Chapter 66: Destination (2)

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The candle is flickering.

Mu Qin saw a lot of candle lights on the ground, the kind of candle lights with a small round metal candlestick and candles on the candlestick. There are a lot of these candle lamps. They are placed everywhere on the ground in the corners and in the small spaces sunken on the rock wall of the cave. Each lamp is burning with a flame, which is a very warm yellow light.

Although these candles are not very bright, once they increase in number, they will be able to illuminate the cave behind the waterfall curtain, so that the scene in this cave can be clearly seen in front of Mu Qin.

Mu Qin could see a huge chair in the depths of the cave. Many vines and thorns grew from the rock walls and gaps beside the chair, surrounding and even wrapping the huge chair.

The chair was a typical European throne, but it had no soft cushioned back, gold trim, or European carvings. It is made of ice crystal-like material, with sharp ice cones erected on the back of the chair, and the armrests are random and irregular polygons. It is so huge that three or four people can sit on it without any problem.

Moreover, there are many vines and thorns wrapped around the chair, entangled on the back and armrests of the chair, and those who sit on it will be stabbed by the thorns and suffer unbearable pain if they are not paying attention.

The only thing worth admiring about this cold and distressing chair is the butterflies. The thorny vines are blooming with large red flowers, attracting many butterflies that come out of nowhere. They are colorful butterflies. There seem to be a dozen Only, it kept circling around the Ice Crystal Throne.

Mu Qin walked towards the Butterfly Throne through the countless candles placed at his feet. He could see a person sitting on the throne through the dense vines and thorns. That person was sitting there, hanging down The head, sitting motionless, seemed to have fallen into an eternal sleep.

Mu Qin approached him (her). When he got close enough, thorns and vines blocked Mu Qin's progress. Without thinking, Mu Qin reached out and grabbed the thorny thorns and pulled them away. He ignored Putting aside the pain caused by being stabbed in his hand, and countless bloody hands, his attention was completely placed on the person sitting on the throne, he knew that he was going to pass, he had to pass.

Mu Qin, who passed through countless thorns and was covered in blood, finally came to the front of the throne. With the flickering candlelight around him, he could see the people sitting on the throne, but then Mu Qin was shocked to find... there was more than one person!

Yes, there are two people sitting on this Butterfly Throne!

It's just these two people, one is sitting and the other is lying down. The Butterfly Throne is very large, and there is no problem lying on it, but the person lying down must curl up.

However, the person lying curled up was already dead, and it looked like he had been dead for a long time. He had turned into a white bone. According to the shape of the bone and the size of the pelvis, Mu Qin could deduce that it was a woman's skeleton. He was still wearing tattered and tailored clothes, which should be the fixed gray clothes of players in the game.

But the person sitting was still alive, unlike the woman who had become bones, this was a man of flesh and blood, his hair was long to his waist, his head was disheveled, so he couldn't see his face. He had no clothes on his upper body, only a pair of tattered trousers with a big part missing.

The living man sat close to the woman's skeleton, and let the head of the woman's skeleton rest on his thigh, and one of his hands even tightly grasped the phalanges of the woman's hand. He seemed to have maintained this posture for a long time, his whole body looked stiff, and his body was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Mu Qin could imagine that when the woman died, the man had been holding her hand tightly, and they sat together on this chair, in the dark cave, welcoming the end of the world.

Mu Qin's sudden arrival did not arouse the man's slightest reaction, he still sat silently with his head down, Mu Qin watched him quietly for a while, he was not sure whether the man was asleep or simply Taking a nap, Mu Qin decided to get closer to the other party.

So Mu Qin walked closer and closer to the Butterfly Throne with unhurried steps, leaving his own bloody footprints where he stepped, because Mu Qin had just passed through the thorny thorns, and Mu Qin's hands, feet and body were covered with blood. It was a thorn, and the blood flowed profusely, but Mu Qin didn't seem to feel that kind of pain.

Mu Qin was close enough to this man that he was already standing in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, Mu Qin pondered for a moment, and stretched out his hand to touch the man's hair. He wanted to see the man's face.

But at the same time that Mu Qin stretched out his hand, the person sitting motionless on the throne suddenly reacted. As soon as Mu Qin stretched out his hand, the other hand quickly raised his other hand and grabbed Mu Qin. Chin's wrist.

Mu Qin was taken aback by him, subconsciously stepped back half a step, trying to shake off the opponent's hand, but the man grasped it very tightly, his nails were so long that they almost sank deep into Mu Qin's flesh and blood. Why, Mu Qin, who had just been pricked by thorns, didn't feel pain, but when he was pinched by this man's nails, Mu Qin frowned in pain.

He lowered his voice and said, "Let me go." The

other party didn't respond, and still held Mu Qin's hand tightly, but relaxed a little. Then the man was silent for a long time before slowly raising his head and looking at Mu Qin.

Mu Qin finally vaguely saw the other party's face through the gaps in the noisy hair of the other party, a dirty face, covered with dust and black dirt, and a pair of cloudy eyes.

Judging from his face, this man is about thirty or so years old. Ticket said that he had never seen this man before.

So who is he?

The man and Mu Qin stared at each other for a long time. The other party's eyes were quite cloudy, giving people a feeling of unconsciousness. Mu Qin could not even confirm whether the other party was really watching him. Mu Qin felt that this guy seemed to be watching through Mu Qin. Stare at "someone else".

After a long time, the man talked to Mu Qin with a hoarse voice, and he said, "Who are you?"

Mu Qin thought for a while, and replied, "My name is Mu Qin."

"Mu... Qin...?" The man's voice cracked, probably because he hadn't spoken for a long time. The voice was really not pleasant, but Mu Qin could hear a trace of consternation in the other party's voice, As if inconceivable, the man asked: "Why did you come here...you shouldn't come here..."

Mu Qin pursed his lips: "Why shouldn't I come?" The

man no longer looked at Mu Qin, but lowered his head, and Let go of Mu Qin's hand, and continued to say in a hoarse voice: "There is nothing here, there is nothing you want, and I have nothing to give you, so go back...Leave me alone."

" Who are you?" Mu Qin also asked this crucial question.

The man replied: "You won't be interested in knowing who I am."

"Of course I'm interested. I want to know who you are now." Mu Qin asked persistently, "Tell me who you are."

"I don't remember " The man compromised slightly under Mu Qin's questioning, he said, "I've been here for too long, and I've long forgotten who I am."

"What about this woman?" Mu Qin moved his eyes to him and curled up on the dead body.

The man said, "She is my prisoner."

"Prisoner?" Mu Qin was puzzled.

The man laughed suddenly, and he made a weird laugh with his bad broken voice, and said to Muchin: "Yes, I imprisoned her here, so she is my prisoner." The

man's words made Muchinton After a pause, he said, "But she is already dead and turned into a skeleton. Can this be called your 'prisoner'?"

Mu Qin's words made the man's head lower. The hand holding the woman's phalanx was trembling, trembling violently. He trembled for a long time, and said to Mu Qin, "Even if he dies,

he is still my prisoner." Shouted: "Stop dangling in front of me, get out of here! Get out of my world."

Mu Qin ignored his unfriendliness, looked around, and said to the man: "You said this is your world?" The

man said: "Of course this is my world! I am the only master of this world!" The

man said Already getting a little impatient, he was eager to drive Mu Qin out of here, and then he began to manipulate his own power. Under his will, the vines surrounding the Butterfly Throne suddenly moved, as if they were twisting one by one The poisonous snake rushed towards Mu Qin quickly.

Feeling the threat, Mu Qin subconsciously retreated and dodged, trying to avoid the attack of these vines, but there were all kinds of vines and thorns in all directions of this place, and Mu Qin had nowhere to hide. The more he retreated, the more he stepped into it. into the thorns behind him.

Just before he stepped into the thorns, those vines rushed up to restrain him, and lifted Mu Qin vigorously. Mu Qin was entangled by the vines and hung in mid-air.

After catching Mu Qin, the man continued to say to Mu Qin: "You should leave here and don't come back."

Mu Qin was unwilling, he couldn't get rid of these weird but powerful vines, so he had to shout loudly: " You have to tell me who you are!?"

"Why should I tell you?" The man seemed disdainful, "I don't know you, and I have nothing to do with you, you are just a stranger who broke into my world, of course I I'm going to drive you out."

"Nonsense!" Mu Qin suddenly became angry, he felt a layer of anger welling up in his chest, and he yelled at the man, "You clearly know me!" The

man finally raised his head and used Those turbid black eyes stared at Mu Qin: "Whether I know you or not, you shouldn't come here. This is not the place you should pursue. Live your life well, okay?"

"Life ?" Mu Qin suddenly sneered at the man mockingly: "Do you mean the countless cycles of life and death in the fringe world? Or the butterfly throne sitting under your ass now? This is my life, do you want me to live like this? "

What Mu Qin said seemed to make the man stunned. He stared at Mu Qin and said in disbelief: "No...you can't...she didn't touch the white card for you at the beginning, you can't enter the marginal world. Impossible!" The

man's words almost made Mu Qin confirm his identity.

Muqin said: "You are right, I am indeed no longer interested in who you are now, but I want to know about your prisoner, I am not here to find you."

"The prisoner...she is dead, if As you can see, she is gone." The man suddenly became very frustrated, he no longer ordered those vines to hang Mu Qin, but put Mu Qin down, and then the man lowered his head again: "I am the only one left."

"You're the only one left...then what am I?" Mu Qin reached out to wipe the blood off his face, then sneered.

"Mu Qin...listen to me." The man said to Mu Qin after a moment of silence, "You should not have died, but you still entered the marginal world, right?"

"Yes." Mu Qin recalled the previous The ghost girl in the library map, "Someone told me it was because I was born from the edge world."

"You were indeed born from the edge world...you were born here." The man lowered his head , clutching the phalanx of the woman's skeleton, "She gave birth to you, and she wanted to send you back to the real world, and then we did it."

"Is my biological father you?" Mu Qin asked calmly.

"Yes." After a long silence, the other party answered Mu Qin calmly, "I have a death card on me, so I can't die, so I have always maintained this appearance."

Mu Qin said, "So you bound her to Die?" The

man didn't speak, as if acquiescing.

After a while, he said: "I don't want to part with her, so I tied her here and let her stay with me forever."

Mu Qin ignored the man's answer. Mu Qin took two steps towards the man. He mainly wanted to see the skeleton next to him. The dead woman's skeleton was very thin, and the bones were very thin, so Mu Qin could imagine how thin she was when she was alive. She looked so weak, just like the ghost mother he had seen many years ago.

"You killed her." Mu Qin found that he couldn't take his eyes off at all, he kept staring at the corpse silently, "You killed my mother."

"If you want revenge, you can kill me." The man Say to Mu Qin like this, "But I don't suggest you do this, because once I die, you will become the next target of this throne."

"I won't kill you." Mu Qin no longer looked at his mother's bones, Instead, he shifted his gaze to the disheveled and exhausted man, "I want you to sit in this chair forever." The

man gave Mu Qin a wry smile, and tightened the finger bones of the female corpse in his hand: "That's great, I I think so too, I want to sit here forever and be with her."

"So did you get what you wanted? It's really infuriating." Mu Qin sneered at him, "You pushed the person you love into Abyss." The

man closed his mouth again and the air became silent for a moment. After Mu Qin took a deep breath, he said to the man, "Tell me what's going on, I want to know everything."

The man seemed to hesitate for a while, and finally compromised and said: "Yes, I really need to tell you everything."

"Actually, this is a very simple story." The man said, "I teamed up with her and entered the game together. I got the Reaper card, but we met a very difficult master. I didn't kill any of them, they all ran away, and only she stayed, because as soon as she left, I would be wiped out by the system along with this map. "

"She didn't want me to die, she said she would stay here with me forever."

"This is a good map, because there are waterfalls as water sources, many trees and plants grow on the cliffs, and there are edible wild fruits among them. There is light on the tiankeng. Although it is cloudy most of the time, it can be seen occasionally. A ray of sunlight shines in, no matter how bad it is, I can feed her my flesh and blood." The

man paused, as if lost in memory: "I admit that I have selfish intentions, I don't want to die, so I do my best to keep her here ...It was good at the beginning, we were all fine, but as time passed, she always looked up at the light projected from the tiankeng, the tiankeng mouth is the exit from the map, there are two ways to go out , One is to find the rock climbing tools in the cave and climb up directly, and the other is to find the road leading to the outside in the cave maze."

"I'm very worried, I thought she wanted to leave, we stayed on this map for a long time, a dark In a place where there is no light, there is no one else but each other... If you stay in this kind of place for a long time, anyone will go crazy, so it is understandable for her to want to go out, but I am very scared... I don't want to be left behind. "

"Then at this moment, I found such a chair appeared on the map, a butterfly throne made of ice crystals."

Mu Qin could almost imagine the ending, he laughed: "So you sat on this chair, Utilizing the power of the throne, using these vines and thorns to trap her, she became your 'prisoner' in a true sense, and she was still pregnant with your child." The

man covered his face with his hand: "Yes, That's it, she didn't show any rejection or resistance to being bound by me at that time, she just said that she hoped that I could find a way to send the child out after it was born, and she didn't want the child to be bound in this map "

I agree, although I don't know how to do it, but after you were born, I did use the power of the throne to send you out. You were born in this world with a very special physique. Like a white card, she can travel back and forth between reality and the marginal world... But before sending you out, she became very weak after giving birth. She was malnourished for a long time in this map, and giving birth took her away. The last of my strength, so after feeding you a few times, I died of weakness."

"So you want to say that I was the one who killed my mother?" Mu Qin's tone was full of sarcasm.

The man shook his head slightly: "I didn't mean that... If I let go and sent her away from this picture, she wouldn't have died at all, she shouldn't have died... I did kill her."

"Since she died , then the ghost I saw when I was a child is indeed my mother?" Muchin was puzzled: "Why did I see her soul?"

"The power of the throne allows me to preserve her soul." The man said , "It's amazing, I don't know how I did it, but I did give her some power, so that her soul can freely enter and exit this world. She said she wants to see you, and wants to see you grow up, I let her go, she will watch you for a long time every time, and then come back and tell me how you are, she is very happy, happier than when she was alive, and I am so happy when she is happy, I thought we This state can be maintained forever."

"But one day, she began to disappear, her soul became more and more transparent, no matter how much power I instilled in her, she was gradually disappearing, and she also began to lose consciousness gradually , she seemed to realize that she was really going to leave, and after saying goodbye to me, she disappeared." The

man was very calm when he told these things, but he seemed sad, and there was pain hidden in his hoarse voice: "I was eventually One person stayed, no matter how many methods I tried to keep her... In the end, all she left me was this bone, so I can only sit here and wait for the end of everything."

When the man said this, he was very Sadness: "I'm not going anywhere, Mu Qin...but I hope you can leave here and leave this world."

"It's impossible." Mu Qin said, "I don't know why, I always don't I am constantly pulled back into this world, I am not dead, I have never been in contact with a white card or any medium, I will also enter the marginal world."

Mu Qin's words made the man think for a long time, and then he sighed: "You should not have been born Child."

"Why do you say that?"

The man shook his head slightly: "Don't mind, it's not that I don't look forward to your birth. I was very happy when she was pregnant. We all thought that having a child would change this cruel situation. I really look forward to your birth." Appeared, but now that I think about it, you really shouldn't have been born."

"Is it because my birth directly caused my mother's death?" Mu Qin asked.

The man shook his head: "No, it's not this...I mean...Mu Qin, your mother and I are both dead in the real world. We got a different kind of rebirth in the marginal world, but that doesn't mean We are living people, and the child born after our two 'dead people' fell in love, that is, you...is not a living person."

Mu Qin immediately understood the meaning of the man, and he said: "That is to say, I never You are a dead person from birth."

"That's right...you don't have a soul." The man raised his head and stared at Mu Qin, "You are different from me and your mother, although we are dead, our souls are here, but You don't have... You have no soul and no emotion from the very beginning, but you have your own will. When you were born, you didn't cry or laugh, and you only cried to express your needs when necessary. You are a thinking person What the

man said made Mu Qin feel a little creepy, Mu Qin said: "You said I have no soul, no emotion? This is impossible, I can fall in love with others... I will even kill my mother because of you And feel angry."

"It's just because you have lived in human society for too long and gradually learned to imitate human emotions." The man told Mu Qin the truth extremely cruelly: "The real you do not have soul and emotion, I believe in yourself I have also experienced it. You can indeed have feelings for others in many situations, but this kind of feeling is just your rational brain telling you to do so, so that it conforms to social standards and human values, and can make you live a better life. Go on...to live more like a 'person'."

Mu Qin inexplicably felt a little twitching in his heart, beating too violently in his chest, which made Mu Qin feel raw pain: "You mean my love for the one I love Feelings, feelings for my mother, feelings for you, are these all fake? Is it all the feelings that I think 'should be done this way' and 'it's better to do this way'?"

"I'm also not sure if it's fake or not." The man expressed his powerlessness, "I don't think it will affect you, you were well educated by those adoptive parents, even if you didn't have it, they have taught you to With it, you can choose to do whatever you want, as long as it feels right to you."

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