"Very good, let's do it like this!" Gu Tie patted Eva's shoulder and encouraged, "Pay attention to the ammunition, hold it for as long as you can, and if the enemy rushes in, just blow up the central passage." The ring base was filled with graphene, and they couldn't dig a way in. After speaking, he turned around and walked out, leaving a sentence: "By the way, look at Lao Xiao, although this guy is a white-faced scholar, his brain is very good, don't follow his way." ”

"Gu Tie. Little Lori didn't look back, and said in a calm voice: "Ask you a question." ”

"Say it. "The Chinese stopped at the door of the weapons control room.

Eva whispered, "Are they worthless deaths?" Guise, George, Bote, the Glorious Circus mates. Was there a moment when you ever felt grief over their death, even for a moment?"

Gu Tie was silent for ten seconds. "I'm sorry. He replied.

"I understand, you're such a person. Man's life is under the guidance and arrangement of the Lord, but God does not vouch for light. The girl's voice was unfazed, "I hate you, but I can't leave you." ”

"I don't believe in God, Eva. Gu Tie stepped out of the room, letting the second half of his sentence gently dissipate into the air, "If there is really a trial, I will buy a one-way ticket to hell." ”

He walked through the silent hallways of Area 22 and walked to the break room to check on the two guests. The wound on Joe's body was covered with white gauze, and he was probably taking sedative drugs, and he was sleeping on the sofa at the moment. Terry the Clown sat next to him, munching on a can of milk pudding while staring at the decorative paintings on the wall. A replica of Rembrandt's famous painting "The Supper at Emmaus" on the wall is a rare discoloration in the entire steel base, with a grainy glow characteristic of the oil painting, and two saints listen to the teachings of a stranger at the dinner table, who is none other than Christ Jesus, who first appeared as a missionary after the resurrection. The clown's strange amber eyes stared at Christ in the oil painting in a daze, his lips moved slightly, as if he was talking to himself, and when he heard the sound of Gu Tie opening the door, he didn't turn his head to look, but only swallowed the milk pudding in his mouth with a slight movement of his throat.

"Clown, what are you thinking?" the Chinese have some indescribable affection for this glorious circus member, perhaps because the other party is also a candidate for the Brotherhood's hunt. He walked over and sat down next to Terry, poured himself a glass of vodka, and touched it on the milk pudding tin: "Cheers." I don't know how long we can live, but a sip counts as a sip, and it just so happens that I am also thinking about my next actions. ”

Terry turned his head to look at him, "I wonder what if what is happening in front of me is false? For example, we are actually a group of online game players, but we have forgotten our original identity after playing in this service area of the earth for too long, and even started to build another game world in this game world to experience the next part of life...... If one day we are suddenly woken up and go back to the world where we belong, will we feel that everything we are doing now is boring? In that case, wouldn't it be easy to go back to where we belonged if we simply died? ”

Gu Tie relaxed his body and leaned on the sofa: "Oh, if you think about it, it may be quite high." You may not be familiar with Chinese culture, we Chinese have been thinking about the relationship between life in the universe since ancient times, what you said is not nonsense, the soul has to go through six reincarnations again and again, isn't it just one game copy after another? But the ancient sages believed that human suffering is a test of the soul, no one can transcend birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, hatred, resentment, and can't beg, even if we experience the seven major sufferings, we must persistently stay in this world, who makes us born so hardcore, What about hardcore players who play strictly according to RPG rules until the character dies?"

The clown lowered his head and put the last piece of pudding into his mouth, carefully placing the empty can on the table, his tongue stirring the slippery pudding in his mouth, as if reluctant to swallow it. "You mean, the rules don't allow us to end the lives of our characters, even if we're tired of boring games for a long time?"

"No, not the rules. Gu Tie patted his heart, "It's the pride in our hearts that doesn't allow us to do that." When you play GameBoy Pokemon, do you directly use the card cheat to change all the monster cards? When you play Contra, do you type up and down, up and down, left and right, left and right, BABA at the beginning? After you enter the welcome page of "Heartbeat Memories", you will directly use the modifier to change Shiori Fujisaki's favorability to the top of the table, just to confess to each other under the cherry blossom tree on the first day of school? When you play "Legend", will you build a private server to increase the experience and explosion rate to 10,000 times the original, and cut down a monster to the full level of god costumes?"

The clown was confused: "I don't understand what you say." ”

Gu Tiedao: "My interest is to play antique games from the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, and most people definitely don't know about it. In short, you won't, because you're a dignified gamer, you'll honestly leave home with a level 1 Charizard for an adventure (or seeds and blastoise), you'll hit eight long Contra levels with three lives (until you can beat them perfectly), and you'll say hello to Shiori for the first time with a green smile (choose the dialogue that boosts the most friendship, right?). You'll honestly use a wooden sword to slash mobs in the novice village to accumulate your first gold (pretending not to know how long the difficult upgrade path is), and that's what gamers realize. That's the fun of the game. Do you get the idea?"

"I don't understand. "But don't worry, I'm not going to kill myself, I can't do that, except that I'm just getting a little tired from time to time." ”

"No way to kill yourself?" the Chinese wondered.

"Yes. Terry digressed, "Tell me what you're worried about, and maybe I can help." I'm in pretty good shape right now, so I don't think I'll be able to escape to that world for a while. ”

Gu Tie took a big sip of wine, and a warm feeling rose in his stomach. He relaxed: "Yes, the current situation is like this: Lao Xiao is the master of this base, and he undoubtedly has the highest authority, the three of you are invited guests, and I have medium authority, and I am a prisoner of the base, and I can't manipulate the weapon system, I can't enter the core of the base, I can't use the equipment in the base freely, and I can't even leave this damn 22nd area." But I had to do something, because there was a woman I used to love who was locked up somewhere, and with her character, she must have gone mad, like a lamp god who had been sealed in a bottle for too long, and didn't know what earth-shattering things could do. ”

The clown turned sideways and said, "Did you ever love the woman you loved very much?

The Chinese were dejected: "Because I later found out that the best brothers and the women I love the most in my life actually approached me with some purpose, they belonged to different organizations, but they made a smart move: betrayed me." This can probably be regarded as cheating, right? Once you cheat, you can't go back to the beginning. ”

The clown said, "You're not right. What is love?"

"I'm not interested in philosophical issues. Gu Tiedao, "Some kind of chemical impulse." From the perspective of cranial nerve signaling and endocrine......"

"So when you think of that woman now, the chemical impulses in your body are gone?" the clown looked at the man next to him with a frighteningly penetrating gaze.

Gu Tie was speechless. After a while, he said, "Okay. Let's get down to business. She must not be in danger of her life now, but I must find a way to get her out, because a special moment is coming, and I am completely confused about that moment now, and I don't know what is going to happen. In this kind of life, when I am most helpless, after all, I want someone to be by my side, even if I am used to being free alone. ...... If the world is destroyed, I want to have my brothers and lovers by my side. ”

"-- Once. The clown added.

Gu Tie smiled bitterly: "Like you said, sometimes the body is much more honest than the brain. ”

Terry smiled. "So, how much longer?"

"According to Lao Xiao, there should be about eight minutes left, I don't know the exact time, and he doesn't seem to want to tell me. The Chinese raised their wrists and looked at their watches," Akivi must have known. ”

The clown nodded and stood up, "Understood, give me three minutes." I need access to the quantum network, and then pass me all your information, permissions, ideas, and images, and let me find this lucky woman on your behalf. ”

Gu Tie was stunned for a moment: "You, I believe in your network capabilities, but the security authority of this base is abnormally high, even if I can't break the firewall if I attack head-on, how much network time can you use?"

The clown said, "It's not much, but it's enough to do something." Every military system is a fortress, but even with its low walls, broken windows, and towers full of vines, it is believed that it will not be too difficult to pry open the peripheral subsystems of surveillance, lighting, and access control from the inside, as long as you bypass the most heavily guarded weapon systems. Of course, I need a fulcrum, a breakthrough within the system. ”

Gu Tie also stood up: "I just happened to have a breakthrough, a small hole made with the quantum black spear. So...... Can your body take it? After all, you've been hurt a lot. ”

"My weapon is not flesh. The clown tapped his temple with his knuckles: "It's this player's account." ”

Gu Tie smiled: "I know, just like Eva said, you are a trustworthy partner." I'll give you access to the Wi-Fi right away, and I'll pour everything I know into your terminal, and I'll take care of it, man. ”

Terry the Clown said calmly, "Three minutes." ”