casino.
A lively casino.
Zhang Yinghao stood in the cafe on the street opposite the casino, drinking a glass of spirits, and said:
"I'm really familiar with this casino—after all, it's an underground industry just like my business, and there are always people I know—but what's going on with these lines?"
On the table in front of him, there was a stack of newly printed paper filled with lines.
Gu Qingshan nodded towards Feiying.
Fei Ying raised her hand, showing thousands of black silk threads on her wrist.
"As you can see, every silk thread on her arm represents our goal, but in fact, at the beginning, our goal was not so many, there was only one." Gu Qingshan said.
Zhang Yinghao was a little confused, pointing to thousands of silk threads and asked: "Then why there are so many suddenly?"
"Because... this is a screening mechanism." Gu Qingshan said.
"Screen what?"
"The right person—only the right person can approach that goal."
"What if it's the wrong person?"
"It will be led by one of the silk threads, and it will deviate more and more from the real goal." Gu Qingshan said.
Zhang Yinghao and Fei Ying looked at each other and shook their heads together.
"I don't understand." The two said in unison.
"It's very simple - Feiyue, I was reminded by the chaotic sequence that there is actually a technique of multiple parallel worlds here, so your thread of fate suddenly forks into thousands - because in each parallel world, They all have our goals." Gu Qingshan said.
"I understand a little bit, that is to say, we have to cross all the parallel worlds to find the real goal." Fei Ying said.
"Correct." Gu Qingshan said.
"How?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
"Screening—I was the one who experienced all this back then, and I am the only one who remembers all the details." Gu Qingshan said.
"It must be consistent with the history you have experienced before we can see the target?" Fei Ying asked.
"Exactly." Gu Qingshan said.
"What if we made a mistake?"
"Then go into the parallel world, unable to find the real target."
"... The person you are looking for is really cautious."
"certainly."
Fei Ying silently recited a mantra, grabbed all the silk threads and tied them around Gu Qingshan's wrist.
"If it's your past... then I can't follow into the casino, but I can put 'Nostalgia' on your wrist, it will still be in effect, and will always remind you of the situation around you." Fei Ying said.
"Will it affect the screening?" Gu Qingshan worried.
"Fate is a detached power, as long as you don't use it to attack, other laws will live in harmony with fate." Fei Ying said.
"Understood." Gu Qingshan nodded in greeting.
Zhang Yinghao picked up the script book in his hand and read it again, took a deep breath and said: "Okay, I have almost memorized it."
"Let's go." Gu Qingshan said.
He stood up, walked out of the cafe with Zhang Yinghao, crossed the street, and entered the casino.
…
Zhang Yinghao walked into the lobby of the casino, and his ears were immediately filled with loud and noisy voices.
He looks around.
"What's wrong?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"Can they even get cosmic monsters now?" Zhang Yinghao read a line.
"You know this place?" Gu Qingshan continued to read.
"I know, but I'm not very familiar with it. This used to be a place to exchange information."
"It looks like they've started a new business."
The two were talking, only to see that Gu Qingshan collected all the black silk threads in his hand, leaving only one thread.
This silk thread is illusory and transparent, only occasionally showing a black texture.
Lines of small fireflies appeared in front of Gu Qingshan's eyes:
"Notice!"
"You have entered a parallel world."
"The scope of all parallel worlds is: Casino."
"If you exit the casino at this time, you exit the corresponding parallel world."
Gu Qingshan pulled Zhang Yinghao out of the casino.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
"... I forgot one thing." Gu Qingshan looked up.
I saw the big clock above the entrance of the casino turning rapidly, returning to a certain point in time.
A line of firefly characters emerged;
"—You only have one chance to start over. If you still can't cross the multiple parallel worlds, you will lose the movement of the target person."
Gu Qingshan's thoughts flashed, and after a long while, he suddenly sighed.
"What?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
"I forgot one thing - when we came in last time, you still brought the black cat." Gu Qingshan said.
"So we just failed?"
As Zhang Yinghao said, he reached out and tapped on the ground, summoning the black cat.
"Yes, the black cat must be summoned—it is in line with history—we must not fail again, otherwise we will no longer be able to find the target." Gu Qingshan said.
"I will remember the lines, as well as those actions." Zhang Yinghao said seriously.
"Very good, we still have one last chance." Gu Qing Shan also became serious.
The two walked into the casino.
As soon as they entered, the clock above the casino door started to tick again.
Inside the casino.
Zhang Yinghao looked around in surprise.
"What's wrong?" Gu Qingshan asked.
"Can they even get cosmic monsters now?" Zhang Yinghao repeated his lines.
"You know this place?" Gu Qingshan followed.
"I know, but I'm not very familiar with it. This used to be a place to exchange information."
"It looks like they've started a new business."
As the two talked, the black cat jumped to the ground and disappeared.
Everything is just right.
But this is just the beginning. It is almost impossible to ensure that everything matches.
Gu Qingshan looked at his wrist from the corner of his eye, and saw that all the black silk threads were safe and sound.
There are several translucent threads that have disappeared.
"The skill time is up, it should be here."
Zhang Yinghao said, and then asked: "Do you have merit points? If you want to enter the core area, you must exchange merit points for chips."
"I don't have much else, merit points are enough." Gu Qingshan said.
The two walked in swaggeringly, and soon a waiter came up to greet them, and respectfully led the two of them to the elevator.
There are twenty elevators in the lobby, and each elevator only allows one group of guests to enter at the same time.
The waiter closed the elevator and asked, "What do you two want to play?"
"We—" Zhang Yinghao looked at Gu Qingshan with his eyes.
"The more special the better." Gu Qingshan smiled at the attendant.
The waiter squinted at their chip boxes.
In the chip box, the largest amount of red chips is piled to the brim.
The waiter smiled and said, "Dear guests, you will not be disappointed."
He pressed a button under the elevator.
— 70 floors.
The elevator descended rapidly, and after a while, the speed gradually slowed down.
Ding!
The crisp doorbell rang.
The door opened.
A vast lake.
"Underground lake?" Zhang Yinghao hurriedly read his lines.
Gu Qingshan remained silent, walked forward with the waiter, and sat down on a high platform by the shore of the underground lake.
Along the shore of the lake, the high platforms everywhere are full of people.
The waiter took out the communicator and asked, then turned to the two of them and said, "It's been a while since the last game ended, this one will start soon, please wait a moment."
Exquisite snacks and expensive famous wines were served.
The two had no intention of eating and drinking, and sat silently waiting for a while, then listened to the attendant say: "It's started."
I saw a figure flying towards the center of the underground lake.
The lake is so vast that the man jumped halfway and was about to fall.
Unexpectedly, he had a sudden pause in the air, burst out with a burst of strength again, and continued to fly forward.
Gu Qingshan and Zhang Yinghao exchanged glances.
— This wink has also happened before, and it must not be ignored.
The black silk thread on Gu Qingshan's arm is missing a few more.
I saw that Wu Zun landed on the raft in the middle of the lake, and put down the things he carried on his shoulders.
A comatose man.
Wu Zun pressed the man's body, turned around and flew out of the underground lake.
The man began to have unconscious movements, and he was gradually waking up.
At this time, the attendant said: "You two can start betting."
"How to play?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
The waiter said: "Start counting from 0 seconds, bet on how long he can live, the upper limit is 3 minutes - once the 3 minutes are up, the person who bet on him to survive will win."
"There are three games in total today, and the person who wins the most will get today's lucky prize."
"What is the lucky prize?" Zhang Yinghao asked.
"Every day is different, today is a part of the corpse of a cosmic monster, or a strange person, choose one of the two." The attendant said.
The two looked at each other.
Gu Qingshan whispered: "Your Tianxuan skills are really not bad."
Zhang Yinghao shrugged: "I rely on this for a living."
Gu Qingshan looked at the lake, and suddenly asked: "What's under the lake?"
In the lake water, a black shadow tens of meters long appears and disappears from time to time.
"The prehistoric monster restored by gene blending has been hungry for two days." The attendant said with a smile.
A middle-aged man stood up with a grin, and threw out a wine glass full of red liquid.
His strength was good, and the wine glass fell directly near the center of the lake.
The red liquid spilled out and spread on the lake.
The black shadow under the lake moved faster.
Zhang Yinghao's nose moved, and he said in a low voice, "It's blood."
"Is there no problem for him to do this?" Gu Qingshan asked the waiter.
"You can't kill that person in the center of the lake. Other than that, you can play whatever you want." The waiter smiled.
On the high platform on the right, the middle-aged man yelled to his companion as if showing off: "Look, this big guy is really good. Last time, he bit people in two with one bite."
The woman sitting opposite him covered her mouth lightly, yawned, and said in a bored way: "Really, it's scary."
The woman turned her head inadvertently, glanced across the high platform next to her, and saw Gu Qingshan and Zhang Yinghao.
The woman's eyes lit up.
At the same time, Gu Qingshan's heart suddenly sank.
He found that all the black silk threads on his arm flew out, circling around the woman.
This woman... has nearly a thousand parallel worlds overlapping her body.
Once there is any change in time and space, anyone who attacks her or captures her - will be directly thrown into the corresponding parallel world!
Such strict precautions...
I remembered.
Her name is Dugu Qiong.
Gu Qingshan silently read the name.
He quickly remembered what he should do at this time—
He turned his head abruptly and stared at Dugu Qiong all at once.
The woman was caught by his gaze, and her whole body tensed up involuntarily, and she didn't even dare to move subconsciously.
In a trance, her thoughts were completely blank.
Killing intent.
- Killing intent from Gu Qingshan.
Suddenly, the feeling of heart palpitations disappeared, and the woman felt that her soul had returned to her body.
Seeing that Gu Qingshan seemed to realize that he had made a mistake, his face was full of apology, he smiled and nodded slightly.
His smile is like a pour of warm spring water in the spring breeze, which can flow into his heart, and his whole body is relieved immediately, and his cold body gradually feels warm.
The woman held her heart and relaxed for a while.
This feeling is so impressive.
—It's so far away.
She suddenly took out a business card.
"Please do me a favor." She waved to the waiter.
the other side.
"Look, I told you that you should relax a bit. Your killing intent, tsk tsk tsk, must have scared someone this time." Zhang Yinghao spread his hands and read his lines meticulously.
"Sorry, I'm not used to being watched."
Gu Qingshan accepted the formula taught by Qin Xiaolou, and said to the lines.
But I saw the waiter on the high platform over there, carrying a plate.
"Sir, the lady gave you the wine, here is her business card."
The waiter put a glass of wine and a business card on the table and returned them politely.
Zhang Yinghao whistled, and said, "A glass of godfather, a card that leads to the depths of her heart, it seems that she thinks you are a real man."
"This method is out of the way, but it is quite effective, and I have to learn it in the future." Zhang Yinghao murmured in a low voice.
"It's just a misunderstanding." Gu Qingshan picked up the business card and looked at it.
"Fuxi Empire, Plank Road Weapons Group, Dugu Qiong."
He had just finished reading when a new line of small characters suddenly appeared on the business card:
"Don't move, wait until I mobilize the parallel world."
Gu Qingshan's heart moved, and he continued to hold the business card in his hand to watch.
One breath.
Two breaths.
Card-
There was a crisp sound.
Everything around suddenly came to a standstill.
I saw the void open, and another Gu Qingshan came out, looked at him and said: "So there is really another me."
That Gu Qingshan handed him a card.
Gu Qingshan took a look and saw a new line of small characters written on it:
"Drink the wine in front of you."
Gu Qingshan drank the wine as he said.
For a moment, he only felt that he was moving away from the current world.
A line prompt appears:
"You made an action different from the original history, so you will enter a parallel world."
Gu Qingshan looked back.
I saw that Gu Qingshan replaced him, sat down in front of his seat, took out a business card, and made a gesture of inspection.
"Don't look at it, he temporarily replaced you, and was not discovered by any demon—"
"So we can finally meet."
A voice sounded from behind.
Gu Qingshan looked back and saw that he was still standing on the high platform next to the underground lake, and there was no one else around—
There was only one man in black armor.
"Dugu Peak—General Dugu, it's you!"
Gu Qingshan was moved.
"Yes - I am the apostle of the Water Era. In order to avoid evil spirits, I have to hide in the parallel world." The man said.
"Huge corpse?"
"It's my other half."
"I see, you have been fighting side by side with me all along."
"That's right... I invited you from another parallel world, and he would be happy to impersonate you temporarily—so that no one would find out my place."
"You are so careful because the other half of you has already fallen into the hands of demons?" Gu Qingshan asked again.
Speaking of this, Dugufeng's expression was concentrated, and he said solemnly: "Exactly, once this half of me is caught by them, your sequence will lose the power of an era, and I will completely become their bones seat."
"We have to find a way quickly." Gu Qingshan said.
He took out the whole piece of Yuanxu and put it in front of Dugu Peak.
"As Doomsday, this is the original void that I have tried my best to obtain. There are traces of demon magic in it... Among the four eras, you are the apostle with the most knowledge and skills. Please help me take a look." Gu Qingshan said.
Dugu Feng's eyes fell on the glass-shaped original void, and he said slowly: "You did a good job... I rebelled too early back then, so I didn't have time to learn many demonic techniques, and I didn't thoroughly investigate their secrets. Come out... this piece of the original void will bring us new hope."
He raised Yuan Xu and looked at it with full concentration.