Yunzhi froze on the spot, his hands and feet were cold.
A distant gaze locked on Yunzhi, with malicious, greedy and crazy eyes.
'you will die'
'It's already set its sights on you'
[Ding! Congratulations to the player for unlocking the hidden mission: eliminate the source of pollution]
[Eradicating the source of pollution: Xingfu Community was once a place full of joy, until that person came, everything here was changed...]
[Hidden mission reward:???]
…
Yunzhi suddenly woke up and breathed heavily.
But that line of sight followed him like a shadow——
Sticky, moist, and dark.
Pervasive.
…
Yunzhi walked out the door and kept running in the direction of the place outlined on his map——
She thought she had discovered some truth.
It is said in the background of the story: "A strange thing happened in Xingfu Community recently. Every time at midnight, Building 13 always disappears inexplicably..."
But in the words of the property manager who has gradually become 'alienated': "In recent days, every time at midnight, the thirteenth building will appear inexplicably in Xingfu Community."
These two sentences are logically contradictory, but it is known that the Happy Community has suffered pollution, coupled with the weird double speed time during the day and night, players who are constantly dying, and the ominous number 13——
Perhaps, from beginning to end, what the game said was true, and what the property manager said was probably also true.
What the original property manager said should have been what the "background of the story" said, and then what was supposed to happen happened according to its established rules.
Including but not limited to searching for clues during the day, exploring the main mission of the dungeon, and returning to the safe area at night - that is, resting in Building 13.
But because what happened to her midway made the game, or the existence behind the game, feel threatened, the entire direction of the game changed, increasing the mortality rate of this copy——
No, maybe, the game didn't want them to get out alive at all.
As for why he didn't kill him directly, Yun Zhi thought——
The information 'they' received was not accurate enough, and they could only determine that there was a problem with a certain player in this instance.
Maybe even 'they' need to abide by certain rules.
Daytime is the real safe zone——
Regardless of whether it really exists or not, as long as it is 'recognized', even if it only exists in some kind of lingering memory, fantasy, etc.
[Ding! Main line progress: 44%→51%/100%]
…
Yunzhi arrived first at the southwest corner.
The moment Yunzhi stepped into the area, Yugi's voice also came over——
[Ding! Congratulations to Player No. 0 for getting: Unknown Memory Fragment × 1]
[Memory fragment collection progress: 3/3]
[Ding! Congratulations to the player for completing the side mission!]
[Reward: Points × 50]
[All rewards will be summarized after completing the instance, please wait patiently.
But please note that once the player cannot leave this instance, all rewards will belong to this game again.]
Yun Zhi's vision went dark, and he fell down uncontrollably. Before his consciousness disappeared, he thought -
This game is so damned.
…
This is already seventeen years later.
It's night, this is Zi time.
It was completely silent, except for the chirping of cicadas around, and occasionally a few dogs and chickens squawking crazily.
But the people in the small town seemed to have entered some kind of different time and space, and the silence was incredible.
The woman walked to the center of the town, took the iron pestle in her hand, and struck hard on the bell that the villagers regarded as a treasure——
The loud echoing sound lingered for a long time, and the woman gradually became a little weird.
——She was seen standing under the moonlight, while the shadows on the ground were constantly bending and squirming, spreading like some kind of pollution or virus.
In the silent night, only the sound of chewing could be heard, but when she heard the familiar voice, the crying words, and kept shouting "Mom, I'm afraid," there was no trace of fear in her dead eyes.
Can't bear it.
Finally, the sound of chewing disappeared, and she took the oil drum and sprinkled it on each house. Finally, she picked up a torch and lit it up.
And the child who kept shouting "Mom, I'm afraid" was not completely dead——
Rather, he became one of ‘them’.
She looked at the place filled with fireworks, with relief in her eyes, and she was getting older visibly.
She recalled her days over the years——
After giving birth to this child, although they were a little disappointed, they were not as kind to her as before, and instead allowed her to integrate into them.
They thought her thoughts had been assimilated by them, but they didn't know that the hatred deep in their hearts never disappeared.
The days passed, and the child grew up step by step - but unfortunately, his brain did not grow along with him.
At that time, she thought: This is the retribution of those beasts.
But the beasts are very tolerant of this child, and they will always think of him first when they eat and drink well.
——Maybe it’s because the women who ‘came’ here after her gave birth to normal children, so they regarded her child as a lucky star.
But just a few days ago, she heard 'it' whispering one night -
'Want revenge? Let's make a deal.'
'You just have to pay a little price.'
At first, she thought they were just hallucinations, until that day she 'saw' 'it'.
——It is indescribable, cannot be looked at directly, and makes people crazy.
From there, trading begins.
…
Opening his eyes again, a figure appeared in front of him.
This figure was exactly what she had seen before——
With four eyes and two horns, the legendary demon Satan is also the son of the woman in the memory fragments.
During the massacre that destroyed the town, Yun Zhi compared the surviving old man with the memory fragments he had just read, and found that the two people here were the same person.
Back then, after the woman had taken her revenge, she explained what happened in the town as "the arrival of the devil Satan". Soon after, her body completely completed the "alienation" and lurked for many years, becoming the current source of pollution.
.
And her son followed because of the familiar scent.
It just so happened that at that time, she had just seized one of the abilities of the black shadow and was contaminated with the aura of the black shadow, so there was a scene where she looked at 'him' and she empathized with 'him'.
As for why there were so many deformed people in that small town, it was probably because at that time, people valued bloodline too much, and the small town in a remote place was the place where aristocratic families took root hundreds of years ago. For "pure bloodline", it is natural
It's very caring.
Generations of close relatives have been marrying each other, and step by step, their clan, and even the area that developed towards the small town, has been completely pushed into the abyss.
This is also the case. The woman back then was brought in and treated like this just to improve their current irreversible situation.
