The name Jing Baiye was given to them when they were about to leave the border. It was obviously not that time yet, but the teacher called out this name.
But Jing Baiye didn't feel the slightest surprise.
"teacher……"
He lowered his head and clutched the sleeping bag with his fingers, as if he was afraid that the teacher would catch him and throw him out of the house: "Are you going to drive me away?"
The teacher didn't answer. He unzipped the sleeping bag again and got out of it. He lit the lantern again, hung it above the tent, and then squatted down next to Jing Baiye.
The blond hair shone under the light, and Jing Baiye also got out of the sleeping bag, stretched out his arms to hug the teacher, and buried his cheek in his arms.
"I don't want to drive you away." The teacher hugged him and gently touched the back of his head, "I just... advised you to go back to where you should go."
"…………"
"white night."
"You know, I'm dead."
Jing Baiye gritted her teeth and her arms couldn't help but tremble.
"I'm already dead."
The teacher repeated cruelly.
"The person I am now is just a designed program, a hope created by a desperate person... I have become my biggest enemy in the past."
"Although I have feelings and memories of getting along with you...but I am no longer a human being. This memory is completely false. Someone copied and implanted it for me. I am not the Hope who really gets along with you.
.I can’t give you a home, nor can I accompany you into the future.”
"No!" Jing Baiye shouted, "As long as you have feelings and memories, you are the teacher!"
He felt that his left eye was extremely hot, and his voice was extremely sharp: "You are my teacher!!"
Hope said nothing.
Jing Baiye hugged him tightly with both hands, fearing that he would disappear if he let go.
"You know it's not."
"You are a genius. You know what the most advanced artificial intelligence is. This is just a continuation of the spirit, not the resurrection of that person."
"After I...after Hope died, you went through a lot, didn't you? You found a new caregiver, new friends, a new partner, and you could have the new home of your dreams."
"I believe in you, you can realize all your dreams except the last one."
"Just like now, someone is waiting for you outside... He has been calling you all the time."
The hand caressed Jing Baiye's head one after another, just like the countless nights he spent lying in the tent in his first life.
"Or are you running away from something?" Hope asked gently.
escape.
This word is too rare for Jing Baiye.
All people who come out of the training camp, regardless of their evaluation level, will never shed tears, will not be afraid, will not run away, will not feel guilty no matter how many enemies they kill, and will not hesitate in the slightest no matter how cruel the means, 100%
Execute all commands.
"I have no such defect."
Jing Baiye raised his head and looked directly into Hope's eyes: "What I did was -"
"This is not a flaw." Hope said, his voice softer. "People have feelings, and these feelings make them want to avoid things that make them painful. I am the same way. There is no need to feel ashamed."
He raised his hand to touch Jing Baiye's face, brushed the hair from his forehead, and gently touched his left eye with his fingers.
"This is a human instinct."
"But what if..." Jing Baiye said, "What if I was deceived? They... they even faked their identities."
"They have been lying to me from the beginning, everything is fake..."
"The identity is fake, but the relationship is not necessarily true. Even Hope, he has deceived you in the past." Hope hugged him again, "Different positions, there are too many helplessness."
Jing Baiye was at a loss.
"I don't understand." He said, "Teacher, do you want me to forgive them?"
"No."
Hope denied it, not knowing whether he was denying Bai Ye's name, his words, or both.
"Just choose the way to deal with it that makes you least regretful."
"……I don't understand."
Jing Baiye held on to Hope, who had received many teachings from his teacher since he could remember, and wanted to get more answers from him.
"Teacher, I really don't understand." Jing Baiye shouted, "What should I do?"
He stared at the teacher closely, trying to get a more precise answer, but it was too late.
[The third scene ends. The game ends, the exit countdown begins, 3...]
Hearing this mechanical sound, Jing Baiye's face turned pale.
"Repay kindness with kindness and revenge with hatred. If others are kind to you, you should also be kind to them. Getting along between people is a kind of mutual giving."
The teacher seemed to know that he was about to leave, so he hugged him hard again.
"Truth vs. falsehood, that is the most ridiculous joke in the world; but replacing the truth with the truth——"
"It is the most precious emotion in the world."
————
As if he had fallen from a high place for a long time, Jing Baiye felt a sting in his arm and woke up.
This was the preparation he made before entering the game. He asked a bandage to tie a quick awakening agent redeemed from the system store on his wrist. When the time was up, he was injected.
It’s unclear whether he woke up after the game ended or whether the sobering agent woke him up.
[Host! Have you ended the game? This game is too weird. I don’t know why, I can’t contact you after you enter the game...]
Before Jing Baiye could open his eyes, the voice of the system sounded in his head.
【...It's okay.】Jing Baiye replied,【I'm back.】
He was still in the eggshell-like game cabin, with the system map floating beside him, surrounded by a dense circle of red dots and no other colors.
——Just like what he saw when he opened the door of his house happily on his 14th birthday.
It's just the same situation, but the mentality is completely different.
After suffering that loss, Jing Baiye learned to scan the map every time he entered a place. Even before entering the game, he saw many red dots coming towards the game experience hall... No, it was earlier.
, when he saw the secretary on the first floor of the hotel, he knew that this was a banquet that invited you to a banquet.
He doesn't care who betrayed him, he only knows that all the red spots must be eliminated.
Jing Baiye calmly took off his helmet, and the game cabin slowly opened. In an instant, countless guns were pointed at him.
"Hands up!" someone yelled.
Jing Baiye was sitting on the soft seat of the game cabin. He put down his helmet and looked around, realizing that there seemed to be something missing in the crowd.
"Where's the bourbon?"
He ignored all the deadly weapons and shouts and asked just this question.
"Raise your hands! Don't resist needlessly!"
Jing Baiye was a little unhappy that they were so rude and was about to ask again when he suddenly smelled the smell of blood.
"We're going to shoot!!"
He turned around, and the enemies standing in front of him approached him.
After losing his cover, Jing Baiye saw a blond man lying on the ground, with blood smearing on his body.
——At the same time, on the system map, as countless red dots moved away, the only blue dot buried underneath was finally revealed.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
This chapter is too difficult to write, a thousand words in two hours is really bald...