Chapter 418 Reason Is Like Fire, Untouchable

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

Alcohol, burnt, bloody, gunpowder...

At the moment of smelling these smells, Annan analyzed everything.

There is no doubt... in front of him is a group of pirates who have already landed and are looting.

Through their strategy of wine and rockets, they immediately dismantled the resistance of the sailors.

But the sailors just put their heads in their hands and stopped resisting and allowed the looting.

The reason is probably very simple.

They have to put out the fire as soon as possible... or all the people on the boat will die in the sea.

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

They are just merchant ships.

This is not for the purpose of defeating pirates, but to allow more people and more goods to stay...

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

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

Annan saw a woman in her twenties with fair skin and a slightly fat body looking at him in horror.

And she was being towed on a pirate ship by two pirates.

"--dad!"

She looked at Annan and shouted loudly.

...but why?

That doesn't seem like a desperate cry for help.

but consternation and fear—

"--Well."

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

He was gasping 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 jumped rapidly, and a strong sense of suffocation came from his chest.

A strong sense of dizziness made Annan half-kneeled to the ground.

"Yo, it's an extraordinary master."

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

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

But the pirates were surprisingly calm.

Being stared at by an extraordinary person, he didn't even panic.

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

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

Ridiculous eyes stared at him from all directions.

"—Can't even the connection world stop your curiosity?"

The pirate sneered: "Here... it's the high seas."

"It's really self-defeating."

At that moment, Annan realized everything in his dying moments.

A detective's fear...what the heck.

He's a stowaways, or maybe a superhuman who breaks the law in another country.

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

But for Mr. Detective, who is an extraordinary person... the dense gray fog over the open sea is extremely poisonous that cannot be cured, so he can only stay at the bottom of the cabin with a sealed enchantment.

But he happened to be robbed by pirates.

No, not necessarily a real loot... After all, those pirates don't even have a face. If it is a real nightmare, then they must have a face in the nightmare recorded directly from the dream world.

After all, it wasn't something that actually happened, but a hypothetical nightmare made up of nothing but fear.

- Or, this is the detective's "hope" or "fear" that a pirate will rob his daughter.

Because his daughter is dead? Or was it because his daughter simply died from the fire, or something else...

In short, the result is that his daughter must have died in the upper floors.

And he knew this clearly, but he couldn't leave that corridor, he could only think quietly.

Can only stand in place and think calmly... 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 scorched skin on the wall indicates that his daughter died "due to fire".

——Even if he knew everything, he couldn't save people or kill people.

...really...how did this brain arrive...it's still working at such a time...

Annan's consciousness gradually became blurred.

Is this what the superhuman feels after entering the gray fog?

Heart pain, shortness of breath;

The voices around you distort and become distant;

The color of the world in front of me becomes strange and dazzling;

There is a strong, endless metallic sound in the brain like tinnitus;

The skin seemed to be on fire, and the pain continued—

...isn't he turning into a demon?

It's okay to be burned directly by the curse...

This first life, I am afraid that it will be explained here.

Annan thought such an idea.

If you want to escape, you are afraid that after analyzing the truth of the "flame", you will choose to stay in place and wait for a while... or simply be burned to death by the flame.

But that was by no means what Annan wanted.

"In that case..."

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

——Since it is no longer possible to live.

It would be better to just kill it!

He raised his head, his pupils shone with a dazzling glow.

It was the fire when the overflowing curse and the soul struck each other.

——Consume one silver coin and use 【Forever Youth】.

Annan regained some strength.

He jumped out suddenly, beheading the nearest pirate with one sword!

Boom!

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

And at the moment when the pirate's head has not yet landed.

The last silver coin in Annan's hand lit up.

- Silver Blade Strike!

The sharp object in his hand suddenly shone with dazzling brilliance.

The silver weapon turned into a splendid silver light held by Annan in the blink of an eye.

With the blow that Annan made with all his strength.

A silver blade about three meters in length, like a crescent moon, quickly crossed the deck against the waist of "Mr. Detective", dividing all the pirates, crew members, passengers and masts into two!

"cough……"

Annan's mouth was overflowing with blood.

He looked at the "daughter" who had been cut in half by himself, and a thought flashed through his mind.

Not because of the fire of his own reason, but because he was recklessly rushed out of the safe house, and killed himself along with the murderer who did not know his identity...

Would the Detective, whose real name be unknown, be satisfied with such a thought?

"Probably, no..."

Annan murmured and knelt down on the deck where he was alone, gradually turning into a gray-black stone.

The next moment, Annan suddenly woke up.

She felt herself kneeling at the beginning of the dark corridor.

... After entering the corridor, did you not take a single step?

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

I don't know how long it has passed... If you refer to the last nightmare, it should only be a moment?

Annan touched the back of his left hand.

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

She opened her status bar again:

Health: 100%

Erosion: 2%

...without increasing erosion? Well, that's normal too, after all it's just a fake gray fog...

However, the health level suddenly returned to full... As expected, it was because he had already died once, right?

Is the save point mechanism like this? There is no longer a mechanism for re-challenge, just full blood return... So it is, so it is.

Taking a deep breath, Annan slowly stood up.

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

She quickly cleared Mr. Detective's memory from her mind.

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

Two lives left...?

Annan no longer expects to complete the decryption of the copy in one go.

At first, he also held the idea of ​​"since this is his own nightmare, maybe he can decrypt it 100% at a time". But after dying once, Annan has calmed down.

The three side quests have not been completed, and one life has been used up.

And it's not the kind of instant death that has no technical content, but the real dungeon difficulty... Even if you do it again, it's almost impossible to clear the level with full blood.

——Did you know that in the "Detective" dungeon, if you stay still, will the flames spread by themselves?

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

Annan muttered.

But what's the use of this?

Let's see how they deal with live conditions?

But for Annan, I'm afraid it has no special value... What Annan really needs to decipher is "Bella"'s nightmare, or Annan's own nightmare. And the nightmare fragments of the dozens of innocents will be different every time they enter... Rather, the real meaning of letting players fight lies in "how to avoid triggering these nightmares" and prevent themselves from meaningless blood loss, right?

"Roguelike horror games are okay...they might like it. Horror games with ineffective backplates..."

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

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

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

Let's go and see what the wolf kiss ceremony is, and what kind of work will there be...

Big deal, try to see if you can team up with players!

If you can form a team of four, and one person has three lives, it is equivalent to twelve lives——

- This filled Annan with determination.