Three-stream detection simulator

Through the graffiti on the wall, Hercule finally had some impression of the mission "Stranded Sea Monkey and Fallen Fishing Boat".

But what can you say to a cat? Nothing. The Devourer disliked his slow walking, so Hercule simply gave up control of his limbs and only occupied the cat's head, using his head to guide it to the right place.

Hercule checked the mission record while moving forward.

To trigger the "Sea Monkey and Fishing Boat" branch, the player first needs to understand the content of the three murals.

When he encountered the first mural, he was investigating the seabed map. In the background of "Third-rate Detective Simulator", due to years of war, many lands - especially the headquarters of Apocalypse Company - became unsuitable for human survival. In order to obtain more survival resources, people initially chose two methods, one up and two down, one is to colonize the universe, and the other is to go deep underground.

In the same year that the Sea Monkey began to be built according to the drawings left by the predecessors, the World Government launched the "Railway Expansion Plan". Previously, the depth of common subway stations rarely exceeded 30 meters. The core concept of the "Railway Expansion Plan" magnified this number by more than 100 times. The designers planned to build pipelines in the middle layer of the earth's crust to connect all parts of the world together in order to avoid the increasingly severe natural and man-made disasters between the atmosphere and the surface.

Hercule didn't know how to achieve this goal from a technical level. Anyway, when the player entered the game, the railway expansion plan had been basically completed.

When the "Guo Shang Guo", called the sea monkey by the players, rushed to the outside of the Milky Way, the first underground/underwater tunnel from Moscow to New York was built and put into operation. The entire journey was 7,000 kilometers, and it only took less than 30 minutes to go back and forth at full speed. With the naked eye, you can only see a silver stream of light passing in front of the platform maintained at a suitable temperature.

Since then, the underground world has become more and more connected. When the war developed to the middle stage, many cities on the continent became dead places and lost their exploration value. The railway stopped operating due to lack of passenger flow, but the central temperature control system was still active, so the abandoned tunnels built became a gathering place for many wanderers.

There are humans and androids among them. In order to avoid war, they would rather stay away from sunlight and enter this dark city where the ambient temperature will immediately reach more than 50 degrees without temperature control and oxygen circulation filtration system. They have developed unique living customs and spiritual sustenance in it.

One of them is meditation. The underground people believe that through meditation, they can reach the other side and see the ideal country full of sunshine, flowers, green trees and sea.

When playing the game, the player did not think much about it, just thought they were a group of lunatics who lived in caves for too long. But Hercule now has some doubts that they actually saw their own mental world during meditation.

Constantine has proved that humans can contact the subconscious island and the "sea" through certain psychic means, and the shape and appearance of the subconscious island are related to the core wishes and ideas of its owner. The underground people in the game live in an environment lacking light, green plants and water sources, and the subconscious island must be full of vitality.

But in the background of the game, supernatural powers no longer exist, at least Hercule never remembers any branch line mentioning magicians like Constantine. The underground people's yearning for the mental world is doomed to be in vain. They stare at the illusions that their brains spontaneously construct in the darkness, and then develop countless indescribable crazy pursuits of mirages.

Take "sea fishing" for example.

The sea fishing mentioned by the underground people is not fishing for fish, but for the sea. In the absence of systematic knowledge such as "extensive knowledge and strong memory", they believe that the boundless sea is the cornerstone of the mental world. As long as they can bring the sea fishing in their hearts to the real world, the land surrounded by the sea will also float up.

The underground people will hold regular gatherings in abandoned subway stations.

When the time comes, many people will walk through the winding and rugged dark abandoned tunnels and come to the center of the subway station where the only light remains, praying to the electronic screen projecting photos of the surface environment and the incense smell simulated by the air purification filter. After the prayer, they will have a meal, communicate, hold a market, buy daily necessities... and then follow the emergency indicator light back to the darkness.

They are not short of electricity or light bulbs, but few people are willing to take the initiative to light them.

People would rather close their eyes and imagine a paradise with the temperature of stars.

So is it the underground people who chose darkness, or darkness that chose the underground people?

The player came to the underground with such a question. He was commissioned by a surface person to find the other person's lost bionic cat - that is, "Find the Cat (I)" in the side record. In the cyber age, the advantages of bionic cats are obvious: they do not shed hair, do not vomit, do not need to see a doctor, will not come to the bed to dance in the middle of the night unless the masochistic owner deliberately sets it, and will not run around with unknown objects on their buttocks...

In short, humans would choose to raise a mechanical creation once and for all, just like the players who paid krypton gold for their electronic wives in the early years, which is excusable.

The task of finding the cat is very simple and not worth mentioning. On the first day the player went down to the underground tunnel, he turned off the computer, packed up the lost property that was running around everywhere, and mailed it to its owner.

Then Hercule began to wander in the new map. Three murals were discovered during this period, which described the process of "sea fishing" by the underground people.

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The Devouring Beast asked: "Where is the second comic strip? What is it about?"

They came to the second floor of the abandoned red building. There was nothing on the wall except spider webs. It was not so easy to find all three graffiti.

Hercule recalled slowly and said, "The first painting is a man fishing on the coast."

In fact, its meaning is to use the fisherman as bait and wait for the hook at sea. The mural in the game is a person sitting on the platform of the subway station, staring at the rails extending straight into the darkness below, making a gesture of falling but not falling.

The person who painted the second mural avoided the rails and walked upside down on the top of the tunnel in a strange posture towards the depths of darkness.

A black circular portal appeared on the third mural. The upside-down person walked in, and then the sea surged out.

The picture in the game is obviously different from the graffiti Hercule saw.

Someone deliberately "localized" it.

The reason why Hercule was sure of this was because of the unknown letters surrounding the graffiti. With the support of his lv.3 skill ‘Logical Reasoning’, his mind was very jumpy. He soon found that as long as he rearranged the latitude and longitude numbers of their location on the Hawaiian Islands - for example, 3 represents the third letter - he could get a sentence in Kryptonian language:

“Our salvation is not in heaven, not in the ground, but in everyone’s heart.”

The same statement also appeared on the Sea Monkey in the mental world, but the words left on the Sea Monkey were in English.

Since Krypton has perished, did the person on the spaceship whose name was abbreviated as J.K. learn Kryptonian language like Cat Brother’s grandmother, or was he a Kryptonian survivor who survived the planet’s doomsday like Superman? Could the murals left here be related to Superman or his enemies?

Hercules was thinking about this when the scene in front of him suddenly changed. A burst of cheers rang in his ears: “He’s awake! He’s awake! Oh my God! It’s a medical miracle!!”

…What?

Hercules had an ominous premonition and sat up suddenly, and found that he had returned to the human body and was now lying in a hospital.

There were a large group of people standing in the ward, some he knew and some he didn't. On the far left was Batman, who didn't bring Robin this time, and next to him was a beautiful black-haired woman wearing a low-cut corset and a women's suit. The director of SHIELD, standing in the middle of the room, was chatting with a bald old man in a wheelchair. Constantine, in the corner, was huddled among a group of excited white coats, and the congratulations just now were made by the white coats.

Hercule thought of a word: expert consultation.

He instantly realized that it must be Agent Bowen who did something - Constantine and Master Blight would not interfere, and the followers of the Remaining Warmth Church were unable to contact the authorities, so the only one left was Mr. Agent, who had an excessive sense of responsibility and maternal love.

The director of SHIELD said: "...Anyway, I have to thank you for your help, Professor X, on behalf of the detective and SHIELD."

The old man in the wheelchair replied gently: "It's okay, this is also a unique experience for me."

Fury: "Now that he has woken up, is there anything else to pay attention to next?"

The black-haired woman next to Batman answered him: "I noticed that his umbilical cord is still connected to another missing life, which means that his soul may leave his body again at any time... Oh! Now is the time!"

Hercules' eyes blurred, and the screams of the white coats echoed in his ears: "Come and rescue! The electrocardiogram has stopped! Oxygen supply! Defibrillator!"

The echo disappeared, and he opened his eyes in the body of the Devourer, which was spinning anxiously.

The black cat sensed his presence, and hurriedly approached the translator in shock and anger, meowing angrily, and even cursed in Earth Cat Language: "You're back! What happened just now? Are there enemies? Who is it? I'm here to help!"

Hercules, who had crossed an unknown distance, felt dizzy and dazed, and tried to speak faster, saying: "There's something wrong with my body. You put away the translator and find me at the largest hospital in Honolulu..."

Before he could finish his words, a familiar pulling feeling came from his lower abdomen.

The Yuan-devouring Beast reacted and rushed to shout: "I know, I completely understand, shit - you trick your opponent first and I'll come to save you!!"

No, Brother Cat, you misunderstood a lot.

Hercules climbed up from the bed again with a head full of ellipsis.

The same cheers were heard in his ears: "He woke up! He woke up again! How did you do it?"

Constantine said unhappily: "If the life energy is overfed, zombies can crawl out of the cemetery, not to mention that he is a living person."

The ward gradually became quiet. The irrelevant people quietly withdrew, leaving only a few big names with names.

No one spoke for a long time.

Hercule sat on the bed with an uneasy look on his face, wondering which side was more embarrassed now.

After a while, Nick Fury said to him in a hospice tone: "I heard that you trust Batman very much, so I will temporarily give your pipe and suitcase to him for safekeeping. He will return them to you after your withdrawal symptoms are relieved. You know the importance of this matter, so there is no room for negotiation.

I would like to introduce two people to you. This is Professor X, the founder of the Mutant Academy. The lady next to Batman is Zatanna Zatara, an outstanding irony magician. The professional opinions of these two people have provided great help in the process of waking you up."

Zatanna smiled at Constantine. Professor X glanced at Hercule and said, "I don't deserve it."

On the bed, the detective looked a little tired but still had sharp eyes that scanned the two strangers like an X-ray.

Then he stood up with the help of the bedside iron frame, ignored the box of pipes, and started looking for a mobile phone: "Does anyone know how to contact the aliens in Metropolis?"

After a pause, he said meaningfully to the director of SHIELD: "To thank you for your rare kindness to agents and politicians, there is another reminder. Please be careful of the abyss for the next period of time, Mr. Fury."