Chapter 555: City of Pain, Threshold of Happiness

"Because I'm not happy!" Li Ran said coldly.

He didn't even look at Wang Xiaoxian's body on the ground.

In his opinion, Wang Xiaoxian's appearance is unreasonable.

Summoning the people of the Blue Star into the dungeon?

Is this method more beneficial than God?

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Elysium has the ability to teleport real-life people into dungeons.

After all, it's not without props to boast the plane.

But when an unreasonable person appeared here, Li Ran instinctively regarded this unreasonable person as a monster in the copy.

True or not.

Li Cheng, the housekeeper outside the door, was slightly stunned.

"You're not happy?"

"Yes." Li Ran said.

"The happy things in life are nothing more than money, power, and beauty, you can experience it here, and even here you can vent your true thoughts to your heart's content, isn't it happy to be your true self?" Butler Li Cheng said.

"I don't like to be constrained." Li Ran said.

"There's no one to bind you, we're just providing services." Butler Road.

"No, your various actions are just restricting me, my identity, I need to choose, and the plot you promote from time to time, this is the invisible shackle."

"Including the means that you want to try to use my companions in the real world as a fuse to lure me into your little dark room, it is also a kind of shackle."

"There are so many invisible constraints, and you say that there are no constraints?"

"This ......" The housekeeper Li Cheng was speechless for a moment when asked by Li Ran.

"Sorry, we didn't know it bothered you so much." The housekeeper Li Cheng and the beauties behind him bowed down to apologize.

"Let me get out of here, I'll be happy." Li Ran said.

Butler Li Cheng calmed down and said: "Sir, you are not allowed to leave until you really enjoy the ultimate bliss, this will make it difficult for me, we will give you some time to calm down, after calming down, we will continue to cooperate." ”

The butler snapped his fingers and told the beauties to step down.

Then he withdrew from the door.

Li Ran glanced at Wang Xiaoxian's corpse, which had disappeared without a trace.

"Master, this city is really big, so big that it has no boundary."

There was a poisonous sound in my head.

"Are there any unusual findings?" Li Ran asked.

"Is the whole city empty?" Scoop Road.

"Goodbye."

Li Ran directly cut off contact.

"Is it true that players will only appear in the Elysium if they have enjoyed the services of Elysium?"

From the very beginning of this empty city, it was also from the beginning of accepting the investment in the realm of bliss, that there was a situation where there was a response.

It's as if the whole city is tailor-made for the player.

No sleepiness.

Moreover, Li Ran is not a person who sits and waits to die.

He left the presidential suite and took the elevator to the hotel lobby.

The entire hotel lobby is magnificent, but there is not a single figure.

In front of his eyes was the words "Do you want to continue to open the butler service of the Trip to Bliss, yes/no"

Li Ran ignored this line of words.

"How's that going, Snake?"

The sound of a beetle snake can be heard in the contract connection.

"There are no boundaries between the sky and the earth, and the whole city is like a copy and paste, all of which are urban areas." The beetle snake said.

"Did you find Su Bingyao?"

"No...... But I find the city full of hatred! ”

Li Ran raised his eyebrows, and finally found the difference.

"How?" Li Ran asked.

The snake's voice continued, and he said, "I can feel the power of hatred, and the power of hatred can be transformed into my power, and the pervasive hatred in this city makes me feel as if there are countless people suffering in this city, but I can't see them. ”

Although I have always felt that there is a cat in this empty city.

He tried all kinds of methods, but he couldn't find the trick in it.

But the beetle could feel the power of hatred throughout the city.

Is the so-called bliss based on the suffering of the majority?

There are actually countless lives living in this empty city, but he can't see it?

"Keep looking, it's good to have a breakthrough." Li Ran said.

He was going to leave the hotel and walk around the city.

He still didn't call for the stewardship of Elysium.

Walking out of the Yunjing Hotel, Li Ran took out a card.

"Immortals show the way."

This card is a reward for lifting the curse of the Relic Fish.

This item has not been used until now.

That's why this card is in a special environment.

The function of eating cards is that when the player is in a desperate situation, a dilemma, a maze, a fantasy, a secret realm and other illusions, open this card can get some kind of instructions or help, it may be an idea or it may refer to a clear path, depending on the situation.

And you can't rely too much on the card, because it only provides an idea of a breakthrough or something, but that breakthrough isn't necessarily an exit.

Li Ran rushed to give it a try.

"Turn on!"

Opening the [Immortal Guidance] card, a moving arrow immediately appeared under Li Ran's feet.

The arrows are similar to the beginner's guide in the game, always pointing in a certain direction and changing as the player's position changes.

What direction the arrow was pointing to, Li Ran didn't know.

It seems that this city of bliss looks the same, full of high-rise buildings.

Li Ran summoned the Nether Ghost Horse and followed the arrow and galloped over the city.

The message of the butler service of the Elysium Company seemed to be projected in his pupils, and it lingered.

He never went back to the Elysium service.

Although he had asked the housekeeper before if the money they had invested needed to be returned.

The housekeeper also said not to return it, the purpose is to let the customer get the ultimate happiness.

Li Ran believes that even in the weird world, all this is outrageous and nonsense, but they must not be unrequited.

If it really makes players feel more happy than ever, why can the beetle snake feel the hatred of the whole city?

The people at Elysium also said at the beginning that the purpose was to keep the player in this Elysium.

But Li Ran felt that they should have other purposes.

If you accept their arrangement from the beginning, will you be manipulated by them and become their puppet?

Li Ran didn't know.

So he needs to find a breakthrough here as soon as possible.

Force doesn't seem to have much effect here, and it can't find the entrance by destroying the entire Gold Coast like in the previous layer of Evil Mirror Hell.

Li Ran estimated that his peak power value released a zodiac meteorite above this empty city, and the speed of destruction was not as fast as the speed at which they copied and pasted.

Killing the butler and the women didn't do anything in the slightest.

They can really do thousands of them, and keep copying.

I followed the arrow of the [Immortal Guidance] for a long time.

Suddenly, Li Ran noticed that the arrow was pointing backwards.

That is, he is out of position.

"Zhama, go down."

The ghost horse took Li Ran to the bottom of the city.

The City of Elysium looks like a bustling metropolis with a sense of technology.

Even at night, the lights are shining, like stars in the sky.

The streets are wide and spotless, with no dirt or garbage in sight.

Even the alleys between the high-rise buildings are brightly lit and clean.

Everything was so perfect.

Falling in the alley, Li Ran put the slag horse into the contract space.

Follow the arrow pointing forward from the ground and head deeper into the alley.

The alley in front of him is definitely the cleanest and brightest alley Li Ran has ever seen in his life, giving him the feeling of being in a rendering, with the street lamps in the alley, quite a bit of industrial style.

After walking in the alley for a while, Li Ran didn't find anything abnormal.

The common rats in the gutter, the dirty garbage bins, the confetti, garbage, sleeves and the like everywhere are not seen.

Clean as if walking in the little hallway of the estate.

"Zi~Zizi~~"

Suddenly, at the end of the alley in front of the direction of the immortal's arrow, there was a street lamp that seemed to be short-circuited, flickering with an unstable voltage, accompanied by the sound of electricity.

"This is it." Li Ran said happily.

The City of Elysium is so perfect, so perfect that it doesn't allow for any flaws in the city.

So fine that even the texture of the ground does not allow for unevenness and asymmetry.

But in such a perfect city of excellence, there is such an obvious broken light?

Is this normal?

Anyway, Li Ran felt that it was not normal.

And the immortal guide also made a breakthrough in the dilemma.

Whether this is an exit or not, the anomaly here must be extraordinary.

When Li Ran came to the abnormal street lamp, the arrow pointing the way by the immortal disappeared.

This means that Li Ran has been guided to his destination.

Standing under the street lamp with unstable voltage, Li Ran looked around.

"What is this?"

In the shadow under the street lamp, Li Ran finally discovered a trace of anomaly.

Because of the unstable voltage of the street lights, the lights are flickering on and off.

The shadow of the lamp pole also flickered.

It was in this flickering process that Li Ran discovered a tiny crack.

It's like someone has made a cut in paper with a sharp knife.

The cracks were as fine as hair, and if it weren't for the extreme eyesight of Li Ran's Ghost Eyes, it would have been difficult to find the existence of such a tiny crack.

"Spatial rifts?"

Li Ran slowly stretched out his hand and probed his hand into the subtle spatial rift.

The moment his hand reached into the spatial rift, a tremendous force sucked him into it.

Then, Li Ran felt that the sky was spinning, and the stars were moving.

The world before him changed suddenly.

The same alley.

But the alleys in front of you are bordering differently.

I don't know if it was a dead cat or a dead dog creature fell in the corner, and water from the eaves fell on the ground that was already covered with moss and oil.

There was garbage everywhere in the distance, and the alleys were dark and damp.

There was a thick foul smell in the air.

"This ......"

Li Ran felt as if he had gone from heaven to hell all at once.

I didn't even reflect it for a while.

He left the coordinates of a teleportation stone in place.

The [Monster Boss Teleportation Wrench] was repaired by the Poison Slippery Scoop and rushed to energy.

Not only can he now teleport at teleportation markers, but he can also summon all demons to fight.

In case you can't find a place at that time, it is necessary to leave the waypoint in place.

"It seems that this is what Elysium is really about."

Walking out of the dark alley, Li Ran immediately smelled a pungent smell of urine.

Urine stains can be seen everywhere in the corners of walls and on the streets.

It was so pungent that he almost had to wear a multi-purpose mask to breathe.

Li Ran flew directly into the air, overlooking this ugly city.

He didn't see tall buildings like a jungle of steel, nor did he see wide, bustling streets.

In its place are the buildings of the slums, which are scattered and scattered.

The street lamps here seem to be like luxury, there are hardly a few lights, and the whole world is dark and damp, full of filth.

Unlike the City of Elysium, the city is full of ghosts under the dark night.

"Hahaha, let's play a game and see who can escape this neighborhood, shall we?"

Li Ran noticed that on an old street, a strange man wearing a cowboy hat, wearing his own sweater, and having sharp blades on his hands was walking on the street.

The people in the street screamed and fled, terrified of the strange man.

"Nightmares, reality, fiction and reality, do you know the difference?"

The strange man laughed and suddenly disappeared in place.

In the next second, a running figure floated strangely in the air, and its body was torn apart in the air.

Seeing this scene, Li Ran remembered a movie called "Ghost Street".

The people of the town will never be able to escape the pursuit of a perverted dream killer.

Li Ran continued to fly farther away.

In a square, a bladed windmill was found.

The windmills were like lawnmowers, densely packed with crowds, and the square was frantically harvesting.

People are like grass mustard and are vividly embodied here.

At the edge of the square is a towering wall, and the people who escaped from the windmill climb the wall in despair, but in the end they cannot escape the fate of being harvested by the blade windmill.

In the sky, the bottom gate of an airship opened wide.

Countless lives fell from the sky like black rain and finally landed on the Blade Windmill Square.

"Isn't this blade hell?" Li Ran said with a shocked face.

Life here is worse than death, pain is unbearable, and the fate of being harvested is all the time.

Li Ran also saw that in a dark river, the scales on the body of a big fish were all human faces.

But in the next second, the big fish was picked up from the river by a two-headed giant, and the two-headed giant swallowed the strange fish full of human faces into its stomach in one bite......

"What is the scene under the Elysium?"

He felt as if he was in a real hell, where countless lives were tormented and suffered.

And he finally understood what the beetle was talking about, and the hatred came from.

Beneath the City of Elysium is the Hell of Suffering!

Are these people who remain in the state of bliss?

Staying is not a sinking bliss, but endless torment?

Thinking of this, Li Ran was glad that he was able to keep his mind all the time, and he was also glad that he could see the truth under the City of Elysium.

If before he was full of illusions about the investment in Elysium, now he is as sober as a basin of ice water pouring down from the top of his head.

Li Ran continued to fly in the sky above the city of pain.

For a time, he doubted that the City of Elysium was built on the City of Pain, like a reflection in the water.

The shiny city on the ground, but the reflection in the water is ugly.

"The exit to the Sea of Dawn will be here?" Li Ran said in his heart.

At this time, a voice interrupted Li Ran's thoughts.

"Commander, Commander, are you there?"

Suddenly, Sloane's voice came from the plane communication card, which had not moved for a long time.

"Sloane?" Li Ran was overjoyed and immediately took out the plane communication card.

This means that Sloane is not dead yet.

"Where are you?" Li Ran asked.

"I've reached Bliss." Sloan said.

"Is there anyone else with you besides you?" Li Ran asked.

"I didn't see it, I thought I was the only one who survived, great, the commander is alive too." Sloane's voice choked slightly.

"Listen to me, you must not accept the services of Elysium and go to someone else." Li Ran said.

"There's a line in front of me, what kind of Elysium Life Investment Company, is this it?"

"Yes, no matter what difficulties and obstacles you encounter, don't accept their help, you must remember." Li Ran said.

"Okay, okay, I remember."

"Commander, where can I find you?"

"Go to the Cloud View Hotel."

The time of the plane communication card was only one minute, and after Li Ran finished speaking the address, the communication was cut off.

He quickly left the Hell of Misery, using the youkai boss teleportation wrench to teleport back to the location of the waypoint.

Then go back to Elysium through the spatial rift.

The process of crossing is like entering a mirrored space.

It was as if gravity had turned upside down, a strange feeling.

Back on the clean street, a man appeared in the alley.

It's the housekeeper Li Cheng.

"It's rare that someone can peek into the ugly side of the City of Elysium."

The housekeeper Li Cheng walked towards Li Ran, and he still had a sincere and polite smile on his face.

I didn't mind that Li Ran had discovered the true face of the City of Elysium.

"Since happiness and pain are contradictions, they also complement each other, some people are happy, some people must be painful, and even some happiness is based on the pain of others." Butler Li Cheng said.

Li Ran's gaze became clear and cold.

"You've thrown those who pass the trial into the City of Pain, and that's your final purpose?" Li Ran asked.

"Your idea is too one-sided, the fate of those who enter the City of Pain is predestined, if you look carefully, you will find that the people in the City of Pain are actually people who have died in the triple hell."

"Death in hell is not the end, but only the beginning of the journey to hell, and they will be tortured in the eighteen hells of suffering, death and rebirth, rebirth and death, over and over again, the body is incomplete, and they will be tortured both in soul and body, and they will never be able to be reborn."

The housekeeper Li Cheng came to Li Ran, looked at Li Ran with an angry face, and said: "Although we will not ask customers to repay their investments, if the investment fails, we will also send customers into the city of pain." ”

Li Ran frowned slightly: "People like me can be regarded as investment failures." ”

"No, your potential is much higher than anyone else's, so your ceiling threshold is significantly higher than our estimates." The butler said.

"I resist your investment, I don't cooperate with your script, I'm tired of your so-called low-level happiness, so deviant, do you still want to continue to invest?" Li Ran said.

"Mr. Li, you're right, we underestimated your Bliss threshold, so our company re-evaluated your Bliss threshold, and the top management unanimously decided to invest more in you to let you achieve the Bliss you want." Butler Li Cheng said with a sincere face.

"What do I want to be happy?" Li Ran said.

Li Cheng took out his tablet and swiped it across the tablet, and more than a dozen pictures appeared.

He clicked on a random picture and said to Li Ran: "I think you can find the answer from these friends of yours." ”

"My friend?"

Li Ran's first reaction was that in addition to Shi Long and Su Bingyao, there were other realm masters who survived.

The person in the video screen is Su Bingyao.

Su Bingyao was sitting in the small courtyard of a single-family villa, with a pot of rose tea brewing on the table.

In the small courtyard, a husky and a corgi are frolicking and chasing.

Su Bingyao took scissors to cut the potted plants in the small courtyard.

"Her happiness is simple, it's pleasant, and it's easy to satisfy." The butler said.

Could it be that Su Bingyao was already immersed in bliss?

Butler Li Cheng's hand moves on the tablet.

In the picture, it is a frog dragon.

The frog dragon sat on a park bench with a girl, he took the girl's hand, the girl leaned on his shoulder, and the two snuggled up to each other, and sometimes the girl's pleasant laughter was heard.

The girl resembles Lan Daifi, but only in a god-like.

"The joy of this friend of yours is also very simple, she resurrected her dead girlfriend."

Li Ran understood the reason why the frog dragon had been taking care of Lan Daifei along the way.

Lan Daifi resembles his dead girlfriend.

The housekeeper swiped the screen, and the next picture appeared in Li Ran's eyes.

It is the extravagant life of a demon realm lord.

He lives in a castle like a royal palace, wakes up with six beautiful women by his pillow, wakes up to brush his teeth, eats and wears beautiful women, and even starts a pool party early in the morning, which is simply happy and happy.

"His happiness is actually very pure, and this is also the happiness of most men, who are just obsessed with beauty."

The butler said as he continued to swipe the screen.

In the picture, Hua Shuying was in the picture, but when he saw what Hua Shuying was doing, Li Ran's mouth opened slightly, and he looked surprised.

"Is this the happiness of Hua Shuying?" (End of chapter)