Chapter 96: The Old World (End) The little cub holding the bone. ...
After bidding farewell to his past self and Grandpa Ming, Gu Rong did not leave the old world immediately.
He remembered that he not only had a small bag, but also a small Ultraman backpack that his parents bought for him.
That was the only thing his parents gave him that he kept.
He had a small backpack before, but in this timeline, he didn't. Because he traveled through time, some details had changed. He forgot to carry his small backpack when he went out to look for his parents.
Gu Rong said: [Zizi is going to find Ultraman's little schoolbag!]
There is a small schoolbag in his system backpack, but he wants to help his past self find it back.
006 said: [This world has changed a lot. Do you still remember the way, little host?]
Gu Rong said honestly: [I don’t remember.]
006: [……]
Although he couldn't remember the way home, Gu Rong could now use the props again and didn't need to use his short legs to walk at all.
He could fly there, or he could let the skull carry him. At the skull's speed, he could cover the entire city in less than a day.
Gu Rong is now in ghost form, and no one in the old world can see him.
He took out the skeleton ghost ship, turned it into a child-sized bumper car, and started off with him.
The skulls were singing, and Gu Rong heard them singing back and forth, so he taught them to sing "The Little Jumping Frog".
The skull was walking around the streets recklessly, learning to sing from the little captain, feeling extremely happy.
When encountering a zombie tide, the skull will directly open on the heads of the densely packed zombies.
Although Gu Rong didn't remember the route home completely, he had some vague memories and was not completely in the dark.
The world has changed a lot, and this is the biggest reason why the route is blurred.
The skeleton bumper car drove for a long time and passed a park. Gu Rong controlled the bumper car to stop.
He recognized the park; it was the same park where his housekeeper had taken him to ride his scooter.
At that time, he also saw a little black cat on the pomelo tree. Now he knows that the little black cat is the devil.
The park was now deserted. It had been filled with corpses before, but now it was overgrown with weeds and completely abandoned.
Gu Rong said: [Zizi has been to this park before, and his home is nearby!]
006 said: [Great, I can go home and find my schoolbag later!]
Gu Rong nodded and controlled the skeleton bumper car to continue moving forward.
After turning around several times and walking around for more than ten minutes, Gu Rong finally saw the familiar villa.
But the villa also looked desolate, with green creepers climbing all over the walls. The plants had grown wildly, as if they had mutated, and were taller than the walls themselves.
From the outside, this low-key and elegant villa now looks eerie and is no different from a haunted house.
Mutated plants were everywhere. The Skeleton Bumper Car didn't grow taller, but instead had eight spider legs extending from its chassis, all made up of skulls. Wherever it went, the skulls cleanly harvested the plants and cleared a path.
When they arrived at the villa gate, Gu Rong saw something and stopped the skeleton bumper car.
A pile of bones appeared in sight, scattered at the door. Fungi had grown on them, and some glowing flowers were blooming.
There is also a scooter next to it.
It was as if a person with a scooter had died here, and no one came to collect his body until it turned into a pile of bones, and was then parasitized by mutant plants and flowers bloomed.
Gu Rong stared silently at the bones before him for a long moment before saying, "This is the housekeeper."
When Gu Rong ran out of the house to find his parents, the housekeeper did not let the young master run away alone. Instead, he picked up his scooter and wanted to chase him.
But unfortunately, he ran into a zombie as soon as he walked out the door, was bitten to death by the zombie, and then died here again.
The zombie was going to chase Gu Rong, but Lu Li, who had transformed into a little black cat, was waiting in front. The zombie instinctively sensed the danger and changed its target.
Gu Rong looked at the bones for a long time, bowed to them, and then took control of the bumper car again and drove into the villa.
From the outside, you can still tell that the villa is a house, but the inside has become a rhizome of wildly growing plants.
Gu Rong seemed to have accidentally entered a primeval forest.
Soon, Gu Rong saw his Ultraman backpack on the sofa.
The plants had no interest in inanimate objects, and the small backpack was still intact, covered in dust.
Gu Rong's face lit up with joy, and she hurried over to pick up her schoolbag, but after picking it up, she found that her little hand had passed directly through the schoolbag.
[Huh?]
Gu Rong looked at his own little hands in surprise.
006 explained: [Little host, you now exist in this world as a ghost and cannot touch the objects in this world.]
Upon hearing this, Gu Rong looked at the small schoolbag and let the skull take it.
But the skull couldn't touch the small schoolbag.
Gu Rong was puzzled: [Why can't the skull touch the small backpack? It was able to touch those big trees just now.]
The big trees he was talking about were those mutant plants that were taller than the walls.
After saying that, Gu Rong turned around, but was stunned when he turned around.
A path was opened up wherever I passed, and the plants on one path were crushed, but now the path disappeared, and the plants were still growing tall and lush, without being broken at all.
Gu Rong's face was confused and she became even more bewildered.
He asked the bumper car to move back a little, and this time he finally realized something was wrong.
Before the bumper cars came over, the plants automatically folded to the sides, and then returned to their original state after they drove away.
These plants seemed to have evolved spirituality and could sense their presence.
But they couldn't touch the plants.
After confirming this, Gu Rong drove the bumper car back to the sofa and looked at the small schoolbag worriedly.
He finally found the little schoolbag, but he couldn't take it away and had no way to return it to the cub in this world.
Gu Rong frowned.
After a while, Gu Rong's eyes suddenly lit up and he came up with a good idea.
[The Devil can see you! You can ask the Devil to help you get the small schoolbag for Rongrong!]
Zizi refers to himself, and Rongrong refers to Gu Rong in this world.
006 also remembered that when the devil fed the blood to the little host of this world, he turned around and looked at the little host, and it was obvious that he could see the little host.
And that devil, the devil from the old world, could actually see Gu Rong!
006 praised: [Not bad, little host is really smart! ]
Gu Rong smiled happily, but soon, the smile froze on his face: [But where can I find the devil, kid?]
006 is also a card.
The devil comes and goes without a trace, he is so mysterious that it cannot be more mysterious. Where can we find him?
006 also said with little hope: "How about, little host, try calling out a few times? After all, every time the Devil appears, he always appears right in front of the little host. He has great magical powers, maybe he will appear if I call out?"
Gu Rong nodded and was about to try to shout, but Yan Jing corrected him: "The devil is a young man, not an old man!"
006: ...6
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Without hesitation, Gu Rong shouted directly at the plants in the room, stretching out his voice and yelling, "Sir Devil—Sir Devil—where are you?"
I shouted twice, but nothing happened.
Gu Rong moved his ears but heard nothing.
006: [How about... shouting twice more? ]
Gu Rong cupped her hands into a trumpet shape, placed them to her lips, and called out in a tender voice, "My Lord Devil, my Lord Devil, my Lord Devil..."
Halfway through the shouting, a three-year-old cub in a black robe with wide sleeves appeared in sight.
Lu Li stood about a meter away from Gu Rong, his arms folded, his whole body radiating impatience and irritability, as if disturbed. He looked at Gu Rong unkindly and gave her only one word: "Noisy."
Gu Rong saw that he had really called the devil here, and he didn't care about his bad temper. He had been used to it for so long.
Gu Rong's eyes lit up, and he got off the skeleton bumper car, ran to Lu Li, and said happily, "Master Devil, why are you really here?"
Lu Li said indifferently: "Oh, then I'll leave."
Gu Rong: “…”
When Gu Rong heard that he was about to leave, and even made a gesture to turn around and leave, she instinctively grabbed his sleeve with her little hand. After grabbing it, she was stunned and couldn't help but let out a "huh".
He actually met the devil!
Gu Rong was so surprised that he grabbed Lu Li's sleeve, then let go. After letting go, he grabbed it again, grabbed it again, and let go again.
After repeating this several times... Lu Li finally became impatient.
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When Gu Rong saw Lu Li's expression, she quickly let go of her little hand.
Lu Li was so stunned that he forgot to be angry.
Gu Rong was afraid that Lu Li had really left, so she quickly made her request: "Sir Devil, could you please help Zizi get the little schoolbag back to Rongrong?"
Lu Li: “…”
Although it was said in a roundabout way, Lu Li understood it.
After hearing this, Lu Li was silent for a moment, then sneered: "Oh? You want me to run errands for you?"
At the end, he added, "Little follower."
Gu Rong was young and didn't think too much about it, but after hearing this, 006's hair stood on end.
What the hell, what is the origin of Lord Devil? Logically, the old world happened before the little host entered the game for the first time. At this time, the little host had not become Lord Devil's little follower, but Lord Devil actually knew.
He is like being unconstrained by time and space, omniscient and omnipotent.
Gu Rong frowned and retorted in a baby voice, "Why is it the little follower again? Didn't I say that the Devil gave me clothes and I gave him carrots. From now on, the Devil will be my good friend!"
Lu Li: “…”
006: [……]
Seeing Lu Li's unmoved expression, Gu Rong thought for a moment and said, "Master Devil, help Zizi deliver the schoolbag. Master Devil will be Zizi's best friend from now on!!!"
Special emphasis is placed on the word "best".
After hearing this, Lu Li laughed.
You think you can order Him around with just a crappy title?
Lu Li did not promise whether to send the schoolbag or not. He looked at Gu Rong for a moment, then said the same words he had said before: "Zizi, go home."
Gu Rong: “…”
Before Gu Rong could react, he saw Lu Li in front of him begin to become blurry, as if there was a layer of fog. Although they were very close, they felt very far away.
Skulls began to gather under his feet, but the skulls no longer took the form of bumper cars, but instead took the form of octopuses with octopuses.
Gu Rong stood on a high-arched octopus tentacle.
Gu Rong widened his eyes in surprise. When he looked up again, Lu Li had disappeared and the scene in front of him had completely changed.
It turned back into the "Paradise of Doom" copy.
He was still standing on the giant octopus tentacle in the sea. The world was still still. Not far away was a helicopter carrying players, and in the distance was a half-collapsed amusement park.
Gu Rong stared at all this in a daze.
In his little hand was a small black key, the same one that had appeared after Revelation disappeared.
The passage to the old world was opened here, and after the old world was closed, he was teleported back here.
When he saw the keys, Gu Rong remembered that he had asked Lord Devil how many keys there were in total, and Lord Devil said that he had collected them all.
"My Lord Devil!"
Gu Rong turned his little head and searched around, trying to find the figure of the devil.
He hasn't returned the key to the Devil!
After searching for a while, Gu Rong turned his head back and was surprised to find that Lu Li appeared in front of him again.
Gu Rong said: "My Lord Devil!"
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but Lu Li’s body looked much lighter than before, as thin as mist and translucent as every time he left before.
Gu Rong was stunned for a moment when he looked at Lu Li's almost transparent body.
Lu Li looked at Gu Rong, then his gaze fell on the key in his hand. He said calmly, "It's much faster than I thought."
When Gu Rong saw Him looking at the key, he quickly took out the other four keys from the system backpack, and the five keys were neatly arranged.
Although the key was small, Gu Rong's hands were also small, so she couldn't hold it with one hand. She could only hold it with both hands and hand it to Lu Li.
Gu Rong said, "Master Devil, here, I found all your keys!"
Lu Li looked at the five keys but did not take any.
His gaze fell on Gu Rong's face again.
After a long while, He said, "My dear, this key does not belong to me, but to you."
Gu Rong was stunned and didn't understand what Lu Li meant.
Seeing Gu Rong's bewildered face, Lu Li continued, "This is made from your bones."
“…”
The cub died before he grew up.
The drop of Lu Li's blood only saved his life temporarily, but it could not bring him back to life completely, and he would die again soon.
The devil represents death, so his blood naturally cannot bring new life to people.
If you want to resurrect Gu Rong, you have to make a deal with the devil.
But this time, the devil made a deal with himself, just to resurrect a cub.
Gu Rong was pulled into the game and met the conditions for resurrection by collecting keys made from his own bones - if he collected all the keys, he could resurrect himself.
What he has been collecting are his own bones.
Gu Rong listened to Lu Li's words in disbelief, as if he couldn't digest it for a moment.
The five small keys in his hand also turned into five white bones, very small, and obviously the bones of a child.
Gu Rong was holding his bones, and his whole body was in a confused state.
He looked at the bones for a moment, then squatted down on the octopus tentacle and began piecing the bones together.
Gu Rong arranged the five bones into the shape of a little man.
This little man's limbs and torso are made up of just one bone, like a stick figure, but without a head.
When faced with one's own bones, not only children but also adults may be scared to tears.
But Gu Rong didn't cry.
Lu Li kept looking at Gu Rong quietly.
006 was not blocked by the devil this time. It looked at the little host and couldn't help feeling sad. If it had a physical body, it really wanted to hug the little host.
Gu Rong was very calm. He looked at the stick figure in front of him and said, "Where is Zizi's head?"
Lu Li: “…”
006: [……]
The stick figure was placed on an octopus tentacle, which was made entirely of skulls. There were countless skulls everywhere, but none of them were Gu Rong's.
Gu Rong looked at the stick figure for a while, then carefully picked up his own bones and held them in his arms.
Then, he looked at Lu Li in front of him.
Until this moment, Gu Rong did not cry.
The strong little boy, after experiencing so many things, actually accepted the fact that he had died very calmly.
Gu Rong said: "My Lord Devil..."
He had just called out "Lord Devil" when he found that Lu Li's already thin figure became even fainter, and even began to dissipate like the morning mist.
Gu Rong suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. As a little zombie cub, he has always been sensitive to danger.
Gu Rong's face was stunned: "...Sir Devil?"
Lu Li was silent for a moment, then said, "Little follower, do you still remember the words in the Book of Revelation?"
Destroy the old world and build a new one.
Gu Rong nodded repeatedly: "Yes, I remember! Lord Devil, why are you disappearing so quickly? Are you leaving again?"
Lu Li was silent for a longer time, then sighed softly: "Making a deal with the devil requires a price. Even the devil himself is no exception."
The price of resurrecting Gu Rong is the devil's sacrifice.
The moment Gu Rong was resurrected, it also meant the death of Lu Li.
This was the outcome that was destined from the beginning.
Tears welled up in Gu Rong's eyes, and she shed a tear, as if she couldn't believe it: "Sir Devil, are you going to die like Zizi?"
Lu Li did not answer this question.
Gu Rong seemed to sense something and wanted to reach out to grab Lu Li, but her little hand passed through Lu Li's body and could not touch him.
Even in the old world, he could touch Lu Li, but at this moment, he could no longer touch Lu Li.
Gu Rong's tears fell uncontrollably, like beads falling from a broken string, "My Lord Devil, please don't die. I don't want you to die!"
"You're Cubby's best friend!"
The animal ears on Lu Li's head drooped.
He also couldn't understand why he wanted to resurrect this cub.
There is just one less cub in the world. There is no difference. The world will not change at all.
only……
But He didn't understand why a dying cub would still think of showing kindness to a kitten.
Lu Li said, "Little follower."
Gu Rong looked at Him with tears in her eyes.
Lu Li: "Your life was bought at the devil's expense. Grow up well."
Don't die before you grow up like last time.
Lu Li's figure became increasingly transparent until it completely disappeared from sight...
"I'll be back when the game restarts."
…
…
Gu Rong hugged her bones, tears on her little face. She looked at the place where Lu Li disappeared for a long time, as if she had been petrified.
006 worriedly asked: [Little host...are you okay?]
A black key fell where Lu Li had just disappeared.
Gu Rong did not pick up the key immediately. He recognized that it was a master key made up of five keys from the "Mental Hospital" copy.
In that copy, Lu Li's bones were also made into five keys by him himself.
Gu Rong was still staring at the key in a daze. Too many things had happened in succession. The impact was too great for anyone, let alone a two-year-old cub.
However, at this moment, the originally still world suddenly began to move again, and time resumed its course.
The rain poured down, the world began to collapse as before, and everything became chaotic and disorderly.
Gu Rong reacted quickly, ran forward immediately and grabbed the master key.
He looked at the world that was falling apart again, and remembered the words from the Book of Revelation that Lu Li had just reminded him of:
Destroy the old world and build a new one.
The sea water mixed with rain water rushed towards Gu Rong, and Gu Rong's head and face were wet.
Gu Rong pulled himself out of his previous emotions and shouted in his mind: [How do I destroy the old world?]
006: [Use points!!!]
If you spend all your points, you can destroy the old world and build a new one.
Gu Rong held the bone in his arms, but his little hand tightly grasped the key, looking out at the world where Lu Li was no longer there.
When the game restarts, the devil will come back!
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