4. Demons
Lin Ziyue felt like falling into an ice cellar.
She couldn't imagine that the boy who put down the knife in front of herself and was about to cry at the mention of his sister, the guy who was indifferent but loved the people around him, and said to herself that he was lonely and uncomfortable, and wanted to find someone to talk to, would be the murderer who destroyed the village and burned everyone to death?
She stood on the steps in confusion, and the man sat in silence below.
"So he, in fact, did it himself...... Ruined my sister's hopes? And yes, ruined the village and himself at the same time?"
The man nodded slightly, and then put down the cloak that had been blocking his face, and Lin Ziyue saw that on the right side of his face, a deep scar stretched down, and under the flickering light of the amethyst, it looked even more terrifying.
"That's the scar caused by Snow...... It's so deep, he actually went down. Lin Ziyue frowned, remembering that Sinuo's face was intact, "But there is no scar on Sinuo's face?"
"Because the world is not real. β
The man's words suddenly made Lin Ziyue startled, could it be that this is a story that happened in reality? But then he was relieved, I'm afraid this refers to an enchantment or an illusion or something like that, so this is similar to an independent plot script, isolated from the normal online game world, for NPCs this is an illusory world...... In reality, this kind of tragedy happened, and it was impossible to tell things in the game, and the man's words completely proved her conjecture.
"This is an independent time, I made this small world independent of space and time by exploiting my own life, so that Si Nuo can no longer hurt others, that state of losing his mind he can't think about anything but crazy to burn the villagers, so someone taught me this black magic, let me leave Si Nuo here, give him empty hope, imprison him, I was robbed of all my life, correspondingly, Si Nuo can never leave his nightmare. β
Lin Ziyue sneered: "You, or the person who taught you this method, are no better than Si Nuo, you are all just as cruel." β
Neither of them said anything for a moment, and Sam only had endless sadness on his face.
"Forget it...... I'm almost done listening to the story, what do you want me to do?Since you let me listen to this story, then what's the point of it?" Lin Ziyue has been too lazy to hide her utilitarian heart, trapping a person in her deepest nightmare all the time, making him constantly face the crimes he has committed, and constantly recall the most painful things, she really has no patience for such a cruel person.
"Kill him, kill Snow. β
Sam raised his head to look at Lin Ziyue, he raised his right hand and handed it up, the purple crystal fragments in his palm flashed one after another, illuminating the tears on his face in the gradually thick night.
Lin Ziyue was stunned, and then nodded gloomily, looking at Sam's expression, he was probably just being used, in fact, after knowing what he had done, he had always regretted it......
The moment Lin Ziyue reached out and touched the crystal, a gust of wind rolled up, Lin Ziyue couldn't help but cover her face after picking up the crystal, she vaguely saw Sam's black cloak being blown into powder, and when she put down her sleeves, there was a rotting zombie sitting under the steps, with one hand still stretched out in the air, facing him. But Lin Ziyue could recognize that this was Sam, it must be Sam, because there were clear tears on the face of this terrifying monster.
The zombie's shriveled mouth whimpered a few times, as if to thank Lin Ziyue, and then he leaned forward and fell motionless on the steps, the place where he should have been his left arm was empty, Lin Ziyue couldn't help but think of the burnt barbecue, Ling would rather starve to death and never move the barbecue again.
Probably after Si Nuo burned the other villagers, his mood gradually recovered, so he imprisoned the familiar Ling next to the square, neither willing to let her go nor want to kill her, as a result, under Sam's black magic, the two were pulled into this independent space together, at that time Si Nuo was no longer a human, so he didn't need any food, but Ling was different, so Sam's incarnated monster cut off his arm and roasted it over the fire, wanting to let the hungry Ling take it to feed his stomach, but after Ling knew the truth, he didn't move another bite until he died, and would rather gnaw the bark and grass than eat the meat of his best friend to liveβ¦β¦
"This production team is against the sky! Such a vicious script plot!" Lin Ziyue scolded angrily, forcibly holding back the tears in her eyes, trying not to be too sad for a virtual game, she looked at the information of the purple fragments:
Purple Crystal - Sam (quest item)
The Phantom Crystal, the Demon's Guide.
Bind
Lin Ziyue stuffed the crystal into her pocket, her heart became more and more irritable, she didn't know whether to rush directly to the village to tell Si Nuo about Sam, Fran and Ling, or beat up that cruel inhuman boy. If all this is an illusion, will there be a crack anywhere? Just as there will always be a weakest place in the circle, there should be a place to get out of here, right?
When it got dark, she thought about it and moved forward, and unexpectedly found that the fragments could also be used as lighting tools, and after a while, Lin Ziyue stopped at the door of the grass shed and put away the fragments used to illuminate the road, which was the only place in the village that had light at night, but along the way, she still couldn't make up her mind.
Lin Ziyue thought about it, and it was better to communicate with Si Nuo first, so she raised her voice a little and shouted, "Si Nuo, are you there?"
As soon as he finished speaking, the young man walked out of the hut with an oil lamp, and followed the summoned beast that called for it. But Lin Ziyue felt unnatural in the face of this cold face, no matter how he looked at it, all he thought about was the matter of Si Nuo burning a village, such a cruel thing, he might really deserve the title of the curse of the devil.
"Now that you're back, you see the ashes of the square, right? Si Nuo said expressionlessly. Lin Ziyue couldn't help but be stunned, she didn't expect Si Nuo to mention this matter to her first, and she suddenly didn't know how to respond.
Si Nuo continued to speak: "Every time I burn an outsider like you, I feel a sense of dΓ©jΓ vu, but I can't remember anything, looking at the thick layer of ashes on the square, I feel very puzzled, because the outsider I personally sent away can't leave so many ashes...... If you can cut down the tree, maybe you've found some other clue in the square?"
Then he stared straight at Lin Ziyue, as if waiting for an answer, his rigid face looking cloudy under the reflection of the oil lamp.
Lin Ziyue was ruthless in her heart, and when she was about to tell Si Nuo about this world, she noticed something strange.
Snow's eyes could be seen as blood-red as the light barely illuminated them, rather than the tan they saw during the day.
"No, nothing, I didn't find any clues, I want to wait until tomorrow morning to walk around. It's getting late today, so I'll spend the night in the house next door. Lin Ziyue smiled, "By the way, can I borrow an oil lamp from you?" I want something that can illuminate, and I can't see anything at night, and it's really inconvenient." β
"Then don't come in and disturb me. Si Nuo handed her the oil lamp casually, and then went back to the grass shed without looking at her, Lin Ziyue carried the oil lamp into the wooden house on the side, she just paid special attention to it, there is a window in this room facing the grass shed, just to observe the movement at the door of the grass shed. Halfway out of the corner of the bed, the moonlight was enough for her to see the door of the hut, so she extinguished the oil lamp and stood quietly by the window.
The moon rose to the highest point in the sky, it was midnight, there was a slight noise at the door of the grass hut, Lin Ziyue saw Si Nuo holding a torch, carrying a longbow and arrow basket, holding a dagger, walking towards the road to the square, she suddenly felt bad in her heart, after seeing Si Nuo disappear from vision, she quietly went out, carrying a extinguished oil lamp, and touched into the grass shed under the reflection of the moonlight.
In the grass hut, a figure lay on the ground, seemingly asleep. Lin Ziyue took out a random piece of fragment, and the flickering yellow light reflected on this person's face, this person who was sleeping peacefully turned out to be Si Nuo!
Lin Ziyue forcibly suppressed the urge to scream, gently patted Si Nuo's face, and watched Si Nuo wake up in a daze, looking at her with a puzzled expression, her sleepy expression looked particularly innocent. "Sino, hurry up and follow me, I see the demons in this village......"
Si Nuo jumped up from the ground in an instant, touched to his side, but found that the dagger he usually used was gone, and immediately looked at Lin Ziyue: "You took my dagger?"
Lin Ziyue didn't know how to explain, shook her head and waved her hand to drag him out, Si Nuo was not fully awake, and let her pull her out of the grass shed in a daze, and then the two of them saw the direction of the square, a fiery red illuminated the darkness of the night, and suddenly both of them became nervous.
"That's really a good thing done by the devil! The people in the village were also killed by the devil!" said Snow, as the two of them ran together towards the entrance of the village. Lin Ziyue pursed her lips, not knowing how to explain Sino's clone, but that red-eyed guy was indeed the culprit who destroyed the village.
"If you don't have a weapon, this one will be given to you first. Lin Ziyue said as she handed the sword form of her staff sword to Si Nuo, "At least you are stronger than me, I may not use this thing well, it is better for you to hold it than empty-handed." β
Si Nuo nodded and took Lin Ziyue's sword, and at this moment, a burst of wild laughter sounded behind him.
The two of them turned around and stopped at the same time, watching the village burn with a raging fire, and in the road reflected by the firelight, there was another red-eyed Si Nuo, who was walking slowly with the firelight, his steps were not fast, but each footprint stepped several meters, leaving scorched black marks on the ground. It's really a feeling of a villain's debut, huh...... Lin Ziyue sneered in her heart, put the staff in front of her, and then remembered that she didn't know any spells except psychics, and couldn't help but sneak a glance at Si Nuo beside him, and found that the expression on his face was extremely complicated, mixed with disbelief, shock, and hatred, and he could no longer maintain his usual coldness, but was distorted.
"Coward, coward, where are you going?" When Demon Sinuo opened his mouth, a thick smoke floated out of his mouth, and he stopped about ten meters away with a smile, and didn't pay attention to Lin Ziyue, but stared at Sinuo.
Before Si Nuo, whose expression was distorted, could speak, Lin Ziyue answered him first: "Actually, you are also Si Nuo." β
Si Nuo became more and more shocked, turned his head to look at Lin Ziyue, the demon Si Nuo was very satisfied with his reaction, so he glanced at Lin Ziyue happily, and returned with a smile: "That's right, I am Si Nuo, it seems that you are a little bit more rational and lucky than those outsiders who came up and cut and killed before." β
Hehe, that's because the old lady has no level and no combat power, you vicious NPC! Lin Ziyue couldn't help but hate her powerlessness in her heart, and slowly retreated while pulling Si Nuo, and continued to move towards the entrance of the village.
"Si Nuo, our first task now is to get out of here, don't let this guy affect your heart!" Lin Ziyue pulled Si Nuo who was standing in place in a daze even more vigorously.
"Lin, that's me? Shouldn't that be the one who ruined the village? that's me?"
Lin Ziyue suddenly understood, I'm afraid that Si Nuo has never realized the existence of another self, so he probably can't remember that he is the biggest source of destruction of the village, and he doesn't know that he imprisoned Ling, causing Ling to starve to death by the square, because he himself has no memory of what he has done, and the demon Si Nuo on the other side is probably his split personality, originally this personality is one with Si Nuo, but in this, the illusory independent small world created by Sam, this personality is independently embodied and has become the hidden big boss of this plot story, but what to do nowThe guy on the other side is obviously a demon caused by fire, looking at his charred footprints, I'm afraid he has the ability to control fire, is there any water source nearby......
Headwaters?
"Si Nuo! Run! Go to the river at the entrance of the village! That guy doesn't dare to touch the water! Water can extinguish fire!" Lin Ziyue desperately pulled Si Nuo and stumbled towards the entrance of the village, obviously a few steps away! Please, since I have been able to avoid any death under all kinds of shit luck until now, then let me be lucky, let that guy slow down, as long as he rushes to a place where there is water, he will be safe- Then a hot feeling burned her back, Lin Ziyue was directly kicked out by the demon Sinuo, and Sinuo, who had been dragged and followed by her, and Sinuo, who had not yet come back to her senses, staggered a few steps and fell to the ground.
Rolled out of several meters, Lin Ziyue hit something hard before stopping, she felt that her whole body hurt so much that she was about to fall apart, her back seemed to have been kicked just now, and it was still burning and hurting, this seems to be almost beyond the range of pain simulation that holographic games should have, this pain is a little too realistic. Lin Ziyue reluctantly got up from the ground and looked up to see Si Nuo's situation, but found that the young man was defenseless, just staring blankly at the demon in front of her, and she suddenly sighed in her heart that it was over.
The demon had already stretched out his hand to Snow, and Snowy seemed to have finally come back to his senses in an instant, and a sword was quickly picked out, but the demon didn't react, and was stabbed in the right eye, the ice sword was originally the attribute of restraining him, and suddenly a burst of water vapor floated out from his stabbed eye, and the demon's wail pierced the night sky.
Si Nuo crawled out with his hands and feet and ran towards Lin Ziyue, but he didn't see the demon covering his bloody eyes, and a flame was waving out of his hand, burning behind him.
"Be careful!" Lin Ziyue opened her mouth to remind that it was too late, so she could only watch the fireball rush towards Sinuo, at that moment, a locust tree was pulled up from the ground, the fireball fell on the tree in an instant, and the tree burned in an instant, but Sinuo took advantage of this delay for a moment, and finally ran to Lin Ziyue's side and helped her up.
Lin Ziyue saw that next to her was the wooden sign at the entrance of the village, on the wooden sign, there was the ghost of the girl sitting, the girl was constantly raising her hand at the demon Sinuo, every time she raised her hand, a locust tree grew rapidly from the ground, blocking between the two and the demon.
"Please take him out of here, my unqualified sister, thank you in advance. The girl jumped down and landed in front of Lin Ziyue and the others, laughing softly.
As if he hadn't seen the girl, Snowy went straight through her body. At the moment when he passed through the girl's body, Lin Ziyue clearly heard the girl say with a smile: "Farewell." β
Lin Ziyue lowered her head, held back the tears in her eyes, and with Si Nuo's support, the two of them walked towards the small river outside the village entrance as much as possible.
The two of them tripped over the potholed grass and fell together by the river, and then they looked back at the village, and the raging fire swept away the locust trees and devoured them, and a figure with a blazing fire on his body finally followed them.
"Maybe I used to be afraid of places with water, but now it's the first time I've been so strong. He covered his pricked right eye with one hand, and the words were unconvincing.
Lin Ziyue stared at him closely, crawling upside down with Si Nuo to get closer to the river.
A large flame ignited on the demon Snow's body, and even the grass on the riverbank also burned.
"You can die!" Demon Snow waved his hand, and suddenly a large flame rushed towards the two of them.
Lin Ziyue looked at the fiery red that was close at hand, and felt that his copy was about to end here, but a curtain of water fell in front of him, and then he and Si Nuo were swept into the river together, and the two were washed up in the water, but they were getting farther and farther away from the blazing temperature.
Lin Ziyue felt something cold and hard fall into her hand.