Welcome to the Nightmare Live

Chapter 184

After listening to Wen Jianyan's remarks, the entire catacombs fell into dead silence.

"wait wait wait……?"

Huang Mao and the others looked sluggish, their mouths were stunned, their heads were stunned by the amount of information in the other party's words, their minds were in chaos, and they almost lost their language ability.

"So, you mean to say..."

Su Cheng organized the language according to his temple, trying to keep up with the other party's thoughts, "All these seven high-risk patients were created? The purpose of the entire ''''Ouroboros'''' plan is to Creation or creation of gods...??"

"right."

Wen Jianyan nodded.

"How did you make it?" Shaoyao frowned, "Does raising Gu make them kill each other?"

"Unfortunately, it's not very likely."

Wen Jianyan sighed.

According to his previous experience in dealing with these seven patients, although the relationship between them is not harmonious and friendly, there is no tendency of life and death. Even due to the setting of the spiritual world in the copy, to a certain extent, In fact, it also avoids conflict between high-risk.

"Then what's going on?" Shaoyao asked with a confused look.

"There is so little evidence right now that even speculation is meaningless."

Wen Jianyan shrugged and looked away.

As the teammate who had made the most dungeons with Wen Jianyan, Su Cheng knew that this meant that he already knew the answer to this question in his mind, but he had not found any conclusive proof for the time being.

This guy is best at turning everyone around with words, and he is also good at keeping silent. If he really has no intention of sharing his guesses, no one will be able to dig the information out of his mouth.

"Okay," Su Cheng sighed and said, seeing that Wen Jianyan didn't want to talk more, "then what do we do next?"

Huang Mao suggested: "The inner world is over, shall we go to the top?"

Shaoyao turned her head and glanced at the dark passage behind where there was no movement, and said, "The corpse over there should have quieted down. If we are more careful, we should be able to go up safely."

"..."

Wen Jianyan didn't answer. He lowered his eyes and pondered. The eyes of the others fell on him. After a long time, he slowly said:

"Have you noticed that the prompt this time is vague, it doesn't tell us how to complete the final main quest."

According to the mechanism in the Nightmare Live Room, after collecting all the props, the dungeon will prompt the final main quest.

The last time Wen Jianyan triggered this mechanism was in the dungeon of Decai Middle School. At that time, the prompt was "return to the original place, the beginning is the end", which is very simple to understand, that is, put the props back to their original positions, Everything can end.

But this time the advice is very different.

Hearing this, the other people's expressions sank slightly, and they also realized this.

really.

[Seven bells, connected end to end, the brain in a vat, a world of its own]

This passage does not provide any clues related to "task completion".

"However, the absence of a prompt is also a prompt."

Wen Jianyan's words changed.

"That is to say, the content of the final main quest is closely related to the secret of this dungeon. If you want to complete the quest, you must understand the core mechanism of the dungeon."

"You mean, don't go up first?" Su Cheng asked.

Wen Jianyan nodded affirmatively: "Yes."

He lowered his eyes, looked at the empty sarcophagus open in front of him, his eyes fell on the crooked notch, and said, "There are still mysteries that have not been solved."

Why is Reese's name on the coffin?

If this logic is followed... Will other high-risk patients also have corresponding coffins?

He looked at the rest of the group and commanded succinctly:

"Separate and find other coffins."

Next, Wen Jianyan repeated the names of several other high-risk patients as quickly as possible, asked them to write down, and then said, "call me if you find a coffin with these names printed on it."

"it is good."

Several people looked at each other, nodded, and dispersed.

Wen Jianyan looked at Shaoyao and said gently:

"Of course, I have no right to ask what you want to do next, you are free to act."

After all, Shaoyao did not activate the ultimate main quest, did not trigger the mechanism of death if the quest failed, and was not bound to this team. Therefore, for her, the most important thing to do next is to accumulate points and leave the dungeon. Rather than risk completing hidden lines.

The peony also understands this truth.

Although she has a very good impression of the team in front of her, it does not mean that she will choose such a risky and extreme customs clearance behavior.

She nodded at her: "Thank you, you all take care."

After speaking, Shaoyao turned around and walked towards his teammate, ready to try to wake him up from the coma.

After awakening, the two teams can part ways.

Wen Jianyan looked back.

At this moment, Huang Mao's voice came from the side: "Here! I found it!"

"Me too!" Su Cheng's voice came from another direction.

So fast?

"coming."

Wen Jianyan was stunned, replied, and rushed over as quickly as possible.

It's not that these two people are talented in finding things, but that these names are really not difficult to find.

There was not a single corpse in the entire catacombs, and all the sarcophagi were empty coffins. After the lids were pushed open, the names were basically engraved on the backs of the lids, which were very recognizable.

After learning the rules, it was not difficult to find them, so a few people quickly found the locations of all the coffins with their names engraved on them.

"There's this here, this, these two coffins together."

Huang Mao pointed to the coffins near him, then raised his chin in the direction of Su Cheng not far away, and said, "The remaining two are on Su Cheng's side."

The location of these coffins...

"..."

Wen Jianyan was stunned for a moment, almost dazed for a moment.

"You stand here and don't move, wait for me."

He said hastily, then turned and walked quickly towards the entrance to the catacombs.

Although Huang Mao and Su Cheng did not understand why, they still obeyed Wen Jianyan's instructions and stood still.

Wen Jianyan counted his steps as he walked. Finally, he stood at the entrance and looked into the huge catacomb.

In my mind, the two maps slowly overlapped.

Exactly the same.

The entire catacomb is exactly the same size as the laboratory hidden on the seventh floor of the Ping An Sanatorium.

The positions of these sarcophagi exactly correspond to the five compartments in the laboratory.

It can be said that there is no difference.

At that moment, Wen Jianyan felt a chill running straight up from his back. It was hard for him to say where this physiological feeling came from, maybe it was fear, or maybe it was excitement.

"End to end."

he murmured.

The laboratory on the seventh floor is the "head". In the laboratory, seven monsters are created, which is the starting point of everything.

The catacombs hidden deep in the church are the "tails", the corpse, the coffin and death, the end of everything.

...like a snake biting its own tail, a complete circle with no beginning and no end.

Su Cheng's suspicious voice came from not far away:

"Hey! Okay? Can we move?"

His voice awakened Wen Jianyan from his own thoughts, he nodded and said absently, "...Yes."

Huang Mao and Su Cheng looked at each other and walked towards Wen Jianyan's direction.

"What did you think of?"

Su Cheng asked.

Wen Jianyan took a deep breath:

"The architecture of this copy."

Su Cheng and Huang Mao were both startled, with puzzled expressions on their faces.

"Anyway," Wen Jianyan changed her words, "do you know the idea of ​​a brain in a vat?"

"Uh……"

Huang Mao blinked and said hesitantly, "Is it the brain in the tank?"

The other two: "..."

Are you a master of bullshit literature?

"I remember it seems to be an imaginary, right?" Su Cheng shook his head helplessly, took the conversation and said:

"That is to say, the five senses of human beings are essentially nerve signals transmitted from nerves to the brain. If the human brain is taken out and placed in a separate container, and then a computer is used to artificially create neural signals, human beings will have no way of realizing themselves. It's actually in a virtual world."

"Ah!" Huang Mao reacted, "Like the Matrix in the Matrix?"

"right."

Wen Jianyan nodded, "Do you remember what I said before about the true appearance of the high-risk patient No. 05?"

Although it chose the face of "Witch Candle" as its own image, it is still a brain soaked in nutrient solution in essence, whether it is a human-like body or a completely non-human body in the laboratory. Human fleshy tentacles and red membranes are all composed of neurons.

Su Cheng was stunned for a moment: "Wait, don't you mean..."

"That's right," Wen Jianyan took a deep breath and continued, "this is the conjecture I just said."

"??" Huang Maoyan couldn't help but feel anxious as he watched the two of them play dumb riddles, "Wait, what are you talking about?"

[Integrity First] Live Room:

"Laughing to death, I can't keep up at all!"

"I had a showdown, and I didn't follow."

"Me too! So what is the anchor's guess!!"

"Hahahahahahahaha grass, everyone laughs at yellow hair, everyone is yellow hair ("

Wen Jianyan opened her arms: "It means that the entire Ping An Sanatorium is the spiritual world of No. 05."

[Integrity First] Live Room:

"?"

"???"

"?????what?"

Huang Mao was also stupid: "Wait, what???"

"In the copy of Ping An, every high-risk patient has a spiritual world, right?" Wen Jianyan asked rhetorically, "Why not on the 05th?"

Huang Mao was stunned.

Indeed... if No. 05 is the flesh membrane, then they have been in contact with No. 05 more than once, but they have never entered No. 05's spiritual world.

He shuddered as if struck by lightning, and murmured:

"Because...we were already in it from the start."

"So the prompt tells us that the brain in the vat is a world of its own."

Wen Jianyan narrowed her eyes.

If the Matrix is ​​used as an analogy, No. 05 itself was bred as a mother. It has no body, only a brain, and is a standard medium and tool.

All the rest, whether patients or anchors, are individuals who have been connected to the mother.

They are active in No. 05's brain and consciousness, but they don't know that they are in a huge virtual space.

"After the bell rings, the anchor will be connected to the mental world of the nearby patient, and after the next bell disappears, we will return to the original position, just like we just had a dream before..."

"We heard the bells twice, didn't we? Start once and end once."

Wen Jianyan raised her eyes and said slowly, "Although we have experienced the world in six rounds, we actually heard the bell toll twelve times."

"!"

Su Cheng was startled and reacted instantly, "But the reminder says seven bells!"

"Yes," Wen Jianyan nodded, "so I guess, the beginning and the end of the bell are actually the same time, and we are connected to the neighborhood as if we were connected to the mother body when the bell rings. The mental world of the patient."

So... although they heard the bells twelve times, they were actually only six times, because the time when they entered the spiritual world did not exist for people in the real world.

"If I had to guess, the sound of the bell is most likely a measure used by some kind of laboratory to suppress the entire world of "Safe Nursing Home"." Wen Jianyan said, "The sound of the bell has weakened No. 05, so the anchors will be connected to other in the mental world of the patient."

Therefore, when he was in the confessional room, it was clear that the ringing of the bell meant the arrival of the inner world, but No. 05 lost the ability to maintain his body and was forced to let Wen Jianyan go.

Therefore, the power balance between it and several other patients is one-off.

Before the bell rang, it was the Ping An Sanatorium itself, designed to restrain the other patients within it—both the building and the caregivers were part of it.

And when the bell rang, it was the weakest of the entire copy, and the patient's power surpassed that of the "sanatorium" and began to construct their own spiritual world.

No. 05 is a prison and a petri dish.

It's the uterus, it's the mother.

"So, there are only two options in front of us," Wen Jianyan raised a finger solemnly: "Destroy the prison."

He raised his second finger: "Or help the prison take the prisoners back."

This may be why the "hints" did not tell them how to complete the final main quest.

Because there is more than one way to complete the task.

only……

Wen Jianyan seemed to think of something, he fell into silence, his face gradually stiffened.

Destroying the prison only needs to face 05. Although the difficulty seems lower, it also means that several other bad species will lose their imprisonment and act recklessly.

The faces of 01, 02, 03, 04 people and what they did pass through my mind...

Wen Jianyan's face turned green.

But if you choose another way and cooperate with 05, it not only means facing several other people at the same time, but also——

In his mind, 05 with the face of "Wu Zhu" and writing on his hand passed by.

An "eat", a "marry"... Obviously, this guy is probably not a good thing.

Wen Jianyan's face turned greener.

I always feel that for him, these two paths... are both fucking pits! ! ! !

"What's the matter?" Su Cheng noticed Wen Jianyan's unpredictable expression and asked suspiciously, "Have you decided how to choose?"

Wen Jianyan: "."

tell the truth?

Neither want.