Chapter 258 Clues of the Pig-Headed Man (4800 words!)
"Bang bang bang!"
As the pig-headed man continued to approach, vague murmurs came from the deep and dark mine, the searchlight above his head emitted a pale light, and vague eyes came from the depths of the mine. The two teammates could not withstand the pressure and were a little anxious.
Shots were fired.
With a "dinging, clanking" sound, these bullets were like hitting a steel city wall. It was just a mud cow entering the sea, and it seemed that it did not cause any damage.
"Use all your courage! Make up all your determination!" Lou Ronggen, the most experienced man, roared with a red face, his hair standing on end. "Use all your determination and shoot!"
"I fucking think so too."
Lou Ronggen turned his head again and yelled at Wang Hao: "You kid, shoot, it's coming! Don't say you can't aim."
Just when Wang Hao was about to shoot, he found that the pig-headed man who had been shot was stunned and motionless.
It seemed as if time had stopped, only the blood from the sharp kitchen knife was still falling to the ground drop by drop.
Wang Hao took a breath, and as the gunshots continued to sound, doubts gradually arose in his heart: "Why did it stop? Did you shoot to stop it? Or, we don't meet its killing conditions."
"What is the coughing sound on the upper floor, and why does it lead me to find that piece of paper?"
"This must be a weird thing, right? [Wangxu] Why do you want to create a weird thing here?"
Countless questions lingered in his mind. He didn't want to miss this pig-headed man, so he bit the bullet and took a step forward.
Although he is now a legendary level master, he does not carry any magical items. It is still too easy to die when facing strange things at close range.
"Click, click, click, click!"
The trigger clicked several times.
"Out of bullets."
"Run!" Someone yelled, followed by a series of running sounds.
The two unreliable teammates slipped away very quickly. They actually ran away.
The surroundings were eerily quiet.
The pig-headed man was still standing quietly on the spot, motionless. Only the rising and falling chest and the slightly trembling pig hair showed that it was indeed still alive. It was just fixed for unknown reasons.
At this time, Wang Hao became slightly nervous.
His breathing began to freeze, and he carefully studied the pig-headed man holding a butcher knife.
"[Fantasy] created this monster to prevent humans from picking up crystals? But why was it immobilized by bullets? Does Paradise really have a way to fight against [Fantasy]?"
"What's this?"
Wang Hao's eyes narrowed in vain, and he saw something dirty pinned to the pig-headed man's waistband.
He reached out and found that the dirty thing was tied up with a rope and could not be removed.
In the dim light, I took a random glance.
It turned out to be a dilapidated radio with three buttons on it, similar in style to the radio in "Gut Tunnel"!
At this moment, the pig-headed man suddenly came back to his senses, opened his bloody mouth, and bit his head in one bite!
【Danger Danger Danger】A series of danger reminders.
The screen flashed several times.
Wang Hao found that he couldn't dodge, so he directly used his ability to "fake death" and turned into a stone.
The left arm was bitten viciously, making a loud "click" sound.
"It bit my arm off?"
The pig-headed man found that he had bitten a stone in his mouth, and immediately threw away the old Wang who had turned into stone, and stopped attacking.
With a "plop", the heavy object fell to the ground. Except for the slightly broken arm on the left, the rest of the arm was intact.
"I suffered a minor injury. I should be fine in a while."
"This person's ability to feign death is not bad... he can also observe the outside world." Although the outside world is blurry, like observing the world with highly myopic eyes, it can be regarded as a very good investigative ability. After all, without the help of magic,
It is difficult for human beings to defeat monsters, and the legendary investigators are only slightly better at preserving their lives than normal people.
Wang Hao noticed that an [Injury] debuff popped up on the screen. It should be the negative impact of the wound on his left arm. However, he didn't care too much. There would be no bleeding in the suspended animation state.
He carefully looked at the suspicious pig-headed man.
It was wearing a black coat like a raincoat, but it had grown larger at this moment, breaking the original raincoat. The radio on the waistband of its trousers was covered with dust and grease, and looked quite old. Fortunately, the pig-headed man's trousers
The belt is strong enough to withstand the erosion of time, allowing the radio to survive to this day.
This miraculous discovery made Wang Hao even more certain that "Paradise" is closely related to the first clue, "The Gut Tunnel".
"This pig-headed man is the courier in "The Gut Tunnel"... Why did the human become a pig-headed man? Where did his backpack go?"
"Is it because he threw his backpack outside the door, or did he open it?"
The pig-headed man wandered in place for a long time, and returned to the lower level step by step. Its figure looked a little lonely in the huge mine. The human being that it once was has turned into a monster, and it will never come back again.
"In other words, I picked up the note left by 'Xiang Hao' and triggered [Wangxu]'s attack?"
As he was thinking this, he heard a series of sporadic footsteps.
When I saw the deposit, it turned out to be that fat man Shi Dapeng, who came back again.
Wang Hao was slightly stunned.
"Is he here to save me? This man's moral character is better than I thought?"
I just wanted to recover from suspended animation, but something unexpected happened!
Shi Dapeng tiptoed over and found Wang Hao lying on the ground, turned into a stone. He took the antique note from his hand with a look of enthusiasm!
Then, he took out his pistol.
There were a few "bang bang bang" sounds!
The harsh sound of gunfire was particularly noticeable in this narrow cave.
Wang Hao's eyes widened and he was in a state of shock. This was the first time he encountered such a betrayal scene in the game... Even if the teammates he found randomly were indeed unreliable.
"He came to kill me! To get money? For a small piece of paper? For a small antique?!"
The stone head, which was in a state of suspended animation, was shot several times. A pistol was pressed against the head. Even a small-caliber pistol made a notch in the hard stone.
The gap isn't huge, but it's enough.
After all, the brain is the core of human beings. If the stone brain is damaged, the body's skills will be seriously damaged.
【You are seriously injured! You cannot wake up!】
Shi Dapeng spread his legs and started running away, and his figure disappeared in the dim light.
And Lao Wang... his fake death turned into real death.
Everything in front of me slowly dimmed.
[The survival time this time is 1 hour, 48 minutes and 11 seconds. You entered the mine to explore, but you didn’t expect your teammates to steal money and kill people.]
【You died, reason: shooting.】
【Do you want to start over? Yes/No】
"My legendary master was killed twice by firearms!"
"What kind of ridiculous plot is this?" Wang Hao was a little annoyed, sitting in his seat and cursing.
It wouldn't matter if he was killed by Weird, but now he is either shot by security guards or by his "companions", and they were all killed in a state of "suspended death"!
Weird can't distinguish between stones and living things. This is easy to explain. Weird's vision is different from that of humans.
But how can humans easily shoot when they see something that looks like a statue?
"This Shi Dapeng didn't even investigate what was going on with me, and just shot me to death. Even if he wanted to rob me, why didn't he just shoot me without even looking?"
"etc!"
He swallowed back the curse and thought of an interesting possibility!
"My death may be inevitable..."
"It's [Wuhanxu]'s behind-the-scenes control."
"If that's true, the story becomes interesting."
"Well……"
With the emergence of this possibility, Wang Hao felt a sense of spiritual enlightenment. In the puzzle game, this enlightenment was as refreshing as taking a sip of Sprite in the summer!
Daily life suddenly becomes enlightened (1/1√).
"Collate the current clues!"
He was in front of the table with great interest, taking notes.
The first unfinished script "Gut Tunnel" is closely related to the final script "Paradise".
"In "The Gut Tunnel", I played a courier who delivered the package to the underground door. In the end, I discovered that the door leads to a surface world."
"But the correspondent at the time told me that as long as I threw my backpack outside the gate, the mission was completed. People were not allowed to go out."
This backpack is also inexplicable, as if the heart is beating and has human body temperature.
Was told "cannot be opened".
Of course, this script has no beginning and no end, and it does not reach the final ending, and the game crashes directly.
"But from the current perspective, I may have discovered one of the endings: the courier turns into a pig-headed man, or in other words, turns into a weirdo."
"The backpack on the courier should be the key point. I don't know what this strange place did to the backpack, which triggered the mysterious ending of turning into a pig-headed man."
In addition to the clues brought by the pig-headed man, Wang Hao also discovered some other scattered clues.
The rules of "Paradise" are generally related to "Spar".
The existence of crystal stones can satisfy wishes and trigger the greatest greed of mankind.
As a result, the people in the paradise all lived a life of drunkenness and dreams, with moral collapse.
"Xiang Hao" and his comrades left several notes with some unexplained words on them.
"No children, no mirrors."
There is also "Xiang Hao" in "childhood" who guided himself to find a note.
That's about it for the most part.
Scattered and unsystematic.
After thinking for a long time, I still couldn't figure out a reason.
In the end, Wang Hao exhaled a breath of turbidity in his chest and temporarily threw these questions behind his mind, "Forget it, we haven't finished exploring yet, let's not consider the final answer..."
"Going back to the beginning, if my two deaths were an inevitable event, that is, [Wanxu] took action and manipulated humans to kill me, what would it mean?"
"The rules of the paradise are unreliable. Through my words and deeds, [it] thinks that I am an unstable element and is hindering my search for the truth?"
That's not right either. Shi Dapeng and Lou Ronggen don't completely trust "Paradise". They keep saying bad things behind their backs and are still collecting notes about the truth.
A place where you can eat and drink for free, and your wishes can come true just by picking up something on the ground, especially in this world where [rules] are constantly being promoted.
Anyone in their right mind would doubt the reliability of "Paradise".
But these two people were not attacked by [Fantasy], nor were they shot dead by inexplicable people. They managed to survive until now.
Why?
The answer... isn't too complicated. "I" have never turned in crystals.
Shi Dapeng and Lou Ronggen turned in a large amount of crystals. They even had to go to the lower level of the mine to pick up the crystals.
"So, the crystal is actually a special substance needed by [Delusion], and it is not a human plan?"
"Shi Dapeng and Lou Ronggen, are [Huanxu] one of our own? They are both useful. No matter how bad they say, they will not be killed."
"Normally, their consciousness is clear, but once they are induced and manipulated, they will go crazy and kill people."
"And I have never handed over the crystal, so I am under suspicion."
After inferring this, Wang Hao had a preliminary guess.
"Paradise was constructed by [Fantasy] for a special 'purpose'. There are 500,000 humans living in it. It is most likely the main anchor of [Fantasy]."
"The rules here are relatively relaxed. Even if humans say bad things about it behind its back, no accidents will happen, because these people have been completely controlled by [Delusion]. Maybe they are providing it with idealistic energy, just like in The Matrix
Like a human battery..."
"In that case, why don't I change my mind? Why should I follow the direction of the plot?"
The true direction of the plot should be that Mr. "Xiang Hao" of the Anomaly Foundation did something here. Only by solving the riddle can it be possible to seal the "Moon of Illusion".
"But now, I can summon the 'dragon', and I can completely jump out of those damn riddles and achieve the final result."
The more Wang Hao thought about it, the more he felt that this idea had broad prospects!
For players, what could be more enjoyable than jumping out of the game screenwriter's thinking and directly completing the game violently?
At least, you can use a condescending tone to belittle the game manufacturers: "The bad game screenwriter designed so many riddles and made so many detours, but I ended up violently breaking it!"
"The shortcut is right in front of you!"
He wrote the ultimate goal on the paper with a ballpoint pen: Destroy Paradise!
"Destroying Paradise may be a shortcut to seal [The Moon of Falsehood], or at least erase a large number of its important anchors!"
But, how to destroy paradise?
Directly rely on dragons to destroy paradise? Of course it is impossible, because dragons cannot defeat [Fantasy].
"It must be destroyed first, and then the dragon can be summoned."
Wang Hao racked his brains, trying to find an effective way from the limited clues.
"If these humans are really human batteries, destroying the paradise can seriously injure [Delusion]. Then I will summon the dragon and give it a fatal blow."
"1,000 points... is not expensive at all. I have to know whether Long can do this."
But, how to destroy "paradise"?
Thinking carefully, the air seems to fall into silence.
This method is too difficult to think of and is outside the plot.
And his personal force is not enough to undertake such a task.
I can’t think of it no matter how much I think about it!
…
Han Xiaoyue walked up to the second floor humming a little tune. She was in a very good mood recently, especially after getting the necklace, she was in a happy state all day long.
Even though she had no idea what the necklace was used for.
"Hey, why are you so quiet?"
Suddenly, I found my eldest cousin scratching his head and ears, thinking about something, so he quickly retreated, not daring to disturb him.
"Madam, let me give you an example. If I suddenly kicked you out of the house, would you feel resentful?" Wang Hao had an idea when he saw Xiaoyue.
"Why...why?" Han Xiaoyue stumbled, nervous and unable to speak, "Kicked out of the house?"
"It's just a metaphor."
"Of course you will, I will think you are crazy!"
…
"Look, this is the legendary...Shengmi En, Dou Miqiu!"
Wang Hao liked the feeling of finding treasures in his mind, so he quickly clicked V50 on his mobile phone and asked the nervous Han Xiaoyue to buy Crazy Thursday.
"It is possible to destroy paradise."
"Because people are not satisfied with Paradise and have no respect for it."
“There is even resentment against Paradise! Strong resentment!”
Why? Because if you give someone a little help when they are in crisis, they will be grateful to you.
But if you help someone too much and make them dependent, once you stop helping them, they will become jealous.
Paradise has given too much and fulfilled too many wishes of mankind, but the consequence of not being able to pick up the crystal is that it is trapped on the second level, and it suddenly falls from the luxurious and lustful rich class to a beggar.
The more you lose, the greater your resentment.
Therefore, the two unreliable teammates in the second round, Shi Dapeng and Lou Ronggen, were both suspicious and resentful of "Paradise".
"This hidden resentment provides an opportunity for incitement. Once a group riot is triggered, it brings the possibility of destroying the paradise!"
Wang Hao didn't know whether the approach of "destroying the paradise" was correct, but having a general idea was much better than running around like a headless fly.
He had a proud smile on his face.
The third round - begins!
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