Chapter 347 Monster Hospital (Forty-Six)
In another room, amid the system's urging voice, the evil god also asked the first question.
"I have a way to make you and Nan Huan stay together forever. Are you willing to try it? Yes or no?"
Compared to Man Wugui's hostility towards Nan Huan, the evil god did not show any hostility. He just looked at Bei Xi with a smile, but there was not much gentleness in this smile. Instead, he looked like he was enjoying a good show.
After she asked the question, she was not in a hurry to urge the other party to answer. She just placed one hand on the table boredly and tapped it rhythmically. It was unclear whether she was trying to attract Bei Xi's attention intentionally or was simply bored.
Although Bei Xi was not sure whether Nan Huan next door would face the same question as herself, she still did not expect that the evil god would ask such a question.
Bei Xi could easily give an answer to this question, but she instinctively felt that the system would not give such a simple question, and she was very dissatisfied with the implicit meaning in the evil god's question.
Her brows were furrowed for only a second, then relaxed. She knew that she couldn't be swayed by the problems, let alone the emotions caused by the problems.
"Whether Nan Huan and I can be together forever is a matter between the two of us and has nothing to do with you."
Bei Xi gave her first answer. She did not give a clear answer to the question of "yes" or "no" deliberately given by the evil god, but directly took the evil god out of the question. On the one hand, it was to test the diversity of answers to this question, and on the other hand, she did not want to admit the evil god's assumptions on this question.
[If the answer is not standard, please answer again within 30 seconds. ]
The system prompt sounded, and a familiar electric shock was heard, accompanied by a thirty-second countdown that lit up in front of her eyes. Bei Xi was not too disappointed, and she knew that the system could not be fooled by an ambiguous answer. However, she was not clear about the boundaries of the system and the boundaries of the evil god, so she wanted to test it out.
"Actually, I don't quite understand you." The countdown continued. The evil god at the side did not look happy about Bei Xi's suffering. She just spread her hands strangely, looking very puzzled and asking for advice. "You already know the answers to some things, but why do you still insist on going down this path?"
The system did not block the evil god's words any further, which meant that this level of interference from the other party was possible. Bei Xi paid attention to the countdown and did not answer directly. Instead, he calculated the last few seconds and gave the system another answer.
"Forever is a time that cannot be measured. As long as we are by each other's side, even for just one second, this second is enough to be called 'forever', so this question does not apply at all."
[If the answer is not standard, please answer again within 30 seconds. ]
The prompt sound came again along with the electric shock. This little pain was not really ranked high in Beixi's dungeon career, so she could take the time to think about other issues. For example, she could recognize that the evil god's question just now did not seem to disturb her, but she did not seem to want to get some kind of answer from her. She only had a kind of thoughtful melancholy, and no one knew what she was sighing about.
The system controls the confirmation of the answer. The question may have been set in advance, so what will be the system's judgment criteria? Based on Beixi, the answer to this question is obvious at a glance. Why would the system give a free point question?
The timer was quickly approaching the end, but Bei Xi still refused to give up. "Even if I want to be with Nan Huan forever, I don't believe you would give me such a chance for no reason. I have to know what you want to exchange for it before I can make a decision. Should I accept your so-called kindness?"
Even if it was just a hypothesis, Bei Xi was extremely unwilling to have her problems with Nan Huan be linked to the evil god, so her tone was full of undisguised disgust, and she looked at the evil god with an unfriendly look.
This time the evil god remained silent. She did not answer Bei Xi's question and chose to remain silent, but her eyes revealed a gloomy look.
[If the answer is not standard, please answer again within 30 seconds. ]
The evil god was also subject to certain restrictions in this mission. She could not say all the words. For example, when faced with her own question just now, she chose to remain silent. Bei Xi guessed that she chose silence passively. However, when facing the question, Bei Xi had made it clear that any opportunistic answer would not pass. Just like the answer given by the evil god at the beginning, there were only two options: "yes" and "no", and she could only choose one of the two.
It seems that at the current stage of the test, it is impossible to get more information from the evil god and the system. Bei Xi thought for a moment, and at the end of another countdown, he gave his answer.
"I would be willing to try." Since he had already tried it, Bei Xi no longer chose those ambiguous words, but gave an affirmative answer, as if this choice had been made in his mind countless times.
The evil god was not surprised by her answer, but his eyes still revealed a sense of sadness, even a bit of pity, but it was quickly suppressed by the other party, so quickly that Bei Xi thought he had seen it wrong.
But she soon had no time to care about all this because she heard the system's judgment.
【bite--
If the answer is not true, jump directly to the big adventure stage. 】
Bei Xi seldom reveals her true emotions in the dungeon. In fact, she doesn't have many emotions. Only when she is facing Nan Huan will some emotions emerge. But this time, she was truly shocked by the negative answer given by the system.
Even if we take a step back, Bei Xi had already given the answer in her heart the moment the evil god asked the question. Unlike when she asked the question herself, she needed to judge what conditions the evil god gave before she could decide whether she chose to be with Nan Huan forever.
What she really thought was that as long as there was this opportunity, she would definitely choose this opportunity and be with Nan Huan forever. Although she had suspected that the system was doing the opposite and whether there were any traps in this question, after all, the question was clear and it was a question closely related to her, so she had no reason to choose a negative answer.
But the fact is, the system determined that what she said was not true. This was impossible. There must be something wrong.
Bei Xi quickly calmed down and tried to analyze what went wrong. However, before she could figure it out, the punishment for the great adventure arrived as expected. Suddenly, everything in front of her went dark, and the interview room, the evil god, and the copy all disappeared.
She seemed to be in another familiar place. On the vast land, black air was prevalent, entwining strands of life. The emerald green mountains and rivers quickly lost their life and became completely dark, turning into a pool of stagnant water. It was as if something was dissolving the life of this world bit by bit.
This scene was very familiar. She had seen this scene during the mission to protect herself. In an instant, Bei Xi seemed to sense something. She looked up and saw Nan Huan standing not far away.
She stood here cleanly, out of tune with the dark air around her, but with a frightening expression on her face, looking at herself. Bei Xi involuntarily wanted to take a step closer and hug the crumbling Nan Huan into her arms, but she found that she could not move at all.
Nan Huan wanted to get closer to him like crazy, but she couldn't move at all. Her entire palm had been rubbed on the ground until it bled, and her nails were broken one by one. She tried her best to move in her direction, but could only stay there and watch. She opened her mouth and shouted something loudly, but Bei Xi could not hear anything.
Nan Huan's eyes were filled with tears that flowed on the ground. He cried breathlessly, which made her frightened. Bei Xi reminded herself that this was not the real world, that was not the real Nan Huan, but at the same time her heart was torn, and she didn't know how to face Nan Huan's face that was gradually losing its life.
At the same time, she felt that the strength in her body seemed to be dissipating bit by bit. Her flesh and blood were like snow when spring returned to the earth. After being blown by the spring breeze, they slowly melted away. From her limbs to her bones, her bones gradually shattered and her flesh and blood were squeezed. Bei Xi felt unbearable pain, but she could do nothing.
Soon her vision became increasingly blurred, and she could no longer catch sight of Nan Huan's face. However, she could feel a constant stream of mournful sounds from the pitch-black illusion. She knew that it was not the sound of the wind, but Nan Huan's cry, even though she could hear nothing.
At the moment before complete darkness came, the last tear flowed from her eyes.
At this moment in another ward, Nan Huan was gasping for breath. The feeling of his flesh and blood being bitten could not be relieved for a while, but the pain from the electric shock could no longer be felt.
In the quiet room, Nan Huan had been holding the armrests of the chair with both hands since she came to her senses. She was holding on so tightly that her nails almost dug into the wood. She didn't want to lose her composure in front of Man Wugui, but she couldn't control this physiological reaction. After about half a minute, she finally let go of her hands, sat down and leaned back on the chair.
"I always thought I was a person who took the overall situation into consideration," she spoke weakly. Since she was already in such an embarrassing state, Nan Huan acted as if she had given up hope. When Man Wugui did not intend to ask a second question for the time being, she showed her intention to talk to the other party. She said this very frankly without any guilt.
Man Wugui didn't know whether he was very satisfied with Nan Huan's reaction, or he had just seen the other party's embarrassed appearance, and suddenly he became kind, "It depends on what you are comparing it with. If it's someone I care about, I don't care about the overall situation. If it's not someone I care about, then what's the problem with helping him out?"
She was quite frank and said the answer she would choose if she were in this position. The system did not stop her, which meant that Man Wugui could express his opinion. However, she always felt that Man Wugui's words seemed to imply something.
Nan Huan did not take the system's judgment on her previous question too seriously, indicating that her answer was not true. She believed in her own judgment and did not let the system's determination shake her heart or her judgment, nor did she have any doubts about her own humanity. On the contrary, she quickly recovered from the defeat.
After all, she needed to find out the basis of the system's judgment as soon as possible. She was not naive enough to argue with the system or the situation in front of her, about whether it was fair or not. Even if she could guarantee that the choice she had just made was in accordance with her heart and was made out of necessity, she believed that the system must have different judgment criteria, but she had not figured it out yet.
"What you said makes sense. It depends on what you are comparing it to and the specific situation. This is also the reason why I have been hesitant to answer just now, because the question was not set accurately."
Now Man Wugui is the only one in the room, and the system will not proactively reveal relevant information. Nan Huan does not have many choices, so he can only continue to get as much information as possible from Man Wugui.
Man Wugui saw what the other party meant and said bluntly, "The question is the question, and you only have one choice to answer it."
It should be impossible to hide the information from the other party and get it without anyone knowing, but Nan Huan did not expect Man Wugui to be so direct. Her words showed that even if she knew something, she was restricted by the system and could not tell it. What's more, she hated him, so it was even more impossible for her to reveal any information.
The system would not give a dead end side quest. Since Man Wugui could not provide any clues due to certain restrictions, it meant that there must be other clues that Nan Huan had not discovered. She quickly began to think about all the information she had received since she entered the room.
The system's task description is usually the most informative content. Just now, Nan Huan's eyes were focused on the strangeness of this side quest, and he seemed to have overlooked something. In addition to the system's criteria for judging the truth, there must be other places that provide clues.
Nan Huan looked at the task description carefully, and suddenly noticed the rewards for answering the questions, as well as the adventure stage that was triggered when the answers were untrue. She seemed to have found some clues, but they were still vague.
In addition to the answer, she has just tried many answers, so the clue is not here. The question and the answer have been decided long ago. Then there is the punishment of the adventure just now. Nan Huan has always thought that it was only because the punishment was triggered that she encountered those things just now, but if it is not simply like this, the scenes she saw in this adventure may be somewhat related to the question, or maybe this is the way the system presents the tiny clues given?
However, these clues seemed very complicated and incoherent, and they were all crowded in Nan Huan's mind at once, making it difficult for her to grasp the important things in a short period of time.
The system is still somewhat humane, of course only a little bit. After the big adventure stage, it gave Nan Huan some time to recover. Except for necessary questions that could not be revealed, it also gave her the opportunity to communicate with Man Wugui. However, before Nan Huan could truly understand what she had been ignoring, the prompt sound urging Man Wugui to answer the second question sounded.
"Unfortunately, it's time to rest and think." Man Wugui spread his hands nonchalantly, not giving Nan Huan any more time. "Second question, if you have an enemy, there are two ways to kill him. One is to disguise yourself as a new one, appear next to him, deceive his trust, and kill him when he's unprepared. The second way is to appear in front of him with your true appearance and fight to the death. Which one would you choose?"
The second question is more detailed than the first question. Unlike the first question, which has too many restrictions and a broader scope, the second question is very detailed.
Nan Huan didn't think she had any enemies. Even after entering the dungeon, she never regarded those players from the anti-first guild alliance as real enemies. She only took action when they threatened her and Bei Xi's lives. So although this assumption did not hold true for Nan Huan, she was sure of her answer.
However, she had not yet seen any connection between the first question and the second question, nor did she understand why the system had asked them to trigger this side quest. Was her sincere answer really important to this quest? What was the system's starting point for letting Man Wugui appear here?
I always felt that after my first question was judged as untrue by the system, Man Wugui didn't seem to be too happy. The other party didn't appear here just to ask questions and laugh at me.
"I choose the second option, fighting the opponent to the death in an open and level-headed manner."
With the experience of the first question, Nan Huan knew that any more attempts would be useless, or the clues given by the system, in addition to the task description, would only be hidden in the punishment stage of the adventure. If she couldn't figure out anything from it for the time being, she might as well read more. Or if she guessed right this time, as the system described, she would receive an incredible reward from the doctor.
Wait? Why did the reward for answering correctly come from Man Wugui? What kind of reward could she give herself? Why did the system give up this right? Those scattered messages and fragments seemed to be connected by something. Nan Huan seemed to have caught a glimpse of something, but was interrupted by the system's prompt sound again.
【bite--
If the answer is not true, jump directly to the big adventure stage. 】
Maybe it was because he had already experienced the first problem and was mentally prepared, or maybe it was because of the thoughts just now that Nan Huan had already figured out the key, so he was not too upset about the second result that the system judged that he was not telling the truth.
Just like the time not long ago, Nan Huan's eyes went dark. The original interview room and Man Wugui had disappeared. However, this time, the place she came to was no longer the bottomless pit, but an endless flat land. However, this land was entangled with black air that continuously overflowed from the ground.
This was the scene he had seen in the mission of protecting his memories, but in those scenes, there was no Bei Xi standing so resolutely not far away from him. She looked at him with resentment. That was the Bei Xi that Nan Huan had never seen before.
"Why did you betray me? Why?"
A gust of wind blew by, and Nan Huan heard Bei Xi's questioning.
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