Lin Huai's posture really looked like he was about to fall, Chu Tianshu grabbed Lin Huai's wrist to stop him from falling off the cliff. At that moment, he saw the words on this abyss, written by his strange self.
To his horror, he understood the words.
'A monster from a well'
'Viruses come from wells'
'All the viruses are vicious and cruel, they infest and infect the world, our task is to eliminate them—'
A powerful white light appeared in front of his eyes, no, it was not a white light, but a white room.
is memory.
He stood in the room, watching many creatures like him being born from the room.
"Every wave of viruses is dropped into this folder, and your task is to kill them, together with all the extended and infected files, into pieces." He heard a voice similar to his own, "They were dropped by the outside world. During the period, it was ferocious, cruel, and divided into various sequences... Devour them, devour all the sequences!"
The white mist collided with the red mist, and the small ghosts escaped from the net, but the powerful ghosts were detained in the safety net area that isolated them. This area is a special folder.
It is an isolated area where ghosts and "them" fight endlessly.
He rarely appears in person. His derivatives smashed and cut the ghosts into pieces, and piled them up in the abyss of recovery. The ghosts in each sequence are brutal, and they are invading and spreading into this world following the orders of the visitors from another world.
There are no sane ghosts, only ghosts eager to devour and kill. This kind of life is so peaceful that it makes people numb.
From the information carried by those ghosts, he saw the appearance of the world they came from. That world is grotesque and colorful, with "birds", "beasts", "mountains", "water" and a kind of animal called "human". . The virus that came to fight them took on the shape of a ghost, something that the "people" in that world find scary.
He observed that world and realized that it was a different life form than his world. In his world, there is only cold fog and bloody fights.
The meaning of his existence is to isolate the "virus" here, maintain everything that is cold but orderly, and kill all ghosts that try to cross the net.
The outside world keeps sending viruses or ghosts into the folder, they roar and fight, wanting to reach the world outside the folder. Until one day, his derivatives sent back a strange message.
It was a very special new virus.
No. 0 of Huai Xu... As the first order of Huai Xu, the leading source of the virus.
Unlike other ghosts, it only has the bloody desire to kill and infect, and it doesn't bother to fight with its derivatives. It has only devoured those other ghosts since its arrival.
He wondered if those ghosts were delicious.
It never tried to fight them in order to escape here. But he watched it—that powerful, beautiful virus that seemed custom-made for this world.
Like a blood-red flower.
What exactly is it expecting? What exactly is it trying to do
He is very curious.
He sent derivatives to investigate it, or disguised as ghosts, or went to the place where the concentration of red mist was the highest and where it was located to harass.
Finally, he got the answer.
It is different from other viruses.
It believes that it is being controlled, manipulated, and bound by the mission it was created for.
It doesn't want to follow orders to kill.
It wants chaos...and freedom.
Freedom from bondage.
At that moment, he suddenly felt that it would be great if he could live with it in that grotesque world.
…
Ye Xiangxiang heard Qiuran's cry. Their long absence has drawn the attention of others. She was just about to reply...
At that moment, a strong storm broke out in the surrounding white mist!
No... this is not the time for the next storm at all!
The storm blew them left and right, and in an instant, everyone lost their direction in the storm and could only dodge the teleported debris in vain. Fortunately, the legendary black seam should be nearby... But even so, Fu Liye's screams could be heard in the air!
He appears to have been caught in one of the pieces during the storm. Then came Qiu Ran's terrified "Qu Mei", followed by Qiu Ran's rescue voice... Damn, Qiu Ran wouldn't jump into a certain fragment with Qu Mei, right? !
Ye Xiangxiang braved the storm and wanted to go in their direction. But in the strong wind, she had to dodge other debris, and she couldn't tell the direction at all...
Finally, the storm stopped!
"Qiu Ran! Qiu..."
Ye Xiangxiang's calling sound got stuck in his throat. She stared at the scene in front of her in astonishment.
Around her, the originally dense white mist dissipated, together with those fragments, as if they had been cleared... and appeared in front of her eyes.
It was the black crack that was exactly the same as in the rumors!
Light and shadow flicker in the black crack, like a warm orange light, attracting people to enter. Just looking at it, there will be a strange sense of joy in my heart-it's not as good as the horrors in the rumors. Ye Xiangxiang looked at the crack she had dreamed of, and unexpectedly heard her brother's call faintly in her ears.
"sister… "
"Old sister..."
"Sister, run by yourself, I'll stop you!"
Ye Xiangxiang's eyes were slightly moist. She saw Ruoshui, Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu also coming out of the white mist. Ruoshui saw them and asked, "The other three..."
Seeing Chu Tianshu, Ye Xiangxiang shook his head.
His expression was lighter than when he was on the edge of the cliff before, as if he had condensed because of learning something. Lin Huai stood beside him, watching the crack quietly.
The atmosphere between the two became extremely strange. But Ye Xiangxiang didn't have time to worry about these.
Ruoshui's expression darkened because of the disappearance of those three people. But she looked at the crack and said softly: "This is the crack, we... found it?"
"En." Chu Tianshu said.
"That's right, I knew it as soon as I saw it, it's what I'm looking for." Ruoshui stared at the crack, with a gentle light in his eyes.
Perhaps like Ye Xiangxiang, she also felt the call of the person she wanted to see.
"I'll go in first." She said, "This journey... Thank you for your company."
She smiled: "Actually, I know that it may be impossible to see him. But when I saw this crack, I felt good-it was a feeling that I would definitely see him in it. Even if it is vigorously Dying is far better than lingering in this world."
As she said that, she bowed to several people, and then walked into the crack like a moth stalking the light without looking back.
The rest are Ye Xiangxiang, Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu. Seeing the two young men staring at the crack, Ye Xiangxiang struggled and hesitated, and finally spoke.
"I'm going to find Qiu Ran and Qu Mei first. I don't know where they are. I'll come back when I find them."
She left a positioning guidepost here, and for the first time gave up her goal, but turned around and resolutely walked into the fog.
The target was right in front of her eyes, and the way to go was extremely dangerous, but when she thought of Qiu Ran, she felt that she had no choice but to look for her.
Only Lin Huai and Chu Tianshu stood in front of the crack. Lin Huai looked at the crack and put her finger close to it.
"What did you hear when you were looking at it?" Chu Tianshu suddenly asked.
"Truth, freedom." Lin Huai said, "This is what I feel when I look at it... This crack is also a copy, right? I feel it is telling me that as long as I can pass the level, I can get my want."
"Yes." Chu Tianshu said.
The warm yellow light in the black seam attracted Lin Huai to enter. The powerful attraction of truth and freedom made him unable not to be seduced—whether it was about himself, about those viruses, about the fragments, or about his entry into the gate and his resurrection.
But he asked another question.
"Chu Tianshu." He said, "When you saw this crack, what did you think and what did you hear?"
"you."
Chu Tianshu answered without any hesitation.
Lin Huai paused for a long time, and finally, he laughed: "Is that so?"
"So that's how it is."
"Let's go, don't think too much, the outside world can't hold on anymore, and sooner or later the real world will become a paradise for ghosts. Even if you don't pursue the truth, we can't live a good life." Chu Tianshu is like Seeing the entanglement and guilt in his heart, he took the initiative to say, "Let's go in together."
He held Lin Huai's cold wrist: "Go and find the truth, I will hold your hand."
They stood in front of the crack and took a deep breath, slowly stepping into this unknown land. When he was about to enter, Lin Huai said: "Chu Tianshu, whose handwriting was written on the note that Ye Xiangxiang found and left here a few years ago?"
"... The person I like has always been so smart." He heard Chu Tianshu sigh, "It's my handwriting."
At that moment, Chu Tianshu was ready to let go of his hand, but what he didn't expect was that Lin Huai's hand just went down, and then...
Fingers interlocked with him.
"Really? That's great, it's your handwriting." Lin Huai squeezed his hand, and suddenly turned her head and smiled at him.
That smile is so bright, it's not at all like Lin Huai's appearance when he entered the folder, recognized "Wen County" here, and heard the voices of those ghost fragments at the bottom of the cliff.
It's Lin Huai's daily appearance, every time he encounters happy things, with a little evil spirit and unscrupulous...
Just like when he jumped off the roof in the copy of Fu Jiang and fell into Chu Tianshu's arms, smiling viciously, talking wildly, and saying "I lost".
"I won't worry, Chu Tianshu." He raised his chin slightly and said, "I have guessed some truths, but it's not complete yet. But anyway, I know we will always be together. That's enough."
Then Chu Tianshu scratched his head with the other hand. He stared at the crack and smiled softly.
"I know that too." He said, "By the way, turn your neck, don't just turn your head."
Lin Huai then turned his neck around. Chu Tianshu lowered his head and exchanged a kiss with him.
And completely hide himself behind, to prevent Lin Huai from entering...
destroyed.
They walked in hand in hand. When entering the dungeon, Lin Huai saw a white light, and he heard the system's voice—this time it wasn't a nondescript male voice that had been erased.
It was a restored voice that belonged to Chu Tianshu.
"The last copy." The system said, "Three people enter. The person who clears the level first can get the power he wants most."