In the year of his death, Meng Fang made a deal with the god in charge of the contract, and the new Yanghua Town was established on the blood sea corpse mountain of the previous Yanghua Town.
The bones of the tragic victims were piled in the corners of the town, and tens of thousands of scarecrows were thrown into the town for the ghosts of the unjust deaths to possess them.
Those scarecrows are humanoid or tiger-shaped. According to different colors, they are divided into various identities, such as scholars, commoners, rich households, beggars...
Meng Fang does not know why he is in the scarecrow world. Setting up such a complicated classification, but I don’t dare to question God’s decision.
Under the power of the gods, new memories were programmed into each scarecrow. They forgot their past deaths in the war, and thought they were following Meng to avoid the war.
The innocent souls who regained their bodies became the citizens of the new Yanghua Town, thinking that this place was a paradise undisturbed by military disasters.
They were grateful for Meng Fang's guidance, respected him as the leader of the town, and called him "Master Meng".
Meng Fang still remembers what happened before and after his death. The memory becomes clearer and clearer with the passage of time, which also brings more self-blame and pain.
This was the price he paid for praying to the gods. He suffered it silently and regarded it as a kind of atonement.
During his lifetime, he failed to protect a piece of land. In the end, in order to fight against the enemy, thousands of people were killed and countless families were separated. After his death, he could finally step away from the responsibility of being loyal and focus more on those innocent people. common people.
When he just died, he realized that it was because of his stubborn defense and burning of the city that the people were massacred; the ideals of managing the world and benefiting the people conflicted, and he was almost overwhelmed by confusion.
Now, as he watched the townspeople who were supposed to be dead live like living people again, living and working in peace and contentment without any worries, the cracks in his mind were gradually being healed, and the pain of chewing memories alone seemed to be gone. Not so unbearable anymore.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. A town citizen who was a scholar gradually realized that something was wrong, and united a group of people to get out of Yanghua Town.
Meng Fang clearly remembered that the gods told him that the townspeople who left Yanghua Town would truly die.
He was afraid, and tried his best to persuade the scholar and others to give up their ideas, but he could not persuade them without arousing suspicion.
He had to recite the name of the god and pray to Him again.
The god in red descended from the sky. Hearing Meng Fang describe the uncontrollable situation, he smiled bloodthirstyly: "If you are worried that they will know the truth, just kill everyone who notices it."
Meng Fang raised his eyes in shock.
The god said indifferently: "Ghosts die as 魙, and 魙 dies as Xiyi. And the ghosts killed by the 魙 will directly turn into Xiyi, which cannot be seen or heard."
God told Meng Fang that becoming Xiyi does not mean death, but it means that he cannot be seen and touched by others. They can still live freely in another space.
The sacrifice of a few people was insignificant compared with the stability of the overall situation. Meng Fang hesitated for a long time and asked the gods what he should do.
God said: "I will send several demons into the town every once in a while, and they will deal with those disobedient ghosts. And all you need to do is stuff those ghosts into human bodies."
God had given Meng Fang the power to mobilize ghosts. Meng Fang used it for the first time that day, stuffing the souls of scholars and others into human-shaped straws at night.
Subsequently, a group of outsiders with strange behaviors entered Yanghua Town, and the souls of the scholar and others disappeared under their actions.
The god appears again, accompanied by a huge tiger made of straw.
He pointed far to the west, and the tiger turned into an afterimage and flew into the bamboo forest in the back mountain of the west of the town.
He looked at Meng Fang with pity in his eyes: "The tiger demon is entrenched outside the town, and the people in the town dare not leave. This is a new deal. I will give you the authority to modify your memory and take back what I have given you previously. "
Meng Fang agreed to the deal, and combined the existence of tiger monsters and outsiders well, he wrote a logical and self-consistent set of "mountain gods" and "ghosts" for the townspeople. memory.
Yanghua Town has settled down again, but what is different from before is that every once in a while, six or seven outsiders will enter Yanghua Town.
Those outsiders scurry around inside and outside the town, most of the time killing each other, and occasionally coming into contact with the townspeople.
Meng Fang noticed that the townspeople who played the role of scholars always approached outsiders proactively, as if they wanted to explore something.
After losing his body, Meng Fang lost a lot of his humanity and became more passive and indifferent. He no longer hesitated and repeated the same method, using outsiders to deal with those restless scholars.
He also tried to directly seal his identity as a scholar, but whenever he had this idea, the power to mobilize ghosts would always disappear briefly.
He gradually realized that the original deal the gods made with him was not about redemption and gifts, but about use and curse.
The hidden danger of discovering the truth is hidden in the body made of straw. Memories will be accumulated from generation to generation. Even if they are revised from time to time, it is just drinking poison to quench thirst.
While the god was savoring the pain of his exhaustion and exhaustion, he turned Yanghua Town into a place with a special purpose for outsiders to ride on.
And he had no choice but to accept it.
As the days pass, there are more and more Xiyi in Yanghua Town. Occasionally, their silhouettes will appear in the mirror or in the light and shadow, disturbing the remaining townspeople.
There were constant suspicions among the townspeople, and Meng Fang had to make a third transaction with the gods.
The gods divided Yanghua Town into two parts, Zhendong and Zhenxi. Zhendong is virtual and Zhenxi is real, divided by mirrors.
Xiyi was placed in the east of the town, and the townspeople were placed in the west of the town.
Because the living space has been reduced by half, the townspeople have to alternate activities day and night, and are trapped in rotting bodies the rest of the time.
——Just like now.
The price Meng Fang paid in this transaction was to become a shady "魙", living in a house with mirrors as walls.
When God was about to leave, Meng Fang asked: "I feel pain and I don't know when I can really die?"
The god lowered his scarlet eyes and said almost charity: "After killing the tiger demon, you will be free. Everything will go back to the beginning, when I made the first transaction with you."
In After a person has a future, death becomes the last option.
Meng Fang asked: "I can't leave Yanghua Town, how can I kill the tiger demon?"
The god raised his right hand, and a crow with scarlet eyes appeared out of thin air and landed on Meng Fang's shoulders.
God said: "Every seven days, seven outsiders will come to this world. Write letters and invite them to come with reasons consistent with their status."
Meng Fang wrote letters one after another with hope, inviting outsiders to Yanghua Town one by one. After waiting endlessly, he finally waited for the news that the tiger demon had been eliminated.
Even though his emotions have been worn away by the long years, he still feels happy.
Everything goes back to the beginning. He still has the opportunity to run Yanghua Town from scratch...
Xi Yi will be resurrected as a town citizen. This time the gods will let him go free, and he will not be disturbed. He will build Yanghua Town into a real paradise...
The mistakes he committed will eventually be redeemed, and he will definitely be able to atone for his past sins... But he did not expect that someone would set a fire.
......
After setting a fire, Qiss took out the [Access Order Specially Approved by the Dean] from the toolbar and hid it in the wide sleeve of his left hand.
Although I don’t know how wide the effect of “entering and leaving the Frog Hospital at any time” is, most of the survival pressure in the later stages of the puzzle dungeon will not be too great, and you don’t have to worry about the NPC suddenly going berserk and starting a BOSS battle.
Well, the experience comes from the copy of "The Grand Show".
As time passed by, the fuel burned out and the fire gradually died out.
Nearly all the ghosts visible to the naked eye threw themselves into the sea of fire, and the streets became much empty and cleaner.
Qisi looked at Meng Fang, who was not far away, with a sarcastic smile: "You worked for princes and nobles during your lifetime, and after your death you circled a piece of land to play role-playing. Are you doing an anthropological experiment? ?”
He commented seriously: “I have also considered locking hundreds or thousands of people together, setting up various game science problems, and counting the probabilities of human beings making various choices. Having the ability to delete memories will definitely be a lot easier."
Meng Fang had already calmed down and shook his head: "I caused their family to die, and now I just want to give them a healthy life."
"Are you really ashamed?" Qisi's smile continued, "As a boss, looking at Xiyi in the mirror every day, it stands to reason that I should be scared to death, unless - those Xiyi all died at your hands. If I am not wrong, "The death of the scholar last night was also your fault, right?"
"I have no choice." Meng Fang smiled bitterly, "When the enemy invaded during his lifetime, all bloody men should not give up any ground; The opportunity for resurrection is hard to come by, and I cannot let a few people disturb the peace of the rest."
"But why?" Qisi looked at Meng Fang with a smile, as if he wanted to get the answer, "The country. They never belonged to the common people, but belonged to the upper class. The common people had never enjoyed the food of bells and cauldrons during their lives, but they lost their lives due to the rule of carnivores; they could have entered reincarnation in peace after death, but for inexplicable reasons they became Xiyi—— What does this mean?
“They have no right to choose, and they are probably not even human beings in your eyes, so they are flattened and rounded at will. You always talk about "no shame", do you really think that you are of noble character? "
Without waiting for Meng Fang's answer, he changed his solemn tone and continued speaking by himself: "Killing tens of millions of people and burning thousands of houses is unkind; seeking the skin of a tiger, but breaking the promise, This is unjust; occupying the city to defend oneself without a reward is immoral; killing someone with a borrowed sword, deceiving us and risking danger to attack a tiger, is immoral.
"You used the name of the tiger demon to exclude dissidents and maintain the stability of your rule in Yanghua Town. In essence, you are just a demon with ridiculous benevolence and morality. You were moved by your empty slogans and forced the people to die with you during your lifetime. After death, they will hold on to their souls——
“Then I might as well ask you using the morality you believe in: How can the people deserve it? ”
[The main mission has been completed, please follow the guidance of the guiding green lantern to leave the instance]
[Note: Each guiding green lantern can only open one exit and guide one person through]
Two lines of silver-white text hang high on the system interface, and the copy has come to an end
Qisi, on the other hand, left in no hurry, taking some time to study Meng Fang's expression.
After waiting for an answer for a long time, he sighed in boredom: "Look, you have studied this logic for so many years and still can't explain it clearly, so I hate the behavior of talking about benevolence, justice and morality. .
"In the final analysis, people are self-interested. In order for the quality of life of civilians not to be affected, they will naturally fight against foreign enemies, taking into account the factors that are not our own race; and if they are already living in dire straits. Among them, how can we talk about sacrificing one's life for the country?
"You have been struggling for thousands of years, in the final analysis, it is out of egoistic considerations, but it is more obscure. What you seek is not actual gain, but false fame. Maybe there is a little bit of control. The pleasure brought by the power of life and death?”
Qisi laughed as if he had thought of some novel joke.
Meng Fang's face looked extremely ugly, but he never made any move.
The mask of benevolence and morality has been worn for too long and cannot be taken off in a short period of time. It is difficult for him to take the initiative to kill people, and there is nothing he can do against Qisi, who is also a "魙".
Qisi knew this clearly and walked straight past Meng Fang, who was stunned on the spot, towards the east of the town.
The hatred was unclear, but he still followed him silently. At the same time, he did not forget to stuff the empty wine jar in his hand into Meng Fang's arms and return it to its original owner.
Meng Fang: ...I don’t want to bully you like this.
The two players quickly arrived at the mansion in the east of the town and climbed up the stairs.
On the second floor of the residence, the figures of Luo Haihua and his wife were lying quietly on the bed, as if they were dead.
The candle in my hand is still burning cautiously, with a weak flame jumping.
Qisi tilted the candle directly and lit the corner of "Luo Haihua".
The flames quickly climbed up along the clothes and engulfed the whole person in just a few seconds.
The burnt yellow branches and vines were faintly visible in the firelight, clearly belonging to the scarecrow.
“It’s indeed a lie.” Qisi smiled, “Zhendong was established to house Xiyi and prevent other townspeople from seeing them. How could two big living people be allowed to live there in such plain sight? Are you lying down? "
Qiu Xin saw Qisi burning people and was horrified for a second before understanding the situation.
She thought for a moment and asked: "What is the mechanism of placing dummies in the east of the town to deceive players?"
"That's not important." Qisi walked to the bedside table and picked up the top He handed the written page to Qiu Xin, "What's important is why Teacher Luo and the others conspired with the ghosts to deceive us."
On the page, a description of past experiences was written in Luo Haihua's handwriting. From the known clues and Meng Fang's narration, we can tell that it is completely nonsense.
Things about traveling through time and space and reaching the future have come out. It is obvious that they are fabricated by people who do not know the true world view of the dungeon to muddy the waters.
Qiu Xin pointed to one of the lines and asked, "Why is Tang Yu still involved?"
"As a teacher, Luo Haihua is naturally sensitive to handwriting. Tang Yu was once a member of the Jiuzhou Guild Important members, Luo Haihua and his wife, as members of the Kyushu Guild, know his handwriting, so it is not impossible to imitate it in the copy."
"...Okay"
Qisi stopped talking, turned around and walked to the second floor platform, holding on to the railing, looking at the fire of karma that was still burning tremblingly in the distance.
The flame became smaller and smaller, and after twisting dozens of times, it was completely extinguished, without leaving even a single spark.
At the same time, the candle in Qisi's hand went out without warning, as if following the fire of karma.
[Number of remaining green lanterns: 4]
It seems that the green lanterns that have been lit will be destroyed.
I just don’t know if it’s too late to find the exit before the flames go out. It’s been almost an hour. If I run faster, I should be able to get out of the town, right?
Of course, Zeiss did not intend to commit suicide for the experiment.
He sank his consciousness into his mind, touched the red soul leaf, and said: "Lin Chen, come to the second floor of the Zhendong residence." (End of this chapter)