Monsters Will Die if They Are Killed

July 1, 2018, 8:12 am.

Zhengguo, Hongzhou, Hongcheng.

Shao family mansion, second floor.

"Hmm, I played games all day again today, I'm a little tired -"

In the room where the exorcism power has reached 1695, which is enough to instantly kill low-level demons and even medium-level evil spirits, a long-lasting voice of a girl who sounds not tired at all, but even full of energy comes from the room: "Well everyone, good night and sweet dreams... ah no , it’s good morning!”

"It's off the air, it's off the air~"

On the table, on the curved screen surrounding the girl, a few scattered barrages came out, full of thankful tones.

【Little Ancestor, you are finally done!】

[46 consecutive hours of high-intensity live streaming of the game, I was tortured to death——]

[Open mouth and eyes closed dementia JPG]

【Tianshuangjiang...my superman! 】

In other people's fantasies, a girl's room should not be said to be warm or pink, but at least it should be bright tones, fresh smell, neat furnishings, and cute little decorations.

Overall, it gives a nice feeling.

But for some ultra-hardcore gamers, the overall color is black and red, with the smell of model paint, and there are a large number of various peripherals and cabinets everywhere, and the tables and walls are filled with huge and ferocious monsters. Room for models and molded swords...

Such a distant and intimidating room...

That's the real Cool!

Especially in the recent period, as a gift for successfully entering one of the three first-class training academies after the Holy Examination, the girl’s brother gave her a pot of spiritual plants that are said to freshen the air, and her good eldest brother gave her a A rather strange-looking white scale pendant.

The two things were placed casually on the table and placed towards the bedside table. Chaos energy... no, exorcism was overflowing, and the Shao family mansion was immune to all evil spirits.

If a professional comes to observe, he will definitely be able to detect from a few miles away that a large house in the distance is glowing with an obvious meaning of warding off all evils.

In addition, especially the swords hanging on the walls of the room, because they are contaminated by some strange auras, they may have the ability to kill ghosts and evil spirits to a certain extent.

Of course, Shao Shuangyue didn't know any of these things.

"Ah - should I go to bed?"

That being said, it was obvious that even though Shao Shuangyue had been broadcasting for forty-six consecutive hours and had put most of the audience to sleep, she was still not tired at all.

The beautiful black-haired girl, who was still full of energy, picked up her phone and murmured in a low voice: "Check the video for a while and check out the Weibo updates!"

In today's era, people's average sleep time is getting less and less.

After all, it is really easy for a monk to stay up late.

But for practitioners at the awakening level, with a little bit of maturity, staying up all night is not a big deal, but for practitioners at the extraordinary level, sleep itself can be replaced by other means, or even no sleep is needed at all.

Therefore, in a society where all people practice spiritual practice, many changes have taken place in people's life rhythms.

The suddenly extra free time, in addition to being used for practice, also has a lot of extra time. During this time, a small number of people may choose to use it to strengthen their professional standards, while most people will choose to have entertainment, such as Let’s take a look at the various variety and competition programs that are becoming increasingly popular and exciting, or other forms of entertainment.

Shao Shuangyue's choice is different from that of ordinary people.

She chose to be a virtual game anchor, not only to entertain herself, but also to bring "laughter" to everyone.

[Game Talk Category, Virtual Anchor ‘Tian Shuang’]

This is Shao Shuangyue's current identity after his debut.

Seven days after debut, the number of fans has exceeded 5,000. The previous high-intensity and long-lasting live broadcast was just to celebrate the number of fans.

On the curved screen, there is a two-dimensional avatar girl with white hair and wolf ears, who is moving according to Shao Shuangyue's movements.

In fact, Shao Shuangyue is not a true newcomer.

Before debuting as an avatar, she was a relatively famous game video host. However, due to age and academic issues, she had never broadcast live.

After opening a new account for live broadcast, Shao Shuangyue also diverted traffic to the old group several times.

The effect of the live broadcast is actually quite interesting.

At first, Shao Shuangyue’s old fans rushed to laugh after hearing the news - most of them didn’t know, nor did they think that a straight man who often showed off war flags and chess pieces, decorated swords, played hardcore DEADGAME, and made various comments Comments, even the guy typing on the public screen during blackout is a girl.

They thought Shao Shuangyue was just using a voice changer to trick new fans, so they rushed over to watch.

At the beginning, the attitude of these old fans was still "Hahaha, look at this Tianshuang, she pretends to be a girl!" "The voice changer is good. Where can I buy it? Give me one too!"

Then "Tian Shuang's game technology has improved a bit fast. Is it a breakthrough in cultivation? This reaction speed is very unusual..." "Why does this speaking voice feel more like a female voice than 'male to female'?" Speaking with a male accent...doesn’t it look like a voice changer?”

Then, "The voice is kind of nice, damn, this woman's accent when she plays games and trolls is so cool!" "I love the bad-mouthed anchor!"

Finally: "Am I being brain-controlled? Why do I feel like this guy is getting cuter and cuter?" "Good frost, I am a fan. Bad guy, I will kill him!"

Until now, "I have been recommending Tianshuang Jiang since I was born!"

All in all, that's pretty much it.

Being a game anchor is actually a dream that a girl who is a hardcore gamer has had for a long time.

The vertical painting and Live2d image have been prepared for a long time. Just waiting for the Holy Examination, after the girl confirmed that she was admitted to the target academy, she began to officially make her debut.

This choice is indeed quite unacceptable to ordinary families.

But the Shao family didn't care about this - their parents, other familiar elders, and even the two brothers all agreed with it.

"As long as it doesn't affect the pace of life, you can do whatever you want."

"As long as you are in good health, your cultivation level is not bad. Don't forget this. Even if you are pursuing your dreams, you must have a good body."

In a sense, being born in such a family and having such tolerant and understanding relatives, elders and brothers is the happiest thing for a person.

What's more, pursuing your dream itself is a happy thing.

However, for Shao Shuangyue now...she found that the life of a game anchor that she had been looking forward to a few years ago was not as interesting as she imagined.

In other words, I didn't have the 'fresh' and 'exciting' mood that I thought I would have.

This feeling confused her.

Are you worried about the future?

Or is the game not fun?

Or are you treating your hobbies as your life, so that your mood has deteriorated a little?

In fact, it is neither.

——Worried about the future?

It can be said that on the entire earth, Shao Shuangyue is probably the group of people who least need to worry about the future. Everything she has, whether it is family background or connections, is among the best in the world. Even if she wants to develop into the extraordinary field in the future, as long as she wants to and is willing to work hard, Shao Shuangyue can get the full support of the number one person on earth.

There is no better opening of a Mary Sue novel than this. It is just purely hypocritical to worry about the future.

——The game is not fun?

How can it be! The game is so fun!

Apart from anything else, 11bit, the company that produced the game [Elemental Age], recently released a new game [Age of Gods], which is an extremely fun game. This game is themed on simulating gods and includes: It is a comprehensive simulation management game that designs doctrines, trains priests, cultivates civilization, maintains the order and stability of the kingdom's civilization, and suppresses betrayers and hostile civilizations and gods. It is simply addictive.

Shao Shuangyue just broadcast the game continuously for 46 hours. He has just completed most of the main plot, and is now preparing to deal with the big event at the end of the game [Rebellion of the Seas] - if this game can be called not fun, then I am afraid that the world will There are no fun games anymore.

——Feeling bored and spoiled?

Do not make jokes! If you are really bored, no one can play continuously for such a long time. If possible, Shao Shuangyue really wants to spend a lifetime with the game!

So what else?

Could it be that the test scores were not satisfactory?

This is even more impossible.

Shao Shuangyue's Holy Examination results were 135 points in Chinese, 140 points in mathematics, 274 points in investigating objects, and 128 points in other matters.

The total score is 677 points.

In addition, the evaluation of the extraordinary department is also an 'A' talent. She is far beyond the key line and was directly selected by the three major first-class academies.

By then, even if she has no special achievements, as long as she graduates, she will be an outstanding talent that is eagerly sought by major paranormal departments or companies around the world.

On the day they learned the news, the Shao family and the Su family all gathered together to celebrate. Even Su Zhou, who was attending the mid-year committee of the Zhengguo Kingdom in Tiandu, took a few minutes to come from Tiandu to celebrate - of course, then there was another He flew back, it didn't take him more than a few minutes to fly back and forth anyway - and gave him a gift.

But I don’t know why, it’s obviously such a good result, such good conditions, good enough for people to just wait for death and live a happy life on these conditions... But Shao Shuangyue always feels that there is An illusory feeling.

Whether it’s the improvement of game skills due to the improvement of cultivation level, or the excellent anchor job, or even the good results in the Holy Examination, which should have been extremely exciting, all seem to be illusory. Like a dream.

It's just, it's like...she doesn't belong to these. It does not belong to these happiness and joy.

In the occasional short sleep, the girl always dreams of some illusory pictures - about other worlds, about silver light, about the longing horizons leading to unknown places...

The pictures in those dreams are actually not very pleasant.

Being chased by all kinds of monsters, forced to hide in the mud of dirty ponds...

Threatened by powerful and terrifying enemies, I can only hide my name and live in the mountains and wilderness...

The majestic steam city, the unpredictable God of Machinery, the strange mythical monsters, the sun ship speeding among the stars...

【pain】

Compared with the happy life here on earth, the pictures in the dream are simply frightening. They can be called nightmares. Just thinking about it can already make you feel the pain of hallucinations.

【Torture】

Whether it was blood, killing, escape, stinking mud, or monsters, gods, mobile cities made of otherworldly technologies that were impossible to see on earth, these were things Shao Shuangyue had never seen or experienced before. Terrible or majestic things, contact with them, the first experience, must be torture for a delicate girl who has just grown up.

[But... I'm not disgusted. 】

But, I don't know why.

Every time Shao Shuangyue wakes up, she feels that that is the life she should really live.

Some should be a little harder, a little more difficult, a little more frightening, and a little more...

A little novel, day.

But Shao Shuangyue couldn't even say these.

Because it would be too pretentious to say it.

Obviously, we are living such a happy and carefree life now, but we still don't like it and want to live a more difficult, bumpy and homeless life.

Such an idea is not only strange, it is simply incomprehensible and completely incompatible with normal people.

Even if he is called a monster because of this, it is not surprising at all.

"Hey, the world is changing so fast!"

At this moment, lying on the bed, Shao Shuangyue looked at various news on his mobile phone, and then he couldn't help frowning and sighed: "New space plan, Jupiter spaceport... these things, if you put them before, even science fiction would not dare to Talking about these settings frivolously!”

"There is also the United International's 'strengthening cooperation between countries, mutual consensus and win-win, and strengthening the stable development trend of the global region' - in the past two months, they were secretly messing with each other. This warning and that warning. Why did Brother Zhou go out for a round of interviews? , is it the same as asking for the Earth Alliance?

Although there was a hint of ridicule in his tone, in fact, after watching these news, the emotion in Shao Shuangyue's heart was simply more...expectation than when he played the game before.

——Such an unpredictable future is always more hopeful than the calm days of the past, isn’t it?

Holding her cell phone tightly, the girl turned her head and looked at the posters hanging aside.

[Tianchi Realm Exploration Competition]

[Qingqiu Territory Construction Competition]

[Jiuyou Realm Exploration Competition (limited to players of extraordinary level and above)]

This series of exploration competitions is news that Shao Shuangyue is particularly concerned about recently.

Although, according to Shao Qiming, who specializes in hosting this aspect, these variety shows and competitions are essentially just to encourage people's desire to explore. In fact, they will not actually explore unknown areas that are not officially known to the authorities. In other words, Everything is just a show, even if there is danger, it is just a show effect.

If you want to really explore new and unknown areas, you still have to join the 'New World Exploration Department'.

However, just the fact that she was exploring the unknown in name only made her feel a little excited.

It even has nothing to do with the extremely generous rewards, such as the inheritance of immortals, high-level spiritual materials, etc. Shao Shuangyue is simply looking forward to the environment there that is very different from his hometown and the human world.

She is simply looking forward to those unknown worlds that are more real and more exciting than the world in the game.

Put down your phone and stop reading Weibo.

The black-haired girl no longer looked at the posters exploring competition.

She closed her eyes and lost herself in thought.

Games – She does still love games.

Shao Shuangyue has no intention of becoming a current investor. Even if she has made an appointment with her friend Qing Yinghua to participate in the National Academy Student Comprehensive Competition at the end of this year, it is just a group chat among game friends to keep warm.

She didn't plan to get any ranking, she was just invited, so she gave it a try.

And whether it's 'Age of Gods', 'Dark Wolf: Conquest of the Divine Tree' or 'War of Wishes', they are all excellent new games released recently, enough to make people play through them several times and play for a year or two.

But recently, a certain desire in her heart has become increasingly difficult to be satisfied by games.

"This world is changing very quickly."

“And it keeps getting more and more exciting.”

Covering his eyes with his left arm, Shao Shuangyue murmured to himself: "I also have power - I have already broken through the extraordinary level and become one of the very few people with the highest cultivation level in the world. Brother and Brother Zhou They really treat me very, very well, and my conditions are probably better than those of the heirs of those powerful leaders, right?"

"But, even so, I still have to live an ordinary life - go to school, socialize, practice, have fun, eat, sleep. Even if I work in the future, it will just be changing school to work, and my life will not be the same Any changes.”

"No matter how good your life is, it is nothing more than strengthening the means of entertainment on this basis... repeating the exact same life."

Shao Shuangyue knows very well that such ordinary days are what most people can't hope for, and it is also what countless people who are in turmoil and twists and turns want to live life most in their hearts.

Ordinary daily life, everyone likes it.

Just like there is a saying in the West, 'May you live in interesting times - I wish you live in an interesting era'.

This sentence is essentially some kind of curse, or a secret mockery. Its original meaning is a desire for ordinaryness and peace.

Because interesting times mean turmoil, instability, and the ups and downs of everyone’s destiny—that’s why it’s ‘interesting’.

A wonderful life is, in a sense, a curse, which means that a person cannot live in peace and rest, and can only keep moving forward, towards the unpredictable dark distance.

People may hope for a ‘good life’, but ‘wonderful’ may not.

It's just... there will always be some fools who like a wonderful life.

"I don't want to spend my life like this... When it comes to spiritual practice, I can't possibly surpass my brother and Brother Zhou in this life; when it comes to business, I don't know whether it's my turn or my inheritance. I don't know anything about it."

"It's impossible to be as good as my two elder brothers when it comes to studying and doing extraordinary studies with peace of mind. I'm just a learner at most, but they are already able to participate in the creation of new cultivation methods, and they are even the creators of immortal-level cultivation methods. .”

"Although this kind of life is beautiful and can be called perfect, but at a glance, I can even see the end of life, which I really can't accept."

The girl with long black hair had ups and downs in her heart. Her chest rose and fell, then she sighed longly, raised her hand, and picked up the phone again.

Shao Shuangyue glanced at the news above and couldn't help but murmur to herself: "But then again, the world is changing too fast."

[The well-known spiritual martial arts transcendent, Guan Wanjing, a member of Ruian Martial Arts School, announced on June 21 that he would cooperate with Feng Qiang, also a member of Ruian Martial Arts School, to form a "trial boxing combination". Now ten days have passed, and the two The author has challenged three official martial arts schools, with 16 martial arts masters, and all of them have been declared successful!

"They are not weak either." Player Guan Wanjing said in an interview: "It is precisely because they are not weak that they cannot stop. I hope they recover soon."

The trial boxing combination has already begun to show off, and the two people who have already qualified for the preliminaries announced that they will continue to challenge all the way before the official competition of the 'National Comprehensive Martial Arts Conference' begins! 】

[On June 25, a micro-earthquake occurred in Winterport City, Russia. According to relevant media speculation, this should be the result of the local strongman 'Ice Prison' Dmitry living in Winterport and an anonymous challenger. Caused by fighting. Although the Russian government did not release any news, in the photos that were circulated later, the slightly tilted houses on the edge of Winter Harbor proved the authenticity of this news.

Because comprehensive sports are held globally, in order to become more famous and popular before participating in the challenge, more and more contestants choose to challenge the already well-known strong players before starting the pre-selection to quickly gain popularity.

Although there is currently no news of any well-known strong man being defeated by a challenger, this day should not be too far away. 】

[On June 29, the American Federation’s ‘Hongshen Group’ had direct contact with Zhengguo’s ‘Zhuzhao Group’, and the two parties conducted relevant exchanges and discussions on the ‘Global Practitioner Extreme Record Fund’.

Crossel Erdman, representative of the Rainbow Snake Group, director of the American Federation NW Foundation and grandson of the old Erdman, said that the 'Global Practitioner Extreme Record' is intended to explore the relevant issues at different levels. The authoritative certification body for practitioners' extreme records, they will cooperate with global officials to explore the limits of human practitioners' continuous updating and strengthening.

"We intend to innovate." In an interview, Mr. Crosell said seriously: "It is not about fighting for victory, but about moving forward and opening up. It doesn't matter who you beat, what is important is to break a new record. Be better than before – we will offer bonuses to record breakers, provided they are tested at one of our official testing stations.”

"What aspect? Any aspect. Running speed, diving depth, strength, spiritual power, the range of destructive power of moves, the degree of concentration of power, the speed of thinking... everything is within our detection range. We want to record human beings limit, and watch humans innovate their upper limit step by step.\