Chapter 70 She Was Alive

Annan felt something was wrong at first.

The difficulty of this nightmare is outrageous, and you will die if you are not careful, and there is no warning;

While it is full of difficult "mechanical kills", it also has to go through a long process of walking simulators like deliberately burning cards, and each time it dies, it will only increase a very small amount of erosion.

It's just like precision.

It looks as if the person who has entered the nightmare will be killed by the delay...

Its part close to the fairy tale is screaming desperately, forcing others to escape.

And it's dying so often, and it can't be kicked out after dying a few times...

——The essence of this contradiction is because the "merciful" part and the "vicious" part are really two people controlling it!

Twisted Nightmare is called a Twisted Class because of its "special properties".

Such as [replay], such as [recollection], such as [dream], such as [cobweb].

The power of the element is the extraordinary power from the virtual world. And the special property is the extraordinary power of the dream world.

Ordinary nightmares draw curses by killing mortals, and they can gradually become hard grades with ease; even if they are left alone, they will gradually expand to hard grades.

But the hard level must kill enough and powerful superhumans to become the twisted level.

Because it lacks [special properties]. And the special nature can only be transformed by the power of the elements of the dead.

The special nature of nightmares is the special power that nightmares use to invade and transform the world. Only nightmares with special properties can become power after being purified by superhumans of the golden rank.

In order to advance the difficult nightmare, you must possess special properties... but it is not enough to have special properties.

Because the concentration of curse power is not enough.

Why is the durability of artificial nightmares so low, while the durability of nightmares from natural death is high?

Because "durability" is the "material" that creates nightmares!

experience needed to level up,

It wasn't conjured out of thin air... The nightmare of the deceased has high durability because he is really dead. Most curses of the soul turn into nightmares.

And the curse required for artificial nightmares is to be paid by the "artisan" himself.

The higher the durability, the more curses it will cost. There's only a little bit of a durable nightmare, which means it's just an empty shell with a condensed curse inside - just a testament to the mastery of craftsmanship.

There is no doubt that Alice cannot have the power of the elements.

Her mother is just an ordinary silver rank.

At the beginning of the birth of this nightmare, I am afraid it only has the "cobweb" feature.

As long as you enter the nightmare, you will directly come to the sporozoite mill.

And inside the mill, it's an endless cycle of death - you'll die if you touch anything, you'll die if you're standing, and there's no safe spot. If you die once, it will definitely not only increase the erosion rate of 1%... but it will increase as much as you can.

Like the malicious cat Mario designer, Grover's only purpose is to kill him.

His purpose is to "hunt".

The ritual that constitutes "Nightmare: Spore Mill" is also considered to be the spore poison bestowed by the Black Widow.

It wasn't the lumberjacks or the Alice family that he really wanted to sacrifice.

——But the superhumans who were trying to purify this nightmare, but were hunted!

They died of excessive erosion - if the superhuman dies in a nightmare, it will not produce new nightmares, but will be completely swallowed up by the nightmares that kill themselves. As in "Nightmare: The Gallery".

This soul is the "proof of poisoning", the trophy he dedicated to Black Widow!

Who would have thought that this nightmare was manipulated and intentionally killed to get the curse -- or "experience"?

It is a difficult-level nightmare on the surface, but it has the special properties of a highly difficult "distorted-level" nightmare!

And it's the hardest one!

After murdering many superhumans, he got a lot of curse power from superhuman souls. Just the share that Alice received as the core of the nightmare made it advanced to a twisted nightmare.

This must be something Grover didn't want.

Because it has become a distortion level, it means that the number of silver-level superhumans who will come to challenge this nightmare is greatly reduced; the possibility of being defeated by the real powerhouse is increased.

And, Nightmare gave birth to its own characteristics when it advanced.

——[Dream] belonging to Alice.

According to Nefertari's records, this nightmare has already killed many people at the difficulty level. Among them, there are also high-ranking Transcendents - at that time, I am afraid that if you die once, the erosion will increase by 10% or more.

This makes it directly sealed after it becomes a distortion level. No one dared to challenge it again.

But if a survivor enters again, he will be surprised to find that the content of the nightmare has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Alice throws the people who have entered the nightmare into the dense forest, lengthens the path forward, and prolongs the one-time death time, preventing them from entering the mill before dawn.

Her purpose is to procrastinate.

After turning into a twisted class, Alice and Grover have a part of the nightmare control. And Alice's authority is significantly lower than Grover's.

But within the scope of her ability, she has been working hard to intercept those who enter the nightmare!

The purpose is to keep them from reaching the mill!

As Alice said.

[A bystander is no different from a perpetrator, and both should be cast aside]

At first, she was referring to no one else.

but yourself.

——She will never allow herself to stand by while others do evil!

The land at the foot of Annan.

This narrow piece of land less than ten square meters...is the isolated island that Alice can protect with all her strength.

"Hey."

Annan raised his head and looked at the giant spider that was poisoning the land under Annan's feet in a fair and honest way.

After being called by Annan, Grover glanced at him, and then resumed the work at hand.

It is the manifestation of the "cobweb" and naturally cannot enter the realm of "dream".

The moment they pass by, I am afraid they will become harmless fairy tale creatures.

——But Alice herself is not an extraordinary person.

The power she possesses is extremely weak.

Although she was still alive before she was made into a nightmare.

Just like the hint of the little bear.

Severed limbs, hollowed out belly - stuffed with spores, nightmares with the worst grudges of the dying.

Of course it doesn't last long.

She died shortly after the nightmare was created.

As an ordinary person, she cannot stay awake in nightmares. Even in his own nightmares.

But even an ambiguous will has the instinct to "never stand idly by."

Like a candle in the wind.

A clumsy, subtle, pitiful flame that could go out at any moment.

Grover didn't bother to pay attention to her because even the person killed by Alice would become his strength... As long as Alice doesn't drive people away in an open and honest way, it's only a matter of efficiency for him.

There is no need to destroy "Alice".

His hunting ground is not only this one.

An automatic killing mechanism that lures supernatural beings who don't know the truth to send them to death, and produces an endless stream of "food" - as long as it is purified once, it will end naturally. No hands or feet will be left, no evidence will be left behind.

But now it's different.

【Do you want to protect him】

The spider rustled and laughed.

The earth is already oozing dark green light.

But Annan could hear it clearly... that ridicule was a well-covered fear and fear.

He knew this feeling all too well.

Like the feeling of a murderer longing for peace, when his identity is about to be revealed...

- Grover was frightened.

Under Annan's piercing eyes, he was terrified.

【Let's die here】

The spider screamed.

Near the edge of the spider web, it has begun to gradually melt and collapse.

【You will never wake up】

【What a good ending】

【What a gentle and happy death】

Spreading at Annan's feet is a vicious poison that can kill even the illusory concept of "earth" and "dream".

click.

Annan slowly opened the insurance.

If a spider could laugh, it would laugh out loud.

[Your poor pistol, what can you do? 】

【You have no silver coins and no gold dust】

[There is nothing with a quantity of 7 here, and there is no other person here]

[No burning coals, no cups, and no moths]

[You don't have any rituals, any magic can be used]

[You might as well come out, if possible, I don't want to destroy "Alice"]

[You better jump into the abyss, you will die ignorantly]

"It's really long-winded."

Annan slowly raised his head.

He looked at the spider who had returned to his eight eyes.

The corners of his mouth rose: "What are you afraid of?

"Yes... are you afraid of me?"

Annan pulled his left hand out of his arms.

It was indeed empty, not holding anything.

All he had in his pocket was a poor knife.

"If I die here, I really die...

"—If you die here, will you die too?"

Annan's mouth became more and more open.

He wanted to laugh, very much.

But there was no smile in his eyes.

This is……

Am I angry?

I'm pissed.

So Annan spoke.

He uttered words that are difficult for humans to spit and incomprehensible:

"...The word 'winter' was born before the four seasons, and even before the birth of light and fire."

The moment his words landed.

The process of "poison" eroding the "earth" was terminated.

Because at this moment-

The earth, the spiders, the cobwebs—everything I saw was covered in silent snow in the blink of an eye.