After Annan held the glass bottle containing "Angelo", he really entered the cg.
But the cutscene this time is very different from the time when I entered the basement and saw "Angelo"—
In the normal process, Amos should be stroking his grandson's jar while panting heavily, muttering nervously and nervously: "This is it... as long as There is this…”
Then he looked back and saw that Brother Sledgehammer was about to walk up to his face, so he yelled "Ai Lei, save me", and then started to line up with his father-in-law, and fell into a powerless rage after losing a mess. Even his grandson chose its pro-grandfather.
—After that, Joseph suddenly became a senior.
For some reason, Joseph's head was bitten off by Angelo who had turned into a ball of colored light. Immediately after the cg ended, the player was powerless and began to wait for death.
There is no doubt that there is a lack of key items that lead to entering be.
But this is undoubtedly a prelude.
Because after arriving at this ending for the first time, you can learn the key information about "Brother Sledgehammer", "Amos" and "Ai Lei", and clarify the relationship between them.
But after Annan entered CG this time... he saw scenes he had never seen before and heard dialogues he had never heard before:
"... Are you satisfied?"
Like a downcast wild dog, the one-eyed painter covered in blood snarled at the stillborn baby in the bottle: "Is it ready?!
"—Skeleton Lord!"
As Amos' voice fell.
In the frozen basement, the corpses covered with a layer of hoarfrost simultaneously uttered low-pitched laughter:
"Hehehehe..."
In front of Amos, the long-dead "Angelo" suddenly opened his eyes!
The eyes that had long lost their color of life turned around strangely, and then looked at Amos in an instant.
"Naturally..."
The bone bone man's extremely deep voice sounded in the jar.
Immediately afterwards, Ai Lei's crisp voice came from behind Amos: "It's not enough."
Amos suddenly woke up and turned around.
He covered his gouged out left eye, and let out a miserable howl—
His eye sockets burned with fire.
In front of him, the image of Ai Lei was clearly projected.
It was a vaguely teenage girl with blond hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a white dress that only covered half of her thighs, with her arms hidden behind her, and she looked at her adoptive father, lover, idol and her murderer Amos with a smile.
However, her left eye was a bloody hole.
The blood didn't flow down, but boiled uncomfortably in his eyes.
That doesn't look like blood.
More like lava... or frozen fire.
…After losing the left eye from Ai Lei, can Amos see the spirit of love
Annan thought quickly.
he remembered...
The first time I saw Alley's portrait... her left eye was burning with a fresh, expanding burn.
At this time, Joseph who was standing in the basement also hissed.
He obviously saw it too—Ai Lei's spirit body.
As a silver-rank wizard, it is not difficult for him to see the spirit bodies of ordinary people.
But after seeing Alley, he hesitated instead. Hesitating, not sure if I should come down...
"Ailey..."
Fascinated, Amos murmured, "My love..."
He slowly reached out to Ellie...
Snapped!
But his outstretched hand was slapped away by Ai Lei's spirit body.
"-your love?"
The smile on the corner of her mouth became more harmless and cute, but there was a sarcastic voice in her mouth: "My dream, your career, which one is more important
"Did I ever ask that, fathers...?"
When Alley said this, Amos and Joseph seemed to tremble at the same time and held their breath.
Annan, who was on the sidelines, finally realized what—
Amos and Joseph... What do they have in common, the two entangled in this nightmare, fighting each other endlessly
—They are both Ellie's father.
— and they all ditched Ellie for their own careers.
Joseph let his ex-wife, his apprentice and his daughter remarry... He knew that his wife was a cannibal black widow believer, but he didn't ask for the custody of Ai Lei.
Because he has his job, he has his career.
And he knew it well... The reason why Ai Lei's mother gave birth to Ai Lei despite Joseph's stop was because she planned to use this child to blackmail her mentor, in order to get more benefits from Joseph, in order to turn herself into a child. tied to him.
The "Black Widow" she believes in is a false god who specializes in this way.
Joseph knew all this, but he chose to refuse.
—He naturally loves Ellie, but he loves his life more.
That's why he, Joseph, gave up Ai Lei for his own career and extraordinary path...but when he came to Ai Lei's side, he cared about his own reputation, worried that Ai Lei would speak bad words to him, and so on. Don't dare to recognize each other, or even reveal your own existence.
Unlike his resoluteness when he divorced, Joseph, who was hesitant when facing his daughter, had nothing to do with the tragedy itself...but it was an indispensable "prelude".
He could have stopped all this in time.
Because when he came to Freezingwater, Amos didn't even perform the first ceremony.
This will make him regret for life, but he has no room for repentance.
And Amos, the second father of Ai Lei, who is also her lover, took Ai Lei as a "possible victim" and initiated a deal with the skeleton...in exchange for his depleted, no longer Ability to grow.
Although on the surface, this ceremony will only sacrifice a small part of Ai Lei.
But he is not stupid.
He would agree to the ceremony, but he was afraid of the ceremony itself... because he had subconsciously thought of the possibility of the future.
But he still decided to hold the ceremony.
Because he has his pursuit.
Of course he loves Ellie too, even more than he loves himself.
—but he loves art more and loves his talent more.
"So... the peculiar nature of this nightmare is 're-enactment.'"
Annan suddenly realized.
It is precisely because of this that this nightmare has attracted the skeleton man for decades, making him stay in the frozen water port, reluctant to leave.
… because at the end of the day, it’s a “repeated betrayal.”
This nightmare itself is a ritual!
Every time a nightmare is cleared, it represents a repeated betrayal.
Everyone obviously has no memory, but they are walking on the same path and repeating the same tragedy... because after they entered the nightmare, they subconsciously brought themselves into Amos.
Therefore, every time this nightmare is repeated, the bones will be strengthened by one point.
And if all of this is to happen...
I don't know when, the process cg has ended.
Annan felt that his body could be controlled again.
He looked at Ai Lei's spirit body with a complex expression, and said in a low voice: "If I'm not wrong...
"Miss Alley," Annan deliberately did not use any of her surnames to address her, "you should keep... all the memories of these five hundred nightmares, right?"
"One thousand eight hundred and thirty-four."
Ai Lei said softly: "Whether you win or lose, I'm watching... I've been watching."
And behind Annan, "Angelo" with the voice of a skeleton man also smiled.
"Yes, she's been watching. Through her left eye, all of this."
"Angelo" in the bottle whispered in an extremely mature and deep voice: "And I have been listening. Through this umbilical cord... listening to her crying, her heartbeat, her collapse, her whispers, her her hatred, her pain, her love, her song.
"—yes, I'm listening.
"Of course I've been listening."