Fantasy Game: Infinite City

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Todd heard something in his sleep, the sound was very vague, he got up to check, although there was nothing unusual inside the room, but the view outside the window had turned into an ocean.

"I'm still in the dream."

Leaving the bedroom, Todd went to the living room. Robin was not there, and in the dream world, the traps set by Todd were not in their original places.

Walking to the door, Todd looked out through the peephole on the door, but what he saw was blurry. After thinking about it, Todd opened the door. Outside the door was a barrier made of sea water. He tried to reach out to check, but Todd was sucked in directly.

Just like the dream the night before, Todd came to the bottom of the sea again, but this time there were no underwater caves around him, and the surroundings were also bright. There were some schools of fish swimming around Todd, and Todd reached out to touch the school of fish. Several small fish had no time to dodge and bumped into Todd's hand. The touch was very real, as if Todd was really at the bottom of the sea.

Although there were some reefs nearby, the seabed in front of Todd was generally quite open. Walking along the flat ground, Todd soon saw the black shadow he had seen before.

This time Todd finally saw clearly what it was. It looked like a human figure made up of black sea water, and its outline seemed to be a woman. It kept making some sounds, but Todd couldn't confirm whether it was speaking some language he couldn't understand, or just making some sounds.

After staring at the water shape for a while, it seemed to sense Todd's doubts, and this time it said something again, using a language Todd could understand, which roughly meant "Don't believe them."

Todd woke up from his dream again, this time for real, and found that he was not sleeping in the bedroom, but in the bathtub in the bathroom, just like the first night. There was music coming from outside the door, as if it was coming from the TV in the living room.

"Good morning!"

Robin sat on the sofa in the living room. On the coffee table in front of her were some food that had gone through some, let's call it cooking, which was actually just heating up some cans with the candles they found.

"If you don't want to sleep on the bed, why don't you give it to me? Seriously, why did you fall asleep in the bathtub?"

“It’s safer there.”

"I don't know... I think we can't always be on tenterhooks now. Well, let's not talk about this. I prepared breakfast, and I wanted to make it as sumptuous as possible, but you also know our current situation, so the final product is not satisfactory..."

Although it seemed to the players and spectators outside that Todd had only been in the dungeon for a few hours, Todd's biological clock had already passed several days, so Todd was indeed very hungry. On the coffee table was a box of canned food, some chocolate bars, and a donut. While eating, Todd continued to talk to Robin.

"There's a big mess out there. What do you think caused all this, Todd?"

"It looks a bit like the end of the world at the moment."

"You mean, like what's said in the Bible? If that's the case, I'm afraid we'll be in even bigger trouble."

"What do you think of that woman in white?"

"I'm not sure if she's still... human. I heard her talking to someone. Her voice was so scary that I had to cover my ears with great difficulty, really."

Todd finished his meal quickly, patting the crumbs from the donut off his hands.

"Tell me the truth, what's in that package of yours?"

"They said there was nothing special. My documents, personal belongings, and stuff like that. It doesn't matter now, but if someone comes in the future... it's hard to say."

"Jingle Bell!"

"The phone is ringing! You have to answer it, maybe it's something important."

Robin was still avoiding the conversation about the package. Coincidentally, the landline in the room rang at this time. Robin's behavior was suspicious, but Todd still had to answer the phone, which might be the key to advancing the plot.

"Hey?"

"Hey! How are you, young man? But I seem to have asked a stupid question."

On the other end of the phone was the security guard who called himself the Watchman.

"What's wrong?"

"I lost contact with the police, and I couldn't get in touch with the rescuers. Due to the riots in the city, many phone lines were down. Damn it!"

"But I guess you found a way?"

"Right! You're very smart, young man! There's a big antenna dish on the roof of the hotel. If we can adjust that thing, maybe I can use the security room's radio to contact the rescue team. But the problem is..."

"Do I have to climb up to do it?"

"Yes."

"So why don't you go yourself?"

"I need to keep an eye on the cameras! Something might go wrong, and I...I need to make sure no one gets hurt."

"You know how the hotel floor is like a filthy slaughterhouse right now?"

"Forehead...."

"So why the hell don't you just go on your own? Scared?"

"Um... well... climb the ladder to the top floor. You can reach the rooftop through the restaurant on the rooftop. After you find the location of the antenna, use the phone there to contact me. Oh, and don't bring that woman with you. The noise from two people together is too loud. Good luck!"

"beep.."

The security guard avoided Todd's questioning and hung up the phone in a hurry after telling him the location of the antenna. Was he really afraid, so he asked Todd to help him complete the work that he should have done by himself? Todd didn't think so. There must be something wrong with this security guard. However, the steps to reach the antenna location had already appeared in his task bar, so Todd still had to go.

"You're going upstairs, aren't you? Sorry, I just overheard a little bit. You know, I was going to help you with some of the work, so I was going to go to the first floor and see if you need anything?"

Robin seemed eager to help, so Todd could take this opportunity to see if Robin had any major problems.

"Go see what that security guard is doing."

"Ok, no problem."

The hotel's electricity was very strange. The electricity in the rooms was basically intact, but there was almost no working electrical equipment in the corridor. Todd picked up the flashlight he found in the grocery room on the way and prepared to leave the room to go to the antenna location on the roof.

"Hey!"

"What's wrong? Are you going to tell me what's in the package?"

"Ah? Oh no, I meant to say be careful."

Todd smiled, waved his hand and didn't look back.

Leaving 402, the corridor was still dark, but strangely, visibility was very high. Todd found that although he couldn't see clearly in the shadows nearby, he could see the corridor in the distance clearly. Following the corridor, Todd soon came to the corridor fork blocked by the landslide. Through the gap at the landslide, Todd saw the woman in white wandering in the opposite corridor. Todd didn't want to get entangled with her now, so he quickly went around to the stairwell and headed towards the roof.

"Woo~~~"

"Ok?"

Just as he was moving forward in the stairwell, Todd saw something incredible through the window of the stairwell. A huge monster floated past the window and made some indescribable sounds. He quickly walked to the bed to check. Todd did not see the whole picture of the thing, but saw many huge tentacles similar to octopuses, floating in the air and leaving Todd's sight.

"Is this a copy of the K-series?"

Todd shook his head and left the window. It was better to stay away from anything related to the K-type. Coming to his senses, Todd continued to go upstairs and soon reached the 6th floor, which was the top floor of the hotel. The restaurant was not far from the stairwell, and it didn't take Todd long to reach the restaurant door. But Todd suddenly remembered something and stopped at the door.

"That woman wouldn't be in the restaurant already, would she?"

But no matter what, you still have to enter the restaurant. After all, the road to the antenna location must pass through the restaurant.

"Ah... Shit."

However, as soon as the door of the restaurant was opened, a woman's singing voice came from inside. Sure enough, the strange woman was singing in the dance floor of the restaurant. However, the bodies of the band members fell at her feet, so there was no one to accompany her, which made the situation in the restaurant even weirder.

But if he wanted to walk through the restaurant, he had to pass through the dance floor in the middle. It was unrealistic to avoid the woman, so Todd had no choice but to walk over. The woman also stopped singing and started talking to Todd who walked in front of her.

"It's you! I knew you would come. Come on, I've already booked a table for us."

Todd noticed that the woman's steps this time were very strange, like a zombie, which was completely different from her previous behavior. However, there was no better way now, so Todd could only follow the woman to a table and sit down. Based on the red tablecloth, Todd could probably guess how this table was booked.

"You're late!... But I forgive you. I... dreamed about our first date, the beach, the waves, and the sun hat that was blown away by the sea breeze. You stared at me intently. That was a long time ago... Do you remember where we went that day?"

This woman definitely mistook Todd for someone else. Was it her husband? Or someone else? Todd didn't know, but judging from the anger level that appeared above the woman's head again, it seemed that this was another moment that required careful consideration of words. Fortunately, this question was not difficult.

"beach."

"The sea, the sunset, just the two of us. Proposal... in a restaurant, right here, at this table. At that time I didn't know you very well. I was still a little hesitant... Then you raised your glass, your toast at that time... You said I was your only one... For you... I quit my job. For you... I left the person I loved. But you... left. Took away my family, friends, and youth. Nothing is left, I have nothing!"

What the woman said is very easy to understand. She was being PUA'd by a scumbag. Although Todd is a person who does not believe in love at all, he also hates those who use words to deceive and blind others to achieve their own goals, regardless of whether they are men or women. But the current situation forces Todd to play the role of such a bad guy.

“But I’m here now.”

"...You should go now."

"What.."

"Go! Go! I told you to get out!!"

The woman seemed to return to normal in an instant. Todd felt that at that moment, the woman seemed to know that he did not know her and had no relationship with her. She temporarily freed herself from her distorted emotions and memories and asked Todd to leave quickly.

Then, the woman's body began to twist and shake like an old videotape, and then disappeared in front of Todd in an instant.

Although he was confused about what was happening in front of him, at least the woman would not appear again in the short term. Todd got up and left the table, followed the aisle of the restaurant, and came to the open-air restaurant on the roof. The sky was still very abnormal, with thick smoke in the city and a scene similar to a fire cloud in the sky, but anyone who was not blind could see that the strange phenomenon in the sky had nothing to do with the phenomenon of fire clouds.

After all, it's already past 9 in the morning.

At the outermost side of the open-air restaurant on the top floor of the hotel, there is a very common antenna tower. That is where Todd wanted to go. The antenna tower looked very solid and intact. Following the ladder, Todd climbed up in no time. Next to the transformer, a bunch of lines and operating buttons, there was a landline phone embedded in one of the control consoles. Picking up the landline, Todd dialed the number of the security room.

"I'm at the antenna."

"Hey! You took so long to reply, I thought you were dead! What a miracle, you were able to get in. I saw the woman in white on the surveillance camera, and the guy she met before, that ended up... Tsk tsk. You are so lucky. It seems you have some skills!"

"Let's get to the point. How do I adjust the antenna?"

"Straight to the point? I like that. To resend the distress signal, we need to restart this old antenna and make some simple adjustments. Those dials and buttons look complicated, but they're actually easy to figure out. Just follow my instructions."

"Tell me, what should I do first?"

"You are facing the largest control console, right? There should be a panel with a switch on your right. That thing is used to adjust the voltage of the antenna. Just adjust it and make the voltage reading show 20 volts. That should be enough."

"Okay, what's next?"

"Hmm... OK! I hear some noise coming from the radio station, which means there is no signal. Now you need to set the transmission frequency. There should be a panel with a screen on the left side of your current position. Next to it is a mini antenna for receiving short frequencies. Do you see the two lines on the screen? Turn the knob next to the antenna until the two lines are perfectly aligned."

"You mean you want the amplitudes of the two lines to be consistent? Isn't this the frequency modulation of an oscilloscope?"

"You are quite knowledgeable, right? That's right! That's it."

"All right."

"The signal is much clearer on my end. Now turn on the big antenna at full power. There's a big lever on the right side of the landline. Push that thing up and you're done."

“Click… Click!”

"All right."

"It's done! Alright young man! You did it, well done!"

"Is there anything else you need to do?"

"No need. I can re-adjust the radio signal right now, and I should be able to contact the rescue team soon. But you know, in this situation, it may take more than a few seconds to solve it. We may have to wait for a few days."

"I know that, and... I don't think there will be any rescue team coming to find us."

"Yeah... Go back to your room. If I can get in touch with the rescue team, I'll call you. By the way... Be careful. While you were working on the antenna just now, I noticed some movement on your floor. It's not... right."

The security guard quickly hung up the phone, and Todd left the antenna. The security guard said something was wrong on the 4th floor. Although Todd didn't completely believe him, it was better to believe it than not. To be on the safe side, Todd took out the instantaneous explosive grenade, held it in his hand, and returned to the 4th floor along the stairwell.