I Became a God in a Horror Game: 261, Ice Age (day +142)

The helicopter staggered across the long white snow field, and had to make an emergency landing twice due to strong winds.

By the time Tang Er arrived at the Edmond Observatory with a group of people, it was almost the morning of the third day.

The helicopter landed 5 kilometers away from the Edmond Observatory.

Now the wind and snow have stopped. From a distance, the Edmund Observatory is covered by thick snow, but the strange thing is that the snow on the field at the door has been cleared. An open space below was exposed, and the door was also half-hidden open.

Tang Er knew something was wrong when he saw the situation: "Someone is inside."

"Grass!" Mu Sicheng rubbed his arms, his face darkened, "Could it be that our replicas are still inside?"

Bai Liu squatted in front of the trapdoor opening in the basement next to the helicopter hangar.

A pungent smell of cold ash and acid corrodes pours from the trapdoor in the basement.

The snow on the trapdoor was also cleared, and it was wide open. The two barrels of gasoline placed in front of Bailiu's door next to the door were gone. On the contrary, the inside of the basement was pitch black, and there was still some heat coming out. Chung.

From Bailiu's point of view, the walls are covered with coal ash left over from the incomplete combustion of fuel oil, and the steps are still dripping with liquid and snow water. It didn't take long after burning, and I haven't had time to freeze it.

Liu Jiayi also noticed the abnormality here, she squatted next to Bai Liu: "It seems that after we left, the group of clones burned the monsters in the basement, and poured strong acid to corrode them."

But as she spoke, her eyes swept over the layer of liquid on the basement floor, and she frowned puzzledly: "But before I left, I settled with Mu Ke, and Edmund observed The supplies at the station, I remember that there is no such a large reserve of acid here."

Chemical reagents such as strong acid are scarce resources even in scientific research stations. Liu Jiayi basically emptied the acid solution in Edmond Observation Station before leaving.

Even so, she still needs to use it carefully and plan carefully to barely deal with those monsters and escape smoothly.

Liu Jiayi got down on her stomach and took out a piece of metal to catch two drops of acid dripping from the steps.

The metal surface was quickly corroded, and gas was bubbling out. She frowned: "This person is pouring acid into the basement in buckets. How could he be so acidic?"

The person who cleaned up the basement used strong acid randomly, spreading it everywhere on the walls and steps, which seemed extravagant and wasteful. Cherish awareness.

"Then there is only one possibility." Bai Liu's eyes fell on the slowly freezing acid.

Liu Jiayi reacted abruptly: "Someone who played this game brought acid here—Spades are here?!"

At this time, Mu Sicheng's exclamation came from the second floor of the observation station: "Grass!! What's going on?!"

Bai Liu and Liu Jiayi looked at each other, and they took out their weapons and walked towards the door.

When they entered the observation station and went up to the second floor, Liu Jiayi dragged her gun and walked in front of Bai Liu vigilantly: "What's wrong?"

Mu Sicheng came back, his face was blue and white, and he shook his fingers to look at the dining room, his voice was also trembling, as if he was very frightened: "...you, yourself Let's see..."

Bai Liuyue and Mu Sicheng looked at the restaurant behind him, then raised his eyebrows slightly.

He understood why Mu Sicheng had such an expression.

The seats in the restaurant were roughly kicked away, and the broken tables, chairs and benches were scattered and piled up at the four corners of the room, leaving a large space in the middle of the restaurant.

In this open space, something smashed out a hole with an outline similar to a square.

The hole directly penetrates the floor of the second floor, and the scene of the first floor can be seen through the hole on the ground of the restaurant on the second floor.

On the edge of the hole, there is a circle of **** handprints left by people struggling hard, densely covered on the floor - it can be seen that a group of people once huddled around the edge of the hole, trying to climb up.

On the first floor, directly opposite the hole, there is a huge glass water tank, which seems to have been moved down from the roof, and now it is filled with thick acid that is so viscous that it can hardly flow. The reaction was bubbling and bubbling.

And this glass tank, like throwing garbage, is full of all kinds of carbonized, coked, and fragmented "corpses".

Most of these corpses have not yet fully reacted, and they are wriggling **** and **** in the concentrated acid. Strange, corroded bubbles are constantly emitting from the flesh, and "their" palms are constantly slapping on the strong acid pool , From time to time shake off half of the eyeballs that have been dissolved.

What made Mu Sicheng scream was the appearance of these corpses.

The people who handled these corpses were a little rough and didn't care too much. Quite a part of the faces of the corpses were still not completely burnt by the fuel, and the appearance of "them" could be clearly seen.

——These corpses covered the faces of Bai Liu, Mu Sicheng, Tang Erda, Liu Jiayi, and Mu Ke.

Such a group of scorched corpses with their own faces struggling so painfully in the viscous thick acid, the skin, muscles, and bones were eroded by the acid.

Even if you know that these group of things are not human beings, but monsters, you can't help but feel the creepiness with empathy.

Mu Sicheng took two steps back, distanced himself from the blood-stained hole, swallowed nervously, and said in a very hoarse voice: "...someone turned the group of Edmunds into our monsters Kill them all."

"And the speed is very fast." Tang Erda squatted halfway on the edge of the hole, touched the remaining blood stains with his two fingers, raised his face and added solemnly, "The blood is not completely coagulated."

Bai Liu's gaze shifted from those blood stains to Mu Ke's face: "I remember you said, these monsters that become us have skills?"

"Yes." Mu Ke also looked shocked, his pupils were in a slightly constricted state, and he was stunned for a second or two as if he couldn't think, before he began to answer Bai Liu's question, "Let's go I had a conflict with these monsters before, and was almost held hostage by them."

"But they are not as strong as us. I think it may be because they are immature, and their abilities feel only about one-half of ours." Lou, let out a slow breath.

"But there is not only one [us] standing here in Edmund, but a group of [us] are fighting."

"——He quickly controlled such a group of monsters whose abilities were roughly similar to ours in a short period of time, and even smashed the floor with a whip to create this acid pool, and threw the corpses in for disposal."

For the first time, Liu Jiayi's face was so ugly: "Spades' ability... is too strong, he is stronger than Qugou."

"We can't win him even in a team fight, what should we do next?" She looked up at Bai Liu asking for instructions.

Bai Liu squatted on one knee and one foot on the edge of the cave, staring at the [Bai Liu] who were gradually submerged and dissipated in the acid pool below for a while with an unclear expression.

After these scorched corpses with their own faces turned into bones, and then into bubble particles and some wreckage with no specific shape, Bai Liu stood up, and he withdrew his gaze. Turn around and look at others:

"Search the entire Observatory for why spades are here."

Half an hour later, a group of people gathered on the first floor again.

Muke, who is good at memorizing and searching maps, first reported his discovery:

"A lot of places have been searched. I should be looking for something, but the search is very simple. It doesn't look like I'm looking for textual information and small objects."

"So far, no spades have been found to take anything away, so what he is looking for should not be found yet."

"He didn't move the rifles/guns and bullets scattered on the fourth floor." Tang Erda added, "The situation is similar to when we left."

Sitting by the table, Bai Liu took out a piece of paper, summarized the information on the paper, and made a summary in a calm tone: "First of all, we can make sure that Spades repeatedly entered this game to find something, and This thing is very likely related to the main line of the game."

"Spades and I logged in at the Edmond Observation Station together at the beginning, but he didn't search here at that time, but left here and went outside. We can judge from this——At that time, Spades I don't think Edmond Observatory has what he's looking for."

Bai Liu paused on the paper with the pen tip: "But now he is back."

Liu Jiayi quickly realized why: "I couldn't find the spades outside, so I decided to go back to the Edmond Observatory to try my luck, but I happened to meet the clones we left here, so I killed them , I searched again, but I still couldn't find it, so I left."

Bai Liu's eyes are half closed, and the tip of the pen draws bit by bit like thinking: "The key to the problem now is, what exactly is Spade looking for when he repeatedly enters the game?"

"The main mission of this game is global warming. What Spade is looking for may be something related to global warming." According to the general design, as long as you hit the bottom boss, you can pass the level and reach [normalend].”

"I don't think with Spade's ability, he won't even reach [normal end] after entering the game so many times." Bai Liu denied.

The tip of his pen paused twice on the paper, and then he wrote the word [Corpse Part].

Bai Liu raised his eyes: "I think what Spade is looking for may be a particle meteorological device transformed from [corpse pieces], he should follow the [trueend] route, to eliminate the possibility of the world getting cold again from the root. ‌.”

"According to Edmund's business style, he probably put particle meteorological devices on those 600 locations where he feels that Antarctica affects the world's climate."

Mu Ke was puzzled: "But the 600 locations are all marked on the map. If you want to find spades, you can just follow the map to find them. There is no need to search for them at the Edmond Observatory——Ai There are no particle meteorological devices placed at the Demont Observatory.”

Bai Liu wrote down [600], [Experimental sample preservation] on the paper, and then put a question mark next to it.

He opened his eyelids and looked at Mu Ke: "That means what Spade is looking for is not the corpse inside the 600 particle installation, but the corpse outside the 600 particle installation. .”

Muke repeated Bai Liu's words lightly: "These 600 pieces of corpses outside the particle device..."

He seemed to realize something, opened his eyes slightly, and looked at Bai Liu: "It's Edmund who hasn't done the experiment yet, turning her into a particle device's corpse, right!"

"Edmund is an experienced scientific researcher." Bai Liu reminded lightly, "He will not consume all the experimental materials at once, and usually keep some of them as samples, which should be black What Tao is looking for."

"Look through the experiment report, among the body parts that Edmund obtained in the early stage, which one is untouched?"

Mu Ke quickly flipped through the pages in a low voice, his fingertips slid down one after another of the obscure report records, and finally fixed on a certain word.

"Found it!"

"In the early days, the three parts of the corpse obtained by Edmund included the left hand, the rear ankle, and a whole heart with preserved arteries and veins."

Muke raised his chin a little excitedly, and spoke quickly: "I can only find experimental records on the left hand and the rear ankle, but there is no experimental record on this heart——Edmond is very It may be that this heart was kept as a sample reserve!"

Bai Liu put on gloves and a hat, and pushed open the door: "This heart should be what Spade is looking for, and it is also the key to clear the [trueend] of this game, let's go."

The wind and snow covered Bai Liu's dark and deep eyes head-on, engulfing his calm voice in the dusk night and going away.

"——If we want to win the spades, we must find  before the spades destroy the heart."

The tide ebbs and flows along the ice-covered coast, and the brown soil and white snow on the ground inside are mottled and criss-crossed. There is an ancient log cabin on it.

This is a rather old-looking log cabin. The peeling paint on the door frames and floor rails has left spots like the skin of a leper on the exterior of the cabin, and the roof is piled on a crumbling, decaying load-bearing On the wall, it is fixed by wooden planks arranged horizontally.

In front of the door stands a tourist spot-like sign, with [Scott Cottage] written on it, and [built in 1912] written below.

This old wooden house, which was built a hundred years ago and is already a cultural relic, and used as a tourist attraction, is emitting a warm fire, as if someone is resting and warming the fire inside.

Follow the light of the fire falling on the snow and walk into the cabin. The fire is burning under the fireplace, and an old man with squinting eyes is sitting on the wooden bench next to him.

Wearing a pair of faded gold pendant glasses, he hummed an out-of-tune song softly, slapped his feet randomly, his hands, feet and back were bent so badly, he seemed to have suffered a lot .

The firelight shone on his old, wrinkled face, and shadows swayed on the wall.

Out of the dark shadows, Spade stepped out. He stood upright on the edge of the fire, holding a whip in his hand, and snow that had not yet melted hung on his eyelashes and hair tips.

Spades looked at the old man, and said in a clear and gentle voice: "Edmond."

The old man then slightly opened one eye to look around, he seemed a little helpless, and felt amused: "You are here again, young man, you seem to like coming to my place very much."

Edmund smiled kindly: "You killed me many times, just for that heart that you can never find?"

"Is that important to you?"

Spades opened his mouth, and answered irrelevantly: "You shouldn't remember that I killed you."

Edmund took off his glasses, looked at the spades, and smiled softly: "Because I'm just an evil npc in the game, every time this instance should be refreshed with your departure, and I Forget everything, eh?"

Spades point ‌.

Edmund smiled: "It may be that I lived too long and did too cruel things, so God refused to forgive me and let me remember everything I did - I do remember that you killed You are the most frequent person in this game, I almost want to be friends with you."

His eyes rested on the dripping whip of Spades for a moment in a mocking manner: "If you don't use the whip to strangle me as soon as you enter the game, it will be fine——Choose Mr. Cheng It is painful, if you let me choose the way of death, I prefer to be burned to death."

Spades agreed without thinking: "Yes."

Edmund then laughed loudly: "Son, I believe you really don't understand other people's jokes."

"Those teammates of yours have been hurting you all the time, right? That guy named [Adverse God Judge] was so distressed that he couldn't help but confide his troubles to an npc like me, saying that he didn't know what to take. How do you do it?"

Edmund looked at Spade jokingly: "He looks so hard that he's about to cry. It's really interesting and troublesome to have a friend like you."

Spades doesn't comment on others' definition of himself, he speaks and does things straight to the point: "This time you still don't want to tell me where your heart is?"

Edmund's eyes reflected fire. An old man like him should have a pair of cloudy eyes, but Edmund's eyes were still pure and flawless, as clean as 30,000 feet under the ice of Antarctica ‌The snow that fell in the past has a light blue color that is close to that of ice.

"No, my child." Edmund's expression became distant, he shook his head, "You can kill me again, but I will never tell you where I hid my heart. "

"That's my original sin, only God knows where it's hidden."

Spades pursed his lips into a straight line, he was obviously dissatisfied with the result, a kind of shallow depression emerged from the small movement of his nails on the whip.

Edmund looked at Spades, with a friendly smile that saw everything on his face: "This time you also found all my six hundred particle devices. I rarely see players who can find all of them without Frozen to death, you are amazing."

"But one device is invalid." Spade looked at Edmund, "The device under the ice dome a is not filled with corpse particles, so I can't gather all six hundred corpses."

"But you have already won this game, haven't you?" Edmund shook his head seriously, raised his finger and emphasized, "Your friend, Nishen told me that you only care about winning or losing. You've got what you want, why not let my secret remain a secret forever?"

Edmund looked at Spade, with a smile on his mouth, and the light blue eyes like shattered ice shone with the light of a yellow campfire: "Why are you so attached to a heart that doesn't belong to you? It's not romantic."

Spades paused for a moment—it seemed that he didn't know the exact answer to this question either.

"Intuition - I must destroy this heart and all the body parts."

Spades raised his eyes: "Everyone has their own established destiny, and I can see that the destiny of this heart is connected with mine, and it should be destroyed by me."

"Both ‌ and I shouldn't exist in this world."

The smile on Edmund's face gradually faded, and he muttered to himself: "You are destroying yourself, child..."

"Well." Spade replied calmly, and then asked, "What is the original sin you want to hide?"

Edmund didn't even have a smile on his face, he finally showed a bit of his old age.

He held his forehead and let out a sigh, unable to conceal his tiredness and trance: "My original sin is something that I didn't realize from the beginning to the end what I should do. Confession."

"I hate the things that persecute me, hate the students who betrayed me, and pity the friends I admire." Edmund took a deep, deep breath, and slowly exhaled it from the nasal cavity as if smoking a cigarette. Through the fire at my feet, I could see far away, "I didn't do one thing right, and I repent for it, but one thing made me understand that my ugliness is far more than that. "

Edmund's hands on the side of the chair trembled, he closed his eyes, tears fell into the furrow-like wrinkles, and his voice was hoarse and difficult: "—that's those corpses."

"That's not a corpse, it's a dismembered limb of a living creature. He has consciousness, feelings, and emotions. He knows what ugly things I'm doing to him."

Edmund opened his eyes, his clear eyes finally became cloudy at this moment, he choked up and said: "—and I only know what I have done when I see the beating heart."

"I'm killing a living person."

Edmund turned to look at Spade, he seemed to be old enough to die in an instant:

"The plot of the game you mentioned may be my destiny. I was led by this destiny, by the invisible god, into the abyss of self-destruction, forming a paradise-like cycle for others to play with. Entertainment, I thought I could escape this horrible game myself."

"But after escaping, I found that I just entered a bigger cycle of fate. I will always be just a toy in the hands of the gods who make my destiny, and human beings will always be in all world lines because of The desire to run out of control and go self-destructive is our God-given destiny—He wants to see this.”

There were tears in Edmond's eyes: "All of us should be punished for the cruelty we have been given by fate, but I know that in the eyes of the invisible god, I am so angry that The imposition is not punishment, nor is it a part of fate that he has calculated."

"Everything I do is just... a game."

Spades looked at him calmly: "But you can decide how you die this time."

"I will burn you to death if I wish, and this is not a game for you or me."

Edmund smiled with tears: "I know."

"This is... the victory you want, and the fate I want."

——————

Another one.

Bai Liu was patrolling the ground in a helicopter, and they had already passed three points marked on the map—one of the six hundred points.

But the results are not satisfactory.

The buoys on the sea surface have all been taken out and destroyed, so Bai Liu and the others don't need to sink down to find them. Particles have been completely destroyed.

The particle devices on the ground were all **** with weather balloons and flew into the sky.

Bai Liu and the others have seen several punctured balloons buried in the snow on the ground—the situation is similar to that on the coast, and the particles in the metal box have also been destroyed.

The further you go to the points marked on these maps, the worse the situation becomes.

When he saw the hollowed-out device next to the ice dome a, Bai Liu issued a termination order: "Six hundred devices should have been found by Spades, and Edmund probably didn't hide his heart in it." In these six hundred points."

"Then where will he hide his heart?" Mu Ke yelled in the strong wind, so as to ensure that Bai Liu could hear what he said in the wind, "these six hundred places have covered all The locations that have special significance to Edmund, such as Ice Dome A, South Pole, Tarzan Station, and Scott’s Cabin are all inside, is it possible for him to hide his heart in other places?”

"Yes." Bai Liu turned to look at Mu Ke, "Do you still remember what the main mission of this dungeon is?"

Muke pointed out: "Global warming."

"If global cooling is Edmond's punishment for everyone, including himself, after his desires got out of control, then global warming is an opportunity for him to change." Bai Liu breathed hoarfrost.

During the conversation, Tang Erda manipulated the helicopter to land steadily at a new location.

Bai Liu stepped off the helicopter that was landed steadily by Tang Er, and came to an empty snowfield.

This is a brand new place without any footprints or traces. There is no device placed here, and there is no sign of anyone visiting. It is far away from all observation stations and does not even belong to itself. ‌ The geographical name of the .

No matter how you look at it, it is a strange place without any characteristics.

This is the place Bai Liu chose for Tang Erda to land.

Muke trotted to keep up with Bai Liu, his breathing quickened: "Bai Liu, do you think this is where Edmund hides his heart?"

He is about to ask why you think this is the place, but due to Mu Ke's blind trust in Bai Liu, he thinks to dig first before talking.

But someone asked, Mu Sicheng turned around and asked Bai Liu suspiciously: "Why did Edmund hide his heart here? I don't even know where this is, and I'm not in Edmond either." See this place in your fax or lab report.”

Bai Liu put on anti-friction gloves and began to help Tang Erda carry the equipment for digging and detecting the ice surface.

Mu Sicheng stepped forward to take over, staring at Bai Liu with eager eyes.

Bai Liu leaned over and took off a stack of experimental reports from the back seat of the helicopter, and handed them to Mu Sicheng: "Explain while watching——I just said that global cooling is the result of Edmund's anger against human beings. However, global warming is also a punishment, and it is a punishment that human beings have brought upon themselves.”

Mu Sicheng couldn't help sighing: "What did I do wrong? I'm being punished for getting hot and cold?"

Bai Liu smiled: "Yes, this is a kind of Christian concept, which means that people are born with original sin, and living is the process of redemption. If we regard the whole process as Edmund asking mankind to redeem sins , it becomes clear."

"He felt that others were guilty, so he punished them. He felt that Tarzan was innocent, but this innocence is also a sin in a guilty environment, because it will lead to bullying, so Edmond Determined to sharpen Taishan Station and let them survive as humans on "Noah's Ark."

"Edmund knows very well that what he did is wrong and sinful, and his own process of redemption—" Bai Liu's eyes were deep, "—is to hide his own heart His unmoving heart protected the first innocent person he was forced to kill under the pressure of various circumstances.”

"He preserved the heart on the one hand to preserve the experimental samples, and on the other hand to preserve his [Original Sin]."

Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng: "Where do you think people like Edmund would keep their original sin?"

Mu Sicheng shook his head honestly.

Bai Liu smiled: "It's the day when he makes up his mind to implement his own crime and it takes effect."

A question mark appeared in Mu Sicheng's eyes: "This day, what day is it again?"

"August 10th, the day he started pickling sauerkraut for the people at Taishan Station." Bai Liu looked at the open space in front of him, and smiled, "And this place was accumulated in Edmund's place." Among the temperature records of thirty-three years, the Antarctic was the coldest place on August 10."

"There is no better place to store a beating heart than this."