"I don't know what my desire is."
In the room where the black wolf mask hung, Chang Xu looked at the wolf head that had the texture of a statue and said calmly.
“I wanted a lot. When I was little, I wanted to have enough food so that I could eat every day without having to wait hungrily for the next meal.
< br>"Later, I wanted to live, I wanted no more innocent people to die within my sight, and everyone lived peacefully, as if the weird game had never happened.
“I want to become more powerful, powerful enough to eliminate all beings that can kill me. But I don’t want others to be afraid of me and fear me, and I don’t like them to treat me as a monster.
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"I seem to be a greedy person. After one wish is satisfied for a little bit, I will have the next wish. But I don't know if those are my desires."
Chang Xu lowered his eyes and said slightly He said in confusion: "I heard that desire is instinctive, focused, and very strong. It will not give up until it is achieved. I don't seem to have this feeling."
The Sphinx looked indifferent, with a half-moon on his wolf head. Staring at Chang Xu with his slender eyes: "I can see that the bottom of your heart is filled with chaotic clouds, with chaotic and changing shapes overlapping in it. You are bound by an invisible force, and you will always stop just short of exploring your desires. Far away.
“But I penetrated those confusing obstacles and saw your desire at this moment. That's a man like you, and you want to kill him. ”
Like putting a stone that absorbs impurities into muddy water, the vague thoughts suddenly have substance.
Chang Xu realized that his miscellaneous desires seemed to be completely unrelated, but they seemed to converge at a certain node.
Kill the existence that can threaten his life and the lives of innocent people, so there is no need to worry about death; kill another monster, thereby proving that he belongs to the category of human beings...
"Yes. Chang Xu nodded, "My desire in this dungeon is to kill Qisi."
As long as Qisi is killed, everything will be over.
The Sphinx closed her eyes and said: "It takes three thousand points to realize this desire. Wake me up after you have enough points."
...
"You only need 3,000 points? It feels much cheaper than the wish-fulfillment mechanism of weird games. What you do like this just smells like a scam!"
On the other side, Dong Xiwen poked the leopard mask on the wall with his finger and couldn't help but complain.
When the Sphinx asked him what his desire was, he said without hesitation that he wanted to resurrect his brother. He thought that would be the end of it, but the Sphinx solemnly told him that it only took three days. Thousands of points can fulfill this desire.
He clearly remembered that in the wish-fulfillment mechanism of the weird game, this wish requires one million points...
And what is the concept of three thousand points?
His initial points in this dungeon are 2,100. If he doesn't lend them to Nian Fu, and borrows some from others, his bizarre desire to resurrect the dead can be realized directly.
When he leaves the dungeon, he can change his original wish to leave the strange game...
"What you said is so conclusive, can it really come true?" Dong Xiwen stared suspiciously. Looking at Sphinx, "Quickly say, 'People from Longjun don't lie to people from Longjun'... No, you are not from Longjun, and you are not a human..."
Sphinx: "... …”
The eyes on the leopard's head turned to Lena'an, who was timidly poking his head behind Dong Xiwen: "What is your desire?"
Lyna'an was suddenly clicked, took a small step forward, and touched it shyly Touching the freckles on the cheek: "Is anything okay? Then my desire is to close the weird game."
The Sphinx didn't seem to hear that, and asked again: "What is your desire?"
"Then... can you leave the instance immediately?"
Sphinx: "What is your desire?"
Okay, the NPCs in the dungeon can't hear proper nouns like "weird game" and "dungeon".
Lennan sneered: "Then I want to live forever, right?"
The Sphinx closed his eyes and said: "It takes three thousand points to realize this desire. When you have it, Wake me up after you have accumulated enough points.”
It turned out to be the same three thousand points...
Dong Xiwen took off the leopard mask from the wall and vaguely realized that things were getting a little worse.
Lena'an thought about something with him and whispered: "Dong, your boss may be in trouble! I know that Chang Xu is a very stubborn and stubborn guy. Your boss has a feud with him. He is like this At this moment, he must be full of thoughts about killing our boss...
"It only requires three thousand points to realize his desire. He can get it just by looking for it. Our boss is in trouble!" ”
Yes, Chang Xu will most likely make a wish to the Sphinx to “kill Qiss”.
If the Sphinx does have the ability to fulfill the player’s desire Ability, and all desires are priced at 3,000 points, so Chang Xu can crowdfund from other players
After all, letting Qisi die will allow everyone to clear the level, which is simply beneficial to the country and the people. A great thing...
Under such a mechanism, Qisi will definitely die!
“Dong, I don’t know if I should say something. I always feel that the relationship between you and your boss is not very close. You see, your boss was on stage at the time, and you didn’t bid for the first time. Later, Nianfu paid the price."
Linanaan whispered in a voice as light as a gnat: "If your boss hadn't agreed with you in advance, just based on this matter, he would have doubted you. There are two minds... Why don't we go to Chang Xu and lend him some points to offset the merits..."
"No!" After hearing the words "lend him some points", Dong Xiwen only felt a flash of lightning flash in his mind.
He shook his head: "No matter what, Qiss can't die too early. It's not easy to encounter a copy that only needs three thousand points to realize your wish. It doesn't feel right to leave without giving it a try. I am willing..."
...
Chis had a dream.
In the dream, he stood on a high platform, but could not move. He could only lower his head slightly and look down at the crowds of people below.
The crowd of heads was as dense as ants on a rotting insect. The sea of people was undulating. Sometimes someone raised his head and looked around blankly, but his eyes passed through Qisi's body, as if he was completely unaware of his existence.
“They can’t see you,” a voice said to Chiss, using his own timbre. “You have no desires. A person without desires cannot stay long in the world.”
The speaker appeared before Zeiss.
He wore a red robe embroidered with gold and had a face that was exactly the same as Qiss. He stretched out his index finger to smear colorful mud on Qiss's body without any explanation.
The mud solidified quickly and lost its bright color, becoming as cold, hard and white as marble.
Qis asked: "What is this?"
The man said: "This is desire."
"Whose desire?"
"Theirs." The man suddenly turned around, lowered his finger, and pointed at the crowd surging under the high platform.
Old people, children, men, women... some were dressed neatly, while others were in rags, but they were all in the same hurry and looked disgusting.
Chis asked: "So why did you put them on me? It looks quite dirty."
The monster holding Chis's face turned back, with scarlet eyes No reflection of Zeiss: “When you are clothed with desire, the world can see you.
"You will be food in the eyes of the hungry, medicine in the eyes of the chronically ill, a barrier in the eyes of the fearful, and salvation in the eyes of the dying. "You will have a form from now on, no longer an untouchable nothingness. "
The monster's face has no expression, like the angel spreading the gospel in medieval religious paintings, indifferent and has nothing to do with himself.
Qis asked: "I Why be seen and touched? Why have a body? "
The monster said: "Because people without desires should not exist. ”
The gleaming mud gushes out from his wide sleeves. He meticulously picks it up with his fingers and smears it on Qiss's face.
In his eyes, Zis saw the outline of the parts of himself that were covered in mud. It seemed that because he was covered in desire, he had established a connection with the world and had a reality that could be seen and touched.
"Maybe I'm not human." Zeiss said.
The monster did not respond, and continued to apply mud to every corner of his body seriously, and said in a declarative tone: "You are a failed attempt. After discovering that you did not grow desire, I once thought I wanted to kill you."
"Then why didn't you do it?" Qisi raised his lips, "Is it because of the sunk cost?"
"You are just an insignificant one among countless attempts. I want to see the real ending of this attempt."
"Collecting failure data, right?" Qiss sighed and said, "I can What is the way to judge whether a person has desire? I want to try my best to develop desire as soon as possible. "The monster raised his eyes with a scarlet smile. His eyes suddenly lit up, "Do you feel pain?"
Mud has been smeared on most parts of Qisi's body, including his hair, neck and cheeks.
The feeling of cold suffocation surged up one after another. Qisi felt a little uncomfortable, but his emotions seemed to be locked by a valve, unable to rise up and transform into a thicker feeling.
The monster scooped up the last handful of mud and covered it with Qisi's eyes. The world fell into darkness that made it impossible to see in an instant, but then lit up with hazy light in the next second.
Qisi was floating on top of the stone statue made of his own body. He saw that the crowd below suddenly had a direction and gathered under the high platform from all directions.
They crawled twistedly and stretched out their hands towards the stone statue, as if they wanted to grab something, but they did not dare to actually touch it.
They said: "O God, satisfy our desires."
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"God, satisfy our desires..."
Qisi woke up from his dream, his consciousness gradually returned, and he heard a buzzing voice talking nearby.
The pronunciation is very weird, like a race with low language talent struggling to learn a very difficult language.
The sense of touch returned immediately, and Qiss felt something grabbed his ankle.
The sticky and slippery touch reminded him of the leeches in the paddy fields in the countryside, which in turn aroused physiological nausea and revulsion.
He lay on the wet straw bed, closed his eyes tightly, kept his breathing steady, and remained motionless, as if he was still asleep.
The cursed pendulum wrapped around his wrist flew up silently, quickly and quietly towards the heel, and struck hard.
“Squeak!”
A piercing scream exploded in my ears, and the wetness wrapped around my ankle was pulled away, leaving behind cold mucus.
Qisi opened his eyes and saw a pair of green eyes shining in the darkness.
Two seconds later, the silver prompt text refreshed.
[Name: Underground Dweller]
[Type: NPC]
[Description: A monster that lives underground and only appears in the dark. It is said to be carrying contagious diseases Germs and curses are discriminated against by animals and feared by humans. 】
[Note: Although most animals have been promoted to gods, there are still some unlucky animals left behind. After all, a group cannot be without tail wolves. All they can do is to continuously pray for God's mercy in an attempt to escape from the sea of suffering. 】
This is the first time Ziss has seen a description of an NPC.
After realizing that uninvited guests usually move in the dark, he immediately stood up, took out the flashlight from his backpack, and pressed the switch.
He held the flashlight high and shined the light from above his head, illuminating the entire room.
Under the cold white light, red poisonous snakes squirmed densely on the ground. They all came out of the ground. At first glance, they looked like they grew on the ground.
The hard and seamless marble floor was like mud in front of them, softly squeezed out of the hole, allowing them to break out of the ground.
They open their mouths wide and dance like crazy, but they are not all monsters.
Human bodies suddenly grow out from their tail ends. On their necks are rat heads with sharp beaks and red cheeks. The beards around their noses are tiny white snakes, and the hair behind their round ears are gray snakes. .
The monster spliced together by mice and snakes surrounded Qisi and Nianfu. The tentacles composed of red snakes were testing their predecessors, as if they wanted to touch the humans in the circle.
The one that was stabbed by the cursed pendulum just now was a red snake. Now it was lying dying at Qis's feet. It twitched for a while and then stopped moving.
Nian Fu woke up early, and stood back to back with Qisi, looking at the strange snake-rat combinations in the room, and murmuring to himself: "What on earth are these?"
"I guess it's the 'rat' in the beast chess game." Zeiss controlled the cursed pendulum around him and made an inappropriate joke, "Well, maybe it can be called a 'nest of snakes and rats'?"< br>
“No matter what they are called, our top priority is to drive them away.” A black iron whip appeared in Nian Fu’s left hand.
A bottle of alcohol was held in her right hand and brought to her mouth.
She bit open the lid and sprinkled the alcohol inside on the whip.
The colorless liquid seeped into the small slits in the whip without leaking a drop, as if it had been drank up by the whip.
Nian Fu raised his left hand high and threw a deafening whip in the air.
In an instant, sparks crawled all over the whip along the tip, creating a string of hunting fire in front of him.
The nearest snakes were burnt and scattered on the ground. The rat-headed man howled like he was in pain, and his snake hair started to dance crazily.
Qisi holds down the destiny pocket watch, ready to activate the effect at any time.
The imagined stress counterattack did not come. The snakes seemed to realize the player's disgust and consciously retreated like a tide.
All the rat-headed men kneeled to the two men in the circle and kowtowed heavily.
"O God, satisfy our desires..."
(End of this chapter)