No matter what difficulties he faces, he will never be afraid, let alone give up hope.
But that premise is... Annan must first know what he should do.
There is no plot, no main mission, and no enemies for him to defeat. He is trapped in this room without even a clue.
Annan didn't even know what he could do here.
——Just stay here and watch the movie?
"But it can't be said that there is no progress..."
Annan murmured softly.
He searched around the room and found a notebook.
He listed all the currently known situations and clues above.
Afterwards, he temporarily suppressed his uneasiness and continued to watch all the unfinished video tapes. He also wrote down the color corresponding to each number.
In the order Annan saw it.
"Number: 159" is the dim yellow one, which is the copy world where Isaac is.
"Number: 456" is the dark green world, and the people in it died before they survived for long.
"Number: 789" is gray-white, the world where Orpheus is located.
"Number: 147" is an orange world.
That world was filled with hot lava. The temperature of that "lava" was far higher than the world where Annan was.
The ground continues to collapse and crack, and as long as you stand in the same place for more than five seconds, it will collapse directly. Even if you don't stand in the same place, the ground you have walked on will collapse after five minutes. And the places that have collapsed will collapse after you pass by.
At a random time - no more than five hours at most, the surrounding ground will collapse.
If you want to survive in it, you must keep moving.
They cannot remain stagnant when doing anything - they cannot stop to excrete, let alone stop to sleep.
And every time you go forward, you will encounter a fork in the road - some places are dead ends, and some places force you to risk death in order to pass.
And if it's a dead end, then they probably won't be able to turn back.
Because if they cannot return to the forked road within five minutes, the forked road will collapse directly. And if they never find an exit inside, they will also die when the collapse spreads to their feet.
But this nightmare does not directly force people to die.
Because you can see water, food and medicine scattered in every corner. But every time you use the "gift" of this world, you will be stared at by a lava creature and chased from a distant place.
Occasionally, you can see a "safe house". However, this safe house does not allow escapees to rest inside. It only makes all the lava creatures that have located them lose their location the moment they enter...that's all.
Because of this, lava creatures that have lost their position may suddenly appear at any corner. Wherever they pass, the ground will directly melt and collapse. This is also the source of some "dead ends".
This nightmare is not just for one person.
But if it's a single person, maybe it will be better.
Annan saw at least twenty people inside - and they just existed, hindering each other. They didn't even live for an hour, and they all died in the lava.
Of course, this should also be a demonstration.
Annan believes that this should mean that if someone enters this nightmare, he will face nineteen enemies that are holding him back.
And in this eternal scorching hell, Annan couldn't even see what their hope was.
Maybe when they get out of this basement maze, they can probably return to the ground... maybe?
"No.: 369" is an ice blue world.
It was a piece of ice lying on the infinite sea, and the "trial" of that world was frozen in the perfect ice. He still had consciousness and was not dead. He could sense everything around him, but he could not break the ice.
When I got out, I couldn't do anything. I could only see the ice floe slowly crashing into the distant continent.
This time, the test subjects inside did not die. However, Annan fast forwarded for a long time and watched at sixteen times speed - it took more than twice the time of the previous ones combined, but the small island still did not become much larger.
So Annan gave up temporarily and continued to search for this videotape.
——This is really a bladder bureau.
It is more torture than urbanization and water ditches...
If you follow the urinary nature of this nightmare.
Annan speculated that when the ice floe was about to approach the land, there might be a typhoon, tsunami, or wave, which would push it out in the opposite direction.
That can indeed make people despair instantly.
It's probably like a person who opened a new game in a favorite game. This time he decided to play Shilipo Sword God. He started carefully thinking about it for half a month, and when he was ready to go out - then he broke down.
It’s stalled.
Annan had experienced that feeling of despair firsthand.
That can make a righteous disciple who is passionate about games instantly degenerate into the leader of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Demon Cult.
And this person needs to wait for an extremely long time, enduring torture while being unable to move. Annan made a slight estimate - at that speed, he would definitely not be able to arrive by floating for at least two months.
After hanging up the phone for at least two months without being able to move or even speak, and finally falling short... the feeling of collapse at that moment was not only a hundred times more desperate than the broken gear?
That's the kind of despair that can drive a person crazy in an instant.
When I saw the last video tape, which was the horizontal video tape numbered "258".
Annan finally found Ingrid, who entered this world before them.
And until he saw the horizontal column "258", Annan finally saw a copy that could cheer him up.
——Because that is exactly the story told in "Praise to the Name of the Sky Crane"!
However, Annan also realized that the world was somewhat different from the one described in the book.
In that world, ascension has nothing to do with becoming a god - ascension is ascension, which can also be understood as leaving the dungeon.
Another difference is that ascension is not a particularly rare thing there. As long as you can reach the top, it is possible to achieve ascension.
In that world, there is a special technology to judge their talents - that is to say, their end point has been determined from birth.
Which industry they go to, what level of education they receive, what level of training they receive, and what level they can reach.
This reminded Annan of the technology in Academy City.
——Quality determination.
And that world would naturally allocate resources and assign status based on different qualities.
The protagonist has no talents at all - he can only become a mortal or a madman.
He would rather be a madman than a mediocre mortal.
Therefore, he gave up everything and embarked on a journey that even he himself did not know the end point, let alone the purpose.
Not just to resist this mediocre life.
——It is also to resist this [established destiny].