Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Da da da--

Wu Wang was walking towards the interview room.

Occasionally, some employees would come and go around.

But there was almost no sign of anyone communicating; only the echoing footsteps sounded somewhat eerie.

Although some people would nod and greet him when they met, Wu Wang saw not kindness in their eyes, but rather a strange numbness.

Just like those Eternal City residents outside who try to seek thrills through the [Suicide Show].

Oh, thinking about it that way, in a sense, the employees in the Eternal Building are actually more pitiful than I expected.

You know, at least the residents outside can be reincarnated and change their profession after this life ends.

Although it takes a long time, at least after being reborn, one can lose memories of their previous life.

However, the employees in this "Eternal Building" seem to have never lost any memories. Apart from a few new employees who joined in the middle, the others have been doing the same work for thousands of years.

They are like cogs in a machine in this building, and cogs don't need to have their own thoughts; they just need to do their job.

The boredom and numbness over such a long period of time are indescribable.

Wu Wang's little idea was starting to sprout again.

Click——

Not long after, he arrived at the interview room that Hua Wuyin had assigned him.

After turning the handle and entering, politely close the door.

To my surprise, there were no interviewers in the room, only a thing that looked a bit like a dental chair in a clinic.

The next second, the sound of a loudspeaker blared in the room—

"Please remain seated in your interview chair and wait for the interviewer to arrive."

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and sat down—or rather, lay down—without any hesitation.

After all, this thing doesn't look like it can be sat on when it's lying flat.

brush--

The moment Wu Wang lay down, the mechanical arm in front of the chair swayed and hovered in front of him, hanging a helmet on his head.

This thing looks a bit like a motorcycle helmet, with a transparent protective goggle in the front.

The moment the blindfold was removed, Wu Wang immediately saw that the previously empty room had changed.

The place was filled with countless pairs of eyes pressed against the walls, creating a slightly eerie atmosphere. A woman in a suit, with her legs crossed, was floating in mid-air, savoring a steaming cup of coffee.

He glanced at Wu Wang, who was lying on the chair.

The woman casually tossed the coffee behind her, but there was no sound of the cup hitting the ground; it seemed to have disappeared in mid-air.

She walks in mid-air, as if there are invisible stairs in the sky.

Step by step, he approached Wu Wang and said, "Who are you? I've never seen you before... Oh, your visit record is from half an hour ago. As for your identity... a programmer? You participated in the maintenance of the [Suicide Show] live streaming program... What are you doing here?"

She didn't seem to be talking to Wu Wang.

He obtained the information he needed simply by talking to himself.

The information about social status was even modified by Wu Wang before he entered the sect, using the methods of heretics to forge identities.

Wu Wang was certain that this guy was definitely not human, or rather, not an ordinary resident of Eternal City.

He glanced at the room out of the corner of his eye, and if you didn't see the helmet and goggles on his head, the room would still be so empty that even a thief would have to leave two hundred dollars behind with tears in his eyes.

In other words, the other party's existence can only be seen through a specific field of vision.

Isn't this just a VR headset?
That's ridiculous! Do they not even require employees to show up in person for interviews inside the building?

Can you really conduct interviews using VR?

Wu Wang's mind raced, but he said calmly, "I was called here by Mr. Hua Wuyin to apply for the assistant position. He doesn't want to deal with those so-called mayors and other empty-headed fools anymore. My job is to relay his messages, meet with people he doesn't want to meet, and talk about things he's too lazy to talk about."

Since this woman is presenting herself as a virtual person, and was able to extract so much information from the air conditioner just now.

Then Wu Wang would have to consider that she was being monitored by the [City System].

It's impossible that the city system sent him to apply for the job.

It would be safest to simply say that Hua Wuyin sent him.

Wu Wang didn't think the City System would ask Hua Wuyin.

After all, given his personality, he's bound to do whatever comes to mind, so it's reasonable for him to ask me to be his assistant.

Upon hearing this, the woman in the suit moved even closer.

Looking Wu Wang up and down, he asked, "Hua Wuyin's assistant? Well, he certainly doesn't like those defective products."

"Okay then, you can answer a few questions for me as part of the interview."

First, do you believe that eternity truly exists?

"Secondly, are you willing to join and become a member of eternity?"

Third, are you aware that you are a data-driven role?

After asking these three questions, a hint of impatience flashed in the woman's eyes, and she casually took out a camera from the side and pointed it at Wu Wang.

In fact, the applicants who came to her for the job already had the answer.

These days, job interviews are just a formality.

The answer must be affirmative, even if it's a lie, the interviewer has to confirm it in order to pass the interview.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you encounter a character who is lying; you'll delete them after detecting it yourself.

However, Wu Wang did not rush to answer.

Instead, after a few seconds of contemplation, he gave an answer that the woman had never heard before.

"First, nothing is truly eternal; second, I too cannot be a part of eternity; third, I know that."

click -

The woman unconsciously pressed the shutter button on her camera.

Wu Wang's ambiguous smile was imprinted on his face.

It took the woman about five seconds to come to her senses.

Incredulously, he asked, "What did you say? You don't acknowledge eternity? Then... wait, no lying was detected, so why weren't you deleted either?"

Besides lying, people who refuse to acknowledge eternal existence will also be deleted once they are caught on camera.

In fact, this interview is a forced screening process.

Anything that doesn't meet the required criteria will be deleted.

But this guy not only gave a negative answer, but it also wasn't deleted by the camera.

The bizarre scene before my eyes was like a choice between "YES or NO".

This guy, however, chose "or".

In response, Wu Wang shrugged and said, "Yeah, why? Shouldn't you be the ones asking that? Maybe there's a bug in the system?"

Having said that, he was ready to break out of the building.

Since the interview is a forced screening process, I definitely can't pass it.

Because he had already triggered the deletion mechanism, which means that the existence of the "Undying" trait allowed him to stand here as if nothing had happened.

I'm afraid those people I had sent through the all-knowing guy were deleted in the same way.

Of course, Wu Wang would not voluntarily acknowledge Eternity and join it.

Who knows if casually mentioning this might actually trigger some kind of powerful force to descend upon us?

It seems the only option now is to deny it and then leave.

In any case, this trip was only a preliminary exploration of the problems inside the [Eternal Building], and there was no intention to solve everything at once.

The direction for exploring the problem is now clear.

It doesn't matter if we find more clues first, then we can figure out a solution.

Unexpectedly, just as Wu Wang was about to leave using the [Seven Stars Step],

The woman in the suit in front of him suddenly froze.

That's right, the other person was like a malfunctioning robot, making all sorts of bizarre facial expressions in an extremely grotesque way, even their body was constantly flickering as if there was a poor signal connection. "Uh, are you alright? No, sister, this isn't right! I should be the one flickering and then disappearing now! Why are you flickering? Are you stealing the show?"

Wu Wang stopped and complained helplessly.

The other party did not immediately respond to his complaints.

Instead, it continued to flicker for a few more seconds before stabilizing.

He slowly opened his eyes and said in a calm, emotionless tone:

"You... are not a character I created..."

"You are real...I have...waited for you...for a very long time..."

"Please...save Hua Wuyin..."

At this moment, Wu Wang's expression finally turned serious.

Regardless of the other party's previous identity, the person speaking now is definitely not the woman in the suit from before.

She seems to have been possessed.

Or perhaps some kind of will temporarily took over her body, using her voice to converse with itself?
"You're saying I'm not a character you created? Then you are..."

The answer is obvious.

But Wu Wang still found it hard to believe.

[City System]!
The system I'm talking to right now is the [City System]!
This program actually has self-awareness!
However, Wu Wang did not receive a reply. Instead, the woman in the suit started flashing her lights again in a strange manner.

A moment later, she frowned and resumed her previous expression.

He didn't question his previous answer, but instead smiled and said, "In that case, welcome to the [Eternal Building] as a member of the [Endpoint] Group. I will process your identification and workstation later. Let's move towards eternity together! You can go back now."

Wu Wang's expression did not change much.

He simply nodded in thanks.

He got up, took off his helmet, and left the room.

My heart was already in turmoil.

This woman in the suit's memory has been altered! Just like how artificial intelligence helped alter the memories of all the passersby in the library back then!

In her current memory, her answer was flawless, and she had successfully passed the interview.

The city system is helping itself!?

Wu Wang had many questions in his mind.

From the beginning of the instance until now, both he and other players of the Spirit Disaster have assumed that the [City System] is the highest level of threat. Once the identity of a Spirit Disaster player is discovered, they are doomed.

Unexpectedly, such a bizarre situation has now arisen.

"What the hell is going on?"

When Wu Wang walked back to the first floor of the building, he already heard a notification sound in his ear—

You have been granted access to the Eternal Tower.

[The hidden quest "Twins Across the Other Shore" has been automatically unlocked - progress 17%]

Wu Wang was not surprised by this.

He walked out of the building on his own.

This time, the security guards did not stop them.

As soon as he returned to the alley, he discovered that the entire alley had become hell.

From one end of the alley to the other, the ground was covered with mountains of corpses.

Only Yingluo and two others leaned against the wall, their breathing slightly rapid as they rested.

Looking at their appearance, Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and said, "Heretics?"

Sakura rolled her eyes and said, "What else? Are you suggesting we kill everyone around us?"

"You've got a good idea, kid. You've only been inside for two minutes, and some heretics have already come over trying to find out from us what your purpose and method of getting in were."

Liu Yedao, panting heavily, raised his voice several octaves and said, "Inquiring? Sister, you're being so tactful! They came right up here with knives, ready to cut off our limbs and drag us back for interrogation, and you call that inquiring?"

She was a newcomer who had only recently become a player of the Necropolis.

Naturally, it is the weakest in terms of combat ability and item reserves.

In the chaotic battle just now, if Yingluo hadn't been powerful enough to lend a hand, Liuyedao would probably have been seriously injured and captured.

In response, Huixin, who appeared slightly less embarrassed, pragmatically stated:

"Since you came out unharmed, you must have obtained some very important information, right?"

Huixin and Yingluo are veteran players of the Spirit Disaster game.

I've long been used to these life-or-death missions.

For them, the process of the mission is not important, as long as the result is good.

Wu Wang nodded.

In fact, he had anticipated that heretics would come looking for trouble.

After all, he didn't believe that the White Tower would let him do as he pleased.

Especially after kidnapping Peanut, he had to find a way to monitor his every move.

Although we tried to avoid most of the surveillance during this trip, the layout of the buildings in the Eternal City is not like that of the real world, which is constructed by people.

It is entirely the result of calculations performed by the [city system].

This results in surveillance equipment having virtually no blind spots.

In Bai Ta's eyes, who is capable of programming, if he were to search diligently, he could probably find anything captured by surveillance cameras.

As for the corpses of these heretics...

Wu Wang glanced at it.

Most of the corpses had highly similar appearances.

It turns out that, just like when they attacked the Art Warehouse, they had set up a temporary [Rebirth Pool] nearby, intending to wear them down through a series of attacks.

In fact, these heretics dare to launch attacks so openly now, partly because of their own actions.

Under normal circumstances, the heretics would need to find a way to steal the computing power of the [City System] in order to send so many people to use their heretical abilities at the same time.

But now the entire Eternal City is filled with rings issued by Wu Wang, and almost every moment someone is using heretical abilities.

This has made it impossible for the [City System] to determine who the real heretics are and who are ordinary residents who have obtained the ring and are using its abilities.

So far, we haven't seen the [City System] take any action to forcibly punish those who use the ring.

Wu Wang suspected that if such a large number of residents were killed at the same time and then recreated through the [Rebirth Pool], the required computing power would be far too enormous.

After all, a resident's data is not just about their current state, but also about the thousands of years of life they have lived and the mixture of various memories.

It's not that the city system lacks the computing power, but doing so would definitely cause rendering problems in more areas of the city, just like the forest path did back then.

To avoid situations where there are stutters and rendering errors everywhere.

The city system needs to be addressed in a different way.

This is what those guys in the Eternal Building, whom Hua Wuyin calls fools but who actually represent the highest echelons of the city, are discussing today.

They need to resolve this issue themselves; they can't let the city system handle it.

Otherwise, it would leave traces in the city system's archives, indirectly proving that the Eternal City is full of bugs.

How can we possibly accept the project if it's like this?

Thinking of this, Wu Wang said to everyone, "Let's go back first. I'll tell you about what happened inside the building after I confirm that the environment is safe."

"Then we also need to be prepared, as there will likely be even greater turmoil in the Eternal City tomorrow."

"I also have a new idea for tackling the dungeon."

"Some Celestial Dragons are getting restless; they want to get involved and handle the problem themselves."

"Perfect! This time, I'll make sure they never leave alive!"

"Let's find a way to become Celestial Dragons too!" (End of Chapter)