The Game Show of Death: Demons of Reason

"Let's go, we've already come here." Wei Zixu said, and at the same time, the director's narration also sounded from the background:

[Staying in Karksari for one hour, the investigator loses 1 sanity point. 】

"Is it already 1 hour now? How is the time in this city calculated?" Nian Wei had followed Wei Zixu and asked.

Wei Zixu: "I don't know, there is no timing tool here, but it has indeed been a long time since we entered Carcosa, I don't know how the game is going." Wei Zixu seemed a little anxious when he said this, but after going through After the baptism of ALS, it is relatively calm at the end of the year.

The internal structure of the tower is simple, only narrow stone steps are embedded in the wall, and the uneven steps are arranged in a spiral shape around the wall, extending upward into the darkness.Wei Zixu stepped on the stone steps and found that although the stone was worn out, it was strong enough for them to step on it.It's just that there are no fences or handrails on the stone steps. If you walk up to a high place and don't stand firmly, you will be in danger if you fall down.Wei Zixu had just taken two steps, when he suddenly noticed this, he stepped back and let Nian Weiji go first: "You are not physically strong, go ahead of me, if you are tired or unable to stand still, I can help you, I won't put you down You left."

At the end of the year, he didn't try to be brave, and walked ahead obediently.Although Wei Zixu is often very hypocritical, he can't just pretend to be considerate in the subtleties, and he doesn't think about these aspects at all when he is young.

The air in the tower was damp, and moss grew between the bricks and stones of the walls, making it slippery and difficult to grasp.They climbed up the stone steps round and round, and gradually felt that it was difficult to breathe, and their panting became heavier and heavier, and occasionally they could hear panting laughter mixed with the panting, coming from the upper and lower directions .

Nian Wei had climbed dozens of steps, bent down to rest, and saw an infinite loop of spirals between the hollowed-out steps, and felt dizzy for a while.As soon as he touched his forehead, Wei Zixu quickly circled him from behind.

"I'm fine, just a little dizzy." Nian Weiji said.

"Don't look down. Not counting the projected distance, we have already walked eighty steps, and falling from this height is fatal." Wei Zixu said, refusing to let go of the hands that encircled Nian Weiji.

Nian Weiji nodded, raised his head and continued to climb, Wei Zixu's arm was protecting his arm.The muscles on Wei Zixu's body were not obvious, but they were very strong. He never knew that this little boy's arms were so powerful in his late years.

They walked up dozens of steps, and Nian Weiji felt his legs were so soft that he could no longer walk properly. Now he was almost crawling on the steps to climb up.Wei Zixu's condition wasn't much better either, he heard Wei Zixu panting like a cow behind him, he was afraid that the air in the narrow tower would be sucked dry by the two of them.

Nian Wei has insisted on climbing for a while, and the sweat dripped on the stone steps and it became more slippery. He felt that his limbs were no longer in control, and he felt limp as if he was about to lie down on the steps.But he was afraid that Wei Zixu would bump into him when he stopped, and the two of them fell down together, so he gritted his teeth and continued to climb, the severe tinnitus made his brain hurt suddenly.

"Huh-huh-huh-stop, stop! I can't do it anymore, I want to lie down here." Nian Weiji finally shouted.

"Ha, huh—don't stop, once you stop—you won't be able to get up, it should be almost there, how tall can this building be, just keep going—" Wei Zixu said intermittently.

"I'm not going, I can't go—"

"Huh, huh—then what do you want, let me carry you up?"

"Ha, haha," Nian Weiji smiled, "Speaking of which, the last time I climbed such a high ladder, I was carried up by Jin on his back."

Wei Zixu also laughed at the back: "Haha, is it plausible, let the woman recite it."

"Is it considered a woman? If that kind of woman is considered a woman, I will be a woman too." Nian Weiji said with a smile.This gag conversation gave him some strength again, and he moved slowly.

Wei Zixu followed behind him, his breathing became more steady. At the end of the year, Wei Zixu asked, "Do you think we can still win today's game?"

"What do you think about that? If you survive, you win." Nian Weiyi said, his voice was unsteady, but the logic in his words was very coherent: "The information we dug up in the whole game is too little, only Mick is alone. Familiar with the routine, we were running around like headless chickens in the first half, and time was running out when we learned about the king in yellow. Now it seems that if we have not been obsessed with finding books, but have tried our best to prevent new books from the beginning. Whether it is to disperse the guests or violently suppress Carmichael and the others, it is a better choice. But the game, what is the meaning of having a game just for the result, I still want to know the story more than losing and winning the truth."

"But what can you do if you know the truth? If you can't kill the king in yellow, you still can't save those actors and guests."

"Why must saving people be the criterion for winning the game? In the face of the truth, aren't human casualties very small?"

As if echoing the words of the end of the year, a platform appeared above their heads, the steps ended in front of the platform, and there was a golden door on the platform, and a yellow seal that kept twisting was imprisoned inside the door. The rotten breath was The yellow seal came out.When the two of them came to the door, the door opened slowly, and inside the door was a scene of twisting and twisting, the ceiling and walls irregularly surrounded the hall, while knee-high yellow smoke covered the ground, and the familiar blue light flashes in it.

They walked in the door, the door closed automatically behind them, there was the sound of scratching the glass from both sides, Nian Wei could see the winged shadow outside the window beating the window and laughing.In the center of the hall, the grandfather clock in the library pointed to midnight. Behind the clock stood an obsidian pyramid. The pyramid was composed of obsidian cubes, about ten meters high, with a human-sized throne at the top.

A human figure clad in a thousand pieces of torn yellow cloth leaned limply on the throne, its face completely covered by a mask, pale as a dead fish on the shore of Lake Harley.

The human figure on the obsidian throne gave Nian Weiji a strong visual impact, tempting him to check what the body was under the rags and mask.At the same time, the floor beneath their feet dissipated with yellow smoke, and the eerie roof of Calcosa was a few hundred meters below them.In the center, a swirling yellow eye grows larger and closer.Wei Zixu saw Chen Luyao and others rushing to the ballroom from that eye, so he hugged Nian Weiji's waist tightly, and jumped into the dance hall with him before Nian Weiji touched the mask of the King in Yellow Clothes. in the eyes.

In just a split second, Wei Zixu and Nian Wei fell heavily to the floor, but they could feel that some cushioning measures slowed down their speed during the fall just now, so that they would not break their bones.Nian Weiji moved his limbs, and the impact shook his internal organs, which was enough for Nian Weiji to suffer.They fell to the place where the crowd gathered on the stage. The stage not far away continued to make noisy sounds, and the projections of the guests crowded around them. It looked even more chaotic than the empty courtyard of the king in yellow.

The surrounding sounds fluctuated, and the piano and orchestral instruments were neighing, playing in strange tones like human voices.The actors on the stage are chanting loudly and twisting their bodies excitedly to perform, but those lines and actions don't want to be issued by themselves, as if something is speaking and performing through them.Looking up at the end of the year, the overwhelming yellow waves are rolling in the ballroom. This is not a rag worn by the king in yellow, but a yellow leaflet that has fallen down, with the name of the new play written on it: "The King in Yellow" .

Five people rushed out in a yellow leaflet, Chen Luyao and Qin Guican walked in front, Jin supported Mick and followed behind, Chen Luyao also supported a person, he half dragged and half hugged Jinhou in. .

Seeing Nian Weiji and Wei Zixu who fell to the ground, Chen Luyao exclaimed in surprise, "Why are you here? How did you come here?"

But at the end of the year, it was too late to explain to him. Carmichael, Adrian, and the Morgenstern sisters were performing that taboo drama on the stage. The guests in gorgeous and messy clothes crowded around the stage, all of them staring blankly at the stage. This strange situation gave them a very bad feeling.Wei Zixu got up, stretched out a hand and pulled Nian Weiji up from the ground.When Nian Wei got up, he heard a weak voice sounding beside him.

"It hurts... brother, come quickly, I can't do it, it hurts too much... brother..."

Marquis Jin was supported by Chen Luyao, his fat body trembled like chaff, like clam meat shivering in its shell.

"He collapsed as soon as he got out of the library, saying that it hurts, and then he seemed to be unable to listen to others, and he became like this." Chen Luyao said, "I didn't hear the director say that he was in a temporary situation. Crazy or something, if you ask him and he doesn't answer, I can only drag him here first."

"The current situation is not optimistic." Mick continued, and Nian Wei had noticed that Mick had been breaking out in a cold sweat: "My crazy time has not passed yet, and Marquis Jin has fallen into temporary madness again. Now if we enter the battle round, neither of us will act. opportunities, our combat effectiveness will be very limited.”

Nian Weiji hurriedly said: "No, he's not going crazy temporarily. Where's his bag? I need to find that bag."

"Here I am." Qin Guican took out Marquis Jin's messenger bag: "He dropped it when he fell outside the library, so I took this bag—this bag looks bulging, but I didn't expect it to be quite light." , what's the matter, Xiaonian, do you need to use this bag?"

Nian Weiji nodded, and began to flip through the bag while saying, "This is the effect of the 'judgment' card. The Marquis of Jin can only resist the 'judgment' with transmitter-blocking drugs. Now it seems that the effect of the medicine has expired. Make some more... Wait, why is there only one left? Nian Wei has suddenly realized that it must be that Marquis Jin often secretly used medicine for himself, but it is hard to say whether it is because the effect of the medicine has weakened or he is already addicted.

When Nian Wei had pulled out the syringe, Marquis Jin took a peek at it, grabbed the syringe while Chen Luyao was not paying attention, and inserted it into the vein on his neck.

"Hey! No way!" Nian Weiji watched the lethal dose of drugs injected into the jugular vein, and Jinhou fell to the ground at the same time, his body arched, gasping for breath as if lacking oxygen.Nian Weiji quickly squatted down and shouted: "He's going into shock!" Jin Hou only twitched a few times before he collapsed on the ground, a pile of white foam gushed from the corner of his mouth, and Nian Weiji reached out to feel his pulse.

Casiluda: I tell you, I'm lost, totally lost!

Camilla: Have you seen the King in Yellow?

Casiluda: And he took away my powers, so I couldn't see my way or escape from my dreams.

The crowd suddenly became agitated, and countless projections covered Nian Weiyi's body, causing chaos in front of his eyes. He raised his head to observe with difficulty. No one noticed when he shouted so loudly just now. It turned out that they were all attracted by the more shocking scene. .

The frenzy of the play affected the audience, and the crowd became hysterical.The well-dressed guests made some out-of-control actions, some suddenly squatted down and cried, some picked up the things at hand and kept beating them; on the large mirrors on both sides of the ballroom, some painters cut their own wrists and painted with blood; Friends or couples bit each other savagely, biting off the flesh on each other's cheeks and necks; some couldn't stand the vision in front of them, and gouged out their eyes with a loud roar.

If the madness of an individual is comical, the madness of a crowd is terrifying.Even seeing the current scene from a movie screen is scary, let alone a fake projection.Nian Wei has seen that other people are avoiding the projection unconsciously, with a bewildered expression on their faces.

"Cough! Cough-cough-"

Suddenly a hand grabbed Nian Weiwei's arm, causing him to stagger.

Marquis Jin grabbed Nian Weiwei's arm and got up, knelt on the ground, and wiped the white foam from the corners of his mouth with his hands.He raised his eyes and met Nian Wei's clear eyes. He froze for a moment, seemed a little surprised, then smiled slightly: "It's you."

"You stole my hat on the first day, and you stole my hat again yesterday. If you like that hat, just take it." Jin Hou said, "I won't wear it anymore."

"Marquis of Jin? Are you Marquis of Jin?" Nian Weiji narrowed his eyes and asked.Marquis Jin ignored the title, and looked away at the stage contemptuously: "Where is the progress now... Well, it seems that we have no hope of reaching a good ending, but at least we should try to interrupt their performance. The role of Marquis Jin is a playwright, and the points of 'speech' and 'debate' are very high, I went to the stage for a skill test to see if I can overwhelm their performances."

Nian Wei has watched Marquis Jin walk onto the stage, his walking posture is completely different from before.

Marquis Jin walked onto the stage, and before he had time to pass the skill test, he saw the yellow eyeball that he and Wei Zixu jumped in just now landed behind the stage, and the yellow mist spread out, and the ragged figure leaned on the throne, hunched over The gentleman stood under the throne. It looked up and looked around. Under the hood was a wooden mask, and there was a smile on that mask, which was its face.At this moment, the actors and the audience all looked at the king in yellow behind Marquis Jin, and then rushed towards Marquis Jin in a daze.

There was a vigorous pendulum sound coming from outside the door, and it was the grandfather clock in the library that struck zero.Nian Wei had been dragged out of the ballroom by the people behind him. Before the door closed, he saw the mask of the king in yellow melted, revealing the rotten and pus-filled face underneath. Countless tentacles sprouted from its face and attacked Jin Hou.

Before he was alive, he longed to be watched more than his brother, and Nian Weiji suddenly thought of how he felt when he was the focus of attention now.