Instance game: I signed a pact with the gods, and the gods accused me of cheating

Hearing this, the girl beside him smiled bitterly and nodded.

"My feelings towards you at that time were very complicated. I don't know if you've ever had such an experience. Although you are a fictional character of mine, in the process of creating this comic, I was like a friend of yours. Or vice versa, you were like a real friend of mine."

“When I meet a local thug, I wonder what Qin Shang would do if he were here.”

"When I heard my classmates complaining about their boyfriends not being romantic on Chinese Valentine's Day, I wondered how you, the comic character I created, would express your own romance. You may not believe it, but I'm really obsessed with you, a comic character I created myself."

"So even if it's a bad ending, I don't want you to get hurt. I remember you once said that when you were little, you didn't have many friends. Your mother locked you up in a dark, cramped room and forced you to study. Back then, your only playmates were the ants that would occasionally crawl in through the cracks in the wall beneath your feet."

Hearing this, Qin Shang opened his mouth in surprise, catching a glimpse of something wrong.

and many more!

"What do you mean... Do you remember what I said?"

"If I were created by you, shouldn't all my experiences be given to me and arranged by you? This includes my memories and my past."

"Even… my childhood."

Qin Shang does have this childhood experience in his memory.

Because his father was away on a ship all year round and the family conditions were relatively poor, his mother hoped that Qin Shang could change his fate through studying, even though his parents' education level was not very high.

At that time, faced with endless homework every day and the extracurricular tutoring materials his mother bought from the bookstore, Qin Shang's occasional chance to catch his breath was to stare blankly at the ants on the ground that were crawling in from the cracks in the wall.

It's a bit funny to say, but when Qin Shang was depressed, his childishness overflowed and he even felt envious of ants.

I thought to myself, if only I could be a little ant in my next life, how happy that would be.

From time to time, when Qin Shang was so tired from writing that his back and waist ached, he would take a break and stare at the ants, imagining what kind of division of labor this ant had in the ant colony, and how it would be scolded by other ants if it couldn't find food and returned.

So sometimes I would feel so compassionate that I would secretly give some bread crumbs to one or two little ants that crawled onto the table!

But from his perspective, these experiences are the real childhood that exists in the fragmented pictures of his memory.

But considering that Jiang Qiqi is a cartoonist and I am just the protagonist of her work called "God's Road Game", shouldn't my childhood and everything about it be woven for me by her?

Why was there still some uncertainty in her tone?

The next moment, noticing Qin Shang's confused gaze, the girl's eyes showed a hint of heartache.

"The world in comics isn't created by the author at will. I only learned this later. Your experiences aren't all given to you by me. Many of them weren't created by me personally, stroke by stroke. Instead, they're based on the settings I gave you in the comics."

"The comic book world is actually an independent and complete world. Some things that the cartoonist did not specifically mention will naturally be supplemented in this world."

"I needed you to be a resolute, brave, and intelligent person in this story. So, it was as if a special force, invisibly, perfected this setting and made everything seem natural. It naturally enriched the protagonist's childhood that the cartoonist hadn't portrayed."

"It's like, if I need you to be a villain who does all kinds of evil, and I draw you doing something bad, but in the comics I don't mention the reason why you do it, then in the comics world, this driving force will be supplemented by itself, for example, you are forced to do it, or you actually have your own difficulties."

"You can understand it from another perspective. Not every cause and effect in this world was created by the Creator himself..."

"Just like I set up your parents as Li Youwei and Qin Qiuhe, but this comic actually doesn't explain Qin Shang's upbringing at all, nor does it mention that your parents had already passed away in the first chapter. From the reader's perspective, they should be a background figure, a background figure for the protagonist's father."

"But in fact, in this comic world of 'Shinto Game', they also have their own experience of knowing each other and falling in love, and they also have their own love story."

Hearing this, Qin Shang's Adam's apple rolled unconsciously, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.

He couldn't tell where this sadness came from. Perhaps it was the sadness of suddenly finding out that he was actually a character in a comic book in the real world, and the sadness of the ups and downs of his first half of life.

Maybe he was sad about his own personality and the fact that the intelligence and talent that he was proud of were given by something called setting.

This feeling is probably like that you were born in a small place, and have excellent academic performance and good character since childhood. With the generous support of your parents, you dare not slack off. After several years of hard work, you finally become the best student in your school at the age of 18 and are admitted to the bottom 985.

In your small place, this is the first time that someone has been able to enter a prestigious university since the resumption of the college entrance examination.

Then you became the best science student in the school's history.

As a result, when I went to university, I found myself just one of the countless people. What makes people even more sad is that the brilliance of Huawei 5C9 above your head makes you breathless. If you really win the title of Huawei 5 after the postgraduate entrance examination, look up and you will see two suns in the sky above the capital.

Tsinghua University and Peking University are full of geniuses, and you don't even have the opportunity to meet them.

Maybe you are a true genius, and in the future you will work hard to get into Peking University or Tsinghua University, and finally become the best among them. At the age of 30, you will achieve the highest degree among your peers in China, bring honor to your family, and make your small place famous for having an academician like you. At this time, the mentor above you will tell you with a wry smile that the world is not just about China, and you must never dare to slack off for the rest of your life.

Be the most out-and-out genius of anyone you ever meet.

In the end, you discover that Euler, Riemann, and Gauss, who invented the summation formula at the age of seven because he wanted to finish school quickly, have been waiting at the top of the mountain for a long time. You try to charge to the top, and then someone whispers to you that all this is fake...

Your faith is broken, you are devastated, and you can never regain your former vigor and vitality.

Qin Shang had a similar illusion in a trance at this moment.

I used to think I was a very special person.

And only now did I realize that my so-called specialness was simply because... I was the protagonist in a comic book.

My uniqueness and all the abilities that I am proud of are nothing more than settings given by the cartoonist.

Qin Shang closed his eyes with a wry smile, forcibly suppressing the turbulent waves in his chest. His three views were like reefs washed by the tide after hearing Jiang Qiqi's words, and the strong regret spread in his heart like bitter coffee.

I really shouldn't have opened the last page of the observation log...

The next moment, Jiang Qiqi said softly;

"I really don't want you to get hurt!"

Hearing this, Qin Shang's lips moved, and he wanted to blurt out something but held it back.

But you...still hurt me.

The woman didn't continue looking at Qin Shang, but glanced at the small room with melancholy;

"In my second year of graduate school, I killed off my comic book self, Jiang Qiqi from the comic 'Divine Road Game.' I thought this would end Qin Shang's journey and put a full stop to my first work, which I had put so much effort into."

“That’s early April.”

“And that’s when the weird things started happening.”

"The world I live in is not here, not the Divine Road, and certainly not the real world outside of the Divine Road. That place is not called Huaxia, it's called China. There is also a river city there, but the river city there is called Wuhan. As for Yanjing in that world, it is called the capital..."

Another reality?

No, not another reality.

Qin Shang denied the idea that was emerging in his mind at this moment.

But, the real real world!

For Jiang Qiqi, the real world I live in is the real world where she and I met.

Maybe it's just a world in comics.

"I get it! How could anyone actually live in a comic book?"

"No, you don't understand!"

Hearing this, Jiang Qiqi smiled bitterly and wanted to throw a tantrum and diss Qin Shang like she did in the past.

But the dirty words were on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't say them.

The next moment, the girl raised her hand, and there was a comic book in her little hand.

When Qin Shang saw this thing, his expression froze and his breathing became a little faster, because he could see with the naked eye that there was a photo of himself on the cover. No, it cannot be said that it was completely a photo of Qin Shang, but a photo of himself painted in a comic style, wearing a black suit and with a firm gaze.

Next to it are four big characters: "Divine Road Game", Volume 10.

"That day I finished drawing the last page and went to bed as usual. But for some reason, I dreamed of you that day. Then when I woke up, something even more bizarre happened..."

Jiang Qiqi's voice, slightly helpless, suddenly sounded.

"The night before I drew the final chapter of Jiang Qiqi's death, I didn't upload the final scene, which is the chapter where Jiang Qiqi dies in the Divine Road dungeon. But the weird thing is, after I woke up, this episode was uploaded, and the content was completely modified. Although it still contains the parts I created the night before, such as Jiang Qiqi's sacrifice to protect Qin Shang at the moment of clearing the Black Tower, but..."

"I clearly wrote 'End of Book' at the bottom of that scene."

"But what I saw after I woke up was completely different. After that page, several more pages of comics appeared, and they weren't the ones I drew at all. After the page about Jiang Qiqi's death, a new scene appeared. The next page showed Qin Shang looking up at the sky with a determined look, muttering to himself, with the caption 'I'm going to find you'."

"The lower right corner has become To Be Continued."

"The cover of this issue of the publication contains the content of the last page!"

As soon as these words came out, Qin Shang couldn't help but be shocked.

How can it be?

Is there such a thing?

He is in a very complicated mood now. On the one hand, he deeply regrets opening Pandora's box with his own hands.

On the other hand, he was very curious about the real world that Jiang Qiqi was in, which the woman called the real world.

"You mean to say that the Qin Shang in the comic you created didn't follow your wishes and allow your work to be successfully completed in the world where it should have ended, but that Qin Shang modified your comic?"

"Isn't this ridiculous? From your perspective, you live in the real world, and I'm just a character you created. I'm a comic book character. All my actions, all my logic, even my personality and abilities are given by you."

Jiang Qiqi shook her head.