After leaving the waterfall and returning to the bamboo house, Gu Liang wanted to go back to bed and rest.
He suddenly caught a glimpse of something, he stopped and looked towards the table - the card actually appeared on the table.
Gu Liang frowned and walked over, picked up the card, and found a line of words appeared.
"In order to prevent the player from accidentally losing the card, the card has the function of returning to the player automatically!"
"The player and the card are two-way bound, you can't discard it! It will stay with you until the end of the game!"
Gu Liang: "..."
Gu Liang casually threw it on the table, ignoring it, and saw another line of words appearing on it.
"Friendly reminder, discarding the card and accidentally losing the card are two completely different situations."
"The behavior of discarding cards is very bad! Your game attitude is too negative!"
"In addition, based on your negative performance in the "Xuan Ji" script, you will be arranged to enter the ultimate punishment book!"
"Therefore, I will add a friendly reminder at the end. Please rest well during these fifteen days and recharge your batteries. The days in the punishment book are not particularly easy!"
Gu Liangli ignored him, slapped the cards face up on the table, and went to bed.
But he didn't really sleep well.
He once experienced insomnia for more than half a year, and then worked hard to adjust, forcing himself to sleep when he could sleep, and his mental state gradually improved a lot.
Now he seems to have returned to that mental state that is not stable at any time.
No matter how hard he forced himself, he couldn't fall asleep.
He knew that this was not going to work.
He has to take good care of his body and maintain a good state.
Before loving others, learn to love yourself first.
When you are in a bad state, there is no way to love someone well, and the quality of getting along between two people will not be high. At that time, it will only consume each other's feelings.
So Gu Liang thought of a way, and in the end, relying on peach blossom honey and wine, he only needs to eat a little, and he can sleep until dawn.
today. Gu Liang got up early, cooked himself a bowl of water noodles, and went back to the courtyard to rest.
When there are no entertainment facilities, no cases to solve, and nothing to do, the longing will be infinite.
Gu Liang sat on the stone chair, watched the peach blossoms beside him fall one by one, and counted the petals boredly for a moment.
While counting the petals, he thought about Yang Ye in his mind.
No wonder the ancients could write so many poems about lovesickness.
This is not without reason.
When Gu Liang counted to the 160th petal, he heard footsteps.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw Mingyue and the NPC who used to play Liu's maid walking over.
Gu Liang was indeed a little surprised, and then watched Maid Liu bring a tray, put down a pot of tea, two cups, and some snacks, and then stood aside.
After that, Mingyue sat in front of Gu Liang.
Gu Liang looked at him: "What does this mean? Can you meet players casually?"
Mingyue explained: "For players who have entered the advanced script, the system staff, especially those who are short of manpower, can choose the candidate they like. The system allows the staff to find the player to talk to the player when the player is resting."
"Of course, the premise is that the player's various data scores meet the requirements of a certain type of work."
"For example, your scores in intelligence and logic are very high. The system calculates that you are qualified for my job. Therefore, I can come to see you."
"This opportunity is actually something you won yourself. Your performance in the game is very good."
Gu Liang nodded: "Understood. You still want me to do things for you when you are looking for me. But I remember, I refused."
Mingyue spread her hands and said, "But you can change your mind at any time."
"I can tell you that in your comprehensive evaluation this time, the score of game attitude is particularly low. Too negative attitude will make you enter a terrible script. If you decide to go to my side now, leave As a player, there is no need to punish Ben."
Gu Liang only asked Mingyue: "Let me confirm with you again. Although staff like you can occasionally appear as NPCs, they are different from NPCs. NPCs can restore their player status by earning enough points, and finally get to leave the game and return to the game." a realistic opportunity."
"But once you're part of a system like yours, there's no going back, right?"
Mingyue nodded: "Yes. To become a staff member, you will officially join this world. You can't go back to the original world."
Gu Liang said: "I don't want to join this world. Sorry."
"I'm happy to be an NPC. I want to find Yang Ye. But if I become a worker like you and stay here forever, I don't want to."
Mingyue looked at Gu Liang for a while, poured him a cup of tea, and poured another cup for herself.
Picking up the celadon cup and taking a sip of the hot tea, Mingyue said again: "Speaking of Yang Ye, do you know what happened to him?"
Gu Liang shook his head, but his expression was obviously more nervous and concerned.
Mingyue looked at his reaction with great interest, and then said: "What I can tell you now is that the number of scripts played by each person is not the same. The system will determine how many scripts you participate in according to the complexity of you. After the script, the value it obtains is enough for it to make certain judgments."
"Yang Ye's crime value is very low. Not only is his crime value low, but his merit value is correspondingly very high. I think that from the beginning, you often draw rare reward cards such as detective cards and even death-saving cards. See. He's lucky for a reason."
Gu Liang didn't change his expression, but his hands clenched into fists, listening to Mingyue's story seriously.
"The crime value is low, correspondingly, the punishment period is very short, and he has enough gold coins to deduct..."
"So the system judged that he can go home."
Gu Liang's eyes widened. "You mean, he returned to reality?"
Mingyue rolled her eyes and asked with a smile: "Between choosing to stay here with you and returning to reality, he chose to return to reality. Why don't you look sad and disappointed?"
Gu Liang only said: "If he had a choice, he wouldn't just go back. Unless you force him to go back."
Mingyue raised her eyebrows: "You really have confidence in your relationship."
Gu Liang: "It's not just because of our relationship. Even if I'm just his friend and brother, he won't leave me behind and only care about his own escape. His eyes are just to save his comrades, and he almost went blind. He has a lot of problems. Noble character."
Gu Liang is still wearing an ancient robe, but the hair cover has been removed, and now he has short hair.
Even so, the picture of him sitting quietly in front of a peach blossom is enough to please the eye.
Mingyue stared at him for a moment, then asked instead: "Brother Liang, do you have any guesses about the current system?"
"Yes." Gu Liang answered very simply.
"I remembered something later. Every half a month, my psychologist Xun Feng would send me an email, sometimes with some psychological test questions, sometimes with some routine inquiries. This is a follow-up on the patient's situation Follow up. Occasionally, if he is busy, he will be replaced by his assistant."
"But before I came here, I hadn't heard from him for a month."
"I was too busy during that time, so I didn't bother to contact him."
"I met him in the game now, plus these tests of the system..."
"I guess, something happened to Xun Feng. Something happened to me too. My last memory of reality is on the road. I may have been in a car accident. But I don't think I died. I think, this game of yours may be in the Choose who is eligible to go back."
Having said that, Gu Liang looked at Mingyue with more serious searching eyes. "I actually attended your funeral. So, the day you become a staff member of the system actually means, the day you die in reality, right? So what is this world, hell Is it? You want me to be a civil servant in hell with you, don't you?"
Mingyue laughed again. "Brother Liang, what you say is as if I'm convincing you to die. But it's not like that. Standing here with me, you can see life, death, and everything between life and death... here and there On the boundary of eternity, such as physics, you can have a completely different understanding of it, and get the opportunity to truly understand the universe."
Gu Liang only asked: "So, where am I?"
Mingyue said: "Maybe it is called [Between Life and Death]. In your so-called real world, you are lying on a hospital bed in a vegetative state. The doctors there will think that you have completely lost the ability to think and recognize in this state. cognitive ability. Your EEG will show stray waves over there."
"But actually, you're here."
Gu Liang frowned: "So, it's not what we thought at first, people who committed crimes will come here."
Mingyue: "Yes, that's not the case. Between heaven and earth, there is a set of rules for its operation. You might as well regard this place as one of the branches of hell. In the real world, how many people and how many people die every year? If it is appropriate, it needs to be strictly controlled.”
"Then for people who are in a severe coma or in a vegetative state, there will be a strict limit on who can wake up and continue to live. Then, it is up to our system to decide who should be selected to go back. .”
"Therefore, the system needs to design a series of judging criteria."
Gu Liang: "I probably understand."
Mingyue: "Of course, people with serious crimes must go directly to hell. Therefore, the probability of such people drawing dead and murderer cards at the beginning is very high. They basically have no chance of returning to the world. They died in the game. The so-called death penalty is actually fake in the game, it’s just that they are punished and forgiven after death, and experience the pain over and over again.”
"But it would mean that, in reality, they would definitely die."
Gu Liang: "So, the system first let them be the murderers of the dead, let us watch their crimes read out, and watch them accept the death penalty... This is actually just a warning, so that we can respect the system and concentrate on the game? This is the system. trick."
Mingyue nodded. "You are really smart."
Mingyue took another sip of tea and continued: "So the system doesn't just test logic or something, it looks at the player's performance in all aspects. Indicators such as moral value and possible contribution to mankind in the future are especially important. .”
"For example, if you are a person with no IQ at all, you will waste food after you go back. Maybe you won't have the chance to go back. Or, even if you have a high IQ, you may cause serious incidents after you go back, resulting in the tragic death of many people. You can't go back if you lose balance or something."
Gu Liang asked again: "After completing the effective test, the data in all aspects meet the conditions for going back, and the sins are cleared, can you go back?"
Mingyue looked at him, pointed to Maid Liu standing beside her, and said, "No. There are exceptions, such as Maid Liu."
Gu Liang glanced at Maid Liu, and then said to Mingyue: "I would like to hear more about it."
Mingyue said: "It also has something to do with your real conditions."
"For example, Maid Liu got the chance to go back by actively fighting for it. But her family was very poor. Before she could go back, her family had given up treatment. Her body had been cremated, so of course she couldn't Back to reality."
Gu Liang frowned: "So, for example, in the real world, the mistakes of doctors and nurses, the failure of medical equipment to maintain normal physiological functions, and the abandonment of treatment by family members... will all cause us to stay here. At that time, we will really Has it become a 'ghost'?"
Mingyue nodded.
Gu Liang was silent for a moment, then asked: "Then Yang Ye—"
Mingyue said: "What I can tell you is that he discarded the extra gold coins and only kept 3. After using the gold coins to offset the service period, he still needs to serve the system for 10 years. This is converted to human time, which is actually 10 years. sky."
"Although his family conditions are good enough, he can definitely be placed in a hospital with good medical conditions, but the weather is always unpredictable. If the hospital encounters any emergency, such as thunderstorms, lightning, circuit tripping, etc... he may die. of."
"So, if it takes 10 more days, he might actually die."
Gu Liang frowned. "If he earns enough points, can he return to the player status and then return to reality?"
Mingyue: "Of course he can fight for it. For example, if he becomes a detective again and earns gold coins, he can still go home."
Gu Liang didn't speak.
Mingyue asked: "Don't you ask yourself?"
Gu Liang: "I can probably imagine my situation. Maybe it's not very good. I only have my little aunt as a relative. Their family's financial situation is not bad, but in a city with extremely high housing prices, they will inevitably plan for themselves. Face to face To me who doesn't know if I will wake up..."
"As for my guilt, it's because I was a lawyer—"
"No." Mingyue said, "Your sin value is due to your suicide. Since you committed suicide before, the system took great pains to send you back. If you die again, isn't it a waste of other people's opportunities? For example , you and another person passed the game at the same time, but there is only one indicator to go back, then the system will send him back, not you."
"Furthermore, Yang Ye's data on various indicators has always been very good, and his former merit value was high, so he can go back soon."
"You are different. For example, this time you gave nectar to each player, which greatly detracted from your own moral score."
"Actually, in principle, as long as you stay long enough, players can return to reality. But the reality is that people in reality will not wait for you so long, plus some unavoidable accidents, such as sudden changes in body functions. question or something…”
"Therefore, the longer the time, the lower the probability of going back. And your chance of going back is relatively much smaller."
Gu Liang understood.
In this case, if Yang Ye stays here longer, he will be in more danger in reality.
If I can see him again... I must send him back.
Seeing Gu Liang's expression, Mingyue twitched the corner of her mouth.
Then he stood up. "Tell you thoroughly, I think you will make a decision."
"Just treat it as a three-time visit to the thatched cottage. I will come to ask you again. Maybe you will give me a satisfactory answer when the time comes."
Book Nine of Punishment: "Dry Bones"