Mu Qin used the power of the throne to walk around in this world and possessed Zhou Yue's mother Xie Zhu. Then rely on Xie Zhu's body to meet and talk with Xu Haoyu. After the discussion, Mu Qin left Xie Zhu's body and returned from the present world, and returned to the throne map.
When Mu Qin returned and woke up, the Faceless Man, who had left furiously because of the dispute with Mu Qin, had already returned to Mu Qin's side early.
The Faceless Man didn't wake up the sleeping Mu Qin. He was sitting next to Mu Qin in the same regular but stiff posture as before. On the Faceless Man's clothes were some fallen leaves that floated into the ruins from the woods outside. It seems that the faceless man has been sitting beside Mu Qin for a long time.
Before Mu Qin opened his eyes, the Faceless Man sensed that he was awake, and asked, "Have you gone to this world?"
Then Mu Qin opened his eyes, sat up straight, leaned lazily on the armrest of the throne, squinted at the faceless man next to him: "Yeah, the power of this throne is very interesting, I have to take it seriously Take advantage of it."
"You went to this world to find my crystal stone, right?" The faceless man seemed to see through Mu Qin's thinking, "Since you have seen the past of Ah Mu and Ashin, you should know what they got by accident. That crystal is not an ordinary thing, it is the core thing that led to the formation of this marginal world."
Muchin stroked his chin thoughtfully, and asked Faceless: "Aren't you worried?"
"Worried?" The Faceless Man was puzzled, "What am I worried about?"
"I tried everything possible to find that crystal, in order to use it against you." Mu Qin stated his purpose directly, "There must be some way to destroy that crystal and collapse this marginal world , can even kill you."
"You want me to die?"
The faceless man said, turning his head and looking at Mu Qin. Because the Faceless Man's face was always blurred, Mu Qin couldn't see through the other person's expression, so he could only rely on guesswork.
Mu Qin said: "Of course, as long as you die, I can get out of this inexplicable chair... So, I very, very much hope you die."
"It's really sad." Although the faceless man said sad, his tone was calm, turning a blind eye to Mu Qin's eyes and tone full of murderous intent, "But you can try to do this... I will not interfere with your use of the throne. Possessing others, you can investigate the crystal or ask others for help, I will not interfere with these."
"You can search and try to destroy that crystal, destroy the edge world, and even destroy me." The faceless man seemed to have an idea, and he spoke calmly, "And I only need to do one thing. "
Mu Qin's heart skipped a beat, and he had an ominous premonition of what the Faceless Man was going to say next.
Then as expected, the faceless man laughed, his tone full of undercurrents of malice: "Mu Qin, I have always seen your biggest weakness very clearly. Although I never understand why such an incompetent scum like Zhou Yue would let you So persistent, but I will eliminate him from the depths of your heart, and I will make you completely and forever mine."
Mu Qin didn't say a word, but he was already prepared in his heart. Naturally, he would not lose his mind at this moment because of the simple threat of the faceless man. Moreover, Mu Qin could more or less foresee such a result, he knew that the Faceless Man would definitely not let Zhou Yue go.
Knowing that Zhou Yue is in deep prison at the moment, how to help Zhou Yue is crucial.
First of all, Mu Qin must not let the faceless man sneakily deal with Zhou Yue in a place where he can't see. The faceless man is very likely to do this. Since the faceless man can control other people's thoughts and actions at will, it is no problem to control Zhou Yue. He doesn't even need to kill Zhou Yue, he only needs to completely erase Zhou Yue's memory , or let Zhou Yue have a nervous breakdown and become a fool.
After turning Zhou Yue into a fool, Zhou Yue's parents can be used again... Just like Jin's parents killed Jin and sent him to the edge of the world, let Zhou Yue's parents also kill Zhou Yue, Dropped into a fringe world.
A fool who enters such a cruel and terrifying world will naturally not live for too long. The final result is very likely that Zhou Yue will die miserably and alone in a corner of the marginal world where Mu Qin can't see.
This is the worst outcome. Just thinking about how this outcome will become a reality, Mu Qin trembles with fear. So in order to avoid this, Mu Qin had to keep mocking and sarcasm all the time, irritating the Faceless Man in various ways.
Mu Qin must show his strong obsession with Zhou Yue, as well as his disdain and sarcasm for the faceless man, and constantly belittle his tricks, so that the faceless man will be angry.
The angry Faceless Man would think of trying to win the game, so he had to show enough deterrence in front of Mu Qin, so that the Faceless Man would have a great possibility to get Zhou Yue back directly and throw him in front of Mu Qin , and then tortured Zhou Yue in various ways in front of Mu Qin to force Mu Qin to compromise.
This kind of result is what Mu Qin wants to see.
Of course he didn't really want Zhou Yue to suffer, but only when Zhou Yue was in front of Mu Qin could Mu Qin feel at ease.
If Zhou Yue was really going to die, Mu Qin would rather have him die before his own eyes.
Just call it selfish.
"I know what you're expecting." The faceless man pulled Mu Qin back from his thoughts, and the faceless man said, "I brought Zhou Yue here. I know you've always wanted to see him."
Mu Qin didn't speak, and stared at the faceless man intently.
The faceless man sneered, got up from Mu Qin's throne, stood on the steps of the throne, then raised his right hand and waved it casually.
I don't know what power the Faceless Man used, but a light curtain door appeared beside the Faceless Man. The light curtain was suspended in mid-air, without a frame, just a curtain of faint light. Through this curtain, Mu Qin could see Zhou Yue inside.
Zhou Yue seemed to be sitting on a chair with a piano in front of him. The light curtain is not very clear, and the surrounding environment is also very blurred. Only Zhou Yue's figure is relatively clear. Mu Qin can see Zhou Yue's dull expression. He is sitting in front of the piano, seemingly unconscious.
"I imprisoned him in this map." The faceless man stretched out his finger and flicked the light curtain he created. The light curtain was like the surface of water, and when the faceless man flicked it, it circled circle of ripples.
"I built this map according to the best scene in his memory, and I will also destroy all his good things in this map."
Mu Qin finally couldn't bear it any longer, frowned and stared at the faceless man: "What do you want to do to him?"
"You shouldn't ask me this question, but you." The Faceless Man laughed, "As long as you listen to me, I won't do anything to him, and I will even let him go and let him go." He is safe and sound living the most peaceful life in his world."
"On the contrary, if you don't obey, I will do anything to him... the cruelest thing you can imagine."
Mu Qin is not the kind of soft persimmon who is slaughtered by others. He has done everything possible to get to this point. He was not easily bluffed by the threat of the faceless man. Mu Qin also laughed: "The existence of 'rules' makes it impossible for you to easily Kill Zhou Yue."
The Faceless Man was slightly taken aback when he heard Mu Qin's words, and then seemed a little annoyed: "It seems that someone told you about the 'rules'... Let me think about it, who would do that?"
"It's too simple to know that your memory is easy to be spied on, and the people you manipulate, spy on, and even create can easily perceive part of your memory." Mu Qin stared at the faceless man thoughtfully. , "Although I don't know why your memory is so easy to be peeped at, but it's a lot more convenient, isn't it?"
"I see." The Faceless Man laughed, "Forget it, even if you know the existence of the 'rules', it doesn't hurt me at all. I really can't kill Zhou Yue by any direct means, but there are many indirect means. Gotta be."
"And his soul is now in my hands. There are too many ways to torture him. Do you want to watch him suffer?" The faceless man reached into the light curtain, made a pinch gesture, and then Zhou Yue immediately seemed to be strangled by some invisible hand, his face was purple and he instinctively began to struggle in vain.
Mu Qin took a deep breath to keep calm, and didn't allow himself to be disturbed by redundant emotions. He ignored Zhou Yue who was struggling in pain in the light curtain, and still talked to the faceless man smoothly: "I really don't want to see him suffer, and I don't want him to die. , do not want him to suffer any harm."
"But asking me to obey you frankly is something I can't accept." Mu Qin said gently, "so I thought of a compromise."
"What method?" The faceless man was aroused by Mu Qin's words.
"Let's play a game, let a game decide the outcome, I think it's perfect." Mu Qin raised his face and looked at the faceless man, "And, I think you should like the game very much."
"Game?" The Faceless Man didn't seem to understand Mu Qin's words.
"You see, this entire fringe world is made up of killing games one after another," Mnuchin said, "The rules of this world are cruel and bloody crazy games... So, if we want to make a difficult decision, It should also be solved through this killing game, shouldn't it?"
"...you're right." The Faceless Man agreed with Mu Qin after a short silence, and he seemed to laugh again. Although his blurry face prevented Mu Qin from seeing his smile, Mu Qin knew that the Faceless Man laughing.
The faceless man let go of Zhou Yue's throat, and said to Mu Qin: "You are right, in the marginal world, decisions should be made according to the rules of the marginal world."
"But it's a pity, Muqin." The Faceless Man sneered, "I know what you mean to drag me into the water. You want me to be one of the players in the game. As long as I become a player, I will The rules of the game must be followed, so that I will not have the ability to do whatever I want with you or with Zhou Yue."
Mu Qin was confident: "Isn't this what it should be? Since the game is used to determine the outcome, of course it must be a fair fight!"
"No, that won't work!" The Faceless Man shook his head, "I will never and cannot become a player, and I will not be easily fooled by you, dear Muqin."
"Then what do you think?" Mu Qin said a little angrily, "If you don't want to join this game, how can we use the game to decide the outcome?"
The faceless man thought for a moment, and said to Mu Qin: "This game is only you and Zhou Yue. The only one who can win is one of you."
"What do you mean?" Because the situation was slightly out of his control, Mu Qin was a little impatient, although he tried his best to restrain himself from showing such irritable emotions.
"I know your fear, Mu Qin." Faceless said, "Indeed, if I don't join the game, it means I don't abide by the rules of the game. Even if I repent halfway, you can't resist. And this is undoubtedly against you It’s not fair, so I also thought of a compromise.”
Mu Qin didn't reply, just stared at the faceless man and waited for his explanation.
The Faceless Man said, "I will join the game, but not as a player."
"What identity do you want to use to get in?" Mu Qin asked.
"Maybe it's an NPC?" The Faceless Man laughed, "Don't worry, the conditions are the same, as long as I join the game, I will be the same as you, I will be limited to all excess power, and must obey the rules of the game and the results of the game .”
"The only players are you and Zhou Yue." The faceless man pointed to Mu Qin, and then to Zhou Yue in the light curtain, "One of you will become a ghost and start fighting each other."
Mu Qin seemed to have heard something funny: "Yes, only one of us can survive, and the one who survives can leave the marginal world. Don't you want to tell me that?"
"Isn't that good?" The Faceless Man tilted his head to look at Mu Qin, "I'm giving you a chance. You can deliberately lose to Zhou Yue in the game and give him the right to leave the marginal world."
"I can guarantee that I will let Zhou Yue get out of this cage completely, I will not go to him again, I will not harass him again, I can even make him live a safe life, and even take care of his relatives and friends. After death, I will not drag his soul into the edge of hell."
"I can guarantee all of these. I can even make a contract with you. Once I violate the rules, I will be punished most severely."
"Of course, you can also choose to go all out, hold the chance of victory firmly in your hands, and kill Zhou Yue to become the winner of the game. In this way, you can go out from the marginal world, and I will not come to you either. I won’t come to harass you, I won’t try to restrain you, I will strip anything related to the marginal world from your life, and you can permanently cut off any contact with me regardless of life or death.”
"It's just that as long as you let Zhou Yue win in the game, it means you have failed." The faceless man smiled as if he had succeeded, "As a loser, you must stay by my side, listen to my arrangements, and obey my arrangements." Please stay with me forever, and completely forget Zhou Yue."
"What if I can't forget it?" Mu Qin seemed to be aware of the cunning mind of the Faceless Man.
The faceless man was hoarse and gentle: "Don't worry, I will help you forget."
"...meaning it will erase my memory, right?" Mu Qin's voice was slightly cool.
"I'm doing this for your own good, Mu Qin." The Faceless Man said, "I don't want to make you sad."
"But is this really good?" After hearing what the Faceless Man said, Mu Qin couldn't help but come up with an idea, "If I don't have as much affection for Zhou Yue as you imagined, I might end up in this game You choose to abandon Zhou Yue, choose to kill him, and choose yourself to be the winner. Then you must let me leave the marginal world forever according to the agreement just now, and make me no longer have anything to do with this world."
After finishing speaking, Mu Qin stared at the Faceless Man with a half-smile: "Is this the result you want to see?"
Mu Qin's words somewhat shook the Faceless Man, but the Faceless Man still chose to stick to his own ideas: "You may not have much affection for others, but only Zhou Yue is special. Although this annoys me, you I will never abandon him.”
"You really believe that I am such an affectionate person." Mu Qin couldn't help laughing, he knew that the faceless man couldn't perceive his thoughts and emotions, so the behavior of the faceless man at this moment was completely a gamble, betting that Mu Qin would treat Zhou Yue has such deep feelings.
Mu Qin wanted to take advantage of his gambler mentality. He looked at the Faceless Man with his eyelids half down, smiled ironically and disdainfully, and said in a cold voice, "You really believe that I have such feelings."
Mu Qin's words made Faceless Man's heart jump, he clenched his fist subconsciously, and suddenly doubted the correctness of the game rules he proposed.
The Faceless Man couldn't help but think, what if... what if Mu Qin was really so mad at the end, throwing Zhou Yue away like a sandbag, becoming the winner himself and swaggeringly out of the Faceless Man's control, then the Faceless Man was so mad? Haven't all the hard work over the years been in vain
No, impossible.
The faceless man has been silently monitoring Mu Qin and Zhou Yue's love process for many years. Because of the existence of "rules", the faceless man cannot directly penetrate the barrier between the present world and the marginal world, and possess ordinary people in the present world.
But the Faceless can take advantage of the King on the Butterfly Throne. He controls the minds of these kings, and kings control the minds of ordinary people in this world. This interlocking method allows the Faceless Man to stand in another world and look at Mu Qin in the real world.
That Zhou Yue was also the bait that the Faceless Man had prepared for Mu Qin early in the morning.
The Faceless Man actually prepared many baits for Mu Qin, such as Zhou Yue and Jin. In fact, there were other people, but in the end they only chose Zhou Yue and Jin, because these two belonged to the upper class in terms of family background, ability, quality, age and appearance. His precious Mu Qin, of course, had to be matched with the best.
The Faceless Man didn't bother to use bait to guide Mu Qin into the fringe world, but he really had no other way, because no matter how many people he controlled, he sent media to Mu Qin, let him touch the media, let him and the fringe world Mu Qin has no signs of becoming a "dreamer" at all when he comes into contact with things related to the world.
As long as he doesn't become a dreamer, Mu Qin can't enter the dream, and if he doesn't enter the dream, he will never enter the marginal world.
What kind of person doesn't dream
A person who has no desires, no feelings, no pursuits, no delusions of any kind.
Yes, Mu Qin was born like this. He doesn't cry or laugh, and doesn't fear, but he can imitate and learn. He is an emotionless monster born in a marginal world, but his lack of emotion is also Mu Qin's biggest advantage .
Especially when Mu Qin was sent to the present world by his parents echo and bird, it was even more difficult to get him back to the marginal world. Mu Qin fell asleep.
In the same way, the He family's way of relieving the dreamer's state is also similar to Mu Qin's mental state. The He family will use some method to cause those dreamers to develop permanent mental illness from the genetic point of view, so that the dreamers lose part of their feelings and desires, and also lose the ability to dream. As long as they don't dream, they will naturally not become dreamers .
As for the setting that the dreamer will enter the marginal world after death, it is also because at the moment of death, the dreamer will be in a trance due to a series of reasons such as pain and fear, and quickly fall into the dream. The dead body cannot go back, and the soul of the dreamer is left in the marginal world forever.
Not every dreamer will definitely enter the marginal world after death. Some dreamers die very quickly, such as being hit by a bullet in the brain and causing instant brain death. On the contrary, people will not be dragged into the marginal world, which is another level of luck.
However, the mental illness used by the He family to relieve the dreamer state is hereditary, which leads to the fact that as long as someone in the ancestors has accepted the He family's ritual to relieve the dreamer, their offspring will be affected by a series of effects, becoming indifferent and lacking in emotion , and even many will form an anti-social and anti-human character.
Zhou Yue and his parents... Basically, this is the situation.
It is difficult for Mu Qin without emotion to fall asleep. Don’t look at him as a child, he seems to cry, laugh and make trouble, but these are imitations. When he was in the orphanage, he would imitate the children around him. He realized that the more he would cry On the contrary, the child is more pampered, and it is even better if there is a distressing and sensible thing mixed with crying.
In this way, he can get more resources, and have more food, clothes, toys, and attention than other children.
His only desire is to survive, just to live, to survive.
Through imitation, Mu Qin slowly learned the same way of expressing emotions as other children. He knew to laugh when he was helped and favored, and to express his gratitude and happiness to others. Cry when you are treated unfairly, and emphasize your hurt so that others can pay attention to you.
He studies perfectly.
Even for a long time, he himself felt that he was no different from others.
But Mu Qin still couldn't fall asleep. The Faceless Man knew that he had no real emotion at all. The Faceless Man was in a hurry. The Faceless Man knew that he had to find a way to let Mu Qin get "emotions".
And the way of the faceless man is to send a "feeling" directly to Mu Qin.
Zhou Yue became the bait of this emotion. Although Zhou Yue was also very indifferent in character and had difficulty falling asleep because of the ancestor's acceptance of the He family's ceremony to release the dreamer, he was not completely unable to fall asleep.
After all, Zhou Yue is different from Mu Qin. Mu Qin is a monster born with no emotion, while Zhou Yue is just lack of emotion caused by spiritual inheritance.
With the inheritance of the Zhou family's bloodline from generation to generation, the dilution of the bloodline, and the filling of foreign bloodlines, the effect of the hereditary mental illness that the He family gave to the ancestors of the Zhou family was weakening, and the cold-bloodedness of Zhou Yue's father was still quite obvious. Yes, it's obviously different in Zhou Yue's generation.
Zhou Yue is obviously longing for the love of his parents, although he has been a little distorted because he has been asking for nothing.
But he's a decent bait.
Mu Qin, who was able to fall into a dream for Zhou Yue, must have had the corresponding feelings to come to this world. The Faceless Man firmly believes in this, but the Faceless Man cannot measure how strong this feeling is.
This is undoubtedly a big gamble. The Faceless Man is betting, and Mu Qin is also betting.
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Piano music.
Ding Ding Dangdang resounded crisply.
You can't tell what song it is, because your sense of hearing seems to be blinded by something invisible, like someone covering your ears with both hands, and his skin is attached to your auricle, you can even see through it. The ice-cold temperature of the opponent's skin, and the sound of the opponent's blood flowing in the blood vessels, is the sound of the song of life.
Zhou Yue opened his eyes. He found himself sitting in front of a slightly old piano. His slender but rough fingers rested on the black and white keys. He seemed to be playing some kind of beautiful music, but he had forgotten Sheet music, forgetting fingering when playing the piano, his hands trembling like a beginner.
These hands have held countless swords and swords and taken the lives of others, so it is no longer suitable to touch any musical instrument.
I can't play another hymn for those heartbeats when I was young.
I can't understand what I have lost at all.
Zhou Yue withdrew his hands from the piano keys, and then put them on his knees weakly. He bowed his head, trying to ease the pain in his body... Even though he didn't know where he was hurting, he still felt the pain. The outside, and even the soul, are shrouded in intense pain.
It took him a long time to break free from this drowning-like feeling. He stood up unsteadily and left the old but familiar-looking piano.
Then he began to look around, and he soon realized that he seemed to be in a... classroom
It should be the music classroom, because the piano he just touched is on the left side of the classroom platform, and there are some musical equipment in the cabinet next to it, such as guitars and basses, and a drum kit in the corner.
In addition to the musical equipment, there are rows of seats in this classroom. There are no tables, but seats formed by stacking one chair after another.
It seems that the classroom has not been cleaned for a long time. Whether it is musical instruments, tables, chairs, benches, doors, windows and curtains, they are all covered with a thick layer of dust. Zhou Yue wiped the window sill of the classroom with his hands, and can still print clearly visible on the window sill. fingerprint.
This classroom... looks familiar.
Zhou Yue bet that she had definitely been to this classroom, but she couldn't remember when she had been there.
He has no memory.
Zhou Yue suddenly realized this frightening fact that made him feel at a loss...he had no memory.
His mind was empty, he couldn't think of anything other than his name was Zhou Yue.