Abnormal paradise

"Do you think... Nina can really run to Gold Rush Town?" Ms. Shadow's question made Yi Yan a little confused. He looked at the game animation frozen at a certain moment and didn't understand why Ms. Shadow would ask this?

Of course Nina could run to the gold rush town, otherwise his repeated contacts with Nina along the way would have been fake?

As a witness, Ember should naturally use what he saw and heard as the basis for judgment, but he suddenly realized that his thoughts did not seem to meet the original intention of Ms. Shadow's question, because Ms. Shadow mentioned "gold digging". Town" and the "gold rush town" in his understanding are obviously two different things.

The gold rush town in the background of the game is a legend, and no one has ever confirmed its existence. So can Nina really be the chosen one to witness the legend? Ember takes a negative view. The Gold Rush Town that players experience is just a copy named "Gold Rush Town". If the world's strong men who dominate the battle between light and darkness are willing, they can still name a corner of the town Gold Rush Town. The same is reflected in the [Gold Digging Stone].

Wanting to understand this, Yi Yan's thoughts seemed to jump out of a cage, and all the confusions along the way flashed through his mind, making him wonder, since Nina couldn't break into the real gold rush town, then what would he do? Is the repeated contact with the other party in the Gold Rush dungeon just a deliberate embellishment by the designer to enrich the main line?

Thinking of this, Yi Yan suddenly looked at the mission name of the final link of the hidden mission - [Dream Sea Gold Rush], and immediately understood everything and why Ms. Shadow asked this question.

"It turns out that this was all a dream..."

Ember groaned and looked back at the dungeon process. All the previous confusions were immediately solved, and it even reminded him of some less obvious details, such as the first bonfire image.

The image of the bonfire at the end of the ruins appeared in Ember's view, just to show Nina's current situation and introduce the people who were accompanying her. However, he did not notice at the time that Nina's pale face, sitting next to the fire, was not illuminated by the blazing flames. .

Later, the second campfire image before entering the forest further revealed Nina's life condition. The video begins to show the panic of the gold diggers towards Nina. The reason is that Nina bought the conch fossil from the undead trader who specializes in the dead business. At that time, all Ember could think about was hiding. Therefore, after Nina took out the certificate of the dead, she did not pay much attention to her "living person" identity.

What made Ember officially doubt Nina was on the Wavebreaker. Nina ignored the consequences and launched revenge on Walter White. In the end, the ancient god Abyss Diver she temporarily belonged to was defeated by the fish-man god. However, the same Nina, who became a loser, was not punished in any way! And her strange conversation with Walter White showed that Nina already knew that what she did would not lead to any negative consequences, or in other words, even if there might be some punishment, she was not afraid.

After all, a person who has been "dead" probably has nothing to fear.

Thinking about it at this time, Ember, who had assumed Nina's perspective, could not hear Nina's voice. She could only use Walter White's preface and afterword to infer Nina's response. This forced cover-up was to hide Nina's voice. Na told her own situation personally.

As for the third contact between Ember and Nina, it was through the weird night of the Three Insect Tribe. That sudden illusion came true. It was also the only direct encounter between him and Nina in this copy. Logically speaking, it should be He has the easiest chance of spotting a problem. It's a pity that Nina didn't stay with Ember for most of the time when the illusion came true. Coupled with the impact of battles and missions, Ember missed the opportunity to discover the truth in advance.

"Oh, if I could have discovered it earlier, I wouldn't have made such a fuss like before." Yi Yan shook his head helplessly.

"Your reaction is actually not too slow."

"So, Nina actually died in the basement of the White House?" Ember looked at Ms. Shadow, "What was the cause of her death? Wasn't it because she was tortured to death by Fengjing?"

"Of course not. Although Fengjing's mental condition is very bad, the direct cause of Nina's death was actually the burning out of maple blood. I told you before about the consequences of burning out maple blood. I hope you haven't forgotten it."

"The maple blood has burned out? Yes, Walter White did say that Nina's maple blood has been extinguished, but I didn't think of the concept of maple blood burning out."

Ms. Shadow turned to look at Nina's tombstone and said calmly: "Nina was born with extraordinary spiritual potential, and the Mapleblood family's efforts to cultivate her also made her mental growth grow at an astonishing speed. . It’s just that the incredible mental energy will put a serious load on the body. When Nina was hidden in the basement by Feng Jingxue, the improvement resources she received were not enough to make up for the physical deficit. Only by consuming bloodline power could she barely support her mental growth. "

Speaking of this, Ms. Shadow also looked puzzled: "For some reason, Nina, who was not able to obtain sufficient resources, made her spiritual power stronger and stronger, and even created a spiritual world. In the basement, accompanying her There is only a fairy tale book and a silent TV that constantly replays "Gold Rush", and she does not know how to continuously imprint these extremely limited external information into the spiritual world. Do you think this is incomparable to the fairy tale plane? Similar?"

Ember nodded. The fairy tale world that existed parallel to the paradise world was unable to resist the crazy erosion of the paradise world, so it was forced to stick to the only remaining physical space and instead create a spiritual plane in order to continue the world. But the origin of the fairy tale world is the brainchild of countless strong people, but Nina has achieved the same great achievements by herself. Even though the spiritual space she created is far from being comparable to the fairy tale world, it is still enough to be called one. Unbelievable.

"No matter how powerful the effect of maple blood is, it is always limited. Feng Jing, who was in a daze, did not realize that his daughter's life had come to an end, so he could not prevent Nina from dying from the burning of maple blood."

A hint of sadness flashed through Ms. Shadow's cold eyes: "It is said that when the maple blood burns out, people will see the truth of the world, but I can be very sure that Nina was just wandering with infinite thoughts when she died. You have entered your own spiritual plane, so you have contact with the residual image of Nina. Even if the original fairy tale has a happy ending, it will eventually evolve into a completely tragic ending due to the dying soul of her creator."

"For example, the fish-man princess related to this conch. In fact, no matter how miserable the ending of this story is, the protagonist should also be a mermaid princess. But Nina's pessimism at the moment of death completely changed her spiritual world, and her soul She also perished here. But it is precisely because Maple's blood is burned out that her remaining spiritual world will be sublimated. The key factor why the White House can remain in the dark sky and avoid the doomsday destruction is It’s because of the integration of Nina’s spiritual world.”

"That's it!" Yi Yan nodded and couldn't help but sigh deeply at the tragic mother and daughter Feng Jing and Nina.

"After completing the refining process, the true potential of the White House is far from being discovered. Only by allowing the fairy tale characters engraved in Nina's spiritual plane to show their true colors one by one can the power and effectiveness of the White House be gradually enhanced. . Coincidentally, the fairy tale world has participated in this joint operation. By borrowing the [identity] certification of the fairy tale strongmen, the fairy tale characters changed by Nina can be completely reversed, further strengthening the power of the White House and the opera house, so , I did not rush to create [performers] for the opera house, but chose to borrow your hands."

Lady Shadow glanced at Ember: "If you understand, then hurry up and work for me!"

"……OK."

Yi Yan raised his eyebrows, thinking that Ms. Shadow's long talk was probably because she knew that he liked to ask questions, so she simply told all the secrets directly to avoid wasting time here. Considering that the patience of his immediate boss was probably worn out. , Yi Yan no longer hesitated, and used the half of the conch fossil to open the tomb belonging to Nina.

[Tip: Exploring the diary "Twelve o'clock on the fifth day", because you are performing the hidden mission "Dream Sea Gold Rush", you successfully triggered the fixed event - "Nina's Lost". 】

[Introduction: Nina was deeply affected by the tragedy of the fish-man princess, and she died of depression shortly after arriving in the gold rush town. She left her own tomb in the mine world, and took her other half of the conch to rest here, but the remaining resentment remained. It did not dissipate, but formed a lost soul body. If you still want to get the other half of the conch, you need to break through the obstacle of the lost soul body. 】

In the blink of an eye, Ember found himself in a dark tomb, with a female skeleton lying in the middle of the tomb. It was obvious that the skeleton belonged to Nina. Regardless of whether it really existed, at least it was Nina's imagination.

There is half a conch placed on the bone of Nina's right hand. But unlike the conch fossil, the other half is not only brightly colored and has no trace of time, but there is also a snail-like mollusk living inside, which is even more outrageous. Surprisingly, the snail noticed that someone was coming, and actually put up two "dead fish eyes" to observe the embers, and then lazily yawned: "It came faster than I expected, meow!"

"?"

If possible, Yi Jin would like to put a question mark on his head to express complex emotions. Except for the last unclear "meow", Yi Jin really never thought that the half of the conch he was chasing after was not only alive. , and it is also an unknown snail-shaped creature that speaks human words.

"What's the matter? You seem surprised to see me, meow!"

"..." This time Yan Yan wanted to use an ellipsis to express how speechless he was.

"What's so surprising? You've never seen [Phone Bug] before?"

With that said, the snail announced its home to the ember, and he soon realized, dumbfounded, that the "conch" in his imagination, or to change it to a more official name, "listening conch", was actually another "conch". "Gold Digging Stone", but this time, the value of "Listening Conch" should be far less than the abnormal project pretending to be a conch - [Phone Bug].

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Abnormal name: [Phone Bug] (Small Animal Abnormal Item)

Hazard level: safe

Power affiliation: None

Energy level: Level 1

Life level: Level 1

Special function: making phone calls

Additional note: There’s not much to say, the purpose of this thing is to make phone calls.

[Sending it to play the role of "Listening Conch" this time can be regarded as an abnormal experiment. I hope its acting skills are more reliable - "Doctor". 】

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"Acting skills... if this thing goes to the set, it will definitely be beaten to death by the crew."

Ember rolled his eyes, and thus understood why only the half of the conch fossils used for mission guidance were left in the Murloc Palace?

The reason was actually not as complicated as he had imagined before. There had never been any mysterious person who sealed it into the Sacrificial Circle of the Wavebreaker just because the other half of the conch was alive and was broken into two pieces by the Murloc King. After that, he climbed up to the throne and opened the space vortex. Then he was attracted by the fishman spirit integrated into the Wavebreaker, and took the initiative to get into the sacrificial circle. Later, he was lifted out by Nina and brought to the tomb.

"Now that I'm here, don't wait any longer. Hurry up and defeat Nina's soul, and then take me out for some air. It's boring to be alone here. Don't you want to know the whereabouts of the [Incarnation Stone]? Then hurry up. Do it, meow!"

"Hmm... I dare to ask, why did you meow at the end?" Yu Jin felt that this question was even more important than killing the BOSS.

"I'd love to, can't you, meow!" Phone Bug stared back with dead eyes and replied expressionlessly.

"Yeah, another Wasp Warrior."

Ember shrugged and could only return his attention to business. According to the event prompts, as long as he got closer or launched an attack on the bones, the battle would be officially triggered. The BOSS information he viewed with the help of a magnifying glass made it clear that He realizes that dealing with Nina is not as simple as he thought.

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Name: [Lost·Nina] (Level 3/Legendary of Two Stars)

HP: 6000/6000

Attack Rating: Powerful (80)

Defense level: Strong (60)

Attack speed: normal

Warning range: normal

Skills: virtualization, soul summoning, two-stage transformation

Attributes: Strength 8, Agility 11, Perception 19

Introduction: This monster was transformed by the resentment after Nina's death. Although her mental ability is far inferior to the original body, she has extremely powerful summoning ability because of her mastery of the "Listening Conch".

[Tip: The two-star legend "Lost Nina" will use the "Listening Conch" to summon the murlocs to fight for her. Before the murloc warriors are completely dead, she will be in a "virtual" state, avoiding most physical damage and mental impact. . 】

[Tip: After you knock down the HP of the two-star legendary "Lost Nina" to 30%, "Lost Nina" will enter the second stage state, at which time she will show more powerful combat capabilities. . 】

[Tip: The two-star legendary "Lost Nina", as a soul monster, still has low resistance to sacred and fire skills. 】

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Looking at Nina's attribute panel, Yi Yan sighed with some regret: "How can I keep my shoes from getting wet when I walk along the river? I bully others every day with my invincibility, so I should have expected that one day, others will do the same. Rely on the invincibility to bully him back."