Hong Kong has been one of the most prosperous cities in the world since the 20th century. It is adjacent to the seaport and connected in all directions. All kinds of goods are brought here by trains and ships and then shipped to all over the world; people of different skin colors gather here. Traveling or doing business.
In order to serve the economy, the policies here are extremely loose, accompanied by multi-dimensional freedom of speech, culture and even religion.
Even a force like the Tianping Church, which was explicitly designated as a cult by the Federation, had a place here, and eventually became a thorn in the side, occupying the city with lightning speed.
Bai Ya is sitting in an office with clear windows, holding the [God's Face] he brought back from Jerusalem in his hand. On the desk is a bronze sword "offered" by the leader of the "Red of Truth" in the Quran Autonomous Region.
These two things have been determined to be related to the weird game. They are buried in reality for some reason, like a shocking plan that was laid out many years ago. It was not until the main actors came on the stage that it gradually started, allowing clues to surface.
White Crow still remembers the last time he saw God twenty-two years ago. The random oracle caused the church to pursue it for twenty-two years.
He once asked them to find a child, but for some reason she changed her mind. Her fate was gently touched, and she went to the orphanage that the oracle had pointed to, but found nothing.
Later, she heard that a forest fire was ignited in a church building. She rushed over and realized that the fire was closely related to the strange game. Unfortunately, all traces were destroyed by the fire, and she found nothing.
The oracles and prophecies that God gave before his disappearance were like a ridiculous mass hysteria. Everyone believed that it was true, but could not find any real evidence to prove it. They could only scratch their heads and go crazy collectively outside the barrier. .
It was not until recently that Zou Yan rediscovered the name of God from a copy of "Rose Manor", proving that the church's search over the past twenty-two years was not a madman's dance.
But at that time, White Crow no longer blindly believed in God, but was more willing to use reason to analyze God and study how to obtain greater benefits from it.
The disappearance of the name of God in the past twenty-two years was not due to accidental loss, but rather to the obliteration of knowledge by some higher being.
There is no news about God himself, and he is also exiled from the world by that existence, as if he had never existed.
The reappearance of God's name has nothing to do with the Tianping Church's hard pursuit. It is just because He came back at a certain point in time and returned to the strange game from the void realm of erasure and exile.
This node is the copy of "Rose Manor".
Bai Ya knew that there was an unexpected rain in Jiangcheng that day that the Meteorological Bureau had not expected. The damp breath filled the sky and the earth, smearing all the creatures under the rain curtain with a gloomy look.
Just like a welcoming ceremony for the returnees, or the prelude to a grand performance, a person named "Zis" entered the strange game.
First, use big data to filter out all the people who entered the game and survived on that day, and then exclude them based on age and other characteristics. Finally, only a few that meet the conditions are left for tracking and observation.
Combined with some supplementary information, such as the relationship with the contract authority and the ability to escape from the puppet master's skills...
The answer is ready to come out.
She should have known all this, but because she heard God's sudden oracle in the Qulan Autonomous Region, she was frightened, thinking that her every move was under the eyes of God.
Thinking about it now, she still underestimated the power of humans and overestimated the power of gods.
A god who has been exiled for twenty-two years has just returned to his throne. How much remaining power does he have?
The moment she saw Qiss in "The Colosseum", Bai Ya identified the young man's identity and dispelled all the fear and uneasiness she had felt since her return from the Quran, just because she had witnessed the true face of God.
The young man seemed to remember nothing, and his authority was blocked by a mere identity card, making him look innocent and harmless. Only the words and deeds contain a lot of murderous intent, making people feel dangerous.
White Crow did not intend to act rashly, but hid behind the mask and sent Nian Fu to approach cautiously, and learned everything about Qis through Nian Fu's perspective.
It turns out that God also has times when he is weak, it turns out that God is not omniscient and omnipotent, and it turns out that God can also... die.
Bai Ya had to admit that although she hoped that God could send miracles and inspire believers, for the Tianping Church whose organizational structure had stabilized, a dead God was the best choice.
But God did not really die, but miraculously survived, and his status seemed to have improved a lot, becoming more dangerous.
Fortunately, she watched with cold eyes from beginning to end, and did not involve herself in the end, and was able to leave alive under the gaze of God.
But she didn't get any benefits, she didn't stain the bronze sword with divine blood, she didn't let the [divine face] work, she didn't even... didn't communicate with the gods.
"Nian Fu, come to my office."
In a small room with simple furnishings and only a vase placed by the bed, Nian Fu heard Bai Ya's order.
She did not get the promised identity card until the moment she left the "Colosseum" copy. Perhaps the qualification to enter the final copy was a choice determined by fate, and she was not in the script of the final stage from beginning to end.
In fact, she has no ambitions. She just wants to be closer to the white crow at the last moment. Even if it means blocking a fatal attack for her, or clinging to each other for warmth when she is about to die, at least she will not let her face it alone. About the ending...
On the way to Bai Ya's office, Nian Fu caught a glimpse of Dong Xiwen with his head peeping out of the corner of his eye.
The two met in the "Colosseum" copy. At that time, they did not know each other's identities. After all, there were too many people in the Balance Church.
It is estimated that Dong Xiwen didn't realize that there were other "own people" in the dungeon until Bai Ya showed his true appearance at the end of the dungeon - who wouldn't know Bai Ya?
"Are you going to find President Bai...?"
"What's your relationship with Zeiss?"
Two questions were asked at the same time, and Nian Fu gave an affirmative answer.
Dong Xiwen's eyes wandered: "He and I...were probably the relationship between a migrant worker who made a mistake and signed a contract of prostitution and a sinister boss."
Nianfu said no more, and moved on past him. No matter how you say it, it is the call of the white crow that is more important.
At the bottom of the corridor, Nian Fu knocked on the office door and sat down on the chair in front of the desk.
Bai Ya smiled and asked: "Is Dong Xiwen still alive?"
Nian Fu nodded: "He's still alive. I met him when I came here just now. He looked sneaky."
"That's good." White Crow said, "God has not given up on him who has weak faith, maybe because there are too few usable chess pieces in his hand."
Nian Fu was surprised by Bai Ya's disrespect, but had no other feelings other than that. She joined the Tianping Church not because she believed in God, but just because the White Crow was here.
Then she heard Bai Ya ask: "Nian Fu, why did you join the Tianping Church?"
Nian Fu replied without thinking: "It was my sister who took me out of that orphanage. I made up my mind that day. I will go wherever my sister goes."
She paused for a moment and added: "Many of us have been saved by you, and we all stayed because of you."
To repay a favor, not for God.
"That's it." Bai Ya smiled, a smile that was very bright and as gentle as the sunshine in early spring.
She said: "Nian Fu, can you do me a favor?"
……
Qis came out of the copy of "Rose Manor" and bought a mask to wear on his face to avoid being swarmed by players asking questions when he showed up.
As he walked towards the edge of the player square, he sorted out the information Qi told him in his mind.
First of all, his entry into the strange game was indeed due to Qi’s layout.
He was not among the players selected by the weird game plan. It was Qi who made a deal with the puppet master, letting the puppet master control Liu Ajiu to die in his studio, and gave him the game qualification.
In the copy of "Hopeless Sea", Qi and the puppet master had a final bet, betting on his life and death. Qi cheated and defeated the puppet master. So the Puppet Master entered "Frog Hospital" and helped spread a message while resisting the aftermath of the God War. Qisi could pretty much deduce most of the information himself. There were occasionally a few things he didn't know. After listening to them after so much experience, he didn't think there was anything surprising.
After Qi finished speaking, Qis asked: "So the puppet master said that he wants to cooperate with me, and that is your intention?"
"Not really." Qi said, "But I am indeed about to be out. The next step is the game between you and him."
Everything is left unsaid.
Zeiss then asked about the special bracelet and mobile phone, although he already had some guesses about the reason why these two things could be brought into the game.
Qi smiled and confirmed his guess: "Objects stained with divine blood can travel between weird games and reality."
Zeiss said: "I don't remember when I killed a god."
As he spoke, scenes flashed before his eyes: He was haunted by a strange sense of detachment for a while, and always suspected that his body and consciousness were separated from each other, so he became addicted to slicing himself with a blade in an almost experimental manner.
Only when he felt the pain of scratching his skin and saw the bright red blood flowing out of the wound, and the two appeared at the same time, could he feel that his spirit and flesh matched each other and that he still belonged to this world.
I think the special bracelet was soaked in his blood at that time. As for the mobile phone...
Ziss remembered that not long ago, he took the paper knife he had just bought from Weird Games and stabbed his left arm. At that time, it seemed that a few drops did splash on the screen of his mobile phone.
His expression became strange: "Do you mean to say..."
"That's right." Qi's voice was very pleasant, with the kind of tone that would scare people when telling a secret, "It's been so long, and you haven't guessed it at all?
"Qisi, or Si Qi, you are a god...you are me, and I am you..."
There was a loud thunder outside the castle, the water vapor exploded like a gas bomb in an instant, and heavy rain poured down.
Qis stood up, and then heard Qi's wild laughter, using his voice, even the tone was so similar, as if he was the only one going crazy in this space, and his own ghost turned into an evil ghost and sneered.
He reached out to grab the contract in front of him, and his fingers slipped through the shadow. It seemed to be just a projection, an illusion, a virtual image of him reflected in the mirror of time and space...
"'Qi' is my name. Because I am in charge of the contract authority, they also called me 'Si Qi'. They mistakenly thought it was a position..." Qi's face was pale by the sudden lightning. At that angle, that light and shadow Next, Zeiss saw his own face on his face.
It's like walking by the river, suddenly lowering your head, and being surprised to see your own floating corpse.
Qi's long hair fell down, his smile was very gentle, and his words were torn apart by the wind and rain: "Now you are also a 'Si Qi'. You chose to become a Si Qi... Don't make such an expression, I didn't laugh at you. Meaning, because I have made the same choice..."
Ziss kept calm and asked: "What exactly do you want to say? Is there any evidence to prove what you said?"
Qi did not answer, and the castle collapsed. Large stone bricks fell from above his head, missing his figure and hitting the ground.
Zeis turned around and started running, using the cursed pendulum to block all the gravel, and ran to the sea of flowers outside the castle. He ran into the rain all over the world, crushed the rose petals on the ground, and was surrounded by ghosts, evil spirits, and invisible shadows. The rain is falling.
He was soaked to the skin and panting. When he turned around, he saw only a shadowy ruins, very similar to the ruins where Chang Xu and Lin Chen were buried at the end of the copy when he first entered "Rose Manor".
Everything was buried underneath, and he suddenly had the illusion that he had never escaped from here. There was one of him who was buried in the ruins and turned into withered bones. What stood on top of the ruins now was his remnant soul.
His future is locked, he is Qi's past, Qi is his future, he is destined to become Qi, because this is his choice, and it is also Qi's past choice...
Qi's words continued amidst the noisy sound of rain, so he knew the past that belonged to Sunset Ruins.
The golden World Tree is the embodiment of rules, and the first thing born under it is God.
They hold the authority derived from the rules and execute the will of the rules over the long years.
The rules have evolved into the rising and setting of the sun, spring, summer, autumn and winter, birth, old age, illness and death; they have evolved into all things, including human beings who claim to be the primates of all things.
Human wisdom and desires have exceeded the scope of the original rules and have become a burden on the operating mechanism that has been consistent for hundreds of millions of years.
If the rules do not want to collapse under the impact of ideological trends, they can only maintain their operation by recycling a large number of evils.
The brewing of evil always requires blood and destruction as a memorial. The World Tree was soaked in blood, and gradually was weathered and condensed into a chaotic blackness.
He is crazy, He is hungry and wants to devour something.
He stretches out his branches to God who is nearby as his attendant.
And God sets his sights on man.
A strange game is thus established, and creatures from various planes become the food of the rules.
The gods are unwilling to be subject to increasingly crazy rules, and the beings at the top are always facing the fate of being devoured.
They plotted rebellion in the temple, hoping to break the shackles of the rules with the help of human power, and finally put it into practice.
In the attempt twenty-two years ago, they failed. The mastermind was exiled to the Godless Land, and the accomplices were sealed in various world planes. Only Li was excluded from the conspiracy by the gods and was left behind by the rules. Come down...
Ziss could recall every detail from his memory, but he had no impression of these images. It was as if he was watching other people's stories, the outline of a movie or a book being poured into his mind.
Who is he? Who should he be?
Qisi remembered the ending of the copy of "Colosseum", where Qin Mu's mask was blown off, revealing the face of the white crow. The woman's eyes were filled with strange emotions, fear of God, and deeper ambition.
The Church of the Balance is a secret chess set by Qi in reality. It has taken root for decades, and he may know more information; but the Church of the Balance is not safe for him, and twenty-two years is enough to change a lot.
Qisi did not intend to take Qi's words lightly, but after learning the new information, he did change his mind and planned to keep Dong Xiwen for a while, at least using it as a way to accumulate more knowledge about the Tianping Church.
The madman hidden deep in the bottom of his mind laughed wildly and said: "The fate has been written, the ending has been determined, there are no more variables, you are trapped to death..."
He saw the golden river that connected back and forth and formed a Möbius strip, saw a feast in the sea of fire, and saw the contract with half of the body turned into bones sitting on the throne...
But even if it’s written down, so what?
"Just kill the existence that writes destiny."
Qisi stood on the edge of the cliff in the Ruins of the Sunset, overlooking the rows of huge stone tombs below.
He suddenly jumped down and landed firmly on the ruins of the wall. He followed his memory and walked slowly on the uneven ruins, stopping in front of a half-ruined temple.
The bronze gate stood silently among the rocks, useless in blocking the building behind it.
Qisi put his hand on the door, and a low whisper suddenly sounded in his ears: "Your authority and soul are not complete, and you cannot open this door."
At the same time, two lines of silver-white text were refreshed on the system interface.
[The hidden mission of Sunset Ruins has been refreshed]
[Hidden Mission: Open the Abandoned Temple] (End of Chapter)