{Jiang Fang} noticed that Nan Zhou touched the back of his head with his backhand, and his expression became a little more at a loss.
How keen he was, with a slight turn of his pale eyes, he understood Nan Zhou's thoughts.
At present, Nanzhou and the fixed-point refreshed iron box are the only two variables that appear in the three worlds that were originally unchanged.
The only goal of Nanzhou's shuttle between the three worlds is to find a "ticket" to leave.
The question is, how do you advance the game to get the "ticket"
What is known is that "tickets" do not exist in any corner of these three worlds.
The "ticket" does not belong to Nan Zhou himself.
"Tickets" may be obtained by increasing the game rating or completing achievements.
Although this is worth trying, because the amount of engineering is too large, and I don’t know what kind of achievement to achieve, what level of evaluation to improve to get the final reward, and the possibility that the reward is a “ticket” is not clearly stated, so This possibility exists only in theory.
So, is it possible that the "ticket" is the "variable" of Nanzhou itself
Nan Zhou just thought to this point and wanted to verify whether there was anything special about himself, and immediately touched the back of his neck with his backhand.
{Jiang Fang} thought, there must be something special on the back of Nanzhou's neck.
It's just that Nan Zhou has half-long hair, covering the back of his neck, and he has a clear main task of "finding the ticket within 12 hours". Of course, he will focus more on the external environment instead of paying attention to himself. The condition of the body, so it is possible not to notice it.
... The mark on his neck is the breaking point left by the so-called "high-dimensional people".
Thinking of this, he probed to look at Nanzhou.
As he raised his hand and touched it just now, the black hair that had been hanging down the back of his neck parted to the sides.
There, the skin was glowing and dazzlingly white, but there was not a single scar.
This was slightly beyond {Jiang Fang}'s expectations.
But after thinking about it, he understood: "You should have a birthmark on your neck, right?"
Nan Zhou put down his hand and said softly, "It's a scar."
{Jiang Fang} said "Oh" with interest: "Who can hurt you?"
Nan Zhou put his hair back together: "The person I like."
{Jiang Fang} sneered: "Isn't the person you like not very good?"
"Yes, you're right, that's not the one 'I' like."
Nan Zhou took a deep breath and tried so hard that his chest sank.
He lowered his eyes and said, "Because I... I'm not that person at all."
{Jiang Fang} was confused for a while when he heard the words.
... He thought that since Nan Zhou was set up as a "ticket", he was so disturbed and depressed because he didn't dare to take the risk of committing suicide, so as not to make mistakes in his speculation.
He originally wanted to tease Nan Zhou, put the dagger around his waist into his hands, and provocatively asked him if he dared to commit suicide.
Why did Nan Zhou come to this conclusion
Nan Zhou sat down beside the bed, and {Jiang Fang}, who was lying on the bed, subconsciously retracted his legs to make room for him to sit.
Nan Zhou buried his head very low, leaned forward, rested his elbows on the bends of his knees, as if his torso was bent by an invisible burden: "Do you know how my injury came about?"
{Jiang Fang} heard this and said a little unhappily, "I'm not interested."
Seeing that Nan Zhou pursed his lips and said nothing, {Jiang Fang} clicked his tongue again and said impatiently, "Speak quickly."
Nan Zhou raised his hand and, according to his memory, stroked the skin where the teeth should be, and said, "In a church, I was about to die, he couldn't do anything, he could only bite my Neck, want to call me back with pain."
"Oh." {Jiang Fang} turned his face out of the window and said insincerely, "A touching love story."
"That's the problem." Nan Zhou pointed to his head, "... I shouldn't remember this."
{Jiang Fang} couldn't hide her curiosity: "What is 'you shouldn't remember'?"
Nan Zhou said: "In order to save him, I made a deal with the Gaowei people for all the memories related to getting along with him."
Having said that, he buried his head and muttered: "Look, I remember this too."
He repeated: "But I... shouldn't have remembered."
In the tight game time limit, Nan Zhou would not have the mind to review and sort out his memory, and naturally he would not find "something more" in his memory.
Looking back now, what made up his memory were mostly images that were shaken and recorded by the camera.
He naturally regarded those as "memory".
But that could be... just something from a tracking camera.
{Jiang Fang} pondered for a moment, and gradually realized the meaning of Nanzhou's words.
His face became solemn: "You mean..."
"...You're right. That game description is also right."
Nan Zhou, perhaps it should be called "Nan Zhou", raised his head and looked at {Jiang Fang}, with unspeakable confusion and sadness in his eyes.
"I'm the only 'variable' in the game."
"I'm in a tragedy... cycle."
"My life is a ridiculous story written by others."
"Even if you can't catch the car, you can't do without these three worlds, it doesn't matter, 'because this is your home'."
"Nanzhou" slowly recited the words similar to the prophecy on the game description, his mind became more and more chaotic, but his thoughts became clearer.
Combining the previous clues, including the achievement pop-up window, the game evaluation on the sky, and the sentence in the game description [Are you really happy in the game? ], it can be inferred that the ring world formed by these three boxes is a complete independent game.
At first, the three worlds were like three closed trains, each performing its own storyline independently.
In the game, "Nanzhou" is the first person to "know" the truth of the world, and is also endowed with the attributes of "protagonist" and all the memories related to Nanzhou.
He thought he was Nan Zhou, and thought he had experienced such a breathtaking adventure with Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang.
Driven by such memory, "Nanzhou" has an absolute reason to look for the iron box.
The game that really belongs to "Nanzhou" starts here.
He sets off to find the tin box and begins his 12-hour adventure.
… which also happens to fit the length of an indie game.
He is the leader in this story train, but also the puppet in the copy.
The game constantly shows him "achievements" and "evaluations", which is to induce him to compete for resources and fight with [Nanzhou] and {Jiangfang} from the other two worlds, so as to develop more interesting "achievements". Cause more positive "evaluations".
In fact, he and [Nanzhou] and {Jiang Fang} are indistinguishable creatures of the same dimension, a vassal of the game, and a variant split from the real Nanzhou.
He is even more pathetic than [Nanzhou] and {Jiang Fang}.
At least they have their [Jiang Fang] and {Nan Zhou} by their side.
But his "Jiang Fang" was actually just an illusion that was thousands of miles away and never really belonged to him.
Memories of the past
… fictitious.
good feelings
… just a one-way chemical effect in his mind.
Friends you made on your trip
… they are all people who have nothing to do with him.
He is not Nanzhou.
Jiang Fang is not his, nor is his partner.
He was just a game character constructed out of thin air and thought he was a real person.
The point of breaking the game was that he found out that he did not have a wound on the back of his neck, and then realized that he had a memory that the original owner Nan Zhou should not have.
It is not so difficult to debunk this illusion.
The question is, after realizing this illusion, how will he choose
…
On the other hand, when he learned his true identity, {Jiang Fang} was much more relaxed.
"I haven't played the game, but I've seen a lot of stories."
Like a child who loves mischief, he smiles and pokes at the scars of "Nanzhou" without hesitation: "... At the beginning, the protagonist of the story, both his parents died, and he was in a blood feud, in short, the story gave him a strong motive for action.”
He patted "Nan Zhou" on the shoulder, and said in a relaxed and teasing tone: "Let's open up, you are just the protagonist of a more complicated story, and your meaning is actually to travel in the world and be moved by others. Fight with us. If you lose, or die, your memory will be emptied and the game will start over. You are brought back to life with the task of 'finding a ticket'... Just like the protagonist in the story, each reader opens the title page Afterwards, all I see is the same you, repeating the same fate, repeating all the encounters in these 12 hours, trying all the possibilities, and finally getting the same result... Ah, it's scary, isn't it? ?"
The more {Jiang Fang} spoke, the more relaxed and relaxed the tone became.
"Nanzhou" is a character in the same game as him, and this realization made him secretly happy.
Even if they can't get out of this 12-hour reincarnation tragedy, even if the game will restart, and they only have 12 hours of fate at a time, but after removing those useless fighting time and search time, they still have at least 3 hours to do. friend.
At least it won't be an eternal loneliness.
Facing the irony of {Jiang Fang}, "Nanzhou" bowed his head and said nothing.
{Jiang Fang} watched his lips fade, but there was no happiness in his heart.
... Is it bullying too hard
{Jiang Fang} leaned on the bed, cupped his cheek with one hand, and said with a smile, "You, like me, are a meaningless existence. This way my mind will be balanced."
"Nanzhou" replied, "I am not."
{Jiang Fang} said noncommittally: "What are some people thinking in their little heads?"
"Nanzhou" said, "I was thinking, where is the real Nanzhou?"
His eyes were clear and calm: "If I die, will Nan Zhou get the 'ticket'?"
{Jiang Fang} frowned and sat up: "Why do you want to die? Didn't the game description say? As long as you live, this game will continue? Why do you want to die for that body?"
Hearing this sentence, "Nanzhou"'s face moved slightly and looked at {Jiang Fang}.
He seemed to understand why the Gaowei people gave [Nanzhou] and {Jiang Fang} enough intelligence.
—To persuade him and shake his mind, to be more persuasive and more... tempting.
The author has something to say: In short, Nanzhou did not enter the game at all
He was just betting that this "Nanzhou" would not come out.
So I skipped "", the most basic identifier for distinguishing people, and used []w
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