Chapter 1 Prologue Reality, Nightmare

On the barren land, plants of strange shapes intertwined and grew between the ruins. Together with the dilapidated buildings, they held up the gray moon in the sky on this quiet night.

On the east side of the continent, among the ruined high-rise buildings, there was a building that was intact and brand new, which looked very abrupt.

And in a room of this building.

A middle-aged man was sitting in a mechanical device full of liquid, like a bathtub, and was taking off the helmet-like thing from his head.

After taking off the helmet, he looked at the helmet in his hand and couldn't help muttering:

"Nightmare drama."

An imaginary game that uses various myths, history, legends, and literary works.

He still remembers the scene in the promotional video.

There are no humans, but there are various strange races that look like humans.

There is a mechanical city surrounded and protected by iron and wood walls in the shape of a great society, various mechanical beasts and operating mechanisms, and Yanshi whose body can be combined with the mechanism.

There are ideal kingdoms, heaven supported by white stones, tall "justice" cities, cities of stone men like sculptures, and fortress cities built by huge stone giants.

There are utopian beautiful islands sunk in the vast sea, and sea kingdoms composed of countless half-fish and half-human creatures.

There are sun city-style islands in the sky, and sky cities surrounded by dragons who can swallow and spit flames.

There are also cult cities located in the extremely cold south, surrounded by countless angels condensed from ice crystals, and so on.

To be honest, he has seen too many games with mythological and fantasy themes.

After all, myths, history, legends, and literary works are the easiest and most easily found material libraries for creators.

But combining the utopias of dreamers with fantasy elements.

Absurd? Angry?

But in the end, it can only turn into a helpless sigh.

It has to be said that "entertainment" is indeed a master at dissolving seriousness and distorting content.

Do you have to sacrifice seriousness if you click to spread it?

It was even named Nightmare Drama.

If it was in the past, it would definitely be regulated, no matter which country it was in.

But that was in the past, not now.

The middle-aged man sighed, put down the gaming helmet in his right hand, looked at the intubation tube on his body, and took the medicine bottle from the two men in white coats in front of him with his left hand, poured out the pills and returned them.

While swallowing the pills with water, his thoughts surged in his mind--

His name is Yao Yan.

About a few decades ago, a war broke out all over the world.

Yao Yan, who was just an ordinary young man at the time, didn't know the specific reason. It seemed that a small island country attacked the nuclear power plants of various major countries after its nuclear facilities were contaminated, and then the major countries retaliated with nuclear weapons, and some nuclear countries even launched nuclear weapons on neighboring countries.

He didn't know what it was exactly.

After all, he was still a young man at the time, and he had hardly left the house since he was rescued by the disaster relief team.

The destruction of war and nuclear pollution spread all over the world, and humans, animals and plants all over the world were affected by radiation.

Since then, the world has ushered in an era of civilization collapse.

Oh, no, it's just the collapse of human civilization.

And the physical manifestation is the collapse of genes.

The collapse of genes has caused various mutant diseases in humans.

Should it be a good thing or a bad thing?

After the disaster that affected the whole world, capital did not disappear. On the contrary, because people could not go out, precision equipment could not resist the impact of nuclear radiation.

Network-related technologies have ushered in rapid development again since then. Virtual reality technology, which was originally a science fiction fantasy decades ago, has developed into reality.

The realization of virtual reality games has also caused a global craze.

Oh, the game craze on the doomsday wasteland.

At home, a game cabin and a game helmet can enter the world of virtual reality games. The era has arrived.

It's a pity.

He probably won't be able to play for long.

Yao Yan sighed in his heart.

After all, he is going to die.

But, maybe it's lucky? After decades, "gene repair agent" appeared.

After the collapse, research institutes in different countries are studying drugs that can avoid or eliminate the effects of nuclear radiation, and even repair human gene collapse.

Under normal circumstances, he might not even have the chance to use it.

But, as a guinea pig, or a guinea pig that is about to be buried, he got a chance.

As a volunteer for drug testing.

But, he doesn't know if it will work.

But he doesn't regret it.

Now he is just because he is terminally ill. If he doesn't try it, he may be in the coffin tomorrow.

Glancing at the two white coats next to him, he asked:

"Just like last time, sleep after swallowing it?"

He always felt that the appearance of the pills this time seemed a little wrong.

"Yes."

On the left of his medical life support capsule, which was produced by the same company as the virtual game life support capsule, a white coat responded briefly.

The white coat on the right did not say anything, but the way the other party stared at him reminded Yao Yan of something. A volunteer had secretly intercepted the pills and tried to take them out.

Without this idea, and without any tricks, Yao Yan decisively swallowed the pills with water, put on the helmet in the rapidly emerging fatigue, and lay in the life support capsule.

[Select a game]

[Luxury Resort Island], [True Noble Life], [No Rules World], [Crow Paradise], [Nightmare Game], [Sleeping Concert].

One by one, the game icon interfaces emerged with the swipe bar.

Yao Yan skipped the first two adult games that were banned for 18s, which he was tired of playing. The third one was a game about violence under the Law of the Jungle. He was tired of fighting and killing all day long. The Sleeping Concert was a hypnotic concert that helped patients like him who were in so much pain that they couldn't sleep normally.

Without looking at the more than 100 game options that were densely arranged behind, facing the menu screen that appeared in front of him, Yao Yan's eyes hesitated for a moment between Crow Paradise and Nightmare Game, and then chose Nightmare Game.

Crow Paradise and several other games were indeed good, but he didn't have much time before going to bed. Nightmare Game, a story-based game like the running group, werewolf killing, and script killing games from decades ago, was more suitable for the current situation.

After thinking for a while, he chose Nightmare Game.

Watching all this, the two white coats who silently closed the lid of the life support cabin left the room. When the door with excellent sound insulation closed, they exhaled as if relieved:

"It went well."

"Where did these gene repair agents come from?"

"I don't know either. Who would have thought that these collapsed people who used gene repair agents would have supernatural powers."

"Things of unknown origin are good, but it can be confirmed that their abilities are all related to the brain, and are closely related to consciousness and spirit. As long as they fall asleep, there will be no problem."

"I hope so, but I want supernatural powers too."

"Tsk, who doesn't want it, but only collapsed people with more than half of their gene collapse can develop supernatural powers after using gene repair agents."

"However, there are too many people who died before their gene collapse was less than half, and there are not many people who can live for such a long time with more than half of their gene collapse."

"Is this person confirmed to have supernatural powers?"

"It has not been confirmed yet, and no ability has been observed, but judging from other cases, it should be."

"From the summary of the data from various medical stations, it is possible to develop supernatural powers. The supernatural ability is related to the three views and ideology of the collapse, and it is also related to the image of some cultural works impressed by them. "" There is a message recorded by a medical station, which is expressed by the image of myths or various cultural and creative works, but the actual ability and the three perspectives and ideology of their impression are the actual core of the current speculation. Regarding, it is not necessarily their own three views and ideology, but because they are the most impressed by these. "Indeed, this is another speculative direction, but we can't see the specific research data." "Yeah, we are responsible for handling so high -level information." "" Yeah, society is turbulent to this point, who can think of what the Earth village family is still talking about? "" What do you want to do so much, be careful, don't be killed by radiation. In the room, Yao Yan, who was lying in the life support cabin, fell into a trance.

It was as if he had fallen into a long dream.

For a long, long time.

A hundred years, a thousand years, ten thousand years?

I don't know.

Yao Yan, who was in a trance, did not have the ability to accurately calculate time, nor did he have a vague way to calculate how much time had passed. Just like that, in the hazy dream, his consciousness gradually sank.

However, he could also vaguely and dimly feel the fact that he was gradually weakening.

He seemed to be dying.

"I will die, I probably won't survive."

"What will it be like after death?"

"The ancient Egyptian view of life is that the soul will return to the body and resurrect."

"The ancient Indian view of life is that after death, reincarnation will become the cubs of various creatures or even dead things."

"And the early Celestial Empire seemed to be based on the theory of transformation. Like Jingwei, it turned directly into a bird after death."

"If it were me, what kind of bird would I become?"

"Yao Yan, I will probably be a crow, Yao Yan, rumor, crow, it's a good match."

"But here comes the question, according to the theory of transformation, if a bird dies, will it become a human again?"

In the trance sleep where it is difficult to form a clear consciousness, his unconscious mechanically and randomly arranged words and phrases, making him mumble in his sleep.

ps: The last sentence is not wrong, the unconscious here is a noun, not an adjective or adverb.

Not "unconsciously", "unconsciously", "unconsciously", "subconsciously", "unconsciously"

Drinking water, water homework, water video, good water, the water in it is not a concept, noun, noun verb, noun adverb.