Gao Ming had asked casually, never expecting the security officer to give the question serious thought.
Several minutes later, he finally spoke. "First, you need a gaming pod that's no longer in production. Then you have to go to Xinhu and find players who once played the Forbidden Game, and see whether you can get login access. The last point is also the most important: you can only log into and out of the Forbidden Game normally in Xinhu's Smart City District, but outsiders can't pass the Smart City's identity verification at all."
"The Investigation Bureau already knows the Forbidden Game's value, so they won't hand out login access freely. Only investigators with clean backgrounds can enter."
The security officer's words made Gao Ming set aside the Forbidden Game for the time being, but another hypothesis surfaced in his mind.
The Forbidden Game transfers people's consciousness into the game, letting them see an entirely different world. If what Lu Zang said is true, and reality is only a dream, could the deep world the players see in the Forbidden Game be the real reality? Could it be the world after waking from the dream? A possibility occurred to Gao Ming. He was about to ask exactly what was in the deep world when he suddenly noticed something wrong with the security officer's expression.
Bloody stains appeared in the security officer's eyes and gradually spread. Foul-smelling black blood seeped from his eyes, ears, nostrils, and mouth.
"Suicide? No..." Gao Ming forcibly removed the Blood Ring, which was flashing red. Something inside it had pierced the security officer's blood vessels. It seemed to be some kind of poison.
After examining the Blood Ring, Gao Ming roughly understood what had happened.
Something the security officer had just said had triggered one of the