Chapter 124 Tunnel (3)
"You know me, but you deliberately act imperfectly, just for fun?"
Ji Weihang stood at the junction of darkness and light. The car slowly passed through her body and drove into the light, but she could not walk out of the tunnel exit. She could only watch her body and the car go away.
"Of course not, but it's fun." She was surrounded by female voices, constantly changing between childishness and maturity. "Aren't you afraid? If you stay here alone, you may never get out."
Ji Weihang walked towards the sidewalk on the side of the tunnel. She didn't like standing there and being run over by a car.
"I'm not afraid of the dark."
"It's not about whether you're afraid of the dark or not, but whether you're afraid of loneliness. Most people would be scared if they were left here. There's only eternal loneliness here."
"Most people would be scared, like you?"
"…Your words are so harsh."
The sound fell silent for a short while.
Ji Weihang didn't care and took this opportunity to look around.
At this point, her vision was as amazing as her physical state.
Even though she was in exactly the same darkness as before, her eyes could see through it, clearly outlining the contours of the traffic and seeing the passengers' every move, as if she was still able to use her spiritual sense.
There were narrow sidewalks on both sides of the tunnel, as if they were for maintenance workers. She walked up the steps and slowly walked along the sidewalk towards the exit on the other side.
Her current state was as if her soul had left her body. She could not be seen or felt by others, nor could she hinder the movement of their car, but she could step onto the stairs and walk on the road.
——She didn’t quite understand why it turned out like this.
She can now feel the movements of her body, and she also knows what that "she" is saying to Bai Jiuyue, but all her feelings seem to be separated by a thin film. If she doesn't pay attention to feel and listen, it would be difficult to hear clearly.
The "out-of-body experience" occurred after she honked the horn.
The moment she pressed the horn, she was separated from her body and felt another force rushing in to replace it, supporting her flesh and bones.
It's a wonderful feeling.
She could hear Bai Jiuyue’s screams when she was frightened, could feel the joy that came from her body’s quick dodging, and could see that they were now “treating each other like ice”.
What’s even more interesting is that her current condition has improved significantly and her mind is much clearer.
"Do you often pull people out of their bodies like this?" Ji Weihang asked.
The voices surrounding her rang out: "Of course not, do you think we want all the garbage?
"I just did this because I thought you were special and you met the requirements for out-of-body experience."
Ji Weihang stroked the tunnel wall as if she was walking on a sidewalk. Her hand did not pass through the wall, but she felt the smooth and unreal wall texture.
Rubbing the remaining slippery feeling on her fingertips, she said, "Are you the incarnation of the tunnel? Responsible for scaring people?"
Voice: "You make us sound low-class. But, indeed, that is our role."
Ji Weihang looked at the slowly moving traffic in the tunnel. Most people were in fear and were struggling with it.
"What's the purpose of keeping me?"
Voice: "You have the aura of the God of Rules. Are you from the thirty-third floor?"
God of Rules? Ji Weihang thought of the Rule Building and said, "Well, what's wrong?"
Voice: "Did you see a woman?"
Ji Weihang said: "Wu——"
The voice interrupted hastily: "Don't say her name!"
Ji Weihang swallowed the word and said, "I saw it."
The voice said, "I want to give you a task."
Ji Weihang didn't say anything and waited for her to speak.
The voice said, "I want you to kill her."
Ji Weihang said calmly, "My strength does not allow it."
The voice said, "I can help you. In your current state, you are invincible in the darkness.
"They can't see you or touch you, but you can attack them with weapons.
"I can give you a prop that will allow you to stay in this state in the dark."
Ji Weihang said: "I don't kill for others."
The voice advised: “This is also for your own good.
"You are neither a mother nor a child now. When someone triggers the black and white chessboard, you still have to help us."
Ji Weihang: "Black and white chessboard?"
Voice: "You're trying to get information? ...Okay.
“When a player encounters the priest merchant and asks her to speak, the black and white chessboard will be triggered.
"The black and white chessboard involves all players in the 'mother-child relationship' and will divide the players into different camps. I won't go into details.
"For players like you who are not in a 'mother-child relationship', it is equivalent to not having a fixed game mission and being unable to pass the level.
"When the time comes, you'll still have to find people like us to issue tasks, so why not accept it now?"
Ji Weihang: "So you want to help me and give me a task to help me pass the level?"
Ji Weihang's tone was flat, but there was always a sense of sarcasm in his voice.
"It's a win-win situation. You help me kill her, and I'll help you clear the level. I only have one chance to issue a mission, and I think I have great potential in you."
Ji Weihang said: "Thank you for your kindness, but it's not necessary."
She looked at the souls seized by fear in the darkness, and the numb and lifeless bodies after losing their souls, "There is no need for cooperation without sincerity."
The voice was not angry, but just sighed, "You are really hard to convince. I am already very sincere."
Ji Weihang didn't say anything.
The voice was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay, I'll tell you a little more inside information.
“She is a well-known destroyer among us. She will definitely destroy the building block. By then, the entire building block will collapse, not just one or a few layers, but a full sixty-six layers. My tunnel will not be spared either.
"I think you are very special and may be able to do something that none of us can do, so I want you to kill her and nip this threat in the bud.
"This is also a good deed, and it can also help you pass the level, isn't that good?"
Ji Weihang: "It sounds good, but I don't believe you."
"Ah——!" the voice said frantically, "You are too difficult to please!"
Ji Weihang said, "Why are you in such a hurry?
“If you wanted to work with me, you shouldn’t have talked to me like this in the first place.
“If you want to force me to cooperate, you picked the wrong person from the beginning.
"Shouldn't you have thought of that from the beginning?"
The voice was silent for a moment, "...I didn't think that much."
Ji Weihang said, "Are you a child? You haven't thought about it so much? Tell me about yourself and I will think about it again."
It feels much more straightforward and cold than before. Is it because there is no physical restraint? The voice thought to itself and answered obediently: "My name is Xiaole, and I am one month old."
Ji Weihang would not be tolerant just because she was "one month old". "Why must she be killed? Even if she wasn't there, with so many players, someone would destroy this building block sooner or later. Besides, do you think this building block should exist?"
Xiaole said: "But if the building blocks are destroyed, I will die."
Ji Weihang said: "Will she die too? She is not a player. If she can die for her ideals, why can't you die for a better world?"
"Ah?" Xiao Le was confused at first, but after looking at her calm and determined expression and thinking for a moment, he felt that it made some sense, "But..."
"And don't you feel lonely here?" Ji Weihang interrupted her and said, "How do you know that you won't leave here after destroying the building blocks? Maybe you can appear in the same place with other people and share the same sunshine."
"Hmm..." Xiaole said, "It seems to make sense."
Ji Weihang said: "Then will you still kill her?"
Xiao Le said: "Let's not kill him...right..."
Ji Weihang said: "Then you give me a task and let me be responsible for protecting her, so that you won't find someone else to kill her later."
"It sounds nice, but you just want the mission." Xiao Le muttered, but still issued the mission.
[Game Mission: Protect Wu Li from Death]
[Quest Reward: Dark Follower (already paid in advance)]
"The item has been automatically bound to you. It will be triggered as long as you stand in the dark." Xiaole said, "You will return to your original state when you leave the darkness."
Ji Weihang said: "Can I leave now?"
Xiaole said, "Well, you can. When you walk out of the tunnel, you will return to your body."
Ji Weihang said "oh" but was in no hurry to leave.
Xiaole said: "Why don't you leave?"
Ji Weihang said, "I feel dizzy and weak when I go back, and I still need to drive. I will wait for a while until you drive to the service area."
Xiaole was too lazy to talk. It turned out that she had become a driver.
Ji Weihang's eyes swept inside the tunnel.
During the conversation, she looked at all the car owners.
All RV owners and some pickup truck owners were in the same state: they had no fear and drove calmly, as if they were just driving on a somewhat dark road.
They seem to be able to see the distance to the car in front and keep a distance that is neither too far nor too close.
Most of the people who were frightened were car owners, and their emotions were obviously more vivid.
"What is your relationship with the highway?" asked Ji Weihang.
"A colleague." Xiao Le blurted out lazily, and then he sighed, "I let it slip."
I did let it slip.
Logically speaking, the "master" of this layer of building blocks is this "great, infinite road", and the tunnel, as part of the road, should be subordinate to it, rather than using an equal word such as "colleague" to summarize their relationship.
Ji Weihang asked: "Are you part of the other building blocks?"
Xiaole said: "Why do you think so? Your thoughts are so jumpy."
Ji Weihang would not explain to her, and only said: "I guessed."
Xiaole just asked casually, not really caring. "Well, yes, I am the clone of other layers of blocks."
Ji Weihang nodded thoughtfully. Xiaole thought she would get to the bottom of it, but unexpectedly she stopped talking and just observed quietly.
What a hard-to-understand person, Xiao Le thought.
Part of her consciousness was in Ji Weihang's body. Sitting in the slowly moving car, she became a little impatient and wanted to get to the service area as soon as possible so that she could return her restrained body to Ji Weihang. Even Bai Jiuyue next to her could not arouse her interest.
Ji Weihang scanned the cars one by one. The owners had different fears. Some were very familiar, such as giants and wind blades. Some were very unfamiliar, such as extremely ugly multi-legged monsters, strange rag dolls, and human figures wearing masks, white clothes, and white hats...
She wrote them down one by one, guessing and outlining the situation of the entire building block.
"Hey, we're almost at the service area." Xiaole reminded her.
She came to her senses and realized that she had seen enough and it was time to go back.
She walked towards the exit.
Before leaving the tunnel, she said, "I will try my best to protect her."
Watching her disappear into the light, Xiaole said, "...What? You said it as if I really wanted her to protect her."
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