Chapter 101 Two Aces
Huo Qianyun came over quickly: "What happened?"
Li Ziyue closed his eyes impatiently and squatted down to clean the floor, but Huo Qianyun stopped him again: "I'll do it, you sit aside and rest."
Li Ziyue's lips moved slightly, and his movements were very hesitant. He relaxed for two seconds and finally said nothing.
His eyes were stinging so much that he couldn't open them for the time being, and his vision was dark. The remaining soy milk had dried into a thin transparent mark at the base of his thumb, as if it was still burning him.
"In the previous instance, Yuezi was injured and fell victim to an evil spell cast by an NPC," Bai Yu's voice rang out beside him. "That spell was so powerful that it could affect him until now."
The plums became more and more depressed.
"Tomorrow morning I'll go to the basement to check if there are any items in the Points Mall that can remove this side effect," Huo Qianyun said anxiously, blaming Bai Yu, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Bai Yu scratched his head: "...I think it shouldn't be a big deal."
He patted Li Ziyue on the shoulder and said, "Yuezi, do you always feel like something is wrong?"
Li Ziyue was stunned: "Yeah."
"Let me think about it," Bai Yu frowned slightly, "Do you feel that everything you see is inconsistent with your behavior? For example, you watch me mopping the floor, but you vaguely remember that I seem to hate cleaning?"
Li Ziyue opened his eyes, and the confusion between his brows dissipated a little.
"That's right."
Is he under a spell?
No wonder.
Li Ziyue got up slowly and went to the bathroom to clean up. When he came back, everything was fine.
But her eyes were still red, the strands of hair on her forehead were wet by the cold water, and even her long eyelashes were shining with a hint of white, giving her a look of morbid fragility.
Huo Qianyun couldn't wait any longer, so she picked out a bunch of props from her backpack, some useful and some not, and stuffed them into Li Ziyue's pockets. She even took out a golden Buddha statue at the end.
The Buddha statue and Li Ziyue looked at each other. Huo Qianyun clasped his hands together and said, "Yueyue is the smartest among us. You will definitely be able to escape the infinite copy in the future. I spent 20,000 points to buy you just to wait for your promise."
"You have to ensure that he lives a long life."
Li Ziyue pursed his lips, reached out and touched one of the Buddha statue's arms, and took a look when his fingers were withdrawn.
There is gold powder on the fingertips.
He wiped away the gold silently.
After dinner, several people played cards for entertainment.
Xu Jingshi had the worst luck. He always got bad cards. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't turn the situation around. In the end, long pieces of paper as punishment were stuck on his face and hands.
His younger brother Xu Jingyi was poked several times by his older brother, who threatened him, "If you don't help me cheat, I won't acknowledge you as my brother." Xu Jingyi sighed repeatedly, supporting his hapless brother while dealing with the siege of the remaining three people. In the end, only his wrist was left unstuck.
Huo Qianyun's desire to win was aroused, and she asked Li Ziyue to watch the fight first. She would definitely kill Bai Yu without leaving a single piece of armor tonight.
You played a pair of 3s, I played a pair of 4s, and then you played two 5s, which was better than mine. Huo Qianyun and Bai Yu fought for several rounds, and finally Bai Yu smiled mysteriously -
Four 2s made into bombs and won the final game.
"I have been betting on what the four cards in your hand are. I used so many single and double cards to force you in the beginning," Huo Qianyun laughed angrily, "Who would have thought that you could be so patient and only played at the last moment!"
Bai Yu had an expression that said "if you're new, practice more."
"Wait," Huo Qianyun frowned, "If you don't have the big and small kings in your hands..."
Li Ziyue sat between Huo Qianyun and Bai Yu, looking at this and that, and finally laid out all his cards.
Leading the way are the red and black "JOCKER" cards, which just happen to be better than Bai Yu.
"Hey!" Bai Yu was dissatisfied, "Yuezi has not played any cards just now, so he has already lost the qualification to play cards. This is cheating."
Huo Qianyun ignored all this and just pasted a note on Bai Yu's forehead: "If you are a rookie, just practice more."
Everyone played games online for a while. The twins couldn't hold back and went to sleep first. Bai Yu cleaned up on the side. Huo Qianyun rubbed his eyes and asked Li Ziyue who was sitting on the sofa: "Yueyue, aren't you sleepy?"
Li Ziyue looked out the window and suddenly said, "Senior, what time is it now?"
Huo Qianyun was stunned: "...It's about two or three in the morning, what happened?"
"How do you know?" His voice gradually turned cold. "There is no reminder of time in this room."
He had felt something strange when he was waiting for Bai Yu to cook. The TV in the living room seemed to be normal, but when he changed the channel, there was no time reminder in the status bar below.
Li Ziyue thought he hadn't found the time, so he adjusted it several times but still couldn't see the time.
He kept a careful eye and walked around the room while they were busy, and sure enough, he couldn't find any devices related to time.
Li Ziyue knew that he had to be cautious in everything. Maybe he was really bewitched, or maybe he was really crazy, but what if all this was a lie?
Sometimes a question will deliberately lead you to write out wrong steps, so that your thoughts flow smoothly and you can figure out the answer, but the final result is completely different from the standard answer.
The only thing he trusted was his own uneasy intuition.
The senior student asked in confusion: "Your senior Bai has never liked to check the time."
"It's okay if you don't watch it at other times, but you don't watch it when I'm cooking?" Li Ziyue said indifferently.
Bai Yu stopped packing his things and said, "I have found a reason for you."
Li Ziyue looked at him sideways.
"There is no 'Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon' in this timeline," Bai Yu's tone was more indifferent than before, "As long as players accumulate enough points, they can get out."
"Of course, this shouldn't be what you care about most." He moved quickly, and Huo Qianyun fainted when he slapped her on the back of the neck without her noticing.
Bai Yu carried Huo Qianyun to the sofa: "Without the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon, it means that we will not all die in the future. It means that all the pain you have experienced is just an illusion. You will be protected by us until one day we accumulate enough points to leave the dungeon forever."
Li Ziyue's hands were shaking, and his lower lip was already white: "...I don't know what you are talking about."
His memories were like tangled silk threads that could easily become a knot if he wasn't careful.
Li Ziyue didn't even dare to think about it, and his eyes turned red for no reason.
My heart aches as if someone is cutting it with a knife.
"We in front of you are not fake. This is another parallel universe." Bai Yu looked at him seriously with gentle eyes, "In this timeline... we just lost 'you'."
"It wasn't you who was under the spell, but Huo Qianyun, Xiaoshi, and Xiaoyi." He lowered his eyes, "I made a deal with the NPC at the end of the dungeon, asking it to summon you and at the same time make them forget your death."
Not only did these remarks fail to impress Li Ziyue, but they made him take two steps back.
Bai Yu's eyes dimmed: "Being too cautious can sometimes keep you away from the right option."
"What's right?" Li Ziyue said solemnly, "I only know that you are a first-rate storyteller."
If the three senior sisters were really under a spell, Bai Yu clearly had a thousand reasons to explain away Li Ziyue's strange behavior, but he insisted on walking on the edge of a knife and attributed Li Ziyue's strange behavior to the spell.
Huo Qianyun is not someone who can be fooled easily. Bai Yu knows this better than anyone else. Making up a lie full of loopholes is more troublesome than admitting it frankly.
Bai Yu stared at Li Ziyue with cold eyes, and after a while he slowly sighed: "You are different after all."
A small round clock appeared in his palm: "Is this what you are looking for?"
Li Ziyue didn't move. He looked down and saw the hands on the clock slowly turning.
It's actually counterclockwise.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and an old voice faintly sounded in his mind.
"Time can be...fast...slow...but it can't..."
Can't what?
"Have you really thought it through?"
"Losing your memory is to allow you to better choose a new beginning. It is not to restrict you or deceive you," Bai Yu reminded him again, "You can return to your original timeline."
His voice faded. “But there, we died forever.”
"Your future is destined to be difficult. In the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon, there is a 100% chance of death and 000% chance of survival. That is a test paper that will not let you pass," Bai Yu's voice was a little hoarse. He paused for a few seconds before struggling to speak again, "I sacrificed everyone to send you out... just to make you happy for a few more years. I don't want to see you fall into the fire pit again."
Li Ziyue lowered his head, so his face could not be seen clearly and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Just because of this reason..." He was trembling all over, "I am not qualified to exchange my happiness for the death of all of you... I..."
Bai Yu was stunned.
"Senior." Li Ziyue's eyes turned red, and crystal tears were like pearls without the string. He struggled for a long time before squeezing out a few words from his throat.
"Your answer like this... is really killing me."
The words became solid and hit the ground with clanging sounds.
Bai Yu's expression tensed up instantly: "... Yuezi, that's not what I meant, I..."
He was at a loss for a moment and threw the clock to Li Ziyue: "If you want to go back, go back. I won't force you to stay."
However, almost at the same time as he finished speaking, he approached Li Ziyue at an extremely fast speed, and was about to strangle Li Ziyue's throat while Li Ziyue was paying attention to the clock, but he suddenly felt a blow to his abdomen without any warning, and a strong pain suddenly hit him -
The man fell uncontrollably on the other side of the sofa, with his temples just touching the sharp corner of the square coffee table.
The coldness spread from that point to his entire body, and his back was covered in cold sweat.
Li Ziyue frowned and looked down at Bai Yu, the clock shaking left and right in his palm.
"Senior." He choked, his eyes were as dark as ink, suppressing too many emotions that were raging like a storm.
"You know, I've changed."
He exerted force with his hands, and the joints on his slender wrists showed due to the force, and a vein popped out on the back of his hand.
The clock stopped moving because of his pinch.
At that moment, he remembered what the old English teacher said to him in the copy.
[Time can be fast or slow, but it cannot be reversed]
The dead cannot be resurrected, and the past is just an illusion in the water. The moon has dispersed, the light has disappeared, ripples have risen in the water, and the self-deceiving mirror image is gone.
How could he not know that the road ahead was easier, and how could he not want it.
But how could he be worthy of the others who were waiting for him there?
How can he live up to the name that everyone called him before he died?
The clock face shattered, and the debris grew into his flesh and bones. The blood was like tears and like a sharp blade, leaving trembling scars along his wrists.
Li Ziyue knew that he was going to die, but so what.
He should have died long ago.
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