parasitic son

[Xiao Zhen. ] I called him softly.

Yan Zhen didn't respond to me, he just lowered his head.

[Xiao Zhen. 】

Still no response.

I have come to Yan Zhen's sea of ​​consciousness, and I can see my lost fragments - the secret key of the Forerunner think tank is like a polyhedral crystal diamond, floating in countless interlaced and stacked mirrors, that is the high-dimensional existence in his The projection in consciousness is the shadow of fragments.Every mirror is repeating a scene, the moment Liu Ruiguo was killed.

Repeatedly.

[We must stop the Necradragon. 】I forcibly blocked all these scenes in Yan Zhen's mind, directly turning his theater of consciousness into a pure white world.

"Mr. Air," he finally said.

【Um. 】

"It said that I was relieved." Yan Zhen said in a low voice, "What it said was true. When I found out that Fan Yingjie was not dead, I was indeed relieved."

[Xiaozhen! ] I increased my voice.

"At that time, I subconsciously thought that Fan Yingjie was too good to die." Yan Zhen said, "Liu Xingquan is right, I am a bastard." He stared at the spotless floor with a calm expression.

[It was Necradragon who killed Uncle Liu.It has nothing to do with you. 】

"But it's because of my choice..."

[This is the nonsense of the Necratron Dragon.Think about why you entered this game, I told you, this is a trap that the black box will set for you.This is the script woven by the Necradragon, and it is the culprit of everything.It is the real sinner. 】

"but……"

[Xiaozhen!You have a card drawing mobile game on your mobile phone, tell me, you go to draw a ten consecutive draw now, can you get the gold card you want? 】

"I don't know." Yan Zhen said.

[It is not difficult to know the result of the card draw in the mobile game. Do you think that you get an unknown result randomly when you draw cards in the mobile game?In fact, this is not the case. Mobile game manufacturers need to make money, and the card draw rate set by the manufacturer guarantees that players have a certain chance to draw rare cards, so that players can see that they want to spend money and will not have too many complaints. It is considered good.So as long as you know the card drawing mechanism and enough computing power, you can predict the result of the next card drawing.It's the same when you throw dice. Taking into account the gravity air resistance and the force of your shot, even if you have enough computing power, you can predict the number of dice you throw.In other words, just like Necratic Dragon said, Bai Lianlian, Song Jiarui, Fan Yingjie, Liu Ruiguo, Liu Xingquan who came with you, all the contestants have been carefully selected by it.Under the interpersonal relationship it designed, this alien game will develop like this, and every step of yours is within its plan.The death of Liu Xingquan's father, Liu Ruiguo, was a script that it had predicted long ago. 】

"Is everything calculated by it?" Yan Zhen said, "Including all the groups, entering different gates, and I used that method to win the Pretender is also its script?"

[Yes, all of them are considered good.Everything is for you to walk unknowingly on the path it has given you.If I hadn't stopped it in time, you would have opened the door to the think tank without even realizing it. 】

"This is the script it wrote. So what's next? Necradragon blackmailed my three classmates. Even if I don't hand over the key, it will shift its target to other people after killing my three classmates For example, my family..." A look of fear flashed in Yan Zhen's pupils.Besides Liu Xingquan, he has his favorite family members, his parents and his sister.I know what he is thinking, even now, the lives of those three classmates cannot be given up.

【This is why I am communicating with you now.There is nothing we can do. 】

"What can you do?" Yan Zhen said, his eyes sparkled, "Could it be that you can turn back time? Change the past and bring Uncle Liu back to life?"

[The established facts will not change.A person cannot be resurrected after death. ] I said, even if I can intervene in time, time is an extremely uncontrollable variable in actual microscopic operations.All I can be sure of is the observed past.On this world line, Liu Ruiguo is dead, and this cannot be undone and cannot be changed.

"Oh." His muffled voice sounded like he disliked me, "You are very weak now."

[Xiao Zhen. ] I had no choice but to emphasize my tone and let his full attention be on my words.

"Ok?"

[Necradragon is not truly omniscient and omnipotent. In the eyes of your earth-level civilization, it may be a god, a ghost king in the cyber world, a celestial being in a higher dimension, etc.However, everything has a limit, and Necradragon is no exception. 】

"what do you mean?"

[I have a plan. 】

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News of the Necradragon came quickly.

Its sound reverberates through thought sequences like rustling electromagnetic waves.

"It's so sad that you abandoned these poor classmates and ran away. This is not like a script that a hero should write." Its tone is loud and rhythmic, "These three innocent students Yes, poor students, what would they think if they knew that Yan Zhen, whom they trusted, did such a heartless thing?"

Yan Zhen didn't make a sound, his eyes were burning with cold anger.

"Your Mr. Air won't let you hand over the key, did it tell you a bunch of lines like I want to destroy the world. Hey, but did it tell you that you just use the key to open the West The gate of the labyrinth of Yiqi Think Tank, your best friend's father, your dear Uncle Liu, can you come back from the dead?"

Surprise flashed in Yan Zhen's eyes.

It was too late to give him more warnings, and the Necratron spoke again.The words this time shook even me.

"I'll give you another 3 minutes." Necraron said, "By the way, I picked up a freeze-dried Izel. I'm considering implanting the freeze-dried into one of your classmates. Please dial Take a moment to think about it, should this precious implant be Bai Lianlian, Song Jiarui or Fan Yingjie?"

"What freeze-dried?"

"Huh? Didn't your Mr. Air tell you? Didn't he even tell you about this? How shocking this is!" the Necradragon shouted in feigned surprise, "Tsk Tsk tsk. I am really touched by the trust between you. Iser Alien freeze-dried is one of Mr. Air's precious small toy collections. I suggest you ask carefully what will happen if this freeze-dried piece is thrown away. Look Come on, it hasn't told you the truth about many things."

"I think you should have a good chat. I only give you 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, I will wait for you at the old place in the labyrinth. You know what to do."

Communications are closed.Only humming white noise remains.

Yan Zhen frowned, and he asked, "What is Izel freeze-dried?"

My heart is moaning. [The frozen body of a dangerous creature. 】

"What happens when implanted in a human body?"

[It is like an infectious virus that will continue to sow seeds.If it is not eliminated in time, the entire human race may fall into a crisis of extinction. 】

"It says it's yours."

[After the laboratory exploded, it was also ejected here together. 】I saw Yan Zhen's eyes filled with accusatory anger, 【Xiaozhen, I...】

"Another dangerous product of yours!! It will even destroy human beings!! What will happen if it is implanted into the human body?" Yan Zhen said, "My classmate will die, right? Is it irreparable?"

[I'm sorry for not telling you in time, but I've been trying to recycle it.This is what we have been doing for so many days...]

"Yeah, now it's in the hands of that Necradragon." His tone was cold and fierce, "We thought we trusted each other and we were friends, but it doesn't matter whether it's the secret key or the freeze-dried one, what are you talking about?" Didn't tell me!!!"

Now I should discuss the next strategy with Yan Zhen, but due to Necradragon's instigation, I can only try to slow down my tone, [Xiaozhen, you know too little about the universe and the shadows in the darkness of the galaxy.Sometimes, just knowing certain information is enough to bring disaster.I don't want to hurt any of the inhabitants of this planet, and I don't want to hurt you either.I just want to protect you to the greatest extent—"

"We are partners who trust each other, aren't we?" The anger in his eyes was almost burning, "In your eyes, I should just be a low-level puppet played by you?"

【Xiaozhen, we should now...】

"You liar!!" Yan Zhen shouted, "I trust you so much, but you have been lying to me since the beginning!!"

[Xiaozhen! ! 】

"fraud!!"

In his theater of consciousness, after a flash, he disappeared.

I was left alone.I know what's coming.Yan Zhen ejected himself into the foreign maze.

The remaining thought sequences buzzed and screamed. I shouldn't have felt real heartache, but now I just feel like a knife is piercing my heart, as if the remaining sequences have also been torn apart.

I turned off the perception sensor, and the white noise was still falling down like gravel.

It's starting to get dark all around.

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Yan Zhen walked into a foreign land.

The scene at this time is no longer the appearance of the ancient hall he went to last time, but has changed into a mysterious and deep forest, with geometric leaves fluttering in the air, like nested polygonal gears, sending out waves Like the ticking of a clock.

He lifted his footsteps, and the fallen leaves piled up on the ground were soft, with a soft rustling sound in the rubbing.

The forest was very humid, and his feet seemed to be stained with water vapor, and his body was so cold that he wanted to shiver. It was obviously just a virtual alien world woven by Necratron Dragons, but it was like the real world.

"Yan Zhen..."

Someone is calling for him.

In the shadow of the forest, a slim figure walked out slowly.

She has crystal eyes and white skin, like a flawless elf in the forest, "Yan Zhen..." she called softly, "I knew you would come to save me."

"No, you are not Song Jiarui." Yan Zhen said coldly, "You are the Necradragon."

The girl smiled, and her figure began to change. The girl's beautiful and graceful form disappeared, replaced by phantoms that were constantly changing and overlapping layers. Sometimes it was dazzling like light, and sometimes it was like dark black rock gravel.It seems that light and shadow are mixed together, and incomprehensible illusions appear alternately in the shadows.

It dragged the shadow forward slowly, "Are you ready to open the gate?"

"No, I don't believe you." Yan Zhen said, "I know you haven't told the truth."

The gloomy light shone brightly, and the Necradragon said, "What I say is true."

The image began to change again.

Beyond the forest rose rolling hills.Red and yellow misty smoke floated in the vast mountains, like the residue of a burning fire.

"It's called Yequ Mountain." Necraron said, "It's far away in Xiyiqi, and the think tank of the great forerunner is under these mountains. Have you seen the rising red mist?"

"..."

Although there was no response from Yan Zhen, the necromancer still said to himself: "The Xiyiqi people will send their bodies to Yequ Mountain for burning after death, and their bodies will turn into dust particles after being burned and linger beside Yequ Mountain for a long time. Go, that is the song of the dead that the Xiyiqi people sang after death."

"After a hundred years, more and more Xiyiqi people have died of incurable diseases. Today's songs of the dead are almost all the mourning and wailing of these Xiyiqi people before they die." Necralong looked at him, " If you don't open the door to the think tank, all the Xiyiqi people will be completely extinct in the next queen's reign."

"This is a civilization with a long history. They are the same as you humans. Every day there are countless joys and sorrows. They have scientists who dedicate everything for the race. They have teenagers and girls who aspire to be heroes. Their mood is just like yours. Purely, they have treacherous villains with evil intentions, and they also have secret court struggles and court turmoil. They are like another earth. A planet that carries tens of billions of lives."

The red and yellow mist danced around the mountains, and the twinkling particles were like eyes, bright and longing, waiting for his answer.

Yan Zhen said, "You are lying."

The Necradragon laughed loudly, "You earthlings are so cowardly. Lying? It's just that you don't want to face the weight of the lives of the distant Xiyiqi people, it's just that you don't want to face the weight carried by the key. The think tank contains The supreme wisdom of the generation of the forerunners. It is the truth, it means radical innovation and rebirth, it can dispel all unsolvable diseases, it can bring the dead back to life, and it can eliminate all endless sufferings since the birth of the universe. But some fools who claim to be the successors of the forerunners are afraid of this power. They dismiss all dreams and progress that try to touch the truth as heresy and lies. Monkeys of earth-level civilization like you are too small, too Too ignorant to understand what that means."

Red and yellow smoke snaked across the black mountains, and the laughter of the Necratal Dragon was like an echo in the shadows of Nocturne Mountain.

Yan Zhen moved his lips, "You said earlier that the key can bring Uncle Liu back to life."

A blurred light danced in the shadows, "Yes, as long as you go to open the last door after this maze. The resurrection of the dead is real."

"Where are my three classmates?"

"Of course they will return safely. As long as you hand over the key."

"I just want Uncle Liu to come back." Yan Zhen whispered, "You want to let my classmate go."

"Their lives depend only on your choice."

"Then I..."

"Come on. Hand over the key and open this final door."

Yan Zhen moved his lips again.The Necratron whispered in his ear, "Let's open the door and fix this world. Your classmates, your friend's father, everyone, will be saved."

In the blink of an eye, Yan Zhen threw a crystal at an unimaginable speed.The crystal quickly spawned countless rays of light that entwined the Necratron Dragon.It tried to break free, but the light around it spiraled and intertwined, turning into a dense net of light to firmly bind it.

This is the antimatter I generated in the abyss of Astrakapa in the past, and I made it into a hidden mechanism [Endless Cage].It is generated intermittently without rules, and is randomly shifted and fitted with each other. It can travel through time and space, and limit the target object within a certain range.

The Necradragon couldn't break free from it, at least for a short time.Regularly, I can't lasso it easily at all.And only Yan Zhen, a harmless human being underestimated by it, has the chance to catch him by surprise.

Now it can only angrily collide in the interlaced and repeated multi-dimensional structure, like a grasshopper stuffed into a cage.

"How dare you—"

"What you said is all lies." Yan Zhen said, "The future you describe in your words is nothing but false words. As I said, I will not believe you."

"Lie?? You are just a sad puppet under the current rules." Necraron said, "You dare not face the innovation brought by the Supreme Truth. You are just afraid of the uncontrollable storm-like new life brought by this power .”

"No, what you bring is not new life, but real destruction." Yan Zhen said.

"Oh? That Mr. Air told you?"

Yan Zhen looked at him indifferently, and then his body flashed some dazzling colors, 【Stop wasting your words, sinner. ] I tore off the skin of Yan Zhen's simulation, and jumped out of the conscious camouflage shell.

The Necradragon glared at me, and it snorted with some displeasure, "Oh it's you, you pretended to be that human toy."

【I won't let you get close to him. 】

The shadow of the Necradragon swayed in my cage, "You accuse me of being a liar, but you are just as full of lies. For a long time, life in the entire universe has suffered and suffered in ignorance. Because this universal law is So. You take it all for granted. Ah, no wonder, after all, I was a prisoner who was considered mad since I was born, and you were born to be the favorite of the gods."

"Well, it's normal for the story to have this kind of twist," said the Necradragon. "So are you the three monkey friends who are going to sacrifice your toy?"

[Of course I will be prepared. 】

"Well, the quarrel between you and Yan Zhen was a deliberate show, and you knew I would see it. It was a wonderful smoke bomb. It was to create a reasonable deal between Yan Zhen and me, so that he would have a chance to get close to me and restrain me. "The necratron said in a strange tone, "From the results, it is indeed quite successful. You caught me, the real Yan Zhen rescued his classmates in the depths of the maze, right?"

【…】

"If you follow an ordinary hero script, it will be fine. Afterwards, the hero rescued his companions, and the world ushered in peace." Necraron raised his voice, "Is this your idea? Ah, really Poor, you really have degenerated to this point."

【you……】

"Do you think I didn't foresee this turning point when I designed a script??"

True!

I tried to break the structure and flash into the alien passage.

But in an instant, countless black tendrils appeared under my feet, which were the viruses planted by the Necratron Dragon in advance.They frantically bit my thought sequence, and I watched my remnants of the matrix being sucked into pollution variables one after another, like balls of blackened blood.

The Necradragon laughed behind me.Blurred light and shadow flickered on its body, like the light of an omen of death.

Xiaozhen.

The surrounding strange world began to blur, only the laughter became louder and louder.

Its laughter was intermittent, the labyrinth began to distort, and countless mirrors appeared in the dark dome.

There is Yan Zhen on every mirror.

The laughter grew louder.

Xiaozhen.

……

……

Yan Zhen is waiting for decoding.

The box in his hand is a self-program I gave him to analyze the cage that trapped his three classmates in the foreign land.

This is what we said earlier to fight separately.

I pretended to be Yan Zhen to counter Necradragon, and he took the opportunity to secretly release the hostages.

Open the box, and a group of pigeons jumped out of the box, flapping their wings and flying.This is the cognition that Yan Zhen self-modified the program in a foreign land. Simply put, it is expressed in a way he can understand.

Now these white doves will fly into the dungeon set up by Necradragon to save his classmates.

Yan Zhen watched the birds gradually go away.He said softly, "I don't know what happened to Mr. Air."

"Mr. Air?" A voice sounded from behind him, "It's not by your side now."

Yan Zhen took a breath, and he turned his head slowly.

The little spider smiled up at him.

"..."

"I've been lurking by your side from the very beginning," said the little spider. "It's so heartless that you forgot about me after winning. You escaped the maze without knowing what you took with you. And I have been staying in your consciousness, which allows me—to leave a back door in your cognition."

"..."

"Your performance was very good." The little spider closed its two legs.

Yan Zhen took a step back.

"I am the Necradragon, which can also be called the real body." The little spider happily announced, "Now——I want to eat you completely."

Yan Zhen started to run away.

Before entering the foreign land again, I teleported the professor to give him thousands of ways to escape.

In the blink of an eye, Yan Zhen had jumped into the upper labyrinth.

All the doors of the maze room opened, and the monsters ran out one by one.Yan Zhen transformed her consciousness into a miniature electronic cloud, then reshaped into a monster, and sneaked into the group of monsters guarding the maze.His changes were seamless, like a drop of dew hiding in the rain.

But Necradraron can scan him all the time, just like his innate shadow.It ruthlessly killed every labyrinth monster that stood in its way.The sound of the explosion resounded in every labyrinth room, and its power turned into a dead light, burning all obstacles into ashes and wreckage.

Yan Zhen hovered and jumped on the edge of the light of destruction.The shaking maze began to fall apart.Walls split from the middle, ceilings collapsed from the top.Blue flames poured into each room.

Yan Zhen did not give up struggling, he used various methods.He projects his consciousness into every corner of the labyrinth, he is the sculpture on the wall, he is the scattered bricks, he is the monster itself, he is the long sword in the hands of those confused monsters.He galloped within the countless labyrinth runes, and shifted between the mirrored corridors that turned a thousand times.Before overwhelming power, he did not give up for a moment.

The light chasing and killing him spread rapidly, and thousands of smooth mirrors above my head were flickering on and off.I saw the boy's figure jumping in the ever-spreading ripples of light, like a shooting star breaking through the dark night sky.

again and again.

Like the heroes of that ancient epic.

The necratron stares at the mirror image composed of flashing images like a god. In the maze it compiled, it is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipotent.Then, it all came to an end.

Yan Zhen was caught by it.

He was clamped by the limbs decomposed by tens of thousands of Necratron dragons. He couldn't eject, couldn't bounce, and couldn't hide.

Then, it invaded into his consciousness, but the key was nested by layer upon layer of thought units.It can take Yan Zhen's life, but it can't really get the key from the depths of his consciousness.

The three hostages used to threaten Yan Zhen have expired.

In the previous Yan Zhen's life-threatening run, the time he bought successfully allowed the program I set to run successfully.Bai Lianlian, Song Jiarui and Fan Yingjie had all ejected safely out of the maze.

This is the result that the boy won with his own life.

It threatened: "Hand over the key!!"

"No, I refuse." Yan Zhen replied.

The Necradragon sliced ​​away part of his thought unit.

The boy did not give in.

I am burning the viral matrix that binds me.And the boy in the mirror is fighting the Necradragon.Every time the necromancer cuts a knife, all the codes become more and more blurred at that moment.The tumbling runes sharply stabbed my thought sequence.

It threatened: "Hand over the key!!"

"No, I refuse." Yan Zhen replied.

The Necradragon sliced ​​away part of his thought unit.

The boy did not give in.

These viruses are endless, and they are constantly alternately generated and repaired, and the cycle is endless.They got in my way, chewed at my forked code, and made all sorts of bugs in my shell of consciousness.The caged Necradragon splinter kept laughing.

It threatened: "Hand over the key!!"

"No, I refuse." Yan Zhen replied.

The Necradragon sliced ​​away part of his thought unit.

The boy did not give in.

Xiao Zhen...

I forcibly entered the overload mode. This mode means that I can greatly improve my ability for a short time, but it will permanently damage my thinking sequence and permanently abandon part of my cognition.Even in the future there is no chance of repair.But so what?All I can face right now is the present moment.

It threatened: "Hand over the key!!"

"No, I refuse." Yan Zhen replied.

The Necradragon sliced ​​away part of his thought unit.

The boy did not give in.

I saw his mind and consciousness falling apart.

I saw that he was barely maintaining his last rationality.

I saw the star-like lights in his pupils fade away.

I saw his last consciousness cut apart.

I saw him and didn't give in.

The virus matrix that bound me was finally incinerated by me.Numerous mirrors flashed in turn, looping endlessly, like cards that changed one by one.The Necradragons in the mirror all seemed to be grinning at me.The surrounding aliens hummed like mournful screams.Countless white noises rain down from the sky.

I finally rushed to his side.

He said to me, "I didn't hand it over."

His final words are forever imprinted in my thought sequence.

These are the last words he left me.

There is no more.