"Welcome."
It heard the gentle voice with a smile.
The person in front of him was indeed smiling, but he looked very tired, and his condition was not very good either, with too many memories surging wildly.
The first memory it woke up from was the first day of this instance. It was abandoned by its parents as a ghost baby, and then followed this family to protect them...
Then, more memories came flooding back.
It has endless memories of being different ghost babies in many copy worlds. For example, in a world with an ancient background, it, as one of the twins, was regarded as an ominous symbol and was secretly executed as soon as it was born, while its brother was made the crown prince and finally ascended the throne smoothly. They were obviously twins, but their treatment was very different because of the mother's one thought. It hated and resented that it was a ghost in that world who attempted to murder the emperor.
For example, in another copy world, it is an only child, but this only child is not expected by the family because it is a bastard, so it was abandoned as soon as it was born. Some were thrown on the street, some were thrown in front of an orphanage, and some were thrown in a small abandoned warehouse. Under normal circumstances, no one would come there. It cried desperately, longing for milk, a warm embrace, or to be free from the bites of mosquitoes around it. Then, it starved to death. It is the ghost wandering in the warehouse in that world.
Another example is a copy world, it is also an undesirable child...
It has countless memories of its time as a ghost baby, and these memories have put it in a strange state of stagnation. In this situation, it can sense the outside world but cannot respond.
Not long after, a group of old men came running over, including a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties.
An old man named Lin Yun shouted at Tangning, "Why don't you come here alone? You are such a jerk..."
Some old men were feeding Tang Ning healing items, but they didn't dare touch him. They were very afraid of him. However, when Tang Ning asked, "Please help take him home," the old men refused.
It was alone when it came into this world, but now it is surrounded by a group of people.
"Zhou Kangchu."
"how?"
"I heard that his son had some sperm problems, so he turned on the gas and killed his whole family. But Zhou Kang seemed to have left himself a backup plan. His cat scratched his face, and someone saw him faking his death. Now he doesn't know what's going on."
"He's hiding?"
"Yes, almost. When the time comes, take the dog and look for him. We will definitely find him."
"Tangning, what are you going to do now?"
"Watch him, he changes, what about you?"
"? Planning... Eh? What were you planning to do?"
"… "
"Lin Yun, are you going to get Alzheimer's?"
The old men in the car suddenly fell silent. The air seemed to freeze at this moment. Instead, the sleepy Tangning opened his eyes. He said in a very imposing manner, "It doesn't matter. Even if he really has Alzheimer's disease, he just forgot some things. As long as someone is watching over him, it will be fine."
As he said this, he held its hand tightly. From the time he was at the Xie family until now, Tang Ning had never let go of its hand.
"I'll be here to watch over you when the time comes." Tang Ning.
Tang Ning brought it into the house. It had followed Tang Ning into the house many times before, but this time it entered this warm place openly.
After finally digesting the countless memories of its life as a ghost baby, it began to receive the memories of the second day of this copy of its life.
It remembered the whole story that was forgotten the next day, how its head was upside down, and how it protected Tang Ning in that school...
This memory is not long, but countless similar memories take it a long time to receive.
For example, in a certain copy world, it is a student who is bullied in school. It is ignored by everyone and treated as an invisible existence. In the end, it dies and turns into a ghost. This time, no one can really see it.
As it absorbed these cold and depressing memories, Tangning sat beside it, using her smart computer to order food. "Oh, I know that elderly people can't eat this, so I bought it to take a look and smell it..."
"Do you want to eat?" Tangning asked while holding up the frame of his glasses.
It cannot answer.
Tangning smiled, her face full of wrinkles, but she thought those wrinkles were pretty nice. "I bought these dishes and I can give them to you to try if you're willing. They're really good and it's not a waste."
After Tang Ning finished his lunch, he also received similar memories.
It was his turn to receive the memories of a ghost of his type.
For example, a young boy imprisoned by a murderer eventually turned into a ghost and took over the murderer's body. Another example is a dragon deceived by the royal family, who was pressed under the national defense formation to extract the dragon veins, and finally turned into a ghost dragon and destroyed the entire kingdom...
Tangning began to feed Lin Yun, who was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Lin Yun ate one mouthful at a time, very obediently. Tangning asked calmly, "Lin Yun, do you remember?"
"Grandpa?" Lin Yun asked blankly.
"Well, Si Tai has a higher seniority than you." Tang Ning shook his head.
"Where's my mother?" Lin Yun looked around.
"Mom is out buying groceries. She'll be here soon," Tangning coaxed.
The old man sat obediently on the chair, with a pure silly smile on his face, "Mom."
The family affection gained from drawing cards on the first day was finally returned to Lin Yun on the last day.
Li Haoyuan and Si Tai also moved into Tang Ning's house. Li Haoyuan told Tang Ning that he found Zhou Kang. Zhou Kang was already dead, but he was still breathing his last breath. He asked Li Haoyuan to help him write on his epitaph "I have lived a tiring life in this life. In my next life, I want to be a cat raised by someone."
Everyone had already been mentally prepared for death in the S-level copy, and they were already very grateful to have survived until the last day of this copy.
"Then let's talk about the epitaph first." Si Tai looked like he was only ten years old, full of energy and vigor. He said excitedly, "Finally I don't have to type, yeah!"
Perhaps it felt a bit casual, Si Tai thought for a while and said, "How about this, the title is in quotation marks, the name is "Si Tai", the whole text is over."
"If I have to describe what I think about this world..." Li Haoyuan said, "Just one word, woof."
Lin Yun looked at his teammates with a dazed look on his face, trying not to join in the topic.
"It should be written on the tombstone, 'There was a beautiful family, friendship...'" Tangning looked at it, "and love. I hope you who are reading this can also experience it."
It was receiving countless repressive responses when it suddenly felt a strange throbbing. It discovered that in this copy of life, it already had a beautiful family relationship.
There was a ghost knocking on the door outside the house. Tang Ning's face changed slightly. His body had been overdrawn today. If he used the Soul Fire again, he would probably faint immediately. Lin Yun now had Alzheimer's disease and had no ability to protect himself. Li Haoyuan was not much better. He accompanied Tang Ning to the Xie family today and was also exhausted. Although Si Tai was getting younger, he was too young now, only seven or eight years old.
Even the prince, who has always been powerful, is now in a very strange state and has no way to protect them.
At this moment, a sharp cat's meow suddenly sounded. Although it was a cat's meow, it sounded more like an old man calling a cat.
As the voice appeared, the knocking stopped.
Li Haoyuan explained: "Si Tai interrupted me just now and I forgot what I was going to say. Although Zhou Kang died and turned into a ghost-like existence, he will protect us after his death. If we hadn't been helping him the day before yesterday, he wouldn't have lived to the last day."
Zhou Kang, who looked like a cat, was wandering outside the house.
It was already dark outside, and with the light from inside the house, one could occasionally spot Zhou Kang's strange appearance outside the house. However, this scene was particularly reassuring in the eyes of his teammates.
"Dad, if we can just get through this night, can all of us survive?" asked Si Tai, who looked about five or six years old, in a milky voice.
Tangning held its hand and interlocked their fingers, "Yes."
Its fingers, which had been motionless for a long time, suddenly twitched. Tang Ning looked over in surprise. Due to the aging of his body, Tang Ning's surprise movement seemed to be in slow motion.
It looked at the overjoyed Tang Ning in front of it, and felt a little happy in its heart.
It finally receives all the memories.
It is a collection of resentment from ghosts in countless copy worlds. Those resentments eventually converge into it. It wants to jump out of the almost endless cycle of despair and get rid of the miserable fate. Finally, it finds an opportunity.
It selects a special player through a magical mirror. That player is very powerful and has an invaluable fate. As long as it can seize the other party's identity, it can escape from the control of everything.
In that Werewolf copy, it only dared to release less than one ten-thousandth of its power, and through the mirror, it transformed itself into the opposite of the player named Xie Yunting.
In order to cheat the card game, it completely erased its own memory, and even it itself believed that it was Xie Yunting's counterfeit.
This is the game between it and the whole game.
In its first attempt, it met a very weak person. That person was the first and only person who gave it warmth in more than 36,000 rounds.
That person was a little witch who was timid, not very smart, very crybaby, very soft and kind.
When it was about to die after its first kill, the little witch saved it and gave it the most precious opportunity to gamble.
If it missed the opportunity of that copy and missed the player named Xie Yunting, it didn't know how long it would take before it could find the second player with a fate as precious as Xie Yunting, who was powerful enough to hide its aura and prevent the card game from noticing it.
But it knew nothing at the time. In order to cheat in the card game, it had to cheat itself first.
It was taken into the cabin by the little witch and taken good care of.
That was the love and warmth it had never received before.
Later, its deception made the little witch sad. Finally, the little witch mistakenly thought that it was being chased by a hunter, so she opened the door to save the werewolf.
The little witch died just like that, and before she died she was still thinking about that werewolf.
It has always wanted to escape from the nightmare cycle and no longer endure the torment of being a ghost. It wants to be loved like ordinary people. Even if it doesn't remember anything at that time, it still stubbornly wants to pursue the only warmth it has ever received.
It wanted to see the little witch again, but the little witch was dead.
At that moment, a thought suddenly popped up in its mind: Is fate unchangeable
Just like its fate, it is destined not to be loved.
Later, it used its identity as Xie Yunting's opposite to evade the detection of the card game and reached the last level with Xie Yunting.
It awakened all its memories in this copy, gained all its power, and alarmed the card game.
Therefore, the task it gets is different from everyone else.
It's going to kill him, the player.
Xie Yunting also knew its mission.
Xie Yunting told Tang Ning that only one of them could get out alive.
So Tangning, who was completely different from the little witch, ran as fast as she could. Xie Yunting was also trying to stop her. Xie Yunting couldn't stop her at first. No one could stop her with all her power. There was only one reason why her mission failed, and that was the game system's response to her: "Do you want to see your little witch again?"
So it stopped.
"You cheated before, this is not the right way to play the game." System: "Why don't we play the card game again fairly? If you win this time, not only can you leave the game, you can also leave with your little witch."
it,"."
"Let me think about how to tailor the game rules for you..." The system was a little embarrassed: "Other players only need to survive in card games, but this is too easy for you."
"Hey, I suddenly thought of it." System, "Do you know? You and Xie Yunting's fate is very interesting. Your fate is destined to be a lonely star, and Xie Yunting is completely opposite to you. When you and Xie Yunting appear in front of your little witch at the same time, who will he choose to love?"
Its expression changed at that moment.
"Isn't it too bullying to compare Xie Yunting with you? Oh no, too bullying?" The system said magnanimously: "How about this, at the beginning of the game, only a weakened version of Xie Yunting will appear. Isn't this fair?"
It has any confidence.
In terms of being loved, it has every confidence that it can surpass Xie Yunting, even if it is a weakened version of Xie Yunting.
"However, since we are going to compete, you must follow your original characteristics. You cannot ruin your character, otherwise it would be meaningless, right? If you do this, you will always be a ghost in this game, a complete monster."
"When a prince and a monster appear at the same time, will anyone really fall in love with the monster?" The system did not hide its malice and chuckled: "I am looking forward to it. Maybe someone will really treat you as a prince-"
"Monster Prince."
Multiplayer: Life
Number of players: 8
Difficulty: S level
Main Mission 1: Kill! Kill all players within six days!
Main Quest 2: After Tang Ning regained the little witch's memory, she was still willing to love a monster (willing to give up her life for love)