Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Zhou Qian's current environment can be described as extremely depressing.

The dark corridor is narrow and narrow, the front road is blocked by a thick solid wall, and the rear road is endlessly long, but at the end of that road, there will still be another solid wall.

But wait...

After I have walked such a long way, will everything behind me change?

In fact, in many games involving mazes, there is a very common routine - when you go around in a big circle, get lost, find that you can't get out everywhere, and don't know what to do, you might as well go back to the starting point and try try.

You will find a new exit at the starting point.

The beginning, but also the end.

But that's clearly not the case at the moment.

Zhou Qian just turned his head, before he had time to go back, he found another thick wall behind him.

Zhou Qian clenched his fist and knocked, the wall was also solid.

In this way, the authentic atmosphere became even more depressing.

Zhou Qian was completely in a small, boxy space. The front, back, and even the ceiling were all solid walls. As for his left and right sides, there were two glass doors.

On one side, the young Jiang Yuqing put his hands on the glass door and looked over with sad eyes; on the other side, the old Jiang Yuqing's eyes were cloudy, as if he didn't know where he was.

And the loud bangs coming from nowhere, as well as the occasional shaking from all around, exacerbated the tense atmosphere at the moment.

10 minutes of selection time is actually quite sufficient.

Zhou Qian first looked at the young officer on the left.

This figure slowly overlapped with the officer who wrote the poem in the illusion of the photo.

But Zhou Qian knew one thing clearly. In a sense, all the young officers who had appeared in this memory world were not entirely a subject.

The first time Zhou Qian met the officer in the illusion of the photo, the officer was writing a poem.

After writing the poem, he burned the lines because he clearly remembered that Bei He was dead.

In addition, when he saw Zhou Qian and the other players behind him, he showed great surprise and said: "I can still see you in my lifetime?"

When Zhou Qian entered the illusion just now, the person who wrote the poem he met was still him.

He didn't believe that Bei He would really appear, thinking that all of this was his own illusion.

Because he still knew that Bei He had died a long time ago.

Therefore, the young officer in the photo illusion is indeed a person from beginning to end.

His emotions were also consistent—he was very sad, because he remembered so well that everyone on Falcon Squad died.

But looking back, although Jiang Yuqing in the main plot of "West Wharf" is also very young, he didn't have similar memories and cognitions at the beginning.

He was immersed in the plot of Baicheng, waiting for Beihe and other members of Falcon Squad to save him.

It wasn't until he saw Bei He and everyone turned into ghosts on the pier, unable to leave Baicheng, that he realized, or recalled, that they were all dead.

In this way, Jiang Yuqing in that level, although his appearance is equally young, but what he really corresponds to is actually an old Jiang Yuqing who has forgotten everything.

Jiang Yuqing, an old man, revisited his hometown as a young shell, experienced a similar past, and recalled everything.

It can be seen that although there are many young Jiang Yuqings in this game.

But this does not mean that these young Jiang Yuqing are the same subject.

In other words, they are not all the ones who will help the player survive.

Only the young officer in the photo illusion remembers everything. He will guide the player to survive and play a role in reminding the old self of the past.

But it is not necessarily the young Jiang Yuqing in the illusion, or in the specific levels.

Therefore, Zhou Qian now knows well that Jiang Yuqing on the left and right, although one is old and the other is young, they probably won't bring life to him.

Through the glass door on the left, looking at the handsome young Jiang Yuqing's face, Zhou Qian thought of the extremely cruel sentence he asked Jiang Yuqing in the illusion not long ago through the dim candlelight. if.

"Are you guilty? Regret? If you are destined to die alone, what is your greatest wish?"

Jiang Yuqing's answer was clear and clear, the words still ringing in my ears.

"In fact, I have dreamed countless times, and I always dream of the same scene."

"The tunnel through which Bei He and I escaped is endlessly long. In this way, we can hold hands and run forever..."

"But I was still awake in the dream. I knew clearly that we would always have the moment when the shells fell or the bullets hit us."

"So, the ending of that dream is very simple—"

"Bei He and I walked to a certain exit of the tunnel, climbed out together, and then I died with him."

"We will not betray the oath we made when we joined the Seventh Army, and we will not betray our faith. But at least we can die together."

Immediately, the topic changed, and the Jiang Yuqing in the photo illusion said again: "But dreams are just dreams after all. If history repeats itself, I will make the same choice. I can't turn back and leave the tunnel to die with Beihe. Because I My life...is not my own. The times have given me a mission, and I have my responsibilities, so I must live on."

"All...all let me live. They don't let me die."

"Even Beihe said... as much ability as you have, you have to bear as much responsibility. I really have to live."

"They said I was a hero, a great man, and they said I was really important."

"They said that the country needs me, the people need me, and I want to continue that research..."

"But maybe... when I'm old, my memory is bad, and I can't do research, I can finally belong to myself. At that time, I want to live for myself, even if it's only for a moment."

"I don't know how long I will live. But if I can live to a very old age... I am afraid that by then, everyone I know will be dead. Beihe, Dongshui, Nanhu, Xijiang... are all dead. And seven The rest of the army may have died one after another—"

"The Falcon Squad is engaged in classified missions, and the files have been burned one after another."

"You see, they made such a great sacrifice, but no one in this world will know, and no one will remember."

"Nobody remembers them as heroes... except me."

"In this world, I am the only one who remembers their hard work, the blood shed, and the dedication they made..."

"So I can't forget them."

"Maybe aging, the degeneration and shrinkage of the brain, will make me forget everything uncontrollably."

"Then I thought, die before I forget everything completely."

"I want to die with the memory of them."

·

Walking along this long tunnel, Zhou Qian found that everything in front of him actually corresponded to Jiang Yuqing's words in the illusion of the photo.

This tunnel that grows endlessly but has an end is the dream that Jiang Yuqing often has.

In the dream, he finally put aside his identity and mission, and lived a willful life for himself.

Even in his dream, he would not be a deserter, let alone betray the Seventh Army and join the S Army.

He just wanted to die with Bei He.

Now, the young Jiang Yuqing is standing on Zhou Qian's left side.

From his point of view, the person who is close at hand but cannot be touched is Bei He.

This is the end of the tunnel, as long as he holds Bei He's hand, turns around and leads him to escape from the tunnel through a stove, they can die together under the hail of bullets...

Therefore, the road on the left cannot be chosen.

Pushing open that door, the next step is guns, Zhou Qian has no doubt that he will probably be blown to death.

What about the right side?

The old Jiang Yuqing on the right is actually infinitely close to the real Jiang Yuqing at this point in time.

He is old, doesn't remember himself, and is still killing things in the memory world.

In addition, this Jiang Yuqing is in a manic state and has become a B-level "monster".

Zhou Qian didn't need to think about it at all. In fact, he could have guessed that once he entered that room, the old Jiang Yuqing would show his murderous nature again.

He who represents the disease of "senile dementia" will definitely kill himself.

Now Jiang Yuqing has only one day left in his life, and his dementia should be getting worse.

Then the "monsters" corresponding to the conscious world will probably become stronger and stronger, instead of just a mere B-level.

There is no resentment here that can be used by Zhou Qian, and no one can give too much blood.His ult is basically useless.In this case, he is really a war scum.

So for him, actually entering the room on the right also means courting death.

Both ways are dead.

The difference is only that he was killed by a cannonball or killed by Jiang Yuqing himself.

Zhou Qian raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his left wrist to glance at the time, and then looked around the narrow tunnel again.

He suddenly discovered that if he thought about it from another angle... Maybe this tunnel is different from the "West Wharf".

If the old nursing home and room 701 that the players entered were Jiang Yuqing's first level of consciousness world, then the check and balance checkpoint and the West Wharf checkpoint are all deeper consciousness worlds in the consciousness world, that is, the second level of consciousness world .

At first, Zhou Qian thought that this tunnel was the same as the West Wharf and Checks and Balances, and it was also the world of the second level of consciousness.

But seeing that the tunnel was getting narrower and narrower, and his whole body was completely blocked by the walls on both sides, Zhou Qian realized something was wrong.

Perhaps the Tunnel was indeed the second level of consciousness world in the first place.

But now the first layer outside the world is likely to have collapsed.

Today is the third day that Zhou Qian entered the old nursing home.

It was also the last day of Jiang Yuqing's life.

Jiang Yuqing's life has come to the end, and his condition has reached the most serious stage.In the past, only the nurses, vases, security guards and reception desks disappeared one after another, but now the entire old nursing home may have disappeared.

The first layer of consciousness collapsed hopelessly, and the second layer of tunnels overlapped with it, and then replaced it, becoming the first layer of consciousness.

And this is the only consciousness space that the old Jiang Yuqing can support.

A long and authentic road, with an end in the end.

This is a dream made by Jiang Yuqing who left all external responsibilities behind.

Now the space of consciousness is further reduced to a quadrilateral.

The last memory point in Jiang Yuqing's mind stayed here.

·

Just as Zhou Qian thought of this, suddenly, a huge cannon sounded again.

There was another wave of shaking in front of his eyes.

After stabilizing his figure, he found that the front and rear walls had shrunk further.

——In a short time, Jiang Yuqing in the real world will die.He will not even be able to maintain this last bit of authentic memory space.

Exhaling lightly, Zhou Qian turned to the left and walked up to the young Jiang Yuqing.

The young Jiang Yuqing immediately showed a look of joy. He opened his arms, as if he wanted to hug Zhou Qian. He was welcoming Zhou Qian to go in and find him, and then led him out of the tunnel, towards the end of death.

Zhou Qian walked to the glass door and even put his palm on it.

But he didn't push the door open, Zhou Qian just looked at Jiang Yuqing, and said to him: "Actually, once a person dies, it's all over. Death is not terrible. It's the most difficult thing to be alive. So I think... In a sense, you are actually braver than Bei He."

"Jiang Yuqing, you are a very brave and resolute person. Even in your dreams, you never betrayed anyone.

"You are such a great hero."

"Because of this, this dream is just a dream. You don't want to die with Bei He in the past stories. After you die, no one in this world will remember those files, even your name will not be left hero."

"So, dying in the artillery fire of Baicheng together with Beihe, this will not be your last wish."

"And I... I will go find you. Beihe promised to meet you in the past. I will fulfill the promise for him."

"In Beihe's name, I will go to meet you at the end of your life."

After finishing speaking, he waved to the young Jiang Yuqing, Zhou Qian turned around and walked to the other side of the tunnel.

The two sides of the narrow tunnel are actually the same Jiang Yuqing, they just lived in different times and situations.

Now, Zhou Qian seems to have walked from this side of his life to the other side that symbolizes the end.

Quietly stood in front of the glass door on the right for a moment, put his hand on the glass door and pushed gently, Zhou Qian pushed the door open.

·

The moment the glass door was pushed open, there was another tremor.

Zhou Qian looked back - behind him, there was a "bang", and the glass door closed by itself.

Looking across the glass door, the young Jiang Yuqing was slamming on the door in front of him.

But he couldn't open it, and he couldn't get out.

After the ground shook violently for a while, the glass door opposite also disappeared, replaced by another wall.

Immediately afterwards, there were loud noises of "clang, clang, clang", and it turned out that the three walls were constantly closing in the middle.

It didn't take long for the place where Zhou Qian stood when he was doing the multiple-choice questions to be occupied by a solid wall.

The world of consciousness further collapses and closes, narrowing to only a square inch.

And in this square inch of land, only Zhou Qian and the elderly Jiang Yuqing were left.

Before leaving the photo illusion, after Jiang Yuqing answered Zhou Qian's cruel question, he handed him a celadon bottle.

Until now, Zhou Qian finally knew exactly what was in that celadon bottle.

"Come on, Jiang Yuqing." Looking at the old man with cloudy eyes who was close at hand, Zhou Qian said, "You kill me, or I kill you."

【Target: Jiang Yuqing】

[Class: S grade]

【Good at:? ? ? 】

[Warning: The target attack power is extremely strong!The player Zhou Qian was completely unable to resist his attack! 】

[Warning: The target's defense is super high!The player Zhou Qian can't hurt him at all! 】

The target is the incarnation of the master of the conscious world.

Indeed, how can the self in the conscious world defeat the master of this world?

[Player Zhou Qian, the system recently launched a new tombstone, welcome to buy——]

Sure enough, Jiang Yuqing in manic form reappeared.

His attack power has increased significantly, and at this moment his eyes are all red.

He raised his palm and patted Zhou Qian mercilessly.

Kill Bei He and get rid of his related memories, this is the only instruction given to him by this sick brain!

In the intense killing intent, Zhou Qian raised his eyes to Jiang Yuqing without haste.

Zhou Qian's eyes were actually quite gentle.In Bei He's tone, he said lightly, "Mr. Jiang, I love you. That's why I will...kill you gently."

The author has something to say:

Tomorrow may not necessarily be updated on time at 9:[-] am.Maybe in the afternoon or evening.I try to be as early as possible.

In addition, in the next dungeon, "Flowers of Evil" may be written first.Maybe ha.

"Evil is a flower, its color is bright and cold, its fragrance is strong and far away, its appearance is pretty and crisp, it blooms on the edge of hell."

—Introduction to Baudelaire's poem "Flowers of Evil".