Chapter 31: The Lizard
Xu Yichuan repaired the BTT.
Li Bai smiled slightly and said, "Okay, now you can meet Wu Yinglin." ”
"Where?" Xu Yichuan looked around.
"It's in your hands."
Xu Yichuan looked at the BTT in his hand, puzzled.
"The big hero should know."
"Nonsense."
"The latest expansion pack has been launched, but it has not yet been open beta, and Beyond has invited many top players to participate in this closed beta, and Wu Yinglin is one of them."
"The closed beta will start at 2 p.m., so you want me to fix this BTT before then. At the same time, you also want to see, do I have this qualification? If I don't fix it, you'll act like nothing happened. ”
Li Bai didn't deny it, but he didn't admit it either.
"But I haven't played Big Hero, I've just turned 17. At the age of sixteen, I spent a whole year studying and deciphering those symbols. ”
"If you just meet Wu Yinglin, you shouldn't need any experience to play. And aren't you a genius? Isn't everything all settled with a single hum? ”
Xu Yichuan raised his head and chest, crossed his hands on his waist, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"You can make any decision, stay, leave, and I won't stop it. You want to come, I welcome you at any time, you have been given the key, the door to here, will open at your will. ”
"I want to know your purpose, or I'll be upset. I don't know anything about you, about transcendence. I used to think that transcendence was a game company, and it was impossible for a person to run at the speed of a bullet. ”
"Who said I was human."
"You're not human?"
"Yes, I'm not human." Li Bai replied with a sincere face.
"It's not a person, what is it?"
"In addition to man, there are many races in this world, and human beings are not the masters of all things, on the contrary, most people have been reduced to lambs to the slaughter." After Li Bai finished speaking, he was looking forward to Xu Yichuan's reaction, but he didn't see Xu Yichuan's surprised or incredulous expression.
Xu Yichuan is very calm, he knows that there are many unknowns in this world, and the truth is often hard to believe. He was skeptical of Li Bai's words.
"It's hard to believe, you can tell it as a story. But I'm sure that as long as you stay above and beyond, with your talent, you'll soon know a lot of secrets. ”
"I'll think about it after I've heard your story."
"In addition to humans, there are two main races that live on this planet. One is a worm, the other is a ......"
Li Bai made a strange sound, Xu Yichuan had never heard that kind of sound at all.
"Now you should believe that I'm not human. You don't need to know that sound, humans call us lizardmen. ”
"But you don't look like a lizard at all."
"Because thousands of years ago, lizards have changed themselves from the inside out by learning human genes and biotechnology, and of course these lizards are not the caged pets you humans think they are. We just look alike. ”
"Do those worms look like people?"
"Yes, that's why you call them bugmen."
Xu Yichuan felt his pores flutter. What he fears most is fluffy bugs.
"Don't you have any differences from others?"
"Of course, most of our blood is brown, and there are soft scales on the body."
"What about the wormmen?"
"They're almost human, and that's why they always feel like they're real humans."
"Why do you all have to become human?"
"Because we admit that people do look better."
"But that's certainly not the main reason." Xu Yichuan said.
"There are many secrets in man, and these secrets are unknown to man himself, and the very few who are lucky enough to be able to spy on one or two of them stand outside the door because they have no key."
"What's the secret?" Of course, Xu Yichuan was curious about this.
"Element."
"Hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron? Periodic table? ”
Li Bai glanced at Xu Yichuan and said, "Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth." ”
"That's called the Five Elements."
"This is just the tip of the iceberg of the elements, and humans know nothing about it. You can use the elements of heaven and earth, but unfortunately, this ability of yours has been sealed. We can't break your seal, but through countless experiments, we have modified our genes to make ourselves infinitely close to humans, so as to gain some abilities, and the wormmen are closer to perfection than us, although they are only one of the failures in countless experiments, but this failure is for us, and for the wormmen themselves, it is the greatest success of their lives. The insect broke out of the cocoon into a butterfly, gave us inspiration, inspiration, we want to engage in yin, how the insect cocoons itself, into the most primitive liquid form of life, and how to reshape a completely different, more advanced life from the liquid, which shocked us, but also let us find the breakthrough of the bottleneck. When we begin to transform our kind, it is naturally a very dishonorable thing, when we have no emotion, no morality, only the elements and eternal life. We paid a terrible price for the experiment, and I was almost extinct because of the monsters we made with our own hands. ”
"Worm people?"
"Yes. Not only can they use the elements, but they also possess terrifying physical qualities. ”
"But you survived."
"Yes, because of the existence of another race."
"What race?"
"We want to know too. That was thousands of years ago, and they were like omnipotent gods who killed all monsters in an instant. Not all lizardfolk know this history. They are carved into clay tablets, which we dig deep underground, deciphering that history and confirming its credibility. ”
"Wormmen are still alive too?"
"Yes, that's the only example of an adult breaking out of a cocoon, and it's a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, and their names are not unfamiliar to you, although they are not the same as the version you are familiar with."
"What's the name?"
"Adam, Eve."
"Congratulations, you've successfully dug up an ancient fantasy novel."
"If your history is true, why is there no record of the elements? They exist in yin and yin. Li Bai said, deliberately gathering the elements in his palm. The energy of the dark unknown color flashed in Li Bai's palm. At the same time, Xu Yichuan could feel that the surrounding environment had changed due to the generation of elements. This is more convincing than what Li Bai said.
"It could also be magic. You tell me? Li Bai asked.
"It could also be an element." Xu Yichuan's face was fascinated, and he immediately asked calmly: "If what you said is true, I have no reason to stay, do you expect me to do things for you?" ”
"Don't worry, my story isn't over yet. Even if they are of the same kind, disagreement will create estrangement. It's not just races that have wars. We are the same, there are two different camps. You can rest assured, Transcendence is not a lizardman company, and most of the Transcendence shareholders are actually humans. It's those who stand outside the Elemental Gate. We are allies together against enemies. ”
"Another group of lizardmen is hostile to humans?"
"It's not what you think, in their opinion, human beings are their food, of course they can eat something else, but human beings are their indispensable emotional and spiritual food, in human flesh and blood they can experience the joy of emotions and get unprecedented satisfaction from it, they are crazy about it, salivating. They even struggle to resist the urge to eat humans. ”
"Don't you think so?"
"We are allies, we respect the laws of mankind, and murder is punishable by death."
"I still don't know what your purpose is."
"We ......"
"It's not you, it's you who I'm asking." Xu Yichuan's gaze was sharp, as if he had changed a person.
"I think you know what I'm working here about, the enemy is very strong, and if you want to survive, you can only make yourself stronger. Transcendence is an alliance that can make people and lizardmen strong. My purpose is very simple, I not only hope that my race can continue, but also hope that what I think is right......" Li Bai thought for a moment and said: "Spirit. ”
"I need a little time." Xu Yichuan said, closing his eyes and falling silent.
Li Bai didn't bother and waited quietly.
Scene after scene appeared in Xu Yichuan's mind, all the details, Li Bai's words and glances, every micro-expression, every intonation, and inadvertent movements, were as clear as rewinding in front of Xu Yichuan's eyes.
Who would have imagined that a road-idiot boy would have a memory against the sky. He thought about it, and a terrible thought arose in his heart, because he wanted to test Li Bai.
Xu Yichuan opened his eyes, suddenly picked up the sharp instrument on the table, and stabbed it into his palm. He sprinkled the blood gushing out of his hand onto Li Bai's face, and then watched intently at the change in the expression on Li Bai's face.
"Come, show me whether you can resist temptation in the face of food."
Li Bai's pupils constricted and his breathing was short, but he still remained calm.
"If you lose too much blood, you'll die."
"Swallow the blood in your stomach now, you really want it, when you mention human blood, you are very excited, although your expression remains the same, your tone of voice increases, and the speed of your speech increases. You must want to be able to experience the joy of emotions in the flesh and blood of men and get unprecedented satisfaction from it, and you are crazy about it, and you are salivating. You can't even resist the urge to eat humans. Let me see, lizard. Xu Yichuan remembered every word Li Bai said.
"Is that so?" Li Bai said, sticking out his tongue, his tongue was longer than that of a human, so he could lick the blood on his cheeks. The space around him was distorted by the aura. His figure is like a reflection in a wave. His voice was full of majesty and rage, and he said, "And then? ”
Xu Yichuan was not afraid at all. He smiled and said very respectfully, "I'm sorry, blood suddenly splashed on your face, I'm sorry, can you please bandage it for me?" If you bleed too much, you would die. ”
"Yuhuan, medicine box." Li Bai restrained his arrogance and smiled, his face was bloody, and he looked extremely terrifying.
"Okay." A pillar popped out to hold a medicine box.
Li Bai walked slowly towards Xu Yichuan, unceremoniously, grabbed Xu Yichuan's hand, pressed it on the table, and roughly bandaged him.
Xu Yichuan's eyes were always fixed on Li Bai's expression.
Li Bai's hands were cold, and the lizardman's blood was cold.
"Okay, do you have any questions?" Li Bai finished bandaging and said.
"Are games really just games?"
"You're not the kind of person who just wants to hear from other people. Just like testing me with blood, use your methods to find the answers you believe. ”
Li Bai said as he prepared to leave the room.
"Where are you going?"
"It's almost time, I have something important to do, and you don't want to have a cold-blooded lizard sitting next to you while you're playing. As I said, it's up to you to go and stay. Li Bai said, waved away with his back to Xu Yichuan, and closed the door with his hand.
As soon as Li Bai left, Xu Yichuan's feet were weak and he fell to the ground. He breathed heavily, feeling like he had escaped from a lion's bloody jaw, and his heart palpitated.
Li Bai's figure outside the door suddenly disappeared, and when he reappeared, he had already come to the garbage can a hundred meters away. He spit out the blood he swallowed into the garbage heap, and the blood was contained in Li Bai's saliva, so he actually didn't drop blood.
Li Bai hadn't tasted human blood for a long time, and he was able to suppress his impulses, but it wasn't easy, especially when blood was exposed to his senses. He almost lost control. He believed that if he really swallowed Xu Yichuan's blood into his abdomen, it would be equivalent to announcing his death in advance.