Near the teleportation vortex in Area 12, people in uniforms stood with guns, pointing their muzzles at the ground.

On the side of the Welcome Avenue covered with red carpets, welcoming cars with flowers were parked.

People's eyes looked in one direction - there was an extremely high, regular building with rectangular planes, with lights on it, seeping out through a small grid.

On the hanging screen, the human future self-rescue meeting has already entered the end. Some people choose to stay and attend the banquet, while others choose to leave directly. Those who leave directly will take the welcome car and return to the teleportation vortex.

At this moment, the young man in white suit bathed in the light on the screen was smiling farewell to others.

"Don't the first player stay to attend the banquet?" People's regrets came from the screen.

"No, the meeting is wonderful, that's enough. I still need to go back and improve my ideas." The first player smiled and said, "After all, this collision of thoughts has indeed given me some other insights."

"You are really excellent." The blonde Marjorie smiled and said, "If your mother sees it, she will definitely be happy for you."

The first player smiled and said, "Is that so? I hope she can see..."

On the screen, people come and go.

Outside the screen, the girl with a pure temperament and wearing a white dress was standing quietly beside the vortex, looking up at the scene.

Next to her, the uniformed staff whispered:

"Miss Su-style...Miss Su-style?"

The girl turned her head and the emotion in her eyes seemed to be alive.

"According to the regulations, you are not invited and cannot come here..." said the uniformed staff in embarrassment.

"Isn't the meeting over?" Su Shi's tone was calm: "I can't stand here and wait for him and see him, can't it be okay?"

The uniformed man coughed, turned his head, as if asking for someone's opinion. The communication tool in his hand made a "did" sound, and then, it seemed that someone was talking to him.

After a while, he nodded:

"I understand, Miss Su Shi. But you can only stand here, please don't run around."

"I won't run away." Su Shi said: "I just want to see him."

She raised her head again.

On the screen, the woman wearing a cherry blossom kimono and holding a bouquet of blood roses caught up with the first player to leave.

Her voice was extremely low, as if she was excited to say something to him.

The first player's expression has not changed, and his attitude is as always, communicating with her softly as if comforting the child.

Finally, he stepped out of the conference room and boarded the long-awaited pick-up vehicle.

Su Shi stood quietly in place, shifted her gaze and looked at the avenue.

...She was waiting for him to come.

She held a small model in her hand, the lighthouse model, and the name of the first player was engraved on it. According to Qin Ze, this is the best sold peripheral, and she must deliver her gift to his hand.

She wanted him to know... how much she had paid and how much she wanted to be the light-seeker he said.

...But this concept seems to have changed.

Su Shi's eyes flashed with confusion - she once thought that "grading" and "making unsuitable people no longer embarrassing" were his thoughts, but now it seems that's not the case.

He changed, and became a person who was willing to accept it, and became a star-like existence. He said that everyone has their own value and their own luminous body, and the self who "punished" those people for his thoughts seemed to have been wrong all the time...

She thought about this and suddenly heard a sound of systematic voice resounding in her ears. Her voice was passionate and not as dull as before:

[Congratulations - Player Su Mingan became the first player and was promoted to (level 3) level player!]

[Honor is added, glory is crowned, and billions of creatures cheer for it!]

...

Su Shi suddenly raised her head.

The system prompt was not the only one who heard it. The world chat exploded in an instant, and all kinds of remarks slipped on the ground, and the whispers of uniformed personnel came from beside them.

"...It's true that Su Ming'an is still."

"It is said that the times create heroes, and I think he is that hero. In such an era, he is still the only one."

"It is said that Aiden has broken through to the second level nine, and he will be intercepted by this time..."

"It doesn't matter. The game has only been more than two months since it started. There is still so long... I died once and everything will be back. Who knows who can stand until the end? If those players on the front list fail in the last dungeon, it will be awful... Maybe someone will be targeted after the game ends."

"I care a lot about why he broke through the third level at this time? He didn't do anything else..."

"The clones are attending the meeting."

"Yes, since the beginning, I thought this number one player was very strange."

"It shouldn't be just us who can see that he is not himself, and the United Team doesn't care?"

"What do you care about? It doesn't matter if I am. What's important is that the person we see now represents the title of the number one player, which is enough..."

Su Shi blinked.

She listened to the discussions of the people next to her and looked at the middle of her vision, the dark and shiny welcome car was slowly coming.

Rows of vehicles stopped, and in addition to some other participants, she quickly found the figure of the first player.

He was still like that. Although everyone said he had changed, in her eyes, he was like that.

Even though he is a clone now, he has a gentle temperament, a smooth attitude, and behaviors like a real big boy, in her eyes, it is the same.

What she likes is the work of art, the first player, the different existence in everyone's eyes. As for whether the first player is Su Mingan, Su Mingan's body or clone, it doesn't matter - as long as it is him in her eyes.

She stood there and waited for a moment before seeing the first player walking towards this side.

Her mood suddenly fluctuated violently, as if she saw the sea for the first time, as if she had walked into the forest for the first time, with a sense of excitement and long-awaited expectation.

She held the gift on her hands, her eyes shining, like a believer was about to present her own tribute.

And the next moment, she heard a loud sound:

“——Dong!”

The sound was dull, as if something was hitting a wall, the source of the sound was not far from here, like an inconspicuous building next to it.

The next moment, a figure appeared in everyone's eyes. He seemed to have escaped suddenly, wearing a loose white hospital uniform, and a torn strap wrapped around his arms. While running desperately towards this side, he let out a wolf-like wail:

“—Help, help!”

The people here were alert for a moment, and many people clenched their weapons.

"Save me! I can't escape, I can't escape - this damn game, it will always be with me! We have no tomorrow, humans have no tomorrow-"

He said, his facial features twisted with the violent shouts. He rolled and crawled towards this side, as if he wanted to ask for help. The sound was loud, and in an instant, all the people who were still discussing stopped.

The players who had just got off the bus also stood there with confusion on their faces, asking the members of the joint group what was going on.

…Human test?

It is not as good as the main god space does not allow attacks on each other, and even the slightest behavior of seeing blood cannot be seen, let alone scratching a knife on others.

At this moment, the people following behind arrived in time and instantly subdued the crazy man. Behind them, a woman was crying softly, as if she was the madman's mother.

"This is a patient in the Mental Health Commission of the United Corps." Beside Ming, General Political Department Minister Liu Jiahe, was explaining to him: "There are often players who are on the verge of collapse to ask us for help. For their health and safety, our doctors will give them timely treatment."

The man was quickly dragged back, his limbs shaking like sieves, and he seemed to be no normal person at first glance.

Next to him, his mother, who was crying quietly, walked back with someone and walked into the inconspicuous building area. Soon, everything seemed to have nothing happened.

"This often happens." Liu Jiahe said in a solemn tone: "People who have experienced the real fantasy world and pain will experience greater and greater mental stress... In such an abnormal world, maintaining normality has become a very difficult thing."

He looked at Ming's expression and said, "...even players who think they have no problems will suddenly collapse without warning at some critical moments. The spiritual field is a field that we are difficult for us to explore. If there is any psychological problem, there is no quick and effective way except timely adjustments."

"Is that just that?" Ming smiled: "It does look scary."

"Yes, even Iris, a former player on the list, has had similar experiences." Liu Jiahe emphasized his tone, as if he wanted to highlight the key point of his words:

"—The stronger the player, the more likely it is to induce such a problem."

...

Su Mingan sat on the bed in his personal space and started using points.

He was going to see if the robbed props and equipment could be sold. Sure enough, he got a negative answer.

But soon, a system prompt popped up:

[(Equipment is robbed income or given by others in the world dungeon. It is not normal exploration income and cannot be used for points trading. It can be used as material for equipment evolution.)]

…【Equipment Evolution】?

He clicked on this line of noun, and a line of annotations soon appeared:

[The new section that players open after reaching the third level can be sacrificed to promote the equipment evolution progress bar by sacrificing low-level equipment to achieve the equipment refinement effect.]

Su Mingan understood.

Classic settings of online games. By dissolving low-level equipment, the level of high-level equipment is improved. The quality of the quantity pile is used.

He poured hundreds of pieces of equipment he robbed into the sacrifice bar and designated the sword of Yarman.

The things that were robbed were dissolved little by little under the light effect of the system, and in return, the data of the Sword of Yarman seemed to be soaring rapidly.
To be continued...