Human dimension reduction

"Building No. [-]" is a puzzle-solving and escape-type rpg horror game. The heroine loses her memory at the beginning. In order to find a way to leave, she has to search for various clues in the building to trace the past of the poorhouse, and at the same time, pay attention to avoid wandering in the building. The ghosts of the ghosts, finally escaped safely from the asylum.

Qiao Zhou has always been good at solving puzzles and reasoning, and he also has a bit of collection addiction unique to gamers. He has to type out the true ending to be satisfied, but he seems to be hit with "Building No. [-]", and he can't play its true ending no matter what. There are eleven badendings in the record, and one BE full collection achievement, which made Qiao Zhou full of question marks.

Although he played an rpg game with a strange buff of "the first pass must be BE", but this is the first time he has seen this situation.

It's a pity that before he could ignite his heroic fighting spirit, an octopus monster from the world of Cthulhu Dungeon floated in front of his eyes. The tentacles full of eyes made Qiao Zhou sick for a while, and he didn't bother to continue playing. up.

If he had known that there would be today, he should have found out about the true ending.

The timeline of the heroine is more than 100 years later, when the De-Hua Friendship Spiritual Asylum has been abandoned for many years, and he is now "more than 100 years" ago, the ghosts and ghosts who threaten the life of the heroine are now on their feet. Walk beside him like a normal person.

Stadler led him up the stairs, around an old hospital bed piled with discarded medical supplies at the corner, and a petite nurse with short hair came to meet him.

The nurse had a pair of beautiful big eyes, and the name tag on her chest had the words "Hu Xinxin" written on it, but neither Stadler nor Qiao Zhou bothered to remember this name.

"you are?"

The big-eyed nurse, who was pushing a cart, stopped when she saw them.

"Stad, Miss Nurse."

The monster in the pixel doctor's skin answered naturally.

"Ah, it's Dr. Stadler. I'm Joan. I've already cleaned the ward you're in charge of. Is this a new patient?"

Sure enough, the nurse gave a name that was indistinguishable from "Hu Xinxin". The two monsters seemed to confirm each other's identity, and their smiles and tone became familiar instantly.

——They didn't seem to think that it was a strange behavior for acquaintances to exchange names first, Qiao Zhou thought, could it be that even the monsters in this hospital couldn't recognize each other after putting on someone else's skin?

It's too low to rely on vision to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy...

Qiao Zhou commented unceremoniously.

——However, this provided him, a person who knew part of the settings, with the convenience of customs clearance.

He was here on a short errand, and Joan on the other end had already had a few conversations with Stadler.

"Arranging the ward... Recently, the beds are very tight. The head nurse Marianne has already asked for an extra bed in the corridor, but the director has not approved it yet, but the doctor is lucky. A patient happened to be discharged in the morning, and the head nurse was in charge. The third floor, if you go now, you should be able to grab it."

Joan seems to be a very lively young nurse. She speaks in a brisk tone and always has a smile on her face. Qiao Zhou glanced at her curiously, and the words mentioned in "Building No. [-]" popped up in his mind. Joan, a ghost nurse who chases and kills the heroine with a gardening chainsaw.

The lingering chainsaw nurse on the second floor is keen on dismembering the torsos of living people. When the heroine is about to escape from the hunting range, she will use throwing skills unexpectedly. How many people can get the ironic title of "Technology Changes Destiny" after they die.

Thinking of the 1.8-meter-tall strong woman carrying a chainsaw, and seeing this lively girl with a sweet smile, Qiao Zhou was secretly amazed.

Tsk tsk tsk, I can't tell, is there such a big difference in personality after people die?

Stadler and Joan continued to walk forward after saying hello. Joan stood there and watched them with a smile. When Qiao Zhou passed her by, the pair of black and white eyes embedded in the eye sockets suddenly turned half a circle. , staring at Qiao Zhou closely in a paradoxically inhuman form.

It's like an inexperienced actor showing his feet.

Is this a small easter egg of game design, or is the npc not professional enough?

Game design is not a simple science. Designers are racking their brains from beginning to end to engage in psychological games with players, when to design what plot, where to put some water so that players can easily pass the level, and where to increase the difficulty. Players have to deal with life and death, neither can they feel that the game is not challenging, nor can they make it difficult for them to abandon the game, but also launch the krypton gold system at the most appropriate time...

Taking money out of players' pockets is not an easy job, who can make a gold-swallowing game designer who is not a master at grasping people's hearts?

Every detail of the game has its special meaning, Qiao Zhou is deeply touched by this.

——After all, in order to make players pay willingly, game designers can do any crazy things.

The corridor on the third floor is no different from the one downstairs. It is equally gloomy and narrow. The doors of the wards on both sides are tightly closed, and there are strange ravings, crying and laughing one after another—quite in line with people's imagination of a mental hospital.

Stadler led him through half of the corridor, and pushed open the door of ward [-]. This ward was small and cramped, with three single beds placed side by side, and there was only enough space between the beds for one person to turn around. Even so, it has already filled the space of the entire ward.

There were people lying on the two hospital beds inside and outside, only the one in the middle was still empty. Qiao Zhou stared at the dirty hospital bed for a few seconds, his eyes fixed on the suspicious yellow stains on the sheets and quilt cover, and couldn't help but look deeply. Take a deep breath.

How about not taking the puzzle-solving route and directly triggering the ghost riot to start the battle royale?

This terrifying thought stayed in his mind for a moment, and was immediately suppressed by his thin curiosity.

Forget it, let's observe the operation of this new game again. He has never played a game with such a high level of authenticity. Players must follow the rules of the game, otherwise the game is meaningless.

Stadler sent him to the ward and left. The door of the ward clicked, and the two people lying on the bed were as motionless as dead.

A middle-aged man in a straitjacket was lying on the bed near the door. He stared straight at the ceiling, his gaze was dull, and the drool dripping from the corner of his mouth soaked half of the pillowcase, as if he had completely lost consciousness. , immersed in his own world.

Qiao Zhou leaned over to look at him for a moment, but the other party still stared blankly, ignoring the face that suddenly appeared in front of him.

It seems to be really stupid.

Qiao Zhou stretched out his fingers, as if observing an inanimate mannequin, and moved his head to look twice. He found that the hair on the temples and the back of the head of the middle-aged man was mottled and sparse, and there were textures formed by the electric shock on the skin.

Electroshock therapy.

A commonly used method to treat mental illness in the [-]th century, it is normal to stun people.

With a quick flick, Qiao Zhou straightened the man's head as if obsessive-compulsive, and his eyes naturally turned to another bed that had an owner.

...invisible.

The person on the bed covered himself from head to toe with an equally dirty thin quilt, without a single wrinkle on the quilt, like the correct template for a morgue.

Qiao Zhou raised his eyebrows and saw that the corners of the quilt were trembling unconsciously at a very high frequency.

Ouch, look what he found, a... monster hiding under the blanket and pretending to be dead?player?

Qiao Zhou put his hands in his pockets, and walked through the narrow aisle. Fortunately, he was thin, so he walked smoothly. As his footsteps approached, the corners of the quilt trembled more violently, and even the worn-out iron bed trembled. There was a thin creaking sound, which made people feel sympathetic.

"Good afternoon, why don't you come out to get some air?"

He bent down and approached the sheets, speaking softly.

The shaking of the blanket stopped abruptly.

Qiao Zhou tilted his head and looked at the quilt for a while, and waited patiently for a long time when there was no movement, and then suddenly realized - the people inside couldn't have fainted from fright, could they? !

So fragile, it seems to be a player.

Qiao Zhou's heart was filled with a touch of melancholy. He thought it was a small single-player game, but he didn't expect it to be a large-scale online production. This would add a lot of extra work to his perfect game journey.

But looking at it from another angle, it can be regarded as a lot of unexpected surprises... right?

Wang Zhun never expected that such a horrible thing would happen to him after only a few months of recuperation in the hospital. The world was turned upside down, the luxury room became a horror ward, and there was a silly middle-aged man next to him.

He has read a lot of novels such as the infinite stream Lord God horror game time travel, but he never dreamed that he would experience such a thing himself.

He doesn't want to have such a strange experience at all, he just wants to live a good life and be a spoiled and rich second generation!

After hearing footsteps coming from the corridor, his first reaction was to cover himself with a quilt. Although he knew it was self-deception, but... Isn't the quilt the safest anti-ghost barrier? Isn't it the consensus of the world? !

Who knew that after the footsteps stopped at the door for a while, they walked towards him unhurriedly!

The fragile heart was beating crazily, the blood in the whole body flowed backwards to the ears, rumbling against the eardrums, and the back was cold and sticky, Wang Zhun felt like he was deaf for a moment.

But that gentle and terrifying voice still clearly entered his ears.

"Good afternoon, why don't you come out to get some air?"

If it was normal, hearing this sweet and soft voice, Wang Zhun, who is essentially voice-controlled, would happily nod his head as percussion, but at this moment, he just feels that this voice is no different from that of a ghost.

Before Hiccup rolled his eyes and passed away, the last thought that remained in his mind was: the voice is so nice, and the face is probably not bad, it's better than dying at the hands of the alien monster.

He never wanted to see a nurse who could turn his head 180 degrees again!

Wang Zhun had an extremely funny nightmare. In the dream, he fell into the infinite stream horror game. The opening scene was a battle royale in a mental hospital. After finally passing the level, he was complaining to his friends while playing on the Daxiangguo Temple app. Burning incense and praying to Buddha online, I didn't know that when I opened my eyes, I saw the mold mottled ceiling and rusty window frames.

... It seems that long-distance burning incense cannot deter demons and ghosts.

Wang Zhun's heart was completely cold.

"woke up?"

A familiar voice sounded in my ear.

Wang Zhun never expected that there was someone next to him, and his whole body went numb for a moment, trembling from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, he turned his head to look, and could hear the bones of the spine being twisted one by one sound effects.

It is not uncommon for ghosts and ghosts to appear in this kind of scene, such as skeleton doctors in blood-red white coats, perverted nurses holding bloody scalpels, patients with bloody faces...

Wang Zhun couldn't restrain his wild thoughts, and then he saw a normal person who was out of tune with the surrounding scene.

Simple white shirt and black trousers, his slightly long hair is pulled back from his head, his facial features can be called good-looking, and his expression is peaceful. The legs are crossed, the hands are naturally crossed on the knees, and the eyes are slightly bent to make a smiling face.

... This person looked so normal, with a normal sense of alienation from the surrounding environment, so that what Wang Zhun felt for a while was not the joy of seeing the same fallen man in the world, but a slight bristling of his hairs for some unknown reason.

However, in the face of the pressure of survival, the warning instinctively given him was quickly thrown aside. He swallowed, and asked hoarsely with a dry voice: "Are you... a human?"

This question is not very level. If he is a monster in human skin, he will of course answer that he is a human.

Qiao Zhou thought so, but still nodded in good temper: "Yes, my name is Qiao Zhou, nice to meet you."

Wang Zhun's face contorted for a moment. He didn't think it was something to be happy to see the other party in this kind of horror movie, but it felt so good to finally find a friend with the same disease. He didn't care about such small details at all. Hastily said: "My name is Wang Zhun, I came here to recuperate, and you suddenly found out that something is wrong here? I was almost scared to death! When I opened my eyes, the ward became like this, and there was an extra person lying on the side Come on, I didn't dare to talk to him, I finally wanted to sneak out to see what's going on, boy! The whole outside has changed! It's like that kind of horror hospital! I also saw a nurse walking by, click it I twisted my head 180 degrees at once, and almost scared me to pee my pants..."

Probably because the world after waking up was too crazy, Wang Zhun couldn't stop opening his mouth, and poured out his experience like beans in a bamboo tube, wishing to pour out all his fears.

The pressure to be with someone and alone is completely different. After seeing Qiao Zhou, Wang Zhun's spirit relaxed a lot. He talked a lot, took a deep breath, and felt a lot more relaxed. The new partner didn't speak from the beginning to the end, just smiled and watched him perform alone.

"Ah... Am I talking too much? I'm sorry, I'm like this when I'm nervous..." Wang Zhun stroked his hair embarrassingly, "But after speaking out, the pressure will be much less, if you are afraid, it's okay told me."

Facing Wang Zhun's sincere and friendly eyes, Qiao Zhou thought thoughtfully, "Afraid? I'm not afraid, but I can tell you about the pressure of working overtime..."

Wang Zhun: ...Excuse me, what did you say?

Qiao Zhou quickly changed the subject: "So you haven't gone out since you woke up?"

Wang Zhun didn't care about admitting his cowardice at all: "No, I didn't dare to go out after seeing that nurse who turned her head. It seems that there must be no one in this building. What if I am caught and twisted like this when I go out? ?—Hey, you came in from the outside, what's going on here?"

Qiao Zhou said lightly: "We seem to have fallen into a horror game. The medical staff have been replaced by monsters. We don't know how to get out."

Wang Zhun slapped his thigh: "I knew it! Unlimited streaming! Horror game! Oh!"

He cursed a few words angrily, and suddenly remembered something. He gestured to Qiao Zhou to the middle-aged man on the hospital bed at the door, and lowered his voice: "What's the matter with him? He's the same as us or...became that kind Something? I tried, but he doesn't seem to respond to outside movements at all."

As he said that, this kind-faced young man raised a hand and waved it flatly, suggesting: "What should we do?"

Qiao Zhou: "Leave him alone, I'm going out for a while and have a look around."

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhun's face turned blue, and he stammered and asked, "Get out, get out? The outside is like that..."

"What players have to do when they go to a new scene is of course to step on the map, especially if this is a horror game. There may be a battle royale plot in the later stage, and how to pass the level without even knowing the map?"

Qiao Zhou asked in a natural manner.

What you said makes sense, but why did you enter the state so quickly!Can we no longer hug and share our fears?

Looking at his new partner, Wang Zhun felt a little broken inside.

But he also knew what Qiao Zhou said was very reasonable. If he was the only one, he wouldn't dare to go out even if he was beaten to death. But now that he has an extra teammate, and he seems to be a very powerful and calm teammate, maybe it's okay to go out and have a look. no no...

"Then let's go together..."

Wang Zhun tried his best to do a good job of psychological construction, summoned up the courage to send a signal of agreeing to take risks, and heard the thigh teammate in front of him say softly: "Then I will go first, goodbye."

what? !

Wang Zhun is going insane.

He thought that what he had to do was to accept his teammates' risky suggestions, but it turned out that the other party didn't give him an invitation to form a team at all? !

It shouldn't be!