The undeveloped test map β, as its literal meaning, is a game test map under development.

As we all know, in the marginal world, each game map experienced by the player is presented by copying and realizing the scenes in the player's memory.

The edge system tends to replicate scene maps that are associated with participants. That is to say, in a game of six players, no matter which of the six players is a ghost or a person, the game system will copy a realistic scene associated with these six players as the game scene.

The so-called "associated" refers to the fact that six players have more or less touched the same area and the same scene during their lifetime and in the real world.

For example, although these six players may not know each other, they have all eaten in the same restaurant, and they have an intersection in the same scene without their knowledge.

So, with this prerequisite, this restaurant that all six people have visited has a great possibility and will be copied by the edge system as a map scene for the six people participating in the edge game.

"The map must be related to the player" is an important indicator for the map production by the edge system. The reason why the game map is designed in this way is that if the game map is too large or too strange for the player, it may delay the player. The progress of the game caused extreme imbalance in the strength of the opponents of the human and the ghost.

Secondly, if the map is related to the player, then there must be an obvious or hidden connection between the players. The grudges and hatred between people are an effective means of intensifying contradictions. The edge system uses this method. To force players to kill each other.

However, although there are many advantages to making such a map, there are also many disadvantages.

You know, there are not as many players who enter the marginal world and experience the cycle of life and death than people think.

To enter the marginal world, people need to meet two conditions. The first is to become a dreamer by touching the crystal stone or related media; the second is to die after completing the first article and to dream before dying.

After completing these two conditions, you can enter the marginal world.

But these two conditions are not easy to achieve together.

First of all, due to the involvement of the He family, the crystal stone was closely guarded by the guardians of the He family for a long time. The He family made every effort to prevent the pollution of the crystal stone, and at the same time continued to perform many people ’s dreams of lifting People ceremony.

The duties of the guardians of the He family are quite good. So far, the terrible pollution of crystal stones has not spread like an infectious disease. Most people will never know that there is such a thing in the world throughout their lives. A horrible thing.

Secondly, apart from the guardianship of He's family, in the real world there is an intangible power called "rules". Faceless people interpret the power of "rules" as the world's self-correction.

The power of rules is extremely powerful. It is a great and terrible force that even faceless people, even marginal worlds, and even aliens who bring the marginal world to the earth cannot shake it ...

The rules correct excessive interference from the fringe world with the real world. Many ordinary people, even if they have seen and touched the marginal world through some channels, will forget the relevant impressions and memories of that world in a short time.

This is the power of rules at work, which protects most people in the real world virtually. Because of this power, there are many lucky people, even if they have contacted the crystal stone and the media, they have not become dreamers.

However, the protection of the rules is limited. If some people only come into contact with the crystal stones occasionally, they may not be affected by the rules. However, if repeatedly contacted, people with poor mental resistance can easily be eroded by the ability of crystal stones.

Such people will become dreamers.

Once you become a dreamer, it is no longer difficult to enter the marginal world afterwards, because most dreamers will be dragged into the marginal world after death.

It can be seen that if you want to enter the marginal world, becoming a dreamer is paramount. But it was also said earlier that the He family and the power of the rules protect the people of this world. They are doing their best to compress the living space of dreamers and prevent the birth of more dreamers.

With the efforts of the Guardian and the rules, the number of people who become dreamers is very rare, and the people who enter the marginal world will naturally be more rare.

Not to mention that the players who enter the game are mostly in the game, because they are eliminated and murdered for various reasons.

This makes the number of "alive" and "action" players in the marginal world sharply reduced to a regrettable number.

It is very difficult for these surviving, rare players from various regions to find a scene that is associated with these players, and to make a map where they can fight each other. Already.

The edge system is a highly intelligent and self-evolving system. It realizes that the indicators used to make the game maps are flawed, and it replicates the scenes in the player's memory ... It is obviously inappropriate to use this trick to make maps.

It needs to make better game maps, but the creation of this kind of thing, as ai's edge system, is extremely bad at it, so it turned to the edge will, that is, the faceless person, to this so-called "administrator".

Faceless, of course, took this task well. He made a lot of test maps with his own permissions, and the test map β was his unfinished work.

The test map β is not a good work ... it should be said to be a failed product.

Because the test map β is an early work of the faceless person, there are many factors that should not exist in this map. It is a map that the faceless person wants to erase, but there is some perseverance. After that, the faceless person will leave the test map β idle. Then, it was sealed off to make a small enclosed space.

The illegal user hijacked the faceless person's body and hid in the test map β, which is obviously a trap for the faceless person.

The faceless person also vaguely noticed that this was a trap, but the faceless person had to try his own risk. There was no way to let this guy take the body and authority of the administrator to wreak havoc in the fringe world.

The faceless man who went to the Hongmen Banquet asked the edge system to prepare a temporary body for him, and making an administrator's body was too time-consuming and laborious, so this temporary body has only some basic permissions, others are similar to ordinary players.

The faceless person replaced the temporary body shell, and then teleported to the test map β. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the dense forest in the map.

The dark night, the bright moon hanging on the dark curtain, the bright stars, and the breeze blowing slowly.

The branches in the forest were swaying, the trees were mottled in the moonlight, and distant places ... seemed to have scattered howling.

Yes, this test map β perfectly restores the forest when Amu and Axin died 300 years ago.

This is also the reason why the faceless person abandoned this map. When he made the map, he realized that he was too seriously affected by Asin, and this influence even prevented him from maintaining himself.

The ending should not be like this.

The faceless person looked down at his temporary body, and did not know what the system thought, or the intrusive illegal user forcibly modified the beta parameter of the test map, so that when the faceless person entered the test map β, It was found that the system gave him a temporary body, wearing a familiar black dress with a white bow tie and lace cuffs.

A more familiar oil lamp hung on a branch not far away.

The oil lamp was glowing with warm yellow fire. If you look closely, it is the oil lamp that Amuti broke and broke. It was the lamp oil and flame that spilled out that ignited the forest. In the dry breeze, all the tragedies brew .

"This guy is intentional." The faceless man went under the tree branch, reached out to take the oil lamp off, and held it in his hand.

The faceless person speculated to himself: "He obviously knows me well, and also knows about Amu and Axin ..."

"If he really knows everything, then he should ..." The faceless man looked up and looked at a certain position on the edge of the forest, exactly where Amuashin escaped.

The faceless man chuckled: "Wait for me in the burial place of Amu and Axin, did this mean it?"

The faceless person suddenly became curious about the illegal user. His smile on his face was even worse. He walked to the place of death holding the oil lamp. If a faceless person has a mirror in hand, he should really take a good look at his face.

The temporary body currently used by the faceless man is carrying Axin's face.

The test map β has not yet been developed. It only restores the forest that Amuashin had previously experienced. There are also wolves in the forest, but these wolves will only mechanically spin in one place.

Therefore, this forest is quite safe. There is no other danger except that the dense forest is easy to get lost.

The faceless person walked unimpeded along the way, and walked accurately and straight to the place where Amu and Axin were buried in the fire, he did not know why he remembered the route so clearly.

The surrounding dark forest scene, with the oil lamps shaking at the pace, the dim light swings in the forest, the cold and dry breeze constantly blowing on the face, the cold and lonely scene.

As if the whole world is left alone.

In fact, assuming that there is no illegal user, there are really only faceless people in this map.

Faceless people hate this feeling of loneliness.

He is just a thought body born out of desire. He was born to accomplish a certain task. If he hadn't worked hard to live to this day, then he would die after the task was completed.

He has no relatives, no reason, nothing.

Others have their own names, he doesn't; others have their own lives, and he doesn't; others have relatives and friends, and he doesn't.

He doesn't even have his own face.

Why did you give birth, but gave me nothing.