Chapter 149 Ouroboros
The entrance was blocked, and even if Li Ziyue pushed the stone away from below, he was not sure whether the man was still there.
And this basement is also dangerous.
Sun Yuancheng who had just eaten him, the child who was gnawing on his flesh and blood, and the monster hiding diagonally above him.
His companions were either dead or missing, and Zhang Lian was trapped in another dimension.
No one could come to save him.
Li Ziyue might not be able to handle this situation alone when his mental state was stable, not to mention that he was in so much pain that he couldn't even stand.
Dead end.
Another dead end.
Li Ziyue leaned against the wall, breathing hard.
My heart was beating so fast that it seemed like it was about to leave my chest, and my sweat mixed with the turbid rain water.
He died in this place.
Li Ziyue heard something crawling above. The sound was small and sticky, and it seemed to leave long strips of disgusting milky white liquid wherever it went.
The child giggled at Li Ziyue: "This mother is going to die, and you will be my next mother."
Li Ziyue curled the corners of his lips with difficulty, and even had enough energy to reach out to the child: "Then come here."
The child narrowed his eyes: "Mom..."
"Yeah." Li Ziyue responded.
It became happy: "Mom, Mom."
It hurriedly let go of "Sun Yuancheng" and attacked Li Ziyue frantically.
However, the next moment Li Ziyue grabbed it with both hands, and before it could stretch out its fangs, Li Ziyue threw it diagonally backwards.
But blink.
The plums disappeared.
A few mirrors the size of children's hands fell into the dark corners and hid silently in the water, seemingly unnoticed by anyone.
…
Li Ziyue huddled at the edge of the corridor. He covered his mouth with his hands and forced down his cough.
In front of my sight was a pool in the middle of a residential building. Countless strands of hair were lingering there, turning the pool into a terrifying pure black.
After staying in the dungeon for so many years, Li Ziyue would never go to the underground area with only one exit unless he had to.
The reason he used the prop match to test whether there was enough oxygen in the basement was just superficial. He actually wanted to make sure there was another exit below.
The mirrors along the box not only expanded his vision, but also served as inspection marks.
Every time he found a possible gap, he would change the shape of the mirror until he found a reliable exit, and then he would expose himself to the other creatures in the basement.
Of course, no matter how cautious he is, there is no such thing as a foolproof situation. Moreover, he is indeed facing a strong mental shock, and this action is extremely risky.
What pushed Li Ziyue to explore the basement was not what Li Ziyue said before.
What he wanted to prove was something more secretive.
This thing might be the main clue he has always wanted to find.
Fortunately, the results are satisfactory so far.
Li Ziyue finally couldn't help coughing twice.
There is still no time to relax.
He was sure that he was facing at least four enemies: the child, the unknown identity of Sun Yuancheng, the strange creature crawling above, and the person who had just removed the stone he had placed at the exit.
As long as one of these four is still alive, he will be a huge threat to him.
However, there are dead ends everywhere, so where is the narrow path to survival?
Li Ziyue calmed himself down.
No matter what, even if there is really no way out, he will imagine one for himself.
As a dungeon player, it doesn't matter if you die physically, only when you die in spirit and in faith do you really die.
However, no matter how strong Li Ziyue's spiritual core was, he could not withstand the continuous stimulation.
In addition, the adventure just now required him to concentrate all his attention, and Li Ziyue's body finally reached its limit and he couldn't help coughing up blood.
More and more blood flowed, dyeing his whole body bloody.
Gradually, double images appeared in front of his eyes again. Li Ziyue wanted to close his eyes, but the more he closed his eyes, the more he saw shadows floating in the air. At the same time, there was a shocking and piercing thunder in the sky. Li Ziyue felt something churning in his stomach. His left hand was shaking, and his eyes could no longer see clearly, but his hand could still touch.
The thing that was tied together by many thin "ropes" made Li Ziyue sweat profusely.
He stumbled toward the outside.
The body is no longer under conscious control.
cannot.
He stopped himself with difficulty.
Can’t go there…
More hair spurted out from the center of the pool, and these hairs actually entangled Li Ziyue's feet and dragged him into the pool.
If you are dragged in, you will really die.
Li Ziyue could no longer tell whether the water on his body was rain or blood, and he was not even sure whether he was still alive.
The black water swallowed him up layer by layer. He was like a traveler who had lost his footing and fallen into an abyss. Looking forward, no one could hear his cries for help. Looking backward, there was a monster that was about to swallow him up.
cannot……
Li Ziyue shuddered suddenly.
Dead end?
A true dead end?
[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’.”]
Extremely dangerous and vicious copies usually have extreme settings, that is, an absolute dead end is the only way to survive, the purpose is to make players gamble with their lives.
The reason why players go through so much trouble to search for all the information in the copy is to increase the success rate of the "gambling" link they have to face.
No one can guarantee that he can remember and master all the knowledge, so there is no student in the world who can get full marks on all exams.
Players are all afraid of such gambles, but they have to stand on both ends of the coin that determines their fate.
Does Li Ziyue dare to gamble?
He is not that brave.
From the beginning to the end, Li Ziyue thought he was just an ordinary person.
He is neither a god nor a devil, but an ordinary person who relies on sorting out copy information in order to gain a glimmer of hope.
He will also hesitate, struggle and be afraid.
Such copies do exist, but does this theory work for "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy"?
Li Ziyue still remembers the last words he said to Bai Yu when they parted.
[“Senior, I have changed a lot,” Li Ziyue said nonchalantly, “You seem to have not changed at all.”]
[Bai Yu smiled: "Because I don't play dungeons as hard as you do, so I look younger?"]
【Li Ziyue turned his head and looked away: "Really?"】
After killing a real person, a high-level pseudo-human can decide whether to remain forever young or start the process of time moving forward. Bai Yu's appearance has not changed at all in the past six years. Did he really not die in the first place?
In other words, was the Bai Yu he faced before really a real senior?
How true and how false were the words Bai Yu said to him?
Is the way to life mentioned by Bai Yu really the way to life?
Li Ziyue didn't know.
This copy raised many questions for him, but did not provide him with any copy to learn from or refer to.
Although Li Ziyue has a strong ability to combine knowledge, he cannot complete a large proof without knowing any mathematical knowledge.
Even now, he can only say that he may have touched the edge of the main line, but as for the rest, it is still like a fog.
It's not easy to be alive.
It seems like it’s really impossible to pass the level.
Believe it or not, who should I believe in and who should I deny?
Who is lying and who is telling the truth.
Who will really help him, and who will become the murderer who betrays him.
Li Ziyue fell to the ground and looked up at the sky.
The clouds were so thick tonight that the moon was almost invisible, and there were only terrible lightning and thunder.
Big drops of rain hit his face like human fists. The strange sound of crawling creatures could be heard again around him. The child opened his scarlet eyes and stared at him at the edge of the house.
"Sun Yuancheng" looked like a zombie without any personal consciousness. He lowered his head and slowly approached Li Ziyue.
Li Ziyue no longer has any strength left.
What's worse is that there was a man standing on the second floor at this time, holding a black pistol in his hand, with the muzzle pointing directly at the head of Li Ziyue who was lying on the ground.
"Bang," he whispered.
"Bang!"
The sound of the bullet leaving the gun was even more ear-piercing than the thunder in the sky. If Li Ziyue had not dragged his body down in an instant, the bullet right in front of his head would have sunk into his skull.
The people on the second floor really wanted to kill him.
Li Ziyue raised his head with difficulty. With the help of a little light from lightning, he was able to see Li Ziyue leaning leisurely on the railing on the second floor, smiling at him provocatively.
[Li Ziyue] still didn't put down the gun in his hand.
This time, the ruthless gun was aimed at Li Ziyue's heart.
[Li Ziyue] is like a patient hunter who will wait until Li Ziyue shows the most despicable and fearful expression before ending his life.
At this moment, Li Ziyue was like meat on his chopping board.
You can only be slaughtered by him.
Li Ziyue seemed to be frightened. He stared at the gun in Li Ziyue's hand without blinking, not caring about other things approaching him.
Afterwards, even Li Ziyue didn't have time to react. Li Ziyue used the last bit of his strength to roll towards the place where the hair was densest. In just half a breath, Li Ziyue was swallowed by the hair and dragged into the pool.
“Tsk.”
[Li Ziyue] impatiently retracted the gun: "Boring."
"How many bullets do you have in your gun?" asked the man hiding in the shadows.
[Li Ziyue] narrowed his eyes slightly: "What do you mean."
"It's nothing." The man said, "I'm just curious whether you will show mercy to your men."
"Let me guess," the man continued, "that at this point, your gun is no longer just a bluff..."
"Bang!"
Before he could utter the word "toy", the man suddenly felt a pain on the side of his face. He slowly moved his hand upwards, and the strange and warm blood quickly soaked his fingers.
The bullet embedded in the wall seemed to still emit some gray smoke.
Li Ziyue laughed and spun the gun in his hand: "Now guess how many bullets I have left in my gun."
…
The other side.
Li Ziyue stuck to the sink and couldn't stop coughing.
As expected, he made the right bet.
The pool is really the door to life, and there is another level of space under the pool.
By then the pool had returned to normal, and the hair that had made Li Ziyue feel uneasy had long disappeared without a trace.
The sun was blindingly bright. Li Ziyue's body was half submerged in the center of the pool, floating up and down on the water. The sunlight broke into pieces and dotted on the water like bright stars at night.
He couldn't accept such a strong light for a moment, and two lines of tears fell.
His mind unconsciously recalled the gun that Li Ziyue had pointed at him a few minutes ago, overlapping with a certain scene from the past. Although the sun was shining on him, Li Ziyue felt that no moment had ever been colder than he was at this moment.
He coughed a few times, waiting for consciousness to return.
The pool was not bottomless, it only reached the base of his thighs.
But is he really "awake"?
When did he fall into "sleep"?
Was it the first time that hair got caught in the pool, or was it earlier?
or……
[Ding~]
A familiar voice that I hadn't heard in a long time sounded in my mind.
Li Ziyue shuddered suddenly.
[Hello, player Li Ziyue, welcome to the world of "Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon". Your role-playing rules have been sent to the player's mailbox, please check it carefully]
[Remember, don't tell anyone what's in your code, and don't forget to follow the rules, otherwise you will fall into eternal nothingness]
【Good luck to you】
There are only a few lines in the role-playing code.
1. Doubt Me
2. Trust me
3. Save Me
4. Be me
5.XX I
Rule-based copies have always been known for their rigor. However, considering the level of excitement, some copies will be designed with riddles that are inconsistent with the introduction, but they will also come with corresponding hints.
Li Ziyue had never encountered a role-playing rule that was full of riddles and had no explanation at all.
This is not the most troublesome thing.
Li Ziyue felt a little depressed. He didn't know when [Li Ziyue] was beside him.
"How long are you going to keep coughing?" Li Ziyue said impatiently, "My dear brother, it's just a fall into the water, is it that serious?"
"Stop making noise." Li Ziyue frowned.
[Li Ziyue] snorted.
"What's going on here?" Li Ziyue barely supported his body. He sat on the edge of the pool and lowered his head to untie the bandage on his right hand.
[Li Ziyue] yawned: "You have asked me too many questions. Logically, I should charge you."
"Besides," Li Ziyue paused, "haven't you already guessed everything?"
Li Ziyue said nothing.
Although it sounds ridiculous, Li Ziyue had to admit that all the possibilities that had happened before were just fantasies created by his personal consciousness.
The choice of room number, the debate in the restaurant on the first floor about who is the real person and who is the fake person, the search for the room key, the protection of the doorman, the mirror in the bathroom, the twin murderers, the pool where countless hairs grow at night, his increasing mental pollution, and the seemingly endless cycle of waking up...
Come to think of it, he should have found it strange a long time ago.
"Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy" only issued a statement: the top ten players in comprehensive points ranking are allowed to enter the copy, but it did not say whether the top ten players are all in the same copy or there must be 10 players in the copy. However, many people will subconsciously think that this is another player group cooperation when they hear this statement.
This is one of them.
Of course, if we doubt everything based on this alone, Li Ziyue's guesses are always correct, which means he is just too lucky.
What really made him feel something was wrong was the old man who appeared by the pool and chatted with Sun Yuancheng.
When Li Ziyue's attention was not on the copy NPC, there was not a single copy product to be seen in the residential area that was obviously suitable for human habitation, and even the landlord was pretended to be a "player".
However, when he needed some clues, those NPCs emerged from the darkness like actors who had been waiting for a long time backstage, and happened to be met by him, allowing them to ask for key information: ① All the room keys "just happened" to be in the old man's possession ② When Li Ziyue suspected that there were other main lines, the old man immediately told the story of the child and the mother who fell into the pool ③ The most core rules "just happened" to appear around the pool when they were talking to the old man and were "just" found by Zhang Lian.
There must be deliberate human intervention hidden behind so many coincidences.
Although Li Ziyue is experienced, sometimes experience can become a stumbling block on one's road to progress. This is one of the reasons why Li Ziyue said that Sun Yuancheng might be the key to breaking the deadlock.
The early copy developed too normally, and Li Ziyue even complained that it was too routine, but he didn't know that this "routine" was also the result of Li Ziyue's dominant consciousness.
He was too obsessed with "general copy experience" and had preconceived ideas about everything. When the rule weirdness and "weirdness" were combined, Li Ziyue directly thought of "mental pollution". Coincidentally, when he was doubting this, senior Bai Yu, whom he had not seen for a long time, appeared in front of him and affirmed his idea without hesitation.
At this point, Li Ziyue's "spiritual pollution" not only did not get alleviated, but became more serious. Whenever he was uneasy, the hair would penetrate into his body and drag him into the abyss of endless cycle.
Li Ziyue had just escaped from the "Snowstorm Villa" copy. In order to break the cycle, Li Ziyue even pointed a gun at himself. He himself did not realize how deep the psychological shadow left on him by the desperate situation. It became his inner demon and tortured him again in the "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy".
When Li Ziyue realized this, he went to the basement to find Sun Yuancheng no longer just to find out about Sun Yuancheng's situation.
Sure enough, everything that appeared in the basement was exactly what Li Ziyue had thought.
Although Li Ziyue affirmed Sun Yuancheng's talent that night, he was also worried that Sun Yuancheng would get into danger due to lack of experience and other problems when facing unexpected situations.
After all, although geniuses are valuable, there are far more geniuses who die in infinite dungeons than mediocre people.
At that time, Li Ziyue had no idea that the knot in his heart would grow into a towering tree in the basement.
After seeing Wu Tian's head in the water pipe, Li Ziyue began to guess who would be the child's next target of parasitism. Among this group of players, Li Ziyue was most worried about Sun Yuancheng. Coincidentally, all his worries were perfectly reflected in the basement.
The dead Sun Yuancheng, the possessed Sun Yuancheng, the Sun Yuancheng who mercilessly accused him, and the third fake Sun Yuancheng who was hiding in the ceiling and staring at Li Ziyue sinisterly.
Even the exit that appeared in the basement was controlled by Li Ziyue's thoughts. He longed for an exit, and the exit really appeared behind him.
Now, put aside everything that happened in the copy and zoom out all your thoughts to the beginning.
What kind of copy would prevent countless players ranked in the top ten of the leaderboard from completing it?
Is it because these players are too incompetent that they cannot clear the dungeon? The leaderboard is built by people playing dungeons and accumulating points. If they really don’t have any strength, they would have died in other dungeons long ago and would never have reached the Advanced Pseudo-Human Dungeon.
But in reality, up to now, no one has completed the "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy".
What kind of test paper can stump even a genius?
This test paper does not exist anywhere else, it only exists in the mind of the genius.
Wu Tian dared to dance on a single-plank bridge. His risky style of behavior allowed him to accumulate huge points in other copies, but he died in this copy because of his own adventure.
Fang Yuan was an impatient person. No matter how many tasks there were or how long the time limit was, he had to finish them all as soon as possible so that he would have time to think about what would happen next. As a result, he died in a task spiral that would never be completed.
Li Ziyue was cautious. He would rather lose part of the information than act rashly when he was uncertain about the information. Therefore, this copy did not provide him with any information in the key places, but presented all the key points with both hands when he was most suspicious.
The copy is familiar with everyone's fears and cleverly combines everyone's inner concerns.
They are all the creators of the copy, but also the victims of the copy. Everyone is like a black snake that keeps gnawing at its own tail.
Eventually died of self-destruction.
The more formal the exam, the more rigorous the questions. The roots of all strange and difficult questions lie in the textbooks.
As the saying goes, no matter how things change, they still remain essentially the same. The pseudo-human copy will naturally create a changing copy environment based on humans.
But are these inferences correct?
At this point, despite having a set of guesses about the copy, Li Ziyue only felt that he might have touched the edge of the main line of the copy.
He has encountered countless dangers for this, and every wrong step will lead to his real death.
Li Ziyue forced a curl of his lips.
What does "Welcome to the real "Advanced Pseudo-Human Copy" mean?
It turns out that after struggling so hard, I just got the admission ticket.
Fortunately, Li Ziyue had some good luck at this time.
He focused his attention on his wrist.
The wound that Li Ziyue had inflicted earlier had completely healed, without even a trace left.
At the very beginning, when [Li Ziyue] scratched his wrist in the bathroom and emphasized "Come to the 'opposite' to find my real body", Li Ziyue had just arrived at the copy and had no idea that the scenes and events were all based on his consciousness. If everything was fake, then it stands to reason that the [Li Ziyue] in Li Ziyue's imagination would not say something he didn't know.
Pure lies are easy to be exposed, but lies that are seven parts truth and three parts falsehood are the most confusing.
Of all the things that happened before, which ones were true and which ones were false?
Li Ziyue checked his backpack and found the "Boy's Letter" prop was still there, indicating that the twin murderer incident had a certain authenticity; the wallet that Zhang Lian left for him was also still there.
It’s hard to explain the other things. Thinking about them further will only lead to endless doubts.
At this time, Li Ziyue was only concerned about one thing.
"Is it possible for me to really kill you here?" Li Ziyue said softly.
[Li Ziyue]'s face gradually darkened.
He seemed to sneer.
"yes."
"Come and kill me, if you can."
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