Shi Tianzhu might think it was because he brought two children out of the dungeon world, and the system was warning and threatening him.
At first, Ning Su thought the same, but after coming out of this instance, he didn’t think so anymore.
Perhaps it was partly because he brought out the Ghost Master, but there might be deeper reasons.
If he were just a normal rule-breaking player, the system wouldn’t have sent Ling Xiao to kill him.
Even though he still wasn’t clear about Ling Xiao’s exact identity, just the fact that Ling Xiao could create the Ghost Master in the instance world meant his status in the system was definitely not simple.
Sending Ling Xiao to kill a normal rule-breaking player would be overkill.
But Ning Su couldn’t tell Shi Tianzhu this.
To avoid worrying Shi Tianzhu, he said, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely be a rule-abiding player.”
Shi Tianzhu said, “Since the <Manman> instance, I knew you weren’t an ordinary person.”
Ning Su nodded. “It’s when you took me to see the doctor.”
At that time, he felt very at ease.
He was a zombie among a group of humans.
Not to mention being cautious, his experiences before the game also made him wary.
Shi Tianzhu knew he was a zombie, so he no longer had to keep this secret alone, and this wariness felt like it had an opening, making it hard to maintain.
Shi Tianzhu also told him that in the base, players obtained different inheritances and modified or transformed their bodies in various instances. There were vampires and hydras.
This was to tell him that even if others discovered he was a zombie, it would be fine; he could attribute it to inheritances and skills.
He truly felt at ease.
Shi Tianzhu saying this again was to tell him that no matter what he was, she would support him.
When Ning Su was about to leave, he hesitated for a moment and then said to her, “Can I hug you?”
Shi Tianzhu was stunned for a moment.
Just as she stood up, Ning Su stepped forward and hugged her.
After a moment of surprise, Shi Tianzhu smiled and patted his head.
Ning Su felt so happy that his heart was melting, and he asked Shi Tianzhu, “What do you think of Ning Changfeng?”
“Why bring him up now?” Shi Tianzhu said, “He’s a despicable liar.”
Ning Su: “…Okay.”
He still had a long way to go before he could recognize his mother.
Shi Tianzhu looked at him, becoming more and more pleased. This hug gave her the opportunity to say what she had always wanted to: “How about becoming my little brother?”
Ning Su: “...”
Not very good.
Ning Su felt a bit flustered when he left the Yinhua Guild.
Ning Su: [I almost became my own uncle!]
Ning Changfeng: [?]
Ning Su: [President Shi wants me to be her little brother!]
Ning Changfeng: [???]
Ning Changfeng: [That won’t do. My son can’t become my brother-in-law!]
Ning Su: [???]
So, he’s a brother-in-law now?
Did he even realize he’s subconsciously seeing Shi Tianzhu as his wife?
Ha, the man’s evil and arrogant possessiveness.
Ning Changfeng, like an empty-nester, messaged: [Did you come out of the Yinhua Guild? Can we have a late-night snack together?]
Ning Su: [Not yet.]
He closed Ning Changfeng’s messages and tried to message Ling Xiao, not knowing if he was on the game base.
He found Ling Xiao’s name and sent a message. Surprisingly it went through.
Ning Su: [Lord Flower God, I want to spend some time alone with you.]
There seemed to be silence on the other side, and after a while, a message came through.
Ling Xiao: [Your place or mine?]
Ning Su: [If it’s my place, we might run into my dad. Let’s go to your place.]
***
The place where Ling Xiao occasionally stayed looked small from below, but once up there, Ning Su realized it was large—a truly independent, spacious flat.
Located at the center of the base, overlooking the entire game lobby.
Ning Su sat on the carpet in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and looked up at Ling Xiao, “Are you ready to spend time together, just the two of us?”
Ling Xiao: “...”
He humbly asked, “How should we spend it?”
Ning Su: “I can’t take the lead. Last time, wasn’t it you who was in control the whole time?”
As he said this, he sat cross-legged on the carpet. His fair and rounded toes were tucked into pink cotton casual pants, and his thin ankles were slightly tense, revealing faint black lines under the pale skin.
Because he turned his head, the large collar became even more skewed, revealing a slender and long neck. The black lines added a mysterious fragility to it.
He looked very easy to control, yet also inviting to be controlled.
Ling Xiao averted his gaze. “How did I control it?”
After Ling Xiao looked away, his eye corner just aligned with Ning Su. Ning Su stared at that bit of red at the corner of his eye, wondering if it was due to the fiery sunset outside the window. He felt that touch of red was about to burn up.
“Just like that.” Ning Su tugged at his collar and swallowed. “Is this something that can be discussed?”
In the room of that human survivor base in the dungeon, Ling Xiao said that he put up a space shielded everyone, including the system, it was a world for just the two of them.
If he put it up directly now, would the system detect it?
He didn’t want the system to know the important thing he had to tell Ling Xiao.
Ning Su rephrased, “Just like in that room at the human survivor base.”
Ling Xiao: “...”
He stood in place for a while, looking somewhat off. After ten seconds, he looked at Ning Su, his eyes not particularly gentle.
Ning Su looked at him expectantly. “Is that okay?”
Ling Xiao: “It’s already okay.”
Ning Su: “...”
Ning Su patted the spot beside him. “I have something important to tell you.”
After Ling Xiao sat down, Ning Su faced him directly and asked, “Why do you think the system wants you to kill me?”
Ling Xiao: “You’ve severely harmed its interests. It’s angry.”
Ning Su nodded, “It shouldn’t just be because I brought Gui Sheng and Manman out of their respective dungeons, right?”
Ling Xiao: “Based on its attitude, it shouldn’t be because of that entirely.”
Ning Su began to share his suspicions. Before explaining his guess, he needed to clarify his own identity.
“I am a zombie, coming from an apocalypse that happens more than twenty years in the future.”
Ning Su moved closer to him. “You know I am a zombie. That dungeon world was set up based on my world, right? You could say that Zombie Ning Su is an atypical Ghost Master, and the world is built around his story.”
Ling Xiao nodded, his expression turning into the same one he had when he held him in the human survivor base’s room, only now it made Ning Su like him even more.
He asked him, “Why did you consume the zombie virus?”
He might never forget the scene of watching the young man consume billions of zombie viruses from above.
Unforgettable, yet it lingered in his mind.
Ning Su didn’t know how to explain, just looked at Ling Xiao as if searching for the meaning behind his actions.
Ling Xiao pinched the back of his neck. “Keep talking, I’m listening.”
Ning Su asked him, “Do all the dungeon worlds need energy to operate? Where does this energy come from?”
Ling Xiao said, “Part of it comes from the system, and part of it comes from me.”
Ning Su nodded. “Many Ghost Masters became Ghost Masters because of your energy. Core NPCs like ghost masters need energy, and even smaller NPCs like a zombie in the ‘Zombie’ dungeon world also need energy, right?”
“It’s impossible for you to provide energy to each one individually. Their energy comes uniformly from the main system.”
“Correct,” Ling Xiao said. “At the same time, they also draw energy from the players and feed it back to the system.”
Ning Su: “These players, except for me, come from the same world and the same era. They recognize each other’s cities and the same celebrities. I also come from the same world, just twenty years later.”
He began to touch on the critical point: “When they entered the Infinite Horror game, our world was still in a period of peace. Twenty years later, in our world, the zombie apocalypse broke out.”
“In our world’s apocalypse, I consumed countless zombie viruses. In the <Zombie> dungeon world’s Yongming Guild’s zombie warehouse, I also absorbed the zombie virus from Chu Yuling, who was temporarily turned into a zombie by the system after death, as well as many other zombies’ viruses.”
Ning Su pursed his lips, tightly clutching Ling Xiao’s sleeve, and said, “It was exactly the same.”
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