"The success rate for ordinary people to escape is 20%, and the success rate for players to escape is 40%."
It was obvious that he was familiar with these data. The second after Bai Zhi asked the question, the tombkeeper gave the answer.
"That thing was actually not very strong in the early stage, but it was extremely concealed. It was first spread in the form of dreams. No one would care much about a beautiful dream. When we discovered it, it It has grown to a pretty scary level.”
"So the danger lies not in the realm of desire, but in the maze of desire that grows later, right?"
Bai Zhi reached out and pressed his temples slightly.
"What, is it dangerous in the Maze of Desire?"
"I have said that human desires are quite complex, and the monsters born from human desires are even more terrifying. After coming out of the realm of desire, remember to move from there as soon as possible according to the anchor points I gave. Get out of the maze of desire, otherwise you will be consumed to death just by being consumed."
Shaking his head slightly, the gravekeeper took out an old map from his underwear pocket and handed it to him along with the old family photo that he always held in his hand.
"This is the map you want. Although there may be many other things in the core area in the past 20 years, it is supplemented by nine epic-level puzzle cards and the locations of the nine major shelters established by us martyrs. It won’t change, so remember it’s best not to get close.”
"...will there be any problems if I get too close?"
Looking at the old and yellowed photo that was handed over by the other party, Bai Zhi took a breath and took the photo and the map.
"What do you think? If you don't seek death, you won't die. There are many scary things in other storage facilities similar to [Kaitan Cemetery]."
Raising his head to look at the sky, the tombkeeper spoke leisurely.
"Put away that photo for me. If you have the opportunity, help me go see my daughter, but don't disturb her peaceful life. Take a photo of her from a distance, and then Just burn the photo with it for me."
"... If I had the chance, I would do it."
Looking at the hole that had spread to his chest, Bai Zhi nodded as he put away the old yellowed photo in his hand along with the worn map.
"Okay, let's do that. I haven't communicated with anyone else for 20 years, and I almost forgot how to speak. Being able to meet you before disappearing can be regarded as fulfilling my wish."
As if he had let go of any worries, he reached out and patted his clothes, and the old man stood up from the ground with some difficulty.
"Looking at you, I think you are a good match. After all, you are only slightly less handsome than I was when I was young. It's a pity that all my things have been left in the inheritance. Otherwise, I could still give you a few epic-level items. There are props or equipment... have you chosen? Which one do you want to choose?"
"Let's do this."
Bai Zhi shook his head slightly, and relied on his memory to point to the grave of [Yueyue Yingxue and Gloomy Clouds Dispersing].
"As for my sister, it should be easier to deceive."
"this one?"
Following the direction of Bai Zhi's finger, the old man turned his head and looked at the tombstone beside him.
"Okay, put your hand on her picture, and then I will send you there, but it's up to you whether you can come out of it... By the way, you have to remember the original body, you puppet There's no way a stand-in can get into it."
"I have changed to my original body."
Bai Zhi sighed in his mouth.
"Yeah?"
After hearing Bai Zhi's words, the tombkeeper was slightly stunned for a moment, and then shook his head.
"A skill that can be exchanged with the real puppet... Although the practicality of this skill is good, you have to remember that this thing is not omnipotent. Remember to be careful in the future and pay more attention to your own reason and spirit. It is a bit scary. Things, but just eye contact will cause the spirit to be polluted and the sanity to decline... After staying here for such a long time, your current sanity value should have dropped partially, right?"
"Hmm... Indeed, the sanity value has indeed dropped a bit."
Bai Zhi silently opened his attribute bar and glanced at the question marks behind his sanity value, then nodded.
"The harm of something like that also includes the threat to sanity, right?"
"After you break through level 25, build your own core talent structure, and obtain a system rating, most of the strange stories you come into contact with will be related to your sanity."
He wasn't in a hurry, the tombkeeper explained it patiently.
"Reason is always the most important attribute. Remember not to stay in it for too long, and never let your desires get out of control. This is my advice to you."
"By the way, I have another question."
Putting his hand on the photo on the tombstone, Bai Zhi turned his head and looked at the other person.
"What's your name?"
"name?"
There seemed to be a hint of nostalgia in his words, and the tombkeeper laughed and patted Bai Zhi's shoulder with his hand.
"Sorry, I've forgotten this kind of thing a long time ago."
Following his movements, Bai Zhi's figure instantly turned into a white light and disappeared.
After Bai Zhi left, the old man hunched over and began to cough violently. After leaning against the tombstone with one hand and relaxing for a moment, he turned around and walked slowly in the direction he came from. .
A few minutes later, the old man returned to the small wooden house. After he returned to the house, the thick fog that enveloped the entire cemetery quickly dissipated.
After struggling to move to the bed and sitting down on the bed, the old man turned his head and saw outside the cemetery.
As time went by, more and more parts of him were swallowed up by his own desires. Coupled with the mutated influence of the puzzle card itself, the originally quiet cemetery began to experience new changes.
Not far from where the old man was looking, a grave mound began to shake slightly, as if something buried in the tomb was about to break through the barrier between the coffin and the soil and climb to the ground again. Same.
With a gentle sigh in his mouth, the helpless old man lay down on the bed.
"As long as this promotion can be successful and our world has its own mythical creation, then our sacrifices will have value... You think so too, right? For our daughter... "
—Muttered whispers came vaguely from the wooden house.
Volume 1 The Gap between Virtuality and Reality: Chapter 831 Chapter 821 Her Desire (5k)
It's hard to describe that feeling with words. When the other party's hand patted his shoulder, Bai Zhi felt that the surrounding scene changed instantly, and he was falling rapidly in the darkness.
Before he had time to check the changes in the surrounding scene, he ran into a colorful bubble that was emitting light, and his whole body was instantly wrapped in the bubble.
Then, lying on the hospital bed, he opened his eyes.
"… Hospital?"
Frowning slightly and subconsciously pressing his forehead with his hand, Bai Zhi sat up from the hospital bed.
The place he was in now was in a separate ward of a hospital. The sky was at dusk in the afternoon, and the setting sun lazily shone in from the window, bathing the entire ward in a golden color.
"Sure enough, all equipment skills cannot be used, the backpack cannot be opened, and all those attributes are gone... Is this still there?"
After spending a little time to sort out his current situation, Bai Zhi slightly raised his eyebrows.
Just as the tombkeeper said, when he entered this realm of desire, everything was blocked, including equipment, props, skills, backpacks... and even enhanced attributes.
Now he is not much different from ordinary people.
-But here, there is one exception.
After getting rid of those enhanced attributes, his three main attributes of strength, agility, and constitution are still at full value of 15 points.
"If you think about it from this aspect, the bonus of three hundred points and one attribute is simply extremely cheap, and the price/performance ratio is extremely high..."
Bai Zhi nodded thoughtfully, and after squinting his eyes slightly at the sunset outside the window, Bai Zhi began to search for other things in the ward.
This is the realm of desire in [The moon reflects the snow and the clouds disperse]. Although he doesn’t know what the other party’s desire is, judging from the layout of the scene and the overall world situation, he may be able to get some clues.
Of course, the main task so far is to first figure out the origin of his identity.
After all, for this so-called realm of desire, I should be an outsider, but I was automatically assigned an identity here. God knows what happened.
... Or maybe I was treated as an NPC by default
It took about three to four minutes in total. Bai Zhi searched carefully around the ward, and as expected... found nothing.
The entire ward could be said to be quite clean. Apart from the blue and white hospital gown he was wearing and the slippers placed in front of the bed, nothing else could be found.
So in the end, Bai Zhi simply came to the window and cast his sights on the world outside the window.
The sun was setting, and the floor of the hospital where he was now seemed to be on the 17th floor. If he looked far away, he could clearly see a patch of golden scales reflected in the afterglow of the setting sun. A sea of light.
Near the hospital is a bustling street. Probably because it was off-duty time, the road was busy with cars and people. Under the reflection of the setting sun, it formed a perfect picture of laziness.
"this place… "
Looking at the scenes he saw in front of him, Bai Zhi's expression couldn't help but look extremely strange.
Although in the real world, he did not have the opportunity to stand on a high-rise building and overlook the entire city like he does now, he still remembered some of the landmark buildings in Binhai City.
That's right, the scene of the outside world he was seeing was exactly what Binhai City was like in the real world.
If he hadn't still kept all his previous memories intact, he almost thought he had followed him back to Binhai City in the real world.
"Well... I remember the villa seems to be in that place..."
While thinking this in his mind, Bai Zhi looked towards the seaside.
If the outside world really replicated the situation in Binhai City, then in theory, he could find the beachside villa where he, Qingyi and the others lived.
It's just a pity that without the blessing of [Pluto]'s eagle eye vision, he couldn't see too far away at all, and he could only vaguely find the approximate location of the villa.
"It's interesting... [The moon reflects the snow and the clouds disperse]. Is your desire to live in such a peaceful world?"
After closing the window again, Bai Zhi returned to his hospital bed and sat down against the edge of the bed.
[The moon reflects the snow and the clouds disperse], [A smile does not stain the cheeks but the cheeks are ashamed], these twin sisters from a different world were born in the world of Tombstone Apartments.
Compared with the world of puzzle cards that he didn't know much about yet, Bai Zhi was undoubtedly more familiar with the world of Tombstone Apartments.
It was a desperate world where the entire world was basically dominated by the ubiquitous ghost stories, and most of the human beings were trapped in apartments by the ghost stories.
In that world, the only remaining players hid underground to survive, living in panic, while Kaitan acted recklessly on the ground and dominated the world.
Probably because he was born in that kind of almost desperate world, after coming to their world and seeing all kinds of things in their world, the other person would have the desire to live in this kind of peace, where he could freely enjoy the sunshine and Desire in the world of rain and dew, right
But the question is...how can I find the other person
Thinking of this, Bai Zhi couldn't help but frown slightly.
As a coastal city, Binhai City covers a large area and has a permanent population of several million. Finding one person...or two people among these millions is no less difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.
As for why there are two, Bai Zhi doesn't think that in his desires, Ye Yue Ying Xue Yin Yun San will leave out his sister.
If I still have those equipment and skills, I can think of a way to do it, but apart from being physically stronger than most people, I am just an ordinary person.
As an ordinary person, how can I find them here
"This thing is simply outrageous... It's impossible to print hundreds of missing persons notices and then paste them everywhere, right?"
Bai Zhi reached out and rubbed his hair vigorously.
If this was really Binhai City, it would be okay. Even if he couldn't use his equipment or skills, he could still go to the relevant departments to ask Zhuge Yun for help.
But in this illusory world generated by [Yeyue Yingxue and Clouds Dispersing]'s own desires, Bai Zhi couldn't hope to find those people in it.
"Take a step and see. There should be no weird stories here. This should be just a peaceful world. After all, the realm of desire is generated based on personal desires... "
Walking to the toilet in the ward, Bai Zhi turned on the faucet and washed his face with cold water.
"The top priority is to first figure out your specific identity here. Whether it's a sidekick running the plot or an irrelevant NPC, you have to figure it out first, and then find a temporary place to stay, and then go to... huh?"
Just as Bai Zhi was wiping his face with a towel, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something in the corner of his eye and couldn't help being stunned.
Bai Zhi put down the towel in his hand again and looked at the mirror in front of him with squinted eyes.
After staring at the mirror in front of him for more than ten seconds, Bai Zhi crossed his hands and nodded with a look of deep approval.
"Sure enough, I'm still so handsome."
Mirror:"… …"
After wiping his wet hands with a towel and combing his hair with a comb, Bai Zhi turned around and walked out of the toilet.
When the bathroom door was closed behind him, Bai Zhi's original expression suddenly darkened slightly.
He didn't know if it was an illusion, but just when he was wiping his face with a towel, he accidentally saw that his movements in the mirror were a beat slower than his own.
... There shouldn't really be any scammer who has set up a world where weird stories exist in his own desires, right
Wait, speaking of which, this is not impossible...
Suddenly something came to mind, and the corners of Bai Zhi's eyes twitched slightly.
Although in this so-called Realm of Desire, the player's memory will be sealed, and the equipment, props, and skill backpacks cannot be used or opened, but if the player's desire is to become the strongest player or to save someone from being eroded by ghost stories, What about this kind of world
Sure enough, as the tombkeeper said, casually entering into the realm of other people's desires is a very dangerous thing...
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Under the premise that there were suspected strange rumors in the toilet of the ward, Bai Zhi naturally would not choose to stay in the ward.