Chapter 82 Mermaid Tears (End)

A loft room on the highest level of a ship.

Yu Chiang was tied behind the door. He stared at the man in front of him expressionlessly and slowly uttered two words: "Xie Xin."

This face has appeared in many places, on the big screen, on billboards, so glamorous and dazzling. Probably no fan would have thought that one day their favorite actor would look like this.

Actually, it’s not right to call him Xie Xin.

Yu Chiang thought irritably that the clone of Xie Xin who remained in reality was already dead, and the one in front of him should be the projection of X, who was just using Xie Xin's appearance to stimulate him.

Xie Xin is not X, and X cannot fully represent Xie Xin.

"I finally know why you were chosen as my replacement. Gu Jiu is really good at judging people. You are very strong and can withstand some mental attacks." X said with a smile on Xie Xin's face, but his behavior was not like that of a human, so it looked very incongruous. He slowly walked out of the dark place, revealing peach blossom eyes that were somewhat similar to Yu Chiang's.

Yu Chi'ang was silent for a while, then said, "We are about to take Gu Jiu away. You have lost from the beginning."

X did not show any extra expression, but looked at Yu Chiang and suddenly asked, "Why did Gu Jiu allow your clone to develop self-awareness?"

From the beginning, Yu Chiang was the clone that Gu Jiu arranged for Gu Qiufeng, who could successfully replace Xie Xin in the future. He looked similar to Xie Xin and had a similar temperament, but he was more human than Xie Xin and would be better to Gu Qiufeng.

X once captured Gu Jiu's doppelganger in reality and took advantage of the situation to deliberately keep Xie Xin's identity to distort and mislead Gu Qiufeng's personality development and growth. Then Gu Jiu cleverly took advantage of the omission and split the soul again, creating Yu Chiang's encounter with Gu Qiufeng in reality, intending to replace the existence of the brother who was already quite important to Gu Qiufeng.

But now it seems that after Yu Chi'ang stayed in the reality, he has developed self-awareness. He is no longer a simple slice of Gu Jiu's soul, but a complete and independent individual with his own personality consciousness.

Yu Chi'ang is Yu Chi'ang.

But behind Xie Xin, he is still X's puppet.

"If you are not a human, you may never understand this." Yu Chiang said coldly, "Humans do not exist by form and mind. We rely on self-identity and emotions."

"If you hadn't insisted on retrieving Xie Xin's soul fragment, maybe one day Xie Xin would just be a human being like Xie Xin, instead of being treated as a monster or your incarnation." Yu Chiang said, "But you couldn't stand the emergence of Xie Xin's self-awareness. You thought it was a loss of control for you, so you used a trick to retrieve him, and you wanted to use this to sow discord between the senior and humans."

X looked at him quietly, neither sad nor happy, as if he had no emotions at all. ▼

Yu Chiang then continued: "You said I was a substitute. Then I should have been very successful, because the seniors now will only choose me instead of Xie Xin."

When he spoke, his voice didn't fluctuate much.

Yu Chiang was very clear-headed. He knew that X was best at bewitching people, so even if he heard something, Yu Chiang tried his best not to let his mind fluctuate.

Sometimes what you see may not be the truth. Yu Chiang was completely skeptical based on X's one-sided statement.

But X is still a little bit behind him.

As a human being, Yu Chiang is more sensitive to emotions, which means that he knows how to touch people's pain points more clearly than X.

For example, when he said that just now, X's expression changed for a moment. Although the monster concealed it very well, Yu Chiang still cleverly captured X's sinking aura.

Treat others in their own way, Yu Chiang thought. X had used mental pollution to persecute so many people. He finally found the opponent's weakness and vented the anger for many people.

A smile appeared on Yu Chiang's face: "Mr. Yuanyuan, you took Xie Xin back, which means you accepted his emotions as a human being. This is your biggest failure."

X laughed and said, "Don't overestimate your species. These emotions are also my creations. Will the creations devour the Creator in turn?"

"Who knows?" Yu Chiang said, "But I only know that Senior will succeed soon."

X raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you afraid that he will fall into mental pollution? He is different from you. You have a clear mind because you don't hide too many things in your heart. You always know what you want to do. But Gu Qiufeng is different. He is a child I watched grow up. I know his temperament very well. He has too many secrets in his heart. Just like Gu Jiu and Lu Jinghong, such people may seem strong on the outside, but their souls are actually fragile and vulnerable."

Yu Chiang said: "No. You underestimated me."

He seemed to sense something and suddenly looked behind X.

The bounded space around him suddenly collapsed and the smile on X's face came to an abrupt end.

Yu Chiang said: "Senior has always actively chosen to become a human. How could he be polluted by a monster again?"

X did not speak again. He stared at the cage that was broken by Gu Qiufeng himself with an inexplicable look, and his figure disappeared along with the collapse of the copy.

Yu Chiang took a deep breath, and the rope behind him, without X's instruction, became an ordinary object that could be easily broken free.

The scene around him was spinning, and Yu Chiang heard the system's announcement of the copy's collapse.

Then, the scenery flashed before his eyes and he returned to his room.

Yu Chi'ang originally wanted to go find Gu Qiufeng immediately, but he suddenly thought that Gu Qiufeng and Gu Jiu had finally reunited, and Gu Jiu must have a lot of things to tell him.

It would be good to give seniors more time.

Yu Chi'ang went back, opened the terminal forum, and began to pay attention to the messages they missed when they entered the copy.

*

Gu Qiufeng and Yu Chiang only stayed in the dungeon for one day and one night before they successfully closed the world dungeon and rescued Gu Jiu.

Although this incident immediately caused a sensation, it had just happened and had not yet become popular. At this time, more players were focusing on the global server linkage. At this time, the world rankings changed a lot, but the top few players were always very stable. The rest of the players' rankings fluctuated, which was a normal phenomenon in competition, but more of them suddenly encountered accidents in the dungeon and died.

The most discussed topic in the country's forum at the moment is not the top players at this moment, but Gu Qiufeng who has been missing for a long time.

[Those foreigners were so curious, haha. I also praised Mr. Gu’s live broadcast room on the world channel.]

[To be honest, when Boss Gu was just a newcomer, wasn’t his live broadcast quite new to us? He was an NPC! I have a feeling that Boss Gu will definitely be the first on the leaderboard. Boss Gu has been deliberately attracting traffic for so long, he must be building a game]

[I think I saw Xiao Fenghe in the dungeon before! Mom, my living wife, woooo, woooo, I really want to go up and give her a kiss, but I don’t see Boss Gu, and I’m afraid that if I rush up directly, Xiao Fenghe will tear me to pieces.]

[Oh, isn't Boss Gu in the same instance with Xiao Fenghe? Does he really dare to let the NPC go to the instance alone? Isn't he afraid of the NPC killing him? ]

[Xiao Fenghe has always been very kind to humans! He was the most friendly to humans in the dungeon before. I also met Fenghe's wife in the dungeon. She was cold, but very polite. Some people should stop making malicious speculations about the artists under Boss Gu. Fenghe's wife must have something important to do, so she confronted the BOSS directly and led us through the dungeon without any damage.]

[You really trust Gu Qiufeng so much, I'm stunned. You don't really intend to give him rewards in his live broadcast room and make him the first in the scoreboard? Are you sure he will really put forward conditions that are in the interests of the masses? ]

[To be honest, I have always had this question, but I didn't dare to say it because I saw everyone was bragging about it...A human player who is with NPCs, are you really not worried about his position? How did the Third Guild become the one that everyone is calling for? Have you all forgotten? ]

[Bah, what kind of monster is here to stir up trouble? Do you still need to doubt Boss Gu's position? Since he entered the game, when has he not helped the players? In addition to helping the human players in the dungeon, he also closed many dungeons and even destroyed the game mechanism of the world boss, which has a very high mortality rate. What? When you doubted his position, did you automatically forget these things in your mind? ]

[Everyone, go watch the live broadcast of the player from country H who is currently ranked the highest in the standings. There are good things! ]

[I remember that he was also a very awesome newcomer. The quality of the newcomers entering the game recently seems to be quite good.]

[Not only that, I remember Duan Jiangli was the younger brother of the prophet. He had met Boss Gu in a dungeon before.]

[I won't say any more, everyone, go watch the live broadcast! Duan Jiangli is in the dungeon, and he just happened to be broadcasting about this matter, damn, he's so handsome! ]

[I didn't expect that Duan Jiangli was actually a member of the official organization. Holy shit! I'm shocked.]

[2G network upstairs, the information previously revealed by Duan Jiangli proves that his identity is not ordinary],

[But if Duan Jiangli is official, then the prophet must also be official. Damn it.]

[Duan Jiangli is talking about Gu Qiufeng. He is canvassing for Boss Gu. This is a legitimate move! It’s officially certified!]

Before everyone had time to rush to Duan Jiangli's live broadcast room, at the same time, a live broadcast room suddenly soared on the monthly rankings.

No one knew the player in this live broadcast, but the data increased very quickly, so everyone became curious. After quickly eating the hot melon, they came to the live broadcast room to see what was going on.

The players who were broadcasting live were actually rare dungeon players in City D, a man, a woman, and a middle-aged man.

Question marks were scrolling rapidly on the barrage.

The girls seemed quite nervous. They had entered the simplest copy just because they had received some news and wanted to start the live broadcast.

"Hello everyone, I am Guan Ciying, an A-level player who survived ten years ago."

The girl's voice was so resounding that it struck the hearts of all the human players watching the live broadcast.