War Paradise

Walking through the winding underground passage, the "woman in white" holding a candlestick watched the situation around her vigilantly.

The underground air is extremely dull, and there are light green spots floating in front of me, like tiny bugs, and like particles of poisonous gas.

After walking for about five minutes, the passage in front of me began to widen. What I saw was a circular open space. The ground was covered with solidified blood. A wooden ladder was placed against the wall.

Beside the ladder, there was a decomposing corpse upside down, half of the decaying muscles on his face peeled off, revealing the dense white bones below.

Lin Chi put down the candlestick in his hand and searched the corpse as usual. This time he did not find any text prompt, but found a rusty copper key in the pocket of the corpse.

——From the linear mode of this game, this key should be used soon.

After searching the open space where the ladder was, Lin slowly climbed up the ladder, pushed a wooden board at the top, and entered the room above.

Different from the dull tones of the few rooms just now, there is an oil lamp hung in this room, and the yellow light that emits brightens the whole room. Leaning against Lin Chi’s left wall is a large empty wooden bookshelf. On the wall on the right, a large mirror is refracting dazzling light.

"Finally I can see what I look like."

Lin Chi walked quickly to the mirror and looked at the face of his avatar with the light from the oil lamp:

The blank-eyed girl in the white skirt was standing in the mirror and "looking at each other", her short hair looked a bit dirty, her dark brown eyes were staring, and a few bruises hung on her pale face.

Looking at the lovely round face in the mirror, Lin Chi fell into deep thought. Although these bruises look like things that only appear on the dead, if a living person is beaten, it may also become like this.

——So, is this character a living person or a corpse?

Unable to see whether his character is alive or dead, Lin Chi turned his gaze to the dirty white dress on his body. If he could take off this dress, he could confirm whether there were any injuries on his body, but...

Lin Chi reached out and grabbed the sling hanging on his shoulders and pulled it forcefully, but the white skirt on his body didn't move at all, it seemed to blend with the skin, and he couldn't take it off at all.

"What's up?" he muttered.

It seems that it may be to avoid some unscrupulous players from performing "Undress PLAY", and the clothes on the characters cannot be taken off. In this way, it becomes impossible to see what's under your skirt...

"Forget it."

Lin Chi turned and walked towards the bookshelf where no books were placed, and began to find a way to leave the room.

Not only was there no door in this room, but even no windows. It seemed that there was no way out. If there are really doors and windows, they must be hidden behind the bookshelf.

Standing next to the bookshelf, stretched out his hands and grabbed the edge of the bookshelf with his slender fingers. Lin Chi tried hard to knock down the bookshelf, but soon discovered that this thing, like the skirt on his body, seemed to be fixed to the wall. No matter how hard you use it, you won’t move.

"what's the situation?"

Realizing that he seemed to have encountered a new puzzle, Lin Chi walked around the bookshelf and carefully observed the details. On the bottom wooden board, he found a line of small characters engraved on it:

"The bookshelf is leaning on here dutifully, waiting to complete its mission."

"..."

Seeing this line of words, Lin Chi put the notebook in his hand on the empty bookshelf without saying anything. Then he heard a click, and the large wooden bookshelf began to move to the right, revealing that it was blocked. A wooden door at the back.

Unsurprisingly, this door, like the other doors before it, was also locked. But this time, the way to unlock the lock is much simpler than before...

Lin Chi took the key he had just found from the corpse from his pocket, inserted it into the keyhole on the door, and opened the door lock with a light twist, pushing open the locked wooden door.

——This time, what will be waiting later?

The "girl" dressed in white was thinking secretly in her heart, took back the notes on the bookshelf, and walked into the dark house behind with the candlestick.

"Uh……"

She frowned and coughed.

There was a lot of dust floating in this room, which caused Lin Chi to have the illusion that he was in a mine for a while. Observing the surroundings by candlelight, the first thing he saw was the dusty floor and the long wooden table with the same dust.

"This is the restaurant?"

The area of ​​this room is much larger than the previous rooms. Judging from the place illuminated by candlelight, the neatly arranged wooden chairs and rectangular tables are like the standard equipment of the old canteen.

Seeing the extinguished candles placed on the long table, Lin Chi stepped forward and lit the candlesticks on the table with the candles in his hand. The originally dark restaurant was finally illuminated by the flickering candlelight.

Then, when he saw the scene in the house, Lin Chi stopped again:

——Several corpses with the same headgear and black cloth bags, leaning on the wooden chairs beside the table, looked stiff as if they were waiting for the delicious food to be served on the table. An old book was placed on the table in front of one of the corpses.

Needless to say, that book should be the "book forgotten in the restaurant" in the notebook!

Thinking of this, Lin Chi also immediately walked to the corpse, glanced at the already stiff corpse, and then slowly stretched out his right hand, carefully preparing to pick up the book.

According to his many years of gaming experience, there is a great possibility of sudden accidents in horror games at this time, but now in order to continue the game, he can only try it...

Lin Chi's right hand slowly landed on the book, and then shrank back abruptly. He took the book and took a step back, staring at the movement of the corpse vigilantly.

...

The corpse didn't make any movements, it still leaned stiffly on the chair, the head covered by the hood drooping weakly, and the expression on his face was not visible.

After waiting for a few more seconds, seeing the corpse still motionless, Lin Chi also breathed a sigh of relief, sat down on a chair by the dining table, opened the book he had received from the corpse, and began to read the contents.

From the font point of view, this book should also be the same as the notes, from the handwriting of the "corpse collector", and all the contents inside are copied by hand:

"The Journal of the Crusader Messenger"

When the soldiers of the Imperial Crusade return from the battle, they will return to the Scar Fort.

The red moon hung in the night sky, surrounded by the purest black. The huge battlefield illuminated by the moonlight is also faintly bleeding red, and the second war between the "empire" and the dynasty has entered a white-hot. And here, the Scar Fortress on the border is one of the most intense battlefields.

A huge silver-gray steel fortress stands on the plain. This is the Scar Fortress. This empire's defensive fortress has been here for five hundred years and still cannot be broken by the enemy.

When I came to Scar Fortress at night, the silver armored soldiers who were in charge of guarding this place welcomed me very warmly. It seems that even if they are eager to die in the battle, they still need the corpse collector to dispose of their companions...or their own corpses.

I have always held an attitude of awe to these fighters who are not afraid of death. But they seem to be a little afraid of me. I don't understand why. Unlike the warriors who were born and died on the battlefield, I was just a timid and despicable corpse collector.

"Are you sure you are timid?"

After reading the text on the first page, Lin Chi couldn't help but complain. In his opinion, the corpse collectors who have lived in such a place for a long time are absolutely incredibly brave...

The text on the first page only explains the background, and does not elaborate on any substantive content. Lin Chi turned to the next page and began to browse the following text at the fastest speed:

...

Only when I arrived at Scar Fortress, the army of the dynasty began to attack. I, who had never been on the battlefield, experienced the legendary siege for the first time:

The heavy armored fighters of the Dynasty Siege Troops flocked to the fortress one after another, completely ignoring the burning boulders thrown by the overhead trebuchets and the rain of arrows released by the imperial archers. Their huge black metal boots stepped on the corpses of their fallen comrades, directly stepping on these corpses into meat sauce.

It seems that these savage lunatics do not need the help of the corpse collector.

The second echelon behind the siege troops was the archer troops of the dynasty. These **** were wearing light silver armor and holding blue longbows. They kept shooting silver arrows against the walls of the Scarred Fortress.

Sitting behind the archer troops is the dynasty knights. Knights wearing silver and gold heavy armor are protected by their commanders.

I used a telescope to observe a figure in the center of the Knights’ phalanx that looked very uncoordinated. The burly man was more than two meters tall and was wrapped in a huge fuchsia armor. He was carrying a figure behind his back. Put the black **** two-handed axe.

"That person is the commander of the dynasty." A soldier introduced to me.

"Are you going to kill him?" I asked.

"No, we want to catch him, whether it's alive or dead," the soldier replied.

When I heard this, I was still puzzled, and I didn't understand what the soldier meant. But then I quickly understood what he wanted to do...

...

After reading the text on the second page, before turning to the next page, Lin Chi almost understood what the corpse collector wanted to express:

"Resurrection of the dead?"

In the game of the medieval world view, the spells used to resurrect the dead generally belong to the taboo category of necromantic spells, and only those exiled necromancers can master this forbidden technique.

Since it is still unclear about the world view of the game "Devil's Chamber", Lin Chi can't figure out how people resurrected the dead in this "world". However, judging from the content recorded in the log, the "empire" The fighters must pass some kind of taboo spell to transform the opposing commander into their own fighter.

——So, what are they going to do?

Lin Chi was about to turn to the next page when a clear ticking sound suddenly sounded around him.

Although the voice was faint, it appeared a lot louder in the extremely silent restaurant. The "girl in white" suddenly turned to look at the place where the sound was coming from, and saw the black and red liquid dripping down and falling on the wooden floor of the restaurant.

Lifting his head and looking at the ceiling of the dining room by candlelight, Lin Chi immediately saw an astonishing scene:

——A naked young man, nailed to the ceiling by several steel nails, his body spread out in a large font, and the wounds on his hands and feet were dripping blood continuously.

"Dude, are you Cosplay?"

While speaking, Lin Chi had already picked up the candlestick and the log and moved back, avoiding the area where the corpse was, and came to the other end of the dining room.

Although the corpse doesn't seem to have much combat effectiveness, it wouldn't be great if it fell and hit his head...

After waiting patiently for a while, he confirmed that the corpse would not move. Lin Chi turned to the next page of the log, surrounded by a group of dead bodies, and continued to read the following content.