Chapter 208 God's Tomb Fusion
The players within the system discovered the problem earlier than Ji Congyang.
As early as a day ago, mysterious circles of light suddenly appeared in many places inside the system.
The distribution of the apertures was not regular, and the total number was not unusual: there were three in Wukou Street, four in Shanhai Arena, five in Changbai Exchange, and there were even more than a dozen wormhole black markets whose territory covered the entire land area.
Players have been doing business in the system for so many years, but this is the first time they have encountered such a situation. No one ignores it. However, no matter how many parties have come together to study it, they still cannot figure out what the aperture is used for and what changes it has brought after it appeared.
Just when everyone was in a stalemate, a real-name post on the player forum became increasingly popular and was finally discovered by researchers around the aperture.
"Look at this." Jiang Jiaying directly put the bracelet in front of his captain.
Bai Jiwei stroked the pattern of the light circle on the ground with his fingers, raised his eyes to take a look, suddenly grabbed his wrist and started to read it quickly.
Player forums are anonymous. Unless it is a really important matter and one must disclose one's identity to gain trust, most players will never choose to type their real name in the nickname box - such as the bounty order that designated Shi Yu as a wanted target.
Therefore, posts by players who post using their real names will be automatically colored red, standing out from the gray-black title.
The player who posted the message said that he had just finished the game and was about to return to reality, but found that the passage to reality could not be opened no matter what.
Before anyone could question it, a second player who had the same experience stepped forward almost instantly.
Then came the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth.
Jiang Jiaying withdrew her hand and opened a new post: "This is even more outrageous."
The new post appeared a little later than the previous one, but its popularity is just as high as the previous one, or even higher.
The player in the post said that he should have ended his rest time that day and entered the next game, but the reminder had been received and the space was automatically recalled, but now the time is up, he is still stuck where he is.
Most of the players have companions after entering the system for nine days. After communicating with each other, they find that the friends in the system's internal player space, that is, the online players, are staying in the space well, while the group that is not online, that is, the people who were in reality before, have not responded to the inquiries.
As to whether they were pulled into the game normally or have always been in reality, no one knows because they cannot be contacted.
"Although we can't ask the real people, everyone seems to think that those players in reality are still in reality, and they may never come back again." Jiang Jiaying turned off the screen. "What do you think this is like?"
Bai Jiwei lowered his eyes and looked at the circle of light on the ground: "The area covered by the system is completely isolated from the outside world."
The players discussed everything from natural disasters to man-made disasters, from the out-of-control temple management to system program failures, and from the time the incident just happened a day ago to now when almost everyone in the player hall knew about it. The final result of the conversation unsurprisingly returned to the dozens of light circles that suddenly appeared in the world outside the player hall.
Those dozens of apertures were the culprit for all this; this was the only answer everyone could think of.
But now that we have the answer, the question becomes how to deal with it.
The players who were trapped in the space and were trying to return to reality but were stopped naturally expressed their hope to destroy those light circles.
But players who have run out of rest time but escaped and entered a new game because the system was closed to the outside world hope to let nature take its course.
There were also players who had just completed the game but had to stay in the system for a short time, watching their companions return to reality. They wanted to go back in time and shake their shoulders to ask why they didn't leave earlier. If they had left earlier, they might have been able to get rid of the system completely.
There are also some players who are not satisfied with the reality and stay in their personal space as long as they are not in the game. They don’t care. Anyway, they have no attachment to going back. In the system, they can keep their bodies in the best condition without eating or drinking, and there is no need to worry about external dangers. They even hope that the effect of the aperture will stop at this step, making the system a second world so that they can live in it forever.
The forum was abuzz with controversy, and in just one day, countless posts were made to tear each other apart, but the outcome was still uncertain.
Of course, it's not that I don't have the courage to try.
The nearest light circle to Shengjing Mansion is within a hundred meters, and there are players on duty around it to prevent deliberate sabotage.
A player crouched down, stopped behind a stone wall ten steps away, took out a glass bottle from his bracelet, and suddenly raised his hand to throw it in the direction of the aperture!
"Bang--"
A bullet suddenly penetrated the wrist bone, causing the player to feel severe pain in his hand. The glass bottle then slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.
The sudden explosion made people's eardrums hurt. The players guarding around the aperture noticed the movement here and were about to step forward, but another person was one step faster than him and walked towards the explosion site.
The player was wearing a bulletproof vest, and half of his body was blown into a bloody mess, but his bones were not injured. At least he could stand up and stared at the culprit who shot him: "What do you want to do?"
Bai Jiwei held a gun in his hand and looked at him with raised eyebrows: "What do I want to do? I want to ask, what are you doing here?"
The player didn't say anything. He turned around and found that the exits on both sides of him were blocked by the guarding players who had gathered around.
Bai Jiwei said: "Do you want to blow up the aperture with a bottle?"
The player's eyes instantly turned red, and his bleeding hands clenched into fists: "Why don't you let us leave? Just because you don't want to enter the game anymore, you can drag us down and be trapped here with no home to return to?!"
Bai Jiwei asked, "Are you one of those people who wanted to return to reality but found that they couldn't?"
The player stiffened his neck and said, "So what? You have people and power in the system, so you can do whatever you want. You said you would consider the pros and cons of many aspects before deciding whether to destroy it. Aren't you just stalling for time because you are afraid of death and want to stay in the system forever?!"
Bai Jiwei looked at him quietly.
The player sneered, "You can live comfortably in the system anyway, and it doesn't matter whether you go out or not, so you can treat everyone else as your sacrifice. When everyone else gets used to this kind of life, you can then naturally say that you won't do anything. If you don't plan to return to reality, we will have to go back! Do you think everyone is as ungrateful as you who even forgot their own last name?!"
Bai Jiwei finally spoke: "Do you know that if the aperture is destroyed, players may have to continue to enter the game?"
"Why don't you just say you must enter the game by force? Why are you pretending to be an innocent outsider here?"
"Then do you know that if the aperture is destroyed, you will still have to enter the game after seven days?"
"I'm not as cowardly as you guys to be so scared of a game!"
"Then do you know that if the aperture is destroyed, the players who have already returned to reality will also have to enter the game?"
"Why are they the only ones who can stay in reality?!"
Bai Jiwei smiled: "Why can they do it but you can't?"
The player's face froze.
"You said you were about to return to reality when you found out you couldn't? What a pity! If you had gone earlier, you could have returned to reality and escaped the system's control forever, and you wouldn't have to come back and fight for your life. If you can't do that, why can others?" Bai Jiwei raised his lips playfully, "Are you so jealous of them that you even risked coming here to blow up the passage?"
The player's chest heaved violently, and he pounced at him with his hands turned into claws!
"Bang--"
The player's other shoulder blade was also pierced by a bullet. He fell to the ground, leaving a bloody trail, and curled up and screamed.
Bai Jiwei walked over and stepped directly on the bloody hole in his shoulder caused by the gunshot, and crushed it with his feet rotating clockwise.
The player was sweating profusely and trembling as he shouted, "You can't kill in this system..."
"But it doesn't prohibit disability." Bai Jiwei raised his eyelids and looked down at him, "As long as you are still alive, isn't it okay?"
The player's pupils trembled: "If, if the temple is still in charge, what...what do you count as in the system..."
"It's a pity that the administrators of the temple have all disappeared." Bai Jiwei's eyes lost their warmth. "In the current system, I have the final say. What can you do?"
"you……"
"And do you really think I dare not do anything to you?" Bai Jiwei pointed the gun at his temple, and the index finger of the hand holding the gun tapped the gun barrel again and again. The vibrating hum was transmitted to the human skull along with the metal, and the heartbeat quickened little by little.
The player heard his own heartbeat like a drum and said in a hoarse voice: "You dare not..."
Bai Jiwei suddenly smiled and put his index finger on the trigger.
The loud bang suddenly got so close that even the human eardrum seemed to be about to burst.
The player stopped trembling and his pupils became empty.
Bai Jiwei moved his gun away from the other party and said, "You dare to destroy the passage, but this is all you have?"
The player slowly came back to his senses, his ears bleeding from the loud noise, and when he saw him, it was as if he was looking at a Shura from hell.
Bai Jiwei ignored him and stood up: "Have you seen enough?"
The surrounding players were startled and swarmed back to continue guarding around the aperture.
Bai Jiwei opened his bracelet and made a call: "Song Zhici."
"Fifty-three light circles in total? Are you sure they are all the places he walked that day?"
"Since he painted it, why bother about it? Just keep it safe."
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Suddenly, a "click" sound was heard in the extremely violent light.
Yuan Ji suddenly raised his head.
There was a strong wind blowing all around, houses collapsed, and appliances fell. Such a sound should have been drowned out by the roar, but he heard it.
The stone in Shi Yu's hand fell to the ground at some point.
Yuan Ji's heart skipped a beat and he suddenly grabbed the other person's right hand.
The other person's clothes rustled in the wind, the wrist bones under his palms protruded, clear and lonely, and the blood in his veins gurgled with the panicked beating of his heart.
He subconsciously wanted to hold the other person's face, but when he touched the chin, he felt a warmth, and his mind was instantly overturned. However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't stop the dirty blood from seeping out from between his fingers: "You...what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay." Shi Yu covered the blood on the corner of his lip with the back of his hand and coughed twice. "The original power of this world is my godhead. If I don't take it back, neither you nor I can leave."
The power that surged in the air shattered his mortal body in an instant, and along with the divine aura rising in his soul, what also emanated was the vitality that would never return.
At this moment, Yuan Ji finally realized the reason why the fragments of the divine nature were always unwilling to enter the body of their owner. This was because a person who had been stripped of his or her divine identity was not qualified to possess the treasure, and the moment of complete fusion would mean the death of the other person.
The fragments of the godhead are spiritual creatures, and they have never resisted returning to the body of their former owner. They only resist the consequences of returning.
Shi Yu will die.
...It's such a simple truth, but he just figured it out now.
Shi Yu used a little force to break free from the opponent's shackles, walked to the front and squatted, and touched the stone with patterns on the ground again.
The wild wind was still howling all around, and the stone suddenly broke in the middle, torn and split into two halves. The fragments of the divinity that were attracted and trapped in it flew into the air like a startled wild goose, and the light flowed quietly.
Yuan Ji was standing behind him, and suddenly he felt a strong sense of panic in his heart, and subconsciously grabbed the corner of his clothes.
Shi Yu stretched out his hand towards the fragments in mid-air: "Come back."
The fragments were silent for half a second, then fell down and sank into his body in the blink of an eye.
For a moment, Shi Yu almost lost the strength to stand. He closed his eyes, took a step back, and his shoulder fell into the palm of the other person's hand.
He regained his balance before turning back: "What's wrong?"
All the nerves in Yuan Ji's body were pulled so hard that they hurt. His throat felt so sour that he bit the word "why" between his lips and teeth for a long time but couldn't get it out.
Haven't you always had no desire to get your power back?
Why do you suddenly want to absorb the fragments now?
Just to escape from this small dimension?
But do you know what price you have to pay if you want to merge your mortal body with the fragments of the divine nature?
The black fog in Shi Yu's field of vision became thicker and thicker. He took two steps lightly, and the power that suddenly surged in his body turned into thousands of swords and sabers, splitting this world into pieces.
He raised his head in the dazzling setting sun and the confusing gale, watching the ridges and hilltops that looked like a painting being torn apart. The origin of the plane turned into golden light and rushed towards him madly, almost drowning him in the broken spots of light.
The whole world seemed to be silent at that moment. After a few seconds, the system sounded:
[The game has been completed, and the statistics of surviving players are being collected]
[Data statistics completed, about to leave the dungeon world, please wait]
It only took Yuan Ji a moment to return to the God's Tomb.
The air was filled with tiny sparks of fireflies, and fragments of the godhead poured into the human body like a tide. The few drops that splashed out served as ready-made guiding stones, traveling across a distance of tens of millions of kilometers to attract the other half of the godhead that now existed in the soul of another person.
Fu Yang suddenly stood up and was out of the palace in the blink of an eye.
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