The Game Show of Death: Demons of Reason

"Where have you been, and why did you come here?" Marquis Jin was the first to notice the sound of the door opening, and asked Nian Weiyi.

Nian Weiji said: "The outside environment has been changed by the projection. The projection on the building looks magical. It took us a while to find the right way. We should be careful when we go out of the library."

"Really, it's so dangerous, that is to say, the environment here will get worse the closer you get to the end, right?" Qin Guican was holding a ladder near the bookshelf, trying to turn her head to speak now, cat ear glasses slipped onto the bridge of her nose , like an exhausted elementary school teacher.

"What are you doing?" Wei Zixu walked towards them, and as he approached, the stench in the air became more obvious.He walked to the oak desk, his eyes were attracted by the things on the table.The surface of the oak desk is flat, and the side near the chair is worn. It can be seen that someone often bends over the desk.A more delicate brass candlestick stood on the table, and the flame was shaking slightly.Surrounding the candlesticks were several books on stage performances and theater themes, among other things strewn with newspaper clippings.Wei Zixu folded his arms to read the newspaper clippings, and followed him at the end of the year.

"It was a newspaper clipping we found among the notes scattered on the bookshelf. Although it was not stated explicitly, it was all related to "The King in Yellow". It took several 'library uses' for us to find it The location of the translated version of "The King in Yellow Clothes." Jin Hou explained.

At the end of the year, I carefully looked at the newspaper clippings. Although the headlines of the reports were sensational, the publishers were some unknown street newspapers.

"Last week, a businessman claimed to have acquired a masterpiece by the famous writer Castagne from the antiques market. Yesterday, the businessman was found dead in his home in a tragic state, and his collection was looted, including the The rumored demagogic manuscript of Castaigne..."

"...published in French in its original form in France at the end of the seventeenth century, and subsequently confiscated and burned by the French government..."

"It seemed that a cruel religious ceremony was going on at the scene. The German copy of the play was enshrined in the middle, and 6 people surrounded it and killed each other..."

At the end of the year, I quickly finished reading the newspaper clippings. At this moment, Mick said out loud: "Okay, I got it, shit! This thing really stinks, it's what makes the whole house smell like this." Mick took out the book At that moment, the flame of the candlestick in his hand rushed back, as if the book was emitting air.

"Are you sure it's that one? Is there a title on it? Don't take it by mistake." Jin Hou asked Mick with his head up.

When Mick heard this, he turned the book around, with the cover facing himself, and lowered his head to confirm the title: "There is no name, only this symbol... Strange, this symbol is moving, as if alive..."

[Investigators see Huang Yin for the first time and make a sanity check. The roll result is 23, failing the test.Perform a sancheck, the roll point result is 6, and the investigator loses 6 sanity points. 】

"What? This is the yellow seal!" Mick reacted immediately, and quickly moved his eyes away from the cover. At the same time, he pulled out another book to cover the yellow seal. He put the two books under his arm and stepped on The ladder climbs down.

"It's not good, I remember losing more than 5 sanity points once..." Wei Zixu squeezed his chin, and lowered his voice next to Nian Weiji.

[The one-time loss of sanity points exceeds 5 points, investigator Revere fell into temporary madness, and the symptom of madness is "scarred and bruised", and the duration check is performed, the roll point result is 2, and the investigator will continue to suffer pain in the next 20 minutes torment. 】

"Ah-hiss!" Mick suddenly yelled, his whole body stiffened, and he fell straight down from the ladder.His strong body hit the floor, shaking off some of the dust that had accumulated on the top of the grandfather clock.Two books fell around him, and "The King in Yellow" spread out, revealing a certain page with illustrations.

"What's wrong!" Qin Guican was taken aback by the sight, let go of the ladder and took a step back.The others gathered around Mick, and saw that he maintained the stiff posture when he fell from the ladder, his eyes were closed tightly, his limbs spasmed slightly, his face was pale, and sweat flowed to the ground in streams.

Jin wanted to go forward to pull Mick up, but was stopped by Chen Luyao: "Don't go up, his symptoms look like electric shock, I don't know if touching him will also get you."

"Electric shock? Oh my god, that really hurts..." Qin Guican covered his mouth and said, then turned his head and looked around: "Is there anything that can save him..."

Marquis Jin: "It's useless. It's a punishment effect. It's not a real electric shock. We can't separate him from the power supply. As I said at the beginning, there is something wrong with the clothes. There must be some mechanism added that can directly affect us. His voice was so calm that he didn't look like him, which caused Qin Guican to look at him in confusion. Chen Luyao also noticed this, and asked him, "Then what should we do now?"

"He will be in pain for 20 minutes. We can't just wait. Now that the book has been found, we should study how to deal with the king in yellow." Jinhou said.

"To deal with the king in yellow, Mick just glanced at the cover and it turned into this. We now know that the script is evil, and there are 10 minutes of new dramas to be staged. Listen to me, we will go directly to Ka Michael, then whether it is persuasion or threat, don’t let the new play run smoothly, this is the only thing we can do!” Chen Luyao said loudly, the pendulum sound seemed to increase a lot with his voice, they really There is no time.

The Marquis of Jin objected: "How can you be sure that stopping the new show will stop the King in Yellow? The madness has already begun, and maybe stimulating Carmichael will only make the problem worse! We must first understand the King in Yellow before we know." How to stop him!"

Neither Chen Luyao nor Marquis Jin could convince the other, and Qin Guican was caught in the middle in a dilemma.But at the end of the year, his attention was not on them.

Standing on the shore of the lake is a lonely spire, the top of the spire emits blue light, and on both sides of it are two suns, one big and one small. The horizon that the sun does not shine drops a thick night, and black stars and a weird moon rise up, casting dead gray of light.This is the illustration on the exposed page of "The King in Yellow Clothes", staring at the illustration at the end of the year, it seems that a chilly sickle is stretched out from the painting, hooking his neck to lure him over.

"The clouds shattered along the shore of the lake, the twin suns sank to the edge of the lake... black stars rose in the strange night, and the strange moon lingered on the zenith... Carcosa..." Nian Weiji silently recited the words in the ballad, and others put aside The book was arguing about the end of the game, and he wondered, after knowing about Carmichael and the many other examples of people who were crazy about The King in Yellow, how could anyone not be interested in the content of The King in Yellow itself?

At the end of the year, he walked over and picked up the forbidden book in the shadow of the bookshelf.

This book is not a projection, it is heavy in the hand, and there is a strange sense of warmth.At the end of the year, he squatted down halfway, and only leaned sideways to read a book by a little candlelight, for fear that someone would find out that he had taken away "The King in Yellow". Then he would never know what Carcosa was referring to, and healed Carmichael with madness. What kind of story is it.

"The royal family of Iti was arguing endlessly. Under the brilliance of Aldebaran, only one person could obtain the right to command the starlight... One day, a stranger came from the other side of Lake Harry. He wore a pale mask and painted on his clothes. Twisted yellow seal, riding a winged demon... He claimed to be the messenger of a god named "Yellow King", and the phantom of the dead city came with the arrival of strangers..."

[Investigator's first "The King in Yellow" was affected by an indescribable force. After performing a sancheck, the result of the roll point was 3, and the investigator lost 3 points of sanity. 】

"The stranger's words are complicated and difficult to understand, the favor of the gods makes the fear spread, and madness will make the individual with wisdom return to normal... At the royal ball, everyone took off their masks, but the stranger's mask is his real face... the queen and the high priest imprisoned and tortured the stranger, but in vain..."

[Investigators continue "The King in Yellow" and perform a sancheck. The result of the roll point is 2, and the investigator loses 2 sanity points. 】

Nian Wei already turned a deaf ear to the director's broadcast, and quickly turned the book to the bottom.

"The pale and ragged king has descended, black stars have risen in daylight, people who are still conscious have lost control of their bodies, and death is approaching from every corner..."

[Investigators continue "The King in Yellow" and perform a sancheck. The result of the roll point is 5, and the investigator loses 5 sanity points. 】

A burning sensation ran down Nianwei's back, and he had goosebumps all over his body in response, and the director's subsequent announcement was even more horrifying:

[The investigator has continued to lose 10 sanity points, more than one-fifth of his own sanity. The investigator has fallen into an uncertain madness, and the symptom of madness is "gradual freezing." 】

At the end of the year, I was half squatting, but suddenly I seemed to lose my intuition below the waist, my legs seemed to be numb due to insufficient blood supply, and I felt an unbearable itching from inside when I moved a little, but soon I couldn't even feel the itching arrive.Nian Wei already saw himself leaning forward and kneeling on the ground, and then his thighs were also pressed to the floor.He wanted to bend his knees and get up, but his legs and feet didn't respond. The feeling of splitting his upper and lower body made his scalp tingle. He thought of his promise, and thought of the spine that was glued between her split upper and lower body.

Nian Wei had propped up his upper body with his arms, and the book fell to the ground. He trembled and turned a few more pages.The sudden sense of incompleteness is enough to make any normal person lose his mind, and his brain is also numb along with his lower body, only thinking about finishing the unfinished business.

"Iti's royal family is no longer troubled by inheritance issues, they have become a muddled whole, no longer enjoying self and humanity..."

A dark shadow appeared beside Nian Weiji, and he looked up to see the hunchbacked gentleman in black rags.Just when Nian Weiji raised his arms to escape, he hit the ground with his head, and he found that now he could not even turn his neck. He was still awake, but he was trapped in a small cage of flesh.His tongue was paralyzed, and no matter how hard he yelled, he could only make an animal-like grunt.

Nian Wei's face was stuck on the book, and the black and white words once again opened their teeth and claws, protruding from the paper and stabbing his eyes, which made him cry non-stop. The salt water blurred his vision, and darkness surrounded him. Only then did he realize that it wasn't dark, but that he was gradually losing his sight.

"The dead city on the other side of the lake is no longer there. Now there is only one city beside Lake Harry. It was originally called Iti, but now it is called Carcosa..."

The word "Carcosa" swelled and enlarged in his vision, swallowing up all other colors.Nian Weiji's eyes were dim, but they were not pure black, but a dizzying and disgusting yellow.

"Hey! Doctor Nian, what's wrong with you!"

At the end of the year, the last thing I heard was Wei Zixu's anxious running voice, which soon stepped into the cotton, buzzing and unreal.

Nian Wei has been abandoned in a place that no one can reach, there is nothing around, and he can't feel anything.But he was still conscious, knowing that this was not a dream.

This is temporary, it's just a symptom of madness that the san value is lost too quickly, and it will be resolved soon.Years have not thought about it.He can only wait in this nothingness, and his thinking, which usually runs at high speed, is now stagnant, because there is no amount of information here.Everything in his usual life, even the repetitive work and physical pain, seemed to be full of attraction to him now.

In the process of waiting, he became anxious, but there was nothing he could do.How fast is soon?Anxiety may make people slow to the passage of time, mistakenly thinking that a momentary thing lasts a long time.The year has not decided to count, counting a number every second, so as to relieve the sense of urgency.

1,2,3...

 … 546,547,548

What's going on, it's been 10 minutes, the game is about to end, no one has found him yet?Did Wei Zixu go to see Carmichael's new play?Or did the others have already determined that he was hopeless and left him alone?

 … 865,866,867

The DEATHTHEATER should have started by now, who was executed this time?At the end of the year, he recalled it. He remembered the last time he saw Chen Luyao had 2 tokens, Mick had 3 tokens, Marquis Jin had 5 tokens, and they had 4 tokens.But their current points are too low. If they don't win the first place, they will be at the bottom after this time.That is to say, this time DEATHTHEATER, it was Wei Zixu who was executed.

 … 1602,1603,1604

Wei Zixu was probably dead, the game was over, and he was left on the fifth floor to rot alive.But it's good if it can rot, so he doesn't have to count boringly here, and he can't see the end.