The puppet was caught in Lin Huai's arms, still struggling and screaming: "Bounce back! Do you think you are a primary school student?"
The puppet scolded for a long time, exhausting all the words, but Lin Huai just looked around casually and ignored it.
puppet:…
It actually felt a little lost because of this, for a long time, it held its breath and said, "Rebound again!"
Lin Huai replied quickly this time: "The rebound is invalid."
puppet:…
"Are you a primary school student?!"
"Actually, I hope we can be more friendly and polite, and not be so Zuan." Lin Huai sighed, and then he opened the seventh black box, before the pale and swollen female ghost could crawl out—
"Please go in."
"Ah, are you insane?!"
The puppet was stuffed into the box by Lin Huai again, and Lin Huai patiently closed her ears again and listened for the sound inside to disappear. Then, after the box was finally quiet, he gracefully knocked on the door with his fingers—
Then opened the box.
The puppet stood in the bloody box and yelled: "Didn't you first say that we should be more civilized?!"
It even looks a little wronged.
"I said it first." Lin Huai shrugged and spread his hands, "Look—"
puppet:…
Lin Huai: "I just said please."
"What the hell are you..."
"Now please come out." Lin Huai smiled and stretched out his hand to the puppet.
As if he was not afraid that the puppet would be mad at him, he bit the word "please" very hard.
puppet:…
"Crazy, there's something wrong with your head, crazy, you're sick—"
Lin Huai hummed a song with the puppet, and walked eastward with the note with "13" written on it. The puppet scolded him all the way, but this time Lin Huai didn't even say "bounce back" back to him, it couldn't help but said, "Why don't you bounce back?"
"Because these are all objective truths." Lin Huai replied very simply, seeming to be in a good mood.
puppet:…
"You're such a psycho."
"I'm very honored." Lin Huai replied, "But speaking of it, I found something—"
"These ghosts in the box are all players who didn't escape from here before they were alive?" Lin Huai said, "I just saw a person's chest with the 'Chen Xing' logo."
The puppet smiled maliciously: "You can be one of them too—no, you won't be one of them. I'll catch you and torture you—"
"Unfortunately, I seem to be a little more civilized than you." As he spoke, Lin Huai opened a box, "Please go in—"
"It seems that I don't need to invite you in this time." Lin Huai said to himself, "Is it hair inside?"
He stretched out his hand, and what he grabbed was a clump of jet-black hair. The lump of hair was lying on the bottom of the box, and when he touched it, it was like a dead object, not moving at all.
"What does it mean?"
The puppet behind him smiled secretly.
"I told you a long time ago that this is a game of equivalent exchange. If you want to leave here, you have to exchange something of the same value. Then you might as well think about it—" The puppet dragged out the tone, "A person If you want to leave here, what is the condition in exchange?"
"It's still too late for you to ask for forgiveness, please beg me more, maybe I will make your death a little more comfortable?"
Lin Huai looked at him quietly, for a long time, he also smiled.
"The next box." He opened the next box, and a pale face was raised inside, "Please go in."
…
"Thank you for your ball of yarn and your sword." Qiu Ran said.
She was sitting in the pumpkin carriage now, and sitting next to her, Xia Xingye was still panting. He was much more embarrassed now, and his golden brown hair fell out of the hood. He gritted his teeth, as if he was applying medicine to his wound.
"The ship capsizes in the gutter, sure enough, never cooperate with an unpredictable lunatic." Xia Xingye looked at the sky and smiled wryly, "One Lin Huai, one Josie..."
"The puppeteer's name is Josie?"
"pseudonym."
Qiu Ran looked out the window and said, "I still don't understand, why did you bring me out just now?"
Xia Xingye was silent for a while, then smiled: "If I say it's because you saved me when the puppeteer chased me down, would you believe me?"
"What do you think?"
"Well, it's because I was alone and couldn't escape this far. You know, my earrings were already cracked at that time." Xia Xingye shrugged, "With my strength alone, I can't beat anyone Master, so I want to bring you out—are you satisfied with this answer?"
"Satisfied." Qiu Ran nodded, "This is the answer that suits you."
After she said that, she turned to the boy who was lying on the carriage. The boy was dressed in red, his eyes were closed tightly, and he seemed to be seriously injured.
There are contract patterns all over his arms—that is the curse mark of the ghosts enslaved by the contract.
She didn't notice that after she said "satisfied", Xia Xingye's eyes suddenly darkened, as if this answer displeased him.
Qiu Ran rolled the boy's eyelids, and took out a physical recovery potion from his pocket and gave it to him. Xia Xingye said from behind her: "I didn't expect you to bring it out too."
"What's so strange about that?"
"It's dying, there's no point in bringing it out."
Qiu Ran was quiet for a while, then she turned her head and said, "Are you a bit too narcissistic?"
"what?"
"I brought him out not because of you, but because he is another independent individual. He shouldn't die there because of you." Qiu Ran calmly said, "In the eyes of you businessmen, these ghosts may It's a tool that disappears after reading it. Forget it, we don't need to talk about it."
The stamina pill was finally swallowed by the Li Gui boy, and his condition gradually improved. Qiu Ran stared at him intently, but a sneer came from behind him.
"Do you think you are kind? Just and kind lady guard?" It was the first time she heard Xia Xingye speak in this tone, "Look, how kind are you? You saved the person who almost killed you, You only asked for an arrow. You also saved a ghost who was regarded as a tool man, although he will not remember how kind you were to him after he opened his eyes. What, you think you are the embodiment of justice and light? Show off Your character makes you feel very satisfied, right?"
"You remind me of a person, he is as disgusting as you - if it weren't for this, he wouldn't die in the copy, just to satisfy his fantasy of being a hero. In this game, there is no need for these meaningless things , meaningless feelings. You just need to maximize the use of resources, and then pass all the levels, if you just want to show your own justice—"
"I don't plan to do those boring things, I do these just because I feel happy." Seeing that the ghost boy was about to open his eyes, Qiu Ran said, "Before this, I was also confused, why should I Playing this game, do I need to change myself in order to survive in this game? Until…”
She remembered someone.
The guy in the red suit, laughing and breaking all the rules.
"Even if I change myself, I may not be able to take a better path. But someone made me understand that the most important thing in playing games is to be happy. Alright." Qiu Ran lightly threw the bandage aside, "Now he Wake up, I am very happy, you are not happy. I won this round."
Xia Xingye looked at her gloomyly, and after a while he smiled strangely: "Do you think you're the only one who said something similar to this? The person I know..."
"That person is someone you are very familiar with. He should have a good relationship with you before he was alive?"
Xia Xingye was stunned. He said coldly, "Have you investigated me?"
"It's all written on your face." Qiu Ran said, "You hate him very much? Not necessarily, I guess you have been favored by him, haven't you?"
The pumpkin carriage was still driving, and Qiu Ran's voice was very clear in the pumpkin carriage: "You were favored by him when you were weak, right? But he died—I guess, it should be to save you, right Right? Maybe in a copy, he closed the door and let you, who is weaker than him, go first, and said to you with a smile—"
"Hoshino, I'll come out right away. The captain and the others are gone, so I'll come." Don't worry, I'm strong, I'm fine, don't be afraid, after I come out, I have...'
'One thing, want to tell you. '
"But he didn't come out, and you started to hate him. Because he promised you that he would come out. You think he made a promise that he couldn't achieve with his own ability to be a hero."
For a moment, Xia Xingye didn't know whether what he heard was Qiu Ran's voice, or the voice he imagined in his heart.
"Later, you asked other people, and no one promised you compensation."
'I'm sorry for his death, but it was all due to his lack of ability. '
'Xia Xingye, there's no need for you to be so angry with me. Yes, someone strong enough and there might be able to save him, at great risk. I am the captain of Chenxing, so I cannot take this risk. And you, you are not even qualified to stand there. '
'… So, you choose to hate him. You hate him for betraying his promise to you. You hate someone who saved you. You also hate many people. What you hate the most is the kindness that took him away from you. A kind-hearted person like him would never have thought that the friend he saved would turn out to be the most ruthless calculating person in the end, right? '
... You changed the old you into another.
The Li Gui boy opened his bright red eyes, and he rolled his eyes, as if he was at a loss as to why he was here.
— rather than being abandoned.
"But he won't regret saving you. I think he must be very happy to see you escape from there, and he will be happy when he sees his teammates escape from there, and he will be very happy." I'm glad you... you guys can survive." Qiu Ran said, "At least..."
"I think what he wants to see on your current expression should be a nostalgic smile, not a painful expression."
No one in the carriage spoke again. After a long time, the carriage stopped.
"Here we are." Xia Xingye said.
Standing in front of them is the enchantment of witches that belongs to the depths of the "greedy" country.
It was a black and white Möbius ring.
A Möbius'... chessboard!
"You're right." Xia Xingye suddenly said to Qiu Ran when he got off the car.
"I should smile more."