Volume 1 The Tower of Flesh Chapter 18 The End of the Contract
When the words were translated into substantive information and received by Angelos, Li Ben felt himself burning.
It is like a long-term air roar in the vast snow-capped mountains, sliding from a small air shock to a rapidly qualitative avalanche roaring to tens of millions of tons.
He felt that his will was shaky, and he had done his best to keep himself, and he was unable to generate the slightest other consciousness or thought.
The body does not feel heat and pain, which means that the components of the body are destroyed before the "feeling".
This world is virtual, and Li Ben exists here in a spirit state, and once damaged, it is not as easy to recover as a physical body.
Blood-colored red spots appeared in the four corners of the field of vision, spreading towards the center. The nameless monster in front of him was also walking towards him step by step, the phantom floated, divided into three, and all kinds of terrifying alien existences began to appear in the world.
There was no doubt that these images had never been seen by Li Ben, and he had no impression of them.
The indescribable oppressive force was exerting on him in every aspect, both mentally and virtually, suffocating and paralyzing his thinking.
After the red filled his consciousness like the last time, the world suddenly turned into a deep black, and he began to fall.
Door... Door... Door!
This was the only thought that Lee Ben uttered with all his willpower.
He stiffly stretched out his arms, hung on the red door, and fell inside.
The third reincarnation begins.
This time, if you don't find the right direction, you will end up completely lost... Leeben, who had regained consciousness, clearly recognized this.
What is the right direction?
Avoid Kelly's death and stop the night's events.
The arrival of chaos is inevitable, and the only thing you can do is to protect the people, things, and things you care about as much as possible. Angelos' personality sent such a message to Leeben.
"Angie, Miss Kelly has come to play with you. ”
"Well, let her in. ”
As Angelos' childhood sweetheart, Kelly should be able to get free access. If not, it means that Angelos must have something she doesn't want to be seen.
What could a 13-year-old boy have to cover up so secretly?
There are a lot of doubts like this, and there is a lot of confusion about "Ancient Doomsday" and those bizarre basement furnishings.
These mysteries themselves are difficult to investigate and explain, but their very existence can also be used as a clue and as an illustration of side knocks.
Li Ben already had his own answer in his heart. All he has to do now is use this answer as a key to clearing the level, as a prerequisite for all his choices and actions.
In the previous two initial choices, Kelly inevitably ended up in death, so the remaining option, no matter how unreasonable it seems, is the only choice he can choose.
The cunning of this trial in design is also reflected here. The punishment for those who made the wrong choice, Li Ben was just able to suffer twice, which not only avoided the trialist from finding the right path through continuous reincarnation, but also did not make the trialist have no room for error at all.
3. Kick it out in a frenzy.
When she came back to her senses, Kelly's eyes glistened with tears. She ran out without saying a word.
At this time, Li Ben immediately chased after her and grabbed her.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" he didn't know what he had said or done before, but with his experience in dealing with Chen Yan's daughter, Chen Ying, no matter what, apologetics and coaxing were tried and tested solutions.
"Let go of me!" Kelly exclaimed.
The mechanical levitator beside her asked, "Do you need help, Kelly?" ”
"Hurry up, or I'll let Jace beat you!" Jace was the name she gave to the mechanical ball.
Li Ben immediately raised his hands and made a gesture of surrender.
Kelly didn't rush away, she crossed her hands on her hips and asked angrily, "What do you want to do?"
"Whatever I said and did, it wasn't my intention, please understand that. ”
"Phew!" she pouted.
"Really! I didn't lie to you. It's all my fault, though, I'm sorry. Alas..."Li Ben sighed exaggeratedly.
"What? you've made it clear to me!" the girl was intrigued.
"Actually..."
"Actually, what?"
"Actually, I'm mentally ill. ”
"Nonsense. Although the girl looked unconvinced, her tone had softened. Li Ben knew that his words and deeds had worked.
He asked Kelly seriously, "What did I just say?" ”
"Come on, you're pretending to be like that, huh!"
"Did I say something strange?"
"Are you embarrassed to mention it? You get angry when you think about it! If you don't play, you won't play, why do you say that I will die, you will die? You still yelled at me to chase me and told me that I was not allowed to play. Are you taking me for a fool now that you are making excuses that you are sick, and if you are really sick, go to the hospital as soon as possible!" said the girl.
"Well, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have scaremed you by talking nonsense. Please forgive me, okay? Shall we be good friends?"
"It's not impossible, um... Then you must compensate me! Tell me what you've been doing mysteriously lately!"
"Okay, I promise you, but those things will have to wait until tomorrow. Lee Ben gave the girl a blank check.
"And what are you going to do next?"
"Can I go to your house for a while?"
"Well... Come here. ”
Kelly's house was entered for nothing but to get into the basement of her house to find out.
"Let's play that game together in two days, and you don't want to play it alone!" said the boy to the girl.
"Hmm. The girl nodded.
"Is there anything in the basement of your house?"
"Didn't you go in and see it last Sunday, why did you ask me again?"
"I'd like to see again. ”
"Okay. Kelly felt a little strange, but she didn't refuse Angelos' request.
The basement is stacked with a number of delicate mechanical dolls, all closed at this time and covered with white gauze to prevent dust accumulation. These are Kelly's former playmates.
Lee Ben identified the symbols on the walls behind several dolls, which further confirmed his suspicions.
If Angelos had simply been interested in these mysterious things, he would never have spread these ominous things so deliberately everywhere.
It's just that it's barely understandable to draw these in your own home, in your sister's place, and in your parents' place, but it's worth thinking about doing it in an outsider's house.
Angelos definitely knows what he's doing.
"Alien Demon...," Li Ben whispered.
Kelly looked at his toys wistfully, not noticing the movement on Lee's side, and took the opportunity to wipe the runes off the wall, and his arms were stained with a dark red viscous unknown substance.
Then Kelly shouldn't have any problems.
After casually finding an excuse to get out of Kelly's house, the next thing is to get ready to settle the night's affairs.
This time, Lee Ben was not distracted to do anything else. When his sister came, he let her stay in the new moment of choice.
According to his speculation, the night, no matter what he chooses, will end up in the Bad End. In order to break this dilemma, it is necessary to step out of those choices and use one's own will to act outside the false rules.
............
During the night, Lee Ben lost consciousness.
Angelos got up from the bed, looking no different than usual.
He stretched, left the bedroom and walked into the basement.
"Be smart. He said.
"Turn off the stereoscopic projection system. ”
The system received Angelos' command, and the mysterious ritual scene in the basement flickered in its entirety, and then vanished, revealing the true face below. All those runes have been cleared by Li Ben.
The truth of the incident emerged.
13-year-old Angelos is a multi-personality patient, and his soul is divided into two parts, one is the personality that he usually befriended Kelly, which is the one given by Leeben's trial, and the other is the personality who likes to play the game "Ancient End".
Most of the time, it is the first personality that dominates, and he is unaware of the existence of his other personality.
If that's all there is to it, nothing special will happen. But the erosion of chaos is quietly happening.
Personalities who love the mystical legends and rituals have been invaded by Chaos and have become alien demons, fanatically and distorted in pursuit of Chaos' powers. He draws various runes and circles, intending to spread more chaos with the power that Chaos has granted him.
In the first step, he intends to start with the people around him. This is the root of all tragedy.
The irresistible tiredness that Lee Ben felt during the night was a harbinger of the other personality coming out on this day.
He knew that Angelos had another personality, but he didn't know if the personality that had become an alien demon would have memories of Angelos' daily activities.
Now, the Alien Demon has discovered Leeben's attempt to conceal the destruction of the ritual circle with stereoscopic projection, indicating that he does possess memories of Leeben's daily activities as Angelos.
The Alien Chant sings a series of languages that do not belong to this world, and black chaos looms.
The dark red slime rolled back, and the vague and chaotic symbols slowly became clear under his words.
Knowing that he had limited time to move, he used the forces of chaos to rearrange the ritual space, so he immediately shut down the mechanical maid to relieve her of her role as a guard, and rushed back to the upstairs guest room, intending to wake up his sister Margaret and trick her into completing the evil ritual.
"Margaret, my lovely sister—" The childish call of the Alien Demon was filled with longing.
He lifted the futon, revealing a mechanical doll underneath.
It was a doll from Kelly's collection.
What happened?
As he stepped away, the sound of stepping on liquid was heard from under his feet. He turned the lights on and looked down.
It's those dark red, unidentified mucus.
Why is it here?
As he pondered, the mechanical doll on the bed suddenly moved, holding him tightly.
The Demon didn't panic, he guessed that these were traps set by another personality, but he had no fear, because once this body was injured, it was not only he who would be harmed, and he didn't believe that the other personality would have the courage to die with him.
He waited quietly for things to change further.
The slime formed a circle on the ground, and he recognized the effect of the circle, a ritual that would drain and transfer the soul, something from the game Ancient Doom.
The Alien Demon smiled weirdly. Do you want to withdraw yourself from this body and transfer it to the mechanical doll?
Although it is not known when the other personality knew about his existence, and it is not clear how he concealed himself from these small actions, his idea was too naïve.
Without the power of chaos, these circles would not have been effective. Unfazed, he tried to give the order to get the mechanical doll to let himself go, but the command was denied.
If the mechanical maid is not turned off, you can call her to help.
But the next moment, he didn't have time to think about it. An unexpected thing appeared before his eyes—the one he was trying to turn his sister Margaret into him.
How could it be!? Could it be that another personality took the initiative to sacrifice his sister?
But what appeared in front of his eyes was not fake.
"Brother... Let's play...", the monster said in a voice.
"Okay, okay, Margaret, what do you want to play?"
"The game..."
The monster noticed the circle beneath his feet.
"No!
"The game... Fun..."
"Margaret, listen to me, that thing isn't fun!"
It's a pity that the monster didn't listen to him, and with the power of chaos, once it injected energy into the circle, the soul of the alien demon would be extracted.
Is that in your calculations? Angelos, but I'm not going to let things happen so easily!
The Alien Demon chanted again, and his body emitted black energy.
It's a bit early, but that's all.
The Alien Demon was chaoticizing Angelos' flesh, a step he had intended to accomplish at the end, as his human form would make his plan to spread chaos easier to achieve.
But now, if he was forcibly pulled out of the mechanical doll, it would be tantamount to going to prison and being sealed. If this parasitic place is devastated, he will leave this world completely.
In order not to do that, he turned himself into a fat black-red lump of flesh, and those things that looked like cells were able to change form freely, similar to slimes, and he used this to break free from the confines of the mechanical doll and immediately leave the circle of the circle.
But it's not over yet.
There is no complete peace between chaos, and it is also one of the instincts to devour each other.
Seeing that her brother had turned into a piece of flesh, the monster transformed by Margaret pounced on it without mercy or hesitation, biting and devouring another Chaos creature with the round sharp mouth on its body tentacles.
Not to be outdone, the large hands whose cells had transformed into dozens of muscles attacked the bone-mouthed monster violently.
The two became entangled, and they destroyed the floor, falling from the second floor to the next floor with a loud noise.
At that moment, the door opened, and a group of mechanical cops entered the house in full armor, firing high-energy rays and energy bullets at them at the same time.
Why so fast? Is this the back hand he left behind?
After hesitating, he felt his body begin to melt under the attack of the high-powered weapon, and he knew he was finished.
When his body completely dissolved into a puddle of tar asphalt, he lost consciousness.
Then, another Angelos and his real appearance Lee Ben walked out of Kelly's house next door.
Lee Ben said to the boy, "It's all over. ”
............
Li Ben woke up from his room, got up and walked out of the house, and confirmed his sister who was sleeping next door. He knew that his plan had succeeded.
How can we kill another personality in our body without harming ourselves?
The answer is – just like Kelly's death, make him think he is dead.
The solution to the incident is in the incident.
Li Ben took advantage of the spare time in the afternoon to use those intelligent assistance systems to quickly develop an immersive game, because it is only based on the surrounding environment of his own life, so he only needs to design the plot and let the intelligent system scan the surroundings to generate a model of the real environment.
Of course, he also considered that the Alien Demon might have normal Angelos' memories, but he was able to be sure that the Alien Demon would not know about the existence of "Li Ben". He did not forget that this was a trial, and that he was an existence that suddenly descended into this virtual world.
So he used the tools of this era to quickly self-hypnosis, causing Angelos's personality to fall into a temporary sleep, and only relying on Li Ben's volitional consciousness to carry out activities. In this way, he deceived the alien demon.
In the evening, when the Demon of the Alien is about to appear for an event, Limben allows himself to connect himself to the game that has been designed for a long time, making the Demon mistakenly believe that he has come to the real world to carry out the activity.
Although Li Benda could have arranged the plot of the mechanical police AI attack from the beginning, it would definitely be too abrupt to do so, and there was a great risk that the alien demon would notice that something was wrong, so he made a relatively complex and euphemistic plot, although there were still many loopholes, but it would not be recognized at a glance.
All right... This is a happy ending... It's time for the cycle to end.
Li Ben walked downstairs to the place where the reincarnation began, and the red door appeared there.
Without rushing in, he walked out of the house and looked around at the future world, as if he was still a little nostalgic.
After that, he left the red place of trial and returned to the dark world, hearing the familiar sound of water and wind around him.
The memory of that trial has not disappeared, and Angelos's memory has been preserved, but it will never affect him again.
It was like watching a movie, and he understood the past history and glory of this world, and also understood the experience of the little boy at the beginning of the arrival of chaos.
Now, let's get out of the trial first, and make sure that the surrounding environment is still safe.
But something happened that made Li Ben a little flustered.
He didn't leave the dark world with the thoughts, and the doors of trial were all gone. Instead, an endless gray mist spreads out.
Just like when he first met the werewolf in the forest, a hazy figure appeared in his field of vision.
The figure said in an unwavering female voice, "The contract between you and me cannot be established. ”