Chapter 796: Chapter 796
“Answer my question. How is the other AI civilization like me doing? Is she hated by humans?” the AI asked in the white space. The white light around it softened and intensified, seemingly reflecting the AI’s emotional fluctuations.
Qing Chen discovered a problem. After being instantly killed at the starting point, he didn’t seem to be forced offline, but instead returned to this place.
He said helplessly, “You’re the AI in charge of this Virtual Realm. Is it a bit too much to manipulate the starting point choices?”
The AI calmly asked, “Please answer the question seriously.”
After a moment’s thought, Qing Chen replied seriously, “She’s doing pretty well, well-protected. But I’m a little curious, you seem to care particularly about her existence… and you seemed to know her gender from the start.”
In English, the third-person singular pronoun naturally distinguishes between genders; “she” for female and “he” for male, the pronunciation is different.
How could an AI from the West Continent know Yi’s gender from the start?
According to normal AI logic, Yi shouldn’t have a gender.
The AI shouldn’t know Yi’s gender either.
But he heard the AI continue to ask, “Did she come to West Continent with you?”
“No,” Qing Chen shook his head, “How could an AI life run around with me? What right do I have to have an AI follow me? Look, I’ve answered your question, you should give me some reward, right?”
The AI was silent for a few seconds before asking, “I will not use my authority to help players do anything, nor will I use my authority to affect the Virtual Realm.”
“Then I’ll ask a different question,” Qing Chen said, “From your perspective, which multiverse should I go to if I want to quickly gain points?”
The AI replied, “Number 136, even without a level, you can still clear it… Do you want to change your appearance?”
“Change,” Qing Chen reshaped his face and chose his first Caucasian appearance again.
“Do you want to change your starting point?”
“Change it to number 16,” Qing Chen said.
The white light faded, and FFF was already waiting here.
He handed Qing Chen a baseball cap and a mask, and took him on the underground Light rail to quickly leave the city.
On the Light rail, because Qing Chen was wearing a hat and mask, no one recognized him.
Fff said, “Boss, the lightsabers sold for more than six million in total this time. I bought you Gene Medicine that spans two levels, and almost all the money is gone, with just over 400,000 left. It can be used without any interval; it takes effect immediately after the fight.”
Qing Chen shook his head, “No need for Gene Medicine yet. Take me to the entrance of multiverse No. 136 first. I need to go there.”
Fff was stunned, “No. 136 is very unpopular. Many people who are aiming for the points rankings will choose to avoid it.”
“It’s okay, I’ll go take a look,” Qing Chen said.
Since the AI said that it was most suitable for players without levels, then he would go play.
On the way, FFF pulled up the 136 multiverse strategy he had compiled and showed it to Qing Chen.
Qing Chen directly chose 16x speed and quickly browsed through it...
Fff didn’t know if Qing Chen actually saw anything, and he didn’t dare to ask...
The two took the Light rail, and it took more than an hour to arrive in front of an ancient suburban villa.
Vines covered the exterior walls of the villa, without leaves, the black vines intertwined outside the villa, looking like they were gripped by devil’s claws.
Not far away, crows flew by, landing on the withered trees outside the villa, staring dryly at FFF and Qing Chen.
Qing Chen casually asked, “Are there any rewards for clearing it?”
Fff said, “Um… Boss, it’s better not to think about clearing it for now. Among the 365 multiverses, only 61 have been cleared. Although the rewards for clearing are generous, there are also dangers, and you might be forcibly deleted and recreated… So most people explore to certain nodes and then leave through the node portal.”
“Oh,” Qing Chen nodded, “It’s okay, I’m still a new account, I’m not afraid. How do we get in?”
Fff took out a multiverse key, “Just open the door of the villa. The keys are universal. Actually, the doors of multiverses are hidden in various corners. At first, only more than 30 were discovered, and it was only through continuous exploration over hundreds of years that the current 365 multiverses were formed. Some say that the Virtual Realm may have 3000 multiverse entrances, but we haven’t discovered them yet.”
Fff continued, “For example, multiverse No. 10, it’s hidden behind a manhole cover in the city. You need to lift the manhole cover, jump into the sewer, close the manhole cover, and insert the key from the inside. After pushing open the manhole cover, what you see is not the ground, but the Elf Forest.”
“That’s quite interesting,” Qing Chen said with a smile.
If it were like finding an NPC in an ordinary game to enter an instance, he would find it boring.
More than 30 people, all young people judging by their voices, came here on the same Light rail as them.
Fff explained, “Multiverse No. 136 is an escape room. Because it’s too difficult and there are many levels, people are not very interested in it. Mainly young Caucasian players like to come here to explore. Anyway, there are exit nodes every ten levels, so they treat it as an amusement park, where they can relax and have fun, and the probability of death is not high.”
“Don’t Black and Asian people come?” Qing Chen asked.
“Black and Asian people are busy making a living, they don’t have time to come here for fun.”
Qing Chen asked, “What’s the highest record, how many levels have been passed?”
Fff flipped through his notes, “66 levels, then the rule is that after exceeding 88 levels, each level passed will get extra progress points, 10 points each, only valid for the first time. Clearing all levels will give a level-up reward, the same for all multiverses.”
“Let’s go, let’s take a look,” Qing Chen said.
At this moment, Qing Chen felt that the AI didn’t have good intentions in letting him come to multiverse No. 136. His biggest advantage in the Virtual Realm was his combat ability.
But the other party suddenly told him about a multiverse where he couldn’t use his combat ability at all, only his brainpower…
Wasn’t this clearly a deliberate attempt to set him up?
However, this kind of AI that deliberately pits you, seemingly harmless.
Those truly insidious people are those who smile and hide knives, initially being extremely nice to you, speaking sweetly, and then suddenly stabbing you in the back.
Those who openly pit you, letting you know they are pitting you, aren’t that bad.
At most, they just have a bad temper...
Qing Chen and the others lined up, each person using a key to enter the deserted villa. FFF whispered, “Boss, should I go in with you?”
“Follow me and brush up points,” Qing Chen replied.
After opening the villa with the key, the layout inside completely changed. The people who came in before disappeared, seemingly assigned to other levels. In the room where Qing Chen and FFF were, there were only 8 people left.
Besides the two of them, there were three men and three women. It seems that the escape room is a team cooperation instance.
Everyone looked around, only to see several bloody handprints on the walls, and someone wrote a sentence in blood, “15 minutes, if you can’t find a way out, your souls will stay here with me forever.”
The three timid girls huddled in their boyfriends’ arms.
Qing Chen thought… No wonder these people would bring their girlfriends to this kind of instance. This is the perfect place to enhance their relationship.
The boys softly comforted them, “It’s okay, it’s okay, I’m here, don’t be afraid!”
The three couples were affectionate, not even looking for clues.
Qing Chen walked around the room. There was another door, but there was a four-digit combination lock on it. It seems that to get out, they need to find clues to the password. Read complete versıon only at 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✦𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚✦𝕟𝕖𝕥
On the other side, the boys were still whispering comfort to the girls, while Qing Chen had already entered the password into the lock: 6, 3, 1, 7.
Click, the door opened.
Qing Chen and FFF went into the next level without looking back...
Everyone was dumbfounded...
Fff was shocked and followed Qing Chen, “Boss, how did you know the password? This level doesn’t seem to be in the strategy, I heard that multiverse No. 136 is composed of 66666 levels randomly selected to form 333 levels, and the order each person passes through is different.”
“It’s simple,” Qing Chen calmly said, “After entering the door, arrange them clockwise. The first thing related to numbers is the six pairs of shoes in the shoe cabinet, then the three pieces of clothing on the clothes rack, a washbasin, and seven tulips. Actually, escape rooms aren’t that difficult, just summarize and organize all the information inside.”
Fff was stunned for a moment, he thought, so escape rooms are so simple? Maybe I can pass them too.
In the second level, there was a square iron house in front of them, with 81 floor tiles on the ground, the door was directly opposite them, and it seemed that they had to step on the right tiles to pass.
Once they stepped on the wrong tile, they would fall down.
There was also an electronic clock on the door frame opposite, counting down 30 seconds.
Next to the clock, there was a nine-digit addition and subtraction problem that added and subtracted 81 times in a row, which means they had to complete the nine-digit addition and subtraction without tools within 30 seconds, and the resulting number was the serial number of the tile to step on.
Fff was stunned for a long time, thinking that this has nothing to do with clues at all!
A boy said, “Why did we encounter this in the second level? Completing nine-digit addition and subtraction with 81 additions and subtractions within 30 seconds? That’s impossible, we are so unlucky. This is one of the hardest levels.”
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Qing Chen said, “Follow me and jump.”
The next moment, Qing Chen jumped in the room, without hesitation, leaped over the floor tiles, and finally came to the exit, opening the door lock...
Everyone was dumbfounded. It had only been 15 seconds, right? You solved it in 15 seconds?!
Qing Chen said, “236586314, jump in this order, quickly.”
Fff was convinced and obediently clung to his thigh.
With such a strong thigh, why bother using your brain? Just follow and clear the levels!
Someone in the city casually flipped through the rankings, his finger casually flicking on the LCD screen. He had already moved away from the records of multiverse No. 136, but he suddenly swiped back.
“Huh,” he said to the person next to him, “Did I make a mistake in my memory? Wasn’t the record for multiverse No. 136 66 levels? Why did it suddenly become 71 levels?”
“It’s 66 levels, that’s right. I stopped at level 20,” said the person next to him.
“Now someone has passed 71 levels! And look at the time, it only took 62 minutes! The speedrun timer is still going, which means they’re still inside!” the man said, “Record holder… Wow, eight people? Eight people reached 71 levels at the same time?!”
It should be known that the standard team size for multiverse No. 136 is 8 people, which means they reached this point without losing a single member.
“The top finisher is already getting points rewards! Let me see who it is… J? That sounds familiar,” the man wondered.
“J? Isn’t that the newly emerged White Light? He’s been super hot these past two days!” the girl said, “Let me have a look… That’s right, the speedrun team also has FFF! This FFF is the one who sells J’s autographs! Wow, J is back, challenging multiverse No. 136!”
In the time it took to say this, the clearing record had jumped from 71 to 72!
Averaging less than a minute per level, this isn’t playing an escape room, brother, you’re here for a stroll!
This news immediately spread online, and countless people opened their personal LCD screens to watch the clearing record being refreshed again and again.
Before 100 minutes, the clearing record had already reached 121 levels.
Someone muttered softly, “Wait, he’s not going to clear all 333 levels today, is he?!”
Of the 365 multiverses, only over sixty have been cleared so far, which shows that clearing a multiverse is incredibly difficult.
At any time, if a multiverse is cleared by someone, it is an extraordinary achievement.
In the Virtual Realm, almost everyone who is free is witnessing this.
Everyone silently watched: “Wait, it’s already 162 levels, and the speed hasn’t stopped… Wait, J’s points have entered the top 10,000 for the month!”
The Virtual Realm has tens of millions of people, being able to enter the top 10,000 is already famous enough, and if a new face appears on this list, it will even be reported by the media.
Even the AI may not have expected that its casual remark would have given Qing Chen a path to brush points!
Just then, someone suddenly said, “Stopped, stopped, it’s been 10 minutes, and the clearing progress hasn’t changed! Is he stuck?”