Old days in the box

Chapter 246 Those who are not qualified to be players

Under Sun Hao's narration, scenes from ancient times seemed to unfold before Zhou Xiao's eyes, using the lost runes to tell the history of the Nine Realms in that ancient period.

All the previous details, why the God of Door Keys blocked the passage in the atrium, the unusually long war between the gods in the Giant Kingdom, why Odin retreated behind the scenes and handed over power to Thor.

All these subtle and strange things that had appeared before were now strung together in a thread under Sun Hao's narration, and they were all connected together, becoming the history of the Nine Realms that had been changed by the appearance of the box players.

When Zhou Xiao first peeked into the world through the window.

In fact, it is no longer the Nordic world in mythology. It has been deeply changed by the box holders who have come one after another, but Zhou Xiao did not see it at the time.

"So why haven't I seen those former players in the atrium? Because your birthplaces are in other realms?" Zhou Xiao took a deep breath and continued to ask.

"Yes, I was born in the country of dwarfs, Gaul was born in Jotunheim, the country of giants, and Victoria was born in Alfheim, the country of elves. You two are the first holders born in the Atrium."

Sun Hao laughed silently, as if he was reminiscing about the past, and seemed to be happy about something.

"Shenmu Qianhua and I were born here because of your authority, right?" Zhou Xiao had already realized that the authority of the door in his hand was very special. It could not only seal off the realm, but also create and open windows. Channels for connecting sounds.

This kind of authority over concepts is obviously more special than the general authority over nature.

"It can be said that I have locked the passages leading to the atrium from other realms, and the starting point of the box cannot leave here. You probably don't want to be born in a giant country full of ice and snow as soon as you come up, and have to face that powerful The King of Frost Giants, right?”

Sun Hao laughed, but this made Zhou Xiao feel even more uncomfortable about him, the god of door keys.

His authority can actually affect the operation of the window to a certain extent.

"So you are protecting the next window player that may appear. Why? Are you expecting more box players to appear?" Zhou Xiao asked tentatively.

"It's better to say observation than protection. After all, the box is everything we can come into contact with. If I can observe the beginning and end of each holder, maybe I can find some rules and one day be able to leave. here."

Sun Hao was unexpectedly honest and answered Zhou Xiao's questions very straightforwardly, as if he was really fulfilling his promise to answer every question he asked seriously.

"But what exactly is this box?" Zhou Xiao couldn't help but ask.

"No one knows. Everyone who is brought into this world by it has his own set of explanations. Shenmu Qianhua believes that the box is screening an ultimate true god. Gaul thinks the box is a tool to conquer the nine worlds. Victoria thinks the box is a tool to conquer the nine worlds. It’s a Pandora’s box of wish fulfillment, but no matter which explanation it is, it is only everyone’s one-sided view, just like a blind man touching an elephant, and ultimately he will not get the truth.”

"What do you think?"

"Like I said, it doesn't matter what I think because that's certainly not the truth of it."

Sun Hao stood up from the beach and stretched seriously.

"The only thing I know so far is that this box appeared in the world many years ago. It will transform into items that match the characteristics of that era according to the different eras it lives in, and randomly appear around anyone in the world."

"When I held it, it looked like a very bloated old typewriter, while in Sam's hands it was the latest IBM computer at the time, and by the time it came to Shenmu Qianhua, it had turned into an iPad. , what did it become in your hands, some kind of super quantum computer?”

After hearing Su Hao's words, Zhou Xiao subconsciously stepped away from the screen and glanced at the mini case connected to the MacBook.

There is nothing unusual about the chassis. It neither speaks nor defends itself. It just lies there quietly running, connected to the laptop at the input end and the mini printer at the output end.

Only then did Zhou Xiao realize that since the notebook was connected to the mini chassis, the power had never dropped at all and was always displayed at 100%.

This chassis can even permanently power its display device.

"You have blocked the realm passage in the atrium. Through these 'doors', you can always observe what is happening in the atrium, including the appearance and rise of the box holder." Zhou Xiao skipped his rhetorical question and continued. .

"Yes, in fact I have seen a large number of holders appear in the atrium, and observing their appearance patterns has indeed brought me a lot of gains." Sun Hao was surprisingly candid, and replied while nodding. "A lot? But you just said that there are only two players in the atrium: me and Shenmu Qianhua."

"You don't think that everyone is the chosen one who can figure it out as soon as they get the box and survive smoothly, right?" Sun Hao laughed again and looked up at the sky meaningfully.

Zhou Xiao suddenly understood what he meant from his words. During these more than twenty years, with the speed at which the box was spread among the world, how could it be possible that only six former players were left in the window?

The only explanation is that a large number of players were screened out and did not even reach the stage of being exiled.

"Actually, there are about fifty or sixty people between you and Shenmu Qianhua... Although I can't see where these box holders come from or who they are, their reactions are generally the same, either. Shouting that you are invincible, or thinking that you are the only true god, holding a golden finger and being the protagonist of the whole world."

"Their operations are basically the same. They drag things in without restraint from the beginning, without any consideration of the possible consequences. Some people directly drag in more than a dozen kinds of biohazard viruses, causing three villages to be destroyed in an instant. Killing each other, some people came up to ten emperors, which directly alarmed the divine domain and slapped a small country to death..."

Sun Hao spoke enthusiastically, recounting to Zhou Xiao the interesting operations of other players that he observed from the courtyard.

"One of the guys' operations was astonishing and has always impressed me. I remember that he kept saying things like 'no limit' and 'collapse of combat power'. The first guy who just got the box Five million tanks were dragged in in one day, saying they wanted a torrent of steel to cleanse the world, but not even a second after they were put in, everything disappeared."

"Due to physical exertion, you died of exhaustion?" Zhou Xiao thought for a while and guessed.

Dragging things through the window will consume the user's physical strength. Dragging five million tanks at once... This consumption would probably cause the god himself to die suddenly on the spot, right?

During the use of this window, losing all believers is considered a failure, and death is also considered a failure. Once failed, the player will be deleted from the world, and all things previously dragged in through the window will disappear.

In other words, only those who can reach the last step, and their creations and traces are qualified to truly stay in this world.

This is why even though there are many box players between Zhou Xiao and Shenmu Qianhua, Zhou Xiao has no trace of them in the atrium.

Because these people cannot be called players at all, they are just temporary passers-by at one stop after another in the box, appearing here briefly, and then quickly disappearing with their creations and traces.

"They all died of their own arrogance and arrogance. They couldn't wait to put all their desires here as soon as they got the box. They didn't want to explore the world or explore this window. They just wanted to win everything. Everything, get everything.”

Sun Hao shrugged, his expression seemed to say, "I'm used to it."

"You are the only one who can reach this far after Shenmu Qianka. You have always had a semi-game mentality, right? I found that you have been using the word 'player' to describe us."

Zhou Xiao was stunned for a moment. Only then did he realize that he was the only one who had been using "player" to describe the person holding the box, while Sun Hao had always been talking about "box holder".

He was right. Although Zhou Xiao knew the magic of this box from a long time ago, he was not crazy about it, nor did he immediately drag the emperor from the golden toilet on the second or third day. , tens of thousands of aircraft and tanks went in.

He has always been cautious in exploring and semi-playing, slowly exploring the various functions and limitations of this window step by step, until he reached the level where he can face the gods directly.

This may be due to his consistent habit of single-player gaming, or his personality itself is not that violent, and his outlook on life believes that being slow is not a bad thing.

All in all, he escaped various hidden traps in the early stage of the box by chance. He neither attracted the gods in advance by making too big moves, nor did he kill himself by dragging too many things in one go, nor did he drag something beyond his control. something to harm their own believers.

He developed from a small fishing village to a kingdom and to the entire North Sea. Looking back now, everything seems very unreasonable, but also very reasonable.

There are people in this world who have acquired a certain ability and will use it to the extreme at the first opportunity. They never consider whether there are other restrictions on this ability, what unknown negative effects there are, and whether they need to pay a price.

But some people will just explore slowly, move forward cautiously, and study this ability within a reasonable range, until they have enough strength to strike hard.

The former is what we usually call the protagonist Long Aotian; and the latter is the player that each of us can become.

(End of this chapter)