Demon Gatekeeper [Unlimited]

During dinner, news came from the program team that there was a landslide on the road up the mountain, and it would take a few days to repair it. The program team could not take away the eliminated guests, so even if the players were eliminated, they had to stay in Yunmeng Township and wait for the game to end before leaving .

At the same time, the program group added a restriction to the guests. In order to prevent the guests from cheating and using the audience to obtain information, the barrage was changed to be invisible to the guests.

When Tang Xiaotian heard the news, her face instantly became as pale as paper, and her eyes were full of fear and despair.As if he was really a player who had lost his way out.

Dugu sneered in his heart, Tang Xiaotian's acting skills are good, but this meeting is a bit too forceful.Jiu'er is still beside him, logically Tang Xiaotian should try to maintain his expression and not show any strangeness, just like when he heard Jiu'er calling him in Dugu's room, his face was pale with fright one second, and his face turned pale the next second. Can talk and laugh happily with Jiuer.

Since he has such an ability to manage expressions, it is a bit contradictory to show a look of fear and despair in front of Jiu'er.

Dugu didn't want to continue watching his performance, and gestured to the killer, signaling him to find him after dinner.When passing the paper crane, Dugu patted the other person on the shoulder again. The other person lives with Miaomiao now, reminding the other person, maybe he can ask for some information.

After dinner, the killer and the paper crane slipped into Dugu's room.Dugu just took a shower, wiped it casually with a towel twice, his hair was still dripping, and sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed.

"There is something strange in Yunmengxiang. I think Miaomiao and Jiu'er may have had an accident." Dugu said straight to the point, explaining to the audience why he brought other guests to the room.

In front of the audience, Dugu didn't like to mention the devil, so he only talked about Miaomiao and Jiu'er's anomalies, including the part of information provided by Tang Xiaotian.

Zhi He frowned slightly when he heard the part about the lollipops: "Miao Miao also went to the candy store this afternoon to buy a lot of lollipops, and I want to give them to me. But I also think that there is something about her coming back from the dead It's weird, so I didn't dare to ask for it."

Dugu remembered that Jiu'er also ate lollipops.So does the candy kill the player, or does the dead player need that candy to sustain them after being replaced?Or both?

Yu Yuan took a dry towel and sat behind Dugu, gently wiped his hair carefully, and said: "The hotel owner said yesterday that the locals don't eat, they eat nectar and drink spring water. And lollipops The shop owner said that this kind of lollipop is made of cloud honey. In other words, can it be understood that people in Yunmeng Township don’t need to eat, they only eat lollipops to sustain their lives. Now Miao Miao He Jiu'er is also in this state."

"You mean, the current Miaomiao and Jiu'er are pretended by locals?" The killer leaned against the wall with his arms folded, showing a thoughtful expression.

Strange, didn't killers always hate thinking about these twists and turns?Originally, Dugu didn't expect the killer to come up with any ideas, after all, except when there was a fight, he was always silent.

Dugu glanced at the killer with some concern, and then quickly moved away.

The killer's strength and brains are enough, and he won't encounter assassination for no reason, and be dropped by others, should he worry too much?

Dugu focused his attention back on the question: "It's not like pretending, the words and deeds of these two people have not changed much in peacetime, even if the other party can completely imitate the appearance of these two people, but the words, deeds, deeds and temperament are not so easy Imitation."

"I can't, is it a ghost?" Zhihe's voice was difficult, his teeth chattered slightly because of fear. He was afraid of ghosts. Even in the game world, he had seen all kinds of non-human intelligent beings through life and death, but the fear of ghosts, It's still in his genes.

Dugu shook his head: "I don't know. If someone had an accident, when did it happen, and how did it happen? What are Miaomiao and Jiu'er who are alive now? Does the White Bird God really exist? What do you want to do in such an isolated village? I don't even know."

"I just know that if this guess is true, then we are in danger now. Everyone in Yunmeng Township is untrustworthy, even the guests who came with us. The road down the mountain is blocked, and we can only rely on ourselves these days. "

Yuan dried Dugu's hair, threw the towel away, and put it on the coat rack opposite.

He rubbed a handful of Dugu's hair with his broad palm, and the strands of hair ran through his fingertips: "In fact, it is very difficult to make such doubts. It really deviates from our common sense all the time. Many viewers on the barrage may now I still suspect that we are talking nonsense and making up our minds at will, or that we have read too many horror stories, so we have nothing to do to add drama to ourselves."

"But I think you should be able to feel that all kinds of things are not right here. The car of the program group is stuck at the bottom of the mountain, which is a signal. Maybe it is the intervention of the white bird god. Otherwise, why would the mountain landslide today when some people retreated?" .It won't allow us to leave."

This sentence is for the audience. Players know that this is a game, so naturally they dare not take any chances.But the audience is different. Their deep-rooted common sense will forcibly explain everything that is unreasonable as accidental.

Zhihe thought for a while: "But we can still confirm our companions, right? As long as we don't eat lollipops, it means that this person is fine."

Yu Yuan's eyes were slightly cold: "I'm afraid not. If the other party deliberately avoids us eating lollipops, are you sure we can find out?"

Zhihe: "Then we can eat together, and those who don't eat have problems?"

Dugu shook his head: "Not eating does not mean that you must not eat. If they intend to pretend, this cannot be used as a reference."

"Look at the personal terminal? Check the live broadcast?"

Dugu still shook his head: "What if the other party is just eliminated? We can't tell the difference. It may be an illusion fabricated by some means. Anyway, you can't see the barrage feedback now. How can you be sure that the other party is real?" Is it a live broadcast, or is it a fake live broadcast, maybe even the person is dead, is the program crew broadcasting the live broadcast for him in order to cover up the truth of his death?"

When Dugu said this, a harmless smile broke out on the corner of his lips: "I was joking with the staff, of course I don't doubt what you mean. We are all amateurs and have no grievances or enmity with the program group. It is impossible for the director to specifically put us He lied to us."

Zhihe felt a slight bitterness in his mouth.He can understand Dugu's implication, and getting rid of the impossible is the message he wants to convey to himself.Dugu suspects that the program crew sent them up on purpose.This is not difficult to understand. The keywords given by the other party for two days happened to step on the special customs of Yunmeng Township, and the guest was also killed in the process of searching for clues.

In the afternoon, Dugu checked Miao Miao's live broadcast closure through the live barrage, and deduced the time of her death. In the evening, the program team directly prohibited the guests from seeing the barrage.It's like patching for the other party.

The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, especially when there was Miao Miao in the room who didn't know if it was a human or a ghost.Zhihe asked Dugu with a pale face: "Can I sleep with you at night? I can sleep on the floor..."

The program team did not stipulate how many people must sleep in one room. The bed is two 1.2-meter single beds, and two people can sleep comfortably even if they are squeezed together.

Dugu: "There's no need for the floor. Why don't the killers come along with us? The two of us sleep on the same bed."

"En." The killer nodded, as if it didn't matter where he slept or who he was with.

The two went back to the room to get their luggage.

It was still early before going to bed, and the killer said that he was not used to so many people crowded together, so he was going to the rooftop for a while.

"Killer." Dugu suddenly called out.

The killer paused, and looked at Dugu questioningly.

Dugu: "Have you encountered anything recently?"

The killer hooked the corner of his mouth and made a rare joke: "Why, the captain wants to talk to me?"

Dugu smiled cooperatively: "If you need it."

The killer tilted his head: "Why don't you go to the rooftop and talk slowly?"

"Okay." It was still cold at night on the mountain, so Dugu put on a coat.

"I'll accompany you?" Yu Yuan sat up from the bed.

"No need." Dugu thought for a while, it's not good for too many people to talk about things like this.

"Brother, pay attention to safety." Yu Yuan didn't force it.

There is a small ladder at the end of the second floor of the hotel. Climbing up from here is the rooftop.

At this time, the sky has completely darkened.Looking at the sky at the top of the mountain, you will feel that the sky is very close, and the sky is full of stars, as if it is within reach.

The killer propped his hands on the guardrail at the edge of the roof, staring at the stars in the distance, "Captain, have you ever thought about how the dungeon world we stayed in came about?"

Dugu was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect that the other party really talked to him when he said it was a heart-to-heart talk.He asked such an in-depth question as soon as he came up, and he had already prepared it. If the other party was in a bad mood, he could fight with him to decompress and prepare.

"Don't be nervous, the live broadcast has been blocked now." A black stone appeared in the killer's hand, the sky was too dark, Dugu couldn't see the patterns on it clearly.

"Can you take the initiative to block the live broadcast?" Dugu asked in surprise.

"It's okay when there are few people." The killer said vaguely.

Dugu: "How did you do it?"

The killer seemed to look at him without answering.

"Sorry, if it's inconvenient, you don't have to say it." Dugu has always respected the privacy of the team members, after all, he himself has not been completely honest.

However, he did have some vague ideas about the source of the dungeon world: "At first I thought it was the fictional world of the Gatekeeper game, but then I gradually felt that these worlds seemed very real. Those NPCs, and even the dungeon bosses, have their own memories and emotions, joys, sorrows, and even past and present lives. Their world is completely different from ours, but it is very complete and interesting, and I gradually suspect that the copy world is real.”

"Perhaps the primary dungeon world is like a fragment of a certain world, while the intermediate dungeon world is more complete. Maybe the advanced dungeon is really a complete world."

After finishing speaking, Dugu shook his head again: "But now I'm not sure. The previous world is okay. There is actually a live broadcast in this world. Each of our players has a complete identity setting, and it is consistent with the reality, just like ours. It’s like living here, but of course that’s impossible.”

"Of course this is not the real world, but it's not fictionalized by the gatekeeper game either. Here is a part of the small world intercepted by the gatekeeper game. A fragment about the occurrence of crimes." Dugu was a little surprised by the killer's determined tone.

"You know?" Dugu couldn't help being puzzled, the killer said so, it can be explained, but the problem is, the answer to this question can't even be found in the gatekeepers, where did he know it?

The killer put his hands in his pockets, and his expression was a little strange at this moment: "Crimes have happened in these places. The grading of the dungeons is divided by the consequences of the crimes. The primary dungeon has little impact and is just a small town. , or a village. A mid-level dungeon has a more far-reaching impact, perhaps affecting the entire world, or even several generations. As for a high-level dungeon, that crime is enough to destroy a world."

Dugu didn't interrupt him, but secretly guarded himself, his feeling was right, there was indeed something wrong with the killer.

"Evil is the key to open the dark realm. The dark realm is the habitat of demons, and negative emotions are the nourishment for demons."

"The gatekeeper's entry into this world of reflections is tantamount to rewriting the cause and effect at the moment when the crime occurs, and it is tantamount to forcibly closing the door to the dark field, so that these worlds can be reborn. Isn't it great?" The killer turned his head and looked at Dugu with eyes Dugu couldn't understand the emotions in the movie.

Dugu thought for a while, and answered truthfully: "I don't know if it's great or not. I'm not a saint, and I never thought of risking my life to save other people's worlds. I just want my world to go back to before the game started. I I don’t understand. You said there are tens of thousands of people in this world, but why should the gatekeepers be chosen from our world? This game is so great, why does it use the premise of hurting my world and my family, threatening our lives, and forcing us to help him? ?”

Killer: "That's not coercion, it's backlash. The real world is the master world, and the copy world is a small world. With the demise of each small world, the opened door will eventually become a channel connecting the reality and the dark realm, and eventually lead to the dark realm and reality. coincide."

Dugu rubbed the stubble on his chin, and realized: "So saving these worlds is equivalent to saving the real world, and when the final gate is closed, the reality will return to its original state? Well, although I don't know how you know this, but I Believe what you say, thank you for letting me know the truth about this game."

The killer shook his head, and his tone seemed to be full of sadness: "You still don't know."

"What?" Dugu was a little confused.

The killer stared at him, as if he was looking at someone else through him. After a long time, the killer took his hand out of his pocket, and his eyes returned to the usual calm expression: "It's nothing, let's go back."