Ending (End)
"So," Xu Wei did not continue the topic, but suddenly changed the subject, "Have you ever killed anyone?"
Li Xia was startled, looked at Xu Wei, saw her seriousness, and was silent for a while: "Yeah."
She raised her knife as if to stab someone: "Then I can only rid the people of this evil. You have harmed so many of our own people."
"Hey! Stop it, sister! Spare me, I'll tell you everything you want to know!" Li Xia's face sank, and she quickly grasped the blade, pretending to cry, "You can see, I have been following you all the way since Paradise, and I have long since retired and turned over a new leaf!"
Xu Wei sneered: "Then tell me, what did you change?"
Li Xia looked at her in disbelief: "I didn't do anything! Weren't you watching the whole time? I even saved someone!"
This is very Li Xia.
The knife flashed by in an instant.
Li Xia couldn't believe it: "Xu Wei, why......"
Xu Wei tightly grasped the hilt of the knife with both hands, pulled out the bloody knife, and said coldly: "Qi Xu, stop pretending here, are you trying to buy time for your master?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the blood from the hole in Li Xia's chest disappeared before it even touched the ground, and his entire figure dissipated like smoke at an extremely fast speed.
The Player Night Market returned to silence.
After a while, Xu Wei said, "Don't try. You can't run away now. I am the administrator of the system. Judgment City is under my control until your master captures it."
Xu Wei put the knife into his backpack and looked at the ruins in front of him: "When I located your presence, the Player Night Market became a large cage for trapped animals - by the way, how did you make your Experiment No. 1?"
It was silent.
Xu Wei was not in a hurry either. He held his chin and stared at the sky in a daze.
On the administrator panel, the rate at which the number of players decreased slowed down, but in contrast, the sky over the City of Judgment became darker.
After a long time, Xu Wei became a little sleepy from waiting, and a figure finally appeared in front of him.
The figure gradually became clear. It was a tall and thin man, but unfortunately his face was blurry and the whole person seemed to be covered by a layer of black fog. One could only barely make out the human shape under the black fog.
Xu Wei recalled the first time she and Fu Fenglou went to the player night market, he acted very much like admiring her. Later she learned that his ability was to create buttons that could connect the inside and outside of the dungeon, so Fang Yi gave her one, which she kept with her until she entered the Dream dungeon.
Although Fang Yi had good intentions in using the button, it actually became a personal surveillance camera. If Xu Wei had really listened to him and told her companions to take the escape route on the Dream, she might never have been able to come back here again.
"Qi Xu, no, should I call you Zhao Yuan?"
The dark shadow stood there: "Give up, your struggle is in vain."
"Oh," Xu Wei responded calmly, "Before your god descends, I can still format your consciousness and kick you out of the game. You shouldn't care about this, right?"
Zhao Yuan: “…”
Xu Wei continued: "Is Ye Jing still alive?"
The shadow fell silent again.
"That means she is still alive. Well... in this case I still have a way to bring out her consciousness." Xu Wei opened the operation panel.
"She's dead," Zhao Yuan finally said, "She was attacked by the experimental equipment."
Xu Wei frowned: "She made all these killing tools?"
The shadow's mist rippled: "No."
Xu Wei: “You did it.”
He didn't deny it.
"What exactly happened between you and Ye Jing?" Xu Wei asked.
In Zhao Yuan's silence, Mao Ting's voice rang out again: "If you want to ask, just check his game records."
Xu Wei sighed, "Retrieve game records? He is deeply bound to Wuyun. What will you do if I do this?"
She said it directly, and when Zhao Yuan heard it, he became even more silent.
He was stalling for time, betting that Xu Wei couldn't kill him immediately.
"Let me guess, it's not another story of unrequited love and love turning into hate, right?" Xu Wei said with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
The shadow's emotions didn't fluctuate at all. He looked up at the sky, and the mist around him settled down. "Are you so curious?"
Xu Wei followed his line of sight and looked at the dark sky that was so close at hand. At some point, it had become pitch black there, like an insurmountable wall, approaching with a suffocating feeling of oppression.
Although I had anticipated the current scene, I was still shocked by the sight when I was there in person.
Ten thousand meters, a thousand meters, a hundred meters, the sky was getting closer and closer, and then in a moment, the sky suddenly pressed down, and the overwhelming darkness swept everything, as if there was a huge mouth from the abyss in the sky, swallowing everything in an instant.
This was indeed a terrifying scene, but for Xu Wei, it was just the largest of his countless battles with the dark clouds.
The invasion of the Judgment Hotel, the death of Yuhuan, the darkness of the paradise escape, the sky curtain of the tomb of the deserted village, the first confrontation in the home copy...
Old rival.
In the absolute darkness where one could not see or hear anything, and even dissolve one's consciousness, Xu Wei raised his hand, touched his bracelet, and answered the question of the last person of his kind in the world: "Not really, but Ye Yan has helped me many times. Whatever she wants to know, I must find out if I have the chance."
The shadow didn't answer and he disappeared.
And "it" has arrived.
The alarms on the administrator panel became more and more severe, like a rat whose tail was stepped on, wailing unwillingly, and finally, it let out a howl as if the battery was run out and was completely destroyed.
The number of players dropped sharply, and within milliseconds, it suddenly stagnated into a number—
1.
She is the only one left.
The earth's defenses completely collapsed, the Judgment Game system failed across the board, and all creatures on earth were devoured when the dark sky fell.
The dark cloud, the huge monster that had been hovering over the earth for a long time, finally launched an all-out attack and destroyed its mortal enemy, the human race, with its absolute power that could crush everything in its path.
These little ants that could divide its power were finally crushed to death.
Xu Wei's body was like loose sand under the erosion of darkness. With every step he took and every time he blinked, part of it flew away into the darkness and disappeared.
She felt her existence disappearing. Compared to her body, her consciousness was stronger. She stubbornly supported her body and walked forward, one step, two steps...
"Xu Wei, are you ready? I'm going to start reading Qi Xu's memory," Mao Ting seemed to be not far away from her, guiding her in a gentle voice, "The pollution value has reached 63%."
[Retrieving the game records of player Qixu. ]
[Alert! Alert! Players raise their hands together, the system is sounding the alarm! Alert! ]
Qi Xu, no, it was Zhao Yuan's memories that came flooding back like a tide, completely shattering the consciousness that was already struggling to hold on. At this moment, Xu Wei fell into a frenzy of bizarre memory fragments, and every tiny fragment of his life mixed with memories that did not belong to him appeared like a revolving lantern, and it seemed as if time and space suddenly became uncontrollable, and every minute and every second of time was happening at the same time.
She saw the singularity explosion, a large amount of stardust and the rapidly expanding universe, and she was at home, wearing pajamas and playing with her mobile phone and laughing. In a blink of an eye, Ye Jing was thinking about a prop for a long time behind the experimental table, and Zhao Yuan was standing behind her with a gloomy expression.
"The pollution level has reached 70%."
As she was walking towards the supermarket, Man Yue, who had transformed into a female ghost, suddenly rushed over. A spherical man holding a marker screamed in the mist and was swallowed by the Giganotosaurus from behind.
Someone patted her shoulder. Behind her, Zhang Yuan broke into countless pieces, then put together into a human shape and laughed at her. Fu Fenglou and Shaya sang a strange song and approached her hand in hand.
Where is Lu Fanye?
He stood far away, holding what Ye Jing was studying and discussing it with Li Shaodong. They both spoke at the same time, and there was only one voice, Mao Ting speaking: "Xu Wei, the second thing I need your help with is to find the anchor point of Wu Yun in the Judgment Game. She is a human who is no longer a player. She once predicted the upcoming danger and left something for me in the system."
In the surging tide of memories, in that unknown corner, Ye Jing picked up the prop in her hand and faced Zhao Yuan: "This is the latest test product, called the Beast Cage. It incorporates the power of "it" and can trap creatures that are one level higher than the holder."
Zhao Yuan walked towards her and took the prop. At this time, he already had the outline of a black shadow, and an ominous black aura was emanating from his movements.
He fiddled with the props for a while and was about to leave the laboratory, a place without sunlight and like a cage.
Ye Jing watched him leave in silence, but just before closing the door, she asked, "Zhao Yuan, why do you want to stand against humanity?"
Zhao Yuan paused and suddenly laughed sarcastically: "Why should I stand against humanity? Ye Jing, whether you like it or not, since you have accepted the baptism of the Lord, you have also stood against humanity. No, your acceptance of baptism is even deeper, and you are not even a player."
The heavy metal door closed, and the laboratory fell into darkness. Only the dim light slightly illuminated Ye Jing's expression.
She walked out from behind the test bench, and her entire body except for the arms and below had turned into a blurry black mist, but this did not affect her movements, and there was no sign of any impact.
She moved freely, getting closer and closer until she was face to face with Xu Wei.
She spoke to the void, as if she thought there was already an audience here: "It invaded much earlier than I knew. I don't understand where it came from, but after clearing the dungeon so many times, I can't ignore the clues of the invasion - the position of the dungeon has changed from helping players to clear the level to becoming more subtle."
"I know you're conscious and you're trying to destroy it, but it doesn't seem to be helping."
She sighed, "Although I don't agree that people with special abilities are stronger than tool masters, it is undeniable that tool masters have the advantage of being able to generate all kinds of effective emotional fluctuations to activate tools. This is a manifestation of our willpower, while people with special abilities specialize in stimulating their abilities with a certain emotion. This means that when facing the invasion of 'it', the willpower of people with special abilities can more effectively block the pollution than tool masters."
"And there are too many high-potential prop masters in Lieyang..."
There was a sadness in her eyes. "I don't believe in fate, but this seems to have been predetermined since I decided to found Lieyang. After the invasion, some people fought to the death, while others accepted the baptism naturally."
"I must be baptized," she said. "Humanity doesn't know what it is going to face yet. Maybe only you know, but I must be one step ahead of it and figure out what it is before it completely devours humanity."
"And how to kill it."
"I'm sorry. I used its power to create many things, which must have caused you a lot of trouble. But under the cover of these contaminated props, I created Experiment No. 1, which contains a piece of data. Anyone who has come into contact with Experiment No. 1 and has not been baptized will have this data. If that person can still survive the siege of the believers even if trapped in Experiment No. 1, then it is very likely that he will bring this data to you when the trial system is on the verge of collapse."
"At this moment, I plan to trust fate. If possible, I hope this data will never be opened."
She drove the black fog back to the test bench, as if she was tired. She found a comfortable position and lay quietly. She raised her fingers and fiddled with the dim light cast by the ceiling lamp. "I am the first baptized person and the most deeply invaded human. It implanted the most primitive source of pollution into my body. After I die, it will be transferred to Zhao Yuan's body. This will inevitably become the anchor point for its future arrival. Test subject No. 1 can help you trap it for a period of time. During this period, I hope you can find an opportunity to kill it completely."
"My consciousness may soon dissipate, but please don't give up. There are thousands of people with stronger wills than me. Please don't give up on us. Please have faith in humanity."
She put down her fingers, her expression relaxed, as if she had told everyone everything that was buried in her heart, and she breathed a deep breath of relief. The black air immediately spread from her arms upwards, and almost immediately climbed to her neck.
Ye Jing felt a little painful, but seemed to recall something, with a faint smile on her lips.
"Yan Yan..."
She murmured and disappeared into ashes.
"The pollution level has reached 96%."
Ye Jing's memories stopped, but she still couldn't stop the collapse of reality. Xu Wei's body walked mechanically in the darkness, her eyes were pale, her face was stiff, and her body was falling apart quickly.
In the endless darkness, the red bracelet suddenly lit up, executing the last command issued by its owner.
[Timing command - open the fixed-point transmission track, the coordinates have been anchored, and the transmission is being executed. ]
Then she took a step and disappeared.
At the other end of the transmission track, there was still endless darkness, but this time in the darkness, there was a huge creature full of gentle vitality.
It is almost five meters tall and four meters wide, and is made of a colorless jelly-like substance. In the middle of its body is a soft line like a ribbon, which trembles with vitality as its body rises and falls, resembling a large slime in Earth culture.
Unfortunately, its body has been soaked in darkness, which will soon spread throughout its entire body.
"The pollution level has reached 98%."
Xu Wei walked towards it stiffly, but was tripped by its huge body and fell to the ground, with his legs shattered and dissipated in an instant.
"The pollution level has reached 99%."
As soon as the body touched it, a series of garbled crackling sounds came from the system, as if some hidden commands were triggered.
At this moment, the big guy who was already soaked in darkness and trembling with pain suppressed the severe pain and spoke for the system: "The hidden key has been unlocked. Experiment No. 1, the cage of trapped beasts, has been successfully upgraded. The target is being locked. Alarm, the target scale is expected to exceed the critical value. The time of "trapped beasts" has been infinitely reduced. Countdown twenty, nineteen-"
"Alarm, target pollution value has greatly exceeded the critical value, countdown is shortened, five, four--"
Compared to the ups and downs of the sound effects set by the system, this voice is obviously more peaceful and so familiar that it makes people want to cry.
The person who sent it had told her gently but firmly not long ago: "The third thing you need to do for me is something that must be successful... When I have investigated Qi Xu's game records, absorbed his memories, and have enough time to replace him and bind deeply with Wu Yun-"
"Kill me."
"Don't hesitate, don't be sympathetic, you have to remember that once I am contaminated by the dark clouds, my fate will be the same."
"Mao...Chong..." The human who had lost her legs had a hoarse throat and was almost voiceless. She bent over and crawled towards it desperately. Soon, her waist disappeared, followed by her chest and right arm. When she finally crawled in front of it and raised her only remaining hand, she was still far away from it.
Humans were so tiny, compared to this giant creature, her hands couldn't even reach one-tenth of its size.
The next second, the human's left arm touched the warm and soft thread and felt its vital flow.
Xu Wei's frozen thoughts came back to normal for a moment, and he flashed back to the only warm days in the Judgment City.
She bought a house and still had time before the next time she entered the dungeon, so she trained with Lu Fanye in firearms and physical fitness, and watched TV in her spare time to learn about the Judgment Civilization.
That day, she saw a creature on TV that was very similar to the slime on Earth, but unlike the slime, they were bigger and more bizarre.
"The Lik people are gentle and kind, gifted with amazing computing abilities. They only differentiate into different genders after adulthood. Their defense is low, but unless their core body is damaged, they will recover quickly. Note: they cannot destroy their own body," she read out in surprise while holding the remote control. "There are actually such harmless aliens?
After all, after reading so much information about the Judgment Civilization, I have only found this one race that is not gifted in fighting, has such low defense, and is friendly.
"How did they survive?"
But at this moment, this kind, brave, and intelligent alien friend who had never appeared in her original image lowered her body and took the initiative to push the thread into her hands.
"Mao..." She opened her mouth with difficulty, but couldn't utter a single word.
"Don't hesitate." It reminded gently.
"Kill me."
The countdown returns to zero.
"The pollution value has reached 100%, the game is over."
"Beep——" There was a burst of tinnitus, and the whole world exploded with dazzling white light.
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