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    Chapter 18 Chapter 18 “Someone has degenerated again.”…

    “Someone has degenerated again.” Black Spider said in a deep voice.

    Anna Ding cursed and then said: “If this continues, we will be finished… I don’t want to turn into a fish!”

    They were sitting in a cloud, surrounded by many fish swimming freely in the air, and below was a bottomless abyss.

    Everything from top to bottom is contrary to common sense and full of weirdness.

    “Damn game.” Black Spider gritted his teeth, “It even temporarily raised the kill line, causing us all to fall into the dark dungeon without martial virtue!”

    Anna Ding picked out a fish that swam into her hair: “But to be honest, the dark copy was a bit unexpected. As the name suggests, I thought it would be close to the hell in my impression. It is dark and dark, and full of green-faced and fanged ghosts… I didn’t expect it to be an empty sea.”

    “If we weren’t in danger, I would even think this empty sea is spectacular.”

    “It won’t feel spectacular when you degenerate into a fish,” Black Spider continued to control the game panel. “We still can’t contact customer service. We are probably banned and the message can’t be sent out.”

    “Oh.” Anna Ding subconsciously pulled her hair, looking like she wished she could be bald.

    She felt something was wrong as she pinched and pinched her. When she looked carefully, she saw a few scales growing on her palms. The skin between her fingers was growing visibly, and they were about to join together and turn into fins.

    Anna Ding: “!!!”

    Black Spider also saw her change, his eyes widened and he couldn’t say a word.

    “Tsk.” Anna Ding forced herself to calm down from the fright. “The core rule of the dark copy is [degeneration]. Every player who falls in will continue to degenerate until he becomes an ordinary fish in the empty sea.”

    “There are many players who have fallen in with us. They have made many attempts, but these attempts have made them degrade faster… If you struggle, you will immediately turn into a fish, and if you don’t struggle, you will slowly turn into a fish. There is no solution anyway.”

    “Are you going to say such desperate words in such a calm tone?” Black Spider hurriedly checked his body. Scattered scales had appeared in some places. “It sounds like we are bound to die.”

    Anna Ding shrugged: “That’s true, unless…”

    “Unless what?”

    “Unless customer service can give us guidance.” Anna Ding said calmly, but her fingers still couldn’t help but grab the cloud and tear it apart like marshmallows. “But unfortunately, players in the dark dungeon are banned and cannot contact customer service.”

    “That means we can only wait to die, ah, no, wait to degenerate into a fish.”

    “Probably.”

    “Then I hope I can turn into a rat fish, with many spines and not tasty.”

    Anna Ding tried to imitate a paddle with her hands, pulling it in the air, and unexpectedly discovered that she could actually row like a boat: “Let’s row, first go and see if there are any surviving players. There is definitely nothing we can do. If there are more people, we might still have a chance.”

    “Okay.” Ghost Spider accepted his fate. He felt uncomfortable and couldn’t stop talking. He said while rowing: “Tell me, who is Zhang Yu?”

    “How could I know that?”

    “If we can’t get out, will Zhang Yu find that two ‘colleagues’ are missing?”

    “He’s not blind.”

    “It’s still a bit regretful. Actually, I used to be a chef. I originally thought that I could cook for everyone after leaving the dungeon, but I didn’t expect that I would die so soon.”

    “Stop talking.” Anna Ding paused, “At least he’s alive now, don’t say such depressing words.”

    “Same.”

    Black Spider looked at Anna Ding next to him and sighed in his heart, he himself, who is in his thirties, is not as transparent as a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old.

    The empty sea was endless, and the two of them were rowing. Suddenly a strong wind blew, and the clouds were shaken violently. They did not dare to row any more, and they could only hold on to the clouds to prevent themselves from being thrown away.

    After finally waiting for the storm to subside, they were blown into a cloud pile.

    Anna Ding stuck her head out and was about to see what was going on. Suddenly, a fish the size of a car jumped out of the clouds next door and bit her with its big mouth.

    The speed of the big fish was so fast that Anna Ding didn’t even have time to avoid it. She was about to hit her head on the ground. Fortunately, the black spider next to her had quick eyes and quick hands. She jumped up and hit the fish in the mouth with a punch.

    Bang–!

    The big fish was knocked away by his punch, rolled several times among the clouds, and finally disappeared without a trace.

    “Thank you…” Anna Ding was in shock. She was about to say thank you but was suddenly stunned. She looked around and saw countless fish heads emerging from the clouds, and their bulging fish eyes were staring at them.

    They have no eyelids, and their eyes are just exposed, staring at people without blinking.

    If fish could hunt like animals, this would probably be what it looks like.

    The two gasped and huddled on the clouds, daring not to move.

    “Although it’s a little inappropriate, I thought of a dish.” Black Spider said angrily.

    “Huh?”

    “Look up to the stars, you know.”

    “…No, I don’t want to know.”

    “I thought it would be miserable enough to degenerate into a fish, but I didn’t expect that there is an even worse way to die – to be buried in the belly of the fish. I want to go into the belly of the fish to see if there is any silk.” The tattoos on the black spider’s body became active. “I will drag them later and run as far as you can. If you have a good brain, you can still get out.”

    “Don’t be like this.” Anna Ding took out a whip, “I don’t want to say pretentious words…”

    Before they finished speaking, a mechanical sound sounded out of thin air, interrupting their pull–

    [System prompt: You have new unread messages, please check them.】

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    Zhang Yu thought about it, still feeling a little uneasy, and finally turned around and returned to his work station.

    He had occasionally felt something was wrong before, but today this feeling was particularly strong, and it was so big that he couldn’t ignore it. He always felt that he had to do something.

    He didn’t know how to relieve his anxiety, so he could only open his workbench and use his customer service talents.

    The workbench was very quiet today, with almost no players sending messages.

    But just like what is said in the TV series, “If the mountain is not mine, I will be the mountain.” Since there are no players to send him messages, another way of thinking is that he can take the initiative to send messages to the players.

    Zhang Yu suddenly understood and randomly selected a few players.

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Dear, do you need any help here [Rose]]

    After the message was sent out, before Zhang Yu had time to close the dialog box, messages from players jumped out one after another.

    [Player: Yes, yes, please help.】

    [Player: Oh my god, am I dreaming? The customer service took the initiative to send me a message!】

    [Player: Save me, half of me has turned into a fish, and it’s an anglerfish. This fish head is really ugly (sobbing). Even if I turn into a fish, give me the whole swordfish…]

    All kinds of news poured in, and the workbench was stuck. Zhang Yu was stunned. There was no movement from these people during the day.

    He struggled to select a reply.

    [Player: We are in the dark dungeon now. This is an empty sea with fish swimming in the sky!These fish seem to regard us as food and want to eat us. There are only two of us and we can’t resist for long!】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Piranha?!】

    [Player: No…well, it can be regarded as…but not the Amazon piranha you imagined.】

    [Player: Anyway, we are really going to be eaten by fish. Please help us. Is there any way to crack it?】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Pump water, must pump water!】

    [Player: We are in the sky, where does the water come from? These fish do not rely on water to survive. The key is.】

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: Then add water and drown them.】

    [Player: To be honest, we still have some water in our bodies, so we can’t treat ourselves like sugar cane and squeeze out water… Holding my forehead and smiling bitterly.jpg]

    What a hell.

    Zhang Yu was troubled and his facial features wrinkled. Although it was just a game, the players were very involved every time, as if they were really immersed in the game and could not load files and start over.

    He also wants to help the player pass the level, but he doesn’t know how to get water for the player.

    Just when Zhang Yu was at a loss, a new message came from the player in the dialog box.

    [Player: There is water!We squeezed out a lot of rainwater from the dark clouds. These fish are really afraid of water. We are safe for the time being. Thank you customer service!The customer service is awesome!】

    Zhang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

    Other players asked for help in much the same way. Zhang Yu responded one by one and received thanks one after another.

    After finally replying, a new message popped up.

    [Player: Wait a minute, customer service. The rule of this dungeon is that all players will degenerate until they degenerate into fish… We have already started to degenerate, what should we do?】

    Zhang Yu leaned back tactically, and he couldn’t understand what the player meant.

    Online course teachers say that the most important thing for reading comprehension is to grasp keywords, and high-frequency words are often keywords.

    So the key word is [degradation].

    Oh~

    Zhang Yu suddenly realized that he had read popular science among doctors and knew that as we get older, human body functions will deteriorate.

    What the players said probably means the same thing.

    That’s simple.

    [Customer service Xiao Zhang: A reasonable diet and increased exercise can effectively delay degeneration [thumbs up]]

    Zhang Yu flipped through other dialog boxes and found that the players had similar problems.

    How could such a bad game be related to health care? Zhang Yu thought in confusion.

    However, he really didn’t understand the game. Maybe the designer had ulterior motives. He forcibly ignored this violation and tried his best to reply to the players in bulk.

    After replying for a while, he thought about it and set this sentence as an automatic reply, and then he felt relieved to get off work.

    After closing the doors, windows, water and electricity, Zhang Yu hummed a song and left the office building.

    After returning home, Zhang Yu was surprised to find that Tong Guoqiang did not go to set up a stall, but was talking to a middle-aged man downstairs.

    Zhang Yu glanced at him and saw that the man talking to the old man was Zhang Sheng. He had never seen him before and he was probably not a nearby resident.

    Tong Guoqiang listened intently to the middle-aged man’s words and ignored Zhang Yu.

    Zhang Yuye wisely did not say hello and passed behind them quietly. He walked very fast, but he still accidentally overheard half of a sentence that had no beginning or end.

    “…The emperor has paid off, and you and your son will definitely be reunited.”

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