Chapter 223 Collapse of the City (21)
"Are these mechanical beasts going to come alive?" Zhao Shuo asked in a low voice.
After all, he had a lot of experience in games, so after the initial panic, he quickly calmed down. Although he was still as nervous as a little animal with its fur standing on end, he still calmed down.
Su Yue had the same idea as Zhao Shuo. The red light in the eyes of those mechanical beasts was not a good sign in any way.
But when they calmed down and continued to observe, they found that there was no movement in the exhibition hall again.
Those mechanical beasts, whether they were birds flapping their wings to fly, hyenas with their mouths wide open, or snakes in an attacking posture, although they were lifelike and their eyes were glowing red, they were 100% machines, and indeed, machines that could not be started.
Su Yue even cautiously leaned over and touched the snake's head, and it felt like cold, hard metal.
Nothing special.
But the mechanical beasts are placed here, even if they are just for display, there must be a reason for them to be there, and there are their names... Rage, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony, Greed, □□, and Pride.
These emotions are often seen as the "seven deadly sins" of mankind, that is, seven extreme emotions that induce the ugly side of human beings. Many religions have similar sayings.
These names should be more than just for the sake of appearance.
"I feel a little dizzy." Zhao Shuo held his forehead. "I wonder if it has anything to do with these red lights."
His condition was not serious, but in a completely unfamiliar and unknown environment, any small change could not be ignored. Su Yue calmed down and felt that he did not feel any discomfort. He asked Cang Zhi again, and Cang Zhi also said that he was fine.
Su Yue couldn't explain the reason for a moment, but he used his divine power to protect Zhao Shuo a little and comforted him, "It's okay, let's keep going."
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According to the proprietress, there is a green heart key in the "hidden exhibition hall", but no one knows where the "hidden exhibition hall" is located. However, the difference between the "game" and reality is that the game always gives some guidance, so the mechanical beast exhibition hall is the most conspicuous as soon as they enter, so they follow the route.
The exhibition hall of mechanical beasts is very large. Walking around, you will find that the mechanical beasts have different shapes, but their names are the seven emotions of the "Seven Deadly Sins". Walking to the bottom of the exhibition hall, Su Yue saw at a glance that there was a touch-screen computer against the wall of the exhibition hall.
Just like the touch-screen computers found in most exhibition halls, this machine looked no different except that it had a cooler appearance. Su Yue walked over and tried to poke the screen.
The entire exhibition hall was closed and there was no electricity, so 90% of the reason why Su Yue came to poke around was just out of curiosity, and the other 10% was what everyone does when playing games, "investigate everything you see."
With a "beep", the touch-screen computer actually lit up.
The moment the screen turned fluorescent white, Su Yue's eyes were illuminated by the light and looked quite astonished.
He had never expected that the computer could be opened like this.
After a short boot animation, the touch-screen computer enters the main interface.
Although it's the main interface, it looks quite sinister. The entire screen looks as if it's been violently squeezed. The smooth image is filled with moire and voids caused by the glass shattering from the inside. There are also large, discordant blocks of purple and green colors stacked where they shouldn't be, making the entire display look like an online crime scene.
I can barely see the options on the main interface.
-【Optical Brain Project】
- Emotion Regulation
-【More Exhibition Halls】
Emotional regulation.
Although the appearance of this word is somewhat strange, it fits in quite well with these mechanical beasts named after various emotions. As for the "Optical Brain Project", it is also a button that Su Yue really wants to press.
But after thinking about it, he decided to click on the "More Exhibition Halls" option first.
Because the proprietress said that there is a "hidden exhibition hall" in the museum, and the hidden exhibition hall and "more exhibition halls" can be said to mean the same thing.
Another more important point is that if it were an ordinary game, Su Yue would click the buttons one by one from top to bottom, but the survival game is very difficult, and this computer is in a very unstable state. Su Yue's divine intuition tells him that he must click on the thing he wants to see most first.
So Su Yue clicked on "More Exhibition Halls" first.
After a brief pause, a large mass of purple suddenly surged onto the screen, like sewage rolling up from a sewer, but the purple mass soon stabilized.
After stabilizing, what appeared on the screen was actually a... Sudoku.
At first glance it looks like Sudoku, but upon closer inspection it is different. Suyue remembers that the Sudoku game in the human world is to fill in a nine-square grid with three horizontal and three vertical squares, and the numbers horizontally, vertically, and diagonally are all different.
But the Sudoku in front of me has eight squares horizontally and eight squares vertically, for a total of sixty-four squares.
Su Yue was a little confused.
"What is this?" he asked Cang Zhi.
"This seems to be called..." Cang Zhi frowned, "Eight-square Sudoku?"
Su Yue looked at Cang Zhi in astonishment. The moment his eyes widened, he seemed to see the mechanical beast's eyes turn red again from afar, but he didn't care. He didn't expect Cang Zhi to be able to say the name of the pattern in front of him.
It is true that Cang Zhi is a knowledgeable god, but "omniscience and omnipotence" is a false proposition. His understanding of the human world is not even as good as Su Yue's, and things like "Eight Palace Sudoku" should not be within his scope.
"How do you know?" Su Yue asked.
"Maybe I've seen it in a book." Cang Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I just know the name."
Su Yue wasn't good at either Sudoku or Eight-Palace Sudoku, but Zhao Shuo came over to take a look and said hesitantly, "Maybe I can solve this thing."
"Really?" Su Yue looked at Zhao Shuo with eyes as if he were looking at a treasure from heaven and earth.
This was the first time Zhao Shuo had been looked at like this by Su Yue. He was flattered. "I... well, math is OK, but this is much harder than the Nine Squares Grid. It's going to be troublesome if I don't know the formula, so it might take some time to figure it out."
I immediately copied this Eight-square Sudoku to Zhao Shuo and asked him to sit against the wall and calculate it, a bit like a primary school student who was forced to do homework during a spring outing.
It takes time to calculate this. Su Yue thought about it and switched back to the broken main interface.
Now the changes in the main interface are more obvious. On the display screen, electric currents are running around in the cracks between the glass fragments like parasites, causing the text boxes and words to tremble, as if they will split into something strange at any minute.
Su Yue hesitated for a moment, but still clicked the "Optical Brain Project" button.
The button cracked in a very strange way.
It was as if a ball of mud had poured out from the center of the screen, swallowing up the buttons. Without warning, music started playing on the computer, and like the picture, the music was strangely distorted and stuck.
Su Yue's eyes blurred, and the next second, the world in his sight changed.
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He stood on the dark street, hearing eerie noises on both sides. He looked around and saw a ghost in red reflected in the window of the only house, and green eyes staring at him from the tree.
The wetness under his feet seemed to be rain, but when Su Yue looked down, he found that it was dark red.
Just as he lowered his head, there was a soft "swish" sound, as if something was passing by him from behind with a chuckle.
Su Yue: "..."
He wasn't nervous, but he was a little confused. What was going on?
Carton's broadcast sounded again.
"Hello, visitor! Thank you for playing the Night Museum game. Please remain calm, cross the streets, and connect with your friends to complete the game. All horror elements in the game are virtual. If you cannot bear it, you can exit the game at any time by pressing the emergency button."
As the broadcast sounded, a sign with the word "Emergency" appeared in the upper right corner of Su Yue's sight.
Su Yue didn't want to waste time on any games, so he pressed the button immediately. But nothing happened.
Forget it, this was also within Su Yue's expectations.
No matter how nice the broadcast sounds, it's obvious that this computer is not one that can be exited normally.
These so-called "horror elements"...
Su Yue looked at the windows of the houses that were gradually cracking, and the red-clothed ghost that was crawling out.
Never mind.
I have to finish walking this street anyway.
The radio said "connect with friends", what does this mean?
Were Cang Zhi and Zhao Shuo also dragged into this little game?
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In short, Su Yue continued to move forward.
The further he went, the more horrifying the scenes on both sides became. There were demons and monsters, as well as blatant death threats such as murders. The level of gore would not pass inspection anywhere.
The broadcast said to "keep calm", Su Yue was not sure what this meant, but he was indeed quite calm.
He had seen scenes more ferocious than this, and at the moment, these scenes did not seem to pose any threat to him, they were simply scary.
Occasionally, a bloody hand would be placed on Su Yue's shoulder, and Su Yue would calmly brush it off.
hand:"……"
He looks like he's about to die of injustice.
I don't understand what it means.
This terrifying yet peaceful scene did not last long. Soon, two forked roads appeared in front of Su Yue. The ends of both roads were hidden in the fog. It was obvious that only one road was the right one. If he took the wrong one, no one knew what would happen.
Two mirrors facing each other appeared at the fork in the road.
Su Yue was not sure what to do, so he looked at one of the mirrors, and the scene inside stunned him for a moment.
He saw the divine realm, the rolling clouds and the familiar divine light, the gods lined up and bowed, and a tall and graceful young man in black stood among the gods.
Su Yue was completely confused. What was this?
Why can I see the divine realm in the mirror of the game?
Just when he was confused, the image in the mirror next to him automatically appeared to him.
This time the scene is of a human village, with dense woods, wooden houses outside the woods, as well as hillsides and ridges in the distance. Some vague human figures are swaying in the village.
As Su Yue became increasingly confused, the radio rang out at the right moment:
"Please choose the memory of your friends. The right choice will lead you to the exit. Remember, maintaining emotional calmness and careful thinking are the keys to happiness."
This was the second time the word "keep calm" appeared. Su Yue didn't bother to care. He was quite calm now and not as shocked as before.
Because he had figured out what was going on with the two mirrors.
The optical brain project seems to be related to human thoughts, so it is understandable that there is such a thing.
What Su Yue saw in the mirror was Cangzhi's memory, and the other was a fake memory. In other words, the picture he saw was copied from Cangzhi's mind, not the exaggerated and outrageous thing that "there is also a divine realm in the game world."
Of course, being able to read minds is quite exaggerated, but considering that the mechanical beasts outside are all about emotions, and there are so many "light computers", reading minds or reading memories is normal in this city.
Now what he needs to choose is the memory that belongs to Cangzhi.
Su Yue and Cang Zhi didn't actually talk much about the past. Su Yue was attracted to Cang Zhi back then, and many of his words were meant to show off his humor and easygoing nature, but he didn't go too deep into the past.
After that, our relationship went bad and I never asked again.
But Su Yue at least knew that Cang Zhi was the main god.
The one and only Lord God in heaven and on earth, with pure and noble bloodline.
The two memories were of the divine realm and a small village in the human world. The memory scene belonging to Cang Zhi was, of course, the memory of the divine realm.
To put it another way, the image of the small mountain village was too crude and looked fabricated.
So Su Yue made the choice without hesitation and pressed his palm on the mirror on the left. There was still one second of confirmation time after pressing it. After the confirmation was completed, Su Yue was caught off guard and heard a long "beep" sound.
"Wrong answer."
With a loud crash, the mirror shattered.
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The moment the mirror shattered, thick black fog gushed out, mixed with the smell of blood. It looked completely different from the horror elements encountered on the road just now.
"Shock" is also a manifestation of "unrest". When Su Yue's heart was shaken violently, the horror atmosphere in the entire mini-game intensified sharply. The black fog was so thick that it almost became a substance. A red-clothed ghost rushed over with a scream, and a perverted killer wielding a kitchen knife instantly stared at Su Yue, but Su Yue's attention was not even here.
He easily waved away the black fog with his sword, but the shock in his heart was beyond words.
How could I have chosen wrongly?
How come the divine realm is not Cang Zhi’s real memory?
Could it be the village by the woods?
But why did Cang Zhi have such a memory? He rarely went to the human world. If it was the time when he saved Su Yue in the human world...the village where Su Yue lived in the human world was not the same.
Su Yue rarely gets upset, but when it comes to Cang Zhi, he is indeed a little confused.
He couldn't figure out what was going on, but fortunately it didn't affect Su Yue's combat effectiveness.
Su Yue methodically blocked the flying kitchen knife, and used it to wave the red-clothed ghost aside. Then he ducked to avoid the black fog, but he felt that this was not a solution.
There was no end in sight to the endless attacks, and he didn't know what situation Cang Zhi and Zhao Shuo were in, or whether they were safe.
He was very relieved about Cang Zhi, but Zhao Shuo... Although Zhao Shuo had completed several games independently, in Su Yue's eyes, he was just a smart but a little weak human who needed protection.
Unfortunately, he was trapped here and couldn't find a way out.
Such thoughts made Su Yue a little irritated, and "irritation" was obviously contrary to the game's requirement of "keeping calm".
Then everything became even crazier.
The streets shrank, the entire space tightening and melting, black mud flowing across the street. Ghosts screamed piercingly, and the ground beneath their feet became scorching hot. All the ghosts, killers, flames, poisonous fog, and monsters rushed towards Su Yue!
Right at this moment.
"Hua La"——
It was like the sound of glass breaking, but far more penetrating than that sound, as if the whole world was made of glass and was shattered in an instant.
Su Yue was in a daze for half a second, and the scene in front of him suddenly changed. He was back in the exhibition room of the museum, standing in front of the computer.
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Su Yue’s first reaction was to go find his companions.
Zhao Shuo was still sitting in the corner doing his homework. He looked up when he heard the noise. Only Su Yue's consciousness was pulled into the game, and his body was still standing there, so he didn't even notice.
As long as Zhao Shuo is okay, Su Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
Of course Cang Zhi was fine and was standing next to the computer, but then Su Yue noticed that the palm of his right hand was covered in blood.
"What happened?" Su Yue's expression suddenly changed. He didn't want to disturb Zhao Shuo, so he lowered his voice and asked, "How did you get hurt?"
"It's okay." Cang Zhi said, "We were both trapped in that space just now, and I could see what was happening over there. I felt something was wrong, so I crushed the entire space."
Sure enough, Cangzhi and Suyue were trapped in the game together just now.
This was the sound that Su Yue heard.
The game space was crushed, and Cang Zhi was also restricted here, so it's no wonder that he was injured.
Cang Zhi's tone was still very calm: "Just a minor injury, no..."
Before he finished speaking, he noticed Su Yue's distressed expression and immediately changed his words: "I didn't expect it to hurt so much."
Su Yue:?
Cang Zhi observed Su Yue's reaction and said seriously: "Yeah, it hurts."
Su Yue: "..."
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