Forces of Temptation

"Eternal Day", the horror cartoonist Yongwu's debut work published 23 years ago.

On the cover of the officially released first manga, the protagonist is a boy with a high ponytail.

He bit his black hair tie, sat in front of the box mirror, and combed his hair.

His name is Nan Zhou.

The only protagonist in the comic "Eternal Day".

In the setting, the story of "Eternal Day" takes place in the fictional Neverland.

In this closed and warm town, the time of night is related to the moon's tidal profit and loss.

Every month, only on the day of the full moon on the fifteenth day, the time of night and day is half.

With the fifteenth as the dividing line, the time of night is shortened in turn.

The first day of the new year is the only day without night in a month.

On that day, the snow-white sun will turn Never Never Town into a city of sunlight where nothing can be seen clearly.

It is not only darkness that can cover people's eyes, it may also be light.

Therefore, the first day of each month has become the rest day for the residents of Yongwu Town.

No matter what day of the week it is, the residents of Nevertown stay home.

Office workers are closed, and students are closed.

On the huge street shrouded in snow-white sunlight, there were few vehicles.

Only the constant light from the traffic lights is scattered by the blazing daylight into ripples of colored light with water ripples, slightly swaying in the hot air.

The weird and abnormal moonlight gave birth to a monster called light charm in Neverland.

Light Charm was born out of an irreversible source of infection called photobacteria.

They have the same appearance as humans, are extremely aggressive, agile, and have the same intelligence as ordinary people.

Normally, they firmly believe that they are ordinary people living in Neverland.

Only at the beginning of each month, on the "extreme day", will Guangmei's self-awareness wake up.

In the 24 hours of white and chaotic light, they can choose whether to transform into their original form, and then randomly hunt the townspeople to renew their lives.

As long as ordinary people are bitten and infected by light bacteria, another light charm will be born.

However, when the light bacteria enter the human body, the light bacteria will form their own variants due to different physiques, forming a self-protecting spiritual strain, entrenched in the brain.

Therefore, one of the characteristics of Guangmei is mental fragility.

In other words, once Guangmei treats Guangmei as a human being and bites another Guangmei, unless the strain is stronger than the opponent, it is possible to be infected and die.

It's like drawing a lottery ticket.

It is possible to absorb the nutrient savings in the other party's body. If you are lucky, you will not have to hunt for three months.

It is also possible that they will never have to hunt for a lifetime.

Of course, light charm is not unlimited.

In ordinary times, they never knew that they were monsters, nor could they recognize and perceive their own kind.

As light charms, they have a strong territorial animal nature and hate any existence of the same kind.

When they even see their own kind, they will give priority to killing them.

Therefore, Guangmei's living environment is not very easy.

While they are afraid of being killed in ordinary times, they are afraid that their family members will know their identities after they transform into monsters and wake up their memories. Mei, she swallowed it all by herself, but she died instead.

They are terrifying and lonely, co-existing in Neverland with ignorant human food.

Strange deaths happened frequently in the small town.

As in any other horror comic plot, the town's police don't do their job.

Just like the plots of other horror comics, no matter how frightened the people in the town were, none of them planned to move to save their lives.

If this comic is just that, it can probably only be regarded as an ordinary hunting comic that focuses on visual spectacle and incorporates vampire elements.

Fortunately, there is Nanzhou.

——Nan Zhou is the only character in the comics who realizes that he is a comic character.

Lin Zhisong remembered a scene very clearly.

When Nan Zhou was young, he once thought that he belonged to this world.

The first time he found out that he was different was because his mother took him to get an injection.

He was obviously very good and didn't cry.

Holding his mother's arm, he was afraid and afraid that his mother would be sad, so he hid in his mother's arms and said softly, "Mom, I love you, I love you."

But his mother turned a blind eye to his obedience and sensibleness.

She chided him for being squeamish, like a programmed robot.

She naturally thought that what she held in her arms should be a crying child who refused to get an injection and was in line with common sense.

Nan Zhou is a very clever boy.

He expanded from this, and gradually realized that everything around him was wrong.

In the whole town, he was the only one growing up.

The younger sister will always look immature at the age of five.

Parents are always young.

The intelligence of a friend in the first grade will always stay at the age of eight.

The courses taught by the teacher in Class [-] and Class [-] are exactly the same in terms of language, facial expressions, and small body movements.

Nan Zhou was originally a very lively child.

His taciturnity began when he got along with his family members, and he found that the family members could only respond to him according to a specific formula.

Slowly, he discovered the existence of the dangerous creature, Light Charm.

He is panicking.

Because on the day when Guangmei started hunting, other people's day, it took only two or three squares to jump over.

Even if you are killed, it only takes up one frame.

And Nanzhou had to hide in a dark place, gritted his teeth, shivered, and survived the difficult 24 hours.

After trying to call the police and persuade his parents to move to no avail, he took his young sister and rode a bicycle he had learned to the edge of Neverland, trying to escape from this place.

However, his bike hit the edge of the comic grid.

That's where the first manga ends.

The boy Nan Zhou stood in the field.

The wind lifted his mid-length hair and brushed his pale face.

He raised his hand and gently stroked the wall that didn't exist in the air.

From the reader's point of view, his beautiful face is facing the fourth wall, and his slender fingers are placed directly in front of him, like a gesture of oath.

From the perspective of Nanzhou, he thought, to protect himself and his family.

Although his family's love for him is a hidden setting and false, it is also his unique family in this small town.

……

After talking about the general plot and background setting of the first part of "Eternal Day", Lin Zhisong just finished drinking a cup of herbal tea.

Although the mobile phone he brought in had no signal and was useless, there were more than two dozen cached comics and novels stored in each app.

These are the original works selected and adapted by "Gravity".

"Eternal Day" comics, only the first one is included in the genuine app.

Looking at the cold and delicate beautiful young man with a similar face to Nan Zhou, and seeing the loneliness and determination in his eyes, Liang Shu felt a little unspeakable palpitation.

He really lived alone in that world for 23 years?

Everyone in "Bronze" was speechless for a while.

He Yinchuan put down the mobile phone handed by Liang Shu: "What happened next?"

Lin Zhisong bit the straw and recalled: "Later..."

"He recorded and observed all abnormal human situations in the town, and he began to practice self-defense."

"He approached three pairs of the most aggressive and dangerous light charms. When they were still normal people, they sent false information to each other, provoked infighting, and let them kill each other on a very dark day."

"He pretended to be of the same kind as Guangmei, and trapped and killed a Guangmei."

"On the night of the full moon when Guangmei was weakest, he killed many Guangmei who coveted his family and himself."

"Well, by the way, he also studied art."

"There is no university locally, he went to Xinhua Bookstore to study by himself."

Lin Zhisong pointed to his head.

"He knew that he was a character in the book, so he took advantage of the principle of osmotic pressure. As long as he lay his pillow on the book, words and images could flow directly from high-concentration places to low-concentration places, which could directly penetrate into his memory."

"Relying on this, he finished reading the books in the entire bookstore."

At the beginning, Lin Zhisong was quite envious when he read this imaginative plot.

He Yinchuan bypassed all this: "Then...what about the ending?"

"A tragic story." Lin Zhisong summed it up simply, "When he fought hard until he was 19, he was also bitten."

He added: "His sister did it."

Everyone in "Bronze" was dumbfounded.

Lin Zhisong scooped the ice cubes in the cup into his mouth, and crushed them with a click: "His sister has always been the light charm. The source of the light bacteria in the town is her. For example..."

He glanced at Lu Bifang: "She is the queen of the Zerg."

"She was too young to know that she could transform."

"Her nature has not flared up, just because there are a lot of 'Light Charms' downstream of her, as worker bees, who have been passing nourishment to her. She is not hungry."

He Yinchuan took the words: "But her brother has been hunting Guangmei?"

"Yes." Lin Zhisong nodded, "...she's hungry."

If it is just for appreciation, in the comics, the scene where Nan Zhou shows an unbelievable expression and is bitten on the neck by his sister who is always only five years old is very beautiful.

After all, the strain was formed in his brain.

The shape of his strain is very much like a white peacock formed by photochemical.

When the strain gradually bloomed in his mind, it was breathtakingly beautiful.

The day he was transformed was the day of extreme day.

In the scorching day that almost melted people, Nanzhou walked towards the edge of the town step by step.

He came to the end of the town that he had been to countless times but had never been able to break through, and knelt down slowly.

So far, his eternal day has come.

A word symbolizing hope became his eternal curse.

He pointed at his own neck with shattered glass shards.

But whether he cut it off or not, no one knows.

The manga ended in such an opening/ending way.

Lu Bifang pursed his lips: "Then...he is really pitiful..."

Zhou Ao rarely asked a long sentence: "What about the copy? It's the same story?"

"His previous stories are exhausted, and there is nothing worth telling." Lin Zhisong said, "When the official setting of "Gravity" was made, in order to commemorate the 23rd year of Nanzhou's birth, he has completely transformed into a monster. After four years, I started to talk about it."

"Then... what's the matter with the high death rate?"

Speaking of this, Lin Zhisong frowned completely.

"Didn't "Gravity" run smoothly for half a year after it was launched? In the past six months, the folk strategy groups for various dungeons have never stopped, and a special strategy forum has also been established."

"For the copy of "Eternal Day", a player first published a clearance strategy in the forum."

"He said that the boss Nanzhou is actually easy to deceive."

"As long as you get close to him and be friends with him, you can kill him when he is weakest on the night of the full moon and help him 'release'."

"Later, in order to get all the achievements of the dungeon, all the players followed this method to clear the level."

"result……"

Turns out, that's far from the case.

After the player followed the strategy according to the script and succeeded a few times, the death rate of "Eternal Day" suddenly rose without warning, directly jumping to the highest death rate among all the copies after the server was opened.

It is said that Nanzhou's attack method is very fierce, and he directly twists people's necks when he comes up.

Players are often forced to pop out of the dungeon before they even have time to tap the blood bottle, and the capsule cabin they are in is lit up with "death red".

According to the recollections of the players who suffered from Nan Zhou's neck twisting, this boss's super-strong brain is still working, and the concentration of wisdom is too high.

Not only will they sneak attack and dig traps for them, but they will also make immediate responses according to their various speech skills. Unlike other NPCs, they will have repetitive conversations with them.

Some players find this thief interesting.

Some players feel that the official level of restoration is high, and Nan Zhou is a smart character.

But some players feel shuddering about it.

There are also players who are distressed because they cannot get all the achievements, and complain to the game official, saying that "Southern Boat" is too strong, and ask him to impose certain restrictions and reduce the difficulty.

Having said this, Lin Zhisong took a deep breath.

"I don't know how he escaped."

"But, what I do know is that he's a poorly socialized man."

"Such an NPC who created the record for the highest death rate in a copy of "Gravity" is wandering outside. I am worried that he will affect other players."

Lu Bifang was still unwilling to fully believe Lin Zhisong's judgment: "This is too mysterious..."

Lin Zhisong opened his mouth and asked, "Isn't everything we see mysterious?"

Lu Bifang glanced at the little hen NPC who was busy receiving guests, and chose to keep silent.

Lin Zhisong continued: "I'm still worried about one thing."

He Yinchuan motioned for him to finish speaking in one breath.

Lin Zhisong said: "You have all seen that Nanzhou's intelligence, coupled with his military strength, is no surprise that he has a high possibility of winning the championship."

Liang Shu roughly understood his worry: "What you are worried about is..."

"Yes." Lin Zhisong said, "It's just a wish."

"I don't know what strange wish he will make. If he is really allowed to win the championship, what does he want to do? What will he do?"

"Does he hate the world outside the comics? Does he hate the players who cheat and try to kill him? Will he spread the light bacteria into the real world? It's all unknown. It's too uncontrollable."

He Yinchuan looked straight into his eyes: "So, what's your plan?"

Lin Zhisong was straightforward: "I want to use World Channel to warn everyone to be careful of Nanzhou."

"No."

For the first time, He Yinchuan used a strong tone, directly denying Lin Zhisong's proposal.

"Have you ever imagined the consequences? In this matter, we were not completely sure that he was really the Nanzhou. Now you have to tell everyone this uncertain news, tell them that a highly dangerous NPC escaped ? You will bring panic to everyone like this. And, what if he was wronged? He is not this comic book character at all, or he has no such plans, how do you plan to end it?"

Lin Zhisong finally loosened up a bit.

He asked, "Then, Captain, what do you think?"

He Yinchuan supported his head and sighed slightly at the situation that was completely beyond expectations: "Let's find a way to contact people in other groups first."