This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 41 Is This a Bit Perverted?
When he realized this problem, Nie Weiyang's mind was like fireworks.

He paused for a moment, as if thinking about the wording, and then sent the command message as usual, but in his field of vision, a system prompt quietly appeared.

[Player [Nie Weiyang] noticed an important clue.]

[You have been deeply involved in the Boundary War records. Due to your subjective bias, the main quest has been changed. Please complete the goal: maintain at least 365% of the shelter integrity within 50 days, ensure at least 80% of the shelter members are alive, and become the official administrator of Shelter 4701.]

[Remaining time: 359 days.]

[Current completeness of the shelter: 99%]

[Current survival of shelter members: 3510/3510]

……

This is the game system of our new world. When a new clue appears, there's no direction, no quantity, and no reward for gathering all the clues. Missions can be assigned at will, difficulty can be increased at will, and progress can be cleared at will. Everything is based on the principle of free exploration in an open world...

Nie Weiyang resisted the urge to sigh. He didn't want to sleep anymore. He stood up and grabbed the iron shield beside him. "AI, conduct a comprehensive inspection of the shelter's integrity."

As he spoke, he opened the map and walked quickly out of the office. The silver door closed behind him.

"And... I think there's something we need to discuss." Nie Weiyang's voice was low and cold. "You were the one who sent that message, right? AI? What do you want from the Pale Wilds?"

There was silence in the headphones.

This unnatural silence revealed something; it was consistent with the reaction of a young man who came to the shelter to gild himself, but it did not explain why the other party had sent that message.

Nie Weiyang forcibly pried open the portable terminal that was tightly locked on his arm armor and walked towards the server room on the third underground floor.

"You don't seem to like this kind of communication," he said. "Well, here I come—whether you're an AI or Angelita."

As he spoke the name, a sharp buzzing sound came from the headset, and the portable terminal began to heat up. A line of prompts refreshed rapidly:
[[Spirit]-[Spirit] confrontation judgment in progress...Confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Spirit] confrontation judgment in progress...Confrontation successful]

[[Spirit]-[Spirit] confrontation judgment in progress...Confrontation successful]

Nie Weiyang strode over, took off the headphones and dismantled the terminal together, and threw the wreckage into the trash can beside the corridor.

"Well, I wasn't sure at first, but now I am certain... You are Angelita." He tossed the round shield in his hand. The silver light with a warm white glow lightly leaped up and landed neatly in his hand. "Ms. Angelita, are you sure you want to launch a mental attack on me?"

An illusory voice echoed: "No..."

Nie Weiyang swung his shield and smashed the heavy door of the server storage room with a loud bang, leaving a big dent!
[Holy Blade]!
'Blade', sharp edge.

This is a skill that can be used with any weapon that has a sharp edge - who says shields don't have sharp edges?

'boom! ! ! '

A single gunshot echoed throughout the third underground floor. A distant cacophony of voices filled the air. A golden shield floated over Nie Weiyang, and a spiderweb of cracks gradually disappeared. On the surrounding walls, numerous holes rapidly opened, and gun barrels supported by mechanical arms extended out.

The illusory voice seemed to start getting anxious: "No..."

"Oh, there are also physical attacks." Nie Weiyang sighed, "It's too late. What should I do?"

Before the dense firepower network came down, he cut the central axis lock of the gate with a sword, pried the door open and jumped in.

……

When entering the server storage room, Nie Weiyang clearly felt that the surrounding environment had changed.

It was like stepping through a layer of foam, a thin film, out of a greenhouse and into a more real world. The first thing he saw was darkness. Then, tiny glimmers of light sprouted from the darkness, drifting like fireflies. The dim light illuminated the ground, the server units on either side emitted a soft hum, and the indicator lights glowed a silent green, illuminating nothing but like eerie green eyes, spying on the visitor in the darkness.

The pale ashes were startled and flew around. Nie Weiyang's heart tightened. He turned around and threw the shield at the door, releasing the shield to block the connection between the inside and the outside.

Isn't this the ashes of the Pale Wilds...? So the shelter's integrity is compromised here! What enemy is at the headquarters?!

Moreover, this nearly opaque darkness… was unforgettably familiar.

"Dark Zone." Nie Weiyang muttered, turning the sword in his hand.

This place is less than a hundred meters away from the administrator's office, yet there is such a complete dark zone. If it weren't for Nie Weiyang's style of operation, if someone else came here, they might have to wait until the completeness of the shelter dropped to a certain level before following the clues to find this place.

But this is a false proposition, because such single-player copies are generated for a single player. If someone else comes in, it will not be the same as it is now.

In order to accurately disgust every player, New World spares no effort...

Nie Weiyang walked slowly between the servers, the longsword in his hand glowing like a lightbulb, illuminating the cables on the ground. He could hear sounds around him, rustling sounds, like snakes, rats, insects. He could also hear a woman's breathing, occasionally mixed with muffled cries and laughter, echoing throughout the eerie black space.

It was not until he passed between the server units and reached the control console that he saw a female figure. She was wearing a white uniform robe, sitting in front of the console with her head lowered and her hands hanging naturally.

The phantom voice appeared again, this time even more anxious: "Don't... come over..."

Nie Weiyang slowly approached.

Of course he heard the sound, but he had already entered the dark area and there were machine guns guarding the gate outside, so he was probably forced to keep moving forward.

"It was very dangerous over there, wasn't it?" Nie Weiyang asked softly, standing not far behind the figure - "Don't be afraid," he said.

This seemed to soothe the anxiety in the illusory female voice, but she started crying again: "I was wrong... I was wrong..."

"Did you make a mistake?" Nie Weiyang's voice became softer. "Do you want to talk, Angelita?"

"I shouldn't...believe..." Angelita's voice was like a low sob murmur, a painful whisper.

Nie Weiyang asked gently, "Believe in what?"

But Angelita didn't respond. Her voice was a mixture of crying and laughing, like a madman. Nie Weiyang sighed and approached the lowered female figure again.

He finally saw her true appearance.

It was a female corpse hollowed out from the back. The hollow torso was kept alive by excellent life-support technology. An instrument was fixed in the chest cavity. Cold light shone from under the cloth on the back. Bundles of cables extended from the hem of the robe and spread in all directions.

Those cables on the ground...

They connect to her brain through that instrument.

“…” Nie Weiyang was silent.

Under the sudden red spotlights around him, he took off his sunglasses and put them in his breast pocket.

“Even for a biotech wetware process, this is a bit abnormal,” he commented.

A prompt appeared - he entered the BOSS battle.

　This dungeon ends at chapter 13 (what a lucky number!). I've been sick these past few days and my mind hasn't been clear, so the first half of the storyline was a bit boring (the ideas weren't coherent, I give up). I learned my lesson, so I'll write more and save some drafts to revise them slowly.

　　Tsk, what I wrote a few days ago, just looking at it makes me want to escape from the earth
　　
　
(End of this chapter)