Chapter 555 Sleeping Master
"Huh?" Clark frowned, a little confused, not knowing what the strange man in strange clothes in front of him meant.
Furthermore, because this guy slaughtered villagers and sucked the blood of young girls, his behavior was so cruel and horrific that Clark did not trust him.
Fortunately, all this experience was just a game, so Clark asked with curiosity:
"Why do you say that?"
"Boy, you are so stupid. It is God's blessing that you have grown up so big."
The Taoist priest swung his iron sword.
There was a sound and blood splashed everywhere.
He slowly sheathed his sword, with a mocking look on his face, and said:
"There are no living people in this 'Wangjia Village', the whole village is full of minions, and That Muramasa is a tiger monster with a hundred years of cultivation!”
"Why did the so-called village chiropractor take you in? It was just to treat you as living blood food and offer it to the village as a tooth sacrifice."
"?!"
Wen Said, Clark was startled.
At this time, the subtitles appeared again:
"The mysterious Taoist priest explained to you the truth about 'Wangjiacun'. Do you choose to believe his words? There are three choices below, all of which will affect the subsequent development. ：
One, believe.
Two, don’t believe it.
Three, be skeptical. "
Clark couldn't help frowning as he looked at the subtitle options, as if the third option was too vague and a bit confusing.
So, after thinking for a moment, he thought again The first option was selected.
"That's it. Thank you sir for reminding me, otherwise I would have known nothing about it and lost my life in confusion."
Clark saluted to the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest smiled, but the blood stains on his face made the smile look rather ferocious:
“Oh, seeing you alone, if I leave you alone, I’m afraid I won’t be able to get out of this place. 'Wangjiacun' will be killed by the minions here on the way..."
He said, nodded, and raised his hand to stroke his long beard.
"Let's do this. You kowtow a few times and I will accept you as a registered disciple... When I clean up this 'Wangjia Village', you can follow me back to the 'White Ere Temple' to practice. How about that?"
"The Taoist priest wants to accept you as his disciple. He has three options: All of them will affect the subsequent development:
One, agree happily and kowtow to become a disciple.
Two, refuse politely and leave immediately.
Three, pretend to be crazy to see what happens.”
Seeing this, Clark fell into deep thought.
In fact, he was disgusted with having this bloody and violent weirdo as his teacher, so he chose the second one.
"Sorry, sir, I just want to go home now."
Clark said apologetically.
Hearing this, the Taoist priest chuckled and shook his head:
"In that case, I won't force it."
Clark bowed silently again, then slowly backed away with the stick in hand. The Taoist priest still stood there, looking at him with a half-smile.
After being tens of meters away, Clark turned around and planned to go somewhere else.
But the next second.
锵——
A cold light flashed, and Clark's head flew up, falling to the ground with a fistful of blood.
Gilan saw it clearly.
The Taoist priest suddenly drew his sword, dodged across a distance of tens of meters, and killed Clark.
The other party stood in front of Clark's body, holding an iron sword in one hand, with an indifferent look on his face, and a look down on him with a hint of displeasure.
“No one has ever dared to refuse Pindao.”
Wow——
A subtitle appeared above Clark’s body:
“You are dead.”
Soon, the vision in the game world was distorted, and Clark was in reality. Zhong's body trembled and he suddenly came back to his senses.
The black and white lights and shadows on his body flickered, apparently offsetting the punishment of death.
Clark dropped the controller and quickly touched his neck, with a lingering fear on his face. The feeling of being beheaded just now was so real that it almost made him think that he was really dead.
He raised his head again.
On the TV screen, a line of white subtitles "You are dead" was displayed on the black screen.
"Is this a real game?"
Clark said with emotion.
"It's amazing..."
He thought for a moment, then pressed the red button on the game console again, choosing to do it again.
Gilan still watched the whole process.
This time, Clark did not change his choice in the early stage of the game process and continued to advance as before. However, when it came to whether to choose to become a disciple, he decisively gave in and bowed down.
The Taoist priest did not kill him again.
Instead, he took Clark into the depths of Wangjia Village and massacred house by house...
As the Taoist priest said, these villagers are not living people. After they die, their bodies will soon be gone. It turned into a translucent shadow and disappeared with a ferocious face.
But Clark soon discovered that the golden finger "Pilan" he possessed could imprint the corpses of those minions and turn them into mysterious points.
This discovery made him overjoyed.
“Playing games can accumulate points to improve your strength!”
Clark murmured, even more energetic.
Immediately afterwards, he followed the Taoist "Master" to pick up leaks and accumulated a lot of points.
But when the night came to dawn, the two of them encountered a stooped old man with a white beard at the entrance of the village. Through the Taoist priest's conversation with him, we can know that this man is the village leader of "Wangjia Village", named Wang Chuan.
The whole village was massacred, which made the old man Wang Chuan quite angry.
He immediately roared and transformed into an eye-catching and fierce tiger with black spots and yellow skin, about two meters high and four to five meters long. Fight with the Taoist priest.
But after dozens of moves, the Taoist priest was suppressed by the demon tiger, and even the long sword in his hand was bitten off.
Hear another loud bang.
The Taoist priest was whipped by the demon tiger, his chest collapsed, he vomited blood in his mouth, and he flew backwards.
As soon as he landed, he turned over like a kite, covered his chest and ran away without looking back. He did not forget to give a loud "reminder":
"Good disciple, this tiger monster It’s so awesome, just run for your life and don’t worry about being a teacher!”
Originally, the demon tiger was about to chase the Taoist priest, but after hearing his shout, he immediately turned around and rushed towards Clark.
Before Clark, who was bewildered, could run away, his upper body was bitten off by the demon tiger, and he died on the spot.
“You are dead.”
Familiar subtitles appeared.
Clark's consciousness returned to his body again.
The black and white light and shadow flickering on his body offset the death penalty, but there was an expression of gritted teeth on his face.
"Damn 'Taoist'!"
Clark did not believe in evil, so he pressed the red button again and started a new round of the game...
Time passed.
The video has several transitions.
Every few days, Clark will spend points on a "Secret History Journey" and come to this room in the modern world to play real games.
He called this place "Secret History A".
After about a month, Clark finally got through the game "Wangjia Village #1".
During the game, he accumulated a lot of mysterious points to improve his strength. Finally, when he met a Taoist priest, he directly killed him.
This unlocked the "Hidden Platinum Achievement·First Sight Kill".
This achievement has a physical badge that pops out from the side of the game console with some incomprehensible force after Clark clears the level. Since then, Clark has also cleared another game "Eros Cube".
In this game, you need to avoid giant stone blocks falling from high altitude. At the same time, you have to jump on the stacked stone blocks to climb to the highest point and get the trophy.
With the strength of a third-level spiritual mystic, Clark cleared the level in one go and got the "Hidden Achievement Badge·Is he really a genius?"
After getting two badges, he then I chose to leave this deserted room and go to the outside world.
In the next six months, Clark continued to collect game cartridges and play games in this secret history.
For him, this is an excellent opportunity to accumulate points and improve his strength, so he works very hard... and the world is full of all kinds of novel things, which makes Clark, and Ji, who follows his perspective, Lan's eyes were opened.
Gillen witnessed Clark hunting vampires in "The Castle", and also saw him evading the pursuit of the dragon with other players in "Candle Dragon", and "Wangjia Village #1" The sequel "Doll Villa #2" and so on...
Until one day.
Clark collected ten hidden achievement badges...
That day, holding ten badges with strange textures in his hands, he stood there and fell asleep without any warning.
Gilan’s perspective also followed Clark’s dream.
Clark entered the land of gods in this secret history. In the "temple" area, in an endless desert, under the dark red starry sky, he saw February Sichen sitting on a high chair and throne. "Sleep Master".
It was a young man wearing a red dress and a low hat, who looked exactly like Gillan.
But the temperament is completely different.
"Sleep Master" appears to be very gentle and elegant.
"Clark Ashton Smith..."
"Meizhu" sat on the throne, overlooking the young man, and spoke softly.
He smiled slightly and said again:
“We meet again.”
"Again?" Clark was very surprised, and at the same time he was in awe of the majestic existence in front of him. He lowered his head and asked in confusion: "We seem to have never met before."
"Well, you can say that."
"Meizhu" smiled.
“But I met you in this world and killed Him...”
“Me in this world?!”
Clark looked blank.
"Since you have come here through 'Pilan's' Secret History Journey', you must also know that there are multiple secret histories in this world. They are colorful and have completely different development trajectories."< br>
The gentle voice of "Sleep Master" came.
"And in this secret history, you competed with me for the position of February Sichen, but failed..."
"?!"
Clark froze on the spot, at a loss.
"Meizhu" shook his head and comforted:
"Don't be afraid, I have no ill intentions towards you. On the contrary, I will help you."
"Help Me?" Clark was doubtful. "According to what you said, aren't we enemies? Why are you helping me?"
"Meizhu" was silent.
There was silence for a long time.
“Actually, after I became a god, I discovered the fact that you and I are both pawns... There is no point in fighting for Si Chen’s position. This is a trap, because once I ascend, God, then there will never be a chance to make a comeback."
"Sir, I don't understand."
Clark frowned.
"Meizhu" smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand now, you will understand later."
He raised his hand to hold the brim of his hat.
"Before I met you, I had helped Clark from fourteen different secret histories, but they all failed, and you are the fifteenth."
"Huh?!"
Clark was once again shocked by the other party's words.
"Sleep Master" said again:
"The game cartridge I left in the world is actually prepared for you. This will allow you to improve your strength and grow up more quickly... When you return to your own After the secret history, I hope you can also follow my method and help me in the secret history."
As he said that, he sighed.
“Only by helping each other can we escape from the fate of fighting each other and find a way out.”
“You and I have been lost in thousands of secret histories, but as long as we succeed once, we can Break this deadlock”
"What dead end?"
Clark asked with great solemnity.
Jilan stood aside, listening to the conversation between the two, with a face full of shock. He was extremely surprised by this secret history of himself, the "Sleep Master".
At the same time, I also understand why the "director" values himself so much and uses real film as a medium to guide himself.
It turns out that all of this comes from "oneself"!
‘Dead end? ’
Gilan was also quite confused.
'What is the dead end that would allow the "Sleep Master" to plan for so long, and Clark, who has been trying to help other secret histories from traveling, use his hands to influence himself in other secret histories? '
"In this secret history, I have no hope."
"Meizhu" smiled.
"But you may be okay, and so are you and me in the rest of the Secret History. Remember, you must never ascend Si Chen in the normal way, otherwise... I can't make it too clear, otherwise I will be discovered by 'them' .”
Clark was confused by the other party’s words.
He didn't understand at all.
While Gilan was listening intently to the words of the "Sleep Master", a strange "cassette" suddenly occurred in the entire film, and this section was skipped directly.
It was as if there was some kind of force that forcibly erased what the "Sleep Master" said and did not allow it to be spread.
When Gillan came to his senses again.
He found himself in a dark starry sky.
In the dead universe, there are only the twinkling stars coming from an unknown number of light years away.
Jilan looked up.
Not far ahead, there is a chair floating.
Sitting on it is a man wearing a spacesuit and an astronaut helmet. It is the "director" Clark who has ascended.
There is a huge "camera" placed in front of Him, but from a certain angle, it is more like an astronomical telescope.
A retro square-head TV is connected.
"Friend, you are here."
The astronaut sitting on the chair heard the sound of a raging sound.
Although he was in the universe, His voice was directly transmitted into Gillan's mind through some kind of power.
He waved to Jilan.
"Come, let me show you something to answer your confusion."
Gilan took a deep breath and flew towards the other party.
After getting closer, I heard the "director" say:
"Everything you see is just the past that I recorded on film, but I know that the only one who can get here is you, Gilan Iros."
"This is the most powerful thing in my life. 'Camera', I named it 'Yavre' "Ode" originated from a novel written when I was young. "
"And it can travel across time and space to capture images from 13.8 billion years ago..."
(End of this chapter)