"This ending is simply a mess."
In the quiet night, in a small room in an old residential building not far from the west gate of Shanghai University, a man with messy hair and casual clothes sat in a dark corner of the room. His eyes were fixed on the computer screen in front of him. He held the mouse in his right hand and slid it across the screen. He clicked the left mouse button where the word "download" was displayed.
What he was complaining about was the latest serial," Charlotte." The depressed young man could only find a mysterious little notebook to comfort himself with the fact that the script of the twenty-six episodes had been forcibly shrunk to thirteen episodes.
This person was Xia Yan.
Xia Yan was a second-year student at Shanghai University. As he studied early, he was only 18 years old this year. He didn't play basketball or flirt with girls. During his previous year in university, he spent most of his time in his dorm except for class. Later on, he didn't even go to class. He spent most of his time on the computer and the Internet.
In fact, Xia Yan also wanted to have a healthy body and sweat like rain while playing basketball with his classmates under the sun. He also wanted to have a cheerful personality, holding his girlfriend's hand and strolling along a quiet forest path.
However, due to his poor social relations, poor health, and his 174 cm height, he was not handsome. Due to his family background, Xia Yan had been ostracized by his peers since he was young. Bullying and ridicule had accompanied him as he grew up. After entering university, although everyone had better qualities as adults and would not deliberately ostracize Xia Yan, he had been separated from the mainstream life of his peers for a long time. His personality had become a little withdrawn, and it was difficult for him to integrate into the group life.
Later on, he accidentally came into contact with the two-dimensional world and became addicted to it, becoming a veritable otaku.
In short, he was just an ordinary otaku living in China.
Ever since he joined the ACG world, Xia Yan had treated the real world as a game.
It was just a game that couldn't be played, whether it was women or money.
In the words of the ACG world:
This game called " Earth Online " could not be saved or resurrected after death. Moreover, the characters he created were born in the RMB player area where the game difficulty was hard and the character growth value was almost entirely dependent on the initial attribute points.。。
He was simply a piece of sh * t!
It was inconvenient to live in the school dormitory for a year, so he decided to rent a house. In this way, even though a year had passed since university, other than a few classmates in the dormitory, they no longer had any contact.
As the desktop fan that he bought from the flea market next to the computer monitor made a squeaking sound, a thin layer of sweat appeared on Xia Yan's head. The weather in September was still so hot, and the small, airtight room was so stuffy that he couldn't sleep at night.
"It's so hot."
Picking up a biscuit on the table, Xia Yan took a bite and chewed while grumbling. The landlord of this house couldn't even bear to install an electric light, but after all, the rent was cheap and he couldn't complain. The long wire hanging from the ceiling had a glowing 20-Watt incandescent LED hanging at the end. He had bought it himself…
However, in the dead of the night, a dialog box suddenly popped up in the middle of the computer screen.
"Do you want to join the Empire Club?”
Xia Yan, who had seen this name in some HGAM before, was stunned for a moment. He rubbed his eyes, which were a little sleepy from surfing the Internet for a long time.
The only programs on the computer were a Xunlei player and a Xunlei download software. Xia Yan, who was a computer science student, was naturally very puzzled when a webpage embedded dialog box popped up without opening a webpage.
"Poisoned?"
After muttering twice, Xia Yan moved the mouse to close the dialog box. However, at this time, a bigger problem appeared.
Just like those dog-skin plaster advertisement websites, a dialog box popped up as soon as it was opened. The background was still some kind of Chinese scene, and there was a line of small words on it, such as "A world with you-""Dragon Slaying Saber will be given to you when you click" and so on.
Then, there was only a 'confirm' option. There was no 'cancel' option.
In fact, it didn't matter. He endured the disgust and clicked on the red cross in the upper right corner. The dialog box naturally disappeared.
However, this time…there wasn't even a red cross on the top right corner!
" Which programmer made this dialog box? It's too immoral!"
Xia Yan condemned him harshly and chose to Alt F4.
However, it was fine if he didn't press it. After he pressed it, something bad happened.
The cute table with Remilia on it suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a black screen. The only difference was-
The white dialog box with the confirmation option," Do you want to join the Empire Club?”She was still alone in the middle of the black screen.
"F * ck your sister…I was indeed poisoned.”
Xia Yan's expression was a little helpless. He had been floating in various forums for a long time and had downloaded many two-dimensional harmony objects. He had been poisoned many times, but it was the first time in his life that he had encountered such an unruly virus.
Blind decisively bent down and pressed the restart button on the computer case.
Then, she straightened her body and looked at the computer screen.
It was still the same black screen and the same dialog box.
“……”
Her eyebrows unconsciously jumped a few times, and Xia You finally went berserk,
" Which bastard made this virus? I'm simply-"
Tragedy, I can't watch the new October episode that just came out today.
After venting a few words, he sighed helplessly and pressed the computer's main switch twice. After the screen was still the same, Xia Yan picked up the Nobel that he bought two years ago and looked at the time. It was exactly two o'clock in the morning.
"Forget it, it's getting late. Let's sleep early today."
Xia Yan wasn't in the mood to immediately reload the system to satisfy his craving. He knew the system response speed of this second-hand old phone like the back of his hand. It would take at least seven to eight hours, which was a little too long for him.
It had been a long time since he had gone to class. Tomorrow, when he was installing the system, he would go to class.
Xia Yan yawned and lazily squatted down with his dead fish eyes. He climbed to the power strip under the table and took down the power socket of the computer and monitor.
Then, Xia Yan crawled out from under the table and slowly stood up. When he was about to go to sleep, he turned around and glanced at the computer monitor out of habit.
I don't know who said that life always changes quietly with each look back.
This glance almost gave Xia Yan a heart attack.
The screen was still black, but it was fine. The monitor looked the same after the power was cut off. However, in the middle of the black monitor, there was still the white dialog box:
"Do you want to join the Empire Club?”
The dim lights swayed under the fan. Xia Yan's eyes flickered slightly as he confirmed that the power plug had been unplugged.
“....”
A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead. Amidst the creaking of the electric fan, Xia Yan found the silence of the night so terrifying for the first time.
"Heh…Haha, there must be a problem with the monitor. It'll be fine in a while."
Xia Yan laughed dryly with a trembling voice. Perhaps some old monitors would leave an afterimage after a power failure.
However, why didn't he stay in the past? Why did he stay after he was infected with the strange virus this time?
Xia Yan from the computer science department said that he couldn't be convinced by such a far-fetched excuse. No matter how vicious the virus was, it was impossible for the monitor to have a problem. Even if there was a problem, it should be fine after the power cut, right?
"Gulp!"
Xia Yan swallowed his saliva and plucked up his courage to sit back down on the chair in front of the computer. He still believed in ghosts and gods. After all, he was an otaku who loved to fantasize. Sometimes, the more knowledge one learned, the more reverence one had. Wasn't Einstein also a religious person?
However, the strong curiosity of a normal young man still concealed his fear of the unknown. He stared at the computer screen for a few minutes. After confirming that the dialog box that hadn't disappeared wasn't formed by an afterimage, Xia Yan tentatively reached out and shook the mouse.
There was really a pointer on the computer screen that moved with the movement of the mouse…
The mouse was connected to the main computer!!
Xia Yan glanced at the patch panel again.
The power plug of the main computer was indeed pulled out from the power strip…
"Gulp!"
Xia Yan swallowed hard once again, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.
This strange sense of déjà vu reminded him of a novel that he had once read on the Internet that was extremely popular and even created a genre.
infinite horror
"No way, who's playing with me?" Xia Yan looked at the monitor with anxiety, fear, and even a little anticipation.
"Today is not April Fool's Day, nor is it Valentine's Day. I don't have the value to be teased, right?”
He quickly turned around and looked around, trying to find a few students hiding in the corner, waiting to see him make a fool of himself. However, Xia Yan was soon disappointed. Not to mention that he didn't have many friends in this university, even if he did, no one knew that he rented a house here.
Besides, he was just a passerby in class, so why would someone have the time to tease him? In comparison, Xia Yan felt that this was more likely to be the dialogue box from God's Space.
Empire Club? What did he mean? From this strange phenomenon, it was clear that it was definitely not a normal organization.
If it was really the invitation letter from the God Realm…
Should I order?
Xia Yan fell silent.
He remembered the harmonious and warm life of his family of three when his parents were still alive. Ever since his parents died in a car accident, he had had enough of his relatives 'looks of disdain in order to ask for a meager living allowance.
From then on, his personality began to become autistic and mature, and his body became thin and weak due to long-term malnutrition. The ignorant children of the same age in school also took the opportunity to ostracize and bully him, laughing at him as a " child without parents."
Ever since that time, his heart had been shattered when he was still a child. Without his parents and love, he had lost his greatest attachment to the real world. If not for his lack of courage, he might have already committed suicide.
Ask yourself-
"You really…Don't you want to change? Are you really satisfied with your current life?”
He looked back at the shabby and dark rented house again, and then looked back at the second-hand computer that he bought two years ago, which was filled with 2D anime as a spiritual sustenance.
"How can I be satisfied? Such a reality…
Xia Yan laughed at himself and moved the mouse to the confirm option at the bottom of the dialog box. Then, he gently clicked the left mouse button.
determine
That's right, I have nothing to lose.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。