Chapter 253: A Shy Person

, The Genie Starting from Marvel

On the front battlefield, when Frank arrived, Partypoopers had already cleaned the battlefield once. Their own corpses were recovered, and the remains left by Partygoers were processed by special furnaces and discharged directly into the air.

"I know your intention, please follow me, guests (= " One of the Partypoopers walked out and stood in front of Frank. The crying face on his face could not show any expression, and the voice he made was not like the coldness of just ending a war.

Frank looked at Zishu in surprise and followed behind the Partypooper, coming to a special office with him.

"We are very grateful for the hero's help and are happy to provide you with the help we can provide. However, we don't look favorably on your actions (= " The Partypooper continued.

When the Partypooper spoke, he pressed the desktop. After a burst of mechanical rotation, the desktop turned into a huge screen, showing the pictures of several areas nearby.

"Sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean." Frank said. The feeling Partypoopers gave him was very contradictory.

To say that they are grateful to Lao Die, they are indeed grateful, and judging from the behavior, this kind of gratitude is not just said on the surface, staying on the lips, but has already paid practical actions. Otherwise, Frank would not be able to come to the core area of Partypoopers so easily now.

However, Partypoopers are implying that they don't look favorably on Lao Die's move, thinking that it is wrong, even if the one who received the rescue is their own race.

"Heroes will always move toward the end. We will all perish, no one can be an exception (= " The Partypooper continued, "We are like a group of mantises waving sickles, eventually crushed under the rolling wheels (= "

"Do you mean this Pleasure War?" Frank continued to ask. He didn't understand. If these people really felt that they would definitely lose, why did everyone resist more vigorously than anyone else?

"No, we mean resisting darkness, resisting the Dark Lord (= " The Partypooper said lightly.

It was this plain sentence that made Frank's mind fluctuate. "Do you know Dormammu?"

The Partypooper was as calm as before, "Of course, our civilization was destroyed in his hands."

"Wait, wait, I don't quite understand. Your civilization was destroyed in his hands, then you are survivors?" Frank was full of doubts.

The Partypooper shook his head and began to tell the history of their civilization.

"About 2,000 years ago, we completed controlled nuclear fusion technology, established space stations and orbital shipyards, explored the entire star system, and also discovered that we were not alone in this universe (= "

"At that time, we were ready to move toward the sea of stars and explore that incomparably huge starry sky. However, good times didn't last long. I don't know when, darkness suddenly descended, and a force we couldn't observe began to erode our home planet, our civilization (= "

"Under the efforts of our scientists, we discovered that that kind of power came from a dimension independent of the universe, a higher, completely dark dimension. We struggled, but didn't succeed. Finally, we were swallowed by darkness together with the entire star system (= "

The Partypooper said the story of his civilization plainly, "I come from the Third Fleet. When everything returned to silence, we stayed in the fleet, waiting for the last moment to arrive. After waiting quietly for decades, we were not digested, but transformed into what we are now, and thrown into this strange multi-level space (= "

Frank blinked twice. "In other words, in a sense, you were released by Dormammu?"

"Your understanding is not wrong. He didn't give orders, just simply threw us in here. We thought about development and counterattack, but soon we understood that no matter what we do, he doesn't care (= "

The Partypooper's pessimistic emotions began to ripple in the air. Under the infection of this emotion, Zishu appeared a little mentally trance, and the painful things he had experienced began to echo in his mind.

"What about Partygoers?" Frank thought and asked.

"If our analysis is not wrong, they should also be one of the destroyed civilizations. In the face of the dark future, they choose to indulge in pleasure and accept reality (= " The Partypooper explained.

Frank didn't know how to respond for a while. Two civilizations destroyed in Dormammu's hands, after the accidental appearance of some survivors, developed completely opposite group thoughts and states.

The extremely pessimistic Partypoopers and the forcibly optimistic Partygoers, their only common point is that they think that in front of Dormammu, resistance is meaningless, just under the premise of "meaningless," one side insists on resistance, while the other side lies flat completely.

When Frank was digesting this information, the Partypooper quickly retrieved various information from the database.

"After the hero sacrificed, we tried to find all information about him. This is the library established at that time, including some abnormal events and gossip. If you want to find the hero's companions, they might be of help (= "

Frank looked down. The documents displayed on the screen had been replaced with characters he was familiar with, translated very appropriately. At least Frank didn't have any abnormal feeling.

Just relying on a very small library sent by Pig, he could achieve this step, and it was achieved without the addition of spells like language proficiency. This made Frank add three points of belief to the Partypooper's words. This level of technology was indeed in line with their identity as an interstellar civilization.

At the very top of the document list was an event line pieced together from various information. According to the Partypooper's notes, this was the information with the highest value for Frank.

Two years before Lao Die interfered with the Pleasure War, a human with a similar image appeared near Level 1312, but at that time, this human did not appear alone, and there were other companions beside him.

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One year after that, which was the 49th year when wanderers appeared in the Backrooms on a large scale, Faceless saw humans leaving through level switching. Through information comparison, one person was missing from the human team at that time.

According to the post-event research, the missing person should be Lao Die who was left in Level 1312. It was also after that that the appearance of the level entered by the intelligent entities of Level 1312 changed on a large scale, becoming an antique-selling street destroyed by Partygoers.

Some members of the entity group who had a neutral attitude toward wanderers also told Partypoopers that some of them had communicated with a huge lizard man in that team, and the other party asked them if they knew which level had mermaids or entities similar to mermaids.

Seeing this, Frank could roughly judge that the one who asked was Dr. Connors.

The lizard man was because of Dr. Connors' own invention, and looking for mermaids was very likely the ritual for Johnson to be promoted to the next sequence.

Frank continued to read down. Entities similar to mermaids did not exist widely in the Backrooms, so the Faceless nearby didn't give an answer, but gave a suggestion. The suggested level was Level 2137.

The Partypooper judged that Frank read to which part through pupil focusing and said in a timely manner, "Level 2137 is a level that all entities are unwilling to enter. It is a huge place similar to a military base, where there are multiple prisons specially used to detain unknown creatures (= "

"Before the first Pleasure War started, we had explored part of the area there. It caused us huge casualties. Various monsters with unique properties were born there. They all have special abilities. If you really want to find mermaids in the wanderer's myths and legends, that level is indeed the only level that might exist, because everything is there (= "

Frank silently kept this level in his heart. Johnson and the others might have been to that place. After the next batch of exploration teams arrived, he definitely had to go there and take a look.

"In addition, in fact, you are not the first team to come to find the hero's companions. Between the 70th and 80th years when wanderers appeared on a large scale, a group of wanderers who called themselves pilgrims sought our help. However, after entering deeper levels, they gradually lost information (= "

It matches, the timeline also matches. Frank reorganized all the information collected during this time in his brain.

With the first year of wanderers appearing in the Backrooms as the starting point of the timeline, Johnson and the others had already been surviving in the Backrooms for a period of time.

The temporary base on Level 1 and Lao Die's Qi magic barrier should have been established in the second year. The Qi magic barrier was expected to be able to maintain for 50 years, but the wanderers at that time used some other methods to increase this maintenance time to 70 years.

In about the third year, Johnson and the others seemed to have discovered something and chose to leave the wanderer base at that time, exploring deeper into the Backrooms.

In the 48th year, Johnson and the three entered Level 1312 and placed Lao Die, who didn't know what energy was eroding, in that level, built an antique street as an installation point, and left in the 49th year.

In the same year, the first Pleasure War broke out. After the war lasted for a period of time, Partypoopers were forced to go to Level 1312 to take refuge, and Partygoers followed closely.

About the 50th year, Lao Die, who was awakened by Partygoers' violent destruction, joined the Pleasure War, fought a civilization alone, and suppressed all Partygoers in their own lair, the Pleasure Level, unable to leave.

At this time, Johnson and Connors should be on their way to Level 2137 or somewhere else where there were mermaids. If they were fast enough and progressed rapidly, they might have already reached the target level.

In the 70th year, the core of the Qi magic barrier that had been repaired many times finally shattered, and the barrier that provided protection for wanderers dissipated. Because of the disappearance of the barrier, the wanderer organization in the early period broke out in a split, and the pilgrim team appeared.

Between the 70th and 80th years, the pilgrim team encountered a disaster and sought help from the Partypooper entity that was most kind to wanderers at that time, and then disappeared into deeper levels, nowhere to be found.

The information later can be pushed directly to now. The current timeline is about 300 years since wanderers appeared in the Backrooms. The key to finding Johnson lies in understanding their general action trajectory in the past 250 years.

When Frank was pondering, continuous explosions suddenly came from outside, and the alarm in the room where Frank was located also sounded.

The Partypooper looked up at the flashing alarm, "Unknown entity invasion, suspected monster from Level 2137?"

Frank looked up. He had a premonition that the entity was coming for him.

The *ying-ying* crying sound began to echo in the room. Frank picked up his weapon and rushed out without saying a word.

Sure enough, in the formation of Partypoopers, a thin, long monster with its head lowered was raging. The crying sound in the environment was exactly what came from its mouth.

After Frank appeared, the thin monster paused, as if judging whether to kill the Partypoopers around first or find Frank's trouble first.

One second later, the thin figure gave up the Partypoopers within reach and rushed toward Frank. It seemed that in its behavioral logic, killing Frank was still the first priority.

"Don't look at its face, and don't try to observe it. Everyone who has observed it should immediately accept memory removal, and after stripping this period of memory from consciousness, clear it."

The Partypooper followed Frank's movements out of the room. He seemed to have known the information about this monster.

Frank raised his hand to send out a Holy Light. The power contained in the Holy Light erupted at an extremely short distance, flicking the super-fast-moving thin figure away, but it failed to cause any damage. After the recoil was exhausted, the other party continued to rush toward Frank relentlessly.

"Mr. Frank, according to the database information retrieval, the monster in front of you is named 'Shy Person'. It appeared 130 years ago. It will kill any life form that sees its face indiscriminately. Deleting relevant memory, blurring its appearance and related concepts can effectively reduce its aggressiveness (= " The Partypooper reminded loudly.

Frank dodged quickly, leaving multiple clones in the air. The clones were also regarded as the first attack target by the "Shy Person." These afterimages could give Frank more reaction time. "It's useless, it has already locked onto me. Are there any other ways?"

"Expel it from this level. The 'Shy Person' doesn't seem to have the ability to switch levels quickly. Wait a moment, please don't be killed before we take action (= " The Partypooper said and commanded other Partypoopers to push out an instrument. As an interstellar civilization of the level, they had a certain understanding of space. Having survived in the Backrooms for so many years, they naturally invented some equipment very suitable for this understanding and the current environment.

When the light of the instrument locked onto the "Shy Person," in an instant, it was forcibly noclipping out of this level and thrown directly into the gap between levels. ===== CHAPTER 254 =====

Once the instrument's beam locked onto the "Shy Guy," in an instant, it was forcibly cut out of this level and thrown directly into the gaps between levels.