Dream Hunting Game Chapter 8: Puzzle

Walked into the tunnel smoothly. This is a narrow, long and low tunnel. The reason for its appearance is unknown. At least Su Wen could not see the traces of artificial mining. Very strange.

At this moment, Su Wen smelled a strange smell. He was clearly inside the mountain, but he smelled a thick smell of smoke and dust. This smell was a bit like the smell emitted when cremating some animals. Accompanied by this stench, there is a fog that makes it impossible to see the way ahead.

Su Wen once encountered this smell in a certain dream. The source of this smell was the concentrated burning of poultry infected by the plague in the town.

After grilling, a large amount of smoke and dust entered the air, and even became a mist, which could not be dispersed for a long time. The locals called it "the fog of death".

People who live in this kind of air for a long time are prone to severe lung dust accumulation. In addition, the world's extremely poor sanitary conditions and high fatality rate further intensify the strange color of this smog.

But this is obviously an underground place, why is there such a mist coming?

Could it be that someone is performing strange sacrificial rituals underground?

No, that's not the case. Whether it is a cult ritual that uses human sacrifices or a formal production sacrifice, it does not use the flesh and blood that can form a large amount of "fog of death".

Confused, Su Wen covered his mouth and nose, and was about to turn his head, reminding Anasta to be careful of the stone on his head when he moved forward.

But the moment he turned his head, he found himself on a dirt road. The tunnel that once accommodated Su Wen and Anasta just disappeared out of thin air?

And the woman Anastas disappeared at the same time as the tunnel.

At this moment, Su Wen fell into deep thought. Instead of looking around anxiously, he opened the hunter's handbook beside him.

At this time, this situation should be surrounded by some kind of mysterious force. Su Wen has encountered it before, but that kind of situation is usually at the beginning of the main task of the story. It was the first time he saw the one who changed the scene on the way.

To Su Wen's disappointment, the mission objectives in the mission guidance did not change.

Just when he didn't know what to do for a while, a sudden gust of wind blew in, and huge fog and dust on the road hit him head-on. Su Wen hurriedly lowered the brim of his hunter hat to block the attack of the wind and sand.

Then the air exploded with a blinding white light, followed by a shocking flashback!

Scenes came into Su Wen's eyes - after a blond-haired little girl (about 13 or 4 years old) said something loudly to an older woman who was talking to a rich man dressed as a gentleman, the older The woman ignored her, turned around crying and opened the door to leave the house.

The little blond girl played with her friends for a while, and the night gradually fell.

The little girl didn't want to go home early, but instead walked towards the dirt road outside the town.

When the little girl stood outside the town and looked at the moon like a silver plate in the sky, in a daze...

Flashback ends.

"Just now this is..."

This is an in-game function called the flashback phenomenon. It is often used in plot retracement to help hunters complete tasks. It is an important reminder, but it has never been so fierce.

The flashback phenomenon just now sent a large number of images into Su Wen's brain in an instant, making Su Wen even faint.

Fortunately, his consciousness has adapted to the flashback. Although his body has some negative reactions, it will not really faint.

Su Wen shook his somewhat confused head, and began to analyze the memory fragments he saw just now.

This flashback revealed four fragments, and Su Wen knew that he had to unlock the secrets hidden in these four flashback fragments before he could know what he should do next. Hunter common sense.

He sat down on the spot, took out the hunter's manual, used it as a notebook, and at the same time used the writing function attached to the hunter's manual to perform reasoning and calculations.

This is commonplace in dream hunting games. If you want to hunt dreams, you not only need to have excellent combat skills, but also have excellent deduction or reasoning skills.

Su Wen first divided the four fragments into: 1. Leaving home; 2. Game; 3. Escape; 4. Unknown. Under the premise, Su Wen started the deduction. (Don't ask why you still have to assume that the girl in the fragment is Maria T, because not all flashbacks are useful, most of them may be useless, and may even give you a piece of completely irrelevant content, this flashback is not misleading The existence of information, you can follow the flashback information and try to simulate it.)

The first fragment "Leaving Home" should have the largest amount of information, and Su Wen divided this fragment into three small pieces again.

In the first small piece, after Maria T shouted something to an older woman, there was no answer.

In the second block, an older woman is talking to a gentlemanly dressed rich man.

In the third block, Maria T left the house crying.

Su Wen scribbled on the hunter manual with a pen, and quickly separated the contents of these three small fragments.

The content of the first small piece is a flashback without lines and voices at all, so we can only rely on guesswork. In this small piece, what Maria T is yelling loudly, it is obvious that the distance between them is very close , but shouted with loud movements or forms, what kind of inner activity would Maria T have at this time?

Angry.

Su Wen quickly delineated the answer, and wrote these two words on the side of the first of the three small fragments in the hunter's handbook.

Why are you angry? Why are you so angry and still don't get any answer?

The reason was clearly unknown on the first small fragment, so Su Wen began to analyze the second small fragment.

In the second small fragment, an older woman is talking with a rich man in gentlemanly clothes. This is a unique fragment that has been stripped out, and there are many strange things mixed in it.

From the front of the picture, the older woman is dressed in ordinary clothes, just an ordinary country person, and the style of this woman's clothes is similar to Maria T's. Maria T's mother can still conclude that the two must be related.

However, the rich man dressed as a gentleman is completely different from the tone of the whole picture. He is wearing a neat black dress, which looks a bit out of date, but he is always holding a golden pocket watch in his hand. He looked at the pocket watch from time to time, with a somewhat impatient expression.

It is completely unknown what purpose this person came here for now, but Su Wen is sure that he has a certain purpose, and it seems that he needs to analyze it in conjunction with other fragments to get the answer.

And the third small fragment was very simple, Maria T was crying sadly, and ran out of the house.

What is the reason for the sadness?

Su Wen didn't know, but he had a feeling that it must have something to do with this man's arrival.

Su Wen drew a question mark next to the second small fragment, and wrote two words beside the third small fragment—sadness.

At this time, the first large fragment has been dissociated by Su Wen and completely divided into several clues. At this time, Su Wen's brain is spinning rapidly, hoping to quickly unlock the secret.

The second fragment "Game" only tells about Maria T playing together again after being comforted by a group of little devils. Maria T is carefree and very happy when she is playing. , Before you know it, night falls.

Su Wen thought for a while, and drew a triangle next to the fragment to express his doubts.

Next, let's look at the third fragment "Escape". When all the friends went home, Maria T was the only one in the town, but she didn't choose to go back home, but went outside the town. go.

Su Wen felt something different.

Does she want to leave this town?

With such a hypothesis, more questions follow.

What kind of emotion is driving her to want to leave here?

Was it the previous anger, or sadness?

What kind of emotion does a child who seems to be only thirteen or fourteen years old need to want to leave this small town where she was born and raised?

Su Wen hesitated for a moment, and slowly wrote the word "Despair" next to the third fragment.

The fourth fragment was named "Unknown" by Su Wen. The main reason is that at first glance, the only valuable thing in this fragment is the white moon in the sky, and Maria T has no other expressions on her face. There was only a hint of numbness.

After analyzing the four fragments, countless fragments were spinning in Su Wen's brain. After a short while, he gradually understood the context of the story.

After some careful assumptions, Su Wen came up with a story like this - the businessman, who was about to go to the nobleman's house for a party, came to the house of the woman who had agreed to sell "commodities" with him. He kept hoping to raise the price, but the businessman thought it was not worthwhile. The two discussed the price for a long time, and it was obvious that the commodity that needed to be sold was "Maria T".

Su Wen didn't want to delve into whether to use it for himself or give it to the noble lord, but once he assumed such a big background and went back to look at the four fragments, he could find a lot of things.

The little girl named Maria T was fully aware of this criminal transaction.

Is it hard for a girl not to express her despair when she realizes that she is about to be sold?

The end of the flashback left Su Wen with a suspense~IndoMTL.com~Whether Maria T ran away afterwards, or was trafficked after returning home, he didn't know about it, and he wasn't interested in guessing again go down.

He was just putting together the pieces, trying to end this little reasoning game.

Sure enough, after Su Wen put the pieces together, the mission prompt also started to glow red.

He hurriedly turned to the task page, ready to see the next clue of the task.

But on the mission page, it still says about the goal of the mission.

"Find Maria T."

"Go to Maria T."

"Take a look at Maria T."

"Maria T."

"This is?"

The red light came out from this task target. As the red light gradually spread, the words on it gradually became blurred. Completely disappear.

And the red light on the remaining four words "Maria T" gradually dimmed, but this dimming did not mean extinguishing, but a kind of magma wrapped in magmatic rocks.

When this bleakness reached a critical point, the ink of the words "Maria T" seemed to melt, and slowly flowed down the pages of the hunter's manual, like blood flowing.

Su Wen was stunned. He didn't know what the situation was. Using a hunter's manual was almost as proficient as he was using a weapon, but he had never seen such a situation.

He encountered too many firsts in this dream, and even made him a little at a loss. Is this the dream hunting game he has been playing for decades?

Just as this gathering of doubts reached its peak, a white light came from the end of the dirt road.

And with the appearance of this light, the handwriting on the hunter's handbook changed again...