Nian Fu had a dream. In the dream, she seemed to have returned to the orphanage where she was a child.
The figures in the gray water were hurriedly moving, and scenes of past experiences passed before his eyes. Nian Fu saw "that person" in his memory.
Six years ago, a young woman wearing a long white trench coat walked into the orphanage holding a black umbrella and walked through the maze-like corridors with familiarity.
The usually bossy dean respected her very much. He nodded and bowed beside her, explaining something in a meticulous tone.
She could only smile appropriately and show impeccable courtesy in her movements.
Nian Fu hid behind the pillars and observed carefully, suspecting that the woman was a high-ranking member of the federation. At that time, she had too little knowledge to understand what other forces could gain such awe.
The woman seemed to have seen her, but she said nothing. Instead, she gently asked the dean a few words.
She didn't understand much, she only knew that the woman was looking for a child, but obviously the dean did not give a satisfactory answer.
The child is not in the orphanage, but why would the woman want to come to this orphanage to find someone?
"I'm sorry to disturb you, but I have to ask you to pay more attention to us. If you find the child, please tell me as soon as possible." The woman said to the dean politely.
The dean responded repeatedly, and when he turned his head, he saw Nian Fu hiding nearby and eavesdropping. He immediately changed his face to a fierce one: "What is your number? Go back to the room quickly!"
If In the past, Nian Fu would have run away without saying a word to avoid being blamed by Qiu Hou; but at that moment she saw the beautiful woman smiling at her, as if she was looking forward to hearing her answer.
So she whispered: "No. 47."
A strange color flashed in the woman's eyes, and the answer was obviously unusual.
The dean was about to curse angrily, but the woman raised her hand to stop him. The woman walked towards Nian Fu and asked with a smile: "Are you willing to come with me?"
Nian Fu opened his eyes, and the images and feelings in his dream disappeared like ink, replaced by the damp, moldy smell of a replica of the Colosseum.
In the darkness of night, she could not see her fingers, and her various senses other than vision became more vivid than usual.
She felt a strong sense of hunger, as if there was a live snake running rampant in her stomach. The fragile stomach wall was abrasive and painful because of the emptiness. Her eyes turned white in waves, and the muscles all over her body were pulled into crazy spasms. .
I really want to eat something, but there is nothing to eat...
Extreme deprivation stimulates a strong appetite. Only when you don’t have it can you face your desires. Nianfu suddenly You will understand the role of food and the mechanism of death point.
Each person needs two servings of food per day to get rid of hunger. Lack of food will cause people to have a strong appetite. Appetite is also a type of desire, which will accelerate the petrification of the cursed person...
But what about understanding the mechanism?
Nian Fu felt the stiffness below his waist and reached out to touch it. As expected, his legs had turned into a material as cold and hard as stone.
She was so hungry and in pain, but she had no choice but to wait until tomorrow...
She thought for no reason that if Zeiss had not lifted the curse of the rat people, the rat people would surely be dead at this moment. Will emerge from the ground.
Then she might be able to kill a rat-man and solve the food problem hastily - the raw material of food is rat meat anyway, right?
I wonder if Qiss didn’t calculate such a situation at that time, or did he calculate it but didn’t care about the lives of others?
Nian Fu smiled bitterly and closed his eyes, his thoughts gradually wandering away.
In her impression, "that person" also didn't care about her life or death. After all, she was not the person "that person" wanted to find.
No matter how many lives of others are seen by "that person", they are nothing more than "one step on the ladder to the apocalypse".
But she was willing to be used by "that person".
......
"Man is not born to be a beast."
Chang Xu opened his eyes in the room where the "wolf" mask hung, and dreams drifted to his ears. The last whisper at the end.
This copy gave him a very uncomfortable feeling. Everything from the theme to the rules was vaguely familiar, and it inevitably touched the dark marks buried deep in his memory.
And this discomfort reached its peak after chasing Qiss into the crypt.
He saw the familiar scene in the orphanage, and the light gray memory became bright again. Scenes flashed back before his eyes, and he realized that he could never truly let go.
"Colosseum", he seems to be closely connected with these three words since he was a child.
He was born with the ability to see ghosts. He has lived in an orphanage as long as he can remember, sitting in the corner and keeping company with ghosts. No one told him how to be a normal person. All the ghosts could teach him was killing and hatred.
The animalistic instinct in his genes was stimulated by the resource-scarce environment. He adapted well to the law of the jungle where the weak can eat the strong, and used his innate and extraordinary force to snatch more and more resources.
He was ostracized at first, and then feared. Those children who originally relied on the rules of human society gradually let go of themselves after suffering losses. Many people began to seek his asylum, and he was happy to do what they wanted.
Until one day, he accidentally killed a man.
Actually, he was not entirely to blame for the man's death. He just knocked down his opponent who was vying for resources as usual, but he didn't expect that the opponent had asthma.
After hearing the news, the man's distant relatives came to the door and demanded compensation from the dean. They even invited people from the Public Security Bureau to find out many deaths.
The dean naturally did not admit that he abused children, so he placed most of the blame on Chang Xu. After all, his weirdness and horror were obvious to all.
Chang Xu, who was still a few months away from turning 18 at the time, sat at a loss in the detention room of the Public Security Bureau, unable to understand many things.
The Law of the Jungle has been deeply ingrained in the application of more than ten years. The death of companions is not uncommon. He does not understand that it is just a death incident similar to the past. The opponent died because of his inferior skills. As the winner, why did he will be sanctioned.
He didn't know how long he sat there, and finally waited until the iron door opened. Ning Xu, who was only in his mid-twenties at the time, walked in and took him to the Weird Investigation Bureau.
He began to receive various trainings in dealing with strange things, and at the same time learned the cognition and concepts of human society.
Ning Xu told him: "Man is not born to be a beast."
So he knew that killing was wrong, and that he should use his power to save people and be a respected and grateful being.
Even in the weird game, he met many players who could not be considered human by this standard, even if in the end he found that most of the people around him were beasts in human skin...
He still wanted to Be a "person" with universal values.
Everyone is trapped in the huge Colosseum, and he is also tightly bound by the beast-fighting game of the jungle, but he knows clearly:
He cannot live this kind of life. like.
"I feel hungry." In the silence, Liu Yuhan said in a declarative tone, "We lack a piece of food and many other resources.
"Other players do not believe us and will not be willing to help us. . We will need to take some extraordinary measures. "
...In the room with the "Lion" mask hanging, Lin Ye and Fan Zhanwei were awakened by sudden hunger at the same time.
Lin Ye cursed loudly, "WTF. Groove", followed by bursts of jerky retching.
Fan Zhanwei silently sat up from the straw bed and lit an oil lamp.
[Name: Ordinary oil lamp]
[Type: Prop]
[Effect: The main function is lighting, which may slightly increase the negative effects of human existence under the light Emotions]
[Note: bright and dim lights are more conducive to the growth of fear than total darkness]
"Dead face, stop standing there and think of a solution!" Lin Ye used the light of the oil lamp to see clearly his right shoulder, which had completely turned into marble, and his whole body became restless.
“You said there was a way to lift the curse, so I believed your lies and came back with you. What now? If I don’t find a way to lift the curse, I will turn into a stone statue and die!”
Six hours ago, when the two returned to the room, Fan Zhanwei immediately cut his wrist and bled, smearing it on Lin Ye's half-petrified arm, but it did not cause any changes.
Players are not gods to each other, and they lack faith. Naturally, blood cannot play a role in lifting the curse on each other.
In this dungeon, the curse will be a debuff that exists on the player for a long time, following them like a maggot attached to the bone.
Lin Ye was about to explode on the spot, and Fan Zhanwei calmly analyzed the pros and cons for him.
First of all, excessive emotional fluctuations will affect the growth of desire and accelerate the progress of petrification. It would be best for him to suppress his desires and delay the spread of the curse by falling asleep immediately.
Secondly, Qisi’s blood may have another mystery. He may have briefly possessed the status of a god under the influence of props. Tomorrow morning you can go to the crypt to find Zis' body and use its blood to lift the curse.
Finally, Fan Zhanwei solemnly promised Lin Ye that he would no longer have to worry about the curse until tomorrow.
Lin Ye chose to obey with hesitation. After eating a bowl of rat meat, he fell asleep and had a messy dream, all of which were things that had happened in the past that bothered him.
At this moment, I discovered that the curse on my body had undergone new changes. My emotions could no longer be suppressed, and finally broke out violently, affecting the curse along with my appetite.
The lime color spread crazily on the skin, growing along the tendons and bones at a speed visible to the naked eye. Lin Ye felt that his body temperature became colder one by one, and the connection between his limbs and him also became colder. Thin and already difficult to control.
The fear of death surged up like a tide. He could not sit up and could only lie on the straw bed and glare at Fan Zhanwei: "This...is what you said...don't worry?"
Then he saw his teammate, who looked dull and easy to bully most of the time, take out a pistol and point it at his temple: "Death can end all worries, and you will not survive tomorrow."
The gunfire rang out in the room, blocked by the thick stone door, bouncing and swirling between the stone walls, unable to reach any further.
Fan Zhanwei calmly put away the gun and stared at the corpse on the ground with dead eyes. The ferocious gun hole was embedded in his forehead, and a large amount of blood mixed with yellow and white brains gush out.
At the same time, a cold electronic sound sounded jokingly:
[It has been detected that your teammate has died, congratulations on getting all his remaining resources]
[Survived Please live with the hope of the victim]
Fan Zhanwei saw that the number of points in front of him had become three thousand two hundred, and immediately turned around and took off the lion mask from the wall opposite the door. , hung on a hook on the other wall.
The Sphinx opened her eyes, pretending to be surprised: "I didn't expect you to be the first person to come to me.
"I remember that your first desire was that you wanted me to tell you the answer to a question. , I wonder if your desires have changed by now. "
Fan Zhanwei closed his eyes for a while and then opened them again: "There is no change, it can still be classified as a 'desire for knowledge'. But before my desire comes true, I want to ask you - what will happen if you can't answer my question? ”
In Greek mythology, Hera sent the Sphinx to sit on a cliff near the city of Thebes, stopping passers-by, asking them riddles taught by the Muses, and eating those who failed to guess. .After Oedipus guessed the correct answer, the Sphinx was so ashamed that he jumped off the cliff and died.
After hearing the name "Sphinx", Fan Zhanwei put it in his mind. After arranging and analyzing all the relevant information, he always felt that there was a missing link in the mythical story, which made the logic of the whole story tend to be bizarre.
Sphinx asked passers-by on behalf of Hera, what role did Hera play in it?
Why was the Sphinx so ashamed of being guessed that he jumped off a cliff and died in the end?
"If I can't answer your question, I will die." The Sphinx said in a calm tone, "and you will be able to meet the god and ask Him for the answer."< br>
Details that the myth had deliberately hidden emerged.
As a symbol of wisdom, the Sphinx asks the world about Hera's riddles. The answer to the riddle only proves that the other party has enough wisdom.
Only when the other party asks questions that Sphinx doesn't know the answer to can prove that he is wiser than the Sphinx and makes him feel ashamed.
It symbolizes that the existence of wisdom has been surpassed by human beings in wisdom, and there is no need for nature to continue to exist.
It will be replaced, and the superior gods will be happy to give a look to intelligent humans.
"I understand." Fan Zhanwei showed a rare smile, "I have accumulated three thousand points, please answer my questions as agreed -
" Suppose there is A madman wants to compete with you to kill people. Whoever kills more people within a limited time wins. If you win, nothing will happen; if you lose, he will destroy the world.
"Please tell me, what can be done to keep everyone alive?"
The number in the points column dropped rapidly, and finally settled at two hundred.
The gray traces made of marble started from Fan Zhanwei's heels and climbed up, sealing the area below his waist in the lime in just a few seconds.
Indulging the growth of desire will stimulate the curse to take effect. This is what he just said to Lin Ye not long ago, but now it is confirmed by himself.
Desire is often most public on the eve of its realization. Fan Zhanwei knows this clearly, but has no intention of backing down.
——His plans are great.
The half-moon-shaped eyes of the Sphinx curled up, and the flashing light did not know whether it was compassion or teasing: "Are you sure you want to ask this question?"
Fan Zhanwei's shoulders trembled slightly , not out of fear, but out of excitement.
The lime has crossed his waist and climbed up his spine. When his desire is realized, it will be the time of his death.
He stared at the Sphinx and added the last condition word for word: "Everyone, including the madman, must survive." (End of Chapter)