??726: Chapter 726: The Second Batch of Players
726: Chapter 726: The Second Batch of Players
“The weather is indeed a bit odd; it feels like the sun ca out shortly after it wasn’t there,” Long Aotian also took off his clothes, revealing a vest and the black number on his back.
He didn’t care at all about others seeing his number; in fact, he conspicuously showed off his modified tattoo.
“Although the number can’t be tattooed, the area around it can.
What do you think of my fierce beast erging from its cage?”
Most people didn’t care about his tattoo; only Jie Ling looked at it curiously for a mont and said, “I wanted to get a tattoo before, but my boyfriend was against it, so I didn’t.”
“Girl, that’s not good.
You shouldn’t give up on what you want to do for a partner.” Long Aotian took a sip of water.
“If my girlfriend didn’t allow it, I’d definitely break up with her.”
“It’s all the sa whether we break up or not, since he’s already dead,” Jie Ling said with little concern.
“That’s rather harsh,” Long Aotian said with a aningful tone.
“It wasn’t ,” Jie Ling quickly explained, “Kill soone over a tattoo?
I’m not that insane.
He got himself killed by showing off after evolving.”
“Cool!” Long Aotian gave a thumbs up.
Jie Ling bashfully smiled and glanced at the ti, “It’s already noon.”
Indeed, they had left the Wax Figure Gallery at dawn when it was only six in the morning.
eting up with others, resting, and now heading to the Human Model Tower shouldn’t take six hours.
“Could our perception be off?” The middle-aged man quickly checked the ga panel, “The ti on the watch and the ga’s instance ti match up.”
Their watches were often adjusted according to ga ti after they arrived at the instance, so a match between the two indicated no problems.
Moreover, many shops in Museum City, as well as so public resting places, had tirs, and the ti on those tirs matched theirs as well.
“Could we be too fatigued?” Xu Ruosi said: “It’s impossible that even the ga system ti is wrong.”
If the ti was correct, then they were all experiencing a collective perception issue.
Xu Huo looked at his short shadow below and then suddenly turned towards the entrance of Museum City.
A mont later, the long-haired individual said, “Soone’s coming, and there’s quite a number of them!”
By then, most of those present had noticed the sa, exchanged looks, and imdiately sensed trouble.
They quickly hid in a shop nearby.
Xu Huo chose a small two-story dessert shop next door.
He silently went upstairs and picked an appropriate spot to observe the direction of the main entrance.
The doors of Museum City were pushed open from the outside, and a group of about a dozen players filed in.
Like them the day before, these people didn’t rush around after arriving but gathered to observe the overall structure of Museum City.
“Why are so many players arriving again?” Long Aotian, who followed Xu Huo, only spoke after taking out a Silencer Prop.
“Have you ever encountered instances where players are split up into different batches before?” Xu Huo asked without looking back.
“Apart from random instances, aren’t fixed instances only opened once?” Long Aotian was puzzled too, “If there’s a sequence, everyone’s instance progress is different, and everyone would suffer a loss.
The ga wouldn’t play out like that.”
“Fixed instances, fixed modes, are only in a general sense; it never said it’s absolutely impossible,” Xu Huo mumbled to himself.
Sifang Palace was an example, but Shared Vision was a survival instance, so the situation was different.
The “1/6” on the ga panel hadn’t changed; they indeed had reached one-sixth of the task progress.
At this rate, any new players coming in would lag behind in progress, and there’s also a chance of being ambushed by players who arrived earlier.
Likewise, if the earlier players were injured, the newcors would pose a threat…
Could the Museum City instance operate in this manner?
If new players kept entering every day, wouldn’t this instance never close?
Considering the size of Museum City, the number of just ten or twenty players seed small.
If new people arrived daily, in the long run, Museum City might indeed turn into a bustling ga city.
“But since we ca first, we have the upper hand, right?” Long Aotian added.
Xu Huo thought of the two fresh corpses in the Wax Figure Gallery.
Did they arrive early on the sa day, or had they co the previous day?
“Should we et up with these people?” Long Aotian asked, “Energy is limited, and the chances of clearing the ga are bigger with cooperation with others.”
Indeed, although cooperating with players ca with certain risks, the mortality rate of this instance was too high.
With so many galleries still unknown, and uncertainty about which of the remaining five were part of their progress bar, they needed to consider cooperation overall.
“We’ll talk about it later,” Xu Huo moved away from the window, descended the stairs, and quickly checked another shop nearby.
“What are you looking for?
Just say it, and I can help,” Long Aotian said hastily.
“A date,” Xu Huo said.
“Besides the ti-telling clocks, there seems to be no calendar in Museum City.”
Neither paper nor electronic.
“Is the calendar that important?” Long Aotian didn’t understand, “Can’t we just look at the date on the ga panel?”
The date on the ga panel was perfectly normal.
Xu Huo couldn’t articulate any specific misgivings, but driven by intuition, he searched from one shop to another.
The group of players who had just arrived had moved towards the crossroads.
Jie Ling and others ca back to et up with Xu Huo, and after hearing about searching for a calendar, Xu Ruosi said, “I have a ti-display prop.”
She took out what looked like a paper calendar, with dates on the front of the grid paper and ti on the back.
“Each ga zone’s year, month, and day numbers are not the sa.
Generally, devices like our own watches could adjust the ti, but the year, month, and day calculations in the zones are more complex.
Rarely would clocks or tirs include this function.”
“This prop can automatically adjust the date and ti based on the Wormhole Points and location in the zone.”
As she said this, she pressed the button on top of the prop and the ti digits on the paper quickly began to change, soon halting at twelve fifty-three.
“The ti matches.”
Next was the date.
The year and month in front, as well as the ga panel, all matched up, but when it ca to the specific day, the numbers on the prop differed from the ga panel.
The group fell silent for a mont.
Long Aotian said, “Maybe your prop is broken?”
“Impossible,” Xu Ruosi pressed the button again, and it still showed the sa number.
After trying twice more, she had to admit, “The prop’s date is one day earlier than the ga ti, so maybe the prop really has an issue.”
“Is it really the prop that has an issue?” Jie Ling turned to ask Xu Huo.
Xu Huo shook his head, “I’m not sure; let’s head to the Human Model Tower first.”
Though he seed composed, his mood had certainly taken a turn for the worse.
An entire day’s discrepancy doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, especially when it cos to ti.
Although “ti” is a concept invented by human beings, the ga operates under ti rules, and the ti provided by the ga panel can’t be wrong, so the problem must be with Museum City.
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