The Master of the Strange Realm

Dad added some firewood to the campfire, and beside the two of them, a temporary camp was being set up. Crops were uprooted from the fields, clearing large areas for church use. According to the original incident report left by Dad and Old Jack, as well as the rare records of [Biggs Hospital] from other churches, dealing with this matter is a long-term process.

Affected by the appearance of strange objects, the temperature nearby was very low, unlike the temperature at midsummer nights. The bonfire was lit for this reason. Chocolate liked this environment very much. He squatted obediently on Jenkins' shoulders, his two amber eyes reflecting the jumping flames.

"Have you read the data? There will be a time loop phenomenon within the barbed wire fence, but the length of each time loop is different. The current observation record is that the shortest is 3 seconds and the longest is 11 minutes and 53 seconds. If at a certain time If you do not leave the hospital before the end of the cycle, you will be trapped in the time loop forever, and the same actions will be repeated again and again. What is happening inside can be witnessed from the outside of the barbed wire fence. The church believes that Biggs Hospital appears. Finally, if left uninterrupted, it will disappear after 3948 cycles. When it reappears in another location, everyone who was lost in the time loop last time will not appear again. The hospital is waiting for the next batch of victims. "

Jenkins nodded seriously, meaning that he had read this part of the information.

"This is information that can be made public. What you need to pay attention to is the part of the information that cannot be made public. Those documents are in the Holy See. Currently, among all the people in our church in Nolan, only Strais and I have the authority, so now I dictate Let’s hear it.”

Dad lowered his voice and looked around cautiously with Jenkins. Chocolate also followed their example and looked around.

"There are so-called 'aboriginals' inside the hospital. That is to say, the strange thing [Biggs Hospital] not only includes the building space, but also the people who belong to it. The Traveler's Church has a deep understanding of [Biggs Hospital] The understanding will be deeper. They believe that Biggs Hospital did not come to the material world with the strange world, but the people in the hospital were probably the reason why Biggs Hospital came into being.

There are seven entities in the hospital that are believed to be real, and all seven people are inside the main building of the hospital. Based on the church’s explorations over the years, that is, using death row prisoners to try to enter the hospital for observation, and some methods that are inconvenient to tell you, we have summarized the rules of seven people in the time cycle, and thus found the way to banish them in advance [Biggs Hospital] 】The way. "

"Let me guess, among the seven people, one of them should be performing a ceremony?"

Jenkins interjected, and his father nodded, his forehead wrinkled to make the wrinkles more obvious:

"It is because there are too many people who do not respect mysteries that the world becomes worse and worse. The main building of Biggs Hospital has a total of four floors, including the basement and rooftop, which can be regarded as six floors. If it starts with a time loop At that moment, we started counting people. Among the six floors, there were two people in the basement, two on the first floor, one on the second floor, and one on the rooftop. Which floor do you want to know first? "

"Start from the top."

Jenkins thought for a moment and said.

"The longest cycle currently observed by the church lasted 11 minutes and 53 seconds. During this period, there was only a barefoot man wearing a gray woolen sweater and black pants on the hospital rooftop. He would within the first 8 minutes and 12 seconds, He kept wandering around the edge of the rooftop, took out the paper and pen from his pants pocket at 8 minutes and 13 seconds, and leaned on the railing to write. This continued until 10 minutes and 23 seconds before he placed the paper on the ground and pressed it with the pen. , jumped from the rooftop in 29 seconds.”

Dad used his hand to depict the fall. Under the firelight, the shadow of his hand drew strange shapes on the ground. Jenkins sat next to his father with his legs crossed and nodded:

"Is he dead? There is no story about him in the remaining 1 minute and 24 seconds?"

"No, he will turn into an evil spirit at 10 minutes and 57 seconds and kill other people in the time loop."

Jenkins showed an expression of wonder, then raised his hand to greet Mr. Fred, the demigod of the Ocean Church, who was walking by the bonfire in front of the two of them.

After everyone from the Ocean Church who had just arrived left, Dad continued:

"The identity of the person on the rooftop cannot be confirmed, but the young lady on the fourth floor is wearing a very typical nurse uniform. I think no matter what era it is, it should be a nurse who wears this in the hospital. She is holding a tray at the beginning of the cycle Appeared at the stairwell in the middle of the fourth floor, then turned right and entered the third room. The church failed to observe what happened in the room. He only knew that a woman's scream came from about 10 minutes and 30 seconds, and then four people. There was no sound or anything happening upstairs.”

"Can't you see inside the room from the outside of the hospital?"

"All the rooms have their curtains drawn."

"Why? What kind of hospital has such rules?"

Jenkins asked in surprise.

"Judging from the equipment and medications found inside, this was a sanatorium, or... a psychiatric hospital."

Jenkins nodded understandingly and continued listening to the story with his cat.

"The person on the second floor is a little boy. He is probably dressed like an ordinary patient. He is identifiable by his bald head."

Jenkins touched his hair.

"At the beginning of the cycle, he will sit on a chair made of iron pipes in the corridor, with his head lowered and still. This action will last until about 9 minutes and 21 seconds. At 10 minutes and 01 seconds, he will raise his head with a frightened expression. At 10 minutes 28 seconds ago, he would try to run from the second floor to the first floor and die in the main lobby of the hospital on the first floor at 10 minutes and 28 seconds.”

"How did you die?"

Jenkins asked.

"Because there is not much time left before the longest cycle ends, the church cannot obtain the autopsy report. Judging from the appearance of the body, it looks like it was frightened to death."

Dad said, poking the bonfire with the long wood at hand to make the flames stronger. Chill is seeping out from the white mist. Although the temperature here has not dropped below zero, the chill that penetrates into the bone marrow is really uncomfortable.

"The two people on the first floor are both women. One looks about 20 years old, and the other looks about 40 years old. The younger one should be a doctor. She has an iron badge on her chest, which is fixed to her clothes with magnets. The one above The characters are not modern common characters. Like the huge name signboard outside the hospital, they are characters commonly used in the human world in the 15th century. From this, the church can determine the time when this hospital was formed.

The two ladies were sitting at a small round table in the corner of the lobby on the first floor, holding cups of tea and talking about the condition of the young lady's mother who was in the hospital. At 10 minutes and 05 seconds, they looked up at the stairs because they heard the footsteps of the boy on the second floor running in the corridor upstairs; at 10 minutes and 20 seconds, they saw the boy appear on the stairs; at 10 minutes and 28 seconds, they witnessed the boy's death. Then I got up to check...guess what happened next? "

Dad asked his apprentice, and Jenkins thought for a while:

"Being frightened by the corpse, then screaming, until the end of the longest cycle ever observed by the Church?"

"According to common sense, this should be the case, but in fact, after the two people saw the body, the doctor turned into a ghoul on the spot and gnawed on the body. The young woman tried to rush out of the hospital and passed the body in the courtyard at 10 minutes and 55 seconds. Next to him, he was killed by the resurrected evil spirit behind him two seconds later.”

Jenkins was shocked by this result, but couldn't help but admire:

"If this was the plot of a novel, it would be so exciting and so interlocking. There are still two people left. I think the basement should be the source of all this, right?"

"Yes, but the basement is inaccessible. When old Jack and I were trapped in it, we tried to break into the basement, but the door couldn't be opened. We didn't know what happened in the basement within 10 minutes after the cycle started. What.

All I know is that at exactly 10 minutes, from the doorway outside the basement stairs, you can hear frightened screams and curse words coming from inside. At 10 minutes and 20 seconds, the basement door was violently beaten from the inside; at 31 seconds, two men opened the basement door from the inside; at 38 seconds, they entered the first floor hall and met the dead boy and the ghoul, shouting, 'Run away, we The time was miscalculated. At 40 seconds, an encounter broke out because the ghoul was disturbed, but the man with yellow hair threw a test tube and forced the ghoul back. At 11 minutes and 3 seconds, the two opened the front door of the building. He met the evil spirit who had just killed another woman and died immediately. "

Now all the experiences of the seven people in a short period of time were sorted out. Jenkins thought for a while:

"It seems that the accident happened 10 minutes later. After 10 minutes, the man who fell in the courtyard turned into an evil spirit, the room on the fourth floor screamed, the boy on the second floor ran away in terror, and the doctor on the first floor turned into an evil spirit. Ghouls, the two men in the basement discovered that the ritual had gone terribly wrong at exactly 10 minutes... Only the young woman who escaped outside on the first floor was not suspicious. Although she was dead, overall, It’s normal...but it’s also possible that he was killed by evil spirits before he had time to change.”

"The summary is very accurate, so we all believe that it was what happened in the basement that caused the hospital and the seven people inside to become a monster. The doubt is that there must have been more than seven people in the hospital at that time, but they were the only ones left forever. Come down, there must be a reason."

Dad nodded and saw Miss Bevanna flying in from a distance. After speaking with the old gravekeeper of the Church of Death, he followed a group of people holding books into the largest tent in the center of the camp. . Looking from the outside, the shadows of the people in the tent are all around the long table, perhaps having a meeting.

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Chapter 1890 Chapter 1861 Divinity

Jenkins and Dad sat on the ground facing the campfire, and they were silent for a while. Jenkins was thinking about the whole thing, while Dad recalled the adventure 33 years ago:

"Oh, Jenkins, there is one thing that needs to be noted. The things I mentioned above happened without intervention. The actions of any entrant will cause the things I just described to change, and then they themselves and their The impact will become the content of the next cycle.”

"In other words, the more cycles there are, the more it deviates from what is originally happening in the hospital?"

Jenkins concluded.

"Of course not. When entering the next cycle, outsiders who enter the hospital will not remember what happened in the last cycle, and will only think that they have just set foot here. Therefore, the next time is just an exact repeat of the last time. It should be said , the more batches of people enter the cycle, the more serious the deviation will be. If there are no new entrants, what will happen in the 1000th and 7th times will be exactly the same.

Currently, including the church team, a total of three groups of people have entered the hospital. Although I don’t know the length of the cycle they encountered when entering, I think the impact will not be too great, at least it will not affect the one on the roof. people. "

Because the length of each time cycle is uncertain, no matter who enters the hospital in the white mist, it is very dangerous. If you are unlucky, the next cycle will start with just one breath.

Of course, the church has measures to deal with time-related events. But any time-related items and abilities have a price. During the 31 days of the cycle, Jenkins did not ask the church for help, except because he would make decisions in Miss Bevanna's office and was unwilling to expose his special characteristics immediately. In addition to trying a few more times, he also knew that as the only sober person, he could not pay the price even with the items provided by the church.

But things are different now. Both the church and Jenkins are outside the time loop, and the scope of the time loop this time is very small, and there are even personal escapees nearby. Based on the report of the accident many years ago, the church chose to use a trick that only the Son of God could use. This is also the reason why Jenkins came here. The reason why Dad told him so much is because the Sage Church wants to let Jenkins enter the hospital.

Of course, the church did this not deliberately to let Jenkins take risks to train him, but because of a very important message that Dad and Jack brought back that year. The Sage Church did not even share this message with any other church. And now, for the sake of the unverifiable news mentioned by the two old men, the church is willing to take risks and let the only savior hold a strange thing to face another strange thing:

There is divinity in the hospital.

When he first heard the news around the campfire, Jenkins saw the shadows on his father's face shaking. He was silent for at least two seconds to recall that he had heard his father's words correctly. After confirming several times, he spoke:

"You mean God..."

"Don't say the word, there are a lot of people here."

Dad said hurriedly, and then lowered his voice and said to him:

"You don't need to attend any meetings. The church has already discussed it. This time, you must be sent to Biggs Hospital. Although there will be a meeting to discuss an action plan later, that plan is to deceive other churches. You don't need to care. . I will give you the real action. Before 10 minutes and 31 seconds, you must reach the back of the leftmost staircase on the first floor and wait in front of the door leading to the basement. After the two men break out, you must. Enter, the power of the Great One lies within the basement.”

Only then did Jenkins notice that his mouth was slightly open, so he immediately closed it and tapped the cat on his shoulder that was stirring for some reason.

"I do not understand."

He seemed to be speaking with his voice:

"Why is there such a thing here?"

Both he and his father were avoiding using the proper term "divinity," and Jenkins' heart was beating very fast at the moment. He knew that the Church wanted divinity to be dedicated to the wise. He sacrificed just one drop on a rainy night last autumn and obtained the identity of the Holy Son. This was a symbol of transcending the mundane world and moving towards higher dimensions, something that no mortal could touch in his lifetime.

At the end of an era, gods generally will not interfere with matters in the material world, because disasters at the end of an era are a necessary process. But if mortals dedicate themselves to the gods at this point in time, the gods will not be stingy in giving them help. This is the plan of the church.

For Jenkins, divinity is of extraordinary significance. As long as he has divinity, he even dares to face the difference machine and fight head-on with the opponent.

"No one knows where the two men in the basement got it from, but since we were able to encounter the statue of the evil god containing it last fall, it is possible that the two ancient men occasionally obtained it. The hospital became It is very likely that they used that thing as part of the ritual without knowing it, which caused a disaster of this magnitude."

Dad explained.

Jenkins held down the suddenly active cat on his shoulder and continued to ask in a low voice. He himself did not notice the rush and excitement in his tone at this moment:

"In what form does that thing exist? What if I find it after I enter the basement? Moreover, how many are there? What method should I use to touch and contain them?"

"have no idea."

Dad shook his head:

"Old Jack and I were able to make such a discovery because of...that key. In order to prevent us from getting lost in the time loop, I used the power of the key to forcefully drag the time loop to 11 minutes and 3 seconds. . But I said how terrible that key was. After escaping from the hospital, Old Jack and I rested for a full year before we recovered.

During this period, Old Jack almost returned to the hospital where he had been exiled in his dream because of his medicine and some reasons that were inconvenient to talk to you. But it was also because of this that he saw what I just said in his dream, and he came into contact with the deepest secret of Biggs Hospital.

But that's all just talk. I can't even guarantee you that there's that thing in the basement, but it's worth a try anyway. "

"I understand."

Jenkins nodded vigorously, and his spirit, which was originally a little tired because of today's journey, became excited:

"If there is really, if it is more than one drop, I can get it..."

He thought secretly in a corner of his heart, and then reached out to his father.

"What do you mean?"

The father didn't understand.

"Give me the key, father, so that I can also delay the time to 11 minutes and 03 seconds."

The father did not put the key with magical power in Jenkins' palm, but picked up the small firewood scattered around him and knocked it on his palm:

"I will not give the key to anyone before I die. Jenkins, don't think about the power of the key, that thing is a disaster, don't think about it."

He threw the firewood into the campfire, and watched it burn suddenly with Jenkins, and turned into black charcoal little by little after the extremely strong flame.

Chapter 1891 Chapter 1862 Perfect Insurance

Just as Dad said, the Sage Church, contrary to its usual practice, insisted on letting the "World Tree Seedling" Jenkins Williamte take the important task in this operation. Even though other churches were worried that if Jenkins had problems in Biggs Hospital, the subsequent negotiations with the believers of lies would also go wrong.

But no matter how others persuaded, even if they knew it was suspicious, the church still insisted on letting Jenkins participate in the operation, and asked Old Jack, who also participated in the meeting, to list the necessity of Jenkins entering the hospital.

In the end, everyone could only reluctantly agree, but Jenkins felt that except for a few people who knew the whole story, even the members of the Sage Church itself were wondering about the church's attitude today.

He only had one chance. If he failed to successfully obtain the possible divinity this time, even if he escaped from the hospital before the end of the time loop, the church would not be able to find a good excuse for him to enter again next time, so Jenkins had to act very cautiously.

The purpose of other churches is to exile A-07-2-3926 [Biggs Hospital] in advance to prevent it from affecting the city. According to the data and the action files of Daddy and Old Jack many years ago, the plan made after the meeting is to let the actors who enter the hospital go to the rooftop of the main building of the hospital to stop the man from jumping before the time loop reaches the 10th minute, and then draw an important ritual array on the rooftop.

The meaning of this ritual is "still water", which can be used to purify impurities in the sedimentation water source. It is a very basic ritual used by low-level gifters of the Church of Nature to practice, but it is unexpectedly useful for this weirdo.

At the same time, if the three points of "preventing the man on the rooftop from falling", "drawing and using the ritual [still water]" and "after the time loop reaches 10 minutes" are met, [Biggs Hospital] can be exiled, and everyone who falls into it after the appearance of this hospital will be free.

This is the superficial plan, which is the plan that Daddy pointed out that Jenkins does not have to follow. The church asked Dad to tell Jenkins the action plan in private, which was to reach the basement entrance before 10 minutes, enter the basement to look for suspicious items at 10 minutes and 31 seconds, and leave the hospital before 11 minutes and 53 seconds, regardless of whether anything was found, otherwise he would be trapped in the time loop.

The strange object that the twelve churches decided to use after discussion could only work on one person, so Jenkins was the only actor. That was A-06-1-0064 [Dead Silence Doll], which looked a bit like the handmade straw doll used in traditional voodoo.

Although it was in human form, this item had no intelligence. It was also an item that could interfere with time. Those who wore the [Dead Silence Doll] on their chest would have the ability to "steal" any life time by touching it. The person being stolen would jump directly to the moment when the lost time ended, so the external manifestation was similar to the memory of losing a period of time.

The wearer would accommodate the stolen extra time, and gradually gain 3 to 5 time-related abilities in the accumulation, and eventually transform into a terrible alien creature called "Dead Silence".

This creature can steal time just by looking at it, and has the ability to travel in time. But "Dead Silence" will not cause a large-scale disaster, because the church records that there is a kind of humanoid creature active in the cracks of time that likes to capture "Dead Silence". Although the church did not specify what those humanoid creatures are, Jenkins guessed that they were the "Time Paradoxers" under the master of "Closed Circle".

When the "Dead Silence Doll" enters "Biggs Hospital", the time stealing ability of the "Dead Silence Doll" will be restricted, and the time cycle of "Biggs Hospital" will also be temporarily stagnant due to the influence of the "Dead Silence Doll", making this time cycle longer. The church's experiments in the past era have verified the above results, but this does not mean that doing so is 100% safe. After all, this is using a weird thing to fight a weird thing, and using the sole of a shoe to strike a match to find the leak in the biogas tank is a similar behavior.

Before the operation began, different people repeatedly emphasized to Jenkins the danger of this operation and the situations he needed to pay attention to. Miss Audrey, who had nothing to do with the matter, also came specially. She was of course suspicious of the strange behavior of the Church of Sages, but after confirming that this was also Jenkins's own wish, she quietly stuffed something into his pocket in the conversation tent:

"Items like B-11-5-2305 [Homeward Bound Ticket] or A-11-5-2071 [Mr. Mischief's Toy Ticket] have no effect on time reversal events. These items have low resistance to time. If you take this, even if you are unfortunately caught in the torrent of time, at least you will not lose your way."

It was a card, and as expected, it was the [Impermanence Card]. Jenkins took a quick look and saw that it was the [Impermanence·World].

"Has Miss Bronion arrived in Nolan?"

He asked in surprise. Miss Audrey said not long ago that Miss Bronion would come to Nolan with this card.

"No, the teacher is in the south helping with the fire, so she will probably arrive a few days later. She mailed this in advance..."

"Mail?"

"The ownership of the Vientiane Impermanence Card is related to fate. Don't worry about it getting lost. It will always fall into the hands of the person who should own it. In short, although our church's research on this [World] is still superficial, there is evidence that it can resist time-related anomalies. Jenkins, be careful."

"I understand, don't worry."

Jenkins put the card away, thought for a while, took the cat off his shoulder and put it on the table next to Miss Audrey:

"Please take care of the chocolate for me. [Dead Silence Doll] can only work on one object, and it can't enter the hospital with me."

Miss Audrey looked down at the cat squatting on the table, with its head drooping and a little depressed: