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Where is this place?

Shui Hua stood on the scorched black ground, feeling a little dazed.

She walked forward a short distance and came to a hill with a better view, looking around in all directions.

It took a lot of effort before she recognized her surroundings:

This is actually the place where she first logged into Pandora!

Although, the spooky appearance of this place now is completely different from when she first landed!

Those lush trees, dense and unrecognizable plants, beasts of various colors, beautiful birdsong...

Everything has disappeared, only the dry ground, scorched tree trunks, dry waterways... Even the wind is filled with choking ashes.

There are no animals of any kind, no sounds of any kind, and no greenery of any kind.

The earth was dead silent.

What the hell happened here? Shui Hua stayed where he was.

It is now mid-April, and in one and a half months it will be the time for the college entrance examination.

No matter how much she loves surfing the Internet, she has to restrain her behavior and devote all her energy to reviewing and preparing for the exam.

She has stopped the habit of rushing into the virtual world to play games enthusiastically after finishing her homework every day. Only on rest days, she will spare some time to return to the virtual world to play for two or three hours.

Even her mobile phone was half-sealed by her, and she devoted all her attention to her studies.

Shui Hua is really serious and wants to get into a good university.

She already knew that her mind was not as good as that of her best friend Zhu Cixia. If she didn't get into a good university, she would worry about whether she would have a common language with her best friend in the future.

——The difference in cognition of the three views is too large, and communication will really be a problem.

Before Splash, he used a bunch of trumpets to hang out on the Internet and make friends with people of all walks of life and ages. He has a very clear understanding of this kind of thing.

In any case, she does not hope that one day, when two people sit face to face, she cannot understand the mood of her good friend.

So, learn!

Must study hard!

Of course, the necessary rest is still needed.

Splash even bought Gravity and didn't play it, because she was worried that it would take too much time, or that she would go offline before finishing the game, so she would not be interested in studying, so she chose [Pandora], a place where she can log off at any time.

It's just... what the hell is going on here?

Where is my tree?

What about my house?

Where is my bird??

Shui Hua asked three times in a daze.

Especially the last sentence Where is my bird? was especially loud, and it was heart-wrenching.

That is the purpose of her going online today, to challenge [The Emergence of Power] with confidence!

Her [Emergence of Power] challenge has progressed (1/3), and the death beast has been hunted.

Of course it wasn't cruel and ruthless, directly killing the one she tamed—it was a coincidence that the first death beast she encountered, which she successfully tamed, was really a rare elite death beast.

But as long as she has a bad idea, the Death Beast will run away sharply, making it impossible for her to hit.

So in the end, Splash rode the Death God Beast, found another Elite Death God Beast, and after a hard fight, he successfully completed the hunt and reached one-third of the progress of [Emergence of Power].

After that, Shuihua was released and followed her Death God Beast all the time, rushing on the road, climbing trees, looking for bait, and finally caught an Ecaran dragon.

——Shuihua has also tried such things as falling from the sky and physically taming the Eklan flying dragon directly in the air.

Her evaluation is: [Humans can't do anything. ]

The human translation is:

That's not what people do at all!

She really can't do it!

In short, Splash took advantage of the pitiful game time to successfully tame an Eklan flying dragon, and all he wanted was to ride on the Eklan flying dragon to tame or hunt a sky overlord-Phantom Dragon.

Now everyone has recognized that [Phantom Dragon] is one of the three hunting challenges of [Emergence of Power], but no one has succeeded yet.

Splash feels hopeful.

Launched today with great hopes.

But she never expected that her bird... her dragon would be gone after a week of going online!

Not only is the dragon gone, but even the save points are gone! !

Send it back to the birth point directly!

What about trouble?

Shuihua opened the map and found that the original green map had also turned into a withered yellow, and suddenly changed from the Amazon rainforest to the African savannah!

All the player strongholds she has been to have disappeared.

She couldn't even retreat a little, or log in from another base!

The results of land reclamation that the players have worked for a whole month before are gone? ?

Splash couldn't accept it and wanted to figure out what happened.

At this moment, an application for joining the team was sent over——

[Friend [Princess Almighty] applied to join your team]

[agree refuse]

Splash agreed.

——[Almighty Princess] is her note to her best friend Zhu Cixia.

The next moment, a door opened beside Shuihua, and the little princess in full costume stepped out.

She was going to see Lin You when she was all dressed up, but she saw Shuihua online before she went, so she told Lin You to go later and ran to look for Shuihua first.

After Shuihua became obsessed with studying, they had fewer chances to meet each other.

Shuihua, it's online so early!

Well, I want to take up as little study time as possible, but... Shui Hua glanced at the scorched land again, I seem to have come for nothing.

The little princess glanced at it, and immediately understood what Shuihua meant: This...it's really a big problem. May I help you change to a permanent mirror? You didn't participate in the arson, so you won't be restricted.

Set fire? Shui Hua realized it later and couldn't believe it, Such a large-scale fire was man-made??!

That's right. Although Zhu Cixia was a little unaccustomed to the fact that Shui Hua, a young Internet surfer, would be slow to respond to such big news, she still explained to her very understandingly:

In the beginning, only a few thousand people lit the tree of life. The fire burned for a day and a night, and the whole tree of life was put into a moment.

But soon, the fire spread to the surrounding forests. Hundreds of thousands and millions of players were instigated one after another and began to actively set fires to amplify the fire.

The fire not only engulfed the forest, but also engulfed the player images one by one.

Up to this point, the scope of influence was still controllable, but after that, the drastic changes to the world caused by the fire affected Pandora's intelligent management algorithm, and the mirror partition mode was also changed. More and more mirror images were controlled by the algorithm. Actively merged into the fire mirror.

Up to now, nearly one-third of the mirror images have become the [Catastrophic Doomsday] version.

Wait, wait! Splash's head was a little itchy, The person in one mirror set fire, why would it affect other mirror images?

The little princess blinked, thought for a while, and said in a way that Shui Hua could understand: During your exploration, you also encountered the tombstones and strongholds left by other mirror players, right?

Yes, I've met it before. Shuihua nodded.

This is because the player's changes to the world of Pandora will be randomly synchronized to other mirrors by the algorithm. And the more drastic the change, the greater the weight, and the more likely it will be synchronized to other mirrors.

So... Shuihua said in surprise, Because the change of the environment caused by arson is too drastic, it is also synchronized by the algorithm?

Yep.

You guys... Shuihua was a little speechless, It's time to save you!

Sigh. The little princess sighed, Lin You said that when he opened Pandora, he promised that he would hand over this world to players and algorithms, and let everything evolve naturally, so he doesn't plan to intervene.

So you just look at it like this... The fire burned the whole of Pandora to nothing, and players all over the world are paying for this group of lunatics? Shuihua couldn't understand Lin You's madness.

No, Lin You said that this kind of [mirror image erosion] has an upper limit. The little princess explained to Lin You.

What's the upper limit? Shui Hua asked.

Zhu Cixia paused, but still said the answer: 50%

Hearing this number, Shui Hua slowly opened his mouth wide: You mean, only half of the players will be able to stay in the normal Pandora world in the future, while the other half will all stay in this fire world?