After Annan held the glass bottle containing "Angelo", he indeed entered the CG.
But this cutscene is very different from the previous time when I entered the basement and met "Angelo"——
In a normal process, Amos would be breathing heavily while stroking his grandson's jar, murmuring, and saying nervously: "This is it...
As long as I have this..."
Then he looked back and saw that Brother Sledgehammer was about to come to his face, so he shouted "Ai Lei, save me", and then started to confront his father-in-law, and after losing the battle with his words, he fell into an incompetent rage. Even his grandson
He also chose his biological grandfather.
——Then Joseph suddenly became a senior.
For some reason, Joseph was bitten off his head by Angelo, who turned into a colorful ball of light. Immediately after the cg ended, the player was helpless and began to wait for death.
There is no doubt that some key items are missing, leading to be.
But this is undoubtedly a premeditated ending.
Because only after arriving at this ending for the first time can we learn the key information about "Brother Sledgehammer", "Amos" and "Ai Lei" and clarify the relationship between them.
But after Annan entered CG this time... he saw scenes he had never seen before and heard conversations he had never heard before:
"...Are you satisfied?"
Like a down-and-out wild dog, the one-eyed painter, whose body was stained with blood, trembled and roared at the stillborn fetus in the bottle: "Is that enough?!
"——Mr. Bones!"
As Amos finished speaking.
In the frozen basement, the corpses covered with a layer of hoarfrost simultaneously let out low sneers:
"Hehehehe..."
In front of Amos, the long-dead "Angelo" suddenly opened his eyes!
The eyes that had long lost their life color turned around strangely, and then looked at Amos in an instant.
"Of course..."
The extremely low voice of the Bone Man sounded in the jar.
Immediately afterwards, Ai Lei's clear voice came from behind Amos: "It's not enough."
Amos was suddenly startled and turned around.
He covered his gouged left eye and let out a miserable howl——
His eyes were burning with fire.
In front of him, the image of Ai Lei was clearly projected.
It was a somewhat vague girl, about ten years old, with blond hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a white dress that only covered half of her thighs. She hid her arms behind her back and looked at her adoptive father, lover, idol and murder with a smile.
Her murderer Amos.
However, her left eye was a bloody hole.
The blood did not flow down, but boiled uneasily in his eyes.
That doesn't look like blood.
It's more like lava...or solidified flame.
...After losing the left eye from Elle, can Amos see the spirit body of love instead?
Annan thought quickly.
He remembered...
The first time I saw Ai Lei's portrait... there was a fresh, expanding scorch mark on her left eye.
At this moment, Joseph, who was standing in the basement, also took a breath of cold air.
He obviously also saw - Ai Lei's spirit body.
As a silver-level wizard, it is not difficult for him to see the spirit bodies of ordinary people.
But after seeing Ailei, he hesitated. Hesitating, wondering whether he should come down...
"Ai Lei..."
Amos was obsessed and murmured in a low voice: "My love..."
He slowly stretched out his hand to Ai Lei...
Snapped!
But the hand he extended was slapped away by Ailei's spirit body.
"--your love?"
The smile on her lips became more harmless and cute, but a sarcastic voice came out of her mouth: "Which is more important, your dream or your career?
"Have I ever asked this, fathers...?"
When Elle said these words, Amos and Joseph seemed to tremble at the same time and held their breath.
Annan, who was watching, finally realized something——
Amos and Joseph...the two people who are entangled in this nightmare and fight each other endlessly. What do they have in common?
——They are both Ai Lei’s fathers.
——And they all gave up Ai Lei for their own careers.
Joseph allowed his ex-wife and his apprentice to remarry with their daughter... He knew clearly that his wife was a cannibalistic Black Widow believer, but he did not ask for custody of Elle.
Because he has his job and his career.
And he knew it well... The reason why Ailei's mother still gave birth to Ailee despite Joseph's obstruction was because she planned to use the child to blackmail her mentor, in order to get more benefits from Joseph, and in order to
Tie yourself to him.
The "Black Widow" she believes in is a false god who specializes in this way.
Joseph knew all this, but he chose to refuse.
——He naturally loves Ai Lei, but he loves his life even more.
So Joseph gave up on Aile for his own career and extraordinary path...but when he came to Aile, he was worried about his reputation and worried that Aile would speak ill of him and so on.
He didn't dare to recognize each other, or even dare to reveal his existence.
Unlike his determination during the divorce, Joseph's hesitation when facing his daughter, although it had nothing to do with the tragedy itself... was an indispensable "prelude".
He had time to stop all this.
Because when he came to Frozen Water Port, Amos hadn't even held the first ceremony.
This will make him regret it for the rest of his life, but there is no room for repentance.
However, Amos, Airei's second father and her lover, regarded Airei as a "possible victim" and initiated a transaction with the Skeleton Lord...in exchange for his depleted, unsatisfactory life.
The ability to grow again.
Although on the surface, this ritual will only sacrifice a small part of Airei.
But he is not a stupid person.
He would agree to this ritual, but he was afraid of the ritual itself... because he had subconsciously thought of this possibility in the future.
But he still decided to hold the ceremony.
Because he has his pursuit.
Of course he also loves Ai Lei, even more than he loves himself.
——But he loves art and his own talents even more.
"That's why...the special nature of this nightmare is a 're-enactment'."
Annan suddenly realized.
It is precisely for this reason that this nightmare attracted the Skeleton Lord for decades, making him stay in the frozen water port and unwilling to leave.
...Because after all, this is a scene of "betrayal repeated".
This nightmare itself is a ritual!
Every time you clear a nightmare, it represents a repeat of betrayal.
Everyone obviously has no memory, but they are walking on the same road and repeating the same tragedy... because after entering the nightmare, they subconsciously brought themselves into Amos.
Therefore, every time this nightmare is repeated, Lord Skeleton will be strengthened by one point.
And if all this is to be achieved...
I don’t know when, the process cg has ended.
Annan felt that his body was under control again.
He looked at Ailei's spirit body with a complicated expression and whispered: "If I guessed correctly...
"Miss Ailei," Annan deliberately did not call her by any of her surnames, "you should keep... all the memories from these five hundred nightmares, right?"
"It's one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four."
Ailei said in a soft tone: "No matter whether you win or lose, I am watching...I have been watching."
Behind Annan, "Angelo" with the voice of Lord Skeleton also laughed.
"Yes, she has been watching. Through her left eye, watching all of this."
"Angelo" in the bottle whispered in an extremely mature and low voice: "And I have been listening. Through this umbilical cord... listening to her crying, her heartbeat, her collapse, her whispers,