bookpub Chapter 4166 News from the Dark Corner
Chapter 4166 News from the Dark Corner
Chapter 4166 News from the Dark Corner
Heart space, live broadcast area.
At this point, four hours had passed since the wine glass was placed into the pocket watch by the priest of the Fellowship of God, causing the live stream to go completely black.
During this time, Angel logged on once. After confirming that the rabbit girl had not yet left the Golden Land, he logged off and went to the Geometry Space: there were still some auxiliary materials for making hats piled up inside, which he had to polish while he had the chance.
When he came out after dealing with everything, he happened to see Luigi sitting on the sofa, his fingertips silently plucking the strings of his harp. His focused and attentive expression clearly indicated that he was preparing for the evening's challenge, which also confirmed that the live stream on Wine Glass was probably still not back online.
Sure enough, Angell approached, sat down next to Luigi, and looked up.
Of the three live streams, only Ice Maiden's was still playing, but it was barely showing any content. The other two live streams were completely black.
Even though the screen was black, Angel still subconsciously asked, "What progress did you make while I was away?"
The water clone sitting opposite him shook his head slightly: "There's no image coming from the wine glass yet, but..."
hum-
Luigi suddenly stopped playing, the lingering sound reverberating outwards.
Angell turned his head and saw Luigi plucking the strings again. The silent plucking suddenly turned into a haunting melody, and the eerie tune, like a suffocating mist, spread throughout the entire live broadcast area.
Angell: "???"
The water clone glanced at Luigi with annoyance: "Never mind him. He was playing like that when the scene came on. I asked him, and he said it was background music for the scene, to fit the mood."
Angell: "..." He understood, it was the background music, right?
But speaking of which... what about the visuals?
Didn't they say there was no video coming from the other side of the wine glass?
In response to Angor's question, the water clone explained, "It's not the image of the wine glass, but Sigismund. Not long ago, the main body suddenly received a signal from Sigismund. This signal was much more continuous than before, lasting for a full three minutes."
"But there's something a little strange about these three minutes. It's clearly a continuous signal, but the resulting footage doesn't look... discontinuous."
"Do you want to see it?"
Angell nodded without hesitation.
The water clone reached out, ready to awaken the dark Sigismund livestream room. However, before doing so, she hesitated and glanced at Luigi.
Luigi was still playing his strange little tune.
Should we stop him?
After thinking about it, Shui Yi finally decided to give up.
Unlike the Goblet or the Ice Maiden, Sigismund's side is silent, purely visual. In this case, adding some background music would be acceptable, although Luigi's music was a bit too eerie, but it must be said... it did match the intermittent visuals quite well.
With this in mind, the water clone no longer hesitated, and with a flick of his finger, the pitch-black screen suddenly lit up.
New footage from "The Adventures of Sigismund" has leaked.
This time, it was very dangerous right from the start.
Sigismund was gripping a girl's arm tightly as the two ran wildly through a rugged mountain cave.
Because of the position of the Vulcan halo, the camera angle doesn't show the girl's full face, but you can still tell from her profile that the girl should be Zaina.
Sigismund gripped Zaina's arm tightly and pulled her forward frantically, as if something was chasing them from behind.
The reason it is described as "seems" is naturally because of the perspective of the scene, which does not show what is behind it.
However, the constant tremors in the cave, the occasional falling of loose rocks, and the increasingly close tremors indicated that there were indeed pursuers chasing after them, and one could even guess that these pursuers were probably quite large.
Otherwise, the earth wouldn't have trembled so violently.
But judging from the current scene, it doesn't seem to be to the point of being eerie, does it? As Angor was thinking this, Luigi suddenly changed his tone.
The dense, drum-like vibrato transformed into a deep, elegant melody, but the minor-key version of the melody carried a sinister, ghostly aura.
As Luigi changed his tune, the live stream screen suddenly became slightly distorted.
It was as if an unknown giant hand was twisting a spatial Rubik's Cube.
Without any transition, one second Sigismund and Zaina were staggering in the trembling cave, and the next second their feet were on smooth ceramic tiles.
The cave walls on both sides were transformed into the hospital's walls and doors.
Yes, it's a hospital.
In an instant, without any transition, they smoothly jumped from the long cave to the hospital corridor.
Because they were in the cave, Sigismund was almost propelled forward by inertia, and Zaina was pulled by him and stumbled. So when they suddenly turned into the hospital corridor, the two of them bumped into the corridor railing before regaining their balance.
Just when they thought they could finally breathe a sigh of relief, Sigismund suddenly changed his expression and turned his head away.
Because of his turning his head, Angell also saw what was happening behind him.
The hospital corridor stretched on and on, with no end in sight.
This isn't right.
What used to be a cave has now been completely transformed into a hospital corridor.
Besides the seemingly endless corridor, a group of strange dolls dressed as nurses were scattered on the floor. Originally, the dolls were just lying on the ground, but now they seemed to be controlled, trembling as they stood up, their hands constantly gathering points of light that formed various bizarre weapons.
Huge scissors, a long syringe, and a scalpel that emitted a ghostly glow.
The strange doll lunged at Sigismund.
Sigismund kicked a strange doll aside, then grabbed Zaina and ran forward again...
Luigi's background music has changed from eerie and gloomy to the exciting chase scene.
But not long after, Luigi changed his tune again.
After this key change, there are continuous variations of the same key, as if simulating the surging tides of the sea.
Upon hearing this, Angell already guessed that the scene was about to change again.
Sure enough, after Sigismund and Zaina ran wildly down the hospital corridor for a while... the scene changed again.
This time, it was on a dark, boundless body of water, with the only foothold being the narrow edge of a tall building.
This skyscraper seems to have appeared out of thin air on the surface of the water, giving it a certain "dream core" feel. The edges of the skyscraper resemble corridors, allowing people to walk along the edges.
Meanwhile, Sigismund was running wildly along the edge with Zaina.
This time they didn't rest, because the "monster" appeared very early. The door above the high-rise was opened, and a large number of bloated, rotting corpses jumped down from the building and continued to chase them.
The exciting chase background music started up again, occasionally accompanied by a tearing sound, as if to match the muffled groans of a rotting corpse breaking its leg.
Angel glanced at Luigi, who looked completely absorbed in his creation, oblivious to the world around him.
After a while, the background music suddenly became calmer, even a little melodious, as if we had arrived at a banquet.
Unsurprisingly, the live stream footage changed again.
Without warning, without pause, one second he was dodging rotting corpses on the edge of a high-rise building, and the next second his feet were on cold, smooth marble.
Sigismund and Zaina both staggered to a stop and turned around abruptly.
Before me stretched an endless marble platform, so smooth that it was without a single vein, and even the light seemed to fall evenly from all directions, casting no shadows.
There was nothing behind me.
There were neither monsters in the caves, nor nurse dolls in the corridors, nor rotting corpses in the water-filled high-rises.
At that moment, all the monsters vanished.
Sigismund frowned, but his grip on Zaina's hand loosened slightly. He looked around, his gaze sweeping across the seemingly endless platform, a look of bewilderment appearing on his face for the first time—
The previous caves had exits, the corridors had ends, and you could find your way by following the walls along the edges of the tall buildings. But here... there's nothing but endless platforms.
There was no door, and no road.
It was like entering a boundless, empty prison.
At this point, the background music paused briefly.
The image then disappeared.
……
"That's about it, three minutes of running away..." After Sigismund's live stream went black, his water clone sighed helplessly: "I don't know what happened on his end."
Angell was still somewhat dazed at this moment.
The scene in Sigismund he just witnessed made him feel as if he were watching a carefully edited video, a series of escape sequences from different scenes pieced together.
But he knew in his heart that this was not editing, but something that was really happening.
“When Sigismund first entered the Dark Corner, he went through an underwater corridor. That corridor was like that, with the environment changing every now and then,” Angel recalled. “But no matter how the environment changed, it was still a corridor. There were no pursuers on the way.”
"But this time, not only was the change drastic, but monsters even appeared..."
Angell did not continue, because he did not know how to conclude.
The water clone replied softly, "This is... the dark corner."
Angell nodded in agreement.
"Yes, that's the dark corner."
Although this footage doesn't provide much additional information, the eeriness of the dark corners is vividly portrayed.
"I'm getting more and more curious about where the Dark Corner is hidden." Angell stared at the now-off live stream, his eyes practically overflowing with curiosity.
This strange world has no information leaked to the outside world, as if it were an isolated island completely independent of the outside world.
Even the projection of the Sea of Empty Mirrors was intermittent... You must know that the Sea of Empty Mirrors originated from the Mirror Domain, and the Mirror Domain is a special world that covers the boundless heavens.
It can be said that wherever there is a mirror, it will be connected to the mirror domain.
There must be mirrors in the dark corners, yet it somehow fails to leave a reflection in the empty sea of mirrors. If not for Laplace's extraordinary talent, he probably wouldn't have even been able to detect this faint signal.
This is so weird.
The stranger it is, the more mysterious it becomes.
And mystery is precisely what wizards are most persistently pursuing.
Angell was no exception.
Seeing the light shining in Angor's eyes, Luigi coughed lightly: "As long as we keep investing time and space into it, the Dark Corner's access will eventually be captured by the Fairy Realm's power. At that time, you can go there whenever you want."
He paused, his tone becoming more serious: "But before that, you'd better not entertain the idea of entering the Dark Corner... If something happens to you in the Dark Corner, it will be extremely harmful to your main body."
Luigi's cautious and admonishing manner made Angell laugh: "I understand, I'm not stupid. I won't do anything risky without being sure."
Angel didn't intend to delve into this topic, and changed the subject, looking at the harp in Luigi's hand: "Speaking of which, the background music you provided just now was quite excellent. It's a pity that the footage from Sigismund's side was too short. If there were more clips, and it were made into a variety show in the future, the background music you performed would be a perfect fit."
Upon hearing the praise, Luigi immediately raised his chin and even glanced at the water clone, his eyes clearly saying: See? You just don't know how to appreciate things.
The water clone turned its head away irritably, too lazy to look at him or say anything.
Angel continued, "However, it doesn't matter that Sigismund can't produce variety shows, but Ice Maiden and Wine Glass's live streams can be edited into variety shows... You can add background music for them then."
"Moreover, the background music is not enough. You could perhaps create a custom entrance music for each character."
Luigi was taken aback: "Entrance music for characters?"
Angel nodded. "For example, Mudjue is someone who looks strange and evil on the outside, but is actually full of kindness and justice on the inside. So, every time Mudjue appears, you can perform a kind of music full of contrast according to his personality."
"For example, he would first use the muted tones in the low register to produce a rough, heavy melody, like his strange appearance; but then, he would switch to the middle register, lightly plucking the strings with his fingertips to produce a series of lively harmonics, as clear as moonlight suddenly piercing through dark clouds..."
"This brings out the awkward tenderness within him, like Quasimodo, a passionate heart wrapped in a rough exterior."
As Angel spoke, Luigi actually started playing along.
Furthermore, Luigi Béanger understood the Mugwort better, and his performance of the Mugwort Entrance had a grand yet delicate tone.
The deep, muffled hum in the low register had just subsided when it swiftly glided into the mid-range, where a series of clear overtones emerged, perfectly complementing the gentle melody, much like the artist himself.
“That’s right, that’s exactly what I mean!” Angell was very supportive and immediately gave a thumbs up in affirmation.
"And there's Na's cunning and restraint, the Milk Dragon's clarity and feigned foolishness, the Ice Maiden's silence, and the duality of Coleman and Satan..."
Next, Ingres and Luigi had an in-depth discussion about the entrance music.
There's not much else to do, so I'm just killing time.
Soon after, Luigi was so moved by what he heard that he began to enter his "creative moment".
Seeing this, Angell gave up on exploring the matter and prepared to log in again to check on the rabbit girl's progress.
But at that moment, the water clone suddenly spoke.
"coming!"
Angell was taken aback.
Water clone: "The main body has received the new signal from the wine glass, the live stream can be restarted!"
As she finished speaking, the screen representing the wine glass livestream room in mid-air slowly lit up from its black state...