The Uncanny Valley Travel Guide

The gloomy jungle in front of him has turned back to the wreckage of a dilapidated town a hundred years ago. He Qin dragged Wen Zheliu, and the two fled all the way between the ruined walls. The rushing sound of stone gravel and overgrown bushes.

Wen Zheliu said loudly: "This is not right, unless we say something wrong, otherwise it is impossible not to meet the customs clearance requirements!"

"There is still a link of missing information," He Qin said in a deep voice, "but even Marianne didn't admit that we were right. There is a problem now, either a certain mechanism is triggered and a special ending is opened; or the final boss must be defeated That counts as victory."

"But we can't kill it now!" Wen Zheliu shouted, "We only have a few people, and we don't even have a decent attack tool except a hatchet and a crowbar. How can we kill the boss?"

He Qin's voice was calm and calm amidst Jenny's howling, he said: "Size the situation, guard against arrogance and impetuosity—think carefully, what is it most afraid of?"

Wen Zheliu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and replied: "Eyesless monster!"

Although Jenny is the owner of the eyeless monsters, she hates them the most and fears them the most. They are her inner demons and the shackles that have trapped her here for hundreds of years.

"Correct answer, plus one point." With a smile in his voice, He Qin adjusted the wireless headset of the communicator and asked, "Did you find them?"

There was a reply from Zhou Yao's voice: "The footprints have been found. They are hiding on the edge of the cemetery. Do you want to lead them to you?"

Wen Zheliu was surprised: "When did you..."

"Take one step, look at three steps." He Qin's tone was brisk, "Let's lead to the cemetery, let's go there now!"

He took Wen Zheliu, turned around, and then turned into another dark path. Jenny's huge body couldn't make a turn, and she rubbed against the ground and knocked over a broken wall. It roared: "Don't try to run!"

There are big trees on both sides of the path, and the crowns of the trees are intertwined into continuous dark clouds above the head, but He Qin seems to be able to see in the dark, perfectly avoiding many tree stumps, bricks and stones under his feet, and running quickly in the shadow of the moon.

In the distance, Wen Zheliu could already hear the laughing roar of the Eyeless Monster and Zhou Qing's shouts of jumping up and down. At this moment, his physical strength was still 56%.

"Brother." He suddenly asked, "What should we do if the result is not what we thought?"

What if Jenny wasn't as mad as they expected, if the Eyeless Monster chased the player with it, if they were all doomed tonight, what would happen?

He Qin bent his eyes, and there was a gentleness like water in them, without turning his head, he said softly: "—then let's die together, are you afraid?"

Wen Zheliu smiled.

"Not afraid." He said.

A white light suddenly appeared in front of them, and the two rushed out of the tree-lined path and joined the cemetery. Behind them was Jenny who was so angry that she lost her mind and screamed.

When it rushed all the way and crashed out of the woods, the six attracted eyeless monsters on the opposite side also used all fours to break through the ruins and bricks, with bloody tongues like whips, and shot towards the players!

Wang saw Wang in the blink of an eye, and even the air seemed to freeze for a moment.

Jenny froze on the spot, and the six monsters also shrieked and retreated. Their long tongues swam in the air and curled up. They tilted their heads, arched their spines, and made a posture of looking at them.

"Let's go!" He Qin whispered, "Whether it can be done or not depends on this wave!"

The two gathered towards the large army as quietly as possible, Wen Zheliu asked in a low voice, "Where's Mu Tuo?"

"I haven't recovered yet, I almost passed out." Du Zijun said, "Xie Yuanyuan is guarding the forest with a blanket prop. I asked him to keep in touch with me at all times."

He Qin nodded slightly. Behind the players, the three heads of Jenny Hill were roaring angrily.

"Naughty animal!" It was trembling all over, and its three pairs of pure black eyeballs were blood-red, "Get out, get out! Don't appear in front of me, or I will make you experience the feeling that life is worse than death again! Get out! !"

The eyeless monster slurped and muttered, and hesitated for a while. Its long blood-red tongue protruded in mid-air like a snake letter, as if it was negotiating with Jenny humbly. Burning, it roared and rushed up, and instantly tore with the eyeless monster!

"Don't try to stand in the way of my freedom! I've been locked up here long enough, you bloody beasts!"

Zhou Qing said in amazement: "I, I don't understand, what are they... internal strife?"

"Because of the restriction of the magic circle." Du Zijun said calmly, he had learned everything that Wen Zheliu and He Qin deduced on the way, "Sister Ghost imprisoned Mu Tuo and me on the top floor in an attic with a huge magic circle hidden , I read it, that should be the magic that Marian used to revive her sister."

"Jenny drove these monsters, but because of the contract effect of the magic circle, these monsters also imprisoned her here." Zhou Qing understood a little bit, "She hates them and is afraid of them... I understand. "

Zhou Yao asked: "Then what should we do now, sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?"

Wen Zheliu suddenly said: "No, wait a little longer, I always feel that something is wrong."

He looked at the scene below—it was really a hellish scene, the Colosseum in ancient Rome, or the sensory stimulation brought about by the monster children of Echidna fighting each other would not be more intense than this big.Roaring and howling, shattered flesh and blood splattering, messy and tangled limbs and gnarled skinless muscles... As a human being, Wen Zheliu could hardly watch it for a long time.

One side is an eyeless monster that shrinks back from its master in every possible way, and the other side is a deformed fetus that loses its mind and is furious. Wen Zheliu can't help thinking about what kind of obsession it is that makes them unwilling to do it a hundred years later. Unwilling entanglement, so that you can't get rid of it?

He murmured: "She is not reconciled."

He Qin nodded.Zhou Qing wrapped her clothes tightly around her body, lowered her head and waited for the final result. She sighed and said, "Of course she was not reconciled. She died so miserable and humiliated at that time... no one would be reconciled."

No, not this kind of unwillingness.

For 100 years, only the group of monsters who killed her and her sister have been with her all the time.Travelers who come and go can only stay here for a few days, and the final outcome is either to escape in embarrassment, or to be forced to stay here, reduced to a delicious meal for monsters and the power to strengthen the formation.

She was just a little girl, but she was naked on the street at dusk, and she ushered in her own end in the pain of being bullied|torn apart.The person she loves is gone, and the person she hates is gone, but even after 100 years, she can't forget that her sister was a traitor who ran away and didn't return to save her. Her sister, and the group of monsters have been with her all the time.

She was like wildfire, burning from the dead.The vengeance that should be avenged has been avenged, and the people who should be killed have been killed, but the magic of the cult still binds her, allowing her to see her sister's betrayal day and night, and let her see these monsters day and night, all of whom were killed before she was alive. her sinner.

"I understand." Wen Zheliu said, "We did say some things wrong, but now I understand everything."

The fight below is coming to an end.

Under the moonlight, although Jenny has the ability to recover infinitely, the eyeless monster who is forced to resist is not a weak person with no power to restrain the chicken.This cemetery buried the townspeople and their ancestors for generations, buried Marian and Jenny's mother, buried Marian, and now Jenny will be buried.

The panting and yelling were barely audible, and there were bloody and broken limbs everywhere. The dying eyeless monster wriggled and struggled in the pool of blood, and Jenny collapsed into a mass of muddy flesh, with three broken heads still opening. Together, so persistent that the demon is talking about the power it wants, the freedom it wants, and the liberation it wants.

Wen Zheliu held a photo frame pendant in his left hand and a crowbar in his right. He Qin was holding a hatchet beside him. The two of them were wading in the river of blood together, looking at Jenny, who had been resurrected hundreds of times and was now powerless to fight back. .

"Kill...I..." The three heads trembled slightly, "Burn...I...shatter my...soul..."

Wen Zheliu opened the photo frame pendant, and by the moonlight, the girl in the photo was carefree, still smiling at herself a hundred years later.

"It wasn't your sister who imprisoned you, nor the monster that the guard turned into imprisoned you." He said softly, "You imprisoned yourself."

"You've been trapped in your own memory. It's not someone else, but yourself, and you won't let yourself go."

The three human heads were smashed to the ground, slowly gathering shape again, and they replied to Wen Zheliu with a weak but firm voice: "Human... what do you know...you don't know anything..."

"I don't know anything?" Wen Zheliu said calmly, "No, it's because I'm an outsider that I know more than you."

"Monsters have no eyes, because the brim of the guard's cap keeps you from seeing the men's eyes in the dark of the evening; monsters have huge mouths, sharp teeth, and long, disgusting tongues, because they tear you apart when they violate you. Bite you, torture you; the howling of monsters is also like the sound of laughter, because they laugh when they hurt you... The monsters are full of stench, corresponding to the smell of wine from the drunken guards, they The lower body is dirty and festering, it is the most fearful, most hated, and most unstable projection in your heart..."

"Are these monsters created by cult magic? No, no! They are the embodiment of shadows in your memory, monsters you imagined to punish yourself, they killed your enemies, and made you You are tortured every night! So I say, it is you who refuse to let yourself go!"

In the pool of blood, Wen Zheliu grabbed one of the heads, put the photo frame pendant in front of its eyes, and shouted sadly: "Look, look! This is the old you, this is the real you." The daughter who made your mother proud before, not the freak who tortured herself to the point of insanity and made a living by killing people! All grievances and grievances are over long ago, look at it!"

[Congratulations to all players, all the puzzles have been solved! 】

[Main task: Finding the truth about the first world (1/1) has been completed. 】

[Hidden mission: Death (1/1) has been completed. 】

The system notification came without warning, and while everyone was still surprised, Wen Zheliu's head cracked with a "click".

"Why...!" His complexion changed slightly, and he stood up in surprise, He Qin grabbed him just in time.

"The real mystery has been revealed," He Qin said with a look of thought in his eyes, "she should also be relieved."

Wen Zheliu said: "You mean..."

"The ending of the hidden mission, the death of Jenny Hill." He Qin smiled slightly, "She ushered in the death she always wanted."

He Qin was right, after Wen Zheliu said those words, Jenny's mixed and twisted huge body slowly disintegrated and melted, and dissipated in the night wind and moonlight along with the smell of blood.In the end, only a slender, snow-white, clean skeleton in the shape of a young girl was left, lying peacefully and unencumbered on the land of the cemetery.

"Countless travelers have come and gone, and you are the first to tell the truth."

The voice in front of them made the players suddenly look up, and at some point, there was already an illusory and beautiful blonde girl floating in midair.

Zhou Yao opened his eyes wide: "Jenny?"

"Jenny!" Marianne's thin figure also appeared in front of the cemetery, "You...you really came back?"

"My return also symbolizes my departure." Jenny turned her body and finally showed a pale smile to her sister, "The answer to the mystery is revealed, and it's time to end all of this."

She turned to Wen Zheliu again, and said to him: "As you said, I thought those people were still alive, although they had changed their skins and lost their minds..."

"Your enemies have long since died," He Qin said, "They were killed by the monsters you created. But you always feel that they are not dead yet, but were resurrected by the cult's technique, and then trapped you here .”

"——What a hard-won truth and peace!" A satisfied smile appeared on the girl's lips, "But whether it is heaven or hell, I am free."

Under the moonlight, Marianne knelt on the ground, holding the girl's skeleton tightly in her arms. With silent and cold tears streaming down her face, she watched helplessly as her sister dissipated into countless light spots and was blown to an unknown distance by the wind. .

Wen Zheliu looked at the scene in front of him silently, He Qin raised his hand, and gently wiped away the stain on his cheek, "If you can think of this, baby is really powerful, why don't you talk?"

"I'm a little... a little sad," he whispered.

He Qin asked: "Why are you sad?"

"You said that because of the popularity of full intelligence, it is impossible to fabricate the world view and plot of Uncanny Valley." Wen Zheliu looked down at the old and simple pendant in his hand, and Jenny's carefree smile was washed by the years. Huang, as if she is still living in another time and space, "Whether it's an AI or an NPC, behind a Jenny, there may be countless stories that have actually happened to enrich her and support her character design--thinking of this, I can't help being sad."