Chapter 14: The Traitor (Revised Version)
"Head ......" Dark Forest, whose face is full of pain and confusion, sits cross-legged in front of the turtle, indicating that he is under a lot of pressure. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Of course, I believe you. However, the explanation is not clear, is it? "The first coercive order was used to force you to jump off the building, and the purpose was to make sure you weren't under the influence of a player's illusion - you didn't deny that, did you?" Don't worry where I know these things. β
"Then, the second coercive directive, which is used to force you to set your respawn point in the tin cabinet he specially prepared, is also the unfolding I expected, so then we went to save you, remember?" Turtle smiled, "Of course, this was also in that guy's plan, and he even left a message on the cabinet for us to save his female friend - that's another story." You also said at the time that he only had one last chance to enforce the order, didn't you? β
"Uh...... Yes. Xiao Hei's forehead began to sweat, and he couldn't help but clench his teeth.
"In that case, how did that guy 'consume two spells' last night to complete the counter-kill?" The turtle's left hand rubbed against his chin, "There are three mandatory commands, and it's similar to a spell - but he's glad he could imagine that this thing can also be used to make his Servant move, anyway, is this the associative ability of the dead house?" β
Seeing that the turtle suddenly talked about an unrelated topic, Xiao Hei felt that his pressure had become even greater, and he frowned and thought for a while: "Then, that, maybe, these two things were carried out in the same mandatory order?" β
"Unlikely, right? If you can continue to manipulate the opponent's movements after teleporting, then, no matter how you think about it, if you give enough detailed instructions, I'm afraid you can control your behavior for a long time, right? The turtle shook his head, "Since the pet contract allows the existence of the player's pet, it means that there is such a setting in itself. Under such a premise - after all, you are players after all, and it is unrealistic to let you be controlled in the game all the time, is it? And, with this terrible permission, I don't think that bad GM will open up. It's too good for us, it's going to be boring. β
"That-maybe there was a time before when he didn't use coercive orders?" Xiao Hei said that he was very unconfident.
"It's also a possibility." The turtle nodded this time, but Xiao Hei's face was painful, and he didn't react in particular, and the result was just as Xiao Hei expected, and the turtle continued, "So, did you kill yourself by jumping out of the window with a twitch of your brain without hearing anything, or did you dig your own grave and set the resurrection point in a small iron box when I had already told you what would happen?" β
"This ......" Xiao Hei tugged at the corners of his mouth and smiled awkwardly, "Hehe......"
"Stop talking nonsense!" One of the strong men who was beheaded by Xiao Hei in the back that day, that is, the number two strong men ranked by their size, took a step forward with an impatient face, and scolded angrily, "Just admit it, you are actually an undercover agent sent by your boss." The last 'spell' is for teleportation, and your actions are of your own volition. β
ββ¦β¦ That sounds reasonable...... right," Xiao Hei pursed his lips and spoke.
"Less of this! What did Lao Tzu play rotten back then! Strong man No. 3 was a little stunned when he saw No. 2, so he took over the conversation, but as soon as he spoke, he revealed a rogue atmosphere, "It's obvious." You kid planned to fool around like this at first, because you have become a free man, and the identity of a pet is no longer an influence, and everyone will feel more at ease with you than before. But I didn't expect to know the situation of the first time you were used with a mandatory order, and you knew that you couldn't fool the past, so you admitted it, and now you plan to pretend that you don't know anything, do you think you can pass the test like this? Do you take us all for stupid beeps! β
"Huh? Makes sense......" Xiao Hei looked at the strong man No. 3 with some surprise, and the expression on his face was probably "it, big brother, you look so rough, there are still so many brains in the iron ball on your neck, I'll go!" "What does that mean......
"Okay, there's another possibility, isn't it?" Seeing Xiao Hei who was stunned there, the turtle sighed and took the initiative to help him out of the siege, "Teleportation is not a mandatory command, but other props or something." Although I don't know very well, it is said that the NPC that posts the quest has a chance to get something magical from the GM. β
"In my personal opinion, the performance of the Dark Forest combined with the character he usually reveals can basically confirm his innocence. The answer we needed most from the last incident has already been obtained, and further information is just icing on the cake, even if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. The turtle stood up and twisted his neck, "The question now isβ"
"Dark Forest." The turtle's expression became serious and focused, "After enduring our suspicions, can you still trust us?" Or are you willing to follow me towards our goal, the game of destruction? β
"......" Xiao Hei hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded and said seriously, "That's the result I wanted." β
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In essence, Lin Qing is a very playful, but at the same time very lazy person, and because of this, he has become an otaku who can do the most entertainment with minimal consumption.
The effects of laziness permeate every aspect of your life, especially if you don't work hard to overcome it, but rather let it grow. In this case, the person who is completely dominated by laziness is not willing to do anything about it unless he is faced with an imminent threat or temptation.
Lin Qing's situation is like this, although he has analyzed many objective reasons that he did not deal with immediately, but in fact, under the premise of knowing that leaving the possible abnormalities in his body alone means that he may grow a tentacle on his body at any time, and incarnate a tentacle monster muscular man who has lost his self-consciousness, he still lives as usual as if nothing has happened, just because the thing called laziness has become an inseparable part of him......
Lin Qing, who chose to live a good life because of laziness, naturally began to worsen his symptoms, and his body sometimes began to itch inexplicably, and then began to have headaches within a few days, and then this symptom flare-up became more and more frequent. But even if it became like this, Lin Qing only did a very limited response, and continued to do his own thing.
His first thought was that "System Title: The Insidious Profiteer" gave him a title skill, "an absolutely fair equivalent exchange", and if he could find the location of the seeds, he could find a way to send them away - although this might cause a lot of inconvenience to others, which made him feel uncomfortable, but in the end, he couldn't give up such an easy method for the sake of such a little guilt.
Unfortunately, it was not found at all. I have performed three times before and after CT scans in the hospital, and even if the growth of the seeds is felt during the examination, there is no way to observe the presence of the seeds. So he gave up -- not just the method, but the idea of solving the seed problem as soon as possible.
Lin Qing is afraid of death, but she is not greedy for life, and she is very happy to be alive, so that he can find fun, but, perhaps somewhere deep down, she is not as comfortable and happy as she seems to be in her unproductive social moth life. Because he is lazy, he is still like this; Because of this, the subconscious mind has never thought that it would be better to die.
However, when it really came to the day when he felt on the verge of death, Lin Qing suddenly felt very pity. His plans, as many as five or six of his plans, large and small, were in the works or in the pipeline, and if they died, there was no way for him to see them with his own eyes. So, he changed his mind again and prepared a minimum retreat.
At that time, he received a call from a cadre who was as familiar with him as high as five years old, and the other party said that he had taken a fancy to a girl, and in order to make that girl happy, he needed to break into a lair of underworld forces, in which a large group of idle people in society gathered, hoping that Lin Qing could help him solve these dangers without affecting the image of the insect catcher cadre himself's tall and mighty.
To be honest, after Lin Qing understood all this, his thoughts at that moment were: "You are definitely teasing me." β
However, because of the sudden headache, Lin Qing, who didn't fully hear clearly at the time, had already agreed first, and by the time he figured out what the situation was, the other party had already hung up the phone and dialed back to find that it had actually been turned off.
Fortunately, perhaps it was the guidance of fate -- in fact, the underworld forces around Yongping were not so rampant -- the insect catching cadres actually chose the territory of their nominal little brother, Lin Hu. Thinking of this, Lin Qing suddenly remembered that his recent contact with Lin Hu was very limited, which was very different from the situation where the other party kept pestering him before.
Thinking about it carefully, this situation is not normal, Lin Hu is a very ambitious person who is not willing to deceive himself, because of this, even if he almost didn't give him any benefits after accepting him as a subordinate, he still tried his best to help himself do things, and showed loyalty around himself when he was fine. But one day, that started to change.
It seems that after he opened a hole in the player under him who hides his identity, the third day begins.
Having said that, it is clear that he is a member of their organization, but he can hide his identity, this kind of player is very unreasonable in itself, maybe it is because his identity was exposed to Lin Hu that Lin Hu thinks that he is not the only way to climb up.
Lin Qing made the decision to solve the problem here by the way, but Lin Qing's attention was diverted, which is also one of the characteristics of lazy people, and they will subconsciously get rid of the things they have been paying attention to.
Although the player is now exposed, it is very unreasonable to be able to hide it for so long.
Although the human heart is unpredictable, the behavior of people can be roughly inferred, because of the limitations of the system, environment, needs, and current capabilities, etc., the player's behavior pattern is roughly only so few.
Like Biyuan and its harem group, as well as knights and others, the players themselves are grouped, and in fact, they only recognize the status of the player, and the interaction with the rest of the world is exactly like the interaction between ordinary players and data. NPCs are NPCs, communicate to get information, pay to get services; The dungeon boss is just a dungeon boss, just an existence used to farm levels.
After the emergence of tentacle monsters and parasitic beasts, that is, "wild monsters", and the official release of the mobile game "World Gate", the attributes of NPCs are getting stronger and stronger, that is, the difference between NPCs that will send quests and passerby NPCs (users of this game will have mosaics in the player's field of vision), new players are more likely to adopt this behavior pattern.
Then, like Xiao Hei, Xiao Cang and others, keep in touch with individual NPCs. In fact, because although the release conditions of the quest are very demanding, it is still at the level of inadvertently releasing it, and once it is successfully released, you will get the information of the system, no matter how self-deceptive, after repeated confirmation, these NPCs will also understand that it is not auditory hallucinations.
According to the rules of general novels, comics, film and television works, after discovering such a magical event, the protagonists often do not choose to hand over the adventure to the state, on the contrary, due to various concerns, they finally make the decision to hide it all and take the risk (enjoy the benefits) alone. Having said that, the unlucky ones who didn't make this path, but planned to tell everyone about this kind of thing, were actually invited to the bureau for tea in the first place......
No one is a complete idiot, and those who decide to hide these things will naturally be like Lin Qing, trying to use tasks and some other things to limit the player's contact with the outside world, control him by his side, and hide the special features of the player. They are like stand-in messengers, and only those who are also stand-in messengers can discover the existence of stand-ins.
According to Lin Qing's personal analysis, the vast majority of pioneers should have been in this state at the beginning, and even now (January 5, 2021), more than half of the pioneers are probably still the same.
The third type is players who are controlled by the state. They are no different from the previous one from a player's point of view. When playing games, everyone often pays attention to the reward and difficulty of completing the task, especially when there is no faction setting, who cares whether it is a mission in the royal city or a beggar on the side of the road to post a task in the form of begging.
From Lin Qing's point of view, in fact, the difference is not very obvious. It's just that it's easier for Lin Qing to use, and the other can get more benefits from the NPC that has a connection with him.
The fourth, like the strange murderous magician and little gold before, for various reasons, ended up on the path of being enemies of NPCs, if others are playing RPGs with modern backgrounds, then they are playing Grand Theft Auto, and if they continue to develop, they may eventually evolve into a survival game mode full of enemies.
The problem, however, is that the strange player, Yat Siu, doesn't belong to any of the above. As a pioneer who appeared very early, the level was not even 20 when he faced him head-on, which shows that he will not be the second or third player, but his performance proves that he is not the first or fourth player either.
On the surface, he may be the second type of player who has established contact with his netizen, Dead House No. 1, and his level is likely to be deliberately pressed below level 20 by No. 1 to prevent him from hacking No. 1 to death.
But as mentioned before, the game's quest release system is a very delicate thing, and if he is allowed to be around other NPCs, especially if he is in a position where he may be ordered, he will almost inevitably be released with a quest and his identity revealed. In Lin Qing's opinion, if No. 1 really wants to establish a relationship with a player that is not remote control, then he will not allow this state of affairs to develop like this.
So, that player is special. For this reason, Lin Qing first investigated Xiao Yi's background, although Lin Hu was very ambitious, he didn't plan to unveil the anti-flag like this, and in his opinion, a player's background is not a core secret, so Lin Qing followed the clues given by Lin Hu and found a magical thing - Xiao Yi appeared on December 12, 2020, that is, before the game was launched.
He saw the shadow of suspected official interference in those materials, which also explained why the above was able to control the information in such a timely manner and conceal the existence of the player for so long.
Seeing this, Lin Qing's impression of Xiao Yi was greatly reversed. So after confirming something in the group from the group owner, Doom Watcher, and related people Death House No. 1, he was overly prepared for this operation.
Giving up imprisoning Xiao Hei, giving Brother Turtle a leak for him to support, temporarily taking Xiao Cang away, and leaving them a message, telling them about the crisis that Bai Yue is likely to face, asking for their help, and then rushing over five hours in advance, quietly retreating into a hidden corner - of course, it will not be very comfortable, contacting the knight and his party and the Golden Libra as support - these are all things he was originally going to do.
After learning about Xiao Yi's specialness, Lin Qing finally added a layer of insurance. Originally, this was not the best time to make the two-color ball a quest boss, because neither of them trusted the promises of others, and they had hoped to complete the transformation of the two-color ball one second before the "Sao Project" was launched, so as to effectively use their own means to get the dominance of the "result". But Lin Qing decided to let the two-color ball be transformed immediately to ensure that he could escape or even kill in desperation - and it turned out to be the right decision.
And this also brings another benefit, which is the setting of the "time lag laboratory". The two-color ball has established an area within the dungeon that can freeze the physiological activities of living beings, which is also a way for Lin Qing to leave a way for himself, because of Xiao Yi's matter, this leg can be activated in time......
So, after a series of events, on February 14, 2021, the third day of the Lunar New Year, which is also the annual Torch Festival, Lin Qing, an authentic slacker, can still appear on the street alive and block in front of Pale Yan.
"I'm disappointed, Xiaocang, I'm really disappointed." While shaking his head and sighing, Lin Qing's performance was very exaggerated, "I thought you would be the most loyal warrior in the holy war, but I didn't expect you to become a traitor and show off the fruits of your stealing." β
"No, I don't quite understand what you're saying, but I don't mean to show it off at all." Xiao Cang rolled his eyes, "If you want to say why, it's not you who suddenly appeared in front of me!" β
"Alas......" Lin Qing shook his head again, sighed, and then shouted, "God! Sanction this sinner! β
"Hey, why are you kidding me? How dare you pull out a gun on the streetβ" Xiao Cang's words ended in the middle of his sentence.
It's not that he was shot this time, but that he suddenly disappeared on the street, and his girlfriend next to him was full of surprise, but he wasn't very scared, after such a long time, everyone was used to the player's weird performance, and what his girlfriend was surprised about was why Xiaocang suddenly went offline.
"Maybe it's a drop, right? Or someone prank and unplugged the network cable - there are ghosts. Lin Qing seemed to see through the girl's thoughts, and casually said two speculations she was thinking, and then maliciously mocked, "What are you thinking?" The game never drops, and they don't have any internet connection on their side - by the way, you don't know any of that. Anyway, look behind you, didn't you hear God's voice just now? God has appeared, but you have to turn your back on, huh? β
The girl turned around and saw a little girl with sunny-like blonde hair dressed in intricate ornaments, but all black, holding a pitch-black parasol decorated with white lace in her left hand, and stretching her right hand forward, looking at the movement and position of her hand, she was probably holding Pale Yan's wrist just now.
Seeing her, the girl also remembered that she did hear a voice that seemed to be a little childish just now.
"In the name of my arbiter's bloodline, you will be found guilty."
"Heretics, in captivity, reflect on your wrong choices and cleanse your soul from the sins of your heart."
"This is God!" When the girl was stunned, Lin Qing rushed over with a touched face, as if she was going to kneel on the ground and hug the girl, but the girl suddenly disappeared - it appeared on top of Lin Qing's head, but Lin Qing didn't kneel down, just stood up straight, hugged the girl in the posture of a princess, and said with an intoxicated face, "God! I've finally got your favor! β
"Those who say that others are traitors are often guilty themselves, really, aren't you afraid of being burned to death by divine fire?" The man with pale skin that looked like he had never seen the sun walked over with a somewhat strange smile and spread out his hands, "Well, how do you call it?" Brother Lu, or Brother Lin? Which one do you prefer? β
"No, it won't! I'm just appreciating! And you won't really do it! I'm a true gentlemanβif you may, call me a pure gentleman." Lin Qing turned his face with a happy smile on his face and looked at the man, his eyes suddenly revealed a dark aura, "No. 1, what do you want me to call it?" β