12. Fear
When everyone was in a dispute because Lin Ziyue was teleported into the execution room, she felt that she had landed on something very soft in the white light. Lin Ziyue opened her eyes and found herself lying on a pile of gray pillows, and this room was covered with this kind of soft gray pillows, and the ceiling above her head was not bright with white light like other rooms, but with light blue colored lights, as if she was lying directly under the sky.
For a moment, Lin Ziyue had a feeling of crossing over, and then the sweet female voice sounded beside her, she turned her head to look at the source of the sound, which made her feel like she had crossed over.
"Why are you?" This beautiful woman, with wavy hair as golden as the sun, her blue eyes looked noble and beautiful, and her snow-white dress showed a bit of holiness, and she was looking at Lin Ziyue who was also confused with a little confused gaze.
The woman's slightly frowning brows looked pitiful, Lin Ziyue couldn't help but feel a little distressed, so she asked, "May I ask who you are looking for?" The woman put aside the gray pillow in her arms, moved closer to Lin Ziyue on the pillow pile, looked at Lin Ziyue with childlike pure eyes, and said, "Yes, I'm looking for a few bad boys running around, have you seen them?"
Under this kind of gaze, Lin Ziyue felt that her face was a little hot, and the beautiful woman in front of her was really blinding her eyes, so she couldn't help but look away and asked, "I, can I help in any way?"
The woman laughed, peeking at her bright and sweet smile from the corner of her eye, Lin Ziyue suddenly felt that it seemed that her death was worth it at this moment.
Then she heard the woman's words.
"Then you're going to experience despair instead of the bad boys, right?"
When Lin Ziyue was stunned to think about "what despair", a tingling pain passed through her mind, and the scene in front of her instantly melted, and she found herself sitting on the sofa in her hometown, and in front of her brother was sitting in black clothes with a sad face.
"Brother...... I'll ......" Lin Ziyue stood up from the sofa and looked at Lin Ziyun opposite. Lin Ziyun buried his face in his hands in pain, and said to Lin Ziyue in a crying voice: "Ziyue...... Mom and Dad...... It's all gone......"
Lin Ziyue felt that her eyes were black, and she staggered and fell behind her, but she didn't fall on the sofa, but fell on a windswept grass, and there was a person lying beside her, Lin Ziyue instantly remembered something, and turned her head in pain to see that the man was dressed in a night suit, half a metal mask covered half of his face, and his glasses were blazing to look at her, with guilt and regret.
When Lin Ziyue sat up from the ground, the man spoke: "I'm sorry, Xiao Yue'er, I ...... Sure enough, I still had to go back to the Twenty-Four Bridge, and I promised her that I would be with her again. ”
The man's gentle voice fell on Lin Ziyue's ears, it had been a long, long time since this incident happened, but now it was extremely clear in her ears.
Lin Ziyue couldn't help but roar as angrily as she did then: "Since you want to go back to her, what did you propose to be with me before!
The man's answer was exactly the same as she remembered in pain: "Yes, I've never been serious about you, after all, it's just a game." ”
Lin Ziyue felt that she was falling down, falling into the endless darkness, and then she found herself covered by someone, Lin Ziyue subconsciously struggled, but was pressed against her temple by something cold, her closest best friend was smiling fiercely: "As long as I kill you, just pull the trigger...... That's the end of this......"
Lin Ziyue felt that her eyes were gradually blurring, and she seemed to be crying out of anger. Obviously, these are just the environment extracted from one's own mind, a repetition of one's own memories...... Do you remember this?
The scene around her changed again, she knelt on the side of the highway, and the van that overturned beside her was burning with bursts of fire, and many passers-by hurriedly passed by her, shouting to save people quickly, and then a more violent fire rose into the sky, swallowing up the rescuers who were a little closer. Lin Ziyue trembled and covered her mouth, feeling that she might vomit out at any time, the temperature of the flame was close at hand, and even the smell of burning was exactly the same.
Lin Ziyue closed her eyes, tears kept falling, she didn't want to look at it anymore, she hoped that when she opened her eyes, she would find that this was a dream...... But when she opened her eyes, she saw the girl in the goose-yellow plush top and white jeans, waving at her crying and shouting sorry to her, and smiling and jumping off the rooftop of the school's thirteenth floor.
Lin Ziyue's breathing stagnated, as if she was choked in her chest by something, and her mouth opened and closed, but she couldn't make any sound. I don't want to see it anymore, I don't want to reminisce anymore, I don't want to go through this nightmare again.
Is this desperation?
Bring all your nightmarish experiences to life...... Is this desperation?
Lin Ziyue's eyes flickered, the scene changed again, she was sitting in the middle of the glorious dance floor, beside the corpses of people, there was blood flowing slowly at her feet, she lowered her head and looked at her hands, all this is like a nightmare, a nightmare that happened in reality, but this is not reality, but a copy ...... in a holographic online game?
Lin Ziyue's thinking was completely confused, tears couldn't stop falling, her mind was full of questions, but she couldn't think.
"It's pathetic. The man's voice with a slight smile sounded, Lin Ziyue raised her head, the man who spoke stood a few steps away from her, the first thing she noticed was the skeletal cane in the man's hand, then the man's dark purple tuxedo, the black roses on his chest and his messy black hair, and the clown-like makeup on his face.
Lin Ziyue's tears still kept dripping, so the man's appearance and figure were sometimes clear in her eyes, sometimes blurry, she wiped her tears, trying to see the man's appearance clearly.
"You are a demon, and you are mine. ”
Hearing the man whisper like this, Lin Ziyue raised her head in confusion, and then the man handed her the rose on her left chest, Lin Ziyue reached out to take it, and saw a trace of sadness in the man's shallow smile.
"The flower language of the black rose...... Isn't it?" Lin Ziyue looked at the black rose in her hand, such a bewitching artificial existence, which was not originally a naturally occurring color, was finally born in the creative means of human beings getting closer and closer to the Creator.
The man leaned down and looked at her sadly and gently: "If you still want to follow in my footsteps, go to the Abyss Circus, you can go to that place from anywhere, go to the circus and tell them that you are looking for me, L, remember my letters, C." ”
The dance floor hall where the two of them were located shook, and it seemed like it was about to collapse at any moment.
"C, have I seen you?" Lin Ziyue felt that time was running out, so she ran forward a few steps forward and dragged the man to ask.
The man just looked at her with a shallow smile.
Before Lin Ziyue could get any reply, the crystal lamp in the hall exploded, and only darkness was left in front of her eyes in an instant, and the touch of the man's sleeve in her hand had disappeared, and after Lin Ziyue struggled in this darkness for a few moments, a sharp pain suddenly came from her abdomen.
"Woo whoa, ah!!" Lin Ziyue opened her eyes and felt something heavy fall from her.
When Yan Crow dragged a sword and jumped into the spatial crack, he didn't think about the problem of foothold, and the foothold of a sword was half a step away from Yan Crow, Yan Crow stepped into a pile of gray pillows, and Yi Jian felt as if he had stepped on something particularly soft, as if it was a little softer than a pillow - and then the thing flipped over, and Yi Jian naturally lost his balance, flipped upside down in the pillow on the side, and then took a look at Lin Ziyue.
"A sword, you're so heavy, I hurt to death when I stepped on it......" Lin Ziyue sighed and rubbed her stomach, she didn't know if it was a psychological effect or not recovered, she still felt a faint pain in the place where she was stepped on.
"I'm sorry. Yijian pushed his glasses in embarrassment and glared at Yan Crow, who shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "Do you blame me for your foothold?"
Lin Ziyue looked at Yan Crow strangely: "Demon, where is your dialect, or what accent......?
"Okay, okay, where the hell is this?Moon Shadow, are you okay, are you really okay?" A sword interrupted Lin Ziyue's words, and she looked her up and down uneasily, as if she didn't have any physical injuries...... Then the psychological scars are more and more worrying.
Everything she had just experienced flashed in Lin Ziyue's mind, first she trembled slightly a few times, and then the figure of the man who called himself C flashed in her mind, Lin Ziyue calmed down and replied: "I'm fine, it's okay." I don't know what this place is, but some weird memories have reappeared, and now it seems to be back to normal. ”
"You really ...... Is it okay?" Yan Crow's face was also a little surprised, "Didn't the ritual go on?"
Lin Ziyue suddenly thought that maybe Yan Crow, as a demon, might have heard of those things that were beyond the normal range, so she asked, "Yan Crow, I remember you called this system name...... Do you know what the Abyss Circus is?"
"Abyss Circus ?!!" Yan Crow and Yijian shouted at the same time, and each took a step back at the same time, as if Lin Ziyue would cause something to happen to her after she said this name, and then the two noticed that they had overreacted, and after exchanging glances with each other, they still walked to Lin Ziyue's side with a sword.
"A sword, do you know?" Lin Ziyue looked at a sword with a flickering eye.
Yijian nodded and said: "Well, this is actually, eh, let's formally introduce myself first, my real name is Meng Li, and I am the deputy director of the editorial department of the illusory world...... There is indeed a camp setting in the fantasy world.,And then I also planned to launch a camp confrontation and the like.,But this is a task that only happens when players are close to the full level.,At least it's above eighty years to have a related plot.,How do you know?"
Lin Ziyue thought of those strange scenes flashing, and did not answer Yijian's question, but asked rhetorically: "Illusory world...... Can you unearth people's memories?"
Yijian had a hesitant look on his face, as if he had thought of something, but he was reluctant to say it.
"Xiao Yue'er, forget it, there must be some confidentiality agreement for his identity, otherwise wouldn't a production staff come to the game in a trick?" Yan Yao snorted and opened the topic, "Let's get out of here first, I always feel unsteady in my heart when I stay in this place." ”
Lin Ziyue felt that it was okay to leave first, so she added a friend of Yijian Changmeng, and Yijian accepted it, and then told her that there was a copy window in the upper right corner of the character interface, and she just chose to leave.
The weightlessness of the teleportation came, and the moment she landed, Lin Ziyue heard a series of system prompts:
Ding, you are rewarded with experience and you have reached level 14.
Ding, congratulations on completing the special mission, "Monster in the Box", with a 73% completion rate.
Ding, you get the quest reward equipment "Guardian of the Night Cat's Eye" and the quest reward skill card "Nine Dragons Playing Pearls".
Ding, you get the quest reward money, 21 gold coins, 10 silver coins, and 35 copper coins.
Ding, ding, ding, you get and get the item ...... "Black Rose".
In the end, a few overlapping noises from the system prompt sound made Lin Ziyue puzzled, but when she opened her backpack to check, a person had already pounced, and as a result, the two of them fell to the ground together and lost a few points of physical strength.
"Baozi!!What are you making trouble!!" Lin Ziyue raised her head in surprise and was stunned when she saw Baozi's red eyes.
"Moon Shadow, you have enough White Lotus, why do you put yourself in it?!! it's just a game, he won't die if he is punished, right?!" Baozi began to shake Lin Ziyue's shoulder desperately again, and he didn't know if it was the game bonus or if her strength was really strong, Lin Ziyue felt that the world was spinning in front of her.
"Don't ...... Don't shake it, don't I just have a brain pump for a while, we are teammates after all, he fought in the dark before, I fainted without helping at all, I felt guilty, so I just had a brain pump for a while, didn't you also say that it was a game, why are you so serious......" Lin Ziyue stopped and shook her bun desperately, feeling uncomfortable in her stomach.
"Oh my God, I'm so scared, it's all because I didn't take a good look at you, I don't know why your minions actually defected to him...... Hey, by the way, how did you get out?"
So Lin Ziyue briefly told Baozi about the next sword and Yan Crow to find out, but concealed the memory fragments of his experience and the true identity of Yijian, and then patted Baozi with a smile: "So you blame him, he just went to find me, but he can't act with you to clear the customs, so let you go out first to avoid random changes in the dungeon, Yan Crow probably thinks that he is judging from the perspective of rescuing me, then you pose a threat, so the system also allows him to make a move......"
Hearing this, Baozi suddenly remembered something: "That's right, Moon Shadow, hurry up and take a look at your murderous aura!"
Lin Ziyue froze when she heard this, and then opened the character panel, and there was a bright red 10 hanging there.
"If you maliciously casualize your teammates in the dungeon, the murder value will be five times higher than usual, is it counted on your head to kill your summoned beasts......"
Lin Ziyue nodded with a smile and asked, "What should I do with this thing?"
Baozi's mood calmed down a little, and replied: "You now have three options, one is to hang up online, eliminate a little bit in an hour, and second, you can go to take on the labor reform task, there are NPCs at the prison gate in the main city to talk to, the tasks are random, but most of them will ask you to help in the city, and third, you can go to the city." Mercenary Guild', you can choose the wanted player on the wanted list over there, but it only provides the player's code and approximate coordinates and murderous value, how much murderous energy you kill with the person, you can eliminate as much murderous energy, and the killed player will be sent to prison and locked up in prison for 12 hours......"
Lin Ziyue sighed depressedly, and at Baozi's suggestion, she followed Baozi to receive the labor reform task.
"After all, you do some tasks to reduce the murderous value first, otherwise such a high murderous spirit is not good for bounty hunters, some players because of their personal hobbies, will specifically find wanted tasks to do, after all, the more murderous value, the more experience and money the system rewards, and wait for your murderous spirit to drop by 4 or 5 points, and then we will slowly hang up. ”
Lin Ziyue followed Baozi through the streets and alleys, and came to the door of a gloomy stone brick house, in front of which stood two listless system guards, who were squatting at the gate of the prison and counting the ants on the ground.
"Ah, what's the matter with you two...... Wow!!It's a criminal who turned himself in!" One of the guards raised his head to greet the two, and the moment he saw Lin Ziyue jump up from the ground, he stared at her with anticipation on his face.
The other guard lazily raised his head and said, "Tom, you are blind, don't you see that it is the Inquisitor? You must have come to the labor camp, how can a person as special as the Inquisitor have time to go to prison...... Hey, you're losing! There are 37 ants here, more than 30!
"Jerry, you can't be serious! It's also our job to issue a labor camp!" Tom slapped two silver coins on Jerry's face in hatred, and Jerry grinned and touched the two silver coins, turned around and went to prison.
"Wait a minute, you two, the goods will go and help the Inquisitor get the information. ”
Lin Ziyue nodded and thanked her, but was slapped on the arm by Baozi and whispered in her ear: "The judge they are talking about...... Is that you?"
Before Lin Ziyue could answer, the guard named Tom spoke first: "Hey, you don't have to whisper so loudly, cat ears are very smart, this young lady has reached the reputation and friendship of the Six Realms, so her identity is the judge for us Six Realms civilians, although there are many big names above her, but they don't often wander around the world, do they? Therefore, the Inquisitor is equivalent to the direct subordinates of those big people, and they have the power to meet the big people to dominate the affairs of the common people in the Six Realms, but most of the Inquisitors will not disclose their affiliation due to personal reasons, so I guess this Inquisitor will not be able to tell you any details, Miss. ”
Lin Ziyue wanted to say something, but suddenly received a secret chat.
A cage of meat buns: Hey, we'll talk about it later, the AI NPCs in the Phantom World have their own settings, which are different from the players, let's explain it in a different place
Lin Ziyue replied with a "yes", and at this moment, the guard named Jerry also came out with a booklet, and waved the booklet in his hand with a smile at her: "Hey, Lord Inquisitor, this is your mission pass, you must put it away, you can go to the City Lord's Mansion for the next mission, if there is nothing wrong, I want to take a few more money from Tom......"
"Hey, you're a! I'm going to get drunk with you after work today!!" Tom slapped Jerry in the face again, snatched the pamphlet from Jerry's hand, and respectfully handed it to Lin Ziyue with both hands.
Lin Ziyue and Baozi glanced at each other, and as a result, the booklet and the system prompt sounded again:
Ding, you will receive the item "Six Realms Pass".
Ding, you have accepted the quest "Castle Lord, Witch and Heir".