Hyperreal board game

"Will human beings who are in a desperate situation be so crazy? It seems that I have expected too much from you..." Mephisto didn't finish speaking, and a little ashes fell from nowhere, which made him stop abruptly After the second half of the sentence.

He raised his eyes and saw that the ashes had fallen from the ends of his bangs.

Starting from the bangs, more and more ashes began to fall, eroding his entire body.

Mephisto was still laughing, as if he thought it would be funny even to be destroyed himself: "How... how did you do it?"

[System prompt: Player Clay's complaint has been accepted, the data imbalance of this module has been detected, and it is being repaired, and redundant NPCs are being removed. 】

Yi Zai also stared at the system prompt in a daze: "Why did it pass as soon as the complaint was made? Isn't he... still a player?"

An Ge watched as the human figure on the opposite side was gradually shrouded in ashes,

"Have you ever heard of Schrödinger's cat?"

Yizai looked serious: "...Why did you jump to quantum physics...Is it okay if I don't ask?"

An Ge continued coldly: "It's not that complicated, but this undetermined superposition state is a bit similar to Schrödinger's description. Because of this ambiguous positioning, Mephisto has the advantages of both players and NPCs, just like The cat hiding in the box has uncertain properties and cannot be described, so it cannot be locked. Then, what we need to do is to open the box."

When the demon in the box is exposed to observation, its attributes must be interfered by the observer, and it is fixed to the state when it is observed, which is the observer effect.

An Ge treats Mephisto as an NPC, and Mephisto also admits it—during this process, the box in which Mephisto hides is opened, placed under the observation of the players, and given a clear Definition.

During the process of An Ge's explanation, Mephisto continued to be ashes, and the ends of his slender limbs were all reduced to fine fly ash, raising choking black smoke in mid-air.

He sighed with a little regret: "Why is this so, at least keep your hands for me to applaud. This is really ugly. I was careless. I would like to admit defeat."

An Ge was still unmoved: "Do you have any last words?"

Mephisto smiled: "Of course, it is better to say the last wish than the last words. Can you bring Faust?"

An Ge didn't say a word, wondering if he had some kind of conspiracy, but Yizi immediately agreed.

He rushed to the master bedroom and found that Faust's shackles had fallen off, but like Mephisto, his body was gradually reduced to ashes.

This made him as light as a piece of cloth, and Yizai easily carried him to the library.

When Mephisto saw him coming in with thick ashes, he showed a gentle and nostalgic look: "This is the first time you have entered the library."

But Faust just sighed in a cold tone as if he was out of it: "Why are you bothering?"

The demon Mephisto was originally a high-level demon that mortals could not deal with, but when he entered the game, he was restricted by the rules of the module, and no matter how powerful he was, he could not use it.

Mephisto was still just smiling, even the outline of the top of his head gradually blurred, ashes began to encroach on the upper half of his face: "Have you ever tried to grow a rose? Plant a green seedling on a beautiful spring morning, day after day Year after year, water and fertilize him, pull weeds and eliminate insects. The sun is too strong, and he is shaded from the sun; Those flowers are so different, they are the only roses in the world, and only belong to you. At that time, you will find that all the hard work is worth it."

So he built a castle for Faust, slaughtered all who came to crusade—from the poor to the priests, from the artisans to the knights—and buried their bones under rose bushes.

With the passage of time, the king who issued the crusade order has long since become a dead body, the legend of the devil has gradually disappeared, and fewer and fewer people went to the castle to die, everything should have ended there.

Faust no longer suffers from the vain loss of innocent life, and sees relief from being forgotten.

However, Mephisto was very dissatisfied and even worried about Faust who had entered a period of peace. He thought it was a sign of Faust's loss of vigor and vitality.

So Mephisto remodeled the castle and released the news.At that time, there were fewer and fewer fanatics, and the crusade against demons was no longer attractive.So he revised the story, added content about the treasure, and coaxed countless careerists, gamblers, treasure hunters, and whimsical adventurers into the castle to die.

Countless human beings died here, contributing their greed, vitality, despair and anger, providing energy for the continuation of the castle, and providing fun for Faust's long and tedious life.

Mephisto said with his remaining lips: "Faust... I did all this for you."

"Stop lying, you're just happy for yourself." Faust's ashes progressed a little later than Mephisto's. He was suspended in the air, with his hands below the elbows and his legs below the knees.For Mephisto's emotional confession, he only responded with a flat rebuttal.

No passion, no resentment, not even exhaustion, almost stripped of all emotions, rebuttals like academic papers.

"You signed the contract with me, and then shared your life with me, not because of any romantic feelings, but simply for fun. So if I feel pain because of the tragic death of one innocent human being, you will kill a hundred innocent people, If I get sick from pollen allergies, you'll fill the castle with roses..."

Yi Zai: "Such a serious secondary illness? Are you demons like this?"

Noticing everyone's gazes, Yizai made a gesture of zipping his mouth: "I shut up."

Mephisto sighed at last: "But, my dear Faust, this is the love of the devil..."

It was too late for him to hear the answer, and the remaining parts quickly turned into ashes and fell to the ground with rustling.

With about half of his body left, Faust turned to An Ge: "You really did it..."

An Ge said, "I didn't expect either..."

Faust said: "I don't have much time, so let's finish the game. It's your turn to get the book."

Yizai raised his voice: "What did you say?! It's a lost game, why continue!"

An Ge stared at Faust, he bent down to take a book as he showed no malice from the other party.

Sure enough, Faust then took 3 copies, leaving a remainder of 29.

After several rounds, only one book was left for An Ge.

An Ge touched it without hesitation.

[System prompt: The game is over, NPC Faust wins]

[Player Clay loses the qualification to obtain the Origin Library]

[Player Clay gets the last book as a consolation prize]

[Congratulations to player Clay for clearing this module, and then enter the settlement stage]

[Congratulations to the player Yizai for clearing this module, and then enter the settlement stage]

An Ge and Faust looked at each other, and Faust said, "Goodbye."

An Ge asked: "In the future... are you still there?"

Faust smiled and shook his head, "There will probably be a new NPC to replace me."

Then, An Ge and Yi Zai disappeared from where they were.

Faust was also quickly reduced to ashes, falling lightly to the floor.

Centering on the ashes on the ground, it spread outward again, and the entire library began to drop ashes. Immediately afterwards, the entire castle, and the entire rose garden were all reduced to fly ash.

An Ge sorted out the newly acquired props, money, and cp points, and then hurriedly exited the game.

When he exited, he found that his arm was firmly grasped.

Yi Zai sat beside him, held his right hand with both hands, raised his sleeves and looked at it carefully, with a sad face, "It's all my fault."

An Ge moved his good right hand and rubbed Luan Yizai's hair: "Stop it, I'm exhausted from this game. I'll take a break and go eat hot pot in the afternoon."

Yi Zai nodded repeatedly, followed him step by step and planned to enter the bedroom.

An Ge blocked the bedroom door: "What are you doing?"

Only then did Yizi stop: "Oh, I'm used to sleeping together..."

An Ge scolded him with a smile, turned around and fell asleep on the bed.

So he didn't notice that the young boy stood at his door with a serious expression for a long time.

In the special committee's office, besides laptops and file folders, there are five ashtrays stuffed in every corner on the large desk, and four and a half piles of cigarette butts are piled up.

A thin, unshaven man with a cigarette in his mouth is holding a tablet computer and looking at documents.

After turning a few pages, his eyes, thick with dark circles behind his curly hair, opened a little, and he began to read carefully.

"... Chaos Point No. 042 was successfully destroyed."

"The implementers are two newcomers..."

He quickly swiped a few times and called out the personnel list.

"An Ge and Yue Zimo? I seem to have heard of it somewhere..." The man muttered to himself, lazily huddled in the swivel leather chair and looked up at the sky, then showed a troubled expression as if remembering something, scratched With messy half-length curly hair, started calling: "Hello, my dear sister... wait... don't hang up!"