Except for the time when Shen Yang suddenly went crazy, the subsequent role-playing tasks went smoothly.
But at that time, Xie Ke really didn't think that he had lied to Shen Yang. Zhiyu was indeed not dead. He was waiting for him in the actor space, but a native like Shen Yang couldn't see him.
After seeing his own score, Xie Ke felt as if a huge stone had been lifted off his chest. He felt relieved, but he did not immediately think of any important authority or congratulations from the organization. His mind was filled with only one thought: I can finally go find Zhiyu.
He has obtained new authority, so no one can stop him and Zhiyu from being together, right
He found out the number of the interferer, and even maintained the appearance of Xie Ke in "Leave a Name in History". He went to the actor's space, carefully prepared a gift, and planned to formally confess to Zhiyu.
Finally, he could express his true feelings to Zhiyu without being restricted by the plot. This made Xie Keren's heart surge and he couldn't help but smile foolishly as if he was in love.
But when he saw the actor, before he said a word, just by looking at the person's eyes, he immediately felt something was wrong.
It was as if a basin of cold water was poured over my head, or as if some fantasy was finally shattered, revealing the cruel truth.
He is not Zhiyu! Absolutely not!
The actor was also confused when he saw Xie Ke. This was not a public area. He had never seen anyone appear in an actor's private space before, and he didn't react at once.
He saw the expression of the person who suddenly appeared in his space as if he was struck by lightning. He instinctively felt that something was wrong and wanted to run away quickly, but was pulled back by Xie Ke.
"You are not him, you are not Zhiyu," he said like a devil who had completely lost his mind, "Tell me, what did you do? What did you do! Where did you take Zhiyu?"
The actor actually didn't understand what the intruder was doing, but he was experienced and quickly captured the key information.
Zhiyu, Fu Zhiyu
It is the role that I still remember vividly.
It was the first time for him to receive an interference mission. This kind of mission was like an Easter egg in the actor's career, a bit special. If done well, the reward would be much higher than that of ordinary missions. He cherished this opportunity very much, but he didn't expect to fail at the very beginning.
He couldn't log in to that character. Every time he tried, an invisible barrier pushed him back. After trying many times, he still failed. After he reported the error, the Lord God didn't respond for a long time. After waiting for a long time, he received partial compensation, but there was no explanation for the reason. He was just told that the task had started and the matter was over.
He always thought that there was an error in the data from the Lord God. Maybe he sent out the task twice, and two actors, including himself, received it. But the "other person" logged in early, so he couldn't log in.
After hearing this explanation, Xie Ke relaxed a little.
"There must be another person, there must be another actor," he muttered to himself, trying to force himself to believe it, "I... will find Zhiyu soon."
But there is another possibility, Xie Ke thought of it, but he was not willing to think about it deeply, or he did not dare to think about it deeply.
What if Zhiyu is not the actor at all, but just an abnormal data
He will disappear and he will never come back.
The people in the organization also didn't understand why Xie Ke didn't do other important things as planned after his successful return, but instead spent all his energy tracking down the interferer and an unimportant supporting character in that world.
Only a few friends who had been following him noticed something was wrong. It was also the first time for them to see Xie Ke completely lose his composure and become so crazy, so they didn't say a word and just helped him look for someone.
But as we get deeper into the matter, the truth is really hard to accept.
Everyone saw it, but no one dared to really say this to Xie Ke. They just watched him continue to go crazy and eventually collapse.
There is no other actor, never was, just an outlier that was probably automatically deleted long ago.
Xie Ke didn't know how to describe his feelings when he finally accepted the fact. He felt as if his soul had been taken away. He stayed alone in a space for a long time, recalling all the details of his time with Zhiyu over and over again.
Why didn’t you find out something was wrong earlier
Obviously, Zhiyu's disappointment was so real in the last few years, why didn't he feel it at that time? He asked himself.
Zhiyu never pretended or acted. He loved herself so sincerely and gave her everything he could.
… What did I do
Xie Ke couldn't describe his feelings at that time. Words like grief and regret were too weak. He was tortured by the pain of killing his lover with his own hands. For the first time, he felt the true feeling of being worse off than death.
It was a kind of hatred towards himself, he wanted to skin himself alive and eat his bones, but the pain was useless because Zhiyu was gone, no matter how much he regretted, he couldn't find him.
It was then that he truly understood that the so-called organization and authority were nothing in front of that person.
He has been trying to find an answer to his life as an actor which has no beginning and no end. Zhiyu is the real answer, but he lost it.
Some people in the organization were frightened by his appearance. Some of those who were responsible for gathering information went to him with a nervous look on their faces to apologize because of the interferer's mistake. Even the 027 system could not accept the state of its host and tried to take part of the blame on itself, thinking that this might make him feel better.
"Why...you guys want to apologize to me?" Xie Ke was bewildered after hearing this. He didn't feel any comfort at all. He just felt that greater pain was surrounding him. "I am the one who did the most wrong. Zhiyu did nothing wrong. He went through the most difficult time, all because of me. But no one said sorry to him. Why...you guys want to apologize to me?"
"What about Zhiyu? What should I do with Zhiyu?"
He was depressed for a long time. However, the role-players could not rest all the time. Every once in a while, they would be required to complete tasks. Xie Ke was at this level and in this state. Even if he was forced to enter the role-playing world, he would not move at all. He was soon deducted points and failed, and was kicked out of the world.
Although he had enough foundation to avoid being wiped out, after two or three times, the Lord God became impatient and threw him into the world of punishment.
"Wake up yourself," the Lord God said, "A performer should do his job well. Don't talk to me about feelings or not. I don't want to hear that."
The punishment world is actually another form of task. It is a garbage world with extremely disordered data, but problems will arise if garbage is piled up for a long time, so people are needed to deal with it.
But in Xie Ke's current state, he would be passive and lazy wherever he went.
The punishment world has no pain shielding, no progress bar function, and the use of props is prohibited. The first time Xie Ke entered the punishment world, there were very few indigenous people there, and they were all truly mentally ill, with all kinds of weird looks and great destructive power. When he first entered, an indigenous person cut off one of his arms with a chainsaw.
The pain shielding was always on automatically before, and this was the first time Xie Ke, who had experienced smooth sailing all the way, had experienced this kind of pain.
This pain made him sober up and instantly thought of Zhiyu.
Were the injuries he had suffered for me also this painful
Can this be considered atonement
However, the 027 system deeply felt that this could not go on. If it continued like this, Xie Ke would be killed.
"You are so decadent, you can't save Fu Zhiyu, nor can you save yourself," 027 said to him, "I know what you want to do. Actors can't commit suicide. Fu Zhiyu is gone, and you feel that there is no point in living. But your death can't make up for your previous mistakes, and you can't bring Fu Zhiyu back even if you die.
Xie Ke, if you give up now, no one will ever tell Fu Zhiyu that you two were once truly in love. "
When Xie Ke heard these words, he had already been tortured by the world of punishment and was covered in wounds. He looked like a bloody man and his face was like that of a real dead person. He lay motionless in the tree hole, while outside, the ferocious aborigines were patrolling and the sound of chainsaws was crackling.
"Hurry up and get up. I won't say it a second time," 027 said, "For Fu Zhiyu, I have a way to try."
The last sentence of the system became Xie Ke's motivation. He relied on this sole belief to walk out of the punishment world, and then, as the system said, he began to secretly collect some strange props, looking for things that he could change.
The so-called new authority that he hated so much also came into play at this time, giving him the possibility to regret it.
"There are loopholes in the entire system that can be exploited, and the main brain is not unbreakable," 027 told him, "As long as you restart the world of Mingliuqingshi, Fu Zhiyu's data may be reborn with it."
This is Xie Ke's only hope, and for this hope, he can give anything.
All the things he had accumulated before were exchanged out like water. The so-called power points and props were nothing. It took an extremely long time until the opportunity to restart really came.
This was the first time he entered a world not as an actor. Restarting the world was one thing, and letting himself enter it again was another. Although security measures were prepared, without pain shielding, Xie Ke could feel that his identity seemed to be gradually melting, as if he was being roasted on a fire.
Perhaps it was because I had experienced all kinds of pain during this period of time, so this physical pain was nothing compared to the feeling of being about to see Zhiyu.
He didn't want to consider any consequences and had only one thought in his mind - he was about to see Zhiyu again.
The timing of Xie Ke's return was also very coincidental. It was exactly when he was rescuing Zhiyu in Binghu Lake. He pulled the person out of the hole. He looked at the face he had been thinking about day and night, and he couldn't help but blurry his eyes.
That is the living Fu Zhiyu...
But the detail that the excited Xie Ke overlooked was that Fu Zhiyu had her eyes closed when she was rescued, and there was no longer that love at first sight between the two of them.
From the very beginning, things were different from what he had imagined.