Chapter 168 Red Maple Leaf Boarding School (Thirteen) "The whole school is sick and about to rot"
[On June 1, 1869, Mr. Tolson sent the good children-those learning English and children with a faster history - taken to church to be baptized. After the children came back, they showed varying degrees of low energy, chills and other symptoms, which the teachers believed were due to fatigue from the journey. 】
【On June 2, those children developed a high fever and fell into a strange excitement, unable to sleep. Some children experienced hallucinations, seemed to see incomprehensible scenes, and uttered nonsense. Through multiple literature comparisons, the teachers determined that this is an infectious disease called "insomnia". People infected with this disease cannot fall asleep at any time, and can only dream awake, and will also have dirt-like symptoms on their bodies. stains. 】
【The teachers found stains of different sizes and shapes in different locations on the sick children's bodies, confirming the arrival of a terrible disease called "insomnia". Some children who have not yet shown symptoms have developed clots on their ankles. Strangely, the symptoms seemed to be spreading only among Aboriginal people, with no other teachers except Ms. Medina affected. 】
[Mr. Barron claimed that this was a curse - a curse belonging to the evil god of the indigenous people's own belief, and advocated that the indigenous people should find a way to cure it themselves, and the teachers only need to observe and record it. This sounds very bizarre, but this land is already full of magic and strange colors, and the various strange spectacles in the war are enough to prove that these backward peoples can indeed use some witchcraft. 】
[On June 4, all the children showed symptoms of "insomnia". The first child to suffer from insomnia showed signs of "forgetting" and began to forget past experiences, including the names and concepts of some things. Doctors brought in from outside could not provide an exact treatment plan, and the teachers believed that the answer might be, as Mr. Barron said, hidden in the oral knowledge passed down by the Aboriginal people. 】
[Unfortunately, the texts and historical materials belonging to the aboriginal people had been burned a day ago. Mr. Tolson and Mr. Barron had always had different views. They believed that those harmful things should be banned to prevent them from becoming like epidemics. spread to the wider empire. Now, if you want to cure "insomnia", you may have to start with the "witch" who brought the disease. But who is the "witch"? 】
【On June 5, the children’s condition became more serious. Their hallucinations intersect, and each person can not only see the image in his own hallucination, but also the hallucinations seen by others. These hallucinations seem to have an impact on healthy people. Many teachers who have not yet suffered from "insomnia" have also seen dead ghosts in their children's hallucinations. 】
[Chaos swept the entire school. Mr. Tolson advocated closing the school and letting the sick people fend for themselves to prevent the disease from being transmitted to healthy people. Teachers who were still healthy were evacuated one after another, and students were put into solitary confinement rooms. Ms. Medina stayed at the school to dispose of the body as quickly as possible. 】
【On June 6, the scale of the children's hallucinations expanded, and the entire school was enveloped in the scope of their hallucinations. They seemed to have made an appointment, and the contents of their respective hallucinations were well connected. The group hallucination presented a rigorous logic, and a new school was constructed on the school's territory. 】
[On June 7, the "forgetting" symptoms of the children worsened. Some of them died in the solitary room, and the rest also forgot their identities, even lost themselves, and became idiots without a past. Everyone is trapped in a waking dream, living in a hazy state like a walking zombie. The whole school is sick and dying. 】
[On June 8, Mr. Tolson once again sent people to deal with the epidemic in the school. The reason was that there was much international condemnation of the irresponsible behavior of Red Maple Leaf Boarding School. But the new doctor was still at a loss. 】
The first record ended abruptly.
Looking at the description of the "aboriginal people" and referring to some descriptions in the records, Qiss remembered a historical event that happened in Maple Leaf County in reality.
Two hundred years ago, European outsiders landed on the American continent, expelled and massacred the indigenous people, and occupied the land, which was the predecessor of Maple Leaf County.
Soon after, they established aboriginal boarding schools, forcibly abducted aboriginal children to enter the schools, and banned their native languages and cultural activities in order to separate them from their society and shape their identification with European cultural traditions.
Abuse and bullying often occur in schools. Many children died for various reasons and were buried quietly...
This historical incident can no longer be found in official information. When it comes to it, even if someone mentions it, they are accused of "slander" and "slander".
People of color living in the Americas once organized themselves and made demands to the federal government to restore history and protect their rights. Unfortunately, due to the lack of historical data and evidence, they did not cause much trouble.
Fortunately, Qisi has always had good information collection and judgment skills, and has a good memory, so he can still dig out the records he glanced at back then from the depths of his memory after many years.
When he saw those sinful words written on the corners of the shredded paper, he thought with excitement that this was simply the natural soil for brewing horror stories, and it was not surprising that no matter how powerful the weirdness was, it was born.
Now it seems that in terms of aesthetics, he and Weird Games really coincide with each other.
Chisi doesn't have much sense of justice in punishing evil and promoting good, but he has always been happy to do things that add insult to injury.
He rubbed his chin with interest, his eyes full of malice: "It almost makes it clear that this copy is related to reality. I wonder if TE can create another weird invasion event after clearing the level?"
"Extraditing Weird to a foreign continent far away from the ocean should not be easily caught by the investigation bureau. It is really clean and hygienic..."
"I just don't know what kind of weird thing it is? Is it a disease?"
Qisi slowly squatted down and touched the rough dirt stains on his ankles.
He was undoubtedly infected.
It should be in the bathroom that the washed mud touched the soles of everyone's feet through the water flow and began to spread.
At first, the soil only covered the skin of the soles of the feet, but now, they have crawled up to the ankles as if they were alive, and are still going up.
The symptoms worsen in a process, starting with fever, then insomnia and hallucinations, and then forgetting some things.
The degree of hallucinations and amnesia will deepen as time goes by. He will lose his self-recognition little by little, become addicted to hallucinations, and become an instinctive animal who only knows how to eat, drink and relieve himself.
No one will come to save him except himself. He can only be trapped in this school alone, waiting to die and rot...
"The players will also get sick. Do you follow this procedure?"
Qisi rubbed his forehead with the back of his hand and felt something cold.
He didn't have a fever, but he already had symptoms of insomnia. Why was the order of symptoms reversed?
The player who died in the bathroom had just entered the dungeon on the first day. Why was the lesion on his back so large?
When and in what form will hallucinations and amnesia appear? Or...has it already appeared?
Qisi returned to Nobuhiro Yamakawa's body and examined him from beginning to end.
The corpse's sallow abdomen was marked with a mass of earthy gray stain, as big as the palm of a hand. It was much smaller than the stain on the deceased's back, but much larger than the stain on Qisi's ankle.
At this moment, large groups of mushrooms were growing from the ash marks, densely packed like insect eggs, covering the skin of the corpse.
"Is it because of different physical constitutions, or because the infection occurred earlier than me? For example...were you infected before dinner?"
Qisi speculated endlessly and checked it out. Dead Man's Pocket.
It was empty inside.
Except for a lighter, this man had nothing else of value on him. Qisi put the lighter into his pocket without interest, returned to the bookshelf and squatted down, continuing to look through the files in the iron box.
The new archive is a more rigorous scientific report documenting research into insomnia.
[Scientific name: Insomnia]
[Characteristics: Pathogenic bacteria are highly contagious and can be transmitted from person to person through water flow, food, contact, breathing, etc. . After the patient dies, the fungus will grow mushrooms in the same place, spreading spores containing the disease, and remain there for up to a hundred years. The bacterium seems to be only harmful to indigenous people. Outsiders contain natural antibodies and will not become sick due to the above-mentioned infection methods, but other infection methods cannot be ruled out. 】
[Handling suggestions: Seal the area where the disease occurs. If necessary, kill and bury the patient on the spot to prevent the spread of the disease. 】
Ziss took out a pen and paper from his hiking bag, and by the light of a lighter, copied the key information in the file onto the white paper.
He looked at the words "Kill on the spot" in the column of treatment suggestions, and his eyes once again fell on the time record that had stopped abruptly.
The "Mr. Tolson" and "Mr. Barron" mentioned in the records are probably the actual persons in charge of the school.
Obviously, they have no good intentions towards children. You can imagine what decisions they will make after discovering that doctors are helpless against the epidemic.
Of course, Ms. Medina is still alive and well at this moment, and the students played by the players are not yet terminally ill. The timeline they are in is most likely before June 8, and what is recorded in the records is the future. thing.
"Although I don't know the principle, judging from Nobuhiro Yamakawa's experience, the fate of the players will correspond to the fate of the aboriginal children in the record..."
"Dungeons generally have a hidden time. Limitations, let’s prepare for the worst. On June 8, all players will be killed by the plot. Who can trigger the guaranteed death toll mechanism depends on their character.”
“The question is, what day is it today? ?”
It can be seen from the records that Ms. Medina is also an aborigine and was infected with insomnia, so she stayed at the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School.
The worst-case scenario is that it is already after June 5th and all other teachers have withdrawn, leaving players with less than three days left.
But looking at Ms. Medina's performance and the symptoms of other players, the current scene is obviously not a one-to-one replica of the record, but more like a simulation of what happened in the past by an unwilling ghost.
Then, there is still room for change.
"Can insomnia be cured? If a cure for insomnia can be found before June 8th, will plot killings still come?"
Chis thought, his eyes It fell on a statement on June 4th -
The texts and historical materials belonging to the aboriginal people had been burned a day ago... Mr. Tolson believed that insomnia was caused by evil spirits among the aborigines. The curse...the answer to the cure lies in the oral knowledge passed down by the Aboriginal people...
If you think about it carefully, there is something absurdly dramatic about bad boys burning teaching materials provided by outsiders, and outsiders burning aboriginal materials.
It’s a pity that Qiss can’t laugh very well at the moment.
The information was destroyed on June 3. You must find the information in advance to know the treatment method for insomnia.
Even if there is no plot kill on June 8th, if you want to clear this dungeon, you must cure your insomnia as much as possible.
Amnesia and hallucinations will greatly hinder exploration and puzzle solving, making the dungeon even more confusing.
Ziss put the white paper filled with words back into his hiking bag, stared at the yellowed files for a while, and finally burned them without using a lighter.
He put the files back into the iron box, locked the iron box and put it back in place.
His fingertips seemed to touch something uneven. He turned the iron box over and saw two lines of English engraved there——
[Ed Tolson]
[Aboriginal Love Foundation]
Qisi frowned slightly.
What does this mean? Isn’t the “Aboriginal Love Foundation” where Chen Lidong’s identity as a “philanthropist” comes from? What's the relationship with "Tolson"?
The narration sounded in my ears at the right time, low and gloomy:
[Bad boy who disrespects the rules, congratulations, you discovered a secret that is not a secret during the arson. 】
[The foundation that keeps claiming to protect the rights of indigenous people is actually the culprit of all abuses and killings. 】
[They do not like children, and their charity and favor are not out of love, but have other agendas. 】
【You don’t know what their conspiracy is, but you want to do your best to make them pay the price. 】
At the same time, lines of text were refreshed in the upper left corner of the system interface:
[Identity side task has been triggered]
[Side task (must do): The plot of the Qing Aboriginal Love Foundation]
[Side mission (optional): Kill the “Philanthropist”]
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[Note] The setting of “Insomnia” in this chapter is based on Garcia· Any similarity with Marquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" is not a coincidence.
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(I finally finished clearing the manuscript today. I am going to have my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow morning. I will be able to type in the afternoon. I should be able to pay back some of my debt)
(End of this chapter)