While Bailing was cleaning, Ji Qianqin was still playing video games.
The authority of God El is not something that can be obtained without work. Perhaps in the beginning, when He shared the authority with His children, He was completely selfless. But now, He who was born from the myth through distortion is completely greedy.
Just like now, anyone who joins this game hall and wants to exchange things must rely on game coins. In addition to obtaining game coins with things you value, you can also obtain them by playing against the game machines in the game hall and winning.
Ji Qianqin only had 50 game coins on hand, and she took a look and found that even the lowest-level claw machine required 10 coins, which was totally beyond her affordability.
This is also normal. The names and descriptions of the prizes are placed in the claw machine. Ji Qianqin took a quick look before and soon found that the origins of these things seemed to be frighteningly large.
[Lantingxu copy], [Hermes Feather Shoes (replica)], [Hephaestus's Hammer (broken)], [Don Quixote's Windmill]...
According to the introduction in the claw machine, these things can exert strange powers that people cannot understand. For example, the [Lantingxu Copy] can pull the person pointed at into the environment and play a game called "Liushang Qushui" in order. At the same time, it will force everyone to write a poem...
In short, it's a mess, but when you really use it, it's quite powerful.
But as I said before, after seeing the claw machine’s requirement of “ten coins per time”, Ji Qianqin backed off.
She had played with claw machines when she was a child, and she knew exactly how much water there was in this thing.
Especially the claw machines in the video game arcades run by aliens, no one can tell how many tricks are hidden in them.
Anyway, according to what Bai Ling told them before he came, they'd better not touch games that seem to have generous and tempting rewards.
El is not a simple good god. Not to mention that he was born into this world after being distorted, his identity as the "creator" alone determines that he cannot be an ordinary good god.
So it is unlikely that He will provide convenience to those who come here to play games.
Therefore, Ji Qianqin and Song Qingci did not look at the tempting prizes, but looked at each other and ran straight to the game console in a corner!
It was an older arcade machine.
The type of arcade game is to pass levels, and each level requires a corresponding amount of game coins. The first level requires 3, the second level requires 6, the third level requires 9, and so on...
Each time you successfully pass a level, you will get double the amount of that level. For example, if you pass the first level, you need 3 game coins, and after you pass the level, you will get 6; and if you enter the second level, you need 6 game coins to enter, and after you pass the level, you will get 12, and so on.
So far, Ji Qianqin has passed the 6th level, which is the penultimate level, and is about to face the challenge of the last level.
If she passes this level, she will have more than 150 game coins.
However, precisely because of this, this final level is definitely not easy.
Pressing the handle, Ji Qianqin watched a sentence suddenly pop up on the game screen.
[Congratulations, you have passed the first six levels! Do you still need to continue to challenge the seventh level? ]
[Please note that the challenge of level 7 will be more difficult. If you don't have the courage, please don't try it rashly.]
[But similarly, the rewards for level 7 are also quite rich. ]
[In addition to receiving basic game currency rewards, players who pass the seventh level will also receive a privilege - choose one of the special items in the game hall to take home! These items can be weapons, medicinal materials, or alchemical items! ]
Looking at the instructions that seemed to be dissuading but were actually tempting, Ji Qianqin chuckled.
Then she pressed the "yes" button hard.
[Confirming the player's wishes, the seventh level will be opened soon]
[Please wait for a moment, go to the seventh level with a smile, and then dedicate the most wonderful despair~]
Leave this last sentence.
The next second, Ji Qianqin felt as if her entire consciousness was being pulled by something and forcibly dragged into the game console!
Her soul was pulled out of her body, and under the "exchange" authority of the God El, it was directly exchanged into the game console!
A dizzying feeling filled Ji Qianqin's mind, making her feel like she was on a violently shaking roller coaster, shaking and stirring her brain every second!
About half a minute passed.
The bumpy feeling slowly disappeared.
She opened her eyes, and the first thing she saw was the sun hanging high in the sky. It was bright but without any warmth, just a sticker.
And under the sun, there is a huge body as big as a mountain.
It was a monster with a huge body, and its appearance looked like a Sphinx with a human face and a lion body. However, there was something different about it - it did not have the Sphinx's unique wings, and there was only a bare patch where the wings should have been.
It was very tall, about fifteen meters tall, and it looked down at Ji Qianqin from above.
After a while, it began to speak, its voice as slow and rough as the friction of stones: "Level 7, start now..."
"Please use all means to defeat the evil beast."
"If defeated by the evil beast, the challenger will... die."
After saying this, the huge monster stomped its limbs heavily on the ground, raising dust that covered the sky.
In the dust, it roared sharply at the sun in the sky, which was like a sticker. The roar was magnificent and soul-stirring! If ordinary people saw this scene, they would probably be scared silly.
After all, this really doesn't match the current game - you have to know that the previous game was basically a puzzle game, question-and-answer challenge, and no one would have thought that the seventh level would actually suck a person's soul in, and then have a passionate 1v1 with a terrifying beast in a room that looked like a sticker...
This can hardly be called a game, it is pure fraud and... murder!
I don't know how many people died on this game console because they failed to react in time and had no means to deal with it.
The bodies of these dead challengers will be collected, and either used as props for other alien species to revive, or bought by people with special hobbies. Only a few will be sealed and left unattended.
It can be said that this is like a miniature image of the god El.
He who was betrayed by his family and had his power seized, will become the worst, most greedy, and darkest evil god after being distorted! His human image is ultimately just a disguise. No matter how kind and kind he looks, he is always the "extremely evil creator" who was distorted! Looking at the monster slowly coming towards him, Ji Qianqin glanced at the thing in his hand.
Perhaps it was because God El still had some conscience left, after the challengers' souls joined the game, He specially left them weapons and armor.
The weapon was a tattered wooden sword that was not even sure if it was still usable. The wooden sword was covered with spots and rust, and even the hilt was shaky, with only half of the blade remaining intact.
As for armor...if a wooden board that is as flexible and soft as paper can be considered armor, then its quality must be a whiteboard of extremely poor quality.
It must be said that the irony of this set of things is far greater than its practical significance. Just by looking at it, one can feel the sight of the Creator hidden in the darkness, laughing wantonly and insidiously.
If this thing is used to fight monsters, Ji Qianqin feels that either there is something wrong with El God's brain or there is something wrong with her own brain.
But unfortunately, her mind is still normal.
And one thing is quite coincidental.
That is, in addition to Ji Qianqin's own brain, there was someone before who crushed all the context and direction, and fed it to her and Song Qingci as if it were a cake.
"In that arcade, the most important thing is not the claw machines and racing cars. Although they look tempting, they are just consumer traps where the input and output are not proportional."
"The only thing that really matters is the level-breaking game console hidden in the corner."
Bai Ling was sitting in the car at the time, squinting his eyes at the bright sunshine outside the car window, and chuckled as he said, "The game console is divided into 7 levels in total, and the difficulty of each level is increasing. Some levels test your intelligence, and some test your reaction. Generally speaking, the difficulty of each level is not too difficult. Basically, anyone with a sound mind can pass the first six levels."
"But when you reach the seventh level, everything is different."
"In the seventh level, your souls will be extracted and placed in an arena, where you will be asked to fight against a distorted monster. During the battle, you can use your own abilities, but correspondingly, El God will also assign you enemies of different levels. For example, Qianqin, you are most likely the 'Mutated Sphinx', and Miss Song is the 'Furious Typhon'."
"Neither of these two monsters are something you can handle. Even if you are Miss Song, I'm afraid you won't be able to hold out for long against Typhon."
Hearing this, Song Qingci couldn't help but frown: "In that case, what's the point of us challenging the seventh level?"
Hearing this, Bai Ling snapped his fingers and said, "Of course it's because the rewards for clearing the level are rich and... there are special tricks for clearing the level."
"Because you are souls, you can communicate with the store in the game hall during the challenge and buy the goods there. Among these goods, there is one that can definitely help you two pass the game. It is a magic weapon to win."
"This is an operation that can only be attempted after entering the soul body, because you are unable to communicate directly with the store due to physical limitations. El God is in control at all times. But when your consciousness enters the game, He will shift His sights, after all, His store is not limited to this one..."
"This is a method that El doesn't even know about."
Bai Ling sighed softly, "Because He doesn't know yet that the Phoenicians have perished, and His mythology has been mixed with Greek elements. In other words, in His mythology, there is a backdoor that He himself doesn't know about."
Thinking of this, Ji Qianqin looked up at the sky with a smile.
"I want to use twenty game coins to enable purchasing rights!" she said loudly.
The next second, a crack appeared in the sky.
An inorganic eye emerged from the broken gap and looked Ji Qianqin up and down.
After a while, the eyeball threw something down from the sky.
It is a terminal device similar to a mobile phone.
After throwing this thing down, the big eyeball immediately drilled back into the gap without any reluctance or hesitation.
It was just a robot customer service left by El God. As long as it was within the rules, it would basically satisfy everything. But it would ignore anyone who disobeyed the rules. No matter how much you said or how loud you yelled, it didn't care.
Mechanical, monotonous but efficient, that's the purpose of this thing's existence.
Holding the transparent terminal device in her hand, Ji Qianqin did not look at the evil beast slowly walking towards her, but focused her attention on the terminal device.
She ignored the extremely tempting props and didn't even look at the fantasy treasures, but found "search" in some invisible corner.
Ji Qianqin clicked on the search box and without hesitation, directly poured the single-player game that had been imprinted in her mind a long time ago onto the glass screen like a swift torrent!
[Searching for "deus ex machina", result is 1]
[Do I need to spend 100 game coins to buy "deus ex machina"? ]
This choice is very inconclusive, because there is no introduction to this product at all, just a simple sentence.
However, if someone who understands the meaning of this sentence sees it, he will probably be shocked on the spot.
Because this represents a certain huge driving force of the stage, which can end all performances... "Deus ex machina"! This is a product that can only be used in the soul state, because its essence is to abolish the end of the stage. But real life cannot be simply reduced to the stage.
However, the state of the soul is different.
The soul is essentially a product of idealism and fantasy.
After clicking this button.
The Sphinx finally came to Ji Qianqin.
Its claws were sharp, and the ends of its knuckles flashed with cold silver light, like a blade drawn from a sheath, slashing in the air with a sharp blow that was enough to cut off the moonlight! Once this blow landed on Ji Qianqin, it would not take even half a second for her body to be torn into pieces like a doll! However, this blow did not come after all.
Beside Ji Qianqin, thick fog gathered like a stand, surrounding her, with the air flow rising steadily like an impenetrable thick wall.
The gray mist blocked the beast's sharp claws, leaving it frozen in place, unable to move forward even a little bit.
It's locked.
At this time, the fog condensed around Ji Qianqin, swirling in the unclear air, forming a passage that looked like a "door".
Three seconds later, a pair of boots stepped out from the passage.
And one foot stepped on the grass that looked like a sticker.
In the rolling fog, a person walks slowly in this false space.
He looked at the beast that couldn't move, chuckled and said, "It seems that the hands of time have moved to the right place."
"But the 'question-answering beast' Sphinx? As expected, the taste of the El God was boring from the beginning. I'm afraid the other side is also Typhon as I thought?"
Wherever he walked, there was mist, like a minister surrendering to his feet. Even the tall Sphinx was forcibly locked by the mist at this moment and had to bow its head in front of him, as if prostrating itself on the ground.
Patting Ji Qianqin's shoulder gently with his right hand, the man smiled and said, "Well done."
"Next, stand back," he said calmly, "and just watch from now on."
After saying this.
As if in response to his words, the Sphinx, who was stuck in mid-air, suddenly felt a pain in his arm.
Then the next second, it found that its arm hovering in the air was torn off by the chaotic mist around it!
With a "bang", the Sphinx's arm fell to the ground, raising a gust of wind and countless fine dust! In the gust of wind, the black windbreaker was attached to Ji Qianqin's side and rolled freely, like a crow feather covering half of the sky.
The blood spurting out from the wound dyed half of the sky, like the afterglow of the setting sun, drawing a scarlet arc. However, under the fluttering black windbreaker, the blood just separated from both sides, fell on the ground beside, and burned holes, and not a drop of it could fall in front of Ji Qianqin.
"Deus ex machina" does not necessarily have to be a sudden event.
It starts from the user's own perspective and determines what should be constructed based on the user's own point of view.
If the user believes that an object can have a significant reversal effect, that it can subvert everything and reconstruct everything, then it can also be a simple object.
Then, of course, the "Deus Ex Machina" that can bring the stage play to an end...
Naturally, it can be a person.
Under the bloody sky, Bai Ling created by Ji Qianqin stood in front of the horrifying beast, his eyes dark and deep.
This is not a prophet in the true sense, but a "mechanical deus ex machina" simulated according to Ji Qianqin's own ideas, and is extremely similar to the prophet she imagined.
Therefore, he is somewhat different from Bering.
For example, his fighting ability is particularly different.
He is a very good fighter.
Maybe in Ji Qianqin's eyes, Bai Ling is actually the type who is particularly good at fighting...