The European Emperor’s character remains standing

Chapter 178 The sea breeze is hot, but not as hot as what I want in my heart (shout out all my grievances to the sea)
At this time, half an hour had passed since the end of the second round of voting. The four people in the living room seemed calm on the surface, concentrating on watching the drama, but in fact, the situation was turbulent and everyone had their own plans.

"Where are you going?" Zhe'er asked when he saw Huahua getting up and preparing to leave.

"Looking for hidden Easter eggs, do you want to come?" Huahua turned around and said, "You have to be prepared for both situations. Even if you don't succeed in the end, you have to gain something."

"You invited me, can I not go?"

Folded Ears would not miss any opportunity, and would not leave any room for Hua Hua. She smiled and said goodbye to the fawn: "In this case, fawn, we will leave first."

After the two left, Luzai and Qingyouren still sat on the sofa watching TV until the episode was over.

"What are you going to do?" Zhu Qingyou hinted.

The sky was clear, and some sunlight even shone through the windowsill onto the sofa. She leaned over and replied, "Bring forward the time for the third round of voting, and verify a hypothesis by the way."

"How do you feel about ten minutes?"

Zhu Qingyou picked up the phone and handed it to Lucub, "It's too long."

"Then make it shorter." Lin Shilu took the phone, opened the Tianshangxing software, and clicked on a forum user whose identity had been confirmed a few days ago.

Fingers type on the keyboard, deleting, subtracting, and reducing.

"Please do me a favor when the dungeon is over."

"You said."

"It's probably only been about half a day in reality." She said as she typed. Some things have to be tried before you know if they will succeed. "Help me hold Huahua and the others back for at least an hour in reality, okay?"

"Okay." Zhu Qingyou nodded in agreement.

On the other side, while Zhe Er and Hua Hua were constantly testing each other, they were also looking for Easter eggs; Lu Cub finished typing and clicked send, then clicked into a dialog box to input, and the task requirements were completed perfectly.

Deer Cub sent a message to the top chat: "Stop everyone except us for at least an hour."

The clues given by the system are still vague, but they can be confirmed given enough time.

The phone in her pocket vibrated and the screen lit up. She glanced at it and noticed Huahua's gaze and asked, "Curious?"

As he spoke, he put his hands in his pockets, swiped across the message bar on the lock screen of his phone, and quickly pressed the power button.

Huahua said frankly, "A little bit."

"Here!" Zhe Er took out his cell phone from his pocket and pretended to sigh, "My phone is turned off. It ran out of battery when I was at Luzi's house. I didn't expect that after charging for so long, it still wasn't fully charged."

"I have a power bank here." Hu Zifeng obviously didn't believe it. He picked up the phone and tried to turn it on.

The phone was running low on battery and I could barely turn it on with 1% battery left, but it quickly shut down automatically.

"It's really out of battery." He reached into his pocket and said, "I almost forgot that I left my power bank behind when I went out to chase you."

Zhe Er smiled and said, "Forget it, it won't be too late to recharge when we get back."

The two of them seem to be in harmony on the surface, but it is unknown what they are thinking in their hearts.

The two returned to their home in the copy, and before they knew it, five minutes had passed.

【The third round of voting begins! 】

[Voting target: members of the third-party camp. ]

[Information tips for this bureau:

1: I wish to be a pair of wings in the sky and a pair of branches on the ground.

2: Lovers should live and die together, and share weal and woe. 】

[Note: The dungeon ends when this round of voting ends. Mission rewards and Easter eggs will be distributed based on the players' clue collection. After the dungeon ends, players can view the dungeon plot in the mission bar. Watching the entire dungeon plot will earn you a special Easter egg.]

Because of Zhe'er's interruption, Huahua didn't find any Easter eggs in these five minutes, and didn't contact anyone else.

At this moment, Huahua still wanted to steer the topic and target towards the young deer. He said, "The right time, the right place, and the right people are all essential."

Zhe Er didn't respond, and just asked, "Who do you vote for?"

The words spoken during the second round of voting were still fresh in his mind, but Huahua didn't want to end it hastily. He leaned close to Zhe'er and whispered:

"Give me half."

The behavior of the two people made others think deeply.

"Okay." Zhe Er agreed.

The results of the third round of voting are as follows:
Huahua and Zhe'er respectively expressed their abstention.

Lin Ximing and Ling Qixian voted for each other. (The conflict between the two seemed to have intensified, and they voted for each other not long after Huahua gave up.)
Siyuan and Shaoshao are ready to wait and see.

Si Si stood there in a daze, perhaps because of the message sent by the young deer before, and soon the two of them gave up.

Luzai and Qingyou hadn't expressed their opinions yet. Shaoshao, who was standing beside them, looked at them and seemed to have seen through the truth. He sighed and said, "It's meaningless. We both abstain too."

[The results of this round of voting are as follows: two players voted for each other, and the rest of the players abstained. Do you want to enable additional voting? ]

"No!" The majority is better than the minority!
The voting is over and the system prompt sound pops up again.

[The third-party camp player won, the dungeon plot and rewards have been issued, players can claim them after logging out of the dungeon! ]

[Congratulations to all players for passing the Heart Deception - Heart Fraud dungeon. This dungeon has been downgraded midway and the dungeon content has been changed to a phased dungeon. Therefore, after logging out, all players can receive an update compensation. This reward is only for players in hidden mode! ]

[Because the prerequisites for the hidden dungeon are too strict and the number of clearances is small, the clearance records are locked. The rewards for opening up the dungeon will be opened again after the dungeon is updated. ]

The copy ends, the player exits and returns to the original landing place.

Floating island teleport.

As soon as they came out of the copy, Shao Shao said: "Let's go, Xiao Yuanzi." Without waiting for Si Yuan to answer, Su Heng put his hand on his shoulder and was about to pull him away.

"We two won't get involved, and we'll leave first."

Siyuan was confused and puzzled.

"Don't think about it. I know there's a place you'll definitely like. Let's go and have some skewers and see the beautiful scenery. While the map hasn't been updated yet, I'll take you to see the century-old tree. It's absolutely beautiful with the sunset. There's also the sea there, with petals falling on the sea. It's absolutely romantic and elegant."

"The most important thing is to eat skewers there. The price is really cheap. But you have to eat them on a tree, so people who are afraid of heights can't go there. This is a barbecue restaurant run by the tree spirits, so the taste is guaranteed."

Siyuan's attention was instantly diverted. He thought of the tree barbecue restaurant Shao Shao mentioned and hesitated, "Forget it."

What beautiful scenery?
The beautiful view under the tree, with petals falling, the sun setting, and looking at the sea level is beautiful, provided that it is under the tree.

When eating barbecue on the tree, petals fall down, and it is not certain whether it is the barbecue skewers or the petals that fall into your mouth. Moreover, the barbecue restaurant is located on the tree, on the wide branch. If you don't have a little courage, you really don't dare to climb up, you have to climb purely by hand.

This is also one of the reasons why the barbecue restaurants opened by the tree elves are cheap and taste good, but are not popular.

While eating and drinking, he got drunk and suddenly had a free fall from a high altitude. Although it was not high and it was still in the game, the height was only two or three meters. Even if he fell, he would only lose a little blood.

But the feeling of weightlessness will let you experience what it means to be in the middle of a chat and suddenly slip, causing your heart rate to become unbalanced.

The tree elves don't know how to set up barriers, so if you slip you will fall, but they have their own secret recipe that can cushion the fall of anyone from the trees. Some lucky ones will slip and fall to the ground and feel that the ground is like a trampoline and will bounce back, then bounce back to the barbecue restaurant on the tree, but it is not certain which branch they will fall on.

They won't set up barriers, but they will make the ground as smooth and soft as a trampoline, and will not cause any physical injury to any customer who comes to the barbecue restaurant. At most, they will suffer some psychological trauma.

There are many strange attractions in the other world. The barbecue restaurant of the tree elves is definitely one of the top ten food in the list, but because its operation is too strange, it is also listed as a strange attraction.

For this purpose, they carried out reverse publicity, so that while enjoying the delicious food or chatting with friends about gossip, people can also enjoy the heart-pounding excitement and the feeling of weightlessness.

Ahem, that’s too far off topic.

Not long after Shao Shao and Si Yuan left, Hua Hua and Zhe Er went to discuss the dungeon rewards as promised. Si Si saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he pulled Si Si away from the scene, leaving a message: "The dungeon reward box is not important. At worst, we can open it ourselves. Your business is more important, so let's go first!"

Only Zhu Qingyou, Lin Shilu, Ling Qixian and Lin Ximing were left at the scene.

The young deer glanced at Qingyou, who understood what he meant. He took the initiative to talk to Lin Ximing and went to other places.

"Do you want to come together?"

Lin Shilu extended an invitation and Ling Qixian stopped.

"Okay, where to?" he asked.

"Shuizhen, I heard there's a new project where we can play water skateboarding together, and there's also a barbecue restaurant opened by the tree elves, both are pretty good."

Floating island teleportation array.

After arriving at Water Town, Lu Cub did not take Ling Qixian to play water skateboarding, but took him to a floating island. In addition to the town in the sky that can be connected to the water tornado, there are other floating islands in the air.

These floating islands can be reached via waterspouts.

Here you can enjoy the scenery above the water town. After the system upgrade, the map of the water town has doubled in size, and even a new corner of the town has been added, which is close to the ocean.

At this time in the game, the sun was setting.

The setting sun was bright red, the clouds in the sky were in various shapes, and even the ocean had changed color due to the sun's enthusiasm.

The wind gradually picked up, and the floating island seemed to be fixed by an anchor, firmly fixed in place.

"How is it? The scenery here is nice, right?" The wind blew the hair around the deer cub's ears away. She reached out and held it up, smiling.

The warm sunshine and cool sea breeze take away the summer heat.

When Ling Qixian saw Lin Shilu's smile, his heart felt like it was burned. He subconsciously shifted his gaze and said nervously, "Indeed, it's very good."

He didn't know if it was because of the setting sun or because of this inexplicable emotion, but he suddenly felt his face getting hot and his heart pounding, as if everything was caused by that smile.

He didn't know what this emotion was, he just thought that it was really hot today, so hot that even the cool sea breeze couldn't take away the heat in his heart.

The two were still some distance away from the edge of the island. Even if they fell by mistake, they would step on the barrier at the edge of the island and stand in the air. If the barrier failed, they would be teleported back to the center of the island when they fell.

The deer cub found a big rock to sit on. She looked toward the distant sea and asked, "You seem unhappy recently. What's the reason?"

She looked into the distance, perhaps at this moment she was not only asking the other person, but also herself back then.

Ling Qixian is not Ling Qixian, and he is not Xi Ling. He is a fragment of Xi Ling’s memory from a certain period, an incomplete existence, and the person he has been thinking about for many years.

The words came to his lips but he suddenly couldn't say them. Ling Qixian felt his wildly beating heart gradually calm down, and even a hint of sourness spread in his heart.

The Ling Qixian itself is not the Ling Qixian.

He is the body created by the rules for the memory fragments. He has the memories of Xi Ling and the deer cub's time together, as well as a fabricated false reality.

He is Xi Ling, and he is not.

For some memory fragments, the rules can no longer create a body for them and reasonably blur their existence, so they make transactions with other people to allow the fragments to exist in the form of secondary personalities. After meeting the fawn, the memory is revived.

The original owner of the body falls asleep until the obsession with the memory fragment is satisfied, and the events and transactions that took place during this period will gradually be forgotten, including the memories related to the "secondary personality".

He is not a complete individual, nor a complete existence. He is a fragment of Xi Ling's memory. He has memories and emotions, but all of this is brought about by the obsession in his heart and the emotions contained in his memories.

Ling Qixian was silent. He was unable to answer the other party's question.

Until now, he still hasn't remembered his true identity. Before his obsession with memory fragments is satisfied, he will not doubt the rationalization and ambiguity of the rules, and he knows that he is actually just a fragment of someone's memory.

Lin Shilu sighed, but she didn't look back at Ling Qixian.

"I actually had a very good friend in the past, but one day she suddenly left without saying goodbye. When I saw her, I really wanted to ask her why she left. Why did she leave so suddenly? Didn't we agree to be together forever?"

"But when that day really came, I had nothing to say. I could only listen to her because I couldn't say anything at that time. In the end, I just hugged her and cried."

"To this day, she is still my best friend and irreplaceable."

"We were together for a long time, until one day I met Sister Ci, now the head of the family. No matter which memories, no matter in the past or now, I have always been thinking about her." "Some people say that love at its extreme is hate, and hate at its extreme may be love. All feelings, whether love or hate, whether family or friendship, may be attributed to love and hate. This may be one-sided, but I think it may not be wrong."

"Year after year, year after year, even the deepest friendship may change into..."

Her tone became lighter and she didn't pay attention to the movement around her. She hugged her knees with her arms and sobbed quietly.

"Sometimes I really think, how nice it would be if this was a dream, a game, then I can say it's not real and the game is over."

"Then it's time for you to come back...A Ling, I've been waiting for you for so long, but you just won't come back."

"Sometimes at night when I see the moonlight by the window, I feel that it is my longing for you. The moonlight is as heavy as gauze and water. I even doubt whether I can hold on and wait for you to come back."

"We have agreed and made an appointment."

The few people who had stopped walking wanted to go forward to comfort her when they heard the crying, but they were afraid of disturbing her.

Lin Shilu knew that Ling Qixian was a fragment of Xi Ling’s memory, not the complete her, but he hoped it was.

For example, at this moment, she mistook the memory fragments of Ling Qixian, a body created by rules, as Xi Ling.

I didn't realize that a new player came to the island just after I said a few words.

Not long after meeting Ling Qixian and Lin Ximing, she realized it, but she didn't dare to admit it. In fact, she had always known what the other party's obsession was.
is her.

Their appearance was a test of Xi Ling.

Xi Ling wanted to know whether she was still the most important friend in Lin Shilu's heart.

That's why there are these two bodies created by rules and given two fragments of rationalized memories.

There are also a small number of fragments that borrowed other people's bodies. However, after hearing Lin Shilu's voice, she will negotiate with the world consciousness and argue for her rights.

Let others who have already reached an agreement become beings like Ling Qixian and Lin Ximing, whose bodies are created by the rules using spiritual energy.

This is different from Zhu Qingyou and Zhu Qingxuan. Once Ling Qixian and the others' obsessions are satisfied, the bodies created by the rules with spiritual energy will turn into spiritual energy again and return to Xi Ling's body along with the memory fragments.

Lin Shilu has always wanted to see her, and that has never changed.

Xi Ling naturally didn't want to use someone else's body. Even if it was just a fragment of memory, she wouldn't be willing to meet Lin Shilu as a non-real self.

"A Ling! I really miss you so much. When will you come back?"

Lin Shilu burst into tears.

As expected, she should take Ling Qixian to see the sea, say unhappy words to the sea level, shout and vent, and all problems can be solved.

If they are honest with each other, the obsession will be perfectly eliminated, and this memory fragment can smoothly return to Xi Ling's body.

As Lin Shilu spoke, he could no longer control his emotions and mistook Ling Qixian for a complete Xi Ling. Nothing went as planned.

People will feel more lonely and more emotional at sunset. Simply put, when the sun is about to set, people's mood will drop. If the mood is not good at this time and has been suppressed for a long time, it is easy to lose control.

"I have always kept our promise, even though you are a liar who doesn't keep your promise. We clearly said that we would be good friends for life, but in the end you left without saying goodbye."

Some things would be uncomfortable if they were kept in your heart without being spoken out. Now that Lin Shilu has said it out, he feels much better.

"In my heart you have always been irreplaceable, so..."

"The appearance of Ling Qixian and Lin Ximing means your test. You don't believe that you are the only one in my heart. After all, it has been so long, right?"

Zhu Qingyou stood behind her. Lin Ximing and Ling Qixian had disappeared without a trace.

In the unnamed place, Xi Ling's two consciousnesses and two memory fragments returned to her body, and she also saw what happened before the memory fragments returned.

An accusation from Lin Shilu.

She wanted to watch more, even explain, but she couldn't do it. She could only temporarily observe Lin Shilu's current condition through the passage between her and Zhu Qingyou.

Originally the passage was closed, but Zhu Qingyou opened it, so Xi Ling could see everything she saw through her eyes.

"Time will dilute everything, maybe it's true." Lin Shilu said to herself, she buried her head between her knees, not daring to look or listen.

Her voice gradually faded, and those unspeakable words finally became her inner voice and melted into her falling tears: "My A-Ling, don't be afraid. We won't be afraid if we face it together. But if you don't believe me, then our friendship will really be broken. Believe in me, okay? And believe in yourself too."

Zhu Qingyou questioned Xi Ling in her heart: "Why?"

When she opened the channel, the two of them became the original body and the clone, no longer independent individuals, and the mixed emotions in their hearts made it unclear who they belonged to.

Sharing vision and senses, the two people are actually one person despite the dislocation of time and space. At this moment, their minds are connected, so they can communicate.

"Why don't you believe her?"

"Why do we want to let these two memory fragments come out for a test?"

The answer to Zhu Qingyou came from Xi Ling’s silence.

She said in her heart again, Zhu Qingyou knew that Xi Ling could hear her questions, just like the telepathy of twins.

Zhu Qingyou has most of Xi Ling's memories. He is a spirit formed by memory fragments and later has a body.

Therefore, she is Xi Ling and Zhu Qingyou; she is the memory fragment from the other party, the clone of Xi Ling, and the person who knows herself best.

Perhaps Xi Ling didn't need to answer the questions she asked, because she could answer them herself.

"Each memory fragment has its own obsession. They have memories from different periods, so their appearance is controlled by you."

"You don't believe her, that's a fact."

Zhu Qingyou answered her own question in a calm tone, and gradually, an inexplicable anger rose in her heart.

I could hear faint cries and my anger grew.

"Are you afraid?"

"What are you afraid of?"

"You were the one who broke the promise first. Even if it was due to force majeure and the coming-of-age trial, so why not tell me?"

"Are you qualified to test her?"

"You are not eligible!"

"She was abandoned by you without knowing anything, and yet you still expect her to have you in her heart and treat you as her most special friend, the most special existence."

"Yes, you two were born together in the secret realm and have been together for nearly a hundred years, but the hundred years of time together and the ten years you left behind are nothing to mention."

"For the past ten years, she has been tortured by longing and loneliness. How can you be so shameless and dare to test her?"

"Now you know the answer, so what are you afraid of?"

"tell me!"

"I..." Xi Ling's tone was confused.

"If you dare to show up now or in front of me, I will definitely punch you." Zhu Qingyou heard the voice, suppressed his anger rationally, and his mind became exceptionally clear.

"If you are afraid, then you should come out and meet her. Instead of hiding and using memory fragments to test her and doubt her feelings for you."

"Friendship is precious and fragile, as are all relationships. If you don't say anything, it will break down sooner or later."

"You know what? The people who are left behind and waiting are always the most painful and tormented."

"Because they have to endure the poison of longing."

"She has to endure much more than this after you leave. There is also the panic and fear that comes with the gradual disappearance of things related to you."

In addition to the cub's crying, Zhu Qingyou also heard Xi Ling's voice from the other side. Her tone changed from confusion to collapse: "I can't do it. I really can't do it."

"I can't go out. I really can't go out. I want to see her so much, but I can't even touch her now."

"Why?" Zhu Qingyou was not clear about this.

"It was my fault for leaving without saying goodbye. I was teleported to the place of birth by the rules to receive inheritance. A few years later, I thought I could go back, but I ended up going to a place that was completely shielded from cause and effect to continue the next trial of adulthood."

"Before going to this place, I reached a deal with Xuan Meng and found a way to send a letter. She also found a way to keep an item that belonged to me, but the item was severely damaged, and I couldn't receive any information from her. But only in this way could the item be preserved..."

"Before the trial began, I finally had a chance to get out, but the prerequisite was that I was not allowed to see her, so I found a loophole. After I used your body to get out, the rules judged that I violated the rules, and even the world consciousness couldn't do anything about it."

"I'm not trying to shirk responsibility. After all, I am also responsible for the current situation. I can only say that fate has played tricks on me. Over the past decade or so, my thoughts and fears have gradually accumulated, and I've become a little unstable."

"My body and my current consciousness are trapped here. I can't even get out, let alone touch or comfort you."

"Such emotions and being alone in an environment are overly depressing. Whether it was a few years ago or now, I don't know if my mental state is stable or if I have become a madman who doesn't care about the consequences. If I lose control, I will hurt important people."

Xi Ling gradually calmed down, mostly because the rules detected that her emotions were fluctuating too much, causing her to fall into a deep sleep.

"Now that I have hope of returning home, I will try to control all the negative emotions I have had over the years. If I do something irreparable in the future, I hope you can stop me before anything happens and not cause any harm to her."

"I am powerless to change all this. I can only end this trial of adulthood as early as possible. All I can do now is to see through your eyes... Watch over her for me and protect her."

"You don't have to tell me. I will."

Zhu Qingyou's vision and senses are shared with Xi Ling, and Xi Ling's senses and vision at this moment are also shared with her. In their vision and senses, half belongs to themselves and half belongs to the other person.

The chaotic mixture of emotions made it hard to tell who it belonged to.

The repressed, complicated and distorted emotions of longing spread in Zhu Qingyou's heart; the emotions of restraint, rationality and unfulfilled desire were suppressed beneath the surface in the past, but now they seep into Xi Ling's heart.

Emotions are mixed and senses are confused.

It is a portrayal of the current situation of Zhu Qingyou and Xi Ling.

My mood gradually calmed down.

Lin Shilu recovered from his sadness; Zhu Qingyou sorted out the emotional bomb from Xiling; Xiling's body was forced to sleep, but her consciousness was not. Instead, she was feeling the emotions from Zhu Qingyou besides herself, and finally the two emotions merged in her heart.

"Youzi?" After crying, Luzi's voice was nasal. She saw that Ling Qixian was not around and subconsciously went to look for him.

"Why is it you? Where is Ling Qixian?"

"Could it be that he left?"

She pretended to be relaxed and reflected on herself: "I didn't control my emotions well and didn't pay attention to the surrounding environment, which led to the problem. Next time, next time, there will be no problem!"

"No." Zhu Qingyou shook her head, walked forward and touched the back of Lin Shilu's head, then hugged her and pressed her into her arms, patting her back gently, and said softly: "You succeeded, and Lin Ximing as well."

"Their obsession has been explained, and they have returned to their original bodies. Don't worry. Everything is fine."

Affected by Xi Ling's emotions, she comforted Lin Shilu in the same way as the way they interacted in Xi Ling's memory.

No matter who you are, you need comfort.

The way to comfort does not need to be fancy. You just need to untie the knot in your heart and pat the other person gently like patting a child's back to comfort him or her.

Zhe Er: Let me perform a little magic trick. Watch how I can make my phone automatically shut down when the battery is still around 80%.

I really hope there is no such weird tree barbecue restaurant as the Dryad Tribe. I stepped on it and nothing was left. My feet slipped down, and then the ground became like a trampoline, and then I bounced back to the branch, but it was not the branch I was on before, so I had to find it again.

The title is a lie. Not only does the copy end in this chapter, but the two fragments also go offline and return to Xi Ling's body.

To be honest, Sister You is really A, and she directly attacked the main body.

Friendship, family, and love all seem to be the same, just like everyone needs comfort when they are hurt or unhappy and cannot keep it in their hearts.

I hope everyone can find their own way to comfort themselves, and be able to cheer up again after being comforted, no matter whether they are tired or sad.