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

first night 08

Sephiroth probably already understood why the NPC Jack fouled.

Because in this copy, there is only one way to go to the next level.

—that is by eating the food on the table.

Originally, Sephiroth didn't want everyone to touch these foods because they were obviously not right.

Including these suddenly appearing NPCs, everything is weird.

It's just that what's wrong with these foods, before someone actually eats them, Sephiroth doesn't know.

According to the probability, poisoning after eating food, or even other mutations are very likely.

After all, this is "hell".

This is what the NPC Jack explained when he first appeared on the stage.

Unlike others who struggled and couldn't believe it, Sephiroth accepted it very calmly.

Things like infinite worlds and systems are incredible enough for ordinary people.

Then in the infinite world, there is a "hell" copy, and it is not surprising.

Just accepting doesn't mean not being suspicious at all.

Compared with being played by the rules of the infinite world, Sephiroth prefers to be the one who plays with the rules.

So after simple testing and screening, the NPCs became Sephiroth's "guinea pigs".

Looking at the current performance of these NPCs, Sephiroth led the players to continue down, and then asked the players to continue to replace the empty dinner plates and fresh food for these NPCs.

What Sephiroth is curious about now is what exactly this dungeon wants to do, and what it will eventually look like.

The players were originally very hungry.

But since the dining table and the NPCs sitting around began to fall down, the unbearable hunger that was so tormenting that it almost made people lose their minds gradually disappeared.

Because it disappeared so naturally, in the first period of time, no one reacted at all.

All the players were shocked by the increasingly terrifying "eating appearance" of these waiters.

Just watching these people eat makes me feel full, I don't even want to touch the food.

These waiters eat like crazy.

As the floors continued to fall, they were not so much a group of people eating, as they were a group of ravenous beasts.

When the floor fell to the 67th floor, these waiters who were originally of standard stature had already gained a whole circle of fat, their stomachs and bellies were obviously protruding, and their physical strength was obviously not as good as it was at the beginning.

The thick hair that originally covered the top of the head gradually became thinner.

When the floor fell to the 150th floor.

The waiters sitting around the dining table have turned into big fat men.

No matter what the players around them say or do, there is no way to influence them.

Seeing this, Sephiroth asked the player to pull one of the waiters away from his position. As a result, this waiter, who seemed to be completely unaffected by others, showed extremely terrifying power.

After eating the food in his hand, he threw the player who was restraining him aside. The player couldn't hold his body at all, and he almost hit the wall.

And the waiter who was pulled away quickly "climbed" back to his chair.

It is indeed "climbing".

Because the torso of the waiter who fell to the 150th floor is already too fat, his two legs look like two chopsticks at this moment, and there is no way to fully support his body movement. "Get up, but the speed will be faster.

The waiter who climbed back to his seat, stared at the food on the table with both eyes, and continued to eat with his head buried.

Sephiroth asked the players to suspend the supply of food.

The results were as expected.

These waiters whose minds are full of "eating", as the food on the table decreases, the frequency of stuffing things into their mouths is getting faster and faster, and the eating looks are getting more and more ferocious, and their attention seems to be distracted from the table. The eyes finally reflected the shadows of the surrounding players.

Just looking at it like this really sends chills down the spine.

because……

Those staring at the players are full of strong appetite.

The players were frightened by this sight.

This is a completely different fear from simple fear.

Maybe that's what it's like to be "food"?

Sephiroth didn't let this situation last long, and let the players continue to place new food for these waiters.

The food in the dining car seems to be endless, and there is no such thing as being hollowed out.

It's just that as the floors fall, and every new floor, the food taken from the dining car becomes more disgusting.

Much of the food, although beautifully presented, was clearly uncooked and completely raw.

Comparing the food on the 150th floor with the food on the first floor, you will feel that the food on the first floor is made by five-star chefs.

But it didn't matter to the waiters sitting at the table.

They even became more and more fond of bloody food.

When the floor fell to two hundred floors, the players became more and more silent.

Even though they didn't notice it at first, after a waiter suddenly lay on the table, the players finally discovered that the waiter had turned into a "meat worm".

Round, fat and tender meat worms.

Because there is so much fat growing on his body, his limbs no longer look so obvious.

Go see the other waiters.

These waiters who were still wearing their clothes, bowed their heads and ate and stuffed, had completely torn their original clothes.

The buttons on the skirt were all scattered, and the sleeves of the clothes couldn't fit the thickened arms at all, and the same goes for the trouser legs.

From the [-]st floor, there are more and more waiters like meat worms.

One waiter after another was lying on the table and overeating.

After two hundred floors, the time for the floor to fall becomes shorter and shorter.

When the last waiter was lying on the table like a worm, he had just landed on the dining table on the third floor of 330. With the chairs and waiters, he didn't even have a chance to add new food to the table. Next level.

And then the next level... and the next level...

The sound of falling seems endless and direct, layer after layer.

Sephiroth stood on the edge of the hole on the third floor of 330 and looked down. He could only see the crystal lamp falling rapidly along with the dining table.

But soon even the light of the crystal chandelier became more and more blurred, reaching a depth that was difficult for the eyes to perceive.

Players who haven't spoken for a long time, someone broke the silence.

"If we were the ones who sat on the chair and ate the food in the first place..."

"We will also become the same as these NPCs?"

"The NPC said that this is hell, isn't it just as we guessed? There is no end to hell, and in hell, there are traces of the seven deadly sins everywhere."

"So which of the seven deadly sins? Gluttony hell?"

"...Did you notice it? It seems to be brighter?"

It does brighten up.

Originally, no matter which floor you went to, there was only one crystal lamp on the dining table to provide light for everyone.

Except for the place illuminated by the crystal lamp, both the upper and lower floors are completely dark, the kind of black that reminds players of the ogre monster hiding in the dark stairs.

But suddenly it was different now.

I don't know where the light came from, and the whole room was brightened.

If there is no hole on the ground that seems to lead to endless hell, everything looks so ordinary, and it is so ordinary that people are moved.

Before the players could sigh, someone suddenly said with a look of surprise, "I heard that voice again..."

"I also……"

"I heard it too! That voice I heard before I came to this world!"

"It said that we have completed the novice trial level, and now we can leave!"

"It's finally time to leave?"

The players were both happy and bewildered.

After coming to the infinite world and experiencing so many things, the original three views have long been shattered. Being able to leave at this time makes people feel unreal.

"Aren't you happy to be able to leave?"

Sephiroth's voice pulled the players back from that unreal feeling.

When the players faced Sephiroth, all the confusion on their faces disappeared, and their expressions gradually calmed down.

"It's just a little reluctant." Someone said.

Sephiroth laughed, "What is there to be reluctant about? As long as we can live well, maybe one day in the future, we will meet again."

Just hope we don't meet each other in Arkham Asylum.

When Sephiroth smiled, those who watched him would involuntarily smile along with him.

The haze buried in my heart gradually melted away, as if being irradiated by the sun.

"Hope to see Lord Sephiroth again."

"Stop dawdling, go back quickly."

Under the urging of Sephiroth, the players disappeared one by one.

Although he is on the earth and his appearance is not much different from that of humans, Sephiroth, who is not human at all, can clearly feel the energy fluctuations when the players leave.

If he wants, Sephiroth can also chase these energies and find the players' bodies in reality.

But there is no need for this.

When all the players left, the novice trial dungeon did not disappear, and the waiters did not return.

Hannibal, who had no sense of presence for two consecutive chapters, took a deep breath and stood up slowly.

Even though the hunger gradually subsided after the waiters served the table, Hannibal's expression was still very bad at this time, as if he had just walked out of the electrotherapy room.

Hannibal asked weakly: "So what should we do now?"

Sephiroth's eyes fell on him lightly, "Have you forgotten what I said before you came here?"

Hannibal, who had no energy at first, suddenly widened his eyes, "...is this all right?"

After inexplicably coming to this copy of the novice trial in the infinite world, and after so many things happened, Hannibal had already thrown away what Sephiroth said before coming here.

He didn't believe that Dean Sephiroth would let him go.

What does it mean to go out from here and give him freedom...

He only felt that Dean Sephiroth just wanted to "shut up" him in a more terrifying place.

Of course, there was another guess that even he didn't quite believe - that is, the dean himself didn't know why he came here.

If it was someone else, Hannibal felt that the possibility of this guess was still very high, but if it was placed on Dean Sephiroth...

Forget it, he didn't believe it just thinking about it.

The dean must have brought them here on his own initiative.

"There should be no need to repeat, you know, I always keep my word."

The corner of Hannibal's mouth twitched, of course he knew how much his dean kept his word.

It is a true portrayal of "you can do it if you say it".

This can be seen from the "well-behaved" super criminals in the Arkham Asylum.

The words that wanted to ask how to leave reached his lips, but Hannibal swallowed them again.

With an extremely swift posture, he turned his head and ran towards the stairs.

Then start climbing up the stairs.

If this place is really hell, going down will only lead you to a deeper place in hell, and if you want to leave, of course you have to go back.

Maybe the first floor has become different at this time?

Hannibal wasn't sure if the idea was right, but he had to go back and have a look.

But the 330 three-story staircase is really terrible to climb up.

It took more time than expected, and Hannibal, who felt like he was about to die, finally returned to the first floor.

Sephiroth, who has been following Hannibal, suggested out of humanitarian spirit: "You can climb the stairs slowly, you don't need to be so anxious."

However, Hannibal didn't want to bother with Sephiroth at all.

He only felt that Dean Sephiroth was happy with his tragic situation.

What made people feel even more uncomfortable was that Sephiroth had been climbing the stairs with him all the time, but he was almost exhausted, but Sephiroth was always very relaxed.

"It's just a monster."

Hannibal, who was muttering softly, looked at the stairs and said strangely.

"It's impossible for me to count wrongly. This should be the first floor, but why doesn't the staircase end, and there is still going up?"

Sephiroth suggested: "Go up and have a look?"

Hannibal was silent for a moment, and after regaining his strength, he checked the entire first floor.

Make sure you count correctly and that there are no holes in the ceiling in the room.

After checking everything, Hannibal took a deep breath and stepped up the stairs again.

When stepping up the steps, what Hannibal thought was that he hoped that there would be no infinite loop of stairs.

In many unsolvable movies, bridges like this happen from time to time.

There is also the possibility that the staircase spirals infinitely, forming a Mobius strip.

It was the worst scenario Hannibal could have imagined.

However, when Hannibal walked down the stairs to the end, what he feared did not happen.

but……

Hannibal collapsed: "What's the situation?!"