Forces of Temptation

Candle tears on the stage flowed in large numbers, criss-crossing.

All the candles are more than half burned.

The flame of No. 3 candle belonging to Jiang Fang couldn't stop beating, and a small melting work was going on in his pale pupils.

So far, the order everyone has chosen is not beyond Jiang Fang's expectations.

And it wasn't the first time Jiang Fang himself had dealt with Gaowei people.

The first time he was born, the second time he was acquainted, his demeanor was quite relaxed.

Facing the wishing platform and countless invisible cameras, he showed a beautiful smile: "Dear "Gravity" organizers, hello."

Like the previous two, Jiang Fang took the trouble to presuppose a lot of premises.

This is a necessary link, after all, no one knows what loopholes the high-dimensional people will seize and cut corners for their wishes.

And Jiang Fang's real wish is——

"The behind-the-scenes hosts of "Gravity" and all life groups that share the form of co-existence with the hosts, after "Gravity" is completely terminated and all players are sent back to the C City Stadium, they should no longer be understood by this life group. , any method within the scope of its ability to observe and interfere with all living and non-living substances on the earth."

It is also a complex and effective desire to put an end to this endless high-dimensional game.

Jiang Fang once thought about making a wish to make people in Gaowei lose their memory.

But the development of the earth has reached this point.

Even if the high-dimensional people collectively forget that there is such a deserted copy in the corner of the universe, one day, the people on earth will face the high-dimensional one-way aggression again while breaking the technological barrier.

Unless the people on earth give up all development, be content with the status quo, and never make any further advances in technology.

Jiang Fang thought that was not interesting.

Jiang Fang also thought about signing a treaty that let the high-dimensional people protect the earth people.

But to protect oneself by the hands of others is essentially a stupid act of ceding to others the dominance of the future that could have been in one's own hands.

"Protection" is also too broad a term.

From the perspective of Gaowei people, confinement can also be a form of protection.

Therefore, he chose such a method to make the earth completely disappear from the observation vision of high-dimensional people.

The two were lost in the vast universe, cut off all connections, and never saw each other again.

Li Yinhang saved and preserved the lives of all gamers.

Jiang Fang chopped off the chains that bound them with one blow.

Of course, he is not selfless.

This chain of high-dimensional people is not only tied to the neck of human beings, but also tied to Jiang Fang's neck.

At the beginning, in order to save Nan Zhou, his price was "to keep doing tests until "Gravity" no longer needs me."

After he added the condition of ""Gravity" is completely ended" to Li Yinhang's wish, after the game ended, he was naturally no longer needed.

The previous contract between him and the Gaowei people was terminated.

And he will also return to the present world together with Nanzhou as one of Li Yinhang's wishes of "all "Gravity" players who have survived to this day and exist on the existing list".

He wants to give Nanzhou a completely free Jiangfang.

After Jiang Fang and Li Yinhang completed the wish relay, it was the next turn.

... The gate of the waiting room, which was opened four times, walked out of Nanzhou.

He walked to the wishing platform step by step, as if he was walking towards the wishing pool in the "Rust City".

What used to be water is now fire.

Facing candle No. 4, Nanzhou reiterated: "The wish I made at the beginning was to take the Antarctic star and become a human together."

After careful calculation, the wish he made was actually very hasty.

Because at that time Nan Zhou himself didn't know why he wanted to become a human.

At that time, he thought he wanted to be free.

Later he knew that all he wanted was Jiang Fang.

Jiang Fang raised the corners of his mouth slightly.

I also want to know how the safe zone under their feet will be turned upside down after hearing Nan Zhou's wish.

However, Nanzhou has no more text.

Female voice: "...If you wish, please blow out the candles."

Nan Zhou said: "But I want to know first, how can I use my easter eggs?"

At first, Nanzhou thought that the condition of "becoming a human with Nanjixing" was considered a "lucky bonus".

But after thinking about it, he felt that it was not appropriate to interpret "luck bonus" in this way.

At that time, their guide Iron Rabbit's explanation of the role of gold coins was also quite superficial and absent-minded.

Nan Zhou thought that it might be bringing bad emotions from life to work.

this is not good.

He needs to be more specific.

There was silence on the high platform.

Obviously, if Nan Zhou didn't mention this matter, the Gaowei people didn't intend to mention it at all, and just wanted to expose this chapter hastily.

"Reminder——" the female voice began to become impatient, "Because the player Nan Zhou once obtained the easter egg [Gold Coin of the Goddess of Luck], the wish can grant some luck bonus..."

Nan Zhou persevered: "What does the luck bonus mean?"

The female voice explained angrily: "There are three bonus methods in total."

"First, adjust the priority of wishes. Your wishes will be fulfilled first."

"Second, adjust the difficulty of wish fulfillment. Your wish will be easier to achieve than others."

"Third, on the original wish, add conditions that do not contradict the previous wish."

While speaking, the lucky coin that was swallowed by the pool water appeared on the wishing platform.

"Please choose the way of luck bonus by tossing a coin."

"The obverse of the coin is the word, which is the first addition method."

"The front is a portrait of the tree of life, which is the second bonus method."

"Standing up the coin is the third addition method."

...It is obvious that Nanzhou does not want to adjust his wishes.

Nan Zhou lowered his head and studied the coins for a while, then turned his head decisively: "Brother Fang."

"Here." Jiang Fang stepped over his body, took the coin from his hand, supported Nanzhou's shoulder with one hand, and pressed the tip of the other finger against the slightly thicker edge of the coin, and rotated several times around the normal line of the center to get familiar with the feel. Finally, he asked, "Which way do you want?"

Nanzhou: "The third middle school."

Jiang Fang lightly picked the edge with his thumb, pressed his wrist down, and threw the coin into the air before the female voice could stop anyone from inserting the coin.

The coin sideways on the table, jumped slightly, and immediately began to circle and walk through the solidified wax tears on the table.

Jiang Fang's hand strength made it extremely skillful.

When it stopped rolling, the side of the coin was still firmly upright on the table.

In the light of three still-burning candles, both sides of the coin are glowing.

Nan Zhou knew that his previous wish was too simple.

If some new conditions are not added, he can easily be exploited.

After also superimposing considerable prerequisites, Nan Zhou announced his new wish: "I hope that my friend Nan Jixing and I can become the same as Li Yinhang on the premise of maintaining our basic physical characteristics and having a legitimate social identity. mesomorphic life form."

Hearing this, Nan Jixing, who had turned into a sugar glider and had been on Li Yinhang's head from the waiting room, flicked his tail secretly twice happily.

Female voice: "..."

She numbly said: "Congratulations to Mr. Nan Zhou for making a successful wish. Your wish will come true."

The wish has been advanced to the present, and there are only two places left.

After Nanzhou exited the air bubble, his gaze was fixed on the two waiting rooms that had not yet been opened.

Who will be the next person to make a wish?

He was also curious as to who had such a fast hand and chose the last place.

The fifth door creaked open as if crushing people's hearts.

Mr. Maddinson stepped over the threshold.

Seeing the blond hair on that end, Li Yinhang clenched his fist slightly happily.

The 5th is him, and the 6th is Chen Sufeng!

Anyway, they have someone to guarantee it!

Chen Sufeng's willingness to choose the last one shows that he is indeed a lot more stable.

Chen Sufeng knew that Li Yinhang wanted to revive all the dead players, so Brother Yu could come back.

In this way, his only wish is to "resurrect brother Chen Suye".

This is an added condition.

Therefore, he seized the bottom position at the first time and made sure that everyone's wishes before him were in order, before carefully making his own wish.

Although he was young, he had already learned calmness and calculation from the deaths of his brother and Yu Tuisi.

Chen Sufeng sat cross-legged on the ground, clasped his sweaty hands, brewing his wish with hope.

How can I bring my brother back intact?

Do Gaowei people have the archives when their brother was still alive?

Unexpectedly, there has been no sound from the outside world for a long time.

It was so long that Chen Sufeng raised his head, and looked at the four closed walls full of surprise.

...what's going on outside?

Why didn't Madison speak?

At this time, Mr. Maddinson stood for a long time facing the only two candles left on the wishing table without saying a word.

With his left hand resting on the table, he knocked and knocked, shaking the thin lamp on the table.

The two candles were about to burn out.

Li Yinhang was annoyed for no reason by his small actions: "..." What are you doing?

But she forcibly suppressed the depression in her heart, and didn't want to disturb Mr. Maddinson's thinking process.

He wants to resurrect his two children.

This is also quite difficult in the story of "Monkey's Paw".

No one can guarantee what kind of sons and daughters Gaowei will bring back for him across time and space.

Mr. Maddinson is entitled to deliberation.

But waiting and waiting, Li Yinhang felt something was wrong again.

The wish she made before also included the content of "resurrection of the dead".

Although it is not perfect, but after all, it can have some reference value, right?

Did he need to think for so long?

Li Yinhang took a few steps closer to the direction of the air bubble, and looked around on tiptoe.

The situation was unclear, and she did not act rashly at the first time.

The reason why they leave the air bubble immediately after making a wish is that they are afraid that some of their actions will be too big, and a little wind will blow out their own or other people's candles accidentally, causing their wishes to be completely invalidated.

Besides, his wish is to resurrect his own children, this rare opportunity, if they push too much, it will be unreasonable.

But the burning time of candles is limited after all.

If he delays like this, how should Chen Sufeng make a wish?

When Li Yinhang was extremely anxious for him, Chen Sufeng in the waiting room had already got up.

He judged the location of the wishing platform, and stroked the wall facing the wishing platform, trying to find the invisible door and the seam of the wall.

Chen Sufeng knew it was useless.

But he can try to distract himself through such actions.

After a long time, Maddinson finally spoke.

Somewhat strangely, he, who is clearly proficient in Chinese, made the wish in Latin.

But that's not particularly unusual.

When people want to express accurately, they often use the language they are more familiar with.

If it were the rebellious version of Chen Sufeng in high school, he would be like a man who has been hovering around the pass line all year round even in English.

However, after living with Yu Tuisi, he had to earn money in various ways in order to live.

Coincidentally, Chen Sufeng took the order of human translation on the Internet and tried to learn Latin by himself for a while.

...because the unit price per Latin list is higher.

Chen Sufeng's Latin proficiency is actually very average, at most staying at "barely understand" and "barely understandable".

However, Chen Sufeng heard that Mr. Maddinson's expression was also very basic.

...This is not a language he is good at.

He couldn't speak, so he could only concentrate on listening carefully, picking up the Latin memory that he had abandoned for a long time.

After unskillfully citing a long list of premises, Maddinson took a long breath.

"My wish is an extension of Miss Li's wish..."

He said this sentence in English.

However, he still used Latin for the content of the formal wish.

Because he knows only the simplest vocabulary in Latin, he speaks very slowly.

"I hope... based on "Everything"... the time after the game is officially launched...don't let the players who died after the tenth month... come back to life. Except for them, all players can live."

The female voice finally cheered up.

She smiled and said: "It's just adding some time constraints, and there is no essential contradiction with the previous wish."

"Congratulations to Mr. Maddinson on your successful wish. Your wish will be granted."

Chen Sufeng's hands that were touching the wall suddenly froze.

... what is he doing?

What did he say just now?

……

At the same moment, Nan Zhou also asked Jiang Fang with his eyes: What did he say?

Jiang Fang shook his head lightly.

It's true that Jiang Fang is good at languages, but it's limited to practical applications.

There is no country that uses Latin for daily communication.

It is a dead language that survives only in the pages of the book.

Since he couldn't get an answer from Jiang Fang, Nan Zhou went directly to ask the person concerned.

When Mr. Maddinson left the wishing platform and was about to leave the air bubble gracefully, Nanzhou, who had re-entered the air bubble, stopped him.

He went straight to the point: "What wish did you make?"

Maddinson replied fluently: "I hope my children will be resurrected."

Nanzhou: "Too short."

Madison: "Huh?"

Nan Zhou: "Your wish is too short. It doesn't seem like wishing for the resurrection of your children."

Maddinson looked at Nan Zhou's young face with a smile on his lips.

He thought about how he planned to kill a large number of players in order to obtain a large number of points in a dungeon at the end of the game.

Maddinson, who was in the waiting room, heard all the wishes Li Yinhang and the others had made.

He had to give up his desire to make a fortune.

It is impossible for Maddinson to let these players return to the present world alive to trouble him with their memories.

Maddinson felt that he had restrained himself.

After all, when the dungeon advances to the later stage, there are already big waves washing the sand, and those who are easy to die have died long ago, and there are very few people who really died in the dungeon.

It was nothing more than his trick to lie to "Li Ark" that he wanted to resurrect his children.

There were five of them, and they were alone, so it was really difficult to win their sympathy without playing some emotional cards.

Especially the youngest boy, surnamed Chen, looked at him with eyes full of empathy.

Maddinson came back to his senses, and smiled softly: "My language is like this, and I can express precise content in a very refined form. Don't worry, my wish has nothing to do with you."

He gestured with his hand: "And, it's just an insignificant, small wish."

After finishing speaking, Mr. Madison smiled and nodded to Nanzhou, walked around Nanzhou's right shoulder, and was about to go out.

Unexpectedly, the next moment, Madison's cheek made a bone-piercing muffled sound.

No. 6 Chen Sufeng rushed out from the waiting room and hit him on the chin with a punch.

Maddinson was suffering from pain, his body fell backwards, and he fell on his back. Seeing that the back of his head was about to knock over the wishing table, Nanzhou on one side raised his foot, supported Maddinson's back, and then slapped him hard. With a kick on the spine, Mr. Maddinson immediately flew out of the air bubble like a mess of garbage!

Chen Sufeng chased after him, and then grabbed the hair of Maddinson, whose head was bleeding from the fall, and slammed his head to the ground.

Blood splattered!

In the extreme silence, Chen Sufeng fell into extreme madness.

He beat Maddinson silently, his fists stained with dried blood.

Every time he punched down in anger, he seemed to be asking, why?

Why are you doing this?

Maddinson's lips were cracked, his cheeks were swollen, and the corners of his mouth were dripping with sticky blood.

The incident happened suddenly, and he couldn't even yell, so he could only look at the mushroom in the distance for help with his eyes that were swollen until there was only a slit left.

But Mushroom held a pair of short hands and watched all this with a smile.

His wish has come true.

The purpose of the high-dimensional people to make them unhappy is half achieved.

What did it matter whether Mr. Maddinson was dead or alive?

After he vented his anger to a certain extent, Nanzhou pressed Chen Sufeng's shoulder from behind and pointed in the direction of the wishing platform.

There was only a single candle left, burning its remaining life alone.

Do not hit.

No matter what reason you want to hit him, there is not enough time left for you to make a wish.

Chen Sufeng didn't say anything.

He stared at Nan Zhou with his red eyes, his eyelashes trembling thinly, and even the hand holding Maddinson's collar was trembling non-stop, his throat couldn't help making light and thin sobs, as if a voiceless plead.

Nan Zhou: "Okay, I understand."

He half knelt down and rescued poor Mr. Maddinson from Chen Sufeng's trembling hands.

As if Mr. Madinson had been granted an amnesty, he clung to Nan Zhou's lapel as if he was grabbing a life-saving straw.

Nan Zhou gently supported his head with both hands.

He lip-synced to Maddinson: What did you wish for?

Maddinson was in unbearable pain and was still thinking about how to deal with it, so Nanzhou mouthed again and said: Forget it, I don't care.

With a click, Maddinson's neck was twisted 120 degrees cleanly.

Li Yinhang was surprised: "...hey."

Nan Zhou put down Madinson's body, knelt down on one knee, looked at Li Yinhang, and shrugged nonchalantly.

——If your wish can come true, then he who died in the game will definitely be resurrected, right?