Striped Retriever

"We've already lived together, and we must have slept." Ke Chenlin couldn't understand the exaggerated reaction of the person opposite, "Otherwise, what do you think?"

The man patted his forehead: "The last time I saw you, you were only one month old, about the size of a big wax gourd." He gestured with both hands, indicating that the last time he saw Ke Chenlin, Ke Chen That's it for now.

Ke Chenlin felt helpless: "I'm 36 this year."

The man took a deep breath: "My small bottle, only you can take it, I require the ignition system to hand over the small bottle to the extinguishing program."

"Then how do I get it?" Ke Chenlin asked.

"I can't get it anymore." The man propped his elbows on his legs, and sighed for a long time, "Now you and the referee are in a partnership, and the referee can use this operation to get the points and energy I have accumulated."

"The Tinder system also has absolute trust in its own AI. The referees hide it very well. Compared with our "uncertain" intelligent creatures, in the eyes of the Tinder system, referees who have been programmed are more trustworthy." He leaned back in his chair.

Ke Chenlin thought about it for a while, but couldn't think of a reason: "Uh, that, Chen Yao." Although he just glanced over the number one name and didn't pay attention at all, his memory is a bit better now. Outrageous.

"What?" Chen Yao raised his head.

He was not irritable, even knowing that the small bottle might have fallen into the referee's hands.He's like an old man who has nothing to do with himself.

"How many points have you collected?" Ke Chenlin asked.

"Let me think about it, tsk, if you win and steal in a row, it may be hundreds of millions." Chen Yao said the terrible truth in a quite calm tone.

Even Ke Chenlin's eyes widened unconsciously: "What do you mean by stealing?" He obviously had a cheat as the extinguishing program, and he brought the center out when he left the world.

But relying on one player to collect hundreds of millions of points?

"It's just that I found something wrong halfway through the mission, and made some small moves. Of course, they have fixed those bugs now." Chen Yao continued: "A high-level dungeon I entered before was targeted by the dungeon boss, marked it, and became a ghost , but I got the key item to kill the dungeon boss."

"It seems to be a sword left by a Taoist priest. I retained my consciousness through that, but I didn't go out when the dungeon ended and was recovered by the fire system, because strictly speaking, I am not a player anymore."

Ke Chenlin understood: "Then you were taken back by that spark system, but out of humanitarian considerations, it won't kill you?"

"Yeah, to be honest, I was a guest there for a while." Chen Yao laughed as he spoke, "Because I said that I have a psychological shadow, I don't want to see people, I don't want people to know I'm there, I want to It's not that the referee found me, I don't know how long I can hang around there."

"That was the first time I went inside the tinder system."

Ke Chenlin: "...how many times have you been there?"

"I don't know, maybe a dozen or twenty times." Chen Yao said casually, "It can be regarded as helping them troubleshoot bugs, and they have to thank me."

For some reason, Ke Chenlin always felt familiar from the other party.

"At that time, I was more energetic. I always thought of sacrificing my life and blowing up the tinder system, including everyone in it. At that time, my wife and children died."

Ke Chenlin hissed lightly.

Chen Yao continued: "Besides, I'm a decent person. At that time, it was said that I could exchange skill cards, but I didn't exchange any of them."

Oh, from cards to APPs, Tinder has indeed kept pace with the times.

It's just that what Chen Yao said made Ke Chenlin's sense of déjà vu a little heavier.

Chen Yao: "I always cheat my teammates, but I rarely do that, after all, I have to maintain a sense of crisis."

"You honestly didn't instill me with strange things when you stole me out? Like your memory or subconscious mind." Although Ke Chenlin didn't want to admit it, he still saw his own from Chen Yao. shadow.

Chen Yao was actually dumbfounded, after all his consciousness was still at the time of his death.

A second ago, Ke Chenlin was still a child in his arms, but when he opened his eyes again, he was almost a few years younger than himself. How could he know Ke Chenlin's growth trajectory, and it was impossible for him to understand what Ke Chenlin had done? Something: "No, how can I be so good."

Isn't it great?Ke Chenlin was noncommittal to Chen Yao's words.

"My little bottle is still very useful." Chen Yao sighed, still feeling a bit at a loss, "At least you can save a lot of steps by holding it in your hand."

"It may not be confiscated by the referee." Ke Chenlin supported his head and said, "Maybe he kept it."

"Why keep it?"

"For me." Ke Chenlin just suddenly remembered what the referee said to him when he met the referee in the second dungeon.

The other party seems to have a way to make himself start again.

Afterwards, the referee's various behaviors seemed to be somewhat entangled.

However, after Ke Chenlin said those words, Chen Yao's expression became a little strange: "Who is for you?"

"Referee." Ke Chenlin said as a matter of course.

The atmosphere seemed to stagnate for a moment, and Chen Yao didn't know what to say for a while.

He always felt that the referee Ke Chenlin was talking about was not the same referee as he remembered.

The referee should be an AI that is emotionless and completely different from the Tinder system. If I had to give it an adjective, it would probably be cruel and cold.

For Ke Chenlin to hide the existence of that bottle?In Chen Yao's opinion, this is a fairy tale: "He lurks by your side just to spy on you."

"That's right." Ke Chenlin nodded.

"Do you think he still likes you?" Chen Yao couldn't hide the shock in his tone.

"You mean after I lost consciousness twice in the copy of the game, he did nothing but hug me and slap my face?"

"Is it possible that he wants to shoot you to death so as to torture you?" Chen Yao still thinks that is too unreal.

Ke Chenlin reached out and pressed his temple: "He took pictures for a long time, and my face is not swollen."

"Perhaps you know the water drop torture? It's not something that can solve problems at once, but it's enough to torture people." Chen Shu continued to argue.

Ke Chenlin didn't say anything more, stared at Chen Yao silently, and clicked his tongue.

Chen Shu covered his own face with his hands: "What happened when I died?"

"In my original plan, you should have died quite early. Your father is a maniac, and the actions should be neither serious nor serious." Chen Yao was very honest, "I expected that when I saw you, you should be only a teenager. Years old, children are so foolish."

Ke Chenlin laughed twice: "What are you trying to fool?"

"I'm fooling you into working for humans for nothing. I am actually against child labor, but strictly speaking you are not a human being." Chen Yao's honesty shocked people.

"I'm almost doing a free job now, for myself." Ke Chenlin also sat down, with his hands on his knees, in a quite relaxed state.

Chen Yao tilted his head: "What are you drawing?"

"I found out that I was living a lie. My original goal in life was to live happily ever after with my partner, but it turned out that my partner was a fake. After realizing that I had nothing, I was ready to die with the Tinder system." Ke Chenlin shrugged his shoulders and continued, "Oh, by the way, I didn't spend a single point, and I cheated on my teammates' skills once."

Chen Yao blinked his eyes twice, and then burst out laughing.He laughed louder and louder, his smile infected Ke Chenlin, and Ke Chenlin couldn't hold back his laughter.

In the end, Chen Yaoxiao's stomach ached, and tears came out: "Will your personalities of extinguishing the program be affected by contact?"

"Who knows." Ke Chenlin unexpectedly didn't hate the number one human being: "Will you keep appearing in my dreams? Can I find a way to make you disappear?"

Well, if you don't hate it, you don't hate it. If there is such a person in your mind all the time, Ke Chenlin will also feel troubled.

"What's the rush, I can show up this time, and I'll die after that." Chen Yao couldn't hold back any longer, "Can I have a cigarette? Just this time."

"Oh, you smoke." Ke Chenlin raised his hand and said, a cigarette also appeared on his mobile phone, "I'll accompany you."

Chen Yao looked at Ke Chenlin's actions, and paused unconsciously. Ke Chen's posture showed that he was an old hand, and what he said before that he didn't like the smell of cigarettes was probably pure nonsense.

After reacting, he laughed softly again: "It's strange, seeing that you and I are so similar, it makes people feel a little embarrassed to cheat you."

"What about you?" Ke Chenlin asked him back, "Are you willing to die like this?"

"I stole you out, so why not die?" Chen Yao put the cigarette in his mouth, and said casually, "My mission has been completed, to be honest, I felt pretty good when I was finally intercepted, At least I can rest, it is very tiring to maintain high-intensity tension all the time."

Chen Yao took a puff of cigarette fiercely, and continued: "Besides, I have an impatient and aggressive personality, and I can't cooperate well with people at all. It's a good thing to die."

"Actually, if you steal me and hand it over to the player community, it would be good to cultivate brainwashing from an early age." Ke Chenlin said.

Chen Yao's approach is not the optimal solution, because there are too many uncertain factors in it.Those human players said that the Tinder system was one step ahead, but Ke Chenlin didn't believe that the number one human could only go so far.

Even if the extinguishing program can be stolen, how can it be impossible to fix the problem of positioning.

"So I'm not very good at it." Chen Yao was also quite helpless, "It's pretty bad for a person like me to be number one, because there are too many unstable factors. I have considered what you said. Didn't I go to see you?"

"You were lying in your mother's arms, tightly wrapped, and then I saw you smiling at me." Chen Yao said, "You are a child with beautiful features, and you are smiling at me before your teeth grow. Grinning, I thought you are no different from ordinary children, why can’t you live for a while.”

"You mean living under my violent father?" Ke Chenlin asked.

"To be honest, I was out of my mind at the time, and I didn't think about it so much. I have children myself, although I didn't watch them live to adulthood." Chen Yao clicked his tongue, "I just thought about it, I have come to this world , Maybe, life depends on the day, who knows what the next year will be like? Maybe you got a piece of shit luck and lived to adulthood, and you are still alive and well."

"The player community will not let me die of old age." Ke Chenlin said.

"I know, they will definitely attack you. But that's not what I need to care about. After I've touched myself, I left you with what I thought was a 'possibility', and then I was cut off by the tinder system. killed."

Chen Yao looked at Ke Chenlin through the smoke: "It is true that I am very unethical to the player group, but there is nothing I can do about it. I am such a wicked person. They can't scold me if they want to. I am dead. But Whether it is good or bad for you depends on whether you regret it now and want to start over."

Ke Chenlin narrowed his eyes, and his smile grew bigger and bigger: "Of course not."

Everything that happened to me seemed terrible, whether it was the original family or everything that happened later.

pain?That is inevitable, otherwise Ke Chenlin himself would not have become like this.But to say sorry... no.

He didn't want to start over, he didn't want to become a tool with no self-awareness, and he didn't want to live a dull life that could see the end at a glance.

After being brainwashed, he embraced the unfounded sentiment and died with the tinder system?No, that would be too boring, grand propositions never suited him.

Or die for love is more romantic.

He clearly knows that his end is death, and he will rush to that day with full expectations. That is the end of everything, a full stop, and an eternal memorial day that will come eventually.

How romantic.

"That's it." Chen Yao flicked the ash, and the ash did not fall on the ground, but dissipated in mid-air, "Then I just need to tell you everything I know about the spark system, and then It's none of my business."

"You speak."

This was an overly peaceful conversation, not tit-for-tat, not aggressive, the relationship between the two of them was obviously not that simple, but they sat down and chatted like ordinary friends.

Ke Chenlin's goal is not the number one human being who died long ago, and Chen Yao seems to only want to fulfill his last responsibilities so that he can die safely and completely.

……

The palm-sized glass bottle is filled with deep blue and stars, like a miniature universe.

It's a contradictory thing to look at, a glass bottle that looks like a ubiquitous boutique bric-a-brac.And the things inside are unique and rare treasures.

The referee looked at the bottle in his palm, shook it lightly, and put it in his pocket.

Not long after he put away the bottle, the Marshal pushed the door open and entered.

"The next dungeon hasn't started yet?" Marshal asked, "Is there something wrong with the tracking system? Wasn't the speed of turning off the program before very fast?"

"I don't know." The referee put on a human shell very early on, waiting to be dragged into the dungeon at any time.

"Are you sure about the next game? Are you sure you can handle the extinguishing procedure?"

"Yes." The referee didn't look at the marshal, "Maybe the shutdown program can be turned off again."

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Volume 4 Under the Silt