I Was Once a Legend

He could only wash up first. The pistol he picked up from the basement last night was still under his pillow. Dong Zheng picked up this old-fashioned pistol and took a serious look. He unloaded the magazine and put the three bullets inside. He put it in his palm and reloaded it, and finally hid the gun in his waist and covered it with his clothes.

He came out of the bedroom where Fix had woken up earlier than him and was sitting drinking coffee.

"Wake up." Fix put down the newspaper in his hand, and said, "I'm too tired today, I didn't make breakfast, so let's bake some bread later."

Dong Zheng responded, sat on the sofa and poured himself a glass of water. After discovering Fix's identity, the relationship between the two seemed to be more relaxed.

Dong Zheng was a little anxious, the box didn't have any prompts for customs clearance, which meant that there must be something important in the future.

Hope it's not too much trouble.

The boning knife that Dong Zheng used for self-defense last night had been put back in the kitchen, Dong Zheng glanced at the newspaper, the big black characters on the headline said Ferdinand was arrested last night.

There are still a lot of policemen gathered at the villa, pulling up a long cordon. The Ferdinand family has been involved in gangsters for a long time, plus a total of eight murders, it will take a while to settle it.

For a while, neither of them spoke, and Dong Zheng slowly recalled his every move in the box, wondering if there were any mistakes that he hadn't noticed.

After a while, Fix stood up. He looked out the window. The murderer had been caught, and the residents could finally appear on the street with peace of mind. They gathered at the gate of the yard, chatting in low voices about the shocking events of the past few days. big case.

Everything seems to be back to the original comfortable appearance.

Fix turned to Dong Zheng and said, "By the way, didn't I tell you not to go into the basement? Do you want to go and see what it looks like there?"

basement?

Dong Zheng frowned slightly, and quickly relaxed it calmly. Indeed, the basement that Fix didn't let him in, maybe it is also an unsolved mystery?

Dong Zheng stood up, and Fix took out the key from his pocket and threw it to him, saying: "The one with a gap on it is the key to the basement, open the door and see for yourself."

Dong Zheng took the key, but didn't immediately go to the basement curiously. He looked at the traces left by the picture frame on the wall, and suddenly asked, "Are you really Fix?"

"What do you mean?"

"We haven't seen each other for 20 years, and we can't remember each other clearly. You see, there are so many traces of photos on this wall. If you kill the real Fix and pretend to be him before I come, If I take all his photos down, I won’t be able to find them either.”

Fix was not angry, but laughed loudly and said, "Your conjecture is not valid at all. If I kill the real Fix as an imposter, won't the neighbors find out? As for whether I am the real Fix... …Shall I tell you a few things about our two childhoods?”

"I have almost forgotten those." Dong Zheng smiled, Fix is ​​the real Fix, but he is not the real John.

"Those photos... belong to my wife." Fix paused, and whispered, "She died of illness last year. At that time, I couldn't accept it, so I took down all the photos of me and her."

"Sorry, I didn't expect it to be like this." This statement is the same as Dong Zheng's guess, and the last doubt that we have seen so far has been resolved. Dong Zheng found the key, walked to the door of the basement in the stairwell, and asked Said: "Are you really letting me go in and take a look? Isn't it filled with the evidence you have collected over the years?"

"Satisfy your curiosity," Fix said.

So Dong Zheng stopped talking nonsense, he lowered his head, turned his back to Fix, and inserted the key into the lock.

However, at this moment, a small bell that was placed close to the chest of his shirt became hot and jingled, and Cui Zuojing in the prisoner's space suddenly shouted: "Get down!"

Dong Zheng's reflex nerves have been trained very sensitively after being trained by many boxes and Cui Zuojing. As soon as the ringtone and the boy's voice sounded, he immediately lowered his body, and the sound of gunshots exploded from behind. The bullet that hit his head grazed his scalp and missed the door, leaving a black bullet hole.

Dong Zheng immediately pulled out the pistol hidden in his waist, and hit Fix on his right shoulder with a backhand blow, which was about to shoot again.

The man fell to the ground in response, everything was so similar to what they treated the servant in the basement last night.

Blood poured out from the bullet hole, Fix made a painful sound, Dong Zheng pointed the gun straight at him, and was vigilant about his other actions, all the things that happened at that moment just now slowly unfolded Playing it back in his mind, cold sweat came out of his body belatedly, almost soaking his clothes.

If Ling Dang and Cui Zuojing hadn't reminded him in time, he would be dead by now.

"Why." Dong Zheng could only ask this sentence.

Fix stared at Dong Zheng closely, the wound on his shoulder was bleeding profusely, but at this moment, it was as if he could not feel the pain, with a ferocious and crazy smile on his face, and his voice was so thin that it was not this middle-aged man at all. What a man's body can say: "You killed me! You killed me!"

The bell became hotter and hotter, and Dong Zheng felt a little hot even through a layer of clothes. Dong Zheng took out the bell amid Fix's chaotic screams.

The bell is very small, like an ornament hanging around the neck of a pet dog, but Dong Zheng spent 40 points to rent it from Heinrich. He has always lacked magic tools that can work on spirits. After visiting Heimdall's prop rental shop, he took a fancy to this small prop. In addition, this box had a scary label. Just in case, he went through the back door first and took it as a visitor.

Just like what he saw now, the bell has a detection effect on spirits. When there are spirits around, it will gradually heat up as the distance approaches. If it is close at hand, it will make a sound.

There are advantages and disadvantages to ringing. The advantage is that it can remind the user in an emergency like just now. The disadvantage is that if the user is evading, as long as the bell thinks, it will directly reveal the location.

"Who are you?" Dong Zheng asked.

Fix didn't answer, but kept yelling repeatedly: "Kill you! You killed me! I'm going to kill you!"

Dong Zheng frowned, and had an unbelievable guess in his mind: "George?"

Hearing Dong Zheng say this name, Fix was quiet for a moment, and then yelled even more frantically.

When Dong Zheng saw this, he knew that he probably guessed right. George's soul was attached to Fix at this moment, and he wanted to kill him at any cost.

For... revenge?

Without thinking deeply about this issue for the time being, Dong Zheng put away the gun that Fix had dropped on the ground after being shot, returned to the bedroom by himself, and took the cross he put there last night from the bedside table.

This thing was given to him by Fix, so that he could always carry it with him.

The moment Dong Zheng took out the cross in front of "Fix", the man yelled hysterically, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying, with unconcealable fear in his eyes, he dragged his injured arm and struggled to retreat.

A cross was placed on his chest.

"Fix" screamed, rolled his eyes and fell straight on the ground, motionless.

The bell in his hand gradually lost its heat, and Dong Zheng stood aside vigilantly, making sure that there should be no problem, he squatted down beside Fix and helped him up.

Just fainted temporarily.

Drag Fix to the sofa and temporarily stop the bleeding from his wound. It is estimated that he will have to go to the hospital to take out the bullet later. Dong Zheng stared at the cross, all the logic and order gradually became clear in his mind, connecting things together.

"Actually, the wizard's initial spell to summon George's soul didn't fail. She succeeded."

"It's just that George's soul has never appeared. He is full of resentment and has always wanted to find the murderer who really killed him."

"Finally, when I went to Ferdinand's house to attend the memorial service, he saw me and finally found the person he was looking for. In order to kill me, he possessed Fix on his body."

Cui Zuojing listened quietly, and said: "So how did this kid determine who killed him? Because you gave the gun that killed him to Meng Si, and Meng Si gave it to him, so He thinks you are the murderer who killed him?"

"Probably so." Dong Zheng smiled wryly, "Maybe he wasn't a sober soul summoned by the wizard, or else it wouldn't be his turn to deal with me, or...the police made a mistake, Mons is not the real murderer."

At this moment, Fix groaned, and Youyou woke up.

"What's the matter with me?" Fix grinned in pain as soon as he opened his eyes, and when he saw the gunshot wound on his shoulder, his head was full of question marks.

And Dong Zheng, finally at this time, heard the long-lost prompt from the box.

[You have completed all the main tasks of the single box "Good Neighbor", the door has been opened, please leave within 5 minutes]

The door of the living room emits a shining white light, as long as you push it open, you can return to the outside world.

"George's soul was attached to you just now and wanted to kill me. I used the cross you gave him to expel him. Sorry, I beat you out of necessity to protect myself."

Fix propped himself up and sat up. He didn't seem surprised by what Dong Zheng said. He smiled, picked up the cross and said, "This is a treasure that I have spent several years finding, and it really didn't disappoint me."

Dong Zheng didn't speak.

Fix ignored the wound on his shoulder. He lighted a cigarette with great difficulty, took a deep breath, and said to Dong Zheng: "You have to go. Actually, you are not John, right?"

Dong Zheng cast a surprised look at him, Fix waved his hand and said: "I know, this world is not the real world, everything is prepared for those of you who come and go in a hurry , in your eyes, I am some kind of...npc, right?"

This time even Cui Zuojing became energetic. He straightened his back and listened to Fix's speech with all his attention.

After a brief silence, Dong Zheng asked, "How do you know this?"

"I don't remember which day I suddenly remembered. My memory has been cleared, but it seems not very thorough, or because I have been an NPC in countless worlds, and my consciousness is relatively confused, so I can think about it." got up."

"Someone washed away all my past and injected memories belonging to Fix into my mind, so I am here to play Fix."

"Kether." Cui Zuojing murmured.

Dong Zheng didn't interrupt him, Fix seemed to have a lot to say, he had been Fix in this world for so many years, had a job, a wife, and his own life, but it was only for him and Chen Jianguo A box trip to be the key person.

He must have a lot to say.

"I've been waiting here day after day, year after year. Every night when I sleep, I can find some memories of the past that have been washed away. I have been a diver, I have been a king, I have driven mechs, and I died in war In the middle of the world, I also hid in the sewer pipes of the wasteland world like a mouse, and gradually, I discovered something."

There were still 2 minutes before the door was closed, but Dong Zheng still chose to listen to Fix, and his intuition told him that this would be a very important matter.

"I found that the worlds I lived in, after invaders like you participated and left, no matter what the ending was, they all developed in a more chaotic direction."

"After the chaos broke out, all or npcs will be recycled and reused, just like I used to. I witnessed the world that was originally maintained in delicate balance falling apart in an instant, and it was extremely chaotic. I can vaguely feel... this, maybe that The ultimate purpose of a mysterious existence that I have never known."

Dong Zheng whispered: "It is making everything in the box more chaotic."

"So you call these worlds boxes?" Fix smiled. He glanced at the clock on the wall that was re-hanged yesterday, and said, "If you are in a hurry to leave, you can go. As far as I know, just leave." That's all."

Dong Zheng was indeed in a hurry, he stood up and said to Fix: "Sorry, I only have 5 minutes left after the task is completed."

Fix nodded to express his understanding. The cigarette in his hand was almost burnt out, and he finally said to Dong Zheng: "After you leave, I will soon be washed out of all memories again and filled with new ones. I will tell you today. All of these will be forgotten, maybe I will slowly remember it like this time, who knows?"

Dong Zheng saw some unwillingness in Fix's eyes, he put his hand on the doorknob, and asked in the last half minute: "I'm leaving, do you have any wishes?"

Fix thought for a while and said, "I don't have the ability to find out the truth, but I hope that someone can truly see it clearly."

"I will."