Chapter 170 No one will tell me the truth in 'Children's Paradise'
Seeing a man break down and cry in front of him within a minute, Jiang Qian had a very strange experience.
The other party's emotions surged forward, and through the transparent wall made of glass-like material, they vented their suffering, frustration, and regret without any regard for propriety.
Although some emotions are difficult for people with emotional disorders like Jiang Qian to fully understand.
But this does not prevent him from obtaining some objective conclusions through the other party's superficial reactions:
This person is likely to be lonely, depressed or anxious for a long time, resulting in extreme neurological weakness, sensitivity, and a bipolar cycle between "sluggishness" and "overreaction".
This abnormality is highly likely to be related to failure to clear the dungeon and being imprisoned for a long time.
After the other party calmed down a little, Jiang Qian asked again: "Are you the one whose ID was called?"
The man with the severed finger wiped away his nose and tears, and the emotion in his eyes gradually stabilized.
He said something that moved Jiang Qian:
"I am the first person to clear the game."
Jiang Qian frowned slightly:
"You are a customs clearance passer. Why do you stay at this transfer station? Did you choose to stay voluntarily?"
"Yes, I chose to stay..."
The man with the severed finger then showed an expression of pain.
He gave the reason: "This dungeon is too cruel. I was blinded when I cleared it. I paid a huge price. My teammates are dead. I can no longer continue on my own... I chose to stop. I have never regretted it."
Passed."
Jiang Qian was silent.
From the beginning of the "Children's Paradise" to the present, Jiang Qian has experienced four transfer stations, fruit man, handkerchief throwing, hide and seek, and now being blind.
It is true that the population in the transfer station decreases step by step as the game progresses, and it decreases in a cliff-like manner.
Jiang Qian just didn't expect that there was only one person staying at the No. 4 transfer station corresponding to the blind game.
And the only person claims to be the first person to clear the game.
This is unreasonable.
"Sorry, I haven't seen a new passer for a long time. Your appearance makes me very excited."
The words of the person with the severed finger brought Jiang Qian's thoughts back:
"I don't know how long I have stayed here... maybe a few months, a year? How many years? Maybe a life sentence... During this period, I have also seen people like you who passed the customs and arrived here, but never
A person can be as calm and comfortable as you are now."
[By the way, it is currently the best for reading and listening to books,@
Where to go?"
"Dead..." Jiang Qian felt a surge of anger igniting in his chest, "Will this dungeon allow things that are not mentioned in the rules to happen? People who have bet on the super crystal cannot save their lives?"
The man with the broken finger sighed: "That's why I choose to stagnate!"
He seemed to be deeply disgusted by the cruel rules of the dungeon, and looked at Jiang Qian with a wry smile:
"You have been through the dungeon until now, and you still don't understand?"
"This dungeon is no longer restricted by the betting rules from the beginning of hide-and-seek! It has many prohibited operations and various means to torture you and kill you!"
"There's no telling what I'll face in the next level. I've had enough of this kind of 'game... I don't want to experience it again!"
Listening to the man with the broken finger talking incessantly, Jiang Qian's heart was turned upside down.
Are Night Dragonfly and Honghu Yufei really dead?
Doesn't that mean that I personally killed two people who trusted me without reservation... Jiang Qian stretched out his hands and spread his palms.
The various details of the death of Ye Qingfeng are replayed in my mind!
Death was so close to him at that time. Could it be a real death?
Jiang Qian's open palms trembled unconsciously...
I was speculating and scheming against them the whole time. Even the action of putting down the water gun and taking off the human leather gloves before walking to the living room was also part of the calculation. But they chose to trust, to give way to others, to be honest, but they faced real death...
…Jiang Qian’s clenched fist slammed against the transparent wall!
The man with the severed finger on the other side of the wall was startled by this move.
Then there was a hint of teasing in his eyes.
On the countdown timer, there is still more than one hour of call time left.
……
It took Jiang Qian more than ten seconds to calm down the anger in his chest.
This anger is directed at the copy rules of "Children's Paradise": let those who are good at calculation and scheming win, and let those who are honest, kind, and altruistic perish.
This copy is a deceitful way, not the way of heaven.
"What's wrong with you?"
The voice of the man with the severed finger came through the transparent wall.
Jiang Qian raised his eyes and scanned the face of the man with the severed finger slowly and sharply.
When he spoke again, his tone had returned to his natural tone: "Nothing, I have to go."
"Gone?"
The man with the severed finger was surprised: "Are you saying that you want to continue to the next level? Aren't you afraid of... real death?"
Jiang Qian did not answer.
He straightened up, held the countdown timer, and turned to leave.
"Hey! Stay!"
The man with the broken finger suddenly held the glass and shouted:
"It's useless! I've seen people go up from here, and I was really hoping that someone could break through this devil's dungeon and set everyone free! In the end, there was no news..."…
"Later I understood that no one can clear this dungeon. The meaning of this dungeon is that it has no solution!"
"The eternal reincarnation of the game will never reach an end...the real end is only death!"
Jiang Qian paused and looked back at the man with the severed finger.
The man with the severed finger breathed a sigh of relief and advised in a gentle tone: "Stay, that's enough, at least the two of us can still be companions!"
There was hope and desire in his eyes.
It is obvious that he has been tortured crazy by the darkness and loneliness...
He was so tortured that he gave up hope of freedom and settled for the next best thing, hoping to be accompanied by a living person.
Jiang Qian looked at each other.
He thought that Lin Zhuo had used the same words when he persuaded the moth to take him in, and he succeeded:
Loneliness, long-term and endless loneliness, is enough to make a person's living human being wither and wither.
"Stay..."
The longing of the man with the severed finger has turned into a plea.
Now in front of Jiang Qian, there are two ways to go:
First, if you continue to move forward, you may face a more cruel game
In this game, the betting rules of Super Crystal will no longer be valid.
Second, choose to stay, save your life, and hope that those who come after you will have a chance to pass the level...
Jiang Qian looked at the man with the broken finger calmly: "Sorry, I can't stop."
What he was thinking about at the moment was Lafayette, who was over seventy years old, his sister who was about to get married, his homeless mother, and Jiang Yang whose whereabouts were unknown.
"No one will tell me the truth."
He must move forward. Staying means leaving his fate to others. He doesn't think that anyone can come to explain everything for him and everyone.
……
The begging and expectation of the man with the severed finger were frozen on his face.
He moved his eyes left and right, as if he was looking for other words to persuade Jiang Qian:
"Okay, okay, even if you think this copy has an end, does it have to be you who takes the biggest risk?"
"Why not stop and let the next more capable person experience those unknown risks and crises?"
"You and I, wait for the next person together, and then we persuade him to move forward!"
The man with the broken finger looked at Jiang Qian expectantly again, hoping that his calculation would impress the player who was about to go to the next level.
"If everyone thought about it this way, would anyone be willing to move forward?"
Jiang Qian said and turned off the countdown timer.
This means that the call between the two ends here.
He no longer looked at the reaction of the man with the broken finger.
Walk back to the starting position and wait to enter the next level.
The tan floor beneath your feet slowly vibrated, like a giant elevator starting its lifting process.
Jiang Qian's figure slowly rose up from the floor. Under the astonished gaze of the man with the broken finger, he ascended to the upper level...
After that, Jiang Qian's horizons also opened up!
He saw that above the level of people with severed fingers, there was still a replica of the same living space!
One floor after another, transparent walls made of glass-like material, circular corridors, and tan closed outer walls.
The difference is that none of the people in these circular corridors are awake. Some are lying on the ground, some are leaning against the wall, and they all seem to be sleeping.
Judging from the color of the blood stains on the clothes, the higher you go up, the fresher the color of the blood stains...
The "giant elevator" rises faster and faster!
Jiang Qian paid close attention and observed these unconscious people.
Finally, in the circular corridor at the last level, Jiang Qian saw two familiar figures...
My vision is filled with daylight.
Jiang Qian felt that his body was suddenly floating, just like when he first entered the dungeon, he couldn't help himself.
But soon, I was down to earth again.
A familiar voice sounded next to my ears.
The words are well-spoken, but it still took Jiang Qian a long time to understand this sentence:
"Congratulations to the player: Qianlong does not use children, he is the first to complete the full range of entertainment activities in Seagull Children's Park:"
"Fruit Man, Throw Handkerchief, Hide and Seek, Touch Blind... Please go to the director's office to receive your special rewards for clearing the level!"
In the latter sentence, he heard the voices of different people:
The huge aunt, the little darling and the naughty guy, the maid Liu Huifen, the pretty cook...
And the last voice... belongs to the person with the severed finger.
At this moment, he was in the corridor of a building, with offices with beige wooden doors on both sides.
A sign sticks out from the porch at the end of the corridor, with the words "Director's Office" engraved on it.
Seagull Children's Paradise, Director's Office.
Jiang Qian walked towards the end of the corridor.
As he walked, he reviewed his experience from playing the blind game to meeting the man with a severed finger, and secretly sighed that the copy was too damaged.
It would be a big loss if we were persuaded to quit as soon as we were about to pass the customs.
The doors of the rooms he passed along the way were ajar. Jiang Qian glanced over at random and found that each room corresponded to a game scene.
Each door means a small world.
And there are secret ladder-like connections between these small worlds.
At the moment, all the game scenes were empty, the entire corridor was sunny, and accompanied by light music for soul massage, Jiang Qian came to the door of the principal's office.
He knocked politely.
"Please come in~"
A gentle female voice came from the door, a tone he had never heard before.
Pushing open the door, a spacious and bright old-fashioned office space comes into view.
Wooden tables, TVs, banners, posters, potted plants, a certain office atmosphere, but also a warm and cozy atmosphere of life. It seems incompatible with the cruelty of the "Children's Paradise".
Jiang Qian's eyes were focused. In the middle of the room, a middle-aged lady was playing with a radio that looked like a baby face.
The broadcast voice came from the baby-faced radio:
"Congratulations to the player who passed the level: Qianlong, don't use children! Congratulations to the player who passed the level: Qianlong, don't use children!"
The middle-aged woman is not outstanding in appearance, but she has a unique charm, relaxed and mysterious.
She raised her eyes to look at Jiang Qian, who had a calm face, with a deep and playful gaze.
Finally, he smiled and pointed to the chair in front of him:
"Please take a seat, smart passer."
Jiang Qian was not polite to the other party: "Are you the dungeon boss?"
"Dungeon boss?" A trace of curiosity flashed across the woman's face, but her smile did not diminish. "Is this what you call existences like us? Hmm... interesting."
Jiang Qian doesn't know what's so interesting about this title.
But judging from the other party's attitude, she seems to have a different cognitive level from other dungeon bosses.
Comparing the dungeon bosses, demon clones, and the monsters in Duke Hyland's mansion that Jiang Qian had come into contact with, both of them have their own fixed procedures.
They default to the relationship between the player and the evolved copy, and follow the program to interact with the player.
And now this woman, when facing the passer, showed a unique emotion: curiosity.
Well, after all, you are a one-time dungeon boss. Since it is your first time to receive a passer, I will reluctantly help you advance the process... Jiang Qian went directly to the topic:
"I have already cleared the "Children's Paradise", right? In that case, please get the reward into your account as soon as possible. Your time is precious, so I won't go off topic anymore."
The headmistress looked at Jiang Qian with some surprise: "You are the first person to come here, but you don't seem to be very surprised?"
"On the contrary, you look happier than me." Jiang Qian said bluntly.
"Yeah."
The headmistress caressed the cassette recorder in her hand and said with a deep look:
"Because I have been waiting for this day for a long time!"
