Chapter 45 The Lost Ancient Country (12)
When Gu Qiufeng walked over, he just heard Guan Ciying utter these words faintly.
he:"……"
Is it so cruel?
They are really different from his impression of the residents of City D.
Guan Ciying turned her head and saw Gu Qiufeng standing by the flowers. She raised her eyebrows and waved, "Holy Son, come here. I've got something good for you."
Only then did Gu Qiufeng realize that the assimilated A-level player was frozen tightly in the ice. His expression still retained the anger and disbelief of that moment, which actually looked a bit funny.
Gu Qiufeng couldn't help laughing out loud. He asked curiously, "If he is frozen, is he still conscious now?"
"Yes." Guan Ciying said, "Son, this guy is related to the blood clan."
Gu Qiufeng had already vaguely deduced some of the causes and consequences from the letter, but now in order to pretend to be an NPC who knew nothing about the players, he played dumb and said, "Oh? Your companions were killed, and then this guy pretended to be Lin Chaoxu and lurked around you?"
"That's about right." Guan Ciying said, "But there's something wrong."
Gu Qiufeng asked: "What?"
"Memory and consciousness." Guan Ciying stared at Gu Qiufeng's pale eyes under the mask. "I originally thought that Lin Chaoxu was killed by the vampires the moment he entered the game. But it seems that this is not right."
Gu Qiufeng: "Oh?"
Li Shuntong said: "Son, Lin Chaoxu can use his mental power to control animals and humans."
Guan Ci greeted his words and said, "Perhaps his strength is not enough to completely assimilate our consciousness, but it is not impossible to give us some psychological hints."
"I know exactly who I am," Guan Ciying said. "I love my companions and humans. It may sound silly to say this, but it is impossible for me not to notice something is wrong with my companion after he was swapped with someone else for several days."
Li Shuntong said: "After one person is replaced, no matter how carefully the other person disguises himself, there will be some flaws in the incredible details."
These may be difficult for ordinary people to detect.
But if a teammate who has been through life and death together for a long time is really replaced by someone else, wouldn’t veteran players like Guan Ciying and Li Shuntong, who have good abilities in all aspects and rich experience in dungeons, be unable to see it?
Guan Ciying tapped his solar plexus: "Yesterday, Li Shuntong and I were initially in disbelief. We couldn't accept the death of our companion. But soon, I felt something was wrong."
"I made a hypothesis about Lin Chaoxu's ability," Guan Ciying said, "Maybe from the beginning, we didn't have a third companion at all? All our cognition of companions was formed by Lin Chaoxu's forced hypnosis in our subconscious."
Gu Qiufeng glanced at her subtly: "Your idea is very bold, but how do you verify it?"
Guan Ciying smiled cleverly: "So we are here to find the Holy Son."
"Then according to your inference, the dark creatures actually forcibly changed the consciousness of humans in order to infiltrate the capital?" Gu Qiufeng said, "If the population of residents increases sharply, the relevant departments will notice it."
"Not all of them have changed their consciousness." Guan Ciying glanced at Li Shunyi and said, "Please let us know first. I have something to tell the Holy Son."
Li Shuntong nodded and walked towards the distance of the pavilion.
After sending Li Shuntong away, Guan Ciying felt a little more relaxed.
Then, she raised her eyes and said, "Holy Son, please close the live broadcast room. I don't want others to hear what I say next."
Gu Qiufeng spread his hands helplessly and said: "You are really amazing, can I ask how you guessed it?"
He had already closed the live broadcast room in advance when he saw the important report yesterday.
His intuition told him that it would be best not to show core information directly related to the game to others.
"Hmm." Guan Ciying said, "I thought you looked familiar before, but I couldn't remember where I had seen you. I have to thank Lin Chaoxu for this, because it reminded me of some things."
Gu Qiufeng: "Please speak."
"You look a lot like the A-level player Shenlei." Guan Ciying finished speaking and laughed again, "Oh, by the way, there should be no players who remember Shenlei anymore, and no one will say that you look like her."
Guan Ciying blinked, looking a little sad: "I remember now. Captain Shenlei finally made a deal with the little princess. She gave her eyes to the little princess, sacrificed her soul to the dungeon, and sent me and the medic out. Later, all the companions in our team who explored the dungeon were buried in the three dungeons, and the entire game began to update, erasing their existence from the memories of all players. We were also sent back to City D, lost our memory skills, and started over as a brand new player."
Gu Qiufeng asked calmly: "What does it have to do with me?"
"Because you really look like her." Guan Ciying said anxiously, "Your personalities are not similar. However, your appearance and temperament are connected, which everyone can see at a glance. This is not the temperament that NPCs can have. This is a feeling that belongs only to Shenlei!"
Very similar.
Arcana also thought that his appearance was very similar to God's Tears.
Gu Qiufeng didn't think this was offensive, he was just curious: "Excuse me, do you think there is any relationship between me and your captain? For example, blood relationship?"
Guan Ciying hesitated and said, "Before entering the game, she was an orphan. It's not impossible... maybe she is a long-lost relative?"
Gu Qiufeng asked again: "Is Li Shuntong, your companion, another survivor?"
Guan Ciying quickly rejected the suggestion: "No."
She smiled bitterly. "Our names, memories, skills, and even appearances were all reassigned by the game. The other teammate may still be alive, or may have died. Li Shuntong is a companion I met in the first dungeon in City D."
Guan Ciying said: "When we entered the dungeon ten years ago, we just wanted to know what the game was going to update. Who could have thought... this crappy game was designed to kill us all from the beginning."
"Lin Chaoxu is our teammate 'Hamster'. He was influenced by Origin from the beginning and took the initiative to join Origin."
Gu Qiufeng had seen the word "origin" in Shenlei's report, so he quickly asked, "What is origin?"
Guan Ciying: "It is the official general term for anomalies. At first, it meant the origin of the disaster. Later, after our team entered the game, we discovered that the real 'origin' was in City A. This 'origin' was classified as the most dangerous and named X."
Gu Qiufeng said: "This game, including some anomalies in the real world, are all caused by Origin X, right?"
Guan Ciying nodded: "We don't know how to define it. Perhaps it is not enough to judge it by the same criteria as a biological being, but if we only look at the results, it will invade reality and destroy the world."
"Let me continue," Guan Ciying rubbed his head and said, "Hamster Lin Chaoxu became a tool for Origin X to assimilate us. Assimilation means influencing our thinking, making us no longer have human emotions and empathy, and making us actively surrender to X. In the process of assimilation, we also gradually forgot our identity as players, and even thought that we were monsters produced by the copy."
"When Captain Shenlei found out, it was too late. Imperceptible influence is the most terrifying thing, because you have no idea how your brain has been transformed without you even realizing it. She realized that X had not set up a way to pass the level at all, and these three copies were traps for A-level players like us. X wanted to purge the players who posed a threat to him."
Guan Ciying paused, "Akana is different from other dungeon monsters in that she is not a creation, but a companion creature that X cut and cultivated. Perhaps X did not expect that a part of himself would stand on the side of humans. X is assimilating us, and in fact, the God's Tears are also assimilating Arcana. Arcana has human thinking and human emotions."
"So, God's Tear gave his soul and eyes to Arcana, and used her power to send us out."
"The skill of God's Tears is tears. Her tears have the ability to purify everything, big or small. This is our weapon against X. Perhaps because of this, X felt the threat from humans for the first time and purged us players in City A."
The Godly Tear eventually gave her tears to Arcana.
Even so, even if X wanted to vent his anger on Arcana because of the failure of his plan, Arcana's eyes would make him afraid. It was a gaze that could purify all "origins" with just one glance.
Guan Ciying said: "That was in the past. Later, all the players in City A were probably cleaned up, and the game entered a new version."
"Until now, no A-level player can enter City A through an A-level copy."
The conditions of the A city dungeon suddenly became extremely harsh, and most A-level players didn't even dare to enter the A-level dungeon to challenge.
"You... I don't know the specific relationship between you and the captain." Guan Ciying said, "But when I saw you, I felt very close to you."
Gu Qiufeng said: "Coincidentally, I also want to go to City A to find out some truth."
Guan Ciying was stunned for a moment, then she smiled in surprise: "Thank you. I didn't expect that although you look similar to the captain, your personality is unexpectedly a bit like White Whale."
Gu Qiufeng asked: "Can I know the name of the white whale?"
Guan Ciying said sadly, "The game has recently started to prepare for an update. X's influence on the game should not be as deep as before, which is why I can remember so much. It would be nice to have one more person to help me remember."
"White Whale is our vice-captain, named Gu Jiu. He fought his way out of the fog and water. But he doesn't have a good relationship with our captain. The current Third Guild was spontaneously established by some of his followers at the time. Of course, no one should remember White Whale now."
Gu Qiufeng said coldly: "No."
"On the first day I entered City D, someone mentioned Gu Jiu."
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