Now that you have decided to give it a try, some things need to be replanned. In addition to talent and luck, necessary material support is also indispensable to reaching the fourth level. Therefore, points are very important. You must try to get the rewards of each task as much as possible. In addition, you must try to discover more different side quests.
However, before that, the two still have to try to see if they can solve the curse that inexplicably appeared on their bodies. The impact of this curse on them is undoubtedly extremely negative, and carrying this thing will greatly affect their combat effectiveness.
"Okay, stop hiding. This was your idea. Come and try it out to see if it works." Busujima Saeko waved at Kidd who was following her about ten meters behind her.
The place they are now in is where Tang Yu first built to test the basic properties of the curse on Kidd. There are rooms of various sizes here. If one wants to treat this kind of curse that is similar to a mental illness, one naturally has to be in an environment that can trigger the curse.
Currently, the only curse that can be easily triggered and ended is Kidd's claustrophobia, and this kind of symptom has also appeared in their original world, so another advantage is that there is some experience left by predecessors that can be used as a reference.
After considering all these factors, Kidd decided to muster up the courage to take the initiative to offer to try it first. However, when it came time to face it, the courage he had mustered seemed to have almost disappeared.
"I'm not hiding, I just... I should probably take it easy." Kidd took a few deep breaths. Just looking at so many rooms of different sizes, he already felt a sense of being squeezed, and in a trance he felt as if the space around him was shrinking.
This was not the effect of the curse, but the psychological trauma left over from the initial testing of the basic situation. When the curse was triggered, Kidd really felt that he might as well be dead, as that would definitely be much more comfortable.
"Yeah." Busujima Saeko understood Kid's current actions very well. She turned around and began to explain to Kid the theoretical logic of this treatment attempt to distract his attention.
"I have learned about the treatment methods for claustrophobia before. The first method is the full flooding method, which is to conduct repeated fear trials. After multiple stimulations, although the person will feel uncomfortable, the feared thing will not happen, so the connection reaction will fail."
Wiping the sweat from his head, Kidd could already imagine how terrible this method would be.
"Come on, but I can only try my best not to run out."
Busujima Saeko gently pushed open the door and stood there at the door, saying that she wanted to test whether the solution from the original world was useful, but if Kid chose to give up, she would definitely not say a word.
In addition, the building in front of them is currently the most accurate height testing room. The first floor is very wide, but the height is only 2.49 meters.
Walking towards the gate step by step, Kidd felt that the panic in his heart was about to overflow. This was a kind of panic caused by the imminent death.
"No, Kaito, you have to stay calm! You can't just accept the reality!"
Kidd encouraged himself and many images flashed through his mind. The person who appeared most frequently in the images was Nakamori Aoko. He didn't want to turn himself from a perfect boyfriend into a mental patient suffering from severe claustrophobia in front of Nakamori Aoko.
Stealing - emotions.
For a moment, Kidd didn't care that the emotions he stole with his ability would be multiplied by two when returned. He seized the moment when there was no messy emotion in his mind and jumped directly into the room.
At this moment, Busujima Saeko, who had concentrated all her energy, her eyes seemed to have turned into a slow-motion camera, and Kid's movements were split into scenes and presented in front of her.
From the scenes one by one, the triggering of this curse really makes no sense at all. The moment Kidd's body completely entered the door frame, the curse manifested itself on Kidd without any warning.
"Hehe..."
Kidd grabbed his collar with both hands and fell to his knees. A horrible hoarse sound came from his throat, and his eyes bulged out as if they were about to burst. The sound of his heart beating so fast that even Busujima Saeko outside the door could hear it.
Busujima Saeko's hands were full of sweat, and she had to admit that both she and Kidd were a little reckless, because without the presence of appropriate scientific researchers, she had no way of telling when Kidd's performance represented that he had reached his limit.
No! I can’t gamble anymore!
Busujima Saeko watched Kid's body curl up tighter and tighter, and she shot out like an arrow. She grabbed Kid and threw him outside with force.
The moment his body left the threshold, all effects of the curse disappeared.
Kidd, completely exhausted, lay on the ground, feeling as if he had been saved. In the room, he thought he would lose control of himself and run away, but this time the fear came too quickly and too intensely. His mind was full of those thoughts and his body was completely out of control.
"It's an accident. We thought it was too simple." Busujima Saeko squatted beside Kidd and looked at him worriedly.
Kidd turned his head a little stiffly and looked at Busujima Saeko. After the intense fear, he now felt that everything he saw was slightly distorted. "No, this time is different. There are extra gains."
"An extra bonus?"
"That's right." Kidd nodded, and his eyes lost focus. This was a manifestation of checking the semi-digital auxiliary combat system.
"Part of the curse information appeared in the character status bar of the battle system. It seems that our conscious confrontation this time made the battle system determine that this was a battle."
Kidd "looked" at the description in the battle system and read it out word for word.
Curse of Yog-Sothoth, gaining an absolute fear, currently manifested as claustrophobia.
There are annotations for claustrophobia, but when Kidd clicked on it, he found that they were all the most superficial conditions that they had already discovered. As expected, the combat system mainly displayed information related to combat.
In fact, Kidd is now more curious about what this Yog-Sothoth is and why the main god space does not give an annotation for this name. Moreover, he can only remember it when looking at the battle system panel. As long as his sight shifts, he will subconsciously forget it. He only knows that the situation on his body is a curse from a certain existence.
The confrontation of wills begins, and the confrontation of wills fails; the confrontation of hearts begins, and the confrontation of hearts fails; the confrontation of reason begins, and the confrontation of reason fails; the confrontation of luck begins, and the confrontation of luck fails; the confrontation of power begins, and the confrontation of power fails,...
Following this short introductory sentence was a series of confrontational tests, none of which were passed.
After leaving the confined space, the confrontation state ends, the curse remains, and negative states such as dehydration and exhaustion appear.
"It is indeed a curse, an absolute fear event, a confrontation state..." Busujima Saeko lowered her head and thought for a while, then looked at Kidd, "Which of your basic attributes is the highest?"
"Agility and intelligence are both 20." Kidd did not shy away from telling Busujima Saeko his condition directly. "Agility focuses on absolute movement speed and nerve reaction speed, while intelligence focuses on multi-dimensional space perception, target status judgment, and rough estimation of extremely large values."
"Double twenty, agility and intelligence also failed the confrontation. Could it be that twenty-one is really necessary? Or is the emphasis on the wrong thing?" Busujima Saeko's mind worked quickly.
Like Kidd, she is a third-level person with 20 points in both agility and intelligence. However, her agility focuses on movement speed and instantaneous speed, while her intelligence focuses on energy perception and judgment of the spatial position of multi-dimensional objects.
"I think the key point may not be this. Although each of the five-dimensional judgments appears, when the judgment begins, it is not them that are judged, but willpower, mental ability, reason and luck." Kidd also recovered.
"Although I can't be sure that judging first means the weight is high, but with the current information, I can only guess this, and it is also in line with the facts. It is said that every fourth-level has an extremely strong self-awareness. Although I don't know what this self-awareness represents, it seems to be something that can enhance willpower and mental strength."
As Kidd spoke, he returned his own emotions that he had stolen not long ago. After experiencing the fear caused by the curse, even if the panic at that time doubled, it could not affect his thinking.
"As for willpower, do we have to learn from the ascetics and start to torture ourselves?" Busujima Saeko's mouth twitched as she spoke.
Kidd listened to Saeko Busujima's words, and some self-torture scenes popped up in his mind. "Even if I don't learn, I probably have to refer to it. What is willpower? No one can completely define it, but it is generally recognized that suffering can temper willpower."
"Besides, we don't need that. This curse can be useful in training our willpower."
The impact of Yog-Sothoth's curse on the cursed can be roughly divided into two aspects. One is the fear of absolute matters itself, and the other is the fear derived from the fear of life and death.
What Kidd meant was that they could temper themselves through the effects of the latter aspect, such as not relying on any abilities but relying purely on their own willpower to fight against the derived fear.
Busujima Saeko nodded. She also agreed with Kid's point of view. Like the ascetics in most literary works, torturing herself to a pulp was not what Busujima Saeko wanted.
After initially deciding on this training method, Busujima Saeko and Kidd had to take this into consideration when planning their actions.
Originally, both of them wanted to act separately, because if they continued to act together, each of them would become a burden to the team for a period of time, causing the efficiency of two people to be lower than that of one person, but now it seems that they have to go together.
After all, if you don’t have someone you trust to help watch you while you’re exercising, you could easily kill yourself.
The next morning, after sharing the information detected overnight with Tang Yu and the others, Busujima Saeko and Kid said goodbye and asked Tang Yu and the others to help prepare some things.
In the evening, the sunlight is not as bright anymore and the sky becomes mostly dim.
Busujima Saeko took a deep breath and moved out of the room little by little with a special cover in her hand. This cover was a prop made temporarily by Tang Yu and his team. It had three layers in total, and each layer was made of pure black cloth.
The overall appearance is a bit like a hanging umbrella. When it is fully opened, the area it occupies is almost as large as a small carriage.
Although her entire body was tightly covered by the hood, Busujima Saeko still felt uneasy. This uneasiness would always remain in her heart as long as the sun did not set, but the degree of uneasiness would vary depending on where she was.
Relying on the floating tablet in front of her, the multiple cameras installed around the umbrella, and the acumen she had developed from swordsmanship, Busujima Saeko was able to walk slowly, step by step, in the sunshine without any help from anyone.
After walking for a few minutes, she finally met Kidd who was waiting in the square.
Kidd couldn't describe the feeling in his heart when he saw a cylindrical object coming towards him. He was inexplicably afraid that the cylinder would suddenly rise up and suck him in, as it was very narrow inside.
"Can you see me clearly?" Kidd said, standing right in front of the camera.
"No problem, very clear." Busujima Saeko's voice passed through the three layers of filters, and the tremor in her voice was a little loud, "Let's go, it's time to set off."
"Okay, I'll stay next to you. Call me anytime if you need anything." Kidd stood stiffly beside the mask and continued the journey with Busujima Saeko.
"Xiaobao, why do you think they don't want the guards we provide?" Anu asked Tang Yu while standing at the edge of the square.
"They are challenging their limits. The useless sense of security provided by the added guards will only affect their plans." Tang Yu said, while also looking at the candy cube tightly grasped in his hand.
Anu listened to Tang Yu's answer, looked at his profile, reached out and held his fist, slowly pushed his fingers apart, and took out the candy. "They are challenging their limits, but we are not, and we don't need to!"
"..." Tang Yu was silent, looking at his wife. He himself didn't care much about the curse of not being able to eat sweets. At worst, he would have to rely on a gastric tube to live for the rest of his life. But if no one continued to break the curse, what should Anu do
The curse on Anu is that she must sleep for twelve hours a day. This curse has reduced her future life by one third. In order not to trigger the curse, Anu now forces herself to sleep in bed for more than sixteen hours a day to ensure that she gets twelve hours of sleep every day.
And even though sixteen hours have been spent every day, as time goes by, these sixteen hours are not enough, because it takes longer and longer to fall asleep. It is difficult to fall asleep if you sleep too much. If this continues, one day, Anu will have to lie in bed looking for sleep.
"Okay, stop frowning. Come on, accompany me to go shopping, eat and buy clothes." After throwing the candy aside, Anu pulled Tang Yu and started walking.