“This game has gradually become a battlefield for the seven major countries to compete in strength. Therefore, among the contestants every year, there will also be veterans or special teams who come in through other channels. Their task is to eliminate as many opponents as possible and become the winner.
“That’s the ‘national team.'”
An Yinong understood, but he didn’t comprehend, just like he didn’t understand this internal game of consuming the population. There were many ways to stimulate the public’s sense of crisis, but they choose extreme ones.
“I actually never understood why there is such a game. Can’t we just put it in a virtual world? If we have realistic pain sense, we can achieve the purpose of ‘failure is punished’.”
Qin shook his head: “There are many adventure, fighting and other similar games in the virtual world, and they are all 100% painful. Virtual games can no longer make people feel a real sense of crisis.”
“Fighting is the instinct of our race, so most people get this pleasure in the virtual world, but this does not affect their physical weakness in reality where they can’t breathe after running a few steps.”
An Yinong thought for a long time and came up with an idea: “Then project the physical fitness level in reality into the virtual world and update it every day. In this way, in order to enjoy the joy of fighting in the virtual world, they will also exercise in reality.”
“If so, the physical fitness of the low Zerg cannot beat the physical fitness of the middle Zerg, because the latter are the main combat force, and their physical fitness is naturally stronger. As for the high Zerg, the competition is about ability, and physical fitness is secondary.”
At this point, Qin explained why this would not work: “The advantage of low Zerg is their imagination. The advantage of medium Zerg is execution. The advantage of high Zerg is their unique ability.”
In fact, the low-level Zerg have a long lifespan, have accumulated enough knowledge, are active in thinking and are more receptive to new things, and are more likely to produce artists, but the higher level Zerg have never paid much attention to these.
“The physical data in the virtual world and the real world are not synchronized. This is to give fairness to all Zerg from the beginning.”
Once real body data is projected into the virtual world, class contradictions would become more acute without the buffer of the virtual world.
“Don’t want to eat?” An Yinong stopped asking further questions, as he could not solve this contradiction. He tried to dispel his restlessness with other things, such as eating. Eating well would help you prepare for any disaster that may occur next, and it would also reduce the weight of your luggage.
Qin nodded, the two began to build the stove and fire. The things they brought with them contained dry firewood, which they collected on the road, so it was convenient to cook with fire. However, a few people not far away did not understand.
“Ken, what are they doing?”
“Like us, stay here and avoid trouble.” Ken’s eyes were light gold, which allowed him to clearly see the scene over there: the two men were setting up a stove to cook food. Did they come here without knowing the danger?
Soon a fire was lit, and An Yinong put the ingredients into the pot, including meat, vegetables and mushrooms, and then he added salt. Salt was the soul of food. Food without salt had no soul.
“Cheers.” Their wooden cups collided with each other, and there was clear water in them. On the big rocks, there were also large pots of food and washed fruits. With An Yinong as a plug-in, they never lacked vegetables and fruits on the road. As for meat, Qin was in charge of it, and he always managed to “handle” the precious prey.
“Are they having afternoon tea?” This cozy picnic-like atmosphere left everyone with a lot of question marks. Not only did Ken’s team think so, but the audience in their live broadcast room was also puzzled. What’s up with this strange duo? Were they here for a picnic?
Many birds flew out of the forest again, this time there were even more of them. Ken’s team had already stood up, holding their weapons, ready to fight with Daran.
An Yinong and Qin were still eating and drinking. He looked down at the room and said, “We are not there yet. We should be ready to camp outdoors at night.”
Qin knew that An Yinong had some special abilities, and he trusted him completely.
“Team Ken next door is all stunned, please be more serious.” Although Qin and An Yinong’s audience had become numb, they still felt an indescribable sense of absurdity when they suddenly formed such a strong contrast with the serious contestants next door.
“Chacha, chacha, I think it’s pretty good, chacha.”
“What’s going on upstairs?”
“Watch the video while eating.”
“…”
This was a serious game, not a food anime, was it too much to watch while eating?!
“In fact, Qin and this kid are playing games seriously, but I don’t know why… It’s the kind that others are asking them to take their pets to slowly visit the ruins, have a picnic, and play puzzle games…”
“It’s like when you’re fighting a boss in a game and you say, ‘I’m going to go do a side quest, drink some wine, solve two more clues, stack some buffs, and come back and talk about it.'”
“Yes! That’s the feeling!” Many viewers opened live broadcast rooms of several players at the same time, and they felt particularly divided.
This sense of division was not caused by strength. For example, Ken’s team next door had one high-level Zerg and five well-trained medium-level Zerg. Wasn’t that enough strength? But they still didn’t have the convincing momentum of “Don’t worry, I’m here”. Even when eating, Team Ken would try to choose easy food.
Unlike An Yinong and others, who had staple foods such as meat and vegetables, as well as fruits after meals, they also pursued taste.
If it was just Qin, they could still solve it. Qin had been through a lot and remained unmoved, so it was too difficult for him to change his face. But this guy was obviously only in the differentiation stage, but he had strange abilities. What was his reason?
“I remember I came in to see Qin kill four, but… never mind, it’s not bad now.”
As night fell, An Yinong took out the tent: “Let’s take a rest? I have a feeling that even if there is any movement, it will be in the dead of night.”
The tent was big enough to accommodate several people, but Qin shook his head and said, “I’ll keep watch.”
“Are you afraid of me? Or do you just dislike me?” An Yinong combed Fengchi’s hair from time to time, the firelight ignited his bright eyes, and Qin avoided his sight.
Qin could give a lot of reasons why he doesn’t like him, such as he had many enemies, he was dying, he doesn’t like him… But he couldn’t say all this, Qin couldn’t deceive himself.
“Is it because I’m a low-level Zerg?” An Yinong asked what he was hiding from, and he deliberately said things that people didn’t like.
“Zergs of different levels are assigned to different planets, and intermarry and interact with each other. Choosing a Zerg of a different level is betraying one’s own class. This is a matter of convention. Are you resisting because we are not compatible?”
Before Qin could say anything, An Yinong smiled and looked up at the stars in the sky.
He didn’t know if it’s because of the class contradictions among the Zerg that they talked about today, but he thought about the original owner’s experience and suddenly had a lot of feelings: “Sometimes I really feel that the Zerg has been evolving, but the Zerg society has been degenerating.”
“In the several ancient ruins I’ve visited before, the Zerg were divided into different levels and had different divisions of labor, but there was no difference in status or personality. However, in the current Zerg, people are divided into classes as soon as they appear.”
“If I am destined to be at the bottom and be enslaved for life, then what is the meaning of the continuation of the entire species to me?” An Yinong laughed softly, “I wonder every day and every minute, is it that the Zerg is on the road to extinction, so is there no queen?”
Qin was stunned, and so were the people in their live broadcast room. They stared at An Yinong who was looking up, and his laughter could be heard from under the sky. The live broadcast room was silent, and some of the lower-class audiences looked at that person, as if they saw their young selves who dared to question the world.
How many high-level Zerg ertr there? One in a hundred thousand, but this one in a hundred thousand enjoyed ninety-nine percent of the resources. Did they really have no resentment?
If they were really unmoved, how could they be addicted to a virtual world that did not require a level of certification? Only in the virtual world could they, the low-level Zerg, have the possibility of a counterattack.
“He’s so brave.” A voice suddenly popped up in Qin’s live broadcast room, “Maybe he will be retaliated by those high-level Zerg, but I think he’s so handsome, even more handsome than the emperor!”
After all, there weren’t many people in this world who dared to say to Qin in person, “I hate you High Zerg, and I hope the world will be destroyed.”
“Actually, I think so too, but I don’t dare to say it or show it.” The audience laughed, “That’s great, it turns out I’m not the only one who is different.”
“Too extreme. The shortest military service for the high Zerg is five years. From the time they differentiate at the age of eighteen, when they are released from military service, they are already twenty-three years old. How much life do they have left?”
“What about the other half who didn’t serve in the military? Why do they enjoy super-high national treatment? Why do they think they are superior to others? And those intermediate Zerg, why do they show off in front of us?”
“We Zerg are always on the front lines of war, suffering heavy casualties. Isn’t it too much to treat us well?”
A quarrel broke out in the live broadcast room because of An Yinong’s extreme remarks. In fact, this topic has been debated countless times, and no conclusion had been reached before, nor would it be reached in the future.
“Do you still think the same now?” Qin asked the first question after a long time.
“No.”
“No?”
“Just like you said, the conflicts between the different levels of Zerg are an unsolvable lock. Unless a miracle happens one day in the future and the low-level Zerg can exert their own strength and become an indispensable and irreplaceable member, otherwise, according to the Zerg’s warlike nature, the low-level Zerg will never have a chance to rise.”
“As a person who has suffered discrimination, I still hate the social system that oppresses me. I hate those high Zerg that do nothing, are greedy and incompetent but suck my blood. It’s just that you are different from all the high Zerg that I have met. So I don’t know.”
An Yinong stretched out his thumb and index finger, making a sign of “one”: “After meeting you, I like this world a little bit, one.”
This pair of eyes was so honest and bright that Qin, who had been avoiding them, felt ashamed: in the face of An Yinong’s straightforwardness, wasn’t what he thought was “considerateness” actually a kind of arrogance?
“You…” He opened his mouth, wanting to ask him if he cared about his short life, and if he cared about his bad and boring personality, but the ground began to shake slightly.
All the contestants sitting on this flat land looked at the shaking mountains: it had started.
WhiteMoon x BlackSun 