Chapter 790

【I know that sounds stupid, but if you think about it carefully, in a place with light, the edges of your shadow will be clear and very obvious.】

【But when it's pitch black, your shadow becomes a blurry mess, not so obvious. So those things can almost never touch you, nor can they see you clearly.】

【I think those things find you through your shadow. But honestly, I'm not sure; I just think it's very likely.】

As D-14134's gaze moved, the audience also read the text left by the agent line by line.

"Light source!"

When they saw the instruction to stay away from light sources, everyone felt a chill in their hearts!

Darkness has been a deeply rooted source of fear in the human heart since ancient times.

People's fear of darkness is not just the panic of not being able to see, but also the fear of the unknown.

After vision is deprived, the fantasies in the human mind occupy the images originally provided by vision; every sound and every tiny movement can become a source of fear in the heart.

Just like this, the fear and unease in the human heart, originating from ancient times and inherited from ancestors in the deepest part of the long night, were awakened.

And inside the farmhouse, the first thing to do was actually to avoid light sources.

"Fuck! I was wondering what was up with the strange environment setup in the living room!"

"Looking at it this way, 1983-2 might possess a certain level of intelligence, or they naturally have the habit of collecting glowing objects."

"D-14134 is also lucky; he walked all the way here without being instantly killed."

"The chosen one is like this; maybe 1983-2 went out?"

D-14134 also realized the danger of his situation.

He stood up and pulled the curtains of the study.

Immediately, the study became dim.

D-14134 understood that this still couldn't be considered safe, but he could only make do with it for now to finish reading the text behind.

But reading in this environment was even more difficult than reading a novel under a quilt with a flashlight.

He had to stick the paper to his eyes and try his best to distinguish the words.

【You might have already tried to go out through the door, but if you haven't done so yet, don't think about it.】

【That leads to an even worse place. There aren't many monsters there, but... Jone went too far from the house, and then... I swear! He started to melt.】

【Things kept bursting out of his body... anyway, he didn't come back. That's why we closed the door.】

D-14134 swallowed his saliva.

So "can't get out" meant this...

Even if you find the door you came in through, going out will lead directly to death.

Now, whether it's suicide, starving to death, dying of thirst, being killed, or melting, there's only "death"...

He figured it out.

Since it's death anyway, it's better to do something within his power before dying.

Like closing the door.

Like eliminating a few more shadows.

Anyway, there were several agents' corpses lying beside him; he could see what equipment could be taken and used.

... Hope they didn't use up all their ammunition before they died.

Thinking this, D-14134 continued to read with difficulty.

【Afterward, we started to pass through the house. At first, we maintained light sources; after all, we didn't understand at the beginning. Three of us died just like that. But we had a rough understanding of the surroundings.】

【If you ask how this place is, I can only say it's huge.】

【It's not just a farmhouse. It's like... it's like those things stole fragments of space from various places, and then pieced these spaces together randomly.】

【Some places look like apartments, others look like shopping malls, and one place was definitely an old closet from my high school! Exactly the same, even the grid pattern on it was the same.】

【There are also some fragments that aren't made of... things. They are black, just like shadow matter, and most of them are in well-lit places.】

【If light can pass through, you can put your hand through it. I don't recommend doing that. That's how we lost Torres.】

【Something grabbed him and pulled him in. That hole was too small for his head, but in the end, he was pulled in.】

【So, stay away from light source areas, but watch your feet in the darkness.】

Seeing this, the players were helpless.

If you didn't prepare infrared or ultraviolet vision equipment when entering the farmhouse, this was purely gambling on luck!

You have to hide and walk in places with light sources, because it will attract 1983-2, leading to instant death.

You also have to be careful in places without light sources, because there is shadow matter, and maybe there is 1983-2 that blends into the darkness.

If such level design were placed in any popular online game, the planners would probably be cursed to death.

The angry players might even advertise on interstellar yachts, denouncing the planners' behavior.

But this is the Foundation; this is a terrifying anomaly that has existed in reality.

"Numb, even if I know how to pass this level, the process is too torturous..."

"That's right, later we can open a statistics post to see how many times such inexplicable sudden deaths were encountered during the completion process."

【Of course, there's no way to escape.】

【We also discovered this. Any door you find just leads to another room in this stupid house, or loops back; clearly, we can't live here.】

【So all you can do is wait to starve to death or until one of those things catches you.】

【Rich choices, huh?】

"Really rich..."

D-14134's mouth twitched.

He seemed to see the helplessness and self-mockery of the agent who left the note when writing this text.

【There is one more thing you can do. I couldn't do it, but maybe you can.】

"No, I don't think I can do it..."

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D-14134 turned to look at the agents sleeping like the dead.

D-class personnel, how could they compare to agents?

Whether it's physical fitness, combat literacy, or experience in dealing with SCPs...

He had absolutely no way to be mentioned in the same breath as an agent who had received the Foundation's comprehensive education and systematic training.

But there's no way...

"Who told me I'm the only person awake."

He shrugged and shook his head helplessly.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe.

As long as things settle down, there's still a turning point.

For some reason, the word "probability" flashed through his mind.

【This won't keep you alive, I don't think so, but this... I think it's important.】

【I am convinced that someone must do this, otherwise those things will sooner or later run outside and wreak havoc everywhere.】

【This place is pieced together from space fragments stolen from various places, so there must be many other doors.】

【We closed every door we saw, but what if other doors are opened, and the Foundation doesn't discover it in time?】

【Damn... the Foundation people don't even know about closing the door; I just hope they can discover that every time someone comes in, those things won't go out again.】

【Of course, the premise is that the person who comes in is smart enough to know to close the door.】

【So, I found a way to stop those things: find their nest.】

Seeing this, both D-14134 and the audience before the screen perked up.

For D-14134, this was the only chance to possibly get out.

For the players, this was knowing the location of the final boss and the boss's mechanics before the game started.

【I only saw that thing once, for just a short while.】

【We followed it after one of them took Denning's heart. It took the heart into a room that I estimate is the center of this place.】

【It was all shadow-like matter, and I think they brought every light source they could find here.】

【Fluorescent lights, flashlights, candles, whatever you call them.】