Li Beizheng sighed: "What an enviable brotherly relationship..."

Chapter 181: Circulation

Li Beizheng took a bottle of beer from the freezer and sat down again, he looked thoughtfully at the rain curtain outside the window: "The rain tonight is heavier than usual..."

The sound of rain pounding on the glass of the door was unsettling.

Lu Zhi wiped the corner of his forehead: "Yes, the umbrella is not used." ”

As he spoke, he patted the remaining water stains on Qi Xiaonian's waterproof coat, "It's been a long time since I've seen such heavy rain, and if it goes on like this, the entire Dying City will be submerged." ”

Qi Xiaonian suddenly thought of something, and with a nervous expression, he reached out to the inner pocket to confirm it, and instantly breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the rune card customized from the witch was not broken." ”

Qi Zhen remembered that after Qi Xiaonian came out of the witch last time, his expression was gloomy and trance-like, and he looked a little distracted, it seemed that the witch had told him some bad signs.

Qi Yan half-jokingly eased the atmosphere: "It turns out that the witch has also opened up a new business, and I will visit it next time." ”

Qi Xiaonian handed another talisman to Qi Yan: "Brother, I also customized one for you, although I know you don't believe in these, but don't dislike it, just use it as an ornament." ”

Qi Yan took the unique wooden talisman pendant: "Thank you." ”

"The last time it rained so hard... It's still when Brother Nan has an accident, I hope there will be no accidents tonight. Li Beizheng lowered his gaze and continued to drink his cold beer.

Li Beizheng suddenly mentioned his lover who was trapped in the collapse copy and whose life and death were uncertain, and everyone fell silent tacitly.

The sound of rain outside the window was unusually abrupt.

In the Dying City, the unusual rain seems to foreshadow foreboding.

In the end, it was Lu Zhi who broke the silence and smiled bitterly: "Brother Li, everyone has been worried about you for most of the past six months, afraid that you really won't be able to get out... Although you have heard all these words badly. ”

Li Beizheng tugged at the corners of his lips: "Yes, I know that you are curious behind my back about the ghost who is borrowing wine to kill his sorrows, why don't you choose to leave, right?" ”

Lu Zhi nodded: "... After all, leaving here can erase painful memories, which is much more useful than getting drunk. ”

Li Beizheng smiled: "That's different. ”

"I can accept the use of alcohol to escape the pain temporarily, but that doesn't mean that I can accept the eternal escape from it, and of course I have the final say in my memory, I can choose to be paralyzed with alcohol, but I don't accept being erased by the machine, which is no different from having me automatically give up control of my memory."

Li Beizheng drank a low-alcohol beer while telling his opinions in a casual tone.

"But speaking of which, the prophet is also very lucky, after all, nineteen years have passed, and I am the only "nail household" left in the "Rules Illustrated Book", if he chose someone else at that time, then this prophecy is estimated to be impossible to pass down." Li Beizheng half-jokingly.

Qi Yan seemed to realize something, and his brows furrowed slightly: "... Is it possible that the other party told you the prophecy because they knew that you would stay? ”

Li Beizheng also frowned: "What? ”

Qi Yan was silent for a moment, subconsciously touched the scar behind his ear, and shook his head: "It's just my guess." ”

Nineteen years ago, the prophet probably chose Li Beizheng because he knew that Li Beizheng would become the most senior player and would stay until this moment.

So how did the prophets of the time know?

Qi Zhen suddenly had a ridiculous but reasonable conjecture: perhaps it was precisely because the other party witnessed "this moment" that clues were buried in "Once".

After all, only experience can be so accurate, and cause and effect can also break the linear existence of time......

Such an absurd but unusually reasonable speculation made Qi Yan immediately get goosebumps.

Nineteen years ago, the data was stolen, and nineteen years ago, the prophecy appeared, and there are all kinds of signs that the prophet is likely to be the thief, or at least the insider.

And the prophecy mentions that "this impossible dangerous person is about to be born" -

The prophecy appeared nineteen years ago, and Qi Ji was born a year later, and all the information points the arrow of the key person to Qi Ji himself, and the information can be obtained from this sentence: the prophet knew that Qi Ji was already "pregnant" at that time.

Qi Yan didn't know anything about what happened when he was a child, he only knew that he was adopted by the welfare home, and he didn't have any information about his biological parents, but most of the children in the welfare home were like this, and Qi Yan didn't care about it when he was a child.

What does it mean that "the cycle is about to begin"? Are you in a cycle?

Suppose your guess about the "Black Trench Coat" is correct, and the thief in the black trench coat is really himself...... What is the purpose of doing this? And how?

The chaotic fragments of clues and words full of metaphors involve Qi Yan in the whirlpool of the unknown.

Li Beizheng, who was drinking, opened the podcast easily, and it was the time of the "Evening Broadcast" in the Dying City.

"Dear listeners, here's a sudden emergency!" ——

A mechanical female voice came from the podcast, and the four people who were originally chatting and drinking immediately pricked up their ears and subconsciously looked at Li Beizheng's mobile phone on the desktop.

"There have been several shocking incidents tonight, and it is reported that several travelers were suddenly pulled into the dungeon for no reason to carry out forced clearance operations without applying to the system to re-enter the dungeon. The system initially determined that this situation was caused by a bug, and this situation is still happening.

It is known that these travelers are scattered in various areas of the city, but they all suffered the same incident. So far, the system has tried several times, but it has not been able to free them from the mandatory mission. The system is urgently repairing itself, striving to ensure the safety of the vast number of travelers in the city.

At the same time, the system reminds the audience to stay vigilant and protect their personal safety at all times when abnormal weather comes......

Later, due to the poor signal, the podcast came with a sound similar to "zila, zila" similar to unstable current.

Everyone fell silent for a moment, and what they were worried about finally happened.

Li Beizheng's sentence "I hope there will be no accidents tonight" just now suddenly turned into a disturbing fact.

"How so? Now that the system has collapsed, it is possible to pull people into the copy without the permission of the person concerned......" Lu Zhi rubbed his head in disbelief and said uneasily.

"The era of relative security has passed, and if the system can't complete self-repair, the collapse will only get worse, and eventually all travelers will be implicated, and the city will be destroyed by bugs." Li Beizheng looked solemn, "For ordinary people, the safest way is to earn enough survival coins as soon as possible and leave before the system collapses..."

"But what about our lives here?" Lu Zhi, who had always been steady, suddenly raised his voice and said, he turned his head to look at Qi Xiaonian, and there was suppressed helplessness in his eyes.

Li Beizheng looked at Lu Zhi calmly, and said thoughtfully: "I'm talking about the situation that the system can't complete self-repair, if we try to help the system complete the repair of bugs, maybe there is still room for turnaround." ”

Qi Zheng: "I have analyzed with my friends before, because the system has some unknown bug before, so there is the first person who is stuck with the bug, and someone interferes with the self-repair function of the system, and constantly stuffs people into the "rule book", resulting in this vulnerability getting bigger and bigger, and the system continues to send repair warnings but there is no way to really fix it, and the system will go down over time. ”

"And obviously, there are already people in the real world who know about the existence of the "rule book", and the insurance agreement signed by Xiao Nian says it all."

Lu Zhi gradually regained his composure, and looked at Qi Ji with a cold expression: "You mean, if you want to completely fix system bugs, it is not enough to act in the "Rules Illustrated", you must find a way to go to the real world to solve the stuck bugs, right?" ”

Qi Yan nodded: "This is just my preliminary speculation. ”

Lu Zhi frowned: "But this can't be done at all, once we are sent back to the real world, the memories of this place will be erased, and it is impossible to go back with tasks and plans......"

Qi Jiu: "So the premise of making this plan is that we also get stuck with the bug of the copy, find a way to find a shortcut from the rule book to the real world, and can effectively circumvent the rules of erasing memories." ”

Qi Jiu's analysis and opinion made Lu Zhiqin's eyes widen instantly: "But can such a shortcut really be found......?" ”

"It's really hard to say if you don't give it a try, I wasn't sure before, but now..."Li Beizheng turned his head to look at Qi Yan, "After all, we have found a 'bug' in the player's connection to the system." ”

As a 'bug', Qi Ji raised the corners of his lips: "I'm honored. ”

They sat down in the tavern for a while, and when it was not too early, they went back to their lodgings.

Qi Ji stroked the cat for twenty minutes as usual, and then cleaned up the house for a while and went to bed.

Before going to bed, he opened the wardrobe in the bedroom again, and the little gray cat would get into the closet from time to time to play peek-a-boo with Qi Jiu, and at this time there were already a lot of gray shorthair sticking to the black trench coat.

It's exactly the same as what Qi Yan saw at the crossroads of his birthday.

Qi Yan stared at the wardrobe for a while, and then lay on the bed with his head tilted back and tired, allowing himself to enter a half-asleep state-

"079, what would you do if that bad guy was me who stole the data?"

Qi Zhen knew clearly that there was a sensory connection between them, and the other party also heard Li Beizheng's words just now.

"It's suddenly interesting, isn't it?"

"Stealing my data and making your own, I wish that thief was us more than anyone else." 079's voice was like morning mist, damp and light, and seemed to dissipate without paying attention.

Qi Yan was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Indeed, and I seem to be the result of this theft, as you can see." ”

"If it was really you, then I would be happy to help you who became a thief." 079's tone was clearly a bit joking, but it made Qi Yan feel very serious.

The skin was hot after bathing, and the residual smell of the bath gel was hot.

Moist and a little hormonal scent unique to the skin, it can bring a sense of peace of mind to people in such a dripping night.

His eyelashes fluttered lightly on Qi Yan's tightly closed eyelids, and he exhaled softly with his lips slightly open.

"Why? Tell me why. Qi asked knowingly.

"I said I enjoyed our contract." Even if he knew that the other party was knowingly asking, 079 also enjoyed answering the matter in person.

Qi Jiu's Adam's apple sliding: "But I'm not sure, with my current ability, I can complete all these complicated operations, it seems that time is running out." ”

079: "Qi Jiu, you can accomplish anything as long as you want." ”

Qi Yan smiled: "Are you sure?" ”

"Of course." 079 didn't hesitate.

They smiled tacitly with each other, and after a short silence, Qi Yan asked him, "079, are you looking forward to my appearance?" ”

079 snorted lightly: "Don't ask knowingly. ”

Qi Ji was unrelenting: "I want a clear answer. ”

079 was also deliberately silent for a moment before answering him: "Qi Jiu, I enjoy your existence." ”

“… I need your presence as well. ”

"I see." Qi Yan's voice was very low, but the smile on his face expanded.

"What?"

"I know the thief's motives."

- "Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell"

A rapid mobile phone ringtone interrupted the conversation between the two, and Qi Yan immediately woke up from his half-dream, and the phone screen displayed Lu Zhi's call, and in an instant, a bad premonition surged.

Qi Yan immediately picked up the phone, and before he could speak, Lu Zhi on the other end of the phone said in a trembling and hurried voice-

"Xiao Nian has an accident!"

Chapter 182: Year (1)

"Xiao Nian, Xiao Nian is gone!" Lu Zhi on the other end of the phone took a deep breath, because he was too emotional to express the words completely, "He suddenly..."

"Xiao Nian was pulled into the copy for no reason, right?" At the moment when the mobile phone rang, Qi Yan already had a premonition.

"It's... I tried binding the card, but I don't know if it's the cause of the system bug, Xiao Nian's side didn't have any reaction to the binding card, I... I don't know what to do... I..."