This nightmare is a little different from what I've experienced before, and the most special thing is in the humanoid "system", her presence and interaction are like a pre-set guide. She looks like a human being, but she doesn't have a human touch, although she has a feminine scent, but she doesn't have a feminine sensibility, and all her actions and conversations make me feel that she will only say this and do it, without expecting her to have other thoughts and actions. I know that the humanoid "system" must know a lot of things, but the problem is that there seems to be a "program" in her, and she will only begin to explain it if certain conditions are met.

So far, all of her active actions have only drawn my attention to her, and have not had any deeper thoughts.

I don't know if to describe her as a "guide NPC character in the game", but her appearance is very close to that description, and the only thing that makes me hesitate is the spirituality that lies behind the passivity and mechanics when I observe her and interact with her—the feeling that she is not a rigid character, but a role that she plays.

I suspect that the depths of this body are color. I stared into her eyes, trying to see if she was watching my every move with her beautiful but somewhat empty eyes. But I failed, and I couldn't use those eyes as a door or window into his heart. The empty eyes are like covering a thick layer of mist, making it impossible to see what is in the depths, but only to feel that there must be something in the depths.

I guess the origin of the humanoid "lineage", as well as the meaning, position, identity, and background of her nightmare.

There has always been a saying in the mystical circle that when a mysterious event occurs, everyone present is by no means a passerby, whether human or non-human. The phenomenon or object, the form of its existence, the way it communicates, the qualities it exhibits, etc., all the elements that describe its existence, are the components that make up this mysterious event. Delicate and complex, it contains so much information that it cannot be fully deciphered by humans themselves.

Any innocent person who is involved in a mysterious incident seems to be an accident and bad luck, but in fact, the meaning behind it is deeply involved in the mysterious event, and it is better to regard it as the "chosen one" than the "innocent". They are caught up in it. Not by chance, but by necessity.

In such a mysterious event, in fact, there is no "ordinary role" in the true sense of zài, each role, has its irreplaceable meaning and role, and the reason why the mysterious experts who have experienced the event cannot see it is simply because of these meanings and functions. It just happens outside the vision and perception of the occult expert. Depending on the experience, imagination, insight, observation, interpretation, and characteristics of the occultist, different occultists are faced with the same situation. The distinction between "important roles" and "common roles" is also different. But it is also limited by its own narrow-mindedness, so it is impossible to dig into the secrets of each character, and thus cannot really see the full picture of the mysterious events that he has experienced.

That kind of condescending possibility to grasp the whole context of the event, when the occult expert is confronted with the mysterious. It's completely impossible to do.

Occult experts know many things, but in turn, they can only know what they can know.

The more you experience mysterious events, the more you will realize your own ignorance and powerlessness, and even when you come into contact with some terrible beings. This ignorance and powerlessness can create a chemical reaction with madness, which in turn distorts the occult expert himself.

These conditions are very similar to the Cthulhu system in the occult to a great extent, and it must be recognized that ignorance itself is happiness, and the more you know, the more you will be terrified. The biggest difference with the Cthulhu system is that the so-called "evil gods" have never been confirmed, and the fear of the unknown is definitely not the focus of mysterious events.

The point of mystery is that it seems immediate, but it often unexpectedly develops. For experienced occultists, the unknowns in mysterious events seem to be rare, and every possibility of development can be predetermined, even if they are really faced with situations that they have never realized and never encountered, it is impossible for the occult experts themselves to be immediately limited to fear. However, the development of the whole mysterious event sometimes produces huge and abrupt changes that catch people off guard. And what makes the occult expert frightened and crazy is not a condescending, irresistible mysterious force, but a direct situation - I don't know why, I feel frightened and crazy, I can't find the real reason at all, I can only instinctively give myself a reason, but I know that it is not a real reason.

This kind of fear, I am often exposed to, and the case of madness, it is difficult to say a standard.

The mysterious events in front of me, every episode, every plot, and every scenery give me a very standard feeling of "terrifying and mysterious templated scenes". The people and things here should be real people and really interact with them, but you can still feel this kind of template.

However, the experience and caution of the occult experts make it impossible for me to really treat this qiē as a patterned horror game. I have to beware of sudden turns and changes, and the waves that lie behind this patterning.

Every word, every action, every expression may seem meaningless and superfluous to others, but from my point of view, it has meaning and is carefully choreographed. The answer to my question is not only in the answer given by the other party, nor is it only stored in the respondent's expression at the time. What I'm looking for is why they have meaning in this nightmare.

I know it's hard, and no mystery expert, past or present, can know the whole story of a mysterious event, and I probably won't be too different from them. Even so, if you really want to survive and do something, you have to do it.

"Are there a lot of strangers here?" I asked.

"No, the people here have always lived here." The humanoid "Department" replied.

This is not the answer I wanted. From the perspective of the apocalyptic vision, even if there is no advanced consciousness walker, there are still many ways to invade the patient's consciousness. The composition of the seminar was very complex. And I absolutely do not believe that when patients are given new drugs at the seminar, the mysterious organizations that lurk in the seminar will do nothing. The current nightmare must also be partly due to those mysterious organizations. Dr. Nguyen Le has no doubts about her theoretical and technical skills, but she does not approve of mystification. Therefore, even if she assumes that "Claudia White" can make patients have "interactive hallucinations", it is absolutely impossible to use drugs to hallucinate patients and construct such a nightmare.

And this nightmare at the moment is obviously not formed naturally by the patient under the influence of "Claudia White", let alone the channel through the electronic demon messenger in the process of mystifying the world. The templating of the people and things that nightmares showcase. It has been proven that there is a leading role of the consciousness of some people behind it. They interfered with the research of the seminar, took advantage of the new drugs of the seminar, and probably premeditated the addition of some mystifying elements to the drug ingredients, and actively exploited the patient's consciousness to create such a nightmare environment.

And because of this, it is inevitable. In some phenomena, there are some very representative situations. People can associate familiar people and organizations with them at the first time.

And I also believe that since they have worked so hard to construct such a nightmare, of course it can't be done casually. Any mysterious organization or individual that leads to the creation of this nightmare, as well as any mysterious organization or individual who recognizes the existence of this nightmare, will try to exploit this nightmare. And the most direct way to use it is to enter this nightmare and make up something.

Going straight into here may not be the best way, but it's going to be people who are hiding in the shadows. The most common means.

Therefore, if what the humanoid "system" says means that there are only us in this nightmare, I absolutely do not believe it. Conversely, since she did not mean so, it could be assumed that she might be hinting at something else.

The simplest is "there are other people outside of this neighborhood, but they have never been here." ”

More complicated, that is, "the people in this residential area, not only old Hawke has gone out, but there are also some people who have not come back after going out." ”

Who are these people who have not returned, and what has happened to them? What is the difference between their situation and mine? These issues are quite complex.

In addition to this, I can confirm that I, though called "Outlander" by Old Hawke, seem to have been relegated to the membership of the neighborhood by default. I am a "foreigner", but I am no longer an "outsider", let alone a "stranger".

"Has this place been plagued by strange infestations?" I thought about it for a moment and asked again.

"Old Hawk solves all the troubles that come near, but he will die in despair. The fall of the deepest night is unstoppable. "Humanoid" replied.

"So, can I bring someone here?" I asked again.

"Yes, you can bring someone over." The humanoid "Department" said, "Here, maybe it will make it easier for them to spend the night." ”

"Are those weird people becoming? Is it the patient who became? I inquired further.

"Maybe." The humanoid "system" says: "Firm faith, burning desire, is the beginning of a change." ”

The answer given by the humanoid "system" is too vague.

"Do you have a map of this place?" I asked.

The humanoid "Tie" shook his head.

"If I need to go out, which direction should I go to get to where there are people more easily?" I asked.

The humanoid "system" pointed me in the right direction, and I thought back to the tower-like building that I could see from the altar in that direction.

"Who is the user and object of the altar?" I asked.

"Completing the ritual is the only way to survive the night." This time, although the humanoid "system" does not give a clear answer, it reveals an important possibility.

I looked at the white Claudia on the altar of the chapel and thought of the "paradise" of the seminar, the various situations that connected the repeater, the apocalyptic illusion and the reality of the hospital, and the hypothetical "virus" and "river" that were the beginning of a qiē.

If the Deepest Night refers to the change of the entire repeater, then of course it will affect the situation of the Doomsday Illusion and the state of the patients with Doomsday Syndrome in the hospital's reality. No matter how you look at it. The night is a suggestive turning point, even from Dr. Nguyen's untouched "mysterious" perspective.

The "ritual" for the deepest night, then, may also be a way to make a big and crucial change in the situation at the Las Vegas repeater. So, who exactly designed this "ritual". And why, can we ensure that this "ritual" will be effective?

There is no answer to this question from the humanoid "system".

But I instinctively felt that this was a handiwork of color.

In this way, it is necessary to consider the risks of performing this "ritual". If it is really a foreshadowing planted in the "script", then, no matter what its result is on the surface, its ultimate purpose. It's all aimed at "Jiang", because, like Dorothy, she thinks that "Jiang" is a "virus".

Is the color system going to let me complete the trap on the "river" myself?

Speaking of which, Tomie has been away from my observations for a long time. It also means that my observation of the "river" has been interrupted for several times, although the power of the "river" has also been demonstrated during this period. However, do not stay by my side as a humanoid river. It always gave me an obscure premonition, like the sword of Damocles hanging over my head all the time. I don't know if passing by the alienated right river of the Nazis is the fulfillment of this premonition, but I personally feel it. The crisis was not big enough.

After Tomie left, there has been no news of him, and no other familiar humanoid has appeared, which has made me always cautious and prepare for a head-to-head encounter with something at the "Final Weapon" level. I do not know. It is only a matter of time before such a situation will occur, but as long as the "river" cannot be observed, it will definitely become like this.

If it appears in this nightmare, is it possible to use it to counteract the traps that may have been set up by the color system that may be zài? After all, they generalize "Jiang" and "virus", so they will not distinguish between other final weapons and Tomie.

Can I think so: for them, all the beings called "Jiang", similar to "Jiang", are the ultimate weapons, the embodiment of the "virus", and the enemies that must be destroyed.

And in the nightmare in front of them, since the participants can already confirm that there are 51 districts and NOG, then, all the situations that arise in this nightmare, its ultimate purpose, can also be considered to point to the repeater itself, specifically, it is likely to be to destroy the monster hidden by the Nazis in the depths of the nightmare Las Vegas, and the final weapon against the Nazis "Alienated Right River".

With this kind of thinking, I can gradually sort out the seemingly complex relationship here. The information I received was linked to the current situation.

Here's how I guessed:

For Dr. Nguyen Li, the nightmare caused by this medication was the prelude to the birth of "Paradise", reflecting some of the achievements of "Paradise", and a big step in the research of "White Claudia". However, this drug did not achieve the desired therapeutic effect for me, a mentally ill person, on the contrary, it may have deepened the pathology, which is the reason why she stopped me from taking the medicine and left in a hurry during the morning conversation.

For the Nog and District 51 of the Doomsday Vision, they facilitated the research of the symposium and, at a certain time, interfered with the effects of the new drug, thus creating a nightmare that was present at the moment. This nightmare is a common nightmare compared to the nightmare of Las Vegas, although the number of people is limited to the mentally ill patients in the Peninsula Psychiatric Hospital. Between the two nightmares, there are differences, but there are also similarities with a certain number of degrees. I think it's possible that they want to interfere with the nightmare through guò nightmares. At present, it is only a real yàn, and after more results are obtained, it should be further spread to more people, and it is no longer limited to the mentally ill.

The diffusion channel of Nightmare Las Vegas and Ghost Nightmare is the electronic demon system. And the current channel for the spread of this new nightmare, if I am not mistaken, is "paradise". Both NOG and District 51 understand the meaning of "paradise", and their measures to interfere with the new medicine also have the effect of suppressing the Doomsday Shinrikyo in their opinion.

The spread of mystification is the erosion of the normal social system by the electronic demon system, and it can also be seen as the alienation of the Nazis to the normal people in this world, providing food and nutrients for the monsters in the depths of Nightmare Las Vegas, and it can also be seen as the Las Vegas repeater under the control of the Nazis is operating according to the preset mechanism.

Then, the nightmare generated by the use of the new drug this time can be regarded as the opponents of the Nazis trying to alienate the people who have been alienated by the electronic demon system, turning them into "toxic substances", trying to weaken or defeat the monster of the nightmare Las Vegas in this way. On the other hand, it can also be seen as a more drastic action against the operation mechanism and control of the Las Vegas repeater than before.

The formation of this nightmare, on the surface, seems to be an independent mysterious event, but what is hidden behind it should be the sublimation of this Las Vegas strategy.

Before the NOG team collapsed and was completely opposed to Area 51, and before the Doomsday Shinrikyo completed their grand plans, another heart-to-heart cooperation was unfolded between the three and more independent occultists. It should have been that the development of this state of affairs was promoted without specific consultations, but with each side having their own thoughts.

Perhaps, somewhere on the peninsula, among the mentally ill, there is a mysterious expert I am familiar with.

The area of this peninsula is not small, and the situation in the psychiatric hospital should also be suitable for lurking and guiding in the shadows. It's a bit similar to the reality of the hospital.

In this way, the humanoid "system" said that "it is possible to survive the night only after completing the ritual" is a hint to all those who have other plans to enter this nightmare. And this ritual should also be saved for the sake of the above speculation.

In my opinion, the most crucial point is "alienation" - to let the conscious level of the drug user complete a kind of metamorphosis alienation, but there is no guarantee that this is beneficial, and even, I think, this alienation must be malignant and intense, in order to achieve an aggressive effect.

The so-called "passing through the night" through "rituals" is probably different from what I think of as "salvation."

As I have said before, the deepest night is inevitable, and a night of heavy change will inevitably occur. If you can't get over, you will be ruined, and if you succeed, you'll usher in a new one. "Renewing" and "saved" can sometimes be linked, but sometimes they are completely unrelated, even opposite.

I stared at the humanoid "tie", but it was clear that she did not waver intellectually or emotionally, and I confirmed that it was impossible to get more specific hints from her. If I hadn't asked these questions, she would have been silent forever. In this nightmare, she plays such a role: not evil, not righteous, guiding me, but not necessarily, leading me to the result I want.

She is a preconceived thing. And I'm not going to do more with her like this. Because, that doesn't mean anything at all.

I stepped back and turned to leave the chapel. Standing under the eaves, I looked up at the ball that I didn't know if it was the moon or the sun, it was slowly falling, it was obviously a cloudy and rainy day, but it seemed to be under the clouds, and it crowded out the sense of the rain, so clear that I could see the texture of its surface.

It is only in a nightmare that you can see such a spectacular spectacle - it is like falling to the ground, not crossing the horizon.

I decided. I'm going to get out of here and look for more people to see if I can back up my guesses. Then I'm going to find Marceau, bring her back to this neighborhood, and then, try to protect the people of this area, and get through the so-called deepest night safely in the way I hope.

If I could, I would like to disrupt the ritual, but the question is whether these patients today would have survived the "deepest night that is bound to come" without this so-called "ritual".

The only way to find out is to go out and find out more "outlanders" like me—Shinrikyo doomsday, Area 51, NOG, and other occult experts—and figure out what they're doing. (To be continued......)