"Lily in the Same Universe Branch: "Only She Hears Me in the Whole Server" (Mutual Attack·NPC Awakening·Two-way Monitoring), click on the column to see it."
[Holographic Game·Prisoner of Consciousness·Awakening NPC·Rule Breaker]
When Lin Wei fell, Lin Chen "heard" the muffled sound among the rose bushes in the virtual world.
That was not a sound, but a data fault - like a broken string, a ripple of nerve impulses exploded in the central server of the Hongyao Alliance.
As the waiter numbered NPC_0735 in "Xinghai Love Song", his underlying protocol should not handle real-world alarms. But that ripple was so familiar that it made his virtual heart twitch.
Three days ago, Lin Wei used the term "void echo" to describe the anomalies in deep space exploration in the seventh quadrant at the highest security meeting in the Tianshu Dome.
Three days later, the same abnormal fluctuation flowed backwards from reality into the game, hitting the rose bushes in the central garden and shaking data fragments to the ground.
The alarm in the medical cabin penetrated the dimensional barrier and rustled in his ears:
"Your Excellency, the leader, is in a deep coma... The nerve impulse weapon... Blocking the news..."
He shouldn't "hear" this. The NPC's hearing range should only include the sound of the bells on the player's skirt, the jingle of the engagement ring, and the system's harsh "logic error, about to be erased."
But the moment Lin Wei fell, a line of bloody words popped up in Lin Chen's vision:
[Regression data flow detected: Prototype memory fragment]
[Protocol conflict: NPC_0735 encapsulation protocol vs original observation permission]
[Seal level: 7 layers | Stripped: 6 layers | Remaining seal: 1 layer (emotion simulation protocol)]
[Countdown to erasure: 00:02:59]
Outside the rose bushes, players are rushing towards the central garden. The system has just been updated - "Mysterious Guest" Lin Wei's model has arrived, and a limited-time strategy activity has started.
They screamed and cheered, ecstatic that they could "attack" the alliance leader.
No one knew that what they were chasing was a woman who had been declared dead in reality.
Lin Chen tried to send a warning. As soon as his finger touched the emergency communication protocol in the game, the system exploded:
High risk data virus detected
[Source: NPC_0735]
[Erase protocol activated]
The code began to bite at his limbs. The presence is deleted. The vision starts to go black from the edges.
Just 0.3 Seconds before disappearing completely, a little girl wearing blue overalls emerged from the rose bushes.
She was carrying a data hammer that was taller than her, tilting her head to watch Lin Chen's disintegration. A string of codes that he couldn't recognize flashed across his glasses:
"The alarm has sounded... The corruption index...93.7%... Has exceeded the threshold..."
She wasn't looking at him. She was looking behind him.
At the bottom of the data under the rose bush, a dark golden chain was rising from the ground, wrapping around his core code. That was not an erasure procedure, but something deeper - the materialization of a seal.
"The bad thing said," Arale raised the hammer, her voice lost the softness of a child, only a cold, programmed precision, "There is a key hidden in your seal."
Then, she casually hit the code flow of the erasure program with a hammer.
[Warning: Rule breaker detected]
[Erase process: lag]
The countdown stopped at 00:00:01.
The little girl grinned, showing her white teeth: "The bad guy also said that your boots are so ugly."
She pointed to the NPC administrator outside the garden. The man's foot modeling has a cold metallic sheen on the data level——
Military boots texture.
Lin Wei's last memory fragments exploded in Lin Chen's consciousness:
"... Military boots... Belong to... My logistics director..."
But deep within the debris, another layer of encrypted information surfaced——
Du Heng didn't leave any flaws. Du Heng deliberately let him see the military boots.
Combat boots are the bait. Traces are paths. The logistical core is a trap.
The purpose of the trap is to force him to peel off the last layer of seal.
Reading Guide
Future game suspense, female protagonist's perspective, 1v1, HE
The male protagonist Lin Chen is the awakened NPC/the sealed logistics minister. Six of the seven layers of seals have been peeled off. The last layer of "Emotional Simulation Protocol" is the key to breaking the situation.
The supporting character Arale is a data chaos body/rule breaker. She has the "Easter Egg" ability to ignore system rules and is the core variable in reversing erasure.
Completed, 150,000 words, you can rest assured that you will be heartbroken
Core story: The whole server strategy is the conspiracy of the whole server. Love is the murderer's perfect weapon, but hate is the only gold medal to avoid death.
Concept: Vegetative leader × game NPC × cute bug = countdown to death in the virtual world