The Trial Game of Life

"I may... exist a little longer and longer than you think. The Eternal Night City at that time was also very different from what it is now... er, it is very different in every way."

"Is it better than now, or worse?"

"Good?" This was an unexpected answer.

Tang Cuo raised his hand, motioning for him to continue.

The mouse stumbled and continued, "I don't know how to judge, but the Evernight City at that time was indeed different from other times, and it is also very different from today. Many people call it— —The City of Elysium. The one in the Western Elysium, the City of Elysium."

In the story of the mouse, it can be traced back to the transitional period between Yuan and Ming.

Limited by their own cognition, people don't understand science, believe in gods and Buddhas more, and accept the existence of Eternal Night City better than modern people.During this period, because of the appearance of a certain person, Eternal Night City was endowed with a strong religious color.

"This person is called - King Ming."

Tang Cuo almost immediately thought of the prestigious existence of "Mingjiao", which exists in history and many literary works, and has a long history.Apart from force, religion is indeed a very effective means of rule, especially in ancient times.

If such a branch really entered Eternal Night City, it might generate some new teachings due to the particularity of Eternal Night City, and then create the so-called "City of Elysium", which is not impossible.

"The City of Elysium is indeed very good. Killing is prohibited here, and all living beings are equal. Even the weakest people, as long as you have a bright heart, you can live here. Because our points need to be handed in, and then distributed uniformly. If there is no desire, killing can be prohibited. The supreme King Ming is the god in everyone's mind, although he does not show his face, everyone in Eternal Night City has seen him."

As the mouse talked, his train of thought gradually became clearer, and his narration became more organized, "He is the sun of Eternal Night City. That should be the only bright period in Eternal Night City. As long as you look up, you can see the red sun Hanging high, the light shines everywhere."

Speaking of this, the mouse's eyes showed reminiscence.Tang Cuo guessed that he didn't have a bad impression of that King Ming, maybe he really had a little pious worship.

Even now, those who can raise the sun in Eternal Night City can gain a large number of fans.The sun should be a certain skill of King Ming, but even though it is a skill, it is enough to be called "Heaven's Chosen Son".

After a pause, the mouse continued: "But people's desires are endless, and rebellions, big and small, have never stopped. Sometimes I even wonder whether such a city of bliss is any good. And the city of bliss every day A group of people will indeed disappear after a period of time, which is said to be contrary to the teachings, but what happened to them and what the final outcome is, I don’t know. This situation lasted for a long time until—the sun fell.”

The red sun fell into the city of Eternal Night, and darkness returned to the earth.The mouse still felt terrified when he thought of the darkness that seemed to cover his eyes.

Tang Cuo frowned slightly. The past history was magnificent, but he didn't want to delve into it. What he wanted to know was: "What does this have to do with you?"

Mouse: "This is my original intention of writing "Paradise Project"."

It takes no more than 24 hours to go from extreme light to extreme darkness.

"I was just a very inconspicuous person in that era, so I survived. I wanted to escape, but I failed. The "Paradise Project" became a waste draft." The mouse said.

Immediately afterwards, the mouse explained the content of the plan, but the corpse poison that Ji Ning saw was the plague to him.As he spoke, his mood became unstable again, and when he looked up and saw Tang Cuo's calm gaze, he was slightly stunned.

But Tang Cuo didn't question him, saying: "Since you failed, what will this plan look like in the end?"

The mouse took a deep breath, "The people in the plan will always be part of the dungeon. They think they have found a paradise, but they are actually being assimilated. They will become NPCs, and unlike the NPCs in the liquidation program, they will not have A chance to be reincarnated."

Seeing Tang Cuo frowning, the mouse hurriedly said: "But I have a way to break the barrier!"

Tang Cuo: "What way?"

The mouse grabbed his clothes tightly, "I need a talisman, this talisman is called [Broken Formation]. Your companion is an archer, right? He is very strong, right? If he can attach this talisman to the arrow , shoot his strongest arrow, maybe it can break the barriers between copies and open the way back for them. But there is only one thing to pay attention to—"

"what?"

"The pathways between each dungeon and Eternal Night City are extremely unstable, especially if the player breaks them actively, it may cause spatial turbulence. The best situation is that they can come back in the direction of the arrow, but there are also May be far away."

"distance?"

"You don't know, right? Eternal Night City is not as big as what you see now. This is just one district, the China District, and they may also go to other districts because they got lost. Eternal Night City in the Elysian City period, and earlier The city is connected by all districts, and the Zhonghua district has always been the largest central district, and Chinese is the common language, but because of the fall of the sun, the darkness came too fast, and finally all the passages were cut off..."

While talking, the mouse found that there was no surprise on Tang Cuo's face or heart, and his voice gradually decreased.At the end, he tentatively asked: "You, you know?"

Tang Cuo: "It's not difficult to guess."

But Tang Cuo wasn't curious about how those foreigners were doing, so he didn't care.

"The last question, why did you become Mr. Crow?" Tang Cuo's eyes suddenly sharpened.

"I—" the mouse stuck in its shell, tensed for a while, and paused for a few seconds before finding its own voice, "because I heard the voice of God."

Then you are great.

Tang Cuo grumbled coldly in his heart, and the mouse heard it, with a sad face, "I, I didn't mean it, I just heard it by accident, and Mr. Crow felt that I offended the gods, so I was condemned... "

"What did you hear?"

"I don't know... I really don't know, I can't remember." The mouse held his head, feeling a little pain, and nervousness climbed to the brows again, "I really can't remember..."

Tang Cuo still didn't force him. If the mouse was really convicted because of this incident, then what he heard might be very important, and K couldn't make him remember it easily.

He still can't even remember his own name.

After the mouse left, Jin Cheng came in again, and saw Tang Cuo leaning on the back of the chair with his eyes closed and his head up, and sat down opposite him.After a while, Tang Cuo opened his eyes and asked, "Do you believe it?"

Although Jin Cheng was outside the door, he couldn't hide the movement inside the door. Hearing this, he poured Tang Cuo a cup of hot water and said, "Half truth, half lie. Mind reading is a rare skill, use it well It can be called against the sky, he is really unknown in the City of Elysium, is he a small person? Not necessarily."

Tang Cuo nodded, he agreed with Jin Cheng's suspicion.

Jin Cheng continued: "Don't worry about the [Broken Formation] talisman. We can save enough points and go to the gift mountain to pick apples in exchange. The rats should not be able to deceive us. As for the problem of space turbulence, we can only look at it." Lilith and Yu Yiyi are on their own. If Lilith is alone, it may not be safe enough, and Yu Yiyi, the European Emperor, will have a higher chance of success."

The most important thing now is to bring Lilith back. Tang Cuo discussed with Jin Cheng again and initially finalized the plan.In the end, Jin Cheng tapped the armrest of the chair with his fingers, narrowed his eyes slightly, and asked, "What do you think God is thinking about?"

Tang Cuo: "You should ask that Mr. Crow."

"He must be hiding behind the scenes to watch the show again now." Jin Cheng smiled, and slowly raised his head to look at the void, as if looking at someone through the void, and said, "As long as it doesn't really offend the gods, our Mr. Crow , always very leisurely."

"Heh." In the thinking maze, K responded with a chuckle and complained: "It seems as if you know me well."

He made up his mind that in the future, in Jin Cheng's biographies, he would write comments like "arrogant and conceited" to save him from being so self-righteous all the time.But thinking about the devil badge, K shook his glass and laughed again.

Is it over?

Far from over.

Smiling, K pushed the chess piece representing Lin Yandong to the center of the game with the putter, and looked at it for a long time.In this big game of chess, everyone has their own purpose, using, restraining, and playing games with each other.

Lin Yandong wants to drag everyone into hell, Yan Yun wants to realize his ambition, Jin Cheng wants to establish a new order, Tang Cuo is trying to live, and the simplest and purest thing is destruction.

K's eyes fell on Lin Yandong. He closed his eyes and sat down in the cage, still like a blood-stained Buddha, half bright and half dark.The two sides wrestled with each other, as if using his body as a battlefield.

But there is no turning back, no matter which side wins, the situation will continue to evolve.When Lin Yandong opened his eyes again, what kind of ending would he see?

Will he get his wish and fall into hell forever; or is it because Miao Qi regained his goodness and collapsed again after seeing everything he had created with his own hands?

K is curious about his ending.

But he has been in Eternal Night City for so long, he has seen all kinds of people, recorded many different stories, and finally found that it is often such an inconspicuous little person, a door that is not noticed by others, that affects the course of history at critical moments. door, a loose screw.

Thinking of this, K's eyes turned to the teacup again, the tea was dizzy, and Yu Yiyi's figure slowly emerged.He didn't doubt that Jin Cheng and Tang Cuo could take Lilith and Yu Yiyi out of the dungeon, depending on the timing of the time.

As the saying goes, there is no book without a coincidence.

The author has something to say:

Added some settings.

The setting of each region of the world has not been mentioned before, because it was originally a part of the feature film, that is, the "celebration" I am writing now is the plot of the global festival.It was originally intended to be written like this, but this article is a group portrait, and it is very large in terms of time and space. If it is expanded, it will take a monkey year to finish writing, so it can only be cut directly.