Chapter 582: Want to Understand the Meaning of Life, Want to... Truly Live?

Although the new shop only had Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 2 was by no means exclusive to the new location.

The Jiuhua City, Half-City, and Yuanyang City shops were naturally releasing it simultaneously as well.

"You're awake?! Boss Fang has already run off to the Outer Realm!"

"Oh..." Su Tianji walked into the shop somewhat dazed. Lately, they had been discussing a spell called something like 'Super Electromagnetic Gun' in their research group chat, and the discussion had gone a bit late.

In fact, the concept for this spell had begun a very long time ago, dating back to when they first saw the Gauss weapons.

Although they had the spell of Thunder Silk Fibers and had researched the coilgun, it was clear that...

Of than that, it wasn’t just talk. For instance, Su Tianji was currently sitting on a sofa in the shop, having ordered a bucket of instant noodles, and pulled a pink 'iPhon' communication jade from her pocket, which was adorned with a cute, stylized cat face.

"Ding-dong."

"Hum hum hum..."

An image appeared on the communication jade, showing a flat-chested young girl humming a tune, with the caption reading "A Certain Scientific Railgun."

"Master, what are you watching?"

"Supposedly a story about some girl firing an electromagnetic gun..." Since she had to watch this to unlock the 'My Space' permission to purchase certain structural components for the spell, she might as well take a look...

While eating breakfast, she huddled together with a few of her disciples to watch an episode.

Perhaps only when eating instant noodles in the shop could she enjoy such a moment of peace.

After all—in that unknown world, existence seemed ancient and eternal, putting too much pressure on them.

"This celestial maiden is going to protect the continent!" How could she just be a salted fish here!

"Oh my! A new game is out in the shop!"

"What new game?" Su Tianji quickly turned her head.

"Resident Evil 2!"

"..." Su Tianji had just been about to lean forward to take a look, but she immediately sat back down, curling her lip. "What's so fun about Resident Evil 2."

The power system was so low; surely she couldn't go and research the T-virus, right? And then throw it into the homeland of those Outer Realm people?

Besides, they couldn't even research this kind of thing.

She might as well watch her electromagnetic gun girl.

Sitting on the sofa watching the animation, she sent a Penguin message to Boss Fang: "Boss, why is the new game this? (Husky disdain)"

Feeling that the power level was very low, she looked rather disdainful of playing it.

Boss Fang: "???"

"You're not even playing this?!"

Su Tianji: "Strange, why should I play this?"

Boss Fang, sitting in the new shop at this moment, flipped through his Penguin emojis, found a picture, and casually sent it over.

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to... truly be alive?"

Below it were two options; the first was "yes", and the second was... "ok".

Su Tianji stared at the screen: "!!??"

She almost spat a mouthful of old blood onto the screen, her face full of frenzy, instantly wanting to beat someone up. How am I supposed to choose with this options!

"How about I tell you a story?" Boss Fang spoke up.

"Eh? A story?" It felt entirely like coaxing a child...

But after thinking about it: Then this celestial maiden will reluctantly listen to it!

Anyway, it was either choosing "yes" or choosing "ok".

In the world Fang Qi currently resided in, in his understanding, it was somewhat like the East and the West before his time travel, and of the ancient kind.

Except that Western civilization was a bit more developed and the barrier between the two sides was not an ocean, but rather in the form of space, there was nothing else special about it.

The East was like the country he used to reside in, while the West included all European and American countries as a massive whole, so it was easy to understand why this continent was so vast.

Therefore, Boss Fang's internet cafe could be considered to have broken out of Lingzhou and gone international.

And at this time, Boss Fang had already started telling Su Tianji about a world called "Infinite Terror".

Since they had even watched things like The Matrix, they naturally would not find the even more bizarre setting of "Infinite Terror" impossible to understand.

"Ah!" Having only heard a part of it, Su Tianji instantly jumped up. "You're saying that playing this Resident Evil thing can also unlock some gene lock?"

"Only when a person is in an extreme state," Boss Fang added.

"How is that Chu Xuan guy so amazing?!" She hurriedly shut her communication jade, slapped her backside, and stood up. "So this Resident Evil can train extreme operations? I'm planning to go play it!"

She very happily and quickly ran off to play.

"..." Boss Fang froze. "I was just telling a goddamn story... I didn't say it was real..."

Otherwise, a certain Su Tianji who had just received the prompt might have already appeared in some light orb space by now.

"Hey hey hey, why did you go play Resident Evil?" In a certain "Super Electromagnetic Gun" discussion group, seeing Su Tianji say she intended to try this Resident Evil 2, everyone was utterly bewildered.

This game no longer met the needs of grand cultivators and high-level warriors like them!

It was only fit for low-level youths to play around with.

Then they saw Su Tianji drop a picture into the group:

"Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to... truly be alive?"

Then she told them about "Infinite Terror".

"Holy crap?!"

"There's actually such a thing?!"

"Me, me, me, I want to play too! (Laughing out loud)" A certain group member with a large white deer avatar had somehow sneaked in. Why was a deer learning electromagnetic guns?

And it even wanted to unlock some gene lock; who knew if it had any self-awareness.

"I want to play too, hehehe... (Cute)" A certain little lolita also joined in the fun.

Regarding this lack of self-awareness in the old shop, the new shop appeared much better.

There was absolutely no need for Boss Fang to tell any story about "understanding the meaning of life"; these foreigners had already paid their money and started playing directly.

Although they didn't know if a "Blizzard Entertainment" or "Riot Games" would appear here many years later, in any case, they would first experience a wave of Resident Evil now.

"Wow! How is this cultivation mystic realm different?!" Over there, a brown-haired youth shouted. "I turned into another person, I'm actually called Leon!"

How come I didn't know this before?

"Wow—!" That green-haired little girl also let out a cry of surprise. "I turned into Claire, I'm an adult! Can I drink a little red wine now?"

The blonde man who had been causing trouble outside earlier, Great Sword Crete, as an excellent, handsome, and sunny mercenary who was proficient in various combat techniques and charmed thousands of girls, had now entered the game: "What good things can such a small shop have? It must be the most low-level, basic type of mystic realm!"

"Watch closely, this gentleman will surely slaughter all sides inside, and then break all the records in this shop!"

After entering the game, before his eyes was a city shrouded in darkness, with an eerie atmosphere.

Tall buildings and rows of shops stood in the prosperous metropolis, yet, highly unusually, there was not a single light.

Having only just graduated from the police academy, Leon drove to the station on his very first day of duty, having slept through his own induction ceremony.

"This secret realm... is so strange!" Still watching the opening cinematic, several of the outlanders removed their virtual visors, exchanging uneasy glances.

Unbidden, a creeping sense of dread settled over every one of them.

Slipping the visors back on, they could hear the distinct sound of staggering footsteps echoing through the dark.

And with that, the group officially entered the game.

"Where is my qi?! Where is my strength?! How have I become a mere mortal!" the blond mercenary, Cret, cried out in sudden panic, only to realize he was surrounded by "people" with blood-stained faces and deathly pale skin, limping slowly toward him.

"Get back! You damned bastards!" Cret reacted instantly, delivering a fierce kick straight into the chest of the foremost zombie.

But he failed to notice the "corpse" lying on the ground, its eyes snapping open with sudden fury.

In the cinematic just moments ago, when Leon had been inspecting the bodies, he had stopped right beside this very corpse.

"Aaagh—! It bit my leg!"

"Why is this person biting people randomly?!"

Within the shop, a chorus of miserable shrieks began to rise, one after another.

"No matter how hard you hit this thing, it just won't die!"

"Aaagh—!"

On the screens, nothing could be seen but a bloody carnage; having been forced out of the virtual reality mode, they could only watch helplessly as "themselves" on the screen were torn apart and devoured by zombies, a horror that made everyone's hair stand on end!

They could even see some zombies whose torsos had been kicked halfway into ruin, yet they still went about biting people as if nothing had happened.

"What kind of ghost creature is this?!" The mages and mercenaries, who had been so full of confidence just a moment ago, now looked at one another with faces pale from terror.

On this day, this band of outlanders began to taste the true terror of being dominated by zombies.

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Some students have asked me when the extra chapters will start; since I am updating at this hour, everyone should understand.

The extra chapters begin today! Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a minimum of three chapters a day this month! Four chapters for the extra updates!

Surely no one will call me short and weak anymore?

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