Doomsday Wonderland

"I have never thought about throwing her somewhere and walking away."

With a crisp sound of opening the bottle, the bottle cap rolled silently onto the thick carpet. Qingjiuru raised the bottle of wine, like an old cow drinking water. He drank a few big gulps without tasting it, and then sighed with great satisfaction. After drinking, his eyes gradually became brighter and brighter. , as if reflecting the night pool of diamond starry sky.

"...Especially when I realized that you didn't seem to appear in any of the twelve realms in the second year."

He looked at the wine bottle in his hand and whispered: "At that time, I was carrying another unconscious body alone. I couldn't bear to leave her alone, and I knew that I would be greatly hindered by this... I was day by day. Trapped in anxiety and helplessness, I can only wait for the day when circumstances force me to be unable to take her with me, so that I can abandon her and be forgiven by my conscience."

Lin Sanjiu couldn't say anything, because there were no words that could put the anxiety and urgency she felt back then and the shame and gratitude she felt now into Qing Jiuliu's hands; The struggles and sufferings are ironed flat.

"I'm sorry," she could only say these few weightless words in the end, "I..."

"I know, you probably have too much time to take care of yourself."

Qingjiuru glanced at her and said: "I'm telling you, during that time, as long as anyone was willing to listen, I would scold you. If no one listened, I would scold you in front of the great miko. Don't look at me racking my brains to scold you. You have come so many times, but I know that as long as there is a glimmer of hope, you will rush over with all your strength... The reason why you didn't show up must be because you couldn't show up."

Lin Sanjiu felt that the blood all over her body was hot. She wanted to laugh at the same time, wanted to be grateful for his understanding, and wanted to bury her head in his knees and cry quietly.

In the midst of her turbulent emotions, one thought was quite clear: If Qingjiuru had the opportunity to exchange insults with the puppet master, she would not have a good life.

"Speaking of which, you have accomplished something that even my previous psychological counselor could not accomplish."

Qingjiuru leaned on the chair and stretched. "Because I have the great miko with me, I can no longer live the muddy but leisurely life I used to live in. I can't throw her aside. I look for drinks by myself. When I get drunk, I How about sleeping on the roadside for a night? Not to mention that no one will care about her. When I was guarding her, countless demons and monsters came. If I turn around, the great witch dares to give me nothing but a skin."

"What happened next?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice. For some reason, she couldn't help but want to laugh. "How did you end up in this copy?"

"What does 'falling' mean?" Qingjiuliu waved his hand, as if he was offended: "You make it sound like I'm trapped here. It's my own choice."

Lin Sanjiu was startled. "Did you choose to be a dungeon employee?"

"More than that," Qingjiuru slowly swallowed a sip of wine before saying, "I found this copy on my own initiative."

"What?" Lin Sanjiu almost stuttered, "Why, why?"

Kiyokuru seemed to have been holding back his strategy and cleverness alone for too long, and now he was finally able to show off his beautiful feathers to others, and his face lit up with dazzling pride: "After I entered the Karma Museum, , I realized that you might not come, but I took the great witch with me, and it was impossible to live like this forever, so I came up with a way."

Lin Sanjiu almost bent over the table, but Qing Jiuliu lowered his head and looked at his watch, and suddenly said: "Ah, I almost forgot."

"What?"

"You must start gambling when you enter the VIP room, otherwise you will be expelled." Qingjiuru said, patting the gambling table, and the next second countless gambling equipment fell from the air; some Lin Sanjiu knew some of them, some he didn't, and many of them didn't seem to have anything to do with gambling. Among them, there was even a squealing soup pot mixed in.

"The gambling content can be decided by the dealer. What are you good at? We can pick an easy one and talk about it while gambling."

Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth. She couldn't find much potential as a gambling king in herself, so she had to choose a game she had heard of: "Hmm... black, black jack?"

"Hey, I can't tell, do you still know about Black Jack?"

Qingjiureu stood up, raised his hand in the air, and a string of playing cards suddenly flowed up like a long dragon, snapping together in his palm. It's just a simple card dealing, but he does it smoothly; especially when Qing Jiu is clean and tidy and has no pretense, he is like a magnet with the Dragon Palace effect - people can't help but look at him, and when you feel like you After just one glance, several minutes had actually passed.

"I thought at the time that the best situation I could pursue was for me and the great witch to stay in one place without being teleported, so that you would have the greatest chance of finding us. Secondly, this place is not safe for me and The danger caused by the great witch... Not only me at the time, but I am afraid that in the eyes of everyone, this is impossible to achieve. There is no place in the entire apocalyptic world that can accommodate such a wish... So I know that I must Think outside the box. So, I thought about copies.”

When Qing Jiuliu finished speaking, he had two more cards in his hand; Lin Sanjiu also had a red Q in front of her, a card with his back to her.

"This is an almost impossible task," she sighed. "When most people think of dungeons, they only think of weirdness and danger... but you found a way out of the most terrifying place?"

"I did a lot of research in the Karma Museum at that time," Qingkuru smiled lazily and said, "Of course I don't want to become a replica, so how should I use the replica? The answer must lie somewhere. A dungeon with unique rules. So I have studied almost all the dungeons in the Karma Museum that are tempting to get involved in, whether it is the information obtained from the "One Hundred Thousand World Shift Dreams" or the narratives passed down orally in the streets. …Finally, I realized that there is a large, desolate copy on this island, which I might be able to use.”

Lin Sanjiu listened with rapt attention, and when he stopped, she urged, "What next?"

Qingjiu Liu looked at her, and the two stared at each other in silence for a second or two. Qingjiu Liu finally spoke: "What do you want me to do? You open the cards."

"Oh, yes," Lin Sanjiu finally realized what he was doing and quickly opened the card and saw a 10. "Then I should ask for the cards, right?"

Kiyokuru narrowed his eyes, slowly tapped his card with the number 8 on it, and asked, "Are you sure?"

Black Jack seemed to collect the points through cards. Although Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember exactly how many points she had to collect, she remembered that it was higher than the 20 points she had on hand. She patted the table proudly and said, "Yes!"

"You're so hot," Kiyokuru couldn't help complaining when he threw a 5 to her, "You don't know how to play blackjack?"

"How many chips should I give you?" Lin Sanjiu didn't take it seriously at all, "I made a lot of money outside, which is enough for you to finish the story."

"You're lucky. Your dealer is unfair, uses his power for personal gain, and is willing to accept another bottle of wine."

Lin Sanjiu chuckled, took out a bottle of whiskey from the card library and handed it over: "Go on, I happen to have a lot of this kind of wine."

Qing Jiuliu looked at the bottle of wine that Yu Yuan suggested she put away and used to appease the puppet master at critical moments. She was very happy and praised "Your taste has improved," and then continued: "Hold on. A great witch who looks like a dead person walked through every road provided by the dungeon to the casino at the end... It is really not an easy task. I feel so tired just thinking about it now. But I know that when I completely defeat every It’s a challenge on the road, but when I reach the end, I at least have a basis for communication.”

"Every one?" Lin Sanjiu's eyes widened, "Have you walked on every road outside?"

"At that time, the dungeon had not developed so many paths," Qingjiuru waved his hand and said, "It seems that there are only twenty or thirty paths."

"Then...what then?"

For some reason, Qingjiuru looked at the big and small things on the gambling table and was silent for a few seconds before he said quietly: "The conclusion is actually very simple, just one sentence... I am the first one in this copy. Human employees.”

Lin Sanjiu took a breath.

"Why?" She thought for a moment and asked, "Could it be that you decided to recruit employees for this dungeon?"

"It may be unbelievable to say, but I negotiated with the dungeon for a long time and used all the means I thought I could convince it... Although I still don't know the specific working principle of the dungeon, but there is one thing I understood at that time . Any copy must continue to attract people to enter in order to maintain it. This copy,"

Qingjiureu said, raised his hand and gestured around, and said: "I am not very lucky. I was born in the middle of the sea, surrounded by nothing. Evolutionaries who are not particularly unlucky generally cannot get in. At that time, it was said that it It’s just a hard life, but it’s not a big deal.”

"Then now..." Lin Sanjiu looked around.

“A very important reason why I was able to convince the dungeon at that time was that I told it that humans can bring more humans to the dungeon… and with the participation of human employees in the design, the dungeon’s paths can be more diverse and targeted. , the copy can be more complete.”

Qingjiuliu sighed and said: "But if I let more people die in the dungeon for my own selfishness, I can't have a clear conscience... So I reached a consensus with the dungeon, UU Reading www.uukanshu. Net means those who fail in the dungeon can be accepted as employees by the dungeon, and will be punished for failure in the form of several years of hard work."

When he said this, he looked at the slightly swaying liquid in the bottle and said softly: "In the past few years, I have always felt like a giant sea monster. I don't know that any tiny movement will cause waves on the distant sea." Huge waves. I don’t want to be unbalanced in the mathematical problem of human life, so I am becoming more and more cautious... Apart from using some small tricks to finally lure you to the dungeon, I have not made any real changes to the dungeon for a long time. ”

Lin Sanjiu originally wanted to ask "what means", but intuitively realized that he hadn't finished speaking, and perhaps the key point was still behind.

"Recently, I have become more and more suspicious that the replicas are learning from human employees and want to keep these people forever..." Qingjiuru looked at his hands and murmured: "I often think that now I have How much is it an evolver, and how much is it a replica creature?"

Just when Lin Sanjiu was horrified, another realization suddenly came into her mind - and at the same time, she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Goddess..." she said to herself, "the 'powerful and beautiful creature' that Goddess refers to...it turns out to be you."