At the beginning, he drew the Death card he wanted, but Mu Qin's mood did not improve.
When things came to an end, this sudden burst of good luck would not bring him any surprises, but would only terrify Mu Qin.
He can't help but have doubts, and he is full of doubts about everything around him. He can't help but start to think, is this also deliberately arranged by the so-called world will
Could it be that all his plans and all his actions are actually under the complete control of the will of the world
So in this case, wouldn't his desperate struggle, his valiant struggle, look extraordinarily ridiculous
Don't want to be controlled, want to be free, want to leave the fringe world, want to be with the one you love.
Such a simple and small wish, why can't it really be realized no matter what
Mu Qin suppressed the panic in his heart. He started to search and wander around in this new map. He had to find Jin as soon as possible. No one else in this game would care, as long as he found Jin.
In order to find Jin quickly, Mu Qin thought of a way.
There are generally broadcasting facilities in the gymnasium, whether it is indoors or outdoors, in order to notify the members participating in the competition or training in time, speakers are installed on the high places of the walls.
Of course, due to the fire in the gymnasium that year, most of the lines of these broadcasting facilities were burned due to the fire and lost their original functions, but Mu Qin remembered that there should be that kind of hand-held speakers in the broadcasting room.
Even if there are no horns, there should be whistles. In places like the lounge and coaching room in the gymnasium, Mnuchin believes that he will always find one or two.
As long as this kind of amplification equipment can be found... As long as Jin really enters the new game with Muqin, Muqin will be able to call Jin by voice, which is what he intends.
In the process of looking for the amplification equipment, Mu Qin looked around the dilapidated and charred environment. Mnuchin visited this gymnasium when he was in middle school, when his adoptive parents were still alive.
The middle school where Mu Qin studied held a sports meeting, but because of the renovation and maintenance of the school’s original sports venue, in order to hold the sports meeting as scheduled, the school rented the venue of this gymnasium, and the sports meeting was held here.
This memory is too long, and this gymnasium has become very strange in the eyes of Mu Qin.
But this place is very big. Mu Qin remembers that there are various sports venues here, such as basketball hall, volleyball hall, table tennis hall, small track and field...
There are also swimming pools, which are open to the public in summer, attracting tourists to swim and play in the water.
The "birth point" of Mu Qin's game is in the swimming pool, even in the pool of the swimming pool.
However, there was no water in the pool, and the bottom of the dry pool was covered with moss and covered with black unknown stains.
Mu Qin climbed up the ladder of the pool, and after a quick walk around, he found the broadcasting room of the swimming pool. The broadcasting room was scorched black, except for the walls that were burned beyond recognition, only the wreckage of some tables and chairs in the corner.
Mu Qin went in and took a look, and found a relatively intact whistle under the wreckage of an overturned chair in the broadcasting room.
Mu Qin picked up the whistle, rubbed the dust off the whistle with his fingers, stuffed it into his mouth and started blowing. The whistle was really in good condition, and it could make a loud and crisp sound, which was extremely harsh in the silent gymnasium.
So Mnuchin walked out of the broadcasting room slowly while whistling. He began to wander around the entire gymnasium, whistling and howling from time to time. His high-profile behavior quickly attracted the attention of other people in the gymnasium.
Of course, the first person appeared in front of Mu Qin.
"You are really too high-profile." The first person who appeared was Jin who Mu Qin had been looking for and looking forward to.
In fact, Mu Qin could have predicted Jin's appearance. Although we haven't been together for a long time, in Mu Qin's impression, Jin is a very active and outgoing person.
Kim seems to be very adventurous and reckless.
Ordinary newcomers or ordinary players, when they hear Mu Qin's whistling to attract others, they will not show up easily if they are cautious. Most people like to hide in a dark corner and observe the situation silently.
Only Jin would come out to investigate. Mu Qin, who had expected this, was not surprised at all when he saw Jin appear.
Mu Qin couldn't help observing Jin. Jin seemed to have come from the basketball hall next to the swimming pool. He walked through several aisles that were blackened by flames. There was still a faint glow in those pretty gray-blue eyes. glowing.
After meeting Mu Qin, Jin asked Mu Qin directly, "What card did you draw?"
"Reaper." Mu Qin paused for a moment, and answered Jin expressionlessly. From the hospital map in the last game, Mu Qin has maintained an expressionless expression.
From his expression to his eyes, Mu Qin looked lifeless, his black eyes were dark and deep, looking at Mu Qin's gloomy face, Jin shook his head helplessly and sighed: "If you blame me, you can curse me as much as you want, always With such a gloomy face, I'm going to be frightened by you."
Mu Qin was puzzled and said, "Why should I blame you?"
"Maybe it's because I beat mandarin ducks with a club?" Jin alluded to Mu Qin and Zhou Yue.
Mu Qin smiled: "I made the choice myself, and I also drove away the people. All these happened according to my own ideas, so why do you think it's your fault?"
"It's great, you can move forward according to your own ideas." Jin said a very meaningful sentence, which made Mu Qin seem to understand what he didn't understand.
Afterwards, King continued: "Well, let's not talk about these issues."
"Let's have a showdown... I brought two main cards from outside."
Jin's words made Mu Qin frowned and confused: "You brought two main cards? Under normal circumstances, players can only bring one main card into a new game. How did you do it?"
"Queen of Swords." Jin replied, "an extremely precious secondary card, which increases the upper limit of the main card that the player can carry. That is to say, I can bring two main cards into the game from the outside. After entering the game, the system will give me Draw a main card, so I now have three main cards."
After finishing speaking, Jin couldn't help laughing triumphantly: "The effect of the deck of Tarot cards is a particularly interesting part of this game. Unfortunately, many players easily ignore the status of the deck of cards."
Mu Qin had a rough idea in his mind, and he guessed that Jin must have some props or skills that would allow him to bring in more main cards. So Mu Qin said: "Your understanding of this game is so profound that it makes me feel terrible. Where did you know this?"
Jin explained to Mu Qin in a charade way: "I am haunted by ghosts every day, and the secrets of ghosts are revealed to me."
Mu Qin nodded, understood. The meaning of Jin, in short, is similar to the ghost girl that Mu Qin met in the library map. The ghost girl knows a lot of information. This information... was created by the will of the world when she accidentally spied on the will of the world. arrived.
Jin's situation may be different from that of the ghost girl, but maybe there is something special in common between the two of them, so that Jin can also spy on the memory of the world's will like the ghost girl.
After Mu Qin figured it out, he said to Jin, "What are the three cards on your body?"
"Orthodox world, and a magician." Jin took out three cards from his pocket, "there is also a newly drawn inverse justice in this game—seriously, apart from the death card, I have You can count the number of times you have drawn a straight card in the game."
"I think it's because you are too strong, so as long as you are a human being, the system will minimize the probability of you drawing the right card." Mu Qin speculated.
"Indeed." Kim nodded.
"What is the effect of reverse justice?" Then Mu Qin approached Jin and looked down at the three cards in the opponent's hand. The world card and the magician Mu Qin knew each other very well, only the "justice" card Mu Qin had never seen before. .
Jin explained: "Justice is a very interesting card. In a game, if all your teammates are dead and you are the last and only human being alive, when you still have this card on your body, you are right. Attacks made by ghosts have a 'control' effect."
"Control effect?" Mu Qin looked up at Jin, waiting for his explanation.
"This control effect is the same as judgment." Jin pointed the card in his hand and replied, "It makes the ghost unable to move or attack, but the control time is very short. Judgment can completely immobilize the ghost for ten minutes, while This card of justice can only imprison ghosts for about twenty seconds. The advantage is that it can be used indefinitely."
Jin then added: "Justice cards don't have CDs, but if a ghost gets hit by the justice card's control effect, after being imprisoned for 20 seconds, a three-minute 'immunity to all negative effects' state will appear on his body. "
"I see, it's actually a three-and-a-half-minute CD." Mu Qin thought for a moment, "The effect you mentioned is the effect of the 'upright justice card', so what about the reverse?"
"Reversed justice... is also very interesting." Jin handed the reversed justice to Mu Qin, "You can read the description of the reversed justice card first."
The face of the Reversed Justice Card is upside down, with a woman holding a sword of justice on it. She holds a sword in her right hand and a scale in her left hand, symbolizing fairness and responsibility.
On the back of the reversed justice card is written such a line:
False justice and false fairness.
You are not expected.
There is no such thing as a future.
Ps: props enhancement card, every human death will pay homage to your blade.
Mu Qin didn't quite understand. The effect descriptions marked on the Tarot cards were basically vague and unclear.
Therefore, the specific effects of most tarot cards need to be used by players in order to truly understand.
Mu Qin knew that Jin must be very familiar with the functions of all the main cards, so he was not ashamed to ask Jin, and asked humbly: "Every human being who dies will pay homage to your blade... Does it mean that every time a person dies in the map, the attack power of the ghosts will increase. one cent?"
"Almost." Jin replied, "I've tested it. Inverse justice means that every time a human dies in the field, the ghost's attack will have a small attack bonus and deceleration effect. The more people die, the stronger the effect will be. .”
"But the premise is that these people must be killed by ghosts themselves. If you only kill one human being, and all other human beings die accidentally, then the bonus of reverse justice is only the bonus of one head."
Mu Qin probably understood, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I feel like this card won't play any role in this game. My first priority right now is to get to the throne map as soon as possible, and kill that card as soon as possible." King, let the map of the throne collapse."
"As long as the map of the throne is gone, your beloved 'Mandarin Duck' will be saved. You can't wait to set him free, right?" Jin can understand Mu Qin's eagerness. There is a wonderful echo in the phrase "beating mandarin ducks with a stick" when I say myself.
Jin smiled: "Don't worry, I saw the conversation between you and Xiaoniao on the blackboard, and you agreed to meet in an hour."
"More than half of an hour has passed." The restlessness in Mu Qin's heart has spread a lot, "After I made an appointment with him, I immediately dragged you into the new game, but it still wasted a lot of time. The king must be removed before he does."
Jin said: "I believe you already have your own plans, but how do you plan to kill the king? I know very well that you seem to have had a 'deal' with the king, and the king seems to be blackmailing you."
"There are, but I have my own countermeasures," Mnuchin said.
Jin glanced at the pitch-black and scorched stadium environment around him. They had been talking here for a while, which might attract others' attention, and then Jin said, "Okay, since you are so confident, let's find a safe place, open the door to Zhuang Zhou's dream."
After the discussion, the two hurriedly left the spot. Jin seemed to know the stadium very well. He said he wanted to find a safe place, but he personally led Mu Qin all the way.
Walk past the stairs, the promenade, and the expansive playing field.
No other humans were seen along the road at all. Mu Qin saw a room with lights, and there might be people in it, but neither Mu Qin nor Jin had time to observe and explore this map, let alone the other humans on the map. Time to figure it out.
Jin then took Muqin to the basement of the gymnasium, and Muqin discovered that there was actually a small skating rink under the gymnasium.
Jin introduced to Muchin: "A long time ago, this gymnasium seemed to be a training base for figure skating athletes, but this was a long time ago. Later, this small underground ice rink began to provide some tourists who like skating to earn money. Withdraw funds."
"For cooling and temperature control, this skating rink was built underground, and it is a different world from the upper floor of the gymnasium. Therefore, it has not been affected by the fire, and it seems to be relatively complete." Jin introduced and walked to the ice rink. field. At this moment, because the refrigeration system is not turned on, there is no ice on the ice rink. It is just a sunken concrete floor. There seems to be a network of pipes buried in the concrete floor. There are deep ravines all around, which are probably used for drainage.
"Will it be safe here?" Mu Qin asked, "If you open the door here."
"Nowhere in the game map is safe, but if it is not found by other players in a short period of time, it should be pretty good here."
Jin said: "We lock the door, which can prevent outside players from breaking in for a period of time. Then open the 'door' here, and I will enter the throne map with you. When entering, please hold my hand .”
"Hold your hand?" Mu Qin was puzzled by Jin's request, he didn't really want to pull Jin's hand, that feeling was weird.
Jin Ming said: "The map of the throne is a place I cannot enter casually. I can only enter if you lead me in."
Mu Qin didn't quite understand, but he decided to follow Jin's words.
In the end, King concluded, "We'd better get this sorted out as soon as possible and come back without stopping. There are two reasons for this: one, the door we opened will only be there for about an hour or two."
"Second, even if we successfully enter the throne map, we still have to complete the game progress in the stadium map. In this game, you are a ghost and I am a human. You must take two heads, and I must escape. have you understood?"
Mu Qin nodded and replied: "Understood, let's start."
The two immediately began to divide and cooperate, and Jin set off to close the entrance and exit of the basement. Mu Qin stood on the ice rink without ice and took out the white card.
Mu Qin took the copied white card and took a deep breath, then exhaled slowly, lifted the copied white card in his hand, and silently recited the word "use" in his heart.
Then this white card suddenly burst out with an astonishing light, white light enough to blind people's eyes. This light instantly engulfed the entire underground ice rink, causing Mu Qin to subconsciously reach out his hand to cover his eyes. But only for a moment, the dazzling white light began to subside, and the ice rink returned to calm.
Because the white light was too glaring, Mu Qin suffered from a temporary blindness symptom, and soon he recovered, and when he took a closer look, he found that a huge door really appeared in front of him out of thin air.
The door is more than three meters high and nearly two meters wide. It actually has only one door frame, a black door frame made of unknown material, engraved with a lot of mysterious characters that are completely incomprehensible and slightly flooded, and a relief is inlaid on the top of the door frame, which is the edge of the world. Typical snake wrapped around the cross logo.
And the part of the door in the middle of the door frame is that transparent... something like a water curtain, a water curtain. When Mu Qin stretched out his hand to touch the water curtain, there were still circles of ripples on it.
"It's amazing. It's the first time I've seen this thing." Jin came back after closing all the entrances and exits of the underground ice rink or blocking them with something. He returned to Mu Qin and admired the wonders in front of him together.
"Have you never touched the Throne Map or the Butterfly Throne?" Mouchin asked Kim.
Jin shook his head and said, "No, Duke Zhou's dream is a restricted area for me. It won't let me in, because if I do, I can easily get out of its control."
Before Mu Qin understood the meaning of Jin's words carefully, Jin reached out and grabbed Mu Qin's hand, and said to Mu Qin: "Take me in, it will be much better to talk inside."
Mu Qin glanced at Jin, then turned to look at the "door" in front of him. Mu Qin was very nervous. He knew exactly what would happen and what would change after he walked through this door. But it won't work if you don't go in. In any case, Mu Qin must kill the king.
So Mu Qin took Jin's hand and entered the door, and they walked through the curtain like a water curtain. At that moment, Mu Qin experienced a familiar feeling, that is, the feeling of dizziness and fragmentation every time the system sends Mu Qin to a new game or a new map.
When the two woke up again, they had passed through the water curtain and appeared in another world.
This is not the first time that Muqin has entered the throne map, but compared to the tranquility and peace shown in Echo's map, this place is full of a strong sense of oppression and desolation.
It was the first time Jin came to the map of the throne, looked around curiously, then frowned in disappointment, spread his hands and said, "It turns out to be an ancient ruin."
Mu Qin raised his head and looked at the tall stone pillars in front of him... This is a place like some kind of ruins, with collapsed stone pillars and stone walls, and there are also artificially built stone roads under his feet. Not far away stands a towering castle-like building made of stones, which is a castle building in the ancient Western European style.
In addition to these ancient building ruins, the rest are trees, all kinds of trees, big and small, strong and thin, as well as short shrubs and tall grass. Shrouded in gray and dark green, vegetation covers every place that can be covered, and the sky above the head is also covered by lush leaves and branches, and the forest is so black that you can't stretch out your fingers.
"The game on the edge of the world is very interesting." Jin and Muqin took two steps, and Jin looked back at the water curtain door behind him, and said to Muqin: "You know, every map in this game is exactly the same as the one you entered. Players have different degrees of connection, generally we enter the map where the player has been... Of course, occasionally there will be places that players have seen but have not been to."
"Where have you seen... but haven't been?" Mu Qin wondered, "Is this considered a connection?"
"Forget it, in fact... as long as the player has enough knowledge of a certain place and knows the customs of this place, even if the player has not personally visited this place, it will be counted by the system as a map that is connected to the player."
"So that's how it is." Mu Qin finally understood, "Assuming that I really want to go to a place, I haven't been there yet, but I have a very detailed understanding of that place through researching the Internet, pictures, maps, etc., and even Correspondence with the people over there, so that counts as my contact with that place, right?"
"That's right." Jin praised Mu Qin's intelligence, and he looked around, "This map is likely to be such a place, because it is too barren. Weeds and moss grew in the cracks of the gravel road under our feet. The trees and vegetation are extremely lush, and those collapsed stone pillars and stone walls, and the castle over there look very old... No one has set foot here for a long time."
Mu Qin noticed that many trees and vegetation here were covered with vines and thorns. Mu Qin said: "It is not so much the Butterfly Throne, but the Thorn Throne."
"Don't say it, maybe the will of the world really thinks so." Jin stopped playing charades here, "This so-called throne seems to be a tool used by the will of the world to screen players. Only those with courage can sit on the throne."
"I've also heard it from others... about the fact that the will of the world created the fringe world, in fact, to screen a certain person. But who is screened, and why is it selected in this way, I don't know." Mu Qin said and looked Xiang Jin, "I think I should be able to get a specific answer from you."
Jin thought: "Who told you this? This should be a top secret file."
Mu Qin replied: "A ghost created by the will of the world."
"Ghost? Well... Whether it's a ghost or not, I want to say yes, the will of the world is indeed screening a person, choosing the most unique one from thousands of players. I don't know exactly why such a person is chosen. Clear, but I think... the will of the world seems to want to choose an heir."
"Heir?" Mu Qin was horrified by Jin's statement.
"Look." Jin spread his hands, "The map of the throne we are in now, and the butterfly throne in the map, don't they all imply this truth? Assuming that the entire marginal world is a huge map, And the will of the world is the 'king' sitting on the throne in the map, it used to control everything, but it doesn't want to be the king now, it wants a successor to replace it and continue the throne."
Mu Qin's heart couldn't be calmed down: "Your statement is really..."
"This is just my own idea." Jin narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Although I think this idea is correct."