Chapter 40: Changes
After reading the diary, the two were silent for a while, thinking about the information.
After a while, Lu Songyan broke the silence first.
"Congratulations, the horror story you told has come true."
Yu Yueming:...Thank you, okay, he doesn't want to do it either.
However, there are a few information in the diary that are quite interesting.
The first is time. The other party had some abnormalities on the sixth day, and completely changed around the tenth day. Considering that the cave was dark, the other party should not have carefully checked his situation, and the initial change might have been earlier.
Are these time points considered prompts? Some kind of prompt for the player's mission time limit?
There is also the point that "the writer of diary hates specific directions". Since it has been specifically mentioned, there must be something strange about that direction.
Lu Songyan also saw these two key points and made inferences based on his richer copy experience.
"Our treasure hunt mission will last for seven days, but if it is really delayed to the end, we will probably have a change and affect our actions."
Yu Yueming added: "But there should be advantages. For example, the direction mentioned in the diary seems to be able to be sensed after a change."
Lu Songyan thought for a while and suggested, "Go to see where you want to take a look first?"
Yu Yueming agreed. Without any other clues, we naturally go to explore the suspicious direction first.
Since the writers of the diary are moving in the opposite direction to the "direction of disgust" and finally reach the nest of the monster ape, as long as they move away from the nest, they should be able to go to that special direction.
It is not easy to do this in a winding cave, but it is at least much easier than moving forward aimlessly.
While positioning with the help of the compass, Yu Yueming also tried hard to judge whether he was deviating from the direction based on his own feelings. The direction of his body is indeed very keen. Although it cannot be precisely positioned, it can also ensure that he will not deviate from the right direction.
In order to save power, the flashlight has been turned off. Yu Yueming, who has a dark vision, walked ahead and issued a reminder to his teammates when he encountered obstacles. Lu Songyan walked behind him and followed the slight footsteps he made to move forward.
They just walk, pause, rest, adjust their direction of progress, walk, pause, rest, and repeat in this way.
As he moved forward in the darkness, Yu Yueming couldn't help but have thoughts similar to the diary writer.
How long have they been gone? One day? Two days? Or have they only passed a few hours? Are they really moving in the right direction? Is it really possible to reach their destination?
In this case, he suddenly felt that the difficulty of this copy was not decryption or combat, but a test of the player's will - he could not see hope in the dark for a long time, and he needed to tighten his nerves at any time to avoid being taken away by monsters that jumped out of the darkness.
If it is a player with a weak will, he may end up with a mental breakdown.
The cave was silent for most of the time, with only the slight footsteps made by the two of them rushing to the road.
Occasionally, they could hear the roars of the monster ape from afar. The roars were full of anger, not because they were invaded by outsiders or because their collections were damaged.
There is no benefit to those monster apes. Whenever they hear those angry howls, they will immediately slow down their movements, lower their footsteps, and try their best to reduce their presence and avoid meaningless confrontation.
On the fourth day, things changed slightly.
In the evening, Lu Songyan briefly turned on the flashlight while checking the rest area, and Yu Yueming keenly discovered the abnormality on her body.
"Is there something on your ears...?"
Hearing this, Lu Songyan quickly raised his hand and touched his ears, touching his furry hair directly.
It was a bunch of white hair that was exactly the same as those strange apes.
Lu Songyan pulled her back with force and pulled out a few of them cruelly, then gasped in pain.
"It hurts so much!... Sure enough, it's the same white hair. It seems like I wrote in the diary. If I stay here for a long time, I will change."
Yu Yueming pressed his ears: "...I don't have to do this."
Lu Songyan clapped his hands, looked around for a while, and spoke in thought.
"After you said this, I realized that I seemed to be able to roughly sense the direction mentioned in the diary. But that feeling was too slight. If you didn't remind me, I wouldn't have noticed it at all."
Yu Yueming pricked up his ears: "Is there any other information?"
"Well... I feel very unwilling to go there. If I didn't notice this, I would definitely subconsciously avoid that direction."
This is a bad thing, but it is also a good thing. The disadvantage is that Lu Songyan's change may bring unknown results, and the advantage is that she can lead the way in the future. Although Yu Yueming can infer the direction, it is definitely not as accurate as her special perception.
"I don't seem to have changed much."
Yu Yueming checked his body, found no abnormalities, nor did he sensed a special direction. Maybe the time of the change will vary from person to person?
Of course, it may also be because his body is abnormal and will not change.
“No change is a good thing.”
"Too."
Yu Yueming shook his ears. He walked quietly in the dark for a long time, but now he suddenly opened up his conversation, and he also wanted to talk a few more.
"What do you think the treasure we are looking for will be?"
Lu Songyan thought for a while: "If you ask this, I can only think of some very clichéd scenes for a moment - a huge cave filled with gold and silver treasures, including treasure chests filled with gold coins, pearls and stones scattered all over the ground, and countless antique paintings... In short, all kinds of valuable things are piled together, and the whole space is filled with jewelry."
Yu Yueming imagined it and felt that it was quite in line with the public's imagination, and his first impression was similar.
"What do you think the treasure here will be?"
Lu Songyan hesitated for a moment.
"... Although I really want to say it is gold jewelry, it is a copy after all, and I always feel that it is not an ordinary thing."
Yu Yueming thought about what should be included in the treasure of the Croatian treasure? Magic books? Black technology products of various races? Related objects from old dominators or external gods? They always feel that they are not good things.
Thinking of this, he became a little curious about this so-called treasure.
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After Lu Songyan could sense the target position, the two of them made a lot smoother progress. In just half a day, they approached the vicinity of their destination.
"It should be coming soon." Lu Songyan's tone was a little reluctant, as if he was enduring some discomfort. "I really want to turn around and run away now... The side effects of the change are really obvious."
Yu Yueming didn't feel anything, but he also noticed the changes ahead.
Chapter completed!