When enveloped by the white teleportation light, Su Mingan noticed something was wrong.

Usually when he is teleported, there will be a strange sense of flow around him, and the frequency of this sense of flow is fixed and the direction is the same.

But at this moment, he found a sense of disobedience.

... This time, the direction of flow seems to be different.

Before he could feel it carefully, he felt a blackness in front of him.

After the teleportation white light faded away, he quickly opened his eyes,

Total darkness.

The place he was in was a pure pitch-dark space.

He bowed his head, there was no real feeling of landing under his feet, he was floating in the void.

In the upper right corner, the live broadcast that should have been opened is now closed, the bullet screen frame is empty, and there is not a single bullet screen that should have been reporting the flowers.

The system time was still running, he glanced at it, and his time did not stand still.

However, in this dark space, people will have a kind of airtight fear, like being in the bottom of the sea where they can't see five fingers.

He stood silently in the void, did not speak, and there was no violent expression change on his face, just waiting.

About ten seconds later, a pink light appeared in front of him.

Long ears, white fluff, a giant body, and noodle-like limbs, the white fluffy figure moved slightly, revealing a pair of **** eyes.

The boss rabbit with a blood-red scale on his chest appeared in front of him.

Su Mingan looked at it.

"Are you going to have a candlelight dinner here?" He looked around, but it was still pitch black where his fingers could not be seen clearly: "Not even the lights."

Boss Rabbit opened his blood-red eyes, rolled his beautiful eyes, and gave him a "gentle" smile.

Such a gentle smile, which appeared on the funny face of Boss Rabbit, looked very unusual.

"The eighth world, the world of peak competition." It said, the voice had a mechanical fitting texture, and the tone was not as yin and yang as usual, but it looked mechanical and cold: "——The ruler, in this world, you shoulder the burden of additional tasks."

Su Ming'an's expression did not change.

He had already guessed that when he called himself into a space alone at the beginning of the game, there must be something else to say.

...is it the task of those in power?

Previously, the quests for those in power were all received directly through the system prompts, but this time, the Boss Rabbit actually needed to award them to him in person.

"In this world - you need to designate your own clone to replace an NPC in the eighth world. After replacing an npc, your clone needs to temporarily act as an npc, walk around the venue of this world, and observe the entire the structure of the world."

Su Mingan listened, a little surprised.

——In this world, he will have two identities of [NPC and player] at the same time.

The main body participates in the competitive game as a player, and the clone wanders around the field as an NPC to observe.

He remembered that in the past, the mission of the ruler was to protect a certain NPC, or to reach a certain place - to guide him along the most difficult plot line, so that he could complete the most hidden plot clues.

Now, his role as a ruler seems to be a step up.

...he was given the task of "observing the copy". Similar to the task of a programmer who runs a program after it is written to fix bugs.

Walk around the field, observe dungeons, and dig up secrets to see if there are "bugs" in the world.

This is one level above the previous "player", similar to the task of the game watcher.

"I'm... upgraded to a GM (game manager)?" Su Mingan said.

"It doesn't count." Boss Rabbit continued, his voice still cold: "Master, your avatar can only roam the field as an NPC, responsible for observation and recording, not to modify the rules of the game, and not to interfere in the game."

"Are you an outsider?" Su Mingan narrowed his eyes: "Question, after I become an NPC, can I still be my help in battle?"

He has realized that if his clone runs to be an NPC observing the world, how can he summon the clone to help him fight?

And... given the specificity of this mission.

This clone skill looks even more suspicious.

After all, with its bug level, it doesn't look like something that can be fished out in a red-level skill pool. This is still his lucky E-rank at the beginning, a skill that goes into the soul at once.

But... if the clone skills are different, logically, it is difficult to make sense.

What is it... He became the ruler because he acquired the clone skill. Or was it because of his status as a person in power that he possessed this dual-line operation skill from the very beginning? Or, the clone skill is just an accident, is it really a good thing that he accidentally caught with his E-level luck?

Boss Rabbit's eyes turned red.

It answered his question in a robotic tone:

"Answer. No." It said: "Since your clone skills are therefore unavailable in the eighth world, to be fair, the game will supply you with additional benefits."

"What benefits?"

"Secret."

"It's not good." Su Mingan spread his hands, his tone was a little helpless: "As a person in power, in the world of 100-player competition, I would be suppressed like this. My most critical professional core skills were banned because I became an NPC. , and the benefits as compensation did not inform me... For me, this start is too unfair. It makes me a little sad..."

His emotions came as he said it, and his tone was full of indignation at this "unfairness".

"No, our game." Boss Rabbit's tone was flat and interrupted him directly: "Absolutely fair."

...a familiar answer.

Su Ming'an slightly restrained his emotions.

"For you, this compensation is equal to the cost of temporarily losing your clone skills. As long as you live, you will definitely experience it." Boss Rabbit added: "And, you don't completely lose your clone skills, you will still have the right skills. The control of the clone, after the clone completes the inspection task in the venue, you will regain absolute control of the skill."

"Is that so..." Su Mingan nodded, and suddenly raised his hand like a studious pupil: "Question. How far can I control the NPC clone?"

"As long as it is within the scope of the world inspection mission, you can test it as you like." Boss Rabbit said lightly.

Su Mingan understood.

That is to say, it is equivalent to his avatar taking an additional task of "pretending to be an NPC to inspect the venue", as long as it is within the range allowed by the system, he can still control the avatar.

...In this way, for him, it's just that the clone cannot participate in the competition between players as a direct combat power, nor can it be used as his resurrection double.

But he gained an NPC who could roam around the venue and collect clues, as well as a secret compensation.

Moreover, his main gain is not actually in this aspect, but in information.

He seems... to have jumped out of the level of pure "player", and some have moved closer to the order and design of the dungeon itself.

Although for now, it's just a venue for "wandering" and "observing" copies.

...but after that? What about after taking it to the next level?

"Powerful", as the highest-level identity, is not as simple as being limited to NPC favorability, it seems to have vaguely involved the copy aspect.

The Boss Rabbit stretched out that big fluffy white hand.

A giant blue screen lit up in the dark void.

On the screen, a white streamer appeared, outlining transparent figures, with names marked below those figures.

[Day Chess], [Day Calendar], [Kelsey], [Broken], [Meiya Tu], [Liu Changqing], [Ghost Old Special], [Guang Li], [Rococo], [Qin Huanya]… …

There are thousands of densely packed names, like white ants, appearing on this huge blue screen. This huge screen is unfolded, and the bottom layer is directly displayed in the darkness under Su Ming'an's feet.

On the light screen, these figures have different shapes, both men and women, young and old.

And the clothes on them are even more "mixed between Chinese and Western", including armor, robes, commoners, sacrificial robes, cheongsam... Su Mingan even saw someone wearing Hanfu, Lolita, bikinis...

This scene where the characters are arranged in a dazzling array of images is like "please choose your hero".

It looks dazzling.

"These are the npcs in the eighth world." Boss Rabbit said: "You can choose a replacement for your clone in it. After the replacement is successful, your clone is best to inspect without causing suspicion from other NPCs. Venue - because once the clone is killed by any unit before completing 100% of the inspection progress, it means that the mission of the person in power has failed."

"So it is." Su Mingan nodded.

At this moment, he finally understood why he needed to take over the task of the ruler in a separate space.

Because if this quest is received inside the copy, players who are hiding next to it may find it. This group of players might try to kill his clone NPC.

He immediately began to carefully screen these NPCs of various shapes and choose suitable replacements.

Frankly speaking, looking at the NPCs in the whole world in this way, you can probably judge what type of world this is.

But judging from the appearance and clothing of these people, Su Ming'an was completely unable to make a definite judgment.

…These people, dressed in a “hodgepodge of cultures”, not only mix Chinese and Western, but also combine ancient and modern. Apart from roughly judging that this is not a future technological world, there is absolutely no way to see what kind of world this is.

There was no introduction to these characters, only their bare names, so that he could only judge the general identity of the other party from the clothing.

Su Mingan thought for a moment.

First of all, if you want to choose an alternative NPC, you must not choose the one that looks like the big boss of the camp. The big boss has many subordinates around, and it is easy to see that something is wrong with the clone.

Second, you can't choose the one that is particularly weak, otherwise, once you show strength that is not in line with yourself, it will also arouse suspicion.

Third, choose the ones that seem to have simple interpersonal relationships, and don’t have familiar seven aunts and eight aunts around.

Fourth, you can't choose someone who looks like a bully. The clone should try to avoid fighting with the players in front of the list. After all, everyone is familiar with the skills of the clone.

Su Ming'an's thinking is very clear, but looking at the row of NPCs with only names, he is a little bit troubled.

Through the previous copies, he has understood that it is not advisable to judge a person by appearance, and to judge a person's identity from appearance is a very stupid behavior - after all, in the seventh world at the beginning, who would have thought that the beginning seemed to be mediocre. Viscount, will it be the final boss of the Lord of Clouds?

So, simply judging the identity from the characters on this panel is also a very blind act.

He raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at the boss, Rabbit, who was looking at him calmly.

The rabbit's pair of eyes flashed mechanically under the pink light. At this time, it did not have the spirituality of the past, just like a rabbit-shaped robot.

...like a machine possessed and manipulated by a behind-the-scenes person.

"You still have two minutes to choose." Boss Rabbit said: "Now, all players are in the distribution of their initial identities, and in two minutes, everyone will be teleported uniformly."

Su Ming'an looked at this panel again, still thinking - just looking at the appearance of the character, it is impossible to choose, which is almost equivalent to blind selection.

If he entered the copy to confirm the identity of the NPC and then went back to the file, he was worried that the time would be too late.

But after thinking for a moment, he had a new idea.

From a game mechanics perspective...he might have a better option.

Try it first, if it doesn't work, just choose one, you won't lose if you try it anyway.

"Boss Rabbit... No, the organizer." Su Ming'an raised his head: "Can I know the information about this dungeon in advance?"

"No, you still have one minute and forty-five seconds to choose." Boss Rabbit said.

...can't get any information ahead of time?

Su Ming'an's eyes swept across the screen quickly.

He has already learned that, according to the copy of Baicheng in the second world and the copy of Terry Town in the fourth world, a pure "competitive" world will need a "guide" to introduce the rules of the whole world.

In the White City dungeon, the boss Rabbit came to introduce the rules to each player team personally.

In the dungeon of Terry Town, it was the key person "Mayor" who introduced the rules of day and night to the players with a vague attitude.

...and according to the clues that Noel told him, the eighth world is obviously a multi-dungeon game, and it is necessary to collect things like 'Silver Stars'. If you convert 'Silver Star' into 'Faction Points'... Obviously ~lightnovelpub.net~ The rules of this world should be a copy similar to passing levels, which requires players to go through a small level, And use this to formulate the rules for deciding the final 'sole' winner.

Based on what Boss Rabbit just said, 'in two minutes, everyone will be teleported uniformly', he can guess that - in a multi-dungeon competitive world like the Eighth World, the dungeon needs a first, unified rule. Introducers' to allow players to identify the rules for collecting 'Silver Stars'.

This 'rule introducer' may be an NPC in the original dungeon world, but in this way, this NPC that introduces such an overly gamified mechanism will be somewhat ooc.

Therefore, he believes that it is more likely that the copy of the eighth world will reproduce the situation of the copy of Baicheng.

...that is, let the boss rabbit introduce the rules at the beginning.

Then, as the first introduction to the rules of the White City, Boss Rabbit...

- Does it count as a replaceable "npc"?

Su Mingan found that he seemed to have found an optimal choice.