Interactive Fiction: The Right Choice After Unemployment

Chapter 278 Behind the Scenes
"...Zheng Zhuo..."

A voice called him from afar.

"……Awake……"

After entering [Cyberpunk World], he has become accustomed to being called by his ears.

"...Wake up..."

But this time, the sound is more direct and transparent.

It doesn't look like it's coming out next to the ear.

It was more like ringing directly in the head.

Zheng Zhuo opened his eyes with all his strength.

then.

He saw a golden light.

……

light.

Still light.

Countless rays of light surged, converging into turbulent currents, passing around Zheng Zhuo.

Here is what he is very familiar with, [Golden World].

"(There was still a firefight just now...I was pinned to the ground...this is...)"

"(I made it out?)"

Zheng Zhuo raised his hand.

His hands became transparent, blurred.

He turned into an indistinct figure.

Did it come out successfully...?

There are spots of light everywhere.Those spots of light change, flowing with iridescent light.

He had never seen such a sight before.He realized: This is what [Golden World] really looks like.

At the same time, he also saw another figure beside him.

"You stabilized...you woke up."

The figure sighed in relief.

The sound is still the same.Zheng Zhuo recognized her: it was a young woman.

"Did I make it out? Or am I dead?"

he asks.

"I don't know. I haven't died."

Said the young woman.

Zheng Zhuo was choked up.

Fortunately, she continued.

"However, entering this state should mean returning to the [real world]."

She pointed around her body.

Light flows around them.More light poured out, pushing against them.

All light is going in the same direction.And they flowed in that direction.It was like riding a great river of light.They flow down from upstream.

Gradually, the golden light is turning white.

A picture was displayed ahead as if separated by a hazy veil.

Some are running, some are fighting, some are giving chase.

"(!)"

That's the external situation!
After experiencing the two worlds, Zheng Zhuo saw the state of the [real world] again for the first time.

……

The [Hero] and [Creator] that the two sent out earlier played a role.Thanks to them, the situation started to turn for the participants of [Subconscious World].

Zheng Zhuo saw Chen Qing, who was wearing an OL outfit, get up.She backs up at the door.And Wei Hao led the resistance team headed by Yan Futi, the mobile team headed by Xiang Renjie, and the newly arrested candidates headed by Chu Huairen to [P area].

As expected of a non-commissioned officer of the Star Wars Corps.He quickly understood the situation and gave instructions that were steady and quick.

And behind Chen Qing, the fashionable young woman in a red skirt and wavy perm slowly sat up with her head supported.

Zheng Zhuo had seen her corpse before, and was a little apprehensive about her appearance.

But he recognized her.

She is "deep".

If virtual personalities can be considered as real persons, they have fought side by side.

Shen was the only one who returned directly to the [Real World] without going through the [Pure White World].She was visibly flustered.

Fortunately, her neighbor is Chen Qing.Chen Qing was explaining to her, and soon, Shen's state became much more stable.

In the arena, only the fat, slovenly middle-aged man has not woken up.

"(I don't know if he can still wake up.)"

Just when Zheng Zhuo was thinking this way, the people led by Wei Hao ran in from the door.

Tao Tao was protected by everyone and stood at the end of the line.And the familiar faces in front were holding steel pipes and wooden sticks in their hands.

Yan Futi and Xiang Renjie even took a gun each.I don't know which security personnel snatched it from.

Zheng Zhuo saw all this.

He is not a third perspective in the air, nor is he a surveillance perspective.

He sees it all from the perspective of all the participants.In front of him, 12 screens floated in the golden space.

1 is black.It belonged to the [Rebel] who was still unconscious. One is golden, it is Zheng Zhuo's own.

1 more is very dark.

It belonged to [Joker] Fu Xi.Can't see where she is now.

He saw what everyone else could see.

And now, the remaining 9 screens looked at a door at the same time.

That's the door to where the "Professor" is.

Wei Hao stood at the front.He kicked open the door marked "Top Secret No Entry".

Through everyone's eyes, Zheng Zhuo saw the appearance of the professor.

……

The innermost room is much smaller than everyone imagined.

Strictly speaking, that's not even a room.The space of less than ten square meters is like a utility room, and there is only a long table inside.

and a computer.

The computer screen lights up.Facing the crowd.

It was an old, broken gray and white computer.It was a style that was popular around 2000.It belongs to the model that has been eliminated long ago.

All the participants present were puzzled.

But far away in the [Golden World], Zheng Zhuo only heard a "buzz" in his head.

That computer is the same as in the pure white world!
"it turns out……"

The young woman murmured next to him.

"That's something that came out of the [subconscious world]. It's the same as the one I used...! No wonder it can also interfere and hack from the outside."

Zheng Zhuo suddenly thought of the flames and objects that flew out of his mobile phone before he came in.

"Those are not hallucinations..."

Zheng Zhuo repeated.

"It's [Ability]. Someone used [Ability] to bring it out!"

"Fu Xi?"

"No. Definitely an earlier participant, the real 'Professor'—"

"Where will he be..."

"……inside."

Zheng Zhuo looked at the screen.

His words stopped.

He saw a panic in the crowd.

Because they saw a dead body sitting in the corner of the small utility room.

And the corpse was wearing a white coat, which had been air-dried for a long time.

……

suddenly.The computer vibrated.Its display glows.

First came fire, then lightning.

Energy erupts from the screen.

"what!"

"Wow!... what!?"

The participants did not expect it, and hurriedly avoided it!
Next, a huge knife.

Green claws protrude from the screen.

The computer seemed to have a premonition of something.

More and more things are called into the real world!
……

But Zheng Zhuo and the young woman did not see this scene.

Just one second before the situation happened, a huge torrent hit [Golden World].

Some invisible objects are passing through here!
Zheng Zhuo and the young woman were concentrating on what everyone saw, but suddenly, a force rushed in without warning.

It's like being hit by a huge wave.The two are separated!

They were knocked upside down, ups and downs in the 【Golden World】.

"Oops……!"

The impact became more and more violent, Zheng Zhuo shouted.

"We have to go! Get out of here!"

He looked to the end of the flow.There was a blinding white light.

"Go back to the real world! Quick!"

The light spots filling the [Golden World] also began to expand because of this collision.They become passages connecting different [subconscious worlds] one after another.

More invisible things surged out of these passages.

Zheng Zhuo struggled and flew towards the white light.Of course the young woman dare not neglect, she flies faster than Zheng Zhuo.

however.

at this time.

Zheng Zhuo saw the young woman in front of her stop.

She turned around.

"elder brother!?"

Zheng Zhuo heard the young woman shout softly.

then.

She suddenly flew in the opposite direction.

……

【problem】

[The young woman suddenly wants to go in the opposite direction from the exit!This may be the last chance... how to act? 】

【Option [-]】

【Grab her, stop her】

【Option [-]】

【Let her chase】

【Option [-]】

[Pull her and chase her by myself]

【Option [-]】

【Chasing with her】

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