Chapter 377

It has been given various concepts again and again, and twisted into different forms.

It has had various appearances and different postures. These images were established and then broken.

It seemed that nothing was left in the end, and it could not get the satisfaction of the Creator. As a result, it was abandoned, abandoned again, and just restarted again and again.

But in the end, the essence of its existence still did not really get rid of the weird talk and the weird side.

After all, using known things, no matter how to transform and innovate, the most you can do in the end is just [evolution], just [improvement from the original basis], and it will never really create something that fundamentally subverts everything. This is the essential logic of all things, and it will not change because of the delusion of one or two crazy scientists.

But precisely because it is a weird talk, it cannot terminate itself.

The experiment is still going on.

The verification of the third existence has never stopped.

Even if the leader of all this has long died, even if all the participants who were responsible for maintaining the progress of the experiment no longer exist, this experiment has not stopped.

In the world of ghost stories where everything has been twisted and broken, the horrific experiments that failed decades ago are repeated again and again. This never-ending characteristic is the vivid manifestation of ghost stories.

"So... even if there are no new Eriko Asamoto, the third core obsession, this ghost story without roots, will not stop the experiment."

Gao Hai finally understood everything at this moment.

The thing that resides in Kita Ikuyo can't be called a core obsession at all.

The real third core obsession of Yeluoshan Middle School, the thing that was finally born through countless cruel experiments and ghost story shaping, is essentially a [process].

[The third existence that exists in Yeluoshan Middle School, verifies humans and ghost stories, and tries to replace gods to verify the power of creation] The whole process of this experiment is the third core obsession of this school.

This core obsession, which has lost the creator and maintainer of the experiment, is essentially a thing that has been condensed by people's subconsciousness after countless lives have been put into this vicious killing that has never seen the sun. It has no self-awareness and only knows how to repeat the verification steps of the past.

Its existence must be attached to [Eriko Asamoto] and Yeluoshan Middle School, which is still operating normally and has living people entering the school every year. But after the freshmen entered the school one year, a unique student [Koji Morihara] somehow found a bomb used for a bomber from an abandoned military base in the forest, brought it into the school auditorium and successfully detonated it, sending almost all the teachers and students in the school to the sky in one breath, causing the balance between the living and the dead to be destroyed in Yeluoshan Middle School, which was originally able to operate normally, and completely disappeared from the real world and fell into the world of ghost stories, so this third core has reached the point where it can no longer operate normally.

Therefore, in order to maintain the continued operation of this program, it began to look for a replacement for [Eriko Asamoto]. Kita Ikuyo, who is also a female high school student, met its requirements inexplicably and was successfully selected to become part of this ceremony and part of the [Null Tales].

But even so, this program still cannot operate.

Because Yeluoshan Middle School has been destroyed.

Because Kita Ikuyo herself is not Asamoto Eriko after all, maybe this thing is more like Eriko herself when it is possessed by Goto Ichiri, but Kita Ikuyo can never be equated with Eriko. And because it is the possession of the power of the ghost story, Kita Ikuyo herself has become half-dead, so that this [Null Tales] shows a strong killing tendency in Kita Ikuyo herself, as if a failure in the iteration process of this ghost story is materialized in Kita Ikuyo.

However, from this point of view, the blank teacher certificate that Gao Hai has now seems to be a manifestation of one of the iterations of [Null Tales].

These iterations are hidden deep in this school, leaving almost no trace, but they do exist.

Then, if this thing is also an iterative manifestation, the result of one version of [Null Tales], and [Eri Asamoto] was used as the carrier of research and development many times during the development of this story, then...

[Teacher, are you here? ]

A voice sounded behind Gao Hai, with a hint of doubt.

In the completely dark sky, in the faint moonlight projected into the woods, Gao Hai turned around and looked behind him.

Chapter 80: Coping strategies for cloned individuals and curses

{This place...}

Although she had guessed before, after seeing these things in front of her, Yotsuya Miko's expression was still somewhat distorted.

{Is it some kind of cloning technology? }

In contrast, Hayasaka Ai did not react much. After all, if we only consider the bloody horror, the doghouse of Hayate Elementary School is not much different from this place. Moreover, she had been locked in a cage for three days and could be taken out and slaughtered at any time. With this kind of temper, the girl would not have any fluctuations in her expression due to bloody and cruel scenes.

However, it was still very worrying.

It is probably impossible to make something like this with normal science and technology, right? Is it using the characteristics of some strange creatures, the power of strange stories? Or is it related to [God's Blood] as Yotsuya said before?

While thinking, Hayasaka's eyes swept over the cages again.

Next to the gate not far away, the German and Italian words [No. 1 Test Subject Detention Area] written in red paint seemed to flicker slightly under the cold white light.

And in front of the two people, or in front of Hayasaka Ai's body, there were rows of cages of various sizes on both sides of the room. As for the things locked in the cages, since the laboratories here have clearly marked the name [Human Experiment Area], then the people locked here are naturally all humans.

As for the reason why the two girls care about this, it has nothing to do with the fact that humans are locked in cages as animals. After all, both of them have experienced all kinds of things in the [School Strange Talk], a copy of the kind of shining stars, so they will not behave abnormally because of seeing such a situation again.

What concerned them was the appearance of the people in the cages.

On one side of the road, people from different places can be seen in the cages. Although they are now wearing uniform striped clothes, the differences can be clearly seen from their facial features, height, body shape, etc. It can be imagined that these people probably came to this place through some means.

But on the other side of the cage, the problem is a bit bigger.

{Don't talk here, keep quiet}

{Well, I know, I won't speak in front of these things}

In the mental link, the two girls are alertly reminding each other.

And in their sight, in these cages reflected in their pupils, there are one after another identical people, with no difference in height, body shape and appearance.

Each of them is a woman, and from the appearance, they are probably high school students, and the age difference with Hayasaka and Miko is not too big. Moreover, the facial features, eye color, hair color, etc. are very Japanese. Even if you look closely, you will feel a bit strangely familiar, as if you have just come into contact with them not long ago, or in an environment where you can come into contact with such people at any time.

What is going on? Clones? No, there was no such technology in that era, so we can only rely on the power of strange things. The same is true for Hayate Elementary School and this place. Why do people always want to use the power of strange stories without knowing their own limits? Have they never thought about the consequences of failure?

Hayasaka was thinking helplessly in her heart, but on the surface she remained quiet and said nothing to avoid the mental pollution or direct physical attacks caused by these things.

At the same time, Yotsuya Miko had described what she saw to Gao Hai.

{Gao Hai: Are you sure? They all look like high school girls, and they are all exactly the same in groups? }

{Yotsuya Miko: Yes, I am very sure. Hayasaka and I are in front of these things now. If necessary, I can describe the appearance of these things to my seniors immediately. Ah... But I'm not sure if I can describe it accurately, my grades in literature are not particularly good...}

{Takahashi: If you can describe it, then try to describe it, but I already have a rough idea of ​​who these girls might be, and I found related clues at Yeluoshan Middle School}

{Yotani Miko: Eh? Senior knows the identities of these girls? }

{Takahashi: Well, but you don't have to focus on this issue for now, and continue the investigation while ensuring that you can protect yourself. At present, there are not many dangers inside the Bydos Institute. It seems that the "writer" does not intend to let any players enter, otherwise it would not be arranged like this}

In the brief exchange, Takahashi did not say the name he guessed.

[Asamoto Eriko]

He is 100% confident that the women who Yotani Miko and Hayasaka Ai saw are all Asamoto Eriko herself.

As to why this girl can be reproduced continuously like a clone, can be continuously released at Yeluoshan Middle School, and is continuously studied as a consumable at the Bydos Institute. Although Gao Hai has not yet obtained the key evidence, he speculates that it should be closely related to the [Blood Pool].

After all, according to the latest information he has obtained, it is certain that Lord Urian of Bydos and Jiang Gu Xianyi of Yeluoshan Middle School have a cooperative relationship. Two people from different countries and different backgrounds unexpectedly reached a unified pursuit in their life goals. It is certain that they exchanged a lot of information with each other. Perhaps the various mechanisms and operating principles of Yeluoshan Middle School itself contain Urian's own methods. Players can obtain the identity of [Supervisor] in Yeluoshan Middle School. Maybe it is related to the cooperation between these two behind-the-scenes masterminds.

However, Gao Hai can only continue to speculate on the specific situation. Now he has no way to verify it for the time being.

As for why, well, he is now in [Alice's Cabin], temporarily disconnected from the outside world, and only the mental link of the black watch can continue to work.

The body of the old man named Evalist was not recovered in the end. Under the direct attack of the strange creature possessed by Kita Ikuyo, the old man's body continued to fade, gradually becoming more and more transparent, and finally disappeared on the spot. Except for the teacher's certificate that was searched out and taken away by Gao Hai on the spot, in the end, no trophies were obtained.

Of course, this is not a big deal. After the [Unselectable] feature disappeared, Gao Hai used blood mist to wash the old man from head to toe. Unless this old bastard can take out some obsession from his body or the other-dimensional space, even if this thing holds some space-type props, it will still belong to Gao Hai after the replay.

In a sense, this group of cult players played a huge role in improving the situation that Gao Hai's team had insufficient obsessions and the overall strength of the team was poor, and he could only rely on him to support the scene. Originally, Zhenfei Qianhua and others did not have space props to carry obsessions conveniently. Secondly, due to the insufficient quantity and quality of obsessions and the inconvenience of sharing, Gao Hai's team had a huge gap in strength. But as long as he could eat all the obsessions of this player team intact, Gao Hai had the confidence to arm each of his wives. After all, even if there were no space props, he could make up for it with the special functions given by the black watch.

Unfortunately, after getting the blank certificate, the sky was completely dark and entered the night state, and the situation in the forest almost immediately entered a very critical state. Gao Hai had no choice but to gather his teammates first, open Alice's safe house to hide and escape, and dared not to trouble other fanatics.

But there was nothing he could do about it, after all, Asamoto Eriko herself was already standing behind him.

Yes, that's right, when Gao Hai heard someone calling teacher behind him, he turned around and saw Asamoto Eriko, who was incomplete and wearing a dirty sailor suit, smiling at him.

And there was more than one, one after another, Eriko emerged from the forest floor, just like the zombies crawling out of the graves in zombie movies, each one was as ugly as it could be, as smelly as it could be, as if it was a carnival of rotting corpses.

Although Gao Hai had thought many times about what kind of horrible things existed in the dense forest area outside Yeluoshan Middle School, so that this place would become a restricted area at night. But after a long time, it turned out that this broken place was used as a corpse disposal area because a pile of corpses were thrown here, resulting in a dense number of weird things, which made Gao Hai feel really difficult to deal with.

But it was difficult to deal with it, and it was really difficult to deal with it. Just like the number of student weird things in the main teaching building could easily kill Red Moon-level players, the number of expired JK corpses thrown here was far beyond the limit that players could handle. In addition to the paper figures that were getting closer and closer, and the curse that could occur at any time, Gao Hai had no choice but to open the safe house and transfer his teammates and the loot he had already obtained.

Then, the next is the extremely critical question of how to remove the curse.

"Are you ready?"

Kumimi looked at Gao Hai, Fujiwara Chika and Goto Ichiri with a serious expression.

Because her consciousness has been separated from her body, and the resurrection ability in the blessing has not been used yet, Miko does not need to worry about the curse for the time being. But Gao Hai has used up her resurrection blessing, and Fujiwara Chika herself has no way to do this. Goto Ichiri has an obsession to save herself, but if there is another option to preserve her combat effectiveness, she will not refuse.

"What should we do next?"

Takahi looked at Xiong Mi with a serious expression and asked.

"Once a curse is planted, it is not easy to remove it, especially since this thing is a curse of the Red Moon-level core obsession. Then the only way to remove it is to find an obsession of the same level, which is obviously impossible. However, thinking in reverse, the curse has a [purpose]. The power it exerts on people will eventually transform the person's state into a certain form. Then just make sure that the cursed person is transformed before the transformation occurs, or make the cursed person unable to transform, so that the operating logic of the curse cannot be maintained. This is the method I will use next."

Xiong Mi herself said as she took out something from her space-type obsession.

It was a complete arm extending from the shoulder to the fingers.

It was pale and looked like a slender arm belonging to a young woman.

"Hold this hand and let its nails pierce your skin, and you will fall into a state of suspended animation. This state can last for about three hours. According to the activation time of this thing you said, it should be possible to avoid it, but there is a problem with this thing. If we all pass through suspended animation, we can't retrieve this obsession. When no one is watching this thing, it will go out of control and we will become real dead."

Xiong Mi roughly explained the function of this obsession and the difficulties that must be faced in using this obsession.

"Is this a Dark Night or Red Moon obsession?"

Gao Hai asked directly.

"Dark Night, how can an obsession with this effect be Red Moon?"

Xiong Mi answered immediately.

"That's no problem."

Howard and Hirano Sosuke appeared behind Gao Hai, and the two blurred faces stared at the hand that Xiong Mi took out.

The aura of the monster spread, and it was obvious that none of the two summons were lower in level than this human hand, and all of them could suppress it.

"If this thing has a tendency to get out of control, let these two generals beat it until it is under control."

Gao Hai gave a thumbs up as he spoke, and at the same time he did not forget to tell Mianzi through the spiritual link that he would be offline for a few hours later.

Chapter 81: The two people operating in Bydos and the abnormal voice

Will seniors temporarily go offline in the spiritual link?

In other words, I have to investigate this place with Hayasaka-san without the guidance of my seniors. Even if something goes wrong, my seniors have no way of knowing what is going on here and can't provide any help? !

The first time he learned the situation from Gao Hai, Jianzi had to admit that he felt a little panicked immediately.

In this regard, Gao Hai himself knew the difficulties on Mitsuko Hayasaka's side, but it was also true that Mitsuko could not get help after he fell into a coma and lost consciousness. Therefore, after a brief thought, he transferred the blessing pistol, and then handed over to Miko the five dark night-level obsessions: twenty-sided dice, emerging blood, blood-soaked tape measure, blood key, and mysterious toy box. Hayasaka, in order to improve the survivability of the two to a certain extent.

As for asking Xiong Mi or Goto Kazuri to borrow a Red Moon-level obsession and send it to Hayasaka Mitsuko, well, first of all, these things are things that others need to settle down and live in, and it’s hard to talk about it. Secondly, using a Red Moon-level obsession The intensity of the load on the user's mind and body may cause trouble to these two newbies. Especially with Miko, the king of inspiration, she might have to go through all her senses as soon as she takes out the Red Moon-level obsession, and then the scene of a big success attracting a ghost will turn into Godzilla vs. Kido. Pulled.

{The highest goal is to survive. If you may encounter danger, you must give up first even if the clue is right in front of you. There is nothing worth fighting for your life here. You must relay what I said to Xiao Ai intact, and tell her that this is the master’s order.}

Before using that poisonous hand to enter the state of suspended animation, Gao Hai warned Miko for the last time.

{Well, I will, Hayasaka-san and I will try our best to survive! }

Although the uneasiness in her heart never subsided, Mianzi responded as firmly as possible, trying hard to reassure Gao Hai.

Soon, Gao Hai's presence in the spiritual link disappeared. Not long after, the existence of Fujiwara Chika, a warm-hearted companion, also went offline from the spiritual link. So in the end, only Yotsuya Miko herself was left in this link, and even though she was still online, she stopped making any response and remained silent.

Next, there is really no help.

{I'm ready}

After hearing what Miko relayed about Takakai, Hayasaka Ai didn't react much, but Miko could feel through the spiritual link between her and Hayasaka that the girl had become much more focused, and her state was obviously better than before. Better.

Is it because senior used the words "master's order" to her?

Oh, come to think of it, Shijo-san...Fujiwara-san...and Hayasaka-san, plus myself, there are four people. Although I already know the virtues of my senior very clearly now, and even experienced the famous scene of multiple people dating at the fireworks show, but as expected, sometimes I still worry about whether my senior will be hit with a hatchet or something...

Wait a minute, I seem to have forgotten to add Shinomiya-san, so it should be five people. Speaking of which, this number... shouldn't increase anymore, right? Well, among the teammates who acted together this time, I remember that Gotou-san is also a female high school student. Wouldn’t the seniors regard her as a hunting target?

I have to say that although that "Master's Order" instantly doubled Hayasaka's condition, it brought some strange reverie to Miko.

But now is not the time to be distracted after all, so Mianzi was only in a daze for a moment, and then quickly focused on it, putting aside all these useless distractions.

{Well, let’s go then}

Miko, who had no control over her body at this time, took a deep breath in her heart and quickly focused her mind.

There was no reason to retreat now, so we could only move forward and continue to struggle.

Just like what our predecessors have always done, no matter how difficult and dangerous the situation is, we will never give up and strive to survive, seeking the possibility of perfect clearance.

Step - step -

Amidst the heavy footsteps, a group of figures with guns and ammunition in protective clothing passed by Hayasaka Mitiko, who was also wearing protective clothing.