Forces of Temptation

The memory of Nan Jixing and Shao Mingzhe's separation takes time to fuse.

Therefore, when he looked at Li Yinhang, there was still a small storm in his mind.

Antarctica, age is hard to test.

It is one of the monster mini-bosses that are randomly combined and automatically generated according to the established procedures in the game map of "Homeland Defense".

The system endows each "Southern Star" with certain intelligence.

Of course, that's not to make it think about where it came from and where it died.

They have desires, which makes them actively compete with game players for resources.

They will have a sense of pain and fear of death, so that they will not charge without thinking.

They have the ability to learn, in order to quickly adapt to the ultimate moves of different players.

They have strong force value and mobility, so that they can deal with the player and enhance the fun of the player.

They have the ability to reorganize and edit their bodies on their own, creating a sense of crisis for players.

They are playthings for players. They were born in this world just to meet death and grab an apple in a manor, and they were blown into a cloud of untouched data and blood.

Nanjixing used to be such a nameless little monster.

Birth, and then death, is its due destiny.

However, when it was pulled by its hind legs and tied with a round bow around its neck as a gift, it was dazed.

No one told it that it would have such a fate.

Waking up and being in a new and unfamiliar environment made it even more confusing.

But the strong appetite still made him bite off the rope on his body, climbed up the canopy of the apple tree, picked up an apple, and gobbled it up.

When he ate an apple intoxicated until only the core was left, it was pinched by the skin of the back of the neck of fate.

Nan Zhou leaned out of the window curiously and caught this little animal he had never met before.

He asked, "...who are you?"

Its answer was to suddenly enlarge its head, intending to kill Nan Zhou.

The results were pretty dire.

Its chin was pushed by Nan Zhou casually, and it was dislocated crookedly.

It was seriously injured and lost a lot. It couldn't close its mouth, so it could only hide in the corner of the leaves, staring at Nan Zhou and sobbing, shrugging its shoulders, tears streaming down its face, almost wanting to kill itself with anger. .

Nanzhou didn't know what it was thinking about in its petty eyes.

He mashed the apple into a puree, served it in a small bowl: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you wanted to play with me. I thought you wanted to eat me."

It was so angry that it pointed its butt at Nan Zhou, licked the fruit puree and slapped the tree trunk with its tail to express its anger.

Nan Zhou didn't mind at all, he played with its tail with his fingertips.

It's a wonderful little town with hints of data intrusion, but not so strongly.

This just allows it to survive as a data creature.

It has been in fear in this small town for several days, but it doesn't feel disintegrated, and the little cunning thoughts start to come alive again.

Unlike in Homeland Island, there is only one apple tree in the town, which grows in front of Nanzhou's house.

The few times it comes to steal food, the few times it will be ruthless by Nanzhou.

It can be said that no meal of apples is free.

If Rua gets angry, it will also get angry from the heart, and yell at Nan Zhou, "Fuck you!", trying to bite him to death and monopolize this apple tree.

However, Nanzhou couldn't understand its language at all.

He pushed it down, stroked its furry big head, stroked the tips of its fluttering ears, and praised it: "It's so good."

On the one hand, it was angry, and on the other hand, he uncontrollably made a low-pitched purr.

It forgot when it knew how to share.

It seems that there is only one apple left on the apple tree, and there are still two days before the fruiting period.

After thinking about it, Nanzhou cut half of it for it.

It obediently took away its own half, calmly hugged an apple that was a circle bigger than itself, and shared half with Nanzhou, eating without possessiveness.

It doesn't quite remember when it was willing to sleep next to Nan Zhou.

It seemed to be a heavy rain, and the sky and the earth were covered with a vast expanse of whiteness.

It squeaked and hummed, and shrank between the windows and the eaves of Nanzhou, but it was still drowned by the wind and rain.

It's as if the world is going to cleanse and melt away its faults that shouldn't be there in this way.

While it was shivering, the windows behind it were opened, and light and warmth came from behind.

Nan Zhou didn't say anything. After carrying it in, he wiped it dry with a small towel, and placed it in an old pillow in the corner.

Waking up early the next morning, Nan Zhou saw that the old pillow that had been placed in the corner had moved to his bedside at some point.

The little black-gold sugar glider curled its paws and lay on the pillow, sleeping soundly.

Nan Zhou lay on the bedside, stared at him sleepily for a while, then picked him up.

It subconsciously tilted its head to bite the person, but the front of its teeth reached the man's tiger's mouth, smelling the light apple fragrance, its teeth were loosened.

...it learns restraint.

A few days later, Nanzhou brought it to the library.

From that day on, it has a name, called the South Pole Star.

Nan Jixing began to squat on Nan Zhou's shoulder, reading a book with him.

Its head is brand new and original, and it is used with care.

But I have to say, it's quite useful.

Nanjixing studied silently.

This little monster that grew out of the primordial world gradually became smarter.

It also gradually learns to expose its belly when sleeping, with its feet on its back, and sleep soundly.

It has learned what a sense of security is.

It helped Nan Zhou to attack those players who intended to attack him, even biting off their heads, and then stretched out his head, allowing Nan Zhou to wipe his mouth.

And it was sleeping next to Nan Zhou's pillow, hugging a lock of his hair, sleeping peacefully with the smell of blood in its mouth.

It learns to protect.

It sat side by side with Nan Zhou on the roof, watching the waning moon in the sky as white as day.

Nan Zhou twisted the neck of a Guangmei who climbed up to the roof and tried to attack him, making him fall into a coma.

Nan Jixing jumped on him, took out a cigarette from his pocket, curiously started to eat from the butt of the cigarette, just after taking two bites, he choked and spat it out.

It was so angry that it hit the man on the head with cigarettes, until it was caught by Nan Zhou and put on his shoulder again, then it became obedient.

At this time, a small snow-white butterfly flapped its wings and perched on the tip of its nose.

Nan Jixing stared blankly at the butterfly that was close at hand, without moving, even breathing lightly.

Nanjixing found that when it encountered beautiful things, its heart would also thump.

It has learned to pity the weak.

One person and one mouse, cuddling and depending on each other.

...until that person brought a group of trapped players to Neverland Town.

In fact, Nanjixing didn't quite remember what the person who kidnapped him here looked like, so when he looked at Jiangfang, it was only vaguely familiar and guilty.

Nan Zhou lay prone outside the kitchen window, watching Jiang Fang cook.

South Pole star is a bit jealous.

It always thought that it was Nanzhou's best friend.

But after eating the fruit pie made by Jiang Fang, it felt that it could also try to treat Jiang Fang as its best friend.

and then.

Then Nan Zhou followed Jiang Fang away.

He followed Nanzhou away.

Everything is so logical, just like the Antarctic star in the sky should follow the earth.

They saw a vast world.

There was more crisis, more death, more blood.

Fortunately, there is another Nanzhou.

For a sugar glider that has never been as big as a palm, it feels like it has traveled all over the world when it squats on Nan Zhou's shoulder.

It has learned to share, restrain, act like a baby, protect, and take pity on the weak.

However, on a certain day, it resolutely cut off all these parts of itself.

He accurately divided his animal nature and human nature, and separated the strong from the weak, half of which stayed with Nan Zhou, and the other half disappeared into the vast ocean of data.

If it were another creature, it would never be able to smash itself alive.

But it is a virtual creature.

This is what it does best... data reorganization.

The other half who separated was called Shao Mingzhe.

And when the two merged into one again in the grove of "Homeland Island", the solo player named "Shao Mingzhe" disappeared from the list, as if he had never existed.

……

Also shocked by Shao Mingzhe's true identity was Gaowei who was observing their every move.

Before that, they had never been able to find out Shao Mingzhe's origin.

Because he appeared suddenly, like a piece of wandering data, struggling to form a human form in the vast ocean of data.

According to the data, the first time he appeared in "Gravity" with this face was during the pursuit of thousands of people.

The place where he appeared was "Paper Gold".

He looted a player's clothes and armed himself naked.

There were so many petty robberies that night that no one cared.

For this "human" who suddenly appeared in the game, at that time, the system read its existence.

But after some calculations, the system automatically judged this strange whiteboard number as a new player and gave him a new identity.

After all, at that time, in order to hunt and kill Nanzhou, the safe point became a large-scale copy, which was the time when data accidents and flow were the most.

In other words, it exploits bugs at specific points in the game.

……

In order to prevent the high-dimensional people from chasing and killing again, the group of "Cubic Ark" returned to the free hotel in the "Ancient City State" and stayed there.

The handsome young man with blond hair and black skin sat on the edge of the bed, his eyebrows drooped, and he blushed expressionlessly as he digested the fact that he had fallen in love with a girl these days.

Fortunately, he has dark skin, even if he blushes, it is at most that the golden lines on his face are slightly glowing.

Nan Zhou was not so shocked by the fact that Nanjixing turned into a human.

From childhood to adulthood, he has experienced too many strange things, so the issues he cares about are rather eccentric: "Why do you call yourself Shao Mingzhe?"

He was worried that Nan Jixing didn't like the name he gave him.

Shao Mingzhe, or Nanjixing, replied softly: "Because I thought my name should start with S."

After separating himself, Nan Jixing forgot everything about his past because he left all his memories on the little flying squirrel.

He only vaguely remembered that someone spread out a book in front of him and asked him to choose the name himself.

He seems to have pressed his paw on a character starting with "Sou".

Therefore, when he was inexplicably assigned a whiteboard number, he chose "Shao", the character closest to the pronunciation of "South".

Shao Mingzhe has been trying his best to find the reason for his birth.

He knew that when he became conscious, he had been traveling among the data.

His mind was at a loss, he didn't know why he was here, he only knew that he was carrying something very important.

And when he appeared on the street of "Paper Gold", he regained a little memory.

He remembered that he was going to find a little flying squirrel.

Now, he finally figured out the meaning of his birth.

Nanjixing looked at Nanzhou and said, "I want to protect your...memory."

"Nan Zhou, your memory is with me."