Chapter 136 The Distant Past
At this point, Yang Mingzhong laughed at himself, "You must think I was stupid at that time, right? How could a player marry a character in a dungeon? This is simply too ridiculous."
Those female characters are ghosts. If it weren't for the strategy and main quests, players would avoid them. Just approaching them would make most players sweat. How could a player fall in love with a ghost in a horror game? But Wei Junjie, or Yang Mingzhong now, was born with a strong character. Even if he was just a new player who had just walked through the trial map, at that time, he could almost perfectly control his fear in front of a female ghost within ten stars to ensure that the other party would not turn into a ghost.
In her normal state, Li Shuyi was perfect in the eyes of Wei Junjie, an older single virgin at the time.
He became an outlier in this game—he fell in love with a female ghost at first sight.
Although Li Shuyi was the female ghost he wanted to conquer, Wei Junjie still secretly made up his mind to marry this woman.
Of course, such feelings seem ridiculous in the eyes of most players.
So Yang Mingzhong didn't intend to tell the man opposite him about his mental journey.
However, Wen Nan did not show the slightest sarcasm when he heard this, but just asked another question: "You marry her, but once the main quest is over and you clear this dungeon, won't you have to leave? She is not a controllable character, and her star level is not high enough, so you can't take her away, right?"
Yang Mingzhong was stunned when he heard this.
Before deleting his account and starting over, he had told many players who considered themselves his brothers about his past experiences. They all laughed at or teased him, and the topic dropped.
No one has ever been able to put themselves in his shoes and think about the difficulties he faced at the time when hearing his story for the first time.
This shows that the other party not only directly approved of his actions, but also completely accepted his ridiculous idea of wanting to be with a ghost forever.
A strange emotion surged in his heart. Yang Mingzhong picked up the coffee cup, took a sip, and calmed down his emotions before continuing, "If it were in other dungeons, it might not work, but in this dungeon, there is a special item that can help me."
Wen Nan instantly understood what the other party meant, "You triggered the soul thread?"
Yang Mingzhong nodded, "In order to stay in this copy, I am willing to be her puppet."
Seeing a strange emotion in Wen Nan's eyes, Yang Mingzhong explained: "My wife loves me very much. Although she has bound my five limbs with soul threads, she has never tried to control me. My body has always belonged to me. I just use this method to stay with her for a long time."
Wen Nan nodded, "What happened next? Why did you lose her? Because of the car accident?"
"Yes, but not entirely—
“This matter, in the final analysis, is all my own fault.
"If I had continued to play the role of a good husband and lived peacefully with her, the tragedy that followed would not have happened.
“But I was… tired of it.
“This map is too small. If I just complete a few days of tasks, I might not think there is anything wrong. But if I stay here for a long time, doing similar tasks every day, watching those players come in and out, I will feel that this place is like a small fish tank, and I am like a goldfish being watched, becoming more and more boring and suffocating.
“I had the urge to flee from here, and my wife sensed it. She told me that if I wanted to leave, she would cut the soul thread and let me go.
"But I couldn't bear to leave her, so I rejected her proposal and stayed here with her, leading a repetitive, monotonous but happy married life.
"But one day, a man with driving patterns printed on his hands appeared. He told me that he could help me solve my current troubles.
“He can give my wife a driving pattern, so that my wife can become my exclusive character and be taken away from this map forever by me.
“He had only one small request: I needed to join his guild.
"This was a godsend for me, and I signed a gentleman's agreement with him without any hesitation.
“He fulfilled his promise and stamped a pattern on the back of my wife’s neck and I succeeded in controlling my wife.
"On our wedding anniversary, I drove home with hope for the future and wanted to take her away.
“But on the road, there was a car accident.
“I didn’t die, I was rescued by that man and became a member of his guild.
“At first, I tried to go back to this instance to look for her, but my level was too low and I had too little equipment, so it was impossible for me to come back.
"Later, I heard about her from other players and found out that she had started over, completely forgotten me, and was living a new life.
“I think our story ends here, and it’s time for me to move on.
“I have played many roles since then, but I have never been moved by them again.
"Until recently...
“I received a text message from my wife in the character chat box in the system.
"She said she missed me very much, every day, every minute, every second...
"At that moment, I knew that I had to come back no matter what."
Having said this, Yang Mingzhong stopped and did not continue.
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This story sounds sad and seems to be fine.
But Wen Nan carefully analyzed it and couldn't help frowning.
There are actually quite a few unreasonable things in this.
"You said that man gave your wife the driving pattern, why doesn't Li Shuyi have the pattern now?"
"She has a golden pattern," said Yang Mingzhong.
Wen Nan looked at the other person in silence.
He has already conquered Li Shuyi perfectly. If there really is a pattern, even if it is a golden pattern of the highest level, he should have received a notification from the system that he can control it.
Yang Mingzhong was stunned for a moment, and realized that Wen Nan was not as familiar with the characteristics of the control pattern as the members of the Ghost Master Alliance. Perhaps he did not understand what he meant at all, so he had to continue explaining:
“For every thousand characters in the strategy, only one control pattern will appear. And for every thousand control patterns, only one will be a golden pattern.
"The extremely rare golden pattern has a special feature - if the player disappears completely from this game world, then the golden pattern will disappear along with the player, and the controlled character will either disappear directly or be completely restored to factory settings."
So, Li Shuyi was factory reset? "Then why does she still remember you?"
Yang Mingzhong shook his head, "I don't know."
In fact, it’s not just Li Shuyi who has retained her previous memories.
Also, even if Li Shuyi remembered him, as a low-star character, she had no authority to send a message to Yang Mingzhong who had already left this copy.
Why was that message sent out? Also, when Yang Mingzhong walked through this copy, he clearly remembered that the main task he had received before was completely different from the current one.
But he couldn't say these things out loud.
This involves spoilers for the dungeon, and the moment he wants to say it out loud, it will be automatically muted by the game system.
However, he was sure that there was something wrong with this picture.
(End of this chapter)
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