Chapter 44: Despair Paradise 11┃ Butterfly Throne.

Duan Qun was very obedient and did not make any trouble to Mu Qin along the way. Mu Qin thought that since he had already guessed the relationship between himself and Zhou Yue, the next play would not have to be performed, so he led Duan Qun quickly Go find the exit key.
There was no killer to block it. Finding the key became simple and unusual. They went unobstructed to the security room next to the door, and successfully opened the door of the security room with the card. They found the key to the door—it was placed in the security room. Room drawer.
After that, the door was opened, and it went very smoothly. Mu Qin gave the key to Duan Qun for him to open the door. According to the reward system, Mu Qin knew that the person who opened the door would get more reward points.
After opening the exit gate, Mu Qin and Duan Qun can see the gate of the amusement park. The gate has a long winding road. Since it is still in the night, the road looks dark at a glance, and it is surrounded by lushness. Crazy trees and bushes, in the cold moonlight, this road is like a road to some kind of dark hell.
Duan Qun stared at the road outside the gate for a second, and then said to Mu Qin, "I didn't expect it would be so simple ... so that I can go out?"
"The moment you walk out of the gate, you will be teleported back to the safe house by the game system." Mu Qin explained to Duan Qun: "There you will rest for three days, after three days you must start a new game. Your system will tell Some basic rules of your marginal world and information you need to know, you can ask the system in a safe house. "
"Will I meet you again?" Duan Qun asked Mu Qin like this.
Mu Qin shook his head slightly: "I don't know if we can meet again. The players in each game are automatically matched and screened by the system."
"In theory, is it okay?" Duan Qunyi pointed out. "Since you can appear in a map with Zhou Yue at the same time."
Mu Qin laughed. He praised Duan Qun for his cleverness. He said: "As long as you enter the new game at the same time, the chance of being matched to the same map between players and players will increase, but it does not seem to be 100%. Pneumatic is allocated together, so be prepared for failure. "
"So it is." Duan Qun thought for a moment.
And Muqin continued to tell him some messages from the marginal world: "When you enter the safe house, you will find some strange lettering or graffiti on the walls of the house, which are the marks left by other players, you can pass this This is a way to communicate with other players, you can ask your system specifically. "
Duan Qun nodded and said, "Thank you for telling me this."
Then, Duan Qun paused. He saw a figure not far behind Mu Qin, which was Zhou Yue.
Mu Qin also noticed that Duan Qun's eyes were cast behind his back, and he followed Duan Qun's gaze to look back at Zhou Yue. Zhou Yue stood under a tree not far away, and the shadow cast by the tree covered him. Half of his body, the knife in his hand reflected the cold light in the moonlight.
Mu Qin quickly retracted his eyes from Zhou Yue, put his hand on Duan Qun's shoulder, and punched Duan Qun with a deep tone: "The killer is here, you go."
Duan Qun was very obedient. He raised his foot and stepped outside the gate. But just before stepping out, he suddenly asked Mu Qin a question. He said, "Mu Qin, I can probably guess you and that guy named Zhou Yue. The relationship between them, I don't want to destroy your feelings, but I want to know ... Was that Zhou Yue really worth your trust? "
This question made Mu Qin a little hesitant, but Mu Qin did not hesitate: "Of course I believe him ... He is the only person in my life that I can believe without reservation."
Duan Qun laughed. He said something that made Mu Qin feel a little stunned. He said, "If you can continue to believe like this forever, but I still hope you can pay attention to Zhou Yue. I think he has a problem. He doesn't deserve your full trust. "
Muqin puzzled: "Why do you say that?"
"Because he wants to kill you." Duan Qun shuddered Mu Qin's heart in a sentence. "The time he attacked you in the toilet, when I went in to check, you fell down on the ground, and I saw Let Zhou Yue stare at your eyes ... that definitely wants to kill your eyes. "
Duan Qun only said this sentence. After he finished speaking, he walked out of the gate of the amusement park. His figure turned into a light spot and dissipated in the air in the next second, leaving only Mu Qin in the park and staring dumbly Those rays that remain when they disappear.
When Duan Qun left, Zhou Yue who followed him also came to Mu Qin's side, reached out and grabbed Mu Qin, holding Mu Qin's waist in his arms, and asked, "What's wrong?" Why daze? Did you say anything? "
Muqin did not answer, but thought for a moment with his head down. At the end, Mu Qin went straight in, and raised his head straight to ask Zhou Yue: "Zhou Yue, do you want to kill me?"
This question seems to have Zhou Yue asked, Zhou Yue asked, and finally couldn't help laughing: "Why do you ask this?"
"No matter how I ask, you just have to answer my question." Mu Qin clutched Zhou Yue's shirt and looked intently at Zhou Yue's eyes. "Do you want to kill me?"
Zhou Yue didn't answer this question immediately. He became silent. He held Mu Qin's hand and stuffed his head into Mu Qin's neck socket. He used his face to poke Mu Qin's neck. The hot air sprayed by him when breathing was on Mu Qin. On Qin's neck, Mu Qin felt itchy and reached out to touch Zhou Yue's hair.
"I want to kill you." Zhou Yue said suddenly, dullly, "I really want to kill you."
This sentence made Mu Qin puzzled. He was not angry, surprised or disappointed, but just puzzled. He reached out and touched Zhou Yue's messy hair on his head and said, "Why?"
"Because you are dead, you can go back." Zhou Yue said.
Mu Qin was even more puzzled. He reached out and raised Zhou Yue's head to prevent Zhou Yue from burying his face in his neck socket to make an ostrich shape. Mu Qin faced Zhou Yue: "What do you mean?"
Zhou Yue said earnestly: "Mu Qin, you are not dead in the real world, your body is alive, you still have a chance, you are not a real player in the marginal world, as long as you 'end' in the marginal world, you can 'Rebirth' in the real world. "
"I don't understand what you mean." Mu Qin shook his head: "I'm dead. I first entered the orphanage map, but after I got out, I wasn't sent to the safe house but returned to the real world. In the real world, I forget After everything I experienced in the marginal world, I thought it was just a dream. After I saw you, I found that you became a vegetative, lying in the hospital, and I was asked by your mother to take care of it in the hospital You. But somehow a group of people came out and wanted to harm us. I had to take you out of the hospital and I gave you to my trusted comrade. I was shot and killed by a policeman at the police station. "
Zhou Yue then shook her head: "You are not dead, Mu Qin ... The fringe world will automatically repair unreasonable things and characters caused by some players in the real world. The police officer shot you because he was hit by the border The control of a player in the world, that player controls the police to kill you, but it is unreasonable for the police to shoot and shoot you suddenly, so the fringe world will repair this incident under the influence of the powerful forces in the border world , You will never die. "
Mu Qin really couldn't understand Zhou Yue's remarks. Mu Qin said, "Since you say that my physical body in the real world is not dead, I can return to reality by 'ending' in the game, so are you That's right! "Muqin said." Your body in the real world is just a vegetative, you are not dead! "
"I'm different." Zhou Yue shook his head slightly. "I'm in this world. I can't go back to my original body."
Mu Qin actually realized that Zhou Yue knew a lot, but he didn't expect that much.
He stared at Zhou Yue in disbelief: "What else do you know? Zhou Yue, what is going on?"
Muqin never asked Zhou Yue these questions directly. In fact, Mu Qin only needs to think about it carefully. If you think about the things that happened in the real world before, you can easily find that many things are related to Zhou Yue. For example, the blank tarot card, such as the small model of snake-wrapped cross on Zhou Yue's table, or even the music box made from the human bones given by Mu Qin's psychiatrist He Qiu, all these ... The weird fringe world is connected.
Although Mu Qin could guess these clues and clues, he had never dared to ask Zhou Yue about the specifics, and he had a weak but frightening fear about it.
But now, Muqin must know this.
"I've always wanted to find a chance to tell you ... but this matter is complicated to say." Zhou Yue organized a speech, he took Muqin's hand, and he took Muqin to a public rest on the side of the park. Next to the bench, Muqin sat down and Zhou Yue said, "Let's sit here, and I will tell you slowly."
Two people were sitting in chairs. After Zhou Yue brewed for a while, he began to talk to Mu Qin slowly. He said, "I want to tell you first, Mu Qin ... the marginal world. In this game we are in, the player is There is a chance to escape, and every player has the possibility to escape to reality ... and come back to life. "
Zhou Yue said that he did not know the origin of the fringe world, but this huge, scary and mysterious game seems to have officially appeared in people's vision three years ago. Zhou Yue met the oldest qualified player. Just entered the game a year before him. In other words, Zhou Yue has been in this game for two years, and the oldest qualified player he has ever met is only for three years. For a longer time, Zhou Yue has not seen him.
In fact, some clues can also be seen from the system's numbering to players. For example, Zhou Yue's system number is 1309, which means that Zhou Yue is the No. 1309 player in this game. And Muqin's system number is 3780, which means Muqin is the 3,780th player in the game.
If this game really existed for seven or eight years or even longer, and only a total of three thousand to four thousand players came in, then it would obviously be unreasonable.
But 3780 players are actually too few, especially in the middle there will be a large number of players die in the game for various reasons, so in this marginal world, can live four or five games and successfully live to For current players, Zhou Yue estimates that there are hundreds of people or even fewer, and the rest are almost eliminated.
There aren't many Bailai people, and they can even be said to be pitiful.
And the time in the marginal world is actually different from the time in the real world. Except that the flow rate of time in the safe house is equal to real world time, once the player enters a certain map of a game, they will find that no matter how long they stay in the game map, the game map will always be night and escape. After coming out of this map, and then asking the system time, players will find that the time has passed for four or five days or even ten and a half months.
"That is to say, if we stay in the map of the game, time will pass faster? We stay in this paradise map for half an hour, and the day may have passed, right?" Mu Qin asked Zhou Yue.
Zhou Yue nodded: "Probably that's right. Although I did stay in this game for two years, I actually didn't feel real because I was swiped in the game map most of the time, so I I feel like I have been in this game for a few months, and this is the unequal flow of time, which has caused me the illusion of time. "
Mu Qin probably understood what Zhou Yue meant, and he thoughtfully said, "That is to say, you accidentally become a vegetative and lie in a hospital. It feels like months to you. Happened before, and it seems to me that it happened two years ago. "
"The issue of time is just one of the things I want to tell you." Zhou Yue continued, "the next point is the focus."
Zhou Yue said, "In this game, there is something called the Throne of Butterfly."
A word from Zhou Yue aroused Mu Qin's interest. Mu Qin had never heard of it, and was curious: "The Throne of Butterfly? What is it?"
Zhou Yue said, "Have your system told you what kind of world is the marginal world?"
Mu Qin carefully recalled what he and the system had said, and he replied, "My system tells me that the marginal world is the gap between and dreamland. Here is connected to everyone's dreamland ... ... actually I can't understand this sentence. "
"So have you heard a fable story? It's called Zhuang Zhoumeng Butterfly." Zhou Yue asked again.
Mu Qin nodded for granted: "Of course I know this, I remember ... The primary school language teacher once told this story, telling a person called Zhuang Zhou, dreaming of himself becoming a butterfly, forgetting that he was originally a person, in The sky fluttered freely. But when he woke up, Zhuang Zhou began to wonder whether it was Zhuang Zhou's dream that turned into a butterfly, or butterfly dream turned into Zhuang Zhou? It was a very thought-provoking story. "
"The" Throne of the Butterfly "refers to this story and has such a name." Zhou Yue said, "This is the name given to the 'Throne' by players from the fringe world, and they all call that 'Throne' as the 'Throne of the Butterfly'. "
Muqin frowned and said, "What the is the Throne of Butterfly?"
"Literally, it means a large seat. I haven't seen a specific look, but it is said to be a luxurious chair. This chair will be refreshed in a map with a certain probability. The props or exits can be pointed by the fool card. "Zhou Yue looked around at the huge amusement park:" The Butterfly Throne has a probability to be swiped out in any map, which means that the Butterfly Throne may appear at any time. Amusement parks may also appear in other people's maps. Although the probability is very low, they have indeed been seen. "
Muqin was very surprised, surprised and puzzled. He asked Zhou Yue: "Why does the system have a so-called" throne "randomly refreshed in a map? Does it have any purpose and significance?"
"This is what I said before, the key to escaping the marginal world." Zhou Yue said in a low tone. "The marginal world game system has opened a 'welfare' for players, which tells players that you have a certain chance to escape the marginal world, and this The throne is the 'welfare' given to players by the fringe world system. "
Zhou Yue kept saying: "You can think of the Butterfly Throne as an exit, a way to escape, an exit that requires props or keys to open or activate."
Mu Qin nodded and looked at the gate of the amusement park not far away. He pointed at the gate: "The meaning is that the so-called 'throne' has the same effect as the exit gate over there, but it Not only can we escape from this map, but even the entire marginal world, right? "
"Yes." Zhou Yue said, "If a butterfly throne is swiped in a map, there must be a 'key' that can open the throne near the throne. The throne and keys are matched. The key to open the throne is A tarot card ... a blank tarot card, which we generally call a 'white card'. "
"Blank ... Tarot card." Mu Qin couldn't help but widen his eyes and narrowed Zhou Yue when he heard this sentence: "You have this card! In the real world, that card has been in the drawer of your ward ... But then I took it away and I put it on my body ... "
"You listen to me, Mu Qin." Zhou Yue took a deep breath and continued. "If a player is lucky enough to meet the Thousand Years Butterfly Throne in a certain map and get the white card that opens the throne, he will Take the white card and sit on the throne ... "
Zhou Yue stopped here and said nothing. And Mu Qin's heart was completely lifted by Zhou Yue's words, and it rang loudly in his chest. Mu Qin couldn't help asking: "Then what? Sitting on the throne ... can we return to reality directly? ? "
"It can't directly return to reality." Zhou Yue continued, "The players who enter the marginal world are basically people who have died in the real world. Their bodies have already been damaged or are already in the crematorium. Burned to ashes, the Butterfly Throne can indeed bring their soul back to reality, but players must first have a living 'body' as a carrier to truly return to the real world. "
"But they have no body ..." Mu Qin suddenly realized what Zhou Yue wanted to say, and his face was a little gloomy. "They have no body and can only take someone else."
Speaking here, Mu Qin seemed to have realized something, and he looked up and stared at Zhou Yue.
Zhou Yue knew what he was thinking, and spread his hands and smiled to Mu Qin: "Yes, I'm the unlucky person who was taken away from the body."
"But your body is a vegetative!" Muqin couldn't help but be a little excited, "This may prove that the guy who wants to take your body is not successful!"
"He did not succeed because it was not easy." Zhou Yue said.
"The fringe world is not a place where you can escape casually. The world will set strict conditions so that even if the player successfully sits on the butterfly throne, two conditions need to be met to go out." Zhou Yue said, "One is Find a body that can carry the soul, and the second is to find a substitute to be tied to the throne instead of the player. "
Mu Qin listened to Zhou Yue's narration. He heard some clouds and fog. He wondered: "Isn't that throne able to send people back to the real world? Why should we find a substitute to be restrained instead of the player?"
"The Throne of Butterfly is a double-edged sword. It can send you away from the marginal world, or it can bind you to the marginal world forever." Zhou Yue said, "There are only two options for players sitting on that throne, or else Sit there forever and turn into a pile of weathered bones on that chair. Or try to find a substitute to sit on the chair instead, and then the soul flies out of the marginal world and regenerates in the real world with someone else's body. "
Mu Qin asked Zhou Yue: "Then ... what about the substitute who sits on the chair instead of the player?"
Zhou Yue said: "The substitute can find another substitute, all in all ... as long as the chair is swiped out of the map, the first person sits on it, and then the position will never be vacant again, there must be ... , Even if the person sitting on it has become bone, but this is the so-called 'Butterfly Throne'. "
After listening to this, Mu Qin felt scared: "This is terrible. It is a gamble. If you don't find a substitute successfully and escape, you have to sit in a chair until you die ..."
Zhou Yue shook her head gently and said, "It's not terrible to sit down in a chair. It is terrible that if the person sitting on the butterfly throne got death in this map that brushed out the throne, Card, with the status of a killer and sitting on a chair ... then he really has to sit on the chair forever. "
Mu Qin looked at Zhou Yue with anxiety: "It means that you are stared at by such a guy sitting on the butterfly throne, he wants your body."
"He not only wanted my body, but also wanted me to be his stand-in." Zhou Yue said briefly: "I am afraid that guy did sit on the Butterfly Throne as a killer. I guess he was already there on that chair. It ’s been a long time. The butterfly throne has extremely powerful power. Although it restrains the people on the throne, it also allows the people on the throne to obtain the human dreams that can invade ordinary humans in the present world, the humans who control the real world, It can sometimes manipulate the power of some weak-willed players in the fringe world. "
Muqin immediately thought that in the current life, those guys who broke into Zhou Yue's ward and broke into Muqin's house for searching, as well as the police officer who shot Muqin in the police station, may be the man on the throne. Controlled in this way.
"What about that white card?" Muqin asked again. "Since the white card is the key to open the throne, why does it appear in the real world?"
Zhou Yue said: "Before I entered the marginal world, that is, during the period when I was in the team, that person had frequently invaded me by invading my dreams. At the beginning, I knew nothing about ignorance. I accepted that person's invitation in the dream, because in my dreams he became ... you. "
"Incarnate as ... what I look like?" Mu Qin seemed to realize something, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Zhou Yue's with excitement, angrily: "You shouldn't be dreaming with that guy ... in a dream ... what did you do !? "
Zhou Yue also stretched out her hand and coughed awkwardly: "This is not true. I was able to see 'you' in the dream at first. I was very happy, so I was a little bit defenseless, but this guy frequently invaded my dream and was always incarnation What you look like doing ... cough, seduce, I think it's a bit strange, because it doesn't match your personality, and this person is too disguised to pretend to be your posture, so I don't like it, so I start to feel that something is wrong. "