What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

It was difficult for Xu Tuoran to describe that feeling.

It's like a **** suddenly went off in my mind. Accompanied by a bang, numerous fragments exploded in the consciousness, disorganized, irregular, and so finely divided that it was hard to catch—

She saw her injured self, the dim path, the shaking light spot, the gate covered with broken arms.

Monsters, walls of ice, charred arms, shattered bodies. She hurts, she gets better again. She sits on the palm of a giant, she rides on an invisible wind, she lies on a bed. The opposite wall was covered with flesh and blood or human faces for a while, and it was normal for a while, but on the white wall, there were complex, magic circle-like things drawn...

I have seen these.

Xu Tuoran was vaguely aware of this. She had seen similar patterns, on her arms.

So what the **** is going on now? Are these her own memories? What is the connection between this and the brooch marked "Illusion"?

I was plagued by hallucinations - were these hallucinations she experienced? Or, is it related to cause and effect...

Xu Tuoran realized something was wrong. She's so confused right now. There are too many fragments, she needs to find some time to sort them out one by one - but now, it is obviously not the right time.

Just when she was staggered by the fragmented memory, the puppet people obviously surrounded her a little tighter.

The wooden man moved without footsteps. Xu Tuoran glanced down, only to find that their feet were all connected to the floor—slender bumps bulged on the wooden floor, as if blood vessels and meridians were buried under the floor.

The woman sitting on the inside of the table finally moved out carefully, and at some point, there were a few more brooches on her chest. She put the bucket bag on her shoulder, and said to Xu Tuoran in a breathy voice: "Are you okay? Something was wrong with you just now."

Xu Tuoran took a deep breath, forced down those chaotic memories, and shook his head lightly. Seeing this, the woman pursed her lips.

"Be patient if you feel uncomfortable. Pull me, don't let go - run in the opposite direction of the flashlight!"

As soon as the words fell, she suddenly picked up the flashlight on the table, and shone the light to the right front of the two of them very familiarly. The puppets around in front of everyone turned their heads reflexively, and the woman immediately pulled Xu Tuoran past, turned off the flashlight, and ran towards the left in the dark, raising her feet several times in the middle, as if she was kicking something violently.

As if something was ignited in an instant, the originally quiet room finally became noisy. Footsteps, kicks, the harsh creaking of logs twisting. Xu Turan caught the friction sound again with her sharp ears, and this time she recognized that the sound actually came from the ground—

Xu Tuoran stepped on a raised slender bulge, and clearly felt a creeping sensation coming from below. At the same time, the silhouettes of those wooden figures approached again, surrounded from all directions, and Xu Tuoran suddenly realized:

"The living thing is actually the floor? They all move by the floor!"

"Yeah." The woman's breath was a little messy, and her speech became a little unstable, "So you have to go downstairs now, follow me closely!"

In the darkness, Xu Tuoran struggled to distinguish the outlines. But she seems to have night vision ability, and she can rush to the weakly defended gap every time. The flashlight in his hand would light up from time to time, always shining in the opposite direction of the two people running away—and at this time, those wooden men would behave like the legendary sunflowers, shaking their heads and looking over, their necks brushing their necks. There was a rattling sound.

Xu Tuoran was not idle either, he swung the stone spear from time to time, poking away the swaying black shadows and skinny arms surrounding him from behind. Although the range of dancing was very limited for fear of accidentally injuring their companions, it also acted as a deterrent and firmly guarded the rear of the two.

With these advantages, the woman quickly dragged Xu Tuoran to the vicinity of the stairs. As soon as he was about to go downstairs, the sound of rubbing resounded again in a large area. With the help of the lights downstairs, Xu Tuoran could clearly see that the stairs that were already close at hand turned away in an instant...

No, not right.

She reacted suddenly. Not "the stairs are moving away", but "the floor is moving".

The surface of the floor turned like crawlers, dragging them back from the stairs—

"Damn." Xu Tuoran frowned, "It's a shame."

The woman also looked dignified, and stretched out her hand to cover several brooches on her chest.

"It's really impossible to use a brooch to change your life." She said quickly, "But I don't know if my brooch can save you. I will throw two out to try..."

While talking, their bodies have been dragged back a little. Correspondingly, the wooden men leaned closer, their slender arms opened and connected to each other, like a fence full of murderous intent and thorns.

Xu Furan frowned unhappily, noticing that the woman had reached out to pick off the brooch on her body, and felt even more annoyed. Just at this time, those chaotic memory fragments once again broke through the suppression and rushed into my mind, and inexplicable pictures unfolded randomly in my consciousness. The difference is that this time the picture is more coherent——

She saw herself being chased and killed by a huge monster, she saw the gate that was scorched black, she saw that the moment she stepped through the gate, her shattered body returned to its original shape, she saw herself turn around, her eyes ignited with blue light, and ice rose in front of her. wall…

Hui class. Path of Chaos. upgrade. Chen level area. Iron worms…

Various concepts have returned to their original positions. Xu Tuoran only cares about one thing.

It was I who built the wall of ice and sealed the gate.

I can use ice walls. This is my ability.

If that's the case—then why can't I be the current me?

The soda can that seemed to be taken out of the refrigerator was opened "brokenly", and the cold air gushed out with a familiar feeling. Xu Tuoran subconsciously raised his hand, and under the surprised gaze of the woman, he pressed down on the ground—

With a clicking sound, the smooth ice surface spread out instantly, but in the blink of an eye, the entire floor was covered, airtight!

The floor encroached by the ice layer seemed to have lost its vitality immediately, and there was no movement at all. Xu Tuoran cautiously raised his hand, vigilantly swept towards the motionless puppet outlines around him, but the woman beside him reacted faster, dragged her without saying a word, turned and ran towards the stairs.

Without messing with the floor, they finally made it up the stairs this time. There was another strange sound of caracalla behind him—Xu Turan turned his head to look, but saw that many wooden men had broken their legs on their own and forcibly broke free from the shackles of the ice. At this time, he was lying on the ice and crawling towards him quickly!

"Don't look!" the woman said without looking back, dragging Xu Tuoran down. When the wooden man finally climbed to the top of the stairs, they had already gone downstairs and stood in the brightly lit hall on the first floor.

The big white bear on duty at the counter has disappeared. The door of the tea room was tightly closed and could not be opened at all. The woman closed her eyes and adjusted her messy breathing, and said comfortingly, "It's okay, I can go out at dawn", then walked skillfully to the counter, and poured a glass of water for herself and Xu Turan.

"Come on, take your time." She handed the water to Xu Tuoran, "Don't worry, the first floor is safe. It's just that we have to stay here for a while."

Xu Tuoran took it while panting, his eyes still fixed on the top of the stairs—

At the entrance of the stairs, a group of wooden men crowded there with their mutilated bodies, their limbs overlapping each other, and their round heads poking, like a group of wild beasts that were staring at each other but unwilling to do so.

"Don't be afraid. They won't come down." The woman said softly, "Come here, don't let them see you. Otherwise, you may go crazy if you wait."

"Crazy?" Xu Tuoran frowned, shook the water glass twice in his hand, tried to dip some lightly, and did not hear the sound of "dangerous value", so he drank it with confidence.

"Maybe it will yell, or throw some branches down. It's not harmful, but it's annoying." The woman led Xu Tuoran to the blind spot of the wooden figures, and gave her a worried look, "Are you okay? Your palms are so cold. "

"Really?" Xu Tuoran didn't feel anything at all, turned over his palm and looked at it, but felt that his palm was a little red. But that's not what she's most concerned about right now.

"What's the matter with 'Entering the Night'?" She drank the warm water in one breath, "What do you mean by 'it's your turn'?"

"The nightfall in this place is different from the outside. Only inside the building can there be 'dawn' and 'darkness'. And the night falls in order from south to north." The woman let out a deep breath and found a place in the hall Sit down, "It stands to reason that it should be the Roots Museum at this time of night. The tea room should be dark in another hour or two..."

"Is it because the tree root hall is closed?" Xu Tuoran guessed, "So you jumped directly to the second tea room?"

"It's possible." The woman nodded seriously, "This is also the first time I have encountered such a situation, so I have to write it down."

After finishing speaking, she took out her notebook again in front of Xu Tuoran, and a pencil that was about to become bald. Because she felt that the tip of the pen was too blunt, she squatted down and sharpened it on the ground before writing. Noticing Xu Tuoran's surprised eyes, she smiled embarrassedly.

"The stationery was secretly taken from the office before. You have to save it." She said, stood up, and started to record. She didn't mean to avoid Xu Tuoran, all the content was exposed in Xu Tuoran's sight, Xu Tuoran unconsciously glanced at the page, and was taken aback.

I saw the tables neatly listed on it, and one of the columns marked "Experiment 1" and "Experiment 2"...

"Are you doing experiments here?" She was secretly stunned?

"En." The woman nodded, "Because this phenomenon of darkness only started to appear about five days ago. There has been no such change before. I think it is necessary to find out in the shortest possible time."

Like today, she originally planned to observe the night changes on the second floor of the tea room again. That's why I sat there early. It's just that I didn't expect the tree root museum to be closed, which made the time earlier.

Xu Tuoran frowned: "You mean, do the rules here change at any time?"

"No, that's the only rule change that's on my record." The woman whispered softly, "I suspect something may have happened to the 'manager' of this place—let's call it that. To it There was some excitement. That made the change happen. But what exactly, I had no idea."

After finishing speaking, she raised her head and glanced at Xu Tuoran, with some thoughts suddenly appearing on her face.

"But now, I have some guesses."

Xu Tuoran: "...?"

She thought for a while, and pointed to herself: "The stimulus you mentioned couldn't be me, could it?"

"It may be you. It may be the person who came in before you." The woman said, "For a long time, the people who came and went here were ordinary people. Until recently... I said before, 'You are not the person I want to wait for. ’, sorry, I was arbitrary.”

"Although you just came in. But now it seems that you and I should be in the same category."

As the woman spoke, she looked upwards, apparently recalling the superb quick-freezing technique that Xu Tuoran showed just now.

Soon, she turned her gaze back again, and looked at Xu Tuoran with a serious look: "This place is a cage. It not only imprisons monsters, but also people with special abilities. It is just like you."

"And you said, I'm the same kind of person as you." Xu Tuoran nodded as if realizing something, "So you also..."

As she spoke, she swept across the front of the woman. I saw several brooches pinned there, namely "I am not weak", "I like students" and "I have poor eyesight".

Xu Tuoran's gaze stayed on the last brooch for a moment, remembering that the woman had hidden this brooch inside her clothes at the very beginning.

Sensing her gaze, the woman smiled, and was about to explain when suddenly there was a bang bang sound from the stairs, as well as some kind of ear-piercing scream. Xu Tuoran was so annoyed that he frowned, the woman patted her on the shoulder reassuringly, and immediately turned to the direction of the stairs.

"On the stairs, no noise is allowed!"

She raised her breath slightly and shouted over there. The tone was not too harsh, but the movement on the stairs disappeared instantly.

The woman exhaled, turned her head to meet Xu Tuoran's curious eyes, and smiled shyly.

"This is one of my 'abilities'. But the available places are limited, and it can't cause a big blow." She said, and then tapped the brooch that said "I have poor eyesight". "As for this brooch , After I wear it, my eyesight will decrease, but at the same time I can have a certain ability to predict. I can recognize the safe direction in danger.”

That's why she was able to find a suitable direction to break through several times when she was upstairs.

"So that's how it is..." Xu Tuoran nodded lightly, "To put it simply, new residents suddenly came to the cell, and new rules were added at the same time. So you suspect that the new rules are for outsiders... But it's not necessarily true, just in case It happened that someone inside just wanted to escape from the prison. This must have stimulated the jailers a lot.”

As Xu Turan spoke, he picked up the water glass again, and when he was about to drink it, his expression suddenly froze.

"You mean it's possible...?" Noticing Xu Tuoran's stiffness, the woman looked over with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing. I suddenly encountered a small problem." Xu Tuoran was silent for two seconds, put down the water glass, then took out a brooch from his pocket and put it on the table, "This is the brooch that just reminded me of some of my abilities. "

"?" The woman picked it up for no apparent reason, "'I'm troubled by hallucinations'..."

Seemingly understanding something, she looked at Xu Tuoran sympathetically: "So you now...?"

"I saw an eyeball floating in that water glass." Xu Tuoran said calmly, "There is a faceless little girl standing behind the counter. There is a pool of black hair on the floor next to it, and it is slowly floating upwards. I'm giggling. Also, I see a facehugger on your face."

She raised her hand and rubbed the center of her eyebrows: "Do you know how to get rid of this side effect?"

Afraid is not afraid. It's just annoying.

"...Sorry, I can't help you with this." The woman froze for a moment, then shook her head helplessly, "If you can pick up or exchange for a brooch with the opposite meaning next time, and you happen to be able to wear it, you can try wearing it. Said I might not be able to neutralize it..."

Although it's not that common.

It stands to reason that the negative qualities brought by this brooch will be weakened or even disappeared as the brooch is removed. For example, when she removes the "I have poor eyesight" brooch, her eyesight will return to normal levels. Correspondingly, the "safety prediction" ability associated with it will also be greatly weakened. But Xu Tuoran is in an embarrassing situation now—

She does not evoke memories and traits by wearing them. She had accidentally stained the brooch with her own blood.

It's not that she hasn't encountered this kind of awakening method before, but it's the first time she's seen it will bring persistent side effects.

"...Okay, I get it." Xu Tuoran sighed, looking at the woman in front of him expressionlessly, forcing himself to ignore the face-hugger on her face, "Forget it, don't worry about me. Continue just now topic."

"You said that this is a 'cage' set up for people with special abilities like you and me... Well, what is the purpose of the other party?"

The ultimate purpose, of course, is currently unclear.

The woman is also very helpless about this. After all, what she remembered was limited, and her range of activities had been restricted by the **** bear. Little information was obtained.

But she can be sure that the other party must be here for their abilities. It is consciously suppressing or even depriving them of their special abilities.

"I used another brooch to recall another part of the special ability. I have forgotten what that ability is, but I know it is very useful and helped me fight all the way from the office to the bug museum." The woman side Flipping through the notes, I thought about it seriously, "Unfortunately, I was not strong enough at the time. I was knocked down by a black bear at the worm hall. After being unconscious, I was sent back to the entrance of the forest."

But at that time, although her consciousness was already blurred, she still saw it with certainty, and the black bear took the brooch from her body-two of them.

"The problem is, I was only wearing a brooch at that time. And after I woke up, I had completely lost the memory of that ability, I had no memory at all. So I suspect that those black bears can transfer our memory of the ability Separately extracted as a brooch and taken away. In addition, there is another very important point-I have been here for a long time, and I have never found a brooch directly related to a special ability. I asked other people, and they also did not."

The woman said with a solemn expression: "Since the memory of abilities can be made into brooches alone, why has no one discovered it before? Is it possible that those brooches were controlled by Daxiong from the beginning—or in the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes? "

Xu Tuoran looked at the face-huggers in the hallucination, and nodded solemnly: "You think they keep these ability brooches in one place alone."

"A place we can't find." The woman pursed her lips, took out her own map again, and scratched it with her hand, "I suspect that it is one of these unlocked locations, that is, those white bears will go collectively The place."

Black bears will gradually turn into white bears, resulting in an increasing number of white bears. After the number reaches a certain level, some white bears will gather and go to the depths of the forest together. Afterwards, the white bears that leave will disappear forever, and the number of black bears will increase.

"Deep in the forest, there must be a core location that can directly transform a white bear into a black bear. Our ability brooch may also be hidden there. Maybe the name brooch is also there." The woman sighed, "Unfortunately, I can't find it now Way to go."

Along the gravel road, the farthest place that can be reached is the office. After passing the office, if you continue to walk along the gravel road, you will not be able to reach the buildings behind - the gravel road will extend indefinitely, like a looping belt, you can't go to the end, and you will never reach the next goal land.

"So if you want to reach the building behind the office, you can only go through the woods. But the further north you go, the more strange the state of the woods becomes, and the black bear becomes more and more difficult to deal with. With only one person's strength, you can reach the worm The location after the museum, is very difficult."

That's why she wanted to find someone with the same ability as herself, and discuss it well-according to her original idea, they could actually cooperate. Help each other find brooches that can arouse part of their abilities, and then make an appointment to use their strengths and attack separately.

After all, the number of **** bears is limited. When a person is hunted down by a **** bear, it means that another person has a greater possibility of breakthrough.

When Xu Turan heard this, his heart suddenly moved: "Except for me, how many people have you confirmed this plan with?"

"Four." The woman said bluntly, "One of them also remembered some abilities. His hand-to-hand combat ability is very strong. The other two have regained their abilities before, but they were all taken away by black bears. The other one is Never regained my ability."

But because he, like himself and others, has been imprisoned for too long, so long that he forgets the time. So the woman still informed the existence of the "special ability" and agreed to join the operation after he was retrieved.

The only exception was the girl she had met before Xu Tuoran. The girl came in not long ago, and she didn't know anything about "special abilities". The woman suspected that she might be just an ordinary person with "worms" on her body, so she didn't tell too much.

As for the others, because she is resident in the tea room, she has also agreed to meet here from time to time and exchange the brooches she picked up with each other. They just need to hide a bit to avoid attracting the attention of the white bear.

"So..." Xu Tuoran nodded thoughtfully, "It means that I can also come to you in the future?"

"Be more concealed." The woman said, after thinking for a while, she said, "Do you have a guide book with you?"

Xu Tuoran nodded and took it out. The woman opened her guide book and clicked on the page of "Camphor Forest": "Look, this profile picture is now black."

Xu Turan took a closer look, and found that it was indeed—on the introduction page of "Camphor Forest" in the guide book, the original picture was a camphor forest under the sun. But now, it has turned into a camphor tree in the night.

"This picture can reflect the day and night conditions of the building. If you come to me next time, you can either wait outside during the day and wait for the white bear on duty to go out to play before coming in. Or come at night. Like The current first floor is more suitable…”

"Do something shameful." Xu Tuoran said leisurely.

woman:"…"

Okay, you can fight, you're right.

So far, the situation has been explained. Taking advantage of his free time, Xu Tueran took out all the brooches that he had swept into his bag before, and exchanged them with the woman again. The good news is that her hallucinations are not so serious that she can’t even read the words. The bad news is that, This time, she did not find a brooch related to herself.

But Xu Turan is not picky. Except for the brooches related to herself, such as "I'm useless", "I'm sad", "I'm lonely" and so on, she also picked up all of them. "The record of knocking down a black bear in three consecutive hits is still obsessed, and I am thinking about finding an opportunity to try again.

And after the two of them checked each other's brooches, the pictures in the guidebook just changed from night to day. Xu Tuoran put away his things, stepped forward and tried to push the door, and the door opened in response.

There are still green trees rushing outside the door, and the sun is bright. Xu Tuoran immediately bid farewell to the woman and prepared to leave. The other party was still a little worried about her hallucination symptoms.

Worried but also a little strange, why Xu Tuoran, who is engaged in quick freezing, has something to do with hallucinations.

"It's okay. I've basically gotten used to it." Xu Tuoran vowed, "As for the reason, I probably figured it out."

When I picked out the brooch just now, my mind happened to be relatively empty. She sank down and reorganized the fragmented memories she had obtained, and roughly figured out the situation:

Her hallucination should be caused by "leveling up" in a place called "Path of Chaos". And judging from her memory, she should have achieved a big leap from the so-called "Hui class"—that is to say, this itself was a side effect of improving her ability, not because of any fault with herself.

As for what the "Path of Chaos" is, and what exactly is the "upgrade". I can't remember this at the moment, and Xu Tuoran didn't bother to think about it.

Xu Tuoran briefly explained, turned around and left. The remaining woman stood alone in the hall, but her face showed a bit of contemplation.

"Path of Chaos? Such a familiar word." She thought to herself, "But what level did she just say?"

Xu Tuoran just said "Hui-level" - but to the woman's ears, there was only a blocked "beep".

the other side.

Xu Tuoran's face was calm, but as soon as he left the tea room, he immediately walked to a place where no one was there, and took out the pen from the bag.

"Ask you." She said directly, "How did I solve my previous hallucination problem?"

—Just pretending to be calm on the surface doesn’t mean you’re really calm. Anyone who sees facehuggers and big eyes everywhere will be a little annoyed. Not to mention that Xu Tuoran could clearly feel that the hallucinations he saw were getting worse.

She didn't think her original self could be strong enough to ignore these things and act. So there must be some solution.

Sure enough, Pen Fairy's Pen quickly gave an answer:

[The pattern on your arm. Can suppress. 】

arm?

Only then did Xu Tuoran remember the strange patterns on his arms. That's what co-authoring is for.

She rolled up her sleeves and took a look, and sure enough, she found that the traces of the pattern had faded a little. Take out the marker pen on the spot, ready to fill it up directly. Just finished it, suddenly saw a large group of white things shaking in the distance—

Behind the white, there is a larger group of black.

Taking a closer look, a big white bear is leading four **** bears here. While walking, he pointed in Xu Tuoran's direction and gestured to the **** bear.

The gesture seemed to say, "Yes, Officer, that was her just now! I saw it with my own eyes!"

Xu Tuoran: "..."

Quickly put away the marker pen, and put away the pen of the pen fairy. She didn't rush to run, but first picked up the stone spear on the ground, and took off the coat she was holding outside.

At this moment, both Baituanzi and Heituanzi stopped in their tracks.

"Is there something wrong with you?" She straightened her body, shouldered the stone spear, and said calmly.

— Nobody answered her question.

Seeing the big white bear leading the way, he silently took two steps back, then turned around and ran away without hesitation.