Forces of Temptation

"Eternal Day", horror cartoonist NEVER's debut 23 years ago.

On the cover of the first officially released comic, the protagonist is a boy with a high ponytail.

He bit his black hair tie and sat in front of the box mirror, combing his hair.

He is called Nanzhou.

The only protagonist in the comic "Eternal Day".

In the setting, the story of "Eternal Day" takes place in the fictional town of never.

In this closed and warm town, the time of night is related to the tides of the moon.

Every month, only on the fifteenth full moon day, the hours of night and day are half open.

With fifteen as the dividing line, the time of night shortens in turn.

The first day of the first month is the only day without night in January.

On that day, the snow-white sun will turn Nevertown into a city of sunlight where nothing can be seen.

What can cover the eyes of people is not only darkness, but also light.

Therefore, the first day of every month becomes the rest day for the residents of Never Town.

Regardless of the day of the week, the residents of Neverland will stay home.

Officers are suspended and students are suspended.

There are few vehicles on the huge street shrouded in snow-white sunlight.

Only the constant light from the traffic lights is scattered by the white sunlight into colorful light ripples with water ripples, swaying shallowly in the hot air.

The strange and abnormal moonlight gave birth to a monster called Light Charm in Nevertown.

Light Enchantment was born out of an irreversible source of infection called Light Bacteria.

They have the same appearance as humans, are extremely aggressive, nimble, and have the same intelligence as ordinary people.

In normal times, they firmly believe that they are ordinary people living in Never Town.

Only at the beginning of each month, on the "day of the extreme day", will the self-awareness of Light and Charm wake up.

In these 24 hours of white and chaotic light, they can choose whether to transform into their true colors, and then randomly hunt town residents to prolong their lives.

As long as ordinary people are bitten and infected by light bacteria, another light charm will be born.

However, when the light bacteria enter the human body, the light bacteria will form their own variants due to different physiques, forming self-protecting spiritual strains, entrenched in the brain.

Therefore, one of the characteristics of light charm is spiritual fragility.

In other words, once the Light Charm treats the Light Charm as an adult and bites another Light Charm, unless the strain is stronger than the other side, it may be infected and die.

It's like drawing a lottery ticket.

May absorb the nutritional savings in the other party's body, hit a big luck, and don't have to hunt for three months.

Maybe you won't have to hunt for the rest of your life.

Of course, the charm of light is not unlimited.

In ordinary times, they never know that they are monsters, nor can they identify and perceive their own kind.

As light charmers, they like to occupy territory with a very strong animal nature and hate any kind of existence.

When they even see the same kind, they will kill them first.

Therefore, the living environment of Guangmei is not easy.

While they are afraid of being killed in ordinary time, they are afraid that their family members will know their identity after they transform into monsters and their memories are awakened. At the same time, they must also beware of selected, seemingly ordinary attacks In fact, the subject has long since become a light charm, and he swallowed it, but he died.

They are terrifying and lonely, living in symbiosis with human food that they know nothing about in Nevertown.

The strange death in the town happens frequently.

As in other horror comics, the town cops don't care.

Like the plots of other horror comics, no matter how frightened the people in the town are, none of them plan to relocate to save their lives.

If this comic is just like this, it can only be regarded as a common hunting comic that focuses on visual spectacles and integrates vampire elements.

Fortunately, there is Nanzhou.

—Nanzhou is the only character in the comic who realizes that he is a comic character.

Lin Zhisong remembers a bridge very clearly.

When Nan Zhou was young, he thought he belonged to this world.

The first time I realized that I was different was because my mother took him for an injection.

He was very well behaved and did not cry.

He hugged his mother's arm, and was afraid and worried that her mother would be sad, so he hid in his mother's arms, and said repeatedly in a soft voice: "Mom, I love you, I love you."

But his mother turned a blind eye to his obedience and understanding.

She blamed him for being squeamish, like a programmed robot.

She naturally thinks that the child in her arms should be a crying child who refuses to have an injection and is in line with common sense.

Nan Zhou is a very smart boy.

He spreads out from here, and gradually realizes that everything around him is not right.

In the whole town, he was the only one growing up.

Sister will always look like a five-year-old child.

Parents are always young.

The intelligence of a first-year friend is always stuck at eight years old.

In the courses taught by the teacher in Class 1 and Class 2, language, facial expressions, and small body movements are exactly the same.

Nan Zhou was a very lively child.

His taciturnity began when he was getting along with his family, and he found that the family could only respond to him according to a specific formula.

Slowly, he discovered the existence of the dangerous creature Light Charm.

He panicked.

Because on the day Guangmei started hunting, other people's day was skipped in two or three squares.

Even if you are killed, it will only take up a close-up.

Nanzhou has to hide in a dark place, grit her teeth, shiver, and survive the difficult 24 hours.

After trying to call the police and persuade his parents to move out to no avail, he took his young sister and rode the bicycle he learned to ride all the way to the edge of Nevertown, trying to escape this place.

However, his bike hit the edge of the comic grid.

The first comic ends here.

Juvenile Nanzhou stood in the field.

The wind lifted his mid-length hair and stroked his pale face.

He raised his hand and gently stroked the wall that didn't exist in the air.

From the reader's point of view, his beautiful face is facing the fourth wall, and his slender fingers are placed in front of him, like a gesture of oath.

From the perspective of Nanzhou, he thought to protect himself and his family.

Although the family's love for him is a false premise, it is also his unique family in this small town.

…

After roughly talking about the general plot and background settings of the first part of "Eternal Day", Lin Zhisong just finished drinking a cup of herbal tea.

Although the mobile phone he brought in had no signal, it was just trash, but there were more than 20 cached comics and novels in each app.

These are the original works selected and adapted by Gravity.

"Eternal Day" comic, only the first one is included in the genuine app.

Looking at the beautiful young man with a cold and delicate face that resembled Nan Zhou, looking at the loneliness and determination in his eyes, Liang Shu had some indescribable heart palpitations.

He really lived alone in that world for 23 years?

"Bronze" everyone was speechless.

He Yinchuan put down the mobile phone that Liang Shu handed over: "And then?"

Lin Zhisong bit the straw and recalled: "Later..."

"He recorded and observed all the abnormal human conditions in the town, and began to practice self-defense."

"He approached three pairs of the most aggressive and dangerous Light Charms, and when they were still normal people, sent misinformation to each other, provoked infighting, and let them on one extreme day Cannibalism to death."

"He pretended to be a Light Charm and trapped a Light Charm."

"On the full moon night when Guangmei was weakest, he killed many Guangmei who had coveted his family and himself."

"Well, by the way, he also studied art."

"There is no local university, he went to the Xinhua Bookstore to teach himself."

Lin Zhisong pointed to his head.

"He knew that he was a character in the book, so he used the principle of osmotic pressure. As long as he pillowed on the book, the text and images could flow directly from the high-concentration place to the low-concentration place. into his memory."

"He used this to read the entire bookstore."

At first, when I read this imaginative plot, Lin Zhisong was quite envious.

He Yinchuan bypassed all this: "Then... what about the ending?"

"A tragic story." Lin Zhisong briefly summed it up, "He fought hard until he was nineteen, and was bitten."

He added: "His sister did it."

"Bronze" everyone was dumbfounded.

Lin Zhisong scooped the ice cubes from the glass into his mouth, and smashed it with a clatter: "His sister has always been Guangmei. The source of the light bacteria in the town is her. For example..."

He glanced at Lu Bifang: "She is the queen of the Zerg."

"She's too young to know she can transform."

"Her nature has not been attacked, just because a large number of 'Guangmei' downstream of her, as worker bees, have been delivering nourishment to her. She is not hungry."

He Yinchuan took over: "But her brother has been hunting Guangmei?"

"Yes." Lin Zhisong nodded, "...she's hungry."

In the end, the strain was transformed into his brain.

The shape of his strain resembles a white peacock made of photochemical.

As the strain gradually bloomed in his brain, it was breathtakingly beautiful.

The day he was transformed was the day of the extreme day.

In the daytime that was so hot that it almost melted people, Nanzhou walked to the edge of the town step by step.

He came to the end of the town that he had been to countless times, but had never been able to break through, and knelt down slowly.

At this point, his eternal day has come.

A word that symbolizes hope, which has become his eternal curse.

He pointed at his neck with the broken glass shards.

But no one knows if he cut it off.

The comic ends with such an open/ending way.

Lu Bifang pursed his lips: "Then...he's really pitiful..."

Zhou Ao asked a long sentence: "What about the copy? Is it the same story?"

"His previous stories have been told absolutely, and there is nothing worth telling." Lin Zhisong said, "When the official setting of "Gravity" was set, in order to commemorate the 23rd year of the birth of Nanzhou, the He starts talking about four years after he's completely transformed into a monstrosity."

"Then... what's with the high death rate?"

Speaking of this, Lin Zhisong's brows furrowed completely.

“After the launch of Gravity, didn’t it run smoothly for half a year? In the past six months, the folk strategy group for various dungeons has never stopped, and a special strategy forum has been established.”

"For the copy of "Eternal Day", a player first posted a clearance guide on the forum."

"He said that the boss Nanzhou is actually very easy to deceive."

"As long as you get close to him and be friends with him, you can kill him when he is weakest on a full moon night and help him 'liberate'."

"Afterwards, in order to get all the achievements of the dungeon, all the players went to level in this way."

"Results..."

It turned out to be far from the case.

After the players followed the instructions and succeeded a few times, the death rate of "Eternal Day" suddenly rose without warning, and jumped directly to the dungeon with the highest mortality rate among all dungeons after the server was launched.

It is said that Nanzhou's attack method is very fierce, and when he comes up, he directly twists his neck.

Players are often forced to eject the dungeon before they can even knock the blood bottle, and the capsule cabin in which they are located is beepingly lit up with "death red".

According to the recollection of the player who was tragically twisted by Nanzhou, this boss is obviously super-brained, but the concentration of wisdom is too high.

Not only will they sneak attacks and dig traps for them, but they will also respond in real time according to their various words. Unlike other NPCs, they will have repeated conversations with them.

Some players find this thief interesting.

Some players feel that the official restoration is high, and Nanzhou is a smart character.

But some players shudder at this.

There are also players who are distressed because they can't get all the achievements in life and death, and complain to the game official, saying that "Nanzhou" is too strong, and requesting certain restrictions on him to reduce the difficulty.

Speaking of this, Lin Zhisong took a deep breath.

"I don't know how he got out."

"However, what I do know is that he is a poorly socialized person."

"Such an NPC who created the highest death rate record for the copy of "Gravity" is wandering outside, I am worried that he will affect other players."

Lu Bifang is still reluctant to fully believe Lin Zhisong's judgment: "This is too mysterious..."

Lin Zhisong opened his mouth and asked: "What we are seeing now is not mysterious?"

Lu Bifang glanced at the little hen NPC who was busy receiving guests, and chose to keep silent.

Lin Zhisong continued: "I'm still worried about one thing."

He Yinchuan motioned for him to finish speaking in one breath.

Lin Zhisong said: "You have all seen, Nan Zhou's intelligence, coupled with his force, it is no surprise that he has a high probability of winning the championship."

Liang Shu roughly understood his worries: "What you worry about is..."

"Yes." Lin Zhisong said, "It's just a wish."

"I don't know what strange wishes he'll make. If he does win the championship, what does he want to do? What will he do?"

"Does he hate the world outside the comics? Does he hate the players who cheat and try to kill him? Will he spread the light fungus into the real world? It's all unknown. Too uncontrollable already."

He Yinchuan looked straight into his eyes: "So, what are your plans?"

Lin Zhisong is straightforward: "I want to use the World Channel to warn everyone, be careful of Nanzhou."

"No."

He Yinchuan used a tough tone for the first time and directly denied Lin Zhisong's proposal.

, a highly dangerous NPC fleeing? You will bring panic to everyone like this. Moreover, what if he is wronged? He is not this cartoon character at all, or he has no plans, how do you plan to end it?"

Lin Zhisong finally loosened up.

He asked: "Then, Captain, what do you think?"

He Yinchuan held his head and sighed slightly at the completely unexpected situation: "First find a way to contact people from other groups."