With the magic network after divinity, many things have changed, such as its offline projection.
The offline projection of the Magic Network is what players and tourists "carry" back, especially the strengthening of players' souls, which naturally carries the imprint of occultism. Players go offline and bring these occult factors into reality.
, thus causing the intrusion of mysterious rules and phenomena.
The greater the number of players and tourists, the more serious the invasion of mysterious rules and mysterious phenomena will be, but strangely, since the 7th beta, there have been very few supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science.
At least that's the case in the relevant department's files.
This computer room is not big, but the cabinets are all covered with dark red sarcoma. The hands wearing white gloves are like mummies. In the huge hollow eye sockets, the two round eyeballs are almost completely exposed.
Also exposed are the dark red gums and snow-white teeth, but these are hidden within a tight protective cover.
Click, click, the mummy staggered onto the elevator and ascended from the negative floor to the first floor. When the elevator door opened, it had turned into him, a fleshy, middle-aged, stout man who looked a little greasy.
"Professor Huo, people from the Public Security Bureau are here again."
Professor Huo was taking off his protective clothing. When he heard this, he frowned and said to the intercom, "Let them wait in my office."
"OK."
Five minutes later, Professor Huo's office.
"This person has resigned, and we don't know the reason..." Professor Huo opened the drawer, "This is all his information in our institution. Sorry, I can only help you with this."
"This is already the fourth person you have disappeared.", the leading detective said.
"Just because these people have worked in our institution, it doesn't mean we have problems, right? We are a cooperative institution of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a 3A-level partner certified by Canaan Huaguo Company. We are a formal enterprise." Professor Huo was a little impatient.
Knocked on the table.
"you……"
"Okay, okay", an older criminal policeman behind stopped his colleague and said with a smile: "It's just a routine investigation, Professor Huo doesn't need to worry about it."
"My time is precious...that's it?"
Outside the gate of the institute, the two criminal policemen who just stood smoking in front of the institution's intimidating plaques. The young detective said, "There is definitely something wrong with that guy, and it is definitely related to this series of disappearances. I have a strong feeling for it."
intuition."
"We can't rely on intuition when handling cases." The old detective disagreed.
"Otherwise there is no way to explain why all the missing persons are involved with this agency?"
"I've checked it and found no problem."
"That's the biggest problem. It's a large online psychological information and spiritual aid organization. Don't you think it's too deserted inside? The smell is also weird. Didn't you smell it?"
The old detective was amused, "Smell, what smell? I think you are going crazy trying to solve the case."
"Anyway, I think there must be something wrong with that guy."
"Do you really think you are Sherlock Holmes? Go away..."
"Where to go?"
After the two detectives left, Professor Huo closed the curtains in the office, turned around and sat down expressionlessly. In broad daylight, the light in the room suddenly became dark, and the dim light made his face appear bright and dark, as if it were an inanimate statue.
sculpture.
"Professor Huo?"
"What's up?"
"The final round of interviews is in 5 minutes."
"I'll be right over."
In the conference room, Professor Huo and four colleagues in white coats pushed open the door. When more than a dozen interviewers saw them coming in, they all stood up.
Professor Huo smiled and waved his hand, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, everyone sits down, everyone sits down."
Then he walked into the connected small conference room. After a while, the secretary called the first interviewer in.
"Do you know our organization?"
In a small conference room, a man in a white coat asked.
"Did some homework!"
The first interviewer said nervously.
"Very good. Our organization has used new technologies. It does not require you to have professional knowledge and skills. All it requires is patience. Professional issues are handled by intelligent AI. Now we simulate a scenario: a tourist, 23 years old, accepts
With our psychological counseling, we have successfully established a second cognition online. However, after offline, the first cognition and the second cognition conflict. There may be hidden dangers such as 'schizophrenia'. How should you deal with it?
?”
"Well……"
The interviewer racked his brains to recall, organized his words and began to answer.
"good"
A person in a white coat commented, "The conflict between Second Life and First Life has gradually attracted widespread attention from society, and there are more and more service agencies dealing with similar issues. May I ask, what do you think will happen if this trend continues?
"
"This is caused by the plot of Total War..."
The interviewer was well prepared and had his own set of views, "...any new thing is always uncomfortable at the beginning. The biggest problem comes from the 'alien' mentality towards new things. The biggest source of fear and rejection is the unknown. I believe,
Once Second Life becomes popular, this problem will become a common problem, just like a cold or a fever, and users can even overcome it on their own."
"What if we can't overcome it?" Professor Huo asked for the first time.
"This...", the interviewer was a little stuck, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Isn't our organization set up just for situations like this?"
Professor Huo nodded.
…
The interview lasted until noon, and finally all the interviewees were sent away. The four people in white coats said nothing, and there was no communication during the whole process. Each person left holding a file.
It was an office building in Novo University, but it was extremely quiet. The corridor was quiet. A window on the second floor suddenly opened from the outside, and the young detective who had visited in the morning climbed in.
He turned over very quickly and walked in. At this moment, an office door happened to open, and a stiff-moving man in a white coat walked out.
Just as he was about to be discovered, he rolled over and hid in the bathroom.
The bathroom was spotless. The young detective touched the sink, put on gloves, and unscrewed the water pipe below.
Dry.
Stiff footsteps came nearby. The detective hid in the cubicle, closed the door, and lay down through the crack in the door to look out.
A man in a white coat with a stiff posture stood in front of the urinal, unbuttoned his trousers, paused for a moment, and then left.
Thinking of the dried water pipe, the detective's mouth felt dry for a while.
When there was no movement outside, I came to the urinal and touched the inside of the pool with my gloved hands.
It's clean and has no traces of use for a long time.
This is weird.
"What are you looking for?"
The sudden voice behind him startled him, and he turned around to see Professor Huo, whom he had officially met in the morning, "Uh... I came in to use the toilet."
Professor Huo had no expression on his face and stared at him for several seconds.
The detective didn't know why his heart was beating so fast, and he couldn't help but touch his right pocket.
"Finished?"
"……ah?"
"Give me a moment"
"oh oh!"
The detective pretended that nothing was wrong and walked out. After taking a few steps, he heard the sound of water behind him.
Could it be that there is a mistake? This suspicious person...
When he came outside the corridor, there was nothing unusual about the white coats walking back and forth. He took the elevator to the first floor suspiciously. The sun was shining brightly outside, and the beautiful receptionist was intently watching the online live broadcast on the computer screen.
"Well, Holmes, have you found any clues?"
After returning home, my partner, the old detective, joked, and the detective explained the suspicious points he had discovered.
"How come, there are so many people..."
"Really, there is a layer of ash in the sewer pipes."
"Isn't this easy to check? If you ask the water company, won't you get the result?"
"yes!"
The two drove to the water company and found out that the water consumption of that building and institution had dropped sharply over the past few months. With hundreds of people, the water consumption was not as much as that of an ordinary family of three.
"How is that possible!"
"There must be something wrong here."
The two detectives returned to the unit with the investigation results. The captain listened to them explain the situation, "I asked you to handle the missing persons case. Why are you investigating these things?"
"There's something wrong with that institution."
"What's the problem? Just because people save water"
"More than that, captain, you should understand what I'm talking about."
The captain frowned, "If there is really any problem, it's just a big problem. Recently... forget it, what do you want?"
"A thorough investigation of that organization, I mean the scene, there will definitely be something discovered."
"What do you want to do?"
"Prepare an operation tonight and let's go check it out again."
The captain put down the tea cup obediently and said, "Be careful, that's a well-established company."
"Got it, head!"
The adventure prepared for the evening made the detective very excited. Some weird plots were automatically imagined in his mind. He spent the entire afternoon preparing for the evening's... er, adventure. His partner was unaware of it, just like everyone else.
, watching the grand occasion of the online live broadcast and the lively discussion.
The Total War plot has been around for about 10 days now, and the popularity is naturally not as high as the first few days, but as long as nothing happens, colleagues will sit in front of the screen, and the epic battle scenes of swords and magic will make people mesmerized.
.
Nowadays, the combination of offline and online is becoming more and more sophisticated. People like them, for example, receive online-related cases almost every day. In society, offline services include online companies, industries, and
There are so many employees, and there are only 50 million players and tourists, but it has led to the entire society being able to share the benefits of the online metaverse economy.
Professional research data shows that the online economy has become the main engine of the real economy. The online war is going on in a majestic way, while the offline ones have become 'quiet' like the rear, as if all other voices have been suppressed by the online battle.
Replaced by shouting.
Players and tourists have fought hard. The frontline has retreated again and again. What new troops have appeared in the enemy, what new strategic measures have been adopted, what powerful humanoid monsters... There are many treasures offline, even the enemy's leapfrog tactics and focused attacks.
Various resurrection points on the battlefield have also been focused on analysis by military experts and academies.
Not to mention the hygienic media and self-media platforms.
We have become accustomed to it offline, just like these colleagues, who are accustomed to watching online information after finishing their own work.
The Magic Network and the system have become well known to women and children. Online vocabulary and common sense concepts have also injected a series of new definitions and new terms into reality.
In the evening, the sky turned dark, and the whole city entered a period of immersion after the hustle and bustle. Under the influence of the all-out war, the nightlife became much more low-key, and everyone went home to watch the live broadcast.
"Lao Li, how are you?"
"What the hell, I don't understand. Why am I just messing around with you in a daze?"
"Hey, I'll definitely find something, trust me."
"At this time, I am following the live battle of Battlefield No. 4 for many days."
"The same goes for watching the video tomorrow."
"How could you really do that and sneak in secretly?"
"Well, look at that tree, enter from that way, the camera is broken."
"It's funny if you get caught."
"There is no way, who told the captain not to let things be done openly and honestly?"
The sky has darkened, the pedestrians and vehicles on the street have become sparse, and the shops facing the street are not very popular. It seems that everyone has gone home and stayed in front of the TV.
On the surface it should be depressed, but the city's temperament has indeed become much quieter from the previous bustle.
Many high-rise buildings turn dark as soon as they arrive at this store. Except for the colorful lights used for decoration outside, the inside looks like a tomb.
Speaking of tombs, this institution is very similar.
The two of them climbed a tree and entered the courtyard. It went smoothly at first and they didn't meet anyone. Except for the dim light from the street lamp provided by a feeble provider, the office building where they were going to focus on the investigation was completely dark. Only the guard room at the gate was still lit.
"What's going on?"
It started to fog up before even entering the building. An inexplicable atmosphere made the young detective's heart beat faster. Suddenly he had a strong feeling. He looked up subconsciously. In the fog, in the dark building, lights suddenly lit up on every floor.
A figure walked in front of the lighted window, his posture stiff.
"Coming, coming!"
"What's coming?"
"I can't tell..."
"What now?"
“Go in and have a look”
"Just walk in?"
The plan of sneaking in quietly failed. The young detective, with his heart beating like thunder, took his partner and walked into the foyer on the first floor in an open and aboveboard manner.
In the transparent revolving door, a staggering figure with his head lowered was staggered by the belt of the revolving door. When he looked up, the young detective's scalp was numb and he was numb.
"Are you here for an interview?"
This is a mummy, the kind that is all skin and bones.
The young detective almost drew his gun, but his partner kept calm and held his hand down, "Yes, we are here for an interview."
"Second floor!"
The mummy said as he staggered past them and staggered down the steps.
"Old, old Li"
"Go in?"
The young detective gritted his teeth and nodded.
"Curiosity killed the cat!" the old detective sighed quietly.
"What did you say?"
"It's nothing... don't make a fuss about anything you see later. We'll talk about everything after we go out."
"Lao Li, do you know anything?"
"Stop asking."
Except for the beautiful front desk lady I saw during the day, the building almost continued the same as it was during the day. Everyone, every window, and every office were working 'as usual', because they were doing online business, and the online customer service was standard and mechanical.
The responses came one after another.
But sitting in the partition on the first floor were all mummified corpses.
"The interview is on the second floor!"
"Oooh!"
"The elevator is over there!"
In the elevator, the young detective discovered that there was an additional negative layer on the button.
"Old Li!"
"...They say curiosity killed the cat!"
"Would you like to go down and take a look?"
"Are you sure?"
"I have a feeling that the truth must be hidden underneath."
