Demon Gatekeeper [Unlimited]

Dugu is indeed caught in a very difficult decision now, and Yu Yuan's yelling "brother is long and brother is short" made his heart melt.When he thought that this was actually the target he wanted to kill, he found it difficult to breathe.

"Brother Dugu, today Friday, my classmates and I plan to go to the back mountain for a barbecue, do you want to come together?"

"Barbecue? At school?" Dugu asked pretending to be curious.

Yu Yuan lowered his voice: "Well, just me and a few friends, we have a secret base in the back mountain. The scenery is nice, and my brother can sketch there."

If he didn't know that Yu Yuan was the patron saint, and he wasn't a mission taker, Dugu would probably agree happily, but now he couldn't help but become vigilant.

The other party asked him out alone, did they find out that he was a tasker, and wanted to find a chance to get rid of him?

But after thinking about it, if the opponent really made a move, he would no longer have to struggle and hesitate, and could fight back confidently.He can also tell the captain the news, and in turn ambush the other party.

So Dugu readily agreed: "Houshan, what time is it at night, do you want to study by yourself at night?"

Yu Yuan: "No need. The plan is at seven o'clock in the evening. Is brother going to self-study?"

Dugu smiled: "I don't need it either."

At noon, Dugu told Ling Jiuqing and several others that Yu Yuan asked him to go to the back mountain for a barbecue.

Ling Jiuqing asked for a dagger from Qian Yun, quietly handed it to Dugu, and took out a bluetooth headset and stuffed it into Dugu's ear.

"In this way, we will ambush at the place down the mountain, and you look for an opportunity to strike. You wear this earphone, and there is a bugging device in the earphone, so we can know the situation on your side at any time. If there is danger, you call for help immediately."

"Why does the captain have this?" Dugu rubbed his ears. Aren't they always in school? How could a student have a Bluetooth headset with bugs?

"It was exchanged for points in the mall. You forgot, I am the captain and have the authority to open the mall."

"Oh, yes." As soon as Ling Jiuqing said, Dugu had a vague impression.There does seem to be such a rule.

In fact, Ling Jiuqing controls the entire illusion, he can know what happened in the illusion, and he can change anything he needs in the illusion.Keeping reasonable is to convince the players in the illusion.

Only when players believe that this is an illusion, their death here can correspond to reality.If they realize that this is an illusion, the illusion will shatter.

The thirteen players gathered at the mountainside of the back mountain. The back mountain was a stone mountain, and it was not easy to climb up, but there was a large open space on the mountainside, surrounded by stones, so it was indeed hidden.

"Will he come?" Wu Shen wore a white coat, and her current identity was an intern school doctor.

"Speaking of Yu Yuan, it shouldn't be a problem." Chu Xing squatted on the ground and built a simple grill with bricks, stuffed the charcoal prepared in advance, and put meat skewers pierced by iron skewers on it.

Like Dugu, after entering the game, all players have their memory changed by the illusion.In their cognition, they are the guardian spirits of the door rather than human beings. Because they sense the presence of intruders, they will possess human beings to drive out the intruders.

In their eyes, intruders are different from ordinary people. For example, Dugu, they saw him with red eyes and rose marks on his hands.That's why Yu Yuan recognized him at a glance in the morning and approached him proactively.

Dugu was the No.1 intruder they found. Yu Yuan said that he planned to detain him and interrogate him carefully, trying to catch the whereabouts of other intruders and catch them all.This is how the night came out of the back mountain.

"Here we come." A paper crane that had landed on a rock flapped its wings and reminded.

The others quickly gathered around the grill, got drinks, fanned fans, arranged seasonings, peeled garlic, and were busy looking for things to do.

The meat was roasted until golden oil dripped on the charcoal, and was licked away by the tongue of fire, crackling.The aroma of barbecue gradually dissipated.

Yu Yuan first poked his head out from between the stones, stretched his hands and straddled his long legs, and rolled in.Then he turned around and stretched out his hand to pull Dugu.

"Thank you." Dugu himself was pretty good, but with the drawing board on his back, he still grabbed Yu Yuan's hand and stepped up with his strength.

There are more people on the mountain than Dugu imagined, including men and women.Seeing Dugu was taken aback at the end, the Chinese teacher was there.

Noticing that Dugu was looking at him, God Whisperer pushed down his glasses and nodded.

Dugu remembered that the captain said that the Chinese teacher was the guardian spirit, so are they all in the same group?Dugu touched the pocket of his trousers, which contained the dagger given to him by the captain.

"Aren't there only classmates?" Dugu tried his best to pretend a student's flustered feeling when he saw the teacher.

"Brother Dugu, don't worry, Mr. Shen is the cousin of Jian's classmate in our class, don't worry, he has no airs in private and is very easy to get along with."

Yu Yuan pulled Dugu into the middle of the crowd: "Let me introduce you to my classmates, Chu Xing, Shan Yu, Han Mengyao, Shi Jian. Nian Xiuzhu, Elder Elder Sister, Sen Luo. You know Mr. Shen, this guy in a white coat It's the school's intern school doctor, not more than two years older than us."

Dugu looked at the people one by one. He couldn't tell who was the guardian spirit and who was the guardian spirit. He could only try to remember every face here.

"This is chess cloth." The doll in Sen Luo's arms suddenly spoke, scaring Dugu.

"He, did he talk?" Dugu stared, pretending to be terrified.

"Don't be afraid, it's a puppet made by Sen Luo himself. It's not a monster." Yu Yuan smiled and comforted him.

"Are you grilling meat? It smells so good, I'll help too." Dugu turned his gaze to Chu Xing.

"You can help to eat, this is grilled." Chu Xing skillfully sprinkled seasoning on the skewers and brushed with sauce: "Taste."

"Delicious!" Dugu praised sincerely.

The atmosphere was a little harmonious for a while.

The others looked at each other and asked Yu Yuan what to do next.But Yu Yuan gave a calm look.

So eating barbecue is really just eating barbecue, and there are drinks and fruits after eating.Two hours passed, and everyone had a round belly.

After eating, everyone was still not happy, and they clamored to play Werewolf, but Dugu said that he was not very good at playing, so everyone asked him to be the judge.

After listening to Yu Yuan explain the process, Dugu gave them ID badges and said, "Please close your eyes when it gets dark."

A crow's cry suddenly sounded above his head, and when Dugu raised his head, he met a pair of dark eyes, as if he was examining himself.

Fingertips traced the shape of the dagger through the pocket, but Dugu was at a loss like never before.

"Werewolf, please open your eyes." He said, but in fact, he had just secretly replaced the werewolf in the card with a civilian. There was no werewolf in this game, and he was still the only one who opened his eyes.

"Werewolf, please kill." Dugu said as he walked behind Yu Yuan and took out a dagger from his pocket.

The carotid artery is within easy reach.The person in front of him seemed defenseless against himself.

But, is this the right thing to do?Dugu's hand holding the knife trembles a little, because his own world needs to survive, so he justifiably plunders the world of others. Can the vitality of the two worlds really be shared?Could the door be opened and the world destroyed?

Since he woke up, he has been avoiding thinking about this problem, hypnotizing himself that the task is the task.The captain also said that everything they do is for the common people in the world, but are only the common people in their world considered common people?If the so-called salvation is at the cost of sacrificing other people's worlds and lives, then how should he choose?

"Do it, what are you hesitating for?" Ling Jiuqing's urging voice sounded in the earphones, Dugu took a breath, and the hand holding the knife increased a little bit of strength, but still couldn't stab it no matter what.

If that world was saved and the vitality of this world was robbed, how many people like this would die in this world?

They are also human beings, they have joys, sorrows, sorrows, family members and friends, people who really live in this world; they are just like the cute boy who calls his brother in front of him, full of vitality.Thinking of this, he felt that what he was holding in his hand was not an ordinary dagger at all, but a bloody butcher knife.

He can't.

In the earphones, Ling Jiuqing was still urging, so Dugu simply took off the earphones.

"Dawn." Dugu put the dagger back into his pocket and said, "Christmas Eve, I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten to put the werewolf card in."

The others giggled and said nothing, as if they didn't know what happened just now, and dealt the cards again to start the game.Dugu played with them until late at night before saying goodbye, and Yu Yuan sent him back to the dormitory all the way.

As soon as the door was opened, the three teammates sat on the stool without sleeping, looking at him with serious faces.

"Why don't you do it? You have a chance, right?" Ling Jiuqing said, "Dugu, you let me down so much."

Dugu took out the dagger and earphones from his pocket and put them on the table: "I'm sorry."

"I don't want to apologize, give me a reason, why don't you do it!" Ling Jiuqing's tone became severe, his eyes stared straight at Dugu: "Have you forgotten your devoured parents? Have you forgotten your disappearing friends Alright? Well, you’ve forgotten it all, and you don’t want it, so what about the lives of billions of human beings in the world? Can you take responsibility for it?”

"But our life is our life. Isn't the life of the people here not their life?" Dugu retorted softly, but firmly: "Captain, tell me the truth, if the door is opened, this world really won't be affected at all." Is it? Vitality is passing, and the world has even sent out patron saints, which means that it is not without influence, right?"

"So you want to give up your own world for the people of this world?" Ling Jiuqing lowered his head, unable to see his expression clearly in the shadows.

"Our world is broken. They didn't break it. Why should they accompany me? What did they do wrong?" Dugu said, "I am willing to spend my whole life looking for a way to bring my world back to life, but It can’t be done this way, absolutely not.”

"Oh, that's easy to say, what if there is only one way?" Ling Jiuqing asked.

Dugu: "This is the only known method. It doesn't mean that there is only one method. Don't change the concept secretly. If you insist on taking this method of harming others and benefiting yourself as a shortcut to save our world, you are not only selfish, lazy, but also cowardly. "

Dugu said that he paused here, and murmured as if thinking of something: "I should, I wouldn't like such a person..."

The illusion shattered.

Ling Jiuqing's face changed, she didn't expect that the illusion would be shattered for such a ridiculous reason.

Losing the cover of the illusion, the player regained his memory and strength in an instant.Ling Jiuqing was injured due to backlash.

The final gate is suspended in the sky of the dark domain, and it is already in a half-open state. On the contrary, there are more and more reflections of the real world projected into the dark domain.

Players are concentrated in the center of the dark area, but the demons are nowhere to be found.

Just as Dugu recovered his memory, he was still a little dazed, and then he became angry on his own, thinking: How can the devil be so shameless, instigate himself to destroy the real world to fulfill the dark realm, and even pretend to be his fiancé?

Fortunately, even if I change my position, I still can't tell right from wrong.

The players were also afraid for a while, they had originally planned to fight Dugu, no matter who died or was injured, the loss would be the player's own people.Fortunately, Yu Yuan stopped him.

Dugu himself was also curious, and asked Yu Yuan strangely: "I thought you guys would do something in the back mountain, why didn't you do it?"

Yu Yuan stretched out his hand and pressed the tip of Dugu's nose: "Because I feel very contradictory. You don't look like someone who will destroy other people's worlds. Bad people don't look at me like that."

"What look?" Dugu blinked.

"Clean liking, pure appreciation, very focused, very cherished, as if I am some kind of artwork." Yu Yuan thought for a while and said.

Dugu's cheeks were hot, and he felt that this sentence could be summed up as - how to euphemistically describe a straight-faced dog.

"I'm lying to you, his illusion didn't affect me, I had the memory from the beginning. It's not really entering the illusion." Yu Yuan smiled a little badly with the corners of his mouth curled up.

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Dugu thought about it for a while: "No wonder you called me Brother Dugu as soon as you came up."

Yu Yuan said: "I can't tell. He can completely monitor Ling Jiuqing's illusion. Once I behave abnormally, he should find a way to separate me alone."

"Moreover, the illusion is a disguised reality, which can get a lot of information. At least now we know that they need the godheads of five god players to sacrifice in order to completely open the final door."

The God Whisperer saw that he was talking about something serious, so he answered at the right time: "Speaking of which, we know how to open the final door, but we don't know how to close it yet."

"I know." Dugu blinked.At any rate, he has been the Demon King for nearly a year, and he has been secretly investigating the secrets of the Dark Realm and the Final Gate.

"But in order to make it clear, I have to explain to you how the door is formed."

"The door is a concrete representation of the connection between two space passages. The opening of the passage requires energy. Since the selection of the gatekeepers, demons have begun to sacrifice human lives to continuously expand the connection between reality and the dark realm."

"The same method was first used in the small world, earlier than when they attacked the real world, that is, before the one-day event started. The small world is a derivative of the real world, perhaps because of a book, a story, or a dream , but when it becomes a small world, he already has a real life. It will not be attached to the story itself."

"The demons destroy the small world, open the small world channel, gain energy, and accumulate a group of demons of all levels, including the devil. After everything is ready, they start to attack the real world."

"The self-defense of the real world consciousness gave birth to the gatekeeper game. It goes back to those small worlds that have fallen, and makes copies of the game one by one, allowing us to compete with the devil. When we change the ending of the destruction of the small world, the passage of the small world can be opened. Closed, this part of the energy will also be withdrawn from the demon, returned to the small world, and given back to the player."

"When the world consciousness feels that our ability is enough to completely cut off the channel, it will send us here and close the so-called final door."

Chess cloth rubbed the pieces in his hand: "According to what you said, we closed the door of the small world because we changed the ending of the small world, regained the luck of the small world, and cut off the energy connection between here and the small world. Gate, whose ending is going to be rewritten?"

"This is not a small world, and there is no ending to rewrite. All we have to do is compete for energy with the devil. Just as the main abilities of the players are concentrated on the five godheads, the abilities of the devil are mainly concentrated on the devil."

"The reason why the illusion just now was so real is that if I guess correctly, the current Ling Jiuqing has not only recovered the strength of his heyday, but also inherited the skills of the five fragments."

The Elf King agreed: "Distorting memory, creating illusions, suppressing strength, blocking perception, he should indeed have more than one kind of strength."

The God Whisperer clapped his hands: "So as long as we kill the devil, we can get enough energy to close the door? But where should we find him?"

"There is no need to look for him." Dugu looked up at the sky: "The borrowed ability will be returned one day, and his time is coming."

Sure enough, as soon as Dugu finished speaking, a powerful energy burst out from his body.At the same time, Ling Jiuqing came along with several high-level demons. Behind them, countless low-level demons and even ignorant evil spirits were gathering.

Ling Jiuqing was not as high-spirited as the player thought. Instead, his face was pale, and he vomited blood while talking. It didn't look like he was carrying powerful energy with him at all.

"What happened to him?" Chu Xing stared curiously.

"It should be the backlash caused by the passing of energy." Sen Luo has already understood: "The devil king recovered his body and abilities because he plundered the energy of the city of order in the last dungeon, but because Dugu rewrote the ending of the previous world, closed The energy channel, those abilities have been taken back."

"Then do we still have enough energy to close the door?" Shan Yu asked worriedly.

"Yes." Yu Yuan said this, but his face was not very good-looking: "Brother Dugu opened the door to the ruins again after Ling Jiuqing opened the door, the original cause and effect were covered, and part of the energy was fed back to Dugu. "

"That is to say, the person we want to steal energy from is Ling Jiuqing to Dugu?" The doctor also changed his face.

Ling Jiuqing coughed and laughed: "Yes, so how do you choose?"

The player's expression became serious.Do you want them to kill Dugu?

Ling Jiuqing walked in front of Dugu: "Little Dugu, do you feel it? Your current strength should be stronger than mine. As long as you want, I can cooperate with you to kill these players. At that time, the entire dark field will be yours. The real world is also yours. If it is you, I can give up the throne."

"I thought my position was clearly stated in the illusion." Dugu's face turned red because he hadn't adapted to the soaring energy in his body, and it was difficult for him to speak.Wings emerged from behind uncontrollably, with sharp horns and sharp claws, and the eyes turned red and then slowly turned dark purple.

At the same time as his power soared, there was also a desire to destroy and control, which constantly engulfed Dugu's reason.

Dugu felt like a small boat in a storm, and could get lost in the sea of ​​power at any time.

Dugu simply flapped his wings and flew towards the door while he was still conscious.

There is no real door, but it seems to be touched by Dugu.He pushed the door hard, closing it inch by inch, and the realities reflected in the dark field disappeared one by one, and returned to the original desolate appearance.

The energy in the body is crazily flowing.

"You should go." Dugu urged the players.The players looked at each other in blank dismay, unable to move for a long time.They couldn't watch Dugu sacrifice and leave alone.

Yu Yuan stepped on the light energy and flew to Dugu's side: "Brother Dugu, I have been thinking about a problem for a long time, and I just figured it out."

"What?" Dugu trembled a little, his lips and fingertips were so white that they turned purple.The rapid influx and outflow of energy wreaked havoc on the body, it felt cold, he hadn't been this cold in a long time.

"I was thinking, light must represent justice, and darkness must represent evil? Energy is just energy, and the will of the user determines everything. Whether you become a demon or a god, your energy has never hurt anyone .”

"Huh?" Dugu's consciousness gradually blurred, and he couldn't quite understand the meaning of Yu Yuan's sudden words.

The next second, Yu Yuan hugged Dugu from behind, and a vast amount of bright energy poured into Dugu's body, filling up his almost exhausted body: "So I think, if it were me, the energy would definitely not hurt you, no matter when. "

Dugu only felt warm, like a person who was about to freeze took a sip of hot soup, like the sun rising suddenly on the ice field, not hot, but very gentle warmth, making his almost frozen body, from inside to outside It starts to melt.

Dugu's face turned rosy again, and his mind became clearer. Only then did he realize what Yu Yuan was doing, and he struggled hard: "You are crazy, let go, and you will die too."

There is not much difference in itself between one person drained of energy and two people drained of energy.Just like one person loses 80.00% of blood, and two people lose [-]% of blood, the end is death.As the God of Light, Yu Yuan's energy is not weak, but compared to Dugu who has just absorbed a world's energy gift, it is only about one-fifth. Even if he is exhausted, he cannot save the two people.

Other players gathered towards this side, put their hands together, and landed on the back of Dugu's hand. "That should be enough."

"But..." Dugu wanted to say, when the door was closed, they would not be able to return to reality.

"Don't worry." Sen Luo held a handful of puppets in his hand, pricked everyone's hands with a needle, and tapped on each of the puppets: "This is called a substitute puppet. The moment the door closes, I will adjust you and the puppet." position so that we can all return to reality."

"It's an unexpected unity." Ling Jiuqing clapped and said, "Unfortunately, I don't want it to end like this."

The surrounding demons suddenly knelt down, and energy gathered towards Ling Jiuqing's body.

The God Whisperer's face changed slightly: "This is the ability to swallow the sky, how could he have the ability to swallow the sky?"

Even more terrifying than Tuntian at that time.

Dugu comforted him: "It's not Tuntian, his skills can only absorb the same power as this world, and can't absorb external power. If you insist, it's more like an upgraded version of the corpse beast's ability. Don't be afraid, it can't absorb it. our energy."

Ling Jiuqing's body began to swell uncontrollably, changing into the appearance of a corpse beast, with seven heads and five fragments growing out of his neck, the current Ling Jiuqing, and the boy named Ah Jiu.

Seven heads and fourteen pairs of eyes stared at Dugu: "Why do you force me? I don't want to use this ability. After all, every time I can't control it, I will swallow all the demons, and I am the only one left in the dark realm It's very lonely. I hate loneliness the most."

"You devil is so funny," Nian Xiuzhu said angrily, "It's your own choice, why ask Dugu instead, is he your father?"

His answer was a flying scythe.

Nian Xiuzhu hurriedly summoned bamboo to form a shield to resist, but the shield was instantly chopped into pieces.Seeing that the sickle was about to call at Xiuzhu's throat last year, a huge iron shield suddenly appeared in the sky.

It emerged from the other side of the door.

"It's Iron Shield!" Sen Luo recognized the person, who was a member before he dismantled the team.

Then, more players poured out from the other side of the door.

"Captain!" Tie Dun put away his shield and rushed towards Sen Luo excitedly.

"Why are you here?" Sen Luo asked in surprise.

"We just finished our gatekeeper tasks, and the system suddenly released a copy of the final gate. We thought that you should have entered the dark realm, and maybe you can help, so we all came."

"They're all here?" Shan Yu was a little surprised. In his impression, many players in the gatekeeper game were very afraid of death.

"Of course, this is the final dungeon. If it fails, the world will be gone, so what's the point of continuing." The one who spoke was an old player who had been wandering in the mid-level and low-level fields for three years.

With the addition of these players, the power of the gatekeepers has suddenly increased.The ants killed the elephants. Although Ling Jiuqing borrowed the power of the demon, although it was powerful, it was not his own ability after all. It was very clumsy to use, and finally fell under the siege of the players.

After sending away the players who came to help, the players of the fourteen high-level copies were still the last to close the final door.

[The gatekeeper game is over, thank you for your participation. 】

[Time backtracking is on.Target, 2023, April 4. 】