Chapter 36: The Seven Deadly Sins (3)
. Shumilou.CoM.Shumilou.Co
Maye was still in front of the computer.
It was dark and there was no light in the house. He was alone in the dark space, and the faint white light of the screen reflected his face. His preoccupation with a game of sure loss, with an almost pitiful glimmer of hope, made him seem alone.
When Shuwei sat down next to him, he lowered his eyes slightly in embarrassment, as if his unbearable side was exposed to her.
Shuwei tried her best to pretend not to care - although she didn't confuse the game with reality, this game was so special that Shuwei vaguely felt that it might be infused with some memories of May, some realities from a thousand years ago. She couldn't do it yet, and she didn't care at all.
She handed the fruit bowl to May, who shook her head, and Shuwei held it and ate it herself. While watching Mei play a game intently.
And although Mei Yi was a little shaken by Shuwei's arrival, she obviously did not change her original intention, and soon joined it again.
Shuwei in the game has basically picked herself up from the previous damage.
Although she is in the enemy camp, she should eat, sleep, go shopping, and study - obviously, because of Mei Yi in the game, her interpersonal relationships are quite bad, basically no matter where she goes, where there are fewer people, everyone will think she is transparent. No one communicates with her, and when she takes the initiative to communicate with others, others will become very afraid, basically in a perfunctory state of not wanting to pay attention to her but being afraid of offending her, and even pretending not to hear.
Usually only Maye in the game will talk to her, and will take the initiative to bow down to her, no matter how cold she is and does not respond, she still treats her gently with self-talk.
Shuwei finds this environment very suffocating - but she thinks she should be able to handle it, and her character is also notoriously rough and tough, at least she won't lose to May, a small otaku who is strong on the surface but sensitive and fragile on the inside. This situation is like a dungeon boss and a solo hero, although she bears tons of continuous damage from the opposing team, but she has thick skin, and she swings her claws casually, and the crispy brave vomits blood in her heart every minute.
Shuwei: ...... It is really not advisable to stand in the camp! You can't see a different perspective, and *OSS that needs to be pushed down will be replaced by her!
This kind of plot of mutual torture will be very congested by anyone who watches it. There was no pleasure at all, and Shuwei gradually couldn't eat.
When she begins to lose her speech in the game, and she wants to pretend to be casual and ask questions from those who occasionally answer her questions, but she stammers and says incomplete, Shuwei understands that the problem is going to be bigger.
Harm will accumulate, people's self-regulation ability has a limit, and quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes sooner or later.
Sure enough, in the game, she went from being cold, ignorant, and most impatient to showing strong aggression and self-destruction towards the game's May. The way she looked at Maye was no longer like looking at a person, but a brutal monster who couldn't communicate. She became extraordinarily irritable and vicious in front of him, and she took it as her own achievement to be able to hurt May.
Shuwei knew she was starting to crumble.
Shuwei didn't expect that she would become such a person at all. But the strange thing is that even if she is unprepared, she can understand - she just doesn't want to give in, she has endured the indifference and malice of the whole world, and only Maye has lit a warm and bright lamp for her. But she knew it was Maye's ruse to force her to submit, it was a domestication. If she ends up turning to Maye for comfort, perhaps she will have an easy time, but at the cost of losing something that is important to humanity.
When she was still able to hold the embankment of her heart, she ignored Maye. But now that her heart has collapsed, she knows that she is about to lose, and her last reluctance and persistence have turned into viciousness towards May-she is just desperately reminding herself that she must hate this person, she just doesn't want to give in.
Shuwei was already a little unable to swallow.
"Let her go." She finally spoke.
May's body stiffened slightly for a moment.
In the game, Shuwei finally broke down completely, and when Mei went to feed her as usual, she didn't wave him away again, but meekly ate the food. All the struggles in her eyes were still there, but they were all dead. She was as well-behaved as a milk cat, and when she had finished eating, she licked May's fingers gently, and looked up at him with a meek and dead gaze—she hadn't spoken to a human for too long, and now her heart was broken, and the hunger of her skin was the only thing that drove her, and she was begging for a hug—even if it was just touching her head.
And Maye in the game was not ecstatic, he looked into Shuwei's eyes and did not move for a long time. Finally, he finally raised his hand and rubbed her hair.
He quickly left the room and stood in front of the Castlevania's courtyard full of demon roses, his hand pressed lightly to his chest.
Shuwei looked at the faces on the screen, and suddenly realized something late - it was not only one who broke down in this mutual torture, but Mei in the game was also in pain.
Maye also looked at his own face on the screen.
After a brief hesitation, he finally replied softly to Shuwei, "There is no such option. ”
"If this continues, she will sooner or later self-destruct."
Mei Yi drooped her eyelashes and began to regulate the direction of the plot on a macro scale - Shuwei watched him zoom in and out of a series of parameters, and the dazzling scheduling of the characters roughly understood some of the rules of the game.
It seems that the only thing Mei can directly operate is the protagonist.,But the only options he can get are the thoughts that have appeared in the protagonist's mind.,And because some of the ideas are just a fleeting flash.,It doesn't conform to the logic of the hero's own character.,Even if he makes a choice,,It's likely that the hero won't do it according to the option.。
The rest of the people, May, can't operate directly, but he can change the cause and effect of those people through the rest of the parameters, for example, at a certain time, someone's original itinerary is to go to the ball, but Maye creates a rainstorm, and his itinerary is forced to change, and a new plot may be started on a small scale.
Through a similar inducement, Maye finally gets a devil named Bires to speak to him in the game.
In the game, this devil is clearly his cronies...... Maybe even a friend, under Bireth's questioning, Maye in the game vaguely mentions his confusion to Bireth and asks him for advice.
And Bireth gave the idea of "releasing the birds back into the sky and the swimming fish back into the sea", saying, "Human freedom is a hypocrisy, so what's the harm in giving it to her?" Where is this land under the whole world that is not under your rule? Just give her a new lease of life, and sooner or later she will come back to you. ”(.)