Chapter 34: Despair? See through the puzzle! A real regression method!
"Ahem......" pushed aside the clutter around him, and An Yi slowly stood up, after all, the explosion point was still too close, and it would be strange if his current physical fitness was intact.
I took out a box of cigarettes from my pocket, and then tragically found that the lighter had just died.
"It's really a drink of cold water and stuffing your teeth." Aggrieved, he threw the cigarette aside, and limped out with an easy hand against the wall.
His current state is really bad, the short burst in the elevator caused physical exhaustion, the natural time system burned his physical energy, coupled with the aftermath of the explosion just now, although it is not far from death like in Resident Evil, but it is not much better, and now it is purely a perseverance to be able to stand up like this and continue to walk.
"Hu ......" walked for a while, and An Yi finally sat down slowly against the glass wall, panting heavily, and the sweat kept dripping down his cheeks.
"So, what the hell is this?!" An Yi shouted loudly and childishly, working hard to kill this monster, but the result was still not over, and the main god did not send a notice.
"Isn't this thing dead? Why don't you just jump out? Pretending to be dead is not cool to pick up people's heads! An Yi looked up and said loudly.
However, the empty and silent mall echoed only the sound of peace.
"Tsk." Pouting disdainfully, An Yi propped his head and looked ahead blankly.
Now that the situation has evolved into this situation, there is no use complaining, and it is better to try to figure out a way to get out of here.
Since the analysis is carried out, then discard all the previous factors and start over!
Open the system notification bar, and Anyi will call up this side quest and read it carefully word by word.
[Ding, the player will trigger the side quest: Kill the weird]
[Mission description: You come to a bustling but dead city, whether it is a hot tea or an empty car, it means that it is normal to be covered by weirdness, all of this is so unknown and weird, but the unknown sometimes does not mean fear, and you will choose to see through the unknown to end it all! (People who are lost will eventually break the path of confusion)]
[Objective: Kill the source of the weirdness - "Slender Man"]
[Reward for mission completion: 1000 reward points, one D-level side story.] 】
[Penalty for mission failure: 2000 reward points, one DD-level side story.] 】
The goal of the mission is to kill the "Slender Man", and in the explosion just now, An Yi is very sure that he should be able to kill the other party, although its ability to move in space does not rule out this possibility, but it is unlikely.
Because that's too strong, beyond what it should be.
Not the Lord God, but the mask itself.
If it is in the real world, it is possible to believe that there is no limit to the use of space to move Anyi, but this is only a virtual space, and the biggest feature of this kind of space is that it pays attention to a basic law...... Ahem, it's the rule!
There are often such settings in supernatural horror movies, where monsters are haunted when they are scary, suddenly appear and disappear suddenly, but when they are just front, these abilities are no longer used.
Again, this is a real world, and the movie may do it this way to create a horror effect, but if the real world evolves, it can only be some kind of limitation.
For example, anyone who has played online games knows that the most famous stealth skill of the assassin class is that it must be activated unnoticed or in the shadows, and An Yi speculates that the same should be true for the other party.
That's why he chose to use such a stupid trap to deal with Slender Man, but he didn't know whether he succeeded or failed.
It worked? But the fact that I haven't left this place until now means that it's not, so failed? No, Anyi's perception did indeed no longer capture the peeping feeling that had been wrapping around him before, and Slender Man never appeared again.
So what the hell is going on?!
An Yi flipped through the text on the side quest back and forth, his index finger kept dragging in the void, and suddenly his movements stopped, An Yi's pupils shrank, and he noticed some details.
"Yes...... Source? Is it for me to kill the source? Or let me kill SlenderMan? An Yi looked at the small words on the light screen, and the line of dark data text was particularly eye-catching in his eyes.
Isn't the source Slender Man? Of course not, because ah, Slender Man has already been killed, but the source is ...... Not really.
"Smack." There was a crunch sound around him, and the white mask that he had lost while running before had fallen at his feet.
Casually turned off the virtual interface, looked at the white mask on the ground quietly, smiled slightly, calmly picked it up, turned to look at the mirror image in the glass, and slowly put it on.
When the mask is put on, it fits the face like skin perfectly, and at this moment, the mirror image in the glass appears a tall man wearing a black suit, red tie and white shirt with no facial features.
Source...... If it's me, that's right.
I killed Slender Man, but I didn't kill the source of the weirdness, because the source of the weirdness is me.
People who are lost will eventually break their lost path.
This is the content of the main god in the parentheses in the side quest, and the hint of the main god seems to tell him the truth, so right?
An Yi quietly looked at the reflection in the glass, and a fruit knife appeared in his hand, which was something that he had found together with the silver fork in the living furniture area before.
The right hand was slowly raised, and the sharp side was aimed at his chest.
"Whoosh-" The tip of the knife stabbed straight down.
So, let's end it......
"It's weird." The tip of the knife, which was about to pierce the chest, stopped at a centimeter from the clothing.
"If I was the second-year hot-blooded male protagonist, I was really deceived by you, but unfortunately, I wasn't." An Yi sighed helplessly, and quickly took off the mask on his face with his right hand and threw it upward.
Scratching the inside of the clothes, the fire hammer that had not been thrown away appeared in his hand, picked up the fire hammer and held it tightly in the palm of his hand, and smashed it heavily on the white mask in the air.
"Smack!" The white mask without facial features was directly shattered into several pieces in the air, but the reflection in the glass was still the image of a tall man without facial features, but at the moment when the mask was shattered, he let out a sharp roar frantically!
"Hiss!!!!"
Everything around him began to crumble at a speed visible to the naked eye, like the weathering of antiquities that had decayed for thousands of years.
An Yi put down his right hand and tilted his head slightly to look at the shocking scene of the end of the world in front of him.
From the beginning, Anyi felt that something was wrong, but she never knew what was wrong.
It wasn't until the last deliberate reminder that he suddenly realized.
This is like a necessary plot for the protagonist.,If he's a male protagonist with a second disease, I'm afraid I'll really think that this is a trial to see through the demons.,As a result, I stabbed it down.,I'm afraid it's not necessarily me who wakes up at that time.。
Do you really think that a notorious monster would kindly offer to become your equipment? Don't be funny, it's the truth that you want to take the opportunity to take the body.
Use this very compelling routine to deceive others, not to mention, it is estimated that a considerable number of people will be tricked.
The trap is perfect, but unfortunately the other party may be in a hurry, and the deliberate reminder at the end turned out to be a failure, giving An Yi the opportunity to see through the falsehood.
The main god's reminder in the side quest is not to tell him that the source is to comfort himself, but to remind him what the truth is, I have to say, this guy is really not simple.
"However, I still died of tenderness." An Yi opened his hands and pretended to be helpless.
Everything around him began to shatter and twist, like a black hole distorting into its origin, and the spiral-shaped air currents converged around An Yi, and when his consciousness sank into darkness, he faintly heard a sharp, strange-sounding voice.
“I?! I?! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn—”
The shouting was staccato and staccaly, this pronunciation was very strange, he had never heard this syllable before, An Yi could only barely make out something like a prayer, but he couldn't hear all of it, but he vaguely understood what the monster named Slender Man was trying to say......
But it has nothing to do with Anyi, does it?
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Greedy Samuel, insatiable Samuel......
In the small town of Middletown in 1981, people were always pointing at a homeless man on the street.
Whether they know it or not, when they are asked, people always tell each other with a firm face: "He, once opened a big company, the business is not too big, originally everyone thought he was a rich man, but within a few years it is said that it was because the company went bankrupt in order to save costs by making fakes, and I heard that he was also infected with gambling later, and his wife and children were gone." ”
And the protagonist of the topic, the homeless Samuel just walked numbly, unaffected by these remarks, looking vacantly ahead, slowly returning to that dilapidated home, spending every day and night alone.
Today, however, something is different.
"Who are you?" Samuel looked at the tall, slender and dark-skinned man in front of him, although his image was sloppy, but there was a flash of calm wisdom in his eyes, which seemed to be a little different from the person in people's mouths.
"You can call me, God." The tall, dark-skinned man smiled.
"God? Oh, what do you want to do with the great God? Samuel was stunned and scoffed.
"You've got nothing left." He didn't seem to be angry because of the other party's ridicule, and the man who claimed to be a god just turned his head to look around and said lightly.
"So what." Samuel replied with a calm face.
"Do you want to get it back? Do you want to get back your company that was framed by the enemy and went bankrupt, your youngest son who disappeared without a trace, and your wife who was kidnapped and killed? The swarthy man threw Samuel a pure white mask, which had no human features, but shallow bumps in the eyes and nose, and cracks in the lips as if he were smiling.
"Put it on."
"......" Samuel silently caught the white mask and was stunned for a long time.
He slowly picked up the mask, and a second before putting it on, spoke:
"Sally once told me that if I could, I would start all over again and forget about the past."
"I thought I really did it, but I was still deceiving myself"
"Huh?" The swarthy man looked at each other with a smile.
"So, I don't care if it's deception or something else."
The mask fits perfectly on the face, as if reopening a face with no facial features.
The flickering shadows under the oil lamp became misshapen and slender.
"From now on, there will no longer be Samuel in this world, but ...... A monster SlenderMa. The swarthy man said with interest as he watched the monster he had created fade away.
Thinking of the previous conversation with him, I couldn't help but sigh:
"Humans, what an interesting race."