"The game only says that you have to close your eyes to complete the game, and the consequences of opening your eyes are not mentioned."
"And if you continue reading the poem, you should be able to leave this space, but may it put Hongye in danger?"
Lu Tan thought for a while and decided to open his eyes.
However, when he tried to do this, his eyelids were extremely heavy and he could not open them.
It was like being pressed down by a ghost on his bed at home. No matter how much Lu Tian wanted to open his eyes, he couldn't.
"So, in this game [Hundred People One Piece], it's not that you don't want to open your eyes, but that you can't open your eyes?"
Lu Jiao roughly understood.
"Thinking about it from another angle, if we use certain methods to force open our eyes or explore the outside, will it lead to any unexpected results by the game designers?"
He opened his mouth.
Some kind of sound that humans can't hear came from Lu Tiao's mouth, and high-frequency ultrasonic waves rippled in the space. Lu Tiao was originally going to listen to these echoes to determine his current location. However, after a while, Lu Tiao discovered something.
.
No reply.
Except for the fact that the ground beneath his feet could be detected, there were no walls, no rooms, and no Hong Ye or anyone else. Lu Tran was in an empty to silent area.
"It's so weird."
Lu Tan thought so and continued to move forward. Now, he could only recite poems.
"Bow your head and miss your hometown..."
As Lu Tan said this sentence, he felt his tense body immediately relax.
He felt that there seemed to be light and heat coming from before his eyes. When his hand touched Hongye's hand, Lu Tian opened his eyes.
At least, the miko in front of me still looks human.
When he lit his candle, he whispered in Hongye's ear.
"There is a problem with the game. You can get out of trouble by reading the poem."
Hongye glanced at Lu Tan and nodded silently.
She blew out the candle and soon left the range illuminated by Lu Jian's candlelight and disappeared into darkness.
"Yuyou Goddess..."
The clear and crisp sound of red leaves came from in front of Lu Kanda, giving people a unique and elegant feeling.
If you put on Chihaya, a miko, and walk in the garden with cherry blossoms falling slowly, paired with these words, it will definitely be a beautiful picture.
Lu Tan took the opportunity to look at the others.
At the end of the wall to his left was Ginpei, whose body was becoming more and more festering. On the diagonal, there was Masamune Tachibana with dense eyes.
Both of them remained silent, looking forward without fear.
Lu Jian turned his gaze forward.
Immediately, he saw a person standing on the other side of the wall extending forward from his position.
The person was wearing a white robe and a hakama witch costume. She had black hair, a pale face, and her eyes were a deep, dark red. She just stood in the corner, holding a lit candle in her hand, and the light hit her face.
It showed a bleak picture.
Wait a minute.
Lu Tiao thought.
This wall is straight. Logically speaking, Hong Ye should be walking next to this wall at this moment. There should be a Hong Ye between him and the unknown thing opposite.
However, I can see the person on the opposite side without any hindrance!
So Hong Ye has entered a different space?
After she finished reading the four lines of the poem, logically she should be able to leave that alien space, but she was about to reach the location of the monster.
Lu Tiao didn't know what would happen when he lit a candle from the monster.
"An An has never heard of it..."
Hong Ye's crisp voice had now become a kind of countdown. Lu Jian wanted to remind Hong Ye, but found that he could not make a sound.
He seemed to be able to see a hazy shadow between himself and the monster in the witch costume. As Hongye read these words sentence by sentence, she would get closer and closer to reality.
"Maple-dyed Ryutagawa..."
By the third sentence, Hongye's figure was already vaguely visible, right next to the miko.
Lu Tran took a deep breath and saw that the miko was motionless, with only one pair of eyes, staring at Hong Ye, as if she wanted to kill her with her eyes.
"The gurgling water is deep..."
After Hongye finished reciting the last sentence, he also walked up to the witch.
The moment before she opened her eyes, a certain sound sounded in her ears.
It was a sharp buzz that was enough to pierce the eardrums and make people dizzy. Moreover, Hongye didn't even have time to cover her ears. The sound penetrated her brain, making her unconscious and difficult to stand.
Almost at the same time, Ginpei and Tachibana Masamune also heard the sound, dropped the candles in their hands and covered their ears.
Lu Tiao saw that the strange witch's eyes fell from the red leaves to him. The eyes that made people feel resentful and desperate were like an awl, forcefully inserted into Lu Tiao's chest, making him feel unnatural.
Pain and winter-like coldness.
However, the witch made no further movements. Only the candle in her hand was slowly extinguished, and the whole person was plunged into darkness.
"careful."
Lu Tran was finally able to speak. He did not immediately remove the bullets from the other three people. Instead, he lit the lantern on the table with a candle and then lifted up Hongye who had fallen on the ground.
He glanced at the corner in front of Hongye. There was no one there. Only there was a trace of dirt in the corner, like blood that couldn't be washed away.
"This game really looks like it's going to conjure up something bad."
Lu Tan said, he looked at the other two people, Tachibana Masamune and Ginpei were becoming more and more monster-like, and maybe tomorrow morning, these two people would turn into a piece of rotten flesh.
After winking and saying goodbye to the frightened two people, Lu Tan and Hongye left the living room and walked towards the room.
"Can you treat them both and get them back to normal?"
Under the misty moonlight, Lu Tan asked.
"For people who have begun to alienate, we cannot purify the filth."
Hongye seemed to be feeling something and remembering something, she said.
"The world is like this. Once it is polluted, eroded, and alienated, it will continue to crash into the abyss and never be able to look back."
"Ginpei and Tachibana Masamune have only been on the island for half a day, and they have already become so alienated. Then, have the residents of the island and the artists who came before have also..."
Lu Jian had a bad premonition.
"It's very possible..."
Hong Ye and Lu Tan thought together. She bit her lower lip and thought for a long time before she spoke and continued.
"Even the Wajima Shrine, which has the strongest resistance to pollution, has fallen. No mortals can survive on this island. I will find an opportunity to inform the Wajima God tomorrow. Please, please, Lord Godson, lower the purifying fire."
"Does this mean the whole island is going to be burned down?"
Lu Jian thought of the flames that had been burning on the bottom of the sea for a long time.
What is the difference between this method of treatment and being unable to control the spread of an infectious disease so choosing to bomb it to the point of directly destroying the entire town?
Of course, in a certain sense, if the divine son of Wajima Taisha Shrine is really allowed to completely destroy this place, then Lu Tiao's mission can be successfully completed.
Unexpectedly, the joke before the mission turned out to be a prophecy, and Lu Tian didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
only.
Lu Tan thought of what Du Danping once told Drizzt.
If you cannot maintain your humanity in a quiet place, you will inevitably lose your life here.
"If, I mean if, I can find a way to find the remaining people who have not been contaminated and can still be rescued, do you have a way to restore them?"
Lu Jian asked.
Hong Ye was startled, and the black-haired miko looked at Lu Jian. The dim moonlight shone on his face, reminding him of the poem he had read before.