Super Righteous Player
Chapter 683 - 224 Each’s Identity_1

Chapter 683: Chapter 224 Each’s Identity_1

Unforgotten Item?

The one not in the dream?

"What the hell is that..."

Longjing Tea frowned deeply.

...If there really were something that couldn’t be forgotten, then Longjing Tea should possess memories of it by now. But he didn’t remember any such thing.

This indicated, at the very least, he had not come into contact with such an item.

And if this "one not in the dream" had been with them before but had not fallen into this nightmare... then how would they find him within the nightmare?

"...Do you have any clue about these tasks?"

Longjing Tea turned and asked Flavorful Goose in a low voice.

"Clue? I don’t even have a pig’s head,"

Flavorful Goose answered without mincing words, "I’m already on the third loop... This time I found Skeleton Duke and Elle in record time, but it was still no use.

"You might have to be the one to find us next time. Remember... I am the master of ’Huazhuang Sword Pavilion’ on the east side of the city, Defu is in the wild jungle on the eastern outskirts, and at three-thirty in the afternoon, Elle and Skeleton Duke will appear here at the same time—"

"My role, it seems, is that of an artist,"

Elle answered, "I came here seeking inspiration... If nothing goes wrong, I should have met Miss Defu."

"I heard from Sky Song that when he first found me, I was with Miss Elle."

Defu elegantly crouched on the ground, lazily waving her tail, and answered calmly, "But there’s a problem—if you don’t find us before three-thirty, it’s not so easy to locate Skeleton Duke."

"However, if you really miss catching him... it’s not too complicated," Flavorful Goose added, "Previously, we found Skeleton Duke through your connection."

"Me?"

"Yes, you. Longjing Tea here finally became a Dragon Police. The police station has something driven by the Prophet’s magic, similar to a monitoring room, that can use artificial intelligence to automatically locate individuals. Skeleton Duke was scanned out by this thing,"

Flavorful Goose answered.

"Wait a moment," Longjing Tea was somewhat puzzled, "Is he really Skeleton Duke? And... why do you need to catch him?"

"Honestly, I don’t know. But he must be Skeleton Duke, right? I think he might be the key to this nightmare, so I just captured him first,"

Flavorful Goose replied sincerely, "We had help from a centaur before, who said this kid was Skeleton Duke. I wanted to catch this guy and force some information out of him, but I didn’t expect him to become NPCified..."

"I don’t know any Skeleton Duke..."

The white-haired boy in a shirt struggled to escape from Flavorful Goose’s palm, "Let me go..."

But he was quickly smacked hard on the back of his head by Flavorful Goose.

He felt dizzy for a moment—it was possible he was already smacked to death and then reset by having his hostility rekindled. It seemed he completely forgot about Flavorful Goose attacking him directly, and just obediently stayed in place.

"...This AI is weird, too."

Longjing Tea pondered, "It feels real but eerily mechanical; yet, if you say it’s mechanical, they indeed possess intelligence."

"It’s not just the AI, the whole city is very strange."

Flavorful Goose took a deep breath, "Don’t forget, this is the third loop... You know what that means, right?"

"...It means we’ve been wiped out twice."

Longjing Tea looked oddly at the white-robed youth, "Is this kid going to transform suddenly and kill us all?"

"That won’t happen," Flavorful Goose spoke gravely, "Simply put, this city is safe ’before the sunset’. But once the sun goes down, it gradually becomes horrifying.

"It starts to break apart, everything becomes eerie and abstract... You’ve seen Puella Magi Madoka Magica, right? It’s like the witch’s barrier there, that kind of style."

"The witch’s barrier? Are there any familiars?"

"No, at least I haven’t seen any."

"Then what exactly killed us?"

Longjing Tea was utterly baffled.

They were all Transcendents starting from silver rank.

Even if the city truly became haunted... shouldn’t they be the ones to easily crush the ghosts?

Gourmet Wind Goose’s expression turned serious, "It’s the teammates."

"...What?"

"To be precise, it’s everyone around us. The specific mechanism is still unclear, but without any warning, people go mad and attack those around them... And in these two loops, the order in which people went mad was completely inconsistent."

Gourmet Wind Goose spoke earnestly, "Do you know why I didn’t go find Kade first?"

"...Kade? Why? Were you... were you planning to bully him?"

Longjing Tea raised an eyebrow and made a light joke.

"Pfft, nonsense."

Gourmet Wind Goose spat out, "It’s because Kade, in both instances, was one of the first to go mad. I thought it might not be stable to find him... whereas you and I, in both instances, remained sane until the very end.

"Besides that, there were those people who sent Elle over — that is, the crew from the ship ’Silver’ — they’re also in this nightmare."

"...So, are they friends or foes?"

"It depends on whether they’ve gone mad, if they haven’t then naturally everyone is an ally. But if they have gone mad..."

Gourmet Wind Goose shrugged, "Right?

"Take that centaur girl, for instance, she’s quite cute-looking and seems well-behaved, but she always goes mad first; whereas that minstrel named Ofelia, he manages to hold out until the very end."

"...There seems to be a problem here."

Longjing Tea frowned slightly.

He seemed to have caught a glimmer of insight.

"Specifically," Longjing Tea pressed on, "tell me about everyone’s identity in this nightmare."

"...This is a new question you haven’t asked me,"

Gourmet Wind Goose also raised an eyebrow, "I feel like, if you had been the one responsible for inheriting the memory from the start, it would’ve been better... My brain works, but it’s not as efficient as yours.

"But my memory is decent. I’ve remembered all this information, just waiting to analyze it. Listen up—"

Gourmet Wind Goose cleared his throat and began narrating.

Arthur Burnfang, whom we had seen once in the "Witch Hunt Nightmare," his identity in this nightmare is that of a Chief Judge.

As for the centaur girl, she is a ranger of a neglected, rarely-visited natural scenic area.

The heir of Dennisiowa — the man named Ofelia Dennisiowa, is a popular singer; the woman self-claimed as "Lily" has become a homeless thief with no family or friends.

Selicia has become a graduate student of an old man, learning something from him; the wandering child has turned into a wealthy collector who owns a museum; Defu is a hunter.

"...I think I’ve grasped some sort of clue."

Longjing Tea furrowed his brow slightly, "These identities, they obviously aren’t randomly assigned. Are they implying something? Or are they just a manifestation of the deep desires within?"

"That’s indeed possible,"

Gourmet Wind Goose nodded.

"Everything is safe before the sun sets, right..."

Longjing Tea took a deep breath.

He realized that the mechanism of this nightmare... seemed to be for the purpose of finding teammates.

In a sense, the nightmare hadn’t fully started yet.

He thought of a game.

A game where you only have sixty seconds to gather resources, then you have to keep living in a shelter...

And now, they were in the initial phase of "searching for companions," "collecting resources."

"...Um," the white-haired slender boy asked softly, "You’ve been talking about something since just now... Though I don’t understand, do you guys have something you want from me?"

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