Online game version of American comics

Chapter 349 Can I sign up independently? (two in one)

"Judgment Knight Jigsaw? Is it some superhero that popped up again? Gotham... seems like a place where Batman haunts?"

Varek returned home exhausted, and was interrupted by the notification tone of his mobile phone before he could drink his saliva after lying down.

Now that rogue advertisements and promotional text messages haven't flooded too much, so the people of Millican are still very 'plain', worried that friends or customers will contact them. Although Varick is very mentally and mentally exhausted today, he still checked his phone.

However, it was not the text message he imagined, but an advertisement message popped up by some software, and some terms that he was very unfamiliar with were also written on it.

Superhero... the word finally aroused his little curiosity.

"have a look."

Going to work and rest at two o'clock every day makes Varek feel that he is about to become a machine or a walking dead. It is rare to have a ray of curiosity and anticipation in his heart. Not wanting to miss it, Varick clicked in along the pop-up window of the advertisement.

After clicking, it automatically jumps to a forum.

Unlike the forums that are very simple when browsing on mobile phones, basically only have white frames and blue and black text, this forum that automatically jumps to it is obviously much more beautiful, and there are many more pictures and patterns, which makes Varek Can't help but feel more interest.

There are a lot of posts in the forum, and every time it is refreshed, a large number of posts pop up, and they are basically discussing around a character named 'Jigsaw'.

But what attracted his attention the most was the post "Judgment Knight - Jigsaw; Author: Arthur Jackman"

This story is adapted from the author's real experience...

A line of inconspicuous small characters was ignored by him. After a glance, he found that it seemed to be a novel, and he quietly started to read it after being bored.

Originally, he was just preparing to pass his spare time with a critical eye, but he never thought about this reading, and he was addicted to it. He couldn't stop reading the only five chapters, and then he came back to his senses. Breathe a sigh of relief.

This is a long-lost feeling of surging heart.

When immersed in these words, the troubles of life, the numb and ordinary life seemed to have left him, and he was no longer an ordinary Varek, but turned into a superhero jigsaw, punishing criminals, Guide people to redemption, fight wits and courage with all kinds of people...

"What a magnificent life..."

With a long sigh of envy, the words came to an abrupt end, and the boundary between reality and fantasy became clear again and became indestructible—he was still the ordinary Varek.

Click on the reply column, and Varek is going to give some encouragement and urging to this rare and good work.

It's a pity that this post seems to be restricted from allowing others to reply and leave messages, and the series of long texts he typed had to be deleted bit by bit.

Exiting this post, he is going to read other people's discussions and comments, and by the way, create a new post like them, leaving a little impression and encouragement for the author.

"Huh? Jigsaw's new chamber of secrets? Why are these plots different from what I saw? Did the author update it again?"

After clicking on a post published by an unfamiliar ID, Varek froze for a moment after glancing at the content, and then found the post about updating the novel again with some excitement and anticipation.

However, there was no update, and there was still only the content he had read just now.

Unwilling to give up, he could only guess whether the author had created other posts, and he would not let it go at all, and clicked on every post in the forum.

But every time he read a post, his doubts only increased.

"Why are these people's messages so strange, saying that the jigsaw seems to be real? It can't be that these people are so addicted that they can't distinguish between fantasy and reality, right?"

Thinking of how he felt when he read it just now, Varek couldn't help feeling a little more suspicious in his heart.

Finally, after clicking on a "Jigsaw and Jigsaw" post, his doubts dissipated instantly, and the original doubts were also resolved.

"Jigsaw is a real superhero in Gotham City?"

"The author who wrote this novel turned out to be a scumbag who came to his senses after being punished by the jigsaw?"

Varric was shocked, the jigsaw in that novel was real?Or was it written by someone who experienced it firsthand?
Isn't this really a special promotional method for a certain movie?
Feeling excited or panicked, he rushed to his desk in a hurry, turned on the computer, and entered the URL left in the post with trembling hands.

The videos are all recorded videos about jigsaws, and a large part of them is the experience of Arthur Jackman, the author of the novel on the forum.

After hesitating for a moment, Varek temporarily dismissed the one with Arthur Jackman in the title, and clicked on the latest one based on the video's publication date.

When the video was turned on, what came into view was the jigsaw exactly as described in the novel.

Puppet masks, a dark background, dim lights in front of the camera, and a weird atmosphere... The real scene is even far more creepy than the author's description.

"Welcome to... Jigsaw Theater, I am the host of this show, you can call me - Jigsaw."

"First of all, because the recent Lost Lamb is quite special, the subsequent scenes may be a bit cruel and bloody. Please leave the stage consciously for children who are not yet full and those with weak psychological endurance."

Jigsaw spoke in a joking tone, but the hoarse and low voice, even faintly like sawdust rubbing against each other, really didn't make people happy, but made people feel chills down the spine.

"According to the usual practice, let's introduce the special guest of this show... Sheldon Louise!"

"Sheldon Louise is a successful businessman...at least he used to be, and now, he is a weak person, a weak person who chooses to escape and commit suicide after going bankrupt and in debt."

"The blow of bankruptcy and debt made him overwhelmed. He wanted to escape all this, leaving his wife, children and parents and jumping from a tall building... However, unfortunately, I picked him up."

"Next, I need to make him realize the value of life again, usher in new life and redemption..."

After the opening introduction ended, the screen also switched to a metal secret room, above a middle-aged man with a fat body but a haggard face.

The whole video is not very long, but as Jigsaw said at the beginning, it is very bloody.

A jigsaw was placed on this middle-aged man with various lethal organs, but the keys to unlock these organs were hidden in strong acid, in a box mixed with various poisonous insects, and even implanted into the middle-aged man through surgery. man's stomach.

Kidnapped!Forcing others to self-mutilate!
If it were any other moment, this vicious behavior would have already terrified Warric, but thinking that the real purpose of the jigsaw is to guide people to achieve salvation, he was still obsessive-compulsive with a numb scalp and continued to read. go down.

The middle-aged man had been begging, roaring, and hysterical, facing the keys that he had to torture and mutilate before he could obtain them. This man was so frightened that he didn't dare to move at all, crying so much.

However, as the various mechanisms on his body approached the countdown to death, under the choice of death or injury, he finally moved.

Stretching his hand into the strong acid, it was corroded so painfully that it was pitted and groaning, it was pitted and pitted, and he reached into the poisonous insect box, his body was swollen from being bitten, he resisted the fear and tore off the sutures on his stomach, and put his hand into his stomach...

This scene shocked everyone, apart from nausea and fear, there was also the endless despair like facing an abyss.

"Wait, he... didn't he want to die? He obviously jumped off the roof..."

Varek couldn't bear to watch it any longer, and was about to turn off the video, but a thought suddenly flashed in his mind that made him stunned.

The choice between death and torture and self-mutilation is cruel, and the picture is bloody, but why did Sheldon go to get the key?

He couldn't wait to die, and he had already jumped off the roof. If he wanted to die, he could just lie on the ground and wait for the jigsaw mechanism to kill him. Why did he have to suffer?
Sheldon seems to have completely forgotten this point, and now he is only subconsciously working hard for the "living" that he had already given up, and he is even actively experiencing very painful torture in order to live.

"The desire to survive! Jigsaw is stimulating and strengthening his desire to survive in this way!"

Suddenly realizing this, Varric's eyes flashed a bright color.

Although these punishments for obtaining keys are painful, they will not cause death, and even the chance of being disabled is not very high, but Sheldon's desire to survive has been completely stimulated.

Would a person who could endure so much pain just to live commit suicide so easily?Or, would he still want to die?
Most of the suicides by jumping off a building are just a momentary impulse. Once the eyes are closed, there is no room for pain and regret.

But after experiencing the fear of dying for a long time and having endured all kinds of difficulties and tortures to survive, I am afraid that no one would be willing to commit suicide, right?
After that, as long as Sheldon survives, the real redemption and new life will be ushered in!

"it is as expected."

With the excitement of 'seeing through the puzzle', Varek skipped all kinds of torture and fast-forwarded the video to the end.

Sheldon was covered with scars, but the death mechanism on his body had been taken off. He was facing a door with bright sunlight, and his eyes were full of luck and ecstasy of surviving a life-and-death crisis.

"Congratulations, you have successfully cleared the jigsaw chamber. It seems that you are not as eager to die as you thought."

"Original you are not even afraid of death, why should you be afraid of poverty and debt, the worst result is death..."

"I hope you can remember today's experience and welcome your new life."

Jigsaw concluded in a low and hoarse voice.

But Sheldon, who was still immersed in the joy and excitement of successfully escaping, was startled when he heard the words, and stood at the door of the secret room in a daze, without moving for a long time.

"I thank you for your salvation, but I also curse you, the devil!"

Sheldon grinned with difficulty, turned his back to the door of the secret room and raised his middle finger upwards, then burst out of the door of the secret room laughing loudly.

The laughter is loud and the emotions involved are complex.

Even Varek, who is not good at observing words and expressions, can hear the joy of surviving after a catastrophe, the determination and courage to face any difficulties, and the indifference and revenge-like pleasure after experiencing life and death.

The screen also freezes from this, and the not-too-long video is completely played.

"I don't know if Jigsaw accepts self-registration?"

Varek stared at the computer for a long time, and a thought popped into his mind that even he felt that he had gone crazy.

But since the idea came out, I couldn't stop it at all.

He is an office worker, an ordinary office worker who couldn't be more ordinary.

From a young age, he lived obediently according to the trajectory planned by his parents and teachers, and was a nerd.

After graduation, they live according to the fate of the "most" people and become a screw in the big machine of human society.

Going to work and going home are always two points and one line. There are no entertainment activities, and dreams and edges have already been completely obliterated by reality.

I don't know when, he felt that he was dead and became a cold robot, living in numbness every day, living like a walking dead, with no goals, no passion, no expectations, and was tightly tied up in the Day after day on the machine of human society.

It's a routine for most people these days, but...it's not the life he wants.

Everyone wants to live a colorful life, but in reality there are not so many ups and downs in the movies, and the lifting of various invisible shackles on the body can only be imagined in the mind.

Maybe when I am awake at night, I will feel lost and make up my mind again and again, but the next day I still have to act as the numb screw in order to survive, for my wife and children, and for my parents.

A jigsaw might change that!
It is not to help him make up his mind to break free from the shackles, but to let him regain his passion for this numb life.

The so-called dullness and numbness is actually just because the eggs hurt because of being idle. If it is those ancestors living in the ancient society, they have to do their best to eat a full meal. A piece of white bread can be happy and Satisfied for a long time.

He understands these principles very well, and has read countless copies of Chicken Soup for the Soul, but no matter how simple and straightforward the principles are, the words and understanding are completely different.

It’s like reading the autobiography of a person’s tragic experience and becoming that person in person. The former is just a story without nutrition, and even despise and gloat from the perspective of God. Only the latter can experience the misery in person. Changes in mindset and beliefs.

And the jigsaw...can make him appreciate the value of life.

What is the meaning of living?
No, living doesn't need meaning, being able to survive is the greatest meaning.

"Damn it, I must be crazy. If I can survive, I will definitely curse you, the devil."

　Because it is not easy to separate, the two chapters are connected together, the update is a bit late, sorry~
　　Ah, the sun at four o'clock in the morning, you are... ahem, the sun is so dark, it's so dark, sleep and sleep.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)