Players’ NPC daddy.

The raptor queen screamed, opened her mouth, and her entire head split in two. It turned out that the so-called woman's head was just a human-shaped bird beak.

At the moment when the Queen of Predatory Birds approached and wanted to give her a close-range death kiss, Blaze fired the charged flames.

A flash of white light pierced the Predator Queen's head, splitting the dark sky. The frozen Predator Queen began to dissolve into dust, and the flock of Predators began to stir.

"Are you going to disperse?"

"No." Blaze narrowed his eyes.

The birds of prey are getting restless, but they are not trying to escape, but because a new queen is about to be born!

In this horrific vertical hell, no creature can remain a predator forever. The only reason a queen exists is to allow the tribe to have the racial trait of immediately converting a male into a queen upon her death.

The largest bird of prey suddenly twitched, and its beak grew to resemble that of a young female.

The flock of predatory birds, now with their queen back, approached Blaze again, but this time they had learned their lesson and let the queen hide while the other males attacked.

Blaze swung his werewolf claws, killing the attacking birds of prey one after another. Even a small cut in the vital point could be fatal, and the birds of prey quickly realized this and changed their strategy again, launching a suicide attack to destroy Blaze's foothold.

"You won't make the same mistake twice. Once you die, you'll instantly evolve. Is this the ecology of vertical hell? The only word to describe it is terrifying."

Blazer was now in a bit of a dilemma, as the bird of prey attacked directly from below, which was his blind spot.

"Let me recover." Chicken asked to fight, but Blaze shook his head and refused.

"Your body is getting bigger and bigger, and it takes longer and longer to create. I can't take any chances under these circumstances."

"So what should we do? Should we escape now?"

"How can that be done?"

Blaze looked around and turned around suddenly, exposing his back to the predatory bird.

“Strangers often say, if there’s no road, dig it yourself!”

Blaze opened his mouth, ready to melt the rock with his prayer. The birds of prey knew his purpose, so he used his Deer Hunter ability for the first time.

Because the stars are incomplete, Blaze can only use the basic ability, that is, super high temperature. Blaze does not know what it means to light up the stars in this world without stars.

But the immediate dilemma was solved, Blaze successfully melted the rock wall and advanced two meters inside.

This distance is enough for Blaze to force a one-on-one fight with these predatory birds.

The predatory bird was not an idiot. After lingering at the entrance of the cave for a while, it left unwillingly.

Vertical hell, don't chase the prey you can't get. Any unnecessary consumption of your physical strength is suicide.

"They left. Really, why would the Black Beast Knight come to a place like this?" The soul-body of Chicken popped out of the cave to gather information, but turned around and found Blaze staring at the rock wall, looking thoughtful.

"You wouldn't want to pray your way down to the underground world, would you? That would be just as foolish as climbing all the way up."

"I did have that idea, but someone had already done it before me." Blazer turned around and described the stranger's bizarre behavior like a chicken.

"There's a guild called the Diggers, whose sole purpose is to dig through the continent. They've been digging for a full year. But the digging has become increasingly difficult, forcing them to take risks and become stronger, seeking powerful weapons to break through deeper obstacles."

"They, they are so boring." The chicken was speechless for a moment and didn't know what to say.

"Did they dig up anything, like clues to the underground world or something?"

"It's said that the Diggers are still digging down, but they obviously haven't found anything useful. So I was wondering..." Blaze muttered, touching the rock wall in front of him, "Since this is Hell, could it be closer to the underworld?"

"It's useless. Didn't Enya describe to you that the upheaval is the disappearance of a continent and the rise of another?" Chicken walked around in front of Blaze and said helplessly, "The hell you see might just be a former continent being thrown out of the world."

"This world has likely undergone countless upheavals since its creation. God knows if this continent was once part of Tartarus. It must be about the same depth as the Underworld."

"Wait! You just said something incredible!"

"Is this vertical hell objectively perpendicular to the continent?!"

Chapter 206 The road to redemption is one that you walk on your own

Greenland's reference to the vertical hell sounded like he was describing a special place. Blaze didn't think much of it; after all, there was no place like the vertical hell in the world.

Even though the ballads handed down from the Age of Gods described the Titans crawling out of a vertical hell, for Blaze, this was merely an artistic interpretation of the disaster brought about by the Titans' terrifying power.

Who knows if it is really a precise and objective description? Where has the habit of being mysterious and using fancy words and metaphors gone?

Although it is outrageous, it is the most suitable explanation for where the original continent went after the earth turned upside down and where the new continent came from.

Blaze remembered that the Tartarus continent was square. If this vertical hell was at the bottom of one side, then there were at least three worlds left, one of which was the ocean where Aries was located, which would appear due to the upside-down world.

How on earth does the ocean exist in this vertical world?

This shocking discovery is not good news. The more I think about it, the more confused and my scalp tingles.

"After everything turned upside down, is this what the original world will become? This is terrible."

Blaze reached the cave entrance and looked down. It was bottomless, and he felt like he might starve to death before reaching the bottom. This terrifying thought of life falling from birth sent a chill down his spine.

"It's really terrible. I originally thought that this place would fall infinitely due to the nature of the land itself, but I didn't expect it was just a simple geographical location." Ji looked solemn. She didn't have time to be proud of the shocking secret she guessed casually. She would rather be wrong now.

"In that case, even if the underground world really exists, it's meaningless. After becoming vertical, the underground world should also be falling."

"No, in the underground world that Enya saw, all the creatures were standing on the ceiling for Enya." Blaze carefully recalled every word Enya said. This situation concerned the future of the world, and he didn't dare to make any mistakes.

But he had no idea. He was born on Tartarus, the continent where humanity was born. Common sense couldn't comprehend four vertically descending continents. It was like suddenly lying on the ground and telling everyone around him that if they didn't do this, they would fall out of the world.

"The only evidence is the two earth-shaking events witnessed by the Holy Cross Kingdom and the Giant Kingdom... Damn, there's too little information now, and it's been so long. The landscape has long since changed, and there's no evidence from other vertical worlds."

The biggest difficulty standing in Blaze's way is that it is hard to believe that such earth-shaking changes have only occurred twice since the beginning of modern civilization.

As long as people believe in it, then they can unite and there will always be a way to solve the problem of the world turning upside down and becoming vertical.

"Only with definite evidence can Hebi convince all the kingdoms."

"If we find the ruins of the Supreme Holy Kingdom in this vertical hell, wouldn't it prove that the vertical world is connected to our world?" Chicken was like being at two extremes from Blaze. When Blaze became nervous, she relaxed and came up with a brilliant idea.

"The probability of success is very low. It's as difficult as directly convincing others to believe in this vertical continent." Blazer retorted seriously.

Sometimes when you are in trouble, even the worst idea can become a good idea, at least it allows you to make some progress in your thinking.

"We don't know which direction the world is turning. Maybe the ruins of the Supreme Holy Kingdom are on this side, or maybe on the other three sides. It's very likely that we'll end up taking a long detour and doing nothing."

"Kid, do you think saving the world is a smooth road that others have taken? Do you think there is a shortcut to saving the lives of many people? Do you want to be lazy just because you know where the end is?" The chicken suddenly raised his voice and scolded Blaze in an extremely harsh tone.

"Don't be naive. You don't choose a path, you create one. The more you walk, the more detours you take, the more lives you can save."

At the end, the chicken's tone changed, becoming helpless and gentle.

"That's what you taught me, the boy who refused the easy way to defeat the lion."

"As expected of an ancient being... he even has to use moral principles when teaching people." Blaze shrugged helplessly, with a relaxed smile on his face.

"That's right. I'm not very smart anyway, so I might as well just take some useless detours."

"Hehehe, I have always been an outstanding wise man. Now you know how powerful I am." The chicken proudly raised its tail feathers under Blaze's flattery. To be honest, the exaggerated compliments from others were not as pleasant as Blaze's "You are so powerful."

"Oh no! I suddenly don't want to be a bird in the sky anymore. I want to be a Homo sapiens, specializing in guiding the spiritual paths of all living beings."

Blaze had no choice but to agree with a few words. This guy Chicken always does what he wants.

Blaze stuck most of his body out of the cave entrance and looked around. All he could see was a bare rock wall with no foothold at all.

It seemed that the only option left for him was to jump down.

"Do you remember the shape of the eye that brought us here?" Blaze asked suddenly.

"I remember it, what's wrong?" Chicken was confused.

"Well, just remember it." Blaze glanced at the blessing, and the Black Beast Knight's mission was pitch black.

This could only mean one thing: the Black Beast Knight had rebelled against the mission. He didn't know if being teleported to this vertical hell was part of the Black Beast Knight's rebellion, but he knew the Black Beast Knight wouldn't cooperate with him a second time by leaving the eye pattern that could teleport him here.

If you accidentally fall and activate the [Emergency Escape Device] while exploring the Vertical Hell, the teleportation magic used by the Black Beast Knight may be the only way to reach the Vertical Hell directly.

So the pattern of the eyes is crucial.

"If you want to fully explore this vertical world, the most important thing is to establish a route for traveling back and forth. You can use your eyes to teleport back, but this is the only way to go back."

Blaze took out the [Emergency Escape Device], which was a disposable prop, and now he only had four left.

"Well...why don't you let the people from the Fairy Kingdom exchange this item with you for daily copper coins? It just so happens that we don't need them to provide star fragments now." Ji felt a little guilty when she said this, because she couldn't measure which one was more valuable, the star fragments or the krypton gold items.

"How about you go and discuss it with them?"

"I'll go discuss it?!" Blaze pointed at himself. He wasn't that shameless.

"This, this is also one of the long ways you take to save the world." In fact, Chicken was quite shameless in front of Blaze.

……

[Fairy Kingdom] has been having a headache lately because there is still a week left before the monsters they are conquering leave the Styx and re-enter the first stage.

But the challenge item they had, the Black Beast Knight's copper coins, was running out.

Because this copper coin is so easy to use, you only need two copper coins to make this horrible place your own backyard.

One coin is needed to cross the Dead River and enter the challenge phase, but the other is crucial. As long as you hold this coin, you can enter the spirit state after being killed by a monster. You can use this coin to bribe the ferryman and take a boat directly to the other side of the Dead River to be resurrected.

They collected a total of 45 copper coins from the commission of Black Beast Knight Blaze to collect star fragments.

Then their leader suddenly had an idea and generously gave every member the opportunity to challenge the monster's final form.

Well now, the source of the star fragments - the Nemean Giants - have been defeated, and they have no reason to get copper coins from Blaze.

Even Kate Cat, who was always very thick-skinned, became anxious. She had not forgotten the purpose of the 100 people beating up the monster.

So she decided to whip her brother and make him go to Blaze to get some tasks that could be exchanged for copper coins.

Chapter 207 Games Will Change Reality

Paying for games seems to be an indispensable part of gaming. However, whether a game that requires a lot of payouts is a good game has always been a controversial topic.

The way of paying with in-game currency also divides games into buyout and free games.

A one-time purchase means that subsequent updates are sparse. It's very likely that you'll play it once and then put it in a corner, gathering dust, eventually becoming a gradually fading memory. You'll only play it when you occasionally think of it, reminiscing about it.

A buyout game is like a gorgeous firework. It stuns everyone when it blooms, then gradually dims and exits the huge stage of the sky. In the end, only a few people still remember the beauty of the firework.

It's a free game, free to play, but with a pay-to-play option. While it's constantly updated, it feels like watching a vibrant life gradually age and lose its original form. From once vibrant and full of life, it's now a maggot-infested rotten flesh.

This makes people feel extremely heartbroken, but helpless. Not everyone has unlimited inspiration, and not everyone has the ability to stick to their original intention to the end.

So Godlock strikes a balance, and it's quite bold. It requires you to buy the game itself, but also offers a way to spend real money, literally saying, "I want it all."

Company [G] uses their presentation results to tell all players that it is not that the game they made is so noble that they can charge twice as much, but that they need so much money to create and continuously update this huge world.

Players truly feel that every penny of their krypton gold has turned into leaves fluttering in the wind, clouds changing freely in the sky, and... the touching moments brought by the NPCs.

"Senior, are you really not going to consider coming back to work? The director said he could give you a raise."

A sweet-looking working woman cautiously spoke to a young man wearing glasses who was operating equipment.

This young man was an old employee of the previous company and was also the senior who introduced her to the company.

A senior employee previously held a seemingly comfortable warehouse management position. He often played games during work hours, and his overall dejected demeanor made him unpopular. People who coveted the comfortable position kept gossiping about him, and eventually even the manager above him started considering firing him.

But recently this veteran has become energetic and full of vitality. He will take the initiative to greet people. Even though he knew he was laid off, he was not depressed, but packed up and left quickly.

After the senior employees left, the employees who took the opportunity to get promoted messed up the work, causing the company's accounts and materials to be wrong and nothing to go right.

At this time, the company discovered that they had cut their own aorta. It turned out that this old senior was a ruthless person who did the work of five people in order to make money in "Godlock".

He was a warehouse keeper, an accountant, a technician, a maintenance worker, and finally, he was even a canteen chef!

The scariest thing is that after finishing all five tasks, there is still free time to play games.

Now they shamelessly ask this old senior to clean up the mess [free of charge], also in order to invite this old senior back.

The female employee hesitated for a moment, then remembered her boss's order and could only whisper, "Senior, don't you have a disease that will kill you if you don't spend money? If you come back, you can spend money as you please."

"No, Lucy calculated my accounts and found the gold coins I recharged with krypton gold. She told me to complete tasks honestly to make money and not to use the wealth of my world." The old man casually dealt with the messy account book, put on his baseball cap in a cool manner, and was not at all tempted by the word "salary increase".

"And I already have a new job, so the career path is pretty good."

"Eh~"

The female employee sighed helplessly. She didn't play games much, so she couldn't understand why she had to change her life because of a virtual character.

But when she saw the old senior become healthy and energetic, she felt that it was great to have such a virtual character that could change the old senior.

"Okay, senior, I won't try to keep you. I wish you a good future." The female employee rolled her eyes, thinking that they might become strangers in the future, so she couldn't help but want to play a farewell prank.

"Senior, maybe you'll regret rejecting this and complain to others later. Even my apprentice has become a team leader. If I hadn't left, I might have had a higher position."