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Chapter 16 016: Twelve Midnight (14)

'You seem to have been spotted...'

'it saw you'

Yun Zhi froze in place, his hands and feet were cold.

A distant gaze fixed on Yunzhi, with malice, greed, and madness.

'you will die'

'it's after you'

[Ding!Congratulations to the player for unlocking the hidden mission: Eliminate the source of pollution]

[Eliminate the source of pollution: Xingfu community used to be a place full of joy, until that person came, everything here has been changed...]
[Hidden task reward:? ? ? ]
...

Yun Zhi suddenly woke up, breathing heavily.

But that line of sight follows like a shadow——

Sticky, damp, and murky.

Everywhere.

...

Yun Zhi walked out the door, running towards the location outlined on his map——

She thought she had touched some truth.

The background of the story once said: "A strange thing happened in the Xingfu Community recently. At midnight, the No. 13 floor always disappears inexplicably..."

But in the mouth of the property manager who has been gradually 'alienated', it is: "In recent days, whenever twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, the No. 13 building will always appear inexplicably in the Xingfu Community."

These two sentences are logically contradictory, but it is known that the happy community has been polluted, coupled with the weird double-speed time during the day and night, the players who keep dying, and the ominous number 13——

Perhaps, from the beginning to the end, what the game said was true, and what the property manager said was also probably true.

What the original property manager said should also be the same as the "background of the story", and then the things that should happen happened according to its established rules.

Including but not limited to looking for clues during the day, exploring the main task of the dungeon, and returning to the safe area at night—that is, resting on the NO.13 floor.

But because what happened to her in the middle made the game, or the existence behind the game, feel threatened, it changed the direction of the game as a whole, and increased the death rate of this dungeon——

No, maybe, the game didn't want them to get out alive at all.

As for why he didn't kill him directly, Yun Zhi thought——

The information 'they' got was not accurate enough, and they could only determine that there was a problem with a certain player in this copy.

Maybe even the existence of 'them' needs to abide by certain rules.

Daylight is the real safe zone——

Whether it really exists or not, as long as it is "recognized", even if it only exists in some kind of lingering memory, fantasy, etc., it is fine.

[Ding!Main line progress: 44%→51%/100%]
...

Yunzhi arrived at the southwest corner first.

The moment Yun Zhi stepped into the area, the voice of the game also followed——

[Ding!Congratulations to player 0 for obtaining: unknown memory fragment x 1]

[Memory fragment collection progress: 3/3]

[Ding!Congratulations to the player for completing the side quest! ]

[Reward: points x 50]

[All rewards will be summarized after the dungeon ends, please wait patiently.

But please note that once the player cannot leave the instance, all rewards will belong to the game again. ]
Yun Zhi's eyes darkened, and he fell down uncontrollably. Before his consciousness disappeared, he thought——

This game, damn it.

...

It's been 17 years here.

It is night, this is the child time.

Everything was completely silent, only the cicadas chirping around, and occasionally a few dogs and chickens barking crazily.

But the people in the small town seem to have entered some kind of different time and space, and the quietness is unbelievable.

The woman walked to the center of the town, took the iron pestle in her hand, and slammed the bell that the villagers regarded as the most precious thing——

The loud echo lingered for a long time, and the woman gradually became a little weird.

——I saw her standing under the moonlight, and the shadows on the ground were constantly bending and wriggling, spreading like some kind of pollution and virus.

In the silent night, only the sound of chewing could be heard, but when she heard the familiar voice, the crying voice, and the non-stop shouting of 'Mother, I'm afraid', her dead eyes did not have the slightest flicker. Can't bear it.

Finally, the chewing sound disappeared, and she took the oil barrel and sprinkled it to each house, and finally, she picked up the torch and lit it here.

And the child who kept yelling 'Mom, I'm afraid' didn't completely die——

Instead, become one of 'them'.

She looked at the place filled with smoke and fire, with relief in her eyes, aging visible to the naked eye.

She recalled her days in these years——

After giving birth to this child, although they were a little disappointed, they didn't treat her as before, and let her blend into them instead.

They thought her thoughts had been assimilated by them, but they didn't know that the hatred hidden deep in their hearts never disappeared.

Days passed, and the kid grew up—but unfortunately, his brain didn't grow along with it.

At that time, she thought: This is the retribution of those beasts.

But the beasts are very tolerant of this child, and they always think of him first when they eat and drink.

——Maybe it was because the women who 'come' here after her gave birth to normal children, so they regarded her child as a lucky star.

But just a few days ago, she heard the raving of 'it' one night——

'Want revenge?Let's make a deal. '

'You just have to pay a little bit. '

At first, she thought those were just hallucinations, until that day she 'saw' to 'it'.

—indescribable, unsightly, insane.

From then on, the transaction begins.

...

Opening his eyes again, a figure appeared in front of him.

This figure was exactly what she had seen before——

With four eyes and two horns, the legendary devil Satan is also the son of a woman in memory fragments.

In the massacre that destroyed the town at that time, Yun Zhi compared the surviving old man with the memory fragments he had just read, and found that the two were the same person.

Back then, after the woman had finished her revenge, she explained what happened in the town on the grounds of "the arrival of the devil Satan", and then her body was completely "alienated" not long after, lurking for many years and becoming the current source of pollution .

And her son also followed because of the familiar breath.

It just so happened that she had just seized one of Sombra's abilities and was tainted with Sombra's breath, so there was a scene where she looked at "him" and she empathized with "him".

As for why there are so many deformed people in that small town, it is probably because at that time, people valued blood too much, and a small town in a remote place was the place where aristocratic families took root hundreds of years ago. He is very caring.

The marriage of close relatives from generation to generation has pushed their family, and even the land that developed towards the small town, into the abyss step by step.

The same is true, the woman from back then was brought in and treated like this, just to improve their current irreparable situation.

(End of this chapter)