When Zhou Yijue first entered the altar, he felt novel like many testers. After all, they are different from players and do not need to pay any price. He just needs to find bugs and report them during the game. It is very simple.

But sometimes, in order to figure out a problem, he will repeat it many times, and cycle in the same game until the test is completed. Therefore, facing the same level, Zhou Yijue is different from other players. He is often familiar with the solution because he has played it too many times, and can solve it at a very fast speed.

Until in a copy, which was his 32nd test task, he met a person. When Zhou Yijue held the answer in his hand and had not yet stepped forward to solve the problem, the man had already acted and handled it very quickly.

Intuition tells Zhou Yijue that he is the same as himself.

The man had silver hair, was tall, and looked Russian. He felt like he was standing there quietly. But unexpectedly, he was very sunny and even a little overly enthusiastic. When Zhou Yijue tried to ask if he was also a tester, the other party suddenly grabbed his hands and slapped him.

"Are you too? I met my colleague for the first time, so good! I'm very happy to see you. My name is Victor Bondalev, just call me Victor! Where are you?"

He stretched out his hand to Zhou Yijue, with an expression that he was about to shake hands and make friends with me, which made Zhou Yijue unable to refuse.

"Zhou Yijue, just call me Zhou..."

Victor's palms were very big, dry and warm, with a layer of calluses on his fingertips and palms. His strength to shake hands made Zhou Yijue's palms feel squeezed.

"I like your name!" He pronounced it a little clumsyly, with a cute smile on his face, "Zhou, Yi, Jue."

"Yes." Zhou Yijue pulled out his hand, "Yes."

He had never seen such a person in the altar, and he had never even encountered him in reality. He was like the sun, warm and radiant, as if there was no dark side.

Unlike himself, even if he is a tester, Victor will tell other players unreservedly about the ways to pass the level, so that as many people as possible can pass the level.

Even if Zhou Yijue warned him that he might face punishment for violations by doing so, he still smiled.

"I've done this before. If I really violated the rules, I might have been punished long ago."

If he couldn't persuade him, Zhou Yijue was too lazy to stop him.

After other players pass the level, the journey in this dungeon ends. They are different. They will exit from a certain point in time, start over, and repeat.

Victor is a childish person. He takes finding bugs as his real game goal and will be very persistent, while Zhou Yijue only regards this as his job. Although the starting point is different, they still have to act together and repeat the game.

They repeated a copy too many times, as if they had spent several months in this game, from getting to getting familiar with each other, as if other players were NPCs, they were the real explorers, and each other’s secrets.

"I like red cabbage soup very much. Have you ever eaten it?" Victor walked with him on a familiar road and asked about his preferences. "I like to add a lot of tomatoes."

"I haven't eaten it before." Zhou Yijue raised his eyebrows, "Is it delicious?"

“Very delicious!”

Victor's reaction is always more exaggerated than others. Zhou Yijue doesn't believe it. Maybe he saw the doubts revealed in Zhou Yijue's expression and insisted on him persistently, "It's really delicious. When we return to reality, I'll make it for you to eat!"

He did not break his promise. When they finished their work and returned to reality from a copy, Victor took Zhou Yijue back to his home. It was a very small and crowded apartment. Victor took Zhou Yijue to buy a lot of food with his reward, and the two of them carried things home.

Zhou Yijue's parents left him very early. He was fostered at his uncle's house and his childhood life was very bleak. For the first time, he could sit on the sofa with peace of mind, without worrying about getting up and doing something, and not being idle.

Victor wore an apron with cartoon characters, and was busy in the kitchen, asking him loudly whether he liked eating some kind of vegetable.

"Everything is OK." Zhou Yijue raised his neck and looked at his back for a while, "Do you need help? But I'll tell you first, I can't do anything."

"No." Victor smiled and turned back, "You just need to enjoy the food!"

Zhou Yijue lied to him, and he was very good at cooking and did a lot of things.

Living alone, it is not okay to know how to cook, but he doesn't enjoy it, just fills his stomach, so he often eats cold leftovers.

"Okay!"

Victor enthusiastically served him a bowl of dishes and red red cabbage soup. He also gave him a lot of delicious dishes.

Zhou Yijue was a little uncomfortable. In the past, he was always at the dinner table, and he had to look at people's eyes before he could move his chopsticks.

"Thanks."

That night, Victor kept him overnight. Zhou Yijue thought he was going to do something, but it turned out that he was the only one who was despicable. Victor just wanted to play games with him and share his favorite movies and music.

That night, they lay shoulder to shoulder on the carpet, and together they were emptied against the starlight on the ceiling. He heard Victor humming Russian nursery rhymes and tell him about his childhood.

Halfway through speaking, Zhou Yijue turned his head and looked at Victor Yingting's side face. It was probably a tacit understanding. Victor also turned his face at the same time and met him.

With eyes facing each other, Victor laughed first.

"Your eyes are so beautiful, Yi Jue."

"You are like a smart little fox."

Zhou Yijue smiled and said nothing.

They became friends. Victor was also the first friend Zhou Yijue had.

Later, they did many test tasks together, getting closer and closer to each other in repetition and loops. A game for others was as long as half a lifetime for them.

Zhou Yijue thought that no matter what he thought, Victor probably hoped that their friendship would last forever.

Until one day, sitting by the beautiful beach made up of data, Victor asked him, "Do you want to make a wish to the sea?"

He said that when we return to reality, we will not see such a blue coast, right?

"Yes." Zhou Yijue had nothing to make a wish, but he still pretended to think about it, closed his eyes, and pretended to make a wish.

When he closed his eyes, his mind was empty, without a word, but he saw all Victor's face, and under the starry sky light, his blue eyes as water.

Seeing Zhou Yijue open his eyes, Victor smiled, "Is it over?"

"Um."

"I'll do it!" Victor closed his eyes, and put his hands that should have been closed to his mouth, turning into a shouting gesture.

"Zhou Yijue! Can you be my boyfriend?"

The Chinese he spoke and his abnormal standards made Zhou Yijue stunned.

To this day, he can recall his palpitations at that time, and Victor smiled and asked him if he wanted to, whether he could hug him or kiss him.

He took off the dog tag on his neck and said that it was his medal as a man and he wanted to give it to his favorite person.

He also said that after he went back, he wanted to live with Zhou Yijue and to watch the musical he liked very much. He saved money for a long time.

Zhou Yijue agreed. He agreed to all Victor's requests. He carefully collected all the love and warmth that Victor gave him.

He was afraid to let Victor know that he loved him more than he did, and was afraid of losing him.

Every day with Victor is as bright and beautiful as a gem.

But beautiful things are short-lived.

He was clearly conducting the test task the same as before, and he could start over if he was wrong, but that time, Victor was seriously injured.

Under the attack of the monster, they passed through the dark stone tunnel. In the tunnel, one stone door after another was automatically closed. Victor covered his injured arm and protected Zhou Yijue in front of him while running, and told him to be faster and faster.

Zhou Yijue doesn't believe that the game will have such a big problem. They are all living people. They are not testing programs, so they can't be given up just like that.

He was not abandoned by Victor. At the moment when the monster was about to attack him, Victor pushed Zhou Yijue hard with his only remaining hand and pushed it into the stone gate that was just open.

In an instant, the door was shut.

Zhou Yijue didn't react at all. He heard Victor say "I love you" in Russian at the end, but no matter how he slapped the stone door in front of him, the door was still closed.

Until he looked at his feet, blood stretched through the crack of the door, and large areas dyed the ground red.

He stood in a pool of blood and shouted Victor's name.

No response.

Zhou Yijue didn't believe it, so he ran forward, leaving this place as much as he could, leaving the game back to reality, and knew that Victor must be waiting for him in the company's game cabin.

But when he tried his best, he could not find Victor's trace at all.

He disappeared. His small apartment was clearly full of traces of his existence, but Zhou Yijue just couldn't find him.

He searched all the places where Victor might appear, but he could not get any results. When he came to the development department, he found that the self-generated server that almost "swallowed" people was reproductive and copied by itself like monsters.

While he was still doing the so-called test task, the building was already empty.

Zhou Yijue's life seemed to have been pressed. He finally got a little warmth and was immediately taken away.

He put on Victor's necklace, and he became depressed day by day, and was extremely thin. When he was drinking in the bar until he was about to forget everything, he opened the door and walked out, vomiting so much that he wanted to throw away his heart.

Originally, Zhou Yijue thought that he would continue like this for the rest of his life.

Who knew that he met a colleague from the development department in the bar before. While talking and laughing perfunctorily, he heard the "eastern egg" mentioned by the other party.

[Eastern Egg Card, do you know? There seems to be a very powerful skill card like the Resurrection Card, which can revive a person who died in the game at will.]

After learning about the existence of the resurrection card, Zhou Yijue was reborn. He entered the game again as a player.

He has also become a completely different person, ruthless and doesn't care about anyone's life. In order to win or get a resurrection card, he can do anything.

As long as Victor comes back, he only needs Victor.

He met many people, many opponents, and also killed many people. Without the heart, he could do everything in trouble until his opponent became safe.

Zhou Yijue first observed An Wujiu with a ridiculous thought. He was so bright that he had no dark side. Like his name, he looked like a specimen without defects.

It was only later that he realized that this person was not happy either.

His biggest flaw is himself.

When he entered the last dungeon, he knew that Victor still had the possibility of coming back. Even if it wasn't his Victor, Zhou Yijue was willing to give as long as he could come back.

In the most chaotic, helpless, painful and desperate times, he was unable to continue to sit idly by and watch.
To be continued...