Gao Ming quickly gave the game authentication information. Xu Qiao looked at the three big characters "Guan Chaosheng" in the name column, and his fingers curled up and opened unconsciously.
"Xu Qiao, what's wrong?" Gao Ming noticed that something was wrong with him.
Xu Qiao came back to his senses, shook his head, and said reluctantly: "Nothing, I'll hang up first. I have something to do. I'll contact you later."
Putting down the phone, Xu Qiao took a deep breath and took out the personal business card that Guan Chaosheng had given him. There was only his name and a phone number on it.
At the award ceremony, I felt that there was something wrong with this person. Xu Qiao thought it was a bit absurd, could it be that he was not the only one who had traveled through the book
After dialing the number, the call was answered after a while, but there was silence. Xu Qiao's nails dug into the flesh of his palms, and he opened his mouth, but the words stopped in his throat.
It was the other side who spoke first, a hoarse voice sounded: "Xu Qiao."
From the tone of the statement, it was obvious that he had guessed that the call was from him.
He said casually, "The games you helped make are very interesting. They make me nostalgic."
He admitted that the player with the in-game number 379 was him.
Xu Qiao held the phone tightly and asked, "Who are you?"
"Mr. Xu, since he got my personal business card and called me, how come he doesn't know who I am?"
"I'm asking." Xu Qiao paused, his eyes gradually turned cold, "Who are you other than Guan Chaosheng?"
"Except Guan Chaosheng..." He chewed on Xu Qiao's words, lost in thought for a moment, and finally asked with a sarcastic voice, "Except Guan Chaosheng, who are you asking about?"
"… "
"What do you mean?" Xu Qiao looked up and saw his unpleasant expression reflected on the computer screen.
Which, means more than one.
Xu Qiao thought that he knew about this place in the game, and it was probably related to the last doomsday world he traveled through in the book. Could it be that there was more than one
"I told you, you can't remember it either." Guan Chaosheng coughed softly, his voice sounding like sandpaper. "If I'm not mistaken, every time you experience a new world, your memory of the people around you will slowly disappear, right?"
Xu Qiao frowned. This person knew much more than he thought, which made him feel threatened.
Xu Qiao lowered his eyelashes, and thought of something, and asked, "The car accident after the recording of "Guo Feng" was done, it was you who caused it."
"It's me." Guan Chaosheng admitted straightforwardly, "Of course I can't hurt you to this extent."
Those words were said with the confidence of "I know you better than you do", which made Xu Qiao very uncomfortable.
Xu Qiao waited for his next words, but Guan Chaosheng changed the subject: "This world has never been fair. You are the one who is favored."
Since he already knew about the book-traveling incident, Xu Qiao simply pointed it out: "If the favor you are talking about means that you are helplessly traveling through so many worlds and cannot see any hope, then perhaps this is indeed a 'favor'."
"No. What I mean by favor is that you can forget these experiences completely and return to your own world with ease." Guan Chaosheng's voice suddenly became louder and his emotions became excited. "Forgot them completely, only I, only - cough cough -"
He suddenly began to cough violently, as if he was going to cough out his entire lungs.
When his coughing slowly subsided, Xu Qiao tightened his fingers and lowered his voice: "... What do you mean?"
Guan Chaosheng looked out the window, his eyes stagnant. The hot summer wind blew in, and the hair on his forehead fluttered his eyelashes.
"How can you not understand? You are not the one who is helplessly walking through so many worlds." Guan Chaosheng sat in a wheelchair, still wearing a windproof coat in the summer, with a blanket on his legs.
"It's me." His voice was filled with ambiguous emotions.
Xu Qiao listened to him in silence.
"You have completely forgotten the people and things you have experienced. Do you know what will happen if you remember?" Guan Chaosheng's thin chin was hidden in his collar, and his handsome face looked lifeless.
You will be tormented by things that only you remember and will not be able to sleep all night. You will not be able to distinguish between reality and dreams, and you will not be able to recognize who you are.
It was the cruelest kind of loneliness, the despair of not being able to find a place to stand in the vast universe.
"You asked me who I am. I often wonder who I am." Guan Chaosheng's voice became confused. "I am the regent who was fooled by Qinghan, or Baron Hall who was stabbed to death by Melville, or the demon cultivator Bi Jun who was trampled under the feet of Chongxu Sect's junior brother Nie Yunsheng, or... the current Guan Chaosheng."
The names that came out of his mouth all sounded familiar.
"Do you remember, Qinghan, Melville, and Nie Yunsheng?" Guan Chaosheng asked with inexplicable expectation.
Xu Qiao did not respond.
"It's all you. Xu Qiao, they're all you."
Except for Qinghan, who he remembered by chance, the other names were just familiar. This familiarity was enough to prove something. Xu Qiao knew that Guan Chaosheng had not lied to him.
So this person, like himself, has experienced many worlds in books.
It was just that he was protected by the will of the world, and except for the skills he had learned, the memories of those who had had entanglements with him were slowly forgotten. Guan Chaosheng had no way to clear these memories, which accumulated from world to world.
This is what he calls "favor" and "no favor."
Guan Chaosheng's voice became increasingly hoarse, his pale lips formed a cold smile, and he whispered like a devil: "No one remembers you, not even you. Only me."
Even you don’t remember “you” anymore.
Only I remember you, only I remember all this.
What a sad thing. The only person who remembers is like a madman, stubbornly recalling those not-so-good memories.
After Xu Qiao heard what he said, his heart felt like it was being entangled by vines like devil's tentacles, until it was completely impenetrable.
It was unclear whether he was talking to Guan Chaosheng or to himself, Xu Qiao spoke word by word: "I don't need anyone to remember me, and I don't want to recall those things anymore. Everything is over. I am Xu Qiao."
This is the world that belongs to him.
Guan Chaosheng laughed, and as he laughed, he started coughing violently again. A faint smell of blood rose up from his throat, and his nasal cavity was filled with pain as if it were flooded.
That feeling of despair came over me again.
He would never be taken seriously by this person, even though he was the only one who possessed the memories of both of them.
The soul cannot find a place to be contained, and it floats in a place without east, west, north, south, up, down, left or right. It is empty, boundless nothingness, and it cannot find a solid ground to stand on.
"You really don't care at all?" He finally asked lightly, "Don't you want to know about the person you love and his past?"
Xu Qiao closed his eyes and said in a cold tone: "If you want to use this as a bargaining chip to make me do something, Mr. Guan, I can only tell you that I don't want to know."
After saying that, Xu Qiao hung up the phone.
Listening to the beeping sound coming from the phone, Guan Chaosheng put down the phone and looked out the window, but his eyes could not find the focus.
His pale face was flushed due to the violent coughing, and his lips were bloodless.
There were footsteps behind him, and the old housekeeper's voice sounded behind him: "Chaosheng, Doctor Sun is here to check your body."
"Let him go back."
"This... You've been coughing a lot these past few days, so let him take a look."
Guan Chaosheng stared out the window without responding. The old housekeeper waited for a while and sighed silently: "I know, I'll let him go back now."
"Wait." Guan Chaosheng raised his hand with a happy smile on his face, "Ask a notary public."
The old butler stared at Guan Chaosheng, who had grown up under his watch. He had a strange temper since he was a child, and even when facing him, he was scared most of the time, fearing that he would cause bad luck.
But now I felt uncomfortable.
The old housekeeper's eyes were red: "Chao Sheng..."
"Go ahead."
The old butler moved his lips and finally nodded.
The closed beta test of "End of the World" quickly caused a sensation in the gaming circle. Although it was only a small-scale closed beta test with only one thousand testers, it still attracted a lot of attention due to the spontaneous praise and recommendations from gaming bloggers and players.
[I can't say anything else except "Fuck."]
[Although strictly speaking, the current "End of the World" is only a semi-finished product, judging from the world map, the world structure is very large, but only two locations are open, and it should not be completed yet, and the places you can go to are very limited. However, this does not affect my love for this game at all. Since I entered the game, there are only two words in my mind: amazing. From the delicate and realistic scene construction to the rich scene interaction, I feel incredible.]
[How should I put it? Entering this game is like entering a real world. There are so many interactive objects in the scene, such as books, beds, wine glasses... Even the solar panels on the street lights can be removed and put into the backpack as supplies. It’s a lot of fun to play hahaha]
It was accompanied by a screenshot of the game showing the player character climbing onto a street light to remove a solar panel.
[From the few words of the NPCs and the current exploration of this world, its worldview is grand and complete, and the planning team is very strong, and they are making the game with heart]
[I just want to say that the art is so excellent, the beauty of the coexistence of ruins and another world, when the perspective moves to the sky, the shock is simply so beautiful]
[After I finished the game, I immediately followed the main artist’s Weibo, so awesome]
[Looking forward to the official public beta]
Many bugs were detected during the closed beta test, and the test players also gave many suggestions. After Gao Ming and others recorded the data, they ended the first closed beta test.
Many people expressed their curiosity about the main artist of Dianxing Game, saying that she had never participated in Dianxing's offline promotional activities, had no photos or identity information, and even the photos and information of the main members on Dianxing's official website were blank.
It's really curious.
With the curiosity and praise of players, Xu Qiao's painter account gained followers rapidly during this closed beta test, and was opened from time to time at Gao Ming's request.
Soon it was time for the closing ceremony and awards ceremony of the Venice Film Festival.
Whether "The Prodigal Son" can win the Golden Lion Award has been hotly discussed on social media in recent days.
Xu Qiao watched an interview with Xu Siyi, in which many reporters asked him whether he had the confidence and whether he wanted to win the Best Actor award.
Xu Siyi said that the nominated actors are all very talented and also said that she wanted to.
He was calm and composed in front of the camera, and his performance was impeccable.
Afterwards, I sent a message to Xu Qiao: "If I can get it, it means I have successfully transformed from a traffic star. Whoever I like and whoever I want to be with won't be restricted like it is now."