Devil's Playground

"It's more than just an energy source." Before King Guang finished speaking, e's faint sigh came from the hall, "That bastard built a galaxy with the people of his tribe as the fulcrum."

The voice came from behind, Yang Jin and Lin Yu turned around at the same time, but what they saw was not a white-haired and white-skinned wing, but a rabbit with white hair and red eyes.

"Why did you change back to this appearance?" The Light King's figure flashed, turning into a puppet and landing on Lin Yu's shoulder.

e didn't answer, and just gave it a pair of supercilious eyes, clearly saying: I am willing, you can control it?

"Long time no see." Lin Yu took the initiative to greet e.

"I'm not interested in talking meaningless nonsense to you." e replied coldly, "You should have gone to collect the radar on the day the combat preparation zone was established, but you waited until today to show up here—the second combat preparation zone !"

——What you are saying now is also nonsense.

Yang Jin slandered silently.

Lin Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "What's the reason for the rush?"

"Time waits for no one." e replied indifferently, "don't think that this game will last until the end of the year, and you have a lot of time to squander. You have been in contact with Rick for so long, what kind of character he is, you guys Don't understand yet?"

"You mean... time is also a trap?" Lin Yu asked tentatively.

e did not answer, and continued on his own: "Although the mission I released has no time limit, in fact, I will only wait until the end of this month. If you want to be free according to the original rules of the game field, then you must Get enough merit and survival points before the end of the month, and bring the light back to the combat readiness zone intact—my combat readiness zone.”

"Any combat preparation area?" Lin Yu asked.

"In theory, yes." E replied with a straight face.

"Then I will understand that it is not." Lin Yu said affirmatively, "Since you are here, and not in the form of projection."

"I will give you a definite answer before the end of the month. However, it is true that the behavior of some toys has made me suspicious." E's expression looked a little melancholy, "You should have noticed that the teleportation hall has not been opened yet."

"Is the teleportation hall here leading to other combat preparation areas?" Lin Yu asked.

"In theory, yes." E's face remained expressionless.

"What you said now makes me feel that you lack control over this place." Lin Yu said bluntly.

"This is Rick's private domain." E seemed a little annoyed, "If he didn't deliberately release water, even I couldn't insert a node in this domain."

"Let the water go?" Not only Lin Yu, but also Yang Jin was puzzled by this term.

"It's just a vice." E said coldly, "Just like a cat won't kill or eat a mouse immediately after catching it, it will give it a chance to escape, and then catch it back proudly."

"It sounds like the mouse metaphor is not just referring to us." Lin Yu said.

"Don't put gold on your face, you don't have the qualifications to be mice." E mockingly raised his three-petal mouth.

"Then don't waste time, just tell us what's going on or what we should do." Lin Yu dismissed the tone of the e unmoved, and explored the true meaning of this passage, "The time is running out. Not only against us, in fact, you are more anxious than us."

"Of course, no matter how your situation changes, it won't be worse than it is now!" e snorted coldly as if venting his anger.

"e." King Guang suddenly said, "Do you want to...abandon this place?"

Yang Jin and Lin Yu were taken aback, but e fell silent.

After a while, e sighed wearily, "We have to send you away before it gets completely out of control here, and this time point of getting out of control is expected to occur after the end of this month."

"There are only... less than ten days left?" King Guang was obviously stunned.

"Unfortunately, yes." E lowered his eyelids.

"Then..." King Guang opened his mouth, and finally couldn't help asking, "Will you leave with me?"

"If nothing else, yes." The e still added an ambiguous prefix.

"What about the others?" King Guang asked, "Is it possible for us to rescue them all in less than ten days?"

e was silent for a few seconds, then said indifferently: "Obviously, the answer is no."

"What about the clansmen who can't be rescued?!" King Guang raised his volume uncontrollably.

"Nothing to do." E looked a little cold, "Perhaps we can place our hopes on the attitude of the House of Commons after learning about the incident, and pray that they are willing to send troops here to rescue our compatriots for one reason or another."

"How many light-years later must that be?" King Guang was not satisfied with such an answer, but he obviously didn't hear the meaning behind e's words.

Both "hope" and "pray" are words with strong uncertainty. E seems to be comforting the King of Light, but actually points out that the possibility of sending troops is extremely low, and they were not rescued within the time limit. The clansmen who came out could only stay here to fend for themselves.

"Anyway, time is meaningless to us, as long as they can endure loneliness, what does it matter how long?" e asked flatly.

Perhaps it was an illusion, Yang Jin felt that when e said this, there seemed to be a hint of malice in his eyes.

Without waiting for King Guang to say anything, e spoke again, "His Royal Highness, it is right to love your compatriots, but before that, you must understand that your importance is far above theirs."

"I……"

"Think about your true identity, Guang." e did not let the King of Light speak out, "Don't equate yourself with an intelligent optical brain just because you played the role of an intelligent optical brain. If you have problems in your experience, many people will To be buried with you, you'd better keep this in mind!"

"Sorry." King Guang lowered his head in frustration.

"You don't need to apologize, the ones who really need to apologize are those idiots who approved you to come here." E said mockingly, "I have always suspected that maybe they accepted bribes from hostile forces to pass your trial application."

"Stop talking, Yi, please." King Guang raised his head and looked at e pleadingly.

Yang Jin on the side was a little surprised.

Not everyone can use the title Your Highness. Even if the languages ​​of the two races are different, the "Your Highness" they hear is probably just an honorific title similar to His Highness in another language, which is enough to show that King Guang has an extraordinary background.

Perhaps the word "王" in the name "King of Light" was not added for the sake of sounding good.

Yang Jin thought this way, but remembered that their country had no emperor.

"Sorry, can I summarize the current situation according to my understanding, and ask a few questions by the way?" Lin Yu said suddenly.

"Say." E replied angrily.

"After the end of this month, you will completely lose control of the playground, including the toys inside, and even...yourselves." Lin Yu said while observing e's expression, and saw that it neither refuted nor mocked. Then he continued, "In order to avoid this from happening, you must leave before the end of the month."

"Let me tell." e interrupted impatiently, waving his hand, "on the last day of this month, we will leave here in a spaceship. At that time, in addition to the rescued clansmen, we will also take some toys with us. But the time is limited , The carrying capacity of the spaceship is also very limited, we may not be able to rescue all the people of the tribe, and the toys that can be taken away are only a small part."

"That is to say, we must meet the conditions for redemption before you leave in order to be free?" Lin Yu asked.

"That's right, as long as you don't want to stay with Rick in the game field, you have to leave with me at the end of the month." E affirmed, "But leaving and freedom cannot be equated. If you fail to meet the requirements of buying freedom before the end of the month Conditions, then, even if you board the spaceship, I can no longer guarantee that you will be free. You must know that the rules in the game field are only valid in the game field, and after you leave the game field, you will face new rules. "

"We understand." Lin Yu nodded and glanced at Yang Jin at the same time.

"One thing you can rest assured about." e continued, "Whether you meet the redemption conditions or not, I will reserve seats for the two of you in the spaceship. And after you leave, you can continue to be my toys and get my asylum."

"Thank you." Lin Yu said in a very sincere tone.

"It's nothing, I chose you, and I have a responsibility to you." E's attitude is still indifferent, "Also, this matter must be kept strictly confidential, and it is not allowed to be disclosed to others, let alone discussed outside the combat readiness zone !"

"Ru Ke didn't know that you were leaving?" Lin Yu asked sensitively.

"All I can say is, I hope he thinks we'll fight to the end here." e replied indifferently.

"Can I ask a question?" Yang Jin raised his hand.

"Say."

"This is not the real earth, is it?"

As soon as Yang Jin said that, e rolled his eyes.

"Can you be any more idiot?!" e said angrily, "You have the nerve to ask such a stupid question?"

"I just want a yes or no answer." Yang Jin stubbornly insisted, controlling the expression on his face.

"Of course the answer is no!" e glared at Yang Jin with eyes that hate iron and steel, "I've said it all, this is the galaxy built by that bastard Ruke using the souls of our people as the energy source and fulcrum, how could it be Your earth! You don’t even have to think about it, is it possible that Rick withdrew the skill of making soul stones so that you can’t make soul stones?”

"Is there another reason?" Yang Jin looked at e hesitantly.

Without waiting for e to answer, Lin Yu blurted out in surprise: "Humans here don't have souls?"

"Nonsense, how can a group of replicants piled up with elements have any souls!" e snorted contemptuously.

"Duplicators don't have souls?" Yang Jin was dubious, "I killed npcs in other game fields, so it should be the duplicants you mentioned, and I got the soul stone at that time!"

"That's because they have souls in their bodies." E looked at Yang Jin mockingly, "You humans have achieved a little achievement in physics, and you should know the truth that energy can't be created out of nothing. Having said that, you just Have you ever wondered what happened to those humans who were eliminated by the game field, where did their souls go?"

"Could it be..." Yang Jin immediately thought of a possibility.

"That's right, just like you thought. They weren't wasted. All the toys that were not revived by others within the time limit were put into the game field and played an important role in the game field." e laughed evilly, "Of course, they have to adjust their memories a little bit before putting them in, so that they think they are the aborigines in the game field, and they won't remember that they were once human beings at all."

Reasonable, unexpected.

Yang Jin suddenly thought of the alien girl he met in Battle Royale. Judging from her role in that game, she is obviously a human being who has experienced brainwashing.However, in order to survive, he and Lin Yu had already sold all the extra props, including the gold card that can change the game field.But even if that card hadn't been sold, it was impossible for him to enter a golden game field in order to meet an alien girl who was unpleasant in both appearance and personality.

"Rik should have reached some kind of agreement with the origin of the earth, and obtained a large amount of elemental information with its assistance and permission." E continued, "Of course, there is also the soul."

"That is to say, Rick once again deceived us with the truth." Lin Yu said, "It only told the part that is beneficial to it, and concealed the content that is not good for it. For example, its agreement with the earth."

"It's not surprising, he's always been like this." E seemed to have thought of something, and his furry face looked very depressed.