Chapter 18: Strange Sacrifices in the Subconscious

Orange Star.

The Institute's Investigation Room.

The two young girls had slightly nervous expressions on their faces, wearing pink short sleeves and cool shorts, and two pairs of small white legs clamped restlessly.

"When we quit the game, we didn't know what had happened to the three of them." The player "White Milk" shook his head and said.

Another girl also shook her head and said, "I'm a temporary team member, and I don't know them in reality." ”

The investigator nodded, and asked a few things, roughly asking them if they felt anything unusual during their confinement.

Because the investigators found that when the player recorded the video, he said that he adjusted the game to zero feeling, but the player still acted very cold, as if he was in a minus 30 degree environment.

To the confusion of the investigators, in the content recorded in the system video, there is no snowstorm in the environment, and there is no environmental change in the form of cooling, and the status bar on their bodies does not show negative buffs such as "cold".

There are only two buffs that the investigator sees in the negative buff status, which is "Imprisoned" and "Poisoned".

At that time, the player looks up at the night in the eerie kobold mountain village, and there is nothing in the night in the video.

Someone at the gaming company currently suspects that the three players are mentally abnormal, having hallucinations of the five senses, thus triggering an abnormal brain wave alert in the game cabin.

When people are mentally abnormal, they are not allowed to enter the game cabin to play games.

The game pod cannot scan the opponent's brain, and essentially plays with brainwaves, without the need to insert brain electrodes, so once the player's brainwaves are abnormal, an alarm mechanism will be triggered.

"There was no anomalous sensation, I didn't pay attention to it at the time." The female player shook her head in denial.

"But that confinement time is really quite long, isn't that the beginning of the hidden plot?"

The investigator shook his head, "I'm sorry, I'm not in charge of the game's plot development, I can only say that what the kobold NPCs did was not planned by the game company, they were spontaneous intelligent thinking behaviors, and the computing resources they occupied at that time did not exceed the preset limit." ”

To put it simply, the intelligence of the kobold NPCs is quite an ordinary-level household artificial intelligence, capable of thinking independently.

After questioning the two female players, the investigator updated the files of the two female players, saying "No anomalies yet".

That night, three players woke up.

The institute sent brain expert researchers to investigate their mental state.

When the three players woke up, they were startled to see a group of people in research gowns gathered around the hospital bed.

"Don't worry, we're from the Zhiji City Research Institute, and we're here to investigate what happened to you in the game." When the brain expert asked, he also closely checked the brainwaves of the three people.

Leather Armor Assassin player Wang Qing heard the other party's content, and his vague brain vaguely thought of something, but he couldn't remember it.

"I don't think I remember." Wang Qing rubbed his head and said.

"Amnesia? Well, it should be that the brain is subjected to a huge mental stimulation that produces amnesia...... "The brain expert calmly analyzed.

The other two players were similar, they couldn't remember what they played in the game, and they couldn't remember that memory.

If you think hard, your mind will have severe labor pains, which will make you feel painful and give up thinking.

When the brain expert saw this situation, he was also a little anxious.

If nothing is done, the incident will end with the title "The player's mental abnormality causes the game pod to sound an alarm".

Soon, someone received the latest order: "The director said, for the purpose of treating people, understand a little in the process of treating mental trauma." ”

The brain expert nodded, and that was all there was to it.

In the treatment of mental trauma, the subconscious mind of the other party can be elicited by gentle hypnosis, and the subconscious mind can be used to treat the patient's psychological state in turn.

After the doctors decided on the treatment, they disclosed the reasons to the three patients so that the patients could know about their status.

The trio learned that they had a memory disconnect and that they might have suffered unidentified mental trauma, and that the institute currently has a safe and high-success therapy for amnesia that can be tried.

The three patients believe in the strength of the institute, which is not only the study of industrial technology, but also the research of other technologies.

Signing the treatment consent form, the three came to the Zhiji City Research Institute in the early hours of that night.

As mentioned earlier, the player is very healthy, does not need to lie in bed to rest, and has no abnormal mental state, because the brain autonomously blocks that memory, and the three of them are like no one, and they can't remember what they did in the game yesterday.

Leather Assassin player Wang Qing entered a closed secret room, where some very beautiful scenery photos were placed, the countryside was infinitely spring, his nose also smelled the fragrance of some flowers and plants, and a cute and gentle female doctor sat there, looked at him gently, and invited him to take a seat.

Wang Qing's tense nerves unconsciously eased.

He sat in a soft chair and chatted with the female doctor, not about amnesia or games, and the two communicated harmoniously and naturally like friends.

As he spoke, Wang Qing felt that his consciousness was a little heavy, the voice in his ears gradually blurred, and his brain thought slowly.

The female doctor began to take the initiative to pull the topic, took out a light drawing board, put it in front of Wang Qing's desktop, and asked him to draw something on the paper.

He didn't remember what he wanted to draw, so he subconsciously obeyed the other party's request and drew casually with his hands.

And in the eyes of the female doctor, and in the eyes of the surveillance cameras, the painting has changed from a blank object to a simple scribble.

He draws a little slowly, his hands moving according to his subconscious, gradually outlining the background of countless black villains kneeling in the mountain village.

Five of the stickmen have a different style of painting than the black figures, which are hated and faceless, while the stickman's head has eyes, mouth, nose, and ears, representing the five players.

The style of painting is hazy, like a child's graffiti, and it is not the work of a master painter, but everyone can see the meaning expressed in the painting.

It was the image of the player's amnesia, and it was also the most impressive scene in his brain, and it was also the most impactful scene.

After drawing the mountain village and the black villain, Wang Qing began to draw a well, which seemed to be the arc circle of the magic array.

Suddenly, his palm violently shook wildly in the blank space above the well, and the messy and crazy lines cut through the paper like lightning!

At this time, the monitor is ticking.

"Warning! The patient's heartbeat rises to 150 beats per minute!"

"Warning! The brainwave changes are too drastic! The patient is too emotional and nervous!"

The female doctor began to sweat on her forehead, glanced at the other party's unfinished painting, gritted her teeth, and had to stop the treatment.

Syllable!

She snapped her fingers.

Snapping his fingers was like a switch for the return of consciousness, and the crazy Wang Qing heard the snapping of his fingers, his brain exploded like a thunderbolt, and he woke up immediately.

The movement of his hand immediately stopped, he blinked, completely unaware of what had just happened, and said, "Ah, excuse me, where did we just talk?" ”

After finishing speaking, he felt that the atmosphere was not quite right, and subconsciously lowered his head and saw a children's graffiti-style painting of a mountain village sacrifice.

"What is this?"

"Why am I holding a pen?"

Leather armor assassin player Wang Qing was confused, looking at this ugly painting, for some reason, there was a sense of familiarity.

He blinked, and the stickman seemed to come to life in the painting, moving his head and glancing at him.

But when he looked at the painting in his hand again, the stickman did not look at him, but looked up at the jumble of lines over the well.

It should be that he is dazzled.