Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Zhou Qian would always receive some doubts from Bai Zhou's friends.

For example, when Bai Zhou died, he was still alive and well. Gui Erxian felt that Zhou Qian probably didn't like Bai Zhou so deeply.

Another example is now.

Facing Yin Dao's questioning, Zhou Qian didn't respond.

He just picked up his chopsticks as calmly as water, and picked up another arctic shellfish for himself.

He Xiaowei helped him with a word.

It was rare for him to disobey his infinitely admired master once, and he said: "Master, what you said, what you said is inappropriate. The most sad thing now is Qian'er."

Yin Dao stood for a long time, opened and closed his mouth several times, then he let out a long breath and sat down. "I have no way to accept it. Over the years, without Bai Zhou, I would have died countless times. I can't just let him go like this... Anyway, I have to go to Guixu to have a look."

Putting down his chopsticks, Zhou Qian picked up a bowl of soup with just the right temperature and took a sip.Then he raised his dark eyes to look at Yin Dao. "Do you still remember what I told you about the details about Shao Chuan closing the game?"

"Remember." Yindao asked, "Why did you say this all of a sudden?"

There are far more people who died in this game than those who successfully realized their wishes.

What's more frightening is that at first some people came in just to fulfill some tiny wishes, but later on, they would get deeper and deeper into the game and become completely addicted to it.

In fact, there are relatively few people in this world who have deep obsessions and desperate desires. Not everyone has had a very tragic experience, and there are quite a few people like He Xiaowei and Yun Xiangrong. Opportunity, just want to find a job, or want to buy some expensive gifts.

But this does not mean that they will not be affected by the game——

When these people's tiny wishes are fulfilled time and time again, they want more and more.When one is close to the gods, one can ask for unlimited things from the gods. With such an opportunity, who would give up?

Their ambitions will grow bigger and bigger, and they will want more and more.

In order to fulfill their wishes, satisfy their growing ambitions, and not be constrained by real laws, many of them will go on the road of killing in the game world without any scruples.

In this way, the final result is that no matter whether there is obsession in the game or not, everyone will eventually become addicted to it.

Legions are established one by one, and rules with traps are established one by one...

Many players did not die in the dungeon trap, but died in the game and battle between players.

Like a snowball, more and more people have been persecuted by this game.

When he discovered this fact, Shao Chuan fell into endless regret.

But at the beginning, he didn't think of closing the game simply and rudely. He tried to communicate with the gods in the game, and he wanted to find a way to correct his mistakes.

Shao Chuan: "Can you only attract kind-hearted people into the game? For people with bad intentions and easy to be led astray, they cannot be allowed to enter this game, can you? I make a wish... I beg you, when screening players Add this rule. After all—

"A player with bad intentions will come in and cause harm to other players. If he gets money or even possesses surreal abilities, he is more likely to cause a huge disaster in the real world!"

God: "I can fulfill any wish of yours, including this request you made. But to achieve this, it is more difficult than asking me to close the game directly. Correspondingly, I will ask for a lot of price. Maybe you still It will take another 100 years to achieve it."

"100 years? No... I have to achieve this before Xie Huai's wings are full. Even if I can kill him, his party is still there. Who knows how powerful his party will be in 100 years? If other people Knowing that I want to close the game, they must all join forces to deal with me."

Shao Chuan was puzzled, and asked the god, "I can't afford it, I can't wait another 100 years. Why...why is it harder to achieve this than closing the game?"

God: "Because you are making a very excessive request to the god. Screening completely kind people into the game requires the god to learn to distinguish between good and evil.

"But the gods don't know this. After all... What does human beings' good and evil have to do with him?"

Smiling lightly, the god said again: "Shao Chuan, as small as you human beings, they are all the same in my eyes. I will always be at the highest point of this land overlooking you. I watch you go through life and death, watch you reproduce From generation to generation. From ancient times to the present, I have witnessed countless lives and deaths, and the change of countless dynasties. Who is good and who is bad among you, who is right and who is wrong, is completely unworthy of my concern.

"Even if one of you causes the destruction of all human beings, it is just a passing cloud in my eyes. I know that in 10 years, everything on this planet will restart by itself."

"I have opened a world that frees you from the original order of cause and effect, so that you can pursue your own desires. This is my generosity bestowed on you.

"Selfishness, jealousy, hatred... These are the bad roots of your human nature. Because of this bad root, you turned my generosity into a tool for killing each other. But then again, the bad root of human nature, this is what I am What does it matter?"

Approaching Shao Chuan, the god looked into his eyes with a half-smile, as if mocking his innocence.

He said: "I have generously opened up this game, why bother to understand you human beings, and figure out who is worthy of the game's favor and who is not?

"It's like if you meet a group of ants, you can spend time designing various games, watch them in it, fight and fight for the breadcrumbs you don't even care about. But you really have enough patience, will Are you willing to take the initiative to understand all aspects of them?

"In contrast, is it much easier to directly close the space passage from the game to the human world and turn a blind eye to this group of ants?

"So, if I want to understand human beings, this is really demanding of me. If you want to realize this wish, you have to pay a lot more. Maybe 100 years is not enough."

Shao Chuan is not reconciled, he really hopes that more people can benefit from this box, preferably with supernatural powers, able to defend their home and country.

Even his ideal can be even more ambitious. If this planet is attacked by alien creatures from outside, he hopes that all ordinary people with good intentions and will not use supernatural powers to harm others can cultivate themselves through games before that day comes. The "god" who protects himself and his homeland.

For this reason, Shao Chuan summoned the gods many times, and discussed other methods with him.

Shao Chuan felt that this matter should have been hopeful.

Many fairy tales, or Buddhist and Taoist classics are guiding the way for ordinary people to become immortals or Buddhas. Shao Chuan got inspiration from them, so he proposed to the gods that there is no need to close the game, but the gods can "practice" in everyone. Time to regularly join the dungeon to help everyone get rid of selfish desires and improve moral recuperation.

Everyone will become better and better through this game, and then they will no longer kill people because of greed and hatred.

God’s response was that this also requires him to understand human beings. He doesn’t understand them, so how can he help them get rid of the bad parts of human nature?

"Shao Chuan, in the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" of your human beings, it says, 'If you think about it, everything is karma, and nothing is a crime'. I agree with this sentence very much. If you want players to have no karma and no crime, you have to let them get rid of all distracting thoughts It is not enough just to get rid of selfish desires and improve moral cultivation. After all, if you want something, you will have delusions. Once you have delusions, greed, hatred and ignorance will always reappear. They will accompany everyone like a shadow.

"Then, if you really want to achieve what you want, unless the players completely abandon their emotions and desires. But this will lead to a new problem——

"If they really have no desire, no hatred, no bondage, no hindrance... maybe they will have no attachment to the human world. At that time, they will become like me, out of the scope of human beings, and have no love or hatred for human beings. At that time, if The so-called catastrophe really happened, can they really work tirelessly to help their compatriots in the past with a heart of benevolence and righteousness?"

The god looked at Shao Chuan sympathetically. "You are a great idealist, and I admire everything you have done for your compatriots. But idealists are often too naive.

"Shao Chuan, at first I just wanted to show kindness and help people realize their wishes. Now you want me to help you get rid of your bad habits, and even help everyone succeed in 'cultivating immortals'... You are too greedy. Your greed, It will only make me ask for more feedback from you. Can you afford the price?"

It took a long time for Shao Chuan to realize that the reason most of the classics he read was about getting rid of evil thoughts in order to cultivate immortals and become Buddhas, because most of those books carried educational meaning——

Those books, allusions, and classic stories that have been handed down are actually mostly aimed at teaching everyone how to become a better and noble person, or teaching everyone how to keep their heart and get rid of distracting thoughts, and not easily confused by foreign objects...

The so-called giving up the seven emotions and six desires, or cultivating more merits and virtues is one of the conditions for becoming an immortal is just your imagination as a human being.

The real God is actually completely different from everyone's imagination.No matter how many good deeds people do, and no matter how many merits they cultivate, it is human beings who benefit themselves.Gods have nothing to do with human beings, so why should we care what good deeds they have done and what kind of merit they have cultivated.

In a sense, God is the existence of another race separated from human beings, and the two have inherently different positions.

After negotiating with the gods many times, Shao Chuan found that he had only two ways to go-either turn on the game, or turn it off completely.There is no golden mean that offers the best of both worlds.

The gods are willing to open an opportunity for human beings to enter the gate of the new world.But he is not selfless.He is absolutely unwilling to interfere with the original cause and effect of the real world at will.

At this moment, after hearing Zhou Qian's words, He Xiaowei recalled the content of Shao Chuan's negotiations with the gods in his mind, and helped Zhou Qian to boil a piece of fish slip, and now he helped him put it into a bowl with a colander In the middle, he asked: "Then... What does this negotiation between Shao Shuai and the god show?"

"It shows that God is fundamentally different from us. His image, three views and standpoint are actually the same as the Yibo we saw in "Apple Paradise".

"Think about it, does Yi Bo really allow everyone to become gods and then stand side by side with him?"

Zhou Qian said, "The gods will not allow people to become gods."

He Xiaowei's eyes widened. "Is this the reason why he let Bai Zhou die?"

Regarding this sentence, Zhou Qian did not answer, he just said: "The gods are willing to help players who have passed certain tests realize their wishes through the game. But Shao Chuan's delusion to create gods behind him probably touched the backs of the gods. So I think that the gods are actually I also want to close the game and not let everything continue. In addition——

"Do you still remember that Shao Chuan asked the god what he wanted to get through the game."

Qi Liuxing said: "I remember. At that time, I almost thought that the god would be like Yibo, saying that he has nothing for human beings."

"Actually, Yi Bo had something to ask for. He wanted to feel the pain of the world." Zhou Qian said, "The god also gave an answer to Shao Chuan, he said - he wanted to find a reason for himself to stay or leave. "

In ancient times, gods or aliens once came to this planet and played a role in guiding mankind to civilization.

Then the god left, leaving only a self-evolving game box.

There is a core system in the game box, which maintains the operation of the game, designs all copies, and calls itself a god.

All the gods seen by players in Shao Chuan and other games are actually just the incarnation of the system. It is the real god, or an AI with a high degree of self-evolution ability left by aliens on the earth.

This AI once admitted to Shao Chuan that it had something to ask - it wanted to find a reason for itself to stay or leave.

When it says stay, it should mean stay on the earth.It has stayed here for thousands of years, in fact, it has been looking for a reason to continue to stay.

But what was the reason he was looking for to leave?

Did it actually want to leave Earth?But how should it leave?

Was it passive or active when it stayed in the first place?

Zhou Qiandao: "So I've been thinking about why it left. It's just an AI, it doesn't have a body, it only has a mind. Maybe it can't even be called a living thing, it has no life. So is it envious of making to reveal its true god. Perhaps...it actually wants to be a true god."

Hearing this, Yin Dao frowned: "It wants to become a real god? After genetic modification, Bai Zhou's body in reality is the closest to a real god. The system core of this game wants to truly have life? Then this AI ...Doesn't it...want to obtain Bai Zhou's body?"

"No, what?!"

He Xiaowei understood Yin Dao's words, and immediately said, "This game system agreed with Shao Chuan's God-making plan at the beginning, and opened a dungeon specially for god-level players... Could it be to obtain a suitable body that can carry divine power?

"Could it be that the AI ​​of this game has been coveting Bai Zhou? Damn, that, that big boss Bai Zhou... Has his ending been calculated by the system long ago? Isn't this just kidding?!"

The game AI approached Shao Chuan, guided Shao Chuan to open the game to many people, and then guided him to find the corpse of the god Shihu, and then secretly completed the genetic modification experiment in the X area of ​​each madhouse...

In the end, his request was to close the game at the cost of Shao Chuan and Xie Huai's lives.

He succeeded in obtaining a perfect body that belonged to a real god. Of course Shao Chuan, who knew the core secret, had to die.

It's an inanimate AI stranded on Earth.

Get the right body and become a god, only then can it leave this land.

If this is its plan... then everything that everyone does is actually a part of its plan.

This game box is the real mastermind behind the scenes.

Xie Huai, Shao Chuan, and Li Xuehai are just its pawns!

No surprise to everyone, Zhou Qian looked calm from the beginning to the end, he finished the soup slowly, and said: "So in fact, I have been thinking about a riddle for the past seven days."

The other three were really curious: "A riddle?"

"Yes. A riddle." Zhou Qian said, "When Brother Zhou chose to sacrifice, the AI ​​in the game said a word - I heard the Tao in the morning, and I can die in the evening. How do you understand this sentence?"

He Xiaowei took out his mobile phone Baidu on the spot: "Literally, this sentence means that if you know the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening."

After thinking for a while, Yin Dao said, "It mainly depends on how to understand the word 'Tao'. In addition, the day and night here cannot be simply understood as morning or evening. It is written here, but it is actually just emphasizing the short time, implying death without regret. That is to say——

"If 'Tao' is interpreted as the truth that Xiaowei just said, this sentence means that when you learn the truth, you can die immediately.

"If you understand 'Tao' as 'cultivating immortals', or the kind of 'Tao' mentioned by Lao Tzu...that is to find the way to cultivate immortals, or when you realize the 'Tao' and know the truth of the universe, even if you die immediately, you will have no regrets. "

He Xiaowei scratched his head: "I really don't understand it. I don't care what that AI wants to do... Let's look at this sentence from another angle, just from the literal meaning of this riddle, will it be a bit historical? Jieshengxian mean?

"Just like in Xiuxian novels, a fellow Taoist ascends to become an immortal and has to go through a thunderstorm. So this 'Xi Kedie' actually means that you can become an immortal after you die?

"From this point of view, maybe the AI ​​is helping Bai Zhou? Bai Zhou's death is actually a real god becoming a god? Then it didn't ask for any perfect god's body?"

Zhou Qian said: "Brother Zhou died for the first time because of his mortal identity. He underwent transformation, entered this game, and became a god-level player. The second time he died, it was due to the state of near-death and physical rejection. God succeeds, completely bid farewell to the identity of man.

"I've really been wondering for the past few days, combined with this riddle, what his third death means."

This time, after being silent for a long time, Zhou Qian continued to speak with a half-smile: "Well. I have the great way, even if I die, I don't regret it--

"What do you think is the 'Tao' that this lifeless AI seeks?"

Everyone was taken aback by the question.

Zhou Qian put down the bowl and chopsticks and stood up. "I haven't been anywhere for seven days. It's also because I'm waiting for someone."

"Who are you waiting for?" He Xiaowei asked curiously.

"Brother Zhou's mother. She has an audit project abroad. She just came back yesterday." Zhou Qian said, "I asked her to talk about something. About Gao Shan's resurrection and other matters that you need to solve, you go to the game to find a way to find it." Call the gods in a safe place to solve this matter as soon as possible.

"After talking with Bai Zhou's mother, I will summon the gods and close the game."

·

Four p.m.

The Primary School Affiliated to Jincheng Foreign Language Middle School.

When Zhou Qian came here, he couldn't help feeling familiar and strange in his heart.

This used to be the place where he and Bai Zhou went to primary school.It's just that now the school gate, the buildings near the school gate and the flower beds have all been rebuilt, which is completely different from when he was a child.

Wearing a simple sweatshirt and a peaked cap, Zhou Qian stood quietly at the school gate and waited.

At ten past four, the school gates opened and the children poured out.

Unlike when they went to school in the morning, most of the children are happy now because they can finally go home after school.

Most of the children were quickly picked up by their parents.

For the few parents who came late, the teacher waited with them.

Zhou Qian saw the child he was looking for at a glance.

He is six years old this year and has just entered the first grade. He has round and bright eyes and baby fat cheeks.He even took out his textbook and read it, racing against time to study.

Seeing the child's appearance, Zhou Qian couldn't help but frown - he really looks like his brother.

Going straight to the child, Zhou Qian bent down and greeted him very familiarly. "hello."

The child raised his head and looked at Zhou Qian in a daze, but he was not afraid of life and grinned. "Hello."

After saying this, he took the initiative to extend his hand, which was a gesture to shake Zhou Qian's hand.

Zhou Qian felt that he probably had a good first impression of him, just like his brother.

The teacher of the child next to him was a little wary, and asked Zhou Qian, "Excuse me, are you—"

Zhou Qian took off his peaked cap, and when he looked sideways at the teacher, his beautiful eyes slightly narrowed, and he said with a smile, "I'm his brother Bai Zhou's friend."

The teacher was only a girl in her twenties, and when Zhou Qian stared at her like that, her face turned red all of a sudden.

——The child has been good-looking since he was a child. It can be inferred that his brother is also good-looking. I didn't expect his brother's friends to be so good-looking.

Realizing her gaffe, she quickly cleared her throat twice. "I, I haven't heard that he has an older brother."

"Is that so..." Zhou Qian squatted down and looked at the child at the same level, "What's your name?"

"My name is Bai Su. The place of the stars." Bai Su said, "The heavens and the earth are dark and yellow, and the universe is wild. The sun and the moon are full, and the celestial constellations are arranged."

Zhou Qian said: "Then do you know that your brother's name also comes from this sentence? His name is Bai Zhou. Have you ever heard your parents talk about him?"

"Brother?" Bai Su tilted his head, thought about it seriously, and then replied childishly, "Well, Mom and Dad mentioned him. I know I have an older brother. But my parents didn't mention him much. I have no idea what kind of person he is."

At this moment, the sound of brakes and high heels came from behind Zhou Qian.

"You, you are..."

Zhou Qian stood up, turned around, and saw a familiar woman.

That was Bai Zhou's mother Liu Rujun.

Seeing Zhou Qian, Liu Rujun subconsciously frowned. "you--"

"Hello, Aunt Liu. I just met Bai Zhou recently." Zhou Qian said, "He and I are dating, and our relationship is very stable."

Liu Rujun: "..."

The teacher next to me: ⊙▽⊙

After being stunned for a while, the teacher quickly covered Bai Su's ears.Zhou Qian just looked at Liu Rujun and said, "So look, let's find a place to talk alone?"