011. The Chosen Game
Before Qiao Du could savor what the words represented, she saw that the lines were distorted again, turning into more obvious and deeper words.
【Congratulations on completing the beginner mission】
【Please choose the deity you believe in to get the newbie reward】
After these two sentences, the words quickly exploded on the ground like fireworks, turning into five fragments of different shapes.
At the top of the piece, it looked like a bright sun, but it also looked like an irregular gear, and on that fragment, an inorganic text was inscribed with a word.
【Brilliant】
The piece on the left is square, wood-like, slightly mottled, and wielded with a powerful brushstroke.
【Abundance】
Eyes moved, and the fragment on the right took on a swirl that seemed to suck in all the light around it, and around there, distorted words swirled.
【Long-standing】
In the lower left corner, shards as red as broken gems form a wall, and on the wall, there are marks like carving knives.
【Tranquility】
And the last fragment was like a mirror, reflecting the night sky, the street, and Qiao Dui's face, but it was all ambiguous, blurry, and mist, and it seemed to be written with a finger.
【Finale】
"What is this?"
Qiao Du looked at these things and felt amazing.
These fragments have a strong heterogeneous texture, if we say, the monsters in the previous [Madhouse] belong to monsters beyond human imagination.
Then these fragments give the impression of "beings who do not belong to this world".
"What do you see?"
Su Hong asked while seeing Qiao Du staring at the ground, he stood up while moving his joints.
"It makes me choose the gods I believe in."
Qiao Du looked at the fragments, he found that Su Hong didn't seem to see what he saw, and read the words again, and then touched his chin.
"But I am a staunch materialist, can I believe in the truth?"
"Can't ......"
Hearing Qiao Dui's words, Su Hong was stunned, a bit like choking on the egg yolk, and swallowed saliva before he continued to speak.
"These are gods, but they're actually similar to, well, the class you play the game, and different gods give you different abilities and gifts...... Uh, you've played the game, right? ”
"Occupation."
Qiao Twilight chewed on the word.
"For example, [Brilliant], according to the information we can have now, this deity is more inclined to give the Chosen the ability to acquire more knowledge, and has additional effects on inorganic matter, machinery, books and the like, we used to have a colleague who chose [Brilliant], and he gained the ability to interpret memories from objects, which is quite convenient."
Su Hong explained that this kind of information is common knowledge for the investigators of Northern Heavy Industry, but for Qiao Dui, who doesn't know anything, it is valuable information.
"And what if he sees something he shouldn't see?"
Qiao Du felt as if he had discovered Huadian, since this world, knowledge is pollution, and the more you know, the more unfortunate you are, then this ability to look at it casually is not very dangerous, maybe you can see a manhole cover on the road and find that there has been something abnormal.
"That's a good question, I'll ask him next time I help him sweep his grave."
Su Hong didn't hide it.
"Take me with you."
Qiao Du patted Su Hong's shoulder and pointed to another word.
"What about [Abundance]?"
"The gods of [Abundance] grasp the mysteries of life and death, and most of their chosen ones have strong physiques, recovery abilities, and some abilities related to living things, we used to have a colleague ......"
Before Su Hong could finish speaking, Qiao Duan interrupted him.
"This colleague you are talking about, are we going to sweep the tomb together on the Qingming Festival?"
"Not yet."
Su Hong replied solemnly, and continued to speak.
"The abilities he gained were extremely restorative, and he could recover within hours even if he was fatally wounded, but unfortunately, he encountered a strong memetic contamination during one of his missions, and now thinks of himself as a refrigerator, often sticking his fingers into the socket and causing electric shocks."
"It doesn't seem to be very happy."
Qiao Du commented.
"For the rest, I think about it, the Chosen One is more like a magician in the ordinary sense, able to manipulate fire, frost, storms, and some of them can interfere with the spirit."
Su Hong then continued.
"Why don't you talk about your colleagues?"
Qiao Du was still knocking on the bowl and waiting to listen to the gossip.
"We don't have the [long-standing] Chosen One as a colleague for the time being, because this kind of Chosen One is relatively strong in combat, and most of them fight alone, unwilling to join the organization, and more likely to encounter danger and die."
Su Hong seemed to recall something, sighed, and continued to introduce.
"As for [Tranquility], there are quite a few of His Chosen Ones, and there is no relatively uniform overview of his abilities, we have found that there is a [Quiet] Chosen One who can grow grass from his body, and there is also a [Quiet] Chosen One who can cause his gender to change as long as he sneezes, which is difficult to define accurately."
"Changing gender, sounds like fun."
Qiao Du was suddenly fascinated, and felt that it was not bad to choose [Quiet], he had long wanted to try what it was like to be a woman.
But for security reasons, he asked his colleagues about the situation.
"We have colleagues from the [Quiet] Chosen One, but certainly not the kind you think."
Su Hong scoffed at Qiao Dui's thoughts and continued to speak.
"The last one, the [End] Chosen One is a special one, and there are very few of them, and if there are other Chosen ones present to guide them, they usually don't recommend newcomers to choose this god."
Here he paused.
"Why are there so few of them?"
Qiao Twilight came to be interested.
He's the kind of guy who will press it decisively when there's a button in front of him that says "Never press it."
"Because [the end] does not give His Chosen One a specific supernatural ability, but rather a way to anchor the existence beneath the abyss of anomalies and the like, through which the Chosen One can borrow the power of the anchored anomalies to a certain extent."
Su Hong was silent for a moment, and then glanced at Qiao Dui, who was also silent.
"Why don't you ask what anchoring means?"
"So what does anchoring mean?"
Although Qiao Du felt that she had understood, she still decided to satisfy Su Hong.
“...... As I told you, the anomaly in the abyss will drag other objective entities that fall into it, and once caught, its depth will decrease, and the depth of the other party will deepen, and eventually the depth of the two will gradually converge to reach a balance. ”
Su Hong spread out her hand and looked at her palm.
"And the [Final] Chosen One can take the initiative to connect with one or several anomalies, and fix those anomalies in a depth at the cost of sinking themselves, which is anchoring."
"I see, the Chosen One of [The End] is to use anomalies to defeat anomalies, and he is a stand-in messenger."
Qiao Du clapped his hands, as Qiao's family, he had no resistance to this kind of stand-in-like ability, and he had already decided to choose this no matter what.
"But because of this, the Chosen One of the [Ends] still has little combat power after completing the first mission, and they must also take the initiative to contact the anomalies, anchoring them at the cost of deepening their own pollution, and with the passage of time, the depth of the Chosen One of the [Ends] will continue to increase, and eventually sink completely."
Su Hong's voice became muffled.
"Then do you have any colleagues who believe in the end, is he still alive?"
Qiao Du found this colleague's topic really interesting.
"Yes."
Hearing this, Su Hong thought about it, clenched his fist and released it, he took out the coin from his pocket and threw it skillfully.
I guessed wrong again.
He spoke.
"I'm that colleague."