Chapter 141 You Are Still My Brother
"Why are you..." Li Ziyue's expression froze, "Are you really still alive...what on earth are you..."
"What happened six years ago? How could you..."
He had so much to say to Bai Yu that he was so confused that he didn't know what he was saying.
Bai Yu kicked the middle of the pipe twice, cleaned out the fallen debris, and tightened the loose screws with a wrench.
['Pipeline' mission completed]
He then made a "hush" gesture and said, "It's not safe here, let's go out and talk."
"Where is Duan Yan?" Li Ziyue frowned. The communication snake in his hand had not been activated. Duan Yan had never looked for him, but there was no trace of Duan Yan's voice in the house.
"He disappeared a long time ago," Bai Yu said solemnly, "I don't know where he went. Let's go out first. I'm not sure when the mermaid will return to normal."
It was rare for Li Ziyue to follow Bai Yu so stupidly.
After leaving the room, Li Ziyue couldn't speak again: "You...I..."
There were so many questions that he didn't know where to start.
"I know you have a lot of questions," Bai Yu said with a smile, "Take them one by one."
"Why are you still alive?"
This question directly shows that Li Ziyue does not trust Bai Yu at the moment.
He entered the "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy" and still managed to survive until now. To be honest, even though the senior gave Bai Yu the green light, Li Ziyue still suspected that Bai Yu was a fake human.
Bai Yu was helpless: "I know what you are doubting. I can't create a fake person."
"What?"
"It means exactly what it says," Bai Yu said. "Think about it, did you see two of me appear in the dungeon six years ago? I may have accidentally encountered a system bug. In any case, the system cannot create a clone of me."
"So they kept me, wanting to know why this bug occurred, but unfortunately, they still don't understand it." Bai Yu shrugged, feeling a little proud.
This reason is barely convincing.
Li Ziyue forced himself to calm down: "Have you been in the Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy?"
Just like [Li Ziyue].
"No." Bai Yu shook his head. "I was trapped here a few years ago. The higher-ups only let me out in the past two years."
"I've already talked to you in advance," Bai Yu raised his eyebrows, "Do you still remember that you have a player friend who ranks second on the leaderboard?"
Li Ziyue looked at him suspiciously.
"Ah?" Li Ziyue was stunned for half a second, "You are a player... No..."
Li Ziyue raised his head: "You are the one who played the landlord in the restaurant yesterday..."
Bai Yu patted his head: "You've become smarter."
Li Ziyue: “…”
Why does this scene seem so familiar?
"You get the key to room 2..."
"The key is not important," Bai Yu said slowly, "What is important is the identity of 'landlord'. I will guide you to trigger the 'mouse eats cat' side quest. This is the only way for you to contact the guard."
Li Ziyue lowered his eyes: "Why do you know this?"
"Uh..." Bai Yu touched the back of his head, "I am the most experienced among your group, so it's normal for me to know more."
This was obviously an excuse. Li Ziyue turned his eyes away and asked, "Can you even play the role of a doorman now?"
"This is just a simple trick. If I could really play the role of a doorman, I wouldn't be in such a hurry to pull you out." Bai Yu spread out his hands, and inside was a white man torn apart along the waist. "I used props."
This item is sold for 200,000 each in the points store, Bai Yu is really willing to spend that much.
"Then who were you in the same room with when the copy was just opened yesterday afternoon?" Li Ziyue stared at him.
"The dungeon has just been opened?" Bai Yu lowered his head and repeated this sentence, then frowned and thought back, pulling the topic back, "My roommate is not easy to get along with. Let me think, it seems his name is... Lawless... Oh, yes, Wu Tian."
Li Ziyue's eyes darkened slightly: "Really?"
"I won't lie to you about this."
If this is true, then the conversation in the restaurant on the first afternoon can be completely overturned.
When there are two real players in the room, no fake person will appear, so it is impossible for Wu Tian to kill his own fake person as Duan Yan inferred.
Did Duan Yan really see it wrong at that time, or did he intentionally slander Wu Tian?
What is Duan Yan's identity? And what is the identity of Sun Yuancheng who is tied to him?
In the later period, Sun Yuancheng tried hard to distance himself from Duan Yan, emphasizing that he did not know why Duan Yan could see Wu Tian killing people. Could it be that Sun Yuancheng was really a person who had no idea?
wrong.
Where is Duan Yan now?
Li Ziyue felt a little uneasy.
At this point, with everything mixed up together, it's hard for Li Ziyue to trust others.
However, in the pseudo-human copy, if you do not have enough trust in your companions, sooner or later you will be deceived by the copy and end up killing each other.
In most pseudo-human copies, players do not die from missions or persecution by NPCs, but from mutual suspicion and frame-up among players.
Blind faith will lead to death, and over-caution will also lead to death.
Li Ziyue's fingertips became numb and his body became heavier. The lingering coldness and hair in his memory seemed to come back again.
He felt his clothes getting wet, his feet became extremely heavy, and his throat felt itchy and uncomfortable, as if something was blocking it.
His mouth was filled with rain-soaked dirt, his abdomen was filled with concrete, and his heart was covered with thin threads...
“Bang!”
Suddenly, there was a clear sound of clapping hands in the air.
Bai Yu looked solemn, and put his hand on Li Ziyue's forehead: "Calm down, don't think about it."
Li Ziyue looked at him with a pale face: "Sorry... I just..."
"You have been seriously attacked by mental pollution," Bai Yu said carefully, "Don't be too nervous."
It's spiritual pollution again.
Usually there are prompts for mental pollution, either a warning of impending infection or a report of the degree of infection. This is the first time that Li Ziyue has encountered such an infection without any warning.
This is very similar to the situation in the "Snowstorm Villa" dungeon where Li Ziyue was unknowingly led by the dungeon into the "suicide refresh loop".
He didn't want to shoot himself again.
At this point, can the situation of spiritual pollution be changed?
To be honest, Li Ziyue was unsure.
"Nothing," he shook his head, "I was contaminated during the mission?"
Bai Yu shook his head: "The root cause is not the mission."
"You are seeing these tasks because you are contaminated."
"Why."
"I don't know." Bai Yu spread his hands.
Li Ziyue was silent for a while, then he turned his gaze to the pool below: "All this happened after I was dragged into the pool."
"Pool?" Bai Yu raised his eyebrows, "No."
"In my opinion, the pool is where you get 'rebirth'."
Li Ziyue looked at Bai Yu in confusion and said, "I am indeed mentally polluted. In my eyes, you are starting to speak abnormally."
Bai Yu: “…”
"Is this the attitude you use when talking to your seniors?" Bai Yu tapped Li Ziyue's forehead.
"The pool here is very strange," he said carefully. "To be honest, I'm not sure now, but you are so seriously injured, you might as well try 'fighting fire with fire'. Anyway, you don't have any other way now."
Li Ziyue: "...Senior, did you really earn all those points by yourself? Are they really genuine? How can you say something like 'give it a try'?"
Bai Yu: "... Junior, isn't this your style in the past? No matter what the situation is, give it a try first. You can afford to lose anyway."
Li Ziyue was stunned, then looked away: "Oh... I forgot."
Bai Yu realized that he had said the wrong thing, he pursed his lips and said, "I was just joking, don't mind it."
"fine."
The two were silent for a while, and Bai Yu spoke first: "Go do the next task."
Li Ziyue shook his head.
He opened the system and pulled the taskbar from top to bottom: "It seems that the task is endless."
Every time they complete a task, a new one will be automatically generated below. They seem to be trapped in a circle that will never end.
"Hiss..." Bai Yu's expression was solemn, "This..."
…
On the other side, Fang Yuan fell to the ground covered in sweat: "This is really weird."
He was extremely anxious: "How could this happen? The new tasks also have to be completed before nightfall. We have been busy for a long time, but there is no progress."
"It's definitely not okay to just do it blindly. We have to find the root cause of the problem." Fang Chi sighed.
"How do I find it?" Fang Yuan stared, "The mission was dropped from the sky. Without an NPC to lead the way, there is no reward even if you complete it, and extra information is even more of a luxury."
"The residents here just hide in their homes during the day, and we don't even have anyone to communicate with."
"I'm really at a loss," Fang Yuan was in a state of confusion. "It's like we've studied hard for ten years and are ready to make a splash when we enter the college entrance examination, but the bell rings and the teacher comes over to announce that there will be no test paper for this exam, but you have to score above 700 before you can leave the exam room."
"If there is no test paper, then don't do it." Sun Yuancheng is more in favor of giving up.
Fang Yuan snorted coldly: "Don't do it? When the task deadline arrives, we will pack up on time and lie in the coffin."
Sun Yuancheng stretched lazily: "One bad thing about you old players is that you are too obedient. There are only ten of us, but there are 16 tasks. We can't complete the tasks at the same time. What else can we do except lie down? Continue to be free labor for these residents?"
"I only know that if I don't complete the mission, there is a high probability that I will die, and a small probability that I will survive. How can you prove that you can survive if you don't complete the mission?" Fang Yuan's eyes were sharp.
Sun Yuancheng spread his hands and said confidently: "I don't know, anyway, I have never taken the college entrance examination."
"We have to choose a room again tonight," Fang Chi said worriedly, "Since we don't know what to do here, we might as well find the key first."
Fang Yuan said coldly: "We have all become frogs."
Sun Yuancheng: “Huh?”
"Poke and jump, it's embarrassing to be so high in the standings and yet be mixed up like this."
Sun Yuancheng was not afraid of the excitement and quickly clapped his hands in approval: "You have a clear understanding of yourself."
Fang Yuan was about to get angry again, but was stopped by his brother.
"Stop arguing and look for the key." Fang Chi looked nervous, "I have a bad feeling... tonight... might be even worse than last night."
"We have already got the 'Boy's Letter Paper', at least we have some protection." Fang Yuan didn't care.
Fang Chi shook his head: "That's not what I meant... I don't know..."
He held his head in pain: "It's so confusing, so confusing, everything is dark in front of my eyes, brother, I can't see."
Fang Yuan's expression suddenly changed.
The last time Fang Chi showed this expression was half a year ago. At that time, there were 20 players ranked at the top of the points list in that copy, but in the end, only he and Fang Chi were left alive.
"Why can't you see?" He patted Fang Chi's neck. "Fang Chi, open your eyes, you can see the light."
"I can't see, brother," Fang Chi closed his eyes tightly, and two lines of blood and tears actually flowed out of his eyes, "I... I feel so uncomfortable."
…
Fang Chi’s hunch was not wrong.
It rained heavily again tonight. Intermittent electric current sounds were heard in the corridor. Cold rain washed the aisle, and human body parts were rising and falling in the blood.
The first to die was Fang Yuan.
His facial expression was frozen in endless horror and panic, his dark pupils were infinitely contracted, his mouth was slightly open, and the surrounding muscles were twitching constantly.
Because he failed to complete the task, he was sentenced to death by the copy.
What’s strange is that the others also failed to complete the task, and Fang Yuan was the only one who died.
Behind him were three or four corpses piled up.
Those corpses seemed like his exquisite clones, and their expressions at death were exactly the same as Fang Yuan himself.
The windows of the room were rustling in the wind and rain, and rain drifted in with the wind and fell in the middle of the mountain of corpses.
A strangely shaped human hand stretched out from the corpse.
It broke off the extra fingers without hesitation, and the bones twisted under the tender skin. All the corpses around it were devoured bit by bit, and finally two new people were formed.
"haven't seen you for a long time."
It said to its 'clone' in front of it.
“Now I am Fang Yuan.”
"And you're not my fake one."
"You are still my dear brother. This time your name is Fang Chi."
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