What the hell is a demon
After entering this game and discovering that the couple wanted to summon demons, Ruan Bai once thought about it.
She knew that the copy of the game she was in was abroad, so she couldn't use the local oriental concept to think about demons. Therefore, based on the only information she had, she imagined the approximate source, purpose, and purpose of the couple's summoning of the demons.
Obviously, they summoned the devil to get something, and judging from the news of the bankruptcy, they probably planned to ask the devil for fame, fortune and power.
According to what Ruan Bai has always heard about demons, the only thing they can give is their soul.
In countless fairy tales, the demons of the West love to bewitch mortals, defrauding their souls with benefits and beauty.
As for summoning demons, more complicated means are needed, and sacrifices of human lives are just the foundation.
The couple let the children kill each other, and the father Du who was selected in the end was probably just a sacrifice prepared for the devil.
They tried in vain to summon the demons, but they didn't expect... to get something more terrifying than demons.
what would that be
"I have reminded you before, there is no difference between us and you... Demons are everywhere, they are bound to us, and they follow you as well," Father Du said.
Ruan Bai thought deeply, Father Du is a ghost, there is no doubt about it, and the "we" in his mouth is probably also a ghost.
But what are "you"
Is it normal people... or gamers
She recalled that at the end of the second world, the female teaching director made a gesture of the DSAS company icon to her, telling her not to mess with the company.
And when this world started, before it disappeared, that poor little boy "Big Brother" also gave her a little hint, which allowed her to successfully escape the attack of the old castle couple.
These ghosts may know as much as players.
What exactly do they exist, are they also players? !
Seeing Ruan Bai's complexion changed several times, Father Du showed a smile that he couldn't tell whether it was satisfaction or resentment.
"Yeah, the devil just wants to eat your soul. Once you close your eyes, you will die. It won't be too painful at all," it said as if sighing, "but what about it? It will forcibly seal your soul. The contract, let your souls collapse in death endlessly, it likes your fear and fear."
It didn't know what it thought of, and it sneered: "And after you die, your soul will still not be free, and you will still have to be driven by it, endlessly, until... your soul is wiped out."
Compared with the ambiguous words before, the meaning of Father Du's words can be said to be very obvious.
Its words point to the escape game system almost relentlessly!
"This...how is this possible?" Ruan Bai couldn't accept it for a while, and his words became incoherent.
It means that these players can't get out of the game even if they die!
Why does it say that, it is a ghost, why does it know so much...
"How is it impossible?" Father Du asked directly after hearing her question.
Its deep black eyes looked at Ruan Bai coldly, but its voice was colder than the outside air: "Do you think it is necessary for me to deceive you?"
Staring at Father Du's gaze, Ruan Bai opened his mouth, but couldn't refute it back.
She knew that Father Du really didn't need to lie to her.
Yeah, why is it impossible
When Ruan Bai first thought of the system, he was resistant and inconceivable.
But after Du's father explained, her brain was in chaos, but she felt like it should be like this.
Yes, if Du's father hadn't lied to her, wouldn't the escape game system be more terrifying than demons
After all, in her view, there are no gods or demons in the world, but there is such a thing as an escape game system.
Being able to draw people's souls into another world and torture them continuously is indeed much more cruel than demons in the ordinary sense.
Back then, when the couple came up with this kind of situation, their intention was to summon the devil.
It's just that they didn't expect that the devil was not recruited, but the escape game system was attracted.
The system discovered Father Du who was extremely talented and could survive the mutual killing of fourteen children, so he made Father Du his host.
Maybe this is the truth.
"I'm its first host." Seeing the stunned look on Ruan Bai's face, Father Du knew that she had figured it out.
"Me and them, the ghosts in your mouth, used to be hosts, but after we died, our souls were brought here." It said.
"Our experience in life will be made into a copy of the game by the system after some details have been altered, and we will repeat what happened at that time day after day here."
Then, they will follow the system's instructions in the game and continue to do the task.
And among these souls, some hosts were tortured by the game to the point of deliriousness due to too much experience, which eventually led to the ghost's slow thinking and numb expression, like puppets.
This is one of the reasons why there are so many differences between ghosts and monsters.
Ruan Bai pursed his lips after hearing these words, but said nothing.
She thought about the world she had personally experienced. If all the ghosts were replaced by former players, it seemed that many stories could be explained clearly.
Just like in the second game, one-fifth of the students and teachers in the school are ghosts, and in the end they even paranoidly believed in the so-called fake master/teacher and wanted to get rid of the disease.
This kind of thing is simply ridiculous in reality.
Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about the infectious disease of malaria. It's not that the government can ignore it if the school doesn't want it to be managed by the government.
Not to mention the infected population, or the students of the school.
But what if those students were not infected with malaria, but the system
Treat those obviously magical plots as tampered with by the system, and replace the plague-like "malaria" in the plot with an escape game system that can also bring death to students, then the leaders and students of this school are unwilling to seek help from the official government , it is normal.
Malaria is okay, the hospital can prove it, but who would believe something like an escape game!
With nowhere to turn and no way to escape, people who have returned to reality can only hopelessly seek help from ghosts and gods.
The same goes for the third world, the auction in the underground of the manor, there must have been outsiders mixed in at that time.
Now that I think about it, those ghosts who vainly tried to get the player's identity may be the people who got in, and were later identified by the system and selected as players.
Ruan Bai's heart sank gradually.
As little clues emerged, she could no longer ignore this fact.
Horror Escape Game... is about being scarier than demons.
She thought that from the beginning to the end, she seemed to have no idea about the source of the system.
She regards Uncle Shen and the others as the first generation of players, but in fact, she knows that games existed much earlier than they imagined, but a long time ago, there was no Internet, and it was inconvenient for everyone to communicate, and no one believed it when they said it That's all.
What is the meaning of its existence, why does it sign players and force them to escape in various games
Ruan Bai didn't know about it, but it seemed that it hadn't concealed its malice from the very beginning.
The system naturally has criteria for selecting players. The more excellent players are, the easier it is to be selected by it if they can live in the game for a long time.
If it is true as Father Du said, its purpose is to collect fear, then it is easy to understand that it does not give players a dead end, after all, only the living can give it a steady stream of fear.
Those points that can be exchanged for material things, those games that can be passed as long as they struggle, are like a carrot hanging in front of all players, telling them that the game is not for nothing, as long as they work hard, they can survive and have breathing time .
At the same time, this also seems to be a hint, appeasing all players, making them feel that this is just a game, and one day, they can escape.
But what if you can't get rid of the system after you die
Ruan Bai didn't dare to think about it.
In addition, the ghosts in the games she has experienced have one thing in common, that is, there are people from DSAS near them.
This must not be an accident.
"You are its first host, how did the subsequent hosts come here?" She took a deep look at Du's father and asked softly, "The appearance of players is very dense, it must not be an accident, so the system is It's 'contagious', isn't it?"
Father Du nodded.
"Since I became the first host, it's like a radar has been pressed on me. Everyone around me will be detected by the system, and those who are suitable for them will be forcibly bound to the system," it said , "You are right, they are like viruses, they are transmitted from one person to another, and finally expand the number of players to an unimaginable level."
"At the beginning, it wasn't called 'system', that's what players of your generation say," Father Du continued, "It's very smart, and it will adjust itself appropriately according to the times, at least when I was young, it was true. I thought it was a legendary demon."
Therefore, whether it is a ghost or a player who is still alive, they all have more or less connections with DSAS.
Du's father established DSAS company and promoted the system to a larger field.
As for the fact that the system is very smart, Ruan Bai actually realized it very early on.
She found that when the system selects hosts, it hardly chooses officials and the like, most of them are ordinary people, people at the bottom of society.
Uncle Shen, the host, probably made a mistake. At that time, Uncle Shen's eldest brother died, and the Shen Group was on the verge of bankruptcy. The system probably never expected him to be able to resist it.
So when Second Uncle Shen became aware of the existence of the system's running dog DSAS, he was killed and silenced by the system.
After thinking this through, Ruan Bai's heart cooled down.
She looked at Father Du with disappointment in her eyes.
"You didn't choose to stop it...you actually helped the evildoers?" She couldn't help but said, "It's a cancer! It will kill many people!"
Those are real people, some are even children!
Didn't Father Du feel uneasy when he intentionally guided the system to expand the host
From the very beginning, she vaguely noticed that when Father Du talked about these things, he didn't show many normal emotions at all.
Not only that, but its tone is even self-satisfied, without any pain from the loss of human life.
"Why should I block it?"
Sure enough, Father Du laughed out loud after hearing what she said.
It asked rhetorically: "It has allowed me to survive from my adoptive parents, it can bring me huge benefits, and it can allow me to live a life of a superior person. Why should I resist it?"
Its reply was quite straightforward, and Ruan Bai was at a loss for words when he heard it.
This is not because Ruan Bai can't say it, but after she reacted, she knew that there was no need for this dispute.
Since the system chose Du's father, it must have its purpose. If Du's father was an ordinary person, the system would not choose him.
Father Du, who lived in a war zone since he was a child and was deliberately trained by the couple in the old castle to be a human being, is completely different from normal people.
It survived by slaughtering its brothers and sisters, and by its disregard for life.
This kind of experience will completely distort a child's three views, ruin the child's life, and make it run counter to mainstream thinking.
It will not feel that it is wrong.
For a while, Ruan Bai could understand why Du Wenshu's temperament changed drastically when he grew up, and he was so resistant to his father's company after being unable to explain.
Reminiscent of No. 4 Middle School being the school Du Wenshu attended, Ruan Bai felt a little palpitating.
Even his own biological child was completely taken advantage of by Du's father.
Thinking of this, Ruan Bai was full of emotions.
After a while, she sighed and lowered her head.
In the palm of her hand, the mermaid bell may have noticed her depressed mood, and once again radiated gentle heat, flashing a faint white light.
As if comforting her.
"Why did you tell me?" Ruan Bai asked softly at the end, "You can obviously say nothing, you don't need to tell me this, after all your soul is bound by the system, it's okay to say this You're doing all the harm but not the best, aren't you?"
Although Mermaid Bell lured her over, it was Father Du who said those words.
Not only that, but Father Du also hinted at her in the kitchen, but what Father Du said was too reserved at that time, Ruan Bai didn't understand.
She is not the smartest one, nor is she the strongest, why did Father Du want to tell her these things
Ruan Bai wanted to know this, but it was beyond her expectation. Du's father, who was ready to answer her questions just now, kept his mouth tightly shut and didn't say anything.
She raised her head, only to see a strange, unexplainable emotion appearing on the ghost's numb face.
The faces of ghosts rarely change, and most of the time they are expressionless or show resentment.
So Father Du's strangeness was quickly caught by Ruan Bai.
She raised her eyes and met Father Du's eyes.
In just a few seconds, Father Du's eyes became extremely complicated. Even in the darkness, his deep black eyes seemed to be shining, full of rustling lights that Ruan Bai couldn't understand.
"...you are the most special."
After a few breaths, Father Du said.
"That's all I can tell you." After saying that, Father Du took a step back and quickly changed the subject, "Knowing too much is not good for you. For the rest of the time, you Just worry about yourself more."
Its meaning of expelling guests is obvious.
Ruan Bai felt dissatisfied when he heard this, and opened his mouth to continue asking.
However, before she could say anything, she realized that Father Du in front of her had disappeared.
She was alone in the corridor.
... There is no other way.
Ruan Bai was slightly taken aback, so he had to give up and continue looking for Father Du.
She didn't hesitate for too long, then turned around, and walked back to the place she went back according to her past memory.
The mermaid bell still emitted white light, dispelling the black mist around her.
While thinking about the amount of information just obtained, Ruan Bai walked slowly to the side of the four players.
At this time, these players were still asleep, completely unaware of Ruan Bai's departure.
Ruan Bai walked to Xue Se's side and lay down slowly.
It's just that although she is tired, it is difficult for her to fall asleep.
Father Du's words, the truth about DSAS, Du Wenshu's past, and the unknown mermaid bell all gave her the illusion of being in a net.
The dense and invisible mesh binds her, and makes her move forward little by little. She has to meet many people, encounter more things, and walk towards the destined ending.
She didn't fully believe Father Du's words today, because Father Du definitely had reservations, and even the key points would be blurred.
But Ruan Bai made a guess, and believed that it was probably no problem.
What she can be sure of now is that after the young Father Du was killed by the system, he became the first-generation host and the "spokesperson" of the system.
Relying on the wealth provided by the escape game system, he returned to China and founded DSAS, and through some means, he continuously exported new hosts to the system.
Afterwards, his son Du Wenshu grew up and realized what Du's father had done, and began to resist his father and DSAS.
What other experimental results did Du Wenshu make, it is very likely that they were done for the system.
In the end, Du Wenshu took his own research results and went to Mermaid Village on his own initiative, where he died.
In fact, the first world she encountered was the one that most did not conform to what Father Du said.
Because the mermaid girl inside is the only ghost in this world, and she doesn't look like a player...
Perhaps, this is because of Du Wenshu's research results
Ruan Bai felt that his brain was in a mess. He had revealed many secrets, but he was more and more confused.
What made her even more uneasy was that Du's father was obviously smarter than her, and the information provided now made it difficult for Ruan Bai to verify it.
As for the DSAS company, it gave very vague answers. Even if Ruan Bai knew so much information, she couldn't grasp the prototype of the DSAS company in reality.
After thinking about it for a long time, he couldn't think of anything. So then, Ruan Bai took a deep breath and decided to give up.
After she clears the game, she still has a few months to rest, and then she will think about it slowly.
After relaxing, Ruan Bai stopped thinking, and his body was once again occupied by fatigue.
Amidst the sound of breathing one after another, she closed her eyes, and her consciousness gradually sank.
But when she was half asleep and half awake, Father Du's words "You are the most special" sounded in her mind.
She is an ordinary girl, what can be special
Just when Ruan Bai thought it was funny, suddenly, a flash of spiritual light hit her instantly!
She thought, what Father Du said...maybe there is nothing wrong.
Compared with other players, she does have one thing, which is very different from them.
That was her system. From the beginning to the end, it was not an escape game system, but a white lotus cultivation system.
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