Mo Yi narrowed his eyes slowly, and took two steps in the direction of Jiang Yuanbai:
"So... how can you help me?"
Jiang Yuanbai struggled to prop up his body lying sideways on the ground, his voice was so hoarse that he could hardly hear the original tone:
"I was stuck in the game for a long time, my memory is missing and incomplete, but I have the impression... the game is feeding on me, I can feel myself slowly losing consciousness, step by step and the game Fusion until…”
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes forcefully, and continued:
"Until I heard your voice... and felt the truncated force that had been pulling me deep..."
Jiang Yuanbai opened his eyes again, stared at Mo Yi with those light brown eyes almost identical to Jiang Yuanrou, and said slowly:
"I am like a frozen person, waking up bit by bit, but my body is like a cage that locks my consciousness tightly, like shutting me in my dead body Same."
Jiang Yuanbai frowned in pain, he exhaled tremblingly, Jiang Yuanrou frowned his slender brows worriedly, and gently pressed his palm on Jiang Yuanbai's tightly clenched fist, as if he was about to squeeze Pass your own temperature and strength to him.
Jiang Yuanbai was awakened by Jiang Yuanrou's movement, he turned his head to look at his sister in a daze, his gaze became resolute and sharp.
He looked at Mo Yi and said, "The next thing I can only tell you."
Mo Yi was taken aback: "Even if it's your sister?"
Jiang Yuanbai shook his head firmly: "It's because she is my older sister."
He turned his head and took a deep look at Jiang Yuanrou, his eyes were full of broken pain and tender attachment, Jiang Yuanbai said slowly:
"Some things are safer the less they are known."
Jiang Yuanbai held Jiang Yuanrou's palm covering the back of his hand with his backhand, and then looked up at Mo Yi: "If I hadn't "heard" your wish just now, I wouldn't be willing to say it."
He paused, and continued: "Besides, I can feel that my memory is slowly fading and blurring as time goes by. Instead of letting it rot in my mind, it's better to give it to someone who is useful... say Maybe he can do things that none of us can do."
While saying this, Jiang Yuanbai kept his gaze fixed on Mo Yi.
Jiang Yuanrou lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then sighed slowly: "Okay, I respect your opinion, it's just... can we change the place to talk?"
She looked around the horrific interior of the room, where the original appearance could not be seen at all, the original black viscous jelly-like substance had dried up and turned into deep and light brown, and it was tightly attached to the walls and walls like a thin film. On the floor, the entire house smelled like a dead animal.
Jiang Yuanbai shook his head: "It must be here."
Jiang Yuanrou compromised, she stood up and walked out of the room.
Wen Chen took a deep look at Jiang Yuanbai who was sitting on the ground limply, then stretched out his finger and gently stroked Mo Yi's wrist, leaned into his ear and whispered, "Call me if you have something to do."
After finishing speaking, he also walked out behind Jiang Yuanrou, and the tattered door panel that had been corroded and wrapped closed behind him, and the room quickly became quiet, only Jiang Yuanbai and Mo Yi and the two looked at each other silently.
Seeing that there were only two people left in the room, Jiang Yuanbai turned his head to look at Mo Yi, and said:
"There was a short period of time when I felt like I was one with the game, so I knew something... that I wasn't supposed to know."
Mo Yi listened quietly.
I saw Jiang Yuanbai pointed at the dark brown skin covering the ground, and said, "Did you know? In this game... it's all these things, black disgusting slime."
Mo Yi recalled the appearance when he found Jiang Yuanbai in the dungeon - his face was pale, his eyes were closed tightly, his limbs were deeply plunged into the cold and sticky darkness, and he looked lifeless. And there was complete darkness outside the two transparent walls... Could it be the slime he saw in this villa
Jiang Yuanbai's voice was a little trembling, but he quickly calmed down, and he continued:
"These black substances... can bring out the darkest things in people's hearts, or the most painful memories, or the most frightening things, no... you can't say that."
Jiang Yuanbai was silent for a few seconds, as if he was considering his words, he opened his mouth slowly and carefully described:
"It itself is the darkest thing in the bottom of my heart, the most painful memory, and the thing that is followed by fear. To be precise, these sticky black substances... are the embodiment of all negative emotions of human beings."
Mo Yi subconsciously tightened his fingers, his dark eyes were calm, but the slightly whitish knuckles hanging by his side could show that he was not calm. He stared at Jiang Yuanbai, waiting for his next step. words.
He closed his eyes in pain, and continued: "In the last copy... after I heard that I failed the membership test, I felt that I was surrounded by these... things..., it made me go through Reliving every nightmare of my life over and over, over and over again all... the most terrifying and painful memories... magnified a thousand times and a hundred times—”
Jiang Yuanbai was a little suffocated, and his palms on the ground slowly clenched into fists, and then slowly spit out a few fragmented sounds as if being strangled by his throat:
"Then... the memory I will keep... is... my body also began to produce these black substances."
Mo Yi subconsciously turned his head to look at the dry brown film covering the wall around him, and asked:
"So, these are all you—?"
Jiang Yuanbai nodded and shook his head again, took a deep breath slowly, and replied: "To be precise, everyone who is close to me has been "infected"... Except Yuan Rou, maybe it's my subconscious protection..."
Mo Yi nodded thoughtfully: "So, so much black matter in this room was released by all of you?"
Jiang Yuanbai nodded, his fingers turned white from exertion: "But, strictly speaking, I am patient zero."
Mo Yi took a deep breath, and asked a question that he wanted to ask from just now:
"You said that these black substances can bring out the most painful memories in people's hearts, so are the things you see in them real?"
Jiang Yuanbai was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't expect Mo Yi to ask such a question, he thought about it carefully, and then replied hesitantly:
"perhaps?"
He looked at Mo Yi with some doubts: "What? Did you see anything in the black matter?"
Mo Yi paused, his eyes fixed on a certain point in the air with some confusion, and his voice was so soft that it seemed that it would disappear if he didn't listen carefully: "... I just saw some pictures that have never appeared in my memory."
Jiang Yuanbai seemed equally confused, he frowned and said: "I only know that these substances exist for pain, could it be that they create illusions for you to torture you in order to make you suffer? "
Mo Yi asked back: "Has this ever happened to you?"
Jiang Yuanbai lowered his head and pondered for a while, a painful look slowly appeared on his face, he took a deep breath and stopped recalling:
"Every minute and every second of my game seems to be stretched tens of thousands of times. I don't remember what I experienced in it. I only remember the pain and despair in it, as well as some broken pictures. , so this question... I don't think I can answer it... I can only say, maybe."
Mo Yi nodded, and pinched his eyebrows wearily, feeling that the amount of information he had received today was really too much.
Jiang Yuanbai's explanation was like a missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle, completing a corner of the entire huge picture, as if there were answers to many things that could not be seen clearly before.
Although he has not yet figured out what this escape game called STAY ALIVE is, although there are still many mysteries that have not been solved, but this is at least an improvement, at least he knows why it promotes these dungeons, it wants to what to get from them.
At this moment, Mo Yi seemed to think of something, he turned his head to look at Jiang Yuanbai with a miserable face, and asked:
"By the way, won't the game punish you if you just say such crucial information?"
Jiang Yuanbai hooked his lips with some reluctance: "That's why I insist on letting this conversation take place in this room. The source of these dark substances is my body, so... it's like a shield here, The game can't "hear" me. It's hard to explain why, but all I know is...the game won't allow that to happen."
He raised his chin and motioned Mo Yi to carefully observe the brown film on the ground—
They seemed to be slowly evaporating, gradually becoming thinner and thinner, and Mo Yi could even see the color of the carpet under the film.
Mo Yi was slightly taken aback, only to hear that Jiang Yuanbai's speech speed suddenly accelerated, and he said eagerly: "So we don't have much time."
He stared at Jiang Yuanbai, only to see his eyes fixed on him, and said in a hoarse and gloomy voice:
"And one last thing, you know... isn't that man walking with you human?"
"... I know." Mo Yi pursed his lips, nodded slightly, and replied, "It was his help that saved you and revived you."
He lowered his eyes slightly, subconsciously stroking his cold and pale fingers, and asked in a slow and deep voice: "So, I want to ask you, do you think... he is the same as you?"
Jiang Yuan raised his brows upwards: "You mean, someone who was swallowed up by games like me, and then gradually became the nourishment of games?"
He sneered slightly, then shook his head slowly:
"how is this possible."
Mo Yi's eyes slowly sank, he stared at Jiang Yuanbai and asked, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Yuanbai showed a gloomy expression, and the look of his eyes seemed a little condensed: "I mean, I don't know what he is."
He stared at Mo Yi with eyes that had no resemblance to those before, and said softly:
"The only thing I know is... he belongs to a species that is darker and closer to the core of the game—I don't know what it is."