Infinite Nerves [Infinity]

It started to rain again in the evening, and when Qianwu woke up, he was still lying on the small wooden table in the hotel lobby, the draft blowing past his face swept away the heat.In the patter of white rain, there was another rustling sound beside his ears.

He turned his head, Jiang Chen was sitting beside him writing.

"Hmm..." He rubbed his cheeks that were flushed from sleep, sat up and said, "What are you writing about?"

"Nothing." Jiang Chen casually folded the paper and put it in his pocket, and put the cap on the pen, "You are asleep, I have nothing to do."

"What about them?" Qianwu turned his head and looked upstairs.

Jiang Chen said, "They left for Chen's house just now, something big should happen tonight, everyone is unwilling to lie in bed and wait for the result."

Qianwu yawned and sighed, "I'm really worried."

Jiang Chen hummed, "Life is at stake after all."

Before Qu Ying left, she left two short-skinned red bean cakes under the lid of the pot, wrapped in kraft paper.Jiang Chen was holding a big black umbrella, and Qian Wu was walking under the umbrella, biting into cakes.

"I held up a black umbrella before I entered the nerve." He said with a hot breath, "Do you think that black umbrella is the so-called entrance?"

"The two of us came together, and the entrance should be something we have all touched." Jiang Chen said: "Think about it, what did we touch at the reception that day?"

"Could it be the wine?" Qian Wu said raising his eyebrows, "I think there is something wrong with the wine that day, it made people dizzy."

Jiang Chen paused slightly, "That's because you drank too much."

"Didn't you drink?" Qianwu raised his eyebrows, "I saw so many people raising their glasses to you."

Jiang Chen's voice was low, "I didn't drink. I was going to catch you to say a few words that day, so I didn't have the time to drink with others."

"Oh." Qianwu opened his mouth, "You've chatted to death."

He bowed his head and continued to eat the cake.

From the corner of his eye, Jiang Chen glanced at him dissatisfied, but he pretended not to notice.Tear off the crispy crust with your teeth, and swallow a mouthful of sweet and glutinous red bean paste.

"Qu Ying's craftsmanship is really good." He said with a smile, "If we can go out of the dungeon together later, let her cook a big meal for us."

Jiang Chen next to him didn't say a word, Qian Wu turned his head and found that he was hesitant to speak.

"What's wrong?" Qianwu asked.

Jiang Chen shook his head and pressed the bridge of his nose casually, "It's nothing, I just find it strange that she is Ying's chef."

Qianwu raised the corners of his lips, "Well, strictly speaking, we have intersected outside of our nerves."

Of the two red bean cakes, Qian Wu only finished one and a half, and Jiang Chen finished the remaining half with a few bites.

When they arrived at Chen's house, the rain had just stopped and it was already dark.The street was empty, Jiang Chen paused at the alley opposite the Chen family, pointed to the alley after a while and said, "They are here."

Qian Wu didn't hear anything, and followed Jiang Chen into the depths of the alley.

"Qianwu—" Peng Peng's low breath came from the depths of the darkness.

Qian Wu quickened his pace and approached, and asked, "Have you seen the Purgatory?"

"He passed by once while patrolling the streets." Zhong Liye sighed at Peng Peng with his usual tone, "There's no need to hide, we didn't come out to do bad things."

Qu Ying couldn't help but said, "It's impossible for him not to notice when he passed by just now. He doesn't care about us people at all, so don't add drama to yourself."

"This—" Peng Peng showed hesitation on his face, and after glancing at Qian Wu, he immediately said angrily: "Don't laugh!"

Qian Wu suppressed his smile and waved his hands, "Sorry, I thought you couldn't see when it was dark."

A gust of evening wind passed through the alley, bringing with it a chill.

Qian Wu suddenly whispered: "He is near here."

"Who?" Peng Peng immediately became nervous, "Purgatory Man or Purgatory Noon?"

Qian Wu paused, "It's all."

But afterward, the street fell into silence again, as if Qianwu felt out of order and nothing happened.

Jiang Chen flipped through the code silently, and looked at the small characters on it with the light of a fire.

When Qianwu fell asleep today, a new line of characters appeared on the code.

【#2 Purgatory Wu is a childish devil, he may not kill people when he is happy】

"There are only two so far. If the dungeon ends tonight, I'm worried that we've missed an important point." Jiang Chen said in a low voice.

But Qianwu only glanced back casually, pointing casually at the blank space of the code with his slender fingers, and said: "Purgatory Wu is still a coquettish devil, and he likes to be pampered and held by his brother. Purgatory Wu is also a fragile Devil, when brother pulls out the chain on him, he will give up struggling."

"What did you say?" Peng Peng was dumbfounded, and then looked at the code, "There is nothing you said here, does this mean you guessed wrong?"

"No." Jiang Chen closed the code, "This code will only contain rules related to the law of survival."

Qianwu smiled silently, and said: "There is one last collection point, I will get it later."

Jiang Chen turned his head to look at him.

He said softly: "Purgatory afternoon is a stubborn demon, no matter what he has done to his dear ones, he doesn't want his childhood brother to hate him."

The sound of heavy chains mopping the floor suddenly cut through the quiet night.

A quiet and lonely figure suddenly blocked the entrance of the alley, Qianwu looked at the back of Lian Guizi, and walked out slowly.

"Why are you still here?" Purgatory Man whispered with his back turned to him, "You are everywhere, what are you new townspeople doing here?"

"Help you uncover the truth." Qianwu said.

A gust of wind passed by, and the purgator suddenly looked back, those eyes were silently watching Qianwu, but there was a trace of desolation suppressed behind the quietness.

Qian Wu's expression remained the same, "If you know the truth, Purgatory will give up the supervision of this town, and it's time to let it return to its original track."

Purgatory Zi didn't speak for a long time, and after an unknown amount of time, the chains wrapped around his hands made a slight sound, and he suddenly said, "You are really similar to Xiao Wu when you were a child."

"Where does it look like?" Qianwu asked.

Purgatory paused, "Except for the fact that they don't look exactly the same, the others... are like the same person."

Jiang Chen said in a deep voice behind his back, "Your brother is a demon, you know how vicious and vicious you are."

Purgatory laughed silently, "He was not like this when he was a child. When he was a child, he would often calm down and daze to draw and poke his face for fun, but when he got bad, he was really full of bad things. It was his pleasure in life to play tricks on me. By the way, at that time He's not a demon yet, he's just a kid."

Jiang Chen paused, "If you want to say that, then it is true—"

Qianwu turned his head and glanced at him, so he swallowed back the second half of the sentence, and said indifferently: "In any case, you should not compare people with demons."

"Perhaps." The smile in Purgatory's eyes suddenly subsided, and his black eyes were a little cold, and he whispered: "Once you enter Purgatory, you will end up becoming a devil. Perhaps, I underestimated his cruelty and overestimated my own tolerance." .”

As soon as the words fell, the closed door of the Chen family suddenly opened, facing the entrance of the ancestral hall, Chen Dali, a man of the Chen family, was lying on the ground with his head on the threshold, apparently dead.

There was no wound, and it seemed that there was no warning. He died as suddenly and quietly as the previous person.

Standing next to the corpse was a small figure.

Chen Shu was showing a contemptuous smirk at the corpse, but as the courtyard door opened, that look disappeared instantly. He looked down at the corpse in a daze, then knelt down and pinched the person on the ground with his small hands.

"Father..." His voice was trembling, "Why do you—"

"Stop pretending, Purgatory afternoon."

The voice of Purgatory Man suddenly faded away, Qian Wu's eyes blurred, and that figure had already appeared in the courtyard beside "Chen Shu".

"You can never pretend to be me, and you will be exposed if you say a few words." His voice was as cold as snow, and he looked down at the little figure in disbelief, "So many reincarnations, you are all formed by transformation." The way I was when I was a child, secretly repeating killing my family?"

Chen Shu didn't say a word, his small body kneeling on the ground trembled slightly.

"Back then." The Purgatory suddenly grabbed the man on the ground by his collar and lifted him up, "You sacrificed them one by one?"

Chen Shu lowered his head, as if lifeless.

"Speak." Purgatory's voice was unprecedentedly suppressed. He put more force on his hands, and the child's slender bones made sounds under his force.

"I've become a demon." Chen Shu suddenly lowered his head and sneered, "The inhumane person goes to purgatory, do you want me to be alone in purgatory, lingering at the bottom?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the child's immature body suddenly disappeared, and the wind passed by, and standing opposite to Lian Ji Zi was his brother Lian Ji Wu who was exactly like him.

The red mole under Lian Ji Wu's eyes became more and more alluring, he said softly: "How did you find it? The cinnabar I left behind?"

Purgatory Zi lowered his gaze, and Purgatory Wu followed his gaze, and looked down at the bag of red beans tied around his waist.

There is also a bag on the waist of Purgatory.

A hint of red bean lovesickness faintly lingers in the air.

"So that's how it is." Lian Ji Wu snorted and gently pinched the bag of red beans, "I shouldn't have given my brother a present."

"Jiudian." Purgatory Zi stared at him, the chains on his hands gradually became darker red, "If Jiudian is the reason for you to sacrifice your loved ones, I can't tolerate it."

"Brother." Purgatory afternoon suddenly panicked, his figure flashed, and he arrived at the door in an instant, trying to escape.However, in the next moment, the heavy chain seemed to have eyes, and it turned him from behind. With a heavy crackling sound, the red chain yanked on his cheek, leaving a deep scar.

The next moment, the chain climbed up his neck and was tightly wound. He grasped the chain with both hands, and it was so hot that he gasped for breath.

In this shocking brotherly struggle, Jiang Chen suddenly said thoughtfully: "I finally know why the purgator thinks he looks like you."

With a calm expression, Qianwu glanced at him, "I have a hunch that you won't have anything good to say."

"In Tang Jianzhu's copy, you were once strangled by the owner of the manor." Jiang Chen said in a low voice, "This scene is too similar to that day."

Qian Wu was silent, after a while, Jiang Chen suddenly raised his hand to stroke his head.

"Why?" Qianwu stepped aside vigilantly.

Jiang Chen said, "But you are cuter than him, he is really not attractive at all."

Qianwu: "..."

Thank you, you don't have to.

"Chen Shu!!" Purgatory Wu said frantically: "You have never fulfilled your duty as an elder brother, you have never ignored me, what right do you have to control me to sacrifice relatives, we are already demons!"

"I wasn't in the past. After my family was ruined and my family was destroyed, a Taoist priest suggested that my younger brother who was kidnapped and killed may have resentment, and resentful souls can easily go to purgatory. I entered purgatory to find my younger brother."

There was a sudden meal in purgatory noon.

Purgatory Zi looked at him, his eyes were so cold, "But in the future, I will be. Maybe, I should also think about how to let myself enter the Nine Palaces."

The iron chain was tightened again, Lian Ji Wu was burned and shivered violently, his pupils gradually turned red under his pale complexion, he frowned and struggled, but he was still powerless to escape, with a wave of Lian Jizi's arm, the heavy chain lifted him up, dragged him on the ground.

"Have I never fulfilled my duty as an older brother?" Lian Jizi frowned suddenly, and said, "I didn't discipline you properly, which made you look like this. I'm sorry, I won't do it in the future."

Purgatory Wu who was dragged to the ground gritted his teeth and hissed.

"That's your reaction." He murmured in a low voice, "I've always wondered what your reaction would be if you knew it was me."

The Purgatory Man didn't speak, he dragged the Purgatory Wu up, staggered after him, and dragged the chain out of the gate of Chen's courtyard.

At some point, the street was full of people standing on both sides.Qianwu swept over, and those were not human beings, but evil spies who had heard the news.

They fell to the ground one after another and did not dare to raise their heads. The one kneeling at Qianwu's feet whispered to the people around him, "The sky is going to change. How could the Eighth Palace handle the Ninth Palace?"

"It's probably going to be reversed." The other said tremblingly, "From now on, the Eight Palaces will be proud."

"Will Purgatory Noon be killed by Purgatory Son?" The man was shaking violently, "If Sir is killed, all the ghost messengers in Jiudian will be killed now, don't want it."

When Purgatory Wu was dragged by the chains and staggered past Qianwu and the others, Qianwu realized that the dark red blood dripped down the place where the iron chain wrapped around his neck. As a demon, his blood was actually crimson. It rolled to the ground leaving a small trace like burning.

He seemed to be in pain, but the eyes he turned to stare at Qianwu were complicated.

As if hated, but also as if there was nothing.

Not far away, the door of a room in Chen's courtyard was suddenly pushed open. The real Chen Shu got up easily and saw his dead father at a glance.

He was stunned at the corpse, turned his head and ran out quickly, but saw this majestic scene.

Hundreds of ghosts are on the street, the twin ghosts patrolling the streets at night are dragging another ghost patrolling the streets at noon, as if they want to drag him all the way to purgatory.

It was at this moment that Qianwu suddenly moved. He walked up to Chen Shu and covered Chen Shu's eyes with his hands.

"Aren't they brothers?" Chen Shu asked behind his palm: "Why do brothers fight, why do elder brothers beat younger brothers, did younger brothers do something serious wrong?"

The dragged Purgatory Wu suddenly looked back and looked over here.

But Qianwu said in a soft voice: "You read it wrong, it is the younger brother who is dragging the elder brother. The younger brother has never done anything wrong, it is the younger brother who is used to bullying the older brother."

"Oh." Chen Shu said, "Then I can probably understand. When Chen Ma is around, he always likes to tease me. Sometimes he can hit me with no seriousness. But Chen Ma is a good boy, and he can do no wrong. thing."

"Yeah." Qian Wu said, "Chen Ma can't do anything wrong."

"My father is dead." Chen Shu suddenly whispered: "I don't know what happened, but it seems that I have a premonition, as if he has died countless times in the dark, and I am used to it."

"Don't talk nonsense." Qianwu patted him, "Are you going to visit the grave tomorrow?"

"Go." Chen Shu said, "I will definitely go."

"Then give this to Chen Ma." Qian Wu took out something from his pocket while talking.

It was the small wooden box, opened, and there was a painting inside.

In the painting, Lian Ji Zi and Lian Ji Wu stand side by side. Lian Ji Zi looks indifferent, while Lian Ji Wu's red lips are stained with cinnabar.

"The box belongs to my younger brother. I couldn't find it after packing up, so why did it get into your hands?" Chen Shu frowned and said, "Where's the rattle inside?"

"I picked it up on the street, but I didn't see any rattles." Qianwu said.

"Why did you draw this? Draw those two adults and give it to my younger brother?" Chen Shu flipped through the drawing twice, "You are good at drawing, but my younger brother is not familiar with those two devils."

"You don't understand." Qianwu smiled and stroked the child's head, "The two of them are the adults below, let your younger brother have this, it's considered a backer."

"Oh——" Chen Shu suddenly realized, and immediately closed the wooden box and said, "Then I will put it away."

The moment the sound of the chains disappeared, all the ghosts on the street also disappeared.Qian Wu stood up straight, and when he lowered his head, Chen Shu disappeared.

The small courtyard of the Chen family was falling apart rapidly, and the entire village and town disappeared under the dark night, as if a displayed space-time plane had been folded and put away, and all the people and stories inside were no longer paid attention to.

Only the players were still standing there, until the field of vision suddenly shifted back to the intersection before they entered the village, but the original entrance into the town turned into darkness, and the darkness behind them faded away, reappearing in the sea of ​​nerves.

The sea was like an extreme day, and the two small boats were gently heaving in the waves, and they came to the shore.

"It's over." Xiaobai let out a long sigh of relief, "Thank you boss for leading us."

Miaomiao sighed softly, "There were three boats when they came, but now only two are here to pick them up."

Two of the three members of the soldiers' squad died, and only Wen Li was left alone.

"Fortunately, although this dungeon has a lot of pitfalls, in the end there are no exiles, and everyone is very friendly." Miaomiao said while boarding the boat, "By the way, Wenli, do you want to go with Qianwu and the others or with us? "

"I don't follow anyone." Wen Li said, "I don't know which nerve the next dungeon will shuttle into."

The voice fell, and there was a dead silence around.

Several players who had already boarded the ship turned pale and looked at him with horror.

"Are you an exile?" Qianwu asked.

Wen Li nodded, "Yes."

"How did you do it? You and Dabing Eggplant obviously came together." Qianwu said.

Wen Li said, "It's not difficult. I was put directly on their boat when I shuttled last time. Usually, under such circumstances, their memory will automatically blur and they will forcefully join me. And I will follow them all the way In this nerve until they all die."

"Don't be afraid." Wen Li rolled up his sleeves as he said, "I'm not some evil person, and I even ran into your targets."

He has one blue nerve in his arm, and another that's a faint cyan.Cyan and blue are very close. If you don't distinguish them carefully, you may think they are two calm nerves.But the two nerves, one positive and one negative, have almost completely opposite values.

"What does this mean?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Calm and impulsive." Wen Li sighed as he spoke, and pressed his temples, "Our nervous people are like congenitally deficient. We get two completely contradictory indicators, and we are doomed to be unable to get out of our nerves from the very beginning."

Everyone was suffocated, and Peng Peng said slowly: "Then you—in fact, you can kill other players in the dungeon to plunder their nerves."

"Yes." Wen Li shook his head, his eyes a little dazed, "but I used to be a soldier, and my duty was to protect, how could I hurt it. Maybe that's it, just wandering endlessly among these dungeons Go down, go punting until you die, it seems that there is nothing wrong. In my nerves, I rarely experience traumatic stress, if I can’t get out, I can’t get out.”

Qianwu was silent when he heard the words, he suddenly thought of Wenli's prosthetic limb, and told him calmly that a leg was blown off during the mission.

It turned out to be the case.

Suddenly a third boat came to the sea.

"It's mine." Wen Li said, "I'm going to the next nerve."

"Wait." Jiang Chen suddenly stopped him and asked, "Can you tell us why the player is exiled by nerves?"

"Don't you even know?" Wen Li raised his eyebrows in surprise, then nodded after a while and said, "That's right, exiles and native players are often at odds with each other, and when a relationship is broken, there must be someone who dies."

The three boatmen sat down at the bow of the boat, with their backs facing the crowd, and they didn't intend to urge them, nor did they want to talk to each other at all.

They are like tool people in the sea of ​​nerves, they only occasionally mention players, but they are completely free.

Wen Li whispered: "I can't explain why this plane intertwined with countless nerves exists, but I know that in a specific nerve, all players are drawn in at the same time, just like a group of people forming a company."

"We also know this." Jiang Chen said, "The boatman said it."

Wen Li nodded, "We met a boatman who was an exile before he died. He told us that in fact, every nerve is the same when it is formed, such as hoping that the player will be with you forever. After a batch of players come in, the nerves will choose a person, cling to this person's will to grow, and derive other personalities."

"This person is similar to the host. We speculate that the two qualities admired by the nerves are also extracted from the beliefs of the host. Even the behavior of the nerves will become more and more close to the host."

Everyone was dumbfounded, only Qian Wu suddenly turned his head to look at Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen's eyes were slightly startled.After a long time, he gently pulled up his sleeves.

Keeping calm and being absolutely rational is what he has carved into his bones to survive.

Strong empathy, always understanding the feelings of others, is what he loves most about Qianwu.

More importantly, there is no doubt that the nerves favor Qianwu.

Wen Li suddenly sighed in a low voice: "It is said that killing the host can kill the nerve."

Jiang Chen's heart suddenly sank.However, in the blink of an eye, he suddenly heard Qianwu's cold voice beside him.

"You're lying."

Qianwu interrupted Wenli, and said sharply: "If killing the host can kill the nerve, why do you become exiles?"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, as if they were pulled out of a paralyzed state.

"If you kill the host, you will be exiled by the nerve." Qianwu said: "Perhaps, the player who deceived the entire nerve becomes an exile. Is it another way for you to score your own head?"

Wen Li was stunned for a long time.

After a long time, the man suddenly laughed.

"It seems that I have hit the mark."

Qian Wu glanced away contemptuously, and said in a low voice, "It's because we have been taking you with you, you are a wolf."

The author has something to say: Do you mean Jiang Chen is my father?

Xiaoner sneered, no, I don't agree.

Jiang Chen remained expressionless: I don't agree either.