[Comprehensive British and American] Welcome to Arkham's Infinite Journey

first night 11

At such a heavy moment, Hannibal suddenly spoke.

"Kill all the prisoners on other floors again?"

The black-skinned player paused and explained: "No matter how many prisoners die, new prisoners will be sent in every month."

Hannibal understood, and signaled the black-skinned player to continue talking.

The black-skinned players who should be said have basically explained clearly, and there are only some thoughts and actions of their own left.

For monsters with more than [-] floors, black-skinned players don't have any idea of ​​wanting to hit the bar.

Many of the veterans who died at the hands of these monsters were stronger than him.

He has only one idea, and that is to "hide".

——But how to avoid it, he didn't know, he could only pray for luck.

The black-skinned player said: "I have observed some patterns..."

The monsters above the [-]th floor seem to only appear at night.

The victims are selected from top to bottom, and if a certain number of people die every night, they will disappear.

"Five to ten people died in one night, I counted."

According to this figure, the total number of deaths in a month ranges from [-] to [-], and there are two prisoners on each floor.

With "very good luck", the black-skinned players who were assigned to the 145th floor this month might really be able to wait until the time is up and leave the instance.

For this reason, black-skinned players were extremely "well-behaved" this month and did not participate in any activities between players.

He even took action to stop the players, who originally planned to kill all other prisoners at the beginning of the month.

For this reason, he told other players what he discovered.

At first, the players who lived to the third month didn't believe it...

But soon, the facts made the players stop their stupid killing plan.

Only if there are enough prisoners alive, the hope of survival for these players will be greater.

In order not to attract the monster's attention, the originally high-profile players also quieted down.

But it didn't work.

Everyone who was approached by the monster died.

There were not many players left, and there are fewer and fewer players.

"Except for the one who jumped down just now, there is probably one player left besides me."

After saying this, the black-skinned player looked at Sephiroth and Hannibal with a strange look.

"But... I'm not so sure now."

The appearance of Sephiroth and Hannibal was too abrupt.

Their dungeon has lasted until the third month. There were so many disturbances in the first two months, it is impossible for there to be players who have been hiding and not being known.

And the question Sephiroth asked was also very strange.

It was as if he didn't know anything about what happened here.

Whether it's demeanor or appearance, it doesn't look like a player who has been tortured here for more than two months.

Maybe……

"Are you new players who just entered the instance?"

Although black-skinned players have never encountered such a situation, this is the only way to explain it.

They are two groups of players who entered the same copy at different time periods.

The black-skinned player didn't wait for Sephiroth's answer, because...

it's dark.

The light-transmitting window on the wall darkened in a very short period of time, as if there was a curtain called night curtain outside, which was pulled shut by someone.

The black-skinned player, who looked calm at first, suddenly became flustered.

He also stopped being curious about the origins of Sephiroth and Hannibal, and ran to the single bed on the other side of the room, curled up on it, wishing he could roll himself into a ball.

On the other hand, the prisoner who had been tied to the bed and existed as "food" still had his eyes open in a trance, and his breathing was so light that one wondered if he was still alive.

Sephiroth looked up.

Just after "darkness" just now, he felt an extremely strange force sweeping the entire prison from top to bottom.

That's a short while.

The black-skinned player lying on the bed with fear in his heart fell into a deep sleep for some reason.

Not only him, but the whole prison was "quiet".

From top to bottom, all the living prisoners, no matter what they were doing, gradually became regular in their breathing and entered a state of deep sleep.

Hannibal was also affected.

He tried his best to open his eyes wide, but felt that his eyelids seemed to be extremely heavy, and he just wanted to lie down and rest.

Hannibal wanted to grab Sephiroth's sleeve, but he stretched out his hand halfway, and with the only rationality he had, he turned his outstretched hand around and helped it to one side of the wall.

"Dean...I'm sleepy..."

I was so sleepy I couldn't hold it anymore.

"Then find a place to rest." Sephiroth saw everything in his eyes, "I wish you good luck."

Feeling that something was wrong, Hannibal, who was extremely sleepy, turned his head a little too late to react, and saw Sephiroth's feet exerting force, jumping to the upper floor extremely neatly and handsomely.

he……

Was he just abandoned by his headmaster?

Hannibal: "...???"

Hannibal, who was full of question marks but very sleepy, fell to the ground without a support post after all.

Thankfully, Hannibal isn't one of the prisoners in the endless prison.

There were no instances of sudden death, even when not in "their own cell."

Sephiroth, who left the 145th floor, continued to go up.

It was dark outside the prison, but not without light inside.

On both sides of the cell gap on each floor, there is a small lamp embedded in the wall.

The light is not strong, but for ordinary people, it is enough for lighting.

Every floor of prisoners that Sephiroth passed by, as long as they were still alive, basically lay in their single beds and fell asleep.

The higher you go, the fewer prisoners die as "food".

More causes of death of prisoners can basically be classified as: death caused by physical conflicts between the two inmates in the same cell.

Most of the prisoners who died in the "physical conflict" were thrown from the gap in the middle of the room by their fellow prisoners before their bodies decomposed.

All that was left was dried blood that couldn't be removed.

In addition, Sephiroth also saw more and more "strange deaths".

The reason for saying "weird" is that these dead prisoners did not have any external wounds.

They seemed to be asleep, lying quietly on the single bed with extremely peaceful expressions on their faces.

It's like dying.

But in this endless prison, any cause of death may occur, except that there is no such thing as "end of life".

Sephiroth is still going up.

When he reached the 50th floor, he finally stopped.

From the 100th floor up, the prisoners in the prison seem to be getting better and better, of course, this is only relative to the prisoners in the lower floors.

On the 50th floor, the prisoners here are not much different from ordinary people except for the prison uniforms they wear, their pale faces, and their thin bodies.

Of course, Sephiroth's attention was not on the prisoners.

His eyes fell on a strange existence in the room.

Slender and erect body, dressed in ancient Egyptian style clothes, covered with gold ornaments.

That face was covered with brightly colored makeup, a pair of eyes were extremely prominent, and the thick and exaggerated eyeliner extended to the temples.

He looked as if he had stepped out of an ancient Egyptian mural, with a glow all over his body, it was not real at all, as if he came from another world.

the most important is……

In the hands of this strange existence, he held a scale with a feather on one side.

The moment he saw the scales and feathers, Sephiroth thought of the god of death in Egyptian mythology.

—Anubis.

According to legend, Anubis' life experience is extremely controversial.

The appearance is a combination of jackal head and human body.

Although the Greeks and ancient Romans mostly despised Egyptian gods with animal heads.

But the ancient Egyptians valued the afterlife, and Anubis was worshiped by people from a long time ago.

In the myths related to Anubis, the scale of judgment in his hand has a very large weight.

Because Anubis will weigh the heart of the dead.

On one side of the scale is the heart of the dead, and on the other side is the feather of Matt, the goddess of truth and justice.

If the weight of the dead person's heart is equal to that of a feather, and the scales are balanced, they will have eternal life; if it weighs more than the feather, the heart will be swallowed by the demon Amit and thrown into hell.

When Sephiroth appeared, this strange existence had just completed a weighing ceremony.

The prisoner in front of him slowly stopped breathing.

The other party turned around and stood opposite Sephiroth, with obvious doubts in his eyes without any emotion.

He reached out to Sephiroth.

There was a strange force in that hand.

Sephiroth could dodge it if he wanted to.

But at the moment of being touched, Sephiroth instinctively did not avoid it.

then……

Sephiroth saw his heart being "pulled out" out.

Sephiroth: "..."

Sephiroth found that there were no wounds on his body, but when he saw the heart, he knew that the heart belonged to him.

This scene, which is extremely terrifying to ordinary people, gave Sephiroth a very strange feeling.

So his heart is like this?

Since becoming Xenovia, he has lost his human body.

It has been sleeping for an unknown number of years in the promised land in the deepest part of the planet.

In the end, he broke free from Xenovia's will and regained his "self".

Sephiroth thought that he had long since lost his "heart".

He was once a "legendary hero" worshiped by people, and later he stood on the opposite side of all mankind and almost destroyed the entire planet.

but……

His heart looks so beautiful.

It seems that the brilliance of the entire galaxy is flowing inside.

Obviously his heart had been "plucked out", but Sephiroth looked at the strange existence in front of him with more interest, and slowly put his heart on one end of the scale.

There is no special lighting effect or other, but the scale maintains a strange balance.

From a scientific point of view, everything in front of me is incomprehensible no matter how you look at it.

In terms of weight, how can a human heart be as light as a feather?

According to the legend, none of the human beings whose hearts were weighed by Anubis actually gained eternal life.

Rather than saying that this is a chance for people to obtain eternal life after death, it is more like a joke.

But the heart of Sephiroth, who almost destroyed the world, was placed on the scale, but it really weighs the same as Matt's feathers.

After the weighing results came out, the strange existence in front of him had a clear smile on his face.

Sephiroth heard his voice.

It seems to come from an extremely distant place, and it contains pronunciation that humans cannot understand.

"Truth, balance, order, law, morality, justice... Osiris will give you eternal life."