Chapter 048: Cover-up
Hiss?
When Fang Liang heard this, his face turned cold, his eyelids jumped, his face suddenly turned blue, and his tiger body shook slightly, and he shouted in his heart that my life would be over.
Seeing that the character is about to collapse and the image is about to die, the good investigator will never return on the comedy route, Fang Liang is in a hurry:
"No, we must not let the game official see through this scene, and we must not let others find out about this situation now!"
"I've got to figure out a way to get this topic out of the way!"
With a roll of his eyes, Fang Liang decided to pretend to be dead in the laughter: "Hmm, it may be the sound of trees burning and swamp stagnant water encountering high temperatures, right?" ”
"When the hot metal falls into the water, it makes that hissing sound."
Li Xiaoyu said strangely: "But I heard that the voice was very close to us, Lu Ming, have you two found the source of the sound?" ”
"No, we've all cleared the level, and the source of the curse has also been pierced by a broken knife, so there's nothing to investigate, right?"
Fang Liang hurriedly took over the topic and said, "Yes, after running a whole dungeon, I'm also tired." ”
"Now wait a little longer and see if you can successfully seal the source of the curse, after all, it is also a meaningful attempt."
As he spoke, Fang Liang looked at the translucent giant tree root nodules behind him, which seemed to be blistered by water.
The remnants of the cursed power on the broken knife were submerged in it, and the two collided violently.
If Fang Liang hadn't informed everyone in advance to turn off all pain, taste, and physical collision senses, it would be impossible for them to sit in the cave and wait for the curse to change now.
This terrifying curse was high in temperature, Fang Liang had once comprehended it in the church illusion.
It was a hell of ashes, a forbidden area for the living that ordinary humans would never be able to stop.
Li Xiaoyu's eyebrows were crooked, and she subconsciously felt that Fang Liang was covering up something, but if she asked now, Fang Liang would definitely not say it, so she had to suppress her curiosity: "Okay, although we have cleared the customs, I still have a few questions that I don't understand, let's talk about it?" ”
"You ask, I know I'll tell you, and when you get used to the rhythm of this game, I'll take me to fly instead."
Fang Liang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, Li Xiaoyu's gang almost caused the explosion of all the people.
Li Xiaoyu asked: "Well, it's strange to say, when did you realize that this world is a dream?" ”
Fang Liang replied fluently: "This is very simple, first of all, I think the beginning of the game is relatively fair, everyone is the same starting point, after all, there is 300 seconds of guiding prologue to prepare for thinking time, and the hint here is already obvious." ”
"You think, we can't be the only ones who have gone through the doctor's dream, and the other players are completely unrelated routes, right?"
"From the experience of clearing the first edifice copy, it can be concluded that the cursed world in the subconscious cognition is dangerous and complicated, but it is also traceable, not a complete island, and all the laws have initial hints and changes."
"One of the most suspicious is the cursed doctor, who attacked 'us' sleeping by the side of the ship, and then caused us to lose the free mind-reading ability in the prologue."
"My thinking at the time was that if the Medic was a cursed, then when he attacked us, we were cursed, but there was a gap between this curse and the player's body, and it wasn't particularly perfect, so we sometimes felt a little bit weird."
"In fact, there is a contradiction between the doctor's statement and his behavior, saying that he tried to wake us up, but dragged us into the same nightmare, and even kidnapped us to ask for a way to escape, which can tell us a lot."
Li Xiaoyu asked again: "Is this so, that's right, the doctor's home is already very abnormal." ”
"But before you and Lu Ming went to investigate the school, you met that terrifying flying scarecrow, how did you deal with it?"
Fang Liang thought for a moment and explained: "At the beginning, I judged from the clues that the investigation team was killed by the scarecrow, and the firearm was ineffective against the scarecrow, thinking that it was a branch line with equipment rewards, so I didn't think to investigate further. ”
"But then, while going to the wedding trap, the curse revealed its original cognitive form while trying to attack me."
Fang Liang pretended to cough: "Then I had several thoughts about that scarecrow. ”
"At first, I thought it was a warning, after all, in ancient times, some powerful churches in other countries would use the method of hanging corpses upside down on trees to warn and intimidate others, that is, to show the player that the forest itself is very dangerous."
"Then, I think it's a bit too straightforward, and I try to explain it with tarot cards, and the usual explanation [of the Hanged One] is that we are in a bad situation at this time, and we need to be patient with the bad situation, wait for the opportunity to come, refuse to go against the grain and change the situation."
Lu Ming and Li Xiaoyu nodded, feeling that Fang Liang's thinking was very active, and what he said was also very reasonable, when they didn't know anything about the curse, they could deduce more possibilities based on limited clues, which was the basis for their team to be able to win the level.
"What does this have to do with wedding traps?" Cao Zhengfei asked.
Fang Liang said, "That's because, when you left with the cursed person who pretended to be me, I was trapped in place, and I discovered the anomaly of the situation and figured out the composition of distorted cognition. ”
"The scarecrow, in someone's eyes, is a symbol of fear, and it flies upside down with its head down because of the corpses hanging upside down from the trees."
Fang Liang casually gestured: "A very simple example. ”
"Suppose that the neighborhood of the rural elementary school is disturbed by the cognitive consciousness of the little boy, then when the first victim appears, the church hangs the body on the tree to warn the offending deity, which makes the little boy afraid."
"Later, when the curse of the forest erupted, the higher the trees grew, the higher the hanging corpses would grow taller and taller with the trunks, causing the little boy to have the false perception that [scarecrows can fly], and through the curse, he projected into a kind of murderous monster in the dream world."
"The little boy may indeed have been the original cursed, and his influence on the dream world was quite enormous, as those pictures are the best proof of this."
Fang Liang raised a finger: "Do you know? In the past, a film camera was actually very expensive. ”
"So every time I take a photo, those who love life and are full of longing and hope for the future will always try their best to dress up beautifully, just to leave a good memory worth remembering and remembering in front of the camera."
"If you look through the yellowed old photos, you will feel that those people's eyes are shining, and their smiles are simple, natural and extremely calm.
"I don't know if people have changed, or if the times have changed, many people have masks on their faces, and they can no longer take pictures of the sparkle of that simple smile."
"People's smiles are very commercial, restrained and stereotypical, I don't know who they are acting for, or if fake smiles have long become a habit."
"At that time, I thought that photographs were a memorable and memorable memory for a young boy, even in the dream world. It is most likely to appear in key locations because the little boy was impressed by it. ”
In fact, it is also true, in the world of dreams, there are some unforgettable, difficult people and things, which will always appear in it again and again. To some extent, my habit of "doubting" and "thinking" eventually led to a relatively smooth investigation. ”
After Fang Liang's slow narration, Li Xiaoyu and Lu Ming felt that their ideas had opened up a lot.
As long as the connection and difference between the subconscious cognition and the real reality cognition can be discovered, those blind illusions will not be able to conceal the truth, so that all the clues and evidence will appear in the investigator's sight.
"But investigation and cracking are not a panacea, and if there is no means to fight the curse, I am afraid that this kind of outcome will not be possible."
At this moment, their bodies had returned to the formless state that guided the prologue, and the false bodies projected on them by the source of the curse had long since been reduced to ashes in the flames.
Fang Liang looked at the middle of the giant transparent root nodules, the broken knife had completely disappeared, it seemed that the power accumulated in it had been exhausted, and it seemed that it would be impossible to completely seal a cursed whole with a broken cursed thing.
[System: Detected that the seal suppression is failing, and the curse activity is recovering rapidly......]
[System: Warning!] The curse is about to return to a runaway state, and it may not be possible to exit immediately at that time, so please choose! 】
"It still doesn't seem to work, and you have to be a little more restrained when using the curse in the future."
"It's coming, that thing is starting to come back to life again, and the curse itself can't be killed, but it also proves the possibility of sealing......"
Translucent roots gradually bound towards the phantom of Fang Liang and the others, thinking that this curse had the ability to forcibly drag people into a dream, Fang Liang and the others decisively avoided it.
The next moment, they were surprised to find that a translucent milky white mucus appeared out of thin air where they had just stood.
The mass of slime wriggled and quickly constructed the new bodies of the four investigators.
Not only is he tall, short, fat and thin, but even the folds and holes in his clothes are exactly the same!
"Hey my ......"
The picture in front of me began to appear garbled, the transparent nodules seemed to be the giant eggs of some kind of monster, the cursed attack of the broken knife did not destroy its body, it had neutralized that power, forced everyone to hallucinate, and used its terrifying power to create the world again.
Lu Ming's face changed greatly, and he picked up Li Xiaoyu and hurriedly jumped away: "Mom, this thing is simply invincible!" I can't handle it! ”
"Ah Fei, where is your treasure mimic, shout it out and hammer it!"
Cao Zhengfei looked helpless: "That treasure chest monster is not under my control at all, do you think I don't want to?" ”
Fang Liang and the four of them fled in embarrassment, but unfortunately there were more and more roots, and the entrance to escape to the cave had already been sealed by the collapse.
Looking left and right, Fang Liang knew that there was no room for movement, and if it dragged on, there would be problems.
With no money and no rewards, Fang Liang didn't want to continue working overtime in this nightmare-level dungeon, and the data panel instantly appeared in front of him.
"Goodbye little bastard, the master is offline, break it!"
The moment the roots were closed, the phantoms of the four players disappeared in an instant, and the cursed sap that had turned into the bodies of the four people melted again.
Everything sank into silence and darkness, as if the four had never existed here.
Just now, it was just a fragile dream.