Chapter 109 Give Me a Drop of Blood 12 Update 1
109 Give Me a Drop of Blood 12
This place seems to have good sound insulation. When you stop and don't talk, you can't hear any sound from outside.
Lu Jiu stared at the man for a while and laughed.
"So straightforward? I don't know where to start."
The man nodded: "You can think about it carefully. Now that you are here, there is no need to rush."
"——This quick-travel mission was not created because of me, but for yourselves, right?"
Almost at the moment when the man finished speaking, Lu Jiu responded swiftly, as if she was not really clueless about this conversation.
The man paused.
Three seconds later, he raised his hand and adjusted his glasses: "What a sharp opening, why do you feel that way?"
Lu Jiu's posture relaxed.
He leaned lazily against the back of his chair, his hands clasped loosely on his thighs.
There are some things that I wanted to discuss face to face with the people in the Quick Travel Bureau from the very beginning.
Some things I just figured out not long ago.
He spent so much effort and finally came to this place and met the most important figure in this fast-travel game, all for this moment.
"When I was first tied to 111 and heard it announce its mission, I felt very strange."
"One of your players escaped, but you didn't catch him yourself, and you asked me, an ordinary player, to do it for you. You manage three thousand worlds, so it only takes a few minutes to catch someone, but I have to travel through each world one by one. It will take at least hundreds of years to collect his soul code. Isn't it troublesome?"
"You can't enter the undeveloped world? But the escaped players can use your secret code to enter these five small worlds, and 111 can also bind me to enter these worlds. How is it possible that you can't get in?"
Lu Jiu sneered.
"It's only now that I figured it out - what are you afraid of?"
The man remained calm: "Maybe he's afraid of you?"
"Afraid of me?" Lu Jiu seemed to have heard a joke. "Afraid of me, but will use the mission to constrain me; afraid of me, but dare to use 111 to manipulate me at will."
"You seem to be afraid of me, but it seems that you are just afraid that I will die."
"You're saying that if you don't complete the mission, you'll die. That's a complete lie, right? You don't dare to touch me at all. You just want to use death to threaten me to listen to you. Are you afraid of me? You're actually afraid of someone else through me."
"——It's him you're afraid of, right?"
He figured out this series of questions at the moment when Wang Yi conveyed a message to him with his eyes.
Just like a fire that ignites a fuse, Lu Jiu's brain exploded at that moment, and all the things that he couldn't understand in the past suddenly became clear.
Why don't you personally catch the escaping players in the quick-pass game?
——Because that man was there, when the escaping player forced his way into these five small worlds, the quick-pass players didn’t dare to follow in.
Why are you afraid of his death?
——It was also because of that man. They didn't dare to let him die.
It's all because of that guy.
This quick-travel mission was most likely not meant to make Lu Jiu correct his life trajectory. This was just an excuse and a disguise. From the beginning to the end, the person the quick-travel bureau wanted to appease, stabilize, and finally kill was the man who was born with a godhead from a small world, who possessed the power to split open the door to their quick-travel bureau and could threaten their lives.
The room fell silent.
After Lu Jiu finished speaking, the man stared at him and didn't speak for a full minute.
The air seemed to freeze, but there was not a trace of timidity or retreat in Lu Jiu's eyes. His straightforward and fearless gaze told the other party: the veil of lies was too crude and had been completely torn off. It would be foolish to want to mend it and hang it up again.
The man lowered his head and smiled.
When he raised his eyes again, his attitude finally acted as if he was facing a negotiator who needed to be treated seriously.
"I can tell you the whole truth, but I hope you can cooperate with us after that."
"That man has fully awakened now. Although he can't reach this level directly, even if he just disrupts the lower level, it will be enough to plunge the Three Thousand Worlds into chaos. The natives, players, and systems in all the small worlds will be affected. I don't think you would want things to turn out this way."
Lu Jiu's eyes moved slightly.
Is that guy awake already?
He glanced quickly at the ground.
"I didn't lie to you. Although you are still alive now, he woke up when you chose to die. There is no need to look down there. No matter how chaotic it is, it won't affect this place for now. This floor is the core area of the fast-travel game. Once this place is affected, the entire fast-travel game will almost collapse. Do you accept my proposal just now?"
Lu Jiu turned his gaze back to the man.
Want him to cooperate with them?
How to cooperate? Let him kill that man? It's obvious that he won't agree. So they want him to be a peacemaker and resolve the dispute?
Lu Jiu sneered: "You tell me first."
The man adjusted his glasses, adjusted his sitting position, and began to tell the story.
"You're right. We are indeed afraid of him."
"Three thousand worlds were born from the universe. Our duty in the Quick Travel Bureau is to manage them and prevent them from collapsing. And the S-level collapse object that we need to be most vigilant about since ancient times is the 'Godhead'."
"Gods cannot be born in small worlds, because they will compete with us for the management of small worlds and cause the order of the entire universe to fall into chaos. All along, as long as we detect the signs of the birth of godhood, we will immediately take action to eliminate it. But that man——"
"His birth was too secret. Over a period of thousands of years, his power and soul grew stronger little by little, gradually surpassing the normal range. He even deliberately concealed his power and didn't let anyone notice it. It wasn't until we felt his eyes that we discovered his existence."
Lu Jiu's heart moved, and he recalled the scene he saw in Cen Lanyan's mind.
The man's hand was around Gluttony's throat.
At the moment of breaking the neck, powerful force poured into his limbs and bones. He slowly opened his eyes and what he saw was still the vast universe that he had seen many times.
——However, the present moment is the clearest.
He clearly saw those tiny "planets", which were actually "small universes".
Everything operates in it and life is born in it.
And towering above these three thousand worlds is a huge monster wrapped in white metal.
It is like a space station, with countless floors up and down, and many people coming and going through the glass windows.
The moment the man looked at it with interest, the people inside raised their heads in panic and looked around - they seemed to feel something, but could not find the source of this strange feeling.
In this space station, the top layer is opaque and nothing can be seen inside.
——I think that should be the core area of this floor at this moment.
"Luckily, he immediately looked away and we didn't have time to attack him, so he didn't notice our hostility."
wrong.
Lu Jiu objected in his heart.
The man knew everything, but when ants didn't come to bite people, people would naturally not sit around and step on ants to death.
It was not clear whether the ants were poisonous or not, and the man never acted rashly.
"Afterwards, we evaluated his power and found that we could no longer easily shake him. If we wanted to eliminate him, we would also suffer great damage ourselves. The best solution is to ignore it."
"He won't touch us, so we won't touch him. So, we hid the access codes to these five worlds. No, including your original world, these six worlds. We marked them as confidential."
The man let out a long breath.
Lu Jiu guessed what he was going to say next.
"——I didn't expect that five of the confidential codes would be stolen during the chaos, and those five worlds would be forcibly pried open."
Lu Jiu immediately asked: "Do you still keep the code of my original world?"
"That's right."
"So the car accident I had at the beginning was caused by you on purpose?"
"No, you didn't get into a car accident. That was an illusion we created to justify this mission."
"We extracted most of your soul to let you complete the mission, and left a small part in that body, but that body still fell into a deep sleep, and then that world stopped turning, and it has been like this until now. We were also surprised at first, but after thinking about it carefully, it must have been him who did it."
"Let me continue. You may have guessed that although these six worlds have a certain order in terms of time dimension, your first encounter with the vampire in the world where you are currently living is the earliest one in all the small worlds."
"To be precise, this was originally the only world where you and he existed together. In the other five worlds, there was only you, not him. It was after he was promoted that he saw you in those worlds, and he sent his clones into those worlds, causing you to meet again and again, and reincarnate again and again."
The man noticed Lu Jiu's look and said, "Yes, there is reincarnation in every small world, but you reincarnate together in the other five worlds."
"After you died for the seventh time in this world, he chose to fall asleep, and his godhood fell asleep with him. However, the escaped player broke into the small world, and your soul was affected and escaped from your body. Starting from the first mission world, he was awakened."
"His awakening was a long process."
"His body as Cen Lanyan awakened in the fourth world when you confessed your love to Wei Nanlou. As for the Godhead, the energy of this thing is too strong, and it is very slow to activate."
"It was not until you chose to die just now that his godhood was stimulated and completely returned to its original position. As early as when he began to awaken, we had already expected that he would direct his anger at us after he fully woke up."
"We have to solve the problem as quickly as possible while calming him down, so, as you can guess-"
"We dare not send anyone more people into the small world, as that will only speed up his awakening process."
"We must correct the course of your life and bring you back to him in the hope of halting his awakening."
"Lu Jiu, we are not doing this for you. To be frank, we cannot care about the life and death of the residents of a small world. The reason we care about your life is because he cares about your life."
"So you can say that we do all this for ourselves," the man said slowly, "but we must protect the other small worlds. If we are destroyed, all the worlds will be finished."
Lu Jiu curled the corner of his lip: "But you finally decided to kill him."
"Because no matter how we save him, his awakening seems unstoppable. In the third world, he even split open our gate. Since a peaceful solution to the problem is no longer feasible, we can only find a way to deal with him before he wakes up completely."
"Since the fourth world, you have been preventing me from being with him. Isn't this provoking him and accelerating his awakening?"
"At that time, we were not deliberately preventing you from being together. Instead, we were doing our best to suppress him. You should also remember that at the beginning he lost his memories of the previous worlds. But in the end he still remembered, and our suppression failed."
"So in the last world, you changed your strategy and wanted to use me to kill him?"
"yes."
"What did you do to 111?"
"It sensed our intentions and pretended to come back to fix the bug, but actually sneaked into the core office area and learned everything."
Lu Jiu clenched his hands instantly.
"It is one of the new systems we produced, and you are its first host. We chose it because its core is pure enough and it will treat you well with all its heart, hiding it from you and that man."
“But perhaps it’s because it’s so pure,” the man said calmly, “that it actually rebelled against us for you.”
My heart suddenly started beating very fast, hitting my chest violently.
"It lied, disguised, and interfered with our sensor system with the players without anyone noticing. In the last world, it instigated Ran Ye to kill you. It knew that Ran Ye couldn't kill you, but the moment Ran Ye touched you, the man might wake up directly."
"..." Lu Jiu heard himself calmly ask again, "What did you do to it?"
The man chuckled. "Relax, I didn't do anything. I just erased part of its memory so it forgot what it had seen. I loaded a control program into it so it is back under our control."
Countless fragments flashed through Lu Jiu's mind.
111 disappeared for a long time in the apocalyptic world and the mermaid world. At first, it pretended to say goodbye in a relaxed manner, and later it reappeared in a relaxed and happy manner.
[In fact, although the fast-forwarding situation has become very strange now, when I first received the mission and bound you, I always felt that their purpose seemed to be simply to let you live a good life...]
The sound of 111 echoed in my ears.
This is the beautiful interpretation that this little system makes of the intentions of the people who created it, after memory has returned to its innocence.
"It is indeed loyal to you. Even after losing its memory, it still protects you wholeheartedly. After you jumped to this world, we wanted to take away your points and close your treasure chest access privileges, but it relied on its instinct to keep these two things."
At this point, the man looked at him inquiringly.
"You seem unhappy, but I have made it very clear. Our goal is to kill that man, and we must use everyone we can to achieve this. We cannot allow personal feelings to get involved in the mission."
Lu Jiu clenched his fists tightly.
He was also surprised that he could still speak in a calm tone after hearing this.
"You've said so much, but there's one thing you haven't explained yet - why would the escaped players entering these five worlds affect me?"
The answer 111 gave at the beginning was that he was the person closest to the escaping player, so he was the most easily affected. However, this was also a lie told to him by the quick-play game.
The man answered honestly:
"Because your soul is different from other ordinary humans. Just like now, you have a part of his power in your body, and this part of power has been embedded in your soul."
"In fact, even if he hadn't fully awakened before, he had already instinctively put his power into the bodies of each of you who jumped into the new world, but you didn't know it until now."
"With these powers, he can sense when something happens to you even if he's still asleep. In the second world, he felt it the moment you were shot in the leg, so when Lin Miao attacked you again later, his power was there to protect you."
"But the human body and the power of God are always incompatible."
"In the past, even though he was careful enough, the moment his power entered your body, you became the person with the most unstable soul in the small world. So when the escaped player awakened and the entire small world became turbulent, you were also the only human whose soul escaped."
"——No, that's not the answer!"
Lu Jiu leaned forward and stared at the man closely.
"Recently, the time it takes for the two worlds' garbled codes to replace me has become shorter. The time they enter my body no longer matches the time the escaped players awaken - this is what that man did. I'm very sure he's the one stopping the garbled codes!"
"But if he was the one who caused all this, he would choose to directly extract his power from my body instead of this compromise! He won't take the slightest risk of killing me, you are lying!"
Something flashed across the man's eyes, and was caught by Lu Jiu.
"——You are the ones who moved my body?!"
The man's face changed.
At this moment, a sound suddenly came from outside.
The man was stunned at first, and then the sounds became clearer, and Lu Jiu could hear them clearly.
The man stood up suddenly, his calmness and elegance were gone, only shock was on his face.
Those voices shouted--
"He's coming up! He's coming up!!"
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