Unlimited Cycles of Death: 33. Backtracking (7)

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A pure white world.

It is like a piece of white paper that has not been contaminated by pen and ink. Although it is clean, it is so clean that it feels a little scary.

This is all Muqin's impression of this safe house, a completely enclosed space without doors or windows. But what surprised Mu Qin was that the air in this enclosed space was not dull. Mu Qin found that the air was flowing, but Mu Qin did not find anything like a vent in this pale room.

Mu Qin came to the safe house for the first time. After a period of panic and confusion passed, Mu Qin calmed down and began to check himself and his surroundings.

What he is wearing is not clothes from the real world, but his gray suits that resemble prison uniforms in the game, and there is nothing else on him.

A standby screen flashes on the virtual screen in the center of the room.

This is Muqin’s second discovery. If the player does not talk to the mechanical female voice of the game system for a long time, and does not operate the virtual screen to query other things related to the game, then a standby screen will appear on the virtual screen. , A very familiar picture.

A logo of a snake cross with a black background behind the logo.

This logo is exactly the same as the small model of the snake cross that Mu Qin got in Zhou Yue’s bedroom in the real world. The pattern carved on the cross, the angle of the black snake winding, and even the slightly reflective scales on the snake’s body , Are exactly the same as those on the small model.

Mu Qin knew that these were not coincidences. He thought to himself that if he could use these imprints on the wall to contact Zhou Yue, he would have to ask Zhou Yue a lot of questions.

About the meaning of this snake cross sign, and Zhou Yue did not die in the real world but became a vegetative thing, and why did Zhou Yue carry that white card around when he became a vegetative when he suffered an accident? Who is going to do everything possible to compete for this card?

Mu Qin had too many questions to ask Zhou Yue, but he could not contact Zhou Yue last year.

He fumbled around on the wall behind the virtual screen. There were many marks and messages left by other players on the wall. Some were just graffiti, and some were unclear words.

Moreover, most of the messages left by these players are full of negative energy.

Mu Qin saw a lot of these words on it--

"I am going to die, the next game will definitely die!"

"I want to go home or die."

"Those who can commit suicide in the safe house, will anyone commit suicide with me?"

"The above is nonsense. You can't die in the safe house. All injuries and damages will be repaired. You can only self-mutilate and feel the pain."

"I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy, crazy, crazy!"

"I killed five people in the last game hahahahahahahaha!"

This kind of mess, inexplicable, some words that also contain curses, are engraved on the wall, and it feels like a group of lunatics reveling on the wall, wantonly venting their inner pain.

Some people maliciously engraved their own handwriting very large, engraving a huge "dead" on the entire wall. With the safe house's self-repair function, these handwritings are also very slowly updated and disappeared. .

Mu Qin did not find Zhou Yue's handwriting from it. Of course he remembers Zhou Yue's handwriting. Zhou Yue has practiced calligraphy for a period of time. His handwriting is always very beautiful, simple and concise writing, with a superb charm/rhyme.

This kind of meticulous brushwork with seal script feels like some kind of master art. In high school, Mu Qin, who was obsessed with Zhou Yue, would secretly keep the notebooks and papers written by Zhou Yue every time. Next, I cut out the words written by Zhou Yue above, and posted them on my little book for collection. This behavior once made Mu Qin feel a little abnormal.

But later, because the old uncle sold the house of Mu Qin’s adoptive parents, he sold many of the things in the house. Naturally, the books that Mu Qin collected and collected Zhou Yue’s handwriting were naturally gone. Muqin has always been very regretful.

Can't find Zhou Yue's handwriting, Mu Qin didn't give up, he decided to guard this wall. Mu Qing thought, if Zhou Yue in the safe house has not been in contact with Mu Qin, Zhou Yue will definitely be anxious in his heart. Judging from Zhou Yue’s personality, he is highly likely to leave a message on the wall every two hours. To insist on having a dialogue with Mu Qin, Mu Qin only needs to wait on the wall to see Zhou Yue’s message.

Of course, Muchin can also take the initiative to contact.

Just as Mu Qin can recognize Zhou Yue’s handwriting at a glance, for Zhou Yue, Mu Qin’s characters are also very easy to recognize as if they are highlighted, so Mu Qin can also follow the lettering on the wall to make Zhou Yue Yue see.

In order to engrave, Muqin needs a sharp tool such as a knife. So Mu Qin looked around. There was nothing in the pure white safe room, except for the floating virtual screen in the middle.

Mu Qin thought for a while, instead of leaving the wall, he squatted on the side of the wall to raise the volume and shouted: "Hey... are you there?"

"Are you calling me?" The mechanical female voice was immediately heard from the virtual screen in the middle, and the voice was always sweet, "What help do you need?"

"What should I call you?" Mu Qin said to the female, "I can't keep yelling'hey hey hey'."

"You can call me ‘3780’, or directly call me the system, or give me a name that you like and call me smoothly." The system female voice is gentle and patient.

Mu Qin asked, "Why is it 3780?"

"Because I happen to be the Three Thousand Qi One Hundred and Eighty System." The female voice said, "Each system corresponds to a player, and I will only provide exclusive services to you."

Mu Qin understands: "It means that I am the one hundred and eighty person who entered this game from the third thousand and eighty."

"Yes, you can understand that."

Mu Qin thought for a while and said to the system: "Then I will call you the system...then system, if I rest in the safe house for three days, how can I spend the three days? Sit here if you don’t drink?"

The system answered: "If you need to eat, please tell me what you want to eat."

Mu Qin tilted his head to think for a moment, and deliberately made a difficult request: "I want to eat French steak."

The female voice of the system is still sweet: "Okay, please wait a moment."

Although Mu Qin asked Mu Qin to wait a while, Mu Qing didn't wait long at all. Within two seconds, Mu Qin saw a dining car...yes, it was a dining car! This dining car appeared out of thin air. It was the high-end and luxurious metal dining car of the hotel. It was so shiny that it perfectly reflected Muqin's face.

The dining car was driven by no one, so it moved in front of Muqin.

There were white ceramic plates on the dining car with a stainless steel lid. Mu Qin lifted the lid and saw a plate of steaming hot, delicious and tender French-style fried steak in front of him.

There are also some exquisite bread, vegetables and drinks next to it.

Mu Qin stared at this perfect dish for a long time and had nothing to say. The female voice of the system over there continued to speak: "Do you need a table and a seat? I can put it in your designated position."

Mu Qin thinks he can understand the situation of this safe house. Mu Qin said: "Can you change this place as long as I want it?"

The system says: "Yes, no matter what your needs are, I can meet you."

"If I say I'm coming up and you want a woman to make me fuck, can you make me a woman?" Mu Qin said this without shame.

The system is more shameless than him, because she is only an artificial intelligence. The system said: “You can’t make a living thing in the safe house, so I can’t make you a living woman, but it can be a fake doll, I can make sure The puppet has a temperature and can have a certain conversation, and the texture feels like a real person."

Following the system, a further explanation was added: "But as far as I know, your sexual orientation is not the opposite sex. If you need, I can create a male doll that perfectly matches your aesthetics."

Mu Qin felt his head hurt a little, and he couldn't help rubbing his head. He said to the system again: "Forget it, I don't need a woman or a man, you can give me a knife."

Then a knife immediately appeared on the dining car in front of Mu Qing.

The system continues to explain over there: "You can get anything I can make in the safe house, but please note that the things in the safe house cannot be taken out or brought into the game map. You can only Use in a safe house."

Mu Qin understood this and didn't answer. He took the knife and started to write on the wall.

Mu Qin didn’t know what to engrave. He tried his best to make his handwriting look better, because it was written in seal script, he didn’t worry about being recognized what he was writing, so he simply engraved it boldly. Zhou Yue’s name and wrote: I love you.

In the corner of the wall, I wrote five or six rows of "Zhou Yue, I love you".

After finishing writing, Mu Qin blushed at his own eyes, thinking that he should cross out the words with a knife, but before he could do it, he saw that under his line of words, someone picked him up and said "I Love you too".

Looking at the handwriting, it is clearly Zhou Yue's.

Muchin suddenly became ecstatic, and followed the engraved with excitement: "Are you there? Are you okay?"

"I have been there, I am fine."

"Are you really Zhou Yue?"

"Of course you are, aren't you Muchin?"

Mu Qin was even more happy, wishing that Zhou Yue was right in front of him now so that he could jump on him and hug him.

Unfortunately, Zhou Yue was not in front of him.

The feeling that he can only talk through words makes Muqin extremely sad, and he has a sense of sight of an "untouchable lover".

"I miss you so much." Mu Qin wrote on the wall, obviously he has a lot of questions to ask Zhou Yue, and now he has really contacted him, but he only writes about his feelings about him, "I want to see you."

Zhou Yue also replied with lettering: "I also think, don't worry, we will end the game, we will meet soon."

Zhou Yue mentioned the next game. Muchin suddenly remembered the things he had experienced in the real world. He wanted to explain to Zhou Yue one by one, but because he could only communicate by engraving on the wall. , It is too slow and limited, plus anyone can engrave on the wall, the whole wall is very messy, and the handwriting of others can easily overshadow Muqin's.

Muqin tried to use the most concise words to explain everything he experienced.

Mu Qin engraved: "Zhou Yue, you are not dead, your body is alive in the real world, it is a vegetable."

After Mu Qin carved a sentence, Zhou Yue over there did not reply to Mu Qin for a long time. After a while, Mu Qin saw his handwriting popping up on the wall: "I know."

Mu Qin was shocked by Zhou Yue's words. he knows? What else does he know?

Mu Qin originally wanted to continue to engrave and write something, but Zhou Yue went ahead and continued engraving: "Mu Qin, the three days of the safe house do not need to be spent completely. Any player can choose to start the game early. We set a time, tomorrow at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, you and I will enter the game together, enter the game at the same time period, the chances of matching together are very high."

Zhou Yue's handwriting kept on: "But if you fail, please live your life, wait for the next round, we still have a chance to meet."

"I have a lot of things to tell you." Zhou Yue's speed of lettering is very fast, and soon it will be a new row, "but I can't finish it for a while."

"So you only need to remember the important...In this fringe world, only I will help you, only I can be trusted, and only I will love you forever."

Later, Zhou Yue could not continue to communicate with Mu Qin's lettering. The reason was that the repair function of the safe house started to work. In just a few minutes, all the writing on the wall disappeared completely, and the whole wall became clean, tidy and smooth. Liangli, when Mu Qin wanted to continue engraving on it, he found that his blade could not leave any marks on the wall.

"What's going on?" Muqin asked the system 3780.

The female voice of the system replied: "Players communicate by engraving and leaving messages on the wall. This is the default communication method allowed by the system, but there is a time limit. From 8 to 10 in the morning, and from 6 to 8 in the evening, yes The time period during which you can leave marks in the safe house. After this period of time, your damage will not leave any traces in the safe house."

"What time is it now?" Muqin asked the system.

"Eight o'clock in the evening." System answers

Muqin said: "Is the time in the fringe world synchronized with the real world?"

"Yes, sync."

Hearing the system’s answer, Muqin could really confirm that after escaping from the game map before, he did indeed return to the real world. After staying in the real world for two days, he was shot and killed. Come to this so-called "marginal world" again.

It feels as if he was playing well in a certain game, and suddenly dropped the connection for two days in the middle. After he was back online, he was still in his original position, and Zhou Yue had already stepped forward.

Fortunately, players can start new games at any time, so that at least the gap between Mu Qin and Zhou Yue will not increase. Mu Qin must keep pace with Zhou Yue. He wants to be with Zhou Yue. If they are in If the real world cannot live normally, at least here...

Mu Qin thought, lying on the wall where he and Zhou Yue had a lettering conversation just now.

"I regret it." Muqin said to himself, "I shouldn't have left, I should stay by your side... I do not want to accept your help for my boring self-esteem, for the so-called backbone. I am afraid The future between us feared the fate we were about to face, so I ran away, escaped, and can only meet you in this kind of ghost place."

Mu Qin felt a little wet in his eyes, he lowered his head, put his head against the wall, and clenched his fists.

"I'm not reconciled, I actually died."

……

Since he couldn't continue the conversation with Zhou Yue, Mu Qin had to leave the wall and returned to the system 3780's virtual screen.

Because I have made an appointment with Zhou Yue to start the new game on time at 12 noon tomorrow, Mu Qin must have some preparations before then. The most basic thing is that he has to know the basic rules of the game, except for Zhou Yue. Those who told Mu Qin, Mu Qin still didn't understand much.

Muqin asked the system: "How many rewards did I get in the game map?"

"You got a total of 13,200 bonus points in the map of the last game "Iris Orphanage"." The female voice of the system always answered all the questions of Muqin so calmly.

Thirteen thousand two.

Mu Qin read this number silently in his heart...It was more than he thought. Thinking of this, Muqin greeted the system and said: "Open the mall."

The system did not answer, and directly showed Muqin the so-called "mall" on the virtual screen.

The mall interface is the same as the electronic malls in many games, but there are not many things in it. When the system 3780 opened the mall, Mu Qin was immediately dumbfounded. There were only five items in the mall. This thing is five tarot cards.

Five different tarot cards, distinguished between Coin 3 and Coin Servant, Holy Grail Knight and Sword 6, and the last one is the "moon" in the Greater Arcana.

The five tarot cards have different patterns, which are very beautiful and exquisite. The appearance of them floating in the shopping mall interface looks like real objects, as if you can take out the cards from the inside by reaching out.

With only five tarot cards, Muqin was a little overwhelmed. He began to ask the system: "Are there only these things in the mall?"

The system replied to Mu Qin: "In the edge world game mall, players will be provided with different products for a limited time every day. The products are different every day. Players are asked to choose to buy at their own discretion."

Mu Qin understood, he asked again: "Are there only tarot cards in the mall?"

"Yes, only item cards are provided for players in the mall."

Mu Qin approached the virtual screen and carefully observed the prices of the five tarot cards in the mall. All the tarot cards here are a little bit expensive, and each one is less than 3,000 bonus points, especially the holy grail knight. It needs five thousand bonus points, and the last moon card of Arcana directly reaches a high price of ten thousand.

Mu Qin didn’t quite understand, he actively asked the system: “I heard that every time a new game starts, the system will automatically draw a tarot card for players entering the map, from Fool No. 0 to World No. 21. Among these 22 Alcana Tarot cards, random draws are conducted, among which the killer will always draw the death card."

"Suppose I enter the game with this moon card I bought in the mall, can I still get the tarot card that the system automatically draws for me when I enter the game?" Muchin mainly wants to know The point is that he wants to know how many tarot cards a player can hold in the game.

The system answered Muqin’s question: “The item card system in the frontier world uses the tarot card setting, which is divided into'main card' and'second card'. The main card is 22 large arcanas, starting from 0. No. Fool’s Card to No. 21 World Card are the main cards. The second cards are the four groups of small Alkanas: the scepter, the holy grail, the sword and the coin."

"At the beginning of each game, the system will randomly draw a main card for each player. This main card is a fixed card and is a card you will definitely get in the game. Even if You have other main cards in your hand at the same time and are not affected by them, but you can only bring an additional main card into the game each time."

"Meaning that I can hold two main cards in the game?" Mu Qin squinted at the cards in the mall.

The system replied: "Yes, you can hold two different main cards in the game."

Mu Qin touched his chin and thought for a moment, and he continued to ask the system: "What does that deck of cards mean? How many coins, holy grail, and swords can I bring into the game?"

"The second card is a consumption card. You can only bring one into the game. After entering the game, the second card will be consumed automatically and take effect immediately."

Mu Qin stretched out his hand, pointed to the sword 6 in the mall, and asked: "Does the sword 6 have any effect?"

"You can reach out and touch the cards in the mall, and instructions will appear next to the cards."

When Mu Qin heard this, he reached out and touched the sword 6 on the virtual screen. I saw this card that was "touched" by Muqin suddenly trembled, as if it was shy when Muqin touched it, and then it was enlarged on the screen, and a line of text appeared next to it:

"The swan soars in the shadow of the crow, and takes you out of the dark abyss."

"Consumption card. When you get a key or item in the map that can open the exit, your movement speed will increase slightly."

Muqin stared at the card's description for a second, and finally concluded: "It seems... useless."

The system said next to it: "You can choose the cards you need to buy, or store your reward points for future purchases or upgrades to better items."

Mu Qin curled his lips and reached out to touch the explanation of another card. This time he touched the main card'Moon' with a price tag of 10,000, and a series of explanations appeared beside the moon card:

"Dreams, fantasy, and loss, the moon is the representative of the night and the end of the day."

"Prop card, carry this card, when hiding in the shadows and dark corners, you will merge with the darkness."

"Merging with the darkness?" Muqin looked at the description of the moon card without knowing it, and then suddenly a bright light appeared, and he was surprised: "Does it mean you can be invisible in the dark?"

The system did not answer Mu Qin’s question, so Mu Qin went to read the descriptions of the other decks one by one. Those coins, Holy Grail and Sword cards, are basically the kind of cards that are... completely useless, or they are ignored. Regardless of the cards, the coins seem to be slightly better, especially the coin servants. Its effect is that after the game is over, the players who successfully escape can get more bonus points.

After watching so many cards, Muqin didn't want to buy any of them. The moon card seemed to be useful, but it was too expensive.

Mu Qin wanted to see something else, he asked the system, "Does the reward points improve my physical fitness?"

So the system changed the mall interface and showed him Mu Qin's personal panel. Mu Qin saw that his physical fitness was listed as data, which was clearly displayed:

Life: Muqin

Gender: Male

Age: 27

Power: 7(10)

Intelligence: 9(10)

Agility: 7(10)

Spirit: 10(10)

Endurance: 6(10)

PS: Normal humans have a full score of 10 points, and the upper limit can be increased after strengthening.