I Was Once a Legend

The pace of the ghoul rushing towards him, the blood gushing from his chest, the wound that was constantly healing... everything became slow.

Cui Zuojing adjusted his figure in the air. He threw the boning knife behind him with his backhand. The long and narrow blade pierced obliquely into the floor. The boy's feet landed first. The huge force made him slide backwards continuously, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the floor violently. There was a sharp sound, and it was not until his heel touched the handle of the knife that he stopped his retreat.

At this moment, the boy's figure seemed to be frozen, and in the next moment, he stepped on the handle of the knife suddenly, and rushed towards the corpse thief who was holding up the iron rod and wanted to give him a fatal blow!

Under the addition of time power, all the opponent's movements became as slow as a century-old lady. Cui Zuojing rushed past him, and he only swung a knife, and landed heavily behind the corpse thief.

Cui Zuojing stood up, heaved a sigh of relief, and shook off the blood on the blade.

He didn't look back. Behind him, the head of the corpse snatcher fell from his neck. His headless corpse stood in place, and it took a few seconds before it crashed to the ground.

Cui Zuojing turned around, but unexpectedly a cold light flashed in front of his eyes, he retreated very quickly to dodge, the iron rod flew past his cheek, leaving a line of blood.

After losing his head and falling down, the Corpse Snatcher is still alive!

The headless body crawled towards the boy, and just as he took a step, his body froze suddenly.

Rudolph stabbed the knife harder.

After confirming that the other party was indeed unable to get up, Rudolph hurriedly moved away from the terrifying corpse and asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Cui Zuojing was amazed at Rudolph's awakening in this short period of time. Without saying much, he bent down and took out the sharp knife stuck in the heart of the corpse thief and handed it to Rudolph again, "Let's go."

Rudolph held the bloody knife in his hand with a complicated expression.

Cui Zuojing accidentally saw a bloody handprint on the wall when he was thrown away by the corpse thief just now. The boy walked to the ground where the boning knife was inserted and found the bloody handprint.

"This way." The bloodstain appeared again, and the two hurried along. Rudolph turned his head and saw that the head of the body snatcher seemed to be affected by some mysterious force, and it automatically moved towards the headless corpse. go away.

It turned out to be resurrected like this!

Then Rudolph thought that Cui Zuojing seemed to have chopped this person into pieces in the confinement room before, and the corpse snatcher could still catch up, so he shivered unconsciously, and quickened his pace to follow closely behind Cui Zuojing.

God knows what the hell this madhouse is!

I have actually stayed here for three years!

The bloodstains gradually became clear again, indicating the direction for the two of them to move forward, and there were ghostly footsteps behind them. Cui Zuojing and Rudolph ran up to the third floor, where the patients lived.

All the doors were locked, and various patients lived behind each door. The blood disappeared at the end of the corridor, and there was a door.

"How could there be a door?!" Rudolph was startled. This was the path he would walk every day when he went in and out of the ward and went downstairs. He was already familiar with the path. He was very sure that there should be a wall at that place!

"This is the exit." Cui Zuojing turned to him and said, "Only by going out through this door can you truly escape from the madhouse, Rudolph, are you willing to abandon everything in the past and leave with me to see the world's future?" Is it the truth?"

"What?" Rudolph didn't understand what he meant for a while. Cui Zuojing saw the figure of the body snatcher from the other side of the corridor chasing him. He didn't hesitate to cut open the door lock decisively, pushed the door and walked in, shouting at Rudolph. Said: "Follow me!"

The door was distorted and chaotic, and the moment Cui Zuojing stepped into it, the chaotic scene became clear.The door separated the two corridors, the corridor of the madhouse was dark and the walls were dirty, but this side was neat and gorgeous, with velvet carpets.

The soft light illuminates the entire corridor, but the light cannot pass through the door to illuminate the other side, as if the door is an enchantment.

At the moment when Cui Zuojing walked in completely, the door closed suddenly without warning, but before Rudolph came in, Cui Zuojing backhanded the kitchen knife between the door and the door frame, and successfully stopped it at the second when it closed dead.

Cui Zuojing forcefully opened the door, and he stretched out his hand to Rudolph: "Come in!"

Rudolph put his hand in his palm, full of sweat, Cui Zuojing tried his best to pull him over, leave the madhouse, and pull him into the next scene.

But just like the light couldn't shine into the madhouse, Rudolph hit the invisible barrier directly, he let out a cry of pain, and was horrified to find that he couldn't get in at all.

He could clearly see the bright corridor covered with velvet carpet on the other side of the door, and he could see the slightly anxious face of the boy, but he couldn't take a step!

There is a mysterious force stopping him!

what is this? !

At this time, the Corpse Snatcher had already arrived behind Rudolph. He roared furiously, and the iron rod he swung was about to smash Rudolph's brains out!

Do you let go, let the door close and go directly to the next scene, or save Rudolph?

Rudolph is just an ordinary npc in the box, and if he returns to the madhouse, he may not be able to come out from this door again!

Sometimes it didn't take even a second to make a decision, and time stood still in an instant. Cui Zuojing strode back to the madhouse. He grabbed the iron rod only ten centimeters away from the back of Rudolph's head, and swung his knife to finish off the corpse snatcher again.

Then he broke the lock on the door of the nurse's station next door and pulled Rudolph into the room.

There was no one in the nurse's station, and the door was closed. Cui Zuojing recovered the time. Rudolph was completely speechless in shock. He remembered the words Cui Zuojing said when they first tried each other——

"If everything in this world is an illusion, what would you do?"

So, it turns out that everything he experienced, his 40 years of life, those rich and glorious pasts, and the three years of suffering in the madhouse were all fake?

This world... is fake?

The moment he hit the unknown barrier in the door, he touched the edge of this world. The memories that had been washed away by Kether finally returned to Rudolph's mind intermittently. He remembered his name, Alden, Luke , Mi Layang, Ji Haobin, Chen Meng...these are all his names.

These are all "he".

He has countless identities, countless pasts, and countless endings, but he has never had a future.

Rudolph opened his mouth, his throat was so choked that he could hardly speak: "...what is this place?"

"We call this a 'box'. Each box is a small space that exists independently. I need to shuttle through many boxes to complete my tasks." Cui Zuojing explained softly, "And you are an NPC, that is, you are not The player characters are programmed to work with those who enter the box to complete the task."

"So what I have experienced is all fake, right?" Rudolph's voice was trembling, "Even I am fake? You want to take me out of this place, but because I don't know you Same, so you can go but I can't?"

"Yes."

The night was bleak, and even the night crows stopped singing.

"Get me out of here."

After a long time, Rudolph seemed to calm down. No one knew what kind of struggle he had gone through in his heart. He looked at Cui Zuojing, with tears in his eyes, and said hoarsely, "This is the wish I have been working hard for for three years. .”

"Okay." Cui Zuojing said, "I said, I will do my best to help you leave."

"Will it hurt?"

"Believe me, my technique is very good. I hope that when I see you next time, you will have a good life."

The boy stood up and gave Rudolph a big hug.

The other party also hugged him tightly, Rudolph stared wide-eyed, as if he wanted to take a last look at this world that had given him so much pain. Is his mother still waiting for him to escape from the madhouse and go home?

The tip of the knife sank into the back of his head in an instant.

This knife directly damaged Rudolph's nervous system. He lost the perception of his entire body in an instant, and then the knife was pulled out, piercing the heart from behind without any mistakes.

Blood gushed out, hot.

It's like Rudolph is a real person, just like him.

Cui Zuojing took a step back and let go of Rudolph's body.

Putting the other party flat on the nurse's bed, Cui Zuojing closed his eyelids forcefully, took one last look at Rudolph, turned and left resolutely.

Outside the door, the Corpse Snatcher has been resurrected again.

Cui Zuojing directly delayed the time and didn't waste any more energy on this thing. He pushed open the door at the end of the corridor and found that it was still connected to the other side.

Great, Cui Zuojing heaved a sigh of relief and walked in.

The door closes behind him with a bang that cuts the connection between the two scenes, and this time, he can never go back to the madhouse.

[Mission Update: Find Yourself]

What kind of weird mission is this... Cui Zuojing complained, but he was a little relieved, now he can finally be sure that he has not traveled outside the plot of the box.

I don't know if Dong Zheng and others can be found this time.

To calm down his unavoidably depressed mood, Cui Zuojing took a deep breath, no longer thinking about Rudolph who had been "freed" from this box, and he walked slowly forward. This looked like a European-style hotel, and the velvet carpet muffled the sound of footsteps. Absorption, a quiet space without air circulation can easily give people a sense of depressive fear, and it can also easily trigger people's claustrophobia.

The corridor is not too long, and there are only five rooms in total, which are completely enclosed and soon come to an end. There is a large oil painting hanging on the wall, and the red and yellow sky and clouds are burnt into brilliant colors.

Cui Zuojing leaned over to take a closer look. He found a small corner exposed on the edge of the picture frame. He pinched it and pulled it out to find that it was a note. The note was light brown, as if it was written hastily with an eyebrow pencil. Still beautiful.

【vincent campbell】

This should be a personal name, translated as Vincent Campbell.

Cui Zuojing put the note away, and at this moment, he suddenly felt a wave of heat rolling up from behind, almost burning the tiny hairs on the back of his neck.

The boy turned around, and suddenly found that the corridor had changed its appearance at some point.

A fire swept everything in an instant. After burning, the luxurious carpet turned into charred pieces and soot, the wallpaper peeled off in large pieces to reveal the dark wall behind, the door was baked and deformed, and the ceiling was a mess. Even the chandelier exploded directly, leaving glass shards all over the floor, which were melted by high temperature and condensed into different shapes after cooling.

Cui Zuojing was not surprised. He stood there and waited for a while, making sure that nothing else happened. The boy turned his head and found that the painting was still hanging on the wall, but there was only one frame left. The scorched black half was directly broken into powder.