Chapter 127 Do You Want to Kill Me?
Zhao Guangqi, the moderator of Li Ziyue's live broadcast room, logged into the room once a few days ago. After being blocked by a system upgrade and maintenance notice, he concentrated on preparing for the exam.
There was one last class in the afternoon, so Zhao Guangqi had nothing to do while waiting for his meal, so he checked Weibo. The top three hot searches were still the same old three - celebrity updates, melting glaciers, and internet celebrities quarreling. Then there was the recent hot topic tracking: the situation of citizens being unable to get up from sleeping for a long time was getting worse, and many parties suspected that it was caused by evil spirits. Some experts have debunked the rumor: it was a new disease, and the patients were fine, so they should believe in science.
Zhao Guangqi yawned and was about to close the screen when he saw an entry below whose popularity was soaring in real time.
It's a bloody case about twins collaborating in serial murders.
This case has been under investigation for several days. At first, the police said that the suspect had confessed to the crime, but then there was a surprising reversal - the person who surrendered was not the real murderer, but the murderer's twin brother who took the blame for the crime.
twin……
Zhao Guangqi frowned, and suddenly remembered that the long-heard-of "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy" would be launched in a few months, so he clicked into the Infinite Stream Live Viewer Forum.
Coincidentally, the most popular post in the forum is also "related" to twins. The poster suddenly had an idea and asked a question - "If there is someone around you who is exactly like you, what would you do?"
1L: They are just twins. My brother and I fight every day. What else can we do?
The original poster replied to 1L: He is not a twin, and only you know of his existence, which means that if he does something for you, others will think it was you who did it.
3L: "Exactly the same" means the same looks or... the same personality? Will he take my job away? The sci-fi movie I watched a few days ago scared me.
4L: You mean fake people? I've watched a few live broadcasts of primary fake people dungeons. They were weird.
8L: Why are you so pessimistic? There must be a reason for the existence of things. If I have a fake person, I will definitely let her go to school for me so that I can go out and play~
The number of active players has dropped sharply recently, and the forum has become quite quiet. The discussion in the first few paragraphs of this post was lukewarm, but what really ignited this post was the reply below.
【17L】: No... Are you kidding or are you serious? I really suspect there are fake people around me...
18L: Huh? Is this true? Don't pseudo-humans only exist in other dimensions? You've been watching too many infinite streams and are hallucinating, right?
19L: Oh, that's scary, squat in the front row! Tell me quickly!
[22L]: A few nights ago, I was sleeping when I vaguely heard someone calling my name outside the window. I got up and saw my classmate standing downstairs looking at my room. It was around three in the morning and the street lights were not on. He was not afraid of the darkness and just stood downstairs. I was sticking to the window and heard him calling me to go downstairs to play.
25L: The guy above, is your classmate secretly in love with you? Or maybe he is sleepwalking.
27L: It’s so dark, how do you know it’s your classmate?
【29L】： Does the fact that I can't see mean that I can't hear clearly? The voice must be from my classmate. I live in the far east and he lives in the far west. It takes more than an hour to drive from his home to mine. Besides, we don't even talk to each other on a regular basis. How can I have a crush on him? How can I sleepwalk?
[30L]: I hadn't finished talking yet. I thought the scene was very creepy and suspected that I was hallucinating, so I ignored it, pulled the curtains, and went to sleep. But I slept really badly. I repeatedly dreamed that something was moving under the bed and knocking on my bed, "dong dong dong". I was very scared in the dream and quickly got up to find my parents. As a result, when I walked out of the room, I found that all the rooms had disappeared, leaving only a very dark and long corridor.
[31L]: There was a long thing at the end of the corridor, shrinking and wriggling... Have you ever seen a caterpillar crawling? It felt like that... I was almost scared to death. Plus, I had watched too many infinite dungeons, so my brain was automatically full of random thoughts. I even wrote a suicide note at that time.
34L: Let’s talk about something serious. What happened next?
[36L]: Don't rush me. I was just about to go back to my room when the door behind me suddenly disappeared. I was so scared that I lost all my strength and fell to the ground, watching that thing slowly slide towards me. When it got closer, I realized it wasn't a giant bug at all! Damn, it was my classmate! A person! It was crawling on the ground like a multi-legged bug!
40L: ...The person above, you are quite good at making up stories, 6.
Menglihualuo replied to 40L: Are you sick? You watch infinite streams and still believe in science? What good does it do me to make up stories? Not only will I get into trouble, but I will also run into you steel bars.
41L: Ignore 40L. What next?
【44L】: I woke up with a start, and was glad it was just a dream. I subconsciously glanced at the digital clock on the bedside table, which showed 4:44 in the morning... I was really scared. You know, for a Chinese, 4 is such an unlucky number. What's even more bizarre is that the next day when I went to school, I ran into my classmate. I tell you, I didn't watch so many unlimited streaming live broadcasts in vain. I directly asked him why he came to see me in the middle of the night. He looked confused and said that he didn't even know where my home was, so how could he come to see me.
45L: Your classmate is really good at pretending. He must be lying to you.
梦里花落 replied to 45L: No, I think he really didn't know. When I saw him, he was in very good spirits. He didn't look like the state of someone who wouldn't stay up late at night and squat downstairs of someone else's building. Besides, my classmate was very honest. He was the kind of person who would hand over a dollar he found on the ground to the teacher. He wouldn't cheat me.
Zhishao replied to Menglihualuo: If it wasn't him, then who was the person downstairs from you that night? His twin brother? Or are you dreaming again?
46L: You didn't fall into the infinite dungeon without knowing it, did you? The starting encounters of many infinite novel protagonists are very similar to yours, and recently the live broadcast room has set up a session to select viewers to enter the dungeon, maybe you have been selected by a live broadcast room.
47L: Damn! But no matter what, there will be a reminder to enter the dungeon! How can you force people to die without any notice?
【50L】：...I always thought I was having a dream within a dream...until...
【51L】: The night before yesterday, I saw my classmate in the full-length mirror in the living room. He smiled at me in the mirror... Really, it's a lie. I'm sure and certain that I'm not dreaming. My home surveillance camera recorded it all. [2023.3.5 Surveillance playback clip 4.avi], the video has been uploaded, you can watch it for yourself. Anyway, this matter is definitely out of the normal range. I have to go to class, I will explain it to you in detail after class.
The video is aimed at the full-length mirror in the living room at a 45° angle, just enough to record the contents of the mirror completely. The upper right corner shows that the recording time is three o'clock in the morning, which is a quiet time.
Everything started to become weird when the inexplicable footsteps were heard in the video. It didn't sound like normal slippers moving on the ground, but rather like someone was hitting the ground with a piece of cloth. Then someone appeared in the surveillance view. She was wearing a light-colored nightgown and seemed to be very sleepy. She squinted her eyes and yawned while walking slowly towards the bathroom.
She seemed not to hear the slapping sounds in the video that sounded like a woman screaming in fear.
And in her blind spot, that is, the full-length mirror, a blurry, slender black shadow was quietly growing.
It gradually turned into a faceless figure, who was sitting upright in the mirror, like an old photo taken during the Republic of China period. The footsteps stopped abruptly.
Then when she walked into the surveillance area again, the faceless monster in the mirror actually grew a gloomy human face with a cracked mouth. His eyes were wide open with extremely small pupils. The lower part of his face seemed as sharp as if cut by a knife, and his lips were unusually large.
The girl's body suddenly stiffened for half a second, then she screamed and fell to the ground. The black shadow slowly stood up from the chair and walked towards her, as if trying to get away from the mirror.
The playback stops abruptly.
Although everyone has watched a lot of infinite streaming live broadcasts, they still couldn't control their palpitations when these things really happened around them. In addition, some people who have watched too many horror live broadcasts and are often suspicious exaggerated the stories. This topic was immediately ignited. Everyone waited anxiously for two hours and built up nearly a thousand stories of stories. Unexpectedly, the account that had previously said that it would explain the details to them was directly cancelled.
This undoubtedly caused the weirdness to expand and ferment rapidly. Netizens used the resources around them to find out that someone in a certain place had indeed called the police a few days ago, saying that there was something strange with the mirror in their home. Now the investigation is only at the beginning, and the person who called the police inexplicably applied to stop the investigation.
Zhao Guangqi felt a chill in his heart after reading these messages. He was about to turn the page, but a message popped up on the system interface: The post has been deleted by the administrator and you do not have the right to continue viewing it.
……ah?
The management of the audience forum has always been very loose, and I have never seen an administrator personally delete a post.
Zhao Guangqi stood there in a daze, and tentatively posted a new thread - "Does anyone know the fake story posted by the player with the id '梦里花落'? Why was that post deleted?"
Just two seconds after the post was sent, a reminder came from the background.
[The post has been deleted by the administrator, please abide by the audience communication rules]
With the administrator forcibly gagging, the audience forum returned to deathly silence.
Zhao Guangqi pondered for a while, then posted again: "The audience forum has been so quiet recently, does anyone know what's going on? Does everyone stop watching the live broadcast?"
[The post has been deleted by the administrator, please abide by the audience communication rules]
A thin layer of cold sweat had already appeared on Zhao Guangqi's back.
At this moment, a hot search message reminder popped up on the phone.
——"Another twist?! Netizens found out that the confessed twin murderers look completely different?! Was it a miscarriage of justice by the police, or was it a lie told by the murderer to cover up another truth?!"
——"After ten consecutive days of coma, he still maintained vital signs. Does this provide a reference example for the idea of freezing human bodies to keep them alive in the distant future?"
——"Sudden change in weather! Ice floes are flowing on the streets in the middle of June! Floods are coming again!"
It's so weird, it's really so weird.
Right after finishing the exam, he logged into the live broadcast room again, wanting to talk to Li Ziyue about the strange things happening in the forum. Who would have thought that this decision would become the beginning of his nightmare.
After the last live broadcast room was updated, the system sent a free AR device to all viewers, claiming that it would allow them to experience the excitement of the dungeon in an immersive way. They were required to wear the device and lie on the bed, completely handing over their consciousness to a third party for protection.
However, no matter how they apply to exit the live broadcast room, the feedback they get is always "please wait". In reality, they seem to be sleeping soundly in bed, and only the audience themselves know how bad their physical condition is after not eating for a long time.
Before, people with high points in the live broadcast room could voluntarily participate in the dungeon, but now the system forces everyone to become players. They must accumulate a certain number of points before they can leave. If they die in the dungeon, they will never wake up from reality.
What greeted them was without exception a weather disaster: hail, acid rain, gale, lightning, and thunder, all attributed to the scorching sun that never sets and the long, dark night that cannot be ignited.
The air was filled with zombie viruses, the ditches were flowing with gray-black turbid water, buildings collapsed, statues were destroyed, hospitals became new cemeteries, and in doomsday, people's sanity was devoured. They ate soil, steel, and everything they could see, and finally ended up being eaten alive by others.
Countless viewers were struggling desperately in the dungeon, and those waiting for the next wave of dungeons to open in the live broadcast room were also not safe. They were all thrown into a world where machines went crazy, where their video windows were destroyed at will.
The absence of images also represents a black screen in their lives.
At the last moment, when the crazy robot was about to chisel open Zhao Guangqi's window, he saw Li Ziyue, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in his peripheral vision. He waved desperately in an attempt to make Li Ziyue find him, but the distance between them was too far. When he was about to lose heart, it suddenly became bright above, the Buddha statue collapsed, the machine regained its sanity, and Zhao Guangqi saved his life.
The strange thing is that after this time, all the audience were no longer forced to complete the copy. They were gathered together by the system and quietly waited for the start of the last copy - "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy".
What roles they will play this time, players, spectators, or something else, no one knows.
…
Waking up again.
His head was aching unbearably, and his breathing cavity was filled with a cold air. Li Ziyue opened his eyes with difficulty.
This sight made him stunned again.
The scene before him suddenly changed without warning and he was now sitting on a bed in an unfamiliar room.
All around were unprimed walls, with exposed reddish-brown bricks and solidified gray cement in between.
There seemed to be dirty particles floating in the air that were visible to the naked eye.
There was only a dusty glass window on the right side near the corridor, which was covered by curtains and prevented anyone from seeing outside.
He frowned, rubbed his temples with his fingers, and carefully recalled everything that had happened before.
Late at night... Raining... Murder case reported on TV... Strange Zhang Lian...
And finally, the [Copy Opening Notification] suddenly popped up in his mind.
Li Ziyue felt that his body was getting colder and colder, and his fingertips were almost cold.
There is still one month left before the official launch of the "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy", and once again, it does not play by the rules.
What is the situation now?
Who are the people who are qualified to participate in the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon? Is he the only one trapped in it?
What will he face?
Why did Zhang Lian’s high-level pseudo-human appear before entering the copy?
Why...why would the fake Zhang Lian say those words in the end.
Li Ziyue's movements became stiff.
The surroundings were so quiet that there didn't seem to be any other living people around, but the temperature was extremely low and the air seemed to be covered with a layer of cold mist. The house looked like a tomb buried underground.
My strong, panicked heartbeat was particularly obvious here.
His body temperature seemed to have risen a little, and Li Ziyue hid his face in his hands.
...How could this happen?
then.
"Li Ziyue."
Li Ziyue's breathing stopped in an instant. He slowly moved his gaze away, almost in disbelief. When he saw Zhang Lian sitting on the soft chair beside the bed, propping up his chin and looking at him calmly, he could not even hear his own breathing.
"you……"
He narrowed his eyes slightly.
Zhang Lian smiled slightly for a moment.
"You are..." Li Ziyue said with difficulty.
"Actually, you already have the answer in your mind, don't you?" Zhang Lian raised his eyebrows.
Li Ziyue closed his eyes slowly and finally let out a long sigh.
Then a familiar reminder sounded in his mind.
[It is detected that the identity of the person in front of you has not changed. You can continue to choose to trust or doubt]
Li Ziyue frowned.
The person who spoke in his mind just now seemed to be his exclusive AI assistant in the previous mechanical virtual world.
[It's me, don't doubt it, I'm not a copy product, I can always follow you, when you enter a new copy I will automatically wake up to provide you with some help]
Li Ziyue hesitated and said, "Can you help me test it..."
[Sorry, I don't have the authority to directly distinguish between fake people and real people, but I can tell you whether the person in front of you has changed his identity]
As expected, there is no such powerful golden finger, but it is better to have it than not.
Li Ziyue stared at Zhang Lian for a long time and sighed again.
Headache.
"You..." He was rarely so hesitant.
The man in front of him was a "werewolf self-destructing" and directly declared himself to be a fake person. As a player, Li Ziyue should have killed him mercilessly, but...
The degree of similarity between the advanced pseudo-human and the real person is so high that it is not just a simple imitation of appearance. Even his inner activities and emotional changes are almost the same as those of a real person. What is the difference between this and directly asking him to kill Zhang Lian?
"Do you want to kill me?" Zhang Lian smiled at Li Ziyue, "If you do it, I won't resist."
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