Chapter 88
"That person is exactly the end of all my imaginations. He has long hair in a high ponytail, and you know how gentle his eyes are when he looks at me." Zhao Xiuli, who was trembling with fear before, now has an indescribable blush on her cheeks. If I were to use one adjective to describe her, she would be a nymphomaniac.
"Ms. Zhao, are you saying that the shadows stopped attacking you before you opened the door?" The counselor brought the topic back. There were some important scenes that required his guidance and confirmation.
After being interrupted, Zhao Xiuli took a long time to react before replacing the man in her memory with the scene before opening the door: "Well, yes, the situation was very urgent. I knocked on the door but no one opened it. I turned around and saw those black and twisted faces rushing towards me. I thought I was going to die. I slid under the gate, curled up, hugged myself and closed my eyes. I didn't feel anything for a long time. When I opened my eyes, I saw those things were blocked three meters away." These memories made her very unhappy and painful, and she could remember every scene.
The conversation on the screen continued to come out, and a round of whispers broke out in the conference room.
"The location she mentioned should be here. This map is the most detailed, and there's no such mansion as she mentioned."
"I suspect she was so frightened she lost her mind. When I heard her describe the man who opened the door for her, I even more suspected it was just her imagination. He had a perfect figure, tall, dressed in ancient costume, with long hair in a high ponytail, looking at her with a gentle smile, letting her in, treating her injured foot, and even preparing hot water for her to bathe. He also had plenty of food, snacks, and drinks. I wouldn't dare dream of such a beautiful dream, let alone a place like that in a ghost town."
"Then what do you think of her clothes? They're clearly not something a normal office worker would wear, right? Even though it's a simple white gown, the embroidery has been examined by an expert, and it's definitely not machine-embroidered. Those who can embroider these days are national treasures. It's illogical to let a stranger wear something like that."
"She also said that her shoes broke halfway through her run, so she ran barefoot. Her feet must have been injured. But now her feet are completely free of any injuries. How do you explain this?"
The discussion was getting louder and louder when the door to the conference room was pushed open and their department heads walked in with the newcomers.
"Because the situation this time is very unique, it was filmed from above. Professor Ai Hongliang, an expert in forensic anthropology, is participating in our investigation and analysis." With a slightly protruding belly, he introduced the young man standing next to him. He might be too young, but this professor named Ai Hongliang did have a great reputation in the police system, and the title of forensic anthropology expert was not in vain.
Professor Ai Hongliang stood in front of the projection screen and analyzed the video he had watched half an hour earlier. "Whether it's from the psychologist or the video, we can tell this woman isn't lying. Now we need to analyze why she came to these conclusions. There are two possibilities: one is a hallucination, and the other is a true event."
"We can't rule out the possibility of hallucination. Given the circumstances at the time, anything that happened is understandable. Of course, if it was a hallucination, it wouldn't explain the origin of the clothes she was wearing."
"The second hypothesis, if what she said is true, then how did this mansion she described come to be? Forensic anthropology addresses the question 'what is this?' Who is the man she's talking about? What is the red lantern mansion? What is the ancient town? What are those dark shadows? And what is this game?"
"So, let's start with the first question: What is that man? First, he exists within the ancient town, but he's in conflict with everything else within it. The Red Lantern Mansion has the upper hand, and the things in the town can't harm him. This creates a kind of safe space that's beneficial to us humans. This is also the most useful information for us."
"As for that ancient town, several historians and geologists have discussed this information, and everyone should know it. According to unofficial historical records, during the sixth Little Ice Age, a plague broke out after a major disaster. To prevent the spread, the town was closed off. The tens of thousands of people in the town lacked medical care and food, and they resorted to cannibalism. The stench of corpses spread for a thousand miles, and the town was burned. After studying the buildings, they roughly matched the appearance of the buildings described by the survivors, and it can be confirmed that it was a scene that disappeared into the long river of history."
"The dark shadows in the ancient town are the tens of thousands of people who starved to death, which is why the scene of cannibalism occurred." Professor Ai Hongliang spoke eloquently at the podium.
This world has long broken the boundaries of science since the emergence of horror games. Now, the greatest advantage of mankind is that they can use scientific methods to study metaphysics. Their country also has a huge advantage. After all, when it comes to cultural heritage, each country has its own methods. From the beginning, to make sure that the things in myths and legends are not false, the country has made great efforts to study and recruit talents from various places.
Ancient books and manuscripts of various sects have also been printed and studied in large quantities, and certain results have been achieved. The biggest problem now is that horror games are random and will pull people in. You are uncertain about who will be involved. No matter how many means you prepare, it will be useless if you can't enter that place.
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The anchor point is locked in the ghost town, passing through the barriers of time and the world and descending into the mansion of this world.
Rong Zhou held his aching forehead, the malice in the energy eroding him in every way.
In addition to these energies, the anchor point this time is also one of the reasons that gives him a headache. Any point of crossing time and space will cause a huge deviation.
Previously, in order to have a conversation with his apprentice, he tried his best to extend the anchor time, which caused the landing deviation this time. The location was right, but hundreds of years had passed.
Yes, the anchor point this time is this ancient town. To be more precise, it is the residents of the ancient town who were locked up and waiting to die hundreds of years ago. The prayers of countless people before their death have crossed the distance of time and space to become Rongzhou's anchor point.
The two minutes of delay that Rong Zhou took resulted in a deviation of several hundred years. If he had come directly according to the anchored time and place, perhaps tens of thousands of people in the ancient town would not have died hundreds of years ago. Maybe, just maybe, no one can change what has happened.
Because of the extreme emotional outbursts of countless people before the destruction, the ancient town that should have disappeared in the corridor of time became an unknown weirdness. Of course, the randomness of the formation of this thing is not unique, so there are not just one or two such weird existences. These things are like bubbles floating around the real world, occasionally colliding with the real world, devouring the energy of the real world to strengthen themselves. The easiest way to obtain this energy is bioenergy, which is simply human emotions and flesh and blood.
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