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Chapter 26 Gray Origin

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Where am I?

Li Wei struggled to hold up his body and looked around.

His body was no longer naked, but a familiar shirt and long skirt. The white suspender stockings under his feet were still tightly wrapped around his legs, as if even the curse equipment was no longer on him.

After showing a little doubt, she finally stood up, and the gray scene around her also reminded her of somewhere deep in her memory.

That was the scene when Li Wei first entered the game using a virtual device. At that time... she did not log into the game smoothly, but entered the gray space.

Now, in front of you is the gray space that vaguely exists in Li Wei's memory.

Looking around, it was still as empty as last time.Except for the small figure over there... Li Wei held her breath and focused her eyes on the blurry figure not far away.

Caroline?Why is she here?

With a question in his heart, Li Wei tentatively took a small step, then accelerated his pace, changed from small steps to running, and finally stopped beside his petite body.

Caroline... Li Wei has never seen her anywhere since the Cataclysm, as if Caroline did not exist in the game world at all.

However, despite the countless things that Li Wei wanted to say in her heart, she could only open her mouth stiffly and watch the petite girl with half-closed eyes and expressionless face.

Her heart was beating faster and faster, and Li Wei stretched out her hand nervously. She had a premonition that the questions that bothered her might be answered in the long run...

Caroline?Why...

Hearing the call, Caroline slowly opened her eyes and remained sitting on the ground, as if she hadn't figured out the situation yet.

Seeing Li Wei's anxious expression, Caroline recovered her mind little by little.

In a hurry, Li Wei grabbed her shoulder and shook it quickly.

Caroline's situation...is a bit like a dull reaction that remains in an information-free state for a long time.

Li Wei didn't care about so much, and directly used physical stimulation to force her to wake up. Unexpectedly, the effect was pretty good.

Caroline's eyes finally opened completely and became a little more energetic.

only……

It was a tired and hoarse voice.How long has she been here?For a girl like her, wandering alone in the gray space is probably an unimaginable torture.

Caroline, why are you here?Where is this?

This is a place where there is nothing.

Li Wei was confused.According to my own speculation, since I will come here during the login to the game, it should be part of the game world?But Caroline's declaration made her slight stagnate.

What?I don't know very well...

Caroline smiled slightly, and her ethereal and ethereal words gradually floated into Li Wei's ears:

Virtual reality devices are equipped with automatic protection devices. If players frequently ‘death’ during a certain period of time, the mental stress generated may have some unknown negative effects on the brain.Therefore, there is a circuit breaker inside the device, which can prevent players who die frequently from logging in to the game for the time being, forcing them to go offline to rest.

Huh?

Does MVE-26 have this kind of safety device?

Li Wei considers herself a hardcore player who is proficient in gaming equipment, but she has never seen any similar descriptions on the outer packaging or instructions.

Maybe the manufacturer deliberately hid this function?

If you really write it out, maybe a group of players will commit suicide frequently because of curiosity to experience the feeling of safe circuit breaking. If you really have any brain problems, it will be troublesome...

After all, the fully immersive virtual reality experience is still too advanced.

In this era, there are no similar products of MVE-26 on the market. As for the experience of VR eyes, mobile phone boxes, etc., it is too bad, and there is no way to compare.

However... Li Wei still has things like catastrophe in his memory.

If players included in themselves cannot get out of the game for some reason, then where is this place now?

Wait...Carolyn?Do you know about the ‘game’?Uh, I mean...

I know everything, and the catastrophe you mentioned is also very clear, including what I misunderstood, I already know everything.

Li Wei forced herself to calm down and savor the information she knew now.

A long time ago, when Caroline asked about the game, she seemed to have no idea that the world she was in was in a certain game.

Qu Li once said that the host runs through the human brain.

Even in the gray space between virtual and reality, Caroline can only stay here alone.

……

Li Wei stood in front of Caroline speechlessly.Thinking about this clearly, she was no longer as anxious as before, but instead sat on the ground and next to Caroline.

Now, Caroline, can you tell your own story?

Where should I start?

Original place.I don't want to miss any point.

Caroline chuckled softly, facing this old friend whom she had not seen for a long time, she could not feel the estrangement at all.

I really didn't expect that you would be interested in me.

Well...this, of course!I, I have been with you for so long, and I still don’t know your past...

As the young girl slowly narrated, the following is what Li Wei learned about the life experience of a girl named Caroline.

I remember...I was a patient.

The name of the disease is no longer clear, but the symptoms are just that the body cannot move.However, even if the little finger is slightly moved, even if it is simply opening or closing your eyes... it cannot be done.Consciousness still exists, but the body no longer belongs to itself.That feeling...is very uncomfortable.

Consciousness is trapped in the mind, and the body has become a shackle.But later, even consciousness was difficult to retain.Just like using advance and retreat, if the body can no longer be driven by consciousness, the brain will no longer work hard.Over time, people will become unsightly and dull.

My father knew my situation. If this continues, even his only thinking ability will deteriorate.So he tried his best to find ways to maintain my thinking ability and restore my physical exercise ability.Later one day, after I was lying in the hospital bed for more than a year... He asked me: 'Carolyn, do you like games?’I didn’t know why he asked this, but I just noticed hope from his slightly excited eyes.So... I don't know when I started, but I've fallen into a deep sleep.Waking up again is in this 'gray space' thing.

At least here, I can use the power of the gray space to communicate with the outside world, which is already a great comfort for a patient like me who cannot speak and cannot control myself.I don’t know the specific technology, but my father said something like “brain-computer interface” and “virtual reality”, showing a very excited look.I have never seen that smile on my dad's face since I was sick. Even if all this is just an illusion that happened in the virtual space, I feel very happy.

The gray space is not static.I don't know when the strange medieval style world began to generate in this gray space.Forests, rivers, towns... things that seem to conform to the worldview also appear one by one.It's amazing. For me who is bored, watching the world develop in different directions is a good pastime.Later, the world that has become colorful has actually appeared in a world that has become colorful. It is not an illusion of wisdom, but a kind of creature that truly exists in its own will.They venture into this world, fighting monsters, collecting materials, and building novel buildings.The world slowly evolved in their hands, becoming more and more interesting...until the day of the 'Cataclysm'.

I… ‘off the way’ that world, and while I could clearly see what was going on there: people were panicked and tried various ways to log out, it didn’t help.As for myself, I can only exist alone in this empty gray space, unable to leave or go deeper; like a layer of glass, I watch the people who once lived in this world constantly struggle...

It feels weird, right?However, this is the confession of a girl who was trapped in a gray space.

Li Wei sat quietly on the gray ground, motionless.

She had been exploring the world in the game for a long time, but when the truth was placed in front of her, Li Weicai realized the confusion and helplessness from the bottom of her heart.

What virtual reality Ah, what program error Ah, is this the reality she expects?

As a result, all of this was triggered by this girl... The puzzle that she once pursued was within reach, and the sense of gap made Li Wei at a loss for a moment.

Caroline...I, I didn't expect this to happen...

……

Li Wei leaned back and fell to the ground weakly.

Imagine what I should do if I was trapped in this gray space with nothing?

Or, what can I do?

A bitterness appeared on Li Wei's face. For Caroline, she had experienced events that ordinary people could not imagine. Even if she wanted to comfort her, she could not find anything to say...

Sorry, I shouldn't have asked you about these things...

There is no need to apologize.After all, I have a lot of responsibility to trap you ordinary players in the game world.But now I can't do much.

……

According to Caroline, the temporary logout due to multiple deaths will only last for a period of time, so Li Wei will soon automatically return to his original world.

Knowing this, Li Wei chatted with Caroline with confidence.

I don’t know when it started, but the bugs in this world are getting more and more strange. I even saw bugs about stealing and modeling in Golden City…

Huh?That kind of bug... should be a very serious mistake and it will definitely not appear in the game!

Seeing Caroline's anxious expression, Li Wei smiled speechlessly and continued to explain:

I don't know much about it myself.However, the person with the ability to steal seems to be effective against the player he touched, and as long as the object he physically contacts, he has the ability to operate the other party's backpack.And the one who wears a model is the current boss of Golden City, the mage named Zane. It is said that he has the ability to penetrate obstacles in the game. I have only seen it once with my own eyes, and I can't figure out the principle at all...

The two girls lie on their backs in the boundless gray space. But directly above it is not the gray sky, but the starry sky shining against a pure black background.

There was an endless flat space around him, which even made Li Wei feel like he was outside time and the whole world was stopped.

In this vast and quiet gray space, only the conversation between two girls faintly sounded.

AhAh, the mage named Zane, felt angry when he said it.That guy didn't know what happened to President Gu Yanri, and he made the entire Golden City mess up, and finally let me take the blame, making me miserable...

After a brief silence, Caroline whispered in a whispering volume like insects:

I always feel sorry... After all, it is my responsibility to be trapped in the virtual world, and it also makes you suffer so much...

Seeing Caroline's mood depressed, Li Wei was eagerly searching for a way to comfort her.

Caroline, you don't have to blame yourself for this.Compared to a girl in a virtual space, those half-bad programmers who write programs with loopholes need to reflect more, right?

Maybe, this is really the case…but it is also true that I have caused such a huge chaos.

Woo... Caroline's appearance is getting more and more depressed, so it's better to turn the topic elsewhere.

Speaking of which, what players are most concerned about is how to log out of the game.

After entering the gray space, Li Wei received too much information, and he forgot his long-term goal for a moment.

Perhaps Caroline should know more information, and if she inquiries from her, she will find unexpected discoveries.

However, Li Wei inexplicably resisted doing this.

If I do this... am I using her?

Caroline, in a sense, also belongs to the victim Ah.

After a long silence, Caroline raised her head a little and said hesitantly:

Wei, I feel a little embarrassed to ask you at this time... However, this world has changed beyond my expectations.The ‘bugs’ you mentioned before probably originated from this.I can't get out of this gray space, so... I hope you can investigate those things for me...

Caroline has always had capabilities similar to administrator privileges. Even she didn't know anything about it. Maybe there are some secrets inside the game... Maybe?

But now should be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Is there anything strange in the game?If there is a potential breakthrough, it is necessary to investigate it.So, please leave it to me!

Li Wei said with amazing momentum, even Caroline didn't react at once, but just continued to murmur according to her instinct:

Well, those are no longer considered bugs... After all, I am very sensitive to elements in the entire world that do not match the original settings.Those abnormal phenomena of "stealing" and "facial penetration" do not seem to be caused by normal procedures, but are filled with a "wrong" atmosphere.What is the specific situation? I can only go to the side of those people at close range to observe...

Want to go to their side?However, Li Wei didn't feel that by observing closely, he could figure out the way Zane came out of the underground.

Wei, do you know the several gathering points that players have spontaneously formed since the Cataclysm?

I know this.Only the three of Free Alliance, Golden City, and Sanctuary can be considered, which has more meaning for us ordinary players.

Well... the several alliances you mentioned may... all have strange leaders.

Is it strange?Fortunately, if they can become the boss of a certain area in the game world, they are more or less outstripping mortals, right?

Indeed, guilds and teams in the game often need a leader with strong organization.From this perspective, even one or two officials in the game can slightly prove their leadership skills.

Not that strange!They probably all have some special abilities.Uh...it's okay to think from that perspective. If they didn't have outstanding features, they wouldn't have become the boss.

Strange ability?

Li Wei recalled carefully.

She had personally experienced Zane's ability to penetrate the model, which was indeed very strange. She didn't know how he did it... As for the Black Prison of the Free Alliance, she only encountered it when she fled to the Golden City. She didn't see anything powerful at all. At most, she was an uncle with a rigid look and a cold face; and Li Wei had never contacted the other sanctuary.

It’s this, the ability they possess, perhaps... is the key point that prevents players from leaving this world.

What!?

Li Wei was shocked.

Since she learned about the 2038 issue, she has always believed that it was an external computer equipment failure that caused everyone to be locked in the game world, but now, Caroline puts a thought that she has never carefully savored.

Why are they?Or, is there any evidence to support this?

Actually…I just feel that something is 'not right' and may not be used as evidence.But this is indeed my true feelings...

As the master of the entire game world, Caroline has permissions beyond ordinary players, but all this stopped at the day of the catastrophe.

Li Wei secretly speculated in her heart.

At least before the catastrophe, did she also use this vague and ambiguous way to contact the outside world?

She was not sure, but if in this world exclusive to Caroline, perhaps... her intuition still has credibility?

It seems that your time is almost here.

Li Wei suddenly came to his senses, and then he realized that his body was actually flashing with colorful light spots. At the same time, the feeling of being as light as Yàn also came from his limbs.

Sure enough, there is no way to stay in the gray space for too long, and it is time to return to that dirty golden city.

However, Li Wei still felt that this trip was worthwhile to be able to understand the origin of the world.

Please rest assured, I will definitely investigate those guys carefully!

As if to make Caroline happy, Li Wei turned around and waved her fist hard, while Caroline just smiled:

Wei, after going back, please... try to use the 'error code' to eliminate things that do not belong to this world. Please...

Before Li Wei could figure out the meaning of this sentence, the gray space had disappeared from her eyes, and the familiar feeling of dizziness and drowsiness filled her brain.

Li Wei raised his head and looked around, and he was already in the cold and dark cell.

After all, what is that error code?

Caroline's last sentence was not fully explained, and Li Wei was also confused.

Error code?

Since you want to use this to eliminate something else, it should be some kind of weapon, right?

However, Li Wei carefully checked the inventory and was still empty just like the previous few days.

If it is not a weapon, then it may be some kind of attack skill, right?After searching repeatedly, Li Wei finally found a new skill called the error code in the Special Ability column:

Name: Error code

Details: After using this skill to kill players with special errors, they can refresh their character status and restore the identity of ordinary players.

Note: Fixing the abnormalities in this world is the mission of those who hold this skill.