Going offline - an ultimate means to avoid events and troubles in the game world. Naturally, it is also a popular trick often used by players in the free world. It is just that this method is used to cut off the connection between the virtual world and the real world. The method of escape in time is naturally unable to withstand various negative effects such as the death of the character, loss of control, being plotted by others, and being unable to contribute to the situation in any way. It is precisely because of the existence of these unstable factors that many players generally do not choose to use this method to avoid emergencies and problems encountered in combat. They usually do so when some foreseeable trouble is about to come. He will use his offline rest time to continue preparing for the predicament in front of him for a period of time. For the same reason, Duan Qing and his companions did not plan to use offline methods to avoid meeting with His Majesty the Emperor this time, because this would not only fail to fundamentally solve the troubles entangled with them, but also would not be able to cut off The clouds and shackles of the empire centered on oneself. The reason why Duan Qing made such a proposal was just to hope that these people could have enough time to prepare and rest. After all, since they set off from Thebilis Castle to the present, they have been dealing with nobles, formulating strategies, etc. Too much energy and time have been spent on it.
Although he claimed to have gone offline to deal with other matters at this time, in fact he had not really gone offline to leave this world at all.
"Hello? Can you hear me?"
It is still the familiar white world that exists when characters log out and log in to virtual reality games. Duan Qing, who remains standing still, is also appearing in this familiar gray robe image. In the middle of the boundless white world, he gradually opened his eyes and then stared blankly at the hazy white mist at the end of the world. After a while, he slowly raised his head: "It seems that it is still unstable."
"...test...test...sound...test..."
The intermittent sounds then echoed in his ears, accompanied by the violent fluctuations of the white world in front of him. Duan Qing, who ignored this end-of-the-world scene, frowned. raised his eyebrows, focusing all his thoughts on the voice that gradually became clearer: "Test, test - answer quickly, can you give me a voice whether it is life or death? Damn it, why did it take so long this time? No Could something happen?"
"The signal was clearly sent by him, so why was there any delay in the process? This is the fourth generation of virtual reality technology!"
"That's his own problem, or he's not ready yet..."
"How is this possible? Have you forgotten what happened last time? You have obviously succeeded once, why now - wait."
"He responded."
The electronic sound of "chi-la-chi-la" then sounded in Duan Qing's ears, gradually stabilizing the violent shaking of the white world in front of him. His state of mind had fallen into some kind of ethereal realm, and he ignored these strange things. Instead, he closed his eyes again: "Can you hear me?"
"You can hear it." The voice from above the login world gradually became stable amidst the noise, but the loudness was as harsh as thunder: "Thank God, you finally woke up again."
"I've been awake all the time, haven't I?" He tugged at the corner of his mouth helplessly, and Duan Qing's voice struggled to cut through the loud thunder that echoed in the sky: "How is the situation?"
"It's hard to say, after all, the priority is stability." Lei Mingsheng replied very quickly: "Nearly 40% of the biological repair has been completed, but I have to remind you that Dr. Roman has made it clear Current medicine has reached its bottleneck——"
"Well, at least I feel pretty good now."
Duan Qing, who sighed slightly and interrupted the thunder with a small voice, lowered his head deeply: "And it's good to live in a fantasy world, isn't it?"
"Come on, I still remember your panicked look before." The god-like thundering voice echoed heavily in his ears: "Don't worry, as your former friend and partner, I have already begun Let’s start from other directions to solve this matter for you.”
"The key to the problem is time." The voice stopped laughing, and said in a low voice with imperceptible worry: "Those people above you have begun to get closer and closer to you, and I don't have much confidence to delay it for you too long. Long."
"I came here this time to solve this problem." Duan Qing replied in a low voice: "If I didn't make a calculation mistake..."
"My communication ball should have gone off."
In the empty white world, he waited quietly for a while, and then when the sound of thunder turned from blurry to clear again, his words of surprise and warning reappeared in the thick white sky above his head. Kiriuchi: "There is indeed a call, it's from your old lover... Have they already noticed it? Do you need me to remind her quietly?"
"No, it's better not to cause trouble for you and me." Duan Qing shook his head in a low voice: "And there is a high possibility that those communications are being monitored now."
"Then what are you going to do? Contact her in the game?"
"We have been in contact." Duan Qing's mouth twitched upwards involuntarily: "But I didn't tell her the truth, and..."
"This time the matter also needs to be resolved outside."
He looked up to the sky and let out a long sigh, and the words that had been paused for a moment started to sound again as he opened his eyes again: "Is there any way to use a virtual machine as a communication method?"
"Of course, after all, this kind of thing has already integrated the communication function when it was originally designed." The thunderous voice muttered a sentence, and then suddenly replied in an unbelievable tone: "You, you can't ——”
"Yes, that's right, it's what you think." Duan Qing grinned again with a bright smile: "Don't tell me you can't do it."
"You know how to make things difficult for me, don't you?" He said this angrily, and then the thunder quickly zoomed away in the white mist in front of Duan Qing as if it was walking away: "Fortunately, I am an all-around genius. , things have already been prepared."
"Take it."
The harsh and shrill sound then appeared in front of Duan Qing again, accompanied by a blur of mist that gradually gathered around him, and the white light that kept tearing and rolling was like a TV screen that had restored its signal. The fluctuating buzzing sound and current sound condensed into a screen like a console: "The conversion of the analog signal should have been completed. Later we will also convert the sound signal, because the old signal is used, so Probably with most of the noise…”
"Hello."
Ignoring the thoughts that followed the thunderous sound, Duan Qing, expressionless, reached out and pressed a button displayed on the white screen in front of him, and a reply belonging to a mature woman followed for a while. The beeping sound of the phone echoed in his ears, causing his wiping fingers to tremble: "Hello?"
"……it's me."
"Are you finally willing to contact me?" The voice was silent for a moment, and then suddenly raised its voice in a long sigh: "At such a time? Using such an unfamiliar number? Dear rider?"
"Don't worry so much, I don't want to hide anything from you." The chaotic noise from the depths of the world was still heard in his ears, and Duan Qing replied with a low expression: "I just feel that the time is almost up. So I would like to express my concern for you."
"You don't have to take care of me. But your estimate of the time is very accurate." Trying her best to maintain a calm tone, the woman's voice then became a little more serious: "The news has been spread over there. It will probably be in three days." Later."
"Where is her safety?"
"Since it is a specimen, it must be well preserved." The voice paused for a moment, and there was a little sadness in the woman's deliberately lowered voice: "Duan Qingnian may have noticed something. His order was higher than we expected. A few days earlier."
"It's nothing, we can just follow suit in advance." Standing quietly in front of the unstable white screen with his hands lowered, Duan Qing replied in a low voice: "What matters is whether we can get the support of other people. Can we take advantage of the momentum generated by this change?”
"...Will you show up on that day?" The woman's voice was silent for a moment again: "If you can show up, our success rate will be much higher."
"..."
"Don't worry, I'll bet everything on the Lou family, and I will ensure your safety."
Not getting a positive reply from Duan Qing, the woman's voice immediately became solemn: "With so many people watching, they must not dare to do anything to you -"
"I'm not afraid, I just can't do it." Shekou interrupted the other person's words, and Duan Qing's eyes kept patrolling around the white world: "But that's okay."
"I'll be there."
He nodded and raised his hand at the same time. His eyes full of thoughts and eyes looking into the distance, together with his still body, began to become blurred in the scene where the white time suddenly became brighter. : "The plan goes ahead as usual, reserve a place for me to appear, and the rest..."
"I'll figure it out myself."
The noisy sound suddenly amplified in his ears, accompanied by the dizziness caused when his will was forcibly pulled away. Duan Qing, who was trying to distinguish the noisy information, then watched helplessly as he was being blown away by that message. Swallowed by the white light that covered him, he took in the scene of the Imperial Tavern room in the free world when he opened his eyes again. His mood gradually stabilized as the strong dizziness in his mind subsided. He half-supported his forehead and then slowly sat up from the bed where he was lying. His eyelids were half-opened as if He stayed in a daze for a long time like a person who had just woken up from a nightmare, and then he put his eyes, which had become heavy again, under the light falling from the balcony: "Huh..."
"Forcibly disconnected." He moved the back of his hand from his forehead and slowly covered up the blood-red light in his eyes: "Don't always think that I am a dead person and keep trying to kill me all day long. "
"woke up?"
A voice of greeting then sounded in his ears, and along with it was the figure of Asahi Dongsheng who appeared after pushing open the door: "How was your rest? Are you done?"
"It's almost time, let's go." He pointed in the direction of the faint footsteps outside the door, and then grinned: "Let's go."
"Go to see the emperor."
After packing their bags and having breakfast, the few people who gathered together again walked out of the tavern with the proprietress named Robin watching them leave with a smile. The morning sun on February 25th, 796th year of the New Calendar, was constantly shining from above their heads. As the temperature increased, they felt more hot. They looked around and followed the heat. Feeling slightly twisting his uneasy body, his eyes also fell on the imperial gold-plated armored guards who gradually surrounded them: "We are members of the fourth team of the Imperial Royal Guards. You are the one named Qing A member of the Spirit Adventure Group, right?"
"We won't explain too much about the reasons." Bathed in the countless sideways glances from around them, they raised their respective swords and guns, held Duan Qing hostage, and began to walk towards the depths of Imperial Capital Street: "Follow us bring it on."
Half-pushed and half-stopped through countless streets, the figures of several weak and pitiful players who were carried forward by this group of imperial royal guards then came to the front of an extremely wide street, and the majestic outline of the palace also followed this section. As time shortened, it became clearer and clearer in front of them. As if they were country folk entering the city, they kept patrolling around the place. Asahi Dongsheng and Gedman, who had no criminal consciousness at all, then stopped their pointing fingers right in front of the magnificent palace. , then while opening each other's mouths, they looked up at the top of the palace that was higher than the mountain: "Wow, is it actually so high?"
"Are we going to climb up on foot? Those nobles hold meetings there every day. Aren't they tired?"
"It is said that the empire specially asked people from the Council of Mages to build a teleportation array here to make it easier for people coming in and out of here to go to the palace." Xue Linghuan Bing, who was also walking in the team, lowered the hood on his head: "But we probably won't be able to use it."
"Of course, people who have committed crimes cannot use it. In order to prevent you from damaging the facilities." An imperial royal guard walking at the front turned his head when he heard the sound and looked at it with vigilance and disgust. Looking at Duan Qing and others: "What's more, you are still a group of adventurers... Humph, let's go quickly."
"His Majesty the Emperor is almost impatient to wait."
