Infinite Secret House 39 Xia Shi is the exception

Xia Shi and Chen Yuan argued back and forth about whether or not to destroy the copy.

One is angry, the other is calm.

In the end, Xia Shi didn't argue and was so angry that he hit the bed with his fist.

Then he snorted and turned away, indicating that he didn't want to talk to them anymore.

Chen Yuan: “…”

Xie Yunsui turned his head and asked Chen Yuan, "You just said that those dungeons were escape dungeons?"

Shen Yuan responded: "Yeah."

"I can already figure out how to escape from residential complexes and amusement parks, but how about escaping from flower shops and restaurants?"

Chen Yuan was stunned. "Has Bai Xiao Lou never sold this information? Long ago, all the dungeon games in the Destroy World were escape-and-kill games. Back then, the dungeons were even more bloody and cruel, and only one in ten players survived."

It's just a hard escape.

As soon as you enter the dungeon, you will face a monster boss and be chased by him.

The background of the copy is completely irrelevant, at most it just means that the boss of this copy is different.

At that time, the living environment of the players was quite harsh. Star City was in ruins for a long time. The players had no intention of building. Everyone had to sleep under the tent and make do for one night. They waited in panic for the next forced entry to the dungeon.

Every copy is a battle royale, so it doesn't matter which one you enter.

However, things suddenly took a turn for the better. One time, when a player was assigned to a new dungeon, he discovered that it had become a puzzle-solving dungeon. With the exception of one player who died due to a mistake in solving a puzzle and violating the mechanism, the survival rate in that dungeon was as high as 90%!

This undoubtedly brings hope to the players.

The players at that time were extremely united. They shared the non-battle-kill dungeons they entered with each other. Several famous big guys formed the Baixiao Building to specifically collect intelligence information about the relevant dungeons.

Later, with survival guaranteed, players began to explore more dungeon information.

They found that after certain escape dungeons had not been entered for a long time, the monsters inside would die - just like players would die when they lost their lives, monsters would also die when they lost their lives.

So that year, Baixiao Building destroyed all the information about the escape copies in the building, and no name of those escape copies with high mortality rates was left.

No one would enter without knowing the name.

Even if an ignorant player accidentally arrives at a certain escape dungeon, it will not provide an environment for the monster boss to grow.

Slowly, players dragged the game until most of the escape-kill dungeons disappeared, and in contrast, more non-escape-kill dungeons began to emerge.

Players have also changed from "the strongest can't survive more than a month" to "ordinary people can survive more than three months as long as they work hard."

The history of Star City is not long. The first president of the Homecoming Association found a few of the longest-lived players at the time and quickly learned about this history and wrote it down in his notes.

Having said this, Chen Yuan paused for a moment before explaining, "The first president wasn't the first president when the Homecoming Club was established in name only. Before the Homecoming Club was established, a group of like-minded friends had already gathered together. It was just that they didn't expect more and more people to gather, and that's when the Homecoming Club was established."

Xie Yunsui suddenly realized why the Homecoming Club had attracted a large number of players since its inception.

Therefore, the Homecoming Association actually existed for almost the same amount of time as Baixiao Tower.

"At that time, all the players wanted to destroy the escape copy. Why are you chasing the escape copy now?" Xie Yunsui discovered a problem.

Chen Yuan raised his chin slightly and looked at Xia Shi: "We have to ask him."

Xia Shi was forced to listen to a history of the players' development. He was listening with great interest when suddenly the melon fell on him.

Xia Shi: “Ah?”

What does it have to do with him?

Chen Yuan said: "The last time Yin Hui appeared was during the last glimmer of light of the escape dungeon."

At that time, the pioneer president of the Homecoming Association had already noticed Xia Shi and Yin Hui, but he could not figure out the pattern of the dungeons in which they appeared. It was not until Yin Hui disappeared completely that they concluded that Yin Hui disappeared with the disappearance of the escape dungeon.

After that, I only saw Xia Shi and no longer saw Yin Hui.

The frequency of seeing Xia Shi also decreased significantly.

Xia Shi lowered his eyes silently.

Chen Yuan asked, "Xia Shi, can you tell me where Yin Hui is now?"

Xia Shi: "I don't know."

Shen Yuan was a little anxious: "He is your boyfriend... He has such a good relationship with you, how could you not know?"

Xia Shi also became anxious, and couldn't help but yell with a red face: "How should I know? You ask me, and I also want to ask you! Why are you only thinking about blowing up the dungeon? You don't care about the lives of others in the dungeon at all!"

The scenes of losing their jobs and almost losing their lives due to the outrageous operations of players in the dungeon emerged in Xia Shi's mind one by one, making him even angrier.

His eyes were red, but he tried hard to hold back the tears.

"He disappeared suddenly... I was looking for him too. I've been looking for him for a long time. If he's still alive, why didn't he come back to see me?"

…

Is Yin Hui dead?

Chen Yuan seemed to be hit on the head with a stick and was a little bit unable to accept this answer.

He frowned and carefully recalled the contents of the notes.

Xie Yunsui also seemed to be thinking about something.

Xia Shi cried for a while, then realized that everyone was looking at him crying, and he felt inexplicably embarrassed. He turned his back and wiped his tears with difficulty.

Xie Yunsui felt a little reluctant and went over to take off his props.

Anyway, there are so many door gods at the door, he will definitely not be able to escape.

Unless he jumped from the window, ten floors down, Xia Shi was a human body...

Xie Yunsui suddenly asked, "Xia Shi, do you know that you are a human?"

Xia Shi was a little confused by his question: "I know."

"Around you... I mean, where you live, are there any other humans besides you?"

Xia Shi swallowed his saliva: "...Why are you asking this?"

Xie Yunsui chuckled. "I really want to know why you grew up in a dungeon. You're a human. Logically, shouldn't you be a player like everyone else?"

Xia Shi: "Humans are not necessarily players. When I was a child, my parents were both humans, and my classmates at school were also humans. I have been to many places, and there are many humans there. Yin Hui is also a human, but after growing up, everyone looks different."

"Go to school?" Xie Yunsui thought of a dungeon name: "Tianjia Experimental Middle School?"

Xia Shi nodded: "Yeah."

Chen Yuan shuddered: "I've heard of this dungeon before. The students there are all monsters in human skin."

Xia Shi: "...covered in human skin?"

Xie Yunsui laughed, "You don't know yet? Aside from the players, all the 'humans' in this dungeon are monsters in human skin. They have obvious skin connections in their hair or behind their ears. You don't have any of that. You're a pure human, and those are just fake people."

Xia Shi's eyes were dazed, and he just repeated unconsciously: "Behind the ear...human skin interface?"

In his memory, his mother, who was closest to him, had a small mark behind her ear.

When I was little, I didn’t understand and asked my mother why she had a scar there.

Mom said that it was an accidental bump, and then pointed to the wound on his body and said, "Isn't it the same for you?"

Xiao Xia Shi believed it, and grew up slowly. Whenever he saw his classmates and friends with scars behind their ears, he didn't take it seriously. He was just occasionally curious in his heart, wondering why everyone else would hurt their ears, but he wouldn't!

He also thinks other kids are stupid and can't take care of themselves.

When he grew up, he met Yin Hui again.

Once they were arguing on the sofa, Xia Shi knocked someone down and suddenly noticed the scar behind Yin Hui's ear.

Yin Hui also has scars.

Aren't they...human?

Xia Shi listed several locations in a row. According to the names, Xie Yunsui and Chen Yuan corresponded to quite a few dungeons respectively, and every NPC in them was a monster in human skin.

Xia Shi didn't say it explicitly, but it can be seen from the name of the copy that this is Xia Shi's experience from childhood to adulthood.

Xie Yunsui raised an eyebrow and said, "It's quite interesting. Most of the other copies are prototypes of monsters, but your copy is full of monsters in human skin."

Zhou Baishuang muttered in the back, "Why do I have a feeling that those human-skin monster copies exist just for you?"

After this group of players entered the world of destruction, there were already quite a few copies of human-skin monsters.

New players thought that it was better for players to role-play in the dungeon.

After the Homecoming Club learned that those were monsters in human skin, they looked at the dungeon again and felt that it was a false illusion created by the monsters to lower the players' vigilance, and their real purpose was to devour humans.

Mu Jinghui scratched his hair and asked, "Why? Does it matter whether the person next to Xia Shi is a human or a monster?"

Xia Shi's face looked unhappy. "My mother said that when I was a child, I would get scared and cry non-stop when I saw those big, ugly monsters. So she took me away and moved to a place where there were no monsters."

When he grew up, Xia Shi gradually integrated into the society with monsters because the monsters he knew were all very friendly.

At this point, Xie Yunsui slowly spoke, "Monsters don't have a growth period, and neither do players. Xia Shi, haven't you realized yet? You are the only human in the Destruction World who has experienced growth. You grew up here, and the Destruction World is your home."

Chen Yuan's breathing suddenly stopped.

Xia Shi is a human being.

Humans are players.

Players enter a world of destruction after death, where their bodies remain unchanged forever, without growth or aging.

Xia Shi is an exception.

He vaguely understood why the Forerunner's president believed that Xia Shi was the variable that would destroy the world.

Even though they had not experienced Xia Shi's growth period, they could see that Xia Shi was different from various clues, so they left a warning: "Find Xia Shi and gain his trust."

Xia Shi was confused: "Why me?"

Xie Yunsui spread his hands: "I want to know too."

Xia Shi sat on the bed with his knees hugged, his eyes blank: "Why me..."

Why humans?

Can't I be a monster too?

Did Yin Hui leave me because he discovered that I was a human being and different from him?