Ingle's story, also known as "The Girl Walking on Bread".
She is a proud child.
She is like a little dragon, vain, bad-tempered, and fond of luxurious, shiny ornate objects.
When she returned to her hometown to visit relatives, she passed through the swamp, and because she was afraid of soiling her beautiful shoes, she used the bread kindly given to her by her employer.
Stepping on the bread, she unfortunately sank all the way to hell.
Ingle was wrapped in a dirty leprosy and wrapped around his neck by a smooth snake.
She became an immobile stone statue, unable to even bend down and take a bite of the bread she had trampled underfoot.
Because of excessive hunger, her stomach ate itself.
Still later, her internal organs began to devour each other.
Because of her disappearance, her bad story began to circulate among the people.
Her mother wept, her employer bemoaned, countless strangers mocked and scorned, and only one child shed tears over what happened to Ingle.
The child asked, what would she do if she knew she was wrong.
Ingle suffered a long period of torture in hell.
Until the little child who used to cry for her got old, saw Ingle in hell before dying, and shed tears for her again.
Ingle was enlightened and cried bitterly, and then she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.
She diligently collected the crumbs that were lost and wasted by everyone, and gave them little by little to other hungry birds.
Until the crumbs she collected accumulated, reaching the length of the bread she had stepped on.
She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and has since disappeared without a trace.
… dream linkage.
Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself: "I should have found out earlier."
There is a lot of overlap between the elements of Candy House and The Girl Who Stomped on Bread.
Hunger, as well as breadcrumbs, are the two most obvious characterizing elements.
One is used to lead the way home, and the other is used to atone for sins.
In addition to that, the overlapping detail points have long been left to them.
For example, in "Candy House", the brother and sister are crossed by a wild duck, but what they see is a small bird that is not very beautiful.
After the two brothers and sisters escaped from the candy house, it should be He who stopped them.
What they saw was a fetid swamp.
Nan Zhou, who thinks he is a tenth-level scholar of "Candy House", silently reflected on himself for a while.
Seeing his self-closing and bowing his head, Jiang Fang couldn't help but rubbed the back of his neck to comfort him.
Both of them had a rough guess about the next step in the plot.
Therefore, after Jiang Fang put on his choker again, Li Yinhang, who fell into a drowsy and hungry sleep after entering the storage compartment, was forcibly taken out and answered questions by name.
After having a general understanding of the plot after he was imprisoned, Li Yinhang rubbed his eyes and roughly extracted the main points of the current information: "So, there are two fairy tales in total?"
Jiang Fang added: "In terms of the proportion of the plots of the two stories, Ingle should only be regarded as a branch plot."
Teacher Nan Zhou strictly asked: "Don't remind her."
Jiang Fang raised his hands and said ok with a smile.
"Why is only this game copy special?"
When Li Yinhang woke up, he also recovered a lot from the shadow of seeing living people eating raw.
Her thinking gradually became active, and the questions she raised gradually became sharper than Nanzhou bypassed the miscellaneous information and hit the core: "Other fairy tales we have experienced are single-threaded, and there is no such side story."
"Why… "
After muttering to himself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized that he raised his voice slightly: "Is that the sound of eating in the corridor...!"
Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang made a "shush" gesture to her at the same time.
Only then did Li Yinhang realize that they were still in the middle of the trail, and he covered his mouth abruptly.
The woodcutter in front also heard something and turned back nervously, his sweaty face flushed as red as a red-skinned egg.
The three of them lowered their bodies and squatted side by side in the bushes.
Nan Zhou pressed Li Yinhang's head, and Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou's head on his shoulder.
The woodcutter, looking around, felt that he did hear a female voice.
But worried that the new wife was coming, afraid that she would abuse him and throw away the two oil bottles born by his ex-wife, he hugged the two children, accelerated his pace, and plunged into the depths of the jungle without looking back.
Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind the bushes, was nervous and excited, his heart thumping against her voice.
This kind of feeling is like when she accidentally discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always give up tactically.
She looked at Teacher Nan, wanting to verify whether her thinking was correct.
Nan Zhou nodded without a trace.
Li Yinhang's words did touch on a core issue.
They appear to be playing five discrete games.
But in fact, the overall name of the copy is called [Brain Invasion].
In theory, they hack into a person's brain.
The various divisions of the brain are linked and interact with each other, silently reflecting the person's preferences.
What is in the brain often represents what the person has.
[Brain Invasion] The game nature of the copy is marked with "exploration" that seems to be harmless to humans and animals.
Their wandering journey is the process of exploring this person.
After entering the dungeon, what impressed Nan Zhou the most was the regular sound of teeth chewing food that echoed in the corridor.
The sound had a very strong presence and lasted for a very long time, only pausing for a while when they walked out of the third door.
This happens to overlap with the nature of the story at hand.
It is precisely because the brain master has an extremely strong appetite, so there are two hunger-themed stories interspersed with "Candy House" and "Ingle" in this level.
In this way, the three levels they had experienced before were all showing the characteristics of the brain they were exploring.
In fact, Li Yinhang performed very well at the beginning of the dungeon.
As early as when she entered the library and Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang were in the bookshelf, she made a discovery to Nan Zhou.
At that time, Li Yinhang said cautiously, "Mr. Nan, don't you think there are too many books here?"
What kind of person can read so many books
Hundreds of bookshelves, enough to form a maze of books
However, while playing, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.
Because each level has different fairy tales to distract her, she naturally treats all the games as independent mini-games.
And Nan Zhou never forgot.
Every level he walked through, he was constantly sending information to help him draw a portrait of the master of the brain.
The portrait was drawn with a brush stroke, but gradually formed a treacherous monster.
The rough lines and too many contradictions made this person's image more and more elusive in Nan Zhou's mind.
Of course, in this extremely time-limited dungeon, it is only suitable for inspiring thinking, not for continuing to meditate on analysis.
That's it.
And Nan Zhou also needs to change the environment as soon as possible to help him think.
Appropriate hunger can also make people think faster.
Excessive hunger just drives people crazy.
Li Yinhang: "Then shall we follow them?"
She was still a little nervous.
What if you meet a witch
Could it be that the wish of the two brothers and sisters is to kill the witch
If witches were also ordinary people who were controlled by candy shops and had to rely on cannibals to feed their stomachs, they might still have a fight.
So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter
This kind of decision is not within Li Yinhang's ability.
She turned her eyes to Nanzhou for help.
Nan Zhou thought for a while and said, "I also think it has something to do with witches."
Saying that, he looked at Jiang Fang.
But Jiang Fang did not agree immediately.
Not long after the woodcutter and the siblings walked away, the sound of birdsong gradually gathered towards this side.
Four or five birds gathered around, digging their heads down to pecking at the crumbs that my brother had sprinkled on the ground as a guide home.
Jiang Fang asked a question: "Why do you have the story of Inger?"
Li Yinhang: "...?"
She was confused.
Isn't it because the owner of this brain is too hungry, so the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals is extremely active
Didn't they just discuss this issue
However, after only a short thought, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang's proposal: "You are right."
Li Yinhang: "... Huh?"
At this time, Li Yinhang felt that he was the foreigner among the three.
"We've gone through three timelines. Now it's the fourth." Jiang Fang said, "The four timelines have something in common."
Li Yinhang guessed carefully: "... They are all hungry?"
Jiang Fang: "Well. This is one of them."
When escaping from the witch's house, in the storyline, the elder brother was afraid that he would gain weight and be eaten by the witch. He had not eaten for several days, while the younger sister lived in fear and probably had nothing to eat.
Li Yinhang continued to speculate: "Anything else - in every timeline, is it the time when they are in crisis?"
... As soon as the words came out, she first denied her own inferences.
In the initial timeline, when the two brothers and sisters were digging a hole and rubbing their hands and waiting to eat people, it was obviously the three of them who were in greater danger.
So, what are the other commonalities
Jiang Fang put forward his conjecture: "What if the four timelines all represent a departure from 'home'."
"The siblings of the first timeline, they couldn't conquer their appetite, so they took over the candy house and became the owner of the candy house. They were seemingly free, but were forever tied to the candy house by their appetite and the desire to live. inside."
"In the second timeline, they also couldn't overcome their appetite and ate their father."
"The third timeline, they were blocked by Daze on their way home."
"It stands to reason that if they are experiencing the 'the most feared moment of their life', I think that in the fourth timeline, the brother and sister should be imprisoned by the witch, and we should witness how they killed the witch."
"But it didn't."
Li Yinhang suddenly realized: "We arrived at the time line when the two of them were abandoned by their father—"
These moments, for both children, symbolize moments of departure from home in their lives.
Coerced by hunger, I have to live in a place that cannot be called "home".
Dominated by hunger, destroying the "home" with his own hands.
Blocked by Daze, he was unable to return to "home" for a time.
Abandoned by his father, and realizing this, he still lies on his father's back and drifts away from "home".
In a timeline featuring the sibling duo, the presence of witches threatens their lives.
It may frighten them, but it will not make them feel particularly distressed.
They stumbled to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.
Players, like them, experienced the hunger and unease that devoured people, and went all the way in the opposite direction, walking the road they had traveled.
However, the prayers of the brothers and sisters, which are hidden under the surface of many wishes, are just to return home.
Although it is not warm, it means heaven to the two children, there is a father's home.
The brothers and sisters of the first world line were indeed unable to express their wishes.
At that time, the two brothers and sisters had no other wishes except cannibalism.
Because what they really want is already gone.
Jiang Fang said: "So, I think Inger's existence and insertion are a hidden line."
Li Yinhang finally understood: "Little bird, is it a 'savior' role?"
She was excited again: "Does that mean that it can save us too, as long as we find half a loaf of bread—"
"Edible bread." Nan Zhou added, "It said that it doesn't want the bread in the candy house."
Li Yinhang became active, and even the sharp hunger in his abdomen was not obvious: "Then let's go to Daze to find the bird and ask it-"
Nan Zhou did not speak, but raised his hand and pointed not far away.
Among the birds that came to eat the breadcrumbs, a familiar little bird with stray feathers was mixed in at some point.
But it was just sticking out its neck, pecking at some crumbs in the corners of the grass, with the reserved manner of a girl.
The woodcutter and his brother and sister had already left.
So Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a magnanimous manner, and stopped in front of it.
He got straight to the point: "If you are paid for half a loaf of bread, can you take us to the exit door?"
Li Yinhang: "..." Can you be so direct
The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.
It made a girlish voice: "Yes."
Nan Zhou: "Will you always be here?"
It said, "You can find me in the swamp."
After that, it flapped its short wings and flew into the distance.
Seeing that there is a goal and the possibility of getting out of this endless hunger hell, Li Yinhang hurriedly said: "Then let's go!"
Seeing Li Yinhang walking towards the cabin, Nanzhou and the others did not immediately follow.
"Do you want to tell her?" Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, "My business."
Jiang Fang asked back, "Now? Here?"
Nan Zhou thought for a while: "Well. Take her out and talk about it."
There are still ten hours of process until the end of the copy.
At least for the next period of time, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.
Wait until they release the copy of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang. :,