"Why did you make this game just for fun?" Wei Liang lit a cigarette, and in the dark night, the red light flickered and dimmed.

"I'm not the maker of the game, but the executor. Everyone who comes to the Crimson Tower for the first time will encounter that test. ”

"Including you?"

"Of course."

"And how did you survive?"

Hotaru was silent.

Wei Liang smiled: "Could it be that he betrayed his hue?" I have to say, you have a unique advantage in this regard. ”

Hotaru was furious, grabbed Wei Liang's neck, lifted him up like a chicken cub, and said in a cold voice, "You say it again? ”

Wei Liang coughed and laughed, and said hoarsely, "Just kidding." ”

Hotaru glared angrily, and after a long time, he still put him down and said coldly: "You're not afraid that I will kill you?" ”

"You're right, I'm really not afraid." Even though he had just walked away from the Ghost Gate, Wei Liang's face was still as usual, and he smiled: "I don't feel fear. ”

Hotaru sneered.

Wei Liang said seriously: "The almond body in my brain has some kind of defect, which leads to necrosis of the neural circuit, and cannot transmit fear. People around me always say things like 'scared to death' or 'I'm scared', but I never knew what it was like. ”

Hotaru was surprised: "Really? ”

Wei Liang took off his shirt, which was densely covered with scars, looking hideous and terrifying, and said, "If there is no fear, there is no scruples." Some of these scars were jumped off a building, some were cut by people, some were hit by cars, some were bitten by dogs, and to put it mildly, I have been dying in fancy ways for so many years. The doctor said that very few people with my disease lived past the age of 30. ”

Hotaru's beautiful face was full of incredulity.

Wei Liang said: "I am puzzled why many people hate fear and think it is a symbol of cowardice and incompetence. In fact, fear is a good thing, it can make us seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, if there is no fear, our ancestors would have died in the mouths of beasts long ago, and human beings would not be able to inherit it now. ”

Hotaru was silent, and said after a moment: "But here, being careless is not necessarily a bad thing. ”

Wei Liang smiled and changed the subject: "Let's talk about the Crimson Tower." You just said that you are not the maker of the game, so who is? ”

"The Crimson Tower itself, it has a consciousness of its own, and we call it the Tower Spirit."

"What is it? Artificial intelligence? Or is it an alien? Why did you arrest us here? What's the practical point of playing one game after another? ”

"I don't know."

Wei Liang stared at her for a long time, and couldn't see any trace of lying, so he changed the topic again and said, "You once said that as long as we are lucky enough, we can even evolve into gods?" ”

"That's right."

"What's the evolutionary method?"

"For each game completed, the winner is rewarded with Crimson Coins. Scarlet coins can be exchanged for all kinds of magical things. ”

"Where to redeem huàn?"

"The Crimson Mall. Once you've arrived at the Crimson Tower, you've made a connection to it, and the mall comes to mind with just one thought. ”

Wei Liang tried, and sure enough, he shouted magically. Now is not the time to shop, he asks, "So far, I think it's pretty good." If one day I get tired of playing, how can I leave? ”

"The Crimson Tower has ten floors. Once you've reached the top, you're able to leave. ”

Wei Liang saw that something was wrong from the other party's indifferent expression, and asked, "This chance should be very small, right?" ”

"Infinity is close to zero." Hotaru said: "After so many years, I haven't seen anyone set foot on the tenth floor. ”

"Thank you for your patience." Wei Liang smiled: "Isn't my question a bit too much?" ”

"No thanks, it's just my job. I'm like a stern instructor who weeds out unqualified recruits, and I patiently answer his questions. ”

Wei Liang smiled: "If you say so, I really have a question to ask." ”

"Please."

"Why don't you want others to treat you as a woman?"

Hotaru's expression froze, and she said, "This is my **, you have no right to ask." ”

"Let's talk, just satisfy my curiosity."

A hint of anger welled up in Hotaru's eyes, and she said, "I'm not a woman at all. ”

Wei Liang smiled: "Liar. ”

Hotaru said indifferently: "We digressed, now let's get down to business, do you have anything else you want to ask about the Crimson Tower?" ”

Wei Liang said: "I'm still interested in you. ”

"Why?"

"You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen."

Hotaru kicked him away.

Wei Liang got up with difficulty, his bones were about to fall apart, and he said hoarsely: "I didn't expect your explosiveness to be so strong, as if it wasn't a beautiful woman who kicked me, but an elephant." The strange thing is that I flew ten meters away, and my internal organs should have shattered under such a huge impact, why didn't I die? ”

"The newcomers who pass the guò test will be protected by the Scarlet Tower for the first three days, and they will be immortal." Hotaru said coldly, "But don't try to provoke me again, or I'll kill you on the fourth day." ”

"You know, I don't feel fear, so threats mean nothing to me." Wei Liang paused and smiled: "Let me guess, are you gay?" ”

Hotaru simply ignored him.

Wei Liang saw that her face was as usual, and continued to speculate: "You have gender identity disorder? ”

Hotaru's expression was still flat.

"You've been raped or sexually abused, so you hate being a woman?"

Hotaru clenched her fists and said in a low voice, "Can you shut up?" ”

"Can you tell me the answer?"

"The answer is not wonderful, but a little disgusting, and you will definitely regret it when you hear it."

"No regrets."

Hotaru's expression changed, and she laughed at herself, and said, "There's nothing to be told about." Once, I was really a man, and then ......" she paused, seemingly unable to speak.

Wei Liang asked, "You had sex reassignment surgery?" ”

Hotaru sighed and said, "Later, I mistakenly took the magic potion made by the elf clan, thinking that it would strengthen my body, but my body has undergone incredible changes, my skin is becoming more and more delicate and fair, my body is becoming more and more delicate and slender, and my facial features are becoming more and more delicate and beautiful, and then, I have become the ghost I am now." ”

"Unbelievable." Wei Liang asked, "So, you are very distressed and have low self-esteem?" ”

"Of course I have low self-esteem!" Hotaru rubbed her hair in annoyance and said hoarsely, "Do you know what it feels like to squat and pee? Can you feel the shame of boobs swelling day by day? ”

Wei Liang said: "But...... Your chest is flat, the airport. ”

"That's because I'm tied up! The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to tie them up with strips of cloth. ”

Wei Liang was silent. After a long time, he smiled and said, "Do you know what the source of your pain is?" ”

"What is it?"

"The body and mind are not united. Physically, you are female, but psychologically, you consider yourself male. ”

"That's right."

"It's easy to figure it out, as long as you accept that you're a woman."

"Impossible!"

Wei Liang said slowly: "Do you know? Human beings are very complex animals, and their bodies change, and often their psychology changes. For example, when male hormones are strong, people will become aggressive, during adolescence, teenagers will be rebellious, and during menopause, women will be irritable and irritable, etc. ”

"What exactly do you want to say?"

"What I want to say is that now that the body has become a woman, it is only a matter of time before the psychological transformation is made."

"Nonsense."

Wei Liang suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped her round and straight ass.

Hotaru was shocked and exclaimed, "What are you doing?" ”

Wei Liang was silent, but instead of taking his hand away, he gently rubbed it.

"I'm going to kill you." Fireflies thundered.

Although the newcomer was immortal, he felt pain, and for the next half hour, Hotaru tortured Wei Liang with the most cruel means until he was exhausted.

"Don't think I can't do anything about you." She gasped.

Wei Liang's body was scarred and his face was covered with blood, but Rao was like this, he still kept smiling and said, "I didn't mean to insult you, but to be a real person." ”

Hotaru sneered: "You don't have to make excuses for yourself. ”

Wei Liang smiled: "If you are a man and I slap your buttocks, how will you react?" ”

Hotaru realized something, and there was a rare trace of panic in her eyes, and she pretended to be tough: "I will think you are a dead, and then beat you up, just like just now." ”

"Nope." Wei Liang said: "Men don't care about that, they just think it's an innocuous joke." But what you just said can be described as angry, and you want to kill me, why? Because you feel that you are blasphemed, that you are defiled. ”

Hotaru roared: "That's because I have a habit of cleanliness and don't like to be touched, damn it, you shut up for me, don't try to mislead me!" ”

Wei Liang stopped talking.

Hotaru looked at him with the kind of eyes that wanted to kill, and said coldly, "Why do you always laugh?" ”

"Do I have one?"

"You must be laughing at me."

"I didn't laugh at you."

"Then why are you laughing?"

"A smile is my mask."

"Do you know how disgusting it is to laugh? I hate your face. ”

"It's not my smile that you really hate, it's your body, I'm just." Wei Liang said: "I know, you have been suppressed for too long. ”

"I'm not depressed!"

"Not depressed? Then why did you confide in me? Because in your circle, this kind of thing can't be opened anyway, and you're afraid of being ridiculed, afraid of being treated as something else, so you keep it hidden. It wasn't until today, facing a stranger like me, that I let go of my guard a little. Anyway, I don't know you, and the chances of meeting in the future are not great, so it doesn't matter if you spit out bitterness. Right? ”

Hotaru closed her eyes a little tiredly, and after a while, she stood up and said, "I'm leaving." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Go to the fifth floor."

"There will be a date later."

"There will be no time in the future."

Hotaru's figure vanished into the darkness.