When Yu Yuan found Lambert, the other party was standing on the roof terrace.

Above the head is the boundless night sky, a full moon hides its outline among the clouds, and the light it sheds is soft like a gauze.

Lambert was standing by the building, almost shaky. Hearing the sound of the door opening behind him, he turned his head and walked slowly towards the person.

"Yu, here you are."

Yu Yuan's scalp was numb from being stared at, and he couldn't help scratching his hair, "Winnie told me you were here."

Lambert seemed to laugh softly, "You should have done this long ago, in the most direct way."

The distance between the two was gradually narrowed by one of them. At this moment, a silver dagger appeared out of thin air in Yu Yuan's hand.

Now that the situation is like this, he also wants to end it as soon as possible.

Lambert certainly knew his intentions.

"From the beginning, you should tell me, tell me what you want." Lambert's pace is very slow, but every step is firm, "I said, I will give you anything."

Yu Yuan simply didn't know what to say.

For him, his purpose is very simple, just play a holographic game, do tasks in the game, play dungeons, make money, that's all, he is just one of countless players.

But for NPCs, the world is completely real.

The more realistic it is, the more the player's empathy can be enhanced, so that so many people can like this game from the bottom of their hearts.

Mixing the real with the real, blurring the boundaries between reality and virtuality is the success of the game.

Lambert stood still in front of Yu Yuan.

"Yu, I don't seem to know where you came from."

"If you can." A faint smile appeared on Lambert's face. "I want to know where you came from. The name 'Yu Yuan' always makes me feel very far away."

At this moment, Yu Yuan couldn't help but remember that, fortunately, he didn't pick up any strange IDs.

He didn't answer the other party, but out of some subconscious feeling, he couldn't help but ask the question that had been lingering in his heart for a long time.

"...do you know something?"

"What?" Lambert couldn't understand.

Yu Yuan gestured with his finger and said tentatively, "It's probably like magic, or... something about this world?"

"Lambert, I think you know something."

He had a hunch in the dark, maybe because of some details, and with Lambert's observation level, there may always be a day when he perceives something wrong.

And this should be the reason why he will be stuck in the game, the wrong program will not happen for no reason.

Yu Yuan never thought about why it was him. Obviously it is a copy of the five-person team, he is not the first person to contact the invitation letter props, but it is him.

He didn't know if it was really like what A80 said, the "accidents" in the game were all NPC's self-conscious choices. And what kind of thoughts did these two blood NPCs have to involve him in this hidden mission.

From the very beginning, this quest, which is not in the design of the game itself, is something linked to the NPC, just as the final quest reads "The loneliness that follows the shadow is the curse of this race, and no one can escape." This may be the projection of someone's inner thoughts.

And maybe, someone "selected" him.

"Yu, I don't want to hide anything from you." Lambert shook his head gently.

"At some point, I do feel oddities...as if it's beyond the realm of magic. But I'll chalk them up to 'god' abilities."

Lambert looked at Yu Yuan, as if through him he saw a farther place.

"Yu, I sometimes think, are you the same as the 'God'? Is there a place where you came from?"

......

But I'm just a regular gamer.

Yu Yuan complained silently in his heart and continued, and after a while, when the other party finished speaking, he said, "Lambert, I am now..."

"I know."

Lambert interrupted the unfinished words, took one of his hands, attached to him, and kissed the fingertips lightly.

"I know what you need, Yu." The dark gray pupils seemed to be covered with a layer of gray fog, deep and quiet, he announced slowly:

"Now you can take what you want."

The night in the sky seemed to lighten a little, like the thick ink gradually fading.

It's almost dawn.

Yu Yuan couldn't even tell what led him to come here. He only needed to kill an NPC. He was still hesitating about which one to choose. But Winnie just showed up and told him that Lambert was waiting for him on the roof.

Then what happened next was like a stage play that had been rehearsed countless times, and it was like a smooth piece of music. Everything seemed so logical.

Lambert has been guiding him.

"There's one more thing I don't understand." Yu Yuan's eyes were very firm, "Why me, or in other words, why are you so persistent in wanting me to stay here?"

Several NPCs around him kept repeating the words, wanting him to stay in the game.

There should be a reason for everything, no matter how bizarre.

silence.

Dawn is coming soon.

"Yu, do you trust an intuition?" Lambert sighed and finally chose to speak.

He took off his glasses, folded them, and tucked them into his coat pocket, and the shattered hair on his forehead made him look even more like the prince at this moment.

"I always feel that I saw you a long time ago, so long that you can't believe it." Lambert smiled a little self-deprecatingly, "You are very young among human beings, but I feel that I am a hundred years old. I knew you before..."

Stopping here, there are still unfinished words that have not been said.

The brilliance of the moonlight disappeared behind the clouds, and the scattered stars disappeared.

In the end, Yu Yuan didn't seem to understand, "Just because of this?"

"Maybe."

Lambert looked at the sky, "It's almost dawn, Yu, let's get started."

It seems pointless to continue like this. And Smollett doesn't know when it will appear, which will only bring more trouble.

This is a moment for the two of them alone.

Lambert hugged Yu Yuan silently, and in a trance, the cold body temperature of the blood race seemed to have a hint of warmth.

"I know I can't keep you, no matter what, it's just delaying time."

Yu Yuan couldn't help being a little stunned, holding the dagger tightly in his hand.

Some feelings, whether sensory or psychological, are sometimes amplified by the game itself to make the player's feelings more obvious, which is a good way to increase the stimulation threshold and game participation.

That's what makes holographic games so addicting, it's lifelike, it puts you in it, it makes you a part of the world.

It's fake, it's virtual, but it gives you a whole new identity that allows you to temporarily leave reality behind in this world.

The silver dagger brought a burning sensation in the palm.

Lambert's voice fell in his ear, his breath was cold, "Don't hesitate."

Like an order, like some kind of teaching.

From behind, the dagger was inserted slowly.

Yu Yuan could almost hear the sound of flesh being pierced, accompanied by a slight burning sound, as if being burned by fire.

"I kept you for too long, and it was out of selfishness..." Lambert silently closed his eyes, "Now you should go."

The words in my ears seemed to slowly dissipate along with the sinking moon.

The skyline seemed to be ignited by fire, gradually revealing a golden light, becoming brighter and brighter.

The body temperature is obviously cold enough, but it seems to continue to drop with the lost blood.

He called softly, "Yu."

"Even a hundred years ago, I must have seen you somewhere..."

——

Smollett Lister was more than once accused of his arrogant character by his fellow brother Lambert, but he took it lightly and made no attempt to change it for the next thousand years.

He has one of the best strengths among princes of the same level, and his status is equally noble. He always believes that everything can be controlled, and all possibilities will develop according to his will.

Smollett treats everything as a **** on a chess board, where he moves the position and decides the end game.

But there are times when the chessboard is overturned, and there are times when he makes mistakes.

And more than once.

For example now.

The Honorable Prince Smollett Lister stood on the terrace, watching the body of his brother Lambert Lister lay flat not far away, motionless, and looked very dead.

Now is the time when the sun is rising and almost the entire terrace is exposed to the sun. But Lambert's body was covered by a whole cloak, so there was no sunlight.

So, the prince went to the body of his brother against the bright and dazzling sunlight. With their level of strength, the influence of sunlight can be almost ignored.

Originally, according to the plan, he would bring Yu Yuan back to the castle, where, after a well-designed night, he would use the double coffin that he had prepared for a long time, in the aroma of roses and melodious music. , gladly fulfilled Yu Yuan's wish to kill him.

What a perfect plan.

But now it's apparently broken enough to fail.

The prince mercilessly lifted the cloak that was covering it.

The body lying on the ground seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, with closed eyes and stretched brows showing serenity, as if it could be put into a coffin and buried in the Riester family's cemetery.

The bright red blood stained the clothes and half of the cloak.

This pose was obviously put on purpose, but the thing Smollett couldn't bear the most was that a rose was placed in the center of Lambert's hand, and he wanted to know who left it.

Smollett was very grumpy and tried to swipe the rose. The "dead man" held on to the flower branch tightly and did not let go, and the strength was not at all like what a dead man should have.

Smollett cursed in the unique way of the blood race, and then said angrily: "You hypocritical liar."

At this moment, Lambert, who was lying on the ground and bleeding enough to drink for a few days, slowly opened his eyes.

Against the sunlight, the increasingly pale skin is almost transparent.

He was still lying down and didn't get up, and the wound still needed time to heal.

The prince simply wanted to give him a shot, at least a foot. But in the end, he looked around, as if he realized something again, the arrogance just now disappeared.

"he's gone?"

Lambert gave a silent "um".

The prince sat down on the chair beside him, gritted his teeth and said, "You succeeded, Lambert, this time you won, and you completed your plan."

......

Lambert did not speak.

After a while, Prince Zhizhang finally couldn't help but ask, "Where did he go?"

The results have long been expected, and countless possible directions have been envisioned, but the day when it really comes... It seems that there are still too many places to be caught off guard.

A person who suddenly appears and suddenly disappears.

"I have no idea."

Lambert looked straight up at the sky, almost directly at the dazzling sun.

"But maybe, he will also come back one day."

——

After the successful offline, the consciousness seems to have slept in the darkness for a long time, and it seems to be just an illusion.

In reality, the closed door of the holographic cabin was slowly opened.

Yu Yuan, who had been lying here for a while, felt the feeling of gradually recovering, and what he heard in his ears were the continuous voices. Then, they all disappeared again, and everyone outside seemed to have left the room.

After regaining his senses, he opened his eyes and saw a person standing in front of him.

I saw that the other party's suit was straight and his hair was meticulously combed up. The moment he saw the other person's face clearly, Yu Yuan, who was trapped in the soft chair, felt a little dazed, as if the boundary between real and virtual had really been broken.

This person... is inexplicably similar to the two vampire characters in the game.

"Hello, let me introduce myself first." The man smiled at him and stretched out his hand, "Mr. Yu, I am responsible for supervising the problems you encountered this time. You may have heard my name."

"I'm Lu Mingyuan."