I, Clone
The difficulty of the Proxy War instances had remained one of the most hotly discussed topics among players lately.
Although the top-ranked agents had mostly kept their instance experiences to themselves, plenty of players enjoyed sharing information—or simply making posts to pass the time. This was especially true for agents who had failed to earn enough points and had no hope of advancing to the next round; they did not mind revealing the intelligence they had gathered.
From their descriptions, it was clear that while the Proxy War instances came in all sorts of bizarre forms, they had one thing in common: their difficulty was indeed far higher than that of ordinary instances.
That had been true of the Alien Race Instance Zhang Heng had experienced before, yet until tonight, he had not encountered any real trouble in this instance.
Xu Qian, the person he was supposed to protect, was just an ordinary person. She lived in a third-tier district with good public safety. Although they had run into a few minor problems, none of them seemed particularly serious.
In particular, Zhang Heng had already obtained quite a few leads regarding the stalker, and the investigation was progressing steadily. At this rate, his two-week bodyguard assignment would be easy. Although half of the original game time would still remain after the mission ended, Zhang Heng did not believe that this instance, named Bodyguard, had nothing to do with the bodyguard assignment.
However, until tonight, he had no idea where the deadly trap in this instance was waiting for him.
It was not until Old Man Geng told him about the Memory Encoder and Clones that Zhang Heng vaguely sensed something. He had previously searched for information related to New Shanghai 0297, but had found nothing about Clones. Yet