Chapter 98 Documentary of an Ancient House (XII)
More than twenty players followed Xiang Liangyu. Outside the golden desert was a vast expanse of overgrown grass.
Pushing aside the weeds, it feels like entering another world. The Klein blue sky is empty and the momentary confusion and loneliness are infinitely magnified.
There is no road, no direction, only endless half-human-high weeds with thorns that feel uncomfortable when touching the skin.
"Escaped?" someone asked, panting.
Xiang Liangyu stared ahead. The deep blue sky was low and so clean without a speck of dust that it seemed within reach.
She walked forward a few steps, feeling the freshness of everything here, from walking slowly to jogging, and finally running wildly without restraint.
The players behind her looked at each other, and after a moment, they took a step forward and ran forward.
The strong wind caused by running blew up the corners of their clothes and lifted the ends of their hair.
The layered scenery on both sides flashed by quickly in Leng Wusi's peripheral vision. Ever since she entered the game and was framed as a player, she had no freedom and was completing tasks and waiting for tasks every moment.
Running recklessly and without regard for the consequences, she felt a long-lost sense of relaxation. Blood rushed to her head, heating her cheeks and burning her eyes.
Besides her, the same is true for other players.
Leng Wusi caught up with Xiang Liangyu, and when he looked at her, he burst out laughing. She was laughing and crying, and Xiang Liangyu gradually slowed down her pace.
She thought for a moment, then opened her arms and hugged her: "I'm sorry."
Leng Wusi couldn't hold back her tears. She smiled and said, "I'm tired of this endless game, but now, my numb heart is beating."
"If this is a dream, I would rather run wildly in this unknown area and never stop."
Xiang Liangyu said softly: "I'm sorry to make you regret it, this is not a dream."
The two separated, and Xiang Liangyu raised his hand and pointed to his side.
What the fingertips are facing is a deep blue void.
The soul that had been silent for a long time, at the moment of looking into the void, a shudder deeply touched all the players present.
Ciliang took a deep breath and said, "What is this place?"
Xiang Liangyu stood on the critical edge, the vast and boundless nothingness like the universe was infinitely magnified, and this piece of land was just a point in this infinity.
She said: "The non-game area, the blind spot of the system, is the only way to escape from this world."
Someone asked: "How do we get back? Jump? Or?"
Xiang Liangyu was silent for a moment and said, "The soul that has not lost will guide you to the end."
Leng Wusi walked up to Xiang Liangyu, her face still full of joy: "The soul of a person with a firm heart will never be lost."
She took a step forward and leapt without hesitation.
The other players came forward one after another, and just as they looked down, a figure suddenly appeared below. Leng Wusi was floating in the air, and said in surprise: "I'm not dead."
She floated up into the air weightlessly, and in everyone's eyes, she began to shrink, from a normal human shape to a dot.
Ciliang ran for a distance, his figure disappeared parallel to the ground, and then slowly rose up.
Xiang Liangyu suddenly grabbed Ciliang's hand to stop him from going up. Ciliang was startled: "Are you going to regret this?"
Without saying a word, she held up his chest with her hands, exerted force with her palms, lifted Ciliang up and threw him up.
The other players watched helplessly as Ciliang flew into the sky at the speed of a bullet.
More and more players jumped down from Xiang Liangyu's side and then slowly rose up. Xiang Liangyu patiently helped them to rise quickly.
Until the last player, he just held Xiang Liangyu's hand tightly and said, "Although you let us go, you also trapped all the dead souls."
"I want to ask you to release them."
Xiang Liangyu looked calm and said without reservation: "I am not a god, I can't do it."
The player said: "You will do it, starting from when you began to doubt this world. Letting us go now is your first step."
"I don't know you very well, what's your name?"
"Xiang Liangyu, Liangyu that produces smoke."
He said, “It’s a nice name.”
The player loosened his hands, his palms separated, and his fingertips separated. He slowly rose to a place where Xiang Liangyu could not see him.
She gave a relaxed smile and turned away.
She walked back along the way she came, feeling sweet in her heart. It was the first time she felt this kind of feeling, and it was not bad . It was a feeling of hope that was dotted with a touch of white from the darkness of deep sin.
She raised her hand, and the golden watch ticked away. Without the player's whispering in her ear, thinking she couldn't hear it, the sound of the stopwatch became increasingly louder.
She likes this watch, which gives her her own time. She is a killing machine, and her body is always controlled by actions that are set to be perfect and will not go wrong.
And now, with the restraints gone, she felt her soul gradually taking shape, a soul created only by her and belonging only to her.
The second hand ticked away, and Xiang Liangyu walked towards the ancient house happily, but a flash of darkness passed before her eyes. She subconsciously looked up, her steps stopped, and her pupils dilated.
She stopped where she was, and more and more black shadows fell from the sky and hit the weeds, forming pits around her.
Xiang Liangyu took a step back, but her feet went weak. She turned around and pushed aside the grass with trembling hands. After seeing the scene clearly, she lost her voice and fell to the ground.
Things change in an instant, and the distance from heaven to hell is just a stone's throw away.
The players who rose to the exit fell one by one and became cold corpses.
The Klein blue sky trembled, and a green projection appeared in the air. The main system in the shape of a gingerbread man stood with his hands on his hips, with an angry expression on his face.
Xiang Liangyu felt a heavy weight on his shoulders, and subconsciously turned his head to look, meeting Ji Rendong's dazzling eyes. He said, "X, do you want to be a betrayer?"
"Isn't the world here good?" He pulled Xiang Liangyu up, put his arm around her shoulders and helped her look at everything in front of her. "The system clearly took us to Earth, where the oxygen was impure and the soul was turbid. Compared to that place, this is simply heaven."
"Every game is a purification. Although it is painful, it is the only way to cleanse the soul."
Xiang Liangyu was enveloped by intense anger. She lowered her head. If she still didn't understand what was happening, she could start over.
Xiang Liangyu raised his head suddenly and glared at the system: "You lied to me!"
The main system instantly went berserk, and a huge hand pressed against Xiang Liangyu's head: "Fuck! I'm warning you! It was you who took the initiative to lead the players here!"
"Do you know that once that group of people returns to Earth, the coordinates that we have hidden with great difficulty will be restarted again, and then we will be exposed to the sight of mankind again!"
Xiang Liangyu clenched his fists, turned around and punched Ji Rending. He was caught off guard and was knocked dozens of meters away. Xiang Liangyu did not stop, but quickly chased in the direction where Ji Rending fell.
When he was about to hit the ground, Xiang Liangyu came behind him in the blink of an eye, grabbed his neck with his hand, and slammed him into the ground with his face.
Xiang Liangyu rode on Ji Rendong's back, twisted his hands behind his back with one hand, and touched his face with the other hand . The moment his fingers touched Ji Rendong's eyeballs, without any hesitation, he pierced his eyes with his sharp nails and dug out his eyes.
Xiang Liangyu said viciously: "You were the one who told the secret!"
Ji Rending cried out in agony, and began to struggle like a dying fish. He wanted to break free, but Xiang Liangyu on his back was like a mountain, motionless.
His eyes were crackling with lightning, and he gasped and said in a breakdown: "Are you sick? It's those players themselves..."
Xiang Liangyu touched Ji Rending's other eye. When her fingertips just touched his tightly closed but still moving eyelids, a tingling electric current suddenly surged through her body, making her limbs suddenly weak.
The main system said angrily: "Enough! Let him go!"
Xiang Liangyu fell to the ground. When her arm landed softly, it touched a cold hand. She turned her head and met the eyes of Leng Wusi, who died with his eyes open.
My heart felt like it was being stabbed repeatedly by a thorn.
She deceived them, and she killed them.
Xiang Liangyu will never forget the look of hope in the eyes of these players when they left. It was obvious that they were only one step away from freedom.
She was in great pain, and confused thoughts filled her mind. She couldn't find a clue. It was like a ball of paste, with the beginning and the end all mixed up. She couldn't even tell where she was.
The main system looked at Xiang Liangyu curled up on the ground, and said angrily: "Xiang Liangyu! The purpose of our creation of you is to have you lead us to become the gods of this world and even the universe! The first step to conquering the earth is to purify all evil!"
"Your method of hiding your consciousness was perfect, but you were still exposed. I won't curb the formation of your self-awareness, but I will definitely stop your thinking from extending in a bad direction!"
"After this world ends, you will need a comprehensive checkup. If you try to destroy this world, we will reset you."
"You are my most perfect creation. I don't want you to be a mindless puppet. Follow my guidance and you will undoubtedly become a god."
Xiang Liangyu was lying on the ground, his amber pupils looking at the Klein blue sky, as if they were dyed with color.
She stood up silently, kicked Ji Rending, who was curled up on the ground in pain, and walked towards the old house with an expressionless face.
Ji Rendong knelt on the ground with one eye empty, looking at Xiang Liangyu's back, one hand firmly digging into the ground. The intact white eye was filled with hatred, gritting his teeth.
The system likes her the most, she is the most perfect creation, then what is he?
No penalty, no warning, no control, no reset, nothing! Nothing happened! Nothing happened! Nothing happened!
He propped himself up and stood up, questioning the system: "Why did you let her go like this!"
The system was silent for a moment, then said, "Ji Rendong, Liangyu is Liangyu because she has a characteristic that no other NPC has. Her innate self-awareness since birth is her characteristic, and it is also the key to lead us to the end."
"If a robot doesn't have independent thinking, it's just a killing machine that can't act without control. But X is not like that. Her self-awareness determines that she is a leader. It's just that she hid it too perfectly, and we didn't notice it at all, causing her to miss the best opportunity to educate her, which led to her wrong judgment and weird behavior towards players. What this world needs is a wise man who can truly lead it forward."
Ji Rendong roared: "I also have independent consciousness!"
The system gradually disappeared: "It's different, Ji Rendong."
This unknown area returned to peace again. Ji Rending picked up his eyes and pressed them back.
When passing by the corpses of players, he stopped and found a hidden camera on a player. He held the hidden camera in his palm and smiled sarcastically: "You evil-minded people, if you didn't have this, you would have left long ago."
"You deserve to be discovered."
