Doomsday Wonderland

"It's not that I didn't think about throwing her somewhere and walking away by myself."

With a crisp sound of opening the bottle, the bottle cap silently rolled onto the thick carpet. Kiyotaka held up the wine bottle, like an old cow drinking water, and after taking a few gulps without tasting it, he sighed with satisfaction; after drinking the wine, his eyes gradually became brighter and brighter. , as if reflecting the night pool of broken diamond stars.

"...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 said in a low voice, "I was carrying another unconscious body by myself at that time, and I couldn't bear to leave her alone, and I knew that I would be greatly dragged down because of this... Trapped in anxiety and helplessness, I can only wait and wait for the day when the situation forces me and I can no longer carry her, so that I can leave her behind and be forgiven by my conscience."

Lin Sanjiu couldn't say anything, because there was nothing that could put her anxiety and urgency in the past and the shame and gratitude she had now into Qing Jiuliu's hands together; The struggles and misery are ironed flat.

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

"I know, you probably can't take care of yourself."

Kiyotaka glanced at her and said, "Let me tell you, as long as someone listened during that time, I would scold you, and if no one listened, I would scold you at the great witch. Don't watch me rack my brains to scold you. You have done so many times, but I know that as long as there is a glimmer of hope, you will come here desperately... The reason why you didn't show up must be because you couldn't show up."

Lin Sanjiu only felt that the blood all over his body was hot, and he wanted to laugh, thank him for his understanding, and bury his head on his knee and cry softly.

In the midst of her emotional turmoil, she had a very clear idea: If Qing Jiuyou had the opportunity to exchange swear words with the puppet master, she would not have a good life.

"Speaking of which, you have accomplished something that even my former psychologist never did."

Kiyotaka leaned on the chair and stretched out a long, lazy waist. "Because of the big witch, I used to live like a muddy, but also leisurely life, I can't go on anymore. I can't put her aside, I'm looking for wine everywhere, and when I get drunk, I'll be there. Sleep on the side of the road for one night? Don't say no one cares, when I was guarding her, I don't know how many ghosts and ghosts came. If I turn my head, the big witch dares to give me a set of skins. "

"What about later?" Lin Sanjiu asked in a low voice, not knowing why, but couldn't help but want to laugh. "How did you end up in this copy?"

"What is 'fall'," Qing Jiuruu waved his hand, as if offended: "I asked you to speak as if I was trapped here. I chose it myself."

Lin Sanjiu was startled. "Did you choose to be a copy employee by yourself?"

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

"What?" Lin Sanjiu stammered, "Why, why?"

Kiyokuyu seems to have held back his strategy and intelligence for too long by himself, and now he can finally show off his beautiful feathers, and his face glows with dazzling pride: "After I entered the Karma Museum, , I realized that you might not come, but with the big witch, it is impossible for me to stay like this forever, so I came up with a way."

Lin Sanjiu almost collapsed on the table, but Qing Jiuruu 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, or you will be expelled." Kiyotaka said, patted the gambling table, and in the next second, countless gambling equipment fell from the air; some Lin Sanjiu knew it, some didn't, and there were a lot of them that didn't seem to have anything to do with gambling, and there was even a soup pot that was spinning in circles.

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

Lin Sanjiu opened his mouth and couldn't find much potential in himself as a gambling king, so he had to pick a game he had heard of before: "Hmm... Black, Black Jack?"

"Hey, I can't see it, you still know Black Jack?"

Kiyotaka stood up, raised his hand in the air, and a string of poker cards flowed up like a long dragon, snapping together in his palm. It's just a simple card deal, but he does it well; especially when Qing Jiuyu is clean and tidy and has no disguise, it is like a magnet with its own dragon palace effect - people can't help but look at him, and when you feel that you are only After looking at it, it was actually several minutes.

"I thought at the time, the best situation I can pursue is to let me and the great witch not be teleported, and stay in a safe place, so as to have the greatest possibility for you to find us. The big witch caused danger... Not only me at the time, I am afraid that it is impossible to achieve in the eyes of anyone. In the entire apocalyptic world, there is no place for such a desire... So I know that I have to jump out of common sense. Thinking. So, I thought of a copy."

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

"This is an almost impossible task," she sighed. "When most people think of a copy, they only think of strangeness and danger... But you just found life in the most terrifying place?"

"I did a lot of research in the Karma Museum at that time," Kiyotome smiled lazily and said, "Of course I don't want to become a copy creature, so how should I use the copy? The answer must be somewhere. A copy with different rules. So I've researched almost every copy of the Karma Museum's tempting forays, whether it's material from '100,000 Worlds Shifting Dreams' or word-of-mouth narratives ...I finally realized that there was a large, desolate copy on this island that might be of use to me."

Lin Sanjiu listened intently, and when he stopped, he urged, "Then what?"

Qing Jiuruu looked at her, and the two stared at each other in silence for a second or two, before Qing Jiuru finally said, "What are you looking at me for? You play cards."

"Oh, yes," Lin Sanjiu then reacted, and hurriedly opened the card and saw a 10. "Then I should ask for cards, right?"

Kiyotaka narrowed his eyes, slowly tapped his own card with an 8 face, and asked, "Are you sure?"

Black Jack seems to have collected the points by playing cards. Although Lin Sanjiu couldn't remember the exact time, he remembered that it was bigger than the 20 points she had on hand. She slapped the table proudly and said, "Yes!"

"You're a blast," he couldn't help complaining when Kiyotaka threw her a 5: "You don't know how to play Black Jack?"

"How much should I pay you?" Lin Sanjiu didn't take it to heart, "I made a lot of money outside, enough for you to finish the story."

"You are lucky, your dealer is unfair, uses power for personal gain, and is willing to accept another bottle of wine."

Lin Sanjiu chuckled, took a bottle of whiskey from the card library and handed it over: "Go ahead, I happen to have quite a few of this wine."

Kiyotaka looked at the bottle of wine that Yu Yuan suggested she should put away and used to appease the puppet master at a critical moment. A dead-looking big witch, walking from every road provided by the dungeon to the casino at the end... It's really not an easy task, I feel exhausted from fighting now when I think about it. But I know that when I completely defeat every one The challenge on the road, when I reach the end, I at least have a basis for communication."

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

"At that time, the dungeons hadn't developed so many paths yet," Qing Jiuruu waved his hand and said, "It seems like there are only twenty or thirty."

"Then...then what?"

I don't know why, Kiyotaka looked at the big and small things on the poker table, was silent for a few seconds, and then said quietly: "The conclusion is actually very simple, just one sentence... I am the first human in this dungeon. Staff."

Lin Sanjiu took a breath.

"Why?" She thought for a while and asked, "Could it be that this copy started with you, and then decided to recruit employees?"

"It may sound unbelievable, but I negotiated with the dungeon for a long time, and used all the means I felt could convince it... Although I still don't know the specific operation principle of the dungeon, there is one thing that I understood at that time. . Any copy has to keep attracting people to keep it going. This copy,"

Kiyotaka said, raised his hand to compare his surroundings, and said, "I'm not very lucky, my birth place is in the middle of the sea, and I don't rely on all sides. I'm not a particularly unlucky evolutionary person, and generally I can't get in. I said it at that time. It’s hard to live, but it’s all light.”

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

"A very important reason why I was able to convince the dungeon at the time was that I told it that humans could bring more humans to the dungeon... and with the design of human employees involved, the dungeon's roads could be more diverse and targeted. A copy can be more complete."

Kiyotaka sighed and said, "But because of my own selfishness, let more people die in the copy in the future, and I can't have a clear conscience... So I reached a consensus with the copy, that is, the person who failed in the copy , can be included in the copy as an employee, and can be used as a punishment for failure in the form of a few years of hard work.”

He said this, looked at the slightly swaying liquid in the wine bottle, and said softly, "I have always felt like a giant sea beast in the past few years, and I don't know which tiny movement will cause waves on the distant sea. Huge waves. I don't want to be out of balance on the math problem of human life, so I'm getting more and more cautious... Except for using a little trick, I haven't made any real changes for the copy for a long time since I finally led you to the copy. ."

Lin Sanjiu originally wanted to ask "what means", but intuitively realized that he didn't finish his words, and I'm afraid the focus is still behind.

"Recently, I have become more and more suspicious that dungeons eat the essence and taste of human employees, and want to keep these people forever..." Kiyotaka looked at his hands and muttered: "I often think, how many people do I have now? How much is an Evolver, and how much is a copy creature?"

When Lin Sanjiu was terrified, another Mingwu suddenly came to her mind - and it also made her feel like falling into an ice cellar.

"The goddess..." she said to herself, "the goddess refers to 'powerful and beautiful creatures'... It turned out to be you."