Chapter 74 Xiaozhou Port (3)
"After we officially broke off relations with X," Gu Jiu said gently, "I made a bet with it and successfully sent you out of the game."
"What's the bet?" Gu Qiufeng asked.
"I'm betting on whether you can live a normal life." Gu Jiu said, "In the beginning, I was worried, so I broke the bet first and gave up a little bit of my consciousness to accompany you in reality."
In fact, Gu Jiu had no confidence in that bet.
He was also not sure whether a monster child could really grow up like a normal human being in reality.
Shen Lei almost broke up with him because of this incident. She thought Gu Jiu was playing a ridiculous joke. How could humans have so many chips to bet on an unstable monster?
So Gu Jiu lost some patience and left "Dr. Gu" with the monster kid.
At least, teaching a little is helpful.
But because of this, Gu Jiu was found weak by X, and thus he was kept at a disadvantage for the next ten years.
"But in some ways, I'm glad to see you like this now." Gu Jiu said with a smile, "You've grown up well, even though no one wants you to enter the game again."
Gu Qiufeng rolled his Adam's apple and couldn't help asking, "I was not born as a chess piece set by you?"
Gu Jiu shook his head: "No. No one wants you to get involved in these things again. You were raised by monsters. Our encounter with you is an unexpected surprise."
Gu Qiufeng asked again: "Am I a human being, or a creature in the dungeon?"
"I think it's a human. Because you have all the characteristics of a human, how can you not be considered a human?" Gu Jiu said, "I won the bet with X after all."
"This bet..." Gu Qiufeng stopped talking halfway.
What is it for?
Gu Jiu looked at him and said, "Don't worry. It's just that X is too arrogant and doesn't take humans seriously. This bet will only consume his abilities."
"Maybe, there are more connections. You seem to be a very special person to X. He cares about you very much." Gu Jiu said, "But I am not involved in these matters. So if you really want to know, you can wait until the game is over and ask Xie Xin in person."
Xie Xin, Gu Jiu mentioned him.
Gu Qiufeng asked: "What on earth is Xie Xin?"
Gu Jiu said: "You should have guessed it."
"X." Gu Qiufeng said firmly, "He is the X who accompanies me in real life, right?"
Gu Jiu wanted him to grow up in an environment of positive human emotions such as family love and friendship.
X will try his best to destroy these factors, eager to turn Gu Jiu back into a monster in a copy.
But if Xie Xin came here with a purpose from the beginning, why...
"Because that part of his consciousness was influenced by you." Gu Jiu said, "It's a bit ridiculous. A monster wanted to alienate you, but in the end, you tamed part of it."
Even X could not have expected Xie Xin's changes and development. As X's consciousness, he would actually be involved in countless human emotions because of his daily interactions with Gu Qiufeng.
"I have one last question." Gu Qiufeng asked, "What does perfect clearance mean?"
"Perhaps we can temporarily stop the construction of the bridge?" Gu Jiu said, "If we pass the level perfectly, we can temporarily curb the phenomenon of Origin invading reality."
Gu Qiufeng fell silent: "I have nothing more to say."
Gu Jiu: "Then I hope we can really meet next time."
Does he mean the world copy?
Everything around me slowly began to dissipate.
Gu Jiu suddenly opened his mouth at this moment: "What is the ending of Shenlei?"
Outsiders say that they are enemies with different values, but in fact, Gu Jiu knows that he and Shen Lei are the most tacit friends and comrades in the world.
After spending ten years in the game, Gu Jiu never dared to take the initiative to learn about his old friends.
Gu Qiufeng said: "Captain Lu chose to trust your idea in the end."
She also learned to cherish the past and raised a monster princess who was consistent with humans.
Gu Jiu was stunned for a moment: "No wonder..."
“I am very happy.”
The last trace of sound completely disappeared, and Gu Qiufeng found that he was still kneeling on the cushion, but the three incense sticks in his hand had disappeared.
Gu Qiufeng twisted his numb fingertips, stood up and walked out the door.
"What's going on? It's been so long. I thought something happened to you." Xie Songjin said anxiously, "I talked to Gu Jiu. How is he?"
"He asked me to continue looking for him in the Mermaid's copy." Gu Qiufeng said truthfully, "and I suddenly thought of something."
When Gu Jiu mentioned the Divine Tears at the end, it might not have been unintentional, but he might have been hinting at something.
Gu Qiufeng took off the contact lens on his left eye, revealing blue eyes that were exactly the same as Divine Tears.
Xie Songjin was shocked and said: "This is not..."
"Yes." Gu Qiufeng said, "I don't know why. But I remember the skill of God's Tears is that it can purify everything, right?"
Xie Songjin still didn't react: "What do you mean?"
But Xie Songlan suddenly said: "Then can we purify it?"
This should be the most difficult condition to achieve in resisting alienation.
Gu Qiufeng had not thought at first that his eye could be used for this, if Gu Jiu had not mentioned the existence of the Divine Tears at the end.
"But there is one thing I want to clarify," Gu Qiufeng said, "I don't know how to use it yet."
"It's okay, it's just a matter of time." Xie Songjin said, "Since we know that Gu Jiu's consciousness exists in this copy, it's not impossible to offer sacrifices to him. It's a pity that offering sacrifices to the Sea God is not the final solution."
"Sigh, it's almost noon, let's go to the B&B to eat first." Xie Songlan waved his hand and said, "If it doesn't work, we can wait until we sell the fish and threaten the NPC to get us more money."
Gu Qiufeng glanced at Xie Songjin.
Xie Songjin quickly clarified: "I didn't teach this little girl what she said."
Gu Qiufeng gave a thumbs up: "No, I wanted to praise Miss Xie for her very good idea."
Xie Songlan shook her hair proudly: "Isn't it? It's a pity that someone doesn't recognize talent."
Xie Songjin: “…………”
This is fucking speechless. Why doesn't this world give a normal person like him a chance to live?
"By the way, Gu Qiufeng, I want to ask you, what do you think about the World Server Linkage Center?" Xie Songlan asked again, "After discussing it with Xie Songjin before, we both agreed that the game is planning something bad that we don't know about."
Gu Qiufeng said, "Not necessarily."
Xie Songjin said: "Why do you say that? Anyway, I have been tormented by this damn game for more than 20 years. I don't believe it will have any good face towards humans."
Gu Qiufeng said: "That depends on how we use it."
"How do I use it?" Xie Songlan murmured, "Could it be that you want to unite with players from other servers to solve X together and return to reality?"
Xie Songjin said solemnly: "But for so many years, we have been isolated in such a server, and we have no idea that there are human players from other countries outside of this. In other words, now we and other countries have formed an independent ecosystem. I don't know if the game will cause any unrest if it forcibly breaks this ecosystem."
Gu Qiufeng seemed to have thought of something, but he paused and didn't say it out loud. Instead, he said, "You are right. The mechanism of the world server is still unclear. Resources in the game need to be fought for. If the base becomes larger, the competition must be more intense."
There may even be a situation where players kill each other.
"Hey, why are you all so pessimistic? The situation you described will only be based on the situation where our strength is not as good as others." Xie Songlan said, "With the lack of information, it is still uncertain how strong the players in a certain area are."
Xie Songjin said: "But we have a very serious problem."
Xie Songlan: "What?"
Xie Songjin stared at her: "We don't have any real A-level players, but can you be sure that there are no A-level players in other servers?"
This is Country H’s biggest shortcoming.
Ten years ago, all the A-level players died in X's deliberate murder.
If there had not been the update ten years ago, Xie Songjin would also be very confident. With the existence of God's Tears and White Whale, even if the world was linked, Country H would definitely have an existence that the whole world would look up to.
However, Divine Tear, White Whale and others have all been liquidated. Now, the strongest player from Country H who remains in the open is only quasi-A level. There is a huge gap between quasi-A level and A level.
No quasi-A-level player dares to confidently say that he can walk out of an A-level copy intact.
A-level players are a qualification certification that only players who have passed the game perfectly can obtain.
This is the gap in strength that can be seen with the naked eye.
Xie Songlan said: "According to what you said, if you hadn't stopped me, I would have rushed to the A-level dungeon a long time ago!"
Xie Songjin interrupted her: "No, don't even think about the A-level copy."
Xie Songlan: "Why?"
"A-level dungeons are not just about the difficulty of the dungeons," Xie Songjin said, "You've also seen how embarrassed I am every time I leave a dungeon. I can't possibly protect you."
Xie Songlan: "Did I ask you to protect me? I'm the best fighter in this game, but you always stop me from going to dungeons. You're always so overprotective of me. When will I be able to reach A-level?"
"You don't need it." Xie Songjin said, "After I leave Xiaozhou Port, I will try my best to pass the A-level copy perfectly."
Xie Songlan's eyes suddenly turned red.
She slammed the table in front of her and said, "How can I not know what you are thinking? You are afraid that I will die and you will have no relatives. Then am I not afraid that you will die?"
After Xie Songlan finished speaking, he left the table in a huff.
Xie Songjin said to Gu Qiufeng helplessly: "She has always been a little spoiled, don't mind it."
"I agree with Miss Xie's idea." Gu Qiufeng said, "You can't protect her forever."
"I know. But..." Xie Songjin took a deep breath, "She can't enter the A-level dungeon."
Gu Qiufeng intuitively felt that there seemed to be something deeper going on here, but before he could say anything, the door of the B&B was pushed open.
So the two of them looked at the group of people coming together vigilantly.
There were a lot of people, but what was surprising was that none of them had any facial features!
Xie Songjin was stunned and asked, "What's going on? Has a new BOSS suddenly appeared?"
Gu Qiufeng stared at one of the figures intently and said in a hoarse voice: "It shouldn't be, this is a projection in reality."
"What?" Xie Songjin asked in disbelief, "Are you saying that the place we are in now intersects with a certain place in reality?"
As if answering his question, one of the faceless men spoke in a human voice: "Deputy Captain, this B&B is really suspicious. There's clearly no one here, but it seems like there are people talking around."
Xie Songjin held his breath silently, realizing that their conversation had been overheard by someone.
"This is the territory of the origin. We would be scared if it were really normal. Forget it. If they don't hurt us, we can just live with them for now. We have to hurry to the port tomorrow to kill those mutated monsters."
Xie Songjin and Gu Qiufeng exchanged a glance, stood up silently, and tiptoed behind the group of real humans who were going upstairs to find a place to live.
They all recognized that this should be the official organization that Duan Chouyu and Duan Jiangli had previously belonged to, responsible for handling and controlling the copy monsters that invaded reality.
Xie Songjin noticed that Gu Qiufeng's gaze had actually been following a specific person. Xie Xin wanted to ask, but was afraid that their voices would be heard again and cause unnecessary panic among this group of people.
But in some ways, Duan Chouyu and Duan Jiangli were right. The Xiaozhou Port that appeared in City A was the real one in Province Y!
The game world and the real world have indeed penetrated more deeply, and even some kind of interaction has occurred.
Gu Qiufeng saw them enter a room together, probably to rest.
When a group of people are in the same room, they can respond promptly when encountering danger.
Only then did Gu Qiufeng withdraw his gaze.
Xie Songjin, who had been extremely curious, immediately pulled Gu Qiufeng away from the room where the first team was resting and asked quietly, "Is there anyone you know in here?"
"Yes," Gu Qiufeng did not hide anything, "Xie Xin is inside."
"Xie Xin? Why is he here..." Xie Songjin obviously knew Xie Xin's true identity from Gu Jiu, so he showed a shocked expression, "Is he going to help humans get rid of the origin?"
"Who knows what happened?" Gu Qiufeng said, "It should be Duan Jiangli who did it."
"Wow, this guy is a capable person. He was able to find the weakness of X's incarnation and hold him hostage." Xie Songjin said, "But this guy has entered the game now. Could it be Xie Xin's doing?"
Gu Qiufeng said: "Maybe it was X's real body who did it."
He thought of Gu Jiu's words.
Because of him, Xie Xin brought out the seven emotions and six desires of human beings.
So in some ways, is Xie Xin gradually becoming an individual independent of X?
"But I don't feel good about leaving an X incarnation alone with so many ordinary humans," Xie Songjin said, "Let's stay here tomorrow to observe Xie Xin's behavior."
Gu Qiufeng: "That's fine."
But they both knew that even if they really discovered that there was something abnormal with Xie Xin, they would be of no help in another time and space.
It is true that the two worlds are infiltrating each other, but it is obvious that they cannot cross time and space to interfere in the affairs of another world.
"But I have a curiosity," Xie Songjin said, "I watched your live broadcast before, and you said that Xie Xin had interfered in the affairs of Yucheng University. If he is really that powerful, why does he seem to be unable to see our existence at this moment? Logically, he should be able to perceive these things like X."∞
Gu Qiufeng pondered for a while and expressed his guess: "Perhaps, because Xie Xin has human emotions, X's control over him has weakened."
Xie Xin is gradually becoming the real human being "Xie Xin".
"If I were X, I would be so angry that I would die." Xie Songjin sighed, "I lost the bet, and my own avatar slapped me in the face."
Gu Qiufeng curled his lips: "But this is something I like to see."
"By the way," he suddenly thought of something, "Why did you say I was an observer before?"
Xie Songjin touched his nose and said, "I feel like you are a human learning from humans."
Gu Qiufeng said: "That's true."
Along the way, he witnessed too many emotions that were originally only human and were blocked for him by X.
Family, friendship, and hope, these human emotions gradually made up for the personality defects in his growth.
It made him understand completely that human beings are both fragile and strong creatures.
Sometimes Gu Qiufeng even had an illusion that this game itself was a test of his emotions.
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Xie Songjin touched his nose, "Gu Qiufeng, help me deliver lunch to Xiaofanqie later. She hasn't eaten yet, and she will be too embarrassed to go hungry later."
Gu Qiufeng laughed: "Am I the messenger for your quarrel?"
"If I meet her now, I will definitely be beaten." Xie Songjin said, "I definitely can't beat her."
"If possible, you should persuade her not to think about entering the A-level dungeon anymore."
Gu Qiufeng said: "Why? You should at least let me know the truth."
Xie Songjin shook his head: "I can't talk about this."
"In short, any player in the world can enter the A-level dungeon, except Xie Songlan."
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"Did he say that?!" Xie Songlan was so angry that she almost threw the bowl, but she was starving to death and couldn't get angry over the food.
Gu Qiufeng said: "I think Xie Songjin has his own ideas."
Xie Songlan muttered, "He always has his own ideas and doesn't want to tell anyone anything. He always feels that he has to bear everything. If you ask me, this is personal heroism, and sooner or later he will get into trouble."
Gu Qiufeng deeply agreed: "Your brother is indeed a riddle man."
"However, I do know what the last sentence means. He is just afraid that I will die." Xie Songlan said, "He is trying to scare me!"
Gu Qiufeng said: "But Miss Xie's strength should be the best among the players, right?"
"There is no such thing as first place." Xie Songlan said, "God's Tears Gu Jiu was also first in the past, but what about the last time?"
She stared at Gu Qiufeng, but her expression seemed to be in a trance.
"Mr. Gu, do you believe in prophecies?" Xie Songlan murmured.
Gu Qiufeng: "Is this Miss Duan's prophecy?"
"Yes. But she herself may not remember this clearly. She has seen the future of many people, including mine." Xie Songlan said, "Once I happened to meet Duan Chouyu who had just entered the dungeon not long ago. At that time, she still had memories of the present world and did not know how to hide her incompetence."
"She had only one comment about my future."
"I will die."
Xie Songlan uttered the last three words word by word.
A fact confirmed by the prophet himself.
"So my brother went crazy and didn't let me go to dungeons after that. Not to mention A-level dungeons, he didn't even want me to go to low-level dungeons." Xie Songlan said, "But I think this is avoiding life and death."
Gu Qiufeng asked: "What are your plans, Miss Xie?"
"I must enter the A-level dungeon." Xie Songlan said, "even if I will die in it. As the number one player now, I must take the lead. Otherwise, if, as you said, there are really A-level players in other servers, what should we do with our server? Will we allow them to be bullied?"
She said slowly: "Xie Songjin also thought so, and he wanted to do the same. But he never thought that if he died one day, I would suffer the same pain as him. So why can't I choose the same path as him?"
"It's just that I've never seen the world outside the game since I was a child..." Xie Songlan said softly, "Mr. Gu, if I really die, can you find me as an NPC and seal me in a card? Maybe one day, you can take me out of the game."
Gu Qiufeng never thought that Xie Songlan, who was not even eighteen years old, had already predicted his own ending.
She accepted life and death calmly and fearlessly.
Gu Qiufeng said: "Okay."
Xie Songlan then smiled and said, "Then remember not to tell my brother. If you do, our plan won't work."
After talking about this topic, Gu Qiufeng told Xie Songlan what happened between him and Xie Songjin.
Xie Songlan frowned and said, "I've heard Duan Chouyu say this before, but I didn't expect the infiltration to be so serious."
"We should be able to get out tomorrow. Gu Jiu is giving us some water." Gu Qiufeng said, "But Xie Songjin and I plan to stay for one more day until these humans leave. Maybe this infiltration will allow us to find a way to help them."
Xie Songlan nodded.
After letting Xie Songlan finish her meal, they went to the beach in the afternoon to wait for the boat to return.
At this time, the members of the first team also came to the beach to deal with the strange phenomenon.
So Gu Qiufeng and the other two tried their best to avoid making any noise and disturbing their mission.
When the puppets returned with their full loads, they simply packed up the fish and put them all in a cloth bag, which the puppets carried and prepared to leave.
Just then, Gu Qiufeng saw Xie Xin tripped by something and bumped into him.
Gu Qiufeng had a blank expression on his face, but he couldn't help but speed up.
Xie Xin, who managed to stand firmly, seemed to have sensed something and looked in the direction where Gu Qiufeng left.
"What's wrong?" Zheng Yuan saw that he reacted strangely and thought that Xie Xin was up to something, so he asked hurriedly.
Xie Xin shook his head: "It feels like I saw it wrong."
He then casually said, "Deputy Captain, if a person dies, where does he go?"
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