I'm a god in the infinite game

The moment Mu Ke finished reading the fairy tale, everyone's system panel popped up:

[System prompt: Congratulations for unlocking the main task]

[This is a kingdom of gold that is paying the price. Please find the key item, the hourglass of time, and turn the pain of the kingdom of gold into tears and store it in the hourglass. Make sacrifices to the gods, complete deals, and turn back time to bring the Golden Kingdom back to what it used to be. 】

"The hourglass of time?" Mu Sicheng frowned and asked, "What is this?"

"It should be an item in this dungeon that can reverse time." Liu Jiayi replied, she frowned slightly, "...reverse time, the effect of this item is similar to the skill of the Golden Dawn captain."

"Will it matter?"

"Skills? Derived from the core of the player's desires, and props are gods, or the settings of the system." Bai Liu touched his chin thoughtfully, "I? This is the first time I've seen it in the game? When it comes to time props and time skills? If there is a certain relationship between the two, it should be that people's desires are affected by the existing settings, and similar items are derived."

"Then according to this inference, the captain of the Golden Dawn, Georgia, maybe this country has some kind of close connection that we don't know yet."

"If this conjecture is true, this may be a breakthrough, but it is also their advantage." Bai Liu spread his hands, "They must be more familiar with this map than we are, for example, we do not know now Where to find this so-called hourglass of time, and that Georgia captain probably knows it."

"But we? We are not completely clueless." Mu Ke raised his head, and he turned the fairy tale book in his hand to the first few pages, "Although the hourglass of time is not explicitly mentioned in this fairy tale, but it is A picture book of fairy tales, the pictures here—"

Mu Ke pointed to some children's drawings in the fairy tale book: "It is about the time when God traded with the ancient Luolun Kingdom 1000 years ago. See? Did you see it? When the transaction was established, God handed it to the king. "

"This should be the proof of their transaction."

Bai Liu's eyes swept away, and his eyes stopped on the hand of the god on the screen——

——In the hand of God is a delicate gray-black hourglass.

Meanwhile, the other end.

"The Hourglass of Time?" Chris stared at the silent Georgia, "Captain, since you are familiar with this place, do you know what it is? Where is it hidden?"

Georgia remained silent for a moment, and then spoke again. Chris could no longer detect any traces of emotion, so calm that there was no wave: "I know."

"It's just that the place is a bit dangerous. Inform the other team members to prepare mental bleach, and come with me?"

"Spiritual bleach?" Chris asked quickly, "Is that a place with heavy mental pollution?"

"Well, not only mental pollution, but also physical pollution." Georgia looked up, "The Hourglass of Time is in the gold mining area."

After Georgia finished speaking, she lowered her eyes and looked at the fairy tale book in her hand——different from what Bai Liu and the others got, the fairy tale book in Georgia's hand [The Kingdom of Gold of God's Dependent] did not pay the price in 1000 years Time came to an abrupt end, and there was no mention of the Hourglass of Time, but a detailed description of the transaction process between the ancient Loren King and the gods at that time.

"Father." The young Georgia raised her head and asked her father inexplicably, "Why? My fairy tale books are different from those of other people on the market."

——It can even be said that it is a completely different fairy tale.

The fairy tales read by children in the market are sweet and innocent, and God loves the world, but in the fairy tale book Georgia got, God does not love the world, and it is even a bit scary, because the god smiled and said to the king , At that time, I? Will come to charge all your people? Pain. You must let their tears fill this hourglass, otherwise the pain will never stop.

The king at that time agreed, and he asked God, what kind of tears do we need to fill this hourglass.

God told the king that the hourglass can be filled only when he feels the tears shed from the pain of a thousand years of gold. When the tears fall into the hourglass, the hourglass and time are reversed together, and the transaction is completed. , the pain ceases.

Georgia wondered, "Does this hourglass really exist?"

The king was silent for a while: "It exists, but everyone doesn't know it."

"Why? Why don't you let everyone know?" Georgia shook her head disapprovingly. "The fairy tales you read all say that God bestows gold and blessings on people because they love the world. They believe that they are descendants of God. Only people who live in this world will be able to live? Then..."

"Happiness is it?" the king sighed and touched Georgia's head, "but? tell them the truth, tell them that there really is an hourglass that needs to be filled with pain and tears, in addition to making them less happy, What's the use?"

Georgia froze.

"In everyone's mind, Ancient Loren has always been a country of gold isolated from the world." The king stood up on the edge of the bed, and he walked out of the window, bathed in the moonlight, looking at the lush and peaceful land, feeling disappointed Sighing deeply, "This is a country like a fairy tale. Everyone believes that they are living in a fairy tale, that they are blessed by God, and there will never be a moment when disaster strikes."

"That's why fairy tale books in this country are so popular."

"Even the fairy tales here." The king turned his head and looked at Georgia, "will stop at the moment when the price will be paid in 1000 years."

"Isn't it me? I deliberately let everyone not know, and deleted the second half of the fairy tale? I deceived them. The fairy tale book that was promoted nationwide at the beginning was the one in your hand."

The king spread his hands helplessly: "But it was the people who resisted fiercely. They felt that this is not the case in fairy tales, and neither is the kingdom of gold. Everyone should be full of hope and happiness, and live carefree forever in the In the fairy tale, so I cut out the second half, so that this fairy tale can be promoted."

"But? It's just..." Georgia shook his head lightly. His education made him unable to criticize the voice of the people, but he really didn't agree with it, so he frowned, "It's just..."

"It's just deceiving yourself, isn't it?" The king smiled wryly. "Sometimes I? Think? There's nothing wrong with deceiving yourself like this. I'll also deceive myself when I'm happy. I'll lie to myself that those 1000 years really won't come, and the gods really will come." will belong to our country forever."

"But? Those 1000 years will come." Georgia replied firmly, "Just as gold will come as promised, so will pain."

The king stared blankly at Georgia for a while, then turned his head and leaned on the fence, lowered his head and muttered to himself: "...Georgia, your non-escaping pain makes me feel ashamed."

"When we became king, when we got the crown, we also got an hourglass."

"Every king of Ancient Loren will receive a crown, but few people know that along with the succession of the king, there will be an hourglass. It is said that this is the hourglass of time passed down from generation to generation by the first king."

"On the day I became king, my predecessor was about to die. He was tortured by the disease for a long time and was in great pain. When he was dying, let me put the hourglass on his face and try hard to Squeezing down tears and finally shed a drop, he watched with anticipation and ecstasy as the tear fell into the hourglass."

"He longed for this tear to fill the hourglass and end the thousand-year deal, but unfortunately, the tear fell into the hourglass, just like water drops into the sea, without a sound."

"The previous king died in pain and consternation. Before he died, he held his hand firmly and told me that the millennium is coming. Before the gods come to take away the suffering of the people, the king It is our duty to fill the hourglass."

"—[Never let the people who grew up in fairy tales not believe in fairy tales, this is the king's dereliction of duty], so he told me."

The king turned his head, his eyes were red and his lips were trembling: "So on the night when I lost? Your mother, I? Thought of this hourglass, I? Trying to fill it, but? So many tears falling in? This hourglass, the cracks are not even filled."

"I? Started to fear this hourglass. Even the tears shed by the pained people who died and lost their loved ones couldn't fill it. I? I don't know what pain there is in this world that can fill this hourglass."

"So I? Escaped, I? Cowardly hid this hourglass in the mine where gold was born."

"After hiding the hourglass in the mining area, I started to have nightmares." The king's face was full of fear visible to the naked eye, "I'll dream about that god."

"He smiled and told me that the 1000-year covenant is coming, and he will come to this world, remove the protective shield, reduce the production of gold, and pay us for our pain."

"Then remove the protective cover and reduce gold production." The young Georgia showed an unreasonable calmness, "We shouldn't exchange the pain of the people for these things that don't belong to us Gold, after this period of time, everything will be fine again."

"It won't get better!" The king shed tears. He became a little hysterical, with an unconcealable fear on his face. "When there is no more gold, everything will become... a waste!"

"We have lived a life of sleeping on gold for 1000 years. We all live in fairy tales. No one can imagine that gold cannot be dug out of the ground. By that time, everyone will starve to death and freeze to death! "

"I must find a way to fill the hourglass before the 1000-year covenant comes." His father said with tears.

Unfortunately, when the last moment came, the hourglass was still not filled.

Georgia lowered her eyes: "Go to the mining area and look for the hourglass."

Meanwhile, the other end.

The inhaled dust made Mu Sicheng cough several times. He covered his mouth and nose, and wiped away the bulletin board of a building.

They are still running maps to collect information, looking for the possible location of the Hourglass of Time.

The good news is that there is no interference from the enemy, and they scanned the map? Soon, the bad news is that there is no interference from the enemy, and they probably went in the wrong direction.

But? This copy map is really too big. Mu Sicheng can move extremely fast, but even if he scans the map at full speed, he can't run to any side of the border for a while. He wears a headset , reporting information to the rear while running forward, he collects the information and then processes the information, so that the scanning speed will be much faster.

"I saw a bulletin board in a department." Mu Sicheng coughed louder and louder, "Ahem, I took a picture and sent it to Muke. Look? Look?."

Soon, Mu Ke's noisy voice came from Musi Cheng's headset: "It's the bulletin board of the Gold Issuance Department."

"Gold Issuance Office?" Mu Sicheng asked suspiciously, "What kind of strange department is this?"

"I don't know, but? Judging from the content of the announcement?, it should be the official department that manages the issuance and operation of gold." Mu Ke explained calmly, "There are three announcements on this bulletin board."

"The first one is to regret to announce that there are 57 mining sites in the country, and the gold mining volume of the 7 large mining sites has continued to decline for two consecutive years. In the past six months, the total amount of gold mined has even been less than one ton, and it cannot even maintain the operation of the country. "

"The second announcement is to announce the recent suspension of the welfare policy that every adult citizen can receive 600g of gold for free every month."

"The last announcement is..." Mu Ke's voice became? Hesitating for a while, "Please wait a moment, this announcement has been? smeared, I? Can't see it clearly."

Mu Si Cheng hugged his chest and let out a hum, he glanced at the last bulletin on the bulletin board that was wiped clean by him—actually, it is understandable why Mu Ke couldn’t see this clearly, this The announcement was heavily smeared, with a lot of exclamation points marked with red marker pens, densely packed, and looked very emotional.

"I? Probably read the last announcement clearly." Mu Ke's voice was still hesitant, "But? I? Not sure if I? Translated? Right."

"The specific content of the announcement is that the heir to the royal family of Ancient Loren (that is, the eldest prince) insisted on promoting cooperation with the Bureau of Heresy Management, requiring the Bureau of Disposal of Heresy to enter the country of Ancient Loren, and sternly claiming that the gold produced in the mining area is heresy. It will cause adverse effects on people, prohibit the public from mining privately, ask the public to stay away from the mining area, and prepare to hand over the mining area to the Bureau of Heresy."

"Those scribbled words on it should have been written by the excited people at that time."

"It's [Georgian traitors get out of the ancient Loren Kingdom!], [The Bureau of Heresy is here to steal our gold, get out of the Ancient Loren Kingdom!]."

"【How can the production of gold decrease?! Did the other gold produced in the mining area be hidden by the traitor Georgia? Return the hidden gold to us!】"

"[Georgia go? Die!!]."

After a while, Bai Liu's calm voice came from the headset: "It seems that we already know the most likely place to hide the hourglass."

"Mu Si, sincerely, prepare mental bleach, pay attention to the time limit of skills, and go to the mining area."