Why is my time traveling to the second dimension such a weird rule story?

The three of them successfully arrived at the so-called secret place without taking too long.

This is a small room at the end of the abandoned underground square, and there is a kitten imprint on the door. Goto Ichiri, who has the nickname Porchi-chan, first opened the door and looked inside. It seemed that after confirming that someone was not there, he became more decadent, and then led Gao Hai and Zhenfei inside.

"Here... that... is affected by the power of the obsession, and the sound cannot be transmitted..."

Gotou, who was the first to walk into the room, turned around and spoke to Gao Hai and Zhen Fei in a soft voice.

On the way here, the girl had already told the two of them her name. By the way, it took a total of 30 seconds to say her name.

"Well, Miss Goto, because of my intuitive trust, I think you can help us understand many things, so I ask for your help. I'm sorry to trouble you. After all, neither I nor Zhenfei have tickets to trade, I don’t know how to communicate with those players.”

Gao Hai found that the room looked like a classroom, with many tables and chairs piled in the corner. As he spoke, Gao Hai took two stools down, dusted one of them, and handed it to Zhen Fei. He just patted the other stool and sat down. As for Gotou Kazuri, she was already sitting in the only single seat in the classroom. With all the tables and chairs piled up to the back, leaving only one table and chair in the middle, Gao Hai always felt as if someone would come back here to rest from time to time. But this was not the focus right now, so he didn't pay too much attention.

"No... tickets? Hey, hey? Are you... are you the group of players at Shirakawa Apartment?"

After listening to Gao Hai's words, Goto Ichiri just continued to lower her head, but soon she realized something and suddenly raised her head to look at the two of them.

Although he seems to be a socially anxious person who is almost unable to communicate normally, can he still react quickly when faced with questions related to ghost stories? In this case, he is more or less like a veteran. I hope my choice is not wrong.

"It's like this. Zhen Fei and I are both players who have cleared Shirakawa Apartment."

Gao Hai nodded lightly and did not deny this matter.

"You actually told me directly...me, am I that trustworthy?"

The girl who didn't expect it to be unfolded in this way seemed to be greatly stimulated. She took several deep breaths before she managed to calm down. Then she stretched out her hand and pointed at herself, as if she couldn't understand Gao Hai's choice.

"That's the first impression. And, Miss Goto, do you know about [blessing]?"

After confirming that the other party always had good intentions through blessing, Gao Hai decided to be more straightforward and said directly to the girl in front of him.

"Bless...you...newcomers? Wait, blessing? Have you completed your obsession? Newcomers? Got blessings??? Wait, wait, wait...and solved the [Female Face Gang]?!"

It was really hard for Gao Hai to describe the wonderful change of expression on the girl's face at that moment.

Shock? Afraid? sad? despair? pain? Desperate to live without love? Various emotions appeared on the girl's face, as if it were a fan-shaped statistical chart, but they were crushed to pieces in an instant, as if Goto Ichiri's whole body was about to melt on the chair and turn into a mess. Mosaic on the ground.

And predictably she cried again.

"You...are not new."

Reaching out to wipe the tears on both sides of his cheeks, Goto Ichisato spoke with a trembling voice.

"Ah? Isn't it? But we have indeed just cleared the first mission."

Gao Hai didn't understand what Goto Ichiri meant. He was stunned for a moment and then spoke with some confusion.

"You...are the bosses..."

In the next sentence, Gotou Ichiri had disappeared. Ah, no, she didn't disappear. She just shrank into the cardboard box on the side of the room, and answered Gao Hai muffledly inside the box, as if she had been shocked and shut down.

By the way, when did that box appear there?

"Are you really sure it's okay to find this person?"

Concubine Zhen, who was becoming more and more confused by Pochi-chan's stream-of-consciousness performance, couldn't help but turn her head and once again expressed her doubts to Gao Hai.

"Probably, it's reliable. At least you've always been kind to us, right? Hey, Miss Goto, can you come out for a moment? It's hard for us to communicate like this."

Gao Hai, who was also very embarrassed, smiled reluctantly, and then tried to summon Goto Kazuri to continue the current conversation.

In short, after a few minutes, the three of them finally returned to their original appearance, sitting together in the middle of the classroom, looking at each other, and continuing the conversation from the beginning.

"So, this is the situation. We are in a dilemma now. We don't know what to do to get something like a newcomer's manual. So far, we have basically zero understanding of the sacrifice game. We can only rely on that voice Can we use the obsessions of those two old players as payment, Miss Goto?"

After telling them about their difficulties and confirming that Goto Ichiri, who knew these things, still had no ill intentions towards them, still had good intentions and was willing to help them, Gao Hai felt relieved and spoke out his request seriously.

But completely different from his attitude just now, Goto Ichiri became extremely serious at this time. He nodded gently to Gao Hai and Zhen Fei very solemnly, and then stood up.

Is she going to help them get the newbie manual?

Gao Hai saw her heroic look and couldn't help wondering what the girl was going to do.

Then, Gao Hai saw Goto Ichiri pick up the guitar.

Gao Hai:?

Zhenfei:?

Goto Ichiri: !!!

Ding Ding——

The slender fingers fell suddenly.

The crisp music sounded at this moment.

And Goto Ichiri, who was extremely focused, forced himself to chant, and the voice full of momentum also sounded in the ears of Gao Hai and Zhenfei.

Ding ding ding——ding ding ding ding——

“A game of sacrifice, three levels of difficulty, Dusk, Dark Night, and Red Moon~”

“Dusk simple tickets are in high demand, Dark Night troubles Red Moon and is looking for death, if you die in the dungeon, you die, and you get a ticket to escape~”

“Dark Night has a fake prompt, Red Moon has half a fake prompt, two A-levels advance, forced to stay in place and be targeted~”

“The core obsession determines the dungeon, completing the obsession destroys the game, and the obsession is out of control and all are thrown into the dungeon~”

“Spreading ashes can’t raise a corpse, purple talismans borrow lives to attract weird monsters, and the players are torn apart. Murder and arson happen every day~”

The imposing girl just played the guitar and yelled a lot of words in one breath.

To be honest, at that moment, Gao Hai was more or less shocked by this magical senior Pochi.

As for Zhenfei, who opened her mouth wide beside her, she was probably in a state of great shock, right?

By the way, did she say the rules summarized by the players in this way? Because I can't ask other people for the player manual, I just force myself to sing the information with the music I am good at?

Although the singing is okay, it always feels completely meaningless...

Gao Hai, who doesn't know how to complain, can only force himself not to show subtle expressions, and then try hard to remember what the other person sings, and try to summarize useful information from it.

Interlude 1-12: World view information is being unlocked

More than ten minutes later, in the hut.

Gao Hai closed his eyes, pondered for a moment, and then slowly opened his eyes.

"Okay, I have almost figured out the general situation."

In the Neon area, or at least the Tokyo area, there are currently less than 50 active players here. Most of them are unorganized, independent players. The only three player organizations have less than ten people.

For example, the organization [Female Face Gang] has five people, all of whom are women. They can replace and seize the existence of others through a special flesh and blood obsession obtained from a dark night-level hospital copy, and even use the seized existence to replace their own death in dangerous moments. It is an extremely powerful obsession.

This information can be regarded as a complete solution to Gao Hai's puzzlement about the operation method of the traitor woman. Now it seems that the traitor woman should have killed Maeda Miwa and seized her existence with the obsession, and then disguised as Maeda Miwa. The so-called [Maeda Miwa whose death turned into a knocking ghost story] in the first and second rounds is the traitor woman releasing the existence she seized, so that it replaced herself and was attacked and killed by the ghost story, so as to achieve a means of deceiving others.

In a sense, it can be said that if Gao Hai did not take immediate action to kill the traitor woman in the third round, after she completed the existence seizure, he would have to do it twice if he wanted to kill her again. The variables in this are quite large. If it really comes to that situation, it is hard to say whether everything can be successfully ended in the third round.

As for the reason why Gao Hai did not find this obsession when he killed the traitor, it is also very simple. Just like the name of this thing [Substitute Flesh and Blood], to use this thing, you must swallow it and let such a wriggling mass of flesh and blood occupy a certain part of your body. Even if the host dies, this obsession will not exist without the host, but will eat it up from the inside little by little until only a human skin is left, and then control this human skin to enter a state of loss of control and return to the ghost story copy.

That's right, Gao Hai has understood from Goto Ichiri what will happen if the obsession loses control in the real world, that is, [Return to the Ghost Story World].

If the obsession used by the player loses control in the copy, the weirdness corresponding to the obsession will be summoned to the current copy, causing the copy to become more dangerous. If the obsession loses control in the real world, it will disappear in about five to ten minutes, and swallow up the people and things affected by it after the obsession loses control, and all are sent to the copy world corresponding to the obsession.

Considering that obsession objects seem to have a shielding effect on ordinary people's cognition, this can better explain why there are no large-scale supernatural events in the real world.

No, it should be said that there are no large-scale supernatural events for the time being...

Gao Hai couldn't help but think of those things floating in various places.

"It's really hard to believe that there are such disgusting obsession objects. No wonder people who accept such things are so crazy."

Zhenfei, who was sitting next to Gao Hai, sighed softly and showed a disgusted expression.

The power of [substitute flesh and blood] is powerful, but the side effects are also obvious. The user of the replaced flesh and blood will have a desire for new flesh and blood of the same kind, and the character will be greatly distorted. And the longer this obsession is used, the body will The more serious abnormal changes occur. Even an ordinary person who was originally normal would inevitably turn into a bloodthirsty and cruel madman after using this thing. Even this thing cannot be returned. If you use it once, it will be with you for life. There is no way to get rid of it except death.

"This is the standard heinous player villain camp, and they have already formed a quarrel with us. These grandchildren have the same hatred. After killing one of them, the remaining four want to come to us. And they have already been killed. Maeda Miwa, I’m afraid they already have a basic understanding of our information. But if they really have our information, shouldn’t they just come to our door? Why hasn’t there been any movement yet?”

Gao Hai is not afraid of this so-called [Female Face Gang]. Killing one is a killing, killing five is a killing. As long as it is not a beautiful girl like the real concubine Kaguya Koboki who treats him kindly, he will not kill several Gao Hai. It will hurt. He just doesn't quite understand the current situation. Since the other party can quickly find Maeda Miwa and kill people, it proves that he still has the ability. But judging from the previous performance in the mall, the people of the [Female Noodle Gang] don't seem to have mastered Gao Haisan at all. People's intelligence is so great that they even hire people to conduct testing in the market.

Is it possible that a group of psychopathic veteran players can't even pry open the mouth of a loser?

Gao Hai became more and more confused.

However, from Gao Hai's personal perspective, it is normal to feel confused due to insufficient information.

Naturally, he would not know how angry the four members of the [Female Face Gang] are now, and how deeply confused they are because they cannot obtain information.

Maeda Miwa is indeed not a strict-tongued person.

In fact, after surviving Shirakawa Apartment, this woman almost immediately ran to the hotel, drank and caroused drunkenly, vented the fear accumulated in the death apartment, and talked about the things about Shirakawa Apartment everywhere, The result was immediately known to the [Female Face Gang] members who happened to be in that hotel.

It doesn't matter how bloody the subsequent interrogation process is, but Maeda Miwa's mouth, which was originally thought to be easy to pry open, failed to give the information that the [Female Mask Gang] wanted. The reason why this happens is simple:

Before Maeda Miwa was discovered by the [Female Mask Gang], she had already taken five times the amount of hallucinogens.

This drug, which has recently emerged in neon, is extracted from a certain poisonous mushroom and can bring about a strong sense of excitement, causing users to fall into blurred hallucinations. Although the Metropolitan Police Department has been vigorously suppressing it, there are still a lot of hallucinogens circulating in various sensual places.

Miwa Maeda, who had experienced the ups and downs of the life-and-death crisis in the Shirakawa Apartment, just knocked on this thing without hesitation in order to vent her anger. She drove herself half crazy on the spot and couldn't even answer [Female Noodle Gang] with a coherent sentence. Coupled with the corrosive effect of [substitute flesh and blood], this group of players was already extremely violent and cruel. The interrogator couldn't help but kill Maeda Miwa on the spot. He left the scene feeling angry and began to look for other ways to find Shirakawa Apartment. of participants.

Although the [Female Face Gang] is indeed making great efforts to find someone, even they themselves feel that there is little hope at present. After all, the players participating in the dungeon come from all over the world, and there are not many places where the power of their small gang can reach, so now they are more inclined to do this kind of thing done by an old player, and the main direction of investigation is Went in the direction of some secret information sellers. On the market side, they just hired two people to talk about relevant information over and over again to attract attention, and to see if they could find any clues.

"Anyway, just keep a low profile during this period."

Gao Hai finally said this.

The number of active players in Neon as a whole does not exceed 300, while the number of active players in the world is around 2,000. At least the number of registered users in the global player network that only players can browse, and that ordinary people will ignore because of the influence of obsessional objects and cannot click in, is about two thousand. Goto Kazuri informed Gao Hai and Zhen Fei of this information, and gave them the website address of the network, allowing them to completely connect with the player community.

As Gao Hai guessed at the beginning, [Admission Ticket] is a prop obtained by players after clearing the instance normally. This thing is essentially an invisible floating object that can only be seen by the holder. It can be summoned at any time to carry out activities. Confirm that ownership transfers are only possible when facing other players within two meters of each other. If you want to use it, you have to use it when the dungeon is opened once a month. After use, it can replace the dungeon arranged by the sacrifice game, which is a way to reduce unknowns and increase the probability of survival.

There is a huge demand for [Admission Tickets] among veteran players, especially Dusk Level [Admission Tickets]. Dark Night-level missions are extremely difficult and can be said to be a narrow escape; Red Moon-level missions are even more shocking, and even top-level players can only barely survive at best. The Sacrifice game will not care about you so much. As long as it achieves two A-level difficulty evaluations, its next mission will definitely arrange a higher-level mission. Therefore, [Admission Ticket] has become a life-saving thing for many old players.

However, this method has its limits. Although Goto Ichiri has not experienced it herself, she learned from the old player who led her through the game that no matter whether she has obtained two A-level dungeon evaluations of the same difficulty, as long as she has cleared the game at a certain level five times in a row, she will start to be targeted the next time she enters the mission of this level. If she refuses to change the dungeon level after being targeted, then this targeting will become more and more obvious, and it will become more and more difficult to clear the game.

For example, other players who play normally will be given an identity by the dungeon, and can use this identity to find their own position and the rules they need to abide by. The old players who are targeted will enter the dungeon in a state of [no identity] or even [identity confusion]. For example, Lao Guo, he cannot obtain the identity of [tenant] like Kaguya Maki and others, and will be directly judged as a hostile target and beaten by the corpses in the house.

And if Lao Guo survives the Shirakawa Apartment dungeon and continues to participate in this dungeon repeatedly, he will be more severely targeted because of his continuous participation in the Dusk-level dungeon. Maybe he will appear directly on the 3rd floor surrounded by porcelain dolls and footsteps, maybe he will sit in the living room of 109 at the beginning and face the opened diary with the little girl's name directly in front of his face, or even be thrown into 304 at the beginning to face the beastly parents who have now become fuel.

There is only one way to get rid of this targeting, that is to participate in other difficult copies, such as the Dark Night level, of course, you can also challenge the Red Moon level. But for most players, the danger of the Dark Night level copy is enough to discourage people, so unless they are targeted to the point where they can't play at all in the dead end at the beginning, old players would rather continue to stay in the Dusk level despite all kinds of malicious targeting.

As for why the Dark Night level makes old players so discouraged...

Gao Hai looked at Goto Ichiri, wanting to seek her advice.

The pink-haired girl nodded seriously and then took out the guitar again.

"No, can you explain it in a normal way?"

Gao Hai, who really didn't want to hear that weird singing again, raised his hand and suggested.

So Goto Ichiri put the guitar back with tears in his eyes.

This kid, although he always has a sad face in the animation, he shouldn't cry so easily, right?

In short, after spending some time, Gao Hai finally learned from Goto Ichiri what the specific differences are between the three difficulty levels of the Sacrifice Game.

First of all, as a common point of all games, there will be four game prompts, and this prompt is often related to the core obsession of the game.

As the simplest Dusk-level game in the Sacrifice Game, there must be only one core obsession in its copy, and its four game prompts must be true. In other words, the root of the birth of each Dusk-level game is derived from the obsession of a certain person, and the player will receive four related prompts at the beginning. As long as the information of the core of this obsession is confirmed, it can be used to try to infer the relevant clearance method, or even try to seize the core obsession object.

As for the second-level Dark Night-level game, in addition to the feature that there must be a false prompt among the four game prompts, a total of three different situations have been summarized so far.

In the first case, the Dark Night game is the same as the Dusk game, with only one copy core, but the time changes in this copy often last for more than a few decades, and there will be a large number of obsessions of the dead mixed in it, making it extremely difficult to find the core. This situation is the most common and simplest one in the Dark Night game.

The second type of Dark Night difficulty has two or three core obsessions. This type of copy is no longer composed of a single core, and different obsessions begin to appear stacked and invisible. It is a high-risk difficulty that is enough to be called a Dark Night freeze. Every known dual-core and triple-core Dark Night copy is a terrifying thing that players avoid.

In addition, there is a third type of Dark Night game, and this type of Dark Night game is usually not considered a Dark Night game, because in fact, this Dark Night game is downgraded from the Red Moon level. When a Red Moon game has one or more core obsessions taken away for various reasons, causing the copy difficulty to decline, this Red Moon game will be downgraded and reclassified as a Dark Night game. However, although the difficulty has been reduced, the rules and difficulty of this type of dungeon, and the complexity and danger of the situation are still Red Moon level. Even extremely powerful players still find it difficult to survive in this type of dungeon, so this type of dungeon is called Pseudo Red Moon level by players.

As for the real Red Moon level game, Goto Ichiri knows very little. She has not come into contact with games of this level, and even among the senior players she knows, no one has walked out of this game alive. The only thing we know at present is that a Dark Night level dungeon called [School Incredible] by players was once ranked Red Moon level, and a total of 8 different core obsessions were discovered by players in that dungeon, but later a player managed to take away three core obsessions from that dungeon, resulting in the dungeon being downgraded to Dark Night level.

When it comes to core obsessions, Gao Hai finally knows that in the current player network, many players who have passed the game have found that the Dusk level dungeon of Shirakawa Apartment has a tendency to be fixed as early as three months ago, and this dungeon happens to be the only dungeon that is about to be fixed during this period. Therefore, once Gao Hai and others who passed the copy but did not have an admission ticket are exposed, people with ulterior motives will immediately associate it with this copy.

As for the blessing of the spirits that Gao Hai and the other two obtained, this thing is actually a different system from the core obsession. The player who took away the core obsession actually used the normal way to pass the level, but only took away the core obsession. After taking away the core obsession, before the obsession goes out of control, the copy where the core obsession was taken away will be in a [locked] state and cannot be entered. And to obtain the blessing of the spirit, it is necessary to satisfy the core obsession of the copy, find its flaws and destroy the entire copy. In this case, the admission ticket will be directly invalidated instead of being displayed as temporarily unusable. Therefore, it is easy for other players to know which copy has been taken away and the core obsession has been broken, unless it is a newly appeared copy that no one has entered.

"Although that's the case... However, Shirakawa Apartment has long been suspected and may be upgraded to the Dark Night level, so few people are willing to go there. How did you... that... pass the level?"

Although it was a hardship every time he spoke, Goto Ichiri couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Well, hard work?"

After thinking for a while, Gao Hai tried to give such an answer.