"Your temper is still so bad."
Lin Huai shrugged nonchalantly, and licked his palm.
"I just don't think it's necessary for one person to be polite to another that doesn't even have a human form, do you?"
The black shadow smashed by him slowly gathered on the ground, it was like a huge and flat mass of mud, a few hands and feet broke through from the main body, and finally turned into a figure on the wall like water mist.
Lin Huai looked at "him".
"I have no choice but to communicate with you in this situation. It's a pity that the 'above' who is closest to you is getting stronger and stronger." Heiying said, "Your landing space is in his field of vision. The reality is also in his vision. As for the copy, after I logged in twice, he cleaned me up more and more. So... "
"So you chose this place? Because this is the only place that won't be watched by the so-called 'He'?" Lin Huai pointed at the window sill.
"Ordinary isolation rooms are not good, but ordinary examiners will inform." Soi Ying said, "But here..."
His eyes rested on the dog on the opposite side of the glass window, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
Lin Huai: ...
"Although you look like a genius who has successfully caught the loopholes in the system, but the fact that bullying dogs can only bark and not tell the truth makes me think you are really harmonious..." Lin Huai's eyebrows twitched pumped.
Sombra: …
"I'm self-taught when it comes to destroying other people's pretentious aura." Lin Huai smiled sincerely at him.
Sombra: …
"Okay," Lin Huai spread his hands, "you can start talking."
The black shadow actually sighed.
"Actually, you don't have to be so defensive against me at all. In a sense, we are of the same origin, we are the same kind, and it has been decided since I was created... We should be one. ...Originally, since you entered the door, this is only one step away, but it's a pity... "
"What's the pity?" Lin Huai looked at him expressionlessly, "It's a pity that I have normal aesthetic taste?"
Sombra: …
"You should have figured out my identity." Heiying looked up at the sky, "Well... There are still five minutes before He finds this place, so let's make a long story short. Don't look at me like that, I showed up today Here, I don't want to fight, but want to talk about a cooperation... "
"Before talking about cooperation, it is the most basic etiquette to introduce yourself first."
Hei Ying smiled, and he was quite reserved: "You're right."
"Then let me introduce myself. I came from behind the door and was born at the same time as this game. If I want to introduce my identity clearly, it may start with the reason why this game was created and be mentioned at the same time. However, time is really Limited, so let me describe it in the simplest words—I used to be the self-will of this game, the monitor of the entire game, the manager who constantly promotes the self-evolution of the system, if you must call me by a name —”
"You can call me Gu Chaosheng." Heiying smiled, "This is the main source of my current will."
His voice was like a boulder falling into a calm lake.
"Gu Chaosheng, I've heard of this name before." Lin Huai said coldly, "He was the last person to enter the door."
"Integrating him has brought me a lot of benefits. He is indeed a very tenacious person with his own ideas. Divide players of different levels by the low, middle and high levels, so that players can easily Forgetting each other's faces, setting up different communication camps... He really worked hard to keep more players alive."
"The people who entered the door before were also integrated by you?" Lin Huai asked, "You rely on devouring their consciousness to carry out the evolution of game management?"
Sombra said: "In a sense, this is the case. In what you players call the 'Savage Age', I devoured the first person. She made the game start publishing tasks, allowing the game to adjust the difficulty according to the number of participants' participation, Make the content of the game more orderly."
"Subsequently, the second man found the way to enter the 'gate'. After he was swallowed, camps, spaces, shops appeared in the game... This is also the result of his transformation. Oh, this man is still a good programmer. He Before disappearing, he created a dynamic password for the door, thirty-two strings, originally within the scope of the rules he could do, the only way to better restrict the 'door' from swallowing human beings who accidentally broke in." Black Shadow said , "It's a pity that his painstaking efforts were not understood, and other players took the 'door' as an opportunity to leave the game, and tried their best to start a bloody competition for it..."
"The third person is Gu Chaosheng. Devouring their will is the necessary way for you to evolve?" Lin Huai asked, "What is your purpose?"
"Swallowing them is not the purpose, but an accidental path, which is derived from the swallowing instinct of the system when it lacks the 'core'." Sombra said, "My purpose has never been to swallow them. They are just replacements for the empty 'core' .Before the 'cores' are filled, they are simply durable goods that are easily consumed."
"Core..."
"The meaning of the creation of the system is the core. Only after having the core, the system can have the full ability to invade reality. This is also the meaning of the creation of the system..."
"So am I the replacement, or the core?"
The black shadow stopped talking, and he and Lin Huai looked at each other calmly with the broken chair between them.
"Lin Huai," Black Shadow said suddenly, "Be careful with him."
"Who is he?"
"If you want to know my origin, go find a society in reality."
"What society?"
"Descent to the Foundation."
"Advent Foundation..." Lin Huai quickly recalled the name of this organization, "Is it Cheng Yu'an's organization?"
Sombra smiled slightly.
"You don't have to worry about not having a ticket to this organization." He said slowly, "In a sense, this organization..."
"—was also created for you."
Lin Huai: ...
"Created 'by' me, not 'by' me?" He chewed the word lightly.
Black Shadow smiled but said, "I can't say too much about this matter, after all, its core is related to the 'bet' between you and me."
After speaking, he melted into Lin Huai's shadow again like a cloud of smoke.
The isolation room began to shake and collapse. Lin Huai sat on the window sill and suddenly smiled.
"The core, the descending foundation, was created because of me..." He chewed these words, "Could it be that I was really a big shot before? Even the core of the system must be me?"
Facing these complicated and disturbing plots and schemes, he suddenly felt a little tired.
"...I want to go back to the rental house." He put his wrist on his forehead and muttered.
Lin Huai returned to the system space.
"Welcome back."
Still using the male greeting familiar to the system, Lin Huai sat on the sofa for a while and glanced at the chained door.
For some unknown reason, two more chains on the door seemed to be broken.
"He..."
Lin Huai suddenly had a bold idea.
In his previous view, the chain of this door exists to protect himself outside the door, once the chain is broken, he will be swallowed by the shadow inside the door.
However, now it seems that the black shadow is actually quite weak, fearing the gaze from outside the door, if that's the case...
Could it be that these chains are used to protect the shadow in the door
The thing that really scares him is actually outside the door
Lin Huai felt that his idea was ridiculous. However, Sombra's attitude towards him made him feel even more weird.
"We are of the same origin."
"The reason I was created is to merge with you."
What is homology
Why merge with him
Lin Huai originally thought that her life trajectory was to be born as an ordinary child. When she was young, she met Chu Tianshu, and later entered the game. In order to fight against the shackles of the game, she entered the "door". That way he was directly swallowed by the "Gate", but reached a certain bet with the "Gate", which made him re-enter the game, and the will of the "Gate" was sealed in his body...
His final destination should be to win the bet in some way, defeat the "door", eliminate the game from then on, and gain real freedom. And the memories of the so-called "Wen County" are just false memories made up by the "door" when he left the "door".
However…
"Woo..."
The little girl's cry crossed time and space and entered his ears again.
He sat on the sofa and grabbed his sleeve.
He remembers her.
"faint".
That was the beginning of his memory as a ghost. In his memory, he was always nesting in the well. He seemed to be lazy and deliberately didn't want to do anything, so he didn't want to leave here at all.
Until that weeping little girl broke into his well.
— This little girl is very weird. When Lin Huai saw her for the first time, she felt that she should not be here at all.
The little girl was about eleven or twelve years old, and she seemed to have strayed into Wen County. There, she seemed to have witnessed extremely bloody and terrifying things, and witnessed the worst malice in human nature. Most of the time, she is extremely quiet. Lin Huai therefore tolerated her staying by his side.
Lin Huai also asked her what the outside world was like when she was bored. She just said: "It's all the same, the human heart is worse than here."
"The outside world is not as good as the one here."
Lin Huai recalled this memory carefully, but regretfully found that she couldn't remember anything more.
The little girl disappeared suddenly one day. She was not killed by ghosts, but disappeared suddenly.
Lin Huai regretted it for a little while, but didn't take it to heart.
But looking at it now... that little girl seems to be Chu Tianshu's mother, Gu Youruo.
Why did Gu Youruo bring five-year-old Chu Tianshu back to Wen County? Why did she say...
Chu Tianshu, should he be dead
Does this have anything to do with what happened to her when she was eleven years old
Or... Is she related to the birth of the system
Lin Huai suddenly had a ridiculous idea.
Could it be that his memory of being a ghost in Wen County... is real
His life as Xiao Lin Huai who met Xiao Chu Tianshu, and his life as a crow, is it also true
He was still originally a ghost from Wen County, but for some unknown reason, he became the young Lin Huaixu who thought he was a human being. After becoming a human being, he re-entered the system for some reason... into the system tailored for him...
In the end, it came out of the system again and became what it is now