Chapter 46 The Lost Ancient Country (13)
On the first day in City D, Zhang, the repairman who claimed to be his guide, gave him a warm welcome.
Under the stone statue of Arcana, he told Gu Qiufeng a legendary story about Wu Shuishen's origin.
The name of the character in the story is Gu Jiu.
But if what Guan Ciying said is true, then clearly no one should remember the A-level players who were cleared out of the game that year.
Guan Ciying said: "Maybe... there is something wrong with my memory. Since X can tamper with all my memories, it is natural that he can also make me have errors in cognition."
"I think that the guide himself may have some special features." Gu Qiufeng said, "I tend to agree with your statement."
If Gu Jiu was once a core figure of the Third Guild, there wouldn't be no clues about him on the forum.
At first, Gu Qiufeng thought that the forum had set up some banned entries.
However, the forum was built spontaneously by players, and there is no obvious reward and punishment system. Human hearts are really not so peaceful, and the ban on discussion will only breed endless curiosity about taboos.
They would choose to use various codes to discuss things vaguely.
But as for Gu Jiu, there is really no trace at all.
Is there anything that can completely stop people’s minds from wandering?
Only forgetfulness.
Only by forgetting can one completely deny a person's existence.
"But you can't be a relative of both White Whale and our captain, right?" Guan Ciying said, "It's too weird. You look like our captain, but your behavior is really like White Whale."
Gu Qiufeng half-jokingly and half-tentatively asked: "Maybe I am their child?"
"Impossible!" Guan Ciying said firmly.
She looked a little angry. "Please don't assume that about our captain. Our captain won't fall in love with anyone. Her ideals are far beyond those of humans, and no one can stand shoulder to shoulder with her. And... our captain and Deputy Captain White Whale are not just at odds in the literal sense..."
"They have very different ideas about the world and humanity," Guan Ciying said. "Do you understand? If one person hopes for destruction and the other hopes for salvation, these two types of people will not respect each other."
"Not to mention love. In the end, both God's Tears and White Whale wanted to kill each other to prove their own ideals."
Gu Qiufeng asked: "Then do you have a more reasonable explanation?"
"I would rather it be a coincidence." Guan Ciying rubbed his head and said, "Perhaps it is because the death of God's Tears and the White Whale cut off the last possibility of human beings saving themselves. So the world sent you, like a combination of God's Tears and the White Whale, to save us."
Gu Qiufeng shrugged: "I hope so."
Guan Ciying glanced at him and said coldly, "You are still not serious in the face of such a serious problem. It's really annoying."
"Oh?" Gu Qiufeng smiled unmoved. He gently touched the bandage on his right hand with his left hand, and then said, "Then are you forcing me to save the world just because I look like the two former saviors? Why?"
Gu Qiufeng said: "Why should I take it seriously? Death is not a big deal to me. I am not dying now only because I am more willing to explore the truth of this game. But saving the world is my personal choice."
“It’s not necessarily my responsibility.”
Guan Ciying: "You..."
But when she met Gu Qiufeng's pale eyes, she felt as if a bucket of cold water was suddenly poured over her head, and she was at a loss for words.
It seems to be true.
It seemed like she had no right to morally blackmail him.
As for Gu Qiufeng, she couldn't say that she had misjudged him.
From the very beginning, the other party had no intention of revealing his true nature to them.
Even his NPC identity was carefully disguised.
It was just that Gu Qiufeng and Shen Lei looked too similar, which made her dazed for a moment, and she couldn't help but hold some unrealistic and absurdly naive hopes.
Guan Ciying finally calmed down and said softly, "I'm sorry, I couldn't help but threaten you."
"Now it seems that we may not be the same kind of people." Guan Ciying stared at Gu Qiufeng. The other party did not take off his mask, but his eyes were full of the divine tears of the past. She almost felt a lump in her throat, but she still forced herself to hold back the tears.
She said, "Thank you for helping me and Li Shuntong in this instance. If we have the chance in the future, we will repay you. We say goodbye now."
Gu Qiufeng stared at Guan Ciying as he left. The other party said a few words to Li Shuntong who was keeping watch for them.
The two of them left without looking back.
"You don't seem happy."
A sudden voice appeared behind me.
Gu Qiufeng turned his head and found that Akana was actually sitting on a big tree.
Her blue eyes looked up at him without blinking, and Arcana smiled slowly and said, "I heard it all."
Akana's strength is truly unpredictable. Gu Qiufeng and Guan Ciying didn't notice she was eavesdropping for such a long time.
Arcana jumped down from the tree lightly, like a suddenly blooming iris.
"You..." Gu Qiufeng couldn't help but ask, "You have seen Shenlei, do you still remember what she looks like?"
Akana tilted her head, her expression calm, as if this name no longer made her sad and out of control.
But Gu Qiufeng heard Akana say: "Yes, I remember, I remember everything. I have seen that lady before, so I have always wanted her to enter the palace."
Akana originally thought that Guan Ciying gave her a very familiar feeling. Although his appearance had changed, Akana always felt like she was meeting an old friend again.
"I wanted to ask her if she knew the knight's whereabouts." Arcana's voice finally couldn't hold up anymore and began to tremble slightly, "but last night I suddenly remembered that the knight was dead."
A gust of wind blew the hem of her skirt that covered her ankles, creating ripples.
"Very similar. And the knight," Arcana said, "If the ages weren't different, I would suspect it was her child."
When Arcana was selecting the Son of God, she noticed this child, so she secretly tampered with the oracle and raised the child who looked like the God's Tears by her side.
It’s like cultivating a beautiful dream for yourself.
Arcana said, "But you are completely different from Shenlei. I mean personality."
Gu Qiufeng curled the corners of his lips slightly mockingly: "The personality is the shadow of another person, right?"
"The kid is having a tantrum," Arcana commented, looking at him.
Gu Qiufeng: “.”
Gu Qiufeng: “No.”
Arcana said: "After Shenlei gave me her eyes, I can feel that she still has a trace of will left in my body. But that will is almost too weak, it does not represent Shenlei personally, it is just an instinct of hers. Occasionally, I will be driven by her instinct to do something."
Gu Qiufeng recalled the two times Arcana attacked him and asked, "Did the God's Tears want to kill me? Why?"
He remembered the term "monster companion" mentioned by the Will of God's Tear.
What are companion products?
"But yesterday, you made her consciousness a little clearer." Arcana said, "I was also awakened at that time, and accidentally sensed some of the emotions of the God's Tears."
"She seemed to have suddenly changed her mind."
Gu Qiufeng asked: "She doesn't want to kill me anymore?"
"Yes, she was somewhat delighted by your arrival and your performance." Arcana said, "Perhaps I can't describe it."
"But you are an independent individual." Arcana said seriously, "This is what I think, and this is also what God's Tears thought after the change."
Arcana said seriously, "Do you want to complete the level? Your skills should be related to the things in the dungeon, right?"
Since Arcana already knew about the player, it was not surprising that he could guess that the wooden man was his skill. The wooden man was a dungeon creation, and perhaps Arcana could sense the source of the aura.
Gu Qiufeng said: "Yes."
"I can help you," Arcana said, "but you have to promise me one thing."
Gu Qiufeng: "If I can do it."
Arcana reached out and touched his eyes, a look of determination appeared on his face: "Help me take out the skill of God's Tears."
God's Tears has been assimilated by the copy, and his personality has long disappeared. Naturally, he is no longer a human being. However, his storage skills can work on God's Tears' eyes.
However, if this happens, the last trace of the Divine Tears, relying on the consciousness attached to Arcana, will also completely disappear.
In this world, there will never again be the knight that the little princess longs for in the sea of roses.
"It doesn't matter." Arcana said, "I know what God's Tears thinks. She likes freedom, she loves humans, there is nothing she wants here, God's Tears will only suffer if she stays here. And in the beginning, she gave me this pair of eyes just to protect me..."
"That's enough. You've been with me for so many years."
Akana lowered her head, and the long hair beside her ears immediately hid the expression on her face.
Gu Qiufeng suddenly felt that at this moment, he saw the obedient and sensible little princess recorded in Shenlei's pen.
Just as Guan Ciying said, X tampered with the will of human players, making them lose their emotions and assimilate into monsters.
But in fact, humans are also assimilating monsters.
Arcana has emotions that do not belong to her, emotions that only humans have.
This is what God's Tears taught her.
Gu Qiufeng suddenly felt a sense of respect for this A-level player leader whom he had never met.
She really seemed to have some kind of enduring human chivalry.
Gu Qiufeng asked: "Akana, do you know the real name of God's Tears?"
“I have not forgotten,” Arcana said.
"Lu Jinghong."
Arcana said: "She said that in your world, there is a very nice phrase called 'a striking glimpse'."
On the first day they met, the female knight imprinted her name on the monster princess's heart with just one stunning glance.
Unfortunately, when the monster princess finally learned the emotion behind this word that was attributed to humans, the knight who taught her had disappeared.
"I want to see her one last time and hear a true farewell." Arcana said, "Please help me."
The author has something to say:
The bond between Arcana and Lu Jinghong, from a macro perspective, represents a special relationship between humans and monsters. Monsters fight humans, and humans also fight monsters to protect themselves. But in fact, Lu Jinghong has opened up a new direction in a certain sense - the origin can pollute humans, and humans can naturally try to influence monsters with emotions. This is the tone of this article. If you think about it carefully, what Agent Gu did to Feng He was also to educate and tame him with the unique emotions of humans.
This is the most similar thing between the agent and Lu Jinghong, apart from the most superficial appearance.
But there is no blood relationship~ The specific reasons will be revealed in City B, so please stay tuned (slip away)
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