Forces of Temptation

Nanzhou used the [Countercurrent Clock Hand] to turn the clock that was originally running forward several times backwards, leading everyone back to the time before they were sent into the station.

Although he did it secretly, he was not afraid of being noticed by the high-dimensional people.

Even if they find that the reincarnation in front of them is the second round of rewinding instead of the expected third round, if they want to do something, they can't make it too obvious.

Of course, if you can avoid a little trouble, it is best not to be discovered by them.

Fortunately, Nanzhou is not bad luck.

This is also thanks to the dungeon design.

The three reincarnations of the "Cubic Ark" in the station will be automatically refreshed and restarted with the death of all five people.

The refresh is automatically operated by the system, returning to the original point, which coincides with Nanzhou's choice.

Seeing that everything was progressing perfectly according to the pre-drawn script, the director relaxed his vigilance.

No one could notice Nanzhou's small movements.

When he sat back on the waiting chair at the station, Nan Zhou felt confused.

As the breeze passed by, the contract in his hand blew loudly.

As stated in the props instructions, after returning to a specified point in the past, everyone's memory will also be rewound and cleared.

Only when the time returns to the point where [Countercurrent Clock Hand] was used, will the lost memory return to its place.

During this period, it lay silently in Nanzhou's warehouse, walking quietly and unobtrusively.

Nanzhou discovered the time gap between the single copy and the station copy, which proved the existence of time loops in the train, and realized that in addition to their contract, there was another contract nestled.

And...the real sequence of Jiang Fang's return from the dungeon.

Nan Zhou thought, there are only two situations in which he used [Countercurrent Clock Hand] only one hour after the departure of the green leather train.

First, I encountered an unexpected situation at the station that was enough to kill me immediately. In order to save my life, I used props that went back in time.

Second, I won by myself.But winning is wrong.

Let's talk about the first possibility first.

Since it is reincarnation, the choices are limited to "boarding" and "not boarding".

If I choose the latter, then there must be only two endings of "not boarding the car".

Either succeed or fail.

If Nanzhou failed, then in the first reincarnation, he would definitely leave traces of being killed on the station.

... Just like the bloody afterimage Nan Zhou saw on the train.

Gaowei people will definitely make the best use of everything, try their best to make Nan Zhou feel that "the station is dangerous", and make him more entangled and difficult to choose between the two options of "boarding the train" and "not boarding the train".

——In the first reincarnation, Nanzhou chose to commit suicide on the correct train, but he didn't want to leave traces and confuse himself.

In fact, there is no trace of Nanzhou being killed at the station.

So the first point does not hold.

Then comes the second point.

Nanzhou did win, and it was the right choice to stay at the station.

If he really waited to return to Jiang Fang, he would never take the risk of reincarnation to save the other three, and would only take him away unswervingly.

At that time, they will definitely have an argument.

Arguments also take time.

Even if Jiang Fang came back immediately after the wrong train departed, they still had to have a long discussion on the matter.

Nan Zhou had to admit that it was very difficult to persuade Jiang Fang on such a matter of life and death.

In the end, even if they could come to a consistent conclusion and decide to give up the easy success and come back to save Yinhang and the others, it would take only one hour.

Nanzhou thought that there was only one reason for him to choose to rewind the tape cleanly within an hour.

He succeeded, but Jiang Fang did not come back.

Or rather, he's already back.

He thought, Brother Fang... what if he is a "steward"?

If no one guessed Jiang Fang's identity, even if everyone else was persuaded by Nanzhou to give up their tickets and stay at the station, Jiang Fang would still be manipulated to board this train and embark on this journey destined to die.

At that time, Nan Zhou regretted it too late.

He will only refuse to board the train again, stay on the platform, and wait in this copy forever.

So far, the four time traps that the Gaowei people set for them have been broken by Nan Zhou one by one.

Now, the living Jiang Fang stood in front of Nan Zhou, which provided clear evidence for all of Nan Zhou's reasoning and judgment.

go, or stay?

Although everyone on the station still has no memory, the answer to the mystery is already clear.

Chen Sufeng made a decisive decision and put the ticket back in the warehouse: "I'm not leaving."

Li Yinhang didn't say anything, but quietly fixed his eyes on Yuan Mingqing.

...don't mention her.

Needless to say, her choice.

Under the gazes of everyone from all around, Yuan Mingqing lowered his head and clutched the ticket that was smeared with sweat and ink.

Should he bet?

Can he...can gamble?

Tang Song Zhangyang's smile and the last words he left for himself flashed before his eyes.

"Please, my...friend."

The muscles in Yuan Mingqing's arm were almost convulsed.

He crumpled up his ticket, which he regarded as a treasure, and threw it into the gap between the train and the rail.

He murmured, "I'm really crazy."

After this sentence, he didn't say another word.

When Yuan Mingqing also expressed his attitude of giving up the ticket, the station fell into a suffocating silence.

Everyone is waiting.

What broke the silence was Li Yinhang's slightly joyful exclamation: "...Hey, do you see that the fog has lightened a bit?"

Everyone saw it.

The fog is thinning and fading at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Surprisingly, when the fog cleared, what appeared in front of their eyes was not a dirty old-fashioned train.

...is a wall.

At some point, the fog melted away the unmanned train.

There was a melodious sound of beeping music behind him.

Nanzhou looked back and saw the train surrounded by colorful lights again at the place where the wall was originally closed.

The flashing lights on the train are like the stars that have been picked off for a day, and then sprinkled on them. If you look at it, you will be filled with silent joy and excitement.

When the correct train catches their eyes, their previously sealed memories are restored.

About death, about reincarnation, about someone's extreme and crazy love.

The five little ants rushed inside as if they had found a treasure.

...Of course, Yuan Mingqing, who was bumped into the sharp table corner twice with his head pressed, consciously distanced himself from Jiang Fang.

I don't know if it was his own illusion, but Nan Zhou felt that the color of the mushrooms was not very good when he got in the car this time, and he was not as happy as when he saw him last time.

Nan Zhou took the initiative to say hello: "Hello."

What responded to him was a white eye from Mushroom: "Huh."

Nanzhou: "?"

He passed the level smoothly, and the NPC who gloated and wanted to see his unlucky luck would not be happy.

At this time, the director in the studio had already fallen into a coma due to the heavy blow and data overload, needless to say.

In order to be safe, they boarded the train but did not ask for a departure. They searched the corners and crevices of the entire train, inside and out. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with it, they proposed departure to the impatient mushroom NPC. ask.

Because they hesitated for a long time in the station, it took some time to wait for the fog to clear, and it took some time to search for the train, and the timing of [Countercurrent Clock Hand] was about to expire.

As the vehicle started, Nanzhou stood by the window and looked back at the station, wanting to see the station that had witnessed their two failures.

...It was also the last copy they had fought together.

Unexpectedly, when Nan Zhou looked out, he saw a boy wearing denim overalls, with a slightly collapsed nose bridge and freckles like stars scattered on his cheeks, standing at the edge of the middle of the platform, looking at him.

Nan Zhou was taken aback, he held the window frame with both hands, and leaned half of his body out of the window.

"Wait……"

Although he had never actually met him, Nan Zhou thought that he could probably guess the identity of this child.

...Xiao Ming.

The core NPC in the first official copy they experienced.

His voice was diluted by the sound of the accelerating train and the sound of the wind.

A gust of wind lifted the flight attendant's cap that Jiang Fang had buckled on Nan Zhou's head.

Nan Zhou's slightly longer black hair fluttered in the air in a mess.

The hat was fluttering, and fell back down with the wind all the way, and landed in Xiao Ming's arms.

He picked up his hat, hugged it in his arms, and stared blankly at the direction of Nanzhou, then raised his thin arm like a stick, and swung it vigorously at him twice.

Xiao Ming's obsession with longing to go back to the past turned into [Current Clock].

He was taken away from that home by Nan Zhou, and away from that curse.

After [Countercurrent Clock] was used, he was finally free.

His figure became transparent like fog.

The bright sun was in the sky, dyeing Xiao Ming's face pale gold.

Holding the hat with Nanzhou's body temperature in his arms, he looked up at the right sky, took a deep breath intoxicated, and gradually dissipated to nothing.

Snapped.

The hat that shone with golden light fell to the ground.

……

Outside is the beautiful Huoshaoyun, gently covering a million miles away.

After they drove out of the station, they went up all the way, soaring into the dreamy fairy tale world, walking side by side with the red clouds like mountains, fluttering, as if flying in mid-air, supporting the clouds and stepping on the sea all the way, everything is new.

Five little ants sat in a row in the carriage, their faces flushed by the reflection.

Li Yinhang looked over one by one, and his brain finally comprehended the situation in front of him dully.

Miraculously, all five of them are still alive.

They are driving to victory and to the future, to their real home.

They... succeeded?

Really made it? !

Li Yinhang became ecstatic belatedly, and was so excited that he dragged the Nanjixing full of cars around.

A smile also appeared on Chen Sufeng's face, and he went to the end of the carriage to blow the air.

Yuan Mingqing didn't want to be in the same room with Jiang Fang, his eyes hurt when he saw him, and he really wanted to find something to instill in his eyes, so he took the initiative to leave.

As a result, only Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang were left sitting side by side in the carriage.

Jiang Fang stretched his legs: "I'm going out."

Nan Zhou nodded: "Yeah."

Jiang Fang looked sideways: "Are you afraid?"

Nan Zhou: "Don't be afraid."

Jiang Fang: "There are many things to learn."

Nan Zhou: "I am easy to learn."

Jiang Fang smiled: "That's true."

Jiang Fang asked again, "What do you want to learn first?"

Nan Zhou: "I will learn what you teach me."

Jiang Fang approached him, Yinghua's shining eyes reflected Nan Zhou: "Otherwise, learn to kiss me first."

As he said that, Jiang Fang pointed to his side face, indicating that he could practice on the spot.

Nanzhou: "..."

Jiang Fang closed his eyes, a little peach blossom appeared on his cheeks.

Nan Zhou leaned over and obediently wanted to kiss his face.

Jiang Fang turned his face, took the initiative to meet his lips, and kissed him tenderly.

Nan Zhou was so kissed that his heart thumped, and after two clumsy touches with his soft lips, Nan Zhou raised his hand, put his thumb against his lips, and asked softly: "...Did you talk to someone else before?" Have you learned it?"

He still cared about Jiang Fang saying that he had many friends.

"Probably talent." Jiang Fang lowered his voice slowly and gently, "...the thing about loving you."

……

Everyone needs to do something individually to release their emotions.

At this time, they did not have the right to completely slack off.

After a short period of tenderness and relaxation, the five of them gathered together again.

Jiang Fang went straight to the point, leading to their next stage of challenge: "What wishes do you all want to make?"

Because the people present were fooled by the high-dimensional people just now, the unified thought at the moment is to hope that one of the high-dimensional people counts one by one, and they all explode on the spot.

But just think about it.

If the wish is too much, if the Gaowei people turn their backs and stop playing with them, they will be numb.

However, before they started formal discussions, a sudden change occurred.

The speed of the train gradually slowed down.

The surrounding clouds are also gradually thinning.

... They actually drove into a temporary stop among the clouds.

After the vehicle comes to a complete stop, the doors are opened to both sides along the slide rails.

A strange foreign middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes looked around and stepped into the carriage.

"Hello."

The man spoke standard English. Fortunately, Mushroom raised the language converter at the right time and simultaneously interpreted the man's words.

He reported himself: "...you can call me Maddinson. Let me introduce myself, I am currently the highest ranked player in the single player rankings."

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang looked at each other.

indeed.

When they made a wish by the wishing pool, their guide, Steel Rabbit Pickup, mentioned:

"After the game is over, as long as the player's final ranking reaches the first place, whether it's a single player or a team, your wish may come true."

At the beginning, the test team "." led by Jiang Fang and Nanzhou passed the test all the way, and finally failed in the church dungeon, which also set a benchmark score for the team competition.

This time, "Cubic Ark" truly realized that I beat myself and surpassed "." and won the team championship in the official competition.

When they surpass ".", the game system will announce that the scores of other players will be locked.

Then, this Mr. Maddinson should be the player with the highest single-player score in each division after the points are locked.

Like them, he also has the right to make a wish.