Chen Xiaolian raised his head and looked at the vast palace in front of him.

Although it was already broken, the majestic and desolate aura revealed by the palace in front of him still shocked Chen Xiaolian.

"Are handsome?"

Du Wei's voice interrupted Chen Xiaolian's thoughts. He turned his head and looked at the face in front of him.

He was as handsome as if he was beyond all the existences in reality, looking at Chen Xiaolian with a lazy smile.

"I'm not a woman. No matter how handsome you are, what does it have to do with me?" Chen Xiaolian frowned and looked at Du Wei.

"Don't get me wrong. I'm asking you, is this Hall of Longevity handsome?" Du Wei laughed in silence: "This is what we built."

"No, this is also inside of Zero City?" Chen Xiaolian looked up at the Changsheng Palace again, and then suddenly realized that he was able to move.

Obviously, it was Du Wei who untied Bai Qi's restraints on him.

"Yes. Now, let's talk about a deal." Du Wei sat cross-legged in front of Chen Xiaolian with a smile: "It's good for you and it's good for me."

"Trade? Tell me." Chen Xiaolian asked calmly.

"It's very simple." Du Wei smiled: "It seems that you care a lot about the awakened people who are dead here. If I say, I can resurrect them all, are you interested?"

Chen Xiaolian's heart suddenly exploded, but in a flash, he calmed down again, narrowed his eyes and looked at Du Wei carefully: "Are you joking with me?"

"I like to joke, but not now." Du Wei shook his head: "I only joke with my familiar friends, and you..."

"We are not familiar with each other, and we are not friends." Chen Xiaolian finished the second half of Du Wei: "So, please make it clear what the so-called resurrection refers to. Don't tell me that the resurrection of the awakened person who was refreshed into an ordinary person after his death, that would not require you to do anything."

"Of course not." Du Wei stretched out a finger and waved in front of Chen Xiaolian: "What I mean by resurrection is of course the usual understanding of returning to the state before being killed. Everything that originally exists, including skills and memories, is preserved."

Chen Xiaolian widened his eyes and looked at Du Wei in disbelief.

This is impossible!

After the awakened person dies, he will be refreshed into an ordinary person, which is known to all awakened persons.

So, since you have become an ordinary person, how can you be resurrected and become an awakened person again?!

Although Zero City is not an open day now, the total number of people in it is at least thousands! Even if you exclude those who successfully escape, Chen Xiaolian probably has at least one thousand people who died at Bai Qi's hands.

If the red-haired man named Du Wei in front of him really has such ability to resurrect such a number of dead awakened people at will, then his ability will be like a god!

This kind of thing is impossible to even gm!

"Don't believe it?" Du Wei looked at Chen Xiaolian: "It's okay. You just need to tell me, what price would you be willing to pay if I could do it?"

"There is no need to go around the corner." Chen Xiaolian shook his head and said lightly: "Tell me, what price do you want me to pay?"

"Life. Your life alone is exchanged for the entire Zero City, and the resurrection of those who were killed by Bai Qi." Du Wei smiled brightly: "If you just look at the quantity comparison, this deal is very cost-effective, right?"

"You... want my life?" Chen Xiaolian glanced at Du Wei: "This doesn't make sense."

"Oh? Why doesn't it make sense?" Du Wei raised his eyebrows.

"First, you know Bai Qi. So, you, him, and Mr. Umbrella, you should be both strong men of the same level. If you want to kill me, you don't need to discuss it with me at all.

Second, compared to you, I am just a small character, a small character that cannot be even smaller. I can’t understand what my life will be useful to you.”

Chen Xiaoxuan paused and continued, "There is a third one. Since I am dead, how do I know if you will fulfill your promise and resurrect these people in Zero City? If you lied to me, where can I go to make sense?"

"The answers to these three questions are actually the same." Du Wei quietly listened to Chen Xiaolian's words and spread his hands: "It's very simple. I'm not trying to kill you, but I just want you to do something. But when you do this, you will pay the price of your life. Resurrection of these people in Zero City is also one of the results of your doing this."

Chen Xiaolian closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and when he opened it, he took a deep breath and sat down in front of Du Wei: "Then, let me change the word. You want me to do something. This thing will be good for you, and it can also resurrect the dead people in Zero City. Is it right?"

"It's totally right. You're a smart kid." Du Wei nodded with satisfaction and laughed.

"So, what do you want me to do?"

Du Wei leaned forward slightly and looked at Chen Xiaolian seriously: "Close the gate of Zero City again."

"Why?" Chen Xiaolian asked after thinking for a moment.

"It's too complicated to explain this to you. We don't have that much time." Du Wei smiled faintly: "Although the layout outside can delay Bai Qi for a while, he will come in sooner or later."

"You can't beat him?" Chen Xiaolian glanced at Du Wei.

"At the peak of that time, I was afraid that I could not beat him alone, but now his strength has been greatly reduced. If I take action seriously..." Du Wei thought for a while: "It should be fine if I want to win. But the problem is, if I am not here, how can I fight him?"

"You... aren't here?" Chen Xiaolian frowned and looked at Du Wei carefully up and down. But no matter how he looked, he clearly saw a living person.

Even just now, Chen Xiaolian clearly remembered that it was Du Wei who pulled his arm and dragged himself into the current space.

"Yes." Du Wei smiled: "My body is still far from here. What is in front of you is just a projection, and you cannot use real power. If Bai Qi really breaks in smoothly, I can't stop him. So, can we hurry up?"

"Sorry, I can't believe you so easily." Chen Xiaolian thought about it and shook his head: "What we are discussing now is my life! I'm not stupid to send my life away with just a few words. You should explain it clearly first, in detail."

It was precisely because of my credibility that I had no defense at all when I talked about Bai Qi that Lingcheng was almost destroyed in Bai Qi's hands.

He will never make the same mistake again!

"It must be?"

“It must be.”

"Okay." Du Wei smiled bitterly: "I hope that Bai Qi can hold him back for a while when he encounters him. So, what do you want to know?"

Chen Xiaolian said firmly: "All of them. Why do I have the authority of Zero City, why Bai Qi is out of my control, why do you have to close the gate of Zero City, how will the people of Zero City be resurrected? Your relationship with Bai Qi, and..."

"Slow down! There are too many questions you have to ask." Du Wei quickly paused his compulsory: "Then, I'll just tell you all the time."

Du Wei lowered his head and thought for a while, and said quickly: "Many, many years ago, our group established Zero City. Of course, it was not called this name at that time, but it was not important.

Bai Qi is also our companion, but his temper is a bit weird. When he established Zero City, he had parted ways with us, so he did not get the control of Zero City. But he was our companion after all, so when we established Zero City, we also added his template to the founder's identity verification.

Later, you took Bai Qi as the battle soul, and even brought his template.

But just his template is not enough. You also came to Zero City before, but it was not until this time that the system's verification of the template was triggered. That's because you just happened to have another template from someone else."

"Who?" Chen Xiaolian frowned.

Du Wei said slowly: "Taiyi."

"I... have heard of this name." Chen Xiaolian thought for a while: "Bai Qi said the same thing to me just now. But I'm sure I don't know such a person."

"He no longer calls this name. Even himself... doesn't know that he used to be Taiyi." Du Wei's smile was slightly desolate: "Now he calls himself gm."

"He... is one of the founders of Zero City?!" Chen Xiaolian was shocked.

"Have you not told you that gm has been refreshed?" Du Wei glanced at Chen Xiaolian.

"I probably know why this is." Chen Xiaolian recalled for a moment and nodded slowly.

Before entering the punishment copy, GM split a clone, attached it to himself, and entered the punishment copy together.

After obtaining that base in the punishment copy, GM's clone becomes the main controller of the base.

If gm is one of the founders of Taiyi and Lingcheng mentioned by Du Wei, then another part of his template should come from here.

"What happened between you people?" Chen Xiaolian asked, but found that Du Wei's expression changed slightly.

"Bai Qi... so fast!" Du Wei suddenly stood up, his face a little anxious: "We don't have enough time. He has broken through two of the three levels. At most, he will enter the Palace of Eternal Life! There is no time to leave me to tell stories, you must activate the refresh mechanism immediately!"

Chen Xiaolian looked at Du Wei's anxious eyes, and it didn't look fake.

But now, Du Wei hasn't explained anything clearly.

"Okay, long story short." Du Wei turned around and walked towards the interior of the Hall of Longevity. While walking, he hurriedly said: "It is not that easy to resurrect the dead awakened person alone, but if everything is restored to its original state, the dead will come back. What you have to do is trigger a refresh and return the time to before Bai Qi appeared."

"Refresh? Go back to the time?" Chen Xiaolian quickly followed Du Wei and asked loudly in disbelief: "This is something that the system can do!"

"The singularity is the system." After entering the Hall of Eternity, Du Wei walked towards a circular railing in the center of the hall: "The life and death of those awakened people has nothing to do with me, but I can't let Chen return to Zero City. But... I have no way to stop him by myself. So you can only do this."

He stood in front of the railing and pointed out his hand at the chaos surrounding the railing: "Whether you are willing to believe me or not, I don't have time to explain to you anymore. The current situation is very simple. You must make a decision between Bai Qi breaking through the level and entering the Palace of Eternal Life, whether you are willing to sacrifice your life and trigger refresh... At that time, everything except you will return to your original state."

"The external passage of Zero City will be re-enclosed, and the person killed by Bai Qi will be resurrected, right?" Chen Xiaolian confirmed again.

"Yes. Everyone gets what you want, you get what you want, and I get what I want," Du Wei replied quickly, "In addition, don't forget that everything you are currently causing, it's you, letting Bai Qi go!"

"..." Chen Xiaolian was silent.

"Bai Qi will appear at any time. Let me say it again, I am just a projector and have no power. No matter what he wants to do, I can't stop it." Du Wei stared at Chen Xiaolian: "I know you dare not trust me, but now you can only take a gamble."

"Does the world after death... exist?" Chen Xiaolian suddenly raised his head and looked at Du Wei.

"What?" Du Wei was stunned.

"I have a friend who died in the previous dungeon." Chen Xiaolian clenched his fists: "If I can see her after I die?"

"Your friend..." Du Wei smiled: "Girlfriend."

Chen Xiaolian did not answer.

Du Wei thought for a while: "She is an awakened?"

"No. Just like me." Chen Xiaolian shook his head: "I think he should be the same as you."

"Is the loophole?" Du Wei nodded slowly: "If the loophole is, after death, he will enter a place called the end of the world. If he is not killed there again, it will continue to exist."

Chen Xiaolian's eyes lit up, but he heard Du Wei say again: "But... you don't have the chance to see her."

"Why!" Chen Xiaolian said sternly.

"Because you don't have the chance to enter the end of the world. You pay the price of your life to start refreshing, not to be 'killed' in the conventional sense, but to directly erase your existence and completely return to nothing."
To be continued...