Chapter 351 Monster Hospital (Fifty)
The scene in front of them came to an abrupt end, and the consciousness that had been forcefully squeezed into their bodies suddenly receded like the tide. In the two rooms, Nan Huan and Bei Xi, who were forced to see a small part of the iceberg from someone else's perspective, opened their eyes at the same time.
Man Wugui and Xieshen in the interview room had disappeared at some point, leaving only the two of them in the interview room.
The reward was over, but Nan Huan still hadn't recovered from the scene he had just seen. He didn't even know when Bei Xi pushed the door open and came to his side, until the other party's hand gently fell on his head, "Don't think about it, the reward is over, and this interview is over, you need to rest for a while."
She forcefully dragged Nan Huan up from the chair, wanting to take him back to the ward to rest for a while. Unexpectedly, after she brought Nan Huan back to the ward and before she could settle him down, he grabbed her arm first, "If everything is true, will you blame me?"
Although the words were incoherent, Nan Huan's tone contained a sense of defeat, and a bit of nervousness. She even didn't dare to look at Bei Xi's eyes, for fear of detecting something from the other party's expression. No matter whether it was the scenes she saw when guarding the memory before, or the ambiguous questions from Man Wugui, plus the little outline of the incident that she had glimpsed from these rewards from another perspective, all made Nan Huan feel uneasy. Although she was not completely sure, she already had some guesses in her mind.
Of course she knew that Yi Beixi was so smart that she might discover it earlier than herself, so she was not worried that the other party would not understand her question. Instead, she stubbornly wanted to get an answer from the other party.
Bei Xi sighed helplessly, and sat down next to Nan Huan. He lifted Nan Huan's face to look at him, and answered very seriously, "I won't blame you, never. No matter what the truth is, you never need to have such concerns."
"So you're going to make the same choice a second time, right?" Nan Huan's expression did not lighten at all because of the other party's answer. Instead, he saw another situation that he didn't want to imagine from the other party's kind look, and his tone was not good, "You guessed it a long time ago, didn't you?"
Nan Huan seldom spoke to Bei Xi in such an aggressive tone, and the two seldom had any quarrels. At most, it was because Nan Huan disregarded personal danger in the dungeon, but most of those situations were things she had guessed about and knew about. She valued her life very much, and although there would be a certain degree of danger, it was not always a dead end, so taking risks on this basis was not really a risk at all for her.
In many cases, the quarrel with Bei Xi was just a matter of interest, but it was different now, because she vaguely got some kind of determination from Bei Xi's answer, so she was very scared.
Bei Xi did not answer this time. It was unknown whether it was because he did not expect Nan Huan to be so perceptive, or he was not really prepared for the second time, or he just did not want to give the answer that Nan Huan did not want to hear.
Nan Huan didn't have the patience. He opened his mouth and directly bit Bei Xi's wrist, using great force, "Don't even think about it. Things won't get to that point. I won't allow it. I won't allow it. You are not allowed to do anything without my order. Do you hear me?"
Obviously, she was the one who tried her best to bite him, but when it came to the real fight, she couldn't bring herself to do it. She said such tough words, but her face was full of grievance. Her eyes soon turned red, which made people's hearts tremble. She couldn't say anything after thinking it over, so she had to hug him in her arms, "Isn't it okay for me to listen to you? Maybe things are not as bad as we think."
Nan Huan's mood never improved. The two seemed to find Bei Xi's last words ridiculous, but no one had the courage to stand up and break the window paper at this time.
"Okay, okay," Bei Xi held him in his arms and coaxed him for a while, then talked about another matter, trying to divert Nan Huan's attention. "What do you think is the purpose of the system in doing this side quest during the interview?"
This side quest is different from the previous ones. Each question comes with rewards and punishments, but the severity of the punishment is very small compared to the previous quests. Apart from the increased degree of infection of the two, there is no more substantial harm. It seems more like this quest is used to tell them some message.
"Evil God and Man Wugui have been quietly pushing players and patients to be infected, but it happens that our information is not equal. The system uses the rules of the game to let us see more information so that we can be mentally prepared." Nan Huan's voice was a little hoarse. She was actually a little tired, but she knew she couldn't fall down at this time, especially this mild side quest, which made her feel the urgency of the storm. She knew she had to find a way. "Man Wugui and Evil God didn't want us to see the scene just now. On the one hand, it was because that was the birth of their initial emotions. On the other hand, there might be some information in it that we can use, but I can't think of it for the time being."
It seems that Nan Huan was still somewhat affected. Bei Xi came to a conclusion in his heart, without any change on his face. "After all, the truth has been revealed. There is no need to rush."
"Do you want to rest for a while?" She calmly helped Nan Huan lie down. "The calmer this mission is, the more it means that what awaits us next will not be such a gentle breeze and drizzle. You need to rest for a while."
Bei Xi's tone suddenly changed for the last few words, but it returned to normal after a moment. Nan Huan was not so carefree about what happened just now, so she didn't notice Bei Xi's abnormality at all. However, she didn't want to rest, so she just shook her head and said, "We still have to wait for the calls from President Barbie and President Yan."
"It's not time yet. They don't have any tasks anymore, so it shouldn't be a big deal." Bei Xi didn't listen to her explanation and directly covered her eyes with her hands. "They have to wait until our self-reflection time is over before they can call us. We have managed to get half an hour. You can take a rest. You need to rest."
Bei Xi used a commanding tone mixed with a little temptation. Nan Huan still wanted to struggle, but for some reason, he suddenly felt sleepy and could no longer hold on and closed his eyes.
Bei Xi, however, did not leave the hospital bed. She sat next to Nan Huan, looking down at him, as if she wanted to engrave Nan Huan's face in her mind.
After a long while, she finally sighed and reached out to touch Nan Huan's cheek, "I'm sorry..."
As soon as she finished speaking, the scene that she didn't want to see appeared in her mind again, like a time bomb reminding her all the time. Bei Xi clenched her hands constantly, trying to calm herself down. The time she was infected was getting longer and longer, probably because the 20% infection was more serious than before. But after a while, she returned to her original state, with nothing visible on her cold face.
Half an hour passed in the blink of an eye. When Nan Huan opened her eyes, she found that she had slept very soundly. She thought she would be disturbed by all sorts of dreams, but she slept very soundly. As soon as she opened her eyes, she knew that Bei Xi had used props on her, which led to such an effect.
"Is it time?"
She sat up from the bed and did not pursue Bei Xi's behavior. Instead, she held the other's hand with a firm protective posture, unwilling to let go.
Bei Xi's lips curved up, but she didn't struggle to move the other person's hand. "It's almost there, about two minutes left. The introspection is arranged in the ward, so it shouldn't be a big deal if you continue to lie down."
"Have you ever regretted anything?" Nan Huan asked casually, "This self-reflection task is related to this point. If you were given a chance, would you ever think of changing anything in the past?"
Nan Huan knew that Bei Xi was just like him. He had not completely remembered everything that had been forgotten long ago. Most of his thoughts were based on guesses. Talking to him in this rambling way did not seem to require an answer, but more like chatting.
Bei Xi didn't know what her words touched her mind, and what she thought of. She smiled calmly, "I must have regretted something before, right? And there should be quite a lot, but if I had to do it again, I would still choose this path and go all the way."
Nan Huan was a little surprised, "Why? Since you regret it and have the opportunity to correct it, why do you choose the same old path? Isn't this a waste of opportunity?"
Bei Xi lowered her head and played with Nan Huan's fingers. After hearing what he said, she explained to Nan Huan nonchalantly, "There may be some things where, even if you know you will regret it, you still want to make the same choice. I am probably just that kind of person. This is the path I have chosen. I have been like this since I was born, so there is nothing to worry about."
It was not known whether Bei Xi's words had a deeper meaning or were meant specifically for Nan Huan to hear. In any case, after she finished speaking, there was no more silence between the two of them. The only difference was that the sporadic voices of the patients in the next room and the sounds of patients walking back and forth in the corridor disappeared in an instant. While she was speaking, Nan Huan seemed to be lost in some kind of contemplation.
But this silence did not last long and was broken by the changes in the house.
Strictly speaking, when the time passed eight o'clock, the furnishings in the room did not change at first. The ward they were in seemed to have fallen into a time and space that appeared out of thin air, as if it had been deliberately erased from the original Ward A.
What followed was that everything around the ward began to become dreamy like the tide, and then peeled off layer by layer, revealing the true appearance inside, and those desks, wardrobes, and beds disappeared in an instant.
Some changes also took place in Nan Huan and Bei Xi. In Nan Huan's eyes, the hospital gown on Bei Xi faded away quickly like the tide, turning into the clothes she usually wore when entering the dungeon, and then into the clothes she wore before entering the game, and then gradually faded from a mature style to a youthful style.
It seemed as if all time began to go backwards for Beixi, and even Beixi's face became younger and younger, until he completely turned into a baby. This change never stopped. Beixi turned into the appearance of those Huls one by one, from death to birth. In the end, Beixi's clothes and appearance had become the appearance of Axi that Nan Huan had seen in his memory.
The place where she was changed from a copy of the game to her home before entering the game, then to the living environment of Hull that Nanhuan had seen in the copy, and finally to the land that Nanhuan was very familiar with.
Finally, at a certain point in time, her human appearance suddenly disappeared, and was replaced by the appearance of a monster wrapped in black air. The monster's body seemed to have been the same size since birth, so the passage of time could not show obvious changes in its body. One could only judge that time was still passing by looking at the amount of black air wrapped around her.
In a trance, something emerged from that vast land, from that deep land, and mixed into the monster's body. She stood proudly among thousands of monsters, but Nan Huan could still recognize her at a glance.
Until the sky and the earth merged into one again and became chaotic, the monsters and the spreading black body were suppressed underground, and the flow of time on Beixi's body stopped.
In Beixi's eyes, Nanhuan was also undergoing some changes. The present Nanhuan, the owner of the ancient castle in a certain life, the saint in a certain life, the princess in a certain life, and so on, those vivid characters were no longer just a role in the copy, but a living life, an experience, a long period of time that truly belonged to Nanhuan.
Until she returned to that vast land and spent some happy days with A Xi, who had turned into a human. Unfortunately, time did not stay in this leisurely time forever, but continued to rush forward mercilessly.
Black air gradually spread over the vast land, returning to its original state where no light could be seen. Nan Huan also became a baby, watching all this.
Until a dull bell rang, awakening the two people's consciousness again. They returned to their original state. The original ward was gone, and it was pitch black around them. The two seemed to have fallen into an endless universe, with only each other around them, and then the system prompt sound was heard.
【bite--
Congratulations to the player for triggering the two-player side quest - Self-reflection. 】
Nan Huan looked up in surprise, trying to find the source of the sound, because the sound of the system was no longer mechanical, but became very ethereal and profound.
Walking alone with the old man and following the earnest teachings of the guide.
【Task content: In one’s life, whether long or short, one experiences countless things and makes countless choices. Some people choose never to look back, and even if they have made wrong choices, they will continue to move forward without turning back. Some people choose to learn from their mistakes and never repeat them. Now you have a chance to reflect on yourself and re-examine your past choices. When the opportunity appears in front of you again, what will you choose?
Hint: The river flows eastward. 】
As the system prompt sounded, the originally pitch-black sky seemed to be torn apart by something, and the first ray of sunlight fell from the eastern sky, illuminating the entire earth.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi now felt like their souls had left their bodies. Their consciousness was soaring above the universe, but it was not under their own control. Instead, it moved with the changes in the light and scenery.
"We are being controlled and can only see what it wants us to see?" Nan Huan tried to control his body, but found that he could not do it at all. He could only watch from God's perspective as humans, mountains and rivers appeared on the originally barren land. The world was no longer pitch black, but had a pattern in the repetition.
Human beings work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise. The pace of time is moving forward bit by bit. No matter whether it is the guests invited to watch the ceremony like her and Bei Xi, or the humans involved, they cannot stop the wheel of history from rolling forward.
"Maybe he wants us to truly understand everything that happened in the past, including our existence, Man Wugui and the evil god," Bei Xi didn't react much. After a moment of hesitation, he added, "He will let us go free only when we really have to make a choice."
After all, this was the truth they had been pursuing all along, but it was suddenly presented to them in this way. Nan Huan and Bei Xi were both a little uncomfortable, but after a moment they both calmed down.
If the two were watching a TV series, the scene before their eyes could be described as peaceful and calm. However, just as TV series need to attract audiences, it is impossible for them to remain so peaceful forever. It is more likely that this kind of calm means some impending danger, and the peace of mankind will soon be broken.
The capricious weather and the ever-changing war situation seem to confirm that as long as human beings are born, desires will be born, and what is born with desires will often bring disasters.
The humans in the north were displaced, and years of war had left them starving and cold. Tree bark was considered a good meal, and they were helpless. Some gave up the last bit of conscience as humans in the years of war and began to attack their own kind, while others chose more vicious witchcraft, trying to make their warriors invincible forever.
Human resentment began to spread. People didn't understand why they had to survive in war when they could live a good life. All the anger seemed to fall on the other side that started the war.
Are the people who started the war in the south the real culprits? But they also lost their homes due to the flood, and with the spread of the plague, they were in urgent need of finding a new home. What was wrong with that?
Some people complain, some people resent, some people cry, and some people sigh.
Nan Huan and Bei Xi watched this human tragedy from a God's perspective, but what fell on every life was a solid survival. Since they were born, everyone wanted to live, even if it was so difficult.
The war horses neighed, relatives and friends cried bitterly, sobs were everywhere, and wailing filled the wild.
Amidst natural and man-made disasters, a long sigh resounded through the sky, accompanied by thunder and lightning, "How can we survive when the laws of nature are unfair?"
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