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[Insert a piece of news:]
[In 3826 AD, with the rapid expansion of material development, the spiritual needs of the people of Blue Star were no longer satisfied with the status quo.
In recent years, cases of Blue Star people committing suicide due to lack of spiritual food have occurred frequently, causing a lot of social panic.
In response to this phenomenon, the Blue Star Government and Kamigawa Corporation jointly created a national entertainment and competitive live broadcast project-"Paradise".
The purpose of this project is to create friction between participants through various dungeon competitions, so as to enrich and satisfy the spiritual needs of the majority of Blue Star people, and contribute to the continuation of the great Blue Star civilization.
At present, "Paradise" has officially ended its internal testing. Kamigawa Company is recruiting contestants from all over the world. It plans to officially start live broadcasting in September this year. Interested parties are welcome to actively sign up...]
With a beeping sound, the TV screen went black, leaving only silence and darkness in the empty room.
The woman hugged her legs and curled up on the sofa, motionless. It was not until the lights from the city center illuminated a small area of the living room through the floor-to-ceiling windows that she slowly raised her head and shifted her sight to the outside world. .
"Paradise?"
The woman murmured in a low voice, her hair disheveled on her shoulders, staring at the colorful light show outside the window, lost in thought.
She seemed to have just cried, and the corners of her eyes were slightly red.
Just like that, after an unknown amount of time, the woman suddenly laughed, and her laughter was extremely gloomy.
"Hahahaha... Paradise?"
Looking at the recruitment advertisements for "Paradise" outside the window, her laughter became louder and louder, more and more unrestrained. In her dark pupils, the sadness buried in her eyes gradually turned into madness.
At some point, a goblet appeared in the woman's hand. There was nothing in the goblet...
She gracefully raised the cup into the air, facing someone she didn't know, looking like a winner.
"That's right, Paradise."
"Yours, mine, ours, everyone's paradise."
After saying that, the woman drank the air in one gulp.
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[Data synchronization is in progress, progress is 35%, progress is 60%, progress is 85%, progress is 99%...]
[Progress 100%, synchronization completed. 】
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"Aha!"
With an exclamation, Li Ming woke up from the chaos. As soon as she opened her eyes, she saw a strange room.
"I...where is this?"
She didn't know if she got up too fast, but Li Ming felt dizzy. After she recovered a little, she quickly looked around.
There are only three objects in the room: a bed, a dresser, and a grandfather clock.
Other than that, there are no windows or anything else.
It seemed to be just an ordinary room with nothing wrong with it.
But the more Li Ming thought about it, the more strange he felt.
"Didn't I just perform a mission? And in the end, I and the herd died in the explosion..."
Yes, Li Ming was a special forces general. She was still fighting on the front line during her lifetime. However, during the battle, she and her team members were attacked by a sudden wave of beasts.
In order to cover the evacuation of the team members, Li Ming blocked a large number of alien beasts on her own. However, she was alone and could not defeat thousands of troops. In the end, she could only be overwhelmed by the beasts. Before she died, Li Ming activated the self-destruction program of the combat mecha. She chose to die with the herd.
Li Ming was blown to pieces. Logically speaking, she must have died completely, but now she wakes up intact in this strange room.
Strange, so strange.
Could it be that this is the world after death? Hell?
Li Ming pinched her thigh hard.
It hurts, it hurts so much!
It was not a dream, Li Ming could be sure that she was indeed a living person now.
Li Ming's scalp was numb. She didn't understand why she came back from the dead, but before she could think more about it, a strange voice sounded outside the room.
"Dong——dong——"
"Dong——dong——"
It's footsteps.
Li Ming pricked up her ears. She could tell that the sound of footsteps was definitely not something ordinary humans could make.
These are the footsteps of something inhuman.
——Cumbersome and slow.
And every step he took was accompanied by the sticky sound of liquid.
In a completely silent environment, this sticky sound seemed particularly abrupt.
Li Ming was lying on the ground, her ears close to the floor, and the sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer, becoming clearer.
In addition to the footsteps of inhuman things, there seemed to be other sounds, but they were very soft and could not be heard clearly.
