The moment the top eight teams entered the instance, the silent square screen reopened.
The corresponding team names were annotated below the live stream windows 1-8. From the perspective of the team live stream room, players quickly realized that the eight teams were refreshed in different locations. This also meant…
Someone was the first to react. “F*k, is this a group instance?”
One stone caused a thousand ripples. The entire scene suddenly exploded.
In the past, there would occasionally be multiple big shots entering the same instance, but now, eight top teams were thrown into one instance?
This was an unprecedented treatment!
At this pace, the teams wouldn’t just start fighting on the spot when they met head-on, right?
Regarding all the teams being in the same instance, the number of people when entering the instance was displayed there. This meant the teams participating in the instance knew it faster than the players outside.
After successfully entering the instance, Chi Ting gradually got used to the light around him. Then he heard Ji Xingque exclaim, “F*k! Is this real or not?”
He looked up and saw the pink head standing by the window.
Chi Ting walked over and took a look outside. Without needing to ask, he understood why Ji Xingque was surprised.
He looked back and could see the same complicated expressions on the faces of the other people in Dawn. Only Lou Yueren looked a bit confused. “What’s wrong? Why do you all look like that? What is going on?”
Chi Ting glanced at him. “When you see the word ‘doomsday’, don’t you have any associations?”
“Doomsday? What do you think? I’ve experienced this type of doomsday instance before. Of course, I know that you all come from the end of the…” Lou Yueren stopped talking halfway as he realized something. He looked at Chi Ting and asked, “Could it be?”
Chi Ting hummed. “This is probably our original world.”
The smile on Lou Yueren’s face gradually faded. “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.” Chi Ting’s eyes slowly swept across the desolate and bleak scene outside. He stated slowly, “I also know the name of this place. Benisaf Fortress.”
Lou Yueren didn’t say anything for a while. After a long time, he asked, “Dear, do you remember when I mentioned to you before that I previously saw your name in an instance?”
Chi Ting nodded. “I remember.”
Lou Yueren looked at him steadily. “In fact, before, I have always been thinking about the relationship between you and that instance. But if this is your original world, what about the instance I entered at that time?”
Chi Ting thought for a moment and made a reasonable analysis. “There are two possibilities. One is that for some reason, the designer of that instance left some traces related to me in the instance you entered before. Or in other words, this Doomsday Tower Defense instance can only be regarded as ‘also’ our original world.”
The word ‘also’ was used quite incisively. Lou Yueren pondered on it and understood a bit. “Now that you mention it, this makes me think of something else.”
“Is it the ultimate…” Chi Ting swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth and just smiled. “In any case, you should still remember the idea I proposed when we were in the Ark Laboratory.”
Lou Yueren smiled knowingly. “The theory of world splitting?”
The two of them were talking back and forth like this. Ji Xingque, who was standing beside them, was confused. “Captain, please stop keeping us in suspense. Can someone tell me what is going on? This is the Benisaf Fortress, right? But how did the Benisaf Fortress appear in this instance? I clearly remember that this place was completely razed to the ground after the rescue of the century, right? Now it seems to be intact. How can this be?”
Before he could finish his rambling words, a ball of light was thrown out from Song Xuefeng’s hand and accurately hit Ji Xingque’s head. “Calm down first.”
The moment his body and mind were purified, Ji Xingque finally fell silent.
After a few seconds, he looked at Lu Nanling for help. “Little Brother Lu, can you tell me? There is our world in the instance. Does this mean we are actually NPCs in the instance? Then the instance was restarted without our knowledge, so this destroyed Benisaf Fortress was restored to its original state?”
Hua Qianmei couldn’t help letting out a hiss when she heard this. “You know what, Little Bird, your reasoning is really logical and meticulous!”
“It is indeed a possibility,” Lu Nanling responded. “So this is the situation now. Either our world has been split into many pieces and put into instances, just like the captain said about world splitting. Or there is one other possibility left. It is that we are essentially just NPCs in an instance.”
Hua Qianmei originally wanted to tease Ji Xingque, but she didn’t expect Lu Nanling to say this. She was stunned and shuddered slightly. “Why do I feel that no matter which possibility it is, this means me feel uncomfortable?”
“In short, I’m afraid we will have to wait until later to find out the specific situation,” Lu Nanling said. He glanced at the countdown on the virtual interface and reminded, “As for now, I think we should first pay attention to the rules of this instance.”
The words of the Dawn team contained too much information. The players watching outside were confused. Before they had time to study it in detail, they heard a ding sound and were attracted by the pop-up interface.
The moment the players entered the instance, a five minute countdown appeared on their virtual panel.
In the instance, all the players received the initial rule prompts for this instance.
[Dear guardians, welcome to Benisaf Fortress!]
[The frequent invasion of alien species has already left this ancient fortress in ruins. Everyone has the responsibility to protect the final civilization of humanity. The most powerful warriors, please firmly guard the last line of defense for humanity in this precarious, apocalyptic land!]
[Please note, the initial rules are as follows:
- This instance will have nine waves of attacks from alien armies in total. Please try your best to resist all the attacks.
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The Benisaf Fortress has a total of four strongholds. Once the front stronghold is destroyed, the alien army will continue to attack the next stronghold. If all four strongholds are destroyed, the game will be considered a failure.
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There is a time interval between every two waves of alien armies. After the countdown ends, the next wave of attacks will be launched regardless of whether the previous wave of monsters has been completely wiped out or not. The later the alien armies appear, the stronger they are. To avoid the gradual accumulation of monsters, please complete the elimination as soon as possible.
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There are supplies all over the Benisaf Fortress. They can be searched for freely.
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Please be careful of alienation after being infected by the alien species. IF there is any accident, please take corresponding measures as soon as possible.
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You can get contribution points by killing aliens. In addition, you can gain extra points by collecting the residents’ trust points. During the game, please make reasonable use of all NPC resources!]
[After successfully resisting all enemy attacks, all surviving players can obtain the instance settlement based on their total contribution value.]
[Please abide by the rules of the game while saving humanity!]
It was still the familiar initial game content. This time, Chi Ting read it all the way through and couldn’t help frowning when he saw a few nouns.
It did look like a very conventional tower defense game, but once it involved content such as ‘aliens’ and ‘degree of alienation’, it inevitably gave people a very bad feeling.
After reading the initial rules three times, Chi Ting looked away and noticed that Lou Yueren was also frowning. “Did you find anything?”
“Not really. The initial rules of this instance are already written very clearly,” Lou Yueren replied. “I just feel that, judging from the current situation, the eight human teams might need to unite to resist together in order to fully deal with the nine waves of attacks from the alien armies. However, the final settlement is based on the ranking given by contribution points during an instance. Once a competitive relationship is involved, I always feel that the human alliance becomes particularly unreliable. The subtle way of playing with people’s hearts always gives me a sense of deja vu.”
At this point, he laughed meaningfully. “Of course, I might just be overthinking it.”
“You mean, this instance is also…” Chi Ting didn’t need to ask any more questions. He understood instantly when he met Lou Yueren’s eyes. However, a guess was just a guess. Compared to who the designer of this instance was, there were obviously more important things to do at the moment.
From the moment the initial rules popped up, the numbers on the virtual panel that had just reached zero popped up with a new countdown.
According to Rule 3, this was clearly a signal for the first wave of alien troops to launch an attack.
“What we need to do now is get in touch with players from other teams,” Lu Nanling said.
Now they were obviously in the outermost stronghold No 1, which was the place where the alien army would first launch an attack. They didn’t know where the other teams were refreshed, so they had to confirm how many teams were in this stronghold.
It was only by figuring out the military strength here that they could better deal with the first wave.
“Then… wait, what is this sound…” Chi Ting was about to gather everyone to go out when he heard the slight sound of an electric current. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw an old communicator under the table in the corner.
He walked over quickly, picked it up, and fiddled with it for a while. There was a hint of a sigh in his expression.
It was true. Even the most commonly used models were exactly the same as what they used back then.
This strange feeling of familiarity really made people feel very uncomfortable.
The more these details matched up, the more it proved the correctness of their guesses.
After all, if it was just a simulated instance, it would be impossible to achieve this level of detail. On the contrary, these small items served as a constant reminder that this was their original world.
Chi Ting looked at the communicator in his hand and felt a bit emotional. Then he quickly collected his thoughts and operated it skillfully.
This was the equipment he had always used before. After some skillful operation, he quickly completed the signal connection.
He raised the communicator to his lips. “Hello, hello, can you hear me? I’m the captain of the Dawn team. Chi Ting. Who are you?”
These words came out, but there was only brief silence on the other side.
“Hello? Can you hear me?”
Chi Ting shook the communicator twice and asked a few more questions, but still got no response.
Just as he was wondering if this thing had suddenly broken down, he finally heard a voice along with a sharp electric sound from the other end of the communicator. “Hello again, Captain Chi. I am Qu Leng.”
Chi Ting was slightly stunned. Then he turned around and exchanged a look with Lou Yueren.
They never expected that the first team they would meet after entering the instance would be the Jazz team.
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