[BL, MTL] Unlimited Cycles of Death (Unlimited Flow)

Chapter 44: Paradise of Despair (11)

Duan Qun was very obedient, and did not cause any trouble to Mu Qin along the way. Mu Qin thought that since he had already guessed the relationship between himself and Zhou Yue, there was no need to act in the next scene, so he led Duan Qun quickly. to find the exit key.

Without the killer blocking them, the matter of finding the key became extremely simple and unusual. They came to the security room next to the gate unimpeded, successfully swiped the door of the security room with the key card, and found the key of the gate inside-it was placed in the security room room drawer.

Afterwards, the door was opened, which was also very smooth. Mu Qin always gave the key to Duan Qun to open the door. According to the reward point system, Mu Qin knew that the person who opened the door would get more reward points.

After opening the exit gate, Mu Qin and Duan Qun could see a long and winding road outside the gate of the amusement park. Since it was still in the dark, the road was pitch black at first glance, surrounded by lush The trees and bushes grew wildly, and in the cold moonlight, the road seemed like a road to some dark hell.

Duan Qun stared at the road outside the gate for a second, and then said to Mu Qin; "I didn't expect it to be so simple... Can I go out like this?"

"The moment you walk out of the gate, you will be sent back to the safe by the game system room." Mu Qin explained to Duan Qun this way: "You will rest there for three days, and after three days you have to start a new game. Your system will tell you some basic rules and information you need to know about the marginal world. Ask the system in the safe house."

"Will I meet you again?" Duan Qun asked Mu Qin like this.

Mu Qin shook his head slightly: "I don't know if we can meet again, the players in each game are automatically matched and screened by the system."

"It is theoretically possible, right?" Duan Qun pointed out, " Since you and Zhou Yue can appear on the same map at the same time."

Mu Qin laughed, he praised Duan Qun's cleverness, he said: "As long as you enter the new game at the same time, the players will be matched to the same map. The probability of a map will become larger, but it seems that it is not 100% able to be allocated together, so be prepared to fail."

"I see." Duan Qun thought for a while.

And Mu Qin continued to tell him some messages from the marginal world: "When you enter the safe house, you will find some strange lettering or graffiti on the walls of the house, which are the marks left by other players. For details, you can ask about your system."

Duan Qun nodded and said, "Thank you for telling me this."

Duan Qun paused for a moment, and saw that Mu Qin was not far behind. A figure appeared here, it was Zhou Yue.

Mu Qin also noticed that Duan Qun was looking at his back, so he followed Duan Qun's gaze and looked back at Zhou Yue. Zhou Yue was standing under a tree not far away, and the shadow cast by the tree covered his eyes. Half of his body, the knife in his hand reflected the cold light under the moonlight.

Mu Qin quickly withdrew his gaze from Zhou Yue, put his hand on Duan Qun's shoulder, and said to Duan Qun in a deep tone: "The killer is here, you go."

Duan Qun was very obedient, raised his foot and walked He wanted to step out of the gate, but before stepping out, he suddenly asked Mu Qin a question, and he said: "Mu Qin, I can probably guess the relationship between you and that guy named Zhou Yue. Your feelings, but I want to know... Is that Zhou Yue really worthy of your trust?"

This question made Mu Qin slightly startled, but Mu Qin did not hesitate: "Of course I believe him... The only person in your life who you can trust without reservation."

Duan Qun smiled, and he said something that stunned Mu Qin, he said: "It would be great if you could continue to believe like this forever, but I still hope you can pay attention Next Zhou Yue, I think there is something wrong with him, he is not worthy of your full trust."

Mu Qin was puzzled: "Why do you say that?"

"Because he wants to kill you." Duan Qun's words made Mu Mu Qin's heart trembled, "The time he attacked you in the toilet, when I went in to check, you fell to the ground and lowered your head, and I saw Zhou Yue's eyes looking at you... that definitely wanted to kill you Your eyes."

Duan Qun only said this sentence, and after he finished speaking, he walked out of the gate of the amusement park. His figure turned into light spots and dissipated in the air in the next second, leaving only Mu Qin in the park, staring blankly at Duan Qun. The light that remains when it disappears.

When Duan Qun left, Zhou Yue who followed behind also walked to Mu Qin's side, reached out and grabbed Mu Qin who was in a daze, wrapped his arms around Mu Qin's waist, hugged him into his arms, and asked, "What's the matter? Why are you in a daze? Did you say anything?"

Mu Qin didn't answer, but lowered his head and thought for a moment. In the end, Mu Qin went straight to the point, raised his head and asked Zhou Yue bluntly: "Zhou Yue, do you want to kill me?"

Zhou Yue seemed to be confused by this question. Why do you want to ask like this?"

"Don't worry about how I ask, you just need to answer my question." Mu Qin grabbed Zhou Yue's lapel and looked into Zhou Yue's eyes intently, "Do you want to kill me?"

Zhou Yue didn't answer this question right away, he fell silent. He hugged Mu Qin and didn't let go. He stuffed his head into Mu Qin's neck and rubbed his face against Mu Qin's neck. On Qin's neck, Mu Qin felt itchy, so he reached out to touch Zhou Yue's hair.

"I want to kill you." Zhou Yue said suddenly, with a dull tone, "I really want to kill you."

Mu Qin was puzzled by this sentence . To understand, he reached out and touched Zhou Yue's messy hair on his head, and said, "Why?"

"Because you can go back after you die," Zhou Yue said.

Mu Qin was even more puzzled, and stretched out his hands to hold Zhou Yue's head, preventing Zhou Yue from continuing to bury his face in his neck like an ostrich. Mu Qin looked at Zhou Yue squarely: "What do you mean by that?"

Zhou Yue said seriously Said: "Mu Qin, you are not dead in the real world, your body is still alive, you still have a chance, you are not a real player in the fringe world, as long as you 'end' in the fringe world, you can be in the real world 'Rebirth'."

"I don't understand what you mean." Mu Qin shook his head: "I'm already dead. I first entered the orphanage map, but when I came out, I was not sent to the safe house but returned to the real world. In the real world, I forgot After seeing everything I experienced in the marginal world, I thought it was just a dream. Then I saw you, and I found that you had turned into a vegetative state, lying in the hospital, and I received your mother's orders, and I was taking care of it in the hospital You. But out of nowhere, a group of people rushed out to harm us. I had to take you out of the hospital, and then I handed you over to my trusted comrades. I was shot and killed by a policeman at the police station. "

Zhou Yue followed and shook his head: "You are not dead, Mu Qin... The marginal world will automatically repair the unreasonable things and characters caused by the intervention of some players in the real world. The police shot you because he was hurt Controlled by a certain player in the border world, that player controls the police to kill you, but it is unreasonable for the police to shoot and kill you suddenly, so the border world will repair this incident, and the powerful force in the border world Next, you will never die."

Mu Qin really couldn't understand Zhou Yue's words, and Mu Qin said: "Since you said that my body in the real world is not dead, I can pass the 'end' in the game. Way to return to reality, then you can do the same!" Mu Qin said, "Your body in the real world is just a vegetable, you are not dead!"

"I am different." Zhou Yue shook his head slightly, "I'm bound in this world, and I can't go back to my original body."

Mu Qin actually realized that Zhou Yue knew a lot, but he really didn't expect so much.

He stared at Zhou Yue in disbelief: "What else do you know? Zhou Yue, what is going on?"

Mu Qin had never asked Zhou Yue these questions directly. In fact, Mu Qin only needs to think carefully about the things that happened in the real world before, and he can easily find that many things are connected with Zhou Yue. For example, the blank tarot card, the small model of the snake-wrapped cross on Zhou Yue's desk, and even the music box made of human bones that Mu Qin's psychiatrist He Qiu gave him, all of these... are related to this Weird fringe worlds are linked together.

Although Mu Qin could guess the details and clues of these clues, he never dared to ask Zhou Yue for details. He had a faint sense of fear about it, but it made him cringe.

But now, Mu Qin must know this.

"I've always wanted to find an opportunity to tell you...but this matter is very complicated." Zhou Yue organized his words, took Mu Qin's hand, and led Mu Qin to a public rest on the side of Paradise Avenue Next to the bench, he pulled Mu Qin to sit down, Zhou Yue said, "Let's sit here, and I'll talk to you slowly." The

two sat on the chair, Zhou Yue contemplated for a while, and then began to ask Mu Qin slowly Daolai, he said: "First of all, I want to tell you, Mu Qin...the marginal world, in this game we are in, players have a chance to escape, and every player has the possibility to escape back to reality...and Resurrected from the dead."

Zhou Yue said that he didn't know the origin of the border world, but this huge, terrifying, and mysterious game seemed to have officially appeared in people's field of vision three years ago. The oldest player, just entered the game a year before him. In other words, Zhou Yue has been in this game for two years, and the oldest qualified player he has ever met has only been in this game for three years, and Zhou Yue has never seen any longer.

In fact, some clues can also be seen from the numbers given to players by the system. For example, Zhou Yue's system number is 1309, which means that Zhou Yue is the 1309th player in this game. And Mu Qin's system number is 3780, which means Mu Qin is the 3780th player in the game.

If this game has really existed for seven or eight years or even longer, and there are only about 3,000 to 4,000 players in total, it is obviously unreasonable.

But the number 3780 players are actually too few, especially in the middle there will be a large number of players who will die in the game due to various reasons, so in this fringe world, they can survive four or five games and successfully survive until the end of the game. Zhou Yue estimates that there are only a few hundred or even fewer players now, and the rest are almost eliminated.

Hundreds of people are really not that many, it can even be said to be pitifully small.

Moreover, the time in the marginal world is actually different from the time in the real world. In addition to the fact that the flow rate of time in the safe house is the same as that of the real world, once players enter a certain map of a game, they will find that no matter how long they stay in the game map, the game map will always be night, and escape After this map is released, ask the system time again, and the player will find that four or five days or even ten days and a half months have passed.

"That is to say, if we stay in the game map, time will pass faster? We stay in this paradise map for half an hour, and a day outside may have passed, right?" Mu Qin asked Zhou Yue.

Zhou Yue nodded: "Probably that's right. Although I did stay in this game for two years, I actually didn't really feel it myself, because most of the time I was quickly passed by on the game map, so I I feel that I have only been in this game for a few months, and this is the unequal flow of time, which has caused me the illusion of time."

Mu Qin probably understood what Zhou Yue meant. He said thoughtfully: "That is to say... the fact that you accidentally turned into a vegetative state and was lying in the hospital, to you, it feels like it happened a few months ago, but in my opinion, it feels like it happened." It was already two years ago."

"The issue of time is just one of the things I want to tell you." Zhou Yue continued, "The next thing is the key point."

Zhou Yue said: "In this game, there are Something called the Butterfly Throne."

Zhou Yue's words aroused Mu Qin's interest, and Mu Qin had never heard of it before, so he couldn't help asking curiously: "The Butterfly Throne? What is that?"

Zhou Yue said, "Did your system tell you You, what kind of world is the fringe world?"

Mu Qin carefully recalled what he had said to the system, and he replied: "My system told me that the fringe world is the gap between hell and dreams. It is connected to hell, and it is also connected to everyone's dreams... Actually, I can't quite understand this sentence."

"Then have you ever heard a fable? It's called Zhuang Zhou's dream of a butterfly." Zhou Yue asked again.

Mu Qin nodded of course and said: "Of course I know this, I remember... The Chinese teacher in elementary school once told this story. Flying freely in the sky. But when he woke up, Zhuang Zhou began to wonder, did Zhuang Zhou turn into a butterfly in his dream, or did the butterfly turn into Zhuang Zhou in his dream? It is a thought-provoking story."

"' The Butterfly Throne is named after this story." Zhou Yue said, "This is the name given to the 'Throne' by the players in the marginal world, and they all call the 'Throne' the 'Butterfly Throne'."

Mu Qin frowned and said, "What the hell is the Butterfly Throne?

" There is a certain probability that it will be refreshed in a certain map, and it can be pointed by the Fool's card just like props or exits in the game." Zhou Yue looked around the huge amusement park around him: "There is a probability that the Butterfly Throne will appear in any map. Swipe out, which means that the Butterfly Throne may appear in this amusement park at any time, or it may appear in other people's maps, although the probability is very low, but someone has indeed seen it."

Mu Qin was very surprised, surprised and not To understand, he asked Zhou Yuedao: "Why does the system have a so-called 'throne' randomly refreshed in a certain map? Does it have any purpose and significance?"

"This is what I said before, the key to escape from the marginal world." Zhou Yue said in a low tone, "The Edge World game system has opened up a 'benefit' for players, which tells players that you have a certain chance to escape from the Edge World, and this throne is the 'benefit' given to players by the Edge World system."

Zhou Yue The words continued: "You can think of the Butterfly Throne as an exit, a way of escape, an exit that requires props or keys to open or activate."

Mu Qin nodded and looked at the gate of the amusement park not far away, He pointed to the gate and said, "It means that the so-called 'throne' has the same effect as the exit gate over there, but it not only allows us to escape from this map, but even the entire marginal world, yes Bar?"

"Yes." Zhou Yue said, "If the Butterfly Throne appears on a certain map, there must be a 'key' that can open the throne near the throne. The throne and the key are matched. The key to open the throne is A tarot card...a blank tarot card, we usually call this card a 'white card'."

"Blank...a tarot card." Mu Qin couldn't help but widen his eyes when he heard this sentence Looking at Zhou Yue: "You have this card! In the real world, that card has always been in the drawer of your ward...but then I took it away and put it on me..."

"Listen to me, Mu Qin." Zhou Yue took a deep breath and continued, "If a player is lucky enough to meet the Butterfly Throne, which is rare in a thousand years, on a certain map, and gets the white card to open the throne, he will take the white card and sit on it. Throne..."

Zhou Yue paused when she said this. And Mu Qin's heart was completely suspended by Zhou Yue's words, and it was pounding in his chest, and Mu Qin couldn't help asking: "And then? Sitting on the throne... can you go back to reality directly?" "

You can't go back to reality directly." Zhou Yue continued, "The players who enter the marginal world are basically people who have died in the real world. Their bodies have been destroyed long ago, or their bodies have been burned. The furnace was burned to ashes, and the Butterfly Throne can indeed bring their souls back to reality, but if players want to truly return to the real world, they must first have a living 'body' as a carrier."

"But they don't have a body... ..." Mu Qin suddenly realized what Zhou Yue wanted to say, and his face was a little gloomy, "They don't have bodies, so they can only take others'."

Having said this, Mu Qin seemed to have an epiphany, he raised his head and stared at Zhou Yue .

Zhou Yue knew what he was thinking, and said to Mu Qin with a wry smile, "That's right, I'm the one who was robbed of his body."

"But your body is a vegetable!" Mu Qin couldn't help being a little excited, "This may prove that the guy who wanted to take your body didn't succeed!"

"He really didn't succeed, because it was not an easy task." Zhou Yue said.

"The fringe world is not a place where you can escape casually. The will of the world has set strict conditions, so that even if the player successfully sits on the Butterfly Throne, he needs to meet two conditions if he wants to go out." Zhou Yue said, "One is Find a body that can be used to carry the soul, and the second is to find a substitute to replace the player and be bound to the throne."

Mu Qin listened to Zhou Yue's narration, and he was a little confused. He said in disbelief: "That throne can Sending people back to the real world? Why do you need to find a substitute to replace the player and be bound?"

"The Butterfly Throne is a double-edged sword. It can send you away from the edge world, and it can also bind you to the edge world forever. "Zhou Yue said, "So the player sitting on that throne has only two choices, or sit there forever, turning into a pile of weathered bones on that chair. Or try to find a substitute to replace himself Sit on a chair, and then the soul flies out of the marginal world, and is reborn in the real world with someone else's body."

Mu Qin asked Zhou Yue: "Then... what will happen to the substitute who sits on the chair instead of the player?"

Zhou Yue said: "The substitute can find another substitute. All in all...as long as the chair is shown on the map and the first person sits on it, then that seat will never be vacant again. There must be...someone will always sit on it, even if The person sitting on it has turned into bones, but this is the so-called 'Butterfly Throne'."

After hearing this, Mu Qin felt terrified: "It's terrible, it's just a gamble, if you don't find a substitute and escape successfully, You have to sit on a chair until you die..."

Zhou Yue shook her head lightly, and said, "It's not a terrible thing to sit on a chair until you die. What's terrible is that if you sit on the Butterfly Throne If the person who got the death card in this map where the throne is spawned, and has the identity of a killer and sits on a chair...then he will really sit on the chair forever."

Mu Qin looked at Zhou worriedly . Yue: "It means that you are being targeted by such a guy sitting on the Butterfly Throne, and he wants your body."

"He not only wants my body, but also wants me to be his substitute." Zhou Yue said briefly: "I'm afraid that guy did sit on the Butterfly Throne as a killer. I guess he has already been sitting on that chair." It has been a long, long time. The Butterfly Throne has extremely powerful power. Although it restrains the people on the throne, it also allows the people on the throne to have dreams that can invade ordinary humans in this world, control humans in the real world, Sometimes it can also control the power of some weak-willed players in the marginal world."

Muqin suddenly thought of those guys who illegally broke into Zhou Yue's ward and Muqin's house to search in the present world, as well as the police station The policeman who shot Muqin was probably controlled by the man on the throne in this way.

"So what about that white card?" Mu Qin asked again, "Since the white card is the key to unlock the throne, why did it appear in the real world?"

Zhou Yue said, "Before I entered the marginal world, That is, during the period when I was still serving in the army, that person had frequently harassed me by invading my dreams. At first, I was ignorant and accepted the invitation of that person in my dream, because he was in my dream. In the dream, I turned into...your appearance."

"Incarnation...my appearance?" Mu Qin seemed to realize something, and suddenly reached out and grabbed the skirt of Zhou Yue's chest excitedly, and said angrily: "You don't know In the dream with that guy...in the dream...what did you do!?"

Zhou Yue also stretched out her hand and coughed awkwardly: "It's not like that, at first I was able to see 'you' in the dream, I am very happy I'm happy, so I'm a little defenseless, but this guy invades my dreams frequently, and always takes your appearance to do those... cough, seduction, I think it's a bit strange, because it doesn't match your personality, and this person I don't like the fact that it's too contrived to pretend to be your pose, so I'm starting to notice something's wrong."