Chapter 67: Home 03┃ is like opening a Pandora's Box.

What is the right thing?
Muqin could not be identified at all.
He didn't want to talk to the man who claimed to be his father anymore, because every sentence and word spoken by the other person was like a pot of boiling paste, and he was gurgling out of Mu Qin's head. Here, Muchin felt dizzy and dizzy, his ears buzzing like a bee.
Mu Qin was not afraid, but he refused to accept these things that made him feel uncomfortable, and felt that if he acknowledged those words spoken by the man's mouth, it was as if he acknowledged that his feelings for Zhou Yue were false.
He can scream loudly and repeat it a thousand times. He loves Zhou Yue very much.
Even if he was so confident, Muchin was still afraid. He always felt that some things were slowly deviating from his grasp. He couldn't help but start panic, but another puppet in his heart looked at everything coldly.
Muqin knew what he was saying.
Muqin knew that there was indeed a monster with no emotion in his body. The monster lurked deep in his subconscious, and occasionally emerged, destroying Muqin's ideas and occupying Muqin's brain. It will become the leader of this body, it will swallow up the pitiful feelings of Muqin's heart, and it will make Muqin a cold-blooded executioner.
It will make Mu Qin forget Zhou Yue's existence.
Realizing this fact made Muqin feel extremely painful. There was an invisible hand tearing the pain of his heart. He couldn't even tell whether this painful feeling was his true emotions, but he was really uncomfortable now. The feeling of suffocation made it difficult for him to breathe and his heart torment.
The painful Mu Qin can only reach out and cover his face. He takes a deep breath and wants to calm his messy thoughts. He wants to calm down, he will calm down, he is always calm like a monster.
"I don't know if you're thinking of escaping." The man watched Mu Qin's look indifferently. He first saw Mu Qin showing a sad expression, and then quickly covered his face, but it was less loose and loose. Opening your hands to cover your face, the expression on the face returned to normal, and even began to become extremely cold.
Looking at the changes of Mu Qin, for this son like a stranger, the man deeply feels inaccessible. Even Mu Qin, who has no feelings, will feel the emotions such as sadness and sorrow, which will disappear quickly. Mu Qin will be very Quickly return to peace, so no one else can guess what he really thinks inside.
The man regretted: "Mu Qin, I hope you can face these words ... Although it is cruel to you, you are the last gift she left me, so I will help you, yours All requirements, as long as I can do it, I will satisfy you. "
"Even if I want to kill you, will you satisfy me?" Said the indifferent Muqin.
The man sighed, "I said before, kill me and you will be bound by this throne. This is not a good choice for you. If you really want me to die, you can find someone to kill me."
"Forget it." Mu Qin lowered his head and took a deep breath. He was much calmer. He slowly swept out the emotions in his brain, and he calmed down. "It's really killing you for me. No good, then I will ask you some questions. I think you know a lot about the marginal world. "
"You ask." The man nodded and answered.
"I'm curious." Mu Qin said, "I grew up in the real world to this day, I'm twenty-seven years old this year. Even if the time flow in the real world and the game map is different, but based on the real world time, you It should have entered the marginal world more than two decades ago for some reason. "
Mu Qin stared at the man gloomily: "However, as far as I know, this game was started about four years ago ... it's been many years in the middle. What's going on, you know?"
The man thought for a while and replied, "The fringe world games will be updated."
"Update?" Mu Qin was completely caught off guard, startled by the man's sudden words.
"Yes, it's just an update." The man frowned slightly. "Like many online games we play, every so often, the official will stop maintenance and update, and the edge world is the same and needs to be updated."
"Actually there is a system update and upgrade ..." Mu Qin thought it was amazing, but when he thought about it, it seemed like a matter of course.
There are no absolutely perfect things in this world, and even in the marginal world, there must be some loopholes and flaws. These vulnerabilities and defects require regular updates, maintenance, and upgrades to complete them.
Although understandable, it felt vaguely more complicated. Thinking of this, Mu Qin couldn't help feeling a big head, so he had to hold his temples and massage gently to relieve the headache that I don't know when to come up.
Muqin then laughed at himself: "So, how exactly is the fringe world updated?"
"How to update ..." The man did not seem to like to mention this process, and his brows were even more frowned. "The world will first close all maps. Whether it is a player playing in the game map or in a safe house Players who rest and sleep will be 'forced to quit' at the moment the game starts to update. "
Muchin said in a horror: "If I understand correctly, what do you mean by" forced exit "... do you mean that all players will die?"
The man nodded affirmatively: "Yes, you have not misunderstood. Once the edge world starts to update, all the data of the entire game world will be deleted. We players, in the eyes of the system, are just a bunch of data, they also Would easily 'remove' us. "
"This also means ... everyone will die?" Mu Qin's mind was taken aback by the man's words.
"A dead end." The man confirmed, "Except for players who sit on the throne like me and get‘ eternal immortal ’power by the death card and throne power, everyone else will die and disappear with the map or safe house.

Mu Qin understands vaguely, he narrows his eyes and proposes an idea of ​​his own: "Didn't it happen, will the fringe world will actually encourage players to look for the Throne of Butterfly?"
"I think so." The man was not so sure. "After all ... if we don't look for the Butterfly Throne, we will be deleted along with the system update, so players have no choice but to make every effort to let Survive yourself, even if it comes at the cost of sitting in a chair that will always bind you. "
"How long will the game update take?"
"Fifteen years." The man continued, "I said fifteen years is the time in the real world ... Because the flow of time in the game is different from reality, in the game, players may not feel the transition of fifteen years. They It just feels like the past year or two, or maybe even shorter. "
Muqin looked at the man thoughtfully: "How did you know this? Would the marginal world still report you before updating the game?"
The man actually answered Muqin seriously: "Yes, of course, the system will send announcements to players. A few days before the game is about to be updated, the system will send a message to all players, and this message will directly enter the players' brains."
"The general content is to tell you that the game is going to be updated, the server is going to be shut down, the data is going to be cleared, you are going to die, and that the game update will take fifteen years and the specific time when the game will be restarted."
"During the system update and all game maps are turned off, can the power of the Butterfly Throne still work?" Muqin threw his questions one after another to the men.
The man also seized these questions calmly and answered one by one: "Of course it works. The Throne of Butterfly can stabilize the map of the Throne so that the map of the Throne will not be deleted along with the system update ... How to describe it, the Throne is probably a small server. It supports this map so that the map of the throne and the power of the king can function normally when the entire marginal world is closed. "
Mu Qin touched his chin for contemplation: "I know that the Butterfly Throne has a chance to be refreshed on every map. Do you know if there are any other kings sitting on the throne besides you, how many?"
"Yes, but not many, as far as I know ... I'm afraid there are only three of them, all three of them are 'Kings' left over from the last game version update. As for the new games in the system now, There are several kings in it, and I don't know. "
The man told Mu Qin, "The Throne of Butterflies will be swiped out of the map as long as the map is long enough, but you know ... If you want the map to always exist, you must have at least one human player and ghost player. Stay on the map and it will take a long time. "
"Because each map is a closed environment that is automatically generated by extracting some scenes that players have been to, there are limited resources in it. Human players want to stay for a long time and need a lot of water and food, which is very difficult."
"Like me like this." The man recalled something. "This map has a lot of water and some edible wild fruits, so she is willing to stay with me, but even so, we waited. About three or four months before I saw the butterfly throne brush out. "
Muqin was surprised: "So long?"
"The odds are different for each map." The man's tone was dull. "At that time, she was pregnant for two months. After the throne was swept out, I trapped her. She seemed to be unaware that she was being restrained by me. , Lying in my arms every day to sleep, she smiled at me at the time ... I can still remember. "
The man lowered his head and hugged the corpse on his leg. He hugged for a while and rushed to Muqin and said, "Sorry ... Muqin, although I hate myself for forcibly keeping your mother by my side, it is very For a long time, I was very thankful that I left her. "
Muqin said: "I can probably understand why you want to force your mother, because you know that the game needs to be updated, and even sending her out is a dead end. Sorry, if this is the case, it is normal for you to force her. "
"No, that's not the case." The man shook his head and denied, "The game update was something that happened a while after her death. Before she died, I had a chance to send her out, but I didn't."
"Even if you send her out?" Muqin seemed to see something. "She can only escape this map, but she cannot escape the world ... in the end, everyone is going to die."
After listening to Mu Qin's words, the man held the bones in his arms tighter and his voice was hoarse: "I love her so much that I can't let go of it at all, even if she dies, I think I'm crazy."
"..." Mu Qin did not speak, and remained silent for a while, suddenly as if remembering something, he said to the man in a confused tone: "Is the edge world game automatically updated?"
"Automatic update?" The man didn't quite understand the meaning of Mu Qin's question. He pondered for a moment, "I don't understand what you asked, isn't it automatic update? I said before, the game is in the top three Day will send a notification to all players. "
"Then the game restarts? When it starts, will the system also send you a notice that the game will restart?" Muqin asked.
The man shook his head: "This is not true. If you didn't come today, I don't even know that the fringe world has restarted. I have been sleeping ... I haven't heard any sound in the middle."
On hearing that, Mu Qin narrowed his eyes strangely: "That would be interesting."
"What's interesting?" The man asked.
"I heard a message from someone else's mouth," Muqin said. "Someone once told me that the fringe world was opened by a group of players 'hands-on' four years ago."
Mu Qin remembered that not long ago, when Zhou Yue and the king who was attached to his mother Jiezhu confronted and talked with each other, Zhou Yue mentioned that he knew a player with the system number "13", and the one who was attached to Jiezhu at the time Upon hearing this, the king shouted unbelievably, and what he said roughly said, "The first players who entered the game are dead, and there cannot be 13 players with such a number."
And the king also mentioned at the time that "the first players to enter the game were also players who opened the edge world, they restarted the edge world, so all disasters were caused by them."
After listening to these words, Mu Qin subconsciously believed that the marginal world was artificially opened, but now Mu Qin's biological father told him that the marginal world was automatically turned on and off, and closed every time because of the system update. Turn it back on again and again.
But what is the truth or is there any misunderstanding?
Muqin couldn't figure this out. He told his doubts to the man on the throne, and after thinking about it, he told Muqin the exact time of the game update. He said: "I remember the last game update and the world will be closed. The server was after your mother left ... It was I who sent you to the real world, and then became a ghost. She took care of you for three years, and watched you being sent to the adoptive parents' home. Soon after leaving, I received a message that the system update was closed. "
"That is to say, when I was three years old, the last version of the marginal world was closed for updates." Muqin began to record a specific timeline based on the man's words.
"I'm 27 years old now. As far as I know, this version of the game was started four years ago, which was when I was 23 years old ... No, to say that, the fringe world is quiet. Was it reopened after 20 full years? "
Recorded here, Muqin looked at the man questioningly: "Don't you say that the system will automatically reopen the edge world 15 years after the game is closed?"
"The system message I received did say this, saying that the game will be reopened after 15 years of shutdown, but this is only a systematic rhetoric, and because I have been sleeping for years, has the game been reopened on schedule? ... I don't know. "
The man speculated, "Maybe something went wrong with the system, which caused the game to be postponed."
"Of course, it may be that someone has used some means to seal the marginal world ..." After the man laughed, it seemed to be amused by his own conjecture.
He said: "Although this conjecture is like a nightmare, but suppose someone really did it. A group of guys called heroes ended the game and made this terrible reincarnation stop. However, a group of four years ago The dead guy opened it again, like opening Pandora's Box. "
"If that's the case ..." Muqin said with narrowed eyes. "Then those players who reopened the marginal world are indeed the culprits that caused all disasters, and obviously the opportunity to end everything ... was then destroyed."
"We are all unclear about the truth, maybe our thoughts are wrong." The man groaned for a moment, and suddenly said to Muqin: "Muqin, to be honest, I don't want you to enter the marginal world to continue the cycle, but I also want There is no way to take you out of this world. "
"I said that you have no soul and no emotion. You were a" dead "when you were born. I ca n’t describe your existence. Although you are a child born to her, I think you are partly from the marginal world, from this abyss. . "
"I don't understand what you mean." Mu Qin frowned and looked at the man.
The man said, "I mean ..."
The man seemed to be unable to think of any words to express his thoughts. He thought about it for a long time, first sighing, and then watching Mu Qin for a long time, and then silent for a long time. Finally, I suddenly switched the subject and talked about the past: "I was with your mother when I was young."
"At that time in China, both economic and technological developments were not very good. There were many poor people ... I was a poor man who came out of the countryside and worked in high school without finishing school. In order to make money, I have been in major cities. Every boss runs wildly. "
"Your mother is very different from me. She is a young lady from a rich family. The family is in good condition and she plans to send her to study abroad. I don't know how she thinks of me, but we met. After a few dates She was together. For me, she abandoned the opportunity to go abroad, stayed home to complete her studies, and started work. "
"She is very good, and she is very serious in her work. She earns several times my salary." The man said with ridicule, "I was still inferior at the time, I felt that I was not worthy of her, and I had thoughts of breaking up many times, but As soon as I saw her smile, I immediately threw the thought out of the clouds. "
"Neither of us got married, we did n’t get a certificate, we just lived together. After working for a few years, I had some savings, and started a joint venture to start a business. I was able to run businesses around the world to talk about investment. She is good at managing budgets and we are very cooperative. OK, incredibly good, so our business is getting bigger and bigger, and it ’s getting bigger and bigger. "
"It was a big draw, but unfortunately I didn't understand the truth at that time. In addition, I had money at hand and started to arrogantly, inviting some people who shouldn't be provoked, so I was quickly suppressed by the other party's signal of competition. Our business began. Going downhill, she wanted to stop the loss in time, but I was not convinced and wanted to gamble. I just invested all my money in the projects that were promising at the time. As a result, the more I lost, the more I lost.
"She didn't blame me and said that she would reorganize the flag and start again, but I fell into a trough at the time and felt that I was very useless. I borrowed a variety of alcohol to relieve my sorrow. Once I drank too much and was unconscious and was in the bar again I met the guy who wasn't supposed to provoke him. "
"That was a fat man. He didn't have any ability, but the family had the right to have money. The reason he provoke him at the time was because he was joking with your mom and asked me to give him to play with me. He punched him with a punch in his face, so he remembered it and asked people to suppress us.
"I haven't been able to see this matter, so after seeing this dead fat man in the bar again, I got up with wine and went to ask him for trouble. I fought with him and killed him by mistake."
"Manslaughter, I went to jail and was sentenced to seven years. The family of the fat man threatened to let me die in prison. Your mother was looking for relationships to help me turn around and get through this difficult situation. But because she tried everything I was begging for help everywhere, and she was followed by the family behind that fat man. "
Speaking of which, the man suddenly stopped. Mu Qin listened to being in God and saw that he was silent. Then he asked the follower subconsciously: "What then?"
The man's face was gloomy: "They found a few foolish people who wanted to gang your mother."
Muqin clenched his fists: "Did they succeed?"
The man shook his head: "I don't know. She didn't tell me what was going on. All I knew was that she had killed those punks and used a puppet brought by the punks themselves."
"She immediately went home to clean up after killing people, changed her clothes and came to the prison to see me for the last time. When she came to see me, her face was full of sunny smiles. She was just like normal, and I did n’t even know her. Killed someone, and then she told me that she used all our assets to buy insurance. The beneficiary was me. After I was released from prison for seven years, the money would be transferred to my account. "
"I realized that something was wrong and asked her what was going on, but she refused to answer me, and then left the prison. One month later, I heard from her that she was sentenced to death for intentional homicide without suspension. Immediately, she did not complain and accepted it. "
"After two months, I didn't want to open it, and I committed suicide in prison." The man put an end to their story with this sentence. After finishing, he looked up at Mu Qin and continued: "When I Waking up again, I came to the fringe world and met her again in the second game. "