Chapter 1481 - 475: Reality and Game_3

Chapter 1481: Chapter 475: Reality and Game_3

But in that year, his parents had an accident.

The picture displayed in black, white, and gray, with no other colors. His parents were in a car accident, their smiles forever frozen in photos.

Undoubtedly, this was a heavy blow to Lu Mingxuan. Lu Mingxuan silently watched the portraits of his parents, tears continuously falling.

"No way... how do you play this?"

Wen Xishu couldn’t help it. On one hand, the game could hardly change anything; on the other, Lu Mingxuan’s experience was indeed unfortunate.

Strangely enough, there was a response on the screen. As if it had heard Wen Xishu’s question.

{People always feel that characters in the game lack freedom, while reality is free. But the cruelty of fate often lies in the reality that people can’t make choices or change anything. It is only in games that, although not free, you can choose many illogical endings.}

{Life can be brilliant, but it always ends with birth, aging, illness, and death, those fixed conclusions. Games are the product of resistance to reality. Reality, inherently, cannot be played.}

{Mission failed, you couldn’t keep the player, Gamer’s shaping progress: ninety percent.}

The departure of the player was painful for Lu Mingxuan, yet still bearable.

If it weren’t for the death of his parents, Wen Xishu believed the Gamer’s shaping progress wouldn’t have been so fast. But there are no ’ifs.’

The cold numbers directly indicated the importance of his parents to Lu Mingxuan.

Wen Xishu had naturally experienced countless tragedies created by unqualified parents, Cosmetic Surgery Family, Tang Rui, Charlie, these people were similar.

But in this vast apocalypse, there were also many admirable parents.

It was just unfortunate that Lu Mingxuan lost them forever.

In the darkness, on the other side, the Shadow had already controlled Wen Xishu to defeat Bruce Long.

Wen Xishu felt a sense of oppression.

He still chose to continue playing the game.

"Unexpectedly... Scorpio should be appearing now, right? Or... a teacher?"

When a person loses their most important thing and is at their most fragile, it is the best time to implant a certain ideology.

Wen Xishu wasn’t wrong.

Soon, a child in a blue suit appeared on the screen. The scene was at Lu Mingxuan’s parents’ funeral.

{Mission: Find the person who can change your future.}

This person was most likely the Scorpio in the blue suit.

But Wen Xishu could guess what Scorpio would do.

He didn’t choose Scorpio. Instead, he kept talking to others.

He even deliberately avoided Scorpio.

However...

Just like before, this game doesn’t really have much room for maneuver, filled with an inevitable sense of fate.

Wen Xishu manipulated Lu Mingxuan, talking to everyone except for Scorpio.

But Lu Mingxuan hardly spoke, because he didn’t really know how to talk to people.

So, the person Wen Xishu deliberately avoided appeared:

"Don’t like socializing? It’s okay, I can change the world in your eyes to be like this."

The dialogue flashed by, and the game’s UI appeared with the end of the conversation.

The world in Lu Mingxuan’s eyes suddenly changed.

All the people became game characters. Once his gaze focused on someone, that person’s level, profile information, mission clues, etc., would pop up.

Lu Mingxuan could also choose from many interaction options - initiate a conversation (current conversation level is low, communication effect unknown).

"You don’t need to worry about what conversation means, you don’t need to organize language anymore; now, your life has become a game."

"You only need to make various choices, and the world will become how you like it."

"Interesting, isn’t it? Do you want to join my game?"

{Join/Not Join.}

Wen Xishu decisively chose not to join. In his view, Scorpio and the teacher were both villains in Lu Mingxuan’s world.

In the game, Scorpio didn’t stop trying to entice after being refused.

He smiled meaningfully:

"Lu Mingxuan, isn’t it better if the world becomes a game?"

"Reality is dull, reality is a tedious tower where people repeat work every day, are forgotten, abandoned, crushed by disease, worn down by poverty."

"People always seek freshness, a game they never tire of, yet their lives are a constant repetition of yesterday. Isn’t it laughable?"

"Lu Mingxuan, don’t you want to join me in turning the entire world into a game? Where everyone is always needed."

At the funeral, everything around seemed to stop.

Only Scorpio, smiling, reached out his hand.

"In the game, your mom and dad won’t leave you, and NPCs will never betray you. In the game, you only need to choose from dialogue boxes, never having to organize words."

"This world is terrible, reality only leads us to a lonely ending. I hate loneliness, hate the fate of mutual slaughter, and you hate loneliness too, don’t you!"

"Let them be with us forever in the game, what’s wrong with that?"

Scorpio’s intention was finally revealed at this moment.

Wen Xishu suddenly thought, were these words directed at Lu Mingxuan but perhaps... also Scorpio’s own thoughts?

Maybe in Scorpio’s eyes, the world is a gamified world?

Maybe Scorpio also didn’t like reality, he longed to turn everything into a game to fight against reality?

{Join.}

This time, there was only one option left in the game, and Wen Xishu had no way out.

This crappy game seemed to have operations, but it actually led to only one ending, much like many people’s lives.

Scorpio’s words, at first glance, seemed reasonable.

But Wen Xishu still felt something was off.

He wanted to refute, but a game is just a game, with only "join" to choose from.

To view the entire life of the Gamer, Wen Xishu could only continue the game, and choose to join.

{Mission Complete: You found the person who can change your future. You made yourself into a game.}

Wen Xishu’s thought was simple. Since the kind Gamer persona mentioned "education," the teacher must also have appeared.

He wanted to see if he could find information about the teacher in this game’s memory.

(Friends, I need to take a day off tomorrow, I have a lot to do. If I can get things done early, I’ll try to postpone it myself...)