Chapter 120

Chapter 120

They stood in the empty corridor.

There are no windows in the corridor, only the dim light cast by old lamps. The rooms on both sides have closed doors, and a lot of graffiti can be seen vaguely on the walls.

Yu Tang and Zhan Chen looked at each other and walked to the seemingly scrawled graffiti.

There is no pattern to these graffiti. They almost look like lines scrawled by children. The original colors have faded away, leaving only gray traces that are as dim as pencils.

"Host, host." The system asked in a low voice, "How did we get in?"

Yu Tang said: "I just thought about the orphanage in my mind."

This is the only way to move in this space - as long as you outline the complete outline of the destination in your mind, you can be transported there.

Yu Tang already knew it in his mind. He opened the surveillance screenshot in the sea of consciousness and saved the graffiti on the entire wall: "So, it is impossible to reach the last level of this game every time."

This is the space where Feng Qing’s memory is formed.

No matter how powerful the player is, as long as he cannot figure out the outline of other locations, he can only be trapped in a closed space without doors and windows, waiting to be swallowed up by the game world.

Yu Tang and Zhan Chen were responsible for Feng Qing's role respectively. Yu Tang took over Feng Qing's role in the assessment world and learned about Feng Qing's experience before he was seventeen years old. After Yu Tang failed the assessment, Zhan Chen took over the role of Feng Qing and was responsible for his transformation.It’s number 13.

Only when the two of them enter this space at the same time can the final game of the game be unlocked.

Yu Tang recorded the graffiti on the wall, pondered for a moment, and walked towards the stairs.

The system was startled and quickly followed: "Host, host, where are we going now?"

"Dean's office, I need to confirm the time of the orphanage." Yu Tang said, "Senior Zhan, did the people in the wall mention the situation in the orphanage?"

Zhan Chen nodded: "They said that players in the orphanage are not limited by space and cannot be exchanged."

Zhan Chen: "They have tried many times, but to no avail."

Feng Qing's memory has formed many independent spaces, such as hospitals, schools, and laboratories. Each ward and classroom will trap a player in it.

These players cannot leave, and they cannot be alert at all times. As long as the people in the wall seize the opportunity, they will be forcibly dragged into the wall.

Once the exchange is successful, the captured player will replace the person in the wall as a line, and the person in the wall can fill in the color and escape.

Before Yu Tang returned to this space, this exchange had happened countless times.

Yu Tang rubbed his neck and nodded: "Let's gather these people together first."

The reason why I chose to come to the orphanage first is because this is the starting point of Feng Qing's life, and it is his true "home" in Feng Qing's concept.

This space has no time dimension. If there is a so-called starting point, a place with different rules, it should be in the orphanage.

"Senior Zhan, you and the system are looking for someone." Yu Tang said, "We'll meet at the stairs on the first floor."

The system is still a little scared: "Host, is it better to act together?"

Yu Tang patted the system: "Don't worry, Feng Qing is very afraid of ghosts. This should be an ordinary orphanage, not a haunted house..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the light tube above his head suddenly started to flicker as if it was running out of power.

A half-illusory, half-solid white shadow floated past their eyes, and the sounds of chasing and laughing children seemed to drift over in a particularly vague manner across a certain space.

There was a knock on the door.

The end of the corridor is empty, with only smooth walls, but you can hear the sound of childish singing close at hand.

The system was so frightened that it turned off the camera, threw away the shell of the mecha figure, plunged it back into Yu Tang's consciousness, and got into the sack in one go and tied the mouth of the bag tightly.

Yu Tang: "..."

He sighed and took a step forward: "Come out."

The misty singing still continued unmoved.

"There are ten children in the orphanage. Counting Feng Qing, there are eleven in total."

Yu Tang: "There are three girls in it, and none of them can sing."

"My friend is very afraid of ghosts. This is his home. He is not allowed to pretend to be ghosts here." Yu Tang said, "Come out."

He walked forward along the corridor, as if he didn't see the blood flowing out of the wall, and passed directly through countless translucent hands: "You can block my detection, at least for A-level superpowers. Give you three seconds,Get your territory."

Yu Tang: "Three, two, one."

At Yu Tang's feet, with the place where he stood as the center of the circle, it seemed that there was a transparent space that was beginning to shake.

The air twisted strangely, and a shadow quietly emerged, attacking Yu Tang from behind.

Shadow's speed was incredibly fast, and the lancet in his hand was about to cut through Yu Tang's carotid artery, but his body suddenly stagnated uncontrollably.

Shadow raised his head in astonishment and met Zhan Chen's unemotional gaze.

He didn't even have time to react when a sharp tearing pain suddenly came from his shoulder. His half-empty and half-solid body was twisted by his arms, and he fell firmly against the wall, almost breaking all the muscles and bones in his body.

At the same moment, the transparent space around Yu Tang completely collapsed.

The strange singing and the illusion disappeared together.

The system hid for a long time, then carefully poked its head out of the sack, looked outside, and was stunned for a while: "Host, why is it him"

"I've been thinking," Yu Tang said, "The purpose of opening this world is to swallow the players' particles. How could there be such a coincidence that a bolt of lightning could split people into cards."

In front of him, a young student wearing glasses looked frightened and fell to the ground with a pale face.

…

There is still this person in the system's records.

Before Yu Tang entered the game as Feng Qing, they once saw a young student in the game hall who was struggling hysterically and resisting entering the game.

The student shouted that his abilities were of no use. He was so frightened that his body could not stop shaking and his legs were so weak that he could not stand up.

The abilities he displayed were indeed useless - under the system's inspection, he only had the most common ability "instant memory".

Less than three seconds into the game, the unlucky young student was pierced through the chest by lightning and turned into a card with instant memory.

...But now, this young student appears alive again and comes here to pretend to be a ghost.

"I record the causes of death for all players."

Yu Tang said: "The beginning is falling from the cumulonimbus clouds. If you don't do anything, nothing will happen... This world doesn't want anyone to die."

Feng Qing's domain is devouring Feng Qing in reverse. The further back this devouring process goes, the stronger the domain's self-awareness becomes.

Feng Qing’s domain doesn’t want to hurt anyone at all.

Like the doctor who was assassinated by a teammate with hardened powers when he fell and was penetrated by a branch and sacrificed, the game world will not actively harm players, and players will only die from cannibalism.

"At that time, I thought it was a player with lightning powers who took advantage of the chaos and killed you."

Yu Tang said: "Now it seems that this is a play that you directed and acted yourself."

This so-called young student with instant memory powers who was "frightened out of his wits and died of lightning when falling" was actually an A-level psychic who could control illusions.

In order to lower the vigilance of others, he did the opposite and put on a show at the beginning.

He first bought a [Limited Memory] card, hid it on his body, and then deliberately pretended to be frightened by the game and lost his mind in the game lobby.

When he was thrown down from the cumulonimbus clouds with all the players and fell downward through the clouds, he used his ability to create the illusion of being "struck by lightning and carbonized", deliberately being seen by everyone.

In this way, everyone will think that the poor player whose ability is a limited-time memory has died.

He can hide smoothly, lurk in the dark to create illusions, and work with partners who have the ability to teleport to kill other unsuspecting players.

"No...it's not our fault!"

The student looked at him in horror, his face turned pale: "We are using the rules reasonably. This game is supposed to let us kill each other, otherwise we will not survive at all!"

"Don't you also know the rules?" The student looked at Yu Tang and Zhan Chen, "Only ten people can survive in each round of the game. If we don't kill each other, what will we do?"

The student said hoarsely: "What can we do? Do we still have the ability to change the rules of this game -"

"Yes." Yu Tang said.

The student's eyes widened and he looked at him in confusion: "What nonsense are you talking about... is this your first time in this game?"

Yu Tang: "Didn't you realize that after you performed that scene, lightning can really kill people?"

The student's voice was stuck in his throat for a moment.

He seemed to realize something, his expression froze for a moment, and his body suddenly began to tremble uncontrollably.

"Let me guess." Yu Tang said, "The second illusion you created is that this world can eat people, right?"

The student sat on the ground exhausted, sweating.

... After successfully feigning death, he hid with his partner, and unexpectedly discovered that this world can swallow objects that have been in contact for a long time, and can assimilate objects into particles that are indistinguishable from the environment.

They got inspiration and created an illusion that as long as people are exposed to the environment for a long time, they will be swallowed by the world.

Players will panic and lose their composure in this illusion, and can be easily killed by them.

…

The plan went smoothly.

The only weird thing was that shortly after that, his partner met an inexplicable NPC in area C5.

The NPC pulled his partner, as if he was frightened, and repeatedly said that this world can eat people, and if he stops for more than an hour, he will be swallowed by the world.

Not long after that, they discovered that the world was really capable of swallowing people.

"You are both weird and lucky, thinking that you happened to guess the rules."

Yu Tang said: "But in this case, you can't stay where you are for a long time, and you can't wait and see what happened as planned."

Yu Tang: "You decided to start moving, and after leaving the forest, you found that the world would rust."

The student trembled and struggled to open his mouth: "We..."

Yu Tang was right, they indeed discovered that the world would rust again.

To generate an illusion, the most energy-saving way is to use existing environmental factors.They made a second vision, which also covered people's bodies with rust.

Not long after, the second rule was also distributed to everyone's communication terminal.

They actually guessed it right again.

The student shook his head vigorously in fear, and he retorted with difficulty: "But we have never done an illusion where people can fade! We have never done any messy enclosed spaces. We were also suddenly caught in this ghost place. If we don't let the players out as soon as possible,If we reduce our strength to less than ten people, we will never be able to get out..."

"You have indeed never done it." Yu Tang said, "This world just learned to 'devour humans' from you."

The original game world would only swallow Feng Qing's own particles in reverse. It had no clear self-awareness, just like a new electronic storm.

It listened to Feng Qing's words, and Feng Qing taught it that he had encountered a good storm and never hurt anyone.

It only assimilates a small amount of the items it comes into contact with, turning these assimilated items into particles and absorbing them. Occasionally, it accidentally attaches rust to pedestrians, and it will fall off with just a dusting.

But Feng Qing is not awake all the time.

After Feng Qing lost consciousness, the world began to learn from the player.

It learned from players to assimilate and devour humans, so it automatically generated the first rule. It also learned that it could make humans rust and gradually eat away, so it generated the second rule.

It also learned to "dream."

It missed Feng Qing very much. It saw that a VIP player had built a villa and invited passing players to come in and take shelter from the rain. The villa was a half-true dream.

It preserved the space in Feng Qing's consciousness and completely reproduced it in the game world.

This is the dream it gave to Feng Qing.

In each space, it leaves a person to play with Feng Qing.

In Feng Qing's favorite orphanage, it left ten people who would not leave and sealed all exits.

"Impossible...impossible!"

The student shook his head desperately: "Impossible! Didn't you come in from outside? You can go out as soon as you come in. Where did you come in from? Tell me quickly..."

The student staggered up. He had almost lost his mind. He ignored his unconscious partner and rushed to the stairs in despair.

He wanted to go back to the first floor, so he stepped on the steps, but his expression suddenly changed.

The steps beneath his feet became the black and white keys of a piano.

... From the end of the corridor where no window could be seen, the young and clear singing voice of a little girl could be heard, and the clear and clear voice of children laughing could be heard from far and near.

He failed to stop and stepped on the steps, making a particularly discordant note.

The little girl clapped her hands and laughed: "You stepped on the wrong one!"

More and more laughter and clapping sounded, and the student could no longer move, staring at Yu Tang with a pale face: "What should I do!"

"I didn't come to this crappy game voluntarily... I killed people to survive! I just want to survive!" The student yelled, "Help me, I didn't want to do this!"

"I have to ask you this," Yu Tang said, "What are the rules of the illusion you generated?"

The student's voice was full of tears: "I don't know! It's a storybook from the orphanage. I just randomly picked a few..."

His voice was swallowed by the air.

The system's camera was blocked by Yu Tang in time, but it was still afraid and asked in a low voice in the sea of consciousness: "Host, host, how is he?"

"He didn't sing well and was kicked out of the orphanage." Yu Tang said, "He was thrown into another dimension."

The system breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, okay..."

Yu Tang patted the system, stuffed it into a sack, and stuffed a few pieces of bubble gum into the system.

…

In front of him, the color on the student's body faded away like water and merged into the graffiti on the wall.

Losing color, the student's entire outline fell softly to the ground, like a black thread snake, swimming mechanically and getting into the shadows of the background.

Yu Tang looked back.

He stood up straight and walked slowly back to Zhan Chen: "Let's go, Senior Zhan, we have to find the others quickly..."

Zhan Chen stretched out his hand, took him into his arms, and raised his hand to cover Yu Tang's eyes.

Yu Tang froze slightly in the familiar body temperature.

His chest rose and fell, and he asked in a low voice, "Isn't this very energy-consuming?"

"That's right." Zhan Chen said, "I only simulate body temperature, not heartbeat and breathing, so I'll make do with it."

Yu Tang couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

He blinked in Zhan Chen's palm, and his vision was blocked. In the darkness, the sea of light in the sea of consciousness began to flow slowly.

The gorgeous and mysterious light waterfall flows down as gently as running water.

The world is gray because the dream of electronic storms has no color.

Electronic storms are eternal wandering civilizations in the universe. They were born in a certain collapse of the universe and will die in a cosmic explosion that destroys everything.

In their too long existence, they meet humans who can only exist for a moment, and they try hard to make the humans they like happy.

Just like he likes Zhan Chen, he tries hard to learn random things and wants to make Zhan Chen happy.

Feng Qing’s world really likes Feng Qing.

"I've been looking for you for a long time." Yu Tang said softly, "Hold me for a little longer."