This is not an MMO game copy

The fourth instance: 103. Three new instances and the unlucky guy who prevents disasters (5k+)

After confirming again and again that he was not hallucinating, he found that there were indeed three copy names arranged on the copy matching function interface box in front of him, instead of only two copy options being refreshed like the previous two times.

Xia Yan suddenly had a bad feeling.

He remembered that the first time he went into a dungeon was more than half a year ago in the real world, which was almost four years ago. At that time, there was only one dungeon option on the dungeon matching function interface box.

Then, when you go to the dungeon for the second and third time on the dungeon matching function interface, there will be two dungeons to choose from.

Obviously, this is definitely not a simple coincidence. The number of copies refreshed by the MMO system in this groove seems to follow a pattern of 1, 22, 333 and so on, with the number of repetitions of each number gradually increasing.

“…Fuck.”

After a moment of silence, Xia Yan squeezed out a curse word from between his teeth and stared at the system interface with an unpleasant expression.

If it really increases gradually according to this rule, unless he can grow to the point where he can interfere with the system in a short period of time, at least he can freely choose whether to enable the copy matching function.

Otherwise, the things that enter the real world from different copies will sooner or later exceed his speed in handling the mess.

Even when he was choosing a copy, he could no longer be picky or prioritize the copies that had the greatest impact on reality. He could only choose the copies that could improve himself the fastest and bring the greatest benefits.

From this point of view, perhaps time is indeed on his side, and time does not mind his reasonable cheating, but time will also force him to run faster and farther behind him.

Xia Yan took a deep breath and silently activated the 'soul' he had cultivated through practicing the Xuanmen Ghost Immortal Dao, allowing each of his 'thoughts' to simultaneously activate the method of [Sword Heart Clearness], suppressing the generation of various distracting thoughts, and then using his own spiritual thoughts to erase all the distracting thoughts that had emerged in his mind.

Then, he carefully looked at the three copy options that were refreshed on the copy matching function interface box.

[Instance: North America/Elm Street Freddy]

[Instance: Tokyo Ginza/Special Zone - Flame Dragon]

[Instance: Orario/Dungeon Floor 59 - Fallen Fairy]

"..."

What the hell is this?

Xia Yan's face showed a hint of difficulty.

It’s not that he couldn’t recognize what the ‘copy’ world corresponding to the three copy options was.

On the contrary, it was because he recognized it that he felt uncomfortable.

First of all, the name of the first dungeon. Anyone who has seen or knows some famous horror movies, even if they don’t have much idea about the first two suffixes of the dungeon name, as long as they see the last suffix "Freddy", they will immediately think of the Elm Street Phantom in the classic "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, one of the four greatest killers in film history - Freddy Krueger.

As the core and top star of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" film series, Freddy, who is shown in the classic image of wearing a brown and black top hat, a red and green striped sweater, one hand is made of metal claws, and his body is covered with scars from burns, is actually a nun who unfortunately entered a cell that held more than 100 murderers, mental patients, and perverts, and gave birth to the child after being ravaged for a long time.

So, when he was still a human, Freddy was born with an evil nature. When he grew up, he began to frequently harass children and commit brutal murders on Elm Street. After being exposed, he bribed the judge with money to be acquitted. As a result, a group of intolerable parents on Elm Street lynched him, burned him to death and buried him hastily.

But Freddy did not die. Many years after his death, his soul transformed into a demon and returned to Elm Street. He sneaked into children's dreams, and through nightmares, he materialized the developments in the dreams in reality and continued his killing career in an extremely cruel way.

Of course, what makes Xia Yan feel fucked up is not Freddy's "immortality" in the dream, but the fact that "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is a world view with "connectivity".

After all, for ordinary people, Freddy is indeed an almost unsolvable evil spirit, especially in dreams, he is almost invincible, but for him now, getting rid of Freddy is not difficult at all.

Even the Elm Street Phantom, who holds the Book of the Dead and can truly escape from the dream world and enter reality, is not a difficult enemy. Otherwise, he would not have been defeated so many times by ordinary people and simply relied on the "immortal" evil spirit characteristic to act like a rogue.

However, as an old IP, "A Nightmare on Elm Street" has "links". For example, the story of the eighth movie is linked to another horror film series "Friday the 13th", the famous Crystal Lake Killer Jason. The two killers appear together in this linked film and fight each other.

If that's not enough.

Then, Freddy's appearance in another IP is enough to give Xia Yan a headache...

...In the horror survival PVP game "Dead by Daylight", Freddy is one of the butchers in the evil spirit space, and the design inspirations of the original and linked butcher characters in this game basically come from some bizarre real-life or classic horror movies.

For example: the design inspiration comes from the "Nurse" in Silent Hill, Michael Myers in the horror movie "Halloween", and Amanda, the main character in the horror movie "Saw" from the first to the third...

Even in "Dead by Daylight" there are Pyramid Head who came directly from Silent Hill, Nemesis and Wesker, the vengeful evil gods from Resident Evil, Nailhead, the hell monk from Hellraiser, Sadako from The Ring, and even Alien.

It just highlights the chaos of the demons.

Not to mention, many of these monsters and ghosts are related to the Christian hell in their backgrounds, such as the hell monk Nailhead in the Hellraiser series of horror films, who crawled out of hell.

In short, if this "copy" world is only limited to "A Nightmare on Elm Street", then it's nothing, but if it can be connected to the world view of "Dead by Daylight", then it would be extremely fucked up.

In comparison.

The other two copies are simply too 'harmonious'.

Looking at the first affix of the second copy's name, Xia Yan only knew that it was Ginza in Tokyo, Japan. However, combined with the "Special Zone" and "Flame Dragon" at the end, Xia Yan immediately thought of a rather ridiculous anime - GATE Fantasy Self-Defense Force.

The plot can be summarized as follows: A stupid medieval empire in another world used some ancient magic technology that was obviously some kind of super black box to open an ancient portal, and this ancient portal directly connected to Ginza, Tokyo, Japan in 20XX. Then the medieval empire in the other world immediately launched an invasion, but was then pushed back by the Self-Defense Forces, thus starting the colonization of the other world.

Afterwards, the Self-Defense Force otakus started to build harems while cooperating with Xiaoshi to colonize the other world. On Earth, around the large portal connecting the two worlds, they came up with a lot of political operations that were imagined by Xiaoshi political idiots.

The most frustrating thing among them is the Americans, who are not what Americans should be like at all, and the other five permanent members of the UN Security Council have all shown a decline in their IQ.

However, what Xia Yan found most ridiculous was actually the administrative and mobilization capabilities of Xiao Rizi in the anime. They mobilized the Self-Defense Forces in a short period of time to push back and colonize and explore the other world. Compared with the Fukushima nuclear accident, the Tokyo Olympics, and various other fake immortals, etc., it made people feel extremely abstract operations... It can only be said that it is worthy of being a recruitment advertisement sponsored by the Xiao Rizi Self-Defense Force.

Having said that, apart from the stupid and stupid parts of this "copy" world, there are still some things worth paying attention to.

For example: the semi-permanent large portal that could cross dimensions, the unknown individual or civilization that created this portal, whose technological power was comparable to the Dark Portal in the Warcraft universe, and the corresponding technology, and the gods that clearly existed in the cold weapon and low magic medieval era...

As for the danger?

In the first 'copy' of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" world, even if it is not connected to the world view of "The Dead by Daylight" and indirectly linked to other horror movies, Freddy alone can kill the entire Ground Self-Defense Force in it.

However, the work has set up the low-magic Middle Ages with cold weapons to be unilaterally defeated by the Ground Self-Defense Force, and the gods of that low-magic world, let alone stepping out to "deal with the mess caused by the mages opening portals indiscriminately", almost directly took the lead and said "Madam, please come this way".

Oh, no, he remembered the loli Mercury, one of the harem of the male protagonist of this anime, a demigod who lived for more than 900 years and was also the apostle of the god of death and war in the local world. She was a reserve goddess who would be fully promoted to a god after living to be a thousand years old in the next 40 years. Not only did she pay for him directly, but she also contracted the male protagonist of this anime to become his concubine, making him half immortal... It was actually the same as saying it or not.

Anyway, if this happened in DND's Faerun, if the Harpers hadn't used a certain artifact within half a year, and with the support and dirty whistle of a bunch of righteous gods, launched a suicide attack to blow up that large inter-dimensional portal and the Self-Defense Forces that came here to colonize and develop, the various evil forces would definitely question the Harpers and those righteous gods, and their ability to defend the world would have seriously declined, and they would have been ridiculed for hundreds of years.

As for the name of the third copy, Xia Zai took a glance and immediately determined that it was "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" - this is a hodgepodge of various myths in reality + sword and magic RPG games, etc. It is one of the few anime with a different world theme that is not toilet paper and can be called a classic.

Specifically, they are a group of immortal gods who, in order to play an immersive real-life development game, voluntarily sealed their own divine power and came down to earth to form a clan and train adventurers to enter the dungeon and challenge levels.

Since this anime is a hodgepodge of various myths in reality, the gods that appear in this anime all come from different myths. Not only do they know each other across myths, but the relationships between them have nothing to do with their own original myths.

In short, the three copy options that appear when the copy is opened this time are basically related to the concept of God, either explicitly or implicitly. There are clearly gods in the second and third "copy" worlds. Even the first "copy" world, whether it is the world view of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" or the world view of "Dead by Daylight", can also involve the hell in Christianity, and indirectly prove that Satan and the Lord of Hosts may be real.

In the past, faced with this kind of 'copy' world where gods actually existed, Xia Yan would basically give up and go around it.

But not now.

And if there was only one, he wouldn't mind making a choice directly, so as to prevent any monsters from entering the real world from this copy where gods clearly existed.

But when three such copy options are presented together.

Xia Yan was immediately in trouble.

The most dangerous place for the real world Earth is undoubtedly the third copy.

After all, the gods in that world are self-proclaimed divine powers, and they can take them back at any time when needed. However, in the Earthly Worldview, they have jointly formulated or created certain laws or rules. Once they take back their divine powers, they will be sent back to heaven and will never be able to come down to earth again.

However, there is no such constraint on Earth in the real world. Combined with the previous case of the ancient Egyptian high priest Imhotep, Xia Yan has reason to suspect that the gods who went wrong would probably not be unable to adapt to the absolute demon environment of the real world. Even if there is an impact, they must have the ability to recover their divine power.

In addition, there is the dungeon maze in the world view of Dicuo that can continuously generate monsters.

Whether it's the gods of the earth, the dungeon maze, or some deep monsters generated by the dungeon maze -

——If any one of the above three things appeared on Earth in the real world, it would be enough to give him a headache and make it difficult to deal with.

In comparison, the gods in the second copy almost only exist in a different world of the Middle Ages with cold weapons and low magic, and that different world cannot defeat the Ground Self-Defense Force, which is living a simple life. It is the least dangerous of the three copies.

As for the first copy, even if it is connected to the world view of "Dead by Daylight", its impact on the real world is very low... Various evil spirits including Freddy, no matter how much trouble they cause, they are only in a corner. The only obvious trouble is the biochemical virus carried by the BOSS from Resident Evil in the evil spirit space.

only……

"Alas, it seems there is a choice, but in fact there is no choice!"

Xia Yan sighed helplessly.

If possible, he would like to choose the first or second copy, because in the plots of these two "copy" worlds, the apparent difficulty is basically not a threat to him now.

The former faced Freddy, who had originally been practicing the way of ghost immortals, and had also cultivated some low-profile copycat versions of the Great Sage's magical powers through the "Monkey King Visualization Method". As long as his "soul" left his body, he would have the passive effect of [The divine light shines like heaven's pardon, and the dark underworld is bright everywhere]. Even if it couldn't compare to the effect of Monkey King himself, Freddy was not some ghost god in the underworld. Even if he couldn't stand still and raised the Elm Street Phantom, this passive aura could probably still cause Freddy continuous burning real damage. Even in the world view of "Dead by Daylight", most of the butchers in the evil spirit space would be killed by this protective divine light.

As for the latter... there are differences between gods. Xia Yan doubted whether the medieval god with cold weapons and low magic could defeat his current self.

So, although it seems that there are three choices, in fact, whether from the perspective of actual benefits or dealing with the mess later, he seems to have only the option of [Copy: Orario/Dungeon Floor 59-Fallen Fairy].

not to mention……

Xia Yan glanced at the four clearly visible words "Intelligent Teammate" in the small box next to the name of the third copy, and once again confirmed that he had no choice.

So, after making his choice, Xia Yan waved his hand to recall the two magic weapons, [Golden Scripture of the Sun] and [Black Scripture of the Undead]. Before anything went wrong in the maintenance and operation of this mirror space, he focused his attention on the small box with the standard wording [Smart Teammate] next to the third copy.

Then, on the system's copy matching function interface, [Copy: North America/Elm Street-Freddy] and [Copy: Tokyo Ginza/Special Zone-Flame Dragon] slowly collapsed into a pile of garbled characters and disappeared.

……

……

About the same time.

On a hill in a certain world, a large number of soldiers similar to those in ancient Rome gathered here. Officers from various units rode their horses and shouted orders at the top of their lungs. Dragons howled in the sky and landed on the ground under the control of the dragon riders on their backs. There were also a large number of vassal armies composed of humanoid races, who served as vanguards and death squads and stood at the forefront of the formation.

In front of the army, a huge door stood majestically above the ground. Many magicians in long robes and holding long staffs stood in front of the door and seemed to be muttering something.

Soon after, accompanied by a deafening cheer, in this army with unprecedentedly high morale, from noble officers to ordinary soldiers, and even every member of the humanoid vassal army, all cast their eager expectations and greedy gazes.

The giant gate that stood majestically on the hill slowly opened, showing them the way to a 'weak' world where milk and honey flowed everywhere and they could bully, burn, kill and plunder at will.

At least that's what they think.

However, just as the door was fully opened, revealing the passage to the New Century, and a general on horseback drew his sword and shouted "March", a thick, cold mist suddenly blew out from the passage inside the door.

The group of magicians closest to the door suddenly felt as if the blood in their bodies had solidified, and a huge fear instantly swept over everyone's heart.

Subsequently.

Da, da, da, da, da...

The sound of footsteps reached the magician's ears, and then in the passage behind the door, a strange man wrapped in a black tights, with pale skin like a dead person, no hair on his head, and full of nails, walked out slowly from the thick fog with a metal cube box in his hands. He swept his completely dark eyes over the magicians standing in front of the door who were trembling with inexplicable fear.

The next moment, the space around the nail-headed monster began to distort, and dozens of iron chains with spikes and claws shot out from the void with a pale light. At a speed that no one could react to, they pierced the bodies of all the magicians in front of the door and hung them in the air.

Then, amid the miserable howls of pain from the magicians, the nail-headed monster walked out of the door silently.

At the same time, chilling black shadows emerged from the thick and cold fog behind it.

Accompanied by a man wearing a brown and black top hat, a red and green striped sweater, one hand with a metal claw, and his body covered with burn scars, the nail-headed monster stepped out of the door, showed a terrifying smile, and disappeared in an instant.

One after another, the "butchers" walked out from behind the opened portal.

(PS: Based on your feedback, I've given up on writing "Origami Warriors" - after all, many of you haven't read it, and even those who have read it mostly say it's unpopular and suggest a different one... So, I listened and changed it...

As for the last part of the story, hehe, the portal opened. It was originally going to open in Ginza, Tokyo, Japan, just like in the fantasy Self-Defense Force plot, but~ the evil spirit space also entered the reality at the same time, so... it just happened to collide, which makes sense~!)

The fourth instance: 104. Goddess from Heaven, Delivery to Your Door (5k+)

The layered, infinitely expanding maze, the crucible that bred countless ferocious monsters, suddenly appeared in the underworld three thousand years ago.

Afterwards, the monsters born from the dungeon maze rushed to the surface without restraint, multiplying and spreading all over the world.

Under this sudden disaster, the underworld three thousand years ago undoubtedly ushered in a wave of catastrophic catastrophe. Even though it was originally a world where swords and magic coexisted, humans, elves, dwarves, orcs and other races and civilizations living in the underworld also gave birth to heroes with powerful extraordinary powers.

However, the ancient heroes of various races, whose upper limit is far from the level of the crazy guys in a certain world, are obviously quite stretched when faced with dungeons and labyrinths that produce monsters endlessly, as well as monsters that spread and multiply after pouring onto the surface.

A hero might be able to save and protect ten, a hundred, a thousand, or even tens of thousands of people during a monster invasion, but he or she cannot prevent civilization and a country from falling apart in a doomsday catastrophe, nor can he or she create enough supplies from scratch to support the continued operation of the entire civilization and country.

If nothing else happens.

Next, the "rulers" who occupy the entire world will turn from civilization into barbarism, and intelligent life will be squeezed and expelled to the corners of the world by monsters. In the struggle of fear and despair, in order to survive, they will gradually abandon civilization, wisdom and the most basic morality.

Even if a strong man called a hero can still rely on his personal strength to protect one side from the threat of monsters, he cannot stop this trend.

Even after the demise of civilization and nation, the so-called heroes will be no different from the monsters pouring into the surface of the earth, just the leaders of a certain "herd". The definition of heroes given by civilization and wisdom will become meaningless under the primitive jungle law of the survival of the fittest.

This is how history should be.

However, an accident happened - just as countless monsters were slaughtering the earth, destroying cities, wiping out countries, and ravaging civilizations, in another dimension, in that place that was completely incomprehensible and incomprehensible to the lower world, it could only be referred to as "Heaven".

Among a group of "gods" who were bored to death and no longer wanted to do anything, and just planned to stay at home until the end of time, a low-key otaku suddenly stole the sacred fire from heaven and threw it into the underworld that was about to face the doomsday catastrophe.

The holy fire from heaven has the power to burn monsters to ashes. It is revered as the devil-destroying flame and the fire of miracles by the intelligent creatures in the lower world who obtained this holy fire in despair. There is also a chosen hero holding the sword of the holy fire to resist and destroy countless monsters.

But it still doesn't work.

Because the number of monsters did not decrease, the original chosen hero and his companions were all killed in battle, but he himself was elevated to a long-lasting half-human, half-god life because of the holy fire. He fought alone for thousands of years, endured countless scoldings and contempt, lost himself, and finally withdrew from the stage of history.

Of course, this is not surprising. When civilization has been overturned in the doomsday catastrophe, if one upholds excessively high morals and conscience and does not transform himself into a giant who loves life, he will sooner or later be disgusted by the people.

In short, this is the inevitable result that barbarism will defeat civilization and barbarism will eventually destroy morality and conscience.