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Chapter 3882 Oxygen Factor
Chapter 3882 Oxygen Factor
Hidden waters.
When observing from a God's perspective, Ingres only felt that the waters were vast and gloomy.
The water flow looks vast, but in fact it is dead silent and no living creature can be seen.
But when Angel really dived into the waters, he realized that his previous thoughts were a bit one-sided.
The God's perspective can only "see", but cannot detect abnormal characteristics in the water. For example, Angel cannot detect the existence of certain special oxygen molecules in the water through the God's perspective.
But when Angel entered the hidden waters, he discovered that this special oxygen molecule was everywhere.
Being given a "special" title must have its uses.
Its function is very simple. As long as you inhale these oxygen molecules, you can breathe freely even underwater without worrying about lack of oxygen.
Of course, this is limited to breathing. Other conditions underwater remain unchanged, such as the water pressure problem.
However, "free breathing" also has a price. When you inhale too much, hallucinations will occur and all kinds of strange hallucinations will appear before your eyes.
As for why Angel knew this so clearly, it was because after he entered this area of water, the text column gave a hint.
"Hidden Waters"
"This area of water was cut from the Dark Corner and is full of oxygen factors from the ■■ level. And because it involves some of the characteristics of the Dark Corner, some supplies will occasionally refresh in this area of water."
It’s a very simple text introduction, but it’s rare information for opening the map.
In this text introduction, there are two places that can be further checked, one is "oxygen factor" and the other is "supply materials".
After clicking on "Oxygen Factor", the following prompt will be given:
"Oxygen factor: This is a special oxygen molecule that is widely found in the waters of the ■■ layer. After ingestion, one can breathe freely underwater. However, if ingested too much, hallucinations will occur."
"Attention: Once you enter a hallucinogenic state, your sanity will continue to decrease. As your sanity decreases, you will enter dangerous states such as movement disorders, sensory dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and respiratory disorders. In severe cases, you may even die on the spot."
It was precisely because of these hints that Ingres gained a deeper understanding of the hidden waters, which could not be discovered from a God's perspective.
Another word that can be further viewed is "Supplies". After Angel clicked it, the corresponding information appeared.
"Supply: Supplies may be refreshed at any location in the dark corner. Among them, the probability of refreshing supplies in tools that can be used to store things, such as boxes, boxes, desks, drawers, secret compartments, etc., will be higher than other places."
"Attention: Some of the supplies may contain inferior products or unknown risks. Please carefully identify them."
Although he didn't know why the supplies would refresh automatically, Angel didn't delve into it and just thought it was a unique mechanism of the Dark Corner dungeon.
Compared to these, Ingres was actually more curious about what the blocked text was?
Based on the context, we can roughly guess that the blocked text may be related to the prefix of "level", but why should this prefix be blocked?
This special phenomenon has never appeared in other copies, which makes Angel even more curious about the dark corner.
Unique copy nesting dolls, unique text shielding, why is the power of wonderland so "favored" by this copy?
As Angel thought about it, he continued to swim deeper into the waterway...
……
After crossing the waterway, Angel has reached the core of the hidden waters.
It was almost pitch black here, with no living creatures or plants to be seen, only dilapidated and ruined buildings.
It looks like a complex of buildings sunk in water.
However, most of the buildings are in ruins, and the only one that looks slightly intact is the underwater church in the center.
It is worth mentioning that there is light inside the church, and the surrounding ruins are illuminated by the faint light coming through the church's stained windows, which makes one feel the desolation of this sunken area.
At this moment, Ingres was hovering on the edge of the sparse ruins.
Below him, on the bottom of the water, was a long floor tile that had obviously been cut by humans.
This long floor tile is not big and looks like a mini safety island. However, due to being soaked in water for a long time, the color of the floor tile can no longer be seen.
Next to the floor tile, there was a bulging woven bag leaning against it. This woven bag was also the reason why Ingres stopped.
"A woven bag should also be considered a storage tool, right?" Angel murmured in a low voice, secretly wondering in his heart, is the bulging space in the woven bag swollen due to water, or is it filled with "supplies"?
Angel was too lazy to worry about it, so he dived to the bottom of the water and picked up the woven bag.
When he lifted it, Angel felt an unusual heaviness and heard a crashing sound.
The woven bag was not tied with a knot and was easily untied.
Angel was about to look into the bag when suddenly a white light flashed before his eyes. At the same time, he heard a whisper in his ear, as if someone was talking in his ear.
He looked back but saw nothing.
Just as Angel was frowning, he noticed an extra row of words on the text column.
"Hallucinogenic state: Exposed to excessive oxygen factor, currently in a hallucinogenic state."
"Countdown: 00:10:11"
"Countdown: 00:10:10"
"Note: When you come into contact with the oxygen factor again, the countdown will reset."
Angel: "???"
How did he become hallucinogenic? When did he come into contact with excessive oxygen? Was the whispering in his ear just now caused by hallucination?
Angel was a little puzzled.
Previously, when he learned that oxygen factor could cause hallucinations, he didn't take it seriously at all.
Because there is a thin film woven with nightmare around him, which is invisible to the naked eye and isolates him from the outside world.
Naturally, there is no need to worry about hallucinations caused by ingesting oxygen factors.
But the situation now is that even though he was clearly isolated from the nightmare, he was still exposed to the excessive oxygen factor?
What's going on? Confusion flashed across Angel's eyes, and suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, and lowered his head to look at the woven bag in his hand.
Could there be oxygen factor in the woven bag?
The moment he picked up the woven bag, it passed through the outer layer of isolation. Logically, if there was oxygen factor in the woven bag, he might have ingested it.
But it’s not necessary to ingest large amounts directly, right?
After a moment, Angel took out an empty bottle from the woven bag. When he saw the information about the empty bottle, he fell silent.
"Empty oxygen bottle: The bottle was originally filled with oxygen factor, but now the oxygen factor has been lost, leaving only an empty bottle."
The cap of the bottle was a layer of water film. When Angel picked up the woven bag, the water film fell off directly, and the high concentration of oxygen factor inside was inhaled by Angel.
This is also why he suddenly entered a hallucinogenic state.
Fortunately, this hallucinogenic state does not last long. As long as you do not continue to be exposed to oxygen factors, this negative state will end in a few minutes.
This is also very simple for Angel. As long as he maintains the isolation of the nightmare, he can prevent the entry of oxygen factors.
"What a cunning guy..." Angel now finally understood why the previous definition of "supplies" had warned people to be careful and that they might encounter inferior products and risks.
This oxygen bottle incident is clearly a risk.
Angel shook his head, threw the empty bottle aside, and reached into the woven bag again.
There are three bottles in the woven bag. Currently, only the oxygen bottle is empty, and the remaining two bottles are filled with unknown liquids.
Ingres took out the remaining two bottles.
As he touched it, the item information appeared on the text bar.
According to the information, the gray bottle on the left contains "low-level nutrient water", which has a high nutritional value. Drinking it can meet the daily intake needs and provide a long-lasting feeling of fullness.
This should be the common dark corner supply.
The other bottle is very special, it looks like a transparent pumpkin bottle, and it contains a liquid called "luminous water". Under normal circumstances, luminous water is transparent and colorless, but when you shake it vigorously, the luminous water will gradually change color and emit a bright light.
The harder you shake it, the brighter the light becomes.
This kind of luminous water with a transparent bottle is a common lighting set for dark corners.
However, the light of the luminous water will slowly fade over time. Generally speaking, shaking the luminous water once can maintain the lighting requirements for one to two hours.
At the same time, luminous water will also be consumed. For example, the luminous water in the palm-sized pumpkin bottle in Ingle's hand may completely evaporate in one or two days.
Angel put away the "low-level nutrient water" as it was of no use for the time being.
However, Ingres was quite interested in "luminous water".
It was the first time he had seen this kind of lighting set. He immersed his mental power into the glowing water, trying to analyze its components... but it was of no use.
After all, mental power is not the "Eye of Alchemy" and cannot analyze materials. It can only vaguely perceive that there seems to be some mixed sediment in the glowing water.
Angel shook the bottle, and the sediment inside began to condense together, then emitted a faint light.
The light was only maintained within a one to two meter radius around Ingres.
Ingres continued to shake the bottle, this time with greater force and at a higher frequency, and finally a brightly lit bottle appeared in his hand.
Although affected by the underwater medium, the lighting range reaches about ten meters.
It's like holding a mini lighting magic in your hand.
It is worth mentioning that the color of the light is blue.
——The color of the light of the luminous water is random. Humans and some intelligent entities in the dark corners like to collect luminous water of different colors, and some even pay a high price for luminous water of rare colors.
All of the above was what Ingres learned from the introduction of luminous water.
Blue luminous water is a regular color.
Angel continued to swim forward, holding the glowing bottle. From time to time, something would flash before his eyes and whispers would come to his ears.
These are all hallucinations caused by a psychedelic state.
This illusion is somewhat different from the illusions that Ingres is good at. It does not act on the outside, but on the nerves inside the body.
Therefore, although Angel could distinguish the illusion, it was a bit troublesome to block it out.
Besides, there isn't much magic power in the body, so there's no need to consume a lot of magic power to shield it.
It won’t last long anyway, so just endure it.
……
Because of the hallucinogenic state, Angel did not choose to go to the underwater church immediately.
According to the task prompts, the half-human, half-puppet in the church is a special entity that can communicate. Angel is worried that the hallucination state will affect the communication with it, so he decides to wander around in the hidden waters and wait until the hallucination state disappears before going to the underwater church.
This is also a good opportunity to take advantage of this time to search for possible supplies nearby.
In fact, Angel didn't care about "supplies". His original intention of searching for supplies was simply to learn more about the inside story of the dark corner.
For example, the "nutrient water" just mentioned provides some information about the Dark Corner: the humans in the Dark Corner can survive for a long time because of the supply of nutrient water.
There is also "luminous water", which provides a lot of information about dark corners. We even know that luminous water of rare colors can attract some entities and can be used for trading.
Therefore, Angel wanted to see if he could find more supplies to understand the dark corners.
Finding supplies was not difficult for Angel.
Once you turn on the God's perspective, you can clearly see the suspected "storage tools" in the surrounding ruins.
Soon, Angel found a box under the tentacles of a giant purple octopus. Uh... that giant purple octopus was an illusion.
This time, Ingres learned his lesson and used a bird's eye view to look at the contents of the box before opening it.
Although it is impossible to directly see the item information, from the appearance, it can be judged that there should be no Oxygen Bottle.
There are two bottles, but judging from the gray bottles, they should contain "low-grade nutrient water."
Sure enough, when Angel opened the box, he saw two bottles of low-grade nutrient water. In addition, there was also a pair of non-slip gloves.
There was nothing special about the gloves, not even any text information, but the design and texture of the gloves were completely new, not like they had been soaked here for a long time. In other words, they were indeed refreshed supplies.
"So it seems that the humans in the dark corners can brush out all kinds of daily necessities, including clothing, from the supply materials?" Angel murmured in a low voice.
Is this the method used by Dark Corner to “feed” the humans inside?
This mechanism of refreshing supplies made Angel inexplicably come up with the idea that Dark Corner was "raising" humans.
Of course, it’s not just humans that are “raised”; perhaps the monsters and entities inside are also being “raised”.
But...why?
If it was really just a fake dungeon mechanism, Angel would not care. However, Angel knew very well that everything in the Wonderland dungeon was a projection of reality.
In other words, it is very likely that such a mechanism also exists in reality.
This material refresh mechanism of the dark corner is full of questions. In Angel's opinion, there may be an external force interfering behind the scenes, but where does this external force come from, is it a person or an object? It is still unknown at present.
(End of this chapter)