Horror game: opening scare system

"Oh! Is this thing actually edible?"

In a certain human stronghold in the other world, Zhang Xun sat on the table and marveled at the things presented in front of his eyes.

However, this place is not so much a stronghold, but a large room used as a cell in the outer world. There is no need to imprison monsters in the inner world, so this is a pretty good place to live.

The things presented in front of Zhang Xun can be seen everywhere in the watch world. Almost all the flower beds are full of plants. The color is not crisp and looks "depressed". They are flowering. Although it is mentioned in the rules, Zhang Xun has not seen the flowering posture of this kind of plant in the watch world.

Unlike its aging body, the flowers of this plant are very vigorous, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are in full bloom. The flowers are slightly weaker in yellow tones, and the flower shape is similar to peonies, but smaller.

Another point is that although this thing can be seen everywhere in the outer world, it is the first time Zhang Xun has seen it in the inner world. If they hadn't shown it, Zhang Xun didn't know that the inner world also had this thing. The flower bed is empty. To be precise, there is no soil, and the place has been completely sealed by cement. This is also a different store at the architectural level, which is almost a reflection of each other.

You know, when a building collapsed in the inner world because of Zhang Xun's strange relationship, the same thing happened in the outer world at the same time.Of course, Zhang Xun didn't know about this at the moment.

"Yes, this is our food in this world. There are no crops in this place, and there is no land suitable for planting. Although I am not the first group of people to come here, there is still a lot of history in my exploration of this place. A certain understanding.

At the beginning, people had no food and could only suffer from hunger. Later, they discovered that monsters native to this world would eat this plant, so they made some common sense. The fact is that this plant can be used as grass.

After discovering this, humans began to look for places to grow this kind of plant, but found that the growth of this kind of plant was completely unreasonable, and it could even grow out of thin air on stones.

After a long period of observation and exploration and tracking of monsters, the predecessors discovered that this kind of plant would grow randomly in the place where the monster touched, which is why the monster's territory is relatively abundant in food.

After that, in order to compete for food..."

"So the relationship between humans and monsters is rapidly deteriorating, isn't it?" Zhang Xun casually picked up the "food" that was handed over and picked up Wu Yong's words, "So, Mr. Orc, what do you think of this food? "

"Well... To be honest, the taste is not bad, but the taste is really..." Wu Yong's two eyebrows were entangled at this point, as if he was recalling some terrible memories. It can be seen that this plant The shadow brought to him is no less than the maze he mentioned before, "It has a strangely dry mouth when chewed, like a dry mouth caught between socks and toilet paper, with a smooth surface and fine fluff. When biting, it seems to be chewing the mango skin, and at the same time, the mouth swelling is filled with a taste similar to durian candy, but more intense and unbearable..."

"Just listening to your description seems to be a very confusing thing... Huh?" After listening to it, Zhang Xun casually complained, and at the same time lowered his head to look at the plant in his hand, but suddenly found that there was a The flower has already begun to wither, its stems and leaves have become dull and dull, and even began to wither and turn yellow. The petals of the flowers have closed the door of their hearts. "Is it the same when you are eating?" Zhang Xun asked.

"Um, this..." Wu Yong looked at the flower in Zhang Xun's hand and scratched his head in doubt. He was also puzzled by the change in the flower at the moment, "No, it kept the same color when we ate it. in an open state."

"Really? It seems that I am a special case." Zhang Xun smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "Let me try it first."

After speaking, Zhang Xun opened his small mouth, took a bite of the flower bud, and chewed slowly.

After listening to Wu Yong's words, he immediately figured out what was going on.

This plant is obviously the same thing that was planted in the flower bed of the table world, especially after taking it into my hands and starting to change, the changed state is exactly the same as what the table world saw.Moreover, relevant parts are also mentioned in the employee code. Simply put, the deeper a person is affected by the weirdness, the more vigorous the plant will be.The influence on Zhang Xun is nothing more than paper figurines, and it is just right for a flower to bloom. Others, such as Wu Yong, Zhang Xun guessed before, they are called dangerous goods. There are hidden dangers, and this moment just illustrates this point. The flowers will bloom in their hands, which undoubtedly shows that they are seriously affected by the weird, even if everyone is sane now.

But this will not affect Zhang Xun's decision. Even if these people may be dangerous, since he promised to show them the exit that might leave the inner world, he will definitely take them. Those who broke their promises, of course, did not count those who deliberately lied.

Moreover, according to Zhang Xun's estimation, the possibility of this group of people returning to the watch world is pitifully low, and it can basically be asserted that they will not return at all.

Some people may ask, it is precisely because of the strange influence that Xun Zai can see the non-existent grocery room and pass through it to the inner world, and there is even the possibility of using it as an anchor point to go back and forth between the outer world and the inner world.So, this group of humans in this place is obviously more seriously affected by the weirdness, why can't they also go back and forth through there?

This has to take into account the different directions of weird influence, let's call it cognitive distortion and meme pollution.

Under the worldview here, the relationship between these two things is very subtle, they can be one or different.

The weird influence in the Dream Prison obviously separates the two, so let me first talk about the situation of the one.

Xuncui itself is a very standard and vivid example.

His family should still remember Xunzai's so-called "mother halo", which probably has the effect of making it easier for all sentient beings around him to have a good impression of him.

When I mentioned this setting, I once said that Zhang Xun itself is a moving source of meme pollution, and the presentation of its effect is of the cognitive distortion type.

The one in Dream Prison is different from this.

He is obviously separated when he affects people. People who are affected by strange things often only have one of these conditions, blurred consciousness and seeing things that don't exist, including confusion about their own positioning (the first rule requires Remember, I am a human being), all belong to the scope of cognitive distortion, while the effect of meme pollution is on the flesh—monsterization.But it is worth mentioning that the pain experienced by monsterization can easily make people crazy, but this madness is not within the scope of cognitive distortion.

The human beings in this other world, whether they were brought here after turning into monsters, or fell into this world after the maze was broken, they have only experienced the process of becoming monsters now.

The reason why Zhang Xun made such a conclusion was because the world he saw was different from other people's.

He still has a paper man on him, so he is still under the influence of cognitive distortion at this moment, and the memorization of the rules and Xu Qian's same influence mode as him all show that Weird, for some purpose or other, imposes Cognitive distortions are the same in everyone.

The reason for suspecting that the other party has a certain purpose is because of the orc's self-report, the maze and what he saw and heard in the maze, which makes people very concerned.As for the others, Zhang Xun thought, it might be convenient to use the same mode. After all, manipulating energy is quite troublesome, and even he can't control it very skillfully now.

Excluding the natural influence due to one's own characteristics, actively exerting influence on other people requires ingenious and complex energy manipulation, and the paper doll is the medium of weird choice.

Let’s talk about the world in Zhang Xun’s eyes. When Zhang Xun first entered the inner world, the feeling of the world covered by something was actually a manifestation of cognitive distortion in the inner world.

In the follow-up, Zhang Xun can often see some disgusting things flying around, such as an eyeball, the sclera is white, the pupil and iris are really pink, floating around irregularly, with sticky spots on it. Transparent liquid……

Obviously using Zhang Xun's favorite color, but it's disgusting...

On the way to this so-called stronghold, Zhang Xun asked this Mr. Beast who had entered a state of knowing everything at this time.The answer they got was that what they saw was very clear, and there were no eyeballs flying around...

Based on the above factors, Zhang Xun actually had a very clear guess about the result of taking this group of people to the non-existent grocery room. If nothing else, this group of people would not be able to see the grocery room.

However, even with such an inference, he didn't intend to just say it. After all, this was not part of the transaction, and he himself was not a well-intentioned person.

Of course, there are other things besides this.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Xun found that he had basically obtained all the information that could be squeezed from humans, and if he wanted to find something new, he should go to the agent or the watch world or someone related to humans. Contact the monster to ask for it.

And this also shows one thing, the monsters in the other world should be divided into two factions just like humans.In addition, the current known problems have also solved Zhang Xun's other doubts, that is, the leader was actually a monster when he registered. That person should also be one of the people who cooperated with humans, and even the monkey in the grocery store may also be It is such an existence.

After all, if they are monsters... In the outside world, there are no ones who keep their humanity, and those who keep their humanity in the back world can't go back.

Moreover, that monkey is likely to be a more special existence, with banana coins and multiple mentions in the code and duality to humans makes its existence quite suspicious.In addition, according to Xu Qian, paper figurines, a way to carry out cognitive pollution, are also sold by it, and its complexity makes it more suspicious than others.

While brainstorming and chewing the flower buds in his mouth, the process was not long, but Zhang Xun overturned many previous ideas and established many new speculations.

He didn't feel discouraged because of the mistakes in his previous speculations. This is a normal situation. After all, he is not omniscient, let alone speak, so how could he be right in whatever he thinks.

However, this process is not easy for him. If he thinks about it, his head will hurt.

In order to avoid this pain, he hadn't allowed his brain to be so active for a long time.

But there is no way, now he doesn't have the invincible power in this world, so he has to use his brain, and face it seriously, now he is not full of power, even when there are Song Like, Ge Changqing and so on, he can be carefree. Concerned about playing tricks and acting cute.

Then, at this moment, Zhang Xun's appearance for outsiders is naturally cute and cute, sitting on the table with his legs dangling, his big gray eyes blinking from time to time, savoring the smell of flowers carefully.

Anyone who looked at it would not feel that such a child was any threat, except for those who had been beaten by him.

In short, although you have to do things with a serious attitude, some habits cannot be changed.

Suddenly, Zhang Xun stopped chewing, blinked twice, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he said "Hum!" in great surprise.

A wave of sweetness gradually melted in his innermost part. For him who is addicted to sweetness, this sweetness is really too timely!

You know, the most painful thing after opening the door in the city of clouds is that there is no sugar supplement!

Moreover, he has not tasted the other strange smells that Wu Yong mentioned, to him it feels like eating a kind of paper-like candy.But the taste is not as crumpled as paper, but cool and smooth like pudding.At the beginning, it was like eating glutinous rice paper, but after chewing, the sweetness appeared. Zhang Xun found that it was quite chewy, and it was a perfect sugar supplement!

"Is this thing actually sweet? It feels good, and it doesn't have the strange feeling and taste you said, and the dry mouth is quite good!"

As he spoke, Zhang Xun took another bite, chewing the stems and leaves together, and the result was delightful.

Because the taste of the stems and leaves is also sweet, and the mouth is dry and crisp, similar to celery, which gave him a very novel experience, he has never eaten this kind of candy before!

Yes, that's right.

Up to now, the food that people and monsters in this world cherish very much is no different from candy in Zhang Xun's eyes!