Not long ago, Chang Xu thought about a question, whether it was worth exchanging his own life for the death of others.
His answer at that time was that it was not worth it, because he wanted to live, and killing Zis was also to live more freely and without threat.
But what if the chip on the other side of the scale was exchanged for someone else’s life?
Chang Xu has been surrounded by ghosts and monsters since he can remember it. The ferocious figures with teeth and claws and dripping with blood dance around him like ancient shamans. After discovering that he can see them, they become more aggressive and want to get close to him. , bite him, replace him.
The outright and undisguised malice constituted his hatred of death, and correspondingly inspired the desire for survival. He survived tenaciously, and as he grew older, he gradually gained the ability to resist the strange. Ability to become a being feared by those ghosts and monsters.
He finally heard the words of the ghosts. Different from the threatening screams in his memory, they became particularly polite after realizing that they could not do anything to him.
They began to teach him various principles of survival word by word, trying to explain that he was one of them, and that those principles could indeed help him survive in the orphanage.
But ghosts are cold after all, not as warm as humans.
As soon as Chang Xu walked into the sunlight, they dispersed. It was not until he returned to the shadows that they came up again like a tide.
They wanted to keep him, like a sticky swamp dragging the creatures that strayed into it until it submerged in the cheeks and penetrated into the mouth and nose.
Chang Xu knew that he was not willing to live in a place without sunshine all his life.
As a young child, he ran in the corridors, protecting the food in his arms to avoid being chased by the older children. There was a stone door at the end of the originally pathless corridor. He stepped in and saw Qiu Jie's The gold sealed between the vines bursts out dusty light.
When he grew up, he was dubbed a "monster" by children for winning hundreds of games, and those frightened and repulsive eyes were colder than the temperature of ghosts. He didn't like it, so he stayed away from the crowd and often sat in a daze by the closed door of the orphanage.
Whenever someone enters the orphanage on a sunny day, the door is opened, and a beam of golden sunlight slants in from the crack of the door, cutting him off, then slowly spreading out, illuminating his face.
A couple who had donated to many charitable foundations came to inspect the orphanage. The dignified and kind woman thrust a Rubik's Cube into his hand, and the remaining warmth aroused nervous trembling in his cold hands.
He looked at the door that creaked open and closed again, and knew that the outside was a world belonging to humans. It was warm and bright, and different from the weird and monster tribes.
He suddenly wanted to be a person.
If someone grew up in that orphanage, they would have a vague impression of this scene: There was a big, stupid man who had never lost a fight. He was alone at first and was always surrounded by a group of children.
Chang Xu is willing to lend a helping hand to protect those children who take the initiative to seek help from him, which is like a proof of humanity and a ceremony of transformation into a human being.
But his keen intuition of emotions allows him to detect children's fear and disgust. He knew that he was still a monster in their eyes, not a kindred spirit.
Until... Ning Xu appeared.
Ning Xu was the first person to look at him like a human being, and the only one for a long time.
"Man is not born to be a beast." The woman stretched out her hand to him compassionately and brought him into the human world.
After that day, Chang Xu thought that he had finally become a normal human being.
He can go to various places freely and touch light and warmth anytime and anywhere; he can eat fresh food that is generally accepted by humans instead of rotten rats; he can mix among the crowd and not Being looked at with strange eyes again...
He could sense that the kindness of others was deliberate and exploitative, but it was much better than the hostility he encountered in the past.
So, he seriously participated in various weird trainings, meticulously abided by human morality, and finally entered the weird game.
The copies amplified the darkest parts of human nature. Chang Xu was bathed in the calculations of flies and dogs, and felt at a loss more than once.
"What is the difference between humans and ghosts?" He asked Ning Xu, "The same bully the weak and fear the strong, the same greed for life and fear of death, the same pursuit of profit."
Ning Xu told him : "People can save people, but ghosts can only kill people."
He thought that he still wanted to be a human being after all.
......
At this moment, in the copy of "Colosseum", Chang Xu stood up, took off the black wolf mask from the wall opposite the door, and hung it on the blank wall superior.
The animal-faced Sphinx opened his eyes and stared at him with pity: "You want me to fulfill your wish, don't you? Even if the price is real death?"
Chang Xu said: "Yes."
He said one word at a time: "I hope you will fulfill my wish and kill Zeiss."
The Sphinx's eyes flashed with golden light, just like the one he saw at the end of the corridor many years ago. Light.
The value in the points column in front of Chang Xu dropped rapidly, and along with it, traces of lime climbed wantonly on his face.
“Suppose there is a madman who wants to compete with you in killing people. Whoever kills more people within a limited time will win.
“If you win, nothing will happen to you; If he loses, he will destroy the world. How would you choose? ”
In his dream last night, the god in black clothes and golden eyes asked him this question again.
At this point, Chang Xu finally knew the answer and the choice he would make.
"I will stop that madman from killing, and then kill myself at the last second, so that I kill one more person than that madman." He raised his eyes, his voice was calm, "I win, they will live Go down.”
He once thought that what he was pursuing was survival without threats. Only now do I realize that there is something more important above that.
Just dominated by the survival instinct like a wild beast, living aimlessly. He has endured this kind of life for eighteen years and does not like it.
The identity plate in the upper right corner of his sight was billowing with black mist. The pages of a book full of legal provisions were turned quickly, and finally settled on a certain chapter.
The higher golden temple suddenly collapsed, the red-clothed officiant shattered into tiny bits of light, the black-clad judge descended the stairs, and his shadow spread between the sky and the earth.
[The trial has been completed...the criminal Qisi was sentenced to death]
The scarlet king chess piece above Chang Xu's head fell into pieces, and the blood-stained cross was taken back to the card surface and hung again on the judge's head. 's right hand.
At the same time, all players heard the system announcement:
[The main mission "Kill Ziss" has been completed]
[Congratulations to the player for clearing the multiplayer copy "Colosseum"]
[At the feast of the gods, the people of the gods danced Dance to entertain the gods, the arrogant gods laugh]
[The blood of the dead is used as seasoning, the corpse’s head is used as a wine cup, humans and beasts are drunk together]
Liu Yuhan lies on her back in the straw On the bed, the stab wound on the chest no longer hurts, the blood stops leaking, and the life state is frozen.
Nian Fu and Qin Mu raised their heads at the same time. The petrification process stopped on their bodies, and their hunger could not be found. "How could he die? Didn't he promise that he would be resurrected?" Nian Fu murmured.
Qin Mu smiled bitterly: "It seems that I guessed wrong, he is still not the person I am looking for."
Lena sat up from the straw bed with a shudder. , said "cool".
Remembering that Dong Xiwen was nearby, he quickly put on a worried expression: "Dong, is our boss really finished?"
Dong Xiwen ignored him and just stared at the void in front of him, half confused and half relieved.
Two seconds later, he let out a breath: "It's over like this... Isn't it too simple? I feel like I'm dreaming..."
It does seem like a dream, but it's Within reason.
Green sat under the tiger mask and quietly looked through the notebook full of plans left by Chu Xun. On one page, he wrote:
"Situation Six: Copy Process Chapter 1 Five days later, due to food shortage, someone (possibly Liu Yuhan) volunteered to provide food. Chang Xu chose to find the Sphinx to fulfill his wish to 'kill Qisi' to save others."
The progress of Chang Xu's petrification was also stalled due to the clearance of the dungeon, and various strange and strange scenes flashed before his eyes.
Strange beasts surrounded the white temple, huge golden eyes squinted in the void, and they all trembled and crawled.
The black lines danced like a swarm of snakes. The animals rushed into the blood pool and smeared the plasma all over their bodies to suppress the spread of the abnormality.
One by one, human beings were brought to a high platform to be bled, and a war with swords and swords was brewing on the border. The gods, who had not appeared for a long time, quietly descended and told everyone and animals:
"The new gods will come to mankind in the future." He will be chosen among the heroes and he will remove all curses."
The colors and sounds gradually faded away, and silver-white handwriting appeared on the system interface, accompanied by an emotionless narration.
[The Colosseum of civilization and ethnic groups, who asks the gods without mercy to make the final judgment]
[Life is like weeds growing in the desert; death is like water droplets blending into the sea; this This is the life of a beast]
["Colosseum" NormalEnd-"Festival of the Gods" has been included]
Is it almost over? It’s about to end...
The prompt [The copy will be automatically transmitted in three minutes] did not come yet. Chang Xu gently moved his arm and shook off the finely crushed lime on the ground.
Dragling his legs that had become stiff due to being half petrified, he walked towards the door and raised his hand to push open the stone door.
The dazzling light splashed into the house, exposing his whole body to the day that did not know when to replace the night.
He once again saw the blazing golden light like the scorching sun, but knew that it was not light, but the eyes of the evil god.
Countless cognitions poured into his mind, and he instantly knew what the golden touch he saw in his childhood was.
He was introduced to the weird game much earlier than he thought, everything was anchored, and he was the chess piece on the table.
"You failed." Li said.
[The new god has been decided, and the various aspects of the "Colosseum" copy are being merged]
The bloody words are moving crazily in front of the eyes, and the vision is blurred as if it was immersed in water and then fished out. Switching rapidly with clarity, the earth is shaking, the air becomes thicker, a large amount of matter is squeezed into a small space, and more things are invading.
Chang Xu recalled a saying that he had heard before for no reason. If all the people on the earth were crushed into a ball, they would be just a ball of meat with a diameter of one kilometer.
He didn't know what was about to happen, but he figured it wouldn't be good. He didn't know the cause and outcome of this incident, but he intuitively felt that it was inextricably related to the evil god in front of him.
The chained temple trembled high in the sky, and the biting wind blew across the Colosseum, pulling all the animals and circling in the air.
The stone doors shattered into powder, and the players staggered and grabbed the door frames to avoid being swept away together.
The stone statues of Fan Zhanwei and Chu Xun turned into rubble and were carried by the wind flying around the world; the human skin mask on Qin Mu's face was blown away, revealing a face belonging to a white crow.
Chang Xu took a step forward with difficulty and found that he could barely move. [Destiny Poker] was still in a banned state, so he condensed black life in his hand, turned into a shadow and teleported in front of the golden eyes.
He had no extra thoughts in his mind, and he didn't know the source of this, but his intuition told him that this was his last chance.
The cold sword light froze in mid-air, like a drop of amber burying the insect's body.
Chang Xu was suspended in front of the huge golden eyes like the sun, and his whole body was bound by the sticky substance, unable to move.
My ears were filled with screams and strange sounds whose meanings were unclear. He saw a scarlet figure appear before his eyes.
The young man was wearing a red suit and trousers. The place where the wound should have been running through the body was covered with soft black and white feathers. From a distance, it looked like a decoration on the intact body.
People who were supposed to be dead appeared in an understatement, bringing about the horror of the evil ghost returning to the world.
How did he survive? Or was he never dead?
Chang Xu saw Qisi saying something to the eyes, and the owner of the eyes, the evil god Li, responded to him.
Chang Xu couldn't hear what they said, but he could guess that they were probably negotiating, and he was the bargaining chip on the table.
I don’t know how long it took, but he saw the young man in red turning around, smiling jokingly, and walking towards him step by step.
His ears could hear sounds again, and he heard Qissi sigh and say: "I thought you were finally smart for once, but I never thought that in the end it would still be this boring drama of foolishly adhering to universal values.
" Some people once killed wolves in order to save deer, but in the end, the grassland was destroyed. It is a perfectly normal rule that wolves eat deer and deer eat grass, just like the survival instinct written in everyone's genes.
“How can you be sure that the people you save will not kill more people? And how can you determine that the people you sacrifice will not produce more value? Everything I do is just to survive, and I will not kill any more people. People would choose this way when put in the same situation. From what standpoint would you judge me?"
Qisi held the Poseidon scepter and walked to Chang Xu with slightly lowered eyes. With compassion and regret: "Before you judge me, you might as well judge yourself first. Is upholding self-righteous justice a show or a self-impression?"
Chang Xu wanted to refute, but couldn't make a sound. Then he heard the young man in red say in a joking tone: "These questions are quite interesting, but it's a pity that you may not have the chance to study them. Next time during the holidays, I will burn you a copy of the standard answers."
It's this inappropriate sense of humor again...
Chang Xu felt a sharp pain in his chest, and the Poseidon's scepter penetrated his chest with the salty smell of sea water.
Zis flipped his wrist, pulled it downwards, crushed his heart and internal organs, and then pulled out his intestines. He was about to cause a more serious wound than the previous life-threatening chop on his body before he stopped.
The pain exceeded the threshold and began to fade. The world in front of Chang Xu fell into darkness inch by inch, his consciousness gradually became dim, and he could no longer salvage and piece it together.
Finally, the last string connecting to the world was disconnected, and he only heard a whisper floating in his ears.
"Farewell, Chang Xu." (End of this chapter)