Welcome to Nightmare Game III

"I thought you had to drink for departmental dinners." Walking on the road, Xiaoxiao expressed her worries nervously. She was only a freshman before entering this world, and she always felt that graduation and work were far away. Anticipation and fear.

"It's not that everyone likes to drink. We come out to eat to make you happy. You can drink whatever you like." Mr. Qi said with a smile.

Xiao Xiao sighed: "My dad always has to socialize and drink, and often gets home drunk and vomits, if only his leader thinks the same way."

Mr. Qi said: "In the past, my leader also liked to drink, and always dragged us to drink together. At that time, I had just graduated and was working in a design institute, so I felt bored."

Xiao Xiao became curious: "And then?"

Mr. Qi: "Then I resigned at the speed of light and went it alone."

Xiao Xiao was stunned: "Can it still be like this?"

This is too capricious!After all, it is the job of the design institute!Can Mr. Qi's parents agree?

Mr. Qi laughed, it was a slightly sly smile: "At that time I was more self-willed."

Xiao Xiao still couldn't believe it, and couldn't connect the Mr. Qi who he said was dissatisfied with the leader who always dragged him to the wine bureau and quickly resigned to work alone with the calm, responsible and caring Mr. Qi in front of him.

Mr. Qi said with nostalgia: "I had a happy waste of time with nothing to do. I stayed at home, played games, received orders, and had no life goals. I was ashamed to say that I lived in the My mother's house, she rented it to me at a low price, and most of the design orders were drawn by my father's connections. I have no sense of crisis, and I have no ambition, but my parents are very tolerant to me, and what they expect of me is Be healthy and happy, and don’t get into any bad habits. Thinking about it now, I can enjoy their protection with peace of mind, it’s really old waste.”

He complained about himself harshly, Xiaoxiao felt that his guess about Mr. Qi's life had been subverted!

She thought that he should be from a scholarly family, came here as a good student, strict and self-disciplined, able to endure hardships, no matter work or life, he was the kind of good boy who never let his parents worry about him, but she didn't think he was not.

Thinking about it this way...it's pretty kind.

Xiao Xiao was envious for a while, she also wanted to have such a life of eating and dying.

But thinking about it further, she couldn't help feeling sad again.Why did Mr. Qi change so much?It is said that it has only been more than three years since he entered the nightmare world, and he has changed from a wayward nerd to the head of the entire Twilight Township.

Is it because of his friends?Xiaoxiao couldn't help but recall the fountain sculpture in the Lucky Square not far away.

Or his dead wife?Xiao Xiao remembered that he would wear a sapphire ring to visit the grave of his dead lover.

"On the day I resigned, my mother said something to me. She said that she used to think that there was only one standard of success in life: success and fame. But later she felt that there should not be only one evaluation of whether a person's life is worth living. It is a kind of success for a person to have good teachers and helpful friends, to live hard and live a fulfilling and happy life; to have a firm belief, to practice his belief through hard work all his life, and to gain inner peace is also a kind of success; even if he only pursues Love, working hard to run a happy and warm family all my life, is not a kind of success. Compared with success in the worldly sense, she hopes that I understand what kind of life I really want." Mr. Qi said.

Xiao Xiao suddenly felt a sense of enlightenment.

After coming to the nightmare world, she has been thinking about this question faintly.When there are only a few short years left in her life, which may end in an accident at any time, the life evaluation system she has accepted for more than ten years is already crumbling.

Money has no meaning, and fame will not bring benefits. Success and fame are no longer the aspirations of everyone in this world.After the collapse of values, some people are lost in the fear of death, some people are struggling on the road to becoming stronger, and some people have found a new meaning of life.

"Then do you know what kind of life you want now?" Xiao Xiao asked.

Mr. Qi looked at her with a smile and said, "Think about it, I will be a brave man who saves the dragon."

Xiao Xiao: "Ah? To defeat the dragon, right?"

Mr. Qi smiled and shook his head, his brows and eyes were gentle and firm under the moonlight, as if the brave should save the dragon.

Xiao Xiao was puzzled, but embarrassed to ask further.She looked down at her own shadow and whispered, "It's unbelievable. I thought the bosses had always been such powerful people, able to handle both the real world and the nightmare world with ease. It turns out that there is also a process of growth."

Mr. Qi smiled and asked her, "What kind of people do you think Si Lin and illusionists are?"

"Ah? This... I think, Mr. Si Lin is very serious and has a sense of majesty. He is a person who can control the overall situation." Xiao Xiaoxiao.

Mr. Qi: "Well, that's right. He is a consistent winner in life. I heard him talk about some things in his childhood, some of which he can't remember clearly, but generally it's from a neighbor who has been hated since he was a child. child."

Xiao Xiao asked curiously: "What does Mr. Si Lin do in the real world?"

Mr. Qi showed a delicate expression: "He said that their whole family are civil servants, serving the people."

Xiaoxiao: "???"

Mr. Qi: "But he drank too much later and said that he slipped the tongue. His grandfather was a general. He lived in a military compound when he was a child. It's the life of three generations of officials who have nothing to do with us."

Xiao Xiao: "...Yes, yes." Now she knows where Mr. Si Lin's strong sense of class came from. Although she is not familiar with Mr. Si Lin, she already feels him. There is always a kind of "you should do as I say" temperament. She also heard that he is a person who is very serious about details and quality. He used to be nicknamed "Miss".

Mr. Qi asked her, "Where do you think illusionists are?"

Xiao Xiao hesitated to speak, the illusionist gave her such a wonderful impression, she felt that everything he did was weird but not weird, even if Mr. Qi told him that the illusionist was actually a transgender nightclub disco queen, she would I don't think it violates harmony.

Xiaoxiao thought about it and said: "I think the illusionist is a hot-tempered and straightforward person, but very emotional. His profession should be very special, right?"

Mr. Qi nodded and said: "His family is in business, and he has several older brothers and sisters. He is the youngest child and does not need to inherit the family business. The family is more laissez-faire to him, so he will start the business by himself."

Xiao Xiao: "Open a bar? KTV? Casino?"

Mr. Qi glanced at her strangely: "He is in the clothing business."

It was unexpected and reasonable, Xiao Xiao suddenly realized: "Women's clothing!"

Mr. Qi: "Well, he is very good at designing women's clothing. When he first started his business, he used to be a model by himself in order to save money, and unexpectedly achieved a very good publicity effect, but at that time he was more reserved and refused to show his face. Womenswear is reluctant and feels ashamed of it."

Xiaoxiao: "..."

So what happened to him, that he is so keen on women's clothing like now, no one in the entire Twilight Township has seen him wearing men's clothing!

The lives of the bosses are very interesting. The little girl who listened to the gossip was satisfied, and when Mr. Qi opened up the chat box, she seized the opportunity to ask: "There is something that I have always been skeptical about. The newspaper said that Mr. Si Lin With Mister Illusionist..."

Mr. Qi quickly clarified: "They are not that kind of relationship."

A little "oh", sure enough, the gossip in the newspaper is all lies.Such an answer is reasonable, but there is always a disappointment of not hearing the big gossip.

Mr. Qi looked at Xiao Xiao who looked thoughtful, and said: "They have known each other for many years. If they would be together, they would have been together a long time ago."

Disagreeing with this little bit, she expressed a weak protest with the romanticism of a girl: "This is not necessarily the case. Maybe it is just missing a special opportunity. I believe that there is a fate between people. Once that special When the opportunity arises, two seemingly irrelevant people may come together because of this."

As if thinking of something, Mr. Qi showed a gentle smile for her words, and he nodded slightly in agreement: "You are right. Timing is very important."

Xiao Xiao was very happy to get the approval. She wanted Mr. Qi to take stock of the love opportunities of the hero and heroine that she often saw in anime and novels. The most famous one is the aphrodisiac.

But seeing Mr. Qi quietly admiring the profile of the moonlight, she was embarrassed to talk to him about such a topic. She decided to chat with her classmates another day, and told them by the way that she verified the boss that Si Lin and the illusionist were just innocent people. Friendship, they will definitely howl.

They have already passed this street, and the platform of Lucky Plaza is in front of them. Mr. Qi continued: "After talking about me, let's talk about you too. I have always been curious about your mind reading skills."

Xiao Xiao said "ah" and said very embarrassedly: "It's the skill card I got in Novice Village. At that time, I completed a very weird achievement... I woke up and found myself in a teacher's office in the school. , I was scared to death after hearing the system prompt, and I didn't dare to go out, so I went through the lesson plans, notes, homework, and diaries in the entire office, and found a lot of strange information, and got this binding Skill card."

Mr. Qi asked with interest: "What kind of information do you have?"

Xiao Xiao covered her face: "I restored the intricate relationship between five corners in this office."

Mr. Qi: "???"

Xiao Xiaohou said fearfully: "After I walked out of the office, I met other players in Xinshou Village, some of them were my classmates, and everyone was normal on weekdays, but I used mind reading to read a collection of teacher-student romance , homosexuality, orthopedic romance, and n-corner romance, there are also elements such as PUA, cheating, doubles, and the most terrifying thing is that there is murder! One of my classmates just murdered another classmate, and his skill card You can get the buffs in this dungeon by murdering others, he also planned to kill me and scared me crazy, if it wasn’t for my extraordinary acting skills, I would definitely die in it.”

Mr. Qi hesitated to speak: "This is indeed a complicated novice village."

Thinking back on his extraordinary performance in Novice Village, Xiaoxiao couldn’t help feeling proud again: “Later, I caught his words, touched his dormitory, and found evidence that he murdered his roommate before entering the game and pretended to jump off a building. They exposed him in front of others, and performed mind reading skills on the spot to enhance their persuasiveness, and then let him overturn."

Mr. Qi looked at her with a smile and asked, "That's why you got into the habit of reading minds everywhere?"

The little face suddenly turned pale with fright, and she shrank her head and dared not speak.

Mr. Qi said softly: "I'm not blaming you, I want to know your opinion on this ability."

Xiaoxiao lowered her head in embarrassment, this is not a topic she wants to discuss.

But Mr. Qi has been waiting for her to speak, recalling Mr. Qi's care for her in the past two days, and his proactive and frank past just now, she feels that he is credible, maybe, she should put the things she has been avoiding to face speak out.

Xiaoxiao pursed her lips, and said in a low voice: "At first, I was very nervous, and I always felt that it was very immoral to peek into other people's inner world. Later, slowly, I didn't feel so guilty. I know It's not good, but I've done so many things that I didn't dare to think about before. This skill is like a game with only rewards and no punishment. It is saving me, encouraging me, and I start to take everything for granted-I have Why don’t I use this ability? I’ve never used it to actively hurt innocent people, so why can’t I use it? Even, even if I just use it to satisfy my curiosity, so what?”

When it came to the end, Xiaoxiao, who defended herself, clenched her fists angrily, but her eyes became hot, and she wanted to cry a little.

She remembered the first time she killed someone, blood splashed all over her face, her mind went blank, but there was a deafening heartbeat in her ears, something guiding and admonishing her collapsed silently up.She knelt down in a pool of blood, thinking in a trance if she was in the real world at this moment, what would she do next?She would definitely turn herself in to the police, and even if she couldn't get a legitimate defense, she would try to get her sentence reduced for excessive self-defense. Of course, the police wouldn't believe that she had read the other party's premeditated murder, and she had to find a way to exonerate herself.

But here, she doesn't have to do anything.All she has to do is stand up from this pool of blood and go on with her mission.She won't go to jail, she'll just be rewarded for staying alive.

"The first time I personally killed someone in a dungeon, I cried until midnight, not because I was afraid, but because I felt that I was finished... It was that kind of feeling that a peaceful life suddenly collapsed. So I can kill people? I It can kill people! But now, as soon as I leave the dungeon, I can happily buy desserts, because I got the task reward, and I can have money to buy things that I am not usually willing to part with. Eating delicious cakes When I was young, I felt that killing people was not so annoying." Xiaoxiao forced a smile to Mr. Qi, "Anyway, it's already broken, and reading minds is nothing compared to killing people, right?"

When she just graduated from the rookie school, she couldn't figure it out.After breaking the bottom line of the rules of civilized society, her confusion about ability and uncertainty about the future made her feel painful at a young age.She doesn't know what it means to struggle in this precarious world.

Here, she has no relatives, no friends, and no one she likes. There are only a few years left in her life.In order to survive these few years, she has to continue to degenerate, kill more people, and do more things that go against her heart. Why is she living?

She began to learn not to think about it.Introspection and thinking brought endless pain, she chose to live with instinct, just like all numb people.

Just then, she saw a story in the Evening Daily.

There is an Aboriginal pilot in charge of flying the aircraft. After losing his wife and children in the Battle of Twilight two and a half years ago, he began to drink heavily and lived a life like a walking dead. The record of almost being disqualified as a pilot was ten years ago when he illegally stole the aircraft and carried the girl he liked to propose marriage in the evening sea and airspace under the setting sun.

The result of that flight violation was that he got a high fine and a fiancée. Under the angry and funny scolding of the stewards, the absurdly romantic pilot dragged his fiancée to the church with a laugh, and at the church door A passer-by was caught to act as the officiant, and the whole street, whether they knew them or not, came to bless the happy couple.

In the evening of that day, he had a home.

After getting married, he became calmer. He worked hard, managed a happy family with his heart, and had two lovely children.He is still flying the aircraft, and he also encountered fanatics during the mission and survived fortunately. His worry about the future is that he is afraid that one day he will not be so lucky, and he will be in an explosion with a group of fanatics. The spaceship crashed into the evening sea.

But he didn't expect that he survived, but the people he loved died in the Twilight Battle.

In the next two and a half years, he was still flying the aircraft, but he drove it farther, and no longer traveled between Sunset Island and the mainland. He began to fly the aircraft on long-distance missions, transporting the goods of the All Things Factory to all parts of the world .

He didn't collapse, he didn't go crazy, he just became calmer than before, and everyone believed that he was a reliable backbone of the business, able to lead the spaceships to complete transportation missions one after another.

However, on a sunny afternoon, this calm pilot came to the airport as usual and greeted everyone he knew with a smile. Everything seemed normal.Until he walked into the cockpit and rushed out of Sunset Island by himself driving the aircraft that hadn't replenished the demon crystals.

In the setting sun of the Twilight Sea, the aircraft that exhausted its crystalline energy crashed into the vast sea.

In his suicide note, he wrote: "During these more than 900 days and nights, I was tortured by longing, crushed by pain, and devoured by despair. In my dream, I knelt down to fate thousands of times and begged for my love. My wife and children were able to come back to me. Those beautiful memories became the last thing I dared to recall. Now, I surrendered. At the dusk of that day, I was already homeless."

When she saw this newspaper, she had learned not to care about the huge hole in her soul, and she, who was living with the flow, was suddenly defeated.

She was standing on the platform of the steam train that day, and heard people who were also reading newspapers studying the "Regulations on Punishments of the Inquisition for Stealing Aircraft", condemning "Why does suicide destroy public property", and discussing "Drunk driving is harmful to the public." Hazards to flight safety", except that no one cares about a lonely soul shattered by pain.

She burst into tears and wailed all the way home, but that wasn't her home either.

On the day she stepped into this world, she was also homeless.

If you are going to die sooner or later, then throw away all rationality and be as crazy as you want.

With such a crazy idea, she left Twilight Land on a rainy day, and came to the Tranquility Desert in a flying machine, where she was determined to wait for death.

The countdown to the remaining days of survival is only the last day, but on that day, she found the meaning of living.

She meets Nightingale, a hunter looking for the aurora.

That's another story.

Recalling that not so long ago, Xiao Xiao still smiles.

Because of Nightingale, she felt that being alive was something to look forward to. At least, she would look forward to hearing from Nightingale, and Nightingale wandering in the nightmare world would also receive her letter.

For this expectation, she has to live.

The author has something to say:

PS: Unexpectedly, Le Mei's willful black history!

PPS: The origin of the nightmare world has a strong alienation effect on human nature, which is the so-called "divinity".The divinity of the nightmare world has two interpretations. One is the religious vocabulary of the Holy See, which refers to our understanding of divinity in the usual sense, which means compassion, love, and benevolence.But another interpretation is not a commendatory term, but a concept that is opposed to human nature: the absolute, impersonal spirit is the annihilation of the individual self.

In the second part, there is a passage that mentions the Holy Nun’s views on the Destroyer Demon King (Ning Zhou’s father) “A person who flies towards the sun, he only sees the light in front of him getting brighter and brighter, but he can’t see that he is also burning. , turned into a part of the light. People who move closer to the power, he only sees himself getting stronger and stronger, but he cannot see that his self is gradually annihilated, and finally only the 'divinity' represented by the original power is left." .Divinity here is the second meaning.

Power, fraud, killing, and destruction are also divine, and divinity does not judge good and evil.And all the original divinity is erosive, and those who have the original are being eroded, more or less quickly.

In the end, divinity will completely devour humanity. At this time, the person who possesses the source is both the master and the slave of power. It depends on how he views this matter.The bigwigs in our camp basically hold a negative attitude, and the enemy camp has different opinions.

When Le Mei first got the SL skill, she also abused it crazily. Chen Baiqi and the others reminded him several times, but he almost broke his soul.But now he doesn't use SL Dafa very much anymore, and he is also restraining himself.Now it's his turn to remind the juniors.

The next chapter continues to discuss the alienation of human nature by ability.For most ordinary players who have not yet reached that level, although power is tempting them, it is far from being eroded by divinity. There are so many fallen fanatics. The most important thing is that people's hearts are broken in this world. Lost.