Chapter 37 is both hideous and bewitching
Several surveillance screens facing Yuan Xi and the girl freeze the scene of black and white people standing in front of the corpse of "Yuan Xi" laughing wildly, and seeing himself being killed by such a stream-of-consciousness method in another video is really a creepy picture for Yuan Xi.
She can be sure that she had never filmed any TV show with any crew when she was a man before, God knows how this seemingly incomprehensible little short film was made, after all, Yuan Xi as a man does not exist now, so who will play the person who was killed in the video?
"You don't know how boring I am to stay here, day after day never ends, those things outside the door are delayed, so long after I sent out that announcement, you are the first living person to find here." The ponytail girl and Yuan Xi sat side by side on the swivel chair in the monitoring room, pouring bitter water with a handful of snot and tears, obviously a naΓ―ve and ignorant girl who was afraid of loneliness.
"Did you see the video that popped up on the display just now?" Yuan Xi's attention has been focused on the video that has just been played on the monitor, she always feels that there is something deep in it, and this video is weird and strange no matter which direction you think about it.
"You mean The House of the Blood Moon? It's a show that can only be seen in the spirit world, and when I'm sitting here in a daze, the monitor above my head will play one episode without any warning, anyway, every episode is something I don't know, what a witch, a soul, a dream, a curse, a quantum, a legend...... At first, I was very interested in watching it, but after it was put on the 104th issue, it seemed like the shooting was interrupted for some reason, and I watched the more than 100 issues here more than 10 times, and I really wanted to vomit! The girl seemed to be familiar with this video, and introduced it to Yuan Xi like a few treasures, and in the end, there was a disgusting expression on her face.
"The spirit world? Why do you call this place the spirit world? Yuan Xi keenly heard a word that made her heart tremble.
"You have to take a look at the 34th episode of "The House of the Blood Moon", I remember that episode seems to be about multi-dimensional space, saying that the world is multi-layered, there is a surface world, a spiritual world, an inner world, a void world, hell, and heaven...... And so on and so on and so forth, each layer of the world is a downward projection of the high-dimensional world, and all the worlds are the shadow of God or dreams and the like, as mentioned in that episode, in the spirit world, all living beings have no shadows, and all dead things will leave shadows, this is because all the traces of life here will be swallowed up by the darkness of dead silence, you look behind us, aren't there no shadows? The girl calmly said something that was so informative that she realized that she hadn't introduced herself until now, and added with a smile embarrassedly:
"I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Wang Lian, before I entered here, I was just a senior in high school, I haven't talked to anyone for a long time, and I was a little chatty for a while."
"My name is Yuan Xi, what do you say it's a pleasure to meet you is a joke, I just entered this world, in this world, there is nothing to be happy about, what weird things like the House of the Blood Moon are put aside for the time being, what I am more curious about is that you have been locked up here alone for eight years, why can you still maintain such a normal mind? And how do you maintain a normal life? I don't see anything like food or water here, do I? "Yuan Xi has read the information, a person can become crazy if he is locked in a closed space for more than a week, if Wang Lian really survives alone in this room for eight years, Yuan Xi has absolute doubts about her or a normal person, and in less than a few hours here, she already feels that she is about to be driven crazy by a series of events.
"How can I be normal? There is nothing normal here...... Wang Lian smiled bitterly, pointed to his head and said, "I have been crazy countless times a long time ago! I've died countless times! I tried to commit suicide again and again in this crazy world, completely lost my mind and lost consciousness again and again, but when I died again and again, and then woke up again and again, I always found that I would always wake up in this radio room, lying on the cold floor, the chandelier could not petrify me, the mirror would not eat me, the bugs would retreat when they saw me, cut my throat with glass, jump from a height, hang myself, suffocate in the toilet gutter, and even starve to death from hunger and thirst would just make my eyes go black, and then I would wake up in the radio room! There's a curse that binds me to this radio studio! Here, the right to die is denied! β
The more Wang Lian said, his expression became more and more hysterical.
"Since those monsters can't hurt you, and you can't die, have you tried to escape from here?" Yuan Xi asked what she wanted to know most now.
"Escape, what's the use of fleeing here? You walked out of the hospital, the outside world is a blank, only the boundless darkness and the hateful moon that never goes out, no matter how many steps you take in vain, you can never escape from here, I used to walk in one direction outside the hospital for half a day, and when I turned back, I could see that this hospital was still a few hundred meters behind me, if this was a game, probably its developers had never edited other maps, you would never be able to walk out of here! Unless you smash the world to pieces! Wang Lian said, a flash of madness flashing in his eyes.
"Smash? What is the meaning? How do we smash the world? "The more Yuan Xi listened, the more confused he became, he had been imprisoned for eight years, and he had died countless times, Wang Lian's spiritual world was probably difficult for Yuan Xi to understand.
"The world has begun to crumble! Do you realize? Wang Lian excitedly waved her hands and explained to Yuan Xi: "Just like an online game that has been in business for many years, at the end of its development, it has been full of bugs and plug-ins, and many rules and logic of the game cannot be autonomous. β
"To give you the most obvious example, I just mentioned that all living things in this world have no shadows, which in itself is a completely illogical thing, the body presents an entity, blocking the illumination of light, it will naturally reflect a shadow on the ground, and the light of this world can directly pass through the physical entity and shine on the ground, and the body of the void being swallowed by darkness will produce a shadow on the contrary! This is one of the many bugs and logical errors in this world! β
Hearing the girl's words, Yuan Xi looked behind him, really ...... There is no shadow! Before, she mostly hid in the dark, and it was rare to see normal lights in this ghost place, if it wasn't for the girl mentioning it, Yuan Xi wouldn't have noticed that she didn't have a shadow at all, and the chandelier man or the masked boy before, she clearly remembered that she had seen their shadows.
"And the way to make the world collapse, according to my observation and conjecture, is to catch one of the bugs in this world! Spread the impact of this bug infinitely, and the world could collapse completely! Wang Lian said confidently.
"Wait, something is wrong." Yuan Xi looked behind Wang Lian, but was surprised to find that there was a long shadow behind her that was hit on the wall by the light of the snowflakes dancing on the display screen......
"But you have a shadow." Yuan Xi whispered, did she always think that she had no shadow?
"I have a shadow?" The girl was stunned, then turned her head to look, and her face changed greatly, "It's strange, I didn't have a shadow a few days ago,"
She knelt on the ground and whispered as if she had lost her soul, "Impossible, impossible, when, when did I suddenly grow a shadow?" When did I die? β
"Am I dead?" The girl touched her face in a frenzy, "It's still warm, and there's a sense of reality, I can still jump, jump and think, why did I die?" β
"I'm really dead! Hahahahaha! As if relieved, Wang Lian cried and laughed, her body trembled, and she sobbed: "I'm finally dead!" β
"Welcome to the 105th episode of the House of the Blood Moon, Silent Death!" At this time, the third movement of the moonlight was played on the display, and then the hut in the middle of the lake and the blood-colored moon above, exactly the same opening scene as the sixth episode of the program that had just been played.
"Eighteen-year-old Wang Lian survived in the spirit world for eight years when she suddenly realized her death." The magnetic male voice narration sounded, and at the same time a large close-up of the girl's face was played, and the girl Wang Lian was looking at the dark shadow behind her in a daze, and her face was half immersed in the black shadow under the dim light and shadow.
"I'm dead?" The girl in the video is the same as in reality, the texture of her skin is visible, and she looks frightened, "It's still warm, and there's a sense of reality, I can still jump, jump and think, why did I die?" β
The video and reality are almost synchronized, tangible darkness spreads on Wang Lian's body, layer by layer grows from the soles of her feet, and flies towards her body like vines, Wang Lian's body begins to become pure darkness, her body is getting lighter and lighter, as if it is melting into the shadow under her.
"This is the gift of the Scarlet Moon, and her mundane flesh is fading away......," the video's narrator says in an aria-like tone, evil and graceful.
Wang Lian coughed violently, coughing out black lumps and liquids one by one, her face distorted, and she suddenly raised her head and shouted to Yuan Xi, who was already stunned:
"What are you doing in a daze, run! Immediately, I won't be me anymore! β
Yuan Xi saw that her eyes were also burning with boiling deep darkness, she had seen this kind of dark eyes before, and the last time she saw it, it was burning on the female ghost "Yuan Xi" who was chasing her!
"Her sins are being washed away by the darkness, and when she wakes up again, she has become a descendant of endless darkness......" The narrator's voice grew higher and higher, and became more and more urgent, as if the recitation of a reciter was about to reach its climax.
Yuan Xi knew that Wang Lian was not lying, and the girl in front of her might become something like the female ghost before in the next moment, when she ran to the door of the radio room, she suddenly thought that Wang Lian hadn't told her the most critical thing, and looked back at Wang Lian, she was already kneeling on the ground and tearing her hair hard, panting rapidly, and letting out a low horn that didn't look like a person, as if she was resisting the darker and thicker dark matter on her body.
"You're just halfway there, so what concrete ways can this world collapse?" Yuan Xi opened the door halfway, turned his head and asked, if there is no way to escape, no matter where she flees, death is only a matter of time, I heard Wang Lian say so much before, but the most critical thing was not asked.
"I'm dead, I'm dead, ......" Wang Lian said intermittently, her eyes getting more and more cloudy, and she was still chuckling sickly, just like the two of them.
"Why should I help you escape when I'm dead?" Wang Lian finally raised her head and glanced at Yuan Xi indifferently, and the last trace of clarity in her eyes disappeared.
"It's vicious, it's weird!" The narrator sings aloud the last sentence of the text message numbered "no.1" that Yuan Xi had received, and with that sentence, Wang Lian, whose body had become made of darkness, slowly stood up, and a long shadow was stretched behind her, revealing the shape of a dark and twisted devil!