Chapter 737: Come and get it yourself (5K words, 2 in 1)
And precisely because this is a copy, some of the "shadows" that came to this world with the meteorite in 94 have also appeared in other contaminated copies. To be precise, in contaminated copies in other worlds.
So, in the "contaminated copies" of other worlds, the memories and experiences of some players were [copied]. Then, because the Divine Road wanted to dump all this garbage in one go, along with the [cutting] of this round, this meteorite (copy) was thrown into this world.
As a result, an accident occurred during the [cutting] process, causing the meteorite to replace the Xiang'an District that had just been massacred and turned into a copy. The shadows replaced the copied dead and began to live here.
Some of these shadows still retain memories from other parallel universes...
Therefore, some things may not match our memory.
So, me too! ?
Ye Siyuan was horrified.
"Oh, don't worry, you're not."
"You were born after the massacre. You are not a shadow. Shadows do not have the ability to reproduce after copying a person and becoming a "mimic". The shadow clan can only reproduce in two stages, either when they are still the original shadow, or after they replace the person they copied and become a "humanoid". "
"After all, 'humanoids' were originally real living people, but you also know that because the predecessors of the three tycoons of Jincheng slaughtered all 94 people in Xiang'an District in Jiangcheng overnight, the shadows [copied] all the dead, not the living, and had no chance of becoming 'humanoids' at all. In other words, people born in Xiang'an District after are not 'shadows'."
Is that so?
So why does my memory often feel like it doesn’t match up?
Ye Siyuan frowned, raised his hand and scratched his short hair, which looked like a soldier's, as if he was thinking.
Seeing this, the man in the peaked cap said calmly;
"Because the things that you felt were wrong were all personal experiences of a certain God Road player in other parallel universes. For example, the case of Li Haowen falling from a building was something that actually happened in another world in 01."
"In another world, Li Haowen was born in the 70s. In 04, he was indeed the chairman of the Jiangcheng Li Group. At that time, he got a character card and entered a dungeon. In a dungeon, he was [copied] by a "shadow". However, before Li Haowen could deal with his own shadow or be swallowed up and replaced by his own shadow, he fell to his death because of something in reality."
"It just so happened that the server on God Road was taking out the trash that day, and took the "shadow" of Li Haowen from that world into the trash can. That's the meteorite you saw in the information from the Cabinet Information Technology Department."
"Then, the other shadows didn't have the memories from 94 to 04, so they copied these ordinary people who died in the massacre in your world. They also don't know what their subsequent behavior will be... After all, they came to this world in 1994."
"So, I rehearsed the events from 94 to 04 in the same way as the memory of the shadow of Li Haowen from another world."
"Of course, a person's memory is limited, and it is impossible to remember everything. Not every shadow has a reasonable division of labor. This is due to the fact that the shadow clan has a talent that belongs to them. A group of shadows can share memories with each other. Among the garbage that should have been cleared, there are many shadows of people from Jiangcheng in other parallel universes, similar to Li Haowen's shadow. After they share their memories, they follow the appearance in their memories and the behavioral logic of the other worlds from 94 to 04, playing their own social roles..."
So abstract?
Do they just act out the pasts of the characters they copied from other known worlds?
Oh, no... these "mimics" with memories are not all from the same timeline.
Some may live in 1998, some may live in 2004.
After they came to this world, it was 1994. Rather than saying that it was the past of the characters copied by the actors, it was more like a part of them had a future because of it...
"'Mimics' don't have much intelligence, and it's extremely difficult for them to integrate into real human society. It's a bit sad to say that a creature like a 'shadow' only has a past, not a future. It only has the past that the person who copied it has experienced, but no future of its own."
"Unless you become a humanoid, you can achieve true evolution."
“But for these shadows in Xiang’an District, the conditions are not met.”
"First, the subjects they copied have all died. Second, the people they copied are not God Road players."
"At that time, the second area of Shenlu had not yet been opened. The premise for "Mimicry" to become "Humanoid" is to eat the players you copy, not the ordinary people you copy."
Therefore, the final fate of those "shadows" is to play their own roles in the fragmented memories of the future 94 years later that they have pieced together by other shadows. If the role they play dies one day in their known memories, they will obediently die according to the script, even in the same way.
"You remember that Li Haowen died once in 04 for two reasons. The first is that when you were nine years old, you mischievously browsed through the archives at home and found such an incident in 04. It left a deep impression on you and made you remember the name. This is because in the original parallel universe, after Li Haowen died, there was indeed a henchman of the Zheng family who wrote a chronicle of the rise and fall of all the groups in Jiangcheng over the past fifteen years. In this world, a "shadow" copied the identity of the person who was responsible for writing the chronicle."
"So, following the timeline of Li Haowen's fall from a building in 04, I imitated what really happened in another world step by step and wrote a chronicle. I put it into your Zheng family's database, and it happened to be seen by you in this world."
After saying this, the man in the baseball cap pointed to the expensive cigar on the table.
"Can I have one?"
And quite polite!
Ye Siyuan was stunned for a moment.
This guy has a cold temperament and makes people feel very uncomfortable, as if he has lost something very important and is very worried. But for some reason, every time he speaks, whether it is his voice or his tone of speech, he feels somewhat familiar.
Ye Siyuan was quite puzzled. When did he have such a friend?
Could it really be someone I know?
"completely fine!"
Ye Siyuan did not continue to be in a daze. He took out a cigar from the cigar box, cut it with his own hands and handed it to the other party.
"But why do you know so much? Even about things in other worlds?"
The next moment, Ye Siyuan suddenly came back to his senses.
Although what he said was more logical than my own guesses, and even made me feel as if I had suddenly realized something, some of it was clearly my own personal experience, which others should not know.
But Ye Siyuan couldn't help it and blurted out this question subconsciously.
Hearing this, the man in front of him pursed his lips and exhaled a thick white mist through his nostrils. He put down the cigar he had just taken a puff of, turned his head, and revealed a handsome face in the dim light.
"Because I am the one who was originally responsible for [cutting] your world."
"Oh, right!"
"I was so busy chatting with you that I didn't have time to introduce myself..."
"My name is Qin Shang, but that guy outside likes to call me, 'Lightning King' or God Qin Shang, but these names seem a little strange to you, emm... I should be the internal test fraudster that you often talk about. I am not the player who can use the internal test fraudster role card, but the original... the owner of that internal test fraudster role card!"
……
"You are looking for death, you actually came here alone, how dare you, how dare you..."
The angry roar echoed through the empty villa gate.
"I was trembling with fear in the middle of the night, fearing that you would escape from Qin Yuyan's hands and survive. I didn't expect that you did survive from Qin Yuyan's hands, but you turned around and ran to me, and..."
“He came alone!”
On the other side, outside the door.
At the gate of the luxurious villa, there are two gilded stone lions, which perfectly demonstrate the strong financial resources of the owner of the villa.
The young man in the gray sweatshirt had a calm face as he stood at the gate of the villa, looking at the sheriff who came out in a light blue police uniform. The silver-white long knife was thrown into the villa when it broke the window just now.
He had no weapons in his hands, nothing at all, and his thin and slender figure looked completely intimidating...
"'Lick the cockroach's feet', you are courting death. I will kill you, a player in the lawful realm, as easily as slaughtering a dog!"
Hearing this, Qin Shang raised a sneer at the corner of his lips, silently raised his head, and looked sharply at the middle-aged man with a big belly and a look of strategizing. He ignored the other party's furious roar, but calmly uttered six words.
"Yan Qingyi, you deserve to die!"
The young man tightly held the sachet embroidered with "Don't fear power, have a clear conscience" in his hand.
This was Li Wenzhe's first act of bravery in a corrupt environment.
In the end, the price he paid was the boy's life...
Qin Shang did not accept this result.
The corruption and embezzlement in the entire Jiangcheng City Security Bureau is actually because the top beam is not straight and the bottom beam is crooked.
Yan Qingyi, you really deserve to die...
"I deserve to die, I deserve to die, but the fact is, the person who you think shouldn't die died earlier than me, who deserves to die."
The next moment, Yan Qingyi did not hesitate to use words to mock him.
He was actually very angry tonight.
After saying this, Qin Shang really lost the intention to continue talking nonsense. He threw the scarlet paper man in his hand, and it turned into a shadow and attacked in the direction of Yan Qingyi.
At the same time, Qin Shang put on a pair of embroidered shoes, and he directly locked onto Yan Qingyi.
During this process, Qin Shang initiated the [Transaction].
But the target is not Yan Qingyi.
"Shenlu Server, make a deal with me."
【Can! 】
Shenlu responded.
This means that Qin Shang has something that Shenlu wants.
He knew this a long time ago!
Then, Qin Shang silently stated his bargaining chips in his heart.
The next second, the [transaction] was completed.
His breath surged.
The number of skills in the bright blue attribute panel also increased to nine again.
However, if someone looked closely, they would find that the three words in the occupation column on the Fraudster character card that Qin Shang was holding in his right hand had changed...
【Increase! 】
Then, the young man felt as if every cell in his body was injected with boiling power, and every muscle fiber became hundreds of times stronger. He felt that he instantly possessed the brute force to kill a bull.
Qin Shang stomped his foot on the ground and rushed towards Yan Qingyi like a cannonball.
Now, as soon as I close my eyes, my mind is filled with the tragic death of that child.
I killed Yan Qingyi not to vent my anger, but for revenge.
Just to seek justice for that child!