The corpses and traces of the battle in the range I have searched for suggest that Father Edward is not the only one who has clashed with the Doomsday Shinrikyo here. Even more mysterious organizations have been attacked here, and not at the same time, and their enemies are by no means fixed parties. The attackers did not come from a single group, which means that no particular group has taken over the area. Since even the Doomsday Shinrikyo Sect cannot forcibly divide its sphere of influence here, it certainly means that even if it goes to the upper echelons, there is absolutely no force that can forcibly occupy a certain layer.

And, although it was only a vague and suspicious thought, the traces of my scene were a bit like civil unrest in all mysterious organizations after coming here. The attack of the foreign enemy was not the main cause of the many casualties in front of them, but the sudden attack of someone on their own people. However, if there is a civil strife in every mysterious organization that comes here, the civil strife itself must have a deeper meaning.

I don't dare to say what the internal structure of other mysterious organizations is, but the internal structure of the Doomsday Shinrikyo is extremely solid, and in the face of such an unfamiliar environment, it is another covert action. When sending out a team, its personnel must also be screened. Such a team of the Doomsday Shinrikyo is not immune to civil strife, and the fact that it seems that all occult organizations are also the same, makes one wonder what strange things have happened to them.

If the civil strife is caused by some kind of "mystery", it can be relieved. However, I stand here now, and I no longer feel the smell of "mystery".

The tower itself must have some kind of "mystery", and the previous attacks also proved that there are some powerful weirdness in it. However, after the battle, these unusual smells dissipated imperceptibly. It's just that the incomprehensible corpses and battle traces in front of him make people can't take it lightly.

I traced the place where the bodies had fallen. Connecting them all together is naturally the path that other mysterious organizations have passed, and they seem to be fighting and walking, and the reason why I have not encountered more attacks seems to be precisely because these people have cut through the numerous threats and carved out a path to Guò farther away. Some of the corpses began to appear as some people who appeared to be somewhat identified in their attire. The deaths of these people varied, but most of them were unable to preserve their bodies. I tried to find something useful from the pockets of these corpses. But it's as if they've run out of ammunition and destroyed everything that kept their secrets.

Among these corpses, as seen before, there were not only attackers, but also those who were attacked, and the two were not exactly hostile organizations, but on the contrary, many of the two sides involved in the death match were clearly from the same organization. One side carries despair, madness and fear. It's hard for me to imagine what happened. The expression of the collapse to this point, the other party remained normal, as if he was puzzled and puzzled that the attacker was his own person, but he also maintained his sanity and calmness, not to mention that the other party was his own person. hesitated. The deceased did not die because of his own wavering will to fight, but because of the attackers who somehow became insane, risking their own lives to kill the other party.

Having examined so many corpses, I am even more certain that the attackers had a will to die in the first place. Or maybe they're delirious. It feels a bit like facing the followers of the Doomsday Shinrikyo cult, but the madness of these attackers is not the same as the madness of the doomsday Shinrikyo followers. I can't fully explain it, but I only vaguely feel that the difference between the two kinds of madness is not the behavior itself, but the source of the madness.

The source of the attackers' madness also brings these people a terrible sense of despair, as well as other negative emotions that can kill them, and these negative things are so strong that they make their faces hideous. In this world of consciousness, the will of the attacker is almost destroyed by this terrifyingly strong negative influence.

Just by seeing the appearance of these corpses, it is hard for me to imagine what it is that would have such a strong negative impact on a determined occult expert. Theoretically, the reason why the will of the occult expert will break down is rarely due to the action of external forces. Even in the past apocalyptic illusions, feeling the unstoppable process of the apocalypse, and the malice of fate, the occult expert has never collapsed like this.

They must have encountered something terrible in the tower. Its terrible process may be far greater than the "doomsday process" itself that they can feel. On the other hand, among these broken and crazy people, there are cultists like the Doomsday Shinrikyo who recognize the end of the world, believe in the end of the world, and promote the end of the world, then the terrible things that have happened to them may be enough to destroy their faith.

The people of Doomsday Shinrikyo are not afraid of sacrifice, nor are they afraid of the end times, nor are they afraid of death. Although today's Doomsday Shinrikyo is no longer the original Doomsday Shinrikyo, its philosophy is different from the fundamentalism represented by Father Sissen. But the doctrine it follows is still evolved from fundamentalism and is still based on the apocalyptic truth. Whether it is fundamentalism or current reformism, the followers of the Doomsday Shinrikyo have their own systematic interpretation of the truths they believe, which is enough to construct a strong psychological defense line for the believers. From the perspective of the reality of the hospital, this pathological but self-contained heretical doctrine is the result of the subconscious changes of the patients with doomsday syndrome themselves. However, it is precisely this gradual change that in a certain way, the sick consciousness that caters to the overall environment of this apocalyptic illusion is hit hard in the face of something unknown.

Since the terrible things that befell them were enough to destroy the one they believed in, it is equally certain that its existence may make the apocalyptic truth no longer have a positive meaning. That must be something that transcends the "doomsday process" in the sense of existence.

Could it be that they saw the "river" and the "virus"? I thought so, but immediately rejected it. I don't think that "Jiang" and "virus" will be presented to them in the most direct way, in other words, I don't think that "Jiang" and "virus" can be fully observed. And the part that can be observed by the people in the reality of the hospital and the apocalyptic illusion must also be based on their own position, limited to their own limits, and the part that can be seen. And this part. It is also unreasonable that it is impossible to completely destroy their faith and will.

In the same way, Shinrikyo Doomsday once summoned a certain monster deep in the collective human subconscious, and the fear that that monster gave me has also proved that it is closely related to the "virus", and may be the closest phenomenon or manifestation of the "virus" that people can observe from the aspect of consciousness. But. Since it can be observed and felt by occult experts in such an "individual" way, it means that its intensity is limited to that.

And the terrible thing that exists in the tower, seems to be higher than that.

I'm not sure. It is also possible that the two cannot be compared, but only that the occult experts who come into contact with the two see different things, and these things can be seen and felt. One side is able to be accepted by the occult expert, while the other is not. It's just about acceptability, not mystery.

A huge rotating stone staircase connects the two tiers, and when you go up, a staircase with a circular radius of twenty or thirty meters, it leads to an unknown height. On the steps, a large number of corpses were also left, and some of the stairs collapsed. However, most of them are still very stable and have not damaged the crumbling Cheng dù. There is a part of the fracture place. Connected by the Flesh Alienation of the Saya Virus, these flesh alienated parts are not as aggressive as the Flesh Alienation Belt that they passed through before. It can even be said that it is not aggressive, and the alienation of flesh and blood seems to be just a way to connect the stairs of destruction, opening up a normal path.

Father Edward and others passed by here. It doesn't mean to completely destroy the pathway.

When I finally saw the exit, it felt like more than an hour had passed. Because there is no logo, I don't know exactly where I am at this time, but I can be sure. It must be inside the tower. The closer you get to this exit, the fewer corpses there are, and when you reach a gate that is ten meters high, there is no sign of the battle at all.

The exterior of this door is simple and robust, with many patterns, but many lines are very subtle, so that the pattern looks like this at first glance, but when you think about it carefully, it becomes a different look, and it also has a strong sense of suggestion. Just as I was about to push the door open, a voice came from behind me: "Hey, you guy, better not open that door." ”

The voice was old and a little weak, and I turned my head to see a scarred old man leaning in the corner, as if he had no strength to stand up. He had lost a leg, a hastily bandaged wound with blood, and he struggled to light the flint, but he trembled and repeated it several times before he could light the fire, and the flint fell to the ground because of the loss of strength. He ignored it completely, and with a sense of relief, he shoved his pipe into his mouth.

I had not seen the old man's presence before he spoke, and I looked around carefully, and when I first arrived, there was indeed nothing left in that place. But in the blink of an eye, the old man appeared in that place, like a ghost. The timing of his speech, and his strange and coincidental appearance, reminded me of a special identity that often appears in the occult.

Gatekeepers.

It was as if the old man had stayed here specifically for this door, only for the people who wanted to open it.

His outfit is not a style in the normal world, but it is very similar to the old Hawke's dress, and the temperament he exudes makes me think that it is possible that he is the same as the old Hawke, a person who constantly fights for the deep night. There was no malice in his tone and movements, but he clearly didn't want me to push the door open, and there must have been something to say. It was because of his interruption that I realized that the things that existed behind the door might be related to the deepest night, in other words, this tower held the secrets of the deepest night, and proved that the deepest night, and even the nightmare itself, was not the work of a mysterious organization, but the situation that had existed in zài earlier.

The mysterious organization opened the entrance to this nightmare and tried to use the situation that already existed in this nightmare to promote their own plan, but the plan itself may need to be deeply involved in the deep night, so that they are also attacked by the deep night, which may explain why they left so many corpses here. They are very interested in the deepest night, because this deepest night is naturally a terrible "mystery".

Occult organizations and occult experts are willing to pay a huge price to pursue such "mysteries". It's not hard to understand.

Perhaps, what drove those occult experts crazy was that they did come into contact with the secrets of the "deepest night" here, or some of them.

So, I asked, "Is there a secret to the deepest night?" ”

"Late night?" The old man said slowly. "Oh, yes, only those who seek the night will leave the shelter and come to a place like this......"

"Do you know Old Hawke?" I asked.

"Hawke? That old ghost? When the old man heard this, he let out a low smile, "Yes, of course I do." What about you? Who is it? ”

"I'm the old Hawke's successor." This is my most common identity in this nightmare. But in reality, Old Hawk didn't actually entrust me with anything. I am simply acting on my own volition.

"Heir? He's dead? The old man was a little surprised, but there was no surprise in his tone, "Yes, hunters always die." Dead or dead, the deeper you go into the night, the worse the end will be. So, boy, did you come here following his will? ”

"Nope. I came here of my own volition. I said, "What's behind the door?" Also, what level is this? ”

"Your own will? Hum. The old man smiled disdainfully. As if to make a mockery of this statement, I immediately knew what his next sentence was, and as I expected, he said: "None of those who come to the tower after the night do so out of their own volition." There is a voice that seduces you and you subconsciously ignore it. Why don't you look into the depths of your heart? Is it really your own will to act? ”

I don't want to hear him say that. What he said was based on his own position, and he, like Old Hawke, was clearly the one who made this nightmare his home turf. And I'm different, for me. It's just a "nightmare".

"Hah...... Determined hunters. He seemed to understand what I was thinking, and just let out a sigh, as if laughing at me, and as if laughing at himself. After a while, he said, "Well, I tell you, behind the door is what you are looking for." It's always been here, no one can take it, and no one can interfere. It represents the inevitability of the deepest night. I used to think that when I got here, I would be able to find a way to end a qiē, but after seeing it, I realized that I had arrived here not of my own volition, as I had thought. It's calling me, and I can't resist it, and I can't stop it...... No one can stop it. As he said in such a low voice, the old man lifted his coat like a raven's wing, and drew a musket, and I saw that a long knife also hung from his waist.

"You want to fight me? Why? I asked calmly.

"Because I don't think people should be allowed to walk through this door. That's definitely not something people want to know. The old hunter said categorically: "It would be better to die in ignorance than to die in regret." When I came along the way, I saw a lot of crazy corpses, right? The corpses left behind in the past, the corpses that fell not long ago, are all because they saw things that they shouldn't have seen. ”

"They walked in the door, saw something, and all went crazy?" I asked in a deep voice.

"Exactly." The old hunter said, "I can't stop too many people, but they can't take anything from the tower." ”

His words proved what I had in mind. Those mysterious organizations that have been operating for a long time have been here first, and they have encountered terrible things here. And such things, just behind this door. Although the old hunter repeatedly stressed the terrible nature of the thing, and there were many corpses in front of me as proof, I was not going to back down. This "nightmare" is full of mysteries, and in the depths of the night, the characters that exist in Zài, and the characters they play, are full of a certain suggestiveness. I had to come to this tower to find the answer to what might be possible.

I could do nothing. I have always thought about forcibly keeping Dr. Ruan Li and Marceau by my side, waiting for the arrival of a great change that will affect the entire repeater world, and then using the power of "Jiang" to win. In the end, however, I couldn't ignore the other people I met along the way, even if they were just passers-by in front of a bigger goal. In the same way, my personality and inner thoughts also make it impossible for me to really forcibly change the people I love and interfere with their choices. I can't admit that what they did was right, but I can't be sure that it was absolutely wrong. Or rather, I've always felt that it's these personalized choices that make them who they are. I just want to be there for them when they think they've made a mistake and want to change.

Yes, I can start and do something that maybe I can do once and for all, or I can do nothing from the beginning to the end. "Jiang" is in my body, and no matter what I do, or what I don't do, the result may not be what I expected. And the inevitable situations that I need to face, even if I don't want to, will naturally appear in front of me.

But even so, I still make some decisions that are not so necessary because of the situation around me. Just like now, this "nightmare" and the so-called "deepest night" do have deep hidden meanings and far-reaching implications, and they can be a trap or a key to determining the course of the apocalypse. However, I can really ignore this and stay out of it entirely. I have many reasons to include the current situation as a necessary part of the plan, but there are also many reasons to remove the current situation from the plan.

In a large sense, whether the phenomenon of "virus" is important or not is simply because of how I view it. That's why I can't really ignore it.

I felt that I had to protect the patients, that I had to understand the secrets and effects of the night, and that I had to understand what other mysterious organizations were planning, and that's why I was here.

The words of the old hunter could not shake my will.

"Where is the Tower?" The old hunter finally stood up on one leg, and the difficult movement made him look unthreatened. As if talking to himself, he said, "I don't remember either, but maybe it's the last thing behind the door...... I hope that's the end, and if that kind of thing is just some kind of illusion to hide the truth, then how terrible is the truth? ”

"The truth?" I followed his movements, drew my long knife, and calmly asked, "What is the truth of that?" The truth of the deepest night? Or is it the truth of this world? Suppose the old hunter knew that this was just a "nightmare", and he understood what kind of existence he was in this "nightmare", and thus suffered a double blow, it is also conceivable. Everyone, knowing that the world they have been living in is nothing but an illusion, a fantasy, and that what they love and chase, and even themselves, are nothing but predestined illusory things, and they must feel very confused. Just as I still can't really be sure of the reality of the "hospital reality", this is not the reason why I have further adopted the theory of the "real side".

However, even if I was only an immature mystical expert in the past, I could resist the existential subversion of "hospital reality" to "doomsday illusion". I don't think what happened to the old hunter was a "nightmare to know where you are". What did he really see? So that he should be sure that it is the truth, and go to such great lengths, with a kind of goodwill, to prevent others from accessing the truth as he sees it?

"Probably...... It's the truth of the deepest night. The old hunter said in a deep voice, "And the deepest night is the reason for the existence of this world." As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and opened fire.

Bang bang-

It's like venting your anger. (To be continued......)