The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

"Void... void what?" Xie Yuanyuan finally heard Sleipnir address himself, he scratched the back of his head suspiciously, "Then what, I have a name, my name is Xie Yuanyuan... not that, that void Yes, even though it’s a pretty cool name…”

Sleipnir snorted, fluttering his splendid mane, and said: "So far, countless gods, countless heroes, have tried to get rid of this fate of the end. They have used all the methods in the world , Stirring up the storm to the sky, even putting oneself in the sea of ​​destructive storm, just to connect the spinning wheel of fate and continue the cycle of existence.”

It paces slowly, how strong is the beautiful body that undulates like mountains, "but those souls that are as bright as stars are all turned into poems falling in the long river in the end, no one knows, and no one sheds tears."

Every time it took a step, the hoofs would imprint gilded marks on the ground, Xie Yuanyuan's gaze followed it, feeling worried.

"What about you? Child of the void, what choice will you make?" Sleipnir turned his head, "For the sake of all the struggling creatures on the earth, to fight against the judgment of the dusk with all your strength - you really understand that it takes sacrifice price?"

Xie Yuanyuan asked anxiously: "Will...will he die?"

"You shouldn't have died," Sleipnir replied. "You, a creature of the void, can pass through the barrier between worlds and worlds. What does the Ragnarok in this world have to do with you? I would like to point out an exit for you. When you leave here, you are a resident of the other world, and you can continue to observe the world until you get tired of it."

Xie Yuanyuan opened his mouth, and shouted angrily: "No, make it clear! What is a creation of the void, it makes me look like a different person!"

What else is this world... You virtual old monsters always like to talk about such grandiose words, as if walking through a world is easier than walking to the grocery store near home Things are the same, for ordinary people there is only one world, and only one life, don't use the game to compare reality!

"Do you think that such a weird physique can be classified in the category of 'human'?" Sleipnir looked at him lightly, "I am not your obligatory mentor, go find the truth yourself, Void the son of."

Xie Yuanyuan was stared at by it like this, and he didn't dare to speak anymore.

After a while, he whimpered and said, "Okay, okay, I don't care what you call me, but...if I want to stop Ragnarok, what should I do?"

Sleipnir said: "Ride on me, hold Gungnir in hand, and charge towards the dusk of the extinction of the world. Let yourself become a meteor, a flame, and all fleeting lights, so that it is possible to repel That never-ending judgment picks up the spinning thread of fate."

Xie Yuanyuan was stunned.

"Afraid? Feeling terrified, feeling unimaginable?" Sleipnir spewed out white mist, "Ride on Odin's mount, hold Odin's scepter, and you will be the God King Odin in this world. Then you Dragging the throne of the world against the twilight hour, what can't be smashed?"

After a while, Xie Yuanyuan recovered his voice: "...So, I will also be crushed...?"

"Yes." If Sleipnir was a human body, Xie Yuanyuan felt that it must have shrugged his shoulders at this moment, "And you don't need to be smashed to pieces. You are a child of the void, and you will not die even if everyone is dead , everything is gone, you will be fine. To be honest, you can ask me how to stop Ragnarok. Be the first."

"Then I'm very honored..." Xie Yuan said dully, "It sounds like there are many people like me, but I am the most special one in our so-called ethnic group..."

"So, what do you choose?" Sleipnir looked at the blazing twilight in the distance, "Answer as soon as possible, it is wise to save yourself and choose to leave here; Go to war?"

Xie Yuanyuan was dumbfounded, and stammered his reply: "This, this, this... is there no intermediate option for the transition? On the one hand, there are two or five youngsters who fled the battle, and on the other hand, martyrs who sacrificed heroically, whichever I choose..."

"Then be a boy or a boy." Sleipnir can actually joke, it copied the human language system very quickly.

"Choose the second or fifth son, I will have a bad conscience for the rest of my life!"

"Then be a martyr."

"...I know that being a martyr is the right choice, but if I choose this, I will never have a chance to be uneasy in my life!"

Sleipnir was noncommittal: "If you don't want anything, then get out of here, and I can't help you."

Xie Yuanyuan hugged his head in pain, wishing he could roll on the ground: "Wait, wait, let me think again! Let me think..."

Sleipnir's nose suddenly moved, it shook its head suspiciously, and stared at Xie Yuanyuan.

"Perhaps... there is another plan." It said slowly.

Xie Yuanyuan looked up as if he was about to receive an amnesty, and looked at it expectantly: "What is it! Dad, please tell me!"

Sleipnir walked forward a few steps slowly, Xie Yuanyuan trotted to keep up, it walked along the gurgling golden spring, looked at the end of the spring and said: "At the end of this spring, there is something, you It can be fetched."

"What?" Xie Yuanyuan asked.

"It's an oath," replied Sleipnir, "Frigg's oath."

It looked up at the light of the sky, and whispered: "This supreme goddess, who was allowed to share Odin's power, forced everything to make an oath of never harming her son so that her son would be spared the pain of death... so everything All things swear to her will—except one mistletoe."

Sleipnir turned to Xie Yuanyuan: "Although Baldr will inevitably die from the mistletoe in the end, this oath is still true and effective. Go get it, and use it to cover the heads of human beings in this world, maybe Not even Ragnarok can do anything about it—except mistletoe, of course."

Things turned around, but Xie Yuanyuan knew in his heart that there is no free lunch in this world, so he carefully asked: "Then...then what do I need to give you?"

"Leave everything you have," said Sleipnir evasively. "I don't ask for much, but this."

I didn't expect such a good thing to exist in the world!Xie Yuanyuan was overjoyed, what else could he have?The most valuable thing is the pair of Hidden Blades stained with Hella's blood. Although it is a pity to give it away like this, it can be exchanged for a big item of BUG level.

"No problem!" He jumped three feet high, "I'll go right away!"

The wind was blowing, and he seemed to be flying, and the golden spring water was like flowing silk, wrapping around his feet.The finish line was not far away, Xie Yuanyuan squatted beside the pool excitedly, and saw that the water in the pool was clear and transparent, like a diamond, and there was a shiny thing on the bottom of the pool.

Without hesitation, Xie Yuanyuan stretched out his hand to grab the unclear halo named "Oath".

However, when his fingertips touched, his brain also buzzed, shaking like an electric shock.So many images flitted across his eyes, like old silent movies, whirling yellowed film.

Xie Yuanyuan saw a broken and barren universe.

In this gap of one ten-thousandth of a second, he saw many things.Remnants of data and code are dead planets that wander aimlessly through the universe, sometimes flickering, briefly revealing what they were programmed to do before flashing back to a tangle of characters.He also saw many familiar old friends, those NPCs who used to be enemies and friends of the player, characters he knew and didn't know, all floating in this chaotic space, their eyes were empty and pale, like scrapped dolls.

In the familiar white dress, Xie Yuanyuan even saw Jenny, with an old key stuck in her forehead, hovering unconsciously among the ruins.The key glowed, and her eyes seemed to be illuminated by this insignificant light. She and Xie Yuanyuan looked at each other for a moment, separated by the destroyed nothingness, the withered time, and the broken fragments of the spinning wheel of fate.

A drop of cold water overflowed her eyes, drifting in the vacuum.

It's tears.

The treacherous and dark hallucination was interrupted, Xie Yuanyuan grasped 【Frigal's Oath】, sweating profusely, and stood in the pool water blankly.

……what is that?

Is it an ominous prophecy, or a malicious warning?

"It seems that you have obtained Frigg's oath," Sleipnir asked in my ear, "How, it seems that your condition is not very good."

Xie Yuanyuan didn't notice it, and couldn't help screaming in fright, and fell back into the water in embarrassment, splashing a large splash of water: "You...why are you so silent when you walk?!"

Sleipnir shook his ears, and said innocently: "God's Domain is still too dangerous for mortals. Even if you are a child of the void, why can't I follow up to see the situation? Besides, I'm not human .”

It looked at Xie Yuanyuan's face: "Frigal's oath is harmless, why are you so anxious?"

Xie Yuanyuan barely suppressed the heart that was about to jump out of his throat, and said hoarsely: "I...I saw... something."

"Oh?" Sleipnir seemed to be interested, "Frigga is the only goddess who can sit on the throne of the gods besides Odin, so she can observe the beginning and end of all things. Since you Saw something, presumably the future of something. What did you see?"

……future?

The dead and empty scene just now... whose future is it?

Xie Yuanyuan jumped up suddenly, and asked tremblingly: "Wait, wait! If I use Frigg's oath, all players will be fine, right?"

Sleipnir nodded: "Yes, that's right."

"Then... what about Ragnarok?" Xie Yuanyuan was dizzy, and suddenly figured out something, "Is it blocked? Or, saving the player's life just let us all escape from the God's twilight fate, doesn't it really end it?"

Sleipnir looked at him inexplicably: "Isn't this an obvious problem? Frigg's oath is the result of helping you avoid the trial, and of course it cannot be regarded as the end of Ragnarok."

"That, that..." Xie Yuanyuan's teeth were trembling, "Who is that...replaced us and accepted the result of the trial?"

"This world." Sleipnir spit out two words. Its voice was fickle. At this moment, it was as solemn as an ancient bronze bell, and each word carried an unbearable weight.

Xie Yuanyuan was stunned for a moment.

The weightless ball of light in his hand suddenly became extremely hot, hot like a ball of flowing magma, so hot that Xie Yuanyuan's fingers trembled, almost unable to grasp it.

So, what he saw just now was... Uncanny Valley, the ending of this game world.

Why are you trembling?Isn't that a nice, best of both worlds thing?The player's life was saved, and the game that made a big mess was also ruined. Once Frigga's oath came out, maybe even that lunatic He Rui would end up in a cocoon. He had to fight with Uncanny Valley and be summoned by him Ragnarok died together... But why, his hands were shaking?

The butterfly in his heart fluttered its wings and rested on his lips sadly.

"...Holy Son." Xie Yuanyuan said hoarsely and softly, as light as snow falling on the branches in winter.

The halo of Frigg's oath fell into the pool, and he spread his hands, revealing a rough butterfly made of straw that was wet with sweat.

His girl...the first girl who was willing to shed tears for him, the girl who wailed in the fire and the wind, the girl who was loved by the world.

This is the question he has been avoiding for so many days... The Holy Son has left Huangquan, so where is she now?

"...No." Xie Yuanyuan hissed, "No."

Sleipnir stared at him in amazement. At this moment, the boy who had been laughing and laughing in front of him changed. He seemed to suddenly understand something painful and cruel, and at the same time made a painful and cruel decision.

"For you, everything in this world is false," it said in a deep voice, more like a warning, "Remember this."

Let me hold the torch and run away with everything I can, leaving her here alone... How is that possible?I can't do it, I really can't do it...

Thinking about it now, although saving the world is so stupid that you can't even receive a thank you, are those people who save the world really doing it for something as big as the "world"?They are to save a certain person, and even the world is just an accessory of that person...

False, false, everything is false, so what is real?

"My heart is true..." Xie Yuanyuan said hoarsely, "My love is also true..."

Sleipnir stared at him silently. It watched Xie Yuanyuan put the little butterfly back on his heart, then raised his head and asked himself a question.

"What do I have to do to become your master, the master of Gungnir?"