Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Allen's home.

The night was low, and the setting sun cast an orange halo on the courtyard.

Qi Liuxing, who was practicing swords in the courtyard, swung his simple and primitive long sword and chopped another virtual cube, when he heard Alan's voice. "Okay, let's stop here today."

Only then did Qi Liuxing stop his movements and look at Alan, only to find that he had put away the tablet, and all the 3D photos on it had disappeared.

He showed those photos just now... Was it inadvertently or on purpose?

It stands to reason that this NPC is also from the Jin clan. He stands on the opposite side of the player and will not give an answer easily.If he gave it, there must be other traps behind it.

Qi Liuxing tended to think that Alan did it on purpose, the kind he designed himself on purpose.

I just heard Allen say: "Come on, let's go into the house, let's eat something. What do you want to eat?"

Qi Liuxing entered the character setting, seemingly obediently: "I will eat whatever the master wants me to eat."

Allen looked him up and down. "Didn't you see anything just now?"

Qi Liuxing's heart sank.

——He deliberately looked at the photo in front of him, is it really some kind of trap that hides the risk of death?

Qi Liuxing hadn't figured out how to answer, but he said again: "When I ask you to practice swordsmanship, you have to concentrate on practicing swordsmanship without distractions. Don't do this next time, you understand?"

"I will have nothing else to do." Qi Liuxing chose such an answer, which was not an admission that he had peeked at Alan's photo just now.

Even so, he was quite nervous.After all, the risk of death in this dungeon is inevitable once it is triggered.

But nothing happened next.Allen seemed to only care about whether Qi Liuxing was concentrating on practicing sword, and didn't care about the photos.

Qi Liuxing followed him all the way into the house and for dinner, but he had no chance to get any other information during this period.

From this point of view... Didn't he really give himself clues on purpose?

In doubt, Qi Liuxing secretly glanced at Alan's expression, just in time to meet him and smiled at himself.

There seemed to be endless tenderness, insight, and even some kind of acquiescence and indulgence in that smile.

It was at this time that Qi Liuxing heard Bai Zhou's voice through his spiritual consciousness.

He learned that the NPC named Alan he met might be a really good person, and what he needs to do in the later stage is to protect Alan's safety.

At that moment, Qi Liuxing suddenly had a strange idea in his heart——

Allen saw through all his thoughts.He does seem to be handing himself the answer.

However, because he was worried that he felt that his deliberation had other purposes, Allen accepted some more, so as not to make the behavior of handing over the answer too obvious and deliberate.

As soon as this idea came up, Qi Liuxing himself felt that it was ridiculous.

When he looked at Allen again, Allen's expression was the same as usual.The scene just now seemed to be just Qi Liuxing's hallucination.

At the dinner table, for the next time, Allen spoke again, and all he talked about was swordsmanship.

He didn't ask Qi Liuxing to talk too much.So besides listening to his speech, Qi Liuxing only needs to eat well.

The food is sweet and suits his taste. Osmanthus lotus root and cold cake in sugar water are his favorite dishes.He also enjoyed the meal quite a bit.

While eating, Qi Liuxing listened to Alan talk about swordsmanship.

He found that Alan really loves swords, and his words actually have a bit of a chivalrous demeanor.

At present, Qi Liuxing's perception of the Jin people is that they are cruel, hedonistic, cunning, good at disguising, and treat foreigners as no different from animals.They have the most advanced technology, and their thoughts and views cannot be viewed with the normal three views of the real world.

But Allen is different from them. He is talking about swords and chivalry.

The word "chivalry" has not only disappeared among the Jin people?In the real world, there seem to be fewer and fewer people with chivalrous spirits.

From this, Alan gave Qi Liuxing a very special feeling.

His style of conversation, temperament, thoughts, and three outlooks... He really doesn't look like a member of the Jin tribe anywhere.

Alan seemed to see Qi Liuxing's curiosity, and asked, "Is there anything you want to ask me?"

Qi Liuxing didn't respond.

Allen followed the instructions carefully: "I allow you to ask me questions. Of course, it is best about swordsmanship. If you have questions, and get answers from me, your understanding of swords will be deeper. The greater your progress will be."

Feel free to ask questions?

Although this question must be related to swordsmanship... But I always feel that Allen is implying something.

Qi Liuxing looked up at him, thought for a while, and asked, "Why do you like swords?"

With this question about the sword, what Qi Liuxing wanted to inquire about was Alan's past experience.

Unexpectedly, Allen's answer was: "There is no reason. If you like it, you just like it."

Qi Liuxing: "..."

——Always feel like you’ve been tricked?

Allen: "Another question?"

Qi Liuxing: "There is no problem for now."

Allen seemed to smile tacitly: "Then eat first. After eating, practice for another hour."

Qi Liuxing: "Good master."

After the meal was over, Qi Liuxing practiced sword for another hour as expected.

An hour later, Allen came to pick him up as usual, and then took him around to another courtyard behind the house.

As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, Qi Liuxing saw a steaming wooden house.

He didn't take the initiative to ask unnecessary questions, Allen took the initiative to introduce: "Let's take a bath together."

Qi Liuxing: "?"

Allen: "Here you can take a bath while receiving steam treatment. Your training intensity today is not small, and it is necessary to use hot water to relax after training. This way you can better adapt to tomorrow's practice. There are several soup pools inside , you can choose what you like."

The outsiders were tamed to be very docile, and they could not disobey the Jin clan at all.

This kind of persona forced Qi Liuxing to follow Allen in.

The scalding mist hit his face, Qi Liuxing inevitably felt a little stuffy, he could hardly see anything.

Under Alan's guidance, he took off his clothes, got his bathrobe and towel, walked into a soup pond and sat down, and finally he could barely see Alan go to the soup pond opposite him.

Immediately there was only a "beep", probably because Allen further increased the water temperature through the remote control, because there was more fog in the air.

In this way, Alan is close at hand, but Qi Liuxing can't see him clearly at all.

Qi Liuxing couldn't figure out what Alan wanted to do.But after staying in the game for so long, and following Zhou Qian's ears and eyes every day, he has calmed down a lot.

Just like he was enjoying the food just now, now he is also concentrating on enjoying the feeling of bubbling bath.

With his eyes half closed, Qi Liuxing rested his head on the stone at the edge of the soup pool.

Suddenly he heard Allen's voice. "I like swords, probably because I have this gene. Although the human race outside has lost most of their civilization, they live almost like the barbaric era... But I think there should be people who know how to use swords? I don't know if you haven't seen it. .”

Um?What does Allen mean by this?

Does he mean... the genes in him are the same as those of foreigners?Or only some of their genes are the same.

To understand it in another way, he is expressing... He and the foreigners are actually the same kind?

This is already a public announcement that he has a different view from the people of the Jin clan.

His pupils dilated slightly, Qi Liuxing sat up straight, opened his eyes wide and looked at the mist in front of him, suddenly thought of the two dead female players who seemed to be lovers, and what Zhou Qian had said—

They hadn't been exposed before, because when they took off their clothes to reveal the tattoos with ambiguous colors, they were only limited to the bathing stage, covered by water mist.

Afterwards, they may have accidentally exposed their tattoos in other places. The tattoos showed that the two of them had an intimate relationship, which violated the rules set by the Jin clan for outsiders, and attracted murderous intentions.

Therefore, the water mist is likely to be able to escape the ubiquitous monitoring network of the Jin clan.

Then Allen brought himself to take a bath, and the real purpose of choosing to say this at this time is...

When Qi Liuxing suddenly realized, he immediately boldly sent a message on the team channel.

— Sure enough, nothing happened.

The others didn't reply to him for the time being, probably because it was inconvenient.

However, he has shared all the information he has obtained so far with his teammates.

"I am actually very different from other members of the Jin clan. To be precise... the members of our Swordsmanship Association are not the same as them. Although they are all members of the Jin clan, it may be traced back a long time ago... We and them, inherit the It's a different bloodline."

Allen's words are even more suggestive.

"Different bloodlines", "longer ago"... What do these words mean?

When Qi Liuxing realized some of the meanings, his body tensed up, and his blood flowed much faster.

But probably because of some scruples after all, Allen didn't talk about it any deeper.

Qi Liuxing tentatively asked a few more questions about swordsmanship, but his conversation was already ordinary, and there was nothing worth further studying.

·

the other side.Charlie's house.

He Xiaowei played chess with Charlie for a long time.

He really didn't know how, and he was killed by Charlie in minutes several times.

But Charlie was not impatient at all, and always taught him chess in a peaceful tone.

He Xiaowei tried his best to listen to the chess while he was drowsy, and then he heard the news from Bai Zhou.Quickly passed the news to Yin Dao through the sea of ​​consciousness, He Xiaowei thought that Charlie was a good person and would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, so he generously deserted.

He didn't watch chess, but frequently cast his eyes on the painting.

The background of the painting is black, with no wind or waves, but the smearing is thick or light, and the superb brushwork makes the black smudged into an extremely deep, making people feel that there seems to be a swallowing power hidden in the black. The vortex of everything.

I don't know what that vortex looks like, but it doesn't look like the sea, nor does it look like ordinary water.

The black front is that boat.

Although it is an oil painting material, the boat is painted in a landscape style, very abstract and not realistic. There is only one outline, which makes people feel that the painting barely looks like a boat.

There is no writing on the hull, and no words related to "Ark" can be seen.

He Xiaowei also didn't know whether the painting of this boat was the ark that Gao Shan had seen before.

He Xiaowei's frequent distractions finally caught Charlie's attention.

He turned his head, leaving the back of He Xiaowei's head covered with silver threads.

After understanding what the person opposite was looking at, Charlie smiled, turned his head to He Xiaowei and said, "I asked a famous oil painter to draw it for me as a souvenir."

The voice of Yin Dao came from the sea of ​​consciousness. "If it's just a memento, why not take pictures, or use their superb 3D restoration technology to directly make a real scene?

"Besides, oil paintings are generally in a realistic style, but this painting is too strange, and nothing is clear. It may be deliberately covering something, or... because of certain regulations, the artist dare not draw clearly. punish.

"From this point of view, what the oil painting really reflects is the secret that the Jin clan is hiding."

There was some sort of story, or bond, between Charlie and the ship.That ship probably meant a lot to him, so he wanted to leave something to remember.

But the Jin family does not allow everyone to save this kind of commemoration, so related text materials and 3D videos are not allowed to be saved.He had no choice but to find an oil painter to draw a very abstract and freehand painting, and barely made some nostalgia.

This is probably the origin of this painting.

Then the real situation of the existence of things in this painting has to make people think deeply——

If it is really the rumored Noah's Ark, it should be sailing in the flood and huge waves.

But that piece of black doesn't look like a huge wave, what does it look like?

In the system, someone from the team sent a message.

He Xiaowei didn't dare to look at it, but Yindao did.

It was a series of messages from Qiliuxing.

He Xiaowei asked Yindao eagerly in the sea of ​​consciousness: "Master, what's the situation?"

"Strange, Xiao Qi said that he saw a lot of 3D photos of people wearing space suits." At this point, Yin Dao spoke a little faster, "I see."

He Xiaowei: "Could it be..."

Yindao said what he wanted to say: "Draw the back of the ship, the black with all kinds of eddies and no light at all, it is not the sea, not the flood...it is the depth of the universe."

Just at this time, there was a slight "pop" sound, and it was the old Charlie who picked up a white piece and put it on the chessboard.He sighed softly, and said in a nostalgic tone: "I participated in the repair of that ship. Those days... It was scary, but also wonderful. I'm afraid I won't have that kind of experience again in this life."

those days?which paragraph?Days of roaming in space in a "ship"?

Immediately afterwards, Charlie said something incomparably reverie——

"Sometimes, the seaweed and fish in the water are beautiful, like starlight."

How can there be light in the depths of the sea?

Unless he's talking about constellations illuminated by stars encountered in space.