Chapter 1414: 467. Fragile, Gude_2
In the darkness, the three of them received the same sudden task:
[Task Name] Help GM Test BUG
[Task Description] The GM teleported you into a special BUG testing space. Here, you will explore a high-difficulty copy that has not yet been opened to players.
Death during the exploration of the copy is considered as normal death, and experience will be deducted.
When your level drops to zero, the task ends.
[Task Reward] Rewards are settled according to your progress in exploring the copy
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This task puzzled Cucumber Slice.
The NPC issuing the task signed off as “GM,” instead of a full-named NPC.
Seeing that the publisher of the task was “GM,” the Winter Melon and Kelp brothers were overjoyed, thinking they had been chosen by the GM, who forcibly took them to this place where the ground resembled crystal to participate in the BUG testing.
But Cucumber Slice had his own speculations.
He felt that the GM who issued the task was not the real GM.
He had encountered the real GM before and had communicated with them.
He knew very well that if the GM wanted to invite a player like him to help test bugs, they would definitely not teleport players into the BUG testing space.
Not to mention asking politely for help, they would at least send an invitation letter or something in advance to seek players’ opinions, right?
To teleport players to the BUG testing space outright without so much as a word and to disable the players’ logout function was absolutely problematic, and not a minor problem at that.
In the depths of his mind, Cucumber Slice had a premonition.
They were not just players invited to test bugs but a group of unlucky ones kidnapped by a rogue AI.
As a senior player who had interacted with the real GM, Cucumber Slice had reason to believe that the events happening to them were most likely designed by a rogue AI.
As for what this unruly AI intended to do and why it pretended to be the GM to issue tasks to them and others, Cucumber Slice was somewhat unclear.
The best plan Cucumber Slice could think of was to establish contact with the GM impersonating the Black Hole Magic Academy as soon as possible.
He called up his friends list and scrolled through it.
Other than the icons of Winter Melon and Kelp, which were lit up, all the others were offline.
After silently invoking the GM’s great name in his mind, Cucumber Slice still didn’t receive any response.
At this moment, he could only sigh lightly, hoping that the real GM would quickly appear and rescue them.
Looking up through the truck window, Cucumber Slice noticed the Dragon People Team following behind the trucks.
Comparing their appearance with his memories, Cucumber Slice couldn’t find a match, clearly indicating they were a unique species not yet officially introduced in the game.
Looking at the vast expanse of the Crystal Ground, Cucumber Slice couldn’t help but mentally exclaim:
Testing spaces are indeed roughly and crudely constructed.
Look at this modeling, look at this spatial architecture; besides the barren crystal ground and the stone ceiling lit by oil lamps, this place is as crude as it gets, with the primary focus being just on functionality.
He truly didn’t expect to see such a testing space that seemed like something from the last century, now when intelligence fully managed the game’s opening and testing.
“Screech—”
A long screeching of brakes interrupted Cucumber Slice’s thoughts.
The vehicle slightly shook, and the players’ bodies swayed back and forth with inertia.
Outside, the Dead Steel Legion Soldiers opened the rear doors of the trucks, and with cold gazes and mechanical gestures, commanded the players to disembark.
Cucumber Slice’s hands were handcuffed and his feet were shackled, making it difficult for him to move as he followed the group down. noveldrama
The 15 players were brought to stand in a line next to a bizarre Rainbow Cave, including Cucumber Slice.
Curious about the Rainbow Cave, Winter Melon and Kelp couldn’t help but turn their heads to examine it.
Cucumber Slice’s expression grew slightly tense, feeling a bad premonition.
The-speaking, but clearly repressed Metallic Skeleton Soldiers came forward, unlocked the shackles from Cucumber Slice, and then fiercely pushed his chest.
An overwhelming force erupted from his chest, causing Cucumber Slice to stagger backward a few steps, then suddenly the ground beneath him gave way, and he toppled backward into the Rainbow Cave.
Cucumber Slice was shocked.
Shouldn’t they say something about precautions before testing bugs?
Why did they push people into the Rainbow Cave right after disembarking?
Could it be that this Rainbow Cave was the high-difficulty copy for BUG testing?
As Cucumber Slice’s thoughts raced, he saw Winter Melon, Kelp, and the other 12 players huddled together, also being pushed into the Rainbow Cave like himself.
One by one, they plummeted down the vertically structured channel filled with multicolored luminous mist and fog.
Their mouths were open in shouts, their hands waving in the air, but they couldn’t make any sound, as if there was no medium to carry it.
As the entrance above narrowed to a tiny circle, the surrounding multicolored fog suddenly brightened.
A piercing light invaded their eyes, and Cucumber Slice instinctively shut his tightly, only reopening them once the light had dimmed.
The scene before Cucumber Slice left him utterly dumbfounded, frozen like a wax statue.
This was cosmic space beyond ordinary imagination.
Here, planets were strung together like glass beads by silvery white threads, with streams of light passing swiftly along these strings connecting all the planets, resembling speeding vehicles on a highway.
Still not recovered from the shock, Cucumber Slice was compelled to follow the flash on the silvery white threads, rapidly shuttling between the planets at warp speed.