The author's diary of ghost stories

The information revealed in Xu Cixi’s words surprised Yu Liang and the other two people at the scene.

"New humans?" When the adventurer heard such a name, he immediately thought of mutants, but what Xu Cixi said later made him confused, "It's not a monster, it's a monster? What do you mean? Humans are monsters?"

Yu Liang also felt strange and waited for Xu Cixi to explain the meaning of these words.

"Kaitan creatures refer to the derivatives of some kind of ghost story, and they exist in the form of life, and ghost stories can be anything, as long as they exist in the world in an 'irregular' way." Xu Cixi continued, "Give me a simple example. For example, in the vampire ghost story, for this ghost story, Archduke Dracula is the ghost story itself, the original ghost story, and other vampire servants and so on are all ghost stories."

"So what you are saying is that all the new humans in Forget City now, their existence is a kind of ghost story?" Yu Liang understood what Xu Cixi meant, "The origin of a kind of ghost story?"

"Yes, weird stories in the name of 'human beings'." Xu Cixi's voice deepened, "They are a kind of strange stories with terrifying reproductive capabilities. However, their abilities are not yet certain. All we know is that they are almost beyond our original expectations. The understanding of strange stories.”

"That's not right. Then how do you know that those new humans are not Kaitan creatures? Maybe there is a source of Kaitan in the central area of ​​Forgotten City, and his name is 'Human Ancestor'?" The adventurer discovered the problem. This Forgotten City exploration team does not seem to have a deep understanding of these new humans, so how can they be so sure that these humans are monsters?

Judging from the current information, there does not seem to be much difference between ghost stories and strange creatures. It is like if you see a vampire and you are not familiar with it, how can you be sure that the other person is Dracula, the ancestor of vampires, and not him? What about one of his servants?

"Because of Him." Xu Cixi clicked on the "booksmith" position on the map with her finger and introduced——

"'The Bookmaker', the only one on this journey who clearly has a slight favorable impression of humans, is a three-meter-tall humanoid creature who always carries a basket full of books and wears a big hat. Everyone who met Him could ask Him a question, and if He needed a book to answer the question, He would give the book to the questioner when the answer was complete.”

"The book from the bookmaker is called the 'Book of Answers'. It is an extremely special supernatural object that humans cannot read, but you can ask it a question every day. If it knows the answer, it will automatically read the record The page with the answer. But the book of answers definitely knows a lot less than the bookmaker."

Xu Cixi added: "About the general outline of the new human race, as well as the differences between some strange stories and strange creatures, these are all answers obtained from the book of answers or bookmakers, and there should be no falsehoods."

"A bookmaker?" Yu Liang silently wrote down the specific location of the bookmaker's territory. Even if he couldn't get the answer book, it would be a great thing to be able to get the answer to a question for free. Yu Liang had a lot of them now. Questions to ask.

The bookmaker's definition of kaidan and kaitan creatures can be regarded as updating the understanding of players like them, allowing them to know the difference between kaitan creatures and biological kaitan.

"What if I ask the bookmaker some paradox questions?" The adventurer's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this explanation. He thought of many paradox questions he had seen when he was a child. Although it was like a brain teaser, it was really difficult to explain. Answer.

As a source of weird stories, the bookmaker may not know the answer to this kind of question, right?

"I suggest you not to do this." Xu Cixi glanced at this guy. She was not familiar with the adventurer before, but now that she has become a little more familiar with him, she feels that the adventurer's character seems like an old friend.

Well, an old friend with Yu Liang’s face.

"Why?" the adventurer asked curiously, "What will happen?"

"Whenever a problem arises that cannot be solved even by the booksmith, He will not hesitate to kill the questioner. His code name is the 'God of Omniscient', so he will not allow himself to be unable to answer other people's questions." Xu Cixi He continued, "In the player group sent by the lawyer, there was a T2-level lawyer who died like this. He and the lawyer seemed to be colleagues."

She curled her lips, and there was a hint of sarcasm in her words: "He wanted to refute the bookmaker verbally and try to get more benefits, and then he won, but died."

"Okay." The adventurer scratched his head and gave up on his previous thoughts. He couldn't tell whether he admired the lawyer or was speechless.

It is true that lawyers dare to challenge authority, but this guy really does.

The bookmaker does have a certain fondness for humans, perhaps because humans, as intelligent creatures, can ask him questions, which satisfies his desire to be a teacher. But after all, he is a source of weird stories, and he is not an existence that humans can tease.

Just like how people treat animals, they will naturally feed you some delicious food and pet you because you are cute. But if the animal suddenly bites you like crazy, then humans will naturally make it understand why humans are at the top of the food chain.

These words made Yu Liang hesitate a little. He originally wanted to ask what was going on with his four-dimensional part, or whether the female writer in the mirror had succeeded, and how to obtain the "white human form" and " "Village", now it seems that it is better not to ask such a difficult question.

When it comes to the mysterious story about the origins of the booksmith, it is very likely that it will not be able to answer it. If it cannot answer it, he will be the unlucky one.

If you can't solve the problem, then solve the problem.

"Later, we also asked about the origin of this strange story about new humans, and the answer given by the bookmaker was that it is all related to a certain human being." After Xu Cixi finished introducing the concept at the beginning, he finally entered To get to the point, this is the most important information of this exploration. "That human being is very mysterious and existed before the disappearance of Forgotten City. He is an aborigine of Forgotten City. He was involved in many strange stories in the early days of Forgotten City." figure, but his purpose is not yet clear.”

"Based on some clues we found, new humans can reproduce quickly and have the means to absorb normal humans, turning normal humans into new humans like them and becoming part of the weird story." Xu Cixi said, "According to this The characteristics also include some information to assist judgment, and the coach and programmer gave three guesses.”

She instinctively glanced around and lowered her voice: "This is an absolute secret, but you don't need to hold anything back."

"First, this Wangcheng man wants to create a source of ghost talk himself. The name of the source ghost talk is 'New Humanity', so as to gain powerful power." Xu Cixi pointed to the central area of ​​the Wangcheng map, "He might just Hiding somewhere in this city, perhaps only by finding some new humans in high positions can we know his location."

"Well, it sounds quite possible." Yu Liang thought of something and nodded.

This is almost the same as a normal Kaitan player. Harvesting a Root Kaidan player can greatly improve safety. The only difference is that this guy wants to "create" a Root Kaidan player, and I have to say that he is really brave.

"Judging from the results, this speculation has the smallest impact and is the least destructive to all mankind. It is the situation we most hope to happen." Xu Cixi sighed.

"The least influential one? Even though it has man-made roots, it is still the smallest?" The adventurer opened his mouth. Even the first one shocked him, but this is actually the least destructive possibility?

"Yes, just a source of ghost talk is nothing. There are existences like him everywhere in the Forgotten City." Xu Cixi continued, elaborating on the second guess.

"The new humans have special ghost power. This is not inherited from any kind of source ghost power, but an ability they have mastered themselves." Xu Cixi stretched out her hand, and liquid-like shadows continued to appear on her hand. It came out, dripped on the ground, and quickly merged with his own shadow, "Like me, I can use the power of Kaidan, but this power was given by a... noble source Kaitan."

When he said this, a "Zhi" sitting on the single sofa raised his eyes and looked at the three people in the distance, with an almost invisible smile on his face: "Yes, you are making rapid progress, and you will be able to enter soon." It’s a new stage. It’s impossible to modify cognition, that’s my original rule, but it’s possible to control the shadows.”

"Thank you." Xu Cixi nodded towards "zhi".

Yu Liang marveled in his heart. He didn't expect that Xu Cixi would flatter Miss "Zhi". It had to be said that "Zhi" was very fond of this.

"These new humans can develop their own kaidan powers, and they are brand-new kaidan powers. The effects may be similar to some kaidan powers, but they can be said to be completely original." Xu Cixi's face became serious, "This is like … Create rules out of thin air.”

As soon as these words came out, even "Zhi" frowned slightly. She pretended not to care, but in fact she had been eavesdropping, and now she couldn't sit still: "How is it possible? 'Original Rules' That’s all, any source of strange stories is not a creation of rules, but just an inheritance of rules.”

"Yes, but... they feel like they are 'creating'." Xu Cixi shook her head, "'Humans' are the most creative naturally born race."

"Suppose they can really create 'rules', then what?" Yu Liang asked curiously.

Since this is a guess from those veteran T1 players, it must have some basis, so you must not believe it or not believe it completely.

"This is a kind of human being with the power of ghost stories, and they are very likely to become players." Xu Cixi said the key point, "They already have a certain population base. Looking at the proportion...now these new humans There may be quite a few ‘players’ in it.”

A new type of human being who can use the power of Kaidan becomes a player?

It doesn't feel like good news.

"The most important thing is that this new human player who has become a 'Kaitan' is a natural container and has an affinity with Kaidan that normal humans do not have. Whether it is the Kaidan creatures in the dungeon or the source Kaidan, they will have a certain degree of respect for them. Favorability." Xu Cixi said, "They can easily carry the source ghost talk out of the dungeon. Each new human body can host at least one source ghost talk. The balance of ghost talk power in Wangcheng and even the world will be broken. , the consequences are yet to be known.”

"If it is true as you said, then it is indeed possible." Zhi Zai said aside, "As a container for the source ghost stories, they are almost perfect. Once too many source ghost stories come to this world, the power of the ghost stories will The balance will be broken in an instant, and the world of ghost stories... it is like an old computer, processing things very slowly. By the time it realizes this, the world may have been impacted by a large number of source ghost stories. "

Yu Liang noticed that there was a rare serious expression on her face. Just when Yu Liang was wondering why she was so serious, he immediately heard the words "Zhi".

"At that time, I'm afraid my abilities will fail. Forgotten City cannot bear this amount of source ghost stories. They will make Forgotten City be remembered by this world again."

Yu Liang: "..."

Okay, I understand, no wonder "Zhi", who has always been worried about the world being in chaos, is so serious. It turns out that she is afraid that a large number of her enemies in Wangcheng will escape to settle accounts with her.

It seems that "Zhi" must be firmly on the side of human beings.

"Anyway, this is not a good thing." Xu Cixi said, turning to look at "Zhi", "Before explaining the third guess, I want to ask you a question."

"explain."

"Is the foundation of the existence of the weird world based on human beings?" Xu Cixi looked a little nervous. This answer was very important to them.

"High probability." She answered without hesitation. It seemed that she had thought about this issue before.

"Okay." Xu Cixi expressed understanding, "Then the third possibility is... they want to kill the 'Gaitan World'."

"Kill the 'Kaitan World'?" The adventurer was even more surprised. In the eyes of the players, the existence of the Kaidan World is above everything else, suppressing any source of Kaidan. And if such an existence is killed...

Wouldn’t this world be completely destroyed?

"Do they want to kill all humans in the world?" Yu Liang asked, "But the difficulty of such a thing..."

The foundation of the existence of the Kaidan World is human beings, so killing all humans is killing the Kaidan World, and this world will become the Kaidans'.

But does this make sense?

As far as he knows, many of the origins of ghost stories are dependent on the birth of humans. When humans disappear, the world will eventually move towards nothingness.

Just like now, some of the roots of ghost stories are prisoners, and the world of ghost stories is a prison. The prisoners planned riots and destroyed the prison, causing countless casualties. But when they left the prison, they suddenly discovered that the world had long been turned into ruins due to riots. What about prison escape? Meaning?

"No, it's not about killing all humans." Zhizhi denied, "Human beings are the basis for the existence of the Kaitan world, and they are also the basis for the existence of a large number of Kaitan. They will not allow such a thing to happen."

"Yes, so the method of new human beings can be transformation, transforming everyone into new human beings. After the base reaches a certain amount, 'human beings' may be born. When the world is completely occupied by 'human beings', and' The countervailing power of "Gaitan" will completely disappear, and the world of "Gaitan" may also disappear and cease to exist." Xu Cixi expressed her final guess.

Several people present became silent, and Yu Liang pushed up his glasses.

In this way, the first guess is indeed the least influential and the least ambitious.

But he became extremely interested in the Wangcheng man Xu Cixi mentioned, because he already had a guess in his mind.

The Forgotten City people who haunt various places with origins of ghost stories...

In the bunny game, the guy once wrote to him in the "past"!

Intuition told Yu Liang that he was the Forget City man Xu Cixi mentioned now! (End of chapter)