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

Chapter 54: Reminiscence (8)

"Father!" Little Mu Qin, who was only four or five years old, pushed the door open and entered the study room, trotted and jumped, and then lay on the lap of his adoptive father Mu Xuan.

Mu Xuan was practicing the piano, and when he saw such a little radish lying over, he couldn't help showing a gentle smile. He stopped playing, picked up Mu Qin, and let him sit on his lap.

Sitting in Mu Xuan's arms, Mu Qin poked his head out curiously to look at the black and white keys in front of him. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch the smooth and cold keys, but he didn't dare to touch them too much. The little hand was retracted.

Seeing that the child was so cautious, Mu Xuan smiled again, grabbed the little Muqin's paw, put his little hand on the keys, and said at the same time: "Daddy will teach you how to play the piano?"

Little Muqin was innocent, He raised his furry head to look at Mu Xuan, nodded vigorously and said, "Okay."

Although Mu Xuan said he wanted to teach him to play the piano, Mu Qin was too young at that time, only under five years old, and he was a lively and cheerful person. Little radish head, not much discerning and learning ability. When Mu Xuan tried to press a certain key, he asked Mu Qin to imitate his actions and press the key he had pressed, but the little Mu Qin pressed the wrong key, and the child randomly poked another key , The piano immediately made a high-pitched and piercing sound, which made the child tremble in fright, and shrank straight into Mu Xuan's arms.

Mu Xuan thought it was funny, and stretched out his hand to pinch the child's face, and the child grabbed Mu Xuan's clothes and shouted, "Dad... you play, you play, you play nice!"

"Then dad will play the piano for you, Sit obediently and don't move, okay?" Mu Xuan softly whispered to the child.

Little Mu Qin nodded vigorously, and muttered: "Play the piano!"

Mu Xuan pressed the child's head, then kissed him on the cheek, then sat up straight and began to play the piano. His fingers were slender and white, like keys Butterflies danced on the ground, hovering around the black or white keys, and then beautiful music was born between his hands. The tune is melodious and long, like the sound of insects and birds in the mountains and forests.

After the song was over, Mu Xuan just wanted to continue teasing the little carrot in his arms, when his wife's voice sounded outside.

Mu Xuan's wife's name is Shi Shilan. It seems that there is something wrong. Shi Shilan shouted: "Mu Xuan, come here!" On the chair in front of the piano, he said to Mu Qin: "Baby, Dad is going to help Mom, you can play the piano here, okay?" The

little baby Mu Qin nodded obediently, and said in a very popular way: "Daddy Go, Mu Qin can play alone!"

Mu Xuan is not worried that the child will break the piano, because little Mu Qin is a cute and obedient child, he has big black eyes, a small pink nose, and red lips , the face with a bit of baby fat is so cute, it made Mu Xuan feel itchy, so he leaned over and kissed Mu Qin's little face, and after rubbing the soft hair on the little Mu Qin's head, Mu Xuan Xuan got up and left the study, went out to find his wife.

Leaving Mu Qin alone in front of the piano.

He is too small, even if he is sitting on the piano chair, the keys are still at eye level, and his small hands and arms are too short to reach.

So Mu Qin kicked off his shoes, climbed up with the chair, and then stood unsteadily on the piano chair. If he was standing, he could indeed reach the keys, but the keys seemed too low. Press one He needs to bend slightly to play the keys, which is inconvenient and uncomfortable, so little Muqin kept changing his posture, and finally chose to kneel on the piano chair.

This is much more comfortable.

Mu Qin was very happy, and began to press those keys one by one like his adoptive father. However, his musical talent was frighteningly terrible. The beautiful and moving tone is very different.

Little Muqin didn't quite understand why, why could his father play so well, but he could only make such a bad sound?

"That's because you haven't learned it yet."

Just as Little Muqin was thinking like this, an ethereal female voice suddenly sounded beside him.

Little Muqin turned his head to look at the source of the sound in a daze, and found a woman appeared in front of the window next to the piano.

A translucent woman, in a ghostly state. She was wearing a white dress, with her bare feet floating slightly off the ground. She had waist-length black hair, and the skirt and hair fluttered automatically in the absence of wind. Perhaps because of the translucency, her face and facial features were not clearly visible, and she had a hazy feeling of looking at flowers in the fog.

Seeing such a "translucent female ghost" in vain, little Muqin was not afraid, stretched out his hand to the woman and babbled and shouted: "Mom!"

Then the child jumped off the piano chair, rolled and rolled. Crawled and jumped down, and immediately fell like a dog eating shit. Fortunately, there was a fluffy carpet on the floor of the study, so he didn't fall, he got up quickly, and rushed towards the translucent woman again.

Women are translucent, so of course Mu Qin can't touch her. He seems to know this very well. When he gets in front of a woman, he doesn't move any further. Instead, he sits on the carpet and raises his head to look at the floating "mother" .

"Be careful next time, you can't just jump off the chair, I can't touch you, I can't catch you." The translucent woman softly told Mu Qin, she stretched out her hand, as if wanting to touch Mu Qin's head, but her fingers penetrated Mu Qin's hair, which seemed to make her very helpless, and then she took her hand back.

"And, don't call me mom in this house, you already have a new mother." The woman continued to Mu Qin, "I won't come to see you often in the future."

"Mom!" Mu Qin actually listened I don't quite understand what this translucent woman is talking about. He was very stubborn when he was young, and said, "You are your mother!"

"I am not your mother." The woman shook her head, "It won't be again."

"No, you It's mom!" For some reason, Mu Qin was very stubborn about this question. When the woman repeatedly denied it, he burst into tears and cried, "Mom!"

When Mu Qin cried like this, he immediately attracted the attention of Mu Xuan and his wife Shi Shilan outside the room. The two quickly put down their work and came to the study to appease Mu Qin. Hearing Mu Qin crying and calling for mother, Shi Shilan rushed over to hug Mu Qin, hugged him and stroked his head, and said softly, "Mom is here, the baby is not crying."

But Mu Qin was still crying, He subconsciously grabbed Shi Shilan's clothes with one hand and kept calling for his mother.

"Mom is here." Shi Shilan touched Mu Qin's head, and said strangely: "Why are you crying? Did you knock somewhere?" After finishing speaking, Shi Shilan turned her head and stared at Mu Qin

with questioning eyes. The husband next to him said to Mu Xuan: "What did you do to him just now?"

Mu Xuan couldn't laugh or cry: "No, absolutely nothing, okay! Didn't you just ask me to move things... I put him on the piano chair Let him play by himself..."

"Put it on a piano chair? He must have fallen on such a high chair! No wonder he cried!" Shi Shilan hugged Mu Qin and coaxed him left and right, then quarreled with Mu Xuan, and reprimanded: "You can't even take care of a child!" Mu Xuan looked at the soft carpet on the floor, but couldn't refute, so he had to admit wrongly

: "My wife, I was wrong."

After Shilan comforted him a few times, he stopped crying. He stared at Shi Shilan with his big red eyes, and then called Shi Shilan his mother. His appearance was still very cute, and Shi Shilan couldn't bear it. After being kissed,

Mu Qin had a silly expression on his face. Shi Shilan hugged him and was about to leave the study because it was almost time for lunch. arrive.

But Shi Shilan didn't know that Mu Qin, who was nestled in her arms, was lying on her shoulders, staring at the window in the study.

Because the woman in the translucent white dress stood by the window all the time.

"Mom!" Mu Qin shouted at the woman.

It was Shi Shilan who responded, she rubbed Mu Qin's head and said, "The baby is so good."

...

that was a long-forgotten memory of my childhood.

Mu Qin opened his eyes, and in front of him was a pure white safe house, and a system virtual screen suspended in the center of the safe house, which was displaying a special symbol of the fringe world - the snake cross.

Mu Qin stared at the snake cross in a daze for a long time, and then belatedly said to himself: "Ah... I'm in again."

Entering this game for the first time, Mu Qin also thought it was the psychiatrist He Qiu and his music box. Entering the game for the second time, Mu Qin thought it was because he was carrying the white card on his body and was shot and killed by the policeman possessed by the king...

But why did he enter the game for the third time?

Going back to this safe house, Mu Qin remembered that he was lying in Xu Lin's hospital, and Zhou Yue was sleeping next to him. Their beds were pushed together so that they could sleep next to each other.

When Mu Qin saw Zhou Yue fall asleep, he, who had no memory of the marginal world at that time, also held Zhou Yue's hand and fell asleep peacefully. That night was very quiet. The security work of Xu Lin Hospital was not bad, and the door of the ward was also locked by the nurse. Plus, Zhou Yue made an agreement with the king, so the king will no longer possess others to harass them. They should not be in any danger, and they are well protected.

Mu Qin felt that he was in good physical condition before falling asleep, and it was impossible for him to die suddenly during sleep, so he should not have died. He was alive and well in the real world.

Then why did I come in?

Mu Qin lowered his head to think, the white card was taken away by Zhou Yue, and those two music boxes and crosses were likely to be "medium", because they had been kept in Pengzhe's bag before, and later Mu Qin was taken away by the possessed Peng Zhe. When Zhe attacked, Peng Zhe took the bag and pressed Mu Qin's foot on the gas pedal, so the two things were always on the car that Mu Qin rented.

Later, Mu Qin was sent to Xu Lin's hospital. Mu Qin asked Xu Haoyu to help return the car, and Xu Haoyu temporarily took away the contents of the car and put them in the hospital's locker.

It should be that there is no object that can act as a "medium" that can guide Mu Qin's soul to this world.

But Mu Qin still came.

Or... Is there any connection between me and this world?

Mu Qin couldn't help thinking like this, and he felt that the direction of thinking was correct. He really might have a strange connection with this world.

Although Mu Qin can't remember it himself, and his adoptive parents passed away early, their departure has always been a shadow in Mu Qin's heart, so Mu Qin has been reluctant to remember.

But when he was young, Mu Qin remembered that he had two "mothers".

One is naturally the adoptive mother Shi Lan, who is the wife of his adoptive father Mu Xuan. This couple has always treated Mu Qin as their own child since they adopted Mu Qin. The relationship between Mu Qin and them is naturally very deep, because the bond is too strong. So much so that after they left, Mu Qin couldn't recover for a long time.

As for the other "mother", Mu Qin couldn't remember.

Mu Qin couldn't remember what happened in the orphanage when he was zero to three years old. Later, when he asked his adoptive parents, Shi Lan, his adoptive mother, once said to Mu Qin: "I asked the staff in the hospital and said that you are in the orphanage. I often call my mother to empty places."

After the age of three, Mu Qin was brought home by his adoptive parents, and was officially named "Mu Qin". , was very afraid of unfamiliar environments, and would not call his adoptive parents. Although Mu Xuan and Shi Shilan had been patiently guiding him, Mu Qin just kept silent until one day, out of nowhere, Mu Qin ran to Shi Shilan by himself. Lan called her mother in front of her, which made Shi Shilan so happy that she hugged Mu Qin three times on the spot.

After that, Mu Qin could call his adoptive parents fluently, and he was completely integrated into their family, receiving all kinds of attention and pampering. Now Mu Qin recalls, his memory is full of those days when he was with his adoptive parents. A happy life that is peaceful and occasionally full of surprises.

Although they left later, what they left to Muqin was an indelible wealth. They were the best mentors in Muqin's life, and they also shaped the current Muqin.

Mu Qin is very grateful to his adoptive parents, but occasionally, Mu Qin also feels guilty towards them.

This sense of guilt came from nowhere, but it kept popping up in Mu Qin's heart. He couldn't find the reason, he just felt sad.

In Mu Qin's first memory, one of the two mothers was a "ghost mother" who always appeared in front of Mu Qin in a translucent floating posture. Except for her beautiful white dress, Mu Qin could never see her clearly Mu Qin knew that it was this ghost who brought Mu Qin to Shi Shilan. The ghost pointed at Shi Shilan and said to Mu Qin, "Call me mother."

Mu Qin looked at her in confusion. So the ghost repeated again: "Quickly, call her mom! From now on, she will be your only mother."

Mu Qin was just a child at that time, and after being urged several times, he instinctively called her mom .

But how much sincerity is there in this title?

After the age of six, the ghost mother disappeared and never appeared in front of Mu Qin's eyes again, so in the following time, Mu Qin gradually forgot about the ghost mother, and even when he grew up, he would feel It was just a hallucination of his childhood, a memory that confuses dreams and reality. He doesn't have any "ghost mother", he only has Shi Shilan as a mother.

Later, Mu Qin became more and more convinced that what he saw when he was young was just an illusion. He was busy with life and work, and gradually forgot about these things until today.

"Illusion...it's just my hallucination." Mu Qin comforted himself in this way, and he walked around the system screen several times in the safe house, and finally felt that he had calmed down a little, and then he would return to the system screen and shouted One sound system.

"Welcome back to the fringe world. System 3780 is at your service. Mr. Muqin, what do you need?"

The very familiar female voice of the system, soft and melodious like the chirping of a bird, Mu Qin felt a little relaxed inexplicably, and said, "Check the results of my last game." "Checking

, please wait..."

"Your last game The map of the round game is 'Paradise of Despair'"

"A total of three people died, the killer won, and two humans escaped, and you are one of the survivors."

"You got a total of 16877 reward points in the last game, your remaining rewards It is divided into 16877, and you can use and purchase props or skills as you like." The

reward points are much higher than Mu Qin imagined, which actually surprised Mu Qin, after all, he felt that he didn't do anything in the last game...but the last game It is a double ghost game, and the mechanism for obtaining reward points may be somewhat different from other ordinary games. In addition, he and Zhou Yue spent a long time in the amusement park in the end, and forming a "chase" with ghosts seems to be able to continue to score.

Calculated in this way, Mu Qin feels that there are many loopholes that can be exploited in the rules and mechanisms of this game.

However, it is precisely because there is time to exploit that some people become greedy when they get benefits, and want to exploit loopholes to get more points, but greed often hurts themselves.

Mu Qin hadn't figured out how to spend such a sum of "money", so he decided to contact Zhou Yue first, so he ran to squat on the wall where he had talked with Zhou Yue before, and looked at all kinds of things on the wall. doodles and messages.

Some people still paint some strange and chaotic calligraphy and paintings on the walls, and some people want to make transactions before leaving messages. Mnuchin also saw many conversation messages that may have been encrypted.

Mu Qin wrote Zhou Yue in seal script as usual, and then waited for Zhou Yue to contact him, but after waiting for an hour, his handwriting disappeared on the wall, and he did not wait for Zhou Yue's reply.

Mu Qin was not in a hurry, he recalled and thought calmly, and then realized that Zhou Yue might still be in a certain game.

In the previous confrontation between Zhou Yue and the king, perhaps Mu Qin in the real world had his memory erased and could not understand it, but now that Mu Qin thinks about it, he can instantly understand the meaning of Zhou Yue's words at that time.

The reason why Zhou Yue was able to "wake up" in the real world is that he used some method to temporarily return his soul to the real world, and this way of returning temporarily is not difficult to think of. After Mu Qin let go of his thoughts, he quickly thought of Zhou Yue probably asked a certain "friend" to help him. He asked the friend to play the role of "killer" in a certain game and killed Zhou Yue. The Hanged Man revived Zhou Yue, and he could easily pull Zhou Yue back.

Although it was impossible to witness or verify it with his own eyes, Mu Qin could imagine this method.

Knowing that Zhou Yue is in the game, Mu Qin has no choice but to wait for him to come out.

Mu Qin asked the system how many days he could stay in the safe house, and the system replied: three days. So Mu Qin realized that the time he spent in the real world did not seem to be counted in the three-day rest period of the safe house by the system.

The three days were very short, and Mu Qin couldn't confirm the exact time when Zhou Yue would be able to come out of the game, so he could only leave messages on the wall every day, waiting for Zhou Yue's reply. If they were lucky, they might be able to If you can't make contact in the game, then the situation is very bad.

After all, the king on the Butterfly Throne said that Zhou Yue was only given five days, and within five days Zhou Yue had to find a usurper, and let the usurper take the wheel of fortune to find the king to usurp the throne.

But Mu Qin judged that Zhou Yue absolutely lied at that time, so Zhou Yue did not find any usurper at all, and it is unknown whether the Wheel of Fortune existed, and even Zhou Yue did not seem to have the so-called world card.

What Zhou Yue said at the time was nothing more than to let the king stop harassing them...or it was simply to protect Mu Qin. After all, if the king kept hunting down Zhou Yue's body, he would definitely treat Mu Qin who was beside Zhou Yue as well. Caused harm, Zhou Yue probably feared that Mu Qin would be implicated, so in order to drive away the king, Zhou Yue put down such big talk to deceive the king.

Although the king believed it, Mu Qin, who was familiar with Zhou Yue, knew clearly that he was lying.

Sometimes, when people tell a lie, they need to cover it up with a bigger lie.

There is no world, no usurper, and maybe even no wheel of fortune. Mu Qin really doesn't know what method Zhou Yue will use to hate the king.

Lost in contemplation and entanglement, Mu Qin sat in the safe room and scratched his head with his hands, feeling a little suffocated in his chest.

Think of a way quickly.

Mu Qin said to himself.

He wanted to help Zhou Yue, purely because he wanted to help Zhou Yue. He knew that Zhou Yue was in a very difficult situation. Maybe Mu Qin couldn't help much, but Mu Qin didn't want to keep silent, and didn't want to just stay like this and do nothing. , Muqin knows... There is always something he can do.

correct.

Mu Qin suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and he suddenly realized something.

When he heard the conversation between Zhou Yue and the king, the king said to give Zhou Yue five days, and these five days... The other party didn't say whether it was five days in the real world or five days in the game.

Because the time between the two is very different.

Mnuchin can roughly calculate that an hour in the game is equivalent to a day in the real world, and the time in the safe house is synchronized with the real world.

If the king was talking about five days in the real world, it was only five days. If he's talking about five days in the game, then Mu Qin and Zhou Yue will have a lot of time. Five days in the game is 120 hours, and 120 hours is equivalent to 120 days in the real world, which means that Zhou Yue and Mu Qin have four months to prepare.

Mu Qin believes that the five days mentioned by the king largely refer to the five days in the game. After all, the king is now trapped in a game map. He is a senior player. It is impossible for him not to know Zhou Yue's current state Situation, he must be able to guess that Zhou Yue is still in the game now. A game is at least two to three hours, and it takes five or six hours on average, and sometimes it takes even longer. Players stay in it for more than ten hours or even two hours. Three days are possible.

After staying in the game for two or three days, I don't know how long it has been since I came out.

So if the king asked for five days in the real world, then Zhou Yue would not be able to catch up with the time to find the usurper and give him the Wheel of Fortune.

Finally, the king himself needs time to deploy. He needs to think about the plan to deal with the usurper. If he specifies five days in the real world, wouldn't the king only have five hours left on the throne map to figure out a solution?

Thinking of this, Mu Qin suddenly became enlightened, and he was not in a hurry to contact Zhou Yue. Anyway, there is no rush now.

So Mu Qin stood up, walked to the system screen, and opened the system's mall.