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Song Yang was silent for a while, and said: "It's not really clear news at the moment, we have to wait for further investigation, but—"

He told Xia Jing and the others what he had communicated with another player in reality after he left Smiley Face City just now.

Since Song Yang entered Smiley Face City, he has been pondering the root of the birth of this ghostly place, Smiley Face City.

What the hell is this place?

How did it come about, and how did it select and attract players?

Many players have tried to investigate these issues from various angles, but have never reached any conclusions.

Song Yang accidentally found a new way of thinking.

Just to follow this line of thought to investigate further, he needs special assistance.

Some time ago, the player forum in reality was re-established, and he met that player while scrolling through posts, and the other player's occupation happened to be exactly what Song Yang needed.

He contacted the other party, and the two hit it off immediately, and immediately launched into action.

And this initial action is actually very simple - it is to search for the city coordinates where the earliest Smile City players are located.

It was also the first time Song Yang mentioned this matter to Feng Shi and Jia Qing, they were stunned for a while.

City coordinates?

Xia Jing thought thoughtfully: "Do you think that the start of Smiley Face City started from a certain city?"

"Yes. You also know that many people suspect that Smiley City was created by someone, or some people. There are many opinions among players about the identity of these people. But I always prefer the person who created Smiley City , is the people of our time.”

Song Yang calmly stated: "Then where is he or they? When he or they first created Smile City, who would be the first batch of players chosen?"

Following Song Yang's thoughts, the expressions of Feng Shi and Jia Qing began to change.

Jia Qing exclaimed, "It's very, very likely that they are the people next to them!"

Song Yang nodded.

"This is actually just one of the possibilities. We assume that the birth of Smile City is not a long-planned plan, but an accident-because if it is really planned for a long time, then they can do it more carefully, but we agree I don’t think Smiley City is sophisticated enough to that level.”

"Then if it's the latter, the birth of Smiley City was an accident. The creator probably didn't consider the long-term impact when he or they chose the first batch of players. It is likely that the selection will be made in the current city."

"This conjecture has no basis, and it is actually easy to be overturned, but if it is really like my conjecture, then this will be an extremely clear entry point for investigation, so I told the player, we can try it first, no matter what Not bad."

Song Yang poured a glass of water for himself and Xia Jing, and said, "Some time ago, I analyzed and investigated with him. Among the existing players, the one with the oldest qualifications in Smiley Face City should be Chai Feng."

Speaking of this person, Feng Shi and Jia Qing frowned, feeling a little disgusted.

"And Chai Feng is from City A."

Song Yang and Feng Shi are both from S City, Jia Qing is studying in S City, and his hometown is out of town.

City A and City S are in the same province, hundreds of kilometers apart.

Unlike City S, which is the provincial capital, City A is a small city.

The scenery is beautiful, the pace of life is very slow, and there are many local specialties. It is a good place for a two-day trip or a three-day trip.

"After initially confirming the coordinates of city A, he started the next step."

retrospective investigation.

This is an investigation that requires a specific professional identity. Song Yang can't help, so he can only wait patiently for the other party's investigation results.

Just today, the other party had some gains.

"The first message he gave me was that he happened to meet another old player yesterday, a player who is even older than Chai Feng."

"That player's attitude towards Smiley Face City is very negative, and he repeatedly enters and exits the one-star dungeon once every seven days. Therefore, his points are very low and has not been noticed. In fact, he has been in Smiley Face City for more than 230 days."

"And he is also from City A."

Xia Jing narrowed his eyes.

Feng Shi and Jia Qing became serious.

From this point of view, the goal of City A is very clear.

"The second piece of news he gave me was that his investigation found that four years ago, there was a period of bizarre accidental deaths in City A."

Feng Shi and Jia Qing were stunned.

Song Yang said slowly: "You also know that players who died in the dungeon will experience death again in reality. This is the cover of Smiling Face City in the real world."

"The methods of concealment can be roughly classified into: sudden death from disease, car accident, and suicide. Each of them is very common when viewed individually, but as long as players with enough experience can distinguish between ordinary human deaths and player deaths in reality the difference."

"And if such player death cases are gathered in the same city, the characteristics will be more obvious."

When Song Yang said this, the backs of Feng Shi and Jia Qing couldn't help but slightly straightened, and their whole bodies tensed up.

Song Yang said word by word: "Four years ago in City A, for a long period of time, there were frequent cases of ordinary people committing suicide in groups of two or two, or being hit to death by a car one street apart. .”

Hearing this, Jia Qing and Feng Shi couldn't sit still.

Feng Zhi frowned tightly: "Four years ago?!"

Jia Qing said in astonishment: "Suicide in groups of twos and threes? This is too obvious! Even if players you know in real life enter the dungeon together and die together, when you return to the real world, Smiley Face City will usually kill them separately Isn't it?"

Xia Jing lowered his eyes and thought.

Four years ago, more than 400 days ago.

And Smiley Face City has only been in operation for more than 200 days.

Thinking of this, Xia Jing's lips parted slightly: "Smiling Face City has probably operated and been annihilated before. And the creator was still very young four years ago."

Feng Shi and Jia Qing stared at him in astonishment.

Song Yang said slowly: "That's right, that's my guess too."

A conjecture that popped up inadvertently.

A larger and more terrifying mystery involved in a conjecture.

They seem to have caught a glimpse of Smiley City, and they just need to go a little deeper, maybe they can really touch the truth.

Jia Qing swallowed, unable to speak.

After Feng Shi was shocked, he was silent for a while, and looked at Xia Jing.

If the Smiley Face City had run and been annihilated, why was it annihilated, and what happened to those players?

When talking about Xia Jing might be a player who has reached [-] points, a thought actually flashed through Feng Shi's mind——

With everyone paying attention, if there were players with full points in Smiling Face City, everyone would know about it.

But no, there is no such legend in Smiley Face City.

But if Xia Jing was a player in Smile City four years ago, then everything would be possible again.

Regarding this question, Song Yang didn't give a definite answer, but Feng Shi felt that Song Yang must have thought about it too—ordinary players actually have no chance to touch the core of Smiley City, let alone be attacked by Smiley City. fear.

Song Yang, as No.1 in the current points ranking, has never had the opportunity to see the truth behind the Smile City.

How did Xia Jing get entangled with Smiley City?

There are indeed many reasons for Xia Jing to become what he is now, but this young man is smart, alert, calm and powerful, and the dungeon is really like a game to him. Is there a possibility that he has indeed reached [-] points? ...and what happened?

All clues point to this mysterious young man.

But he lost the relevant memory.

There was an eerie silence around the long table, and the four of them didn't speak for a long time.

Song Yang held Xia Jing's hand tightly, and said, "Besides, I also have a guess about the way the other party created the Smile City. Xia Jing, you should have thought about it too."

Xia Jing raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows, and said, "You mean supernatural powers?"

Feng Shi and Jia Qing continued to be astonished.

"That's right, Smiley City likes players with supernatural powers, doesn't it? Since there are supernatural powers in reality, and Smiley City is so unscientific, why can't this place itself be created by a supernatural person?" Song Yang said , "About this conjecture, I have already talked to that player friend. I asked him to pay attention to related suspicious cases across the country, and maybe we can dig out some clues."

Jia Qing held his head, the amount of information was too much, he felt his head hurt.

Feng Shi frowned and said: "I have a friend who should be able to help, but he is not a player, I may need to think of some ways to convert the information."

Having said that, Feng Zhi seemed to be completely unable to sit still.

He chatted for a few more words before saying goodbye in a hurry, probably to find a real friend.

Jia Qing hesitated for a while, seeing that it was almost eight o'clock, he also hurriedly logged off, saying that he had to finish some homework tonight.

This topic was temporarily stopped, and soon, there were only two people and a dog left in the whole house.

The dumpling was lying on the beach, flicking its tail, very comfortable.

The sea breeze gently combed its long, silky golden hair.

Song Yang and Xia Jing also returned to the beach.

Xia Jing turned his head and asked, "Don't you need to go back to reality to accompany your family?"

Song Yang was stunned, and said softly: "I can accompany my family anytime, but you, after today's Monday, you still don't know if you can still come to me through the key?"

Xia Jing chuckled: "After midnight, we can wait and see."

Xia Jing was imprisoned in Smiley City, in a safe house. This kind of confinement does not mean that he cannot step out of the safe house, but that he cannot control the direction of the safe house on days other than Mondays, and the safe house Naturally, it is impossible to float to the game hall.

But if after Monday, he can still use Song Yang’s key to come to Song Yang’s space—then there is a private login room in Song Yang’s space, so he doesn’t have to be restricted anymore, and he can log in anytime and anywhere copy?

Even, he can come and go to the game hall at will through the space key.

"I tried to buy a personal space in the official supermarket before, but when I walked to the cashier with the key, the npc became unresponsive, and I couldn't check out." Xia Jing said.

After hearing this, Song Yang said in a low voice: "You are considered a bug in Smiley Face City, maybe this time, my space key will become a bug for you too."

Xia Jing raised his lips: "I'll wait and see, Doctor Song."

Song Yang pulled Xia Jing to sit down by the waves.

This is not the sea in reality, there is no ebb and flow.

As they sat there, the waves lapped over their toes again and again.

To be honest, the closer to the truth of Smiling Face City, the closer to the truth of Xia Jing, the more Song Yang can't restrain his imagination of what this young man looks like in reality.

Where would he be from, where did he live, was he a college student, and what major would he be studying?

At the same time, when Song Yang realized that the Smiling Face City had been annihilated, and Xia Jing's body at this time was neither human nor strange, he also thought—even if Xia Jing can leave the Smiling Face City today, can he really return to the real world? ?

Song Yang is not a timid person, he is never afraid to challenge those seemingly top-level difficult problems.

But the first time he faced a question, he didn't know how to speak.

He only held Xia Jing's hand tightly and fell silent.

Fortunately, the two of them have always been a pair of soulmates.

Xia Jing suddenly said: "Song Yang, I know your concerns, so there is one thing I want to give to you first, and you will keep it."

Song Yang was taken aback: "What is it?"

Xia Jing threw an interspatial bag to him, Song Yang opened the small interspatial bag, took a peek inside, and was stunned.

With his hands behind his back, Xia Jing looked up at the starry sky and said, "I asked Tuanzi what would happen if he couldn't leave this place for the rest of his life."

Song Yang looked up at him abruptly.

"But it's just teasing it, I still don't think there are any problems in this world that you and I can't solve together," Xia Jing turned his head, with a gentle and calm voice, "So, get ready and come one by one. I always get what I want, how about you?"

Song Yang's eyes darkened.

He laughed, and finally returned to his usual lazy look.

He said: "Coincidentally, I am the same."

The sea breeze caresses them.

Song Yang stared at Xia Jing and said, "I like you, so no matter what, I will drag you away from this ghostly place, so that you can live like an ordinary person."

Xia Jing jokingly said: "If you really want to live like an ordinary person, it might be a bit boring."

"Then we can find other stimuli, anyway, it's more interesting than being locked up in this place, isn't it?" Song Yang said.

Xia Jing nodded: "That's right."

Song Yang laughed, a bright moonlight shattered in Taohua's eyes.

Xia Jing suddenly moved closer.

Song Yang froze, froze in place, held his breath, and said cautiously with a rapid heartbeat: "...what?"

Xia Jing looked into his eyes thoughtfully.

Song Yang has been told since he was a child that these peach blossom eyes are good-looking and attractive enough, but Song Yang thinks that Xia Jing's eyes are really good-looking.

Narrow and long, with slightly hooked eyes and dark pupils, these eyes are enough to be breathtaking when staring at a person closely and seriously.

Song Yang's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he even felt that Xia Jing must have heard his heartbeat at this moment.

He opened his mouth and his throat became dry.

Xia Jing laughed happily, and said with a sigh: "Song Yang, I really deserve to be you."

Song Yang's Adam's apple rolled down, and he wanted to ask why there was such an exclamation.

In the next second, his rarely stuck head finally returned to normal rotation.

He knew that Xia Jing had found out.

Xia Jing raised his hand, stroked the end of his left eye, and said, "Did you transfer this number here on purpose?"

Song Yang clasped Xia Jing's wrist, said with a smile, "Yes."

The player's credits number.

This number will most of the time be displayed on the surface of the body parts that are most important to the player.

Some parts are too obvious. In order to prevent people from being targeted, players must use tools to cover up this mark.

For a player, if the most important body part for him is changed to another place, the position where the points appear will also change accordingly.

This also means that the display position of the points can actually be controlled by the player.

Many people don't realize this, and even if they do, it's hard to really do it, because the "most important body part" is judged by the heart, not the brain simply thinking "From today onwards, my stomach is my most important part." Body Parts” can really accomplish this kind of change.

But Song Yang is not an ordinary person after all.

His points appeared in his pupils.

These eyes meet many people every day, but at the same time, the black numbers, the dark brown eyes, if you don't look closely, it is impossible to notice the hidden numbers.

This is a fantastic location.

"In the beginning my points appeared on my hands, you know, I'm a medical student, of course I hope I can stand on the operating table in the future, hands are very important to me, but this position is too troublesome isn't it ?”

Song Yang pursed his lips, and said lazily: "Then I thought, no matter what I want to do in the future, I can only keep improving if I keep learning. My real goal is to become a sponge. Then my eyes are my real goal. The most important part of it is the channel through which I input all knowledge.”

"When I was convinced of that, my points naturally shifted."

Xia Jing withdrew his hand, narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Very reasonable."

"You are the first person to discover my points, even Feng Shi and Jia Qing don't know where my points are hidden," Song Yang probed, "And you, you should have a way to transfer your points Bar?"

"Don't Doctor Song guess?" Xia Jing bent his knees and supported his cheeks with his palms, looking very cute.

Song Yang thought about it.

The sea breeze lifted Xia Jing's black hair.

Under the night, the young man with sideways face and jokingly looking at him is like a curled up, dangerous and alluring mermaid, his tail slapping the beach, fully arousing his interest.

Song Yang raised his hand to smooth Xia Jing's hair, and said in a low voice, "Your current body is not a human body. If your human body was destroyed along with the annihilation of Smiley City four years ago, then you How did you manage to be 'reborn'?"

Song Yang stared at him: "Xia Xia, I didn't believe in the existence of the soul before, but you made me think that maybe as long as a person's soul is not dead, he will not really die. Although Smiling Face City has done many evil things, it And let this kind of miracle really unfold in front of us.”

"For you, as long as nothing in this world can kill your soul, it is absolutely impossible to really kill you."

"As long as your soul is still there, 'Xia Jing' is still in this world, right?"

Xia Jing is special.

For this young man, the body cannot hold him back, and no body part is indispensable to him.

Only the soul represents the real him.

Upon hearing this answer, Xia Jing chuckled and said, "Unfortunately, the soul is invisible, so we cannot verify this conjecture."

Song Yang laughed: "So you are not sure yet?"

After thinking about it, he was right, even if Xia Jing knew where his points would appear, but his soul was invisible, he really couldn't verify himself.

Song Yang said: "It's also very good, it's very safe."

He patted Xia Jing on the head.

Xia Jing said casually: "But if one day my soul can really be seen by others, that person can only be you, right?"

He seemed to have imagined some interesting pictures, and laughed happily.

Song Yang paused.

He looked at Xia Jing, and felt that this guy seemed to have nothing to do with love, but he could always say such amazing love words inadvertently.

It sounds sweet.

At the same time, his heart completely settled down.

He is willing to believe that if the soul is immortal, the young man named Xia Jing will never die.

And he will protect the soul of this young man.

Until the day when the door of the real world reopens to this young man.