Ruins of the Sunset, Player Square.
The players who were watching the live broadcast of the "Colosseum" copy saw the big screen flashing twice and then going black. At the same time, new text was refreshed on the record stone tablet, accompanied by the full broadcast: < br>
["Colosseum" copy TrueEnd-"The Gamble of the Gods" has been included]
[MVP player: ** (This player has not set a display nickname)]
[ The copy of "Colosseum" has been permanently closed due to force majeure】
[The last player to clear the level: ** (This player has not set a display nickname)]
The copy of "Colosseum" has already gathered thousands of people due to the dual momentum of debates in the forum and the reserved venue in the game. player's gaze.
Now that the ending of the game has finally been decided, people are talking about it.
"What happened? Who knows what happened next? I saw Lin Wuwu entering the temple, and then within a few minutes, the temple collapsed."
"You At least I got to watch the end of the dungeon. I was following Lin Ye’s live broadcast, but I was stabbed by Fan Zhanwei in the middle of the fight. After looking around, I found out that someone had booked the venue at Sunset Ruins, but it was gone as soon as I came over.”
"Who is that MVP player? Lin Crow? Why is there only one player who passed the level in the end? Is it all wiped out?"
"It can't be all wiped out. I don't see the momentum of total wipeout. , can’t they all be killed by the temple?”
“I understand, although they are in the same dungeon, there are a group of people who came out first and reached the level. It’s the NE ending; only one person stayed until the end and passed the level with TE.”
At this time, several players who had just come out of the “Colosseum” copy also came to the Ruins of the Sunset. The teammate who entered the temple with Lin Chen.
He gushed: "It was so thrilling. Lin Wuwu and I entered the temple and met an evil god. The evil god asked him to kill me, saying that only in this way can I become a god and go find the man named 'Qis' people.
"Before I could react, he slashed my neck with a knife. It hurt...it was okay, okay. Then he thought about it and brought me back to life again."
"Resurrection?" A player wearing glasses asked suspiciously, "How did he do it? When did resurrection become so worthless?"
"I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't be a boss like him. Did you?"
"Then do you know what happened in the "Bet of the Gods" at the end of TE? What is the bet between Lin Wu and Xie Shen?"
"Huh? Did someone play the TE ending?”
...
Except for Zeiss, basically all the players in "Colosseum" were in a state of confusion. They passed the game inexplicably and were thrown out of the copy.
——Including Lin Chen.
Lin Chen opened his eyes at the guild base and saw all kinds of information piled messily on the desk. He couldn't recover for a long time.
He originally thought that he would stay in the copy of "Colosseum" forever, and would be fed the rules as food at a certain point in time. He never thought that he would be able to return here.
His last impression was that Qisi was holding the Poseidon scepter and saying something to Li's huge golden eyes.
Immediately afterwards, the temple above the Colosseum crashed down, pressing all the players under the shadow...
The disappeared system interface was reloaded, like recovering from a crash. computer program, the field of vision also captured the light again in the sudden darkness.
Lin Chen felt as if he had had a strange and absurd nightmare, and he had just woken up from a hallucination as heavy as the deep sea.
He could feel the scarlet leaves suspended at the bottom of his mind, and murmured: "Brother Qi, are you still there?"
"I'm here." Qisi's voice sounded calmly, "You go back first, you don't have to wait for me."
Lin Chen's heart skipped a beat, and for a moment he thought of a terrible possibility: Li needed How could a new-born god be used as a sacrifice and let him go so easily? Unless there is another existence that takes his place...
Just as he was about to ask a question, he heard a helpless tut: "What are you thinking about? I won a game in a bet, and I just want to divide the benefits with the loser. , I guess it’s too late if you wait for me to come out.”
“Really...really?”
“If you are really worried, go ahead of us. Order a table at the restaurant you passed by and wait until I come out.”
"Huh? Oh! I'll go right away!" Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and with a thought, the next second, his figure appeared under the World Tree in the Ruins of the Sunset.
The player square was crowded with people. He said it was under a tree, but he couldn't see the trunk of the tree, only the moving heads.
When I turned around, I saw the steep cliff at the edge of the square fifty meters away, and the ruins of the broken wall further away were clearly visible.
He couldn't help but be startled: How come there are more people coming to Sunset Ruins today than the day Fu Jue showed up?
In his mind, Qisi added slowly: "Don't forget to order the Longjing shrimps, they tasted good last time."
"Yeah!"
Lin Chen recovered his divergent thoughts, pushed aside the crowd, and ran towards the European-style town on the other side of the square.
......
The light in the ancient Greek-style temple is dim, and the murals on the walls have faded, exposing the cracked bricks underneath. The dome covered with patterns is as high as the universe, and the many worn gemstones dotted with it are cold and lonely.
The sharp-edged gravel was suspended in the vast space, as if time had been frozen at the moment of collapse, surrounding the long bronze table in the center of the temple like small meteorites next to the planet.
Li sat on one side of the long table, and Qisi sat opposite him, smiling broadly: "All the irrelevant people have been sent away, and it's time for further communication. First of all, I want to ask - you and That guy Qi’s bet is over, right?”
“Yes.” Li didn’t seem to care about the disrespect in Qi Si’s words, and his tone did not fluctuate, “He won, and you were his bettor. Chess piece, sweep my piece off the chessboard."
Chis raised his eyebrows and looked at him: "Looking at your tone, you are not frustrated, and you have even expected and accepted this outcome."
"There is no need for extra emotions. From your human perspective, this is just a cricket fight." Li raised his hand, and the shadow of the black and white chessboard loomed in the void, with various chess pieces moving on it. Move, simulate and review the progress of the chess game.
The red and white chess pieces and the black chess pieces staggered after meeting. The white chess piece with the appearance of a sea god was pushed off the chessboard. One chess piece appeared and disappeared until only a few were left.
On the vast and lonely chessboard, the red and white chess pieces and the black chess pieces stood alone opposite each other. At a certain moment, they suddenly moved and crashed into one place.
In an instant, the chessboard shattered and scattered into rustling powder, which was blown away by the sudden wind.
Li said calmly: "I lost, which proves that Qi's plan has a high success rate and can be officially implemented. That's all."
Qi Sixu said with his eyes: "You and me before When I cheated with Qi, I was not so calm. I almost died in your hands with the copy of "Double Happiness Town"..."
"When humans play crickets, don't they always put their hands into the cup?" Li asked back, and continued, "Of course, I realized not long ago that I made the wrong choice at the beginning of this game. The chess piece is destined to be impossible to win."
Qisi rubbed his chin and thought for a moment, then said: "When this happens, I usually choose to flip the chessboard and start over."
< br>"It's meaningless." Li shook his head, "The referee has gone crazy, so there is no need to continue the gambling. I am more willing to try new options than fix the mistakes of the past."
"Oh? Actually Is it... like this?" Qisi narrowed his eyes.
He knows that the referee in Li's mouth refers to the rules. Although he doesn't know how such an abstract concept can be "crazy", he can understand that the importance of a bet without a referee will plummet. After all, the bet will be honored. It will become troublesome and will most likely go unsolved.
But the question is...is this widely involved gamble really unimportant?
In this case, why did Qi come to see him in person and promise that he would tell him the last part of the truth after the dungeon was cleared?
Qi once told him: "A gambling game involving the gods involving the past, present and future has begun. I have bet a lot of chips and hope that you will keep winning until you win the last prize of Sunset Ruins. Crown.”
Judging from the results of the bet, “the last crown of Sunset Ruins” refers to the qualification to become a god.
But "rules feed on gods." The result of becoming a god is nothing more than being swallowed up by the rules. What is there to pursue?
And...what exactly is the bargaining chip on the deed?
Something happened in "Twilight of the Gods" twenty-two years ago. The Ruins of the Sunset was destroyed and Qi was exiled to the copy of "Carnivorous".
He has nothing left, and the remaining things that can be put on the gambling table are all important. How can the things he bet on be as understated and insignificant as Li said?
Or is it that He and Li think about the gambling game of the gods differently?
“I understand.” Qisi looked at Li calmly, “No wonder you knew my plan, but never interfered or obstructed it. I guess you have something besides the original bet. You have made a new plan, so Chang Xu’s chess piece is of no importance to you.”
He held his chin with his hand and raised the corners of his lips with malice: "In that case, how about giving me his body? I'll make a specimen and keep a souvenir, otherwise I'll always worry about him coming back to life someday."< br>
Li refused: "No, his body is still useful to me."
"Useful? What are you going to do?"
"I want to go to your world. Let's take a look."
Li simply replied and changed the subject: "I want to know your choice more than him. You proposed to trade with me and bet on the outcome of the game, but until Now you don’t put the chips on the gambling table, but ask me for the so-called bet. I know that you have a big plan.”
Qisi was a little disappointed that he couldn't get Chang Xu's body, but not much.
I believe that Li, as the current main god of the weird game, will not be so dishonest as to deceive him and secretly resurrect Chang Xu.
He tilted his head and said lukewarmly: "You want to see my value, I show you my value, that's all. The fact that I want to win the bet of the gods should be enough for me to You recognize me more."
"Then what?" Li stared at him with golden pupils, the glimmer of gold in his eyes flowing like a whirlpool, "The rules are about to wake up, but I am like you. I wish to give up the readily available sacrifice."
"This involves the deal I want to negotiate with you." Qisi looked up at the dome, and the gems inlaid there turned into one color at some point. Can Jin, "The nutritional value of the new gods is most likely not as sufficient as the old gods. I think it is enough for one person to hold the authority over the contract. It is time for the remnant souls of the old era to rest in peace - what do you think?" br>
He didn't say it explicitly, but the implication behind his words was clear: he wanted to sacrifice the deed and then... replace it.
Li's tone finally rose and fell: "You are the chess piece chosen by the contract. His past experience of twenty-two years has his shadow. After entering the strange game, you also received a lot of help from him. I don't I understand why you made such a choice."
"Because of profit." Qisi lowered his eyes and spoke very softly, "An exiled and imprisoned god cannot bring me more benefits. Enough value has been squeezed out of him, and even part of the contract authority.
"In the next game, I want to take his place as a chess player and sit on the gambling table of the rules. "
Li asked: "Why do you think I will agree to trade with you? ”
Zeiss didn't answer immediately.
A bead-like blood mist precipitated in front of him, condensing into a long bright red roll in a few seconds, with the golden word "Qi" shining brightly on it.
He smiled, with crooked eyebrows: "If you want to completely control the weird game and freely create copies, you will definitely need to use the power of the contract. I think you have been restricted by the contract everywhere in the past. This is why , in "Double Happiness Town" you have to risk cheating and come to me.
"Now I can tell you that the contract authority in me is not complete, and part of it is still under the control of the contract. But I believe that as long as I can kill Him by surprise, I can inherit everything he has and become a new god.
“You haven’t killed the deed for so many years. I guess you are restricted by the rules, right?”
Qisi paused deliberately, waiting for Li's answer.
Li Dao: "Yes, I cannot kill a being of the same personality as me, unless he becomes an evil creature and falls into madness, like the ancestor god."
"That's it." The evil appearance of the Lord of Breathing in "Frog Hospital" flashed before Qiss's eyes, and it was difficult for the heart-knowing contract to develop to that level.
He continued: "Then the matter is very clear. As a player, killing gods is allowed and even encouraged by the rules. In "Frog Hospital", I even unlocked the 'blasphemer' This achievement. I think you will need my help at this point.
"You know, I am just a player who has only been in the weird game for more than a month, and I have little experience, and my strength value is even more worrying. You might as well take a gamble, I will be easier to deal with than Qi then. ”
Silence spread in the temple, and the golden light spots floated and flew irregularly, sometimes escaping, sometimes converging, and weaving into various magnificent and beautiful patterns.
For a long time, Li nodded: "I will help you within the scope allowed by the rules. In the next copy, you may have a chance to seize divine power."
"I have begun to look forward to it. "Qisi stood up and asked casually, "Is he still in the copy of "Carnivore"? "No." Li said, "He is in "Rose Manor"." End)