The candle is flickering.
Mu Qin saw a lot of candle lights on the ground, the kind of candle lights with a small round metal candlestick and candles on the candlestick. There are a lot of these candle lamps. They are placed everywhere on the ground in the corners and in the small spaces sunken on the rock wall of the cave. Each lamp is burning with a flame, which is a very warm yellow light.
Although these candles are not very bright, once they increase in number, they will be able to illuminate the cave behind the waterfall curtain, so that the scene in this cave can be clearly seen in front of Mu Qin.
Mu Qin could see a huge chair in the depths of the cave. Many vines and thorns grew from the rock walls and gaps beside the chair, surrounding and even wrapping the huge chair.
The chair was a typical European throne, but it had no soft cushioned back, gold trim, or European carvings. It is made of ice crystal-like material, with sharp ice cones erected on the back of the chair, and the armrests are random and irregular polygons. It is so huge that three or four people can sit on it without any problem.
Moreover, there are many vines and thorns wrapped around the chair, entangled on the back and armrests of the chair, and those who sit on it will be stabbed by the thorns and suffer unbearable pain if they are not paying attention.
The only thing worth admiring about this cold and distressing chair is the butterflies. The thorny vines are blooming with large red flowers, attracting many butterflies that come out of nowhere. They are colorful butterflies. There seem to be a dozen Only, it kept circling around the Ice Crystal Throne.
Mu Qin walked towards the Butterfly Throne through the countless candles placed at his feet. He could see a person sitting on the throne through the dense vines and thorns. That person was sitting there, hanging down The head, sitting motionless, seemed to have fallen into an eternal sleep.
Mu Qin approached him (her). When he got close enough, thorns and vines blocked Mu Qin's progress. Without thinking, Mu Qin reached out and grabbed the thorny thorns and pulled them away. He ignored Putting aside the pain caused by being stabbed in his hand, and countless bloody hands, his attention was completely placed on the person sitting on the throne, he knew that he was going to pass, he had to pass.
Mu Qin, who passed through countless thorns and was covered in blood, finally came to the front of the throne. With the flickering candlelight around him, he could see the people sitting on the throne, but then Mu Qin was shocked to find... more than one person!
Yes, there are two people sitting on this Butterfly Throne!
It's just these two people, one is sitting and the other is lying down. The Butterfly Throne is very large, and there is no problem lying on it, but the person lying down must curl up.
However, the person lying curled up was already dead, and it looked like he had been dead for a long time. He had turned into a white bone. According to the shape of the bone and the size of the pelvis, Mu Qin could deduce that it was a woman's skeleton. He was still wearing tattered and tailored clothes, which should be the fixed gray clothes of players in the game.
But the person sitting was still alive, unlike the woman who had become bones, this was a man of flesh and blood, his hair was long to his waist, his head was disheveled, so he couldn't see his face. He had no clothes on his upper body, only a pair of tattered trousers with a big part missing.
The living man sat close to the woman's skeleton, and let the head of the woman's skeleton rest on his thigh, and one of his hands even tightly grasped the phalanges of the woman's hand. He seemed to have maintained this posture for a long time, his whole body looked stiff, and his body was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Mu Qin could imagine that when the woman died, the man had been holding her hand tightly, and they sat together on this chair, in the dark cave, welcoming the end of the world.
Mu Qin's sudden arrival did not arouse the man's slightest reaction, he still sat silently with his head down, Mu Qin watched him quietly for a while, he was not sure whether the man was asleep or simply Taking a nap, Mu Qin decided to get closer to the other party.
So Mu Qin walked closer and closer to the Butterfly Throne with unhurried steps, leaving his own bloody footprints where he stepped, because Mu Qin had just passed through the thorny thorns, and Mu Qin's hands, feet and body were covered with blood. It was a thorn, and the blood flowed profusely, but Mu Qin didn't seem to feel that kind of pain.
Mu Qin was close enough to this man that he was already standing in front of him.
Immediately afterwards, Mu Qin pondered for a moment, and stretched out his hand to touch the man's hair. He wanted to see the man's face.
But at the same time that Mu Qin stretched out his hand, the person sitting motionless on the throne suddenly reacted. As soon as Mu Qin stretched out his hand, the other hand quickly raised his other hand and grabbed Mu Qin. Chin's wrist.
Mu Qin was taken aback by him, subconsciously stepped back half a step, trying to shake off the opponent's hand, but the man grasped it very tightly, his nails were so long that they almost sank deep into Mu Qin's flesh and blood. Why, Mu Qin, who had just been pricked by thorns, didn't feel pain, but when he was pinched by this man's nails, Mu Qin frowned in pain.
He lowered his voice and said, "Let me go."
The other party didn't respond, and still held Mu Qin's hand tightly, but relaxed his strength a little. Then the man was silent for a long time before slowly raising his head and looking at Mu Qin.
Mu Qin finally vaguely saw the other party's face through the gaps in the noisy hair of the other party, a dirty face, covered with dust and black dirt, and a pair of cloudy eyes.
Judging from his face, this man is about thirty years old, with good looks, imposing temperament, strong and strong figure, and his face...Mu Qin looks a bit familiar, but Mu Qin can guarantee it Said that he had never seen this man before.
So who is he
The man and Mu Qin stared at each other for a long time. The other party's eyes were quite cloudy, giving people a feeling of unconsciousness. Mu Qin could not even confirm whether the other party was really watching him. Mu Qin felt that this guy seemed to be watching through Mu Qin. Stare at "someone else".
After a long time, the man talked with Mu Qin in a hoarse voice, and he said, "Who are you?"
Mu Qin thought for a while and replied, "My name is Mu Qin."
"Mu... Qin...?" The man's voice cracked, probably because he hadn't spoken for a long time. The voice was really not pleasant, but Mu Qin could hear a trace of consternation in the other party's voice, as if very Unbelievably, the man asked: "Why did you come here... you shouldn't come here..."
Mu Qin pursed his lips: "Why shouldn't I come?"
The man no longer looked at Mu Qin, but lowered his head, let go of Mu Qin's hand, and continued to say hoarsely: "There is nothing here, nothing you want, and I have nothing to give you, so Go back...leave me alone."
"Who are you?" Mu Qin also asked this crucial question.
The man replied, "You wouldn't be interested in knowing who I am."
"Of course I'm interested. I want to know who you are now." Mu Qin asked persistently, "Tell me who you are."
"I don't remember." The man compromised a little under Mu Qin's questioning, he said, "I've been here for too long, and I've long forgotten who I am."
"What about this woman?" Mu Qin shifted his gaze to the corpse curled up beside him.
"She's my prisoner," said the man.
"Prisoner?" Mu Qin was puzzled.
The man laughed suddenly, and he let out a weird laugh with his terrible broken voice, and said to Mu Qin: "Yes, I imprisoned her here, so she is my prisoner."
The man's words made Muchin pause, and then said: "But she is already dead and turned into a skeleton, can this also be called your 'prisoner'?"
Mu Qin's words made the man's head lower. Mu Qin noticed that his hand holding the woman's phalanx was trembling, shaking violently. He trembled for a long time, and said to Mu Qin: "Even if you die, you are still my prisoner."
After that, he seemed to get agitated, and he raised his voice and shouted unfriendlyly at Mu Qin: "Stop wandering in front of me, get out of here! Get out of my world."
Mu Qin ignored his unfriendliness, looked around, and said to the man: "You said this is your world?"
The man said: "Of course this is my world! I am the only master of this world!"
The man was already getting a little impatient as he said that, he was eager to drive Mu Qin out of here, and then he began to manipulate his own power. Under his will, the vines surrounding the Butterfly Throne suddenly moved, like strips The twisting poisonous snake rushed towards Mu Qin swiftly.
Feeling the threat, Mu Qin subconsciously retreated and dodged, trying to avoid the attack of these vines, but there were all kinds of vines and thorns in all directions of this place, and Mu Qin had nowhere to hide. The more he retreated, the more he stepped into it. into the thorns behind him.
Just before he stepped into the thorns, those vines rushed up to restrain him, and lifted Mu Qin vigorously. Mu Qin was entangled by the vines and hung in mid-air.
After catching Mu Qin, the man continued to say to Mu Qin: "You should leave here and don't come back."
Mu Qin was unwilling, he couldn't get rid of these weird but powerful vines, so he had to shout loudly: "You have to tell me who you are!?"
"Why should I tell you?" The man seemed to be disdainful. "I don't know you, and I have nothing to do with you. You are just a stranger who broke into my world. Of course, I will drive you out."
"Nonsense!" Mu Qin suddenly became angry. He felt something like anger welling up in his chest, and he shouted at the man, "You clearly know me!"
The man finally raised his head and stared at Mu Qin with those cloudy black eyes: "Whether I know you or not, you shouldn't come here, this is not the place you should pursue, you live your life well, no okay?"
"Life?" Mu Qin suddenly sneered at the man mockingly: "Do you mean the countless cycles of life and death in the marginal world? Or the butterfly throne sitting under your ass now? This is my life, and you want me to live like this ?"
What Mu Qin said seemed to make the man stunned. He stared at Mu Qin and said in disbelief: "No...you can't...she didn't touch the white card for you at the beginning, you can't enter the marginal world, it's impossible !"
The man's words almost made Mu Qin confirm his identity.
Mouchin said: "You're right, I'm really not interested in who you are anymore, but I want to know your prisoner, I'm not here to find you."
"Prisoner...she's dead, as you can see, she's gone." The man suddenly became very frustrated, he stopped ordering those vines to hang Mu Qin, but put Mu Qin down, and then the man lowered his head again: "I'm the only one left."
"You're the only one left... then what am I?" Mu Qin reached out to wipe the blood off his face, then sneered.
"Mu Qin...listen to me." After a moment of silence, the man said to Mu Qin, "You shouldn't have died, but you still entered the marginal world, right?"
"Yeah." Mu Qin recalled the ghost girl in the previous library map, "someone told me it was because I was born from the edge of the world."
"You were indeed born from the fringe world... You were born here." The man lowered his head, clutching the phalanx of the woman's skeleton, "She gave birth to you, and she wanted to send you back to the real world, and then we done."
"Is my biological father you?" Mu Qin asked calmly.
"Yes." After a long silence, the other party answered Mu Qin calmly, "I have a death card on my body, so I can't die, so I have always maintained this appearance."
Mu Qin said: "So you bound her to death like this?"
The man didn't speak, as if by default.
After a while, he said: "I don't want to part with her, so I tied her here and let her stay with me forever."
Mu Qin ignored the man's answer. Mu Qin took two steps towards the man. He mainly wanted to see the skeleton next to him. The dead woman's skeleton was very thin, and the bones were very thin, so Mu Qin could imagine how thin she was when she was alive. She looked so weak, just like the ghost mother he had seen many years ago.
"You killed her." Mu Qin found that he couldn't take his eyes off at all. He kept staring at the corpse silently, "You killed my mother."
"If you want revenge, you can kill me." The man said to Mu Qin, "but I don't suggest you do this, because once I die, you will be the next target of this throne."
"I won't kill you." Mu Qin no longer looked at his mother's bones, but shifted his gaze to this disheveled and exhausted man, "I want you to sit on this chair forever."
The man gave Mu Qin a wry smile, and clenched the phalanx of the female corpse in his hand: "That's great, I think the same way, I want to sit here forever, with her."
"So you got what you wanted? It's really infuriating." Mu Qin laughed at him, "You pushed the person you love deeply into the abyss."
The man closed his mouth again and did not speak. The air became silent for a moment. After Mu Qin took a deep breath, he said to the man, "Tell me what's going on. I want to know everything."
The man seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally relented and said, "Yes, I really need to tell you everything."
"Actually, this is a very simple story." The man said, "I teamed up with her and entered the game together. I drew the death card, but we encountered a difficult master, and I didn't kill any of them. They all ran away, and only she stayed, because as long as she left, I would be wiped out by the system along with this map."
"She didn't want me to die, she said she would stay here with me forever."
"This is a good map, because there are waterfalls as water sources, many trees and plants grow on the cliffs, and there are edible wild fruits among them. There is light on the tiankeng. Although it is cloudy most of the time, it can be seen occasionally. A ray of sunlight shines in, no matter how bad it is, I can feed her my flesh and blood."
The man paused, as if lost in memory: "I admit that I have selfishness, I don't want to die, so I tried my best to keep her here... It was good at the beginning, we were all fine, but as time went by, She always looks up at the light projected from the tiankeng. The tiankeng entrance is the exit from the map. There are two ways to go out. One is to find the rock climbing tools in the cave and climb up directly, and the other is to find the cave maze where The way out."
"I was worried, I thought she wanted to leave, we stayed on this map for a long time, a dark and dark place, there was no one else but each other... anyone would go crazy if we stayed in this place for a long time Yes, so there's nothing wrong with her wanting to go out, but I'm scared... I don't want to be left behind."
"Then at this moment, I found such a chair appeared on the map, a butterfly throne made of ice crystals."
Mu Qin could almost imagine the ending, he laughed: "So you sat on this chair, used the power of the throne, trapped her with these vines and thorns, she became your 'prisoner' in a real sense, and She was still pregnant with your child."
The man covered his face with his hands: "Yes, that's it. At that time, she didn't show any rejection or resistance to being restrained by me. She only said that she hoped that I could find a way to send the child out after it was born. She doesn't want her children to be tied to this map."
"I agree, although I don't know how to do it, but after you were born, I did use the power of the throne to send you out. You were born in this world with a very special physique. Like a card, she can travel back and forth between reality and the fringe world... But before sending you out, she became very weak after giving birth. She was malnourished for a long time in this map, and giving birth took away her last strength , so after feeding you a few times, he died of weakness."
"So you want to say that I was the one who killed my mother?" Mu Qin's tone was full of sarcasm.
The man shook his head slightly: "That's not what I meant... If I had let go and sent her away from this picture, she would not have died at all, she shouldn't have died... I did kill her."
"Since she is dead, the ghost I saw when I was a child is indeed my mother?" Mu Qin was puzzled: "Why did I see her soul?"
"The power of the throne allows me to preserve her soul," said the man. "It's amazing, I don't know how I did it, but I did give her some power, so that her soul can be free. In and out of this world. She said she wanted to see you and see you grow up, so I let her go, and she would watch you for a long time every time, and then come back and tell me how you are, she is very happy, than she is alive I'm happier when she's happy, and I'm happier when she's happy, and I thought we could maintain this state forever."
"But one day, she started to disappear, and her soul became more and more transparent, no matter how much power I poured into her, she was gradually disappearing, and she also started to become delirious, and she seemed to realize that she really wanted to Gone, after saying goodbye to me, disappeared."
The man was very calm when he talked about these things, but he seemed very sad, and there was pain hidden in his hoarse voice: "I was left alone in the end, no matter how many methods I tried to keep her... In the end, all she left me was this I have bones, so all I can do is sit here and wait for it to end."
When the man said this, he was very sad: "I'm not going anywhere, Mu Qin...but I hope you can leave here and leave this world."
"It's impossible." Mu Qin said, "I don't know why, I'm always being pulled back to this world, I'm not dead, I haven't touched the white card or any medium, I will also enter the marginal world. "
Mu Qin's words made the man think for a long time, and then he sighed: "You are a child who should not have been born."
"Why do you say that?"
The man shook his head slightly: "Don't mind, it's not that I don't look forward to your birth. I was very happy when she was pregnant. We all thought that having a child would change this cruel situation. I really look forward to your birth." appeared, but thinking about it now, you really shouldn’t have been born.”
"Is it because my birth directly caused my mother's death?" Mu Qin asked.
The man shook his head: "No, it's not this... I mean... Mu Qin, your mother and I are both dead in the real world. We got a different kind of rebirth in the marginal world, but that doesn't mean we are A living person, the child born after our two 'dead people' fell in love, that is, you... is not a living person."
Mu Qin immediately understood what the man meant, and said, "That is to say, I have been a dead person since I was born."
"That's right...you don't have a soul." The man raised his head and stared at Mu Qin, "You are different from me and your mother, although we are dead, our souls are here, but you don't... you have been here since the beginning You have no soul, no emotion, but you have your own will, you never cry or laugh when you are born, you only cry to express your needs when necessary, you are an empty shell that can think."
The man's words made Mu Qin feel a little creepy. Mu Qin said: "You said that I have no soul and no emotion? This is impossible. I can fall in love with others... I will even be angry because you killed my mother."
"It's just because you've lived in human society for too long and gradually learned to imitate human emotions." The man told Mu Qin the truth cruelly: "The real you really don't have soul and emotion. I believe you have experienced it yourself. You In many cases, it is indeed possible to have feelings for others, but this kind of feeling is just your rational brain telling you to do so, so that it conforms to social standards and human values, and can allow you to live better... More like Live like a 'person'."
Mu Qin felt his heart twitch inexplicably, beating too violently in his chest, which made Mu Qin feel painful: "You mean my feelings for the person I love, my feelings for my mother, and my feelings for you. Is it all fake? Is it all because I think 'this should be done' and 'it's better to do this way'?"
"I'm also not sure if it's fake or not." The man expressed his powerlessness, "I don't think it will affect you, you were well educated by those adoptive parents, even if you didn't have it, they have taught you to With it, you can choose to do whatever you want, as long as it feels right to you."