Chapter 355

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[As for the content of today's section, I would like to continue to talk about the topic of "taboo"]

[For the things that the word "taboo" usually refers to in daily life, they often have various different meanings depending on the specific time and scene. For example, when there is heavy snow in winter, the snow-capped mountains will become taboo areas that are prohibited from going to, and when there is heavy rain in summer, there is a taboo that you cannot swim in the river, etc.]

[This kind of taboo is actually easy to explain. The environment in the mountainous area after heavy snow will become more complex and dangerous. Once you go deep, you will be in danger of getting lost. The depth of the river after heavy rain is unclear, and it is easy to get into trouble if you go swimming at this time. In other words, the so-called taboo actually represents behaviors that may bring danger. Not violating taboos is to protect our own lives and to help us live safely and healthily]

[But what about another taboo? ]

[My father once said that you should never open an umbrella indoors. He thought it was an "ominous" behavior and a "taboo". The old people said that when walking on a mountain road, you must stop when you encounter sudden fog, otherwise you may get lost forever. You can only walk after the fog dissipates. Those old people think that this is the work of monsters, and the purpose is to lure people to get lost, so this is also a taboo. It's just different from the taboos I mentioned before. Such taboos often point to some seemingly plausible things that cannot be described by common sense, that is, the so-called weirdness]

[Many contents of this kind of taboo are actually very inexplicable, and there will be some incomprehensible and seemingly meaningless contents mixed in. Even if some things are violated, it seems that nothing will happen]

[So, what is the reason for such taboos to exist in the world and be passed down? ]

[Such seemingly meaningless taboos, which seem to have no danger after being broken, have been passed down to the present day. What is the reason? ]

[If there is no "punishment" for violating a taboo, then does this taboo still qualify as a taboo? 】

【The discussion on this topic has really brought us a lot of fun. Some new companions who joined the Ghost Story Club tried to analyze it from various angles and came to many interesting conclusions】

【However, my idea is very simple. I think if something is called a "taboo", then from the moment it is born and maintained, the "dangerous" element of the taboo has been satisfied, regardless of whether it is really dangerous】

【Even if this danger does not actually exist, it satisfies the believers' fantasy of "taboo"】

【What do you think? 】

【You have chosen to violate the taboo and choose to do something that "may bring dangerous consequences". What attitude do you have towards the taboo and what kind of result do you want to get? 】

When my eyes swept across the last line of words, I seemed to hear a sound not far away, as if someone was reading the contents of the paper.

Gao Hai, who sensed a hint of hidden danger, frowned and turned to look down the stairs, but did not find any problems.

Then he looked up the stairs, in the direction of the door leading to the rooftop, which in theory could only have one.

Hmm? !

Gao Hai saw the open door.

And the faint light projected from behind the open door, and the strong smell of dampness and decay.

What appeared behind the door was not a rooftop, but a prison surrounded by rows of iron fences.

In one of the cells, a dirty old man turned his head and met Gao Hai's somewhat dazed eyes, then grinned with a mouth full of uneven broken teeth and laughed silently at him.

Chapter 47: The gradually invading abyss gate and the conjecture of cognitive rules

What is going on?

Gao Hai had anticipated various situations that might happen after the rooftop door was opened, including that he was killed instantly without even being able to use blessings, but he had never expected that the scene behind the rooftop door would become the place of [Bydos].

It doesn't make sense. Is there any connection between Yeluoshan Middle School and Bydos?

These two places are thousands of miles apart in the real world, and they are two completely unrelated things in the dungeon. Gao Hai's previous dream into Bydos felt that it had nothing to do with Yeluoshan Middle School. He just used the transition between wakefulness and sleep to move places. But now, he saw Bydos. He saw the Bydos area directly in the dungeon area of ​​Yeluoshan Middle School.

Why?

It doesn't make sense... How can the rooftop of the dormitory building lead to the prison of Bydos? This doesn't make sense at all...

Gao Hai, who was standing on the stairs, was stunned again and again. For a while, he didn't know whether to go forward or backward. He didn't know what to do.

No, that's not right.

My thinking ability... seems to be affected?

Gao Hai suddenly lowered his head and looked at the place where the newspaper was just placed.

There was no newspaper.

Although there was a lot of garbage on the stairs, it was impossible to see where the newspaper was placed. The hand that should have held the newspaper was now empty.

What's going on?

Where was the newspaper he had just read?

The fragments of reading the text are still very clear in my memory. I can recall every sentence in the newspaper, and I can be sure that it is not false content.

But why...wait, wait, the content in that newspaper...is finally talking to me? Why didn't I realize that? Why didn't I react to such an obvious trap? I've obviously experienced something similar before, but I didn't realize it at all... Wait, this feeling, it turns out, my thinking ability, my intelligence and reaction ability, from the moment I stepped into the dormitory building Has it been declining?

This kind of thing is not normal.

This is different from the mechanism of Yeluoshan Middle School. This is... Baidos's mechanism. The ghost story mechanism belonging to another area is acting on me, why...

Gao Hai stretched out his hand.

He slowly touched the back of his head.

Soon, he felt the sutures.

He felt a horizontal cut across his scalp and skull, which was enough to completely open his head, but it had now been sutured shut.

Gao Hai could almost imagine such a scene.

He was fixed on a chair, and the doctors skillfully cut open his head, exposing his brain directly to the air.

Then, what did they do...

The sharp needle penetrated Gao Hai's brain.

The viscous liquid dripped down and penetrated into the skull cavity as if it was alive.

Thinking is becoming more and more confusing.

An extremely strong pain came from his head, so strong that he could hardly stand still.

Then, a distant sound was heard.

[It has been confirmed that Yeluoshan Middle School has completed the verification test. It failed as expected. It only annihilated a small team of the Amei Army and was completely scrapped. As expected, there is still no way for something like weirdness to transcend the cognitive edge of its birth]

The voice that sounded first was the voice of a slow old man, who sounded like someone from a noble family.

[Maybe the Tenghua Middle School project can be successful. Among the three plans of the Neon Military Department, I am actually the most optimistic about Tenghua Middle School. Only this project truly realizes the ultimate cycle and refinement of "evil", which even Yeluoshan Middle School still falls short of.]

Then there was a serious man's voice, which sounded familiar. Gao Hai quickly recalled the man he heard before his death Zhou Zhou, who seemed to be named Captain Smit.

[No, I don’t think so. Whether it is the project of Zaoli Elementary School or the project of Yeluoshan Middle School, at least there is still a tendency to control the scale. But only at Touka Middle School, this project seems to me to be completely out of control. It is impossible for that school to really produce any results. Even if it does, it will definitely not be controllable. It will only be an absolute taboo that drags everyone into hell]

[What you said makes sense, Mr. Hans, but I do think that any one of these three plans is out of control. These guys were just blinded by Sato, and they ignorantly and fearlessly chose radical actions that they could not bear the consequences of. Even Sato, the survivor who was said to have walked out of the "■■ Hotel", actually didn't know what kind of impulsive and risky behavior he was doing. They were just gambling with everyone's lives]

[...Yes, every plan has no compensation plan after failure, and no means to prevent disasters from happening. No, they even hope for that kind of thing to happen. If the territory can be turned into a world full of strange things, the cost of occupying it will be greater, right? Ha, after all, they keep saying they want the jade to be broken into pieces]

[We are actually similar on this point, it is time to inevitably fail]

[Yes, we have already lost. Even if we relied on predetermined means and let Neon Fang help us take the most dangerous path that is most likely to get out of control, we, who acted more conservatively, were not able to produce practical and effective results. Then... let's execute all the remaining materials in the camp. Well, wait, no, forget it, let's unlock the "cellar" seal. Let Bydos become what the "Abyss" should be, and it's almost time for us to leave]

【Open the "cellar"? It seems that it is indeed the end]

The conversation between the two people gradually became quieter and became inaudible.

Hans... Smit... these are the names of those two men. Are they researchers from [Baidos]? What information had been exchanged between Yeluoshan Middle School and Bydos? The Neon Military Department planned to do things without telling its allies, but the researchers from the Bydos side who provided some information were actually secretly monitoring it in some way. Were the military headquarters watching the experiments in the three academies from beginning to end?

"call--"

Gao Hai was already half-kneeling on the ground.

He could feel his headache getting worse.

It was as if someone was opening his head at this moment, cutting his brain tissue with a knife, and stirring something inside his skull.

In that moment, he could feel that he seemed to see something, and he could feel the chaotic images and distorted sounds intertwined in his senses.

But compared with the comprehensible information just now, what emerged now was completely distorted into chaos.

tread--

Moving forward, Gao Hai took steps again.

He closed his eyes, his nose slowly bled, but he continued to move forward without noticing.

More voices came from the front.

From that door, from the cage full of dried corpses, from the bottomless darkness, it sounded again and again.

The voice seemed to come from a very far place, from the distant past that was impossible to reach from reality.

And now, Gao Hai has walked to where its entrance is.

Just step through this door.

As long as he passes through this door, he can really reach there, to the world hidden in the endless darkness that he doesn't know where it leads to.

So, he stretched out his hand.

Grab the door handle and pull it back, click! Just close the door.

"Huh..."

All the sounds and images disappeared in the next moment.

Gao Hai opened his eyes, facing the closed rooftop door in front of him, reached out to wipe his nose that was still bleeding, and then turned to look at the stairs behind him.

Well, there is no strange creature waiting behind, so I killed him when he turned around. It seems that the situation is not bad.

The strange posters of the Ghost Story Club appeared and disappeared inexplicably, and the traces of Bydos appeared directly in the daytime, which was different from the first round. These abnormal situations made Gao Hai frown more and more. If the change in the attitude of the strange students in Yeluoshan Middle School towards him was caused by the chain rule of information cognition, then why did Bydos, who originally only appeared in dreams, appear on the rooftop of the dormitory building?

Could it be because of cognition?

The first time was just a vague understanding in the dream, the second time was a short stay after death, and the third time it came directly to the world where it was and showed a passage.

As my contact with [Bydos] became more and more frequent and deeper, could that place invade the space where I was a little bit and gradually replace the world in my cognition?

Gao Hai, who guessed a terrible possibility, couldn't help but tremble his fingers slightly.

Chapter 48: Things hidden behind the scenes and actions to leave the dormitory building

Yeluoshan Middle School

And that place that doesn't look like an academy, where exactly is [Bydos].

After the huge changes in the [School Tales] dungeon, what kind of connection do these two places have with each other, and what exactly has been modified by that clown KP? This question has never attracted Gao Hai's attention at the beginning.

But there is nothing he can do about it. After all, he knew nothing about the huge changes in [Bydos] in the first week. He only had two experiences that might not even last 10 minutes in total, and he couldn't move freely in both experiences, and couldn't explore and investigate in [Bydos] to obtain information.

But at this moment, with the appearance of [Bydos] in Yeluoshan Middle School, Gao Hai began to realize a certain possibility.

In the final analysis, the dungeon [School Tales] is divided into four parts: Fujika Middle School, Zaoli Elementary School, Yeluoshan Middle School and Baidos College, which is a very strange thing in itself. Because Fujika, Zaoli and Yeluoshan are at least indeed joint research projects uniformly formulated by the Japanese military, and they are inextricably linked to each other. These three schools have a common origin, so they can be classified as different areas of the same instance. But what is Bydos? Does Bydos have any relationship with these three schools?

Except for studying weirdness, Bydos and the three schools of Neon have almost no commonality. [Takamagahara], the mastermind behind the three major colleges, has no connection with Bydos. As the fourth area of ​​this instance, Bydos is like an extra thing that came out of thin air. There is no reason why this thing was thrown into the large Red Moon-level instance of [Campus Tales].

Gao Hai now knows the answer to this question.

The Neon military thought that they had concealed their information very well and thought that nothing had been leaked. But in fact, from the beginning, everything they had was completely exposed to the sight of Bydos. There is even a great possibility that the destruction of these three colleges was secretly guided by Bydos's people.

In a sense, [Bydos] is actually the same as [Takamagahara], or even a step higher. However... just like the third-rate tragedy that the writer loved, all the evils of Bydos eventually met with destruction, but it was hard to say how many people suffered.

"Huh... Huh..."

Gao Hai's spirit had gradually recovered.

I really didn't want to feel this way again. Even if I could get information, this extreme pain was still too hard to endure. Although his willpower was indeed very strong, Gao Hai had never had any masochistic tendencies, and torture was still torture for him.

But putting this aside for now, there was another question worth thinking about.

Why did I get such information?

Gao Hai reached out again and gently touched his hair.

His hair had now returned to normal, and it looked no different from usual.

But after a careful touch, Gao Hai could feel that there was indeed a scar on his head that cut the entire back of his head horizontally.

That was the symbol of his player identity in [Bydos]. In that dark and damp dungeon-like ghost place, Gao Hai entered it as a [test subject]. Not only him, but all other players should have entered that dungeon area with such an identity. In [Bydos] explored by the Red Moon-level player team in the past, there has never been such a gloomy dungeon, nor any brain surgery records. This is a new situation that appeared in this player action. It can be said that the KP dressed as a clown made the change.

This identity symbol did not completely disappear even in the Yeluoshan Middle School area, and it still existed in Gao Hai's body.

He couldn't help but suspect that in a sense, he was the "eyes" of the researchers in [Bydos] observing Yeluoshan Middle School. Maybe his identity itself is a relatively special test subject, so he can trigger these abnormal situations; maybe because his willpower is too strong, he can see things that even Red Moon-level players can't find. But no matter what the reason, the changes in [Bydos] across the game can only mean one thing, that is, the form of this dungeon area has changed with his memory.

He remembered the experience of entering Bydos twice before, and this connection did not disappear with the replay. Because he still remembered it, [Bydos], which has not shown any abnormality in the eyes of other players without memory, will begin to show more and more serious abnormal changes in his eyes, produce abnormal items, cover the original area structure of Yeluoshan Middle School, and may even have further changes.