The soundless wind blew past the ears of Xue Ling Huan Bing, bringing the white clouds and countless clouds and mist scattered around the world to slowly drift towards the direction where Duan Qing's phantom had left.
She then kept wandering over the departing figures, as if she was hesitating whether to really follow the footsteps of these phantoms: "You guys"
"Are you really so kind?" Her voice became smaller and smaller, and her distant eyes seemed to want to distinguish the authenticity of the sound in the sky: "Isn't it a trap or something like that?"
"Well, there is indeed such a possibility." The voice belonging to Duan Qing then echoed in the distance in that direction again: "But I don't seem to have any way to prove it myself. After all, I have already fought with you each of the previous ones.
pass……"
"This is not the crux of the problem at all." Xueling Huanbing, who was staring into the distance, said in a low voice: "I have killed joy, sadness and anger successively, and the last remaining spiritual body must be some kind of yours.
Emotional clone, right? You haven't said which clone you are yet."
"..."
Without answering this question, the voice floating in the sky seemed to fall into a silent silence together with the phantoms that left here without saying a word. Xueling Huanbing, who had not received an answer for a long time, finally frowned.
, holding on to the hilt of the sword, he took his own steps: "...Humph, it seems there is really a problem."
"That's fine, there will be a battle sooner or later anyway."
The unchanging clouds and mist finally changed slightly as she stepped forward, and then began to fade away layer by layer as her speed increased: "Even if it is a trap, I will definitely know it."
"Sorry, where did I just say that?"
Like a signal that had just been disconnected and reconnected, Duan Qing's voice clearly sounded in Xue Ling Huanbing's ears again, but this time there was something unusual in Duan Qing's reply.
Feeling depressed, the content of the answer had no connection with the previous question of Xue Ling Huan Bing, who was speeding forward: "Ah, I remember what you want is self-certification, right? This is really a difficult problem.
"
"After all, even if they are my clones, they seem to know what I know." The voice immediately fell into a deeper state: "Everything is just like what I encountered on the login interface before.
There is almost no difference between the real me, so I can’t tell whether it’s a simulation of the system or if I really have symptoms of schizophrenia... Hmm.”
"Maybe it's another test of the system?" The voice then entered a state of talking to himself: "Or maybe the new virtual system uses another mechanism to protect the player's mental state, which makes me
What kind of schizophrenic creates images in the game world?"
"Hello!"
The piercing screams in the air then interrupted the man's soliloquy, accompanied by the sharply raised sword edge and upward sword energy of the fast-running Snow Spirit Huan Bing: "Are you talking nonsense?"
What? Can it be translated into a language that ordinary people like us can understand?"
"Ahem, I mean I can't explain what's happening to me right now." Duan Qing's voice then replied with a hint of embarrassment: "And no matter what my situation is now, I am far from you now.
It’s still a long way away, so save your energy and don’t use your mind sword so easily, okay?”
"...sounds like it again."
After muttering something in his mouth, Xue Ling Huan Bing put on a serious expression again: "How far is it still? Stop hesitating. Hiding it is of no use to me."
"Don't be impatient. Aren't you almost there?"
A vague outline appeared in the clouds and mist ahead as Duan Qing's words appeared, accompanied by the scene of a huge chain swaying back and forth as the silent wind passed by: "It's almost there, along the way.
Come up with this chain."
"This is a formal date, I hope you won't miss it."
Empty echoes echoed in the white sky and earth as the clouds gradually dispersed, but this time the echoes were mixed with some unique clanking sounds of metal shaking and rubbing, and Duan Qing fell into silence again.
Then he ignored several tentative calls from Xue Ling Huan Bing, and at the same time disappeared into the air with the mental fragments that had previously led the way. He took a deep breath and checked the safety of Xue Ling Huan Bing left and right.
Bing then also put away the palm holding her sword, and the hesitation that appeared again suddenly disappeared as she shook her head vigorously. At the same time, the chaotic thoughts that she wanted to put aside disappeared.
: "I'm going on a date... I'll ask you out!"
"Just wait for me!"
The body instantly appeared on the surface of the iron chain. Xueling Huanbing jumped onto the huge iron chain in front of her. The violent shaking and smooth metal material made the upward climb extremely difficult, but she still could not stop it.
Thanks to the movements of the white-haired swordswoman and her determination to end all this, the surrounding clouds and mist became increasingly blurry as she jumped, and the light that originally covered the world became even more hazy.
It wasn't until the shrouded white gradually covered up the ground under his feet as time went by that the chain that continued to extend upward finally showed signs of bending: "...Huh?"
"Is it my imagination?"
Feeling as if the surrounding air was starting to become thinner, the chain that had stopped its upward trend suddenly turned straight, violating the rules of physics and causing Xueling Huanbing, who had not changed his leaping posture, to slip.
He fell a little bit, and the body that broke out of the clouds finally stabilized under the reaction of the sword energy: "Huh, uh, you scared me to death... Hey!"
"Why didn't you remind me!" She couldn't help but yelled towards the front of the chain: "You"
The words he wanted to blurt out then stopped in mid-air. Xueling Huanbing, who gradually stopped, gradually opened his eyes wide, and a familiar figure also vaguely appeared as the chain extended straight.
At the end of the sky where the clouds and mist gradually parted, there was a dark center where the iron chains were intertwined with each other. The contrast between black and white became particularly obvious as the metal chains overlapped each other, and at the same time, the people gathered together
The figure of the man strung together with iron chains looked a bit more miserable. Although the greeting that sounded in her ears later seemed to still be full of Duan Qing's unique casualness and indifference: "Hi."
"you you……"
Taking two steps forward along the chain, Xueling Huanbing's whole body seemed to be trembling slightly: "How...what do you mean?"
"Well, I told you it's hard to explain."
The voice belonging to Duan Qing then slowly came out from the center of the black spot, accompanied by the movement of the man at the center gradually raising his head: "In short, due to a series of reasons, the fate set by these systems now seems to be
It's all in my hands, as you can see."
"These iron chains connected to my body are probably just those weird data that were accidentally connected to me."
The huge iron chain gradually extended forward as Xueling Huanbing ran, and at the same time began to become narrower and narrower as the distance approached, until the sound began to become clearer, those who came from
The iron chains in all directions in the white world finally took on a normal appearance on the man's body: "Don't worry, they are not beyond the scope of our normal people's cognition now, because they seem to be connected to me.
Back to normal size...uh."
"I finally found you."
The violent vibration of the iron chain then sounded around the man. It was the strong shaking caused by Xue Ling Huan Bing suddenly embracing him in his arms: "I finally... finally... do you know?
How worried are we about you! Everyone is waiting outside for news about you! You now"
As if remembering what Xu Yu Liushang had told her before, Xue Ling Huan Bing gradually lost her voice. Duan Qing, whose hands and feet were pierced by chains in the air, had no room for resistance at this time and could only
Quietly waiting for the woman to calm down her emotions: "Don't be in a hurry to reminisce about the past, although this is a date, but..."
"I am still a boss now."
[Spiritual body: The despair of Linyuan Duanshui has been activated. 】
"……despair?"
The body shook violently, Xue Ling Huan Bing suddenly raised her head, and the eyes that met the man suddenly moved to the side in a violent shaking, and the hands that were holding Duan Qing's body slowly loosened.
Li Kailai: "You, aren't you?"
"Ah, I am." As if he understood what she meant, Duan Qing's smile answered her: "It's just that now I happen to occupy the last boss's body, so I temporarily possess this boss's body."
It’s just identity and skills.”
"...Really?" Xue Ling Huanbing hesitantly looked up and down Duan Qing's face as the chains passed by: "But the system just told me your identity."
"Well...if you have time, I can share with you all the contents I have guessed."
Invisible energy suddenly descended on the white-haired female swordsman's side, completely imprisoning every inch of her body in place. Sensing something bad, Xue Ling Huan Bing then showed an expression of trying to struggle, but soon she was in trouble again.
Qing's triumphant smile faded back: "The only thing I can prove now is my identity as the boss."
"..."
"It's great to have the power to destroy everything."
Looking at the woman's cold eyes that stared at him for a moment, Duan Qing smiled and sighed: "That is a feeling of being able to control everything around you at any time. It is simply a brand new experience, isn't it?
, If I want to do it, I can even grind your body into powder right now, and then restore you to your original appearance..."
"……you!"
"Don't get excited, don't get excited, I just want to ease the awkward atmosphere."
The power that imprisoned everything then quietly disappeared, and at the same time, the white-haired woman's body fell heavily onto the transparent ground that appeared out of thin air.
Then he almost lost his footing and fell from the high sky. After a while, he stabilized his figure in Duan Qing's whisper: "And I am still me now. I am not as full of extreme emotions as the previous clones.
mood."
"……ah?"
"To put it simply, the task simulated by the system is not complete yet."
Looking at the suspicion on Xue Ling Huan Bing's face, Duan Qing, who had been silent for a while, explained in a leisurely voice: "According to the arrangement of this task, I should separate the emotional fragments and the spiritual body that I represent.
There should be more than what you see now. Every me will get a collection of emotions from the original me, and then be specialized by the system to become a gate-keeping boss."
"But due to the emergence of some kind of inhibition, this process stopped on the fourth step." Duan Qing rolled his eyes at this point: "So those other emotions, including my will,
Now I just stay in this body of mine, and while being controlled by the system to stay here as the final king, I also retain most of my original personality."
"The Duan Qing who looks most like Duan Qing... right?" Xue Ling Huan Bing nodded slightly, and a look of realization flashed in Xue Ling Huan Bing's eyes: "But this is not enough to be the basis for me to trust you."
"Of course, after all, I am still not me now." Duan Qing gestured to his body with his eyes: "The real me has probably been locked somewhere by the system as a specimen, or it may be in my current body.
Otherwise, it would not use so many chains of fate to imprison me in place, instead of allowing me to continue to perform the duties of a boss..."
"Oh, of course I don't want to be a boss now. It's not interesting at all." He let out a joking laugh, and his eyes were full of amusement: "As long as I think about it, this so-called 'memory of Emperor Frey'
It’s impossible for anyone to pass the mission.”
"If you brag like this, I kind of believe you now." Xueling Huanbing rolled her eyes: "The tone of your words is very similar to that man."
"The imperial capital where the magic structure is being released has now become the stage where the system's unique points burst out, and you who hold Luoyang are probably regarded by the current system as the player who triggers the mission." Ignoring the sarcasm in the other party's words,
Duan Qing continued in a playful voice: "As for me...perhaps it is because I broke into the other world without authorization and wanted to prevent Violet from committing suicide. My current life is forcibly separated from the fate of countless others in the imperial capital.
They are connected together. If you look at the scene you see, it is the chains that appear in front of you... Well, it seems that you still can't understand it?"
"Okay, then I'll start with my other guess."
Looking at the confused look on Xue Ling Huan Bing's face, Duan Qing's voice suddenly became extremely low: "What do you think..."
"Can a player's level drop below zero?"
This chapter has been completed!