Xia Xia didn't know how long she had slept, she had been having nightmares, and her dreams were all about what happened in the past few days.

Her name is Xia Shining and she is a fashion designer.

One night she was coming home from get off work and catching the last subway.

I heard that the subway, like many means of transportation, is also a product of the pre-disaster world.The subway is unique to urbanites, and the suburbs are violent.The disciples can only take the bus.

Xia Shining dreamed that she found a seat to sit down, and suddenly there was a commotion in front of the carriage.

Someone was screaming like there was some egg in here.

She didn't know they were talking about bombing until she heard a loud bang.bomb.

The explosion did not kill Xia Shining, but pulled her into a strange world

She became a new policewoman in the town, surrounded by a group of friendly police NPCs.

Her npc parents called to care about her body, and the npc sister said that she bought a dress and was going to give it to Xia Shining.

She also has a pet dog at home. Although she didn't see the photo, she heard the dog barking when she was on the phone with the npc family.

In addition to the warm and friendly npc, there are also several players in the town who are from her world just like her.

There is a person who claims to be an old player and is very friendly to her.

He took the initiative to chat with her in private, to help her answer her doubts, and comfort her that this is just a beginner's book, so don't be too scared.

The veteran player told her that the rules of the game are mutual trust and cooperation among players.

In order to dispel her doubts, he sent Xia Shining a screenshot.

The above is the system notification he received, which required him to explain the rules to the newcomers and help them get familiar with the game environment.

At the same time, people on nearby channels also spoke one after another.

The two players whose ID names are "My Life Oils Me" and "I Love Physics" chatted enthusiastically in the channel.

They even posted the content of their missions in the channel.It was also proposed to have dinner together offline for a while.

'I love physics' took the initiative to remind them, shared the abnormalities he found, and asked them to be more careful and pay attention to safety.

This makes the atmosphere among the players seem very good and harmonious.

Like other players, Xia Shining's wariness gradually faded as chat messages popped up.

In the end, she chose to integrate into this environment and discuss with them.

Xia Shining's parents died early, so she had nothing to worry about.

Here she has a decent job, a gentle family, friendly co-workers and maybe a cute puppy.

After the old player explained to her that the "mental abnormality" in the personal interface would not affect her, she even imagined that she would live in the town of heroes for the rest of her life.

Before long, everything changed.

Justice Execution begins and she is forced to kill a player.Another female player who had a private chat with her was skinned and disemboweled.

The police npc who smiled at her a few hours ago and taught her how to shoot escorted her to the pet breeding base.

The people there took a strange instrument to test her mental power level.

It is said that she has reached the B level and has been a policeman, so she can be trained as a police dog.

From here, the dream gradually becomes distorted.

Xia Shining was given anesthesia, but she could feel her skull being lifted off.

The screams and roars of monsters were all around, which sent chills down the spine.While transforming her, those people fiddled with her body like a commodity.

When Xia Shining regained consciousness, she was ordered to walk on her knees and lick food with her tongue.

In order to get rid of the fate of being enslaved, Xia Shining used her skills to kill several members of the base who wanted to shock her.

Then the dream became more bloody and cruel, and she didn't want to remember the experience of those few days.

But even so, she could still hear her screams in extreme pain.

At this moment, in the noisy dreamland, a man's voice suddenly sounded.

"Xia Xia? You can still catch up with dinner now. If you wake up in the middle of the night, you will find a way to solve it yourself."

The soft and magnetic male voice reached Xia Shining's ears.

In a trance, she seemed to be back when she was a child, she was playing in the yard, and her parents called her to come back for dinner.

Xia Shining's brain hadn't woken up from sleep, and her consciousness was fuzzy.

She barely opened her eyes, and vaguely saw a figure with a high ponytail standing in front of her.

long hair?

Is it mom?

Thinking of the terrible experience during this period, Xia Shining struggled to grab the man's clothes, and said in a crying voice, "Mom, I miss you so much."

Jiang Ying: ...

Which eye do you think I look like your mother?

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Because of that mother, Jiang Ying ignored Xia Shining during dinner.

He wasn't too angry, he was wondering if he should change his hairstyle.

Ever since he wore his long hair in a ponytail, he has often been misidentified as his gender.

Would it be better to change to short hair?

But he liked the way the ponytail swayed back and forth.

Xia Shining, who was still hugging his waist just now, crying and calling her mother, seemed to be a different person after fully waking up.

She sat at the corner of the dining table with a blank expression, quietly eating fried rice noodles.With those German shepherd ears and a pure black dress, she looks cool and aloof.

After looking at Xia Shining for a while, Jiang Ying's attention quickly shifted to Qin Huo.

Just before dinner, he changed a long wooden chopsticks into short chopsticks suitable for children.

Now the boy is eating noodles with miniature chopsticks.

Jiang Ying took a look and then looked away, Qin Huo quietly let out a sigh of relief.

When he was locked in the laboratory, he ate special nutrient solution every day.After leaving the laboratory, he only touched chopsticks two or three times.

He doesn't know how to use it, and he doesn't want others to see it.

Trying to eat a few mouthfuls of noodles with fried sauce, Qin Huo thought the taste was very novel, but Xiao La's cooking skills were obviously not as good as his friends.

Qin Huo turned his head and stared at Jiang Ying for a while, and couldn't help reaching out to touch the back of his hand.

This man is his.

After dinner, Jiang Ying didn't leave immediately.

He folded his hands and shook his head at Xia Shining, signaling her to stay and chat.

Seeing that the boss wanted to talk about business, Xiao La took the boss's son's arm and wanted to take him to play parent-child games.

Usually a very well-behaved child, now he is very disobedient.Two small hands grabbed Jiang Ying's clothes vigorously, refusing to get off him.

Jiang Ying hugged Qin Huo, and smiled at the bewildered tall man: "It's good for him to stay here, you've had a hard day, go and rest first. By the way, lock the doors and windows, turn off all the lights, and pretend to be at homeNo one, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow will be the same."

Xiao La complied, trying hard to look calm and calm, so as not to embarrass the boss in front of strangers.

But he still couldn't hold back, and asked in a low voice with unease: "Boss, you are so nervous, is it because the date of the hero selection has come earlier?"

Jiang Ying nodded, "How much do you know about hero selection?"

Xiao La's expression was obviously blank for a moment.

When he spoke again, there was an indelible fear in his voice.

"During the time in the pet breeding base, my memory was more or less messed up. Regarding the selection of heroes, I only vaguely remember a small part. But in those scattered memories, I saw a lot of bloody scenes."

According to Xiao La's description and her own speculation, Jiang Ying also has some understanding of what may happen in the next few days.

The annual hero selection is a small town tradition.

At that time, the town will have a townsman who is chosen as the hero of the town.

He will become the most beloved person in the town, his photo will be printed in textbooks, and even the statue on the central square will be replaced with his image.

At the same time, that townsman will get absolute power, he can do whatever he wants in the town without any punishment.

There will also be reporters from big cities who will interview him and let him appear in national newspapers.

If you are lucky, you may become the new mayor directly, or get the opportunity to travel around the world.

Jiang Ying frowned slightly.

Becoming the mayor can make all the npcs in the town obey his orders, and there will be no danger of life in the town.

To get the chance to travel the world is to have a safe way out of town.

Even if the luck is not so good, just being able to act recklessly in the small town is enough to make people excited.

He can break into the police station unscrupulously, take a gun and take documents.

With the power to enter the mayor's room at will, the success rate of killing old players and snatching strong spirit potions will be greatly improved.

Jiang Ying's heart skipped a beat for a moment, but she soon woke up again.

He still remembered the reminder from the SSS-level boss, that the boss had saved him so many times, it was impossible to harm him in this matter.

Since he would clearly tell Jiang Ying not to go out during the hero selection these days, there must be a reason for him.

At the same time, Jiang Ying was still wondering about one thing.

On the first day of entering the game, he watched the justice execution ceremony.

He had observed the statue specially at that time, and he remembered that the facial features of the statue were blurred.

And after staying in the town for several days, he had never seen or heard anyone mention it, the previous hero of the town.

He asked Xiao La if he had any impression of that hero.

Xiao La couldn't remember many things clearly, and couldn't explain them clearly.

Jiang Ying felt that something was wrong.

The hero selection is like an attractive apple, which attracts him to fight for it, but it is probably a poisonous apple.

Jiang Ying decided to give up participating in the hero selection, and then find other ways to leave the town.

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According to Xiao La, there is only one criterion for selecting heroes, doing good deeds.

The more good you do, the more likely you are to be chosen as a hero.

As for who the voters were, Xiao La didn't know, nor did the other townspeople.

After the selection, the mayor will announce the selection results.

No one in town would object, they would just think they weren't picked because they didn't do enough good things.

This seems to be guiding the townspeople to do good deeds and promoting harmony in the town.In fact, it made the already unstable town even more chaotic.

The townspeople are a bunch of lunatics, and their definition of 'doing good' is particularly distorted.

In order to be selected as a hero, the residents will collectively go crazy in the days leading up to the hero selection.

Randomly grab passers-by on the street, cut them to half-dead, and then bandage and treat them.

Wait until people are out of danger, stab them again and save them, until they are tortured to death.

Other townspeople who are weak and unable to beat others will run out and set fires.

Block the exit of the fire scene, drag out those who are about to escape from the fire scene, and push them back.

Like a card bug.

If they really can't find a suitable unlucky egg brushing experience, they will think of other simpler and sicker methods.

The townspeople will find their neighbors and let him abuse their families.Pick up a time for yourself to come out and stop the neighbors from being violent.

Then his identity was reversed, he was a violent family member, and the neighbors came out to stop him,

Cooperate in pairs and score points with each other.

Jiang Ying's eyes straightened.

He hummed blankly, not knowing what to say for a while.

After a long silence, Jiang Ying spoke hesitantly: "The town is in such a mess, can't the people from the pet breeding base come to manage it?"

Xiao La asked puzzledly: "Why do they care? These things have something to do with them?"

Just as Jiang Ying was about to speak, Xia Shining, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "Of course they don't care, they made the selection of heroes."

When Jiang Ying heard this, she narrowed her eyes and looked at her: "What do you know?"

Xia Shining's face was still indifferent and calm, but he unconsciously clenched his hand on the table tightly.

"During the time I was locked up in the pet breeding base, I vaguely heard the conversations of those members of the base. They said that long-term injection of strong psychotropic drugs would make people's memory confusing, and there is no way to really get rid of the curse in this world."

Hearing her words, Jiang Ying subconsciously glanced at Xiao La.

Xia Shining lowered her head and looked at the table, "Those members are afraid of curses, but they don't hate curses. I have vaguely heard their voices talking. They think that curses are another form of survival of the fittest, and they are promoting human evolution."

"Those who cannot resist the curse will be eliminated naturally, and those who survived this catastrophe will become 'superhumans'. The curse cannot affect superhumans, but instead becomes a weapon they can use."

Jiang Ying tapped the table with her finger, her brows were furrowed together: "So the existence of Hero Town and Pet Breeding Base is not to imprison the 'Cursed Mental Abnormality-Statue'"

A trace of bewilderment flashed across Xia Shining's face.

She hadn't read the old newspapers, didn't know the full name of the curse, only that there was a curse in the town.

After thinking for a while, she nodded and shook her head again, "I don't know what the original purpose of establishing the hero town and breeding base is, but now there is only one meaning for the existence of this place."

"Use the townspeople to conduct experiments to produce machines or medicines that can control people's thoughts. Continuously conduct human experiments and mechanical transformations to produce monsters that will never die, and various semi-mechanical objects."

"When the time is right, put them into the battlefield and win an overwhelming victory. Those who lock the curse want to use the curse to become the new master of the world."