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

Chapter 67: Destination (3)

The right thing, what exactly?

In fact, Mu Qin couldn't recognize it at all.

He didn't want to talk to this man who claimed to be his father anymore, because every sentence and every word he said was like a pot of boiled mush, bubbling and bubbling out of Mu Qin's head Come on, this made Mu Qin feel dizzy, and his ears were buzzing like a bee.

Mu Qin was not afraid, but he refused to accept these things that made him feel uncomfortable, and felt that if he admitted the words that came out of the man's mouth, it would be like admitting that his feelings for Zhou Yue were also false.

He can scream and repeat a thousand times that he loves Zhou Yue very much.

Even though he is so confident, Mu Qin is still afraid. He always felt that some things were slowly slipping out of his control, and he couldn't help but start to panic, while the other puppet-like him in his heart looked at everything coldly.

Mu Qin knew what he said was true.

Mu Qin knew that there was indeed a monster-like existence without the slightest emotion in his body. That monster was lurking in the depths of his subconscious mind, and occasionally it would pop up inadvertently, destroying Mu Qin's thoughts and occupying Mu Qin's brain , it will become the dominant body of this body, it will swallow up the pitiful feelings in Mu Qin's heart, and it will turn Mu Qin into a cold-blooded and ruthless executioner.

It will make Mu Qin forget Zhou Yue's existence.

Realizing this fact made Mu Qin feel extremely painful, there was an invisible hand tearing at his heart, he couldn't even tell whether this painful feeling was his real emotion, but he was really uncomfortable now, this pain The feeling of being suffocated made his breathing difficult and his heart beat like a drum.

The painful Mu Qin could only stretch out his hands to cover his face, he took a deep breath to calm his messy thoughts, he wanted to calm down, he would calm down, he was always calm like a monster.

"I don't know if you're trying to escape." The man watched Mu Qin's expression change without any trace. He first saw Mu Qin showing a sad expression, and then quickly covered his face, but he relaxed again after a while. With the hands covering his face, the expression on his face returned to normal, and even began to become extremely cold.

Looking at Mu Qin's changes, the man felt deeply that this son who was like a stranger was difficult to get close to. Even if the emotionless Mu Qin felt sad and sad, such emotions would disappear quickly. Quickly restore calm, so others can't speculate on his true inner thoughts.

The man said with regret: "Mu Qin, I hope you can face up to what I said... Although it is very cruel to you, you are the last gift she left me, so I will help you, yours All requests, as long as I can do it, I will satisfy you."

"Even if I want to kill you, will you satisfy me?" said the indifferent Mu Qin.

The man sighed: "As I said before, if you kill me, you will be bound by this throne. This is not a good choice for you. If you really want me to die, you can find someone else to kill me."

" Forget it." Mu Qin lowered his head, took a deep breath, he was much calmer, he slowly swept away the messy emotions accumulated in his mind, and he calmed down as expected, "Killing you is really nothing to me. Good, then I'll ask you some questions, I think you know a lot about the fringe world."

"You ask." The man nodded ready to answer.

"I'm very curious." Mu Qin said, "I grew up in the real world to this day. I am 27 years old this year. Even though the time flow in the real world and the game map are different, but according to the time in the real world, you It should have entered the fringe world for some reason more than 20 years ago."

Mu Qin stared at the man gloomyly: "However, as far as I know, this game was only opened about four years ago... Do you know what's going on for many years?" The

man thought for a while and replied, "The Rim World game will be updated."

"Update?" Mu Qin was completely caught off guard, startled by the man's sudden words.

"Yes, it's an update." The man frowned slightly, "Just like many online games we play, every once in a while, the official server will be shut down for maintenance and updates. The same is true for the fringe world, which also needs to be updated."

" There is such a thing as a system update..." Mu Qin thought it was amazing, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed to be a matter of course.

There is nothing absolutely perfect in this world, and even a fringe world certainly has some loopholes and flaws. These loopholes and defects require regular updates and maintenance plus upgrades to patch them up completely.

Although I can understand it, I vaguely feel that things have become more complicated. Thinking of this, Mu Qin couldn't help feeling a big head, so he had to press his temple and massage gently to relieve the headache that came up at no time.

Then Mu Qin showed a self-deprecating smile: "So, how is the marginal world updated?"

"How to update..." The man didn't seem to like to mention this process, and his brows frowned even more, "The will of the world All maps will be closed first. Whether it is a player playing the game on the game map or a player resting and sleeping in the safe house, they will be "forced to quit" the moment the game starts to update."

Mu Qin suddenly said in horror: "If I understand correctly, your so-called 'forced exit'...does it mean that all players will die?" The

man nodded affirmatively: "Yes, you understand correctly, once the edge world starts updating, it will Delete all the data in the entire game world. We players are nothing more than a bunch of data in the eyes of the system, and they will easily 'delete' us."

"This also means... everyone will die What?" The man's words made Mu Qin's heart tremble.

"There is a dead end." The man confirmed, "Except for players like me who sit on the throne and obtain the power of 'Eternal Immortality' through the death card and the power of the throne, everyone else will die and disappear along with the map or the safe house."

Mu Qin vaguely understood, he squinted his eyes, and put forward an idea of ​​his own: "Could it be that the will of the fringe world is actually encouraging players to look for the Butterfly Throne?

" "After all... if we don't look for the Butterfly Throne, we will be deleted along with the system update, so players have no choice but to do everything possible to survive, even if the price of survival is to sit on such a throne A chair that will bind you forever."

"How long does it take for the game to update?"

"Fifteen years." The man continued, "The fifteen years I'm talking about is the time in the real world...because the flow of time in the game is different from that in reality, so In the game, players may not feel the passage of fifteen years, they only feel that one or two years have passed, or even shorter."

Mu Qin looked at the man thoughtfully: "How do you know this? Will the marginal world still send you a report before updating the game?" The

man actually answered Mu Qin seriously: "Yes, the system will of course send a notification to the players. A few days before the game is about to be updated, the system will send a notification to all players. Message, this message is sent directly to the players' brains."

"The general content is to tell you that the game will be updated, the server will be shut down, the data will be cleared, and you will die. It also said that the game update will take fifteen years, and The specific time when the game will be reopened."

"At the stage when the system is updated and all game maps are closed, can the power of the Butterfly Throne still work?" Mu Qin asked the men one by one.

The man also answered these questions calmly and answered them one by one: "Of course it works. The Butterfly Throne can stabilize the Throne map, so that the Throne map will not be deleted along with the system update... How to describe it, the Throne is probably a small server, right? It underpins the map, allowing the Throne map and King's Power to work even with the entire Rimworld shut down."

Mu Qin rubbed his chin in a thoughtful state: "I know that the Butterfly Throne has a chance to be refreshed on every map, so do you know if there are other kings sitting on the throne besides you, and how many are there?"

"Yes, But not many, as far as I know...Including me, there are probably only three of them, and the three of us are the 'kings' left over from the update of the previous game version. A king, I don't know." The

man told Mu Qin, "As long as the map exists long enough, the Butterfly Throne will definitely appear on the map, but you know... If you want the map to exist forever, you must Let at least one human player and ghost player stay in the map all the time, and it takes a long time."

"Since each map is a closed environment automatically generated by the system to extract some scenes that the players have visited, the resources inside are limited. Human players want to stay for a long time and need a lot of water and food, which is very difficult."

"Lucky like me." The man recalled something, "There is a lot of water and some scary things in this map. edible wild fruit, so she is willing to stay with me, but even so, we waited for about three or four months before seeing the Butterfly Throne appear."

Mu Qin was surprised: "So long?"

"Every time The odds of each map are different." The man said in a dull tone, "At that time, she was two months pregnant, and I trapped her after the throne was spawned, and she seemed to be unaware that she was being bound by me. She was going to lie in my arms and fall asleep, she smiled at me at that time... I can still remember." The

man lowered his head and hugged the bones on his legs, he hugged for a while, and said to Muqin: "I'm sorry... Mu Qin, although I hate myself for selfishly forcing your mother to stay with me, but for a long time, I am very glad that I kept her."

Mu Qin said: "I probably can I understand the reason why you want to keep your mother forcibly, because you know that the game needs to be updated, even if you send her out, it will be a dead end. Sorry, if this is the case, it is normal for you to keep her by force."

"No, that's not the case." The man shook his head and denied, "The game update happened some time after she died. Before she died, I had the opportunity to send her out, but I didn't.

" What can I do?" Mu Qin seemed to see through something, "She can only escape from this map, but she cannot escape from this world... In the end, everyone is going to die."

After hearing Mu Qin's words, the man put The corpse in his arms hugged him even tighter, and his voice was hoarse: "I love her so much that I can't let go, even if she dies. I think I'm probably crazy."

"..." Mu Qin didn't speak, After being silent for a while, he suddenly seemed to remember something, and asked the man in a puzzled tone, "Is the Edge World game automatically updated?"

"Automatically updated?" The man didn't quite understand the meaning of Mu Qin's question. He thought for a while, "I don't understand what you mean by asking, isn't it an automatic update? As I said before, the game will send a notification to all players three days before the update."

"Then what about restarting the game? Sometimes, will the system send you a notice to restart the game?" Mu Qin asked.

The man shook his head: "That's not true. If you hadn't come today, I wouldn't even know that the fringe world had been restarted. I've been sleeping...and I haven't heard any sound."

Hearing this, Mu Qin felt strange. Squinting his eyes: "That's interesting."

"What's interesting?" the man asked.

"I heard a piece of news from other people." Mu Qin said, "Someone once told me that the edge world was opened by a group of players 'hands-on' four years ago."

Mu Qin remembered that not long ago, Zhou When Yue confronted and talked with the king possessed by his mother Xie Zhu, Zhou Yue mentioned that he knew a player whose system number was "13". Shouting, what he said roughly meant "The first batch of players who entered the game are all dead, it is impossible for players with numbers like 13 to exist."

And at that time, the king also mentioned that "the first players who entered the game were also the players who opened the edge world, and they restarted the edge world, so all the disasters were caused by them." Such words.

Mu Qin, who heard these words at the time, subconsciously believed that the marginal world was opened artificially, but now Mu Qin's biological father told him that the marginal world is automatically opened and closed in a cycle, and it is closed every once in a while due to updating the system. Turn it on again, and so on.

But what is the truth, or is there some misunderstanding in it?

Mu Qin couldn't figure this out, so he told his doubts to the man on the throne in front of him, the man thought for a while, and then told Mu Qin the specific time of the game update, he said: "I remember the last time the game was updated, the world will be closed When you were on the server, it was after your mother left... I sent you to the real world, and then she became a ghost and took care of you for three years, watching you being sent to the adoptive parents' house before leaving. Not long after leaving, I received the news that the system update was closed."

"This means that when I was three years old, the last version of the edge world was closed due to an update." Mu Qin began to record the specific timeline based on the man's words.

"I am now twenty-seven years old. As far as I know, this version of the game was launched four years ago, that is, when I was twenty-three years old... No, to put it this way, the border world is silent Was it reopened after twenty years?"

At this point, Mu Qin looked at the man suspiciously: "Didn't you say that the system will automatically reopen the border world after fifteen years of closing the game?"

"The system message I received did say so, saying that the game will be restarted after being closed for fifteen years, but this is just the rhetoric of the system, and because I have been sleeping all these years, has the game restarted on schedule? ...I don't know at all." The

man guessed, "Maybe there is something wrong with the system, which caused the delay of restarting the game."

"Of course, it is also possible that someone used some means to seal the border world..." said The man laughed by himself, as if he was amused by his conjecture.

He said: "Although this conjecture is like a fantasy, assuming that someone really did it, a group of guys called heroes ended the game and made this terrible cycle not continue. However, four years ago, a group of The dead guy opened it again, like opening Pandora's box."

"If that's the case..." Mu Qin said with narrowed eyes, "then those players who reopened the border world really caused all disasters The culprit, the chance to end everything...was just destroyed."

"We don't know the truth, maybe our thinking is wrong." The man pondered for a moment, then suddenly said to Mu Qin: "Mu Qin, say To be honest, I don't want you to enter the fringe world to continue reincarnation, but I can't think of a way to take you out of this world."

"I said that you have no soul and no emotion, and you are a 'dead' from birth, I can't describe your existence, although you are her child, but I think part of you comes from the edge world, from this abyss."

"I don't understand what you mean." Mu Qin looked at this man coldly.

The man said: "I mean..." The

man seemed unable to think of any words to express his thoughts. He thought for a long time, sighed first, then looked at Mu Qin for a long time, and remained silent for a long time. Finally, he suddenly changed the topic and talked about the past: "When I was young, I was with your mother."

"At that time in China, neither the economy nor technology developed very well, and there were many poor people... I was A poor person from a rural village, he came out to work before finishing high school, and in order to make money, he has been running around under the hands of various bosses in big cities."

"Your mother is completely different from me, she is from a rich family The eldest lady who came out has a good family and plans to send her to study abroad. I don't know how she fell in love with me, but we met and we got together after a few dates. For me, she abandoned the study abroad. Opportunity, stay in China to finish school and start working."

"She is very good, she is also very serious about her work, and her salary is several times mine." The man said, laughing at himself, "I still had low self-esteem at the time, I felt that I was not worthy of her, and I wanted to break up many times, but As soon as I saw her smiling face, I immediately threw this idea out of my mind."

"We are not married, we have not obtained a certificate, and we just live together. After working for a few years, I have some savings, a joint venture to start a business, and I can travel all over the world. Soliciting business and talking about investment, she is good at calculating and managing financial funds carefully, and we cooperate very well, which is unbelievable, so our business is getting bigger and bigger and more prosperous."

"It's a pity that I didn't understand this at the time. , and with the money in hand, she became arrogant and provoked some people who shouldn't be provoked, so she was quickly suppressed by the competition forces indicated by the other party. Our business began to decline. She hoped to stop the loss in time, but I Unconvinced and wanted to take a gamble, I just invested all my money in the projects I was optimistic about at the time, but the more I gambled, the more I lost, and it was a mess."

"She didn't blame me, she said that she would regroup and start again, but I fell into a trough at that time , felt that I was useless, and used all kinds of alcohol to relieve my worries. Once I drank too much, lost my mind, and met the guy who shouldn't be provoked in the bar."

"That's a fat man, I don't have much ability, But the family has money and power. The reason why he provoked him at the time was because he made fun of your mother and asked me to give your mother to him for fun. I immediately became furious and punched him in the face, so he held grudges Come on, tell people to suppress us in various ways."

"I have always hated this matter, so after I saw this fat man in the bar again, I got drunk and went to trouble him. I fought with him, And beat him to death by mistake."

"Manslaughter, I went to jail and was sentenced to seven years. The family of the dead fat man threatened to let me die in prison. Your mother is looking for relationships in various ways, hoping to help me turn around, Overcome this difficulty. But because she tried every means to ask people to help me, she was also targeted by the family behind that fat man."

Speaking of this, the man suddenly stopped continuing, and Mu Qin was engrossed in listening, seeing Without saying a word, he subconsciously asked the follow-up: "And then?"

The man's face was gloomy: "They found a few gangsters to gang-rape your mother."

Mu Qin clenched his fists: "Did they succeed?" The

man shook his head: "I don't know, she didn't tell me what happened I only know that she killed those bastards with a short knife brought by the bastards."

"After killing people, she went home immediately to clean herself up, changed her clothes and came to the prison to see me for the last time , when she came to see me she had a sunny smile on her face, just like her usual one, I didn't even know she killed someone, and then she told me that she used all our assets to buy insurance, benefiting It's me, and after I get out of prison for seven years, the money will be transferred to my account."

"I realized something was wrong and asked her what was going on, but she refused to answer me and then left A month later, I heard her news that she was sentenced to death for intentional homicide, and she was sentenced to death without a reprieve, and she didn't appeal, so she just accepted it."

"Two months later, I didn't think about it. He also committed suicide in prison." The man ended their story with this sentence, and after he finished speaking, he looked up at Mu Qin and continued: "When I woke up again, I came to the edge of the world, and Meet her again in the second game."