"You want me to play a game with you?"

Xiuge thought so in his heart, and his mouth naturally said so, but when he heard his own voice, he was surprised to find that he was now able to make a sound, which was the first time in the dream world.

Before Xiuge could ponder the reason, the strange figure whose face was shrouded in mist nodded, and then a gender-indistinguishable voice came into Xiuge's ears.

"Of course."

Shuge recognized the sound as it had been heard when he first came to the dream world and was "kicked" into the abyss.

He stared at the indescribably chaotic face for two seconds, but such a simple movement made him feel a severe sense of vertigo, so Xiuge could only hurriedly look away, and then hesitantly sat down on the cushion next to the other party with heavy uneasiness and doubt.

The cushions are as soft as I remembered, but at the moment there is an awkward chill.

The strange voice came from the black figure's body again: "I'm anxious and curious, right? Don't worry, play two games with me...... You can ask questions as you play. ”

In desperation, Xiuge had to stretch out his hand.

As if he had been waiting for a long time, the moment he picked up the controller, the fighting game on the screen had already switched back to the main menu screen, and after two consecutive game sounds, the screen had entered the character selection screen of the two-player versus mode.

"How...... Do you really want to play a game with me? ”

Shuge glanced at the figure next to him in confusion, then turned his head to look at the screen, but his eyes widened with the unusual gameplay in it.

The five or six rows of characters that should have been displayed in front of him are now gone, and in the center of the frame, only a cartoonized "character" avatar beats slowly in the character frame.

"This ...... This is? ”

Shug was incredulous because he saw his own face.

To be precise, it's the face of the body of Shug Ernst.

His gaze shifted to the right half of the screen, and he saw an even more striking picture, densely packed with countless character frames in the casting interface manipulated by the mysterious black shadow next to him, which were stacked together, and the figures in them were constantly moving, as if they were living faces.

"Don't be nervous, it's just a game. Shouldn't you be familiar with it? ”

Shuge swallowed hard and said, "But I haven't ...... yet Manipulated yourself. ”

"Heh, is that so?"

The black figure was once again filled with unincomprehensible laughter, and at this point he had finished choosing his role, so that the huge word "VS" stood out in the center of the screen with exaggerated and dynamic special effects.

"Then, it will be up to Mr. Hug Ernst...... Fight against your own foe, an adult shapeshifter!! ”

With the strange but extremely excited tone of the mysterious black shadow, the screen began to change rapidly, and in the background of the extremely classic arena, a thin young man with a pale complexion in a long black trench coat fell from the sky, he got up from the ground in embarrassment, and looked ahead of him nervously.

This look is almost exactly the same as when Xiug himself fought against those enemies.

"It can't be."

Xiuge looked at the screen in disbelief, he tentatively pressed the button on the handle, only to find that he actually made a move in the picture, and at this time, as Xiuge's first "enemy", the adult phantasm controlled by the mysterious black shadow had also pounced.

An incomparably absurd virtual duel unfolds in this dream full of countless mysteries.

Fortunately, as a planner who has been in the industry for many years, although he is not very good at this kind of fighting game, he also has a wealth of game experience and excellent understanding, so after the initial scramble, Xiuge quickly mastered the trick, and strangely enough, the game screen in which Xiug Ernst can always make perfect movements in line with Xiuge's ideas, as if it is not the gamepad that controls him, but the consciousness in Xiuge's brain.

At this time, Xiuge finally got the opportunity to ask questions.

While manipulating "himself" to deal with the opponent's attack, he asked cautiously, "I want to know, what exactly should I do...... Call you? Or rather, who are you? ”

"Theseus."

The name came out of the dark mist, and he said, "Of course, if you want to show respect for me, you can also consider reciting all my names and titles, but this is pointless, and I don't want you to spend half a day reciting my name every time you meet me." ”

In the game screen, the adult changeling insect that had been defeated by Xiug in reality pounced fiercely, its body under the manipulation of Theseus to extend various strange shapes, and a series of ferocious attacks forced Xiug's character to retreat again and again, so Xiug had to control his character to shrink in a corner, constantly trying to defend against the opponent's attack.

However, Theseus did not stop talking, and only listened to him: "However, as our first official meeting, it is necessary for me to introduce the names I use most often, please listen clearly. ”

With these words, large clouds of black fog began to emerge on Theseus's face, they looked quite similar to the fog and words that blocked all kinds of things in the dream world, but in the next second, this thick fog gathered together like sharp arrows, and quickly stabbed at Xiuge's body.

In the face of this "sneak attack", Xiuge did not know how to deal with it, so he could only watch the mist merge with his body, and at this moment, he only felt a terrible cold current swim through his body, and this suffocating cold finally converged in his mind, and formed a bell that could stop all thoughts and thoughts.

The sound was far louder than the bell tower in the center of the city of Seren.

Under the shock of this loud bell, all the movements of Xiuge stopped, and in the screen, the "Xiuge Ernst" who was manipulated by him also stopped moving, and fell into a sluggish state of passive beating.

At this moment, in Xiuge's mind, a large number of mysterious symbols that he could not understand emerged, they were rapidly arranged, reassembled, and gradually dissociated into countless broken sounds and images under the influence of some invisible force.

It was as if a huge and chaotic ball of thread had been forcibly stuffed into the brain, and in the indistinguishable sounds, as if coming from countless different mouths, the thin black threads that made up the ball of thread twisted their bodies one after another, like anemones that grow in the bottom of the sea and continue to catch tiny creatures along the current, or like black poisonous snakes lurking in the abyss......

In the midst of the heavy vertigo, Xiuge gradually heard and saw the voices and words that he could understand and accept.

"Theseus."

"Messenger of the Eternal Lands."

"The invisible god of fate."

"The weaver of burlesque."

"Singer of the Lost Gods."

“……”

“……”

Theseus's name was followed by a myriad of bizarre title affixes that made Sygues dizzy, and it was not just the words that made up these affixes, but also the many pious and fervent prayers.

These sounds were so distant, as if they were wafting from the corners of the starry sky, they should have been chaotic, but when they came together, they became incomparably harmonious and unanimous, as if a chaotic orchestra had been led and coordinated by a professional conductor, so that in the end, Schug succeeded in hearing high, excited, even crazy cries from them.

They are shouting about the mystical names that Theseus possesses.

And as these voices grew louder and louder, their praise of Theseus finally came to an end, and at the end of this, Hug succeeded in remembering the two names that were perhaps the most important to Theseus.

"Father of the Forsaken Clan!"

"The Lord of a Thousand Faces and Changes!"

As the name "Lord of a Thousand Faces and Ten Thousand Changes" fell into Xiuge's mind, all the chaotic sounds ceased, and the chaos and restlessness completely disappeared from his spiritual world in an instant, and everything returned to silence, except for the cry from the distant world still echoing slowly in his skull.

"Smack."

After a long period of sluggishness, the gamepad in Xiuge's hand fell to the ground.

Theseus, who was covered in a black mist, looked at the game screen in front of him, in that fake game picture, the adult changeling that had been torn apart by Shug with the touch of Calon was now the winner, and the pale young man with a thin body was now wrapped in the translucent body of the changeling that had been completely spread out, and the viscous body fluids possessed by the shapeling worm with anesthetic effect were now dragging their prey little by little towards the abyss of death.

This kind of death is destined to be slow and painful, because the phantom insects will never directly deprive their victims of their lives when they "hunt", only the living prey can continuously provide them with effective, specific and effective knowledge and wisdom, but the victims can feel their minds being eaten away little by little, and their flesh being melted little by little when they are completely unable to move......

"Uninteresting."

Apparently victorious in the game, Theseus suddenly sighed, and in the writhing amorphous black fog, there was an incomparably vivid emotion called boredom.

He glanced at the very real shapeshifter in the game screen, which was devouring the body of "Shug Ernst", and then reached out and picked up the handle in front of Shug, and pressed several buttons on it very casually, so the human figure wrapped in the shapeling worm in the picture actually moved again, he raised his palm with difficulty, and then, the black Calon touch gushed out from his palm, directly acting on the inside of the changeling worm.

Just as Shug had done in Ernst's mansion, the shapeshifter's body could not withstand the power of this magic, so its viscous body was torn apart on the spot, and countless translucent fragments were scattered all around, located in the upper right corner, and the "health" possessed by the shapeshifter was also emptied to the bottom in an instant.

"It's going to be a good situation now, and there's no need for more variables."

Theseus lowered the handle and gently slapped his palm twice, while letting out a chuckle.

Under the influence of this laughter, all the strange visions that interfered with Xiuge's spirit dissipated in an instant, and he woke up from his dazed state, but there was a strong fear in his heart.

As soon as Xiuge came to his senses, he realized a terrible truth.

That was the laughter that Theseus had made, almost exactly the same as the sound that suddenly appeared in his head when he manipulated the Running Rat to infiltrate the Legislature's premises, and he was sure that the reason why he had loosened his grip on the Running Rat was because of the interference of this laughter!

"Before...... It's you? ”

"Of course."

As if he had completely seen through Xiuge's thoughts, this strange black shadow with many titles and extraordinary powers, but whose identity was still a mystery, quickly responded to Xiuge's question, and said, "But don't worry, it's just a little interference...... As a qualified screenwriter, you can't just watch your performance go in the wrong direction. ”

The black fog on Theseus's face shook violently, and he actually sketched a simple and exaggerated "smiley" pattern: "Judging from the current results, my interference is exactly right, isn't it?" ”

Xiuge pursed his lips vigorously, he stared at the elusive black shadow in front of him, and asked, "So all of this is arranged by you now?" ”

"I arranged it?"

As if hearing some kind of joke, Theseus laughed strangely: "Honey, how can you have such a strange idea? ”

The chaotic dark face suddenly moved forward, almost directly in front of Hug, so in the writhing black mist, Shug heard Theseus say in a mocking tone: "The end of the city of Seren, the direction of the situation in Vann, the fate of Hug Ernst...... Didn't you write it all down by your own hand? And the enemies you encountered, didn't you like them too? You'll even use the irises guards as your chat avatar, why, you don't like it anymore? ”

Heavy banter and malice flowed from that face, and they crushed Huge's reason like a flood, almost dragging him into a whirlpool of despair and anger on the spot, and with Theseus's action, the whole dream world began to tremble, and the fog that hung around it, the darkness that separated the inner and outer worlds all burst into laughter as if it had life.