Chapter 266 The Time Has Come
"Uh." Ren Anzhi said, "Do you want my autograph?"
Wei Jingjing stared at him in shock, "Why, why is Ren Anzhi here???" Her face was as red as an apple.
Cui Mingzhi said, "It's like this. It seems that everyone who appears in this world was pulled in by you."
Wei Jingjing was shocked and asked, "I pulled him in?"
Liu Xingquan said: "I don't quite understand the principle. Yan Zhen said it has something to do with your subconscious mind. So the popular stars you like also come in."
Cui Mingzhi echoed, "Yes, this Ren Anzhi is the prince of the Emerald Kingdom."
Wei Jingjing looked at Cui Mingzhi as if he were looking at a ghost.
Cui Mingzhi added: "By the way, he is still your fiancé here, Princess Jingjing."
"Ah." Wei Jingjing's expression became more and more terrified.
"Ms. Wei," Ren Anzhi said politely, "Would you like my autograph?" Then he grinned, a smile that would make most girls dizzy, his teeth were so white that they seemed to be reflecting light.
"Ah." Wei Jingjing hugged her head, she squatted down, and let out a strange scream. Feifeilu squatted beside her curiously.
"What's wrong with her?" Liu Xingquan asked.
"Because her secret girlish feelings were discovered, and her setting as the fiancé of the Emerald Kingdom Prince was exposed in public." Xiao Zhen said calmly, "For her, it was probably a public execution no less than lingchi. Choi Mingzhi's finishing blow was really cruel."
“…”
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” Wei Jingjing held his head and screamed.
"Jingjing?" Sheng Shihua and Wei Hongzhuo bowed their heads to comfort her. Wei Jingjing screamed: "Ahhhhhh I want to die!"
Although we can get out if you die, there is really no need for this.
Gin jumped off the horse and said, "Now that Wei Jingjing has recovered, can we leave the game?"
Everyone present fell silent again.
The problem that cannot be avoided but must be faced.
The problem is back to the starting point.
After listening to Xiao Zhen's narration, Gin whispered, "I should have expected this. Wait, why can this game only last for sixty-one days?"
"I'm not sure. But judging from the last version, the game cycle in this console is only sixty-one days. After sixty-one days, the world will restart."
Gin pricked up his ears, "Restart the world? Then can we be reborn?"
Xiao Zhen shook her head. "We are foreign objects that were pulled in. When the cycle restarts, we will be completely eliminated without leaving any trace. In other words, we will perish along with the world in this cycle."
"This is too unreasonable." Gin walked to Liu Xingquan, his tail swaying. Fifilu followed, chasing his tail with his little paws. Gin turned back and glared at Fifilu in dissatisfaction, "Only primitive people like him would be so heartless and want to play now."
"It's not a human," Xiao Zhen corrected.
" Don't worry about the words at this time !"
Granny Lin looked around and said, "Ah, are we missing one? Where's the mushroom elf?"
Cui Mingzhi followed up with, "Oh, right, where are the mushroom elves?"
Sheng Shihua lowered her eyes, looking sad.
"Mushroom elf..." Granny Lin was still searching for it. After noticing Sheng Shihua's expression, the old woman was slightly stunned, and then her eyes dimmed, "Is the child already... I know."
Gin glanced at the old man, who was squatting in front of Liu Xingquan and Xiao Zhen. "How much time do we have now?"
Xiao Zhen replied: "The world will be destroyed at the end of the sixty-first day. We still have three hours left. But I'm afraid we won't have that much time left."
"Let me be clear in advance. I do not agree with sacrificing a little human girl in exchange for my life. This violates my basic principles as a human-sucking enthusiast."
"Same here." Xiao Zhen said.
"Well, then, is there really no other way?" Gin asked.
Above the howling desert, he was staring at the running machine.
There was a rumble of thunder, a swirling storm in the air, and the machinery was clattering, making the sound of a patient gasping for breath.
"Sir." Lord Luokun appeared behind him, his face dark. The traveler slowly moved forward and turned to look at him.
"Sir, after analysis by our technicians, we currently have no effective way to rescue the absorbed consciousness." Luo Kun said, "Once this cycle ends and the next cycle begins, the conductor will fall into a state of chaos and disorder due to the loss of host constraints, which will lead to..."
The traveler's expression did not change at all. He remained as quiet as ever, waiting for his narration.
"That will cause more consciousness to be pulled into that dimension. According to calculations, the next cycle will produce tens of thousands of victims. So..."
"so?"
"Before the next cycle begins, we must completely destroy this device to prevent more victims." Lord Luo Kun finished his judgment in one breath. "The best result is that the players in this game dimension world will end the girl's life before this cycle ends, and we will destroy this device after they evacuate. This is the most ideal result."
"What if they hadn't killed the girl?"
"The only way is for us to do it." Luo Kun said in a low voice, "Before more innocent people are involved, we must destroy that dimension and them together."
His monarch said nothing.
In this conscious world, their emotions are essentially perceptible to each other, but at this moment he did not feel any wavering in the other's emotions. The monarch was as calm and composed as he had been at any other moment.
He stared at the machine that was constantly running. Lord Luo Kun could feel the power in the monarch's eyes. He knew that the humans who were dragged into the game-like dimensional world were innocent, including the human girl who pulled them in - the host of the transmitter. She was also innocent. But there was no way to choose now.
On one side were the lives of the innocent people in the game's dimension world, and on the other side were the thousands of victims that might occur in the future. When it came time to make a decision, he knew that the monarch would make the most rational decision.
As members of the Eye of Supervision, they had already experienced this kind of decision countless times. They did not need any guilt or explanation, and made the best solution in the face of real cruelty, even if it seemed like a ruthless evil in the eyes of other intelligent beings.
"wait."
He heard the monarch's words. They were as cold as ice and as hard as steel.
Waiting for what?
Should I wait for the players inside to kill the innocent girl and escape, or wait until the last moment to destroy that dimension world?
Luo Kun did not continue asking questions, and then he heard a gentle voice.
"Xiao Zhen." His monarch said softly, almost in a whisper.
"So, we have no solution?" Ren Anzhi said.
No one answered him.
"No matter what, saying that Mr. Wei's daughter must be killed in order to be saved is really too outrageous." Ren Anzhi had just learned from Cui Mingzhi the only way out, " Is this kind of moral torture sick?"
No one answered him. After coming to an unanswered answer over and over again, everyone seemed very depressed.
Xiao Zhen remained silent, and Liu Xingquan felt that the good friend on his shoulder was always looking at Feifeilu.
Choi Ming-chi lowered his head and squatted on the ground, drawing meaningless circles with a branch. The end of the world was approaching, and he didn't know what he should do. After drawing dozens of circles, he suddenly looked up and shouted, "Oh no!!"
Liu Xingquan asked: "What's wrong?"
“There are some files in my computer that I haven’t deleted!” Cui Mingzhi shouted in despair, “If Yi Yang and my stepmother see me cleaning up the remains, they will definitely tell all the relatives! It’s over, it’s over!”
Liu Xingquan said quietly: "You are already dead, why do you still care about those things?"
"It's over! I'm going to die!"
"You're about to die physically, why are you still worrying about social death?"
"No, this despair will accompany me until the moment of my death. This is simply an experience beyond hell!"
Ren Anzhi burst out laughing. With Cui Mingzhi and Liu Xingquan singing the same tune, the atmosphere on the field relaxed a little. But then Ren Anzhi jumped up and pointed to the distance and shouted: "What is that!!"
Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, and suddenly dark clouds surged and thunder rumbled. Buildings in the distance were disappearing like melting snow. The ground, trees, sky, houses, and human figures were instantly immersed in the bottomless darkness. Block-like black shadows were spreading, eroding everything.
The world is collapsing, and all pixels are being swallowed by the lightless black.
The end of the world has begun.
Everyone stared blankly into the distance as darkness approached like a tsunami.
Sheng Shihua suddenly screamed: "Jingjing!!"
It turned out that Wei Jingjing took advantage of the moment when everyone's attention was drawn to the black shadow in the distance, and she stole a dagger from somewhere. The girl ran a few meters away and put the dagger across her throat.
"Jing Jing!!"
" Jingjing, don't do it!" Wei Hongzhuo roared.
"Dad, Mom. I'm very happy now." Wei Jingjing's eyes were red, and her voice was trembling. "I already understand. It's me who caused everyone to be like this. Now this is the only way. Only in this way can we save everyone!! Don't stop me, don't come over!!"
"Jingjing!!" Sheng Shihua shouted, "Don't do anything stupid!!"
"Jingjing!! Put down the dagger!! Put it down now!!"
Wei Jingjing closed her eyes, gritted her teeth and was about to press the dagger to her throat, when suddenly an external force came and her dagger was blown away by the wind. She suddenly became empty-handed.
Granny Lin held up her staff, and the afterimage of magic flickered on it. "To remove the opponent's weapons, this spell is called armor removal, which I just learned two days ago," she said.
Sheng Shihua seized the opportunity and rushed towards Wei Jingjing, hugging her tightly.
"Jingjing, Granny Lin wants to tell you that if you die like this, you will bring pain to your parents that they will never be able to get over for the rest of their lives."
Wei Jingjing sobbed and said, "But, because of me, my parents are going to die soon."
"If you had died just now, your parents would be more miserable than if you had died. Some things cannot be judged as right or wrong."
"But, everyone, my classmates, will be... because of me..."
The old man shook his head, "No one will die because of you now." She was radiating light, and the cyan light was flowing on her staff. The wind was dancing around her.
Wei Jingjing opened his eyes wide: "What——"
"The little octopus said that there is something inside your body that is why no one wants to go out. And it just so happens that the wizard has a spell called the Substitution Spell."
"Granny Lin..." Wei Hongzhuo suddenly realized something.
"This spell can transfer a target to a player object as a substitute." Granny Lin said with a smile, "Then the most suitable person to be the substitute is me."
"What are you talking about!!" Sheng Shihua shouted.
"I have transferred what was inside Jingjing into myself."
"Mrs. Lin, you——"
The old man announced calmly, "So now all that matters is that I die."
"this--"
Granny Lin looked at her and said, "Xiao Sheng, you and your daughter will have a long, long time to live together. But my days are over. Don't cry. I'm already waiting to die."
"No, no, no." Sheng Shihua burst into tears, her hands tightly grasping the old man.
"Child, you are the same age as my Murray. You should both live a good life. Time is useless to me, I know. Now is the time."
"No, it shouldn't be like this..." Sheng Shihua couldn't stop crying.
The light around Grandma Lin became brighter and brighter, strong winds swirled around her, and she smiled calmly.
"Mrs. Lin..."
"Granny Lin!"
"Mrs. Lin——"
The heroes called out to her, but it seemed as if an invisible pressure isolated her from the crowd. The tide of darkness was approaching, bringing with it the voice of destruction, the end of this cycle of the world. No matter who it was, no one could stop this process.
Granny Lin raised her staff high, and an octagonal magic circle appeared under the feet of the brave men. In an instant, red and blue lights intersected and rushed, and she was transferring them to a safer place.
"Mrs. Lin——"
The old man looked up and smiled.
That is the gentlest smile in the world.
The black waves came rushing in, like the poison of plague and a tide of locusts, corroding all existing matter in this world.
Then darkness swallowed the old man.
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Everyone was transferred to a hillside outside Lion's Tooth Castle.
Sheng Shihua hugged Wei Jingjing and sobbed quietly. People looked at the place where Granny Lin disappeared with red eyes, and there was only darkness there.
The little octopus climbed down Liu Xingquan's shoulder. Feifeilu seemed to sense something and ran in front of Xiaozhen.
Xiao Zhen said to Fei Fei Lu, "It's time."
Gin stared at them.
"...Ah, I see." Gin looked at Fifilu, "It was you who brought Granny Lin into this world."
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Granny Lin was in darkness.
Has her life come to an end?
Before her eyes, there were endless black pixels, digesting and decomposing the reality they had just devoured. Countless brightly colored beings were dissolved instantly upon contact with the black pixels. She could hear the whistling of the air around her, and tens of thousands of lives in this world were wailing and screaming in the abyss-like black pixels. They cried, they begged for mercy, they screamed, but soon became part of the unconscious black pixels.
Soon, she would also enter the unconscious nothingness.
Die in this endless darkness.
It’s a pity that she still hasn’t found her little Muri.
But after death, nothing matters.
Maybe there will be reincarnation, but will I still be myself at that time?
Or is death just a dream from which one never wakes up?
The old woman didn't know that she raised her eyes and calmly waited for the end.
Then there was light in the darkness.
First there was a flicker of light, and then more light followed, like a flash of lightning breaking through the dark sky.
The old man's eyes widened.
The dark pixels hissed in anger. Then a hole was opened in the space composed of countless black pixels, and a small figure appeared. It was a cat. It was so flexible and petite. In the darkness, its figure turned nothingness into reality and despair into hope.
The old lady recognized it. It was the calico cat Huahua that she had rescued. When it was young, it fell from a height and had multiple fractures. She picked it up and took good care of it. Soon it recovered and became full of energy. Soon another cat appeared. It was her caring big white cat Xiaomeng. It was hit by a car and dragged its body on the street. When Granny Lin picked it up, its body was covered with wriggling maggots. Now Xiaomeng is the most lovable white cat in the stray cat and dog home. Soon another cat followed. It was a little female cat Huanhuan who was maliciously abused. When Granny Lin found it, its right eye was poked out and it had multiple burns on its body. It was extremely afraid of humans. Now it is healthy and lively.
Then cats appeared one after another. The black cat Claw in the community park, the stray cat Shuishui in Jixiang Street, the brothers Ah Huang in Shipai Lane... They are the most common creatures among the millions of creatures on this earth. They are primitive species that have not yet been civilized. They are cats in this city, and they are elves wandering in the dark. As the Altes said, cats' hearts have a vague sense, like whispers like the wind. With the transmission of these little thoughts, thousands of cats whispered to each other.
Countless cats, in the streets, in the parks, on the roofs, and in countless corners of the city, entered dreams with vague thoughts.
Granny Lin.
Granny Lin.
Rescue Granny Lin.
Then countless brilliant stars lit up in this dark realm.
The black pixels were angry at the emergence of these living beings' consciousness. In this inter-dimensional world, the black pixels tried to dissolve and devour the consciousness of these living beings. The darkness attacked the cats with malice. But the tide of collective consciousness was an unstoppable torrent. The cats rushed forward, their thoughts were erratic and unpredictable. Compared with intelligent life that could think carefully, they were elusive breezes. Their consciousness burst forth with brilliance in fearlessness.
They were like sparks in the dark night, rushing towards her.
Just for this moment, to bring this old man out of the dark realm of death.
"Ah, it's you..." The old man's eyes were filled with tears.
Come on, come on, the cats meowed in unison.
In the darkness, the cats cleared a path for her.
There is a bright light in the gap ahead.
【Grandma, go ahead. 】
A voice that had been haunting her seemed to ring in her ears.
The old man raised his feet and walked forward.
