I haven't known Liu Lao Liu for long, five or six years have been in the game, and I have seen less than ten times in total, and I haven't said as many conversations between people in a cross talk.

But he had a huge impact on me, not only in terms of my destiny, but also in my way of dealing with people.

Take my suspicion of being taken advantage of by Wan Pei, I must have to find out before I do it, but Liu Lao Liu taught me: catch thieves and catch dirty, catch traitors and catch doubles, and you can't frame a good person without pressing your hands.

So in order to find out about this, I had to put myself in a desperate situation once again, and I had to put myself in a desperate situation!

Ling Huo took his subordinates to retrieve the detained personal belongings from the prison managed by Ah Hao, and then went to the General Logistics Department to collect the broad-bladed sword and food I had prepared for him. They were scheduled to leave at 10 p.m., and Ling Huo said he wanted to talk to me before leaving.

I knew that he was going to cash in on last night's bet, and I was looking forward to learning some of the origins and stories of the Holy Sword Academy, so I set up a banquet in my suite, and invited Ling Huo to sit alone.

The dinner was very rich, and I took out the delicacies that I was usually only willing to eat for myself, and I was not even allowed to touch a bite of it. To be honest, if I didn't appreciate Ling Huo, even if I was an emperor and a general, don't want me to take out these treasures!

"Come on, come on, try this, nourish the big skewers! The big oil pig kidneys are the head, the fat sheep kidneys are in the middle, and the giant ~~ the beef kidneys are the bottom, and a string of them can keep you busy for half a night!

Huo Lao Ling is about to eat his beard in his mouth, it seems that he is really underfilled.

I poured three glasses of medicinal wine and handed one to Wan Pei, who looked at the wine of the muddy sauce and frowned tightly: "What is this, so disgusting." ”

I held the wine glass and said to Wan Pei and Ling Huo: "This is the material I bought and brewed myself, the formula comes from the hand of Master Qingchun, who is known as the god of medicinal food in the Xianxia world, one drink a day, it has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing the kidneys, this is not an advertising slogan, if you don't believe it, drink a cup, the effect is immediate!"

Wanpei was still hesitating, Lao Linghuo and I looked at each other and smiled, raised our glasses and drank them all!

Lao Linghuo was already a dry field, and as soon as it was nourished, he immediately reacted, and I pointed to the shadow under him and laughed: "How about it, I'll just say that it will be immediate!"

Wan Pei exclaimed: "This is to nourish yin and nourish the kidneys, it is simply to bring the dead back to life~"

Lao Linghuo was a little embarrassed: "The commander laughed, Lao Huo is okay, over the years, he has always maintained the standard of the third or fifth harem in the legion......"

Wan Pei glanced at me: "That's amazing~ not too much stronger than some people~~"

I ignored Wan Pei's words, and poured wine for Ling Huo: "I can't see that my brother is still a merry man, so make up for it, and then bring you ten catties and eight catties before leaving, and slowly moisturize." ”

Lao Linghuo raised his glass with his hands excitedly: "The leader of the Spring Alliance is benevolent and righteous, Lao Huo owes you, don't say more, do it first as respect!"

I accompanied a cup, and Wanpei muttered on the side: "I didn't see him so excited when you promised to return his weapons and materials in the morning, so ...... it."

I said this is really a baby, this recipe was specially prepared for me by Qingchun at the beginning for nourishment, and the immortal body can be supplemented, not to mention ordinary people.

Wanpei pouted, I said you don't believe it, drink and try. She said forget it, there is everything in it, and I don't know if it's wine or porridge, it's better to drink beer.

Don't drink and pull down, I also save it, the novice village is in a hurry, and I soaked five hundred pounds in a hurry, in addition to drinking it myself, and then using it to treat and give gifts is not enough.

Today is not a wine competition, Wan Pei has no room to play, she drinks champagne by herself next to her, and Ling Huo and I start to talk about nourishing medicinal food and medicinal wine.

"Lao Huo boasts that he has a wide range of knowledge, but he can't guess the identity of the leader of the Spring Alliance, he lost a game under your men, and he was subordinate for a while, but to this day, in the eyes of Lao Huo, it is still a big question mark. ”

I like his assessment because it's exactly what I was trying to do.

"But it doesn't matter, Jin Lin is not a thing in the pool, a character like the leader of the Spring Alliance, sooner or later one day will turn into a dragon and rise, and your background will one day spread all over the world, so I just have to wait, all questions and curiosity will naturally be answered." But there are some stories that you will never know if I don't tell them. ”

I smiled and said, "Then let's talk about it, if it's really related to the Holy Sword Academy, I'm quite interested." ”

Ling Huo drank a glass of wine, and slammed his wine glass: "Do you know the history of the destruction of Qianji?"

This is all common sense, the first day I arrived in the novice village, the elder personally told me the history of a thousand machines, and then the master in the teaching has been a thousand times to the history of the thousand machines as a node, to explain some of the setting knowledge, so I am very familiar with this.

"Yes. ”

"Can the alliance leader memorize the important chronology of the history of a thousand machines?"

I replied casually: "30 years ago, a thousand machines were born, 25 years ago a full-scale war broke out, 20 years ago the system collapsed, 15 years ago players began to destroy the world of a thousand machines, 10 years ago stopped destroying ......"

Before I could finish memorizing it, Ling Huo shook his finger with his wine glass: "Stop, 15 years ago, players wreaked havoc on the world of thousands of machines, do you know the background of this?"

Ling Huo's coherent and highly guiding questions slowly led me to a more and more precise time and event, which I thought was quite interesting, so I simply let down my guard and cooperated with his rhythm.

I replied, "I know, at that time, a large number of players died in the war, only to find that the game characters could not be resurrected after death, and not only that, but the dead players did not wake up in the real world, and they wandered in this virtual world in a form that could not tell whether it was a soul or a data. This discovery caused panic among players, who felt like they were trapped in this virtual world. ”

"That's right, I don't know who made the research at the time, but this theory, known as the 'virtual cage', has been embraced and endorsed by all the major organizations and elite players, further confirming that we are indeed trapped here, and we cannot leave whether we live or die. Ling Huo continued with my words: "No matter whether you live or die, you must not leave...... Isn't that the so-called life better than death! Players are going crazy, looking for a way out of the virtual and trying to get back to reality. ”

Wan admired herself boring, so she played the story solitaire, and took advantage of Ling Huo's point to say a node, and hurriedly picked it up: "After that, in a very short period of time, there were many extreme ways of unknown origin and legend that could get out of the virtual. There are those who cut themselves through religious ceremonies, those who enter mysterious areas to explore, and those who strive to level up, hoping to return to reality by jumping on the map. But in the end, it turned out that these methods did not work, and at this time, another voice came out, proposing the theory of breaking through the virtual cage by destroying the world of thousands of machines from the inside!"

I only have a brief understanding of this history, after all, whether it is an elder or a watchmaker, I have only heard of this history, I have not been able to experience it personally, I know what it is but I don't know why, some of the things that Ling Huo and Wan Pei just talked about, I have heard of it for the first time, including self-determination and other means of detachment and so on.

But these are all traces of history, and it's okay to listen to the excitement, but when the words "destroy the world of a thousand machines" came out of Wanpei's mouth, a layer of goosebumps appeared all over my body.

The two of them didn't notice my anomaly and continued to play story solitaire.

Ling Huo continued: "This statement seems to have the same origin as the 'virtual cage' theory, and it has once again been embraced by major organizations and elite players, and in that atmosphere of despair, this has also become the last straw. So everyone went crazy and began to destroy the world, either organized or spontaneous, starting with the most representative city-states, then landmarks, and then official attractions and the facilities that come with the system. People are getting more and more crazy, and later the destruction of virtual facilities is further distorted, and they start attacking NPCs!"

Wan Pei shuddered slightly, her face showed fear, I patted her hand for comfort, and she continued in a trembling voice, "I've seen those crazy players flood into the ruined city-state, grabbing the NPCs guarding the mission point like prey. Most of those NPCs were executed en masse, and many of them fell into the hands of extremist groups and suffered even worse ends, being tortured and humiliated by various rituals and torture......"

Wan Pei only said a few words and couldn't express it normally, Ling Huo continued again: "The crazy destruction has continued endlessly for three years, and all the existences that are believed to be able to support the integrity of the system, and even the main NPCs, including the gods, have been destroyed, but this 'virtual cage' shows no signs of loosening. People wondered, thinking that even if they weren't cleared, there should be some signs, but they didn't see anything but the worsening living conditions. Only then did someone realize that they might have done something wrong, and if they continued like this, they would be destroyed before the world. ”

"These people call themselves the Awakened, and they are starting to try to return to their normal lives, hoping to find a way out again, and I and the old guys of the Flood Burning Legion are the first to be awakened. But there are some people who are even crazier, and we call them crazy people. The madman thinks that the reason why the status quo has not been changed is because there is still something critical that has escaped their destruction, that should be the devastated but still stable core of the Thousand Machine World, as long as it is destroyed, this virtual cage will definitely be broken!"

Ling Huo looked at me when he said this, and at this stage of the story, not only me, but Wan Pei also didn't know anything about what was going on. I don't know when the two of us have nervously clasped hands together, but we don't notice it.

Ling Huo lowered his voice and continued, "They studied, they searched, and they prayed that the voice that revealed the truth twice would solve their doubts again. A year later, that voice reappeared, and as the madman wished, it pointed out the core of maintaining the stability of the Thousand Machines - the new human beings of the Thousand Machines!"

"The new human of a thousand machines is a new life born in the world of a thousand machines through virtual mating! That voice said that as long as you destroy them, you can break the virtual cage and return to the real world. These children of the Holy Sword Academy are the last batch of new humans in this virtual world!"