Almost from the beginning of the copy, all the actors knew that there were many tarot cards hidden in the movie. Except for the fifty-six little arcana cards, Xie Chi kept thinking about how many tarot cards there were in the movie.
This number expands as the tarot cards appear.
By the time the hermit mentioned the devil card, fifteen major arcana cards had appeared in the dungeon, namely nine player identity cards, one hermit card responsible for helping the player, the tower responsible for helping the witch, the god of death, and three cards of the devil. , There are also two celestial cards.
As for the Major Arcana, there were only twenty-two cards in total, and the remaining cards became fewer and fewer as time went on—only seven.
Xie Chi had talked with Ren Ze and Ye Xiaoxiao about the classification of tarot cards before, and among the seven cards that did not appear, there happened to be four abstract cards that he had classified into one category: Chariot, Strength, Justice, Temperance, and Celestial Sun. Cards mean more complex judgment cards and world cards.
If you are bold and set the answer to "how many tarot cards are there in the movie" as twenty-one, or even twenty-two, that is, all major arcanas exist, then everything has an answer.
The remaining seven tarot cards are all present, but still hidden in the copy.
It just so happened that there were four grooves on the stone gate. The moment the number four appeared, Xie Chi had a vague feeling in his heart.
As time went on, this premonition grew stronger.
The witch who chooses to be reincarnated uses the tower card, death card, and devil card. The goal is to collect sacrifices. The player already knows that the help is a hermit, so the player should also have a game goal.
Finding four hidden abstract-quality tarot cards and opening the stone gate seemed to close the game goal that had not been found by the player.
If the witch achieves the game goal and kills the sacrifice, she will win the game and be reincarnated. By analogy, the player will find the four cards of chariot, strength, justice, and moderation, open the stone gate, and succeed in the final trial. Reach consummation and find the so-called world card.
The world card means a complete, successful and perfect ending.
This is a complete game, all the rules of the game hidden under the water.
It just so happened that the choice of reincarnation represented evil, killing, sin, and selfishness. This is the road to death, which is harmful to others and selfish, and stands on the back of the justice card. Therefore, this road has been favored by the three negative cards of the tower, the devil, and the god of death.
With killing to prove the Tao, the life of this road is built on the death of other players. The one who succeeds will replace the witch and become a new Tarot wizard. He will get rid of the identity of the living dead, have a new life, regain his role as an actor, and leave here smoothly.
But this road is dark and narrow, and there is only one person who can lead to victory in the end, because in the Tarot reincarnation method, there can only be one person who successfully reincarnates in the end.
During the trial, the other actors will all be petri dishes for the source of his reincarnation energy.
The other path is a path full of vitality, it is possible to achieve a win-win situation, as long as those who voluntarily die have four qualities at the same time.
The will and strength represented by the chariot card are the easiest to find, while the justice card requires the actor to give up the reincarnation at his fingertips, and the most difficult card is the temperance card, which requires the actor to explore the truth beneath the calm surface and see death.
Because only one person can walk the road of life, it requires one person to have the qualities represented by four cards at the same time, and the extra players who become living dead will have no way to go, and can only choose the reincarnation that many people can walk. And that road is too narrow, only one person is destined to win, and the player who loses will stay in the copy forever after the game is over.
Because he lost his actor status and did not successfully reincarnate to regain his status.
And although Ye Xiaoxiao is "dead" now, he died as an actor. As long as he wins the trial, Ye Xiaoxiao will be reborn as an actor.
This is what the restraint card wants to convey—because restraint and restraint are given up in a timely manner, but instead a win-win situation has been achieved.
The road to life, there is a slight possibility... All the actors are safe from the game, as long as they do not all enter the state of the living dead.
Fighting and pushing and shoving will lead people to a narrow dead end, while sacrifice and trust will lead people to a spacious life.
This is the ultimate theme for this copy of the Tarot game.
Not only are some players reborn and enter the state of the living dead after being left to die, but some players voluntarily give up the seemingly comfortable and invincible state of the living dead, take the initiative to enter the "death state", and send themselves directly to the trial area , the real "death place".
Death and life are never separated, they are interchangeable.
Most of the Xiangsheng people died of selfishness, and the strongest among them reached the peak of loneliness and lost everything except victory.
Those who are dying live because of sacrifice, and truly achieve the perfection that the world card wants to express.
And Xie Chi believed that the coffin behind the stone gate was the judgement area of the game, because there were many black coffins on the face of the judgement card. The sky in the judgement card was vast, and the judgement angel hung in the sky with huge wings. , the sins of all people will have nothing to hide before it.
At that time, the path that each person chooses will lead them to a very different ending.
Xie Xinglan also figured it out, and immediately said: "Go, go back to the secret way."
If he had restraint, he should now be able to urge the four grooves to open the stone gate. Jiang Shuo is powerful and kills very fast, leaving them with not much time.
Xie Chi was stunned, and responded a little late.
"What's wrong?" Xie Xinglan was keenly aware of Xie Chi's strangeness and asked warmly.
Xie Chi pursed his lips: "Brother, I think I missed something, open the stone gate, and then, it's over...?"
Xie Chi's eyes showed a trace of daze, he subconsciously felt that the copy was not complete enough, after opening the stone gate? What should he do? In a coffin? Communicating with yourself in a state of death
He knew nothing about it.
Xie Chi said decisively: "Let's go back to the secret passage first."
"it is good."
Xie Xinglan went to the secret passage as fast as possible.
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[? ? ? Can't help you? ? ? ]
[Too bad character, obviously capable... emmm]
[so disappointed]
[Alas, Ye Xiaoxiao is also unkind to others. Although he knows that Xie Chi is selfish, he is really heartbroken when he sees him doing this]
[Saving Ye Xiaoxiao is also a drag, you bring it into Xie Chi, understandable]
[How to wash Xie Chi powder now? Hehe, every day I say that the actor's character is biss, where is your family? ]
[Hi, the actor found Liang Zhen... Liang Zhen is finished]
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As soon as he returned to the beautiful maid's room, Xie Chi heard the screams of Liang Zhen on the promenade.
His heart sank.
The fourth one, in just a few minutes, Jiang Shuo had killed Ye Xiaoxiao and Liang Zhen in succession, offering two sacrifices to heaven and earth, and his progress was even on par with the witch.
According to the order of death, the fifth sacrifice is Jiang Shuo, because he has committed suicide and became a living dead, so the order of death automatically skips to the next one. In the current copy, there are only four "alive" actors left - Ren Ze, the couple plus Gu Yu.
Xie Chi pursed his lips. According to Jiang Shuo's current speed, in twenty minutes at most, there will be no living people in the copy.
What's more, Jiang Shuo wasn't killing alone, and there were witches.
And with the app's urgency, after Jiang Shuo killed all the sacrifices, it should be when the dungeon accelerated time jumped, and it wasn't entirely impossible for the progress to jump directly to the last night.
twenty minutes.
Xie Xinglan kicked off the plank and got into the secret passage again. The witch was busy competing with Jiang Shuo to snatch and kill sacrifices, so she definitely didn't have time to keep secrets. After all, Jiang Shuo was the biggest danger in front of him at the moment. Compared with this, keeping secrets was insignificant.
Jiang Shuo's behavior actually helped himself.
Xie Xinglan looked at the watch, galloped all the way, and came to Shimen again. He pressed his hand from the first groove to the third groove as he did last time.
Shimen's tremors became more and more intense.
Pressing the fourth groove, Xie Chi felt a little nervous while waiting.
There was a sudden scorching pain in his hand, and at the same time, Shimen began to tremble, the entire secret room began to tremble, the gravel rolled down, and the blood was surging in the thin blood pool.
Xu Shi sensed the efforts being made by people outside Shimen. Inside Shimen, the sound of "tuktuktuk" knocking on the coffin board became louder and louder, as if encouraging, urging, and responding to secret signals.
On the stone gate, the blood coagulated and melted, and then a strange and beautiful white flower bloomed on the blood.
Disappointingly, the stone gate was not opened.
It stopped fluttering, implying a failure.
"Sure enough..."
When he saw the result, Xie Chi's bewilderment disappeared.
They had successfully found the temperance represented by the last groove, but the door did not open to them there.
Something is missing.
It matched his feeling.
Xie Xinglan tried to knock on the door, but there was no movement at all. The sound of "Tuk Tuk" in Shimen is getting faster and more complex, suggesting that more and more actors have died and more and more actors have entered a state of death.
They probably also realized that the dungeon was approaching the end, and were urging him to move forward.
Xie Chi glanced at his watch, and another five minutes passed.
He listened carefully. There were six different knocks on the coffin. In the order of death, Jiang Shuo was fifth, Ren Ze was sixth, and there were six knocks, so Ren Ze was also killed by Jiang Shuo.
With only the last three left, it would be easy for Jiang Shuo to kill the last Gu Yu, because Gu Yu was defenseless and completely held in Jiang Shuo's hands.
It was only the couple left.
Xie Chi remained calm. Along the way, he has encountered many encounters, and nothing can make him lose control of his emotions.
He wandered around in the secret room, but found nothing. When he turned around, his eyes fell on the strange white flower that bloomed on the blood.
Xie Chi was stunned, his heart moved slightly, strode to the white flower, lowered his head to touch, and sniffed again.
There are thorns on the green rhizomes of the white flowers, the fragrance is fragrant and elegant, and it looks like a rose, a white rose.
White roses blooming on the stench of blood.
Xie Chi remembered that among the twenty-two major arcana cards, the first card, the Fool's Card, was a young man in colorful clothes. In front of him was the abyss, but he swaggered and turned a blind eye. Walking forward, ignorant, fearless, and wise as ignorant.
The Fool card represents risk-taking, prudence, intuition, ignorance and enthusiasm, courage and purity.
In the fool's left hand, he held a white rose.
This white rose represents the purity and fiery passion of the fool's heart.
After collecting all four tarot cards, such a meaningful white rose appeared to continue to guide him.
Is it trying to imply the Fool's card Liang Wen
Xie Chi frowned slightly.
wrong.
He couldn't think of the connection between the fool Liang Wen and White Rose, and Liang Wen was dead.
Could it be that there are secrets on Liang Wen's body
But why use the white rose to imply? Wouldn't it be better to just use Fool
The first four collections are all tarot cards with positive meanings. According to the previous idea, the white rose should also be referred to. Liang Wen's body cannot be linked to these.
and many more-
Xie Chi's heart suddenly trembled.
The white rose in the Fool's card represents the purity of the heart, perhaps... the heart.
And the Fool is the first of the twenty-two Major Arcana cards, which can represent... the beginning, the beginning of everything.
Xie Chi's expression changed suddenly, and his hands trembled.
He closed his eyes tightly, and went through everything that had happened since the beginning of the copy in his mind. When he opened his eyes again, he was filled with deep horror.
There was one point, because he couldn't find a correspondence for a long time, and he subconsciously ignored it for a long time - not long after the dungeon started, they were introduced to the castle, and they saw the servants pick out strange rotten meat from the golden bottle to feed the crows.
Xie Chi stared at his hand for a while, then slowly covered his heart with his hand.
There was thumping, smooth and rhythmic, real and warm.
Xie Chi smiled slowly, with helplessness and relief in his smile.
I see.
White Rose hinted him to go back to the beginning and think about the problem.
At the very beginning of the dungeon, it was not entering the castle, meeting the maid in black who led the way, nor discovering purple lobsters and ibis hair.
Rather... Wake up, wake up in the Black Forest.
This is the beginning of the copy - a group of actors wake up one after another in the black forest.
Xie Chi remembered very clearly that he had participated in so many dungeons, and he had never woken up dizzy once.
Only this time, when they woke up, they found themselves lying on the ground unknowingly.
Before seeing the white rose, he only regarded it as a requirement of the dungeon storyline and did not think deeply.
But now, an extremely important question has formed in his mind - at which time node did this Tarot game start
It was the maid who explained the rules of the game, or the crow dancing, or the maid in black who swallowed the key earlier. Could it be earlier
Could it be... From the moment they woke up, the game had started silently.
Could it be that the game started before they woke up
Xie Chi remembered very clearly that when the maid explained the rules of the game, what she said was not "the game will start after the introduction", but "the game has already started, and now I will introduce the rules of the game". Already... started.
And why they woke up from a coma is the crux of all problems.
"Brother, dig open the left chest." Xie Chi said calmly.
He is now a living dead person, immortal and immortal, and if he opens his chest, it will not really happen.
He needs verification.
Xie Xinglan understood, found a sharpened bone from the side, and cut open the position of his heart.
The severe pain hit his brain, Xie Xinglan gritted his teeth, his hands were dripping with blood, and he felt dizzy for a while. He stuffed his uncontrollably shaking hands into his left chest and groped inside for a while.
His expression completely changed.
The position of his chest and heart was empty.
That real and reassuring heartbeat was nothing but an illusion.
His heart has long been lost.
All the players are actually people without hearts, without the pure heart symbolized by the white rose.
So he couldn't open the stone gate because his pure and enthusiastic heart was lost at the very beginning.
Pure white roses, blooming on rotting and stinking blood.
Xie Chi closed his eyes, quickly recalling everything that happened from the beginning of the copy to the present, and when he opened his eyes again, his eyes were unprecedentedly clear: "Brother, the actor's lost heart is in the body of his corresponding crow, so they can Temporarily become human, because under the rules of the game, they temporarily steal the actor's heart."
Xie Chi recalled that the moment he opened his eyes in the black forest, he saw not only eight stars in the sky, but also... a crow on the treetops.
This is the beginning. There are only stars and crows around. The stars represent the celestial phenomena, and the crows represent the heart thief.
When he knew nothing, his heart was already beating in the crow's chest.
"The rotting, stomata flesh that crows eat is their own heart."
Xie Chi remembered very clearly that when the servants fed the crows, a crow was only allowed to eat the meat in a small golden bottle. If a crow wanted to eat the meat in another golden bottle, the servants would sternly banish it and whip it.
In each small golden bottle, there is a crow, that is, the lost heart of the former player.
In the wash of time, they have already rotted and exuded a stench.
The previous players did not successfully find their lost hearts, and could only eat their own rotten hearts at the beginning of the next game, and degenerate into the witch's servant lackey eyeliner.
The rotting flesh is a symbol of their failure and eternal depravity.
The new players are the successors of the previous players, and their hearts are in the crow's body.
If they fail, their already rotten hearts will be fed to themselves at the start of the next game.
Because that is already useless.
The premise of getting everything back is to get back your heart. After all, all the actors came to participate in this evil game because of the temptation of money.
This is the most important thing to open Shimengai.
He has to find the corresponding crow, dig out the actor's heart in the crow's chest, open the stone door, and put the found heart into the actor's chest in the coffin behind the stone door, so that he can let those people live again during the trial.
Xie Xinglan also figured out the cause and effect.
Xie Chi immediately said, "Brother, let's find my heart, Ye Xiaoxiao's, and Ren Ze's heart."