角色故事•四(解鎖條件:角色等級80)
她站在椅子上,擦著街機屏幕,打著圈,一遍又一遍,像是要擦掉每一粒灰塵。
她回到了那家快餐店,那間地下室。她打開門,一切一如既往,女主人為她保留了所有的布置。
粉色的燈光灑落在屏幕上,像是城市裡的霓虹,讓她想起那一夜看見的星空。
她不是第一個登上那座大廈頂端的人,也不是第一個眺望那片星空的人。
她知道「零號」的故事,網絡戰爭年代最偉大的駭客、最可怕的玩家,他引起了第一次全球網絡癱瘓,只為將星際和平公司的押送船叫來自家門口。
她又想起「先哲」,以太編輯技術的創造者,以死者為自己命名的怪人。為了離開星球,他甘願拋棄肉身,攻入黑域,成為一個在星際網際網路中永遠徘徊的幽靈。
她想起「石劍」,廢品山的驕傲,他反抗綠洲區的故事在大荒野家喻戶曉,有人說他最後追隨巡海遊俠而去,在銀河中繼續揮灑叛逆的火花。
還有他的摯愛「孿蛇」,綠洲區的紅人。她的去向眾說紛紜,人們只知出身沒能阻止她和石劍走到一起,銀河卻讓他們最終分道揚鑣。
在朋克洛德,所有被稱作「傳奇」的駭客都走向了同一個終點。
而身為如今的傳奇,她知道自己也已來到那扇門前。
噠、噠…她聽見頭頂傳來腳步聲,逐漸靠近、靠近……
一個人、兩個人、三個人、四個人。
一個男人、一個女人、一個鐵皮人,還有……
她坐下來,轉過身,看向空空蕩蕩的地下室,看向門邊的那個人——
「我加入。」
Character Story: Part IV
• Unlocked at Character Level 80
She stood on a chair and dusted the screen of the arcade machine in circular motions again and again, trying to wipe away each particle of dust on it.
She returned to that fast food restaurant, to that basement. She opened the door, and everything was where they used to be. The proprietress kept all the arrangements for her.
The soft pink light spilled on the screen like the neon lights in the city, reminding her of the starry skies she saw on that day.
She was not the first to reach the top of that building, and not the first to have gazed upon those starry expanses.
She knew the story of Zero, the greatest hacker and the most terrifying player in the era of Internet Wars. He caused the first global network paralysis just to summon the IPC's escort ship to his doorstep.
She thought of Sage, the creator of the aether editing technology, a weirdo who named himself after the dead. To leave the planet, he was willing to discard his physical flesh, raid into the Dark Zone, and become a wraith eternally wandering the Interastral Network.
She recalled Stoneblade, the pride of Mount Scrap. His tales of resisting the Oasis Zone were oft-told among families in the barren land. Some said he eventually left with the Galaxy Rangers, continuing his rebellious spark in the galaxy.
His lover, Twinsnake, a celebrity in the Oasis Zone. Her whereabouts were widely disputed, and all people knew was that their birth could not stop them from being together, but the galaxy eventually parted them.
On Punklorde, any hacker who can be called "legendary" has ended up with the same fate.
As the legend of the current era, she knew that she has already arrived at that threshold.
Clop, clop... She heard footfalls coming from above her, getting closer, closer...
One, two, three, four people.
A man, a woman, a metal humanoid, and...
She sat down, turned around, and looked around the empty basement one last time, before turning to the person at the door...
"I'll join."
The game called Punklorde ended that day.