Although King Arthur said that Elaine should "follow the cry", in fact, there was almost no scream in this quiet dungeon. Elaine, who was left behind, was a little at a loss for a while.
But he was not a complete fool. He knew that solid sound transmission was more efficient than gas sound transmission and could reach farther places. So he put his ears against the wall and tried to rely on the sound transmission capabilities of the walls and floors.
Find a nearby "Wail".
Of course, he still didn't hear the so-called "wail". It seemed a bit unrealistic to expect to hear the nearby wail. However, he still heard something, it was a series of continuous and strange cutting sounds, "Click."
The sound of "clicking" sounds like someone is using a dull saw to cut something that is not hard or even soft.
Elaine felt strange and had nothing to do, so he followed the source of the sound and groped his way there.
The dungeon was very big. Although he knew that this was a virtual world, Elaine kept complaining that the builder here was out of his mind and made the dungeon so big. He stopped and walked, tracking the strange sound along the way.
, it took a long time to finally come to a room. The door was ajar and not locked. Elaine could hear strange noises inside through the crack in the door, so he glanced inside the door.
Someone was..."dismantling" a person. Elaine couldn't see clearly from this distance, but there seemed to be a torturer in the room using a saw and a scalpel to cut off someone's arm and cut that person off.
The flesh on her body was cut off bit by bit. Seeing the bright red area, Elaine almost vomited. The scene in front of her was like watching a horror movie, but more real. It was obviously a virtual world, but they actually put this
Everything is done so realistically that it's simply disgusting fun.
Elaine resisted the urge to vomit, and felt angry for no reason. He tiptoed into the room, walked around behind the torturer, and picked up one of the torture instruments from one side (it seemed to be used to pull out people's tongues)
Tongs), aim at the back of the guy's head and beat him hard.
Bang. The blow had a dull and heavy feeling that was hard to compare with reality. The poker was obviously not that heavy in Elaine's hands. The man did not fall down immediately after receiving a sap (fire poker) on the back of his head. He turned his head in surprise.
Come and look at Elaine: "You...!"
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Elaine, who was still angry, rushed forward and struck several times with a poker, aiming at the man's face and pounding wildly. At this time, he had already discovered that the attack power of his weapon when striking people was not enough.
, maybe because when he logged into this virtual system, he used the size of the White Lion boy to calculate the size. The height and body of the boy can cause extremely limited damage to adults, which is also reflected in this virtual reality scene.
But it doesn't matter, he doesn't have enough strength and agility to knock down the enemy with one blow, so he can attack several times or dozens of times in succession until the opponent is defeated.
Elaine, who was already furious, hit his opponent hard with a violent attack. The opponent's head suffered the initial blow, and he was already in a dazed state. Now he was being beaten continuously in front of his face. Naturally, he couldn't even fight back.
No, I could only hold my head to protect myself. But in the end, the torturer was unable to resist Elaine's fierce attack. He fell down with a bruise on his nose and became motionless.
"Ha, ha, ha, ha..." Elaine gasped, and the palms of his hands were burning. Because he used too much force, the hand he was holding on to the poker was scratched. It was obviously just a skin injury.
But it hurt her heart. Elaine thought for a long time before she realized that the virtual world constructed in this "black server" was specially designed to torture people. Not only did time flow ten times faster than reality, but also the
The person's pain also increased almost ten times. This small injury caused Elaine to burst into tears. The torturer who fell in front of him may not have suffered any fatal injuries, but he was in severe pain from being beaten continuously.
And fainted.
Wait...ten times the pain?
Only then did the White Lion boy turn his head and look at the civilian who was tied to the operating table with bloody flesh and blood. The man's condition was quite miserable. His hands and feet had long been sawed off by the torturer, and the flesh on his body had also been cut off.
It was cut out bit by bit, and almost no part of the body was intact. Although Elaine knew that this was just a virtual world, and that the injuries suffered by the civilian in front of him were all fictitious, he still saw a life being treated so ruthlessly and cruelly.
Elaine was still deeply touched by the treatment.
He couldn't forgive the torturer who was lying there and passed out, so he kicked the guy hard again, but the other person could no longer feel the pain, but Elaine's feet hurt ten times more.
He smacked his lips and then moved closer to the civilian, trying to check the other person's situation.
"Are you okay?" he asked in a low voice. That's nonsense. The other person's body was ruined like this, so it was impossible for him to be "okay."
The man looked like he was either a teenager or a young man - it was difficult to identify him since his arms and legs were amputated and his body was all bloody.
Although the man was tricked into such a miserable state, he still seemed to be awake. He lay there and closed his eyes as if resigned to his fate. His breathing was unusually slow. This virtual system seemed to use some means to keep the victim connected.
Line. Because it is only virtual reality, the other party will not die no matter how seriously injured they are. And if the system does not allow it, the victim may not even be able to faint, and can only silently endure the unilateral inflicted on them.
of pain.
...It's simply terrible.
"No... nothing...?" The other party was stunned for a long time before replying in a low voice: "What does it mean... something is wrong?"
"Don't you feel pain?" Elaine then asked, "Being... treated like this."
"It hurts...? Why does it hurt...what is pain...?" The other party seemed to be in a trance, and his answers were incomprehensible.
"Don't worry, Zhe, I have dealt with the bad guys who tortured you." Elaine said quickly: "This is just a virtual world. They didn't really, really saw off your hands and feet. You will be fine.
No matter how strong you are, if you persist for a while you will be saved."
"In a moment...saved...?" The other party still said in confusion: "What is...saved...where am I?...who am I...?"
Elaine frowned. The civilian in front of him was in a very bad state. It looked like...amnesia? But something seemed wrong.
Could this be... losing yourself?
Elaine instantly recalled those dark days when he was constantly abused in a certain research institute. Great sadness and nostalgia came to his heart at the same time. If Leo hadn't been with him in the same cell at that time, he might have collapsed completely.
, and then you will become like the person in front of you, completely losing yourself.
"Let go, don't worry..." Elaine took off her shirt and covered the man, and whispered. This would not make the man's injury recover, but it would at least make him feel slightly better. Probably.
"Just hold on a little longer, Ma, and you'll be saved soon," he said.
"Aslan?" Elaine tried to contact the King of Knights: "Here, we found a victim. He was seriously injured. What can we do to get him to log out of this virtual system?"
"No, you can't." Arthur sent back a communication: "This is someone else's server. In their secret base, they must use physical means to force civilians to wear visual helmets and force those civilians to log in to the system.
Apart from breaking into their secret base in person, destroying everything there, and using physical means to stop the black server from functioning, there is no other way."
"How long do we have to wait?" Elaine asked: "This man's condition is very, very bad. He has a mental breakdown."
"I have found their physical address and am sending it to Gwen Green for analysis." Arthur replied: "But the time flow speed of this server is ten times faster than reality, which means that no matter how fast Gwen Green is, it still needs to use
It takes us ten times the time to resolve the physical address. After that, we have to confirm the location of the underground base, and then send people over to destroy the underground base. In reality, it will take at least two hours."
Two hours in reality are magnified ten times in this virtual world, which means that it will take at least twenty hours before someone comes to the rescue and stops the black server.
Elaine looked at the civilian who was in extremely bad condition. How could that person wait another twenty hours?
"Joffry." King Arthur finished his work and found Elaine's communication. When he opened the door, he saw Elaine guarding the victim: "Are you still here? The matter has been settled.
We have to go."
"I, I won't leave." The white lion boy said, "I'll stay here until the server stops."
"Why? There's no point for you to stay here." The King of Knights frowned: "All we can do is find that secret base as soon as possible and end the madness here as soon as possible. You can't help the people here, all this is just a virtual scene, this guy
His true form is still being detained in a secret underground base in Edinburgh."
"I, I know." Elaine shook her head violently and said, "But I still can't leave. What if another bad guy comes and hurts this child?"
"This is a virtual world, and he can't die."
"It will still hurt." Elaine said stubbornly: "I can't bear it when I see that this person may continue to be tortured."
If it's just a few minutes or even an hour or two, that's okay. But it may take more than twenty hours to save the people here. In other words, if Elaine and the others walk away, the victim will be there next.
Elaine could not bear the thought of being trapped in such a hellish place and being tortured for twenty hours continuously by those crazy torturers.
"Why?" The Knight King then asked the white lion boy with a serious face: "There is no evidence that more people will attack this civilian in the future. And no one will die in this virtual world. Everything is just fiction."
We can just evacuate in such a sad way, but why do we have to guard a civilian who is not related to us in a place like this? Do you have any good reasons?"
Elaine was stunned for several seconds: "...Help, do you need a reason to help others?"
"Need. Because all you do is useless work." The King of Knights asked: "What on earth do you think, Geoffrey?"
"I..." The white lion boy was stunned for a few seconds, and then replied with a sad look on his face: "I just want to help him. I promised him that nothing will happen next, and I will save, save."
His. So I can’t leave."
"Is that all?"
"I...I saw this, this child was so miserable, it reminded me of the old me." Elaine replied with a bitter face: "In the dark laboratory, being tied to the operating table, suffering
No, endless torture, at that time I also imagined that there would be a hero to save me.
However, no one came. No matter how I cried or asked for help, no one came. Well, finally someone came, but the person he rescued was Leo. No, not me.
Then I was left alone, struggling in the darkness...No one came to save me. Those miserable memories...I don't want others to experience it again."
The King of Knights was silent for several seconds, and then nodded with sincerity: "I understand, Geoffrey. If you think so, just do this. The miserable experiences in the past have not distorted you and turned you into a cruel person."
People make you more gentle. This is also good. Please keep this gentleness. Maybe one day, this gentleness will make you a real hero."
"Hmm, um..." Elaine nodded and said, "So... we stay here to guard this child for twenty hours?"
"Okay, let's play with you." The King of Knights took out a lightsaber and threw it to Elaine. He also took out another lightsaber and was on guard: "I don't know when the enemy's reinforcements will come back.
I don’t know how many people will come. But it doesn’t matter. Kill as many as they come so they can walk around without food.”
"Okay, okay." Elaine opened the blade of the lightsaber and remained alert. Footsteps could be heard in the distance. From the sound, it seemed that there were at least ten people coming.
"Don't get hurt, Joffrey." The King of Knights reminded again: "In this virtual world built by the black server, the pain you feel is ten times more than reality, and even a small scratch will hurt your heart. As long as you suffer a few...
A minor injury will cause you to be in so much pain that you can't move. There are still twenty hours to go, so don't be a burden to me."
"I will pay attention," Elaine replied, "I'm not afraid of pain."
He has long endured pain that others may not be able to endure in dozens of lifetimes. To endure this little more pain is not too much. (To be continued)