Happy death in the reincarnation world

library?Speaking of which, he has never been to the third floor of the library. There must be many important clues gathered there. Originally, he planned to go there with Dazai today, but he never thought that Dazai would never return to the dreamland.

He no longer wanted to watch the rest of the carnival activities caused by Gao YanMasami's body.Since Hypnos took the initiative to tell him the secret behind the dungeon, he was also happy to relax.

The square is very close to the library, and the two arrived at the library in no time.What was different from last time was that the serious and indifferent librarian suddenly changed his expression after seeing Osamu Dazai, or Hypnos, and bowed back without saying a word. .

Zhong Yuanzhong also looked sideways, and there was a faint blue light in Hypnos' eyes.

"You controlled him?"

"Probably." Hypnos said casually, "As long as it's in a dream, I can control everything."

"You constructed this dream?"

"Of course not. I am an existence higher than the yordle, and the dreams it creates can be easily manipulated by me."

"Where are you from?"

"Based on the concept understood by the people here," Hypnos pointed his finger upwards, "I am a higher existence."

"top?"

"I can't reveal more details to you for the time being, but you will know all this sooner or later. After all, with your ability, it is inevitable to go up, and in this world, only we have the opportunity to step to the top."

Central Plains Zhongye was in a cloud, but Hypnos refused to reveal any more clues, which made Central Plains Zhongye even more puzzled.

He had a hunch that the "top" in Hypnos' mouth might be the SP copy in the player's mouth.

There is no basis or clue for this guess, but Zhong Yuan Zhong also firmly believes in it.

The process of stepping up to the second floor is very easy.There is no need to simulate the power of the barrier anymore, just a snap of the fingers, the thick layer of barrier is easily broken like soap bubbles, but there is no trace of energy overflowing from it, and it is restored under the control of Hypnos. The entire process of returning to the state of the enchantment was silent. If Zhongyuan Zhongye hadn't used his strength to observe the whole process, I am afraid that he would never have found that the enchantment had been artificially destroyed and recreated.

Zhongyuan Zhong also thought that, as Huangbatu, he would naturally be the most powerful force in the world of reincarnation.But Hypnos' actions made him faintly suspicious of this matter.

The simpler and more precise the operation, the more terrifying the opponent's control over power.

There is no doubt that the man in front of him is a real god.At the same level as him, no, even the current him can't kill Hypnos at all.

"Don't be so surprised." Hypnos said, "Chuya, you should be stronger than me, but your strength hasn't awakened yet."

Under Zhongye Zhongye's slightly dazed gaze, Hypnos stretched out his hand and put it on his chest, put his lips close to Zhongye Zhongye's ear, and said softly: "I can feel that the power you displayed is nothing more than The shallowest layer of the ocean. They're trying to wake up, but you're resisting them."

"I..." Nakahara Chuya's lips twitched for a moment, and suddenly he heard Hypnos' voice again, but this time, his tone was much more cheerful and relaxed: "The annoying guy finally stopped watching."

surveillance?Who is watching?It can't be... the main god, right?

"It's really interesting, wandering outside the world, recording our whereabouts and words like an observer?" Hypnos raised his head, looked through the window, as if he was going through the sky, and directly connected with the copy The main gods outside looked at each other, and Zhongyuan Zhong was also more and more horrified.

For Zhongya Zhongyuan, every existence in the dungeon except for the player is almost like an NPC to him, but now Hypnos feels to him as if he has independent behavioral logic and thinking ability, it is simply Like a living - human.

These dungeons really look more and more like a real world...

The real world... However, the scenes he experienced in the [Fox Staircase] dungeon once again appeared in his mind, as well as the world isolated outside the barrier that he saw when he tried to break through the barrier of the dungeon.

Nakahara Chuya's gaze involuntarily fell on the computer beside him.The computer is still in the standby state. When I checked the time last time, Zhong Yuan took a special look at it. The computer can access the Internet.

By accident, he opened the browser and entered a line of words in the search box.

【Fangyuan No. [-] Experimental High School】

His heart was pounding, as if he was about to foresee something, and Nakahara Chuya's breathing couldn't help being a little rough.

After the page loaded for a second or two, the searched information appeared in front of Zhongya Zhongyuan one by one.After clicking on a link on his mouth, Nakahara Chuya's hand froze in place.

That was a report.

"...A number of suicide cases occurred in the No. [-] Experimental High School of Fangyuan City...According to the investigation, there is a popular legend called [Fox Ladder] among the students...According to the clues provided by the witness Ms. Sato, ten years ago The suicide case of a female student who was determined to be a suicide case has been reopened...one of the suspects, the principal of the school, has been arrested by the police.”

The report is not long, more than 1000 words, it is obviously the contents of the [Fox Staircase] dungeon they have experienced, but now the dust has settled.

The report did not mention the names of Nakahara Chuya and others, and there was no information about transfer students or cults.But if you read the reports, you will only think that it is a series of tragedies caused by the principal manipulating the students behind the scenes.

Zhongyuan Zhong also opened the map again, and he could clearly see that his current location was more than 100 kilometers away from Fangyuan City.

what happened?This is the Nordic region, right?Although I have never heard of such a city in Japan, both the characters used and the way of naming are obviously Japan, and there is only a part of the deviation from the Japan in my memory.

But no matter how deviated, according to normal logic, the distance between Japan and Northern Europe should not be so small?

Zhongyuan Zhongye quickly called up the world map again, and was suddenly taken aback.

What's going on, this world is... too small, right?

The area of ​​the whole world, maybe even only about one Europe, is surrounded by a black circle.

What is the black circle?sea?

Under the map, there is a line written in English.

"Our world may be at the bottom of the abyss."

The bottom, the top... Zhong Yuanzhong also vaguely realized that he seemed to have found some important clues.However, no matter how much he searched, he could no longer obtain any key information.

A little disappointed, he let go of the mouse, and when he turned his head, Hypnos' undisguised scorching gaze directly met his gaze, which shocked Zhong Yuanzhong too.He twitched the corners of his mouth helplessly, and slapped Hypnos' face away.

"Don't look at me so stupidly with Dazai's face!"

"But he always looks at you that way?"

"...that's different."

"Cut." Hypnos glanced at his mouth, put his hands on his chin, and said rather boredly: "You really like Osamu Dazai."

"none of your business?"

"But he's just an ordinary human being. Although the power is indeed somewhat miraculous, whether it's a penis or a soul, he's just an ordinary human being, unlike you."

"...I'm only human, too."

"Don't deceive yourself, Chuya." Hypnos sneered, and his voice softened for a moment: "You are a god, just like me, born to be a higher race than humans. Speaking of it" he blinked: " The reason why you are afraid of awakening may not be because of Osamu Dazai."

"You are really annoying!" Zhong Yuanzhong didn't want to talk to him any more, turned off the computer in a few moments, and walked upstairs by himself: "Didn't you want to take me up there? Stop talking!"

Hypnos didn't speak, his eyes fixed on Zhongyuanzhong's somewhat hasty back, and the corners of his mouth became more and more curved.

It's ok.

he said in his heart.

In the end, even if you don't want to admit it, you can only accept the fact that we are different from human beings with short lives.

As for time?He can afford to wait.

At this time, Osamu Dazai, who was still looking for Chuya Nakahara outside the dreamland, sneezed three times in a row, rubbed his nose and thought narcissistically: Well, Chuya must be missing me!

As soon as he stepped onto the third floor, the atmosphere around him changed drastically from that on the second floor.Nakahara Chuya finally saw those people who were constantly patrolling the floors—no, they were no longer human beings.

Although they have the appearance and body of a human being, everyone has worms on their foreheads, and their eyes are empty and lifeless. They stopped walking when they saw Hypnos, and opened and closed their mouths, as if they wanted to say something. But he could barely utter a few out-of-tune syllables.

Zhongyuanzhong also carefully distinguished the syllables, which sounded like the words "Yue", "De" and "Er".

The books on this floor are all the classics about belief and religion stored by the church. Compared with the real world, there are much more classics here, and the content is much richer. It looks like a church.It seems that, as Dazai guessed, information about yordle can only be seen in dreams.

In the "Bible" of the church, it is recorded in detail when their so-called god "Yordle" came and performed miracles.He also specifically mentioned that their small town is the place where Yodel established family members, and the gods will only come here and bestow favors on his believers.

The most recent time of advent was April 2011, 4, which was the time when the town was surrounded by heavy fog.According to the book, the Yordle gods performed miracles several times before, but because the believers were not sincere enough and did not offer the best sacrifices, the gods were dissatisfied and left.

The method of summoning yordle is recorded later, but it is also written: most of the time, the gods of yordle will not respect the summoning.He is an extremely free and casual god. When he wants to appear, he will descend on his own. Before the god descends, he will use the thick fog as a revelation. Believers need to pray at the moment when the thick fog appears to welcome God. The gods come.After coming, the yordle will bring endless dreams to believers, and the dream is no different from reality, and they can get the bliss of heaven.

No wonder the man named Jack said that everything can be obtained here.

On the fourth floor, all the books disappeared, and only a report was placed in the very center, but the number of guards doubled, standing densely in every corner, even with the ability to hide, unless you make yourself completely transparent, otherwise Basically, you can bump into people with a few steps, and then directly expose your own existence.

The report was protected by a special glass cover, and Zhong Yuanzhong also tried to punch the glass cover without gravity, but he couldn't punch even a single gap.Zhong Yuanzhong also tried to use the flame ability to attack. Although it is only C-level, the temperature of the flame is not low at all, but it is still useless against the glass cover.

The glass was covered with a layer of powerful force. In the end, Nakahara Chuya could only resort to gravity to break the glass and get the report.

Although the information on the report is less, the content is much more powerful and useful than the third floor.

This layer is still information about yordle, but in the report, yordle is no longer a god, but a creature.It’s not just some extraterrestrial creature, the report calls it an “upper evolutionary species.” As for where this “upper layer” points to, it’s not known.

The report mentioned that the fog covering the entire town was not a fog, but an extremely tiny creature called a "dream bug".This kind of creature has an extremely terrifying ability to reproduce, often acts in groups, and feeds on human spirits.They can perceive human emotions and memories, induce the deepest fears in human hearts and materialize them with their own bodies.

The materialized ones are very aggressive and will continue to damage the spiritual power of human beings.

Because they are extremely small, they will enter the human body through breathing and reside in the human brain.

If human beings kill their illusory creatures, the sense of fear generated by human beings in this behavior will resonate with the dream insects that enter the human brain, thereby stimulating the human brain, causing severe headaches and hallucinations, and prompting people to transform into human beings. Get crazy.While parasitic, they will also continue to absorb human power, causing human beings to fall into a weak state.

Seeing this, Zhongyuan Zhong couldn't help but feel a chill, and subconsciously wanted to touch his head, thinking that no wonder his head hurt at that time, it turned out to be because of this worm!

Hey, the thought of having bugs in his head makes him sick.

"Hey, who is that, Hypnos, right?" Zhong Yuan grabbed Hypnos's sleeve: "Aren't you also created by these bugs? Can you take the bugs out of my head?" ?”

"Ala Zhongye, we are in a state of hostility. Is it really okay to ask the enemy so?" Hypnos shrugged, but he was in a good mood: "Also, don't compare me with this group of inferior creatures. Connected together, although my body is indeed composed of them, but my existence is much higher than theirs!"

"I don't care if you are advanced or not, help me take out the bug first!"

"Unfortunately, I can't take it out for you directly in the dream. But since it is Chuya's request, I will take it for you when you leave the dream~" Hypnos said with a smile: "I also I can't bear to have other beings enter Chuya's body~"

Nakahara Chuya: "..."

What kind of weird description is this?

Since Hypnos appeared based on his impression of Osamu Dazai, Zhongyuanzhong also has reasons to believe that Hypnos will not deceive himself.After receiving the promise from Hypnos, he temporarily settled down and continued to read the report in hand.

"...dream worms have the ability to weave dreams. They can use dreams to create a dream world that is the same as reality on the basis of reality. Human beings can enter dreams through parasitic dream worms in the brain. However, every time they enter Dreams consume mental power and can easily lead to madness."

"...Although dream worms feed on spiritual power, they must eat the flesh and blood of living things, especially human beings, if they want to reproduce. There are two ways for dream worms to prey on humans. The first one is through reading Take other people's memories to create monsters and kill humans. If the human strength is too high to cause effective damage to them, the dream worm will use the second method to forcibly pull people into the dream. Every time they enter the dream, they will let It enters a deeper dream. The way to escape from the dream is a severe sense of weightlessness, such as falling from a building or drowning. At the same time, they will manipulate the nerves to produce hallucinations, allowing humans to have the illusion that they are still in the dream after returning to the real world, and induce humans Suicide again."

No wonder Masami Gaoyan died so soon.

"Once parasitized by the dream worm for too long, it will lose all thinking and become a body manipulated by the dream worm, but the body will not die. The parasitized human will make syllables like about, de, er, doubt It is the source of the name of the town and the god."

Parasitic, like those guards?

"...The stronger the power of the flesh and blood being devoured, the longer the dream worm will survive. Once it does not get enough power to continue to reproduce, the dream worm will die quickly in a short time. Every time the dream worm The appearance of insects will cause the death of most creatures within the range."

"...On April 2011, 4, the dream worm came again. The church in the town once again publicized the so-called yordle gods. It didn't take long for them to find me. They told me that they wanted to protect the entire If the town wants to keep everyone alive, it can only continue to provide sacrifices to the dream worms according to the teachings."

"Although I was born in this small town, I never believed in the existence of gods. I came back here only to investigate the secrets of the yordle god hidden behind the church, but discovered its origin by mistake. My hometown Trapped in a small town, how can I save them?"

"...The so-called sacrifices also need to use the flesh and blood of the townspeople to provide food for the dream worms. They are so weak, how long can they satisfy the dream worms? To protect my hometown and everyone here , I... have no choice."

"I submitted a rescue application to the organization, and not long after, the people from the organization arrived. I gave them part of the dream worm's information through dreams, and asked one of them to leave the town with the information and join hands with the church , leaving the rest of the investigators in the town. They are not ordinary people, they possess powerful power, and only a few people are needed to keep the Dream Worm alive for a long time. The rest of the townspeople, I will They are concentrated in the sacrificial place under the church. They just need to continue to dream, and I will bear all the dirty things."

"The information obtained by the organization is not complete. In order to obtain complete investigation information, they will inevitably send investigators continuously. These investigators will become the nourishment of the town. At least until the townspeople die, I will not stop their work." Sweet dreams. As for this report, it probably won’t reach the organization before I die. I’m sorry, but I can only do this.”

"Investigator #19567: Verna Parson"

Seeing this, Zhong Yuanzhong finally had a clear understanding of everything. The "upper species" came to this small town and parasitized the town in the form of fog. The investigator Wei Na who originally came to investigate the dream worm chose to join forces with the church in order to protect the townspeople, by absorbing the power of other investigators. Continuously maintain the operation of the dream worm.

No wonder Verna was so clear about how to resist the fog.No wonder, Wei Na would not want him to go back into the fog—since she could hear the sound of Zhongyuan Zhong also killing monsters, she shouldn't have missed the fact that Zhong Yuan Zhong could also kill monsters.Knowing that the monsters in the mist are also ineffective against the Central Plains, they tried every means to bring him back to the dreamland.

The glass of water at the beginning probably contained drugs.Later, seeing that his vigilance was so high, he temporarily replaced it with ointment.No wonder he had a vague memory of returning to the hotel that night. It is estimated that it was not an ordinary drug, it should contain the power of the dream bug, which made him hallucinate that he had returned to the hotel.Maybe he never even left Vera's house.

From the current point of view, their identities should be the so-called "investigators" in the report, just like the transfer students in [Fox Ladder], their identities are completed by dungeons.

As for the time-limited task at the beginning of the dungeon, Zhong Yuanzhong also has reason to suspect that this was carried out by the dungeon to make them have the illusion that "the dream is reality".

Thinking of this, Zhongyuan Zhong couldn't help but glance at Hypnos again, becoming more and more suspicious in his heart.

According to the normal dungeon process, there must be a battle when Zhongyuan Zhong also enters the third and fourth floors. Otherwise, what are the guards on the floors doing?It can't be a decoration, can it?

But with Hypnos around, the investigation process was directly simplified, and the overall ease made one wonder if it was an S-rank dungeon.The existence of Osamu Dazai had made the dungeon much less difficult, but this Hypnos was even more extreme, it was no different from cheating.

Will the dungeon really allow this kind of thing to exist?

No matter how you think, something is wrong, right?

Well, it’s here anyway, since he ran into this bug, how can he be worthy of his appearance if he doesn’t make good use of it?

Nakahara Zhong also raised his head, looking at the stairs leading to the fifth floor, his eyes became a little bit excited.

Since the fourth floor has already revealed the plot of this dungeon, the final boss will not just stay on the fifth floor, right?