I'm a god in the infinite game

The helicopter staggered over the long white snow field, and had to make an emergency landing twice due to strong winds.

By the time Tang Erda and his party arrived at the Edmond Observation Station, it was already close to the morning of the third day.

The helicopter landed a few kilometers from Edmond Observatory.

Now the wind and snow have stopped, and from a distance, the Edmond Observatory is covered by thick snow, but the strange thing is that the snow on the ground at the door has been cleared, revealing an open space below the door. It is also half-covered and open.

Tang Er knew something was wrong when he saw the situation: "Someone is inside."

"Grass!" Mu Sicheng rubbed his arms, his face darkened, "Could it be that group of our clones are still inside?"

Bai Liu squatted in front of the trap door opening in the basement next to the helicopter hangar.

A cold ash and acidic pungent smell poured from the trapdoor in the basement.

The snow on the trapdoor had also been cleared, and it was opened wide. The two barrels of gasoline placed by the door before Bai Liu left were gone. On the contrary, the inside of the basement was pitch black, with some hot air gushing out.

Looking at it from Bailiu's perspective, the walls are covered with coal ash left over from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil, and liquid and snow water are still dripping down the steps. Time to freeze it.

Liu Jiayi also noticed the abnormality here. She squatted next to Bai Liu: "It seems that after we left, the group of replicas burned the monsters in the basement, and poured strong acid to corrode them."

But as she spoke, her eyes swept across the layer of liquid on the basement floor, and she frowned puzzledly: "But before I left, I cleared up the supplies at the Edmond Observatory with Mu Ke, I remember here There is not so much acid in reserve."

Chemical reagents such as strong acids are scarce resources even in scientific research stations. Before Liu Jiayi left, he basically emptied the acid solution in the Edmond Observatory.

Even so, she had to use it carefully and plan carefully to barely deal with those monsters and escape smoothly.

Liu Jiayi got down on her stomach and took out a piece of metal to catch two drops of acid dripping from the steps.

The metal surface was quickly corroded, and gas was bubbling out. She frowned: "This person is pouring acid into the basement in buckets. Where did he get so much acid?"

The person cleaning the basement used strong acid quite casually, spreading it everywhere on the walls and steps, which seemed extravagant and wasteful, and seemed to have no sense of cherishing strong acid, a hard-won and very scarce resource in the dungeon.

"Then there is only one possibility." Bai Liu's eyes fell on the slowly freezing acid.

Liu Jiayi reacted abruptly: "A person who has played this game brought acid in himself——Spades have been here?!"

At this moment, Mu Sicheng's exclamation came from the second floor of the observation station: "Fuck!! What's going on?!"

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi looked at each other, and they took out their weapons and walked towards the door.

After they entered the observation station and went up to the second floor, Liu Jiayi dragged her gun and walked in front of Bai Liu vigilantly: "What's wrong?"

Mu Sicheng turned his head, his face was blue and white, he pointed towards the restaurant with trembling fingers, his voice was trembling, as if he was frightened: "...You guys, see for yourself..."

Bai Liu passed Mu Sicheng, looked at the restaurant behind him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

He understood why Mu Sicheng had such an expression.

The seats in the restaurant were roughly kicked away, and the broken tables, chairs and benches were scattered and piled up in the four corners of the room, leaving a large space in the middle of the restaurant.

And this open space was smashed out by something unknown, with a hole with an outline similar to a square.

The hole directly penetrates the floor of the second floor, and the scene of the first floor can be seen through the hole on the ground of the restaurant on the second floor.

On the edge of the hole, there is a circle of bloody handprints left by people who struggled hard, and they are densely covered on the floor - it can be seen that a group of people once huddled around the edge of the hole, trying to climb up.

On the first floor, directly facing the hole, there is a huge glass water tank, which seems to have been moved down from the roof, and now it is filled with thick acid that is so viscous that it can hardly flow. Bubble.

And this glass tank, like throwing garbage, is full of various "corpses" that have been carbonized, coked, and fragmented.

Most of these corpses have not yet fully reacted, and they are wriggling bloody and bloody in the concentrated acid. Strange, corroded bubbles are constantly making noises from the skin and flesh. Dissolve half of the eyeballs by yourself.

What made Mu Sicheng scream was the appearance of these corpses.

The people who handled these corpses were a little rough and didn't care too much. A considerable part of the faces of the corpses were still not completely burnt by the fuel, and the appearance of "them" could be clearly seen.

——These corpses have the faces of Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng, Tang Erda, Liu Jiayi, and Mu Ke.

Such a group of scorched corpses with their own faces struggled so painfully in the viscous thick acid, the skin, muscles, and bones were eroded by the acid.

Even knowing that this group of things are not human beings but monsters, it is inevitable that they feel the creeps.

Mu Sicheng took two steps back, distanced himself from the blood-stained hole, swallowed nervously, and said in a very hoarse voice: "...someone killed all the monsters that turned into us at Edmund's station .”

"And the speed is very fast." Tang Erda squatted halfway on the edge of the hole, touched the remaining blood stains with his two fingers, raised his head and added solemnly, "The blood is not completely coagulated."

Bai Liu's gaze shifted from those blood stains to Mu Ke's face: "I remember you said that these monsters that become us have skills?"

"Yes." Mu Ke also looked shocked, his pupils were in a slightly constricted state, and he was stunned for a second or two as if he couldn't think, before he began to answer Bai Liu's question, "Before we leave, we will meet with these monsters." There were conflicts, and they were almost held hostage by them."

"But they are not as strong as us. I think it may be because they are immature, and their abilities feel only about half of ours." Liu Jiayi took the words, she looked at the first floor with a condensed expression, and slowly exhaled.

"But there is not only one [us] standing here in Edmund, but a group of [us] fighting in melee."

"—He quickly controlled such a group of monsters whose abilities are roughly similar to ours in a short period of time, and even used a whip to break open the floor to create this acid pool, and threw the corpses into it for disposal."

Liu Jiayi's face was so ugly for the first time: "Spades' ability... is too strong, he is stronger than last year."

"Even if we are in a team fight, we can't beat him. What should we do next?" She looked up at Bai Liu asking for instructions.

Bai Liu squatted on one knee and one foot on the edge of the cave, staring at the [Bai Liu] who were gradually submerged and dissipated in the acid pool below for a while with an unclear expression.

After these scorched corpses with their own faces turned into bones, then into bubble particles and some wreckage with no specific shape, Bai Liu stood up, he withdrew his gaze, and turned to look at the others:

"Search the entire Observatory for why Spades are here."

Half an hour later, a group of people gathered on the first floor again.

Mu Ke, who is good at memorizing and searching maps, first reported his findings:

"Many places have been searched. They should be looking for something, but the search is very brief. It doesn't look like they are looking for textual materials and small objects."

"So far, no spades have been found to take anything away, so what he is looking for should not be found yet."

"He hasn't touched the rifles and bullets scattered around on the fourth floor." Tang Erda added, "The situation is similar to when we left."

Bai Liu was sitting by the table, he took out a piece of paper, summarized the information on the paper, and made a summary in a calm tone: "First of all, we can make sure that Spades repeatedly entered this game to find something, and this thing is very important. It may be related to the main line of the game."

"Spades and I logged in at the Edmund Observation Station together at the beginning, but he didn't search here at that time, but left here and went outside. We can judge from this-at that time, Spades felt that Edmond The Mon Observatory doesn't have what he's looking for."

Bai Liu paused on the paper with the pen tip: "But now he's back again."

Liu Jiayi quickly realized why: "I couldn't find the spades outside, so I decided to go back to the Edmond Observatory to try my luck, but I happened to meet the clones we left here, so I killed them, and found them again." I searched again, but still couldn’t find it, so I left.”

Bai Liu's eyes were half-closed, and the tip of the pen drew bit by bit as if thinking: "The crux of the problem now is, what exactly is Spade looking for when he repeatedly enters the game?"

"The main task of this game is global warming. What Spade is looking for may be something related to global warming." Mu Ke pondered and asked, "Is it possible that the bottom boss is Edmund? According to the general design of the game , as long as you hit the bottom boss, you can pass the level and reach [normal end].”

"I don't think with Spade's ability, he won't even reach [normal end] after entering the game so many times." Bai Liu denied.

His pen tip paused twice on the paper, and then he wrote the word [Corpse Part].

Bai Liu raised his eyes: "I think what Spade is looking for may be a particle meteorological device transformed from [corpse pieces]. He should follow the [trueend] route to eliminate the possibility of the world getting cold again from the root."

"According to Edmund's acting style, it is very likely that he has placed particle meteorological devices on the six hundred locations where he feels that Antarctica affects the world's climate."

Mu Ke was puzzled: "But the [-] locations are all marked on the map. If you want to find spades, you can directly follow the map to find them. There is no need to go to the Edmond Observation Station to look for them——Edmond Observation There are no particle meteorological devices placed at the station."

Bai Liu wrote down [600], [Experimental sample preservation] on the paper, and then put a question mark next to it.

He opened his eyelids and looked at Mu Ke: "That means that what Spade is looking for is not the corpse in these [-] particle devices, but the corpse outside of these [-] particle devices."

Mu Ke repeated Bai Liu's words softly: "These corpses other than the [-] particle devices..."

He seemed to realize something, opened his eyes slightly, and looked at Bai Liu: "It's because Edmund hasn't done the experiment yet, turning it into a particle device's corpse, right?"

"Edmund is an experienced scientific researcher." Bai Liu reminded lightly, "He will not consume all the experimental materials at once, and usually keep some of them as samples, which should be what Spade is looking for. "

"Look through the experiment report. Among the body parts that Edmund obtained in the early stage, which one is untouched?"

Mu Ke quickly lowered his head and began to read, his fingertips slid down the lines of the obscure report records, and finally settled on a certain word.

"found it!"

"In the early days, the three-part body parts obtained by Edmund included the left hand, the rear ankle, and a whole heart with preserved arteries and veins."

Mu Ke raised his head a little excitedly, and spoke quickly: "I can only find the experimental records on the left hand and the rear ankle, but there is no experimental record on this heart——Edmond probably kept it. This heart is reserved as a sample!"

Bai Liu put on her gloves and hat, and pushed open the door: "This heart should be what Spade is looking for, and it is also the key to clear the [trueend] of this game. Let's go."

The wind and snow covered Bai Liu's dark and deep eyes head-on, engulfing his peaceful voice in the dusk night and going away.

"——If we want to win the spades, we must find the heart before the spades destroy it."

The tide ebbs and flows along the ice-covered coast, and the brown soil and white snow on the ground inside are mottled and intertwined. There is an old log cabin on it.

It was a rather old-looking log cabin, with peeling paint on the door frames and floor rails leaving blotches like leper's skin on the exterior, the roof piled up against rickety, decaying load-bearing walls, leaning against the Horizontally arranged planks are fixed.

In front of the door stands a sign like a tourist site sign, with [Scott Cottage] written on it, and [built in 1912] written below.

This 100-year-old old wooden house, which is already a cultural relic and used as a tourist attraction, is emitting a warm fire, as if someone is resting and warming the fire inside.

Follow the light of the fire falling on the snow to the cabin. The fire is burning under the fireplace, and an old man with squinting eyes is sitting on the wooden bench next to him.

Wearing a pair of faded gold pendant glasses, he hummed an out-of-tune song softly, his feet slapped and beat accordingly, his hands, feet and back were all bent, as if he had endured a lot of torture.

The firelight shone on his old, wrinkled face, and shadows swayed on the walls.

Spades stepped out of the dark shadows, standing upright on the edge of the firelight, holding a long whip in his hand, and snow that had not yet melted hung on his long eyelashes and hair tips.

Spades looked at the old man, and said in a clear and gentle voice, "Edmund."

The old man then slightly opened one eye to look over, he seemed a little helpless, and felt amused: "You are here again, young man, you seem to like coming to my place very much."

Edmund smiled kindly: "Have you killed me many times, just for that heart that you can never find?"

"Is that important to you?"

Spade opened his mouth, but he answered irrelevantly: "You shouldn't remember that I killed you."

Edmund took off his glasses, looked at Spade, and smiled softly: "Because I'm just an evil npc in the game, every time this instance should be refreshed with your departure, and I forget everything, yes ?"

Spades nodded.

Edmund smiled: "It may be that I have lived too long and done too cruel things, so God refused to forgive me and let me remember everything I have done-I do remember that you killed me many times , you are the most frequent person in this game, I almost want to be friends with you."

His eyes rested on Spade's dripping long whip for a moment mockingly: "Of course, if you don't use the whip to strangle me as soon as you enter the game-the process of suffocation is always painful, if you are willing to let me Given the choice of death, I prefer to be burned."

Spade agreed without thinking: "Yes."

Edmund then laughed loudly: "Son, I believe you really don't understand other people's jokes."

"That group of your teammates has been giving you a headache, right? That guy named [Judger Against God] has been so distressed that he can't help pouring out his troubles to an npc like me, saying that he doesn't know what to do with you."

Edmund looked at Spades jokingly: "He looks so sad that he is about to cry. It's really interesting and troublesome to have a friend like you."

Spade doesn't comment on others' definitions of himself, he always speaks straight to the point: "Are you still unwilling to tell me where your heart is this time?"

Edmund's eyes reflected the firelight. It seems that an old man like him should have a pair of cloudy eyes, but Edmund's eyes were still pure and flawless, as clean as the snow that fell under the Antarctic ice 3 years ago , glowing a kind of light blue that is close to the surface of ice.

"No, my child." Edmund's expression became distant, he shook his head, "You can kill me again, but I will never tell you where I hid my heart."

"That was my original sin, and only God knows where it's hidden."

Spade pursed his lips into a straight line, he was obviously dissatisfied with the result, a kind of very shallow depression emerged from the small movement of his nails on the whip.

Edmund looked at Spades, with a friendly smile that saw everything on his face: "This time you also found my six hundred particle devices. I rarely see players who can find all of them without being frozen to death." Yes, you are amazing."

"But one device is ineffective." Spades looked at Edmund, "The device under Ice Dome A is not filled with corpse particles. I can't gather all six hundred corpses."

"But you have already won this game, haven't you?" Edmund shook his head seriously, raised his finger and emphasized, "Your friend, Nishen told me that you only care about winning or losing, you have already got what you want If you want, why not let my secret remain a secret forever?"

Edmund looked at Spades, with a smile on his lips, and the light of a campfire shone in his light blue eyes like shattered ice: "Why are you so attached to a heart that doesn't belong to you? It's not romantic."

Spades paused for a moment—it seemed that he didn't know the exact answer to this question either.

"Intuition—I must destroy this heart and all the body parts."

Spade raised her eyes: "Everyone has their own predetermined destiny. I can see that the destiny of this heart is connected with mine, and it should be destroyed by me."

"Neither it nor I should exist in this world."

The smile on Edmund's face gradually faded, and he muttered to himself: "You are destroying yourself, child..."

"Hmm." Spade replied calmly, and then asked, "What is the original sin you want to hide?"

There was no trace of a smile on Edmund's face, he finally showed a little of his age.

He leaned on his forehead and let out a long sigh, unable to hide his tiredness and trance: "My original sin is something I didn't realize from the beginning to the end that I should repent for it."

"I hate the things that persecute me, I hate the students who betray me, and I pity the friends I yearn for." Edmund took a deep, deep breath, and slowly exhaled it from his nose as if he was smoking a cigarette. Huo looked far away, "I didn't do one thing right, and I regret it, but one thing made me understand that my ugliness is far more than that."

Edmund's hands on the side of the chair trembled, he closed his eyes, tears fell into furrow-like wrinkles, and his voice was hoarse: "—that's those corpses."

"That's not a corpse, it's the disassembled limbs of a living creature. He has consciousness, feelings, and emotions. He knows what an ugly thing I'm doing to him."

Edmund opened his eyes, his clear eyes finally became cloudy at this moment, he choked up and said: "——and I didn't know what I had done until I saw the beating heart."

"I'm killing a living person."

Edmund turned his head to look at Spade, he seemed to be aging to the point of dying in an instant:

"The plot of the game you mentioned may be my destiny. I was led by this destiny, by the invisible god, to the abyss of self-destruction, forming a paradise-like cycle for others to play and entertain. I thought I I can escape this terrible game myself."

"But after escaping, I found that I just entered a bigger cycle of fate. I will always be just a toy in the hands of the gods who make my destiny, and human beings will always go to self-destruction due to out-of-control desires in all world lines. , this is our God-given destiny - He wants to see this."

There were tears in Edmund's eyes: "All of us should be punished for the cruelty bestowed on us by fate, but I know that in the eyes of the invisible god, the undeserved punishment I imposed because of anger, It's just a ring of fate that he calculated."

"Everything I do is just... a game."

Spades looked at him calmly: "But you can decide how you die this time."

"I will burn you to death if I wish, and this is not a game for you, nor for me."

Edmund smiled tearfully: "I know."

"This is... the victory you want, and the fate I want."

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the other end.

Bai Liu was patrolling the ground in a helicopter, and they had already passed three points marked on the map—one of the six hundred points.

But the results were not satisfactory.

The buoys on the surface of the sea have been taken out and destroyed, so there is no need for Bai Liu and the others to sink down to find them. The wreckage of the instrument is placed directly on the edge of the coast, and the metal box is also thrown into the instrument. The particles inside have been destroyed. clean.

The particle devices on the ground were all tied up with weather balloons and flew into the sky.

Bai Liu and the others have seen several punctured balloons buried in the snow on the ground—the situation is similar to that on the coast, and the particles in the metal box have also been destroyed.

The farther you go to the places marked on these maps, the worse the situation becomes.

When he saw the hollowed-out device next to Ice Dome A, Bai Liu issued a termination order: "The [-] devices should have been found by Spades, and Edmund probably didn't hide his heart in these [-] points." inside."

"Then where will he hide his heart?" Mu Ke yelled in the strong wind, so as to ensure that Bai Liu could hear what he said in the wind, "These six hundred locations have included all the places that have special meaning to Edmund. Ice Dome A, the South Pole, Tarzan Station, and Scott’s Cabin are all inside, is it possible for him to hide his heart in other places?"

"Yes." Bai Liu turned to look at Mu Ke, "Do you still remember what the main mission of this dungeon is?"

Mu Ke nodded: "Global warming."

"If global cooling is Edmund's punishment for everyone, including himself, after his desires got out of control, then global warming is an opportunity for him to change." Bai Liu breathed hoarfrost.

During the conversation, Tang Erda manipulated the helicopter to land steadily at a new location.

Bai Liu got off the helicopter that was landed steadily by Tang Er, and came to an empty snow field.

This is a brand new place without any footprints or traces, no devices have been placed here, and there is no sign of anyone visiting. It is far away from all observation stations, and it does not even have its own geographical name.

No matter how you look at it, it is a strange place without any characteristics.

This is the place Bai Liu chose for Tang Erda to land.

Mu Ke trotted to keep up with Bai Liu, short of breath: "Bai Liu, do you think this is where Edmund hides his heart?"

He was almost about to ask why you thought it was here, but because of Mu Ke's blind trust in Bai Liu, he thought he would dig first before talking.

But when someone asked, Mu Sicheng turned around and looked around, and asked Bai Liu suspiciously: "Why did Edmund hide his heart here? I don't even know where this is, and I'm not in Edmund's fax or I saw this place in the experiment report."

Bai Liu put on anti-friction gloves and began to help Tang Erda carry the equipment for digging and detecting the ice surface.

Mu Sicheng stepped forward to take over, staring at Bai Liu with eager eyes.

Bai Liu leaned over and took off a stack of experimental reports from the back seat of the helicopter, and handed them to Mu Sicheng: "Explain while watching—I just said that global cooling is Edmund's punishment for human beings in his anger. But before that, global warming was also a punishment, and it was a punishment of our own making."

Mu Sicheng couldn't help sighing: "What did I do wrong? I'm being punished even if it gets colder or hotter?"

Bai Liu smiled: "That's right, this is a Christian concept that people are born with original sin, and living is the process of redemption. If you think of the whole process as Edmund asking human beings to redeem their sins, it will be much clearer."

"He felt that other people were guilty, so he punished others. He felt that Tarzan was innocent, but this kind of innocence is also a sin in a guilty environment, because it will lead to bullying, so Edmund decided to sharpen Tarzan. Let them survive as humans on Noah's Ark."

"Edmund knows very well that what he did is wrong and sinful, and his own atonement process—" Bai Liu's eyes were deep, "—is to hide his untouched heart and protect him in various places. The first innocent person to be murdered under the oppression of such an environment.”

"He preserved the heart on the one hand to preserve the experimental samples, and on the other hand to preserve his [original sin]."

Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng: "Where do you think a person like Edmund would keep his original sin?"

Mu Sicheng shook his head honestly.

Bai Liu smiled: "Of course it's the day when he makes up his mind to commit his crime and it takes effect."

There were question marks in Mu Sicheng's eyes: "This day, what day is it?"

"August 33th, the day he started pickling sauerkraut for the people at Taishan Station." Bai Liu looked at the open space in front of him, and smiled, "And this place is the accumulated temperature of [-] years in Edmund. On record, August [-]th was the coldest place in Antarctica."

"There is no better place to store a beating heart."