All people are actually a whole, and the misfortune of others is your misfortune, so don't ask who the death knell is for, the death knell is for you.

- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Hemingway

……

There's definitely something wrong with that.

Six days have passed.

For six whole days.

If this was a big living person, it would have been a long time ago.

Xia Wuli once imagined the current state of the long night on the edge.

A human being, in six days of brain death, should have already shown the posture of a corpse.

At least the neighbors and the people involved in his life will surely notice that something is wrong.

Xia couldn't believe that the Edge Long Night would be a guy who was completely cut off from the outside world.

After all, a person, as long as he lives in this society, will inevitably communicate with the outside world, more or less.

What's more, six days have passed.

"There's definitely something wrong with that." So, Xia couldn't sit in the void and said silently.

He felt a sense of responsibility, or curiosity, guiding him down this path.

This road leads to the long night on the edge.

……

And the situation on Elise's side is not optimistic.

Although she qualified for the main tournament early, she spent almost all of her time in a daze and talking to herself except for the preliminaries.

After all, whether it was the fact that the Edge Long Night was human or the fact that he had been robbed of consciousness, Elise was still a little difficult to accept.

"I thought we could live together in this near-eternal time." Elise held a essentia cube in her hand, her eyes glazed over.

"Even if you come back, I can only watch you go to the end of your life." She muttered.

Sitting on the roof of the castle tower, Elise suddenly looked up at the starry sky.

Although she knew that this starry sky was made of game data, and it was a completely false starry sky, she still felt that under this summer triangle, she could get a glimpse of the soul of the long night on the edge that had departed.

Then, Elise staggered to her feet.

She stretched out her arms to the sky and embraced the four of Tianjin, Altair and Vega.

The night breeze blew through the fluttering hem of her dress, and for some reason, at this moment, Elise suddenly wanted to smoke a cigarette.

Of course, it's not a smoke to relieve loneliness or relieve feelings.

It's just that she suddenly wanted to smoke, that's all.

Well, maybe it had something to do with her mother's influence, who knows?

The night went on.

……

The familiar café welcomes an unfamiliar guest.

"Sit down, we don't know each other, but at least we can talk."

A rectangular table divides four people into two sides, one on one side and three on the other.

"I want to thank you for agreeing to my request." Xia couldn't afford to bow to the three of Qiu Shuangyue on the other side of the table.

"It's nothing, you're a GM anyway, and if you have a good relationship with you, it's not a bad thing for us, and it's ......"

Qiu Shuangyue pinched her chin and stopped talking.

"Yes, I know." Xia couldn't hold the coffee cup in front of him, blew it and put it down again, "You're also interested in the edge of the long night." ”

"Please don't be so ambiguous!" "We just want to know how he is doing." ”

"Alright, alright." Cailuo waved his hand to the side, "Don't dwell on such trivial things so much." ”

"So." Qiu Shuangyue ignored the two women beside her, and directly looked at Xia Fuyi, "Let's exchange information first." ”

……

Xia couldn't afford to choose to meet this group of people outside, also out of his own considerations.

After all, to some extent, he began to distrust the virtual world.

Indeed, there was a cannibalism in that place.

A completely virtual space, but it wiped out a real, living person, and even erased his traces in this world.

"That said, the Edge Night doesn't actually have real-life friends in this game." Qiu Shuangyue thought for a moment and said, "The only one who knows about him is that Elise who calls herself an AI, right?" ”

"It's not that she claims to be, she's a real AI, and in fact she doesn't know much about the Edge Night." Natsu sighed weakly, "After all, that Elise always thought that the edge of the long night was also an AI. ”

"What?" The three of them made a surprised sound.

"How is this possible?" Qiu Shuangyue's voice couldn't help but raise an octave, "The gap between AI and humans is not something that can be easily bridged by imitation or disguise, right?" ”

"But he did." Xia said in a deep voice, "And judging from Elise's testimony, there is probably something hidden in this that we don't know. ”

"Secret...... ? Qiu Shuangyue lowered her head, as if thinking about something.

At this time, Cailuo, who had finished drinking the juice in the cup, suddenly opened his mouth.

"I said that." Cailuo's neutral voice penetrated Xia's weak eardrums, directly pulling his attention.

"What?"

"In other words, the identity of the Rim Long Night is a human being, and it has been completely determined through your GM permissions, right?" Cailuo pinched the straw in her hand and looked at Xia Li.

"Well, that's right, he's undoubtedly a player who has connected to the game world through an outside device and has registered for the game pod." Xia nodded weakly.

"Isn't that the problem?" Cailuo put the straw in his mouth and held it, "Since you have registered the game cabin, wouldn't it be good to check it directly by the IP address or registration address?" ”

"No...... Herein lies the problem. Xia shook his head weakly, "I don't have access to this information, according to the rules, the only people who can get this information are the Ruling Will and Kotojuro, so without their approval, we staff will not be able to access that layer of information anyway." ”

"But that information exists, right?" Cailuo then asked.

"Well, of course."

"Then since it exists, there will always be a way." Cailuo nodded, "In other words, our goal is clear now. ”

"If you want to find the edge of the night, you have to get his address first."

"But the question is how." Xia sighed weakly.

"It's okay." Qiu Shuangyue smiled and shook her head, "We met this time to find out what the problem was, and now that the problem has arisen, we just need to find a solution to the problem." ”

"That is, to get that information out."