Annan actually had a vague sense of part of the rules of this nightmare.
Thanks to him being bound by the curse of "endymion, who is about to be born".
This curse requires Annan's left shoulder to be exposed to a light source of sufficient intensity. If it does not absorb the light, it will gradually become burning.
After the thirteenth hour, every second it feels like a red-hot iron is pressing on this place. And it's the kind that won't lift up.
This is not an "illusion" that only exists in the senses.
It's not just punishing phantom pain.
When others touch this curse pattern with their palms, they can definitely feel the heat - the usual heat is probably like a bowl of freshly soaked cup noodles. If the person holding this curse is an ordinary person, just
Just this heat is enough to kill.
But if the highest level of heat is maintained - even if its pain sensation can be obscured or weakened by some means, the remaining heat will be enough to destroy Annan's body.
As a warning, it does not suddenly turn into a fatal scorching heat after not absorbing light for thirteen hours. Instead, it starts to slowly heat up after cutting off the light source for a period of time, and the temperature rise becomes more obvious as it goes on. The effect is not significant in the first five or six hours.
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Annan tested it before. The red moon outside the window is just an illusion, but the TV can really emit light. Although the light is not strong enough, it should be enough to maintain the curse and not continue to worsen.
——But the prerequisite for this is that Annan takes the initiative to get over.
Annan was actually sitting on the bed, far away from the TV.
It's not about protecting your eyesight...
But he had a conjecture after watching Isaac's videotape.
With the idea of giving it a try, Annan planned to deliberately activate his own curse——
But the result is that Annan stayed here and watched the video tape for a long, long time... According to the length of the plot, it must have been at least more than half a month.
But Annan's curse was not triggered at all.
Not only that, Annan was neither sleepy nor hungry. He did not eat, drink, or urinate.
Although it is not impossible for a gold-level transcendent to temporarily cancel these functions of oneself, Annan did not take any action at all...but he found that he was not hungry at all.
——It’s like time has stopped here.
"What is it that I fear the most, fear the most, and despair the most...?"
Annan murmured in a low voice, stood up and began to search for the remaining clues in the room.
In the drawer, under the bed, inside the pillow, under the mattress...
What surprised Annan was that there was quite a lot of information he could find.
He found a piece of yellow paper in the drawer.
There are nine Arabic numerals on it like a computer keyboard.
There are eight red lines running through these numbers to form a three-digit number group.
These lines were extended, with some words written on them that Annan could understand.
Annan only knew part of it - because these were not the words of the Misty Continent, but French mixed with a part of English. If it was the English part, Annan would have no problem reading it, but he only knew a very small part of the French.
Following these incomplete runes, Annan searched for correspondences one by one.
"Does Ingrid correspond to...[thinking]? Is this what it means?"
Annan thought seriously: "The poem of Offei corresponds to [action], and the senior who wrote the poem about the crane corresponds to [action], which I can't understand. And the dim yellow world where Isaac lives should correspond to [judgment]...
…”
Among these eight words, only one word has been crossed out.
That is the only missing videotape number [357].
But Annan could still see the words above.
"Compassion...compassion?"
Annan murmured: "Am I [pity]?"
Ingrid is thinking...what is she thinking about? What is there to think about in her plan?
Ophis' action - but there's nothing he can do?
Or……
Annan immediately changed his thinking direction.
"Isaac is the judge. But in his world, there is nothing to judge at all - so, does [Judgment] refer to what he is doing?"
In that world where everyone has a cognitive filter, everyone is guilty and everyone is innocent.
Without understanding each other, they slaughtered their own kind and greatly reduced the number of their own kind.
In other words, when Isaac finds a way to lift his cognitive filter, he will fall into "real despair." At that time, all he can do is "judgment."
For the sake of one person's life, take away the life of another person.
By then, I'm afraid he will be in so much pain that he wishes he could wear a cognitive filter.
It is precisely because Isaac is a kind man that he is tortured by this mentality.
...and it can be deduced in the same way.
When Ingrid fell into "real despair", all he could do was "think."
Because she can't do anything.
She cannot move or contact anyone other than the "Devil". She is even deprived of vision, and the Demon will never care about what she is saying or what she wants - that is the real "I love you but with
What are you doing?"
Not even as good as the beginning.
At that time, although she was unable to move, she was also deprived of a lot of strength.
But she can still compete with those barbarians in a battle of wits and courage. She can also communicate with other people to relieve her loneliness - and even though she is aloof, her humanity is no longer strong.
Without the sudden invasion from the "Devil King", she was confident that she would be able to regain her freedom sooner or later.
It was precisely because she was pregnant that that fear brought her back to the realm of "mortal", allowing her to regain her humanity and start [thinking] worrying about gains and losses.
In other words, after [despair], she could only think - nothing else could be done.
Then it is easy to understand using this logic to read Orpheus. When he realized that the planet was actually dead and empty, leaving only these robots who did not understand art and could not communicate with him.
At this time... all he can do is [action].
He had to do something, otherwise sooner or later he would be drowned in the endless loneliness and silence.
At the beginning, Ofishi did take some "action". But it wasn't until he was really desperate that he started to take real "action".
The same goes for Isaac and Ingrid.
In the beginning, Isaac commanded the young soldiers to "fight the Zerg", which obviously required some "judgment". But it was not until he experienced true despair that he understood the "judgment" he really needed to make.
",what exactly is it.
"And the share that belongs to me..."
Annan's pupils shrank slightly.
He realized something and gradually became nervous: "It's just... [compassion]?
"So, do I have 'compassion' now? If so, what am I pitying for? Under what circumstances...will I start to have real [compassion]?"