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"Is that all? Don't you need any support? There are so many enemies. If they find your tracks, the consequences will be disastrous!"

In response, Yu Qi smiled slightly: "So, I have to do an experiment first to verify my idea. If it fails, I'm afraid we can only choose to attack by force."

"I understand!" He nodded with a heavy expression. Following Alan's order, the defense department, which was already on high alert, took quick action. Two staff members took the lead to accompany Yu Qi to take the elevator to the containment compartment for experiments. San Yueqi, Dan Heng, Xing and Alan brought people to guard here, ready to rescue Yu Qi and others at any time.

With a clear "ding~" sound, the space elevator slowly stopped at the second floor of the containment compartment. There were too many monsters on the first floor, and once the space elevator stopped there, it might attract hundreds of enemies in an instant.

Walk forward from the space elevator, turn right to reach the special analysis room, then go forward and down the passage to the control center on the first floor, pass through the circular corridor in the atrium, and then walk right to reach their destination, the rare item storage room.

It doesn't sound like a long journey, but the various enemies lurking along the way make this journey particularly dangerous.

When the elevator stopped, Yu Qi looked through the transparent hatch and saw a group of virtual soldiers not far away who seemed to be attracted by the sound of the elevator's arrival. This made him feel a little heavy.

"Ding~" There was another light sound, and the elevator door slowly opened. Yu Qi took a deep breath. Just when the virtual soldiers turned their heads to look at him, Yu Qi's eyes flashed, and a subtle power spread out, covering Yu Qi and the defense members behind him.

Staring at the direction of the space elevator with a gaze filled with desire for brutality and destruction, Yu Qi and the members of the defense department couldn't help but feel nervous. The two members of the defense department held their weapons nervously, ready to defend against the attacks of the empty soldiers at any time.

But as time passed, those virtual soldiers seemed to have seen nothing. They ignored Yu Qi and the members of the defense department, and even ignored the space elevator with its door wide open. They turned their heads calmly and continued to wander around.

Seeing this, Yu Qi instantly breathed a sigh of relief. He raised his hand and gestured to the members of the defense department behind him. He took a few steps towards the virtual soldiers. In their eyes that were about to explode with tension, he whispered, "Hey!"

"Hey!!"

"Hey!!!"

"Sun thief, I'm here, come and hit me!!"

The voices became louder and louder. In the end, Yu Qi even took the initiative to walk to the side of the virtual soldiers, raised his hands and waved them vigorously in front of them, trying to attract their attention.

But these virtual soldiers seemed to have completely ignored Yu Qi and the others and did not react at all.

"Huh~" Turning around and walking back to the space elevator, Yu Qi exhaled forcefully, and said to the resentful eyes of the defense department members: "Okay, let's go back!!"

With slight vibrations, the space elevator continued to rise. Yu Qi stood in the elevator and waved his hands to remove the power from his body. His eyes were full of joy: "Sure enough, just as I thought, 'Watching a Play' can really be used like this!"

"Hehe, that's right. Actors are supposed to devote themselves to the drama. As long as they don't actively interfere with the drama, who would care about the audience's little actions?"

This is why Yu Qi was treated as air by the virtual soldiers just now. When he was in the state of "watching a play" or "audience", the virtual soldiers and the creatures of the Rift Realm, as "actors", would naturally choose to treat Yu Qi as something that did not exist.

'My mind is not there, so I see but don't see, and I hear but don't hear.'

In the support section, seeing Yu Qi and the others return safely, although he already had some guesses in his mind, San Yue Qi couldn't help but come over and asked, "How was it? Was it successful?"

In response, Yu Qi raised his hand and gestured 'OK', and said with a smile: "Of course it's done, get ready, we'll set off right away."

"Brother Alan, we will take the elevator to the first floor and hide. Then, I would like you to make some noise on the second floor of the containment section to help us attract the attention of the virtual soldiers."

"Okay!" Alan nodded without feeling dissatisfied with this mission that was almost like 'cannon fodder'. He clenched his bandaged hands tightly and said, "We will definitely help you attract the enemy as much as possible. The safety of the space station is in your hands!"

After discussing the general plan, Yu Qi and the others did not hesitate. The four of them took the elevator directly to the first floor of the containment compartment.

Compared to the few monsters on the second floor, the number of world-ripping creatures on the first floor was almost shoulder to shoulder. The mere sound of the elevator door opening instantly attracted dozens of gazes, and on the loop behind, there were continuous sounds of dense footsteps.

Even though they activated the 'turn a blind eye' function in time, Yu Qi and the others were still overwhelmed by this situation. The four of them squeezed on the short pile at the elevator door, and the road in front of them was blocked by monsters.

Not daring to move at all, even breathing became cautious. Yu Qi tried his best to maintain the strength of the few people. After waiting for a while, a loud roar suddenly sounded from the direction of the second floor above their heads, accompanied by an angry roar.

"This little pain is nothing to worry about. You will suffer a thousand times more!"

Brandishing the heavy sword in his hand, Alan didn't care about his increasingly serious injuries. Thunder surged, and the powerful force of destruction swept over, bringing the destruction that the virtual soldiers in front of him most longed for.

Behind him, members of the Defense Department formed an array, continuously using limited firepower to resist the attacking enemies, but due to the carrying capacity of the space elevator, only a handful of people could come down at a time. No matter how hard they tried, they still couldn't give Alan much help!

"Boss Alan, we can't hold on any longer! The brothers can't hold on any longer!" Behind him, a member of the defense department who was almost hit by the anti-baryonic annihilation beam couldn't help but shout, "If this continues, we'll all die here!"

"Ka~(〃＞目＜)" After forcing a predator away with great effort, Alan turned his head to look at the increasingly numerous monsters around him, and lowered his head to glance at the first floor below. Although he could not see the figures of Yu Qi and the others, he could still see the passage leading to the strange item room from the elevator. There were not many world-ripping creatures occupying it anymore!

Alan gritted his teeth and believed that Yu Qi and the others could seize this opportunity. He no longer hesitated and swung the sword in his hand. The roaring thunder spread along the metal ground, instantly blocking the actions of several virtual soldiers and making them block the steps of other virtual soldiers.

"withdraw!"

"Yes!"

As the sky elevator slowly rose, the huge containment section returned to calm again, and the monsters that were blocking the elevator entrance on the second floor slowly dispersed. On the walls, the dark rift crystals flickered slightly, and huge rift creatures kept emerging from the halos.

In the blink of an eye, the monsters destroyed by Alan and his team were replenished.

On the other hand, Yu Qi and his companions certainly did not let down the opportunity that Alan and the defense department members fought so hard for. They used the cover of "turning a blind eye" to carefully avoid the few monsters that had not left yet, and arrived at the room of strange objects safely.

The dilapidated room was still filled with the smell of gunpowder. The moment Yu Qi and his companions stepped into the room, next to the hatch whose shape had long been unrecognizable, an object like broken ice crystals emerged out of thin air and then quickly unfolded.

It was obviously the purpose of Yu Qi and his companions' trip, the Yu Xiang Space.

Looking at the circle of blue-pink ice crystals around the entrance to the Echo Space, San Yue Qi couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Huh?"

Yu Qi and the others also discovered the bright spot at this time, and their eyes kept wandering around the entrance to March 7 and Yu Xiang's space.

"Eh? Sanyue, isn't this your Six-phase Ice?" Xing nodded suddenly and clapped his hands: "No wonder you dreamed of this, Sanyueqi. Feelings have something to do with you!"

"Ah? Eh... I, I don't know?!"

Yu Qi looked around the surroundings and asked, "I remember you said that afterglow space is not a rare phenomenon. Is the afterglow space entrance you have seen before also like this?"

“No?” He shook his head in confusion. Looking at the circle of crystals that looked very similar to the six-phase ice, San Yue Qi recalled his dream last night with a complicated expression: “I have never seen any other six-phase ice except mine.”

"This time..." March 7

"..." Yu Qi nodded in understanding. He said nothing more. After taking a few steps towards the entrance, he turned to look at Xing and the others and asked in a deep voice, "Everyone, are you ready?"

"Ok!"

"..."

"Well, how about letting me adjust my state again?" Facing the speechless gazes of the crowd, Xing smiled awkwardly: "Well, it's just a joke!"

"Oh..." Sighing helplessly, Yu Qi took the lead and walked into the residual space.

"~~~" The vision turned dark in an instant, and a melodious piano music slowly sounded beside Yu Qi's ears...

Chapter 223 Star Iron, start!

In the deep starry sky, a slender space station is quietly suspended in the darkness.

A melodious song sounded, a meteorite passed by in front of the eyes, the field of vision gradually zoomed in towards the space station, and the pure white shell of the space station appeared in front of the eyes.

Suddenly, the scene changed abruptly, and a pair of human hearts tightly wrapped in pure white shirts appeared in the field of vision, with their eyes slightly closed and their hands swaying, as if they were playing a violin.

The purple-haired girl, wearing a black cape-like shawl coat and with a charming yet dangerous temperament, seemed to be immersed in the world of music, and the music around her gradually became more passionate.

However, at this moment, a dark antimatter army suddenly appeared on the glass curtain wall at the top of the space station, and wormholes emerged out of thin air. They directly passed through the outer protective shield of the space station and entered the interior of the space station, causing countless shouts of fear.

"Beep, beep, beep~" A bloody warning sign appeared on the big screen, but it did not attract the attention of the purple-haired woman. She was still concentrating on playing the violin in the void, mysterious and elegant.

Outside the space station, countless members of the Antimatter Corps leaped in. Inside the space station, amid countless screams, the girl who was the stationmaster was busy but not panic, and quickly directed the staff to evacuate quickly.

The scene kept changing. A white-haired boy wielding a greatsword blocked the plunderer's blade, allowing the clerk behind him to escape. A boy with a gun and a girl holding a bow rushed through the passage, forcing back the approaching virtual soldiers, but finally stopped in front of the closed elevator door.

"Be careful!" A bright light suddenly lit up from the elevator. The violent explosion made the girl, who seemed to be the reincarnation of the entangled fate, couldn't help but scream out in surprise, and also made the woman playing the violin stop.

The exciting music stopped abruptly, and the woman looked up, revealing a pair of chaotic pink eyes: "It seems that I came at the wrong time."

As soon as the words fell, a virtual screen suddenly popped up in midair, revealing a silver-white pixel wolf head mark: "No, I think you came at the right time."

A cute girl's voice, slightly distorted, came from here.

…………

"So? What is this?" After watching the scene just now with a confused face, Yu Qi felt bewildered and entangled, and couldn't help but raise his hand to scratch his head.

But at this time, he had already lost his human body, as if he had turned into a fixed perspective that could not move actively, and could only stare blankly at the constantly changing "picture" in front of him.

The scene changed, and Yu Qi's perspective was fixed on Kafka and the virtual screen. At the same time, a dialog box appeared out of thin air below Yu Qi's field of vision.

【？ ？ ？ : "System time, 23:47:15. You are very punctual, Kafka."】

[Kafka: "The future that Elio (Star Hunter) sees is never wrong. What happened to the explosion just now? Is this also in his "script"? "]

"..." Looking at the frozen view in front of him in silence, and then looking at the dialog box right below the screen, Yu Qi felt his nerves beating wildly, a feeling of wanting to complain but not knowing where to start kept surging in his heart.

After a long while, he managed to stabilize his rampage, but he couldn't help muttering to himself: "Fuck, isn't this a game? That... opening CG just now? What the hell, this world is actually a game world?"

His heart was pounding, and Yu Qi felt that his three views were trembling. He was stunned for a long time before he finally recovered. It was then that he understood his current state.

"So, I am now in the player's perspective? That's not right. I don't feel like I can control anything. Or do I have to wait until this 'story' is over before I can operate? Where are Sanyueqi, Danheng, and Xing now? Could it be that they have replaced the NPCs in the game?"

After talking on and on for a while, Yu Qi turned his attention back to the scene in front of him. He didn't know if it was because of the so-called "observer effect", but when he shifted his attention, the plot dialogue did not continue to advance, but stopped where it was.

When he 'looked' at the screen again, the conversation continued.

【???: At "23:44:59 system time, the pulse generated by the explosion caused a large-scale paralysis of the main control system.】

【Kafka: You did it? 】

【???: The "Antimatter Legion" did it. They invaded the space station two system hours ago.】

[Kafka: Do we need to fight the Legion? ]

[? ? ?: I don’t know. Elio didn’t say anything, so this matter is not important. ]

[Kafka: I understand~ From now on, I will take over the operation. ]

【？ ？ ？：Got it. Can you let me have some fun this time? The previous operations were all very boring.】

[Kafka: Sorry, today's task is very boring: just "putting the target in".]

[Kafka: - But I won't stop you from having fun. After all...]

The conversation ended here, and then the scene in front of Yu Qi turned black again. After a moment, light appeared, and it was another CG cutscene!

With enchanting steps, Kafka walked out of the elevator door and bumped into two members of the Antimatter Legion head-on.

"——After all~" There was a hint of danger in her voice. Kafka lowered her head slightly and placed her hands on her waist: "Elio didn't write it in the script..."

"It doesn't matter!"

Looking up suddenly, Kafka's hazy eyes with a hint of madness, she suddenly drew her gun, and the black and white guns directly hit the virtual soldier who was rushing over.

Then, under Yu Qi's astonished gaze, the scene in front of him froze and turned into shattered glass.

With a crisp sound of breaking, the scene changed again. A Predator and a Baryon stood side by side, and opposite them stood Kafka... and Xing, Danheng, and Sanyueqi? !

“Hey, hey, hey, what the hell is going on?!” Standing there in a daze, Sanyueqi couldn’t help but yell, “Shouldn’t this be the reverberation space? How did it become like this?”

Her head turned left and right, and it was obvious that San Yue Qi was a little panicked, but her body stood still... or perhaps, unable to move!

"Tsk, this thing, a turn-based game?" Scratching his head, Yu Qi barely understood part of the current situation, but he was even more confused.

"Hmm? Is that you, Yu Qi?" As if hearing Yu Qi's voice, San Yue Qi instantly raised his head and shouted, "Where are you? What's going on with us now? Why can't I move?"

Hearing this, Yu Qi was delighted: "March 7, can you hear me?"

Nodding his little head, Sanyueqi said with a bitter face: "Of course, where is this place? Why did it become like this as soon as we came in?"

"It turned out like this as soon as I came in?" After a slight pause, Yu Qi hurriedly asked, "Didn't you see those scenes before?"

San Yue Qi shook his head vigorously: "Picture? No."

Dan Heng also shook his head, but Xing suddenly spoke up: "You mean the scene where the space station was attacked? And the conversation between Kafka and Silver Wolf?"

"Ah? Yes, Xing, you saw it too?" Yu Qi was a little surprised. He didn't expect Xing to have the same player perspective as him? Thinking of Xing's situation, Yu Qi couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

Could it be that Xing will be the 'protagonist' of this game?

Not knowing what Yu Qi was thinking, Xing nodded honestly and said, "I see."

With his brows furrowed, Yu Qi was a little dazed for a moment. He seemed to understand something, but also seemed to understand nothing. He shook his head and continued, "The truth is, this is what happened...blah blah blah..."

"If I'm guessing correctly, it should be like this."

"Huh? We, have become characters in the game? Our world is just a game?" After listening to Yu Qi's story, San Yue Qi felt dizzy and there were almost stars in his eyes.

It’s not that she didn’t understand what Yu Qi was saying, but it was precisely because she understood that she felt confused.

How could her world be just a game? Wouldn't that mean she would become a character that could be manipulated at will?

"Well, if that's the case, then wouldn't all our previous efforts be a joke? The so-called exploration, the journey to find memories, the friends we met along the way...are they just the 'plot' that was arranged long ago?"

Seeing that San Yueqi was beginning to lose his will, Yu Qi quickly explained: "No, the real world should really exist!"

"Don't worry. I am sure that you, me, and everyone else are living according to our own ideas and moving forward with our own will. There is no pre-written 'script', and there is no 'GM' controlling everything behind the scenes."