Chapter 265 Doomsday Prophecy

When the rune began to rotate, Wu Chang understood everything.

The disordered video on the screen was not caused by the video recorder accidentally touching the record button, nor was it deliberately trying to achieve this effect.

The disordered video was because the picture inside was not a video, but the scene that Colonel Johnson and the other four actually saw, the scene that the four people saw at the same time!

Every time a frame passed in the picture, the perspective would switch once. The constant switching of perspectives and the different understanding and cognition of the protagonists of the perspectives around them caused the viewers to suffer from mental pollution.

The rune given by the omniscient crystal separated the four perspectives through special rotation, sorted out the order, and the truth unfolded in front of Wu Chang.

Colonel Johnson and the other four were all trapped in a nightmare.

The four of them were in a huge ruin, as if they were escaping from something, and fled in a panic.

It was like a game of catch-and-seek. When a person was caught by a ghost, it meant the end of the game.

The four of them played the human role, and the thirty-eight fish-headed people played the ghost role.

Johnson and his four companions acted separately, avoiding the fish-headed people while looking for the exit of the ruins.

The fish-headed people moved very slowly. As long as they did not step into their three-meter range, they would not take the initiative to attack.

It seemed very easy to avoid them, but no matter how the four fled, no matter what direction they took at the beginning, they would gather in the same place after ten minutes.

That place was the square stone platform that appeared at the end of the video.

The white conch placed on the stone platform seemed to announce their failure in this round of the game.

The four people in the video focused their eyes on the white conch at the same time, allowing the last few seconds of the picture to stabilize. When Wu Chang truly understood the perspectives of the four people, at the end of the TV screen, he saw not only the white conch, but also the thirty-eight fish-headed people standing behind the white conch.

The fish-headed people held hands and chanted in unison with strange voices.

The fish heads did not emit human voices or roars, but the sound of sea breeze and waves, as if they put the white conch against their ears and listened to the waves in the conch.

Under the sound of the waves, the four people showed pain. They wanted to beg, but they couldn't open their mouths; they wanted to escape, but they couldn't even control their eyes.

They were not even allowed to admit defeat.

They would only hear a voice in the waves when they were on the verge of mental collapse, "You are the chosen ones."

Then they returned to the original place and started the next round of the ghost tag game.

Over and over again, there was no end.

Most of Johnson and others' consciousness was bound to the TV, and only a very small part of their almost instinctive consciousness remained outside.

In order to get information from the four people, they must first wake them up from the nightmare.

Wu Chang told Jianxing and others about his discovery and asked them if they had any way to wake the four people up.

Jianxing and others looked at each other and showed embarrassment.

The four major organizations had no surplus food at home. Not to mention Director Gao and Leihuo, even Jianxing, who was highly expected by the Administration, spent every penny of resources on the blade, and had no spare energy to buy auxiliary skills that were rarely used.

As for auxiliary props, there are none.

As one of the four major organizations, the Administration is a huge platform. The extra props obtained from the dungeon will be listed on the internal trading channel as soon as possible, and the official certified appraiser of the Administration will assess the price and put it on the shelf for sale.

That is, Wu Chang will store a large number of high-level props on his body because he may need them. If other players get high-level props that are not highly compatible with themselves, they will sell them as soon as possible.

One of the reasons is the shortage of resources. Players must make full use of every resource produced.

Another reason is the overall score when matching the dungeon. In most cases, the difficulty of the dungeon matched by the Abyss game will not be much different from the player's current overall score.

The overall score of the player includes the inherent attributes on the attribute panel, as well as the level of the learned skills and the level of the props held.

A high-level prop that is not often used will greatly increase the score during matching, and it is easier to be ranked in a difficult dungeon.

But Wu Chang does not have to worry about this. He has the preferential treatment of the game administrator. Even if he does not bring anything and matches the dungeon naked, the administrator will directly match him with the highest difficulty.

Seeing that no one said anything when asked, Wu Chang sighed and thought that he could only do it himself.

The world copy is approaching, and it is time to make more of a splash.

He took out the "Loud Horn" and said to everyone: "Forcibly waking them up may have side effects. If anyone is emotionally unstable after waking up, subdue them as soon as possible."

Seeing that everyone was ready, he blew the horn hard. At the sound of the horn, the TV screen in the lounge flickered violently, and then suddenly turned off.

"Prop skill: Exciting sound"

"Skill description: Blow the horn to make the selected target get rid of the mental control state, forcibly wake up, and enter the excited state. The effect of awakening depends on the inspiration of the user."

"Note: If the target is under mental control level greater than or equal to level B, there is a probability that it will fall into a state of confusion after forcibly waking up, ignoring the enemy and launching attacks. Please use it with caution."

As an A-level copy on the verge of being out of control, Johnson and others are subject to a high level of mental control. The price of forcibly waking up the four people is to make the scholars and the Naaru wizards go crazy directly.

Fortunately, the two men were not combatants, so it was not difficult to subdue them.

Colonel Johnson and Bae Tae-hyung, the station administrator, were awakened, perhaps because their jobs were safer and their inspiration values ​​were lower.

After waking up, the two did not show any intention to attack, but groaned in their seats with their heads covered. After two or three minutes, they gradually recovered. They looked at Wu Chang and others and asked:

"Who are you? Are you a new member of the expedition team?"

Wu Chang gave Lei Huo a look. Lei Huo, who knew the situation best, walked out and explained to the two what happened in the Night Island Station.

Lei Huo's intelligence was detailed. His family influence made him speak in an official tone when he was serious. You could tell that he was from the officialdom.

This made the two trust Lei Huo after a simple exchange.

For Johnson and Bae Tae-hyung, they seemed to have woken up from a long dream. For them, the nightmare of the spirit and the reality of the physical existence were all their dreams, and they could only vaguely remember some fragments.

With Lei Huo's intelligence, the two's vague memories gradually became clear, and they could correspond to the details mentioned by Lei Huo, which made the two believe in the identities of everyone and let down their guard.

Seeing that the two gradually came back to their senses, Wu Chang asked:

"Colonel Johnson, do you remember what happened at the research station?"

When Johnson mentioned the day of the accident, he couldn't help but shudder, and Pei Taiheng's eyes showed evasiveness. They didn't want to recall that past.

As a veteran, Johnson's will was more determined. He adjusted for a moment and talked about what happened in the Night Island Research Station.

Although Johnson was the last batch to go to the island, his military rank was the highest in the research station and he was also the head of the military in the research station.

The team he led was exactly the team Wu Chang saw in his resentment.

When he led the team to the island, the research station had basically figured out the rules of the Night Island, and the research on the underwater ruins had entered the final stage.

For this reason, he allowed Wells, who was in the rear and lacked the ability to move, to join the team.

To put it nicely, this is the final sprint stage of entering the underwater ruins archaeology.

To put it bluntly, it is to gild and pick peaches.

It's just that the gold was not gilded, and he almost lost his life in it.

Two members of the Gilded Team led by Johnson disappeared on the way before entering the research station. After entering the research station, strange things happened more frequently.

There were inexplicable black shadows outside the research station, and from time to time, members of the research team were caught and dragged into the darkness by the shadows.

Hiding in the research station was not necessarily safe. The team members living here began to have hallucinations, and inexplicable characters often appeared in front of their eyes, and they began to have nightmares at night.

In the dream, they turned into monsters with fish heads and human bodies, wandering in the ruins, waiting for something in the deep sea to wake up.

They could hear some vague whispers in their dreams, but they forgot them completely after waking up.

Although they could not see the characters that appeared in the hallucinations and could not hear the whispers heard in the dreams, both of them greatly enhanced the inspiration of the team members, allowing them to decipher the lost texts and murals in the ruins much faster.

With the help of the local Naru people, they quickly learned the background of the ruins.

The underwater ruins are temples built by the ancestors of the Naru tribe. What is enshrined in the temple is not a god, but a concept called death.

The ancestors of the Naru tribe had a fanatical worship of death, believing that the soul can be forever peaceful after death, integrated with the world, and become a part of the world.

Every dead person in the tribe will come to the Night Island when they are about to die. They believe that in the state of dying, the soul will merge with the will of the world. With the help of a short period of fusion, they can borrow the perspective of the will of the world, see through the future, and leave a prophecy for the tribe.

However, after a certain prophecy was made, the death temple of the Naru tribe was submerged by the sea.

The progress in the interpretation made the expedition team feel like chicken blood. Not only did they no longer reject hallucinations and nightmares, but some people also began to actively pursue that feeling, trying to understand and listen to them.

Entering the second week of the sprint period, some people gradually couldn't distinguish between reality and nightmares. The first to change were the theologians and archaeologists in the team.

They seemed to have really become fish-headed people, eating only raw and unprocessed fish and shellfish, and refusing vegetables and meat.

They also began to sleepwalk when they were awake during the day, trying to hurt other members or themselves, but as long as they were allowed to interpret the information about the ruins, they would return to normal and exert 200% concentration.

In order to prevent them from really hurting people, the expedition team would control these members who were possessed by evil spirits and lock them in a specific room.

No mistakes, one post, one content, one 6, one 9, one book, one bar!

When the sprint period made progress again, more than half of the members of the expedition team had been locked in small isolation rooms.

Based on further exploration and interpretation of the ruins, they learned the secret that caused the Temple of Death to sink to the bottom of the sea.

The opportunity for the incident was the death of the high priest of the Naru tribe.

According to the records in the literature, during the period of the Temple of Death, the average life expectancy of the Naru tribe was less than 30 years old, but the high priest of the Naru tribe lived for 150 years.

Longevity is a very sad thing for the Naru tribe who worship death. He witnessed the glorious death of more than five generations of tribesmen, but he could not wait for his own glory.

Until that day, the high priest felt his solidified life force begin to flow, and he called his seventh successor to witness his death and prophecy, and recorded them on the stone tablet he had prepared.

The high priest can live so long, and the world will is reluctant to accept him. It is obviously not because they dislike him, but because they want him to continue to settle down and then grow bigger.

When ordinary Naru people die, short-sighted people can see something that will happen in five or ten years, and long-sighted people can see twenty or thirty years.

Before the high priest died, he had a vision, but he didn't know how many years he had gone through. The time span was so large that the high priest couldn't understand it.

In the vision, he saw something huge and evil awakening, raising huge waves and sinking all the land.

It was a future full of despair and destruction.

In the desperate future, the high priest saw a ray of light, and asked his successor to record the prophecy on the stone tablet and seal it up.

It was required to open the secret room and take out the stone tablet before the end of the world really came.

The key to open the secret room was kept by the high priests of all generations. It was the white conch that appeared in the nightmares of Johnson and others.

Shortly thereafter, the Palace of Death sank under the sea.

The high priest at that time also died in the palace, and the inheritance of death foresight was cut off.

The excavation of the secrets of the past made the expedition team even more excited. They frantically searched for the remains of the last high priest in the ruins and the white conch.

When they finally found the white conch in a secret room, something strange happened at the expedition station.

At this point, Colonel Johnson stopped.

Wu Chang urged, "Then what?"

Colonel Johnson said helplessly, "Nothing."

Jian Xing asked, "What happened in the anomaly? Don't you remember it at all?"

Colonel Johnson shook his head and said, "I only remember that I took the white conch out of the ruins that day and prepared to study it further. That night, I had a strong hallucination. When I woke up again, I saw you."

Jian Xing narrowed his eyes and shook his head slightly, "He is telling the truth."

Wu Chang hesitated for a moment and said, "I saw an unknown rune in the pool of water in the underground ruins before. It was after seeing that rune that I saw the truth of the content played on the TV screen."

"In your nightmare, I saw something different."

"Hiroyuki Fujita, do you have any impression?"

Since Jian Xing was on the side, he deliberately cut the question into three parts.

The first two parts were related, so Director Gao and Jian Xing and others naturally thought that the name Hiroyuki Fujita was also what he saw in his nightmare.

Colonel Johnson nodded and said, "Of course I remember. Fujita Hiroyuki is a legendary explorer, an all-round scholar, and a core figure in our team."

"When I led the team into the Night Island, there was a small accident. Due to the strong wind and waves on the sea, our ship was delayed and arrived at the Night Island one and a half hours later than the scheduled time."

"I was in a hurry to get on the road and didn't notice that Wells, the ancient text expert in the team, had fallen behind. When I turned back to look for him, he had disappeared. The subsequent interpretation of the ancient text in the ruins was led by Fujita Hiroyuki. It was also him who found the white conch."

Wu Chang nodded calmly. He knew that Fujita Hiroyuki was definitely going to cause trouble.

He continued to ask: "We have mentioned just now that, except for the four present, the other members of the expedition team have been transformed into fish-headed monsters in the incident and are hanging upside down in the underground space."

"We are not deliberately desecrating the dead, but just trying to find some clues from them in order to explore the truth of the past. But the problem is that all the items on them were taken away, and we couldn't find even a piece of paper, including the white conch you mentioned."

"As for the whereabouts of the white conch and where the key to open the door to the underwater ruins is, what are you two? Do you have any clues? "

Colonel Johnson said without hesitation:

"The white conch must be on the monster! The monster hidden in the darkness of the island!"

Wu Chang asked curiously: "Why are you sure?"

Johnson said: "During the sprint stage of the ruins exploration, every time a member fell into a serious hallucination or sleepwalked to leave the research station, we could see the outline of that thing in the dark!"

"The only thing that can move on the island is it, besides us, it must be right!"

Johnson paused for a moment and looked at Pei Taiheng who had not spoken for a long time.

"You have to ask him about the key to the door to the underwater ruins."

The existence of nationality suppression made Pei Taiheng instinctively straighten his body when Johnson pointed to Pei Taiheng, and he almost shouted "Here!"

Before the two came back to their senses, they had a brief conversation.

When the four people were immersed in nightmares, they had different divisions of labor in reality.

For example, Johnson will collect deep-sea murloc oil for players entering the scientific research station; the scholar in a state of confusion is an archaeologist, who will draw some murals or ancient characters in the ruins according to the player's request and instinctively;

The Naru wizard wearing animal skins will pray for the players according to instinct, giving them a short-term buff state, reducing the influence of the malice in the darkness, and asking him some information about the Naru.

As the administrator of the research station, Pei Taiheng is in charge of the operation of the entire research station and is most likely to come into contact with players.

Facing the gazes of Wu Chang and others, Pei Taiheng said:

"The key to the door of the underwater ruins is still in my hand. To enter the underwater, you need not only the key but also a special diving suit. During the time when I was in a nightmare, there were seven or eight, or even more than a dozen follow-up expedition teams that entered here, trying to enter the underwater ruins."

"The last person who tried seemed to have discovered something after landing. He didn't even bother to take off his diving suit and rushed out of the research station, and then died at the door."

"I didn't recover the key from him later. I threw his body in a temporary morgue. Maybe you can find some clues from him."