The right thing, what exactly
In fact, Mu Qin couldn't recognize it at all.
He didn't want to talk to this man who claimed to be his father anymore, because every sentence and every word he said was like a pot of boiled mush, bubbling and bubbling out of Mu Qin's head Come on, this made Mu Qin feel dizzy, and his ears were buzzing like a bee.
Mu Qin was not afraid, but he refused to accept these things that made him feel uncomfortable, and felt that if he admitted the words that came out of the man's mouth, it would be like admitting that his feelings for Zhou Yue were also false.
He can scream and repeat a thousand times that he loves Zhou Yue very much.
Even though he is so confident, Mu Qin is still afraid. He always felt that some things were slowly slipping out of his control, and he couldn't help but start to panic, while the other puppet-like him in his heart looked at everything coldly.
Mu Qin knew what he said was true.
Mu Qin knew that there was indeed a monster-like existence without the slightest emotion in his body. That monster was lurking in the depths of his subconscious mind, and occasionally it would pop up inadvertently, destroying Mu Qin's thoughts and occupying Mu Qin's brain , it will become the dominant body of this body, it will swallow up the pitiful feelings in Mu Qin's heart, and it will turn Mu Qin into a cold-blooded and ruthless executioner.
It will make Mu Qin forget Zhou Yue's existence.
Realizing this fact made Mu Qin feel extremely painful, there was an invisible hand tearing at his heart, he couldn't even tell whether this painful feeling was his real emotion, but he was really uncomfortable now, this pain The feeling of being suffocated made his breathing difficult and his heart beat like a drum.
The painful Mu Qin could only stretch out his hands to cover his face, he took a deep breath to calm his messy thoughts, he wanted to calm down, he would calm down, he was always calm like a monster.
"I don't know if you're trying to escape." The man watched Mu Qin's expression change without any trace. He first saw Mu Qin showing a sad expression, and then quickly covered his face, but he relaxed again after a while. With the hands covering his face, the expression on his face returned to normal, and even began to become extremely cold.
Looking at Mu Qin's changes, the man felt deeply that this son who was like a stranger was difficult to get close to. Even if the emotionless Mu Qin felt sad and sad, such emotions would disappear quickly. Quickly restore calm, so others can't speculate on his true inner thoughts.
The man said with regret: "Mu Qin, I hope you can face up to what I said... Although it is very cruel to you, you are the last gift she left me, so I will help you, everything about you Whatever you ask, as long as I can do it, I will satisfy you."
"Even if I want to kill you, will you satisfy me?" the indifferent Mu Qin said.
The man sighed: "As I said before, if you kill me, you will be bound by this throne. This is not a good choice for you. If you really want me to die, you can find someone else to kill me."
"Forget it." Mu Qin lowered his head and took a deep breath. He was much calmer. He slowly swept away the messy emotions accumulated in his mind. He really calmed down. "Killing you is really nothing to me. It is useless, so I will ask you some questions, I think you know a lot about the marginal world."
"You ask." The man nodded ready to answer.
"I'm very curious." Mu Qin said, "I grew up in the real world to this day. I am 27 years old this year. Even though the time flow in the real world and the game map are different, but according to the time in the real world, you It should also have entered the fringe world for some reason more than 20 years ago."
Mu Qin glared at the man with gloomy eyes: "However, as far as I know, this game was only opened about four years ago... There was a gap of many years, what happened, do you know?"
The man thought for a while, and replied, "The Rim World game will be updated."
"Update?" Mu Qin was completely caught off guard, startled by the man's sudden words.
"Yes, it's an update." The man frowned slightly. "Just like many online games we play, every once in a while, the official server will be shut down for maintenance and updates. The same is true for the fringe world, which also needs to be updated."
"There is such a thing as a system update and upgrade..." Mu Qin thought it was amazing, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed to be a matter of course.
There is nothing absolutely perfect in this world, and even a fringe world certainly has some loopholes and flaws. These loopholes and defects require regular updates and maintenance plus upgrades to patch them up completely.
Although I can understand it, I vaguely feel that things have become more complicated. Thinking of this, Mu Qin couldn't help feeling a big head, so he had to press his temple and massage gently to relieve the headache that came up at no time.
Then Mu Qin showed a self-deprecating smile: "So, how is the marginal world updated?"
"How to update..." The man didn't seem to like to mention this process, and his brows frowned even more, "The will of the world will first close all the maps. Whether it's players playing games on the game map, or resting in the safe house Sleeping players, they will all be 'forced to quit' the moment the game starts updating."
Mu Qin suddenly said in horror: "If I understand correctly, your so-called 'forced exit'...does it mean that all players will die?"
The man nodded affirmatively: "Yes, you understand correctly, once the fringe world starts to update, all the data in the entire game world will be deleted. We players are nothing more than a bunch of data in the eyes of the system, and they also would easily 'delete' us."
"This also means... everyone will die?" The man's words made Mu Qin's heart tremble.
"There is a dead end." The man confirmed, "Except for players like me who sit on the throne and obtain the power of 'Eternal Immortality' through the death card and the power of the throne, everyone else will die and disappear along with the map or the safe house."
Mu Qin vaguely understood, he squinted his eyes, and put forward an idea of his own: "Could it be that the will of the fringe world is actually encouraging players to find the Butterfly Throne?"
"I think so." The man was not too sure, "After all... If we don't find the Butterfly Throne, we will be deleted along with the system update, so players have no choice but to use all means to make themselves Survive, even if the price of surviving is sitting in a chair that will bind you forever."
"How long does it take to update the game?"
"Fifteen years." The man continued, "The fifteen years I'm talking about is the time in the real world... Because the flow of time in the game is different from that in reality, in the game, players may not feel the passage of time in fifteen years. It feels like a year or two has passed, maybe even shorter.”
Muchin looked at the man thoughtfully: "How do you know this? Will Marginal World report to you before updating the game?"
The man actually answered Mu Qin seriously: "Yes, of course the system will send a notice to the players. A few days before the game is about to be updated, the system will send a message to all players, and this message will be sent directly to the players' brains."
"The general content is to tell you that the game will be updated, the server will be shut down, the data will be cleared, and you will die. It also said that the game update will take fifteen years, and the specific time when the game will be opened again."
"At the stage when the system is updated and all game maps are closed, can the power of the Butterfly Throne still work?" Mu Qin asked his questions one after another at the men.
The man also answered these questions calmly and answered them one by one: "Of course it works. The Butterfly Throne can stabilize the Throne map so that the Throne map will not be deleted along with the system update... How should I describe it? The Throne is probably a small server. Supporting this map allows the Throne map and the power of the king to function normally even if the entire edge world is closed."
Mu Qin rubbed his chin in a contemplative state: "I know that the Butterfly Throne has a chance to be refreshed on every map, so do you know if there are other kings sitting on the throne besides you, and how many are there?"
"Yes, but not many. As far as I know... Including me, there are probably only three. The three of us are the 'kings' left over from the update of the previous game version. How many kings exist, I don't know."
The man told Mu Qin, "As long as the map exists for a long time, the Butterfly Throne will definitely appear on the map, but you know... If you want the map to exist forever, you must let at least one human player and ghost player stay on the map all the time." In the map, and it takes a long time."
"Because each map is a closed environment that is automatically generated by systematically extracting some scenes that players have visited, and the resources inside are limited. If human players want to stay for a long time, they need a lot of water and food, which is very difficult."
"It's lucky like me." The man recalled something, "There is a lot of water and some edible wild fruits in this map, so she is willing to stay with me, but even so, we have to wait It took about three or four months before I saw the Butterfly Throne pop up."
Muchin was surprised: "So long?"
"The probability of each map is different." The man said in a dull tone, "At that time, she was two months pregnant, and I trapped her after the throne was spawned. She seemed to be unaware that she was being bound by me. , lying in my arms to fall asleep every day, she smiled at me at that time... I can still remember."
The man said as he lowered his head and hugged the bones on his legs. After hugging for a while, he said to Mu Qin, "I'm sorry Mu Qin, although I hate myself for keeping your mother by my side selfishly, it's been a long time. For a while, I was very glad I kept her."
Mu Qin said: "I can probably understand the reason why you want to keep your mother forcibly, because you know that the game needs to be updated, even if you send her out, it will be a dead end. Sorry, if this is the case, it is normal for you to force her to stay. "
"No, that's not the case." The man shook his head and denied, "The game update happened some time after her death. Before she died, I had the opportunity to send her out, but I didn't."
"What if we send her out?" Mu Qin seemed to have seen through something, "She can only escape from this map, but not from this world... In the end, everyone is going to die."
After hearing Mu Qin's words, the man hugged the corpse in his arms even tighter, and said hoarsely, "I love her so much that I can't let go, even if she dies. I think I'm probably crazy."
"..." Mu Qin didn't speak, and was silent for a while. Suddenly, he seemed to remember something. He asked the man in a puzzled tone: "Is the Edge World game automatically updated?"
"Automatic update?" The man didn't quite understand the meaning of Mu Qin's question. He thought for a while, "I don't understand what you mean, isn't it automatic update? A notification will be sent to all players in the future.”
"What about restarting the game? When it starts up, will the system send you a notice to restart the game?" Mu Qin asked.
The man shook his head: "That's not true. If you hadn't come today, I wouldn't even know that the border world had been restarted. I've been sleeping... I haven't heard any sound in the middle."
Hearing this, Mu Qin narrowed his eyes strangely: "That's interesting."
"What's interesting?" the man asked.
"I heard a piece of news from someone else." Mu Qin said, "Someone once told me that the fringe world was opened by a group of players 'hands-on' four years ago."
Mu Qin remembered that not long ago, when Zhou Yue confronted and talked with the king possessed by his mother Xie Zhu, Zhou Yue mentioned that he knew a player whose system number was "13", and the player possessed by Xie Zhu at that time When the king heard this, he shouted in disbelief. What he said roughly meant, "The first batch of players who entered the game are all dead. It is impossible for players with numbers like 13 to exist."
And at that time, the king also mentioned that "the first players who entered the game were also the players who opened the edge world, and they restarted the edge world, so all the disasters were caused by them." Such words.
Mu Qin, who heard these words at the time, subconsciously believed that the marginal world was opened artificially, but now Mu Qin's biological father told him that the marginal world is automatically opened and closed in a cycle, and it is closed every once in a while due to updating the system. Turn it on again, and so on.
But what is the truth, or is there some misunderstanding in it
Mu Qin couldn't figure this out, so he told his doubts to the man on the throne in front of him, the man thought for a while, and then told Mu Qin the specific time of the game update, he said: "I remember the last time the game was updated, the world will be closed When you were on the server, it was after your mother left... I sent you to the real world, and then she became a ghost and took care of you for three years. I just received the message that the system update is shutting down."
"That is to say, when I was three years old, the last version of the marginal world was closed due to an update." Mu Qin began to record the specific timeline based on the man's words.
"I'm twenty-seven years old now. As far as I know, this version of the game was launched four years ago, that is, when I was twenty-three years old... No, to put it this way, the edge world is silent Was it reopened after twenty years?"
At this point in the record, Mu Qin looked at the man suspiciously: "Didn't you say that after the game is closed for fifteen years, the system will automatically reopen the edge world?"
"The system message I received did say so, saying that the game will be restarted after being closed for fifteen years, but this is just the rhetoric of the system, and because I have been sleeping all these years, has the game restarted on schedule? … I have absolutely no idea."
The man guessed: "Maybe there is something wrong with the system, which caused the delay in restarting the game."
"Of course, it's also possible that someone used some means to seal the marginal world..." After speaking, the man laughed himself, as if he was amused by his conjecture.
He said: "Although this conjecture is like a fantasy, assuming that someone really did it, a group of guys called heroes ended the game and made this terrible cycle not continue. However, four years ago, a group of The dead guy opened it up again, like opening Pandora's box."
"If that's the case..." Mu Qin said, narrowing his eyes, "then those players who reopened the border world are indeed the culprits that caused all the disasters, and the chance to end everything... was destroyed just like that."
"We don't know the truth, maybe our thinking is wrong." The man pondered for a moment, then suddenly said to Mu Qin: "Mu Qin, to be honest, I don't want you to enter the marginal world to continue reincarnation, but I also want to There is no way to get you out of this world."
"I said that you have no soul and no emotion. You are a 'dead person' from birth. I can't describe your existence. Although you are her child, I think part of you comes from the edge world, from this abyss .”
"I don't understand what you mean." Mu Qin looked at the man coldly.
The man said, "I mean..."
The man seemed unable to think of any words to express his thoughts. He thought for a long time, sighed first, then looked at Mu Qin for a long time, and remained silent for a long time. In the end, he suddenly changed the topic and talked about the past: "When I was young, I was with your mother."
"At that time in China, both the economy and technology were not developing very well, and there were many poor people... I was a poor person from the countryside. I came out to work before finishing high school. In order to make money, I have been working in major cities, All the bosses run around under their hands."
"Your mother is completely different from me. She is a young lady from a rich family. Her family conditions are good. She is going to send her to study abroad. I don't know how she fell in love with me, but we met. After a few dates Just together, for me, she gave up the opportunity to go abroad, stayed in China to finish her studies and start working."
"She is very good, she is also very serious about her work, and her salary is several times mine." The man said, laughing at himself, "I still had low self-esteem at the time, I felt that I was not worthy of her, and I wanted to break up many times, but As soon as I saw her smiling face, I immediately put the thought out of my mind."
"We're not married, we haven't received a certificate, we just live together. After working for a few years, I have some savings and started a joint venture business. I can travel all over the world to solicit business and discuss investment. She is good at managing financial funds meticulously. We cooperate very well. Well, it's unbelievably good, so our business just keeps getting bigger and bigger."
"Big trees attract wind, but unfortunately I didn't understand this truth at the time. With the money in hand, I became arrogant and provoked some people who shouldn't be provoked, so I was quickly suppressed by the competition forces indicated by the other party. Our business started. When things went downhill, she hoped to stop the loss in time, but I was unconvinced and wanted to take a gamble, so I just invested all my money in the projects I was optimistic about at the time, and the more I gambled, the more I lost, and it was a mess."
"She didn't blame me, she said she wanted to regroup and start again, but I fell into a slump at that time and felt that I was useless, so I used alcohol to relieve my worries. Once I drank too much, lost my mind, and was in a bar again. I met the guy who shouldn't be provoked back then."
"That's a fat man. I don't have any skills, but my family has money and power. The reason why I provoke him at that time was because he made fun of your mother and asked me to give your mother to him for fun. I immediately became furious. I punched him in the face, so he took a grudge and asked people to suppress us in various ways."
"I couldn't see this matter all the time, so after I saw this fat man again in the bar, I got drunk and went to trouble him. I fought with him and beat him to death by mistake."
"Manslaughter, I went to prison and was sentenced to seven years. The family of the dead fat man threatened to let me die in prison. Your mother tried to find a relationship in order to help me turn around and get through this difficulty. But because she tried every means I begged for help everywhere, but she was also targeted by the family behind that fat man."
At this point, the man suddenly stopped continuing. Mu Qin was engrossed in listening, and seeing that he was silent, he subconsciously asked the follow-up: "And then?"
The man's face was gloomy: "They found a few gangsters to gang rape your mother."
Mu Qin clenched his fists: "Did they succeed?"
The man shook his head: "I don't know, she didn't tell me what was going on, I only know that she killed those gangsters with a short knife brought by the gangsters themselves."
"After killing someone, she immediately went home to pack herself, changed her clothes and came to the prison to see me for the last time. When she came to see me, she had a sunny smile on her face, just like her usual one. I didn't even know her Killed someone, and then she told me that she used all our assets to buy insurance, the beneficiary was me, and after I was released from prison for seven years, the money would be transferred to my account."
"I realized something was wrong and asked her what was going on, but she wouldn't answer me and left the prison. I heard from her a month later that she was sentenced to death without reprieve for manslaughter. It was executed immediately, and she didn't complain, so she just accepted it."
"Two months later, I didn't think about it, and I committed suicide in prison." The man used this sentence to put an end to their story. After speaking, he looked up at Mu Qin and continued: "When I Waking up again, I came to the edge of the world, and met her again in the second game."