The Gua Master agreed very happily, and Li Weidong was somewhat surprised. Later, he heard that Mr. Yuan had foreseen such a request from him, which made Li Weidong's bad premonition become even stronger.
But no matter whether the truth is good or bad, it must be faced. Li Weidong asked Shen Tian to stay in the cabin at the foot of the mountain and wait for him, while he and the Gua Master entered the Holy City, the main city of mankind, through teleporters. The descendants of the Dragon Clan have made a careful plan to unlock the seal, and Shen Tian plays the most critical role in it. She should be safe at least until five o'clock in the afternoon the day after tomorrow.
Northeast of the Holy City, Pilgrimage Mountain, coordinates 643 and 912. This is the Tower of Confession where Shen Tian was imprisoned before. Choosing to meet in such a desolate and remote place seems to have been arranged by the civil affairs officer Mr. Yuan.
It was another early morning, and the vast chaotic world woke up from the silence of the night. The sun had just risen, and the golden light passed through the branches of the forest and fell on the lush grass. Goats and hares were leisurely looking for delicious grass stems, and birds The children chirped happily and flew into the sky.
Since Pilgrimage Mountain has no daily tasks and is not a regular monster spawning spot, few players visit it, which makes this world fresher and more natural. It is April, the season when grass grows and orioles fly. Unknown wild flowers are in bloom, either dotted or in clusters, vying for beauty. The air is filled with the unique vitality of spring.
Li Weidong had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery in front of him at this time, and the expression on his face was solemn as never before. He could not have predicted the outcome of today's meeting with Mr. Yuan. In other words, even though Li Weidong had vaguely guessed the truth of the matter, he didn't know if he could think of a way to stop it.
"My lord, um I have something to ask you, can I ask you?" Just when Li Weidong was about to step into the Tower of Confession, the hexagram master suddenly hesitated and said.
Li Weidong was slightly startled, turned to look at the divination master, and said, "If you want to persuade me to give up meeting Mr. Yuan, I'm afraid your efforts will be in vain."
"No, no, that's not what I meant." The divination master pushed the teleporter away, looked around to make sure no one was there, and then said in a low and cautious voice: "Actually, the astrologer came to see me the night before yesterday. He said ¡ He said that he still had some doubts about the Dragon Clan¡¯s revival plan, and he hoped that I could go with him to talk to Mr. Yuan, but I refused. As for you, I know that in your heart, you have always believed that the Dragon Clan has taken advantage of and deceived you. You, but no matter what, you are now our respected leader. If this plan can succeed, with the strength of our sacred dragon clan, coupled with your wisdom and the guidance of the gods, we will definitely regain everything we lost before. You will definitely become the strongest being on the Hunshi Continent! Isn¡¯t such a reward still satisfactory to you? Is the so-called truth so important to you and the astrologer? "
Li Weidong said calmly: "Then what is more important? If you can do something without asking the reason, no matter whether it is right or wrong, what is the difference between justice and evil?"
The Gua Master's expression clearly showed a trace of disdain, and said: "No matter what justice is, no matter what evil is, there is no such thing as right or wrong in this world. Success and defeat are the laws that will never change! The Continent of the World is originally a movie of blood and killing. The written history has not changed for thousands of years. Countless creatures die every day on this land, and countless crimes are performed every day. Can the truth be found out in everything? Sir, Mr. History, It is written by the strong, whoever wins is justice and whoever is the truth!¡±
Li Weidong stared at the divination master for a while, then shook his head and said with a sneer: "That's right. Whoever wins will follow. There has never been a shortage of such people from ancient times to the present. If you have one more, you will not have more. If you have one less, you will not have more." Quite a few. But I just want to give you a piece of advice: No one knows who will lose or win until the end of the matter. Of course, you can get some benefits by choosing the right master, but you are afraid that you will be on the wrong team Haha, You are a smart person and you should know the outcome better than me, right?"
The old face of the Gua Master was obviously red, and he seemed to want to say something else, but Li Weidong was not in the mood to listen to his preaching here, so he turned around and walked into the stone tower.
Because the Tower of Confession has no windows, it is eerie both day and night. Although there are torches lit, it still makes people feel uncomfortable. The stone tower was empty, with neither dragon guards nor NPC union members. It was very quiet, with only the crackling sound of burning torches from time to time.
Climbing up the decaying stairs to the eleventh floor, which was the floor where the dragon guards previously imprisoned Shen Tian, ??the light suddenly brightened in front of them, and there were a dozen candlesticks as tall as a person, surrounding them. , illuminating a space that is neither spacious nor narrow as bright as day.
Completely different from the dilapidation and decay of the ten floors below, this stone tower is obviously much more luxurious. The ground floor is covered with green-brown carpets with five-color auspicious cloud patterns embroidered on them. Bright yellow curtains and gold silk necklaces hang from the walls. As the candlelight sways, the pearls appear. The golden thread shines brilliantly, showing?Magnificent.
There is a small green wood table in the middle, and a middle-aged man is sitting on the ground, reading a shabby thread-bound ancient book. This man is about forty or fifty years old, with a slightly stout figure. He wears a dark red robe and a black gauze official hat. He has a kind round face and an ordinary appearance. He is the person in charge of the game. An NPC that serves immigration, donation and collection tasks, Mr. Yuan, the civil administrator who should have appeared in the Eternal Temple of the Holy City!
"Nice to see you." Hearing someone coming up, Mr. Yuan raised his head, smiled and nodded at Li Weidong, and said, "I know you will definitely come to me, Rogue Halo, you need God's guidance. Sit down."
As an NPC who is mainly responsible for fundraising and collection, the Civil Affairs Officer always seems to have a humble expression, nodding and bowing to everyone, with a look on his face to please. Even if you only donate a piece of steel, he will be filled with praises and praises. At this moment, Mr. Yuan also had a smile on his face, but his usual humility was gone. Instead, he had a graceful and calm look. His simple words conveyed a kind of majesty that people could not refuse. tolerance.
Li Weidong pursed his lips tightly, stared at Mr. Yuan¡¯s kind face, slowly walked to him and sat down cross-legged, and said, "What can God guide me?"
Mr. Yuan closed the ancient book in his hand and said, "Then, what do you want to know?"
Li Weidong said one word at a time: "I just want to know if you have ever heard of a saying, which is called the greedy snake swallows the elephant. Often the more ambitious a person is, the more ugly his death will be! Mr. President, now you have already You can control the wind and rain in the chaotic world and become a dominant existence, but have you ever thought about what will happen if your plan fails?"
"Oh?" Mr. Yuan seemed to frown imperceptibly, but then he laughed and said: "Rogue Halo, this question seems to have exceeded the scope of the gods. How should I answer you?"
Li Weidong also smiled, but his smile was full of sarcasm and coldness. He said in a slow and even strange voice: "Stop pretending, there are only you and me here, so there is no need to act anymore. You know very well which world I come from." , just as I also know who you are, right?¡±
It is a bit outrageous to say such a thing to an NPC in a virtual world, or such a question should be beyond the NPC's ability to understand. But Li Weidong stared at the civil affairs officer Mr. Yuan without blinking, as if he was very sure that the other party could understand every word he said.
Mr. Yuan's pupils shrank obviously, and his eyes suddenly became sharp, like a sharp knife slowly scraping back and forth from Li Weidong's face. The smile on his face disappeared bit by bit, and it took a while. Said: "I know something, you might as well tell me."
"Okay. Since you don't want to admit it, let me say it for you." Li Weidong's eyes suddenly became a little complicated, and he paused for a moment before saying: "To be honest, until now I don't know whether I should admire you or not. What I have seen There are many ambitious people, but if you add them all up, I'm afraid they can't compare to you. I even thought about whether this was a crazy joke made by some boring person? But I soon understood, This is simply an excuse for me not to face reality. Your existence can no longer be explained simply by the word crazy!"
"When I got the storage ring and entered the game, I thought I was getting a legendary adventure. I was very happy to have opened the so-called hidden plot of the mixed world game. I completed every task seriously. Until I joined the NPC Guild, and you forced me to bring the sacred dragon egg to the real world, and I realized that things might not be as simple as I thought. I guessed that the game program might have mutated or evolved, and I specially designed it for this purpose. I obtained the most original background information about this online game from the official website of Hunshi. The original author of the Hunshi game was very vague about the background of the dragon clan, but the dragon plot in the game is so mysterious and complicated, so I began to wonder if I had encountered something. Something scary: artificial intelligence!¡±
Li Weidong's voice was not high, and he spoke every word very slowly. Until he said the four words artificial intelligence, Mr. Yuan raised his eyebrows, as if he wanted to say something, but Li Weidong raised his hand to stop him, and said with a sneer: " Do you want to deny it? Is this necessary? There are only you and me here now. We know each other well, and there seems to be no need to hide it. I also understand that if I tell anyone else except you and me, no matter who it is, In either the real or virtual world, you will definitely be regarded as a lunatic. Mr. President, I think I am not that idiotic yet, so you can just let me finish my sentence."
Mr. Yuan closed his eyes and raised his head, took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. A strange smile began to spread from the corners of his lips, making the originally kind and majestic face change at this moment. Insidious and evil, like a cunning wolf seeing its prey, and finallyYu gradually bared its fangs!
"Well, I don't object to what you say." Mr. Yuan opened his eyes, looked at Li Weidong with a playful look, and said, "Please continue, I am all ears."
Li Weidong sighed softly and said: "Messenger of God, are you finally willing to take off your disguise? Ha! In fact, I had such doubts a long time ago, but out of instinct I have been denying my judgment. , I ignored what kind of disaster it would cause if a program possessed human thoughts. The astrologers were right, this world is far more evil and crazy than I imagined!"
"Mr. President, although I have suspected the mutation of the game program, I have not been able to connect the virtual world with the real world, and I have not been able to guess your real purpose. This can not but be said to be an oversight on my part. Plus you It has been hidden behind the scenes, and all my tasks are handled by astrologers, so I subjectively think that maybe these programs with AI are just loyal to their own dragon bloodline and want to revive their own race. But this time when I enter the game, the dragon family The Saint ate the Holy Fruit and returned to the game, and I realized that I had been fooled and used by you all this time!"
"Is it really as simple as recasting the Gate of Time and Space just to unlock the seal of the Dragon Clan? The Spider Queen once told me that the Gate of Time and Space connects to other worlds, and its existence and destruction were far earlier than those of the Dragon Clan. Seal, that is to say, there is no necessary connection between the Gate of Time and Space and the dragon seal!"
"So I finally figured out the true meaning of the Nine Artifacts and the Gate of Time and Space. In fact, the real purpose of this plan is not to unlock the seal of the Dragon Clan at all, but to use the Gate of Time and Space to transport the sealed Dragon Clan to another Space is the real world I live in! The reason why you asked me to bring the dragon egg to reality and hatch the saint in the name of a mysterious gift is because you don¡¯t know whether traveling through time and space is feasible, so you use her despicably. Be your guinea pig!"
"This crazy plan, I thought it was jointly formulated by all the members of the Secret Guild and the descendants of the surviving dragons on the Hunshi Continent. I was even surprised that these programs have evolved into AI and can derive various Maps and characters, why go through so much trouble to let me, a real-world player, participate, waste so long time, and make up various plots and tasks to directly create a time and space gate to travel to the place you want? Wouldn¡¯t the world we went to be better? But then the death of the astrologer overturned my judgment. Mr. President, I don¡¯t mind telling you that the astrologer actually died of suicide. His death really made me understand one thing: Behind the secret guild, there has always been a mastermind behind the scenes. It was this mastermind who concocted the plot about the sacred dragon clan and infected it with other programs, the so-called descendants of the dragon clan. Then this mastermind created a revival The banner of the Dragon Clan makes the descendants of the Dragon Clan willingly sacrifice their lives for him!"
"The astrologer is very pitiful. Until his death, he firmly believed that the blood of the dragon race was flowing in his body. He loved his race so much that he even sacrificed his life. As a key member of the secret guild, he was also the deputy guild who issued tasks to me. Commander, he must have noticed the conspiracy and ambition behind the so-called dragon clan revival plan, but he didn't know how to make others believe it, and he was not willing to let the sacred dragon clan be used or even enslaved by others, so he ran to the ice with the determination to die. The furnace, I want to use the power of the furnace to destroy the nine artifacts!"
"Although the astrologer is dead and is known as a traitor, it is really ironic to compare with the other vice-president of the guild, the divination master. Just now, outside the Tower of Confession, the divination master tried to make me give up the truth. I know that he, like the astrologer, has doubts about the dragon clan's revival plan. They are also infected NPCs. The astrologer would rather die than betray his race, while the fortune teller would rather be selective in order to cling to the winner's lap. Blind, he has completely turned into your dog!"
"Yes, I admit that when the astrologer committed suicide, I only confirmed the existence of the mastermind behind the scenes, but I did not expect that this person was you, the president, Mr. Yuan, the civil affairs officer. Until this morning the grocer came to me to ask about About the astrologer, I accidentally revealed your other identity - the messenger of God, and I really understood all this. Yes, if you want to use these NPCs, what better excuse is there than God's will? ? And you also know that if you directly appear in the form of a god, you will definitely arouse suspicion. After all, you are still wearing the cloak of a civil affairs officer. After all, no matter how powerful and evolved you are, you will still be an NPC in the game world. So you use He claims to be an envoy, gives orders in the name of guidance, and makes people work for their lives, it¡¯s so perfect!¡±
"I think I finally understand why you gave yourself a surname. You are not actually Yuan, but the source of the source. You regard yourself as the source of all things and the source program that creates everything! I understand it this way Doesn¡¯t it make sense, Mr. Yuan?¡±