Chapter 047 ID: For rest (Clear Customs)
The doctor just took a nap, and during this time, Fang Liang talked about the laws and precautions of the curse,
When the doctor woke up, Fang Liang and the others would immediately start the final finishing touches.
Yellowing light and shadow shrouded the forest swamps, and endless icy rain passed through them, this frozen dream may not last long, as long as you use the broken knife to attack the true source of the curse, all dreams will be cut off, and everyone will wake up together.
"I woke up, I really slept enough this time and didn't have any more nightmares!"
The doctor looked nervous and excited, and he wanted to rub his nose, but he resisted the instinct of his hands.
He wanted to save all his physical strength for the moment he came to his senses, and he didn't want to leave any regrets.
While Li Xiaoyu was mixing the Molotov cocktail, Fang Liang was also checking the weapons and ammunition: "Okay, let me explain one last time, it is very dangerous to do this, because not only the doctor will wake up, but others may also wake up instantly." β
"And, in the course of our actions, the cursed may also launch a counterattack."
"At that time, those who are greedy for cursed dreams are likely to attack us, because there are people who are unwilling to give up eternal life in dreams, and those dream omnipotent supernatural abilities are more addictive than poison, not to mention the churchgoers who I suspect that their indiscriminate use of the power of the curse will cause a widespread curse outbreak."
"Once we succeed, we can stay and let the doctor or anyone else who wants to leave escape, if necessary."
"After all, our main job is to investigate, not to stay alive, and it doesn't matter if the money arrives."
Fang Liang and the others glanced at each other, knowing each other: in the team, in fact, only the doctor is the person who subconsciously perceives the world, but they are players from the outside world, once the dungeon is cleared, the winning streak and the bonus are in hand, it doesn't matter whether the player character is dead or alive.
"So let's get started, put an end to this nightmare, and make the scum who abuse the power of the curse pay."
When everything was ready, everyone turned their backs to the bottom of the cave and continued to descend deeper into the bottom of the cave.
I don't know if the cursed ones noticed that the comer was not good, Fang Liang felt that the length of the ramp increased abnormally, but the dead line effect did not react.
"In this way, perhaps non-aggressive interference cognition is not easy to trigger the early warning and counterattack of the dead line effect."
Fang Liang's heart moved slightly, there was a rope to link everyone to move together, and he was still able to quickly enter the bottom of the cave.
Seeing the strange scene at the bottom of the cave, everyone sweated, this scene was not a natural disaster, but a complete man-made disaster.
The little boy discovered the curse in the forest, and when the little boy heard the call, he was regarded as a god by the church and sang about it, and he knew with his ass that the power of the curse had spread everywhere, and no one was spared within the forest area.
If you ask the curse to be saved from starvation, and the source of the curse responds by giving mushrooms, then everything is well explained.
If you pray to the curse to be free from poverty, and the source of the curse responds to the growth of all things, then the changes in the forest and the town make sense.
If you pray for immortality to the curse, but inadvertently trigger the law of the curse's source, causing it to go out of control, this is the answer.
The curse will solve problems with its own laws, it is not human, and it will not think and act in a human way until it has come into contact with humans.
Fang Liang had not used it a few times to get the death line effect, and when he thought that these locals might have abused the curse for many years, then Fang Liang could only think that it was all because of their excessive demands in the first place, which caused the curse to erupt.
Like a sniper rifle and a bullet, this bullet can kill an enemy instantly, or it can be disassembled and used to deal damage with gunpowder stored in the cartridge case.
Compared to the lethality created by this sniper rifle bullet, the effect of using gunpowder to paste the wound is simply a drop in the bucket, and the lethality, defense and healing performance of the same thing are completely different.
It's like a headshot, the enemy rolls his eyes and rushes into the street on the spot, and a critical damage number of "999 points" floats out of his head.
However, if you use bullets to heal your wounds, you may not be able to recover even 1 point of health, and you can only deal with the problem of severe blood loss from the wound.
Just like Fang Liang used the Dead Line Effect to escape and defend, the regular nature of the curse determined that it would not do things obediently, and it might be like a devil from time to time, using other reasons and standards to misinterpret the user's original commands and cause it to get out of control.
Therefore, Fang Liang believes that it is definitely much easier and easier to kill people with a curse than to save people with a curse.
This is in line with the most basic laws of curses - all curses kill, but vary in severity, speed, and mode of impact.
Fang Liang and the others entered the bottom floor, and slowly retreated with their backs to the light source.
When Fang Liang stepped on a bullet casing, he knew that the source of the curse was behind him, and the final moment had come.
As if he had a premonition that the dream was about to collapse, the strange screams poured out from behind him.
"Why! You have promised to let us go, what good is it to kill us! β
"Liars, don't keep your word! You guys are fucking liars just like the doctors! β
"Please, don't do that, we can really let you go! Give you a way out! β
"Do you dare to do it, do you dare to try! As long as you dare to do that, we will definitely pull you to the funeral! β
Fang Liang turned his back to the light source and looked at the cursed ones who were struggling in the "cocoon": "What kind of liar, you are liars, you said that you wanted my friends to leave, but you still tricked them here." β
"Do you think I don't know? The reason why you have not disappeared in the dream world, and the reason why you have been pretending to be a patient to visit the doctor for a long time, is simply because you also need nourishment, and you need enough mental strength to sustain yourself, right? β
"Open the door of the church, look at the sick who are worse than dead, look at the poisonous fog bombs that climb everywhere in Copperkettle Town, look at all the people who are parasitized by mushrooms and divine blood, you don't dare to be like that, so you have to kill people to sustain yourself, right?"
"If you really think that you are not deceiving, then it can only mean that the curse has long been out of control, and your cognition has long been confused, after all, your essence is here, and no matter where you flee in the dream world, you will eventually return here."
"Haven't you found out yet? You have long since lost the ability to guide the way, and the path you show is nothing but one dead end after another, and all the roads lead to the depths of the nightmare, never to wake up again. β
"If your answer is to sleep completely, then we really don't have much to talk about, after all, you can't escape on your own. You have become slaves to the curse, dragging one innocent person after another into the depths of nightmares, you call this a way of life? β
"Alright then, scumbags, I'll give you a way out now!"
Fang Liang took out the broken knife and stabbed it towards the hazy light source with his backhand.
I only heard a scream like a desperate chorus, and the curse power of the broken knife itself actually ignited the source of the curse in an instant.
It was as if a fetus was born, the mournful cries kept echoing, and the whole world was twisting and changing.
Endless sky, debris, and figures fell before my eyes, and the doctor beside him vanished in vain.
The reality plane is even more bizarre than the dream plane, because the bottom of the cave is full of wriggling heavenly mushrooms!
Fang Liang's hand flicked, and several black lines instantly appeared on his wrist, pointing to a "cocoon" whose hair had already grown into the roots of the tree.
The person who was trapped must have been the doctor, because the curse power exerted by Fang Liang had not dissipated, and even after waking up from the dream, the curse mark still appeared on the doctor's body.
"Don't look at it, close your eyes and face the wall."
After Fang Liang found out that the doctor had returned to his body, he immediately raised his gun and shot off the roots that trapped the doctor, because he had learned well in the preparation-level military training course during college, and the hit rate was quite high, so that the bullet would float near the pants at a shooting distance of tens of meters.
"No !!"
"Why !!"
More and more of the cursed began to wake up, Fang Liang shattered their dreams, dragged them back to a painful and cold reality, they were no longer omnipotent dream gods, but just a group of cursed people whose lives were in danger and had long since turned their backs on the future.
Unwilling to accept this tragic end, they are about to break out of their cocoons and try to create new victims to sacrifice for the curse.
But Fang Liang and the others had already prepared, and the moment they decided to make a move, they had already closed their eyes and turned around, directly touching the source of the curse.
The illusory data panel begins to distort, and in front of you are pieces of torn and pulsing code, merging all the truth into your mind.
γCursed Dark Forestγ
[Basic Feature: Trying to Restrict Seals!] γ
Fang Liang felt that inside the soft light source, there was some kind of tentacle that seemed to be a root spreading outward, and it entangled his arm in less than 1 second, and an endless sound directly invaded his mind with the tremor of the tentacles.
"Others are hell!"
"Pass the order down and kill everyone, this is too dangerous, we must not expose it!"
"But if we kill everyone, we will lose the meaning of our relative existence, and we must not do this!"
"Pass the order, eat everyone, and let's live together!"
"Let us never feel pain, let us never feel hunger, let us soar to Elysium......"
"I just want to live, and survival does not distinguish between good and evil, good or bad, so I want to eat you, and history will be written by those who live!"
"It's too dangerous for us not to let them know about our existence, to let them continue to exist!"
"I'm uneasy about why they're here, what the hell they're trying to do to us, they're a threat!"
"O God, accept all things, accept all men!"
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Crazy dreams, distorted shouts, countless voices struggling to call, indescribable color curves began to flood in front of his eyes, these images and sounds squeezed into Fang Liang's mind at the same time, almost bursting his consciousness.
However, in the next moment, this unbearable expansion of the worldview was suddenly interrupted, and Fang Liang's eyes immediately returned to normal.
[System: Successfully investigate the real name of the source of the curse, all members survive and clear the customs, complete victory, streak, and clearance rewards have been distributed!] γ
[System: Do you want to leave the dungeon immediately?] After clearing the level, whether the player character survives or not will not affect the reward and winning streak. γ
Fang Liang withdrew his hand, the investigation of the [Cursed Dark Forest] was over, and there was no reason for him to continue to endure the curse erosion.
However, at the bottom of the cave, the cursed power of the cursed sword that collided constantly ignited the skyrocketing fire.
Which one is a doctor, which one is a traitor, which one is a sinner, everything becomes confused and blurred in flames and ashes.
Fang Liang found that the team's voice could be used, and immediately said in the team's voice: "All members, immediately turn off pain sensing, smell perception and physical collision, and turn off all options that can interfere with you." β
"Okay."
The teammates are all classmates and friends, and Fang Liang's words have turned off all the authenticity options.
Therefore, when the cursed man's fist smeared on his face, Fang Liang just smiled and lit the Molotov cocktail, and then slapped it on the other party's face mercilessly.
Even if the glass scratched his fingers and cut out pieces of slime full of wood fibers, Fang Liang didn't feel it at all.
Because...... These bodies do not belong to the player, and the bodies they use during the game are all created by the Source of the Curse.
Lu Ming and the others were not stupid, and immediately found out that the situation was wrong.
People who can be admitted to Yuechenzhou University in the written test on their own are usually not low in communication and comprehension, but their strengths are different.
Fang Liang burst all the Molotov cocktails in a row, burning the group of madmen all over the ground, and then he sat down and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I know that this matter can't be revealed in advance, so you will be surprised, that can only show that this curse is very dangerous, and the camouflage is extremely strong." β
"So what do you think is going on? Anyway, I've cleared the customs, so I can finally tell us, right? Li Xiaoyu couldn't help but ask.
Fang Liang nodded: "Well, then let's talk about my guess." β
"First of all, I think that this curse has the power to drag everyone into dreams, and to produce dream synchronization, like some unspeakable old dominants in myths and legends, whose power is often dangerous and the side effects are extremely violent."
"So, when the curse itself observes us, the host to which it attaches may produce a cognitive concept of [human invasion]."
"In this moment, the curse itself is out of control, creating a false body for all players during the bootstrap prologue."
"After that, the doctor, who went out to find resources, attacked us in a superficial dream, like cursing a voodoo doll with a nail. The moment the curse takes effect, we are dragged into these false bodies and become victims of the curse. β
Fang Liang sat comfortably on the ground: "In other words, if you maintain the mind-reading mode that guides the prologue, maybe that is the initial player state, that is, the easiest way to investigate." β
"It's like when we draw a red line on the back of our hand in the Dead Line Mansion and we can hear the cognitive whispers of the cursed. That's a relatively normal way of investigating, rather than a suspicious picture of a person lying on the edge of a boat that suddenly appears when the perspective is detached from the ontology. β
Li Xiaoyu was pleasantly surprised at first, and then pulled down her face: "So, we wanted to investigate clearly at the beginning of the prologue, but the action was too radical and caused us to be attacked by a curse, and instead entered the high difficulty mode, causing us to make a big detour?" β
Fang Liang crooked his eyebrows and shrugged, tilted his face, and said angrily: "I don't even know where the end of the universe is, how can I know this?" β
"Other players started with too many doctors, resulting in fewer encounters and too few comparison cases. Therefore, I can only speculate on an answer that I think is reasonable based on clues and changes, and the reasoning I am talking about is not necessarily the correct solution. β
"Besides, if you keep the mind-reading mode at the beginning and go straight to the Cursed Root Cave with your confidence without preparation, then when you see the main body of [Cursed Dark Forest], you will also be attacked in an instant, and then fall into a dream again."
Cao Zhengfei said with a smile: "Actually, that means that it is impossible to bypass it, and only a curse can fight against a curse." β
Lu Ming couldn't help but take off his hat and put on a serious appearance of an old man: "Good girl, that's really a dangerous curse, ordinary people will definitely be very cold when they touch it!" β
"It's no wonder that all forces tried to deal with the forest, but it turned out to be a failure, it has dug too many holes inside and outside."
"I wonder if the doctor escaped without any problems?"
Fang Liang sat in place and looked up at the entrance of the cave: "The lines I left on him are fading, he should have run away." β
"With the seal of the curse body, maybe some survivors with barely normal brains have also escaped, anyway, the task issued by the system is just an investigation, and our attempt to save people is just to explore the curse and cooperate with each other."
At this moment, Li Xiaoyu suddenly asked, "By the way, did you hear a strange hissing sound?" β