49. Explanation—The Light of Creation (II)
On January 5, 2021, the lunar calendar Xiaohan solar term, relevant statistics show that in the Celestial Empire, Xiaohan is the coldest solar term of the year, and only a few years are the big cold colder than the small cold. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info And this year is especially cold, overnight, the temperature of Yongping City is close to minus 10 degrees from above zero, and from time to time there will be gusts of cold wind, and the exposed skin is really as painful as a knife.
In such weather, even if you can't sleep in the middle of the night, you always have to run out early in the morning to exercise, run laps, dance square dances, and the old men and women have no idea of going out in the morning; Those young people who boasted that they were young and vigorous and were not afraid of the cold at all, even if they were forced to go out, were wrapped in a thick coat that had reached the point of affecting their movements, and shrank into an air-conditioned vehicle in the shortest possible time.
Well, in fact, there is no special meaning in these words, but what I want to convey is that, because of the excessively cold weather, at half past six in the morning, there are far more people in Yongping City who are still huddled at home than before, and there are many more people who are awake than before-most of them are awakened early in the morning by the sudden cold weather...... Thanks to this weather, Yongtai's ratings during this period of time ushered in an unprecedented peak.
Maybe you still remember that during this time period, the program broadcast on the Yong platform is called "Urban Gonzo", and the host is called Plate, which is a funny show with supernatural thrillers as a gimmick. In this book, the last and first appearance of this thing was at the beginning of this volume, and this column made Xiao Cang's 'broken wedding photos' public, which caused Xiao Cang's hatred for the boss......
It's just that on this day, although the plate is still wearing a hip-hop style weird clothes, and every sentence is still accompanied by rap-like gestures and rhythms, his expression is not as happy and smirks as usual, but very serious, with a certain determined light in his eyes.
"Welcome to today's Gonzo of the City, which is Tuesday, January 5th."
"As you all know, today is the last installment of Urban Gonzo's 'New Year's Day Special - 'Gates of the World' album. Speaking of this, many friends left us messages on ** and WeChat, saying, 'New Year's Day is not a holiday at all, what are you doing with this five-day special program!' "It's weird, but what about the weird urban stuff that's good?" 'Anyway, is this a sycophant or something?' I wish the show a big hit! Such strange words. ”
"Uh--this special must be meaningful and in line with the theme of our show, please rest assured, even if you don't believe in the production team's ability, you must have faith in the ability of my plate!"
"Jokes aside, all in all, since we're doing a special feature on the theme of 'Gates of the World', it must be related to the theme of 'anomalies in the city'. The previous issues were all paving the way for today. So, blessed are you who have watched the previous episodes, congratulations to the audience who watched it for the first time today, and today - we will bring you unprecedented shock and surprise! So, let's get started. ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, don't you think there's something strange about it? Our lives changed, and it seemed that overnight, the whole world began to revolve around such a simple piece of software, this little game that we call "The Gate of the World". If the streets are full of players, how scary would it be? ”
Lin Qing, who was sitting at the table wearing thick clothes, was waiting for Xiao Cang to bring breakfast while watching TV, suddenly turned off the TV, and his face showed a look that seemed to be a little unhappy, and then sighed: "Alas-this is also something that can't be helped...... The world is changing, but how can it be possible to hope that the person you like will remain the same? ”
"Huh? Boss, the one you like? Is it that hip-hop style tease on TV just now? Boss, your orientation is really very problematic! Xiao Hei's voice was very low and intermittent, as if he could only say two words after taking a breath.
"Hehe," the expression on Lin Qing's face became very evil again, "Xiao Hei, do you have to talk this kind of nonsense when you are locked in a box?" Aren't you afraid that I'll never open the door of the box? ”
“…… Uh...... "If you look closely, you will see that Blackie's voice came from an iron box in the corner...... Obviously, Xiao Hei is locked up inside now and can't get out. Let's take a look at what happened......
Four days ago, after some torture and torture, Lin Qing's frustration in his heart was finally vented, and then he spoke highly of Xiao Hei's tactical ideas of denying death, as well as his cooperative attitude of actively cooperating with torture, and then, Lin Qing said, "As a master with Xiao Hei's spell, in order to show his reward, I decided to give Xiao Hei freedom to a certain extent." ”。
At that time, Xiao Hei was quite happy for a moment, after all, since he knew that Lin Qing was an NPC, his sense of identity with this "pet" had dropped sharply, and he was very uneasy about the two absolute commands that Lin Qing called "Spells", the reason why he chose to leave Lin Qing's team and never dared to appear was mostly because of this......
Unfortunately, it turns out that vague phrases like "to a certain extent" often hide huge conspiracies, and the results are often the opposite of the optimistic situation you think you have...... To put it simply, this "degree of freedom" means that on the premise of retaining Xiao Hei's "pet" identity, he consumes two "spells", and he can't force Xiao Hei to change from now on-
What did you say? That sounds pretty good, too? Ha, then you'd be naïve.
"Consume my second spell and make you tell the truth from what you have not said."
Then Xiao Hei had to talk to Lin Qing and Xiao Cang about their personal privacy for more than two hours, from the first time he was a child who secretly touched a female classmate and was beaten, to being caught breaking into the women's bathroom after learning magic...... All in all, all kinds of things about Xiao Hei have been exposed-after finishing speaking, how wrong is Xiao Cang's eyes looking at Xiao Hei......
"Consume my third spell and make you set the resurrection point in the iron box over there."
Accompanied by Xiao Hei's stunned "Huh? I don't know if I got Lin Qing's hint, or I understood Lin Qing's meaning by myself, or-"You bastard actually tried to attack my sister!" "--Or maybe the soul of the sister control was burning, Xiao Cang rushed directly and turned on the 'Fury Killing Technique' to kill Xiao Hei in seconds......
Let's talk about the "Rage Killing Technique" here - like Brother Security and "Urban Gonzo", it is also a strange foreshadowing that has only appeared once in a very inconspicuous place before...... Although I originally planned to keep this thing, since Xiao Cang has already used it once, let's introduce it.
Magic: Rage Killing
Effect Description: After use, it continuously consumes 100 MP and HP per second, and after making a melee attack action on the first unit, it will deal additional damage to the attacked target for the duration of X seconds (damage taken X 0.5 + base damage value), in addition, when the user is in the "Angry" state, there is an additional bonus damage according to the degree of rage. CD: 5 minutes.
Notes: As the saying goes, "Every mage has a melee heart", the Berserker's signature magic pioneered by the great Magister Hellroar.
When this thing was still a skill book, there was a sentence at the end of the note: "Anyway, as a person who is obsessed with causing harm to others while constantly taunting the other person's teasing, do you really want to teach this magic to others?" ”……
Regardless of this taunt from GM, we see that the damage of this magic can theoretically be very frustrating - and although the expression of the "angry" state is vague, this time it is not the result of pit people, and this additional bonus is also very terrible - at this time, the level 28 Xiao Cang directly knocked out the level 23 Xiao Hei in seconds after opening it for 1 second......
What happened next was very simple, Xiao Hei was resurrected in the box after he hung up, and when he was resurrected, Xiao Cang rushed over like a mad dog with the "power of wisdom" and closed the box directly......
After Xiao Hei suffocated to death three times inside, Lin Qing finally compassionately opened a ventilation hole for Xiao Hei, although it couldn't keep him alive, but at least it extended the time for him to linger - in other words, this kind of behavior from continuous high-intensity stimulation to long-lasting torture was really merciful...... Then Xiao Hei basically didn't go on the line again......
Then it was January 5th. Xiao Cang finally finished breakfast, served fried eggs and milk to Lin Qing as always, and then put a bunch of burgers and a glass of juice on the other side, and sat down by himself.
"Huh? Is Darkforest online again today? Xiao Cang said in some surprise, but just said this, and changed the topic, "What's wrong with you?" Don't you really like watching that show? ”
"Because I already know what he's going to say today...... It's a little unpleasant, I didn't expect that the cheerful-looking teasing on the plate would have so much dissatisfaction in my heart......" Lin Qing directly stuffed the whole egg into his mouth and said vaguely.
"Huh? I don't understand what you're saying so much......" Xiao Cang asked in confusion.
Lin Qing picked up the mobile phone and operated it a few times, and then handed it to Xiao Cang: "Oh, what he wants to say is similar to the things on this." ”
Xiao Cang picked up the phone, and the first thing he saw was the large characters that occupied the entire screen, italics, bold, black, and the title of the sliding line. "Big reveal! The earth-shattering conspiracy behind "Gates of the World"! ”
After reading it for five minutes, Xiao Cang frowned: ""The Gate of the World was developed by the government, with the purpose of making everyone more qualified NPCs unconsciously, making the game more playable, and then allowing the upper echelons of the government who cooperate with GM to get benefits." This is similar to the purpose of "The Gate of the World" you said? Did you do it? ”
“…… Xiaocang, don't you think I'm doing it well at the first time...... What's in it for me if I do this? What I like is to play a little clever within the rules to find a sense of superiority, how could this kind of thing that is intended to provoke social contradictions and disrupt social order be done by me? Why do you all use me as a terrorist reserve! ”
"No-it's not a matter of what we don't do, what do you think you do......"
"Ahem," Lin Qing coughed twice, took a sip of milk, licked his pale upper lip, and said, "All in all, I didn't do this thing—by the way, Xiaocang, you seem to already know that Feng Ming is still alive?" ”
"yes—I just wonder why you keep taking me for an idiot!" After Xiao Cang spit out a sentence, he suddenly raised his eyebrows, revealing a little surprised, "Uh-you mean, Feng Ming did this?" Why? ”
"Well, it's because you always ask this kind of question that you're considered an idiot. If you're not stupid, use your brain. Lin Qing took another sip of milk, "When we first entered that dungeon, what did the elementary school dog say?" ”
"Uh--I mean, New World or something?" Xiao Cang frowned and recalled for a while, and said with some uncertainty.
"Bingo." Lin Qing snapped his fingers, "Didn't you grasp the point." When he says about creating a new world, he doesn't mean his hapless copy of the hunt - he's trying to remake the world on our side of, well, no, it's about destroying it and rebuilding a new world that fits his ideals. ”
"! Brother Fengming has such great ambitions at such a young age! Uh, wait, that second option you're talking about, isn't that completely terrorist? The corners of Xiao Cang's mouth twitched.
"It's not a terrorist," Lin Qing shook his head, looked at Xiao Cang, who was relieved for some reason, and sneered, "It's the leader of the cult." ”
"it!" Xiao Cang's whole person was shocked, "As for saying it so seriously?" ”
"It's not a question of whether I say it or not -- the kind of statement I just said is not a metaphor at all, and the current elementary school dog is exactly the same -- I mean a cult leader." Lin Qing waved his fingers, raised his hand and drank the milk, "The elementary school dog uses his ability as a dungeon boss to promote feudal superstition, simply put, it is to turn the person who pulls it in into a person with common beliefs-"
"Wait, wait," Xiao Cang stopped Lin Qing, "What you said is too easy, right?" Did he have any brainwashing devices in that copy? Why didn't I see it for you in the first place? ”
"Speaking of this, I thought of the 'Ancient Artifact' again...... Don't talk about this, I really don't know if he has it, maybe the reason why it didn't work at the beginning was because your level was too low, and the difficulty was forced to be reduced. Lin Qing said thoughtfully, "Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't have an 'Ancient Artifact', the NPCs who enter the Fengming Quest already have the potential to become cultists." ”
"What? Why? Xiao Cang said that he was getting more and more confused.
I said...... Xiaocang, you don't know what the entry conditions are for Feng Ming's copy, right? Seeing Xiao Cang, who nodded calmly and looked like a primary school student who was about to listen to the lecture, Lin Qing slapped his head in despair, "Seriously, Xiao Cang, you're really not an idiot, are you?" If you just admit it, I can adjust my plan as well......"
"Hey, hey, hey! Who would know that kind of thing! Do you want to tell me if you've figured it out? ”
“…… First of all, from the beginning of our previous state, we were 'pulled' into the dungeon, and there was no way to refuse, that is, the entry conditions had been met - if we tacitly accepted that the entry conditions existed, rather than allowing the wind to pull people at will. Lin Qing was silent for a moment and began to explain.
After that, he encountered the knight, Xiao Hei, the pseudo-brother and the harem group, which proved that the entry conditions were not the location - Xiao Hei came by plane from Spring City, remember? Then, the first line of Feng Ming's first appearance - forget it, I don't think you remember, it was 'You guys, want to find a copy?' ’。 ”
"Uh- I really don't remember...... What are you trying to illustrate? Xiao Cang was very dissatisfied with Lin Qing's tricky way.
"Well, I don't blame you for this, I was convinced later when I had other evidence." Lin Qing shrugged his shoulders, "Xiao Cang, don't you think his entry point is very strange?" Obviously, there were a lot of more slotty things that happened before, and he didn't join in complaining-"
"No, do you think everyone is like you, well, like me, and has to complain? Obviously, I hadn't shown up before at all, and I listened there silently, and suddenly I jumped out and complained about it, I'm going! Obviously, his appearance is normal, okay! ”
"Well, that's what I thought about at the time." Lin Qing showed an appreciative expression, "But then again, didn't he really have any place to interject before that?" No, we talked about the quest a lot of times not long before that - and he didn't have a reason to wait for the little gold to go live, did he? He couldn't have been following us from the beginning, because there's no reason, right? ”
"Uh-so?" Although Xiao Cang was still confused, he frowned and seemed to understand something.
"So, instead of the explanation that he suddenly had a brain pump and decided to pull us into the dungeon, it is better to think that it was during this period that we met certain conditions for entry that he began to pay attention to us and decided to pull us into the dungeon." Lin Qing suddenly laughed, "This condition, it was at that moment that I suddenly thought, 'Why don't you go to the copy too?' 'That's it. ”
"Huh? So-" Xiao Cang thought for a while, and suddenly realized, "Is it someone who wants to go to the copy?" ”
"People who want to leave this world, to be precise, well, maybe with restrictions like 'want to enter a new world.'" Lin Qing nodded, "In other words, the people Feng Ming pulled into the copy are all a bunch of people who have misanthropic tendencies, and to some extent they fit his ideas very well - the plate is also like this, and I always feel a little disappointed......"
"The topic of the groove actually went back!" Xiao Hei's dull voice suddenly sounded, "It's really not easy, I'll go!" ”
"Shut up, you idiot!" Lin Qing suddenly shouted in annoyance, then walked to the window, looked out the window and read silently, "Use the power of the cultists to expand the influence of the World Gate, and then make all this public-is this your plan?" Elementary school dogs? ”
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"The world is going to be in chaos...... Can your new world really be created like this? Wind Whistle ......"