Abnormal crossing

Chapter 285 It’s scary to think about it carefully

It was a fairly spacious area.

Gu Wei thus controlled the fisherman's anger, confronting the unknown plant on the ice.

Or
Look at each other?

In a very short time, Gu Wei even had a thought:
or
Take the water pump cannon on the back of the Fishing Man's Fury and fire a shot at the ice.
Find a way to give him a good pounding.JPG.

Since there are no more paths forward or backward, there's no point in just waiting. It's better to take the initiative.

Even if I end up dying during the trial, it's still better than wasting time here—although it's a bit of a shame, considering it's my first team competition.
However, the thought had barely crossed his mind.

A strange warmth suddenly came from Gu Wei's right index finger, accompanied by a slight, ticklish sensation, as if a feather were brushing against it.

He subconsciously looked down, and then noticed...
His index finger was glowing.

Gu Wei: "?"

He then moved his index finger closer to his face, and as his view became more intimate, he noticed something else—the glowing and heating element wasn't actually his right index finger itself, but rather...
A small foreign object wrapped around the tip of the index finger.

The foreign object was inconspicuous, resembling a withered thorn. It was hastily wrapped around Gu Wei's fingertip, as if a breath would cause it to fall away.

And at the very moment they saw the foreign object.

Gu Wei and Big Eyes blurted out almost simultaneously, "Holy crap, how did this thing get in here?"

They were quite familiar with this strange object, or rather, the remains of a thorny remnant.

This thorny remnant originated from the initial battle against the alien life form, which was Gu Wei's first collective combat mission after joining the fleet.

At that time, Milo, along with Big Eyes and two other veterans, took on the mission of exterminating the alien life form. Following Big Eyes' battle plan, they easily eliminated the Shadow-level alien life form, which was only slightly higher than the Micro-Disturbance level.

The result was unexpected.

The corpse of that alien life form inexplicably revived a second time, transforming into a completely different behemoth. It instantly killed the giant eyeball at the very back and simultaneously teleported everyone on the battlefield to a digital world.

If Gu Wei hadn't transformed into the Wrath of the Fisherman and been possessed by a mysterious consciousness to fight on his behalf, instantly killing that big guy, Gu Wei would probably be two months old now—and might still be in that hellish start like in the vocational high school toilet.

This thorny remnant was the 'trophy' that inexplicably attached itself to Gu Wei's index finger after the battle.

At the time, Jin and Meimei both studied the remains of the thorny body, but they concluded that the thing had no physical form at all, did not exist in reality, and was an anomaly that could not be analyzed.

However, Gu Wei went through many events afterward, and the thorny remains never changed. So over time, Gu Wei stopped paying much attention to it—he certainly wouldn't completely ignore it, as he wasn't that naive, but he would at most glance at it occasionally.

It's like if you suddenly get a dragon tattoo on your arm one day, you'll definitely care a lot about it for the first few days, but after a few months it'll probably just be okay.

The result was unexpected.

The thorny remains, which have been dormant for so long, have actually reacted today?

more importantly.
How did this thing get into the game?

Ever since he started playing "Mech Overlord," Gu Wei would spend almost every spare moment playing battles. Since he followed the keyboard-based combat style—a command-controlled style—he naturally had a keen understanding of his fingers. Gu Wei was willing to bet the precious learning resources he had stored in his pre-transmigration cloud drive on it.

In past game matches, there has never been any image of thorny remains on my index finger!

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Then Gu Wei took a deep breath, held it, and stared intently at the slightly glowing index finger, not daring to blink even once.

He activated all his senses, trying to observe the next changes in his fingers.

However, what puzzled him even more was...

Apart from emitting a continuous, faint glow and a temperature slightly higher than body temperature, the thorny remains showed no other abnormalities.

It's like a stone being thrown into a pond, creating ripples before everything returns to calm.

Gu Wei waited a while longer, and after confirming that the thorny remains had not changed, he pondered for a moment and tried to communicate with the spirit of the Fisherman's Wrath: "Left hand, right hand, hello hello, annihaseyo, moshi moshi, are you there?"

However, he was met with silence.

Neither the aloof left hand of the mecha, nor the talkative right hand, nor the more dominant voice, seemed to have entered this game world.

This is strange.

He suppressed the Thorn Remnant Body's original form by relying on the consciousnesses within the Fishing Man's Wrath. Theoretically, if the Thorn Remnant Body reacted, then those consciousnesses should also be online.

unless
"Wait, big eyeballs," Gu Wei thought, feeling the warmth from his index finger, and suddenly had another guess: "Could it be something that had a connection with that alien life form back then, which is why it can appear in 'Mech Overlord'?"

The girl with the big eyes was stunned for a moment, unusually unable to follow Gu Wei's train of thought: "What do you mean?"

“Look at this,” Gu Wei said to the big-eyed guy, shaking his still glowing right index finger. “This piece of stuff was left behind by that big guy. Well, let’s just call it a relic. And you, you were one of those unlucky guys who were instantly killed by it.”

"To use a term from my hometown, it means that you and this thing are both connected to that big guy, which is why you can appear in 'Mech Overlord'. The root of everything is related to that alien life form."

Big Eyeball: "."

So that's how it can be explained?

However, it must be said that Gu Wei's guess, though imaginative, does make some sense.

Although the big-eyed creature actively transmitted its consciousness to the flapping flapping device, how it was subsequently refined and assimilated into the spirit of Gu Wei's translator remains an unsolved mystery. Jin Neng is certain that the big-eyed creature inexplicably signed a consciousness-level agreement with Gu Wei, but the content and method of signing the agreement are unknown.

If it's because being instantly killed left behind some kind of 'mark' related to a different life form—or rather, contaminated with some kind of information—that it gained the ability to appear in "Mech Overlord," that would be plausible.

“But that makes the problem even bigger,” the big-eyed creature remained silent for a long time, its AI surface glowing and dimming. “Why is it that anything killed by or interacting with that alien life form can gain the right to enter the world of ‘Mech Overlord’?”

"Is it that the alien life form is special? Or..."

"Does the server for 'Mech Overlord' actually have problems?"

(End of this chapter)