Chapter 441 [Toy War] Missing Souls
When Guan Shi talked about the critical moment of handing the pink cake to "Chicken Chica".
He suddenly changed the subject and talked about the beginning of the dungeon:
"Actually, when I first entered this [Toy War], I felt a familiar 'temperature'."
"Familiar...temperature?"
Gao Yi actually didn't care about this kind of topic jump, he himself was also a type of person with active thinking.
But this time Guan Shi's words really made him a little confused.
Fortunately, the explanation came with it.
Guan Shi touched his chest and still spoke calmly:
"For ordinary people, time is linear, uniform, and will not go backwards.
"But for someone like me who can change the speed and direction of time to a certain extent, the feeling of time is different.
"When a certain area has undergone this kind of 'time travel', that place will produce a certain temperature, a temperature generated by the friction between the time gears..."
Guan Shi said while crossing his hands and demonstrating.
Hearing this, Gao Yi nodded thoughtfully:
"You mean, this special 'temperature' means that there is an element of time travel in the entire [Toy War]?"
As he said this, he clapped his hands as if he had thought of something:
"Ah, this is why microwave ovens, hot tubs and high-speed cars can all become a medium for time travel..."
Unfortunately, Guan Shi on the other side obviously lacked the amount of movie watching and failed to pick up Gao Yi's joke.
He just nodded silently and confirmed this guess.
However, this new knowledge point is not strange to Gao Yi now.
After all, he has roughly figured out the timeline and confirmed that the "first night" to the "second night" is actually thirty years apart - or thirty years backwards.
If this is not time travel, what is time travel?
However, Gao Yi soon realized that this was not the reason why Guan Shi suddenly changed the topic and talked about time.
According to Guan Shi's description, as he handed the pink cake to Chica the chicken in the "Pixel World".
Some kind of connection suddenly appeared between them.
Guan Shi obtained a memory of Chica the Chicken, or the soul in his body.
A flash of white light, and the scene in the field of vision was finally no longer a pixelated table and chair, but returned to a familiar three-dimensional state.
This memory began on a sunny afternoon in a family restaurant that was not too big but decorated very warmly.
From the first-person perspective of a little girl, everything around seemed so warm, and the picture seemed to be covered with a hazy warm color, beautiful and peaceful.
Father, mother, delicious pizza and pasta, cute dolls walking around.
The little girl enjoyed everything here. From time to time, she clapped her hands, and a cute human doll would come close to dance and play with her.
She was not the only one who enjoyed all this in the restaurant. There were also different dolls singing and laughing in front of other children.
Soon, the little girl's attention was attracted by something.
In a corner of the restaurant, she found a rather strange doll-a big golden rabbit.
Unlike other dolls that can only move mechanically, the golden rabbit is particularly flexible.
Not only can it move at will, but it can also tilt its head to greet the children.
At the age when she is most fond of new things, the girl immediately abandoned those ordinary "dull" dolls.
Attracted by the rabbit, she ran over with the other children.
The vivid golden rabbit spoke, and with a wave of his right hand, a somewhat vague young man's voice came out:
"Children, follow me!"
As the five children followed the golden rabbit into a dark room, the following scenes became a little intermittent.
In fact, Gao Yi didn't need to listen to Guan Shi's narration to understand what happened.
[A shocking case of missing children occurred in the ‘Chuck Family Restaurant’ at 32 St. Martin Street]
[According to eyewitnesses, the five missing children followed a ‘yellow rabbit’ doll into the restaurant]
[No one has seen them since then]
[The police have thoroughly searched the ‘Chuck Family Restaurant’ but have not found any clues about the missing children]
When Gao Yi was silent, Guan Shi did not stop talking.
Although there was still no expression on his face, there was a trace of lament in his tone:
“This is the memory of the chick, or the soul in it.
Guan Shi paused, as if he had digested his emotions, and then he spoke faster to explain the last situation:
“After that, I saw the soul in the doll in the ‘Pixel World’ again, said goodbye to it, and returned to the previous corridor. "
After hearing this, Gao Yi just nodded slightly, indicating that he understood.
At this point, the basic setting of the copy was also clarified.
In a child missing case that year, the murderer hid the children he killed inside the dolls.
For some reason, the souls of these children attached to the dolls and gave them some kind of animated properties.
The final result is that they can move freely in the restaurant after midnight to find the murderer who killed them.
This also explains why Gao Yi, who is a female, was not affected or hunted down - the murderer inside the yellow rabbit doll is obviously a man.
From 1972 to 2023, for a full sixty-one years, the parents of these children have died.
However, the missing children trapped in the dolls cannot rest for a moment.
Judging from the number of dolls, the victims are even more than the original five. The killer hiding in the yellow rabbit is likely to have created more deaths.......
Guan Shi seems to be mourning for the little girl he saw in the "Pixel World".
Gao Yi, who was beside him, suddenly slapped the table and stood up:
"I've decided!"
".......What have you decided?"
Gao Yi turned around and said seriously in Guan Shi's puzzled expression:
"I've decided that we should not only stop the actions of those members of the Investigation Bureau, but also solve this copy and end this cycle."
Unexpectedly, Guan Shi did not bring out [Commander] or "Mission" to oppose this idea.
He just frowned slightly and began to think about how to execute this:
"But if you just kill the dungeon boss, it won't affect the entire dungeon. If you want to completely destroy the evil and experiments in it..."
"You have to find the 'dungeon source' in this [Toy War], right?"
Gao Yi naturally understood what the other party meant and took the lead in taking over the topic.
Guan Shi's idea coincided with his. Since he decided to solve this dungeon, he couldn't just be satisfied with completing one task.
According to previous experience, this dungeon is carried out countless times, and there will even be participants from different places at the same time, opening several identical dungeons.
But no matter how many copies there are, the most core "copy source" is only those...
"There must be some kind of production device in this copy, which continuously produces a certain form of "copy source". If you want to destroy the entire copy, you have to find that thing..."
Speaking of this, Guan Shi paused again and sighed with some regret:
"But we still don't know what the "copy source" looks like in this [Toy War]. It should be something that supports the actions of those dolls, but what will it be..."
Just when Guan Shi was a little annoyed that he had entered the inexplicable "pixel world" before and had no chance to explore.
Gao Yi had already reached into his bag and took out a transparent ball filled with liquid metal:
"Are you talking about this thing?"
Lu Jinxi, who was left to study "Chicken Chica", naturally would not have thought that Gao Yi wanted to keep a raven by his side for another reason -
When necessary, let the raven run away with the seemingly critical ball.
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After thinking about it, I decided to update one chapter. I will be busy for the next two months, so the update will probably slow down.......
The bigger reason is that tomorrow is the day of one million words, which is really worth commemorating. I may write a one million word summary and spend 2,000 words.
Today's chapter is considered as an advance update for tomorrow, so that you won't accuse me of using the summary chapter to deal with the update........
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