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

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Three days later, the overseas organization Star Gate, the largest Shenlu player organization on Blue Star, received news that the only known surviving internal test player in the second largest region, China, was the 'Thunder King'. At that time, some players in the Rule Realm in the dungeon also heard the server-wide announcement from the Shenlu server.

[Player 'Mother Guards the Center' entered the dungeon 'Origin of the Mother Goddess', serial number 0001, failed, player has died]

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2024, Earth, the real world, this is the time before Jiang Qiqi goes to Blue Star.

The fifth hour after Jiang Qiqi and the criminal suspect Qin Shang disappeared at the police station...

Outside Caotan Police Station, life is bustling.

A yellow cordon was set up outside the door. Several public security on-site investigators in dark blue work clothes were busy running around. No outsiders were allowed at the police station gate. The only way to enter the police station was through another temporarily opened gate. Because today, an incredible incident happened at the police station gate. A criminal suspect disappeared mysteriously when he entered the police station gate during the process of being escorted. Yes, the surveillance camera recorded this scene. The only person who had contact with him at the time was a girl named Jiang Qiqi. The latter came from a psychiatric hospital research center that has cooperated with the Municipal Public Security Bureau for a long time. She was a student affiliated with this psychiatric hospital research center. Their tutor Qin Yuyan was the most professional psychiatric crime researcher in the industry.

"How could they disappear? Two living people just vanished right in front of you out of thin air?"

Qin Yuyan also came, wearing delicate light makeup. The woman was still as graceful as ever. If Jiang Qiqi was here at this moment, she would definitely be able to notice that something was wrong with her mentor's mood. She was laughing, and couldn't help laughing. Although the occasion was not right at this moment, Qin Yuyan was still laughing.

Her red lips curled up slightly. As the mentor of one of the suspects, Qin Yuyan was naturally summoned to the scene as an insider. After all, the person who requested Qin Shang to be handed over today was this expert. It was she who argued that although Qin Shang was a mental patient and did have multiple personalities, when he was committing the crime, it was Qin Shang's first personality that dominated the human body, and the first personality dominated the body for a very long time, so there was reason to suspect that he was trying to use the identity of multiple personalities to circumvent the judicial procedures after committing the crime.

However, something incredible happened today when Qin Shang was being transferred to the police station. Jiang Qiqi, a student of expert consultant Qin Yuyan, who was responsible for monitoring and studying the mentally ill patient Qin Shang, suddenly disappeared after meeting Qin Shang at the police station. Qin Shang also disappeared at the same time. It was unknown what kind of sleight of hand these two people used, but they both disappeared at the same time, right under surveillance and in front of the two police officers' eyes.

The two disappeared together, without a trace...

The next moment, while a middle-aged police officer was madly scolding the two police officers who were escorting Qin Shang, Qin Yuyan began to look around, as if she was sure that there must be something left nearby where Qin Shang and Jiang Qiqi disappeared.

The police officer, who lowered his head and took the scolding with a sour expression, glanced at Qin Yuyan and coughed dryly, trying to change the subject; "Advisor Qin, we actually checked it at that time. Apart from Miss Jiang's handbag and a comic book that fell from Qin Shang, nothing was left."

"Damn it, you still have the nerve to say that..."

As soon as the officer finished speaking, the elderly officer with a crew cut who had been scolding the two men glared at him and elbowed the young officer, causing him to cry out in pain and clutch his chest, not daring to talk back. Qin Yuyan frowned slowly, and then a subtle glint of light flashed in her eyes, which slowly faded away without anyone else noticing. "Would it be convenient for you to take me to see what they left behind? For example, that comic book? You said it fell from Qin Shang, right?"

Facing the puzzled looks from the two police officers, Qin Yuyan acted calmly and confidently.

"Jiang Qiqi is a well-behaved child. I've been taking care of her since she was admitted to graduate school in her first year. She's unlikely to help a suspect escape. Besides, Qin Shang was handed over to you. Although Jiang Qiqi was somewhat dissatisfied when I proposed this, it was mostly because her graduate thesis was to study this mentally ill patient with multiple personalities, not because she had any personal connection with Qin Shang. If she was coerced, she should have told me long ago. To sum up, their sudden disappearance must be the work of that mentally ill patient named Qin Shang..."

Is that so?

The three police officers were immediately relieved. One of them immediately led Qin Yuyan into the police station. He finally found an excuse to take a breath and sneak out to avoid being scolded again. He wished that Qin Yuyan wanted to see some physical evidence, so he took her to take a look. The confused look just now was only because Qin Yuyan did not pay attention to her students' things first, but instead paid attention to a comic book first.

"Officers, do you recall any other contact between the two men before they disappeared?"

"It seems like they had a conversation, but I didn't pay attention to them at the time, so I don't remember it clearly..."

The police officer scratched his head a little embarrassedly; "At that time, I thought that he had been sent to the police station, and the person who came to visit was your student, so there would not be any trouble. So I was a little careless and didn't pay too much attention."

"I've actually checked the contents of the comic. It's just a very ordinary comic book. It's about a man who enters a gaming world. It's one of those very popular and hot game invasion themes. I've searched all sorts of sources for the comic book, but I can't find the source. I can't even find the Changhong Publishing House mentioned. It seems like it was pirated and printed by some small workshop!"

Hearing this, Qin Yuyan listened silently. It was not until she entered the physical evidence department and saw the comic book wrapped in a plastic bag that Qin Yuyan's expression began to change slightly.

"'God's Road Game'?"

"Yes, that's the title of the comic book. Teacher Qin, if you want to read the contents, you have to wear gloves!"

"I know the rules."

Qin Yuyan chuckled, picked up the gloves from the side, slowly opened the plastic bag and took out the comic book inside, and directly flipped to the last page. The young police officer was quite confused. When normal people read a book, don’t they always look at the table of contents or the introduction on the cover first?

If Jiang Qiqi, who had entered the Divine Road before, saw the final content of the comic, she would definitely be shocked. Not only did it contain the plot of herself taking a car to Caotan Police Station to verify whether Qin Shang's nonsense was true or false, but it also contained a lot of plots about the two of them entering the Divine Road after touching the character cards with their hands. For example, in the first copy [Death Train], they met a man named Zhao Jinyu, who was eventually killed by his own little tricks. All of these plots appeared in this comic book in detail.

Qin Yuyan read very slowly and carefully. At the end, she noticed the scene where Jiang Qiqi completed the "Death Train". Qin Yuyan's frown slowly relaxed. She was about to blurt out "My student may be back soon", but the book in her hand suddenly felt heavier. The part of the plot where Jiang Qiqi completed the game was clearly displayed on the last page. This was already the last page, but in the blink of an eye, Qin Shang felt that the book under her hand felt a little thicker. She twisted the paper in her hand, her expression changed slightly, and then she turned another page to the back.

When Qin Yuyan saw the content on the next page, she was completely stunned.

It didn't end after she cleared the level. Jiang Qiqi entered the reality of that comic world. It's impossible, impossible. The speed of time in that world is different from ours. It may only be an afternoon here, but Jiang Qiqi may have spent several years. After several years, Jiang Qiqi must have found a way to come back, or she should have been sent back by that love-brained guy. Then the comic book will no longer automatically generate subsequent plots, and may even delete the previous plots related to Jiang Qiqi. Only the plot of Jiang Qiqi entering the copy with the protagonist that day will be retained as the comic plot, which is the plot of [Death Train]. After that, Jiang Qiqi's separate plots will disappear because she has left that world. She is not a person from that world and she will not stay there forever.

A bold idea suddenly emerged in Qin Yuyan's mind.

"She died there..."

Upon hearing this, the police officer who was leading her into the database was stunned and turned his head in surprise.

"what?"

"Qin, Teacher Qin, did you just speak?"

"Oh no, I was just talking to myself."

Immediately, Qin Yuyan took a deep breath and closed the book in her hand with a bang.

"Let's go, they probably won't..."

After swallowing the words "I won't" back into her stomach, Qin Yuyan changed her words; "It won't be easy for us to find it. This comic book is indeed just an ordinary comic and can't provide any clues at all. I suspect that it is very likely that Qin Shang kidnapped my students."

After saying that, Qin Yuyan threw the comic book back into the evidence bag.

The police officer was slightly stunned when he saw this. He felt that Qin Yuyan's mood had changed slightly compared to when she came in just now. Then his eyes fell on the evidence bag.

"Hey, why is there an extra playing card in it? Teacher Qin, this playing card is not something you have on you, right?"

Qin Yuyan shook her head.

"No, it was already there, but it fell out when I was flipping through it."

"Let's go. Don't make the police officers outside wait anxiously. I can't do anything about this."

The young police officer watched Qin Yuyan's back as she left. He was stunned for a moment before glancing at the evidence bag that had been put away. Inside was a playing card, a Joker. Anyone who has played cards knows that there are a pair of Jokers in a deck of cards. At this moment, there was a joker card, a Joker, all gray and black. The card had only three colors: black, white, and gray...

Out of rigor, the young police officer was still worried, so he reopened the comic book, took it out of the evidence bag, and read to the last part.

"Huh! That's weird, did this comic book originally have these plots?"

I saw that in the last few pages of the plot, there was a dark page with only a subtitle that read...

[Player 'Mother Guards the Center' entered the dungeon 'Origin of the Mother Goddess', serial number 0001, failed, player has died]

Then in the next page of the plot, a man appeared.

The man had long hair, a gloomy face, sharp features, and narrowed eyes. He was informed of the above words by a mysterious voice.

The man's eyes suddenly turned red in the next shot, and then, on the last page, the man looked up at the sky with a cold look.

When the young police officer and the man in the cartoon looked at each other, they both had a creepy illusion, as if this sharp gaze had really traveled through time and space and landed in the real world. It was as if something good had been ruined. Anger, annoyance, regret, all kinds of emotions intertwined together.

And for some reason, he always felt like he had seen this man in the comics somewhere before...

"Jiang Qiqi, I will find you no matter where you go!"

"It was my wish that caused Jiang Qiqi to lose all her memories of me, so she ended up in the final dungeon as an ordinary player on the Divine Path, right? Well, that's my fault... I still have a chance. I can [Fake My Death] and return to the game!"

"No one can take Jiang Qiqi away from me, not even... Shenlu, not even the Mother Goddess!"

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About half an hour later, Qin Yuyan left the police station.

The police officers found that she really could not provide any useful clues, so they simply let her go. Besides, Qin Yuyan was not at the scene when the incident happened. She was an expert in guiding crimes committed by patients with mental illnesses specially hired by the Public Security Bureau. It was impossible for her to have nothing better to do than collude with a patient with schizophrenia, give up her bright future, and help a mentally ill person get freedom. No matter how you look at it, this matter had little to do with Qin Yuyan, so the police station just summoned her and asked some questions related to Jiang Qiqi. No new clues were obtained, so in the end they had no choice but to let Qin Yuyan go.

However, as soon as she walked out of the police station, Qin Yuyan took out her cell phone and dialed a number. Her tone was trembling, her voice was even more shaky, and her face was excited.

“The plan begins!!!”

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On Earth, beneath the tall and elegant building of the Beijing Modern Academy of Fine Arts, a young girl was scratching her head, pondering over the drawing board in her hand. With the final stroke of the brush, she finished the last shot, and suddenly became a little melancholy. People were coming and going here, but no one seemed surprised by her act of sitting in the open air with a digital screen to create. Not far away, there were many young men and women dressed like students, holding drawing boards and collecting inspiration at the school gate. It seemed that painting here was a common thing. Almost no passers-by would show any extra expression. In fact, if it weren't for the girl's stunning facial features, no one would even look at her twice.

At this moment, if someone stands next to her, they will definitely be able to see that the content of the girl's painting is a comic book with delicate lines and rigorous storyboards. As a side note, the domestic art industry started very early, but progressed slowly. At the time when Jiang Qiqi created the comic book "God Road Game", domestic comics had not yet truly risen in an all-round way.

Most art students eventually enter the design or engineering industry rather than the art industry. In reality, most art students do not have the idea of ​​becoming a famous cartoonist or painter. Most of them simply go to school because the extra points for art students make it easier to apply for university. After all, the threshold to this industry is still relatively high, and the employment opportunities can be said to be seriously saturated. Art, music, and dance actually face similar difficulties in the overall environment. If these things want to make people earn a living, they need to be commercialized, but art is a very diverse thing and must be combined with current trends and public aesthetics. Your work may be very accomplished in the eyes of professionals, but if it is released to the public, no coal bosses or art companies are willing to buy it, and it still cannot be monetized. Some music and paintings that are very good in their professional fields are worthless when they are released to the public. They are just critically acclaimed but not commercially successful. Therefore, most art students tend to transform, and their final employment prospects become fashion design, house decoration, art teachers, etc.

Cartoonists can be considered to be able to engage in a profession related to their profession and still retain the concept of artistic creation to a certain extent. However, don't have too many filters for this industry. This is not a good way out. All you can see are the small losers at the top of the pyramid. In fact, in reality, even among cartoonists who are really engaged in this kind of industry, 99% of them are part-time or full-time and cannot make enough food and need to rely on their families for support.

This also reflects the waste of resources and talents in our country's education field.

If anything wants to be commercialized, it needs to be able to cover the general public. For example, if some professional paintings hope to be bought by people, they need to at least randomly pick up a hundred passers-by on the street to appreciate the work, and at least nearly eighty or ninety people can applaud from the bottom of their hearts. This is called public recognition. However, a very helpless thing is that if the public's aesthetic taste in the field of art wants to be improved, it is not something that can be done overnight, but there is still a long way to go. Cartoonists or animation producers are already one of the few jobs in this industry that can stick to their professional dreams.

"Forget it, I'll stop here. If I continue, I won't be able to submit it before the deadline. I'm too busy. As my graduation project, "Divine Path Game" has gained a certain degree of recognition and reputation, which is enough to meet the instructor's requirements. I just feel a little sorry for my male lead. Lao Qin, please don't be angry. I had no choice but to kill Jiang Qiqi. After all, I couldn't bear to kill you until the end. It was just that killing you ruined my ending. As an author, I love you deeply..."