purgatory artist

Chapter 62 God's Substitute

Two mechanical fingers gently clamped Liu Ping's ID card.

"Okay, night watchman Liu Ping, now is the time for you to make a choice." The S0005 robot said.

"What choice?" Liu Ping asked.

The robot said: "You are the only living person, please make a choice now, whether to report the news to the company, or to abandon this place and flee to the wilderness immediately."

It further explained: "If you escape, I will mark your ID card as 'fleeing' and pass it on to the company; if you stay, then you will report the situation to the company, and it will be up to you Carry."

"Let me report, there is no point in running away." Liu Ping said.

"That's right, that's what men want. They are both disciplined and tough." The robot said.

It raised its arm and pressed a button.

Surrounding the outskirts of the town, a steel city wall several meters wide rose slowly.

Liu Ping looked at the steel city wall.

"Raise the city wall during the day?" he asked.

"This is an automatic combat city wall, which can guard against wild beasts and wilderness thugs during the day - better than nothing, after all, no one is guarding the city." The robot said.

"what's next?"

"Let's pass the information back to the company as soon as possible," the robot said.

"How to do?"

"It's simple."

The robot crouched down, slowly changed shape, and became a telephone booth again.

"A connection request has been sent to the company. When the bell rings, you will connect the phone and think about your information in your mind." A voice came from the phone booth.

"Just think about it once?" Liu Ping asked.

"Yes, I am responsible for converting the information you think into images and passing them on to the company."

Liu Ping fell into deep thought.

"What's wrong?" the robot asked.

"It's okay, let's start." Liu Ping said.

"it is good."

Waited a few minutes.

Suddenly, a bell rang in the telephone booth.

Liu Ping went in, connected the phone, and put the receiver to his ear.

"Start." The voice of the robot sounded.

Liu Ping closed his eyes, and directly recalled the scenes he saw last night——

The outer world collapsed and fell towards the practice world.

Dark Mist Town was destroyed.

That horrible monster appeared.

And his helpless avoidance.

Thinking in another way, as the manager above, maybe he doesn’t care how a border town is destroyed. Even if the reason is found out, he may not necessarily violate the existing rules and become an unknown little night watchman. show mercy.

Killing oneself is also a management method for managers.

but--

If this night watchman explores something as important as the collapse of the outer world——

This kind of thing definitely comes with great opportunities!
Managers might be tempted.

——This is my way of life!
Besides, that guy named Luo Sheng has already said that no one knows what happened here!

After recalling the scene after picking, Liu Ping slowly opened his eyes.

"I'm done thinking about it," he said to the phone booth.
"Then, all we have to do is wait." The robot's nervous voice sounded.

Time passed slowly.

The sun rose a few inches and slowly moved towards the middle of the sky.

It's getting closer to noon...

Liu Ping was looking at the scene outside the glass window in a daze, when suddenly there was a sound in his ear.

A pleasant female voice sounded from the receiver:

"Apprentice night watchman Liu Ping, please stay where you are and don't move, we are capturing your coordinates, and you will be teleported back to the company in ten seconds."

Liu Ping opened his eyes wide.

Without using any magic circle or external force, just teleport yourself back like this?
It seems that the importance of this matter has even exceeded my imagination.

Ten seconds passed quickly.

Suddenly, there were sharp cracking sounds in the depths of the sky.

Something seemed to be flying towards the phone booth.

next moment.

Turn around.

Before Liu Ping could sense anything, he realized that everything around him had changed.

The dark, wilderness, and ruined towns have all disappeared, but there is another scene in front of them.

Buildings made of metal towered into the sky, like a forest of steel.

The surfaces of these buildings are neatly cut and covered with glass to form windows, proving that they are the product of human civilization.

Aircraft of various technological sides staggered back and forth in the sky.

And Liu Ping stood in the phone booth and appeared on the balcony of a tall building.

In front of the terrace, a woman in a long black dress came up, reached out to open the phone booth, and smiled at Liu Ping:

"You're really young, but it's almost noon now, and then night will fall. We'll talk about you later. What matters now is, are the pictures you just thought about true?"

Liu Ping looked at the woman in the black dress.

I saw a line of small characters floating above her head:
"God substitute, Conferred Saint Realm."

"Effect: The gods will come to this body at any time, and it's a matter of the world."

——She is a substitute for the Goddess of Pain!

Liu Ping's expression remained unchanged, he nodded and said, "I experienced it myself."

The woman looked down at the book in her hand.

Two lines of small characters quickly appeared on the book:

"Polygraph pass."

"He's telling the truth."

The woman smiled.

At this time, the sky quickly darkened.

The whole world turned into darkness in an instant.

However, the densely packed metal buildings gradually lit up bright lights, illuminating the night sky and turning the earth into a city that never sleeps.

Liu Ping had never seen such a scene before, and couldn't help but take a look.

"Excuse me—it's noon, why did night fall?" he asked.

"Because Ms. Torture is attacking our world," the woman said.

The woman looked at Liu Ping with a clear heart.

——This is a boy.

Judging from his identity card, he grew up in the wilderness and was a scavenger.

There are too many refugees in the wilderness, but very few can become scavengers.

The refugees would rather kill each other for a piece of bread than go to the world of death.

Even the refugees know—

In the world of death, being eaten by a death monster is considered a good ending.

And this young man not only became a scavenger, but also gained the identity of Dark Mist Town—even though he was just a night watchman in a border town.

This has proved that he is quite a potential talent.

And he survived.

He also provided such valuable intel...

According to the feedback from the 320 monitoring methods hidden around just now, this boy is only 19 years old, and the genetic map reflected by various body characteristics and biological waves presents an extremely beautiful shape.

I'm afraid there will only be one such person in the wilderness for hundreds of years.

——Maybe there have been quite a few, but they died before they grew up.

Sometimes luck is everything.

Such talents should only belong to the company and give their all for everything in the company.

of course.

There has to be a little investment before that.

The woman smiled kindly and said, "Liu Ping, what do you think is your greatest strength?"

Liu Ping was stunned for a while, but didn't react for a moment.

He was questioned.

In the world of practice, no one has ever asked him that.

The master just teaches and hardly evaluates.

while others—

Others just marvel.

This question aroused Liu Ping's interest.

He thought about it seriously, and replied: "I like to create something that has never been done before. Is this an advantage?"

The lady looked at the book in her hand, and saw a line of words on the page:

"He spoke from his heart."

The lady smiled and didn't pay much attention.

"Of course, creation is indeed an interesting thing." She responded.

Creativity is priceless - especially in this day and age.

But creation needs to be based on knowledge.

In order to live, to live better, to gain status, and to be stronger, everyone yearns for knowledge.

But only when you reach a certain level can you be eligible to acquire the corresponding knowledge.

Or should not be explained by knowledge, but should be replaced by another word--

secret.

The boy in front of him is the epitome of an entire era, representing the human desire for knowledge and secrets.

The lady thought so, and took it for granted.

and so--

I'm afraid it will be a long time before this lady understands what kind of horror is contained in Liu Ping's "like to create something that has never existed before".

The two walked straight forward along the metal steps, and a robot blocked the way. The woman handed the book to the robot, and the robot left.

"That is the book of truth, which is specially used to test lies - no one can lie in front of it." The woman noticed Liu Ping's curious gaze and explained.

"I never knew there was such a thing, is it your ability?" Liu Ping asked.

"No, it's company property, and I don't want to touch it at all," the woman said.

"why?"

"The world is full of lies, and everyone has too many dark secrets. If I walk around the company with it for a day, I will definitely not live until the sun rises the next day."

The woman clapped her hands and said, "I don't seem to have introduced myself formally. I'm the director of C area of ​​the company, Wang Wei."

"What are you mainly in charge of?" Liu Ping asked with interest.

"I'm in charge of the exploration and development of the first three acts of the practice world. There is an entry location for the first act near Dark Mist Town. Generally speaking, there is no danger when you just enter the stage. Those practitioners don't have much potential, unless The practitioners in the next few scenes unexpectedly appeared."

"So I haven't focused on it all the time. I didn't expect such a big opportunity to appear this time. I'm afraid it's beyond everyone's expectations..."

She was rambling on, but Liu Ping was completely stunned.

She is actually in charge of exploring and developing the practice world.

In the eyes of these people in the living world, the practice world is just a resource?
Wang Wei found Liu Ping standing where she was, and when she looked back, she immediately understood.

She laughed and said: "Those people have all died long ago, or in other words, the dead will never die. They repeat the same story countless times according to their established destiny, as if they are acting in a play-but their position is death. The world, therefore, is full of danger."

Liu Ping followed her pace, and asked softly: "I really can't understand why the dead don't rest, but repeat what they are doing."

"Believe me, everyone is the same, we can't understand how it was formed-but in order to fight against the world of death, we must obtain all valuable things from it to arm ourselves, such as weapons, formulas, treasures, secrets, and even people."

"This is an opportunity given to us by the Goddess of Pain, child."

(End of this chapter)