Chapter 270

A: After communicating with Staff, I found out that it is a spin-off game that is very authentic to the original game! Having played the earliest closed beta version, it is really amazing to be able to display the original dungeon settings in the game! I hope everyone can come and experience it after the server is launched!

——The trial account given to him clearly stopped at half an hour of play time. He may not even have passed the first chapter. I don’t know if he has read the plot carefully. But he is indeed a very competent business writer. Even so, he still recommends games to the original author in interviews.

Q: I heard that there have been many versions of the story of "After quitting the team and being taken care of by the Dungeon Queen", can you tell me more specifically?

A: I didn’t expect anyone to be interested in this. At the beginning, it was a very traditional story about a powerful brave man gathering his teammates and his lover to defeat the devil together and learn the truth about the world bit by bit. As a result, the editors said that no one cares about such old-fashioned things. I revised it many times before arriving at the current story. But it seems that stories like this are a lot clichéd now (laughs). When will the next evolution of the story be?

——It's surprising... Although he has a strong yin and yang aura, he has a lot of "information" on this issue. What will the story of defeating the devil together be like?

(crossed out) Q: So, this is a personal request. Is it possible to write a plot for the game?

(crossed out) A: I'm sorry, I'm really busy with work, so this kind of thing is not necessary. The future producer seems to be very enthusiastic. However, there is no need to invest so much energy. Just make it as relaxed as other adaptations. Ah, why don't we let this issue go out? Wouldn’t it be more beneficial for publicity to give readers the expectation that I will write plots again in the future?

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Q: So, the last question. Stories always come to an end. So, how will the story end? Will Xiu such a boring gourd finally be able to untie his knot and be with Li Weiqi and everyone in the dungeon?

A: It’s really a direct spoiler question (laughs). There is still a long, long story waiting to be developed in this book! In other words, there is still a long, long way to go before it is finished. It would be too early to talk about the end of the story now. I didn’t even design the endings of many characters.

——He did not answer directly. No, he just avoided answering.

——On the surface, the answer is watertight. In fact... it seems that he has not thought about the ending at all, or even wants to finish it at all - of course, as an author who has written a novel for several years and finally made it popular, of course he must expand the possibilities of the work as much as possible, and more Made some money.

Q: That’s it for today. I’m also looking forward to how the whole story will end.

A: Of course. Don't worry, everyone, I will definitely give them a rich life. Please also support the game and continue to support the new volume.

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"As for this meeting, it doesn't end here. The teacher said that this interview will be enough. If we want to publicize it in the future, we will need to increase the cost."

"Of course... of course I don't think you are doing a bad job. But generally speaking, wouldn't it be better if the licensed works and the original works are marketed slightly separately?"

"To put it simply, it would be good if players and readers can feel that 'it's almost two works.'"

"You guys must be able to understand it, right?"

Chapter 298: People born in "death" (3k)

In the past two days since she came out of "Castlevania Zero", it's not like Shona hasn't asked herself...

Why do you want to see Will?

Why come back to him when he lets himself go again and again?

Why is it that even though he has been trapped in the pits he has buried over and over again, and has been loved and tortured by various women, why is he still responsible for fishing him out?

It’s okay to do it once, and you can forgive it twice, but at least it won’t happen three times, right?

Indeed, at least when she was walking in the completely white "Will's Memory", she didn't think so -

It seems that the three women don't dare to do anything to Will, just let him be played with by others. Maybe in the end he will find that he is the best when he is mentally stable.

but……

What lingered in her mind was the BOSS she met in Will's memory, and even... it seemed like she met "himself".

He claimed to be Xiu, and he had the same rare black hair and black eyes as hers, similar moves, similar smell, and similar eyes.

But, they are different.

Shona was sure that when he tossed the coin and was only willing to use the coin to judge winning or losing, she knew...

In Xiu's heart, the "Will" who could be equated with hers has been completely "lost" - no, he may have lost not just one person, but even his former hope.

She didn't know why this person appeared in Will's memory, why he was so similar to her, and whether he was also somewhere in this world now...

However, she thought that if that person was still living somewhere in this world, he should be living by the pain after "losing" and the inertia of "living".

She didn't want to be like that.

too……

So ugly.

Like a candle with its wick pulled out, like a machine without its wheels, like a rabbit with its heart cut out...

The body was still standing there, as if nothing had happened. It could even jump a few times, but it was already empty.

Shona looked out the window of the carriage.

The scenery outside the window is not beautiful at all. After winter, the leaves of the beautiful and neat street trees will all fall off.

Dirty snow frozen in ice was piled next to the clean road. Although she had not experienced it in the past few days, it had probably been snowing here for a long time.

It was getting dark.

Yes.

In the end, after taking a break, she decided to go to the System's side house - the last place she saw in her memory.

Fortunately it wasn't too far from the capital, although it was probably night when she arrived.

The person he saw in Will's memory was like her in the "future", or she would become like this under some possibility.

She didn't want to look so ugly.

"It's still a while. It's been a while since I last slept... Although I'm not sleepy, I might be able to close my eyes and think for a while."

Sitting on the carriage, Xiuna slowly closed her eyes.

What exactly has Xiu experienced?

If he was "the same" as me...

The person with black hair and black eyes, the person "born" in the underground city, is probably the child who was born in the underground city and has no past, the child of the emperor who killed the underground city, right?

In that case, let’s start with the first memory of coming here——

Just like when she faced her fears in Lucifer's dungeon, she closed her eyes and could easily "relive" her first memory in this world.

In the slowly opening field of vision, hands covered with blood were holding a dagger.

As if not listening to her own command, she mechanically...slashed at the monster on the ground again and again, and again and again. Her blade had penetrated the wound so deeply that even the gurgling blood seemed to have changed. It's not that smooth.

--who I am?

——Where am I?

——What am I doing?

It was as if she had regained control of her body at this moment. The movements of her hands slowed down and gradually became as strong as a 13-year-old child should have.

Following this behavior comes the ultimate question that fills the entire brain.

But the scarier thing is that at that moment, she didn't "not get the answer" - maybe it would be a good thing if she just didn't get the answer, but...

--kill……

——Kill everything in the dungeon...

——Kill everything you can see in the dungeon...

——Go, go, go, good boy.

She picked up the tip of the knife that she had just stabbed at the dungeon boss. With trembling fingers, she turned it little by little and aimed it at her throat.

——That’s right.

——You are the existence that gave birth to the dungeon.

——So you are also part of the dungeon.

——Let’s do it. Everything in the dungeon should die in your hands.

She listened to the "answer" and looked at the tip of the knife that was constantly flashing due to trembling. She knew very well that the answer she heard was not "other people's answers", but her own answer.

who I am? ——You are a monster born in the dungeon.

Where am I? ——You are in the dungeon.

What am I doing? ——You are a Concentrator, so you need to keep killing the lives in the dungeon before you can explore downwards, so do it.

Very smooth answer, closed logic, full of loopholes but perfectly integrated.

Every time she thought of that scene, what Shona was afraid of was never the blood flowing on the ground, nor was she ruthlessly swinging her knife at the dungeon boss again and again. What she was afraid of was...

He was the one who could point the blade at his throat decisively without any emotion or expression on his face.

But she didn't succeed. She obviously didn't have any idea. The moment the tip of the knife was pointed at her throat, a team seemed to come to "attack" the dungeon.

It was very urgent and very coincidental. She couldn't remember the leader clearly, but she only remembered that he should be a very good uncle.

They are the "good guys" who rescue this mysterious "orphan" found deep inside the dungeon.

They told themselves sitting on the bed that they should be human, not only because she had the mark of the Concentrator on her body, which according to human records was the "blessing" given to human beings by the goddess Rivierus, but also because of her blood There is no trace of the dungeon in the magic circuit.

They said they would send themselves to the orphanage in Polo, where their name would be "Shuna Polo", where she would receive a good education. Moreover, Polol's children can be admitted to Entak Second Academy unconditionally and can become very good thugs in the underground city in the future.

They said that they could start exploring the dungeon if they wanted to, but if a child like her wanted to enter the dungeon, she would have to find a reliable team.

…

They talked a lot.

Although Shona doesn't know why...she was born in the underground city and can understand their language, but they think she is a "human" and they also think she will be very powerful, and she has even arranged her future...

"There's something not right about that kid."

"Yes. We didn't find any information about her from thirteen years ago. It doesn't look like she was left by an adventurer couple at all."

"Are you stupid? How can an adventurer couple... go to a dungeon with 50 floors to challenge it with a child, and not even leave the body behind?!"

"What you said makes sense. But didn't this child kill the boss with a dagger? She may have great potential."

"Well, I hope she can survive. It's really a child who has such a difficult life since birth."

...

"That...that..."

She interrupted the conversation between the two orphanage aunts and looked up. She saw some fear in their eyes, as if they were afraid of "death".

"I'm very strange..."

"Survive, what does... mean?"

Yes, they - whether it was the adventurer who picked her up from the dungeon, the aunt who took care of her in the orphanage, or the investor who seemed to be just this orphanage, told her a lot of information about the world outside the dungeon.

But they didn't tell her.

Something that seemed to be taken for granted in everyone's eyes...

What is "death" and what is "living".

But...

She could understand death.

When she pointed the knife at her throat, the blade that kept approaching was the "death" that kept approaching.

She was afraid of death.

But her heart yearned for death.

Was it because she was born into this world, and the first thing she did was to kill others, and the second thing was to kill herself? Or did she exist to pursue death? Especially to pursue death in the dungeon?

The colorful illustrations they showed her did not make her feel interesting at all.

The toys they gave her that children would like were just a boring pile of building blocks.

The nature and birdsong and flowers they showed her seemed to be life that would wither and dissipate.

She understood "death" from birth.

She was born in "death". Born with the death of the emperor.

In addition, because of the "blessing" on her body, the moment she swung the knife at herself, the first memory here was the fear of death.

She was indeed a blank sheet of paper without the previous thirteen years, but this blank sheet of paper was full of death.

She could understand it from birth.