Gate of Apocalypse

“Something wrong?” Chen Xiaoliang and Joe Qiaoqi were stunned: “Didn't we successfully rescue Joe Qiao? ”

“Something's not right because it's going so well.” Blue Sea shakes its head slowly: “Old Joe's daughter... well, let's call you Joe Joe - you were in solitary confinement when we met you. Haven't you seen any other loopholes in custody? ”

“No.” Jojo shook his head immediately: “I'm the only one. ”

“Have you never met anyone else who, like you, is unwilling to kill awakeners and clean up loopholes?” Blue Sea frown.

“Kill the awakener? Cleanup?” Jojo shook his head confusedly: “What are you... talking about? I have no idea. ”

“Weren't you imprisoned for refusing to join the Covenant? ”

“No.” Jojo is still confused: “I don't know why I got caught. I thought... you know why. ”

Blue Sea and Chen Xiaoliang looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes.

Chen Xiaocai had thought that Jojo must have been imprisoned for refusing to accede to the Covenant. But he didn't realize that she even stopped refreshing at the end of the world and that the loopholes were cleaning up!

“Jojo, tell me everything that's happened to you until now, in detail.” Chen Xiaolei looked harsh, a blanket that lifted his body stood up, Stone Sword regained his hand, put on a life detector, looked around for a week, punched Blue Hay made a temporary safe gesture, but still dared not relax his guard.

“Okay.” Jojo immediately realized something was wrong, and frowned and remembered carefully, slowly: “Unfortunately, I woke up in the environment that happened to be our last palace when we were in a copy of Jerusalem.

I opened my eyes and saw that the surroundings were exactly the same as they were when I died, and I was surprised. I didn't know I was dead at the end of the world. I just thought... we won.

But I looked up, but I couldn't find you, Xiaoli, I couldn't see Roddy, I couldn't see the show, the tires, Xia Xiaolei... even the previous enemies lost track, empty palace, I was the only one left.

I tried to reach you on the team channel, but found that my personal system couldn't open at all, and my storage equipment was gone, and luckily my skills were still working.

I followed the exit and found the sky above my head... no longer blue sky and white cloud. Well, as you can see. That's when I realized I was on the other side of the world.

And then I saw a few people flying in, and I started searching in the ruins of this copy. They saw me, but they didn't care at all, and nobody came up to talk to me, just looking for something for themselves. I arrived later to understand that they were looking for available equipment items in a newly refreshed copy.

Later, two of them found a longgun at the same time. The two confronted each other for a while and eventually one of them gave in, while the other left with the trophy.

I thought about it, tried to get up there, asked him some questions about the situation here. From his mouth, I knew roughly how the end of the world works.

Once upon a time, all the dead loopholes would have entered the end of the world and had almost unlimited lives - as long as they were not killed. Because there is no personal system and points cannot be scored in the copy, most vulnerable people, whether strong or weak before entering, can no longer improve their strength. Only a small fraction of them can become stronger over time if they possess self-cultivating skills.

In fact, not all loopholes entering here are strong. Most people do not grow strong enough in the real world to die in copies and reach the end of the world. People here have mixed strengths, and with a refresh cycle every three months or so, they also come to wash their cards. While disputes and even conflicts arise between them over system props, they are generally less likely to be truly desperate for these things. After all, as long as you live in peace and don't mess with anybody, you can live well.

After knowing these things, I thanked him, picked a direction and found a copy of the city to live in. My idea is simple, since the loopholes at the end of the world will never be refreshed, I can wait here all the time. Although... "

Speaking of which, Jojo raised his head and smiled awfully at Chen Xiaocai: “I don't know if I want to see you or not. Though I miss you every minute and every second of this, I'm also well aware that once I see you here, that means... you're dead.

But anyway, since I'm still here, I have to live.

Shortly after I got here, I went through an emptying. Everything around us instantly disappeared and became pure white, and the space at the end of the world shrunk like a shrink, pulling us instantly to the top of the Olympian replica.

Every time the end of the world is emptied, it is also the only time for all the loopholes to come together at the same time.

I wasn't interested in dealing with them, so after I emptied it, the new copy refreshed in, and I left Olympia and found a place to stay. I'm not looking for equipment, I'm looking for food every day. Eat, sleep, and memories.

Then one day, suddenly came a man, a man.

Instead of explaining anything to me, he directly attacked me, defeated me and did not kill me, but took me back to Olympia and imprisoned me. I had no power to fight back in front of him, like a baby.

I don't understand what he's going to do. I asked him a few times, but he never answered, just bringing me food and water on time, but never letting me go.

I was angry at first, but gradually, I didn't care. What difference does it make to me wherever I live?

And then you came. ”Jojo raised his head and smiled at Chen Xiaocai:“ The best ending I ever thought of was that maybe after many years, you ended up sleeping, at the end of the world, finding me, and living here with me forever. But I didn't expect that you would... willingly commit suicide for me. ”

She bit her lower lip and there was a slight mist in her orbit: "Whether or not we can finally get back on track and see you again, I'm satisfied enough. ”

Chen Xiaoliang grinned and squeezed Jojo's hand: “Don't worry, we'll make it back. ”

And then he looked up at the Blue Sea, and the color was kind of ugly, too: "Mr. Blue Sea, this is something really wrong. ”

“Yes.” Blue Sea stood up and sat in front of a tree stump in the middle of the house: “Jojo, you know how I am, right? ”

“Yes.” Jojo nodded: "After you died the day Zero City fell, you were refreshed into a normal person and lost all your memories. Then, after his second death, he entered the end-of-the-world recycling bin. ”

“Exactly.” The Blue Sea faintly says: “As you know, awakeners like me are emptied in regular refreshments at the end of the world. Do you remember how long it's been since the last refresh? ”

Jojo frowned and thought back, but shook his head slowly: “I don't remember. There are no alternating days and nights here, and we can only judge the passage of time by using a timer. And I was held in solitary confinement, and I didn't calculate the time. ”

“Yes, and you haven't been in here long, so you don't know how long it should be between two empties.” The Blue Sea nodded: “In fact, no one has ever told you that the emptying at the end of the world has stopped temporarily, and almost all the loopholes have entered into a pact to start hunting awakeners in order to restart the emptying process. ”

Jojo looked shocked and didn't know what to say.

Blue Sea continued: “The end of the world stopped refreshing because Zhao Yun, our companion, protected an awakener with some kind of prop, which prevented him from being automatically cleared off. You can understand that… the gear is stuck. And since the loopholes in the covenant cannot find that particular person, they can only make a simple and rude decision - to kill all the awakeners. ”

“Why?” Jojo frowned.

“Because if the emptying here is delayed and not restored, the development team will notice the abnormality here sooner or later.” Chen Xiaocai took over the head of the Blue Sea: “If the upper world is replaced by manual emptying, it is likely that the loopholes here will also be implicated and cleared together. ”

“I... never knew. Nobody said anything to me!” Jojo took a deep breath.

“That's the problem!” Chen Xiaoliang re-photographed the stakes in front of him: “I always thought you would be imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with the Covenant. But when I think about it, I think it's a little weird. Mr. Blue Sea ——”

Chen Xiaoliang looked at the blue sea and smiled with some shame: “Speaking of which, I'm not afraid of your jokes. If I hadn't met you in the first place after I got here and had a way out of the end of the world, I wouldn't have been persuaded by my teeth to join their covenant. ”

The Blue Sea faintly said: “This is also the common sense of man. Since we, the awakeners, would have been emptied periodically, it would not be cruel to carry out this clean-up. Either we die, or we all die together. If I were a loophole, I would also be involved in cleaning up the situation. ”

Chen Xiaocai smiled and turned to Jojo: “Now, you tell me that you didn't know that much had happened at the end of the world. So... why did the chief of the covenant imprison you? ”

Jojo's expression was also heavy: “I don't know, I really don't know. If I knew something like this, I...”

She thought for a moment and simply answered, "I will join the covenant. I also have the opportunity to see you at the end of the world, and it is impossible to have any women at this time. So what you're trying to say is that my imprisonment has nothing to do with the state of affairs at the end of the world? ”

“Yes.” Chen Xiaolei glanced slowly at Jojo and Blue Sea: “You were imprisoned for other reasons. But strangely, no matter what you want from you, or what you promise, the leader of that covenant should always bring it to you. ”

“I can be sure of no.” Joe Joe remembered carefully and cut the tone: “From the beginning to the end, what he said to me did not exceed ten sentences, he just said to let me live there honestly, would provide me with food and water, don't run away. There is nothing else. ”

“So… although it seems almost impossible —— it seems to point only to one result. ”

Chen Xiaoliang sighed and glanced at the Blue Sea.

“That man, who intentionally imprisoned you, wanted me to get you out. ”