fisherman's knot" in the sailor's knot. It is a basic knotting method that every mountaineer and sailor is familiar with, but the problem is that it should not exist in "
"World".
After several days of frantic reading, the Japanese made a basic judgment about the foreign world: the language and writing he came into contact with in daily life were all Japanese, but the Botian people called it the "lingua franca of the Western Continent" and had an IQ as high as 100
The sixty-year-old Hasegawa immediately understood that this was a real-time translation made by a quantum computer based on the native language of the descendant during the transmission of nerve signals.
In addition, this world is based on fantasy. Race, clothing, architecture, daily necessities and other aspects are all inseparable from the basic prototypes of the real world, but all non-material products here are original.
, music, paintings, sculptures and even folk proverbs, stories, and customs cannot find a correspondence in reality. Sometimes Hasegawa even has the illusion that this world really exists in the universe. In the long history, these real existences
The soul creates immaterial products that truly exist.
In any case, the Japanese believe that the independence of the "world" is unquestionable, and at least for all the characters in the "world", it is original, reasonable, and credible.
Therefore, the moment he saw Sailor Yu, the madman concluded that this ragged alcoholic sailor was, like him, a descendant - a player from the real world.
Hasegawa calmly drank the wine in the glass, walked through the lobby with the wooden wine glass, and came to the bartender: "Hey, give me another glass of sparkling wine."
"Right away. The third glass today. I'm in a good mood, sir." The bartender picked up the wine glass and placed it under the barrel, opened the stopper, poured half a glass of wine, and waited for the golden bubbles to subside.
During this interval, Hasegawa leaned on the counter and said to the sailor unintentionally: "I heard that they add honey to the sparkling wine. Can you believe it? Honey! That's a girl's thing! But anyway, today
The wine is particularly sweet. I think I can endure it for a while."
The sailor stared at the flowing wine and swallowed: "Isn't it, a girl's thing, man."
"Try it for me to see if they are up to something." Before the sailor could express his attitude, Hasegawa took the filled wine glass and placed it in front of the sailor. He ordered another glass of wine and took a big sip first. The sailor was a little shy.
He picked up the cup and took two sips, with a happy expression on his face.
The down-and-out sailor was bought off by his little tricks and his wariness was dispelled. After a few glasses of wine, Hasegawa suggested that he go to the hotel where he was temporarily staying to have another drink, and the sailor happily agreed.
The two men walked out of the tavern and entered a dark alley. There were no pedestrians in front or behind. Hasegawa quietly pressed his hand on the handle of the dagger and said, "How long have you been here? Have you encountered anything interesting?"
"What did you say?" The sailor stopped and glanced at him in confusion, then opened his mouth in shock: "Are you an Adventer? Really? A player?"
The madman smiled and said: "My answer depends on your answer."
"Oh my God, that's great. I've been waiting for you." The sailor laughed and said something that the Japanese could never guess.
Until the two of them walked back to the hotel, Hasegawa Bensaka's right hand kept pressing the handle of the knife. He originally wanted to complete a secret murder in the alley: all account characters in the world are unique and do not have a second life.
.Killing a player is equivalent to killing a real soul. Just thinking about this situation will make the Japanese become restless with excitement.
But the sailor actually said that he had been waiting for his arrival since he entered the world. The sailor walked into this tavern every afternoon for two weeks in a row, asked for a glass of strong wine, pretended to have his belt loose, and tied a conspicuous double fisherman's knot.
This was his way of identifying the person he was waiting for. Today, Hasegawa finally appeared. Although the sailor didn't know the appearance or identity of the person he was waiting for before, that question was the clearest code.