Doomsday Fast Travel: Kill That Black Butterfly

P&L is the place where Blood Blade met Yu Di for the first time.There was a pixel bug there that couldn't be fixed anyway - Sally Manson.

In order to avoid being caught by other players, Blood Blade opened a precious random teleportation point and went to the P&L bathroom.Yu Di stood in front of Sally Manson's door with downcast eyes, wondering what she was thinking.

There were five people standing in the small bathroom, and there was a big bloody blade, which made it even more cramped.After entering the door, Blood Blade used the gun on his back as a stick against the door lock, and walked to Yu Di.

"What did you call us here for?"

"I'll show you something." Yu Di raised his hand, and the metal ball in the center of the palm was emitting black light.

Everyone silently waited for Yu Di's next move, and she didn't disappoint them—Sally Manson was speaking intermittently, but Yu Di stretched out her hand and twisted it, and the doorknob moved.

Sally's soft voice became weird, and Yu Di pulled the door, but couldn't open it, as if there was some kind of suction acting on the back of the door.

She used her forearm to resist the suction force, and forcibly opened the door a crack.Sally Manson's pixel clusters began to spread out from the crack of the door, and the area error warning on the compartment door was lit up. As soon as a processing message was sent to the administrator, it was polluted by the pixel clusters and turned into garbled characters.

"Yu Di! Stay away from it." The system suddenly spoke in her mind.Yu Di ignored it, but held the metal ball borrowed by Tai Yi, and reached out to move closer to the group of pixels.

"Yudi! Stay away from it!" The system warned loudly again.

Yu Di still ignored it, the pixel cluster climbed up to her slender fingertips, devoured her data, and assimilated her limbs into a data stream.

"Yu Di!!!" The system roared in her brain, but it couldn't do anything - it couldn't have any real impact on Yu Di.

"You, is this really all right?" The basilisk felt a little numb.This stuff is really weird.

"Look." Yu Di said to the Blood Blade group.

With her voice, the expansion of the pixel cluster stopped.Black light escaped, and the metal ball that was also swallowed was floating in the center of the pixel cluster.

On the other hand, the extremely aggressive pixel group was helpless against the black light inside, kept avoiding it, and was finally forced back into the toilet cubicle.

Sally made a painful sound, and the clusters of pixels twisted and squeezed together, gradually condensing into a real human shape.

Yu Di's hand didn't recover.Metal balls spread out to wrap around her pixelated forearms.

"Sally, tell me." Yu Di said.

"I, I..." Sally Manson touched her throat in disbelief—"Can I, talk?"

"I can, talk!"

Even with an electric mix, Sally couldn't be more excited.

"It's true... life, we can really have real life! And freedom...!"

Hearing these words, the four of Blood Blade looked at each other.

"Sally." Yu Di stopped her incoherent speech, "Tell me, what are you?"

"I'm..." Sally hesitated, "I'm...a person?"

The corners of Yu Di's lips curled up slightly.She turned her head and looked at the blood blade: "How is it? This gift."

The blood blade has not made a sound for a long time.

The basilisk straightened its chin: "It turns out that the water droplets are really doing this kind of thing!"

"Water...drops?" Sally turned her head, looking for the direction of the basilisk, "I, belong to, waterdrops...."

"No, that's not what I meant..."

"Sally," Blood Blade said, "do you remember me?"

"You?" Sally looked at the Blood Blade, "You... always, give me, the medicine."

"Yes, it's me." Blood Blade took a step forward, "Sally, when did you realize that you've been here all this time?"

Sally thought for a moment: "Four thousand six hundred and fifty eight times ago."

Yu Di explained for her: "After completing more than 4000 tasks, she realized that she was stuck in some kind of strange time loop, and could only stay in the toilet cubicle and ask passers-by for help."

Blood Blade opened his mouth: "...how many more NPCs like this?"

"A lot." Yu Di pursed her lips, "The more quests that interact with players are directed to NPCs, the more likely this situation will happen."

"Novice mission NPC?"

Yu Di nodded: "That's right."

"We have been investigating this matter for a long time, but there is no progress. How did you find out?"

"A long time ago, I touched Sally." Yu Di's drooping expression hid a little sadness, "Her pixel bug polluted my own data, and then I discovered that I can see many... ordinary players something you can't see."

"Like a game map?"

"Yes, the game map." Yu Di smiled, "The Swamp Wizard is a very special NPC. She doesn't keep refreshing with the dungeons, she is a permanent and unique NPC."

"I only know that she likes to issue enchanting tasks to people..." the basilisk muttered.

"Don't you think it's strange that there is such a thing as 'enchantment' in Reality 2.0?" Xuan Mumu interjected, "This is supposed to be a sci-fi game, but there are all kinds of props with magic attributes. This is unreasonable."

"You mean, these enchantments were made by the swamp wizard? Isn't she just an NPC herself?"

"The second update of 570, new equipment enchantment." The one who seldom spoke was silent, and suddenly made a sound.

"New enchantment..." Xuan Mumu seemed to remember something, recalled, "I remember that before that version, the highest-level dungeon elite monsters were 'foreign travelers', a group of alien creatures who couldn't see their real bodies."

"I also remember." Blood Blade nodded, "One of the rewards for killing is the 'Super Gravity Launcher', which can be used to change the current system time in some areas. But this thing is extremely rare. When it comes to Area X, only three teams have spawned."

"If I remember correctly, does Changqing have one?" Xuan Mumu asked.

Blood Blade's face darkened: "Yes. I went to open up wasteland that time, and the drop was bought by Liuli."

"This can explain why Liuli chose a move with such a long singing time as his trump card." Yu Di echoed with seriousness.

"Besides stopping time, what effect can this thing have on us?" asked the basilisk.

"It's enough for you to drink a pot from time to time." Blood Blade looked at the metal ball, "What's the matter with this thing? How can it stop Sally Manson and not trigger the alarm?"

"You know it's too easy." Yu Di laughed.

"Too easy? It?" Blood Blade looked at this trash-looking metal ball in disbelief.

The black light enveloped Sally, firmly controlling her figure.

"Actually, the root of everything is because I encountered it."

She spoke half-truth and half-fake, covering up her specialness.

Five days and eight hours for a reason
I want to die