Chapter 282 Crimson Mirror
The sudden conversation left Xu Zhiyan stunned.
He is not a fool.
When he encountered the ghost slice before, even though the other party always had strange desires for him, many things could always be explained.
For example, he has the aura of the original body, or the hand bones belong to ghosts and gods, which makes the slices want to get closer. At worst, it can be explained that the slices are affected by the emotions in the ring.
No matter which one it is, Xu Zhiyan can accept it.
But he never thought that one day he would receive such a solemn confession...if the words just now could be considered a confession.
He sat by the pool, feeling confused.
Put aside everything.
Xu Zhiyan had never experienced this before, getting what he wanted without paying any price.
The other person's body temperature still remains on my hand.
Do not do any asking for help, make him feel strange.
The inexplicably beating heart calmed down.
The fact that Party A wanted to have a relationship with him was absurd both theoretically and practically.
Xu Zhiyan thought for a moment, then lowered his head and turned away.
He told himself to stay calm.
Although he had never eaten pork, Xu Zhiyan had seen pigs run. If he were honest, he knew that he did not hate Bai Jin.
In his eyes, Xue was a target person, a party A with different memories. If he were to fall in love with this guy now...
How will he face Party A when he returns to the safe house?
Forget it, forget it.
A wise man does not fall in love.
Xu Zhiyan is very satisfied with his current stable cooperative relationship with Guishen. As a businessman, he needs stability, and luxuries like love are not something he should consider now.
The young man leaned his hands on the edge of the pool and looked at the calm water without ripples.
A few seconds later, Xu Zhiyan withdrew his gaze, opened the guild chat panel, and started typing on it.
An eyeball as big as a pearl was floating beside him.
If Xu Zhiyan could take a closer look, he would probably wonder why there were such complicated emotions in these eyes.
Under the surface of the blood pool, all the slices and blood with memories were recovered. Looking at the young man on the shore through the water, his indifferent expression could not suppress the loss on his face.
As expected, there was no response.
In fact, before it opened its mouth, it had already realized that to Xu Zhiyan, it could not even be considered a complete "person".
It is just a part of ghosts and gods, and it will eventually return to its original form.
Leaning against the door at the bottom of the pool, a bold idea appeared in Blood's mind. If it returns, then what is the difference between ghosts and gods and it?
It felt like it was going crazy.
All the love belonging to the young master, the love belonging to Mrs. Bai, and the love belonging to the big white cat were superimposed on it at this moment.
The limited rationality that was already there was almost burned out.
Yes, since I don’t want to hurt him and want to be with him for a long time, my current identity is totally inadequate.
The hand somehow reached out to the door at the bottom of the pool.
Fear and trembling made it want to avoid it, but desire and love made it unable to withdraw its hand.
Push it away.
Open this door...
In a trance, Blood heard Xu Zhiyan's voice.
"Bai Jin, are you there?"
The confused vision gradually became clear. Blood shook his head, withdrew his hand, left the door and returned to the young man's side.
On the shore, Xu Zhiyan had just received the locations to use two props from Jiang Huaique.
"I have probably guessed some of the content, but..."
“If I were Him, would you respond to me?”
They both spoke at the same time.
It's a pity that the styles are so different.
One of them has come out of his previous emotions and is nervously analyzing the contents of the copy, while the other is still the same as always, with love in his mind.
Xu Zhiyan was choked by his saliva and couldn't finish his words.
He turned his head and looked at the man with only his head sticking out of the water... He found it a little funny to see such an uneasy look on the ghost's cool face.
It seems that if things are not explained clearly, it will be difficult to find out the following contents.
After closing the guild dialog box, Xu Zhiyan sat up straight and faced the other party with a serious expression on his face.
“Bai Jin, whether it’s you who’s the sliced body or the ghost itself, before your past memories… well, or should I say most of your memories are restored, I will most likely not establish a relationship with you that goes beyond the scope of a transaction.”
Looking at Xuelu's distraught expression as if struck by lightning, Xu Zhiyan slowed down his tone.
“It’s not that I don’t accept this relationship.”
"But you, or the ghosts and gods, are likely to make mistakes when you don't have a complete understanding."
The spirits he encountered had no memories.
The slices that come and go, in most cases, only have a small part of incomplete memory, and some of the slices use false memories implanted by the system.
"You've never seen the outside world, you've never been around other people, you're stuck in this little corner."
The largest copy is just an entire city, and most of the people that appear in it are NPCs. Occasionally there are a few players with tasks and purposes, but they will disappear quickly.
“I’m a very greedy person.”
Xu Zhiyan closed his eyes and recalled his first meeting with the ghost.
He is like a banished immortal who is ignorant of worldly affairs.
All words that are indifferent to nothingness can be applied to the other person.
"As a deal, I promise to set Him free."
He would collect the slices and make the ghosts and gods whole.
Looking at the man clinging to the shore with a solemn expression, the emotion in Xu Zhiyan's voice was a little hard to understand.
"I don't know why you want to love me."
"If you make the same choice after you recover all your memories and see a wider world, we can talk about this again."
He doesn't need this kind of emotion that only treats him as a lifeline.
What he wants is pure love that remains steadfast after seeing all the beautiful things in this world.
As if he had thought of something, Xu Zhiyan touched his chin and added.
"It seems a little strange to tell you this."
"Can you delete these memories when you return to your original body? I feel like your original body is very cold and probably has no interest in a human successor like me. I'd be embarrassed if you act too sentimental."
"He looks like a cold-hearted... ahem, desireless creature." He then laughed softly.
It seems that I accidentally said something too much in front of the ghost slice. Blood should have a way to delete the memory, right? However, according to the ghost's always calm personality, even if he knew, he probably wouldn't say much.
He is always like this.
It was cold and deserted, as if he didn't care about anything.
When Xuefeng came to his senses and looked at Xu Zhiyan, his expression was full of confusion.
"Huh? A creature without desires?"
It was almost laughable.
When it was knocked away by the ghost's hand bone just now, it clearly felt the crazy fighting spirit coming from it, mixed with a strong possessive desire, warning it.
Although he had only met her once, he knew from blood that the guy behind the door was definitely not a good person.
But I thought of what Xu Zhiyan had said before.
When the memory is fully restored...
It did not reveal its true character disguise, but instead moved closer to Xu Zhiyan and spoke tentatively.
"I've changed my mind."
"Let's make a deal."
Pointing at the pile of mirrors, it licked its canine teeth.
"You can ask me about the copy, but in return, you have to answer a question for me."
The topic came to an area that Xu Zhiyan was familiar with.
He nodded nonchalantly.
Simple transaction, no big problem.
Seeing that Blood was no longer in love, he returned to work, pointed at the mirror, and began to try to connect other clues to restore the timeline of the copy.
"The Scarlet Mirror was originally two copies. The hotel you are in is one, and the museum across the street is another."
Seeing Xuelu nod and seem to want to say something, Xu Zhiyan quickly raised his hand.
"Stop - this is not a problem, I have already put it forward, we can exchange it later when I have questions." When it comes to transactions, he is unwilling to suffer any loss.
Blood closed his mouth in disappointment, waiting for the opportunity to ask questions.
"The museum appeared three years ago. From the previous missions, we can infer that the system that issues us missions and the original system in this instance do not seem to be in harmony... Did they fall out?"
When faced with uncertainty, Xu Zhiyan turned his head to look at the slices in the pool.
Blood leaned against the poolside, his strong arms resting on the shore.
There was shock in its eyes.
It is hard to imagine that Xu Zhiyan could guess this just by relying on the task information given by the system.
"Unexpectedly, absolutely correct."
"I once had access to the Scarlet Hotel's system and it was working fine, but after the Mirror Museum hack, it disappeared."
Probably annexed.
Or disappearance in a physical sense.
"The museum's system... is a disgusting thing that doesn't play by the rules." When mentioning the building opposite, its expression was a mixture of complexity and disgust.
Xu Zhiyan nodded.
From a single perspective, it is difficult to judge whether the museum's out-of-control system is strong or weak.
But no matter what, directly blocking the players' information in the decryption copy and allowing the players to enter the museum without being exposed to more information is tantamount to suicide, and there will definitely be a lot of casualties.
“So the guild mission props are the tools used by the main system to take back territory…” Xu Zhiyan frowned.
The main system is still as bad as ever.
The players were involved in the dungeon, but they were worried that they would turn against them after learning that another system was out of control, so they simply did not tell them any information.
“No… that’s not right.”
Xu Zhiyan always felt that something was wrong.
"Since the purpose of the guild props is to allow the main system to regain control of the instance, why do the rest need to be arranged in the mirror world?"
Theoretically speaking, you just need to paste all the props throughout the copy.
Blood sticks out two fingers.
“That’s the second question.”
Xu Zhiyan paused, then remembered the deal he had just agreed upon with the other party, and spoke openly.
"Ask me, I'll tell you everything I know."
He is an honest businessman.
The blood was somewhat excited, and it leaned forward with its arms, thinking for a moment before speaking.
"Do you prefer men or women? Can't they be humans?"
“…”
Xu Zhiyan’s expression froze for a moment.
Damn it, how could he think that his blood was finally normal? Wasn't he still in love?
But a deal is a deal.
After a light cough, Xu Zhiyan answered carefully.
"It will be all right."
His blank emotional experience made it impossible for him to express his sexual orientation. As for whether he was human or not, he had seen so many monsters that it didn't seem to matter.
The blood pool boiled.
At the edge of the pool, the pearl-sized eyeballs that had just scattered gathered together again.
Blood couldn't wait to answer Xu Zhiyan's second question.
"It's a copycat of the main system."
"The mirror world you see is a real ruined space. It wants to be the second main system."
Totally unexpected.
Xu Zhiyan's heart skipped a beat.
Facing the young man's urging eyes, Xue Xue did not keep him in suspense and continued, "This game is much bigger than you think, but I don't know why there are so many used and discarded copies."
It muttered and revealed the truth about the out-of-control system.
"It captures humans and relies on the huge will of human regret to reshape these small worlds."
Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but look at the mirrors filled with ruins.
"Are these ruins worlds that once existed?"
"Yes."
"So many? Everyone enters a different ruins world?"
“Of course, this is only a small part.”
It took Xu Zhiyan a long time to come back to his senses.
how so?
Why are there so many ruined worlds? This number is no longer something that can be ignored as ordinary consumption.
Listening to Blood casually saying that there were more ruined worlds, Xu Zhiyan always felt like he had accidentally heard a shocking secret.
Thinking of the bloody creatures in the ruined world, he glanced at the blood and didn't know how to start.
However, Blood only excitedly exercised his right to inquire after the explanation.
"What position do you like?"
? ?
Xu Zhiyan felt like he didn't understand.
But when he met Slice's scarlet eyes full of lust, he felt that the other party should mean what he thought.
"have no idea."
How to answer this kind of question?
"Oh - then this question doesn't count." Blood frowned and lengthened his voice, then changed the question.
"Do you like French kissing? The kind where the tongue goes in."
It asked a serious question that was not easy to answer, and accurately touched upon Xu Zhiyan's blind spot in knowledge.
"……have no idea."
What the hell! It would be weird whether I like it or not!
The second one didn't know that the blood had a puzzled expression on its face, but its idea was very simple. Since it had decided to return to its original body, it would go to the other end of the door with the young man in front of it.
Like Mrs. White, it is very open-minded.
Anyway, after returning to its original form, it is the ghost or god, and the ghost or god is it. Getting more information will always be useful in the future.
As for what Xu Zhiyan said before...
It doesn't think that the strong feelings in its chest will disappear because of the revival of memory. It has a premonition that the love will only grow bigger and fuller.
"Then let me ask a simpler question."
"If I, no, if the ghost can't help wanting to kiss you and put his tongue inside you, will you refuse?"
"……you."
Xu Zhiyan's cheeks flushed a little.
Damn it, what kind of simple question is this? Why didn't the blood ask him how many years he had left to live?
But he has already said he didn't know for two consecutive questions. If he continues to answer like this now, who knows how long the subsequent doubts will last.
Patting his face, Xu Zhiyan took a deep breath and answered calmly.
"Won't."
Anyway, considering Party A's usually cool and aloof demeanor, there is no way he would do such a thing!
Since more and more slices have returned, ghosts and gods rarely lose control because of the return of slices, let alone being unable to restrain themselves from engaging in intimate actions.
In the corner of the blood pool that neither of them saw.
“Pah—”
The pearl-sized eyeballs suddenly exploded and turned into blood. After a long time, they slowly condensed and stared at the two people who were asking and answering each other.
…
Inside the safe house.
The monsters looked at the safe house lobby that was slowly beginning to be repaired, and huddled their heads out from the corners.
The ghost sitting at the top has an unpredictable expression.
It's hard to tell whether you're happy or angry at the moment.
Since Dr. Bai's return, the power of ghosts and gods has skyrocketed. It is not a big problem to repair a mere safe house hall.
A few minutes later, the entire hall was reshaped and everything seemed as if nothing had happened.
The monsters didn't dare say anything more.
In order to save their own lives, they would never say anything more to the young heir of the safe house.
Just when everyone thought that this time all the monsters would quietly wait for Xu Zhiyan to come back as usual, the ghost suddenly spoke, and the monsters shrank back again.
"system."
[In...in!]
The system is also afraid, but after all, it has no entity to run around in. It can be summoned when the master needs it, and it has no excuse not to respond.
“If part of the slice is missing, will the memory be incomplete?”
Here it comes! Do you still dislike blood?
The system perks up.
[Yes, it will.] But it is difficult for it to give an answer that satisfies the ghosts and gods.
In an instant, the air pressure in the entire safe house dropped a lot.
After a long time, the ghost said calmly: "Yes."
He heard what Xu Zhiyan said.
He couldn't wait to get all the memories.
The system seemed to have been granted amnesty and hurried away.
After a while, the ghost closed his eyes.
The image transmitted through visual sharing appeared before his eyes again.
Next to the blood pool, Xu Zhiyan immediately started asking new questions without waiting for Blood to say anything more.
"What does the sticky blood outside the hotel and the red humanoid monster in the ruins have to do with you?"
Xu Zhiyan was somewhat concerned.
He thought about it and felt that those sticky things were closely related to blood.
From the fact that the blood suddenly turned black on its face, it could be judged that those monsters were indeed related to it in some way.
"Some replicas."
It had a sour face and a very unhappy expression.
"Since the bartender is gone, there are no NPCs in this instance."
The hotel was filled with Him and His clones.
The only difference is that some clones get more power, some get less, and they may be in a daze and have little consciousness.
In the Mirror Museum, due to the out-of-control system, all the NPCs were put into the mirror.
"It killed all the NPCs."
“Unlike living humans, NPCs cannot help it shape the new world. Useless things will eventually become decorations.”
These ornaments are surprisingly useful.
"I can't calculate how many lives the main system has given to it in the past few years. This instance has not been open to the public for a long time."
Speaking of this, my blood starts to boil.
"You know, I can split myself into tiny units and travel to other places..."
As a result, it was forced into this copy just as it took a step forward. After being locked up, its body could not move and was directly locked.
"That guy copied my appearance..."
It's not a big deal, but it does have a negative impact on reputation.
The sound of blood became smaller and smaller.
In fact, the two sides have always kept to themselves. Although the NPC in the hotel always runs out of the mirror after twelve o'clock because of the mirror, it has no substantial impact on it overall.
“It gave me a lot of information.”
For the sake of information, it uses the sculpture as a boundary and lives in peace with the other party.
"But being trapped is really... not good, so I have been trying to figure out how to cut through the space and get out of the dungeon."
Blood ended this passage with a frown.
As if it had thought of something, it snapped its fingers.
The next second, a mirror emerged from the pool of blood. In the mirror, Jin Sheng appeared in the lobby of the hotel. Several people dressed as waiters were handing him water and food.
After obtaining more complete clues, Jin Sheng finally got the information out.
Xu Zhiyan glanced at his weak teammate holding the dog and felt completely relieved.
But when he thought of the mirrors in the museum, he felt like he had a lot of questions to ask.
He had previously speculated that the mirrors hanging from the Hall of Mirrors would eventually turn into small mirrors and fall into the room below, but according to Blood, there seemed to be another barrier in between.
Knowing that what he said was what the young man wanted to hear, Xue Xue couldn't help but move forward and whispered, "It's my turn to ask the next question."
"Wait, I hope you can ask something I can answer." Xu Zhiyan quickly began to add conditions.
He didn't want to hear any more unknown questions.
"If it doesn't work, you can make some requests, other requests."
The blood is very excited about this.
“Can I keep this request?”
It is a very positive and energetic slice, and the author is already imagining how to return to the safe house and get along with the young man in front of him as a ghost.
"Okay, okay, no problem."
Xu Zhiyan said "good" three times in a row, feeling like he was being let off.
The atmosphere between the two became much more relaxed.
"It is now known that the mirror on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors is a ruined world, where players will use their own experiences to help the system reshape the world. So what about the mirrors in other rooms that no longer have threads wrapped around them?"
He wondered what would happen if the mirror were lowered completely to the ground.
I'm not too worried about the safety of the players right now.
After all, it takes time to rebuild a world, and players will most likely be locked in it for a long time. An out-of-control system will not kill people so quickly.
This time, before the blood could answer, a shrill voice appeared.
"Oh! Boss Xu! I finally got out!"
It's a weird face.
A mirror with clown patterns printed on it suddenly fell from the sky.
“Boom—”
It didn't bother to check where it was, and kept chattering: "I didn't expect you to find this mirror! You must take the five hundred thousand!"
After saying that, the clown mask glanced at the frowning man beside him.
A fear that surged from the depths of its soul instantly silenced it, but after waiting for a while, it saw that this terrifying existence did not say anything.
It looked at Xu Zhiyan for help.
"So...um, although I know that love is important, can you go and save my master now?"
Something in its words pleased the blood.
"certainly."
As it spoke, it walked out of the blood pool naked and stretched out its hand towards Xu Zhiyan.
"I'll take you inside to have a look."
"...Please put on your pants." Xu Zhiyan couldn't help but lower his head, not daring to look at the indescribable towering object in front of him.
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