Chapter 044 ID: Forest (Ontology)
"As far as I know, the curse body should not be able to speak, who are you, and why are you pretending to be a ghost here?"
"And you actually provoke me, if you can't give me a satisfactory answer, if you can't make up an excuse like that......"
Fang Liang took out the pistol, his eyes flashed, a strange madness appeared in the corner of his eyes, and the lips under the mask couldn't help but outline a sinister and weird arc.
"Do you want us to guess which of these scum sleeping under the roots of the tree is you?"
Wearing the clothes he had ripped off from the scarecrow, he was holding the weapons he had collected from the nightmare, and he aimed at those sleeping people without emotion, and the figure in front of him moved slightly, as if he had a special reaction to Fang Liang in this state.
"So, I guess, this is it?"
Fang Liang didn't notice the change in the figure, after all, he really couldn't kill the curse body, as long as the curse didn't make trouble, he didn't have time to think about what idle animation this guy had for the time being, but if the manipulator was a human, then the situation would be completely different - if a person was killed, he would die.
"No !!!"
Fang Liang fired without hesitation, and the light source behind him suddenly erupted into a scream that was enough to deaf.
But Fang Liang only shot a shriveled skull, and the broken bones flew and didn't hit anyone who were sleeping soundly.
Then, a rather chaotic quarrel erupted in the light source behind him.
It was as if a light had illuminated everything in the dark, and then a large group of actors who were unwilling to be lonely rushed onto the stage, snatching the only fixed microphone and trying to use the only tool to negotiate.
"Why, we have lost everything, why do you want to take away even the power of our dreams!"
"Please, stop, as long as you promise not to hurt us again, we promise to let you go!"
"We just want to live, we just want to live, why destroy us!"
"Gunshots, I bet I actually heard them just now, how can there be gunshots in our gun-forbidden country?"
"Who's talking on the radio, this is not midnight radio, please stop your nonsense immediately or we will ......"
"Hey, get out of the way, didn't you see me putting the goods on the table? These fruits are easy to rot, don't touch them if you don't buy them! ”
"Where are the people buying the timber, and how long do they want to miss the appointment? Hey, why the road closures! ”
……
The frenzied hustle and bustle, mixed noise, but Fang Liang had long since lost interest in tasting the ashes that remained in this ruin, and he didn't bother to think about why this group of people had ended up in such a situation.
Fang Liang stared at the doctor's back unmoved, he quietly raised his gun, aiming at everyone in his sleep.
Could this hesitation be the remnants of compassion?
No, compassion doesn't arise in this environment, it's not a satisfactory answer, and everything is still unsolved.
Answers, answers, answers that are constantly searching, answers that are hidden in the depths of other people's minds......
After all, he had promised the doctor to leave with him before, if it was just a hasty end, Fang Liang always felt that something was missing.
"Doctor, if there is a chance for you to live, will you tell me the reason why you want to live?"
"Even if this opportunity sounds crazy, weird, almost beyond the realm of human common sense, can you answer?"
The doctor's back trembled slightly, his figure was a little decadent, and a certain wordless fear began to creep into his heart, and he suddenly had the illusion that as long as he answered wrong, the cold-blooded foreigner behind him would immediately shoot and kill him without hesitation.
But trying to search for fragmented memories, trying to reminisce about the past that you want to escape, do you really have the answer in your heart?
Trembling, the doctor said, "I...... I'm afraid of death, so I don't want to die, you, can you help me live? ”
Fang Liang was still facing away from the light source, but he raised his eyebrows, and Fang Cai's strange expression was gone.
Under the brim of the hat, there was only a trace of indifference between the narrow eyebrows, and a slight hint of self-deprecation and impatience.
Fang Liang quickly put away his weapon, all his expressions gradually dissipated into calm, and led the doctor out of the cave without saying a word.
At this point, Fang Liang had already mastered the necessary answers to clear the level, and although the rest of the things were a bit extraordinary, they might prove some special things, and it might be possible to help him understand what the concept of [curse] was.
The human brain is always instinctively seeking answers and answers, and acting according to the instinct of life cannot be said to be meaningless.
After all, it would be foolish to use such a dangerous power as a curse and not know anything about it.
"Doctor, are you afraid of being sober?" Fang Liang asked again.
"I, I'm not afraid, as long as I can live, I'm willing to do whatever I do!"
"Okay, but that's what you said, no matter what happens, you have to bear it alone, after all, I can't guarantee that my solution will succeed, because I don't know you...... Whether or not he is really alive or not. ”
Fang Liang's words made the doctor shudder, the doctor always felt that Fang Liang had something to say, but he couldn't think about the contradictions.
"Don't worry, you'll get it all in a minute, huh...... Everything will be understood, and what should not be understood will be understood. ”
Judging from the current intelligence, assuming that Lu Ming and the others managed to escape after the investigation was over, they should come here to meet Fang Liang, after all, the source of the final curse was here, and they had to come here no matter how they went.
If Lu Ming and the others have an accident during their investigation, triggering the curse's "law of predation", they will automatically come here as well.
The yellowed old light and shadow shrouded the sky, and it was impossible to see the passage of time, but Fang Liang knew that the subconscious cognitive world was changing.
The dream itself is fragile and illusory, and it is absolutely unable to withstand too serious "cognitive contradictions", otherwise it will be forced to wake up.
Just like the baseball cap player, after touching the "doctor" he had already killed once, the curse law was immediately triggered, causing him to be excluded from his current dream.
The core laws of dreams do not allow for the collapse of surface logic.
Or rather, the cursed ones who conceived this nightmare, who cannot bear the ripple effects of cognitive contradictions, because they themselves are already on the verge of collapse.
The cursed ones who sleep in the cave are them.
The invisible monsters that appeared with the whistling and Kuroshio were also them.
Pretending to be Fang Liang, trying to trick Lu Ming and the others to the source of the cave, or them.
In the prologue of the guide, they pretend to be patients, and they are still the ones who disintegrate and disappear in the doctor's operating room......
Fang Liang didn't make the first move, mainly because the cursed person who was sleeping in the cave had been trapped for too long, and even became an accomplice to the curse, unwilling to wake up.
All the sleepers are in tattered clothes and have crazy hair.
They have been trapped in a "cocoon" made of roots for many years, and their hair and some limbs have become one with the tree, as if they are fungal tumors parasitic on the roots of the tree, and it is impossible to tell which one is the original body of the doctor!
After all, the "doctor" in front of him is also a half-cursed product, and in every dream he indiscriminately attacks all the players and kidnaps them to his home.
This shows that the doctor's original mental state is already extremely bad, and the cursed people who keep coming to "consult" are about to succeed, and they want to really devour the doctor to strengthen the entire dream.
And the doctor himself, under the endless torture, almost collapsed in his mind.
It's just that Fang Liang chose another path, using the sedatives left by the doctor, and the glimmer of desire to survive that the doctor subconsciously left for himself, to temporarily stabilize his sanity.
The doctors who were influenced by Fang Liang and others have become an independent personality in a sense.
After waiting for a while, the yellowing light and shadow still did not fade, and in the distance, Lu Ming and the others were already approaching this area.
Fang Liang decided to make one last questioning to confirm the doctor's mental stability.
If the doctor's personality is not strong enough, then the moment he learns the truth, he will completely collapse due to cognitive contradictions.
Assuming that the Doctor's body is long dead and is a dry skeleton at the bottom of the cave, then the Doctor's mental vital signs are only maintained by the source of the curse.
Once the source of the curse is destroyed, the "doctor" in front of him may evaporate in an instant, like a dream that will be quickly forgotten after waking up, and his spirit and even personality will cease to exist, because he has no basis in reality.
Assuming that the Doctor's body was still alive, the Doctor would have to endure an even more painful reality, and he was also cursed with an unclear curse, then Fang Liang would need to use a more dangerous plan.
Fang Liang would try to sever the curse's bond with the Doctor so that the Doctor could escape.
Whoever it is, this is a significant move.
If Fang Liang was able to use the curse to strip the doctor out, then it meant that the curse could be resealed and recontained.
Although the nature of the curse can never be eliminated, in a sense it is unsolvable and invincible, but the player still has other means to limit the killing pattern of the curse, instead of always having to flee in panic like the weird cannon fodder in a thriller.
"Doctor, I'm going to tell you a story that may have some problems with its logical plot, but you're the main character of it."
"I'm going to wake you up completely with another painful truth, and there's a huge risk that you'll start to disappear before the story is finished. But only by returning to the real can you truly escape from the forest. ”
"Doctor, your choices will determine whether you lose yourself completely, or break free from the curse and regain your life."
"Come, tell me your final answer, answer me...... Do you really want to live? ”