Chosen Prophet [Unlimited]

The bus runs silently in a pure white world.

Duan Yi pressed his forehead hard against the bus, as if this would relieve the pain in his head a little.

He received the memories of multiple timelines at once, making it impossible for him to adapt to the current state immediately.

It is only now that Duan Yi really understands that the time setting of the Jack the Ripper instance where Nicole is located can actually be regarded as a simplified version of the time setting in this game.

At the time of that dungeon, the time of the day was in a superimposed state, and the unaltered history and the altered history belonged to parallel and non-interfering time and space; in order to further simplify, the game designer made special settings for the psychic— —They will not meet another self when they travel through the past.

And at 12 o'clock every night, all parallel time and space will be superimposed together to form a unique state.

In other words, every night at 12 o'clock, history will be reset.

At that time, except for the psychic, everyone else will lose their memory.

The overall time setting of this game is similar to it, but it is much more complicated and not so ideal.

For example, players do not have the function of "psychic medium". When they go back to the past, they will still see themselves in the past time state.

For example, after the superposition is completed, not everyone except the psychic will lose their memory.

For another example, the real time state will not be reset easily, but is strictly controlled and restricted.

Duan Yi reckons that the time reset in this game needs special props, such as the hourglass in tomorrow's hand.

Traveling to the past tomorrow, as long as the sand in the hourglass is not exhausted, the time will not be reset.In this way, the tomorrow who is still alive in the parallel time and space can always exist, and accompany Duan Yi all the way to the present on this "past" timeline.

The past, the tomorrow that has been killed, and the future tomorrow that returns to the past are in the superposition state of two timelines.

And the hourglass can only maintain this superposition state to the wish house.

At that time, if the hourglass is broken tomorrow, history will be truly repaired and reset.

But he was not willing to leave, he continued to walk in this timeline, which caused the system to collapse in some aspects, and introduced some people who were not ready into the ninth-level copy.

The hourglass gives tomorrow a chance to correct a mistake.

So it's not too late for him to break the hourglass at this time.

At this point, the copy of the wish house is over, and the eight people who have harmed Duan Yi died one by one.

The hourglass shattered, and all parallel time and space began to superimpose, reaching a unique state, and completing the reset of history.

In the reset history, the past belonging to Duan Yi has been restored——Zhang Zhuo, Zou Ping and eight people all died.

The superposition has been completed, and they cease to exist on all timelines.

From the past to the future, these eight people have completely disappeared.

So in the end Duan Yi was sent to the "future" tomorrow.

This "future" is relative to when he has not recovered his memory.

But in reality this is his real, restored past.

——It was the time he would have been if he hadn't been delayed.

Looking back from this time, if those eight people are regarded as BUG, ​​now the BUG has been fixed, and all the past has been rewritten.

So Duan Yi has an extra memory about the "past" in his mind.

For example, he just completed a dungeon called "Wu Shuang".

For example, among the teammates on the bus, apart from Wu Junlan, everyone else seemed both familiar and unfamiliar.It wasn't until he stayed on the bus for so long that he remembered who these people were, and how many copies he had experienced with them.

After a while, Wu Junlan came to him. "Can we talk?"

Duan Yi turned his head and seeing her pale face, he knew that she was also very confused now.

Seeing Duan Yi nodded, Wu Junlan sat beside him and said softly: "In my memory, I have died twice... the first time I played this game, I didn't seem to have met you. Killed me. The second time I died, I fell to my death in a maze. Now... I'm here again... Did our time reset?"

Duan Yi looked at Wu Junlan and said, "Let me use my timeline to explain it to you from the beginning."

Taking out a pen and paper, Duan Yi wrote while saying: "The timeline of my first visit to this game, I recorded it as A. I had done a lot of simple dungeons at that time, and the 12th one I played at that time The copy is called "Ghost Saber". Now we will record the time when "Ghost Saber" ends as A0."

"I was killed in "Ghost Blade". So Xiaotian went back to the past and tried to restore history. He killed himself in the timeline A and changed history, so this timeline can no longer be A, but timeline B parallel to A.

"Before the hourglass was broken, the two timelines of A and B were parallel and superimposed.

"There are eight people who have harmed me, you, and others. Xiaotian went back to the past to clean up the scum and restore history. Timeline B goes all the way forward, and we put the time when "House of Wishes" ended The point is recorded as B0, and the end of the maze is recorded as B1. Many of you died in the maze, Xiaotian thought it was his mistake, so he returned the time to B0 to end the wish house.

"So in the end... the superposition of each time state is completed at the time point of B0, and the history is also reset at this time point."

After a pause, Duan Yi continued: "At this point in time B0, those eight scumbags are dead, so they won't kill you or me. This is the case on all timelines. History is reset at B0 , those eight people disappeared completely. There is no trace of them in the future or the past.

"The timeline of B, in fact, when time is in a superposition state, one of our countless pasts. Now the history has been repaired, the time reset is completed, and we have returned to the time point A0. Before the time point A0, all A The original timeline has also been rewritten.

"In the current time, we met each other in the copy of "Wu Shuang". But the other teammates, Kang Hanyin and the others, don't know where they are scattered. But everyone should be still alive."

Wu Junlan listened and digested for a while.Fortunately, combined with her own memory, she finally understood.

Leaning back on the back of the chair, she pressed her aching temple, and said with a long breath: "Yes. I understand. If they are alive, that's good."

Thinking of something, Wu Junlan turned her head to look at him again. "In the 12th copy of the last time, you died, but that timeline has disappeared from time. Everything has started again, and this time you won. You are still a prophet, and you led us to win!"

"Yes... I, I won." Duan Yi's voice was extremely hoarse.

He said these words with a smile, but the smile was inexplicably bitter.

Noticing something, Wu Junlan frowned and asked him: "Then, what about tomorrow?"

——The time has been reset.The newly written timeline completely overwrites the old history.Once those eight people die, there will be no trace of their existence in the future, past...all timelines.

What about tomorrow?

He... is he never coming back?

Future, present, past, did he disappear completely, forever and ever?

Duan Yi didn't answer Wu Junlan's words.

It seems that as long as this is the case, tomorrow will not disappear, and he can still find tomorrow.

After experiencing great grief, the whole person's heart was empty.

This emptiness was occupied by all kinds of chaotic memories for a short period of time just now, making it too late for Duan Yi to feel sad.

And when Duan Yi clarified his memory now, the fine and dense pain began to spread from the apex of his heart.

He seemed to urgently need to do something else to divert his attention and restrain the pain that spread deep in his lungs.

How about smoke?

Duan Yi subconsciously felt for a cigarette and wanted to smoke it, or if he couldn't smoke on the bus, he could smell it.

But as soon as he took out the cigarette, Duan Yi thought of tomorrow.

—I don’t like him smoking tomorrow.

After falling silent, he looked down at the cigarette case in his hand for a while, Duan Yi took a breath, took out all the cigarette cases on his body, and threw them all into the trash can next to him.

·

In the pure white, the bus drove out for about half an hour, and the system broadcast sounded: "Congratulations to everyone for successfully clearing the copy of "Wu Shuang". After that, everyone will enter a new chapter of the game. Every player present is very good, otherwise we cannot Passed the test of the initial stage of the game.

"The good guy wins, and the 250 gold coin reward has been distributed to your database, please check it.

"In addition, the system announced that player No. 07 has been awarded the title of 'Chosen Prophet'.

"When you get the identity of the prophet in the game, the authorities have not entered the prison, and the player who wins the game and successfully clears the copy will get the hidden achievement logo. If the logo is full of seven, the player will get the 'day Choose the title of Prophet."

After saying this, a golden badge appeared out of thin air on Duan Yi's knee.

"The game of the gate of death is a game that guides everyone from the gate of death to the gate of life. Players with the title of 'Heavenly Chosen Prophet' can leave the game and return to reality; of course, the system also gives the player another choice—— Players can continue the game, enter the next stage of the game, and have the opportunity to obtain the ultimate mystery of the game.

"Player 07, please make a choice before 12 o'clock tonight. The system is looking forward to your reply."

At this time, Duan Yi had tried his best to suppress all the complicated and unspeakable emotions.

Lowering his head, he glanced at the badge, and Duan Yi pinned it to his neckline.

He did this process in one go, showing a bit of disdain between his brows and eyes, and then showing a bit of sternness.

Wu Junlan, who was sitting next to him, glanced at him, only to feel that his eyes had changed a lot, and even his demeanor had become a lot colder—now he is no longer that Duan Yi who has only done 5 dungeons.

After brushing 12 copies, he died once; starting from scratch, he brushed 5 more copies; and after the time was reset, on the new timeline, he had the memory of 12 more copies.

With 29 dungeon memories, what choice will he make after he gets the title of "The Chosen Prophet"?

·

7 p.m.Ten players gather in a restaurant to eat.

Duan Yi has been eating silently to replenish his strength, without saying a word.

During this period, many people made a toast to one person.

Duan Yi glanced at him, and saw that he was wearing sunglasses from head to toe, and he had a thick beard, so that almost everyone could not see his face clearly.But this man is very powerful, and he saved many people in a critical moment, so everyone is toasting him now to express their gratitude.

It's just that this person has never mentioned his name, so it's inevitable that he will be asked now.

"What's your name?"

"Miangui's surname is Gu."

Gu?

Duan Yi put down his chopsticks, frowned and looked at the man, and then he heard him answer: "One name in white."

Duan Yi finally spoke the first sentence at the dinner table.

Facing that person, he tentatively asked, "Isn't your name Gu Bangshui?"

The man smiled, looked at Duan Yi through the sunglasses, and said loudly: "The surname is Gu and the name is Bai, and the word is near the water."

Duan Yi: "..."

Someone nearby asked: "Hey, why do people still have 'words'?"

The man said boldly: "The old man at home likes to pretend to be aggressive. He just took it for fun. I'm laughing at you."

Duan Yi: "..."

Duan Yi didn't say much for the time being, but picked up the chopsticks again and ate two mouthfuls of rice.

The guy named Gu Bai seemed to have noticed something, looked at him a few more times through the sunglasses, but didn't say anything for the time being.

It's just that when Duan Yi was going back to his room after dinner, he came over with a few bottles of beer. "Have a drink?"

After a little hesitation, Duan Yi finally nodded at him and led him to the hotel room.

This person's real name is of course not Gu Bai, nor Gu Bangshui.

He is Yang Ye whom Duan Yi calls "Brother Husband".

Walking into Duan Yi's room, Yang Ye put down the beer bottle, pulled off the fake beard and sunglasses, bit open the beer cap with his teeth, took a sip, and threw the other bottle to Duan Yi.

Duan Yi took the wine, opened his mouth and bit off the bottle cap with his mouth, and poured down half a bottle of beer with his head raised.

Yang Ye looked him up and down, and asked, "What's wrong? You're in a very strange state. You weren't like this when you were in the dungeon."

Duan Yi glanced at him, but roughly explained what happened.

Finally he asked: "Do you understand?"

Yang Ye nodded: "There is nothing difficult to understand. It is similar to the hero of the Butterfly Effect. He traveled to the past to change history, and then returned to the present. Because of changing history, his past was rewritten, resulting in his current situation. Totally different."

"Yeah. That's about it." Duan Yi took a sip of wine and looked at him again, "Why are you here?"

"Of course I came to take you back at your brother's will. I got a professional to do the calculations, and I was sent to the time point he suggested. The man's calculations were good. I just caught up with you to get the 'Chosen Prophet' ' time. But with your expression——" Yang Ye raised his eyebrows, "I think you don't want to go back."

Duan Yi just asked him: "What are you and my brother?"

Yang Yedao: "There is nothing to hide now. We are all public officials in the third hall of hell, King Yuqin of the Song Dynasty. Your side was detained by the Lord of Taishan Prefecture in the Seventh Hall, and it is not under our control. So we can't If you break in clearly, you have to sneak in quietly. In addition, you do have some problems with your body in the real world. This matter is very involved, and Emperor Song is negotiating..."

Duan Yi: "Did I die in reality? My soul was imprisoned by Lord Taishan? The so-called 'Heavenly Chosen Prophet' may be just a gimmick and a scam. Even if I get this title and agree to 'go home', I will actually return Less than reality?"

Yang Ye: "To a certain extent, it can be understood in this way. But everything is temporary.

"As long as you agree to leave this game, your soul can be temporarily released from the state of detention. I can take this opportunity to bring you back to Emperor Song. Do you understand what I mean? When your soul is imprisoned, your brother and I There is no way to go to Taishan Mansion Lord to rob it. But after you clear the customs and release the state of imprisonment, I can take you—"

Duan Yi interrupted him: "No matter what, I can't go back to reality, right? Even if I agree to leave, you are nothing more than taking me from one institution in hell to another."

Yang Ye put down the wine bottle, and asked him with his arms across his chest: "But the institution governed by Emperor Song of the Three Palaces is our territory. You will not be in danger, and you don't need to continue playing this stupid game. You kid... What do you mean by asking this?" ?”

Duan Yi took another sip of wine and said, "I'll confirm the true meaning of 'going back' with you in advance, so that you won't use my parents to pressure me. Now, even if I promise the system to 'go home', In fact, I will not be able to return to the real world for the time being. Therefore, there is no need to use them to persuade me to go back. I can't "resurrect" in the real world anyway, and I can't go home anyway."

Duan Yi has a fierce and straight personality, he doesn't like playing tricks the most in his life, and he doesn't bother to talk about people.

He never hides calculations or routines when he speaks, he always goes straight and says what he has.

So Yang Ye never thought of being on guard against him.

But the game of werewolf killing can really transform people. Yang Ye actually felt that his two sentences were already very like his brother Gu Liang-he actually used words to himself, and even blocked all the words he wanted to persuade him up.

Knocking on the table, Yang Ye assumed the posture of an elder. "I promised your brother that I'm here to take you away this time. Do you know that he came here last time, and he almost died after returning to reality? This time I managed to persuade him to let me Come for him. If I don’t take you back, your brother—”

Duan Yi only said: "I will explain to my brother. This matter has nothing to do with you. I will make it clear to him."

"Xiao Yi, I have to tell you that the player form in this game is interdependent with the mental power of your soul. Once you are seriously injured or die in the game, and your mental power is damaged, your soul will be damaged accordingly, and even It's gone to ashes."

Yang Ye stood up with a serious expression on his face. "This is not a joke. You have to go back with me. Why don't you go with me? Not reconciled, feel that you have been played by the game? Want to meet the game designer at the end and fight him? This It's not the time to be impulsive!"

"I'm not acting on a whim." Duan Yi also stood up, his jaw line tightened, and he looked at Yang Ye with a stern expression. "What happened to me, I just told you a general idea. I want to save tomorrow."

"Tomorrow?" Yang Ye frowned, and asked hesitantly after a little thought, "You mean, the person who will help you reset your time?"

"Yes." Duan Yi asked.

Yang Ye's expression became more serious: "It's pointless for you to do this. This is not the Ripper dungeon that you and your brother experienced, and time will not be reset again and again like in the dungeon.

"Use the hourglass to reset the time tomorrow, and he has disappeared, and the history has been overwritten. The hourglass, like him, disappears after being broken and can never come back. Now this timeline has been completely refreshed History, there is no hourglass in this history, there is no tomorrow, only you who are alive.

"So Xiao Yi, you go back with me, and I will take you to the Emperor Song's side for a while. When all this is over, we can all return to reality, and then--

Duan Yi's voice sank, and he took Yang Ye's words and said, "If I do what you say, then...he will really die."

Exhaling, looking up at Yang Ye, Duan Yi said again: "I just want to ask you a question. If the person who disappeared in time is my brother, what will happen to you?"

"Your brother? What is your metaphor? What is the relationship between me and your brother? You and that tomorrow are not—"

At this point, Yang Ye seemed to have finally noticed something and shut up.

After a long time, Yang Ye sat down again.

Folding his hands on the table, he glanced at Duan Yi. "So, the road he walked, are you going to walk it again?"

"No, my path is different from his." Duan Yi answered decisively.

Yang Ye asked, "What's the difference?"

After a moment of silence, Duan Yi said: "Compared to him, I am much better. I know he has me in his heart. So when I continue to walk forward, I will not walk as lonely as him. I want to find him and talk to him again." Heart to go on together."

At this point, Duan Yi's voice became very soft.His tone was a little heavy, but there was also a gentleness that he didn't realize. "His path was very lonely. He was brave, desperate, and chose the most desperate path, just because he didn't know one thing...he didn't know that I had him in my heart."