[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 13 days.]
Like falling into an ice cellar, Qi Leren's hands and feet were cold, and they stared at the inscription on the tombstone without moving. Everything around him is far away from him, as if blocked by an invisible barrier, the sound of the waves, the bright moonlight, the refreshing aroma of wine... Everything is gone. He is like a living person buried in the ground, watching the soil cover his body little by little, from then on, he will be accompanied by darkness and reptiles, and will gradually decay in the unknown.
He was not reconciled, he urged the body that was about to be uncontrollable to move forward, more, more dead he was exposed in front of him.
[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 12 days.]
[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 12 days.]
- If the tombstones are arranged according to the time of death of everyone, then the one closest to Lu Youxin who survived for 13 days died by biting his fangs and committed suicide, and these two died of Dragon Breath.
[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 12 days.]
-He killed himself with a dagger while being chased by hungry wolves.
[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 12 days.]
—The explosion that killed him with the giant.
The despairing Qi Leren is still walking forward, here are all unfamiliar names, and he has to walk a long way to meet the tombstone left by him who died in the newbie village.
"Enough, Qi Leren!" Chen Baiqi's voice sounded behind Qi Leren.
Qi Leren stood in rows and rows of tombstones arranged like theater seats. The moonlight left his shadow on the ground, overlapping with the shadows of countless tombstones, as if life and death were entangled. And because the moonlight blurs the boundaries.
Is he still alive? Is he dead? How can he prove that he is still alive
with memory? But memory is just a brain wave. In the face of all kinds of incredible forces in this nightmare world, it is easy to fabricate a memory, let alone transplant a memory
Is he really still alive
Alive, is it really still him
Chen Baiqi had already come to his side, pulled his arm back and walked deeper into the island.
Along the path full of moonlight, walking on weeds and insects, the two went deeper and deeper. Qi Leren didn't know where Chen Baiqi was going to take him, but he didn't want to know. His soul seemed to be left in front of his tombstone, and he was just a walking dead being pulled.
After passing through the dense jungle, the eyes suddenly opened up.
They stood on a high lonely cliff, and the sea under the moonlight was close to them. So silent, so vast, the silver-white fish-scale moonlight beats on the sea, forming a suffocating night together with the starlight and the sea.
Chen Baiqi sat down on a strange rock on the sea cliff, covered the lighter with his hand, lit a cigarette for himself, and threw another one to Qi Leren.
This time Qi Le people did not refuse.
The two of them sat on the sea cliff, listening to the clatter of the tide under the cliff and the sound of Qi Leren coughing and smoking, without saying a word to each other.
"Now I know why Ning Zhou reminded me before he left, and told me not to bring you here." Chen Baiqi finished smoking a cigarette, rolled the butt with his shoe, and said, "It's a pity, when you don't collect money, I'm a really uncooperative person."
"What else did he say?" Qi Leren asked in a hoarse voice.
"A lot, I've never heard him say so much, but it's probably because he's drunk." Chen Baiqi laughed lowly, "After all, I brought a whole box of good wine to see him, I'm afraid he After sobering up, I can't wait to kill me."
Qi Leren raised her head and looked at Chen Baiqi. She sat on the stone with Erlang's legs crossed, and lit another cigarette for herself.
"I don't think he himself would believe that in such a short period of time, he would fall in love with someone who does not belong to this world." Chen Baiqi said.
"What do you mean?" Qi Leren's heart froze for a moment, and the ominous premonition that he had been reluctant to think deeply flooded his heart.
Chen Baiqi raised his slender eyebrows: "I thought you had already discovered it, did you not?"
Don't belong to this world... A face similar to Ning Zhou suddenly appeared in Qi Leren's mind. The blond woman praying under the statue of the Virgin in the Holy Spirit Barrier had the same eyes as Ning Zhou.
"Ning Zhou is the same as my sister Qian Qian, and it should be said that she is more special than Qian Qian. Qian Qian's parents are both players from the real world, but Ning Zhou... his mother is an NPC."
Chen Baiqi's voice seemed to come from outside the sky. He heard every word she said, but he seemed to suddenly not understand.
"Calculating Ning Zhou's age, his father should be one of the first players to enter the game, but he died very early. After his mother also died, he was sent to the Holy See and was deeply influenced by the Holy See. Ning Zhou told me that he would start quests like ordinary players at the age of 18. Three years ago, when he turned 18, he has the same number of days to survive as we do, and he needs to perform mandatory quests every month."
The cigarette butts in Qi Leren's hands were almost exhausted, but he didn't notice it at all.
"This time, the task of sacrificing witches was completely an accident. He had just returned from NEVER Township recently, and he encountered gangsters who were chasing down a few girls, so he killed them, but unfortunately he couldn't save them. Those two girls, instead, triggered this quest because of the demon mark on their hands. What's more, you also received this quest from another dead NPC."
"Actually, he didn't care much about you at first. From a personality point of view, Ning Zhou doesn't like to be close to people by nature. It's hard to imagine that he would take the initiative to approach a person. At first, he would be rescued by a wild wolf by the campfire. It's completely natural for you to do it. Helping those in need is also a commandment of the Holy See." Chen Baiqi said, and suddenly chuckled, "But after he was more drunk, he still admitted it, he felt It was cute when you pretended to be calm and tried to talk to him."
- "I... My name is Qi Leren, what's your name?" The memory suddenly turned from gray and white to fresh, like a roll of black and white film tape, suddenly with sound and color. Qi Leren clearly remembered that by the warm bonfire, he was uneasy and hesitant to say anything, and finally finally summoned up the courage to ask "her" name.
"Later, in the underground cave, you were chased by the bone dragon, and he pulled you to escape. At that time, you looked extremely frightened, with red eyes and trembling when you spoke, but stubbornly wanted to protect him, not even afraid of death. I'm afraid Ning Zhou has never seen anyone working so hard for him in so many years. After that, you died in the dragon's breath, and you almost died in the frozen underground lake. When he rescued you, you were soaked all over. When you are trembling, he swears to himself that he will protect you."
- "Thank you anyway, when the time comes, tell me your name!" At that time, he ran for his life in a hurry, his lungs were aching, and he tried his best to keep his voice low and did not dare to cough, his eyes were all red, he knew that he would not He will die, and with the help of skills, he has a high chance of surviving, so he is so brave.
"In the last underground palace, Ning Zhou used up the relic left to him by his mother, yes, that pendant. That thing is not an ordinary item, he shouldn't use it, but at that time it was a close call, and you were deeply In danger, he still used it without hesitation, even if... and you found your only chance in the Holy Spirit Barrier, but it's really good fortune to make people..." Chen Baiqi looked at the calm sea under the moonlight from a distance, his voice seemed to be like Wu, "Ning Zhou, who was drunk, refused to talk about what happened after that, but I already knew it. How painful was it for him to kill his lover who was willing to sacrifice his life for him..."
- "Ning Zhou, I have a way, maybe we can all live." At that time, Qi Leren who was full of excitement even said the cruelest words to Ning Zhou with a smile, "It's very simple, kill me."
Qi Leren sat slumped on the stone and covered his face with his hands. In his eyes, this short-lived experience had turned into a prank of fate, but in Ning Zhou's eyes? This is a complete and irreversible tragedy.
"Did you know? After the mission, before coming to see you, Ning Zhou went to a place." Chen Baiqi said slowly.
"Where?" He knew that he should stop asking, but the Qi Le people still asked.
Chen Baiqi answered the question: "He went to buy something."
Qi Leren's fingers moved like a cramp. He vaguely knew something, but he couldn't believe it.
Chen Baiqi didn't say any more. She took a puff of cigarette. The smell of tobacco made her relax and calmed her down. She stood up, faced the sea, and murmured, "This is fate. It's obviously impossible. , but they fell in love with each other because of various coincidences, but unfortunately in the end... it's still impossible."
Qi Le was silent.
"In Ning Zhou's world, he probably never thought about the issue of homosexuality. After all, he lived in the Holy See very early, abiding by the precepts, abiding by the scriptures, and firm in his beliefs. The man who will propose marriage and keep the first night until the wedding night. The most important thing is that the Holy See in this world is not the modern religion in the world we once lived in. It is old-fashioned, conservative, and all the love that arises between the same sex. , are wrong, immoral, and even sinful.”
"If one day he loves you more than anything else, maybe he will leave the Holy See. But he needs to renounce his faith and give up everything he once regarded as life... Is this love more painful, or is death more painful?"
The salty sea breeze blew on his face, taking away the temperature of the human body. After listening to all this, Qi Leren was very calm. He also stood up from the stone and said in a low voice, "I understand..."
Chen Baiqi turned around and handed him a bottle in his hand: "Take it."
"I don't need to drink alcohol to relieve my worries." Qi Leren made a stiff joke, but it was so difficult to even touch the corners of his mouth.
"It's not wine, it's holy water from the Holy See. Maybe you can use it in the future." Chen Baiqi shrugged, "I'm going to see some old friends first, and we'll see you at the landing place in an hour."
Qi Leren's hand holding the bottle froze for a moment, how could Chen Baiqi know that he needed holy water to suppress the Seed of Slaughter
Seeing that Chen Baiqi had already walked away, he couldn't care less and asked loudly, "Why give me this?"
Chen Baiqi waved his back to him: "Ning Zhou sent it, ask me to give it to you, keep it, maybe it will come in handy later."
Chen Baiqi's figure had disappeared under the steps, Qi Leren shook the bottle, the crystal clear transparent liquid exuded a faint light in the moonlight, just looking at it made people feel calm. If it was Ning Zhou... he should know something, right? After all, he had seen him in the Tribunal.
Qi Leren didn't think about it any more, put away the holy water and walked down.
At this point he was no longer panicking about those tombstones, something he couldn't verify and couldn't control. Even if he is really dead, this one is still alive now. He can act, think, and be as happy as before, and he doesn't want to worry about more problems.
Going down the stairs, the rows of tombstones on both sides of the steps are neatly arranged, like a queue.
The order of the tombstones should be arranged according to the time of death, not according to the order of tasks. Qi Leren stopped in front of Lu Youxin's tombstone, walked backwards one floor, and then walked in. He saw Ye Xia, which turned out to be her real name, and she survived for more than 1,500 days.
One step further, the place illuminated by the light of the flashlight is the name of Qi Le.
Three tombstones in a row are all of him.
He died at the hands of Ning Zhou.
Qi Leren's footsteps stopped, and an emotion that could not be said to be sad or relieved slowly seeped out from the depths of his soul. After Chen Baiqi said that Ning Zhou went to buy something, he vaguely guessed it, but it was always difficult. Believe it, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he finally had to believe it.
He could almost imagine how Ning Zhou felt when he discovered his tombstone. Maybe for him, the Qi Le person he loved had stayed in the underground palace forever and was killed by him three times.
He has not yet had time to start, and the love that has not yet been spoken will remain there forever. He can only leave the proof of his love in front of the tombstone and give it to that "her".
Qi Leren took a few steps forward and squatted down in front of his tombstone.
[Qile people. Died by sacrificing witches. Survival days 13 days.]
An open small gift box was placed right in front of the tombstone, and a ring lay quietly in the gift box.
The ring is set with a blue gemstone that gleams in the moonlight.
As beautiful as Ning Zhou's eyes.