The sea breeze from the deep sea landed on the beach, approaching the ruins of the small town of Plankaner, lingering around the hole where the crowd gathered, making the shouts of people coming out of the cellar muffled.
"It sounds like someone who was not ashamed to carve pornography on the stone slab." Yinghua's voice sounded from the side.
Tianmo: "Musu did it?"
The dim figure in the cellar returned to the bottom of the hole, hoping that Wenwenqie would return the stone carving to the surface and continue searching in the cellar.
"I want to go up!" Mu Su shouted while rubbing his eyes while standing under the hole that shed light and gravel.
Everyone agreed that Mu Su had completed his mission and would not gain anything if he stayed in the cellar any longer. They tied the ends of the hemp rope into a circle and slid it into the cellar. Mu Su, who caught the hemp rope, subconsciously put it around his neck——
"That's what you stepped on!" the kind-hearted Liang Ye Tangram reminded.
Mu Su put it on the sole of his foot doubtfully, and was easily pulled back to the ground by his companion above.
"Can we do it again?" Mu Su was eager to try.
"No." Qianye, who was observing the stone slab, refused casually.
Mu Su was unhappy.
At this time, Wang Wenwen's voice came from the cellar: "One more of you will come down."
"What's wrong?" Qianye temporarily turned his attention away from the stone slab.
After a brief silence, Wang Wenwen's voice came up: "...I'm a little scared to be alone."
Qianye declined Tianmo's offer, let his slimy tendons stretch to help, and carried the stone slab to an open space with slightly brighter light.
After being immersed in sea water for too long, the bluestone slabs are entangled with the breath of the deep sea. The rough surface is covered with uneven scars like growth, showing a moss-like dark green color.
The only difference between it and being fished out of the deep sea is that there are no seaweed or barnacles attached to it.
Her white fingers gently brushed the surface of the rough stone slab, and read out the content as she moved: "She is surrounded by a vast forest, far away from disputes. Animals gather here, plants are still growing, rivers like honey flow, and people who escape from the world migrate.
At this point, it’s like heaven…”
"Where's the back?"
"……Gone."
Qianye turned over the empty slate on the back. The information held by a slate is destined to be limited, not even as good as a piece of paper - but paper cannot be stored in harsh environments and soaked for hundreds of years.
They can only hope that the people in the cellar and the elasticity of the sticky muscles will find something.
Tianmo would urge "Have you found it?" every few dozen seconds. After half an hour, the two people who had found nothing were pulled back to the ground to recover their sanity. Sakura and Ryoye entered the cellar to continue exploring.
"Why don't you let me go down?" Tianmo felt unhappy because he was rejected whether he was playing or exploring.
"Because it's more important for you to stay on the beach. If the enemy appears, only you can temporarily block them." Qianye said euphemistically, instead of telling the truth that you are big and slow. Not only can you not find anything in the cellar, but you may accidentally destroy it.
Drop something.
This made Tianmo feel better.
But when the confident Sakura and Ryouya knocked on every brick in the cellar, groped every corner of the murky water, and moved everything they could, their efforts yielded no results.
"Come up first." Qianye called the two people in the cellar and said, they did everything they could except drain the water.
"So we only have an inexplicable yellow slate?" Returning to the surface, Sakura straightened her waist and stretched her vitality, revealing her well-proportioned lines.
"This is not logical..." Wangwen Wenqie continued the conversation as if he was talking to himself: "A verse of unknown meaning was engraved on a stone slab, not even a prop, and then placed in a cellar with no other clues."
"Maybe this is an easter egg outside the main plot and branch plot? "After Sleep" is an open world game." Analysis of Liangye Tangram.
"But don't forget that there are elements of survival, horror, and decryption." Qianye looked around. The cellar they discovered was in the relatively intact core area of the ruined town. In other words, as long as the players want to explore the town, they must go here.
Will not be missed.
"From a game mechanics perspective, if it's just a stone slab with verses engraved on it, there's no need to hide it in such a weird way, right?"
So the appearance of this slate here becomes a bit interesting.
Tianmo: "Am I the only one who doesn't understand what you are saying?"
"Is it possible that it is part of a series of clues? Or a primer." Wangwen Wenqie was also observing these ruins: "This town should have more than one cellar, and its function is to remind us that there are other cellars."
"Do you think it's possible..." Qianye, who had the same idea, was about to say something when Mu Su suddenly raised his arms and shouted: "This is a real world. In this world, if people are killed, they will die!
"
"Although this is a game, it is no joke."
Sakura whispered at the same time, and then they looked at each other suddenly.
"You're fucking tearing me down, aren't you?"
Mu Su yelled and quickly started to struggle.
Others silently walked away from the scene, and Qianye returned to the topic: "Although the town is in ruins, the foundation is still there. We can look for cellars or basements along the foundation."
The players dispersed again, searching everywhere in the decaying town.
Wow——
The foamy waves wet the beach. Musu and Yinghua sat barefoot on the beach not far from the waves.
"I seem to remember something..."
Musu murmured and fell into memories...
…
-Huilongguan Mental Sanatorium-
On an ordinary sunny afternoon, Mu Su slumped on a garden bench, enjoying the rare silence.
The flowers were swaying and the birds were singing. Mu Su thought of the night not long ago...
…
-ward-
The night was quiet, and the shadows of branches outside the window cast into the ward.
Mu Su covered herself with a thin quilt and thought about today's conversation before falling asleep peacefully...
…
-Dining room-
Mu Su, who was holding a dinner plate, sat across from Da Vinci.
"Where's Lu Li?" "Accompanying his mother-in-law." "Do you still remember the Paradise Valley he talked about today?" "Yeah." Mu Su grabbed the steamed bun and recalled the story he heard earlier.
…
"I remembered...I remembered everything..."
Musu murmured, and the dead fish eyes that reflected the lifeless sea gradually brightened. He slapped his butt and ran towards Qianye, followed by the curious Yinghua.
"Where is the slate!" Mu Su found Qianye who was searching for the cellar along the foundation and asked her for the slate.
"At Mao Jiu's place, what?"
Because Mao Jiu was injured on his face, they didn't let him work anymore to prevent the wound from opening. With Qianye's tacit consent, Mu Su took the board from his hand.
"She is surrounded by vast forests, far away from disputes. Animals gather here, plants are still growing, honey-like rivers flow, and people who escape the world migrate here, it is like paradise..."
Everyone gathered around because of Mu Su's recitation, and after finishing the content of the slate, he continued to speak slowly: ""Paradise Valley" should have come to an end here, but today I will add one more thing - say and -