Fantasy Game: Infinite City

"Ring ring ring ring!"

"Todd, Todd?"

The ringing of the phone and Robin's voice woke Todd up. Robin's voice was a little muffled, and she didn't seem to be in the living room. Todd sat up from the bed and rubbed his temples. The strange dream last night gave him a headache. He opened his data panel and found that his sanity value had dropped a little.

"Todd?"

"I'm here."

"Telephone!"

Todd left the bedroom and came to the landline. He turned around and saw Robin wrapped in a bath towel. He walked back into the bathroom and heard the sound of water. It was Robin taking a shower. It seemed that he had indeed repaired the hotel's water pump yesterday.

"it's me."

"I am listening."

I picked up the phone and heard the security guard's voice. There was something wrong with his voice, but it might also be that he was a little tired.

"I know what the problem is. The emergency generator has shut down and needs to be restarted. The generator is underground and needs to be reached through the underground parking lot."

"Okay, I..."

"No, I can't do it myself, don't ask. I'm almost done setting up the radio transmitter, I need to get this done. Come over to me and get the key to the parking garage, I'll see you later."

After hanging up the phone, Todd suddenly felt a little dizzy and shook his head to sober himself up.

"Are you going to the parking lot? I have something else to do, so I won't go with you this time."

Robin, wrapped in a towel, poked his head out of the bathroom.

"what's your plan?"

"I can't tell you that. You'll know later. See you later then? Good luck."

Todd still felt a little uncomfortable. He waved to Robin and walked out of room 402 without saying a word.

Walking out of the room and into the corridor, Todd had a syringe in his hand. He tilted his neck back and inserted the syringe directly into his body. As the contents were automatically pushed into Todd's body, Todd finally got rid of the strange feeling of discomfort.

“γ Potion: Restores a large amount of sanity, dispels all abnormal effects, and makes you immune to all abnormal states for a short period of time.”

"Introduction to consumables: This thing is diluted and diluted again. It is very difficult to obtain it. At the same time, no one would want to know where this thing came from. Just remember that this thing is indeed very useful."

The syringe Todd injected himself with was provided by the system when he entered this copy. It was also the only auxiliary recovery consumable that could be used outside the current copy. The system gave him a total of five syringes, and Todd had just used one.

After the injection of the medicine, Todd's physical discomfort did return to normal quickly, but at the same time, Todd's body felt as if it was being burned by flames, with a dull pain. Todd's body even became stiff. It took nearly half an hour to return to normal.

"This thing must have some unwritten side effects. I hope it won't affect me."

Todd, who had returned to normal, walked along the corridor that had become pitch black due to the power outage, toward the security room on the first floor.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Just when Todd came near the entrance of the stairwell, he heard a familiar voice. It was that strange woman, but the woman did not see Todd. Logically, Todd should have slipped away quietly, but this time for some reason, Todd suddenly had an idea that was not right. He wanted to take the initiative to approach the strange woman and talk to her.

Todd immediately realized that something was wrong. Although he was confident that he could defeat this woman in a fight, this woman was very strange after all. So as a normal person, Todd would avoid contact with her as much as possible. In short, he had an instinctive resistance to approaching this woman, which might be due to his deep fear of strange things, or it might be the human instinct to seek profit and avoid harm.

But this time it was different. Todd suddenly felt an indescribable feeling. If he were to describe it himself, it would be a kind of fearless courage coupled with a strong curiosity.

"It's you? How dare you come to see me! Tell me! Who is that young girl with you?!"

The woman seemed to have seen Todd and Robin acting together. She was very angry, and the anger bar on her head was almost full. If Todd had followed his normal thinking, he should have immediately analyzed the pros and cons, prepared for the battle, and tried to find the right sentence to avoid further angering the woman.

"What do you think of her figure? By the way, her name is Robin."

But this time it was completely different.

"What? Her figure... is good, sexier than me, and she's very young, maybe not even 20 years old? But... that's not right! What are you talking about?!!! Are you breaking up with me?"

As soon as the words came out, not only Todd, but even the woman was stunned and almost led astray by Todd. Todd himself was also very shocked. This way of speaking was totally unlike what Todd's brain circuit would choose. Even after he said it, he realized that the words he said seemed to have been spoken without any thought, as if his body had become something that was no longer his own.

"She is younger, prettier and sexier than you. Moreover, after being trained, she will have more tricks in the bedroom. If you meet a more handsome, taller and better-looking man who loves you more, what will you choose?"

"What...I...I...No, no! I will still choose...No...I am...I..."

Todd's words made the woman seem conflicted, and this sentence was not something Todd thought out. He just opened his mouth and said this. But Todd originally wanted to say that he was just joking and wanted to liven up the atmosphere that had become dead because of the surrounding environment. But as soon as he opened his mouth, what he said completely changed its meaning.

While the woman was lost in thought, Todd began to check his own data and status, but there was nothing abnormal.

This is not right. Todd felt that he was deliberately provoking the woman in front of him, wanting to see what she would do when her anger was off the charts. But this was not his style at all. He had never been such an adventurous and radical person. There must be something wrong, but he had no idea.

And there was another thing that made Todd feel puzzled, that was that he didn't know why, but he was suddenly full of confidence. He felt that he could do anything now, and even had a proud sense of superiority.

"No...that's not right! Who is that woman?! Answer me!"

The woman seemed to have come back to her senses from her tangled emotions, and her anger value exceeded the limit of explosion at this moment. As the progress bar disappeared, the woman's head turned into that horrible appearance. She suddenly grabbed Todd, her voice became angry, and she was about to attack Todd. Her various data also increased by dozens of times, and she became a powerful enemy that Todd could not deal with.

However, at this moment, Todd not only did not show any fear, but was unusually calm. He did something he had never expected - he put one hand around the woman's waist and pulled her towards him, their bodies pressed tightly together. He pressed one hand on the woman's neck and pressed her head - if this shape could be called a head - tightly against his forehead.

"Open your eyes! Take a good look! Do you know me?! Huh?!"

Todd raised his voice, and the sound so close to her penetrated the woman's ears. She stopped, looked at Todd's face carefully, and then returned to normal.

"You... who are you? You are not mine... I... I don't know you."

The woman seemed to have recovered her spirit. She looked at Todd's face carefully with a confused expression. Todd also let go of her hand and maintained a polite distance again.

"I... I remember I didn't come here alone. I... Who did I come with? I seem to have forgotten."

"He, as to whether he is your husband or your lover, I am not sure, but from your initial conversation at the front desk, he should be your lover."

Todd pointed to the half-dead body on the floor in the room. He recognized the face of the body, it was the cheating man at the beginning. And after the woman returned to normal, Todd finally saw her face clearly, it was the cheating woman.

"Yes..I killed him?"

"Have you ever had a dream where you are at the bottom of the ocean and there is a woman made of sea water talking to you, trying to get you to do what she says?"

"Yes, did you dream about it too?"

Because before things got bad, almost all the normal people Todd met told stories about nightmares, so Todd told the woman about it with a try-it attitude, and the result really confirmed Todd's guess. All the strange things that happened were probably related to this nightmare and the woman made of sea water.

"I listened to what that woman said, and then I... Then I... So, was it me who killed him, the others, or that woman..."

"I can't help you decide this. Although that woman has controlled your mind, the killing was done by you after all, so the decision is up to you."

"...Go away, and be careful of that woman. This is the last time we meet."

The woman seemed to have awakened from her controlled sanity. She looked very painful. She asked Todd to leave. At this time, the inexplicable courage and pride in Todd disappeared, and Todd returned to normal.

"What happened to me just now?"

After entering the stairwell, Todd sat on the stairs for a while, cold sweat broke out on his body. He was now certain that he must have been affected by something just now, but it was definitely not the nightmare or the woman. He thought that his sanity had not declined, and although the conversation just now was not something he had thought up, it was very real. Todd was very clear about what he had done and said just now.

What Todd didn't notice was that just as he completely recovered to normal, the buffs on his body that temporarily made him immune to all abnormal conditions also disappeared at the same time.

"Ah, fuck!"

However, when Todd stood up and walked down the stairs to the first floor, he opened the door of the stairwell and suddenly something unusual happened. Although he was still in the lobby on the first floor, the environment here suddenly turned into the seabed. However, after walking a few steps, the surroundings returned to normal. On the way to the security room, which was not very long, Todd shuttled between the seabed and the normal hotel several times, as if the nightmare and reality merged into one. Todd knew that he should be getting closer to the truth.

"Tuk-tuk-tuk."

As Todd knocked on the door of the security room, he was finally pulled back to reality. A strong feeling of nausea, like seasickness, surged into Todd's head and almost made him vomit. Fortunately, Todd didn't eat anything after getting up today.

"is it you?"

"Ah."

"Go to the main entrance and turn right. Behind the door is the staircase leading to the parking lot. Here is the key."

The security guard threw the key out from under the door. Todd picked up the key while holding on to the wall to relieve the discomfort.

"After you go down, find the generator room. That's it. You can go now. I have other things to do."

It seemed that the security guard was still angry about what Todd had said before, but at this point, Todd no longer cared about it.

Following the route given by the security guard, Todd soon arrived at the underground parking lot. There were not many cars parked here, and the alarm of one of them kept ringing.

"It's so empty, there must be a monster."

"boom!"

"really."

Just as Todd walked into the parking lot, there was a loud noise, and then the car whose sirens were blaring suddenly stopped. It must have been attacked by a monster and the sirens were damaged. Then the sound stopped.

Todd lowered his footsteps and quickly found the generator room. He went in and closed the door. The landline inside rang. It was the security guard calling.

"Are you okay? I noticed on the camera that there was some movement in the parking lot near you. You should probably be more careful."

"What do you see?"

"A pale, eyeless monster your little girlfriend calls 'the crawler.' If you don't want to attract that thing's attention, I suggest you keep quiet."

"Okay, so what should I do now?"

"There should be an emergency generator near you, but you need gasoline to start it. There should be an empty gas tank next to the emergency generator. Take it, pump some gas from the car in the parking lot, pour it into the fuel tank of the emergency generator, and then start it."

"There are still a lot of cars here. Why don't you just drive one and leave the hotel?"

"I don't recommend it. A few customers tried it the first day, and I can still see their wrecked cars on the outdoor camera. I don't think you want to crash into those things on the street. But if you really want to try it yourself, I won't stop you."

"Huh... OK then, I'll go fix the generator."

"Oh, there's one more thing. Once the emergency generator starts, the elevator will be able to resume operation. Take the elevator to the top of the building. I have already set up the radio transmitter and I need you to debug the antenna. If everything goes well, we will be able to contact the rescuers today."

"alright."

"Good luck, young man."