In the edge world safe house.
Like a warrior, Zhou Yue was sitting in front of the white wall, motionless, with his head bowed as if he was praying. In the long silence, Zhou Yue remained silent... as if waiting for something.
The wait didn't last long. The white and clean wall in front of him soon had blemishes, and a line of crooked lettering slowly appeared in front of Zhou Yue. It was a line of encrypted characters. It seems to be just garbled characters with no logical order, but as long as you interpret it according to a certain formula, you can instantly understand the message the other party wants to convey.
This line of words is a message from an acquaintance of Zhou Yue in the marginal world... Although it is said to be an acquaintance, Zhou Yue does not know the other party's name, age, gender, or detailed information. However, this person is Zhou Yue... Before Mu Qin appeared, the only person who could be trusted.
The unidentified person told Zhou Yue that his code name was "Jin".
In the fringe world, the communication between players is always guarded. If they don’t want to reveal their real names to each other, they usually call each other by code names. Zhou Yue has always used a code name called "White Eagle" in front of other players. — This is the code name that Zhou Yue often used when performing missions in the army.
White Eagle and Kim are often found on this wall of the safehouse - some players call it the "blackboard". Using this encrypted text on the blackboard to communicate is a set of communication methods created by combining various cryptography. The average person cannot easily crack this complex code, so various messages can be transmitted easily and quickly.
The unidentified person who calls himself "Jin" can actually be regarded as Zhou Yue's mentor...or guide in the marginal world.
At that time, Zhou Yue died twice in the game. After the second death, Zhou Yue entered the game again as a rookie, and it was in this new game that Zhou Yue met Jin.
Judging from his appearance, Jin seems to be a half-breed with a bit of European and American blood. His eyes are gray-blue, his hair is chestnut-colored, and his complexion is snow-white. He is tall and handsome. He is as beautiful as an international male model. .
Jin's aptitude is older than Zhou Yue's, because in the next system transaction with Jin, Zhou Yue found that Jin's system number is: 13.
13, yes, that's 13, just two numbers. When Zhou Yue saw this number for the first time, he couldn't believe his eyes, because he knew very well... what it meant.
This means that this guy who calls himself "Jin" is the thirteenth player to enter the fringe world.
Jin is also what Zhou Yue said before... the one who has been in the game for more than three years, Zhou Yue has met the oldest player, because Zhou Yue has never seen a number smaller than 13.
Jin knew many, many things in this game... so much that Zhou Yue couldn't imagine, especially about the Butterfly Throne, basically Jin told Zhou Yue everything.
Jin is not difficult to get along with, he has a cheerful and active personality, at least he is willing to cooperate with Zhou Yue to do many things, so Zhou Yue gave Jin the only trust he had.
Through deciphering, the conversation between Zhou Yue and Jin is as follows:
Jin first wrote on the wall: You haven't contacted me for a long time, why did you suddenly think of me today
White Eagle: I need your help.
Kim: Have you finally figured it out? I have already given you my opinion about the king on the Butterfly Throne who is eyeing you.
Bai Ying: So your opinion is to let someone else sit on the throne instead of me
Jin: This is the best way, the king wants you to be a substitute, then you go find another substitute for yourself. By doing this, you can keep both your soul and your body, and you only need to deceive a certain player in the game, for any reason, deceive him, let him kill the king instead of you, and then sit If you are on the throne, then you don't have to worry about it, just leave the problems to others.
White Eagle: Are you kidding, who is willing to risk their lives to kill the king for me? And even if there is, how can you ensure that his strength can kill the king
Jin: Anyone can kill the king as long as they have the Death Card and the World Upside Down.
Bai Ying: Then I might as well kill it myself.
Jin: Anyone can kill the king, but you can't. Unless you can find a way to unlock the white card lock on yourself first, as long as you have the lock effect of the white card, you are the designated heir to the throne. Even if you kill the king, the white card still orders you to be the new king, and you will still be the throne If you pull the vine of life and death on the ground and bind it, the result will not change, so you can only let others kill this king.
Jin continued to write: The Butterfly Throne can be "usurped". As long as the usurper enters the throne map with Death and the Reverse World, after killing the king, the throne will be empty, and the throne will find a new king by itself, and the appointment of the previous king If the heir is not on the throne map, or if the previous king did not designate anyone as the heir at all, the throne will choose a living player on the map to become the new king, and the usurper is the only choice.
White Eagle: Does this mean that as long as the heir or usurper escapes from the throne map in time after killing the king, then neither the heir nor the usurper can be found on the Demon Throne, and this position will be vacant, the Butterfly Throne It will lose its effect, and the throne and the map of the throne will disappear
King: In theory, it's possible to do this, but the map of the throne is not so easy to escape. The vines of life and death entwined on the throne are very, very fast. Before you can escape from the map of the throne, the vines will grab you back to the throne in an instant... This idea is not valid, you must find a substitute to usurp the throne.
Bai Ying: As I said, there is no such person, and no one will be a usurper for me.
Kim: Yes, of course you have. I see you had a good chat with a certain guy named Muqin on the "blackboard" two days ago? You are so close, I guess he would be willing to live and die for you.
Bai Ying: I never knew you could understand seal characters... But don't even think about it, and don't even think about hurting anyone, including myself!
Jin: ... I miscalculated, it seems that you are the one who is willing to live and die for others, haha!
Bai Ying: I didn't come to talk to you about this. The king is now hunting down my physical body in this world. He can't wait any longer. He wants to kill me and change to another heir.
Kim: What do you want to do
White Eagle: Start a new game with me, bring your Death card, and I will bring a Reversed Hanged Man. In the beginning, you kill me, let my soul return to the present world, and then wait two hours before resurrecting me with the inverted hanged man.
Jin: You are really capricious, but this is indeed a good way, so how are you going to repay me.
Bai Ying: I only have a large amount of reward points to give you.
Jin: Very good, deal.
After Zhou Yue and Jin agreed on the time to enter the new game, Zhou Yue brought the Reversed Hanged Man that had been stored in his game warehouse for a long time... This Reversed Hanged Man was randomly refreshed in the mall one time Yes, the game mall in the fringe world is very poor, and generally you can't get any good cards.
After preparing the cards, Zhou Yue began to wait anxiously, whether he could be matched with Jin in the same game, in fact, it also depends on the probability,
Zhou Yue and Jin had done a test. If the two of them entered the new game at the same time and at the same time, the probability of being matched was 30%. Only three out of ten rounds were together. In other words, there is a 70% probability of failure. This kind of failure rate is quite high, and success depends only on luck.
But this time it has to work.
Zhou Yue lowered his head, crossed his hands, and pressed his forehead against the wall.
He must succeed, he must go back to the present world to find Mu Qin, he knows that Mu Qin is very dangerous, although Mu Qin vowed to protect Zhou Yue's body, Zhou Yue also believes that Mu Qin will definitely do it, but the price will be certain Very tragic.
Zhou Yue didn't care much about her physical body.
In fact, he doesn't have much nostalgia for the present world. In that boring world, Zhou Yue doesn't care about anyone except Mu Qin.
But it was because Mu Qin was there that Zhou Yue had to go back completely.
He really wants to go to a real amusement park with Mu Qin... or other places, they haven't held hands yet, and have a happy long trip.
Missing Mu Qin, Zhou Yue wrote the word Mu Qin in the palm of her hand, and then foolishly kissed her palm with her lips.
He really thought that he could convey his thoughts in this way.
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"What did you say?" Xu Lin held up the phone, and subconsciously glanced at Zhou Yue lying on the hospital bed while talking.
Xu Haoyu on the phone gritted his teeth and said: "My comrade-in-arms had an accident, and he hung up on me! He would never hang up on me in the past, let alone turn off the phone after hanging up."
Xu Lin said: "Then what your comrade-in-arms said about being hunted down...is it true?"
"Mu Qin wouldn't tell such a lie. He said he was being hunted down, so he was indeed being hunted down." Xu Haoyu was also very anxious when he talked about this matter, and kept taking deep breaths to ease his emotions, "I I sent my subordinate Peng Zhe to follow him, but since just now... I have been unable to get through to Peng Zhe's phone call."
Xu Lin said displeased: "You are too reckless. If you believe that he is indeed being hunted down, at least find a few more people to protect him!"
Xu Haoyu also regretted it in his heart, bit his lower lip, and said: "What he meant at that time... Compared with him, Zhou Yue's situation is more dangerous, so I put the focus of protection on Zhou Yue."
"Don't worry, Zhou Yue has me watching." Xu Lin couldn't help but focus on Zhou Yue, "I will take care of his feeding and infusion, and no one can move him except me, so you can try your best to save him." You comrades."
In Xu Haoyu's opinion, Xu Lin is still very reliable. His sister has always been more mature and stable than him, and she has wise decisions in many matters. After listening to his sister's assurance, Xu Haoyu feels relieved, but still tells her Said: "Sister, don't be careless, never leave Zhou Yue's ward, don't leave Zhou Yue's side, no matter what happens, don't leave! According to Mu Qin's previous intentions, the enemy seems to have some strange tricks, Be careful about that."
After Xu Haoyu told his sister everything he knew, he said, "I'm not hanging up the phone. We'll keep in touch. Mu Qin probably happened on the way to your private hospital, so I'll rush to your hospital now too. , Can you ask someone to help you see if the names of Mu Qing or Peng Zhe are among the patients who have been admitted to the hospital recently."
After finishing the matter, Xu Haoyu stuffed the phone directly into his pocket, and then drove his own car to his sister's hospital. He was not far from his sister's private hospital, and he should arrive soon, but even though it was only a short distance away , Xu Haoyu still felt concerned, full of unknown worries.
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After getting off the expressway, at an intersection near Xu Lin's private hospital, a traffic policeman conducts daily patrols at the intersection, commanding and clearing the blocked vehicles.
The red light at the intersection has turned green, and the vehicles parked at the intersection waiting for the red light will follow the green light one by one, but there is a silver-gray private car among them. It was still parked at the intersection and refused to move, which immediately attracted all kinds of vehicles queuing up behind to honk their horns wildly.
After the short green light passed, the car didn't move at all. The owner behind couldn't bear it anymore and was about to get out of the car and come over to argue. The traffic police standing in the middle of the intersection over there also found it strange and walked over. driver looking inside the front window of a silver gray car.
As a result, the traffic police found that the driver was lying motionless on the steering wheel.
When I first saw this scene, the traffic policeman was angry and thought: Why did this man fall asleep halfway through the drive!
So the traffic police went to the door immediately. I started knocking on the window frantically to wake up the driver inside, but after knocking for a long time, the people inside didn't respond at all, feeling as if they had fallen asleep.
The traffic policeman frowned in embarrassment, and subconsciously reached out to catch the handle of the car door, trying to see if he could open the door directly, although he knew that it was usually impossible, because the driver would lock the door inside.
But just as the traffic policeman thought so, the car door was unexpectedly opened by him.
The driver inside was still lying motionless on the steering wheel after the traffic police opened the door.
"Sir..." The traffic policeman couldn't help but bowed his head and called out to the other party, and reached out and pressed his hand on the driver's shoulder to shake the other party, but after pressing it, the traffic policeman trembled all over, couldn't help but retract his hand, and glanced at his palm.
There was still warm blood all over his palms, and the wet and sticky touch was horrifying, so horrifying that goose bumps popped out all over his body.
"Sir! Sir, are you alright!?" The traffic policeman shuddered, and immediately became anxious. He held the driver's shoulders and let him lean back on the chair. Clothes, blood all over his face and a hand tightly gripping the steering wheel.
"What happened?" At this time, some of the drivers of the vehicles blocked behind got out of the vehicles and came to check the situation. When they saw the traffic police and the blood-drenched drivers in the silver-gray car, they immediately started talking around them.
"My God! How did this person get hurt like this!?"
"Take it to the hospital quickly!"
"How did this man drive like this! It's amazing that he didn't get into a car accident!"
"I've been following this silver car just now. He drove very steadily without any abnormality, except that he stopped at the traffic light at the intersection and then stopped moving again."
The crowd was chattering, and the traffic policeman thought about it for a while, and decided to use the fastest method. Instead of calling an ambulance, he dispersed the surrounding crowd and called two drivers to help. He said:
"You two, help me remove him from the driver's seat and move him to the back seat. I'm going to drive his car directly to the hospital."
As soon as the order from the traffic police came, the enthusiastic driver next to him did not delay, he hurriedly lifted Mu Qin from the driver's seat and carefully moved him to the back seat. rushed out.
Xu Lin's private hospital is the closest to here, so the traffic police didn't bother to think about it, so they sent the driver of the silver-gray car, that is, Mu Qin, to Xu Lin's hospital as quickly as possible.
After being sent to the hospital, the traffic police contacted the emergency department to move people, and then someone moved Mu Qin to the emergency room for emergency treatment.
Mu Qin's injuries were very serious. The doctor judged at a glance that he was beaten like this, and he was beaten badly, with various soft tissue contusions, and some bones and ribs in his hands, feet, and ribs were broken. In subsequent photoshoots, the doctors found that Muqin's broken ribs had shifted too far, compressing his lungs, which would make it difficult for him to breathe and even suffocate to death.
The doctor decided to perform a minor operation on Mu Qin to remove the rib that was pressing on his lung. If it is not removed as soon as possible, this bone may puncture the lung, which will bring more serious consequences to Mu Qin.
And when the doctors directly started the operation on Mu Qin, Xu Lin, who was guarding Zhou Yue's bed, also received the news that a patient named "Mu Qin" had been admitted to the emergency department and was being rescued.
"Are you sure his name is Mu Qin?" Xu Lin remembered that Xu Haoyu said that his comrade-in-arms was named Mu Qin, so she carefully questioned the medical director who came to report, "He Mu, Tie Qianqin."
The medical director nodded: "That's the name."
Afterwards, Xu Lin heard from the medical director that Mu Qin was in the emergency room for first aid, saying that he was seriously injured. Xu Lin wanted to go and have a look, but couldn't leave Zhou Yue's side, so she called the medical director and said: "You ask the doctors in the emergency department to take good care of this man named Mu Qin, and send him to this ward after the operation is over."
"Send it to this ward?" The medical director glanced at Zhou Yue who was guarded by Xu Lin: "Put it with him?"
Xu Lin confirmed: "Yes, bring a movable bed and let the two of them sleep in the same ward."
Xu Lin is the director of the hospital, and she does what she says. Although the medical director is puzzled, he still nods. Seeing him leave, Xu Lin immediately took out her mobile phone and started calling her younger brother Xu Haoyu, asking, "Xu Haoyu! Where are you?"
Xu Haoyu’s mobile phone was always on his body, and in order to keep in touch, they did not hang up the call, and they all turned on the speaker mode at the same time. When Xu Lin spoke to the phone, Xu Haoyu should be able to hear it immediately... But I don’t know why , Xu Haoyu did not respond in time.
But after waiting for more than ten seconds, Xu Haoyu said in a calm voice: "Sister, I heard that Mu Qin is in your hospital, right?"
"He was sent here just now, and he was first aided in the emergency room. I still don't know what the situation is. How is your side?"
Xu Haoyu paused for another two seconds, and said, "I'm almost at the entrance of the hospital... Sister, leave Zhou Yue alone and go to the emergency department to see Mu Qin."
Xu Haoyu's words made Xu Lin a little unexpected, she couldn't help frowning while holding the phone: "What did you say?"
"I'll let you go to the emergency department to see Mu Qin." Xu Haoyu's voice was a little cool, "I'm very worried about him."
"But you asked me to stay by Zhou Yue's side before and couldn't leave." Xu Lin was puzzled. She somehow felt a chill down her spine and a weird premonition, but she couldn't tell the end of that bad feeling. Where did it come from.
Xu Haoyu said: "Mu Qin's situation is more dangerous now. He proved that he was injured in the first aid department. That person might not let him go. I hope you go and see... Don't think about Zhou Yue, I'm almost there It's at the gate of your hospital, I will go directly to Zhou Yue's ward to watch him."
What Xu Haoyu said seemed normal, but Xu Lin found it strange.
Xu Lin said: "You told me never to leave Zhou Yue, no matter what happens."
"That was before, but the situation is different now." Xu Haoyu said in a firm tone, "Sister, go quickly."
Xu Lin opened her mouth while holding the phone, as if she wanted to say something, but she didn't say a word. After a long while, she suddenly laughed: "Xu Haoyu said before that the enemy had some strange tricks of surreptitiousness, but I wondered what kind of strange tricks it was, so it was like this."
Xu Haoyu on the other end of the phone seemed to be taken aback, and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"You're not my brother, are you?" Xu Lin sneered, "When my brother wants me to do something, he always begs me with nice words, and he has never used an ordering tone to me. .However, it's quite refreshing to hear you utter these commanding words in my brother's voice."
There was silence on the phone.
After a while, Xu Haoyu snorted coldly, and said with a smile: "I really don't understand why both of you have such strong mental power? You are obviously just a bunch of trash-like ordinary people."
"I'm not an ordinary person." Xu Lin was a little unhappy when she heard the words. Although she couldn't quite understand the meaning of what this man said, she still retorted forcefully: "And... no one is rubbish, except you."
"You just talk about being brave." Xu Haoyu continued to laugh: "Your spirit is indeed strong and cannot be easily shaken, but it is still weaker than Mu Qin. I only need to use a little plan."
"Whatever tricks you come up with, and... stop talking in my brother's voice! It sounds disgusting!" Xu Lin thought that it was Xu Haoyu who was talking to her before, but now the person on the phone seems to have changed. I don't know what happened to her brother? Was it also attacked
"My dear sister, I am your younger brother, so of course I can only speak in your younger brother's voice." Xu Haoyu laughed endlessly over there, his laughter was very weird, it didn't look like Xu Lin knew him at all. That fellow brother.
Xu Lin felt the chilling feeling on her back getting stronger: "What do you mean? What did you do to Xu Haoyu?"
"I am Xu Haoyu." Xu Haoyu on the other end of the phone is still emphasizing: "I stand against his body, use his name, drive his car, and use his voice to talk to his sister. Do you think I am Xu Haoyu? Woolen cloth?"
Xu Lin almost crushed the phone in her hand.
It took her a lot of effort to calm herself down, she took a deep breath and said, "I hope it's not what I imagined... You didn't take my brother's body, did you?"
"Oh, you're so smart." Xu Haoyu laughed heartily on the other end of the phone, "Should I say that she is indeed my biological sister?"
"What kind of monster are you?" Xu Lin gritted her teeth, "Are you a ghost? Or a monster?"
"Do you believe that there are ghosts and monsters in this world?" Xu Haoyu laughed sarcastically.
Xu Lin lowered her voice and said, "I don't know, but whatever the hell you are, please get out of my brother!"
"Why?" Xu Haoyu seemed to be overwhelmed by this situation, "Why should I listen to you? I just want to stay in this body, and I can drive his car around the city! Run over any bug in front of me, Ramming all the vehicles I hate in anger, like this slow fuel tanker right in front of me, it's been in my way for a minute!"
"You can't do this!" Xu Lin almost shouted, "Leave my brother's body!"
"Then listen to me." Xu Haoyu said with a smile.
Xu Lin held back the trembling in her heart: "What do you want me to do?"
"You don't need to see Mu Qin." Xu Haoyu said, "You can stay and watch Zhou Yue, but I need you to do something to Zhou Yue... Since you are in the hospital, please give Zhou Yue insulin injections immediately, Lots of."
Xu Lin said, "You asked me to kill him."
"No, no, you can't say that." Xu Haoyu said softly, "I just asked you to treat him. He needs insulin to treat himself."
"That's for treating diabetes." Xu Lin breathed heavily, "Zhou Yue doesn't have diabetes."
"Do as I say." Xu Haoyu lowered his voice, "Unless you want to say goodbye to your brother forever."