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

Chapter 97: Butterfly Throne (6)

It was too late to escape.

Zhou Yue, whose throat was cut, soon stopped breathing. Mu Qin stretched out his arms to hug Zhou Yue's limp body, and knelt down on the ground.

Mu Qin raised his head and looked at the thorns all around him. Those thorns had already covered Mu Qin's body and dragged him towards the throne.

At this time, it is obviously impossible to use the white card given by Echo to open the door and escape.

Mu Qin couldn't even climb out of the door that had been set up in front of him and hadn't completely disappeared.

These thorns were extremely powerful, and the thorns on them seemed to have some strange effect. They were stuck on Mu Qin's body one by one, and it didn't hurt very much, but it made Mu Qin unable to move.

So Mu Qin could only be slowly and slowly dragged back to the throne by these thorns, he felt like a prey being swallowed by a snake, unable to struggle, he could only twitch.

He still held Zhou Yue's icy body in his hands.

Zhou Yue is not dead. Mu Qin knew that as long as Zhou Yue's real body was still alive, even if Mu Qin killed him here, Zhou Yue's soul would just return to his own body. Soon Zhou Yue will get rid of the player's identity and become an ordinary person again.

You don't need to go through the cycle of life and death in the fringe world, and you don't need to fight wits and bravery with the king who is entangled inexplicably. Although you will lose the powerful power you gained in the marginal world, you can return to the rare peace.

Zhou Yue will also forget everything that happened in the marginal world, forget these barren maps and cards with terrible power, forget these cruel survival rules and teammates who will betray and turn back at any time.

He will even forget Mu Qin.

Players who return to the present world from the marginal world will have their memories corrected by the will of the world. Therefore, Zhou Yue will never forget what he did in another world.

His meeting and parting with Mu Qin in this world, these...he will forget all of them.

Mu Qin lowered his head and looked gently at Zhou Yue, who seemed to be sleeping peacefully in his arms. His eyes were blatantly infatuated. He buried his face in Zhou Yue's neck, breathing in the residual bloody smell on her body.

"Don't forget..." Mu Qin, who was alone at the moment, was bound by these thorns, and the person he loved the most died in his arms, and no one could help him. No matter how strong and tenacious Mu Qin's character is, at this moment, he couldn't help feeling a little weak in his heart.

The weak Mu Qin shouted hoarsely to Zhou Yue: "Don't forget me... Zhou Yue..." The

thorns dragged Mu Qin away, and he was dragged to the throne.

He seemed to lose consciousness briefly during the process of being dragged. It may be that the thorns scratched him with large or deep or shallow wounds during the process of dragging him. The rapid loss of blood caused his brain to lack oxygen and formed a syncope.

It's just that the powerful recovery ability of the death card made Mu Qin unconscious for a short time, and the time he lost consciousness was only about a dozen seconds.

What makes people sad is that during the ten or so seconds when he lost consciousness, it seemed that because of his inability to control his weak body and the constant dragging of thorns, Mu Qin did not hug Zhou Yue's cold body. After they separated, Zhou Yue was thrown halfway by him, lying alone on the gravel road, covered with Mu Qin's blood.

Mu Qin raised his head, watching himself and Zhou Yue getting further and further away.

"It's just a shell." Mu Qin tried to comfort himself, "That's not the real Zhou Yue..." His

vision seemed to be blurred by blood, and Mu Qin wanted to reach out and rub his eyes, but his hands and feet were bound by thorns , he had no choice but to give up, and stopped moving as if giving up on himself, being slowly dragged by the thorns.

Soon he was dragged to the throne, and when his body touched the extremely cold throne made of ice crystals, Mu Qin couldn't help shivering.

Then, for the first time, he began to take a serious look at the so-called "Throne of Butterflies"...or should it be called the Throne of Thorns?

The throne is made of an ice crystal material... This so-called ice crystal is very similar to an ice cube frozen at a low temperature. It also exudes a cold temperature and emits a cold air, but it will not melt or produce moisture. .

It was cold and cool, but extremely dry to the touch.

The shape of this chair is very similar to the style in some European-style movie games, with a Gothic dark style. The back of the chair and the armrests are covered with ice edges, the kind of tall protruding ice spikes.

It is worth mentioning that an ice thorn erected on the back of the chair forms a cross-like shape, and with the thorns wrapped around the chair, it looks very similar to the logo of the Fringe World game "Snake Wrapped Cross".

The throne is very big, and it is no problem for three people to sit side by side. It is not difficult to lie on it, as long as you are careful not to be hurt by the thorns wrapped around it and the protruding ice thorns.

Mu Qin, who had just been dragged to the throne, was in a bad mood. The thorns that entangled him loosened their grip on Mu Qin the moment he was dragged up, and sat obediently and obediently on the foot of the throne.

At the same time, lying at the foot of the chair was the king who had been killed by Mu Qin before.

The corpse of the former king seemed to be nourished by the thorns. The dense thorns pierced the corpse, and soon more thorns grew on the corpse, and bright red flower buds grew, blooming a brighter red. name flowers.

There are many butterflies that come out of nowhere hovering beside the flowers. They are colorful and look like poisonous flowers and butterflies.

"Is this the fate of the king?" Mu Qin sat on the chair, looking at the miserable corpse of the former king.

He was in a daze for a while, and during his daze, the wounds on his body healed slowly with the effect of the death card, except for the holes and blood on his clothes, his smooth skin could hardly tell that he had been injured.

Until now, Mu Qin is still at a loss. He has not really realized what it feels like to be a king bound to the throne.

When Mu Qin stood up, stepped off the throne, and tried to move forward and away from the throne, the quiet thorns beside him suddenly boiled up, swiftly, twisted, and rushed towards Mu Qin with teeth and claws.

Mu Qin had no choice but to step back and sit back on the cold chair.

Seeing Mu Qin sitting back, those boiling thorns calmed down in an instant, twisting and slowly shrinking back.

"You can't leave even one step, you have to stay in the chair all the time." Mu Qin said to himself, "So, I'm not so much the king, but more like a puppet of this throne?

" Incomparable rights." Mu Qin stared at the thorns at his feet for a while. Then Mu Qin suddenly pointed to the thorn

with his finger, and ordered: "You, get up."

A saluting knight who lowers his eyebrows in front of the king to show his loyalty.

"Put your thorns away, go outside and drag that corpse back." Muqin gave it such an order, this thorn was so commanded, he used the tip to pull out all the thorns on his body one by one, and then It crawled out like a snake, and dragged Zhou Yue back who was lying outside.

The thorn moved very quickly, and soon entangled Zhou Yuecheng to Mu Qin. The thornless thorn lifted Zhou Yue up high, and Mu Qin inexplicably saw the meaning of flattery from the thorn that had been pulled out. .

Mu Qin shook his head to get this inexplicable feeling out of his mind, and reached out to hug Zhou Yue, letting him lie in his arms.

The quiet Zhou Yue lay quietly in Mu Qin's arms, and Mu Qin lowered his head to rub Zhou Yue's cheek... Even if Zhou Yue is just a fake body now, this is Mu Qin's only consolation.

...

At the same time, Jin, who had already returned to the previous map of the gymnasium through the door, kept guarding the door, waiting for Mu Qin to come back, although he knew that Mu Qin had a high possibility and was destined not to come back .

Mu Qin is the ghost in this game. If he is trapped in the throne map and cannot come back, then the stadium map without ghosts will collapse immediately.

The game map collapsed, and all players on the map, as long as they were still alive, would be instantly teleported back to the safe house.

It is equivalent to saying that the game of the gymnasium is directly invalidated, and the cards, props, reward points, etc. obtained by the players in this game will also be confiscated.

Jin waited for a long time, and Mu Qin never came back. Interestingly, however, the gym has never collapsed without the ghost of Mu Qin, which made Jin realize... there is still a ghost in this game.

Mu Qin drew a death card as soon as he entered the stage, and another player probably brought in a death card from outside, so this game should have been a double ghost game.

However, Mu Qin took the ghost card he drew to the throne map and never came back, so there was only another ghost and four humans including Jin left on the map.

Jin sighed at this thought, and reached out to grab the knife stuck in his neck - the one that Mu Qin had stuck in before.

After such a long period of time, Jin's self-healing skills have gradually recovered the damaged cells and lost blood on Jin's neck. Pulling out the knife at this time will not cause him to bleed to death.

So Jin reluctantly pulled out the blade, and then covered the wound on his neck with his clothes and coat. He panted heavily, and sat by the door to rest.

During the rest, he looked at the door next to him. This door was opened with a replica white card. It will not exist for a long time, and there are already signs of disappearing, because the door gradually began to become transparent.

Mu Qin really couldn't come back.

In fact, it was already expected. Jin knew that Mu Qin would not come back. The will of the world wanted to keep someone, and there was no reason why he couldn't keep him.

So Mu Qin is destined to stumble in the throne map.

Even in order for Mu Qin to compromise obediently, the will of the world will take advantage of Mu Qin's weakness - Zhou Yue.

For God, all people and creatures in this world can be regarded as a blank sheet of paper.

A clean and simple white paper, everyone's life, thoughts, beliefs, emotions are written on the white paper, clearly at a glance.

And God controls the pen of fate, the pen that can modify the content on the white paper at will. Everything about people can be easily tampered with by this pen. Just one or two words can completely rewrite someone's face.

Among the many pure white papers, only Mu Qin is the black paper covered with thick black ink. He is black, and God cannot see his thoughts and emotions, and God's pen cannot write on the black paper. leave no traces.

In this way, Mu Qin becomes the existence that cannot be controlled.

Because you can't master it, it makes people want to master it even more. God tried to lock up this uncertain and insecure element, Mu Qin, in a cage he had made.

The throne is that prepared cage.

Jin reminded Muqin that he wanted to tell Muqin that no one in this world is worthy of Muqin's trust, because everyone is a pawn of the world's will, and their approach is only to fulfill a certain purpose of the world's will. Purpose.

But whether this reminder was spoken by Jin or someone else, it seemed extremely ridiculous. If it is true that no one can believe it, then Mu Qin should not believe Jin's reminder.

Jin does not have the qualifications to help Mu Qin, nor does he have the power to help Mu Qin.

Both he and Zhou Yue were bound and manipulated. As long as he didn't cut off the puppet strings connecting him, Jin would never be able to help Mu Qin.

"The puppet's thread..." Jin lowered his head and sighed. He took the knife he had just taken off his neck, and unconsciously cut the skin on his wrist with the blade, because the force was very light, and the sharp blade was only on him. Leaves a light stain on the wrist.

This so-called god is a false god.

The fringe world has not existed for a long time from its birth to the present. Judging from the information currently available to Jin, the fringe world was first born about three hundred years ago, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, Europe was in the eighteenth century, that is, the period from 1700 to 1799 AD. During this century, Britain and France were undergoing a huge change.

The Rimworld was first born in Europe, quietly appearing in the chaotic zone where wars are frequent.

At that time, the fringe world was not called the fringe world, and it didn't seem to have any specific name. Some people called it hell, some called it the demon world, and some thought that the fringe world was a trial given by the gods, and they called it a trial ground.

At that time, it was also the stage when the power of the marginal world was the strongest. The killing and war prompted people to give birth to a new belief in the chaos, and there were even such a group of villains who believed in demons and worshiped evil.

And the evil beliefs of these believers have strengthened the power of the marginal world.

Affected by this evil force, a large number of ordinary people at that time could inadvertently peek into a corner of the marginal world through dreaming.

For this kind of dream stalker, most people will only regard the marginal world as a terrible nightmare, and the dream will pass away.

But there are also some people who will keep the pictures spied in their dreams through various art forms such as books, paintings, and even sculptures.

And these books, paintings or sculptures became the later "medium". People who come into contact with these media can easily connect with the marginal world in their sleep.

At the same time, these people are also prone to have a higher chance of entering the marginal world after death.

In the original fringe world, its mode did not exist in the form of a killing game of five people and one ghost.

In the beginning, the fringe world seemed to be a super-large map with complex terrain and almost invisible borders. In order to survive, the people who entered began to compete for limited resources, and large-scale melees broke out inside.

With the passage of time, the marginal world also began to follow the progress of human civilization and change, and it absorbed some of the most popular elements of human culture. Slowly evolved, upgraded, and gradually perfected into what Mu Qin and others see today-it has become a horrifying and terrifying killing game with infinite reincarnation.

While Rimworld has been upgrading and perfecting itself, many of the original elements remain.

For example, its theme is eternal killing, crime, and death, which may be caused by the fact that it was born in a "war" that has all the above three factors.

Another example is that there is a strong religious culture and mysticism in the marginal world.

The symbol of the cross, representing Christianity. The snake wrapped around the cross is related to alchemy. Tarot cards represent ancient astrology and are said to have originated in ancient Egypt.

Many elements are combined to form the appearance that the edge world presents to everyone today.

This mysterious world evolves very fast, but the real "age" of the fringe world is only about three hundred years. Compared with the evolutionary history of human beings over tens of millions of years, it is actually not worth mentioning.

That's why Kim said that the will of the world is a false false god.

After all, at the very beginning, there was absolutely no so-called "god" on Earth... at least on this planet, and human civilization has been developing naturally.

Until three hundred years ago, in a certain area and in a certain war, a strange event that Jin did not understand and could not understand occurred. This event directly led to the birth of the marginal world, and at the same time led to the birth of the will of the marginal world.

What is the reason for all this, due to the age, can no longer be investigated.

However, since its birth cannot be traced, it should at least be understood how it ended.

Jin, who was sitting by the door thinking, put down the blade in his hand, looked at the door that had completely disappeared and continued to sigh, he knew that he couldn't continue thinking. The will of the world may probe his thoughts anytime and anywhere. Although Jin has mastered a method to close his self-consciousness through years of subconscious self-training, Jin cannot guarantee that this method will be 100% effective.

In most cases, he has to be careful and careful.

He wants to wrap himself up and use his forged "personality".

King gave many people a schizophrenic, dual personality feeling. Most people thought he was a crazy psycho, and he was.

Ideas cannot deceive the will of the world, which can read people's hearts, so in order to deceive God, Jin must deceive himself.

It is very difficult to create a "believer" personality who fully believes in God, follows God, and has no second thoughts, but Jin finally managed it after years of hard work.

Moreover, this believer personality will only appear when God probes Jin's thinking, completely occupying Jin's brain, making Jin's thoughts change immediately, like a perfect stress response.

But there are also sequelae. Occasionally, Jin will lose his memory. Sometimes he can remember what the believer personality did and said when he appeared, and sometimes he can't remember at all.

It's like now...

"My great lord." Jin began to speak to himself inexplicably, he opened his arms towards the void, "I will unconditionally fulfill everything you command!"

...

The ruins under the silver moonlight.

Collapsed stone carvings and stone pillars, dense bushes and jungles, in the middle of the ruins is an ice crystal throne surrounded by black vines and thorns, and a person in a black dress sits on it.

The face of the person sitting on the throne is blurred. Even though the moon is shining, his face is still blurred like a mosaic.

"We met again, Zhou Yue." The man spoke to Zhou Yue, his voice fluctuated from far to near, and he couldn't even distinguish between men and women.

After hearing this man's voice, Zhou Yue seemed to have just recovered, and turned her head to stare at the man's face that she couldn't see clearly.

Zhou Yue said, "Is that you?

"

Zhou Yue seemed to recognize the other party, Zhou Yue frowned and said, "You are the king who led me to sit on the throne in my dream... No, no..."

Zhou Yue suddenly raised her head and looked around carefully. This is indeed a barren ruins scene, which is somewhat similar to the throne map he entered through the white card before, but there are still huge differences.

There are collapsed stone pillars and broken walls, and some fire pillar stone lamps that are still burning. It may have been a large building... like a fortress temple, but now there are only a few. The pillars and walls were broken, and huge holes were broken in the marble roof overhead, and the silvery moonlight poured down and sprinkled on the flagstone floor with weeds growing in the gaps.

Moonlight, yes... it's moonlight. On the map of the throne that he entered with the white card before, the sky was cloudy. Although it was very dark, it was not night, so there was no such moonlight.

"The scene...is not right." Zhou Yue muttered to himself.

Then he turned his head to look at the "king" on the throne, looking at the king's always blurry face and the gorgeous black dress on the other side, Zhou Yue couldn't help but continued: "People... are not right..."

" That king is dead, and Mu Qin said he killed the king..." Zhou Yue seemed to realize something terrible, he suddenly stared at him with wide eyes in horror, "Who are you?"

"You didn't realize until now Arriving?" The man on the throne with a vague face sneered, "Is it too late?"

"What did you do to me?" Zhou Yue felt as if he was trembling, he couldn't control the weird emotions churning in his mind, it seemed to be fear, and it seemed to be excitement.

Zhou Yue hugged her head, confused: "You must have done something to me... I can't... control my thoughts..."

The man on the throne didn't speak, he sat on the back of the chair with a Holding his hand on the armrest, he dragged his chin, watching Zhou Yue fall into madness with carelessness.

Zhou Yue knelt on the ground unconsciously. He seemed to be in pain and pulled his hair vigorously. Many images flashed back in his mind, but none of them could be kept.

"You are useless." The "Faceless Man" on the throne said softly, seemingly very gentle, "You are just a tool I used to restrain Mu Qin, and now Mu Qin is mine...so, I will let you go Yes ."

"Although I want to kill you more, but the rules don't allow it."

The faceless man raised his hand slightly, and he used some power that Zhou Yue didn't understand, and Zhou Yue suddenly felt his eyes go dark, and then lost consciousness ... At the moment of landing, he felt the illusion of disintegration - as if the body was split into countless pieces, even broken down into particles.

"Go back." The faceless man's voice echoed in the darkness, "Go back to your original world."