Forces of Temptation

Ingle's story, also known as "The Girl Walking on Bread".

She is a proud child.

She is like a little dragon, vain, bad-tempered, and fond of luxurious, shiny ornate objects.

When she returned to her hometown to visit relatives, she passed by the swamp, because she was afraid of dirtying her beautiful shoes, she used the bread kindly gifted to her by her employer.

Stepping on the bread, she unfortunately sank all the way to hell.

Ingle was wrapped in filthy toads and wrapped around his neck by a slippery snake.

She became an immobile stone statue, unable to even bend down and take a bite of the bread she had trampled underfoot.

Because of excessive hunger, her stomach ate herself.

Afterwards, her internal organs began to devour each other.

Because of her disappearance, her bad story began to circulate among the people.

Her mother cried, her employer bemoaned, countless strangers mocked and despised, and only one child shed tears over what happened to Ingle.

The child asked what if she knew she was wrong.

Ingle suffered a long period of torture in hell.

Until the little child who used to cry for her got old, saw Ingle in **** before her death, and shed tears for her again.

Ingle was enlightened and cried bitterly, and then she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.

She diligently collected the crumbs that were lost and wasted by everyone, and gave them little by little to other hungry birds.

until the crumbs she collected accumulated and reached the length of the bread she had stepped on.

She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and disappeared without a trace.

…Dream linkage.

Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself: "I should have found out earlier."

There is a lot of overlap between Candy House and The Girl on the Bread.

Hunger, and breadcrumbs, are the two most obvious characterization elements.

One is used to lead the way home, and the other is used to atone for sin.

Besides that, the details of the overlap are already left to them.

For example, in "Candy House", the brother and sister cross the river is a wild duck, but what they see is a not so beautiful bird.

After the two brothers and sisters escaped from the candy house, the river should stop them.

What they saw was a fetid swamp.

Nan Zhou, who considers himself a tenth-level scholar of "Candy House", silently reflected on himself for a while.

Jiang Fang rubbed the back of his neck with laughter to comfort him when he saw his autistic look and bowed his head.

Both of them had a general guess about the next step in the plot.

So, after Jiang Fang put on his choker again, Li Yinhang, who fell into a drowsy and hungry sleep after entering the storage compartment, was forcibly taken out and answered questions by name.

After having a general understanding of the plot after he was locked in, Li Yinhang rubbed his eyes and roughly extracted the main points of the current information: "So, there are two fairy tales in total?"

Jiang Fang added: "In terms of the proportion of the plot of the two stories, Ingle should only be regarded as a side plot."

Teacher Nan Zhou strictly asked: "Don't remind her."

Jiang Fang raised her hands and smiled to indicate OK.

"Why is only this copy of the game special?"

When Li Yinhang woke up, he also recovered a lot from the shadow of seeing living people eating raw.

Her thinking gradually became active, and the questions she raised gradually became sharper than Nanzhou bypassed the miscellaneous information and hit the core: "Other fairy tales we have experienced are single-threaded, not like this side storyline.”

"Why..."

Muttering to himself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized and raised his voice slightly: "Is it the sound of eating in the corridor...!"

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang made a "shush" gesture to her at the same time.

Li Yinhang realized that they were still in the middle of the trail, and covered his mouth suddenly.

The woodcutter in front also heard something and turned back nervously, his sweaty face flushed as red as a red-skinned egg.

The three of them lowered their bodies and squatted side by side in the bushes.

Nan Zhou pressed Li Yinhang's head, Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou's head on his shoulder.

Looking around, the woodcutter felt that he did hear a female voice.

But he was worried that his new wife was coming, afraid that she would abuse him and throw away the two oil bottles born by his ex-wife. He hugged the two children and accelerated his pace without looking back. into the depths of the jungle.

Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind the bushes, was nervous and excited, her heart thumping against her chest.

This feeling is like when she accidentally discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always give up tactically.

She looked at Teacher Nan, trying to verify whether her thinking was correct.

Nanzhou nodded without a trace.

Li Yinhang's words did touch on a core issue.

They appear to be playing five discrete games.

But in fact, the overall name of the copy is called [Brain Invasion].

Theoretically, they hack into a person's brain.

The various divisions of the brain are linked and interact with each other, silently reflecting the person's preferences.

What is in the brain often represents what the person has.

The game nature of the [Brain Invasion] copy is marked as "exploration" that seems to be harmless to humans and animals.

Their wandering journey is the process of exploring this person.

After entering the dungeon, what impressed Nan Zhou most was the regular sound of teeth chewing food that echoed in the corridor.

The sound was very present and lasted for a long time, only pausing for a while as they walked out of the third door.

This overlaps with the nature of the story at hand.

Because the brain master's appetite is extremely strong, so there are two hunger-themed stories interspersed with "Candy House" and "Ingle" in this level.

In this way, the three levels they experienced before are all showing the characteristics of the brain they are exploring.

Actually, Li Yinhang performed very well at the beginning of the copy.

She made a discovery to Nan Zhou when she entered the library and Nan Zhou and Li Yinhang were in the bookshelf.

At that time, Li Yinhang cautiously said: "Mr. Nan, don't you think there are too many books here?"

What kind of person can read so many books?

Hundreds of bookshelves, enough books to form a maze?

Only, while playing, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.

Because each level has different fairy tales to distract her energy, she naturally regards all the games as independent mini-games.

Nanzhou never forgets.

Every level he walked through, he was constantly sending information to help him draw a portrait of this brain master.

The portrait was drawn with a brush stroke, but gradually formed a strange monster.

The rough lines and too many contradictions make the image of this person more and more elusive in Nan Zhou's mind.

Of course, in this extremely time-limited copy, it is only suitable for inspiring thinking, not suitable for continued meditative analysis.

Click here to stop.

Nanzhou also needs to change the environment as soon as possible to help him think.

Appropriate hunger can also make the mind run faster.

Excessive hunger just drives people crazy.

Li Yinhang: "Then shall we follow them?"

She was still a little nervous.

What should I do if I encounter a witch?

Is it the brother and sister's wish to kill the witch?

If the witches are also ordinary people who are controlled by the candy house and have to rely on cannibals to feed their stomachs, they may still have a fight.

So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter?

This kind of decision is not within the scope of Li Yinhang's ability.

She turned her eyes to Nanzhou for help.

Nan Zhou thought for a while and said, "I also think it has something to do with witches."

He looked at Jiang Fang.

But Jiang Fang did not agree with it at the first time.

Shortly after the woodcutter and the brother and sister walked away, the sound of birdsong gradually converged here.

Four or five birds came around, digging their heads and pecking at the bread crumbs that my brother sprinkled on the ground and used as a guide home.

Jiang Fang raised a question: "Why do you have the story of Ingle."

Li Yinhang: "...?"

She was confused.

Isn’t it because the owner of this brain has too much appetite, so the function of the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals is extremely active?

Aren't they discussing this just now?

However, after thinking for a while, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang's suggestion: "You are right."

Li Yinhang: "...Huh?"

At this time, Li Yinhang felt that he was the foreigner among the three.

"We have walked through three timelines. Now it's the fourth." Jiang Fang said, "The four timelines have something in common."

Li Yinhang carefully guessed: "...they are all hungry?"

Jiang Fang: "Well. This is one of them."

When escaping from the witch's house, in the storyline, the elder brother was afraid that he would get fat and would be eaten by the witch. desire.

Li Yinhang continued to speculate: "If there is anything else - in every timeline, is it when they are in crisis?"

...As soon as the words came out, she first denied her own inference.

In the initial timeline, when the two brothers and sisters were digging a hole and rubbing their hands and waiting to eat people, it was clearly the three guests who were in greater danger.

So, what else is in common?

Jiang Fang put forward his conjecture: "What if the four timelines all represent a departure from 'home'."

"The brothers and sisters of the first timeline, they couldn't conquer their appetite, so they took over the candy house and became the owner of the candy house. They are seemingly free, but are forever driven by appetite and The desire to live is **** in the candy store."

"The second timeline, they also couldn't overcome their appetite and ate their father."

"The third timeline, they were blocked by Daze on their way home."

"It stands to reason that if they are experiencing the 'most feared moment of their life', I think, in the fourth timeline, the brothers and sisters should be imprisoned by witches, and we should witness how they are Kill the witch."

"But no."

Li Yinhang suddenly realized: "We have arrived at the timeline where the two of them were abandoned by their father—"

These time points, for both children, symbolize the moments of departure from home in life.

Wounded by hunger, I have to live in a place that cannot be called "home".

Dominated by starvation, destroying the "home" with her own hands.

I was blocked by Daze and was unable to return to "home" for a time.

Abandoned by her father, and when she realizes this, she still lies on her father's back and drifts away from "home".

In the timeline featuring the siblings, the presence of witches threatens their lives.

It may frighten them, but it will not make them particularly distressed.

They stumbled to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.

Players, like them, experienced the hunger and unease that devoured people, went all the way in the opposite direction, and walked the road they had traveled.

However, the brother and sister's prayers hidden under the surface of many wishes, just want to go home.

Although it is not warm, it means heaven to the two children, there is a father's home.

The brothers and sisters of the first world line are indeed unable to express their wishes.

The two brothers and sisters at that time had no other wishes except cannibalism.

Because what they really want is long gone.

Jiang Fang said: "So, I think Inger's existence and insertion are a hidden line."

Li Yinhang finally understood: "Little bird, is he a 'savior' character?"

She was excited again: "That, does that mean that it can save us too, as long as we find half a loaf of bread—"

"Edible bread." Nan Zhou added, "It said that it doesn't want the bread in the candy house."

Li Yinhang became active, and even the sharp hunger in his abdomen was not obvious: "Then let's go to Daze to find the bird and ask it-"

Nan Zhou did not speak, raised his hand and pointed not far away.

Among the birds that came to pecking the breadcrumbs, a familiar stray-haired bird was spotted at some point.

The woodcutter and brother and sister have left.

So Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a magnanimous manner, and stopped in front of it.

He cut to the chase: "If you pay you half a loaf of bread, can you show us the door to leave."

Li Yinhang: "…" Can you be so direct?

The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.

It made a girlish voice: "Yes."

Nan Zhou: "Will you always be here?"

It said, "You can find me in the swamp."

After finishing speaking, it flapped its short wings and flew into the distance.

Seeing that there is a goal and the possibility of getting out of this endless hunger hell, Li Yinhang hurriedly said: "Then let's go!"

Seeing Li Yinhang walking towards the cabin, Nanzhou and the others did not immediately follow.

"Do you want to tell her?" Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, "My business."

Jiang Fang asked: "Now? Here?"

Nan Zhou thought for a while: "Well. Take her out and talk about it."

There are still ten hours before the end of the copy.

At least for the next period of time, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.

Wait until they release the copy of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang.