Unlimited Cycles of Death: 44. Despair Paradise (11)

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Duan Qun was very obedient and didn’t cause anything to Mu Qin along the way. Mu Qin thought that since he had guessed the relationship between himself and Zhou Yue, he didn’t need to act in the next scene, so he led Duan Qun quickly went to find the exit key.

Without the assassin’s blocking, finding the key became simple and unusual. They came to the security room next to the gate unimpeded, and smoothly swiped the door of the security room with the key card, and found the door key inside—just Put it in the drawer of the security room.

After that, the door was opened, and it was very smooth. Mu Qin always gave the key to Duan Qun for him to open the door. According to the reward point system, Mu Qin knew that the person who opened the door would get more reward points.

After opening the exit gate, Mu Qin and Duan Qun could see outside the gate of the amusement park. There was a long winding road at the gate. As it was still in the dark, the road looked dark at a glance. They are all lush and wildly growing trees and bushes. Under the cold moonlight, this road is almost like a road to some dark hell.

Duan Qun stared at the road outside the gate for a second, and then said to Muqin; "I didn't expect it to be so simple...Is it possible to get out like this?"

"The moment you walk out of the door, you will be sent back to the safe house by the game system." Mu Qin explained to Duan Qun: "There you will rest for three days, and after three days you must start a new game. Yours The system will tell you some basic rules and information you need to know about the fringe world. You can ask the system in the safe house."

"Will I meet you again?" Duan Qun asked Mu Qin.

Mu Qin shook his head slightly: "I don't know if we can meet again. Players in each game are automatically matched and screened by the system."

"It is theoretically possible, right?" Duan Qun meant something, "Since you can appear on the same map with Zhou Yue at the same time."

Mu Qin laughed. He praised Duan Qun’s cleverness. He said: “As long as you enter a new game at the same time, the chance of players being matched to the same map will increase, but it seems that Not 100% can be allocated together, so be prepared for failure."

"So that's it." Duan Qun thought for a moment.

And Muchin continued to tell him some messages from the marginal world: "When you enter the safe house, you will find some strange lettering or graffiti on the walls of the house. That is the imprint left by other players. You You can communicate with other players in this way, and you can ask your system for details."

Duan Qun nodded and said, "Thank you for telling me this."

Speaking, Duan Qun paused, he saw a figure appeared not far behind Mu Qin, it was Zhou Yue.

Mu Qin also noticed that Duan Qun's gaze was behind his back, and followed Duan Qun's gaze to look back at Zhou Yue. Zhou Yue stood under a tree not far away, and the shadow cast by the tree obscured him. After most of his body was removed, the knife in his hand reflected cold light in the moonlight.

Mu Qin quickly retracted his gaze from Zhou Yue, put his hand on Duan Qun's shoulder, and rushed to Duan Qun in a deep tone: "The killer is here, you go quickly."

Duan Qun was very obedient. He raised his foot to step outside the gate, but before stepping out, he suddenly asked Mu Qin a question. He said: "Mu Qin, I can probably guess that you are called Zhou The relationship between Yue’s guys, I don’t want to destroy your feelings, but I want to know... Is that Zhou Yue really worthy of your trusting him?"

This question stunned Mu Qin, but Mu Qin did not hesitate: "Of course I believe him... He is the only person in my life who can believe without reservation."

Duan Qun laughed. He said something that made Mu Qin a little bit stunned. He said: "It would be nice if you can continue to believe in this way forever, but I still hope you can pay attention to Zhou Yue. I think he is a person There is a problem, he is not worthy of your full trust."

Mu Qin is puzzled: "Why do you say that?"

"Because he wanted to kill you." Duan Qun's words made Muqin's heart tremble. "The time he attacked you in the toilet, when I went in to check, you fell on the ground with your head down. And I saw the look in Zhou Yue's eyes looking at you...that was definitely the look that wanted to kill you."

Duan Qun only said this sentence. After he finished speaking, he walked out of the gate of the amusement park. In the next second, his figure turned into a spot of light and dissipated in the air, leaving only Muqin in the park, staring blankly. The light that remained when Duan Qun disappeared.

When Duan Qun left, Zhou Yue, who followed him, also walked to Mu Qin's side, reached out and grabbed Mu Qin in a daze, took Mu Qin's waist and hugged him into his arms, and asked: " What's the matter? Why are you in a daze? Did you say something?"

Mu Qin didn't answer, but lowered his head and thought for a moment. In the end, Mu Qin went solo, raised his head and asked Zhou Yue bluntly: "Zhou Yue, do you want to kill me?"

This question seemed to confuse Zhou Yue to ask. Zhou Yue was stunned, and finally couldn't help but smile: "Why are you asking like this?"

"Don't worry about what I ask, you just have to answer my questions." Mu Qin grabbed Zhou Yue's shirt and looked at Zhou Yue's eyes intently, "Do you want to kill me?"

Zhou Yue didn’t answer this question immediately. He became silent. He held Mu Qin without letting go, and put his head into Mu Qin’s neck, rubbing his face against Mu Qin’s neck, the heat sprayed as he breathed. Sprinkling it on Mu Qin's neck, Mu Qin felt itchy, so he reached out to touch Zhou Yue's hair.

"I want to kill you." Zhou Yue said suddenly, in a dull tone, "I really want to kill you."

This sentence made Mu Qin puzzled. He was not angry, surprised or disappointed, but puzzled. He reached out and touched Zhou Yue's upturned hair, and said: "Why?"

"Because you are dead, you can go back." Zhou Yue said.

Mu Qin became even more puzzled. He reached out and held Zhou Yue's head to prevent Zhou Yue from burying his face in his neck to make an ostrich shape. Mu Qin looked at Zhou Yue squarely: "What do you mean by this?"

Zhou Yue seriously said: "Mu Qin, you are not dead in the real world. Your body is still alive. You still have a chance. You are not a real player in the fringe world, as long as you'end' in the fringe world. , Can be'reborn' in the real world."

"I don't understand what you mean." Muqin shook his head: "I am dead. I first entered the map of the orphanage. After I got out, I was not sent to the safe house but returned to the real world, in the real world. , I forgot everything I experienced in the marginal world. I thought it was just a dream. Then I saw you, and I found that you became a vegetative, lying in the hospital, and I received your mother’s request, I was taking care of you in the hospital. But somehow, a group of people came out trying to harm us. I had no choice but to take you out of the hospital. Then I gave you to my trusted comrades in arms. I was shot by a policeman at the police station. Killed."

Zhou Yue followed and shook his head: "You are not dead, Muqin... The edge world will automatically repair the unreasonable things and characters in the real world caused by the intervention of certain players. The police shot you because of him. Under the control of a player in the border world, that player controlled the police to kill you, but the police suddenly shot you and killed you. This behavior is unreasonable. Therefore, the border world will repair this event and become a powerful force in the border world. You will never die under the influence of ”

Mu Qin really did not understand what Zhou Yue said. Mu Qin said: "Since you said that my body in the real world is not dead, I can return to reality by'ending' in the game. You can do the same!" Mu Qin said, "Your body in the real world is nothing more than a vegetative, you are not dead!"

"I'm not the same." Zhou Yue shook his head slightly, "I am bound in this world. I can't go back to my original body."

Mu Qin had realized that Zhou Yue knew a lot, but he really didn't expect so much.

He stared at Zhou Yue in disbelief: "What else do you know? Zhou Yue, what is going on?"

Mu Qin never directly asked Zhou Yue these questions. In fact, Mu Qin only needs to think carefully, think about the things that happened in the real world before, and you can easily find that many things are connected with Zhou Yue. For example, the blank tarot card, such as the small snake-wrapped cross model on Zhou Yue’s desk, and even the music box made of human bones that Muqin’s psychologist He Qiu gave him. All of these... The weird fringe world is connected together.

Although Mu Qin could guess the details and clues of these clues, he never dared to ask Zhou Yue about the details. He had a weak sense of fear that made him cringe.

But now, Muchin must know this.

"I have always wanted to find a chance to tell you...but this matter is very complicated." Zhou Yue organized a speech. He took Muqin's hand and took Muqin to the side of the paradise road. On the edge of the public rest bench, he immediately pulled Muqin to sit down, Zhou Yue said: "We are sitting here, I will talk to you slowly."

The two people sat on the chairs. After Zhou Yue brewed for a while, he began to talk to Mu Qin slowly. He said, "First of all, I want to tell you, Mu Qin...the edge world, the game we are in. , Players have a chance to escape, and every player has the possibility to escape back to reality...and come back to life."

Zhou Yue said that he did not know the origin of the fringe world, but this huge, terrifying and mysterious game seemed to have formally appeared in people’s vision three years ago. Zhou Yue has the oldest qualifications he has ever met. The player just entered the game a year before him. In other words, Zhou Yue has been in this game for two years, and the oldest qualified player he has ever met has only been there for three years, and even longer, Zhou Yue hasn't seen him.

In fact, some clues can be seen from the number of players given by the system. For example, Zhou Yue's system number is 1309, which means that Zhou Yue is the number one thousandth player in this game. And Muqin's system number is 3780, which means that Muqin is the 3780th player in the game.

If this game has really existed for seven or eight years or even longer, and there are only about 3,000 to 4,000 players in total, it is obviously unreasonable.

But there are actually too few players No. 3780, especially in the middle there will be a large number of players die for various reasons in the game, so in this fringe world, can survive four or five games, and The players who have survived to the present, Zhou Yue estimated that there were only a few hundred people or even fewer, and the rest were almost eliminated.

Bai Lai’s people are really not many, it can even be said to be pitiful.

Furthermore, the time in the fringe world is actually different from the time in the real world. In addition to the fact that the flow rate of time in the safe house is equal to that of the real world time, once players enter a certain map of a game, they will find that no matter how long they stay in the game map, the game map will always be dark and escape. After this map is out, ask the system time again, and the player will find that four or five days or even ten and a half months have passed.

"In other words, if we stay on the map of the game, time will pass faster? We spend half an hour on the map of the paradise. One day may have passed outside, right?" Muqin asked Zhou Yuedao.

Zhou Yue nodded: "That’s probably true. Although I did stay in this game for two years, I actually didn’t feel it myself, because most of the time I was quickly swept across the game map. , So I feel that I just stayed in this game for a few months, and this is the unequal flow of time, giving me an illusion of time."

Mu Qin probably understood what Zhou Yue meant. He thoughtfully said: "That is to say... the accident happened to you becoming a vegetative and lying in the hospital, to you, it feels like It happened a few months ago, but in my opinion, it is already two years ago."

"The question of time is just one of the things I want to tell you." Zhou Yue continued, "The next step is the point."

Zhou Yue said: "In this game, there is something called the Butterfly Throne."

Zhou Yue's words aroused Mu Qin's interest. Mu Qin couldn't help but curiously said: "Butterfly Throne? What is that?"

Zhou Yue said: "Has your system ever told you what kind of world the fringe world is like?"

Mu Qin carefully recalled what he had said to the system, and he replied: "My system told me that the fringe world is a world between **** and dreamland, which is connected to **** and everyone. Dreamland... Actually, I don’t quite understand this sentence."

"Then have you heard a fable? It's called Zhuang Zhou Mengdie." Zhou Yue asked again.

Mu Qin naturally nodded and said: "Of course I know this. I remember... the elementary school Chinese teacher once told this story. It was told by a person named Zhuang Zhou. He dreamed of becoming a butterfly and forgot that he was originally People danced freely in the sky. But when he woke up, Zhuang Zhou began to wonder whether Zhuang Zhou became a butterfly in his dream or Zhuang Zhou in a butterfly dream? It is a very thought-provoking story. "

"The'Butterfly Throne' is just quoting this story, and has such a name." Zhou Yue said, "This is the name given to that'throne' by players in the fringe world, and they all call that'throne' as'butterfly' Throne'."

Muqin frowned and said, "What the **** is the Butterfly Throne?"

"It literally means a large seat. I haven’t seen the specific appearance, but it’s said to be a luxurious chair. There is a certain probability that this chair will be refreshed in a certain map. Like the props or exits in the game, it can be pointed to by the Fool’s card." Zhou Yue looked around the huge amusement park: "The Butterfly Throne has a probability of being displayed on any map, which means that the Butterfly Throne may be at any time. Appearing in this amusement park, it may also appear on other people's maps. Although the probability is very low, some people have seen it."

Mu Qin was very surprised, surprised and puzzled. He asked Zhou Yue: "Why does the system make a so-called'throne' randomly refreshed in a certain map? Does it have any purpose or meaning?"

"This is what I said before, the key to escape from the fringe world." Zhou Yue said in a low tone, "The fringe world game system opens up a'welfare' for players, which tells players that you have a certain chance to escape from the fringe world. , And this throne is the'welfare' given to players by the fringe world system."

Zhou Yue continued to say: "You can imagine the Throne of Butterfly as an exit, a way of escape, an exit that requires props or keys to open or activate."

Mu Qin nodded and looked at the gate of the amusement park not far away. He pointed to the gate and said, "It means that the so-called'throne' has the same effect as the exit gate over there. , But it not only allows us to escape from this map, it can even escape the entire fringe world, right?"

"Yes." Zhou Yue said, "If the Throne of Butterfly is displayed on a certain map, then a'key' that can open the throne will be swiped near the throne. The throne and the key are matched. And the one that opens the throne The key is a tarot card...a blank tarot card. We generally call this card a "white card"."

"Blank...Tarot card." Hearing these words, Mu Qin couldn't help but stared at Zhou Yue with wide eyes: "You have this card! In the real world, that card has been in the drawer of your ward. Inside...but I took it away and put it on my body..."

"Listen to me, Mu Qin." Zhou Yue took a deep breath and continued, "If a player is lucky enough to meet the rare butterfly throne in a certain map, and get the white card that opens the throne, He will sit on the throne with a white card..."

At this point, Zhou Yue stopped speaking. And Mu Qin's heart was completely lifted by Zhou Yue's words, banging in his chest, Mu Qin couldn't help asking: "What then? Sitting on the throne... can you directly return to reality? ?"

"It is not possible to return to reality directly." Zhou Yue continued, "The players who enter the fringe world are basically people who have died in the real world. Their bodies have long been destroyed or have been burned. The corpse furnace was burned to ashes. The Butterfly Throne can indeed bring their souls back to reality, but if players want to return to the real world, they must first have a living'body' as a carrier."

"But they don't have a body..." Mu Qin suddenly realized what Zhou Yue wanted to say, his face was a little gloomy, "They don't have a body, so they can only take other people's."

Speaking of this, Mu Qin seemed to have realized something, he raised his head and stared at Zhou Yue.

Zhou Yue knew what he was thinking, and smiled bitterly at Mu Qin's hands and said: "Yes, I am the one who was robbed of the body by bad luck."

"But your body is a vegetable!" Mu Qin couldn't help feeling a little excited, "This may prove that the guy who wanted to take your body did not succeed!"

"He did not succeed because it was not an easy task." Zhou Yue said.

"The fringe world is not a place where you can escape casually. The will of the world has set strict conditions, so that even if the player succeeds in sitting on the Butterfly Throne, two conditions must be met to go out." Zhou Yuedao, "One is to find a body that can be used to carry the soul, and the other is to find a substitute to be tied to the throne instead of the player."

Mu Qin listened to Zhou Yue's remarks, and he was a little bit clouded. He wondered: "Isn't that throne able to send people back to the real world? Why do you need to find a stand-in to replace the player and be restrained?" /

"The Butterfly Throne is a double-edged sword. It can send you out of the edge world, and it can also bind you to the edge world forever." Zhou Yue said, "So the player sitting on that throne has only two choices. Or just sit there forever, turning into a pile of weathered bones on that chair. Or try to find a substitute to sit on the chair instead of yourself, and then the soul flies out of the edge world, using someone else’s body in the real world Rebirth."

Mu Qin asked Zhou Yue: "Then...what about the stand-in who sits in the chair instead of the player?"

Zhou Yue said: "The substitute can find another substitute. In short...as long as the chair is shown on the map and the first person sits on it, the position will never be vacant after that. There must be...there will always be someone. Sitting on it, even if the person sitting on it has become bones, this is the so-called'Butterfly Throne'."

Mu Qin felt terrified after hearing this: "This is terrible, it is simply a gamble. If you fail to find a substitute and escape successfully, you will have to sit on a chair until you die..."

Zhou Yue gently shook his head and said, “It’s not terrible to sit on a chair until you die. What’s terrible is that if a person sitting on the throne of the butterfly, in this map out of the throne, If he gets the death card and sits on a chair with the identity of a killer... then he really wants to sit on the chair forever."

Mu Qin looked at Zhou Yue anxiously: "It means that you are being watched by such a guy sitting on the Butterfly Throne. He wants your body."

"He not only wants my body, but also wants me to be his stand-in." Zhou Yue said briefly: "That guy is indeed sitting on the Butterfly Throne as a killer. I guess he is on that chair. It has been a long, long time. The Butterfly Throne is extremely powerful. Although it binds the people on the throne, it also allows the people on the throne to invade the dreams of ordinary humans in this world and manipulate the real world. Humans can sometimes manipulate the power of some weak-willed players in the fringe world."

Mu Qin suddenly thought that in this world, those guys who illegally broke into Zhou Yue’s ward and broke into Mu Qin’s home for search, and the police in the police station who shot Mu Qin, I’m afraid it was the throne. The people above use this method to control it.

"What about the white card?" Muqin asked again, "Since the white card is the key to unlock the throne, why does it appear in the real world?"

Zhou Yue said: "Before I entered the fringe world, that is, during the period when I was still serving in the team, that person had frequently harassed me by invading my dreams. At first, I was ignorant. Ignorance, I accepted that person’s invitation in my dream, because he turned into...you in my dream."

"Incarnate into...my appearance?" Mu Qin seemed to realize something, and suddenly stretched out his hand and excitedly grabbed Zhou Yue's chest of clothes, and said angrily: "Would you not be in a dream with that guy... In the dream...what did you do!?"

Zhou Yue also stretched out his hand and coughed awkwardly: "This is not true. I was very happy to see you in my dream at first, so I was a little defenseless, but this guy frequently invades my dreams. It’s a bit strange to always incarnate you and do things like you...cough, tempting things, I think it’s a bit strange, because it doesn’t match your personality, and this person is too pretentious when disguised as you, which makes me unhappy, so I started Perceive something is wrong."