Chapter 26 48h (9)

Each player's timeline is different, so unless they encounter a loop together, the time and space between players are actually semi-parallel.

Shen Yubo is in a cycle.

This is what Yu Chi'ang noticed when he passed by the library and saw her and her sister.

He did not cycle with Shen Yubo, so what appeared in front of Yu Chi'ang was the appearance of Shen Yubo in the last timeline.

Shen Yubo seemed to have noticed his gaze. She turned her head to look at Yu Chiang who was quietly observing her in the distance and shook her head slightly.

She seemed to want to say something, but in the end she didn't even stop.

Yu Chiang knew the NPC who was in charge of Shen Yubo.

Shen Yuxiu, a B-level player, was the most popular rookie of the year, and her momentum was even no less than Gu Qiufeng's. She had powerful skills and was lucky. She awakened her skills in the first dungeon and met Xu Jing, who was recruiting new members for the second guild.

Xu Jing transferred points to her and brought her directly to the new member training base of the Second Guild.

In order to protect high-quality newcomers with rare skills, some large guilds will not let them waste their lives and time in dungeons below level C. Generally, they will directly allow newcomers to come to the city where the guild is located by transferring points or rewarding live broadcast rooms.

This is a protection for newcomers and also some slight containment.

If a large guild wants to maintain its vitality in the game for a long time, it must be vigilant against all forces that may be hostile to the guild.

Therefore, when new members directly enter the guild, the guild can easily grasp the whereabouts and copy freedom of these new members, allowing them to develop in the direction that is most conducive to the guild's training.

These newcomers are the lucky ones that all the other players envy in the game.

But Yu Chi'ang felt that this was another kind of misfortune.

Although the players who come out in this way have rare skills, they are extremely lacking in real experience in various types of dungeons.

Shen Yuxiu is the most typical example.

As a genius who started out higher than everyone else, she was too well protected and had no idea how cruel the game was. Therefore, she didn't understand why Luo Pan just stood by and watched her die when he could have easily given her a hand.

When Yu Chi'ang saw Shen Yuxiu's first appearance in this game, he understood Shen Yubo's choice.

Shen Yubo's original intention of entering the game was to find his sister.

Now that she has been found, she probably won't leave.

Yu Chi'ang did not go forward to disturb Shen Yubo who was walking in a hurry. He guessed that Shen Yubo must want to do something she thought was very important before she died.

Next to it was a weeping willow tree by the lake. Yu Chiang picked a branch of willow tree and grabbed the leaves on it, looking at the library in the distance where a blazing fire was rising.

The system's announcement sounded soon.

Yu Chiang narrowed his eyes and saw two figures hastily fleeing from the fire.

Then, his expression changed and he quickly understood Shen Yubo's intention.

Shen Yubo wanted to learn from what Gu Qiufeng did in the previous copy and find a way to try to completely close this copy!

If the 48h copy remains open, there will definitely be a steady stream of players coming in. Even after Shen Yubo's death, he can be successfully recovered by the copy as an NPC and live with his sister.

But for Shen Yuxiu, the sister of an important NPC, she has to go through countless death cycles.

So before his death, Shen Yubo made a desperate effort to provoke the NPC Shao Qiu Shui.

She wanted Shao Qiu Shui to awaken, wanted to disrupt the cycle order of this copy, and wanted the copy to be completely closed due to the core chaos!

The reason why she chose Shao Qiu Shui was because Shen Yubo had witnessed Feng He's escape, and she placed all her bets on Gu Qiufeng!

Yu Chiang took a breath and stopped looking in the direction of the library. Instead, he took out a prop that looked like a pocket watch.

This is the time-rewinding item he got from the B-level copy. Each copy can go back three times, which is just right for use in this kind of time loop copy.

He wanted to tell Gu Qiufeng all this.

When Yu Chi'ang went back to eight o'clock in the morning and hurried to the apartment building, Gu Qiufeng had just come out of the loop.

"Gu Qiufeng!"

The moment he shouted out loud, Yu Chi'ang felt a little unnatural, and suddenly remembered that he seemed to be angry with Gu Qiufeng before.

But he couldn't care less about that now. He took a breath, tried to calm down and said, "Shen Yubo has disrupted your circulation."

Gu Qiufeng patted his shoulder and sighed: "So this is why Shao Qiushui also entered the other world. She really knows how to cause trouble for me."

"I'm sorry." Yu Chi'ang said, "I'll say sorry to you on her behalf."

He lowered his eyes: "When I met Shen Yubo, she was looking for her sister."

Gu Qiufeng chuckled and said, "She caused me trouble, why are you saying sorry?"

"No matter what, she took the initiative to use you in order to help her sister escape the cycle. This is wrong." Yu Chiang raised his head, the sun shone on the tip of his nose, revealing the fine pores on his fair face. "I will do my best to help you in the next period of time, as a small compensation. After the copy is out, we can discuss the additional loss compensation."

Gu Qiufeng had long guessed that Yu Chi'ang and Shen Yubo knew each other. They had a tacit understanding like comrades-in-arms, but they pretended not to know each other in front of him.

Yu Chiang wiped the sweat from his nose and said guiltily, "I'm sorry, I came here without telling Shen Yubo. After the last Phoenix God dungeon, I was worried about her mental state, so I secretly followed her to choose the dungeon. Shen Yubo didn't want you to misunderstand her intentions, so she kept her distance from me."

Gu Qiufeng nodded: "That's true. If I saw her bringing her teammates to join me in the dungeon, I would be angry."

Yu Chiang said sullenly: "Senior, I'm really sorry. In fact, part of the reason I entered the dungeon was because..."

Gu Qiufeng waved his hand and said, "We can talk about the past later. Since you want to compensate me for Shen Yubo, why don't you come with me to find Shao Qiushui first. I suspect that since that girl can enter the other world, maybe she has come back in a cycle."

Yu Chiang was so stunned that he could only reply, "I will listen to you, Senior."

Gu Qiufeng walked in front, glanced at Yu Chiang beside him, and said casually: "By the way, I met a ragdoll cat before. Have you seen it?"

Yu Chiang: “…”

Yu Chiang paused for a moment, puzzled, and then said, "I don't think I've seen it before."

Gu Qiufeng: "Hey, what do you mean by 'seemingly'?"

Yu Chi'ang simply shut up and no matter how hard Gu Qiufeng tried to fish, the hook just wouldn't bite. He became a real mute.

Gu Qiufeng secretly said what a pity.

Junior Xiaoyu and puppeteer Xie Songjin have different temperaments, and if things go wrong, they might really fall out.

Seeing that he didn't want to admit his connection with the Ragdoll Cat, Gu Qiufeng could only be patient and ask him later.

It's just a pity that Yu Chiang didn't reveal his identity actively, and Gu Qiufeng had no way to tell him that he accidentally stored the ragdoll cat into the card.

Gu Qiufeng really wanted to know what his junior brother Xiaoyu thought about this matter.

*

Shao Qiu Shui sat on the floor, dizzy and in disbelief.

Her first reaction was to find Gu Qiufeng.

But she soon calmed down.

You can't leave the dance studio at will.

First of all, Shao Qiu Shui couldn’t be really sure whether this was the real world. If she ran into a walking monster outside, she would definitely be in trouble.

Looking at the bright side, if this was really the real world, she and Feng He heard the usual bell at the end of the afternoon class in the campus in the library. When they escaped from the library, the sky outside actually had a vague gloomy omen. The time should be between six and seven in the evening, but now the sun was still shining brightly in the dance studio outside, and the clock on the wall showed that it was only eight o'clock.

Combined with what Miss Shen said, she should have cycled back to the day when she first met Mr. Gu.

She actually started to "cycle" with these players?

Shao Qiu Shui pinched the palm of his hand with his fingernails to suppress the emotion that he didn't know whether it was excitement or anxiety.

The most important thing now is to recall what happened this morning.

Shao Qiu Shui didn't understand what was so special about herself that she was dragged into this game. She would rather stay immersed in a false dream and go through the same cycle every day like all the NPCs.

At 8:30, her mother entered the dance studio.

Shao Qiu Shui had a big quarrel with her here.

But since she knew the truth about the world she lived in, Shao Qiu Shui opened her mouth and suddenly found that she seemed a little tired, so tired that she didn't even have the urge to quarrel.

When his mother came in, Shao Qiu Shui sat on the floor and looked at her quietly.

Before his mother could finish her first sentence, Shao Qiu Shui said in frustration: "Mom, I'm very busy now and I don't have the heart to quarrel with you."

Her mother was wearing a long black dress. In Shao Qiu Shui's memory, relatives, friends and neighbors always praised her mother's beauty. Even compared with the stars in the entertainment industry, she was beautiful.

Whenever they talked about this, the adults whose faces could not be seen would always change their tone, suddenly lower their voices, and sigh:

"It's a pity that I have such a crazy husband. What a sin."

Shao Qiu Shui hated it when adults talked to her about these things.

These are her mom and dad, and they clearly love each other.

Then the adults would scold her.

"You little lunatic, you don't know anything."

"Your father is not a good person. Your mother is his patient. He takes the initiative to date his patient. He has no medical ethics!"

Shao Qiu Shui couldn't help but wonder, is it possible that love can transcend these worldly ties?

Before she was 17 years old, Shao Qiu Shui always believed that although her parents each had their own flaws, they were able to stay together regardless of worldly matters, which must have shown that they had a deep love for each other.

Until, on his birthday, Shao Qiu Shui took a leave of absence from school early and returned home, wanting to give his parents a surprise.

She saw her father, whom she had always thought to be elegant and handsome, drunk, riding on her mother and beating her violently.

My mother's beautiful face was already red and swollen, like funny peaches.

Suddenly, the mother burst into laughter.

She seemed to feel no pain and burst out with immense strength, pushing her father to the ground.

Both my father and mother have serious mental illnesses, so there are a lot of psychiatric drugs in their home.

The mother, shivering and humming a song - a sign of her manic episode - stuffed a large bottle of diazepam tablets into her father's mouth, and then hit the man's abdomen hard to prevent him from swallowing.

The man who had been so arrogant and complacent just now soon began to twitch all over and foam at the mouth, like a pitiful and twisted octopus.

Shao Qiu Shui did not go home.

After she saw all this, her mind went blank, and by the time she came to her senses, she was already in a telephone booth.

She had no choice but to call her mother in a phone booth and tell her that she was celebrating her birthday at a classmate's house that evening and would not be going home.

then……

Shao Qiu Shui heard his mother humming a song and saying "okay" gently.

She was not yet an adult, so she had to hold herself and sit in the phone booth crying all night.

Shao Qiu Shui didn't know why he suddenly recalled these memories.

Her heart was beating irregularly and she even began to feel violently nauseous and vomiting.

Her mother seemed frightened by her attitude.

Shao Qiu Shui didn't care about anything else and rushed out of the dance studio.

It doesn’t matter where I go, even if I can’t find Feng He and Mr. Gu.

Shao Qiu Shui suddenly felt that he should escape from everything and become an ostrich burying his head in the sand.

*

Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang walked towards the dance studio in silence.

After Shen Yubo's death, Yu Chiang's mood was obviously not right.

The young man's temperament was awkward to begin with. He didn't even explain what he had said to Gu Qiufeng and just started sulking by himself.

How could Yu Chiang feel good when an important companion suddenly died, even if the other party was willing to die.

Gu Qiufeng looked at his profile and suddenly said, "In fact, I think the reason why Shen Yubo interfered with my NPC and time loop is not just to use her ability to get Shen Yuxiu out of the loop. On the contrary, she actually did it on purpose for me."

Yu Chiang: "...what do you mean?"

He blinked in confusion.

Gu Qiufeng suddenly felt that if he really had such a confused yet serious junior brother in the past, the experience might have been quite pleasant. He must have teased him a lot before he lost his memory.

He raised the corner of his mouth and said, "You will only be willing to help me after you have caused me trouble. Shen Yubo cannot figure out our relationship, and the most effective way to tie us together is to use your guilt."

Yu Chiang's eyes widened when he heard this.

He looked exactly like the white cat when it was being silly.

"Huh?" As he was speaking, Gu Qiufeng glanced at him and asked in surprise, "Shao Qiushui, why isn't she in the dance studio?"

"It has indeed entered a cycle." Yu Chi'ang said in a slightly deep voice.

Seeing this, Feng He rushed over and grabbed Shao Qiu Shui who was still running forward recklessly.

"who?!"

Shao Qiu Shui's voice was filled with uncertainty.

Turning her head, she saw Feng He's beautiful and feminine face, and the tense and vigilant expression on her face faded slightly.

Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang also rushed over at this time.

Yu Chiang gave Shao Qiu Shui a complicated look.

The NPC awakening disrupting the order of the copy is a good thing for Shen Yubo, but it may not be the case for Gu Qiufeng who is in this timeline.

Disrupted order means that the copy mechanism is out of control, and even the original common method of passing the level may fail.

Yu Chiang gritted his teeth.

He has already lost a good friend in the dungeon, so no matter what, he must find a way to get his senior out of the dungeon.

"What's wrong?" Gu Qiufeng couldn't have failed to think of this, but he didn't seem to be panicked at all. When he spoke to Shao Qiushui, his tone was gentle and soothing because of the little girl's sudden tears. "Why are you crying? What happened?"

"I..." Shao Qiu Shui moved his lips.

But she suddenly found that all those chaotic thoughts were like a tangled ball of wool, and she couldn't figure out what to say.

"It's okay, talk after you finish crying." Gu Qiufeng said, and then said, "You should remember that in the other world, it was me who helped you escape, right?"

Shao Qiu Shui nodded heavily with tears in her eyes.

Gu Qiufeng said: "Very good, it seems that you really haven't forgotten."

He turned his head and said, "Xiao Yu, what would you normally do in this situation?"

Yu Chi'ang was stunned for a moment before he understood what Gu Qiufeng was asking. For a moment, he felt a little complicated.

I don't know whether I should praise the senior for his calmness in the face of difficulties, or say that he has no compassion for women.

Shao Qiu Shui was so sad.

Gu Qiufeng actually tried to put on a show to trick Shao Qiu Shui into listening to them.

Yu Chiang obediently played the bad guy under Gu Qiufeng's hint: "Although our guild is a large guild, this situation is indeed rare. For ordinary players, if they encounter this kind of NPC awakening, their lives will basically be cut off."

Gu Qiufeng sighed quietly: "I don't want to die. I still have a little friend like Feng He to take care of. If I'm gone, what will he do?"

The corner of Yu Chiang's mouth twitched.

He believed that if Gu Qiufeng really died, the one who should be sad should not be Feng He, but these weak and helpless human players.

A BOSS with the strength of a C copy, who can roam in human cities after escaping and is out of control, is simply a death scenario.

"What do you mean..." Shao Qiushui's crying gradually subsided. She looked at Gu Qiufeng nervously and asked, "Mr. Gu, what do you mean by this?"

She murmured, "How could you die if you are so powerful?"

In her mind, Gu Qiufeng was just like the omnipotent Taoist priests in the zombie movies that Shao Qiu Shui had watched since she was a child, who would always drive away the terrible corpse ghosts that had done all kinds of evil at the end of the movie.

Will such a Mr. Gu also die?

"Yes..." Shao Qiu Shui seemed to have thought of something, her face turned pale, "Is it because I am a monster that threatens Mr. Gu's life and safety?"

Gu Qiufeng sighed: "You are not a monster, you are a normal girl."

"But Mr. Gu is in danger of his life, right? It's because of me." Shao Qiushui looked like she wanted to cry again, but she held it back. In the end, she just showed a firm look and looked deeply at Gu Qiufeng, "Mr. Gu, I can accept the fact that the world I live in is fake and I am just an NPC. But I don't want you to die. Is there anything I can do for you?"

Gu Qiufeng said softly: "Thank you."

Yu Chi'ang was watching from the side, and even he was frightened by Shao Qiu Shui's series of emotional changes.

Gu Qiufeng is really good at manipulating people's hearts.

After just a few words of conversation, Shao Qiu Shui, whose negative emotions were about to get out of control, not only accepted the facts, but also comforted her and took the initiative to win Shao Qiu Shui's promise of help.

Yu Chi'ang seemed to suddenly understand Shen Yubo's desperate trust in Gu Qiufeng before his death.

"You want to," Yu Chi'ang said, "completely clear the game?"

Gu Qiufeng smiled and said, "Don't forget what I achieved in my first dungeon."

"Xiao Yu, don't run away from the battlefield." He said, "Sister Yu Bo entrusted me to you before she died."

With Shao Qiu Shui's active cooperation, Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang's progress this time was much smoother.

"Where is your NPC?" Gu Qiufeng asked.

Yu Chi'ang said: "I have reached the TE ending. But the game has 48 hours, and I haven't finished it yet."

Gu Qiufeng understood that Yu Chiang had obviously completed the game's clearance conditions long ago. It was estimated that if the TE ending was achieved, the key NPC would be out of the loop. However, without the NPC as a node, how did Yu Chiang loop again?

Props? Or skills?

This little brother of his is quite a hidden talent.

"So where are we going next?" Shao Qiu Shui asked.

Gu Qiufeng said, "Go back to the apartment first and save the file."

He noticed that every time he and Feng He chose a different room, the room they were in in the looping world was also different.

Therefore, Gu Qiufeng guessed that the living room in the apartment should be the save point for the loop.

"Xiaoyu can't enter our inner world anyway, so you should go to the archives room. There should be a new friend I know there who can help you guard the archives room." Gu Qiufeng didn't mind using others as tools.

Yu Chiang asked inexplicably: "Friend?"

"Yeah. Her roommate was a fan of Xie Xin, so she was willing to help me." Gu Qiufeng said, "Don't always be so discriminatory against my profession. Look, being an agent is very useful. I can meet fans of my artists in the other world game."

Yu Chiang: “………………”

Yu Chiang: "Step by step, and speak eight."

Gu Qiufeng: “?”

Gu Qiufeng: "Why are you still so weird? Why do you hate your agent so much?"

Yu Chi'ang covered his ears and turned away.

Gu Qiufeng: “.”

Good boy!

It aroused his rebelliousness! ★

The more rebellious Yu Chi'ang was, the more he wanted to go against him.

After all...the little cat that is closely related to Yu Chiang has become his card.

Anyway, among modern people, at least eight or nine out of ten are either cat lovers or dog lovers.

If Yu Chiang continues to target his career like this, he will let that puppet debut and do live broadcasts to boost his popularity!

Gu Qiufeng had made up his mind and said contentedly, "Let's go upstairs and choose a save point."

Shao Qiushui followed behind Gu Qiufeng and suddenly heard Feng He sighing: "Mr. has found a new employee so quickly. It seems that I have to work harder and must not be outdone!"

Shao Qiushui: “?”

*

"I always feel that things are not that simple." Gu Qiufeng said as he entered the bedroom.

Feng He immediately said: "No matter what happens, I will protect you!"

No matter whether it is the cat or the wooden man, nothing he can do!

He must be the best employee in Mr. Gu’s mind!

Gu Qiufeng: "...Although I don't know why you are so positive, you don't have to be so positive."

A black-hearted capitalist like him will feel guilty.

Shao Qiu Shui first went to the bathroom to remove her tear-stained makeup.

Based on Shao Qiu Shui's description of the inner world, Gu Qiufeng decided that the three of them would choose the bedroom where Shao Qiu Shui slept as the save point. It would be best if they could successfully kill the mummies in the room as soon as they entered the inner world.

Shao Qiushui wiped his face violently with a wet towel while muttering to himself, "It feels so mysterious, like I've suddenly entered a supernatural movie."

By the way, the bathroom where one is alone seems to be a high-risk area.

Shao Qiushui: “…”

She hated her own imagination.

Shao Qiu Shui immediately began to rub her face frantically, not caring about taking care of her skin. She just wanted to finish quickly and go out to be with Mr. Gu and Feng He.

While she was washing her face, she suddenly noticed from the corner of her eye that something was wrong with the mirror.

Shao Qiu Shui froze.

She slowly raised her head and met her own gaze in the mirror.

The image in the mirror seemed to be delayed, and he was still washing his face slowly.

As "she" moved, Shao Qiu Shui saw the skin shell peeling off bit by bit like powder, and the thing in the mirror gradually revealed its charred original form.

It’s the monster from the other world that Mr. Gu mentioned!

Shao Qiu Shui immediately threw away the towel he was using to wipe his face and ran to the bathroom door to find Gu Qiufeng for help.

At this moment, the mummy in the mirror behind her jumped up, and the lens suddenly exploded. The glass fragments seemed to have consciousness and surrounded Shao Qiu Shui.

In the bedroom.

Gu Qiufeng, who was sitting on the bed, raised his eyes as if he realized something.