prynovel Chapter 3883 Singing
Chapter 3883 Singing
Chapter 3883 Singing
Next, Angel continued to search the hidden waters.
Perhaps it is because there are ruins everywhere in this area, and it is basically impossible to find intact things. So when a tool with a complete "placement" function appears, it is easy to find it.
A wooden box, a leather suitcase, a bamboo basket, and under a dilapidated eaves, Ingres found a rotten and crippled desk.
This is the storage tool that Ingres could spot at a glance from a bird's eye view.
The wooden box was slightly worn, and without even opening it, one could see three grey bottles and a transparent bottle in the shape of a light bulb inside.
As expected, the grey bottle was filled with low-grade nutrient water.
The light bulb bottle contained luminous water. Ingres shook it slightly, and it emitted a faint green light.
The contents of the bamboo basket were a bit "evil", a bottle of low-grade nutrient water and three oxygen bottles. As long as someone moved the bamboo basket, the seals of the oxygen bottles placed diagonally would fall off immediately, giving people a triple concentrated hallucinogenic experience.
Fortunately, Ingres had observed carefully from a God's perspective and was able to safely avoid the malice coming from the dark corner.
Then Angel's eyes turned to the only lame desk and the suitcase that looked very intact.
Let’s talk about the desk first. There are two places on the desk to put things, one is the desktop, and the other is the drawer.
On the bumpy table, Angel found a sealed test tube containing a yellow, oily liquid.
"Explosive kerosene: The oil inside is extremely unstable. When the bottle is squeezed, hit, or broken, it can instantly explode and release extremely high temperatures."
Judging from the textual description, this bottle of kerosene does not feel like a daily necessity, but more like some kind of specific fire attack prop.
Looking at this sealed test tube, he couldn't help but think of the half-human, half-dummy in the underwater church.
Could this thing be a special attack on it?
Whether it is true or not, Angel has no intention of investigating it further at the moment, so he puts it away for now.
In the drawer, Angel found another medical kit and a bracelet.
"Medical kit: contains common painkillers, disinfectants, gauze, bandages, etc."
"Investigator's special recording bracelet (slightly damaged): Generally used to record special entities and monsters, as well as abnormal phenomena encountered in dark corners. The bracelet is currently damaged."
The existence of the medical kit made Angel realize that if humans living in dark corners get sick, there is not no solution at all.
The investigator's bracelet surprised Angel a little, because the core of this thing is a small metal chip inside, and this metal chip is filled with densely packed corner codes.
It’s a pity that Ingres didn’t understand the angle code. If Turing were here, he could have used it to analyze it.
Angel thought about it and called Hertz out, wanting to see if it could give him a surprise.
Ten seconds later, Angel calmly put Hertz back into the magic book.
Forget it, let the silly child stay in the book and learn more knowledge.
Although the corner code inside cannot be parsed, and the damaged recording bracelet cannot be opened, we can indirectly know from the text information that there seems to be a profession called "investigator" in the dark corner. They will wear bracelets to record monsters, special entities, and abnormal phenomena.
"If the bracelet can record special entities, then would the half-human, half-puppet in the underwater church also be recorded?" Angel guessed.
Currently unknown.
But Angel now had a vague feeling that some of the supplies around him seemed to be pointing to the person in the underwater church to a greater or lesser extent?
So there are "clues" hidden in these supplies?
Then you want to find a way to the dark corner on that half-human, half-dummy, and solve the puzzle?
Angel felt a little strange, but he had searched for intelligence about the "Dark Corner" in the Sea of Power Information, and one of the pieces of information did mention that there were many puzzles in the Dark Corner, and solving the puzzles could open a special supply room or even an "exit".
Since solving a puzzle may lead to an "exit", if we think about it from another perspective, solving a puzzle may also lead to an "entrance".
It seems that the trap of this side quest lies in "solving the puzzle".
Angel put away the bracelet and medical kit, and looked at the last storage tool he found this time: the suitcase.
It is called a suitcase, but it is actually more like a suitcase, but the outer shell is made of leather.
The reason why Ingres put the suitcase last was not only because it was the most complete, but also for one most important reason: it had a combination lock.
"Investigator's Suitcase: The suitcase that investigators always carry with them. Since most monsters and entities have no interest in suitcases, this allows the Investigator Organization to smoothly recover the remains of deceased investigators."
"Note: You need to find the six-digit code to open the suitcase. If you use other methods to break into the suitcase, the internal linkage corner code will be triggered, and all items covered by the corner code will be broken into pieces."
The text message made it clear that there was only one way to open it, which was to find the six-digit password. Other methods would only cause the suitcase to break into pieces.
Although Angel had thought about whether he could use Nightmare Illusion to cut off the corner code and temporarily disable its ability, he ultimately did not put it into practice in order to avoid any eventuality.
At present, Angel has not discovered what the password is. He even thought about using a God's perspective to observe the inside of the combination lock to decipher it, but unfortunately he failed in the end.
Because the combination lock is not a mechanical lock, but an angle code lock. Ingres did not know the angle code and had no way to decipher it.
Although he couldn't decipher the combination lock, he could still see the items inside the suitcase through his bird's eye view.
In addition to a bottle of luminous water and two bottles of nutrient water, there were some things that Angel had never seen before, such as -
"Low-level repair water: can repair slightly damaged items. Do not drink, do not use on living things, avoid light, and keep at low temperatures."
"Investigator's dedicated recording bracelet (severely damaged): This recording bracelet cannot be repaired, but there is a part of the chip that is not damaged. If there is a complete module in the chip, it may be able to be loaded onto other bracelets."
"Special protective work clothes for investigators: Made of special materials with protective properties, it has certain corrosion resistance and tear resistance. It can effectively protect against damage caused by most corrosive liquids, sharp objects and harmful gases."
After looking at the contents of the suitcase, Angel basically guessed the process of the side quest.
Find the password and open the suitcase.
After opening the suitcase, I took out the repair water to repair the slightly damaged recording bracelet. However, there was probably no important information in the repaired recording bracelet.
The truly important information should be in that severely damaged bracelet.
The chip in the severely damaged bracelet needs to be transferred and loaded into the intact bracelet, so that important information can be read...
As for what the so-called "important information" was, Angel guessed that it must be information related to the half-human, half-doll.
Because the above process is a very typical puzzle-solving process.
Only after completing all the processes will you have a chance to solve the puzzle.
However, Angel did not immediately look for the password. After all, all this was just his guess. Although it was almost certain, he still needed some solid evidence. For example, he could go and see the half-human, half-dummy in person.
Angel glanced at the countdown for the hallucinogenic state on the text bar, and there were about two minutes left.
He simply walked straight towards the underwater church.
As the countdown drew to an end, the hallucinogenic state seemed to have hit bottom and rebounded. Not only did it show no signs of weakening, but it became increasingly severe, as if the hallucination had become intelligent and was singing its final sad song before it dissipated.
The rushing water snake, with its fangs as ferocious as ivory, rushed towards Angel.
A giant millstone creature, like an island whale, pressed down from the top of the head, making a loud buzzing sound...
The ruins under the water suddenly disappeared and turned into transparent glass. Under the glass was an endless starry sky, but this starry sky seemed to be polluted and filled with blood. Even the stars were flashing with strange blood light, as if to suck his soul in.
And the giant water spider, with its dense spider offspring, came back towards Angel with an undercurrent...
Even a person with a big heart would be frightened when faced with such a horrifying scene.
But Ingres seemed not to see it and continued to swim leisurely forward... The illusion was very real, but it was just an illusion after all.
As Ingres continued to stroll in the garden facing the hallucination, he heard a faint singing voice. There were no lyrics, just pure humming.
It is ethereal, quiet and beautiful, as if time and space have quieted down, with only the humming in the ears remaining.
Ingres looked back and saw a mermaid flapping her shimmering tail, waving at him and humming a song. Her slender white hands slowly reached out to Ingres, as if she wanted to shake hands with him.
But no matter how she flirted, Ingres did not swim towards her, but just stood there, as if thinking about something.
"Countdown: 00:00:10"
Nine, eight, seven...
The hallucinations around me seemed to be going crazy and everything started to get agitated.
three two……
When the countdown reached the last three seconds, the seemingly graceful mermaid finally took off her dignified expression and opened her bloody mouth full of fangs.
She knew that Angel would not come, so at the last second she revealed her true face and roared, as if she was casting a vicious curse on Angel.
The countdown is over.
The debuff of the hallucinogenic state disappears, and all the illusions around it also dissipate.
It only takes a moment from the bustling chaos of demons to the empty dusk at the bottom of the water.
However, although the illusion disappeared,... the singing remained.
Ingres raised his head and looked towards the underwater church dozens of meters away. Through the dim light of the stained windows, he could hear the intermittent humming coming from inside.
This humming sound was exactly the same as the mermaid's singing in the previous hallucination.
But its real singer is actually the half-human, half-puppet in the underwater church.
"It's true." Angel suddenly stopped walking because he felt something was wrong. It seemed that the intensity of the hallucination had suddenly changed, from affecting his vision to affecting his emotions with sound.
The moment he saw the mermaid, his desire to come into contact with her reached its peak.
My body unconsciously wants to move in the direction of the mermaid.
Although Angel managed to control himself easily, the feeling of being out of control just now still made him feel confused.
He must have been affected by hallucinations just now.
It is known that this hallucinogenic state is from the inside out, in other words, it affects the nervous system of this body. The nervous system is responsible for transmitting and processing various body signals, and once it is disturbed, it will produce wrong instructions.
Previously, Angel had easily resisted the initial hallucinations with his own illusion resistance. However, at the last moment, the singing of the half-human, half-puppet combined with the hallucination buff broke through his physical resistance, which led to an uncontrollable trend.
Angel was a little confused at first, but now he has figured it out.
The half-human, half-puppet is the culprit.
"I originally thought you were sleeping, but now it seems that you woke up and discovered me as soon as I entered the hidden waters." Angel murmured in a low voice.
Otherwise, it couldn't have calculated it so accurately, and it wouldn't have suddenly appeared and done this at the last moment of the countdown, when the negative effect of the hallucinations was the strongest.
It must have discovered it ten minutes ago when Angel was infected with hallucinogenic state.
It also noticed that Angel ignored other illusions around him, indicating that he had a certain resistance to illusions.
Therefore, when the hallucinations were at their strongest, it used its singing combined with illusions to try to attack Angel.
However, what it didn't know was that although the body of the Dream Crystal was very different from its real body and its resistance to illusions was not enough, Angel was essentially an illusion wizard who was very good at controlling emotions. It was hardly affected at all and easily got rid of the trap it had carefully designed.
Angel listened to the faint singing coming from the underwater church in the distance, his eyes flickering slightly.
It seems that peaceful communication is unlikely.
However, he had not originally thought about peacefully communicating with this special entity.
Although the hallucinogenic state had ended, Angel did not go to the underwater church immediately, but looked at the place where the "mermaid" had been before.
The mermaid illusion was created by a half-human, half-puppet being trying to guide Angel over.
Ingres wanted to know why.
Is there anything special about the place where the mermaids stay?
Angel squinted his eyes, his God's perspective was activated, his thoughts and consciousness were detached from his body, his gaze traveled through space, even through matter...
After a moment, Angel withdrew his gaze.
He had already seen that where the mermaid was sitting was a pressure-type touch panel.
There were a lot of lines and corner codes inside the touch panel. He couldn't understand the corner codes, but following the lines, Ingres found his way to the center stage of the underwater church.
That is, the location of the half-human, half-daughter.
Angel also found several similar lines around the stage. These lines were also equipped with corner codes and connected to two other places in the hidden waters.
One is in the northeast corner, one is in the northwest corner, and the other is in the south corner on my side.
The distances between the three points are almost the same. If they are connected in order, they will form an equilateral triangle.
The circular stage in the underwater church is right in the center of this triangle.
"It's so orderly, like a ritual? Or some kind of magic circle?"
Angel didn't know what it was, but he found the same touch panel at two other points. Most importantly, the pressure plates of the two touch panels had been pressed down.
Judging from the marks on the cracks around the pressure plate, it definitely wasn't pressed recently.
It's been a while since it should have been pressed.
It is worth mentioning that next to one of the touch panels, there is a scribbled message: Beware of illusions! ! Don't touch! ! !
This line of text should have been written using fashion magic. Not only does it retain magical energy, it has also not faded after being soaked in water for many years.
Ingres had seen the same handwriting in the villa in Qingshuiqu before.
This is...left by Alfred.
And Alfred has been missing for five years, which means that this is a warning from five years ago.
"Five years ago, perhaps Alfred also encountered a hallucination crisis..."
Moreover, there is a high probability that the crisis he encountered was the same as this time, with the half-human, half-puppet behind the scenes to lure Alfred to the touch panel.
This caused two pressure plates to activate.
At the last moment, Alfred came to his senses and left these words as a warning to those who came after him.
Angell guessed this because only two pressure plates were activated. If Alfred was still under the control of the illusion at the time, the third pressure plate would definitely be triggered as well.
As for what would happen after the three pressure plates were activated, Alfred did not record it, but it must not be a good thing.
Angel looked towards the underwater church and whispered, "You lured Alfred to activate the pressure plate five years ago, and now you're luring me... You have hands and feet but you don't do it yourself. Either there is something near the pressure plate that you're afraid of, or..."
"You can't get out!"
Angel personally tends to believe the latter because he did not find anything abnormal near the pressure plate.
The area beneath the central stage of the underground church is covered with intricate patterns and corners.
In addition, the half-human, half-puppet creature only moves on the center stage, so it is very likely that it cannot leave the stage. The patterns and corners below form a formation that restricts its movements.
After this sorting out, things become much clearer.
Angel had always been puzzled. The hidden waters would connect with the modern city every twenty-four hours, but after so many years, the half-human, half-puppet had never left the underground church.
Now it seems that it’s not that it doesn’t want to leave, but that it simply can’t leave.
Perhaps, only when the pressure plates of the three touch panels are pressed can it break free and leave the stage that imprisons it.
Unfortunately, only a few people know about this place, and even fewer come here.
Over the years, Alfred was probably the only person who had come here. In fact, it didn't even completely control Alfred, and it made him break free from the illusion at the critical moment.
At this moment, Ingres couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, not knowing whether to sympathize with it or pity it.