On the other side, the player lobby.
The Death Guild and the remaining individual players were waiting to leave the dungeon. There was a flash of white light, just like the countless times they had left before.
But when they opened their eyes, they were all stunned.
"what happened??"
The original player lobby was luxurious and tidy. The entire lobby was circular. Although it only had one floor, it was nearly twenty meters high. The huge crystal chandelier reflected golden light. There were tables, chairs, sofas, and a separate bar... This was the place with the most frequent flow of people in the entire game, and it was maintained very carefully.
There are hundreds of screens hanging on the thick pillar in the middle that is so thick that ten people can hug it. Various information is scrolling on the screens in real time. Usually, this place is crowded with players carrying paper and pens.
But now, this luxurious player hall seems to have been affected by the war. Half of it has been smashed. The huge pillar called "base pillar" that used to be intimidating has been broken into two halves, and the dome is exposed. What can be seen is not the sky that is usually seen, but a data stream composed of 0s and 1s like leakage. There are wisps of black air lingering above the broken walls, and the surroundings are not silent, as if countless ghosts are crying.
The door of the main entrance to the player hall is now broken, and there are several people wearing red robes and dressed strangely standing there.
"Oh my god! Seven 'Red Devils'?" Someone from the Death Guild exclaimed.
Following his exclamation, the seven "Red Devils" who had been gathered together as if they were having a meeting finally discovered the new wandering soul that had appeared here.
The leader waved his hand expressionlessly, and the other six people immediately came over with chains in their hands.
Before the players could react, the first chain was put around one of them's neck.
"What are you doing?! You're looking for death!"
After so many years in this game, no player is a pig or sheep that can be slaughtered at will.
Immediately, some players started to curse and took out their items, preparing to use their skills.
The "Red Demon" who was trapping people obviously had experience in this area. He snorted coldly and tightened the chain in his hand suddenly.
There were screams and angry shouts everywhere.
In the past, players who could clear the fifth-level dungeon could be considered the best among players. But at this moment, there were only six of them. However, the chains they threw out seemed to be the rarest and most powerful items. The players could not break free and could only follow them involuntarily and walk away.
Through the door of the ruined base hall, there was a strange dark red light outside.
A blood-red sun hung in the sky, and the screams of ghosts could be heard from somewhere around.
Some players were escorted away in a hurry and left behind their props.
A pale hand picked up the prop, looked it over, and sneered.
"What kind of playthings?"
Yan Sui flicked his fingers lightly, and the tool turned into a black gas that mixed with the surrounding black gas.
All the props and skills in this so-called infinite game are nothing more than the Yin energy stolen from the underworld.
Such a thin wisp of Yin energy has become a precious prop that these "players" scramble for
It's really nonsense.
At this moment, after escorting the "prisoner", someone immediately came back to report: "Sir, the group of wandering souls just now said that Sir Jie is currently in the dungeon and will be out soon."
Yan Sui sneered again.
However, Jie Fangcheng has a special status in the underworld, and his fighting power is a mystery. It is said that he committed so many murders that he attracted heavenly thunder when he was still on earth, but he managed to withstand it with his mortal body.
It's scary enough when he's a human, and even scarier when he's a ghost.
I never saw that even though he had committed so many sins of killing, he was still re-employed as a civil servant in the underworld.
This strength alone is enough to make many people shut up.
"Wait here. We are waiting for Mr. Jie to come."
Just as he finished speaking, a man in a purple robe, wearing a five-colored crown and looking quite heroic approached rapidly at the speed of ten miles per step in the distance.
After arriving at the ruined player lobby, the person asked, "Is Jie Fangcheng not out yet?"
Several people saluted hurriedly: "Master Xue."
Xue Li said no more. He stood still and waited quietly, obviously waiting for Jie Fangcheng to come out of the game.
Yan Sui is the judge who just took office in recent years.
The underworld is short-staffed. The great war that year was so chaotic that only four of the Ten Kings of Hell were left, and the Lord of Mount Tai has not shown up since that day.
The upper class was in such a tragic state, and a large number of ghost officials were missing.
Nowadays, although there are modern facilities to help, the leaders of several departments are busy like spinning tops, especially when they suddenly discovered this infinite game -
I don't know how this thing was made, or maybe the judge noticed that there was suddenly one person missing.
The underworld is different from the human world. There are Sky Eyes to check surveillance, but the underworld has its own way of finding people. They soon discovered that Lang Gu’s breath disappeared in the area where ghosts serve their sentences, which people call "hell."
Everyone checked and found that the number of ghosts in the hell where executions were supposed to be automatic did not match.
Not only were there fewer new ghosts, but there was also a person no one expected.
The cause of the war in the underworld that year was also an absurd thing.
Heaven and hell seem to be two worlds that do not interfere with each other on the surface, but in fact they are very closely connected.
To put it in modern terms, the Heaven is responsible for the titles of all officials in the Underworld, and when the gods from the Heaven come down to earth to experience tribulations, they have to come to the Underworld to work on their relationships, get a good birth, and make it easier for them to survive the tribulations.
This matter had been going on for who knows how many years, but in that year, a god from heaven came down to earth to transcend the tribulation. It was clearly arranged, but the god died on the day he was born.
He really died young. Not even his body, soul, or spirit were recovered. It was as if he had been wiped out from the world.
The gods were furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter.
At that time, everyone thought that the matter would be over soon. No one expected that as they investigated, they would find something wrong.
There are too many traces of changes in the Book of Life and Death.
The ghosts who had committed many evil deeds in their previous life and were sentenced to be reborn as animals in this life were unexpectedly reborn into wealthy families; the ghosts who had been kind and charitable in their previous life and could have enjoyed wealth and luxury in this life were turned into pigs, cows, or sheep, and were slaughtered at the mercy of others.
Soon, the person who altered the Book of Life and Death was discovered.
That was not done by one or two ghost officials with such authority, but by countless ghost officials who were lying on the Book of Life and Death and sucking blood.
They are very skilled at stealing and changing the fate of the gods in the divine world. They are so skilled that they can not only change the fate of the gods, but also use this "tactic" to gain more benefits.
Promotion of ghost messengers depends on their ability. The mainstream way to improve their ability is to complete more tasks and work more, accumulating little by little over time.
But such promotion is too slow.
The power to change the Book of Life and Death can bring greater benefits to the ghost officials.
For example, extortion may bring a faint golden light of merit, which is not enough to ascend to become a god, but is only enough to guarantee ten lifetimes of glory.
How dare the ghosts resist? In this case, wouldn't the golden light of merit go into the pockets of those who need it
For the ghost messengers, changing fate is too easy and too skillful.
When the truth is revealed, no one even thinks it’s a big deal because there are so many people doing this.
No one expected that the Dongyue God, who always seemed to have a good temper, insisted on executing all the ghost officials who had done such things according to the law.
There was an uproar.
Not only did his persistence fail to gain the approval of most people in the underworld, even the gods sent people to lobby him, trying to make him give up this idea.
The Lord of Mount Dongyue ignored the issue and insisted on dealing with it.
If that were all, it might be a major purge under his iron fist.
But as he was dealing with it, he discovered a more serious problem.
The underworld is deeply influenced by the divine world, to the point where the gods' words are more effective than his.
Can't go on.
Originally it was just a purge, a "activity" to clean up the rotten flesh... until -
Yan Sui secretly looked at the Ten Kings of Hell beside him, and couldn't help but whispered: "Sir, we will guard this place. When Manager Jie comes out, we will notify him and let him find you. If you have something to do, go and do it first."
Hearing him say this, Xue Li just shook his head.
"You do not understand."
Having said this, he continued to stand there quietly.
Yan Sui and his group of newcomers are all from the Qing faction. After the underworld experienced such a great war, the power of the Qing faction has always been in the upper hand. He is also a firm supporter of "doing everything in accordance with rules and regulations."
In their eyes, Jie Fangcheng, a person who basically does not abide by the rules and regulations, is like a grain of sand mixed in with pearls. He is as unpleasant to the eye as possible.
It was rare to have a conversation with an elder of Xue Li's level. Yan Sui hesitated again and again, but still spoke: "Master Xue, this Manager Jie is originally a fierce ghost, and his original body is still suppressed under the statue. Why let such a person in? What did he do this time?"
Ever since the Infinite Game was exposed, the underworld has been trying hard to break through the defense system of this thing and also accepted some ghosts.
Through these people's descriptions, everyone finally discovered that Jie Fangcheng, who originally said he was retiring and going on vacation in the human world, had actually entered this game.
Not only did he get into this game, he also thrived in it.
This is totally against the system!!
In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the great war in the underworld, the underworld had long ago stipulated that ghost officials were strictly prohibited from having private relationships with ghosts.
But look at what Jie Fangcheng is doing
He was having a lot of fun with a bunch of wandering souls who should have been sent to the underworld for trial. He added them as friends, made friends with them, and even suspected that he had a boyfriend? !
What is this? This is a serious violation of discipline!!
This kind of people are a cancer! They should be suppressed!
Yan Sui became more and more angry as he spoke, and Xue Li listened quietly. After Yan Sui finished speaking, Xue Li simply said, "He can't die."
"Why??"
"If he dies, the next one to die will be Dongyue Divine Lord." After saying that, Xue Li didn't want to continue explaining, "I know what you think, but don't say it next time."
Yan Sui was stunned.
Xue Li just looked at him: "Jie Fangcheng might beat you up if he heard this, so for your own sake, don't say it next time."
Yan Sui: “…”
Just as the two were talking, suddenly, the ground shook violently.
The shaking seemed to come from deeper in hell. The entire player hall was like a broken building block. With the shaking, the already shaky pillars collapsed again and hit the exit point of the player hall.
Yan Sui asked nervously: "What's going on?!"
On the other side, Xue Li was also stunned for a moment, and then his face changed immediately.
"Oops!"
.
In the white mist, at the entrance of the temple.
Jie Fangcheng gently placed Wei Yuan's body on the ground.
In front of him, after Lang Gu killed Wei Yuan casually, Qiao Mai rushed forward like crazy. Seeing that the silver fork in his hand was about to stab him, Lang Gu waved his hand.
With a "clang" sound, Jie Fangcheng's giant sword blocked his freehand swing, and the sword body and Lang Gu's fingertips intertwined, making a sound almost like weapons colliding.
After just this fight, Xie Fangcheng frowned.
"Stay away!"
After saying that, Jie Fangcheng rushed forward again with the huge sword in hand.
The wolf didn't even try to hide and just fought with him.
White mist filled the air as two figures attacked each other very quickly. All people could hear was the sound of weapons clashing.
"Is Lang Gu... so strong?"
Someone asked in shock.
Zhang Daoan already understood.
It’s not that Lang Gu has become stronger, but that the dimension is different.
It’s like Jie Fangcheng fighting against ordinary players. No matter whether he has a sword or not, or how strong he is, he and the players are in different dimensions.
And now, in someone's thought space, Lang Gu's dimension is much higher than Jie Fangcheng's.
Rather than saying that Lang Gu is strong, it is better to say that Jie Fangcheng is more terrifying.
He can even fight against people blessed by the owner of someone else's thinking space purely by force, without relying on the power of the thinking space at all. It is simply not something a human can do.
But this kind of fight is very disadvantageous for Jie Fangcheng.
Jie Fangcheng himself felt it as well.
There seemed to be countless fine spider webs around him, trying hard to trap him. Although it did not affect his strength now, if he continued to waste time, there would be more and more spider webs around him, which would inevitably affect his attack.
"Wolf-Gu!"
The two grew further and further apart, and now have become far away from the player community.
Jie Fangcheng tried to wake him up by calling his name, but the wolf in front of him continued to attack methodically without saying a word.
Is this kid being controlled
Jie Fangcheng closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his pupils had turned one black and one white.
The thorns and sword shadows on his forehead overlapped, forming complex black lines that stretched out from between his eyebrows and soon covered his entire forehead.
Jie Fangcheng swung the huge sword in his hand, and there seemed to be a faint shrill ghost howl between heaven and earth, and boundless black air seemed to surge up and down.
"Shining"
Lang Gu was knocked flying, and after falling to the ground, he twitched twice and finally stopped moving.
Forcibly exerting Yin energy was also a huge burden for Jie Fangcheng. He groaned, and the golden light of merit around him, which had been shattered beyond recognition, trembled again, scattering and gathering like a nebula.
Jie Fangcheng shook his head, reached out to pick up the unconscious Lang Gu, and then quickly walked towards the direction where the players were gathering.
After arriving at the place where the players gathered, Jie Fangcheng put Lang Gu on the ground.
Wei Yuan's body was lying in Qiao Mai's arms, and Qiao Mai was crying miserably. Jie Fangcheng was silent for a moment, walked to Wei Yuan, and gently touched his forehead with his finger.
A golden light entered Wei Yuan's body imperceptibly.
He was not sure what the current situation of the Book of Life and Death was. Wei Yuan died here. Although he didn't know whether he could be successfully accepted by the Book of Life and Death, with the golden light of merit, at least his soul would not be scattered and become dust in the world.
After Jie Fangcheng gave the merit, he also sat on the ground.
Zhang Daoan looked at him: "Very tired?"
Xie Fangcheng nodded, then shook his head.
He was about to say something when suddenly, the crying Qiao Mai stood up and rushed towards Lang Gu who was lying on the ground.
"Hey!" Jie Fangcheng stood up anxiously and was about to move forward when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his chest.
Dagger, dagger again.
No way? It's another unlucky dream...
"Hello, Jie Fangcheng."
A strange voice came from behind him.
Xie Fangcheng slowly turned his head.
Behind him, Ji Ge smiled widely.
"I've said it before, as long as Zhang Daoan is dead, it will be easy to deal with you."
Jie Fangcheng blinked slowly.
As he blinked, the scene before him changed again.
There was no trace of Wei Yuan and Lang Gu on the ground. In the white mist, only Zhang Daoan was lying on the ground, his life or death unknown, with scars on his body left by the giant sword.
"Guess, you entered my dream from... Lang Gu, or you entered the dream from seeing Zhang Daoan in the temple, or," he smiled happily, "Guess, maybe you have been in a dream since 'Be Careful Ji Ge'?"
Jie Fangcheng felt his heart tighten.
With a "wow" sound, the dagger that was inserted into his heart turned a circle, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
But it was this mouthful of blood that made Jie Fangcheng certain—
"I guess I am in your dream now." Jie Fangcheng grabbed Ji Ge's wrist.
Ji Ge, who was caught, was stunned and his face changed drastically.
"How did you know???"
In other people's thinking space, Ji Ge could not construct such a perfect and realistic dream as he said.
With his momentary loss of composure, the surrounding environment finally revealed its true appearance.
At that time, Jie Fangcheng and "Lang Gu" were fighting and moved away from the players. At this time, the two had not returned to the players and were still far away from the large group.
The dagger in "Wolf Gu"'s hand was indeed stabbed into Jie Fangcheng's heart.
But not a drop of blood flowed out of Jie Fangcheng's body.
There was very little blood on his body, as he had drained it all before, so he couldn't spit out such a large amount of blood. It was easy to tell that this was a dream.
Jie Fangcheng tightly grasped "Lang Gu's" wrist and was completely uninterested in the dagger stabbed in his heart.
He was a little curious.
The ghost officers can identify people by seeing their souls’ names. The soul of the “Lang Gu” in front of them is clearly Lang Gu’s soul, but why is he controlled by Ji Ge
Lang Gu is the judge!
How was this done
But this question was obviously not something he could figure out.
Jie Fangcheng tied up "Lang Gu" directly.
At this moment, Zhang Daoan's voice suddenly came from the white fog.
"Manager Jie? Are you okay?"
What is going on here
Just as Xie Fangcheng was thinking this, Zhang Daoan's figure appeared in the white fog.
He closed his eyes and "looked" at Jie Fangcheng accurately.
"Caught? Who is this?"
"Ji Ge." After Jie Fangcheng answered, he immediately asked, "Are you really Zhang Daoan?"
Zhang Daoan didn't say much. He waved his hand and a white Huimeng fish swam out from his hand. Its sapphire eyes still revealed wisdom.
"I am using the power of the Dream Returning Fish to briefly control this mind space."
Zhang Daoan's behavior is equivalent to a computer that was barely disconnected from the Internet just now, and is now trying to connect again.
Not only does he want to connect, he also wants to launch a virus into this thought network to seize control.
No one knew how he did it, but Jie Fangcheng felt that he was like a large Huimeng fish, and he was much more controllable than an ordinary Huimeng fish.
"Let's go, I roughly know what's going on." said Zhang Daoan.
Jie Fangcheng held down the still struggling "Wolf Gu" with one hand and followed him back to the player group.
Although the "Wolf Look" was fake, Wei Yuan was indeed dead.
Listening to Qiao Mai's shrill cry, Jie Fangcheng made the same choice as before.
The golden light merged into Wei Yuan's body. He could not come back to life, but at least he had an afterlife to look forward to.
After doing all this, Xie Fangcheng sighed, followed Zhang Daoan and sat in the corner, listening to Zhang Daoan analyze the situation of the entire game with him.
"This game was formed in someone's mind through some means we don't know yet." Zhang Daoan said as he conjured up paper and a pen out of thin air. "I think this 'someone' is someone who can't move and may be sealed."
"Ah?" Jie Fangcheng was stunned for a moment, feeling that the description was very familiar and very much like a description of himself.
He scratched his head and said, "It shouldn't be me. Only the Lord of Dongyue can enter my place. No one else can enter."
"I know, if it were you, you would be invincible in this place." Zhang Daoan also admitted this. "The reason I say this is because a person's mind is ever-changing. It won't always be so calm and allow the infinite game to take root directly in the mind space. This kind of stability... is just like a vegetable."
Jie Fangcheng understood this: "Your guess makes sense. The situation in the underworld is quite complicated now, but it is indeed sealed."
Zhang Daoan nodded, then looked at "Wolf Gu".
"Ji Chaoyang?"
"Ah? It should be Ji Ge, right?" Jie Fangcheng said.
Zhang Daoan shook his head. "Ambush you, make you think you are in a dream, and destroy your will to fight. This is a risky behavior. Ji Chaoyang will not let his brother come. Why are you pretending? He can tell who you are at a glance."
After he said this, "Wolf Gu" stopped moving and just stared at him.
Zhang Daoan was right, the person inside the shell of "Wolf Gu" was indeed Ji Chaoyang.
Originally, he had planned everything well. When Jie Fangcheng and the other man opened the temple, he would be fully prepared. He would first fight Jie Fangcheng using Ji Chaoyang's identity, pretending to be killed by Jie Fangcheng, and then he would switch into the shell of "Lang Gu".
Lang Gu is one of their own, they won’t be on guard against him, right
As long as he could get close to Jie Fangcheng, Ji Chaoyang would naturally be able to deal with them using the method that was specifically used to deal with the two of them when Jie Fangcheng was off guard.
But Ji Chaoyang didn't expect that the development of the copy did not go according to his ideas step by step.
Even until the very last step, when he knew clearly that he shouldn't be angry with a group of NPCs, Ji Chaoyang, an ordinary human being, still couldn't resist so many curses. He actually lost himself in fighting with the NPCs, using those NPCs as tools to vent his hatred.
When he came to his senses, only the people from the Death God Guild were waiting in the back hall.
The flow rate in the thinking space is different from that outside. Although it was only a short time difference of a few seconds, Jie Fangcheng not only reunited with Zhang Daoan, but Zhang Daoan even discovered the "computer online" situation and forced himself to disconnect.
It is impossible to invade, and we cannot continue according to the original plan.
Ji Chaoyang could only force his way into the shell of "Lang Gu" and prepare to defeat it one by one.
What he didn't expect was that in the thinking space, he, a half-administrator, couldn't even confuse Jie Fangcheng. Not only was he caught, but his name was also exposed.
But... it doesn't matter.
They have succeeded.
Ji Chaoyang no longer pretended, he looked at Jie Fangcheng and Zhang Daoan in front of him.
"You guys are really awesome. I don't want to waste my time talking to you. To tell you the truth, I don't want to play this game anymore."
Zhang Daoan nodded: "I guessed it."
There were only less than 200 "computers" left. Jie Fangcheng guessed that the underworld had discovered this game and came to the rescue.
Zhang Daoan had another guess.
"You have found someone new who can host the infinite game, and copied the game over, ready to start the next chapter?"
At this point, Zhang Daoan found it ridiculous: "I really don't understand why you are so obsessed with this game."
Ji Chaoyang also looked at him: "Of course you don't understand."
"Well." Zhang Daoan continued, "Because you were born in the game?"
Ji Chaoyang was startled and blurted out: "How do you know?"
Zhang Daoan didn't explain. He looked at "Wolf Gu" and said, "You don't need to know how I know this. You just need to know that if you want to find another person to parasitize, I will find you again."
Ji Chaoyang listened and just smiled: "Really?"
After saying that, he had no intention of continuing chatting with Zhang Daoan.
"You two can talk about this later. Zhang Daoan, I know you are very smart, but sometimes smart people fall into a misunderstanding."
Ji Chaoyang looked at Zhang Daoan in front of him.
"He will feel that he can do anything, even change his fate. In fact, this is impossible."
After saying that, Ji Chaoyang smiled again, looking relaxed.
"Wish ya'll good luck."
After saying this, "Lang Gu" closed his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, he was stunned when he saw the scene in front of him.
"Why am I here?"
Jie Fangcheng was not sure whether this was Lang Gu or not, so he looked at Zhang Daoan.
Zhang Daoan nodded: "Ji Chaoyang is very arrogant."
He was exposed, and he had a sense of calm and ease, obviously feeling that he had won the game.
There is no need for him to continue acting under such circumstances.
Only after receiving Zhang Daoan's affirmation did Xie Fangcheng feel relieved.
He explained briefly in a confusing manner and then could not explain himself clearly anymore. He continued to look at Zhang Daoan for help.
Zhang Daoan was very concise: "In short, we are now in a very dangerous instance."
"ah?"
"How did you get in?"
Lang Gu scratched his head.
"While I was waiting for you outside, a player who claimed to be a member of the Death God came to me and said he could take me into your dungeon."
"You believe it?"
Lang Gu was silent for a moment.
He is known for being easy to deceive, but who dared to really deceive him in the past? At most, it was just a joke.
This time I was really cheated, and I was cheated so badly.
"Then what?"
"Then?" Lang Gu shook his head. "He asked me to click something to agree, and I clicked it. After I clicked it, I suddenly felt a pain in my heart, and a dagger pierced my heart. Then I didn't know what happened."
After hearing this description, Jie Fangcheng was stunned for a moment, then he waved his hand and took out a dagger.
"This kind of dagger?"
Looking at the familiar dagger, Lang Gu nodded hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, that's it."
Jie Fangcheng looked at Zhang Daoan blankly.
"Just now I seemed to be..."
Before he could finish his words, he suddenly closed his eyes, his body went limp, and he fell down.
Zhang Daoan hurriedly supported him.
"Jie Fangcheng!"
Jie Fangcheng in his arms didn't move.
"What's going on?" Lang Gu was confused.
For the first time, Zhang Daoan felt panicked.
"He was also stabbed in the heart by this dagger just now."
But at that time, Jie Fangcheng didn't take it seriously, and seeing how relaxed he looked, Zhang Daoan thought there wouldn't be any problem.
Lang Gu hurriedly helped to support Jie Fangcheng.
"So what do we do now??"
"A copy!"
"How to get out?!"
Zhang Daoan closed his eyes.
He suddenly opened up his mind...
"Zhang Daoan!!!"
With a "puff" sound.
Zhang Daoan opened his eyes somewhat dazedly.
In front of him, Jie Fangcheng looked at him anxiously.
"Hey! What are you doing?!"
What is…
—Smart people sometimes fall into a misunderstanding. They think they can do everything.
The scene in front of him seemed to have returned to the same state as just now. Lang Gu anxiously asked "What happened?", and Jie Fangcheng was lying in his arms, his life or death unknown.
It seemed to have suddenly become something else.
It was when they first entered the dungeon that Jie Fangcheng was talking and smiling beside them.
And suddenly it turned into a white mist, and he was searching alone in the mist... Looking for something
Find clearance... clearance...
What to clear
The moment Zhang Daoan completely opened up his thinking space, a large amount of data streams rushed into his mind, like a replicable virus, completely covering his original thinking space.
[Ding—The game is being copied, please wait. ]
[Ding—Insufficient memory, deleting some archives. ]
[Ding—Deleting the copy**.]
[Ding—Copy successful.]
[The game will restart soon, please wait. ]
Zhang Daoan understood.
"They... copied the game into my mind."
"What??"
It's too late.
Zhang Daoan grabbed Jie Fangcheng's hand.
"Manager Jie."
"ah?"
"I'm sorry... but can you kill me?"
(End of this chapter)