Chapter 48: New Dawn
The city of D, where the world copy was being conducted, seemed to be shrouded in silence.
The hustle and bustle of the past and the crowds of people have all disappeared, and the statue of the goddess has taken on a cooler hue under the sunlight.
A pair of black leather shoes suddenly appeared in front of the statue of the goddess.
"ah."
The sigh of the visitor disrupted and reorganized the silence of City D.
If there were any players here at this moment, they would definitely recognize this dusty middle-aged man.
He guided them into City D and kindly provided them with various intelligence and affordable prop maintenance work.
But if you ask the players in City D to say his full name, everyone will scratch their necks in embarrassment: "Ah, I think everyone calls him Lao Zhang?"
In fact, so much time has passed that Lao Zhang can’t even remember his real name.
He slowly bent down and sat down, staring into the lifeless statue of the goddess in front of him.
Lao Zhang only remembers that his teammates called him "medic" because his skills were related to treatment.
But after some misfortunes, he lost his teammates, his name, his skills, and even his life.
He was forced to be given the position of a "guide" and was imprisoned by the game every day.
The only copy where former teammates can be seen is also blocked by the game with the rule that "the guide cannot enter the copy", thus eliminating the possibility of meeting each other.
Sometimes, Lao Zhang, the medic and current guide, himself doesn’t know what he is insisting on.
When the large-scale dungeon was being carried out in City D, he was the only human player left in the entire city. He could only come to the statue and look into the eyes of the goddess that could only bring back old memories.
That was the last proof of their captain's existence.
Later, Lao Zhang asked about teammates who had entered other copies, but the more he asked, the more disheartened he became.
Everyone's existence was wiped out, even the Second and Third Guilds no longer remembered the existence of the two founders, Divine Tear and White Whale.
This gave him the creeps.
What kind of existence is lurking behind the game?
How could it be possible to easily wipe out the existence of so many humans?
Then why is his memory still preserved?
Captain Shenlei once said this to him at the end.
He is the anchor.
Perhaps God's Tears and White Whale had anticipated the current situation and had marked him with marks that even Origin X could not shake.
The medic had no idea what these two great saviors were trying to do.
God's Tears just told him.
Waiting for the anchor to find the anchor.
Lao Zhang didn't understand this sentence at first.
Until he saw the man named Gu Qiufeng.
Even he couldn't help but be dazed at that time.
They are so similar.
Shenlei was a famous beauty in their player group. Although it was not stated explicitly at the time, there were still many male players who secretly admired the No. 1 player and had fantasized about who Shenlei would fall in love with and what kind of children would they have, as such an unattainable and great existence.
How lucky must Shenlei's lover be to be accompanied by such a great woman?
If the Divine Tears had not been long gone, the medic would have suspected that he was the descendant of the Divine Tears.
But the medic quickly came to his senses.
It just so happens that they look too similar.
Children should be the product of the combination of their parents' genes.
But Gu Qiufeng is only similar to Shenlei in one aspect.
In other words, he was like a product of single-cell culture of the Divine Tears, without any influence from the shape of a second person.
The medic never questioned Shenlei and Baiji. As saviors, their minds had long transcended the human dimension.
Perhaps this is the prescription for salvation that God's Tears deliberately left behind.
So the medic did not rashly reveal his identity to Gu Qiufeng, but used the story of the white whale to guide him to City A.
If Gu Qiufeng knew the existence of the Divine Tears and the White Whale, he would understand.
If the other party knew nothing about it, he wouldn't be alerting the enemy and making the game aware of Gu Qiufeng's existence.
But so many years have passed...
He wandered in the deserted city countless times, and when he looked up at the cold statue, the medic always felt like a wandering soul with only memories.
Many times, he also wanted to enter the world copy to meet the old friends whose souls were imprisoned there.
“You’ve done a great job.”
There seemed to be a slight breeze blowing by my ears.
The medic's eyes suddenly widened, tears streaming down his already aged face.
Is this sound... an illusion caused by the wind disturbing my mind?
Even though he didn't quite believe it in his heart, the medic quickly got up from the ground, staggered a few steps to the bottom of the statue, and looked into the eyes of his old friend.
"team leader?"
He said in a hoarse voice.
"So you've been with us all these years?"
Ten years.
"Please rest. You've done a great job."
There was a sound of wind and the medic stared blankly at the stone statue in front of him.
The sunlight did not change, and in his eyes, the stone statue was being dissolved bit by bit by the wind.
The stone statue that has troubled the players in City D for ten years and imprisoned the souls of his deceased friends for many years is being disintegrated.
For a moment, the medic felt like he had stopped breathing for a while.
From top to bottom, the gradually disappearing stone statue allowed rays of sunlight to gradually leak out.
Countless streams of light are overflowing with colors.
The medic suddenly felt that he saw his former teammates in the white light.
The hamster was playing with the dagger with his head down, and Shenlei was looking up at him.
Tears soon blurred his vision, and when the medic wiped his eyes, he felt the wrinkles on his hands that were caused by time.
The hallucination gradually dissipated.
The statue before my eyes had turned into dust and disappeared.
Many players from City D who had cleared the world copy appeared around.
They looked around in confusion.
"What's going on?"
"Did you pass the level successfully?"
Everyone was talking about it.
The medic wiped the tears from his face, walked silently to the disappearing statue, and looked at all the changes.
"Wait...Arkana's idol is gone!"
After some players realized what was happening, they cried out in joy and excitement.
"Does this mean... that we don't have to participate in the world dungeon every week anymore?"
"Are you saved?"
The fragmentary voices of people were transmitted among the city of D after the statue disappeared.
"Saved."
"It's been ten years..."
The medic stood quietly among the cheering crowd, silently covering his tearful eyes with his palms.
After ten years, his teammates finally got rid of this game.
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Gu Qiufeng put Arcana into the card.
[Your points have reached the C-level player standard, do you want to upgrade? ]
Gu Qiufeng said: "Confirmed."
A halo of light flashed by, and Gu Qiufeng put his hands in his pockets, looking at the new scene.
Unlike City D, what appeared before his eyes was a central hall with a rather high-tech feel, with people coming and going, and electronic screens all around, projecting some copy descriptions.
Is this... City C?
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