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Chapter 455 Two New Endings
It's a happy ending indeed, but not entirely good.

The key is that the ending is not quite the same as what Zhuge Jun originally expected!

At this time, the CG cutscene of the game's ending appeared. The rescue team came to Charlton City. They entered Claridge's Hotel and rescued the survivors there.

In another ending, Jim, the ambitious puppet maker who controls the player, goes crazy, and the rescuers have to tie him up with a special straitjacket and take him out for treatment.

The other survivors looked normal, except for the little girl who had been rescued by the protagonist, who came to the cathedral to pray to the statue, as if she was still expecting the protagonist to return safely.

The rescue team also searched the entire cathedral inside and out, but unfortunately they found nothing.

In this way, accompanied by the bells of the cathedral, the rescue team took the survivors away from Charlton City. In the future, Charlton City may be rebuilt, but it is obvious that its decline is inevitable, because with the complete demise of the ancient gods, the monsters on the streets and the crystals underground have all turned into ashes and disappeared completely.

Without crystal energy and blood therapy, the city of Charlton will never be able to regain its past glory even if it is rebuilt and gradually recovers.

But no matter what, it is a blessing in disguise that the disaster has subsided and has not spread to the whole world.

……

But for Zhuge Jun, this ending is still unacceptable, there is a very obvious gap.

Because he originally thought that he would achieve the ending of becoming a god!

Of the three endings that have not yet been released, the God-becoming ending is clearly the scarcest.

As for the current ending of the God-Slaying, the final result is the death of the protagonist, which is more or less unpleasant.

Of course, in a similar worldview, it is difficult for players to assert which of the two results, "complete death" and "becoming a god", is better. After all, becoming a god may also be a state where life is worse than death.

But no matter what, Zhuge Jun personally prefers the ending of becoming a god.

“Damn it, why did it explode at the end?
“Can’t I consume all three powers? This is beyond my body’s ability to bear?

"This conjecture is reasonable, but if these three powers are not taken away, it is very likely that the outcome will be the same as the dependents.

"Perhaps there are other prerequisites for becoming a god?"

Zhuge Jun was in a dilemma. He had two completely different choices.

One is to go back directly to the game before the ending and continue exploring the game to see if there are other factors that affect the ending. The second is to enter the second round, play it again from the beginning, and change your route and playing style.

Which method can find the true ending faster? Zhuge Jun didn't dare to say for sure.

If you are just missing an important branch or item, the first method is definitely better; but if some deeper prerequisites are required, such as not lying too many times or the wrong key branch has been chosen, then if you want to get a new ending, you can only use the second method.

Zhuge Jun had no idea for a moment. He looked at the time and saw that it was getting late, so he could only go back and rest.

Maybe after a good night's sleep, there will be new answers?

……

At the same time, Lilith was happily watching the discussions among online players.

So far, players have discovered four of the five endings.

Logically speaking, Lilith should be anxious. After all, every new ending means that players will contribute less negative emotions and more positive emotions in the future.

But Lilith was not nervous at all, as if this was all part of her plan.

"Hehe, I will soon let you know what it means to be so close yet so far away!"

Obviously, Lilith is quite confident about the hidden fifth ending of "Blood of Lies".

At this time, the first batch of top players have begun to share how to achieve the two good endings of "Blood of Lies", "Slaughter of Gods" and "Heart of Freedom".

In comparison, they are a bit harder to achieve than the previous two bad endings, but not that hard.

The key to achieving the "God Slaughter" ending is to complete the "Moon School" branch in the game, kill the hidden third ancient god Meier, seize Meier's Ancient God Heart, fight against Sasla's control, and finally slaughter the three ancient gods.

Afterwards, the player must use his own body as a container to contain the authority of these three ancient gods.

These three ancient gods are in a cyclical restraint relationship: Ilonak restrains Mel, Mel restrains Sassara, and Sassara restrains Ilonak.

Under this cycle of restraint, the powers of the three ancient gods devoured each other and destroyed each other, thus completely destroying the power of all the ancient gods. The monsters, zombies, puppet energy, and crystal veins in the entire Charlton City all disappeared, and the disaster naturally ended.

This was the ending that Zhuge Jun had achieved before. Apparently, there were many players who had made similar attempts as him, and they also achieved this ending at about the same time.

After all, although the Moon School is a hidden map, it is not that difficult to find as long as you work hard to advance the map.

The way to achieve "freedom" is completely different.

Currently, there is only one player on the entire network who has achieved this ending. According to him, this ending does require choosing a start that favors puppets, but later on when choosing lies, specific choices must be made.

The so-called "specific choice" is neither lying blindly nor telling the truth blindly.

Currently, most players regard the lying system in the game as a "point-adding system". For example, if you want to play a wizard, you have to lie more, and if you want to play a pure puppet transformation route, you have to tell all the truth.

In the beginning, this gameplay is really useful because it can effectively increase the benefits of a specific development route.

For example, in the pure puppet transformation route, players have to replace all parts of the body with puppets, so as to obtain an extremely high damage reduction rate and achieve the effect of standing and fighting with the boss.

In this case, choosing to tell the truth among all lie options can further enhance the puppet's related upgrade effects, making it less likely to have mental problems, and even completely immune to mental attacks from certain ancient gods and sectarian followers.

That is to say, he becomes a pure reckless man.

But this player did not play it this way, the options he chose were based on his heart.

In short, when he encounters situations such as "human relations", "bad guys' temptations", "protecting others", etc., he will choose lies; but when he encounters situations such as "good NPCs who are eager to know the truth", he will choose the truth.

For example, a good NPC lamented during a conversation that he was old and not as healthy as before, and the player praised him, "You are still a powerful hunter." This is "humanity";
Like Bazzi, he uses questioning to get information and then changes the boss's form to trick people. At this time, the player lies to deal with the "bad guy's temptation";
Some NPCs who are obviously problematic are led to other dangerous areas by lying, so as not to let them go to the hotel to harm others. This is "protecting others";
Some NPCs are constantly searching for their relatives during the game, and they are willing to pay any price just to find the truth. At this time, even if the player finds out that their relatives have died, they should tell the truth instead of hiding it out of goodwill, which is also a kind act.

In general, the player's choice to lie or not to lie is not out of mechanical dogmatism, but a judgment based on the actual situation.

That is, making decisions based on the "characteristics of human thinking."

At the beginning, many people thought that he was working in vain. After all, lying and telling the truth seem to be two mutually exclusive options, corresponding to the improvement of abilities in different directions.

Clicking on both sides means that neither training route can be taken to the extreme. This is just like mindlessly averaging all points when adding points. There is definitely a problem.

But it turns out that this player was right, because the lying system in this game actually has hidden properties!
At the last moment, when the puppet maker Jim tried to control him, an option appeared on the player's screen, allowing him to freely choose whether to accept Jim's control.

You can choose to let go of everything, or you can choose to resist.

Of course the player chose to resist, and then there was another fierce boss battle.

Puppet maker Jim is a special being. He can manipulate different puppets to fight with players, and during the battle he will use many different means to specifically attack the player's puppet body.

At this time, the human side of the player comes into play. Not only can he resist the opponent's mental control, but he can also launch a mental attack on Jim in return.

This battle was quite difficult for the puppet player, but fortunately, he won in the end.

In this ending, it doesn’t matter how many body parts the player has transformed using puppet technology. Even if the entire body has been replaced with puppet parts, as long as the player can make the right choices regarding most of the lies, he or she will still be able to stick to his or her original intention in the end.

However, compared to the "God-killing Ending", the "Heart of Freedom" ending obviously has more hidden dangers and more hope.

Because in this ending, the player failed to kill Sasra.

After discovering that he could not control the players at all, Sasla fled in a hurry, so the power of the ancient gods was preserved.

The monsters and zombies were gradually wiped out and turned into more crystal energy. With this energy, Charlton's puppet industry and blood therapy industry could continue to exist.

The survival of the protagonist also proves that Charlton City's technology can indeed allow humans to achieve immortality in this way.

Of course, is he still the original him, having survived in the form of a puppet and inherited all the memories of the original human being?
This is a rather profound philosophical question, and it is probably difficult to draw a definite conclusion.

But no matter what, such a success story will inevitably attract wealthy people from all over the world who want to prolong their lives to come to Charlton.

The disaster of the blood of the ancient gods passed without any danger, but when will the next disaster occur? When the next disaster occurs, will there be a powerful hunter like the protagonist to turn the tide and save the world?

This is a very intriguing question.

(End of this chapter)