After straying into the infinite game

Chapter 18 The 7st Fish

Hao Yun's heart "thumped", and she raised her head.

The tears in the corners of the eyes of the mermaid statue seemed real, Hao Yun knew that she really wanted to cry.

But she couldn't feel any sign that the mermaid statue was a living thing, and she obviously didn't have any consciousness, and she would respond when someone asked her for help...

Stupid.

Hao Yun had such an idea out of nowhere.

Although the mermaid statue feels warm to the touch, it still has a solid and thick texture like a stone.

It is indeed not a living thing, Hao Yun confirmed.Although it has warmth and the sculpture is lifelike, the tears in the corners of the eyes seem to flow down the next moment... but it is not a living thing.

There is no why.

What does it mean to be alive?Hao Yun was troubled by this problem for a long time.

Although the problem still exists.

Have consciousness?Can you breathe?This is just the most superficial understanding of the concept of "alive"...Hao Yun doesn't think that a statue is still alive, even if she once really existed.

so what.

She felt sadness, deep sadness, just like the little mermaid who jumped into the sea and turned into foam in a fairy tale, it was heart-piercing pain and love.

It's not her emotion.

She complained before that low-level ghosts have no brains, but in fact, she herself is half-hearted... No matter how you look at it, she can be regarded as the first half of the heartless category.

It is "no heart" in the true sense.

The ghost's heart is not just an ordinary organ, but a concept that is very complicated to explain.And it's very rare that not everyone has this kind of "heart"...Hao Yun just knows.

And her well-maintained body has a heart, but that's just an illusion.

Hao Yun put down his hand.

"If you want to pass on your emotions to me through touch, then you may be disappointed." Hao Yun said, the heart-piercing feeling just now was still echoing in her chest, but she didn't touch it in the slightest.

"Emotions will become a burden after time accumulates and accumulate. It's useless for you to give it to me. I'm not you. Since I can't feel anything from it, I don't have much empathy." Hao Yun paused, "You should have been alive in the past, right? Do you still have your own consciousness now? It seems that you don't have any."

The mermaid statue remained motionless, and the teardrops in the corners of its eyes were particularly eye-catching.

"You cured the middle-aged man's leg, what is the condition? Or is there no condition." Hao Yundao, "It's a pity that you are not the mermaid I am looking for. If you die, you will not be recognized by the game system to complete the task. One People have coveted it for so long, what is there to say."

Prayer is the only room in the entire baptistery with a skylight design.The rest of the rooms are roofed, and the stained-glass windows let in so little light that most of the rooms are dim.

But the prayer room is different.

No matter which window here is just an ordinary glass window, the lighting is very good.A large glass dome casts a layer of natural daylight on everything in the prayer room.

The sunlight shone on the mermaid statue like a layer of holy light.

Hao Yun raised his head, while the mermaid statue lowered its head.

She thought of the paintings on the stained glass windows. Why would the Virgin and the Mermaid be equated?

"I now believe that you are not a copy monster."

After losing consciousness, in the face of others asking for help, since they will help.It's like helping others has become an instinct, but I died in this place.It's a stupid fish, Hao Yun thought.

"I know what you are thinking and what you want to do. I am familiar with these emotions." Hao Yun stepped off the pedestal of the statue, turned his head suddenly, and looked at the statue of Renyun.

"I will send you back to the sea again."

"I make a promise, I promise."

Promise is very important to Hao Yun, and it seems that someone told her so in her memory... She can no longer remember the vague existence in her memory.

who told herWhy can't she remember again?

What did she promise?

【Ding dong! 】

Suddenly all the players in the game heard such a notification sound, including Xu Chunlai who sneaked in.Hao Yun is very familiar with this player notification sound. When a player is eliminated, this sound will appear when the subtitles appear.

But when the middle-aged people were eaten by murloc monsters until there was nothing left, they obviously didn't!

Doesn't that count as being eliminated?Hao Yun thinks it is unlikely, because players who are swallowed by ghosts will also be counted as dead and the game will fail.

This also naturally gave other people an impression that in this game where life is the condition, failure means death.

[Player: Li An has been confirmed dead.Players remaining: 4. 】

Four!

She herself, Xu Chunlai, the young man... Not counting the dead Li An, there were obviously only three of them.

Where is the fourth person?

If a new player loads in this morning, he or he will definitely be carried into the restaurant by the nun in black, and then the nun in black will repeat the precautions for this dungeon again.If it was refreshed last night, Hao Yun did not find any new players refreshed... and it is not impossible for the mermaid to be violently descaled.

There were no newcomers at breakfast time today, and the nun who was the guide was not mentioned.

And the middle-aged man, the middle-aged man who died before her eyes last night.

Could it be said that a middle-aged person who is eaten clean is not counted as death?Then how does he exist now?How does he "live"?

Hao Yun suddenly remembered... When the murloc monster gnawed on the middle-aged man's body, at first the middle-aged man screamed and blood flowed all over the ground... But when the strange transparent liquid flowed out, the middle-aged man's body The screaming stopped.

All of this transparent liquid flowed into the sewer mouth, leaving nothing behind.

After Li An was polluted and began to alienate, he always wanted to drink water involuntarily, and he didn't realize it... This mutation brought the kind of fine small fish scale lines and heavy fishy smell, and it is likely to cause The conditions for the murloc monsters to attack... This phenomenon will only appear to players who have stayed in the game for a long time.

What caused this phenomenon to appear and occur?time?

This is the second day she entered the instance.

And what she can be sure of now is that the so-called baptism of eternal life is the time limit of this dungeon.Compared with the "unknown life and death" after being attacked by a murloc monster, after being baptized, it is the elimination announced by the game.

Before he knew it, Hao Yun walked to the door of the restaurant, which was open.

The whole building is not big. Hao Yun walked around the whole island on the first day he entered the game. It only takes a few minutes to walk from the baptismal hall and prayer room to the restaurant.

The nuns in black seemed to appear out of thin air. Players would never be able to pinpoint their positions and could only wait for them to appear unilaterally—there was no resting room for the two nuns in this simple house. Although it doesn't rule out the possibility that they live in those thirteen rooms just like the players.

When Hao Yun turned his head, the nun in black was holding a quaint earthenware pot, on which the precipitation of time had been left, giving it a gray and rustic texture.The nun in black was pouring water into a water tank in the restaurant.

It is fresh water.

The nun in black still had gauze wrapped around her hands, and this blood-stained gauze showed her identity.The blood on the arm had dried up, and the wound did not continue to ooze out, so it was obviously healed.

The fairy in black saw Hao Yun and said, "Miss Hao Yun, good morning."

Hao Yun felt a bit of gnashing of teeth, but the nun in black was no different from usual... Hao Yun walked into the restaurant and asked, "What are you doing?"

Due to the identity of the guide in the game, the nun can answer almost everything the player asks.Facing Hao Yun's question, the nun in black's left eyelid twitched... She didn't want to answer.

"I'm pouring holy water," replied the nun in black.

The fresh water in the restaurant is the only fresh water resource on the island, and it is also an indispensable guarantee for the survival of other players.But Hao Yun didn't move. After she entered the instance, she just took two mouthfuls of unpalatable black bread.

She has never drank this holy water because of one reason, the fishy smell is too strong.

Although the whole building, except the prayer room, was soaked in this perennial stench, it was a nauseating smell, so-called holy water, unique.

"Holy water? What is this?" Hao Yun continued to ask.

Last night before curfew, the water tank was bottomed out, and it was full again this morning.Li An kept drinking water during breakfast, and the water in the water tank did not decrease.

What was poured out of the clay pot was a strange transparent liquid that seemed to glow in the sun.

"Holy water is holy water." Since the question could not be avoided, the black-clothed nun gave a serious answer, "Holy water can wash away the filth in your body, and it is an indispensable condition before facing baptism."

The nun in black finished pouring out the water in the clay pot, put the pot aside casually, and was about to run away.

"Wait." Hao Yun stopped her.

"What's the matter? Miss Hao Yun, is there anything else?" The nun in black kept smiling.

"Is holy water fresh water?"

"How can such a miraculous blessing as holy water be such an ordinary thing!" The nun in black smiled, "The murlocs saved our ancestors, entrusted them to this holy land, and taught them the ability to survive. Method—for the blessing of Haiyang, the mermaid cut off a drop of her own blood."

This is the concealed and unclear content in the middle of the slate.

"The blue treasure brought people back to life, and the mermaid showed her incomparable beauty." The nun in black smiled, "This drop of water was revered as holy water by the ancestors, and by virtue of the holy water, they escaped the troubles of reincarnation—so Hao Yun Miss, I wonder if you don't expect the eternal life that baptism brings?"

What baptism brings is not eternal life, but the loss of the game.

"You suddenly told me so much. These stories can actually be read in the book in the room where the blessings are stored... I never look forward to eternal life."

Hao Yun said: "Death is only a necessary part of life, and it is indispensable. A life without any part of a link cannot be called life. So you, tell me these things—"

"Are you trying to trick me?"

The nun in black froze.

Li Ang is actually very similar to other players in the game. They are all people who will do whatever it takes to survive-the will to survive of such people is unmatched by others.Li An was even willing to risk the possibility of failure to try such a possibility at the last moment. She even considered taking the place of the dead ghost. Obviously, she was unwilling to end her own life.

What made her accept the baptism calmly and without resistance?Or do you want to die willingly?

Hao Yun didn't care, but the nun in black just mentioned her... After discovering the mutation, Li An's attitude towards the baptism changed.

She didn't resist too much, and vaguely looked forward to this kind of thing that could obtain "eternal life."

Acceptable baptism is obviously the time limit of the game. If the time limit is exceeded, the game will fail... What changed Ang Lee's view of baptism?

Could it be the so-called mutation that led her to gradually believe in the existence of "eternal life".

The blue gem refers to the first drop of blood that the mermaid gave to the ancestors. According to the nun in black, this blood is the so-called holy water, so why is the so-called holy water a transparent liquid?

If it was just a simple gift of a drop of blood, how could there be such intense hatred and heart-piercing pain?

"Miss Hao Yun, how can you say that." The nun in black said, "I know that many people are not sincere about their beliefs. You children who came to the baptism even tried to destroy the mermaid statue—— However, participating in baptism to obtain eternal life is the most important sign in your life, it is the sign of your new life."

"This is a precious opportunity that you have been destined to have since you were born, and everyone has this opportunity." The nun in black said, "Since this is the case, why do you deliberately have this kind of opportunity?"

"Miss Hao Yun, many things are not as you imagined. I have something else to do, so I'm sorry." The nun in black brushed past her and walked out the door.

"Someone died."

The nun in black didn't stop, but walked even faster. If it wasn't for maintaining his posture, he would even choose to run instead of walk.

"The middle-aged man I came in on the first day disappeared. Answer me, is he dead?" Hao Yun said coldly, "If you don't want me to take off your arm."

The nun in black stopped.

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The author has something to say:

Suddenly found that I set a flag when I started the article, and vowed to write 1 words in a week.

According to a week and four months, the 4th is the second week of the second month.

It is 5 weeks from the opening of the article on May 1st, which translates to 6 words.

我想……感谢在2021-06-0612:33:15~2021-06-1121:21:36期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Moon Crow;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!