The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 418: Reason is like fire and cannot be touched

The moment he broke through the door, Annan realized something was wrong.

The smell of wine, burning, blood, smoke...

The moment he smelled these smells, Annan analyzed everything.

There is no doubt... before him is a group of pirates who have landed and are plundering.

They immediately broke down the sailors' resistance through a strategy of wine and rockets.

But the sailors just put their heads in their hands, stopped resisting and allowed themselves to be plundered.

The reason is probably very simple.

They must put out the fire as soon as possible...otherwise, everyone on the ship will die in the sea.

So they don't even have the heart to fight - if they can't satisfy the pirates' appetite as soon as possible and the stalemate continues, I'm afraid they will all die.

They are just merchant ships.

This is not to defeat the pirates, but to allow more people and more goods to stay...

And the pirates didn't kill them all. It's just moving people and cargo on the deck.

I'm afraid some kind of agreement has been reached. After moving part of the cargo, they were left with time to put out the fire...

Annan saw a fair-skinned, slightly fat woman in her twenties looking at him in horror.

And she was being dragged to the pirate ship by two pirates.

"——Dad!"

She looked at Annan and shouted loudly.

…but why?

It didn't seem like a desperate cry for help.

But shock and fear——

"——Hmm."

Suddenly, a strong sense of suffocation made Annan couldn't help but grab his own throat.

He gasped for breath, but the world in front of him suddenly began to become psychedelic.

The world around him was dyed with many strange colors in the blink of an eye - cyan, blue, green, yellow, purple - the colors were dancing rapidly, and a strong sense of suffocation came from his chest.

The strong dizziness made Annan half-kneeling on the ground.

"Oh, he is an extraordinary master."

Someone sneered: "It seems he is still a priest."

After Annan broke out of the door, he was immediately noticed by the pirates holding a silver blade.

But the pirates behaved surprisingly calmly.

Being targeted by an extraordinary being, he didn’t even panic.

Annan looked over, but couldn't even see their faces clearly.

Their faces were extremely blurry, like passers-by in a dream.

Scornful eyes stared at him from all directions.

"——Not even the boundary can stop your curiosity?"

The pirate sneered: "This... is the high seas."

"It's really asking for death."

At that moment, Annan realized everything before he died.

The detective's fear...what exactly is it.

He is a stowaway, or he may be an extraordinary person who has committed crimes in other countries.

Unable to use the subway, he chose to take this passenger ship in order to cross the border.

But for Mr. Detective, who is an extraordinary person... the dense gray mist air above the high seas is extremely poisonous and cannot be treated, so he can only stay at the bottom of the cabin with a sealed barrier.

But he happened to be plundered by pirates.

No, it’s not necessarily true robbery...after all, those pirates don’t even have faces. If it is a real nightmare, then they must have a face in the nightmare recorded directly from the dream world.

After all, this is not what really happened, but an imaginary nightmare made only of fear.

——In other words, this is the detective's "hope" or "fear" that pirates will kidnap his daughter.

Is it because his daughter’s body is gone? Or was it because his daughter died simply due to a fire, or something else...

In short, the result is that his daughter must have died at the top.

And he knew this very well, but he couldn't leave the corridor and could only think quietly.

I can only stand there and think calmly...I can't do anything else, just like a real "detective". The "flame" blocking the exit is to prevent him from seeing the truth with his own eyes; the scorch marks on the skin on the wall indicate that his daughter died "due to fire".

——Even if you know everything, you can't save people or kill people [the desperate situation of the wise].

... Really... How come this brain is still functioning... at this time...

Annan's consciousness gradually became blurred.

Is this how a transcendent feels after entering the gray mist?

Severe pain in my heart and out of breath;

The sounds around me become distorted and distant;

The colors of the world in front of us become weird and dazzling;

There is a strong, endless metallic sound in my head, like tinnitus;

The skin felt like it was burning and the pain continued——

...Didn’t he turn into a demon?

It’s okay to be burned to death by a curse...

I am afraid that this first life will have to be handed down here.

This thought came to Annan's mind.

If you want to escape, you may have to analyze the truth about the "flame", then choose to stay where you are and wait for a while...or simply be burned to death by the flames.

But that is definitely not what Annan wants.

"In that case..."

Annan suddenly coughed and spit out a piece of brightly colored internal organs.

——Since I can no longer survive.

It would be better to just kill him!

He raised his head, his pupils shining with a dazzling light.

That is the fire that bursts out when the overflowing curse and soul knock against each other.

——Consume one silver coin to use [Eternal Youth].

Annan regained some strength.

He suddenly jumped out and beheaded the pirate closest to him with one strike of his sword!

Bang bang!

At this moment, two gunshots rang out. Annan was shot in the abdomen and thigh.

The moment before the pirate's head hit the ground.

The last silver coin in Annan's hand ignited with light.

——Silver Blade Strike!

The sharp object in his hand suddenly shone with a dazzling light.

The silver weapon turned into a brilliant silver light in Annan's hand in the blink of an eye.

As Annan used all his strength to strike out.

A crescent-shaped silver blade, about three meters long, quickly crossed the deck close to the waist of "Mr. Detective", splitting all the pirates, crew members, passengers, and masts in two!

"Ahem..."

Annan's mouth was filled with blood.

He looked at his "daughter" who had been chopped in half, and a thought flashed through his mind.

He did not die because of the fire of his own reason, but because he rushed out of the safe house recklessly and was killed by himself together with the murderer whose identity was unknown...

Would Mr. Detective, who does not know his real name, be satisfied with such an idea?

"Probably, not..."

Annan murmured, knelt down on the deck where he was the only one, and gradually turned into gray-black stone.

The next moment, Annan suddenly woke up.

She realized that she was kneeling at the beginning of the dim corridor.

...Did you not take a single step after entering the corridor?

But the posture is the same as when leaving the nightmare, which requires special attention.

I don’t know how long it has passed... If we refer to the previous nightmare, it should be just a moment?

Annan touched the back of his left hand.

Sure enough, the injury on the back of his hand was gone.

She opened her status bar again:

Health: 100%

Erosion degree: 2%

...No increase in erosion? Well, this is normal, after all, it is just a false fog...

But the health suddenly returned to full... Sure enough, it was because he had died once, right?

Is this the save point mechanism? It no longer provides a mechanism to challenge again, it just restores full health... That's it, that's it.

Taking a deep breath, Annan slowly stood up.

"It's... the wolf kiss ceremony, right."

She quickly dismissed the memory of Mr. Detective from her mind.

Maybe we can encounter something related to this in the future... But for Annan, the most important thing now is to complete the nightmare of the werewolf Miss Bella first and let her advance to the extraordinary.

Are there two lives left...?

Annan no longer expects to complete the decryption of the copy in one go. ~IndoMTL.com~ At first, he thought, "Since this is his nightmare, maybe he can decrypt it 100% at once." But after dying once, Annan has calmed down.

One life has already been used up before the three side tasks are completed.

And it’s not an instant death with no technical content like the first encounter, but a genuine dungeon difficulty... Even if you try it again, it will be almost impossible to pass the level with full health.

——Who knows, in the "Detective" copy, if you don't move, will the flames spread by themselves?

"Maybe I should bring the players into this nightmare?"

Annan murmured.

But what's the use?

Let’s see how they handle it under live broadcast conditions?

But this may not be of any special value to Annan... What Annan really needs to complete the decryption is "Bella's" nightmare, or Annan's own nightmare. And the nightmare fragments of dozens of innocent people will be different every time you enter... Rather, the real meaning for players to fight is "how to avoid triggering these nightmares" and prevent themselves from losing blood pointlessly, right?

"Roguelike horror games are okay... they might like them. Horror games with invalid back panels..."

In a sense, it is the same type as the gallery.

Then let the players be responsible for finding the specific locations that can trigger nightmare traps.

If Annan's inference is correct... in the same "type of location", the types of nightmares that can be triggered should be the same.

Let’s first take a look at what the wolf kiss ceremony is and what kind of entertainment there will be...

No big deal, try to see if you can team up with players!

If four people can form a team and each person has three lives, it is equivalent to twelve lives——

——This made Annan full of determination.