Player 1

Chapter 41 Level 3(9)
But I didn't move, but took out the transformation device and held it in my hand.

Sorrento wanted to kill me, and for that he killed my aunt and several other neighbors, including the lovely Granny Ji; Dayto is also my friend.

Now he's killing Soto's character again, taking away his access to the third door.Sorrento does not deserve this power, he only deserves to be ruined, and only to be trampled under the feet of justice.

I raised the transformer high and pressed the start button.

Dazzling light flashed, and the sky was reflected scarlet.As for Parsifal, he turned into a huge alien hero with red skin, egg-shaped eyes, and a glowing siren on his chest.For the next 3 minutes, I'm Ultraman.

Mechagodzilla stopped roaring, and its gaze remained on the ground—I was standing there before, and then slowly raised its head to look at its new opponent.Finally, our eyes meet, and I face Sorrento's mech.

Sorrento stepped back awkwardly, his eyes began to light up again.

Before I put on an offensive posture, I looked at the 3-minute countdown in the upper right corner of my field of vision.

2：59，2：58，2：57。

Below the timer is Ultraman’s variety of special skill menus. I chose Spysum Light, and then crossed my hands in front of me, forming a cross. Immediately, a white energy wave shot out from the edge of the arm, hitting Mechagoth directly. Pulling his chest, Sorrento staggered, and finally lost control and fell heavily to the ground.

Cheers sounded from the chaotic battlefield.

Not missing this opportunity, I jumped half a mile into the sky, then turned down, and kicked straight into the Drag-Ride's head.There was a terrible clicking sound from inside the giant beast, smoke began to smoke from its mouth, and the blue light in its eyes dimmed.

I rolled back and landed in the distance, looking at the giant beast's remaining left hand supporting the ground.Sorrento seems to be trying to make it stand.

I chose the eight-point light wheel again, and a violently rotating bright blue energy ring suddenly appeared on my right hand. I threw it towards Sorrento like a dart, and saw the energy ring across the sky, leaving a blue The afterimage, and then hit Mechagodzilla in the stomach.The energy ring sliced ​​through its metal body with ease, almost like cutting a piece of tofu, and the giant beast was split in two.Before the entire mech explodes, its head falls off its neck and Sorrento ejects from it.Because the machine dragon was lying flat on the ground, the ejected cockpit almost touched the ground and flew for a while before adjusting its attitude so that the thrusters lifted Sorrento into the air.But before he fled, I crossed my hands again.

The cockpit crashed to the ground with an explosion.

The crowd went crazy.

I glanced at the standings to make sure Sorrento's employee number had disappeared.His character died, but I didn't feel very happy about it.Needless to say, Sorrento must have put on another vest and is preparing to launch a new round of attacks on us.

With 15 seconds left, I reverted back to my original form, turned around, activated my jet boots, and flew into the castle.

Edge and Artemis were waiting for me in front of the third door. Smoke was rising from the ground near them, and many bloody corpses of the "Sixth Man" were gradually disappearing. Obviously, I missed an encounter.

"It's not fair," I said, turning off the jet boots, "at least one should be left for me."

Artemis didn't answer, she gave me the middle finger.

"Congratulations on taking out Sorrento," Edge said. "There is no doubt that this victory will be remembered forever, but you are an idiot, and you know that?"

"Well," I shrugged, "I know."

"You selfish bastard!" cried Artemis, "what if you die?"

"But I didn't, did I?" I walked around her to the crystal door. "Calm down, we're going to open this thing."

I found the keyhole in the center of the door, and looked at the words directly above it.Faith, Hope and Love.

I took out the crystal key and held it aloft, as did Edge and Artemis.

There was no movement.

We exchanged glances, then I cleared my throat and sang, "Three is a magic number".As soon as the words fell, two additional keyholes appeared on the crystal gate.

"It worked!" Edge whispered. "I can't believe we're standing here together, right in front of the third door."

"It's finally here." Artemis nodded.

We put the key in the keyhole, Edge on the left, Artemis on the right.I stand in the middle.

"The countdown to three?" Artemis asked.

Edge and I nodded, Artemis counted down three two one, and we turned the key at the same time.The blue light flashed, the key disappeared, and the third door opened us a crystalline passage that stretched out to the infinite sea of ​​stars.

"Wow," Artemis whispered beside her, "let's go."

The three of us stepped forward, about to enter the door, and suddenly, I heard an explosion, as if the entire universe was torn in two.

We are all dead.

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When a character dies, the screen will not go black immediately, but will automatically switch to a third-person perspective, replaying the moment of death in slow motion.

When I heard the explosion, my perspective changed.I was watching Parsifal, Edge, and Artemis standing in front of the open door, and then a white light enveloped the whole world, followed by a roar.That's about it for dying at the site of a nuclear explosion.

At that moment, I saw our respective characters' bodies become transparent, and the skeleton was clearly visible, and at the same time, my health bar dropped to zero.

Then came the shockwave, which shattered everything that stood in its way—our character, the floor, the walls, the entire castle, and the thousands of players around it.Everything turned into dust, first stirred in the air, and then slowly fell to the ground.

The surface of the entire planet was leveled.Anola Castle and its surroundings, where thousands of players were fighting a second ago, has now turned into an open plain.Everything here has been destroyed, only the opened crystal porch is still where the castle was before, which is now floating in mid-air in the center of the deep pit.

I recovered from the shock and fell into a panic.

The "Sixth Man" detonates the Son of Doom.

Only this explanation makes sense, only this one power can destroy the impregnable castle of Arnora while killing all the characters.

I stared at the floating door, waiting for the final prompt to arrive. Other players will definitely receive the same prompt: the game is over.

But when the subtitles finally popped up in the center of my screen, all I saw was: Congratulations!You got another life!

In ecstasy, Parsifal reappeared at the place where he was reduced to slag a few seconds ago.I stood in front of the open door again, but now the door was floating in the air, tens of meters away from the surface.After materializing, I looked down and found that the floor under my feet had indeed disappeared, along with my jet boots and all other equipment and props.

I hovered in mid-air for a moment, then fell straight down, like a crooked wolf who has missed a BB bird[143].Desperately, I stretched out my arms toward the crystal door, but could only watch it recede further and further away from me.

Hitting the ground hard cost me a full third of my health.I stood up slowly and looked around. The huge pit I was in was generally square-it should have been the basement and foundation of Anola Castle.It was terribly quiet and desolate here. There was no remains of the castle, and the fighter planes and warships flying all over the sky were gone.The Son of Doom destroyed everything.

I looked down at the black T-shirt and blue jeans I was wearing, the default attire for all newly created characters.Then I opened the attribute bar and the inventory bar, the level and ability value have not changed, but the items and equipment have all been cleared-only the coins obtained in the Pac-Man task are still there.I've never been able to do anything with it, or even know what it's really used for or what it does.After months of agonizing over it, I've completely forgotten about it.

But now, I do know what it is for - it gave me an extra life.Before that, no one in the history of Oasis had ever had the chance to be resurrected.

I tried to get the coin out again, and this time I managed to catch it in my palm.It has drained its mana and turned into an ordinary coin.

The open crystal door was floating 20 meters directly in front of me, but I didn't know how to get in.I have no jet boots, no spaceship, no magic gear, no flight or levitation, and no ladders or anything like that around.I am only a few feet away from the third door, but thousands of miles away.

"Hey, Z?" I said in one voice, "Can you hear me?"

It was Edge, but with a female voice.Her voice seemed to be directly connected through voice, very clear.That's not quite right, I don't have a voice connector in my package anymore, and Edge's character is dead.

"Where are you?" I asked into the air.

"Dead, and so are the others," Edge said, "and you're the only one left."

"Then how can I hear you talking?"

"Ogg connected us all to your audio and video," she said, "so we can hear what you hear and see what you see."

"Oh."

"Are you okay, Parsifal?" I heard Auger ask. "If you're not feeling well, just say so."

I thought for a moment. "No, it's all right," I said, "are Soto and Artemis here?"

"Well," Soto said, "here I am."

"Well, we're all here," Artemis said with a hint of disappointment in her voice, "We're all cannon fodder. Now I want to know, why aren't you dead, Parsifal?"

"Yeah, Patsy," Edge said, "we're kind of curious, what's going on?"

I took out the coin and held it up to my eyes, "I got this coin as a reward for clearing the Pac-Man game perfectly in Ajid a few months ago. It must have some special function, but at the time I was a little I don’t know, of course, but now I know.”

There was silence, and then Edge laughed. "You lucky one!" she said, "News reports say that all players in this area are dead, and the total number of deaths exceeds half of the total population of the oasis."

"Really?" I asked.

"Sure," Artemis said, "The 'Sixth Man' bought the Son of Doom a few years ago, they must have been preparing for a long time, and if they don't use it now, when will it be?"

"But their own army was also destroyed," Soto said. "Why bother?"

"Anyway, by the time the bomb is used, they will have already died." Artemis replied.

"'Sixth Man' is out of the question," I said, "that's the only way to stop us, we've opened the third door and we're going in—" I paused, realizing something was wrong, "How did they know the door was opened? Could it be—"

"We're being watched," Edge said. "The Sixth Man must have put cameras around the door."

"So the whole process of opening the door was seen," Artemis said, "and they knew how to open it."

"Who cares?" Soto said. "Sorrento's character is dead, and so are the other 'sixth men.'"

"You're wrong," Artemis said. "Look at the scoreboard. There are twenty sixth men on it. The score shows that they all have crystal keys."

"Damn!" Edge and Soto shouted in unison.

"The 'Sixth Man' knew it was going to lose," I said, "so pre-empted some people out of here, and they were probably waiting on the battleship outside the tenth division."

"That's right, that means there are twenty 'sixth men' coming your way, Z. You have to get in the door quickly, this is probably the only chance." Edge sighed in frustration, "We lost , but there is still you, buddy, come on.”

"Thanks, Edge."

"Come on," Soto said, "Go all out."

"I will," I said, waiting for Artemis to say something too.

"Good luck, Parsifal." Artemis said after a long silence, "Edge is right, we have no chance, and neither are the other hunters." She paused, as if she was enduring Stop sobbing, then take a deep breath and say, "Don't lose."

"Of course," I said, "isn't that a piece of cake?"

The open door hangs high in the sky, seemingly out of reach.I looked around, trying to figure out how to get up there.Something caught my attention—just beyond the crater, something seemed to be shining.

"It's gotta be some leftover control stick from an explosion or something," Edge said, "but what the hell are you doing?"

"All my gear was gone in the explosion," I said, "so there's no way to just fly up now."

"You must be joking!" Edge sighed, "Dude, there's a group of people coming to take your life right now!"

As I approached, the point of light gradually became clear. It was the transforming device, which was suspended only a few centimeters above the ground.The Son of Doom destroys everything, but Legendary items don't seem to be the case, nor is the third door.

"Transformer!" Soto yelled. "It must have been blown here by the shock wave. You can fly up like Ultraman!"

I nodded, raised it above my head, and flipped the switch.Nothing happened. "Fuck!" I cursed, "It only works once a day." I scanned the ground again, "There must be something else here." I started to run wildly along the contours of the foundation.

"Did any of you bring a legendary item? The kind that allows me to fly? Levitation? Or something that can teleport?"

"No," Soto said, "I don't have a single legendary item."

"My holy sword Bashir is fine," Edge said, "but it won't help you."

"My Chuck can." Artemis said.

"Your 'Chuck'?" I repeated.

"My shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which grant the wearer greater movement and flight."

"Excellent!" I said. "That's all I want." I continued to search the ground.Edge's sword was found a few minutes later, and it took another 5 minutes to find Artemis' magic shoe at the southern end of the pit.As soon as you put it on, the shoe automatically adjusts to size. "I'm not going to lose it, Artie," I said, tying up my shoelaces, "trust me."

"You'd better do what you say," she said, "that's my baby."

After three steps in the run-up, I jumped and successfully floated in the air, then adjusted my posture and flew towards the door.But at the last moment, I made a sudden turn, turned around and stood in front of the door.The gate was just a few yards behind me.

"What are you waiting for?" Edge yelled, "The 'Sixth Man' could show up any minute!"

"I know. But before I go in, I have something to say."

"Well," said Artemis, "then speak quickly! Don't waste your time, fool!"

"Okay! Okay! I just wanted to say, well... I know how you're feeling. It's not fair, is it? We were supposed to go through the door together. So, before I go in, I want to tell you that if I get If we get the easter egg, we will share it equally."

silence.

"Hello?" I said after a few seconds, "Did you hear that?"

"Are you crazy?" Edge asked. "Why did you do that, Z?"

"Because that's what I'm supposed to do, because I can't get here alone, because all four of us should go to the other side of the door and see the end of the game. And because I need your help."

"Can you...can you repeat the last sentence?" Artemis asked.

"I need help." I said, "You're right, this is the only chance. Same for anyone else. The 'Sixth Man' will be walking through this door soon, so I have to get through it first , a success. With the support of the three of you, the probability of success will definitely increase. So... why don't you speak?"

"Count me in, Z," Edge said, "I've been wanting to fuck you for a long time."

"Count me in," Soto said, "I have nothing to lose anyway."

(End of this chapter)