Path of the Dead Prequel: Wings of Silver

The sky was covered with dark clouds and very dark. It was completely different from the warmth of the sunset just now. The overcast rain was swept away by the flowing wind, like a woman lifting her bangs hanging in front of her eyes. The water droplets hit the window glass from sparse to dense, and a pattering noise began to come from her ears.

The moment Sister Di and I walked into the small bedroom, the rain had already started to fall. Of course, we didn't know that it was connected to the hotel flood. When I opened the door, I not only screamed, but also pointed at the big room and was speechless. This was because the scene in front of him was exactly the scene of a struggle in a nightmare. The bedside table was kicked over and the small milky white door was knocked crooked. I once wrestled with a ridiculously tall, monstrous woman here and was thrown violently out of her. Even the wooden floor was still stained with the filth dripping from her mouth.

And when he looked at the bed, it was even more unsightly. Whether it was the square pillow or the sheets, there were thick lumps of black dirt. There was also a piece of tooth-yellow linen pajamas discarded in the corner, with the hem almost completely covered with them.

Could this be the first dream? I quickly walked to the other side of the bed and quickly found the classic perfume bottle among the linens. As expected.

Since being dragged into the Sunset, all experiences will be completely forgotten after entering the next round of nightmare, so we have to rely on clues to piece together the clues. And this initial dream may be the beginning and the end. Sister Di asked me to put it aside for the time being. After careful inspection, I found another set of ink marks. For some reason, they were melted by water and appeared blurry. After transcribing them, they roughly read the following sentences:

"Poison, black rocks grew inside the door, mountains and valleys and waterfalls appeared. The impurities themselves were blue, with no trace of witchcraft, hanging upside down, education problems, purple-green broken footsteps."

The two of us searched all over our bodies to make sure nothing was missing, then we grabbed the sticky notes and started studying them.

"It seemed that in previous rounds we had traveled further afield, and none of the things in the records had appeared. At that time, we thought it was necessary, so we wrote it on our bodies, but for some reason we were still dead, so we were teleported back to this big room again."As she spoke, she came to the window and picked up the jute pajamas, sniffed it close to her nose, and frowned at the same time, saying:"This is vomit, and there is a lot of hair loss. The body of the woman you saw in the dream is... Very weak?"

"Her steps were stumbling, and her mouth was dripping with saliva mixed with various filth. From a distance, it looked like she was spitting out a long tongue, which was really scary. The man was unconscious, his neck was crooked, and he appeared top-heavy. All in all, I'm in a very bad state, but it's still more than enough to beat me up."

"Judging from these characteristics, she was probably poisoned." Sister Di looked around, and suddenly pointed at the glass water glass that had fallen to the ground and said,"Over there, do you see it? A small half puddle of water damage and some pills. Maybe this person has severe insomnia, so he takes Valium before going to bed. He feels uncomfortable and gets up to go to the bathroom to vomit, but he bumps into you sneaking in."

The poison in the clue may refer to this. Through the investigation of the water stains, Sister Di believed that it was thallium poisoning. The water was filled with the colorless and odorless poison sodium acid, which caused the person to feel extremely uncomfortable. When he sat on the bed, She started to vomit violently. Therefore, I originally thought that she heard the noise and misunderstood that there was a burglar in the house. It was a pure misjudgment. This reflected a message, that is, shortly after the haggard woman fell asleep, an acquaintance came to the house and took advantage of her. Unprepared, secretly poisoned the water glass

"It can be seen from this that the disappearance of the guests who lived in the Fruit Core Hotel earlier than 1972 should have happened during the period of Volkswagen Travel Agency. No one knows whether room 0514 was used for tourists at that time. Or rent it to others as a residence. In short, based on what we have seen so far, it is a rental house that was converted into a home by the woman, so the detective's reasoning is correct, and the source of the strange things lies here."

At this moment, the process started to trigger again. Water began to pour in everywhere in the house. There was also the sound of someone walking and coughing from the direction of the living room. The whole building tilted like an iceberg and a shipwreck. What is described in the record , come in droves as expected

"I had never expected this. What should I do next? I listen to you."Faced with the great changes, I was a little panicked.

"Get out of here first, then why do you listen to me? It seems like you are the one who broke into the Sunset to save me."She covered her mouth and snickered inappropriately, pushing me back to the smoking room.

"Well, that’s what I thought before I revealed my secret. But after getting to know each other, I realized that you are the one I can rely on."I sighed sadly and said:"If we still can't escape death this time, then when we wake up next time, we will no longer remember this. In the past, I was not willing to believe this kind of thing, but now I have learned the lesson myself."

"Have you experienced it? Is it something similar?"She looked very interested and asked curiously

"No, it's another thing, like an unsolved cold case or something, and that's why the detectives come to us to work with us."I rubbed my face and briefly described the contents of Freesia in Lycu's ancient yin house, and lamented:"She is locked in purgatory that I still can't find a way to enter, but I don't know her at all, but She cried every day in that hellish place and was already going crazy."

I thought it was difficult for her to understand, but Sister Di blinked and said something as profound as Fan Pang. She said: In the material world, everything we come into contact with has volume, temperature, and weight. Therefore, the senses are divided into front and back, and there are cognitions of past, present, and future; but in the non-material world, they are ideological things, so there is no concept of time. It is like a wooden door. When you are still there, Before opening it, the room is closed to all possibilities, and it is constantly changing. Therefore, behind the door can be the past, the present, or even the future that has not yet been experienced.

"How do you understand such heresies? Not only was I suspicious, but I asked,"Is it easier for you to do research in private?""

"Is it amazing? In fact, they are all basic knowledge. This is not a heresy, but a conclusion drawn from various experiments. Of course, some are still in the hypothesis stage and have not yet been verified. Some people love research, some people find it boring. Because of my work, I usually come into contact with various people, so I use my spare time to recharge so as not to be left in the dark."

"So you want to believe what I'm describing? You don't think there's something wrong with my mind, do you?"

"Of course, some things, like genes, happen before they happen. Emotions arising from forgotten experiences are deeply imprinted in the heart. It's like I heard you say those words and had incomprehensible emotions. Even if you want to make me feel disgusted, I can't hate you. She pointed to the spot where the detective had stood in the past and said,"Do you still remember Desmond once teased me and said that if you experience it a few more times, you won't be afraid of anything anymore?" It was incredible and I felt so much bolder. And what I just copied from you, the issue of education, I couldn’t understand at first, but now I can understand it, that’s exactly what I want to say now"

"educated? What did you write on me? Who is educated? I am just an uneducated person."I grinned and replied

"If you can successfully escape from the magic sun, I want to help you complete your studies. You have lost the opportunity to grow normally, so you think that I am just like that fat man. Talking about these popular concepts seems to be very profound, and he is just showing off. There are many examples of self-taught students, but without the discipline of higher education, you will have a wild and unfettered imagination, and you will be easily deceived. It is not too late when you are still young. Why do I suddenly have thoughts? Maybe something equally important happened, but the memory was erased."She was talking meaningfully, when suddenly she pointed at her feet and shouted:"Don't just talk, look, there are footprints."

I took a quick look, and sure enough, a set of faint dirt footprints appeared crookedly on the wooden floor. They were supposed to be left by a haggard woman stepping on vomit. They extended all the way to the front door of the living room. I grabbed the copper handle. Looking back at her, Sister Di nodded to express that she was ready. I opened the door and was immediately shocked by what I saw.

All the doors of the guest rooms on the fifth floor fell to the ground, sinking and falling with the water. It was floating, and the rugged black rocks appeared out of nowhere in the guest rooms, as if someone had wrapped the entire mountain with houses. I was about to drag her up the stairs to the sixth floor, but I was dragged by Sister Di. She pointed Behind us, he motioned for me to look. They were the footprints that went around the door and went behind us.

Since I was so familiar with the fifth floor of Guoki, I instinctively looked to the right when I put my head out, so I never paid attention to what was behind me. However, At this moment, there is an extra stairwell in the corridor where the transom used to be for people to smoke. The haggard woman who left the house was holding on to the wall and went to that end. This small change is quite surprising to those who are not familiar with the hotel. Sister Di discovered at a glance

"Since all the news about beheadings is emerging, we can’t go wrong by following it. Instead, she grabbed my hand, nodded, and said with a wry smile:"I don't know where this feeling comes from, but I have the urge to protect you and witness more impossibilities." Whatever you see, take note of it. Besson, we can definitely turn this crisis into good."

Walking into this newly opened walkway, it turned out to be an emergency fire escape. Purple-green footprints lingered in front of the platform for a few steps, and then stumbled all the way down. The walls along the way were covered with dripping vomit. It can be seen that at that time, The man was eager to leave. It was impossible for anyone to choose to go downstairs. The flood water spread from bottom to top, and going down was equivalent to plunging into the water.

Sure enough, just after walking down the turning staircase, the sewage had already swallowed up the third floor. stairs, and began to climb up at the speed of light. At this moment, the hotel was tilted at 60 degrees, like a ship's stern that was broken and tilted by water pressure, and would sink underwater at any time. Endless rocks broke through the stone walls one after another, like Barbs like canine teeth came in, and the narrow stairs became more and more cramped, and people had to cross the body to barely pass. Looking at this dark green stinking water, I couldn't help but stop and began to hesitate whether to continue going down.

"There is nothing to worry about, the worst that can happen is that you will die again. However, we have recorded it in detail, and even marked it on our bodies just in case, so we will no longer be as hesitant as in the past." Before she finished speaking, she set an example and plunged into the water.

"You wait first."Before I came back to my senses, she had disappeared on the other side of the sewage. So I had to grit my teeth and chase after her. I didn't expect to be choked immediately after entering the water. The smelly water was bitter and salty, and it didn't come from any pipe at all. It exploded, but it was sea water!

Sister Di's figure became increasingly blurry in the impurity-filled water, with only a rough outline. She followed the safety door and dragged into the floor, and began to wave to me frequently to sneak towards the corridor, her figure was flexible She looked like a mermaid. And I had almost never really swam in the sea. I used to go to the beach just for food. My eyes were so red and sore that it was almost difficult to open them. Seeing this, Dixie swam back quickly and opened her mouth. He spit out a lot of blisters and saw that I was still fishing in the water. He grabbed his wrist, then held his waist and paddled with me. In this way, we came to the passenger elevator on the floor.

Looking around, where is this? I don't remember this kind of place. The whole field of vision is completely upside down, like you are backstroke in the sea. The surrounding walls have been replaced by black rocks, and there are many blue lichens growing on the strange rocks. Only the surrounding The various floating door panels and newspaper stands told me that this was still somewhere in the hotel.

With a clear ringtone, the elevator door slowly opened. It was incredible that this machine could operate freely in the water. This It was where Sister Di was parked before. She left a wall clock and the elevator that could only go down on the note. It can be said that she was familiar with the road. I was almost pushed in by her, and as soon as I passed the door, I was stunned. I fell on the welcome square carpet. The most shocking thing is that this small space is actually very dry, as if there is an invisible film blocking the raging water.

"Don't you know how to swim? Fortunately, I passed the International First Responder Level 2 license. Panting, she leaned against the railing and began to twist her long wet hair, saying,"This smell is both bitter and astringent, and there are so many sediments. It must be from the deep sea.""

"If you go further down, you may reach the abyss of the trench. Is that okay? Also, how do you tell if this is deep water?"

"Because the water flow is slow and the fluctuations are stable, the temperature is particularly low. The seawater in the shallow sea area has strong light transmittance and does not have so much sediment. You see, these soot-like debris are insoluble debris after deep-sea fish excrete."She responded hurriedly, holding my hand that wanted to press the button, indicating that the elevator would decide where to take us.

Ten seconds later, the door was closed again, and the floor keypad began to flash crazily. It was like an invisible person was pressing the buttons randomly, and finally it stopped in the basement of B2 and started to run slowly. In reality, this elevator does not exist, and even if it did, it would not go down to the basement, because it is a cold storage for storing meat. and the equipment room for emergency coal-fired power generation.

In her spare time, she talked to me about her interpretation of dreams. Sister Di believes that if reality is a realistic movie, then dreams are paintings based on this. Dreams will appear in a reasonable Under the logic of the art, reality is modified into another level of art, virtuality and other elements are mixed in, so you will see extremely tall people, exaggerated faces, and unabashed emotional outbursts. All kinds of irrationality are put together, but It also makes people feel that it has traces to follow. Under the guidance of dreams, it shows its necessary rationality.

Therefore, the definition of dreams lies in your ability to understand a scene hypothesis that is not excessive to the senses, so that people It’s hard to distinguish between true and false if you’re stuck in it. A specialized organization has conducted detailed clinical observations on 150 volunteers. The data shows that they will have reactions such as increased heart rate, hormone secretion, and adrenaline surge during sleep. This means that people are in a dream. There are feelings and emotions in dreams. However, human research on dreams is still very superficial and is often confused with mysticism.

I am not as knowledgeable and eloquent as she is, so I can only tilt my head and listen to her chatter. The result only lasted After a few minutes, Sister Di gradually became unstable. The elevator was always descending at a constant speed, and it was endless, as if it was entering an underground tunnel. Not only that, everything around it was changing, and the narrow space was surrounded by various strange reefs. Instead, the floor under your feet turned into a millstone, with many sea slugs flying around.

"Is this also logical and shows its necessary rationality?"Both of us were shivering because we were soaked to the skin and blown by the cold wind. I trembled with purple lips and asked her teasingly:"We are heading to the trench, so be prepared to die again."

About half a minute later, the falling stone plate slowed down and finally stopped at the bottom of a cliff. The whole environment seemed very dark, making the sea slugs floating in the air translucent. These molluscs flowed along the air and moved forward one after another. He moved slowly, like a lantern guiding the way. The sound of the tide kept coming to his ears, the drizzle was coming, the air was clear and humid, and there were thick lichen coiled under his feet. Everything showed that we were in the middle of nowhere at this moment. At the bottom of a canyon soaked in wet mist

"Those are not slugs but sea angels. Follow them closely. It’s unbelievable. Why are they floating in the air? And this is inland, where does the sea come from? Sister Di pointed at the strange reef like fangs and barbs and asked me to see it. She said:"The thick and dry stone color and the accumulation of sediment all prove that it is a reef in the trench, and the air There's a spicy smell, the smell of pig iron."

Seeing the glowing sea angel swimming further and further away, I started to catch up quickly. Unexpectedly, I kicked off my legs and, like walking on the moon, my whole body floated into the air and slid seven or eight meters away. She also started to jump. , swimming side by side with me in mid-air. This anti-physical phenomenon gave Sister Di a new perspective. She believed that the canyon was actually a highly oxidized mantle bubble.