Chapter 426 Safe House

An existence abandoned by the world.

Such a sad description shocked Xu Zhiyan's heart, so much so that he opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond.

People always hesitate when dealing with important people.

If it were anyone else, Xu Zhiyan would not be affected by emotions, but now he is facing Bai Jin from many years ago.

Although he wanted to know what happened in the past, he was shocked to find that he couldn't even open his mouth. The young man standing opposite him was filled with loneliness, despair and hostility, and seemed to want to perish with the world.

Familiar self-destructive tendencies.

He had clearly seen signs of self-destruction in both the main system and the mimic, but neither side's self-destructive tendency was so strong and real.

There seemed to be a voice in the dark telling him that if he left it alone, everything would be destroyed.

…Forget it, stop asking.

Let’s wait until next time, or when we are more familiar with each other.

After a pause, Xu Zhiyan pursed his lips, smiled, and tried to change the subject.

As he said this, he raised his hand.

"Next time I come, can I see the mountains of gold coins?"

After a "bin" sound, a shiny gold coin appeared in his palm. Although things in dreams cannot be taken out, who doesn't like money? It's good to look at it.

The lighthearted and cheerful words conceal the inner emotions.

Dreams should have been Xu Zhiyan's natural talent. He could create all kinds of things out of thin air in his dreams without much adaptation.

Gold, banknotes, jewelry and diamonds...

More and more valuable things appeared in Bai Jin’s dreams.

Xu Zhiyan introduced everything in detail one by one, and his gentle and steady words soothed the sadness that Bai Jin had just revealed. It listened quietly, and its gaze on Xu Zhiyan became softer and softer.

After talking for an unknown amount of time, the things in front of the two of them piled up like a mountain.

Seeing that the young man was a little tired and lazily lying on the pile of gold coins, Bai Jin whispered: "Everything in the world is within my cognition."

In fact, it knows these things without Xu Zhiyan introducing them.

"But only the leaves are real."

Seeing Xu Zhiyan's eyes, which had been narrowed like a cat, suddenly widened, the young man put his fist to his lips, a low laugh escaped from his lips, and his shoulders and chest began to shake.

It moved closer, placed its palm on the side of Xu Zhiyan's face, closed its eyes and felt the human body temperature.

When it opened its eyes again, the sadness in its expression disappeared.

"Since you want to know, why don't you keep asking?" The voice was gentle and lingering, like a loving whisper between lovers: "What are you worried about?"

Xu Zhiyan froze.

Ming Jin's voice was clearly as soft as it could be, but he could sense the danger signal.

For a moment, he recalled the first time he saw the young boy Bai Jin in his dream. The other party looked dull and pitiful in every way.

But Xu Zhiyan has faced so many slices, and none of them are easy to deal with.

Will ghosts and gods really fall into a miserable situation?

It seems safe now. Didn’t the young Bai Jin give him a big reversal?

Then, the ginkgo tree in the center of the dream began to shed its leaves in large numbers. Countless golden leaves fell, almost burying him in the heavy rain of leaves. Although there were gaps between the leaves, he felt that breathing became extremely difficult.

Just as he was about to feel suffocated, Xu Zhiyan felt a hand clamping his wrist and pulling him out of the pile of gold leaves.

Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.

Wait, the strength and feel are not right!

The hands are big, with distinct joints and slender fingers. Through the gaps, one can vaguely see the blue veins on the back of the hands.

These are not the hands of a young man at all!

“Crash——”

Xu Zhiyan was pulled away from the pile of leaves by a huge force.

The warm and peaceful scene around disappeared, replaced by endless darkness like the void.

At his side, the boy who was originally shorter than him disappeared, and the angular face of an adult man appeared in front of him. His facial features were perfect, his aura was imposing, and his deep eyes were filled with noble divinity when he was silent.

Horns, black feathers, snake tail...

It was a ghost, but not the one that Xu Zhiyan was familiar with.

"Human, don't you want to know what I have been through?" It raised the corners of its lips, and the divinity in its eyes disappeared.

The surrounding scene began to change.

The dazzling sunrise, the lush jungle, the sparkling sea, the erupting volcano, the dry and cracked land...

Xu Zhiyan didn't care about his wrist which was still being held by the man. For the first time, he wished the naive system was by his side. The two eyes of an ordinary human were not enough and he couldn't see it all.

Soon, creatures appeared on the scene.

He watched the water recede, the clouds waver, and more and more animals emerge.

I don’t know how long it took before humans became the protagonists.

As the flames flickered, Xu Zhiyan watched as humans gradually moved from their initial uncivilized state to the forefront of evolution. With plunder and war, the low houses in human settlements were replaced by high-rise buildings.

Newborn babies, students reciting textbooks, young people rushing to and from get off work, old people tossing and turning in hospital beds...

He saw life and death.

“This is the way the world is.”

With Bai Jin's low voice, everything came to an abrupt stop.

The picture faded and the two returned to darkness.

Xu Zhiyan didn't say anything.

He began to wonder less about what his lover was.

His wrist was loosened, and Xu Zhiyan felt the cold snake tail wrapped around him. Unlike the ghost in the safe house, the guy next to him was incredibly strong, and he felt as if he was about to be crushed.

Reason told him to stay away from the madman and leave quickly while the passage to the dream was still there.

But this guy is Bai Jin after all.

"pain……"

Xu Zhiyan did nothing but pushed the snake's tail and spoke with a frown.

Fortunately, the other party was obedient, the snake's tail loosened, and he could finally breathe normally again.

"You're so weird, why don't you run away?"

"You make me feel that I really fell in love with a human being in the future." There was doubt in Bai Jin's cold voice.

When it said that it was abandoned by the world, the heartache in Xu Zhiyan's eyes did not seem fake; it deliberately left an exit and revealed its true form to see if the other party would escape, and the other party did not escape.

Xu Zhiyan found it a little funny.

"Unfortunately, that is the reality."

Although judging from the direction this is going, the guy in front of him fell in love with him before he went back to the past.

However, seeing that the other party was no longer immersed in the heartbreaking sadness, Xu Zhiyan's original hesitation disappeared, and he even wanted to spit on himself in his heart, thinking that no matter how much he felt sorry for the ghosts and gods, he was still a dog.

"What happened next? What on earth did you go through to become like this?" Xu Zhiyan asked bluntly.

Seeing this, Bai Jin let go of the snake's tail and reached out to touch the young man's eyelids.

"Human beings should never be arrogant."

"The world is more than just the corner we see." Its voice was less aggressive and more sarcastic.

At this moment, Xu Zhiyan got more information.

Human desires are endless.

After failing to find anything more useful during their exploration of the universe, humans accidentally opened a dimensional rift using instruments.

No one knows what's inside, this is new territory!

So even though they discovered it was very dangerous after exploring, humans did not give up and continued exploring, not knowing that the root of disaster was planted at this time.

Perhaps fearing that Xu Zhiyan would not understand, Bai Jin thought for a moment and gave a more popular explanation: "You can regard the present world as an independent space. There are countless such spaces in the void, and the state of each space is different."

Xu Zhiyan saw some scenes lingering in the black cracks.

"From this perspective, humans in this world are indeed very weak." He sighed. He was not surprised by this. There are so many planets in the universe, and it is easy to understand why countless worlds are floating in the endless void.

After a while, he saw the intrusion signal.

Unlike the present world that has just been connected to the void, as a mature predator, the main system is already familiar with the rules of attack. The moment it feels rejected, it communicates with the world consciousness and starts a bet that cannot be refused.

"Play a game and the winner takes it all."

Xu Zhiyan murmured.

At this moment, he finally understood why the main system created the mimics.

It's exploiting loopholes in the rules, and it needs some pawns.

"Yeah." Bai Jin's voice was unremarkable: "According to the rules, the participating races must be relatively powerful species in the current world."

Human beings.

As beings that can be said to be in control of the present world, it is natural for humans to become participants in the game.

Mimics are a species specially created by the main system to invade the real world. Because the participants must be human, they must also enter the human body...

Thinking of the flashing scenes in the ruins world and the mountains of corpses in Bai Jin's dream, Xu Zhiyan hesitated and spoke.

"So you're the only one participating in the first round of games, right?"

The world rules did not sit idly by, and the power gathered created Him. It was an unfair battle, and both sides chose to exploit loopholes in the rules.

The first round of the game became a one-sided massacre.

The ghost almost killed all the mimics by himself.

The game is over, the main system is defeated, and it flees in panic after handing over its power.

Victory was so easy, but Xu Zhiyan remained silent.

What happened next had nothing to do with the invaders. The ghost god had been born, and he participated in the game with a power beyond the rules of the world and drove away the invaders. Now that the invaders have retreated, what will he do?

Would a conscious creature really be willing to disappear as power again?

"At that time, I thought that falling asleep would end everything."

There was confusion in Bai Jin's cold voice. He didn't know what he had done wrong until he was split into scattered fragments of power.

Xu Zhiyan didn't say anything.

Ghosts and gods were originally a temporary response to foreign invasions. Now they are too powerful to even make the original rules of the world feel wary. Such unstable creatures should not exist...

He understood the rules of the world, that it was inherently unsafe for powerful forces to accumulate in one place. But theory and reality were two different things, and he simply could not imagine how much pain the ghosts and gods had experienced to be divided into so many pieces.

"How ironic."

Bai Jin spoke again, his voice full of fatigue.

"When I was abandoned by the world, the invaders came back."

This time, it's much more complicated than last time.

"It got more information, so that when I woke up again, I was trapped at the intersection of the real world and the game."

The only heart left is lonely and hopeless.