When being enveloped by the white teleportation light, Su Mingan noticed something was wrong.

Usually when he is teleported, there will be a strange sense of flow surrounding him, and the frequency of this sense of flow is fixed and the direction is consistent.

But at this moment, he noticed a sense of inconsistency.

...This time around, the flow direction seems to be different.

Before he could feel it carefully, his vision went dark.

After the teleportation white light faded, he quickly opened his eyes,

Total darkness.

The place he was in was a pure dark space.

He lowered his head, and there was no real feeling of landing under his feet. He was floating in the void.

In the upper right corner, the live broadcast that was supposed to be on is now closed, and the barrage box is empty. There is not a single barrage that should be reporting the news.

The system time was still running. He glanced at it and saw that his time had not stopped.

However, when one is in this pitch-black space, people will feel a sense of isolation and fear, as if they are at the bottom of the sea where they cannot see any fingers.

He stood quietly in the void, saying nothing, and there was no intense expression change on his face, he was just waiting.

About ten seconds later, a pink light appeared in front of him.

Long ears, white fur, a giant body, noodle-like limbs, the white fur figure moved slightly, revealing a pair of blood-like eyes.

The boss rabbit with a blood-red scale carved on his chest appeared in front of him.

Su Mingan looked at it.

"Are we going to have a candlelight dinner here?" He looked around, but it was still pitch black and he couldn't see his fingers clearly: "Don't even turn on the lights."

Boss Rabbit opened his blood-red eyes, rolled his beautiful eyeballs, and gave him a "gentle" smile.

Such a gentle smile appeared on Boss Rabbit's funny face, which looked particularly abnormal.

"The eighth world, the world of peak competition." It spoke, and its voice had a mechanical texture. The tone was not as sinister as usual, but seemed mechanical and cold: "——The one in power, in this world, you shoulder the responsibility

Additional tasks."

Su Mingan's expression did not change.

He had already guessed that when he summoned himself to a space alone at the beginning of the game, he must have something else to say.

…Is the outcome the task of those in power?

In the past, I had received the tasks from the person in power directly through the system prompts. This time, I actually needed Boss Rabbit to issue it to him personally.

"In this world - you need to designate your own clone to replace an NPC in the eighth world. After replacing the NPC, your clone needs to temporarily act as an NPC, walk around the venues of this world, and observe the entire

The architecture of the world.”

Su Mingan was a little surprised when he heard this.

——In this world, he actually has two identities: [NPC and player] at the same time.

The main body participates in competitive matches as a player, and the avatar acts as an NPC and wanders around the venue to observe.

He remembered that the tasks of those in power in the past were to protect a certain NPC or to reach a certain place - to guide him through the most difficult plot route so that he could complete the most hidden plot clues.

But now, his mission as a leader seems to have reached a higher level.

...He was given the task of "observing the copy". It is similar to the task of a programmer who runs the program after it is written to fix bugs.

Walk around the venue, observe the dungeon, and dig out secrets to see if there are "bugs" in the world.

This is a higher level than the previous "player", similar to the task of a game observer.

"Am I... upgraded to a GM (game manager)?" Su Mingan said.

"It doesn't count." Boss Rabbit continued, his voice still cold: "Those in power, your avatar can only roam the venue as an NPC, responsible for observation and recording. It is not allowed to modify the rules of the game or interfere in the competition."

"Are you an outsider?" Su Mingan narrowed his eyes: "Ask, after the clone becomes an NPC, can it still be my help in combat?"

He has realized that if his clone becomes an NPC observing the world, how can he summon the clone to help him fight?

And...given the special nature of this task.

This clone skill looks even more suspicious.

After all, with the level of bugs it has, it doesn't look like something that can be fished out of the red-level skill pool. This is a skill that he was lucky enough to get at the E-level at the beginning.

But...if the clones' skills are different, it's difficult to explain logically.

Is it... that he became the person in power because he acquired the clone skill? Or is it because of his status as the person in power that he had this dual-line operation skill from the beginning? Or is the clone skill just an accident?

Is it really a good thing that he accidentally caught with E-level luck?

Boss Rabbit's eyes turned red.

It answered his question in a robotic tone:

"Answer. No." It said: "Since your clone skills cannot be used in the eighth world, for the sake of fairness, the game will provide you with additional benefits."

"What benefits?"

"Confidentiality."

"Isn't this bad?" Su Mingan spread his hands and said with a helpless tone: "As a person in power, in a world of hundreds of people competing, I will be suppressed like this. My most critical professional core skills have been disabled because I have become an NPC.

, and the benefits as compensation were not informed to me... For me, this start is too unfair. This can't help but make me a little sad..."

His emotions came as he spoke, and his tone was full of indignation at this "unfairness."

"No, our game." Boss Rabbit said calmly and interrupted him directly: "Absolutely fair."

...It's really a familiar answer.

Su Mingan calmed down his emotions slightly.

"For you, this compensation is equal to the cost of temporarily losing your clone skills. As long as you live, you will definitely feel it." Boss Rabbit added: "Moreover, you have not completely lost your clone skills, you will still have the right skills."

After the clone completely completes the inspection mission of the site, you will regain absolute control over the skill."

"Is that so..." Su Mingan nodded, and suddenly raised his hand like a studious primary school student: "Ask a question. To what extent can I control the NPC clone?"

"As long as it's within the scope allowed by the world patrol mission, you can try it as you like." Boss Rabbit said calmly.

Su Mingan understood.

In other words, it is equivalent to his avatar accepting an additional task of "pretending to be an NPC to patrol the site". As long as the system allows it, he can still control the avatar.

...In this way, for him, the clone cannot participate in the competition between players as a direct combat force, nor can it be used as his resurrection substitute.

But he gained an NPC who could wander around the venue and collect clues, and a compensation that was kept secret.

Moreover, his main gain is not actually in this aspect, but in information.

It seems that... he has somewhat jumped out of the level of a pure "player", and somewhat moved closer to the order and design of the dungeon itself.

Although for now, it is just a place for "wandering" and "observing" copies.

…But what about after that? What about after getting to the next level?

"The person in power", as the highest-level identity, is not limited to NPC favorability. It seems to have vaguely involved dungeons.

Boss Rabbit stretched out his big fluffy white hand.

A giant blue screen lit up in the pitch-black void.

On the screen, a white streamer appeared, outlining transparent characters, with names marked underneath them.

[Day Chess], [Day Calendar], [Kelsey], [Broken], [Meiya Tu], [Liu Changqing], [Ghost Lao Te], [Guangli], [Rococo], [Qin Huanya]...

…

There are thousands of densely packed names, like white ants, appearing on this giant blue screen. This huge screen unfolds, and the bottom layer unfolds directly into the darkness at Su Mingan's feet.

On the light screen, these characters have different shapes, including men, women, old and young.

And the clothes they wore were a "mix of Chinese and Western", including armor, robes, commoners, sacrificial robes, cheongsams... Su Mingan even saw someone wearing Hanfu, Lolita, bikini...

This scene of various characters arranged in front of you is like "please choose your hero".

It's dazzling to see.

"These are NPCs in the eighth world." Boss Rabbit said: "You can choose a replacement for your clone in it. After the replacement is successful, it is best for your clone to patrol without arousing suspicion from other NPCs.

Site - because once the clone is killed by any unit before completing 100% of the patrol progress, it means that the mission of the person in charge has failed."

"That's it." Su Mingan nodded.

At this moment, he finally understood why he needed to come to a separate space to take on this mission of being a person in power.

Because if this mission is accepted inside the dungeon, players hiding nearby may discover it. These players may try to kill his clone NPC.

He immediately began to carefully screen these NPCs of different shapes and select suitable replacements.

Frankly speaking, by looking at all the NPCs in a world like this, you can roughly judge what type of world it is.

But judging from the appearance and clothing of these people, Su Mingan was completely unable to make an accurate judgment.
To be continued...