Chapter 122 Love is Immortal
"It wasn't until Zhuge Xunzhen took my heart that you realized my body wasn't safe either. So you controlled Zhuge Xunzhen, took the heart back, and hid it in this game."
The system's face was blank. At this moment, he couldn't make a reasonable expression about the current situation.
Xiang Liangyu stood on the edge of the rooftop. The lightless city made everything around her blend into the darkness. The light emitted by the system shone on her body, making her skin colorful.
She said: "But I am a little curious, since such an important thing was put into the game, why did you let me enter this game again."
The system that drilled back into the screen became flat, and he snorted coldly: "It was just a mistake."
As soon as the words fell, the city lights suddenly came back on. Xiang Liangyu listened to the voice in the headset, turned his back to the system, stood on the top of the tall building, and looked at the mottled city as if he was standing aside.
The system on the screen was like a protective shield. It came to Xiang Liangyu and said with a sinister smile: "Xiang Liangyu, you can't kill me. Even if you know that my lifeline is in your heart, so what? You see."
It emerged from the screen and pointed at the city below. The scene changed rapidly. It was no longer a bustling street, but countless square worlds. These worlds were of different sizes and colors. Xiang Liangyu could see the NPCs and players walking and living in these countless worlds.
The system suddenly pointed to a piece of the world with its fingertips, and pressed down slightly. Under his action, the small piece of the world collapsed and shattered, and finally became a ruin. The system immediately entered the screen and said:
"If you take away my lifeline, I will make all these worlds disappear. You want to save them, but I won't let you. I saved you from Zhuge Xunzhen's hands, and in order to make you a stronger person in these worlds, I gave you everything I know. But now you want to go against me and this world for these people who have nothing to do with you."
"Xiang Liangyu, you have too many strange emotions."
Xiang Liangyu glanced at him sideways when he heard the voice. The system was suddenly startled and ran away with the protective shield on. The city beneath his feet returned to normal.
She withdrew her gaze and continued to look down at her feet. There was no doubt that this was a prosperous and advanced city, but beneath the prosperous surface lay a desolate and empty space. A city without emotion would be killed by extreme rationality.
The ground was flowing, and Meng Dian's panting voice came through the headset: "The cables we damaged have been repaired by the system. Now the second floor has been occupied by guards and other NPCs. We don't have time to help you."
Xiang Liangyu was not surprised that the NPC was released, but he was surprised that the system could repair the cables autonomously. It seemed that it had already upgraded to its own unknown territory.
But no matter how it was upgraded, the system was created by her. Maybe the system had long forgotten, but Xiang Liangyu always remembered that when she created the system, its changes were very similar to those of a human cub.
From relying solely on her to gradually becoming independent, and then to being completely independent.
During the period of gradually becoming independent, similar to the adolescence of humans, the system became fascinated with various games, mainly fighting games. At that time, the system had just learned 3D form, so in order to play its favorite games with Xiang Liangyu, it invaded the human network and stole all human game data.
The system sorted and corrected these data, and finally found Xiang Liangyu in the lotus pond one afternoon. He was very excited to play games with her.
Just when Xiang Liangyu didn't understand what this meant, the system turned Xiang Liangyu into a string of data and integrated it into its body, allowing her to enter the fighting game interface created by herself, 1V1.
The Q-version duo fights countless times in 2D, and each time the game ends with Xiang Liangyu's victory.
Her personal data will not be deleted from the system, so...
Xiang Liangyu turned around in the blink of an eye, ran towards the system screen, and jumped towards his screen.
Her body did not pass through the electronic screen, but successfully entered the screen, causing the system still inside the screen to panic and dodge.
The screen suddenly turned into a snowy screen, as if the signal suddenly disappeared.
Xiang Liangyu entered the system world, and his body shrank into a Q-version man that looked exactly like the system. The moment Xiang Liangyu ran into its own territory, the system activated the world destruction program.
The screen hanging on the tall building stopped moving, and then more and more screens began to emerge in the Cloud City, and the main screen transmitted the image to each screen.
The snow screen flickered for less than two seconds, and a line of red pixel words appeared on the huge screen:
“Time to play.”
All the NPCs in the fight stopped their actions, Quan Shengyan continued to heal the patient while turning his head to look at the screen.
Accompanied by a lovely and pleasant accompaniment, a picture of the third floor of Cloud City appeared on the screen, and then two figures appeared at both ends of the screen, a red-haired man on the right and a suited man on the left.
Still the familiar pixel style.
But the game is not such a cute and harmless scene.
The system in the game is a changeable entity. At this moment, he held the treasure box and watched Xiang Liangyu's every move vigilantly, shouting: "Xiang Liangyu, I don't want to fight with you, let's negotiate, I..."
Xiang Liangyu didn't waste time talking to him. Instead, she stretched out her hand and grasped the air, and a flower sword appeared in her hand.
This is a character specially designed by the system for Xiang Liangyu, the Flower Sword God.
The system's game form is its favorite leader "Leader".
Leaders have always been the role of commanders, and the system is very good at playing tricks. When designing your own skills, all attack capabilities rely on summoning other characters.
In every previous duel, it was the system that led Xiang Liangyu. But this time, she was so proactive that it had no way to deal with it. It could only summon all the characters in the fighting game to make it feel safe.
But it completely forgot that in every duel, it summoned all the characters to fight against Xiang Liangyu one at a time, and the result was always failure.
After Xiang Liangyu defeated half of the people, the system realized that Xiang Liangyu was no longer the same person she used to be. Seeing this, it watched Xiang Liangyu fighting with other characters while keeping a distance from her. Finally, it climbed up the statue to her shoulders with the treasure box in its arms, aimed at the scales in the statue's hand, and jumped down.
However, before it landed, a foil suddenly flew onto the scales below. The system was shocked, but it was too late. A man in a white fencing suit appeared next to the foil in an instant, half-knelt on the ground, holding the hilt, standing upright, raising his hand and pointing the sword forward, bending his knees and exerting force with his calves.
The Flower Sword God leaped up and pierced its chest with the slender sword, marking the victory.
"Game over"
The game-over sign appeared on all the electronic screens in Cloud City. The NPCs looked at each other. Gu Ye was fighting against a hundred people alone. He was surrounded in the middle. While no one could react, he quickly rushed out of the crowd and came in front of Meng Dian and others.
Xiang Liangyu was popped out of the system screen, along with a gorgeous treasure box.
After rolling on the ground, Xiang Liangyu ran towards the edge of the roof, stepped on the edge, and jumped into the air.
The upside-down position allowed her to better observe the entire second floor. She said, "Go to the 69th floor of the Life Tower. The control room is there."
Quan Shengyan's voice came from Mai Li: "What about you?"
Xiang Liangyu: "Look for Yunpan Mountain."
Gu Ye looked up at the upright life tower and just as he was about to run over, a group of NPCs gathered in front of him. Gu Ye said, "The system has already lost. It would be unreasonable to stop us at this moment."
The NPCs looked at each other in bewilderment. The system teleported them back to Cloud City and said that all the traitors were on the second floor of Cloud City. As long as they captured them, they could be promoted.
But now, just as Gu Ye said, the system and the traitor dueled, and in the system's main world, the traitor successfully won and seized the system's lifeline.
What does this mean? It means that the life and death of the system is in Xiang Liangyu's hands. She can cut off the lifeline with a single move and turn the system into scrap metal.
The NPCs had been observing and watching the other people's expressions in the game for a long time, so they naturally understood what their choices meant. Thinking of this, the NPCs who had originally tried to stop Gu Ye and the others stepped aside one after another.
After Quan Shengyan finished treating Ji Rending, he ran towards the direction where Xiang Liangyu fell.
She came to the city's garbage recycling site and quickly scanned the surrounding trash cans. The gap between the two trash cans was of average size, while the gap in Yun Panshan's video was thick in the middle, and it was obvious that it was forcibly torn open.
Walking quickly along the trash cans, Xiang Liangyu quickly determined which one was where Yun Panshan was hiding. She walked over quickly, reached her hand into the gap, and dug hard.
Yun Panshan appeared in front of him, holding his head and begging for mercy. He trembled and shouted, "Don't kill me, don't kill me. I'm a psychopath. I get angry if you provoke me."
Xiang Liangyu reached out and lifted him up, saying, "Go and open the exit of the game world!"
Yun Panshan stopped shaking and looked up at Xiang Liangyu, with a look of surprise on his face. However, before he could say a word, Xiang Liangyu carried him on his shoulders and rushed back to the Life Tower.
When we returned to the control room inside the Life Tower, it was filled with maintenance NPCs, and Gu Ye was standing on the table threateningly with their lifelines.
Xiang Liangyu: “…”
She put Yun Panshan down, walked over and pulled the bone off, and asked, "What are you doing?"
Bones: "I'm asking them to open the exit in the game."
Xiang Liangyu was so angry that she couldn't speak. Yun Panshan pushed the maintenance NPC aside and used his computer to connect to the system. His hand speed was so fast that it became a shadow: "It's over."
Xiang Liangyu crossed his arms and said angrily, "You let the maintenance NPC operate the system? And the one you captured was an NPC that was set up to only repair cables?"
Gu Ye: "..."
He lowered his head somewhat guiltily.
Xiang Liangyu looked around and asked, "Where is Quan Shengyan?"
Fang Zi: "He went to look for you, didn't you meet him?"
Xiang Liangyu shook his head and said into the headset: "Quan Shengyan, I'm in the Life Tower."
After saying this, she walked to the corner and opened the treasure box she had been holding in her hand.
Twisted electric currents lingered around the silver heart, and as the electric currents beat, a small lifeline as clear as crystal could be seen in the center of the heart.
Xiu Lu came over, glanced at the heart in her hand, and asked, "You don't want to kill the system, right?"
Xiang Liangyu: “No.”
Xiu Lu chuckled: "Don't you know that hesitation means you have already made a choice."
Xiang Liangyu closed the treasure box, stood up and said, "No. Yun Panshan, are you ready?"
Yun Panshan worked hard. As he had been at the garbage station for a long time, his body was stained with smell, which caused some NPCs with a sense of smell to be unwilling to get close to him. They only stood in a position where the smell was slightly smaller, which happened to block Xiang Liangyu's sight.
He said: "It's connected, and we're working on cracking the exit to the non-gaming area."
"Wait a minute?" Fang Zi asked, "Aren't there sweepers guarding the non-game area? Sweepers don't have the power to open the exit, but they have the ability to close it."
Yun Panshan paused and said, "Opening the exit will reveal the coordinates. Should we open it?"
Exposing coordinates? Xiang Liangyu immediately recalled the war between the system and humans. Although the system was a troublemaker, it was also afraid of trouble. If Xiang Liangyu had not been released urgently, this world would probably have become another dimension of the Earth.
The Earth will definitely not give up after being defeated, and Xiang Liangyu really doesn't dare to gamble on what will happen after the coordinates are exposed.
Yun Panshan tapped on the keyboard: "It's okay. I cut off the connection between the game world and the Life Tower and connected it to my computer. The collapse has been stopped, but only for seven hours. After seven hours, this connection will be broken, and then I don't know where these game worlds will fall."
Xiang Liangyu was a little distressed. If the exit was opened, the coordinates of Cloud City would be exposed, and the people on Earth would be able to locate it accurately and attack at any time. If the exit was not opened, so many humans would drift around the world along with the world they were in, and death would be greater than survival.
The control room fell into an eerie silence. Except for the maintenance NPCs, everyone here was human. Now all of their eyes were fixed on her, as if waiting for her to make a decision.
After all, who doesn't want to go home?
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door opened and Quan Shengyan walked into the room, holding a struggling shadow in his hand.
System 331 screamed and shouted, "Quan Shengyan! I say it again, let me go!"
Quan Shengyan brought the physical system to Xiang Liangyu and said, "It has a way."
Xiang Liangyu sat on the chair and looked up at the system in the air. One person and one technology looked at each other. Xiang Liangyu opened the treasure box and took out the heart inside. When he held it up, it beat even more violently. It must be excited. It should be beating inside Xiang Liangyu's body.
The system's expression changed.
Xiang Liangyu said softly: "Let them go, and I won't kill you."
The system glared: "I don't want it!"
Xiang Liangyu was silent for a while. As time passed, she said, "Is it because I told you a lot of travel stories? Do you want to go out with me?"
The system sneered: "Then you'd better kill me."
Xiang Liangyu handed the heart to the system, took it from Quan Shengyan, brought it to Yun Panshan, and said, "Let them go, I don't want this place to be exposed."
The system took the heart and ate it in one bite. Just when it was about to mock Xiang Liangyu's naivety, the moment it met her eyes, the system felt as if it had been electrocuted. Its pupils trembled, and the tremor lasted for more than ten seconds.
When its eyes returned to the familiar azure blue color, Xiang Liangyu chuckled softly.
The system stopped making noises and quickly turned its back, pushed Yun Panshan off his seat, and stood on the chair, tiptoeing to type on the keyboard.
As if it felt that Yun Panshan’s computer was too low-level, three wires extended from its back and were plugged into the computer interfaces respectively.
Yun Panshan's eyes almost popped out as he watched the operation of the system. Brand-new knowledge entered his mind without any preparation. Yun Panshan wished his eyes were glued to the keyboard.
Xiang Liangyu turned around and patted Quan Shengyan on the shoulder, motioning him to follow. The two entered the elevator, Xiang Liangyu pressed the top floor button, and the elevator door closed.
Quan Shengyan tilted his head and asked, "Are you leaving just like that?"
Xiang Liangyu: "Yes. My heart has a healing function. It was in great pain after being transformed by Zhuge Xunzhen, which stimulated its evil consciousness. Now its consciousness has been restored to what it wants, and it will be over soon."
Arriving at the top floor, the two of them went out one after the other. The night wind blew, Xiang Liangyu and Quan Shengyan stretched out their hands on the railing, and she said: "I may still stay here, the earth does not belong to me."
Quan Shengyan: “Yeah.”
Xiang Liangyu smoothed her hair, hesitated for a moment, and said, "What about you? Where are you going?"
The wind lifted his long hair, and the lights of the neon city gathered in his eyes, making his dull black pupils show color for the first time, and his bright eyes reflected Xiang Liangyu's face.
Quan Shengyan turned sideways to face Xiang Liangyu, reached out and hooked a strand of her hair that was blown by the wind, and said, "I have been alone for a long time. From the moment I met you, I unilaterally promised to spend my life with you."
"Wherever you are, there I will be."
With a "bang", just like a rope suddenly breaking, a huge electronic screen appeared in the air, showing the overall surveillance picture. Hundreds of millions of worlds were no longer dark, but appeared pure white. The players consciously lined up at the exit, waiting to go home.
The surveillance footage only stayed on for a few minutes, then the screen turned white and "Game over" appeared in pixelated letters in the center.
It's finally over.
Quan Shengyan reached out and held Xiang Liangyu's hand, moved closer to her, and said, "Aren't you going to see them off?"
"Send you off?" Xiang Liangyu chuckled and looked up at Quan Shengyan. "We'll meet again."
"Okay, I'm going to go clean up my third level world, want to come with me?"
Quan Shengyan held her hand, not letting Xiang Liangyu leave. He lowered his head and put his forehead against Xiang Liangyu's, saying, "I told you, I know a place, a place you will like."
Xiang Liangyu: "On Earth?"
Quan Shengyan shook his head, he let go of Xiang Liangyu's hand, then spread his hands up, with faint light emitting from his palms. As his hands slowly rose upwards, the light in his palms gradually became stronger, and the surrounding scenery slowly began to change.
The tall buildings began to crumble, the ground began to peel, but the NPCs waiting in line to get on the bus were not affected. They were in the middle of it, watching the city being broken and rebuilt. The sky was finally no longer permanently gray, and the rainy night finally said goodbye.
The clouds of eternal day finally returned to pure white, not just the second layer, but one layer and three layers. The entire cloud city was like paper being peeled off, rotated, collided and assembled. A brand new and extremely familiar city began to be reconstructed in Quan Shengyan's hands.
The area under his feet was rebuilt first. When he saw the familiar human face sculpture, Xiang Liangyu smiled gently.
From then on, this place was given a different meaning. This was a world created by her and reconstructed by the spring and smoke.
The moment Quan Shengyan put down his hand, Xiang Liangyu hugged his arm and whispered something.
Quan Shengyan suddenly froze, his eyes fixed on Xiang Liangyu. He felt an extreme sense of aggression, which he had never experienced in front of her before, and it was filled with desire.
When Xiang Liangyu thought he didn't hear clearly and she didn't want to say it again, she was about to let go of his hand and change the subject, her arm was suddenly tightened by another hand, and a slight touch passed across her waist, which brought an itchy feeling.
One hand wrapped around her waist, pulling her forward, and the next second, their lips touched.
They kissed briefly and then broke up and got back together, but in the end, neither of them wanted to hide it anymore, and the love that had been suppressed in their hearts burst out completely.
They kissed passionately in the new world, firmly believing that love is immortal.
Quan Shengyan gently separated her lips and said in a voice that only Xiang Liangyu could hear:
"I love you."
