God's Mercy (VI)
In the game system, the card [Deep Sea Shadow] was flashing rhythmically, like a living being breathing. Li Yuebai looked in one direction as if he had sensed something.
He saw a huge black shadow rising from the deep sea. It was a being that was hard to describe in words, like a collection of countless tentacles, but with a kind of indescribable divinity. Its eyes - if they could be called eyes - emitted a faint blue light, exactly the same blue as in his dream.
Li Yuebai felt like he was falling, but not towards the bottom of the sea, but into nothingness. His consciousness floated in the darkness, and low whispers rang in his ears. The language was ancient and obscure, but it made him feel inexplicably at ease.
When he regained consciousness, he found himself in a huge underwater palace. The palace was made of some kind of glowing coral, and the walls were inlaid with breathing pearls. He was lying on a bed woven from seaweed, and his body was covered with a jellyfish membrane as soft as a gauze.
"You're awake." A voice sounded directly in his mind.
Li Yuebai turned around and saw the huge black shadow floating in the center of the palace. Its form kept changing, sometimes like an octopus, sometimes like a dragon, but it always maintained a certain elegant rhythm.
He smiled softly and said, "This is our first formal meeting. According to human etiquette, it seems necessary to introduce myself. Then please call me Xinggui."
——After all, He came from the stars.
"...I didn't expect that although you always invade other people's dreams, you are still quite polite, Xinggui." When Li Yuebai read out this name, he felt his heart skip a beat. He stretched out his hand, walked forward, and touched one of Xinggui's tentacles. It felt cold and soft, with the unique salty smell of the deep sea, but it was not disgusting.
"So this is the touch." Li Yuebai's eyes sparkled.
"What a... curious child." He seemed surprised by his touch, and his tentacles suddenly grew three times larger, but he carefully avoided his arteries.
"...But why is it that the card is still not activated even though it has been touched?" In front of Him, Li Yuebai couldn't help but reveal his inner thoughts, and he heard his voice trembling. If there were a panel value that was visualized, Li Yuebai would find that his SAN value was constantly decreasing.
His eyes sparkled with a strange light: "Because what you saw is still my mimicry. If you want to truly contact me, you need to understand me more deeply...child."
The tentacles of the star track swayed gently in the dark sea water, emitting a faint fluorescence. Li Yuebai felt like he was trapped in a web woven by light, the tentacles were sometimes as soft as silk, and sometimes as tight as chains.
"So..." Xinggui's voice echoed in his mind, with the unique resonance of the deep sea: "Do you want to make further contact?"
If there is such an opportunity to contact an Outer God, then I must agree! Li Yuebai, who has a low SAN value, said happily: "Of course, how can we make further contact? If it doesn't even count as physical entanglement, then are you going to invade my brain?"
Even though he could not bear His true face, just feeling some of the inhuman qualities emanating from Him, Li Yuebai was already completely immersed in it.
What a lovely child.
Under his admiring gaze, a tentacle slowly climbed up Li Yuebai's arm. It seemed that some kind of hot energy was flowing under the cold skin. Li Yuebai wanted to move, but found that his feet were entangled by more tentacles. Those tentacles were not rough, but rather had a strange tenderness.
His voice had a strange rhythm, and his words were still very polite: "Please feel my presence."
More tentacles came up and gently caressed the side of Li Yuebai's neck. He felt a shudder, not fear, but an indescribable throbbing. Fine suction cups appeared on his tentacles, each sucking gently on his skin, bringing waves of numbness.
Li Yuebai saw his eyes - the blue light became extremely bright at this moment, like the brightest gem in the deep sea. He felt that he was being watched by some ancient and powerful existence, and that gaze contained unspeakable desire.
His heart began to beat violently.
“You are really… a little impatient.” He stroked him gently: “…Relax.”
Li Yuebai smelled the breath of the deep sea, a mixture of salt and some mysterious aroma. His tentacles surrounded his body, and he did not feel suffocated as he had imagined, but instead felt a strange pleasure. Li Yuebai felt his consciousness begin to blur, as if he was merging with the entire deep sea. An ancient ballad rang in his ears.
[The divine power bestowed upon us allowed us to be born in the ocean...]
Li Yuebai's blood was boiling, and the tentacles of Xinggui were injecting some mysterious energy into his body. He saw his skin begin to glow with a faint blue light, which matched the fluorescence on His body.
Before his consciousness completely sank, Li Yuebai heard His whisper: "Let us be entangled together forever, until the deep sea swallows up the starry sky..."
In a state of extreme trance, he saw the card face constantly flipping, the task list constantly refreshing, and the initial ritual of [Deep Sea Shadow] had been lit up.
*
Li Yuebai found that he had been strengthened in all aspects, just like from LV9→LV99.
This is the result of the only seven-star card in the card pool feeding back to him.
"When I sent you to another world, you absorbed a part of my power. The Destiny Card Game uses this power to develop abilities based on your inner heart."
So in fact, Li Yuebai's ability was not the enhancement type as he reported in the academy, but a complete trait type.
His ability is the [Destiny Card], which is to capture some of the old shadows, make them into cards, and give Li Yuebai the ability to dominate, etc.
"This ability is too powerful, so it has been in its growth stage... Speaking of which, when this game system was created, I also helped add a lot of interesting little settings. And I added one of my cards in it, and the probability of drawing it is 0.001%." said GM [Xinggui].
"I didn't expect you to pick me so soon... This is really a coincidence of fate."
"The settings you added?" Li Yuebai couldn't help but ask curiously: "Are they not the bad parts?"
GM laughed and said, “Why would you think that?”
Li Yuebai said: "...I always feel like you are such a bad guy."
He did not give a direct answer.
As He gazed upon him day after day, the child developed a certain resistance to Him and even felt a part of His essence.
His original power has been integrated into his body.
For humans, the closest relationship is blood relationship. For example, for Li Yuebai, the closest person is undoubtedly his brother, but in his standards, Li Yuebai, who relies on absorbing his power to create such interesting abilities, is like his own kind.
The only [player].
He recalled every moment of his growth and chuckled again.
"It's almost dawn, and this dream is almost over... So, I want to ask you one last question: Do you like this game?"
"……not bad."
"Want to continue?"
"Of course we have to continue." Li Yuebai said.
He didn't want it to end yet.
*
He woke up from his dream and saw his brother NPC's gentle and sad eyes: "Do you already know everything, Yuebai."
"Didn't you deny it before, brother?"
"...Wouldn't it be good to stay in this world forever?" He lowered his eyes, avoiding his sight: "That world is full of death, alienation and powerful enemies. The dangerous factors in this world have been eliminated, and you can continue to be the head of the Li family... Have everything, no matter what you want, I will give it to you."
Li Yuebai refused, "A game that switches to the main plot halfway through is like forcibly stopping in the middle of a fun game. It has no beginning or end."
The young man raised his eyes: "Yuebai, are you sure you want to leave like this? Brother really doesn't want..."
Li Yuebai was eager to try, he had reached this stage of the plot and saw that his brother NPC was about to turn evil, so it was time to have a big fight with the evil boss!
In his dream, he was strengthened with one click by the Seven-Star Card [Deep Sea Shadow]. Now he is very inflated and feels that he is almost invincible.
He realized that he had full control over the game system, instead of being affected by sudden upgrades, repairs, and crashes of the broken system as in the past.
"Brother, how are you going to stop me?" He smiled and said, "I don't want to stay in this world with you. It's so boring. I want to go back!"
He stepped up his provocations.
He saw the disappointment clearly visible in those dark eyes, and the light in them dimmed inch by inch.
"Although this scene was carefully selected, it is not real after all."
Li Jianxue has only one simple and plain wish, which is to grow up with his younger brother, to protect him from wind and rain, and to solve all his troubles.
From the moment he saw the dying child in the snow, he could no longer take his eyes off him.
After a moment, the stern young man rubbed his brother's head and said, "...Then go back."
Go back to their original world and change everything you want. No matter what kind of ending you want, it's up to you.
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