Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-CherryApple, Proofreader-adjective
Inger’s story is also known as “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf”.
She was a vain and extravagant child, ill-tempered and fond of luxuries like a little dragon.
Upon returning to her hometown to visit her relatives, she had to pass through a swamp. Afraid of soiling her beautiful shoes, she laid the bread she was kindly given by her employer beneath her feet.
One foot on and the other lifted, the loaf of bread started to sink into the murk, till she had disappeared altogether and sunk down into the underworld.
Inger was wrapped in dirty leprosy and a snake had also tangled itself in her hair, hanging down her back,
Her back was stiff and her body frozen like a statue, she could not bend down to remove the loaf of bread that was stuck to her feet.
Worse than all was the terrible hunger that tormented her.
Due to the excessive hunger, her stomach ate itself.
And later, her internal organs began to devour each other.
Following her disappearance, stories of the terrible Inger began to circulate among the people.
Her mother wept and her employer lamented, countless strangers mocked and despised her, and there was but one child who shed a tear for what happened to Inger.
The child asked if she could escape if she admitted she was wrong.
Inger suffered in the underworld for days longer than she can count.
Years passed and the little child who cried for her grew old, before the child’s death, she saw Inger suffer in hell, and she shed tears once more.
Swayed by emotions, she wept bitterly, admitting her wrongs. And she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.
She diligently collected lost crumbs wasted by the people and gave them to other hungry birds little by little.
Until the crumbs accumulated to the length of the original bread she had stepped on.
She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and had since disappeared without a trace.
…… Fantasy linkage.
Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself, “I should have realized it earlier on.”
The elements between “Candy House” and “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” overlapped a lot.
Hunger, as well as the bread crumbs, were the two most obvious representational elements.
One was used to find the way back home, while the other was used to atone for one’s sins.
Besides, the overlapping details had been quite obvious for some time.
For example, in “Candy House”, the brother and sister came across a wild duck, but instead what they saw was an ugly small bird.
After the two siblings escape from the candy house, what stops them should be a river.
Instead they saw a foul-smelling swamp.
Nan Zhou, who thought of himself as a scholar of “Candy House”, silently reflected on himself for a while.
Seeing him bowing his head and disappointed at himself, Jiang Fang couldn’t help but “rub” the back of his neck to comfort him.
Both of them had a rough guess of where the next timeline would go.
Therefore, Jiang Fang put on his choker again, they forcibly pulled out Li Yinhang, who had fallen into a hunger-induced sleep in the storage compartment. She was filled in on what was going on by Nan Zhou.
After getting an overview of the situation after she had gone into the storage compartment, Li Yinhang rubbed her eyes and roughly summarized the plot of the game, “So, there are two fairy tales in total?”
Jiang Fang added. “In terms of the plot ratio of the two stories, Inger should only be considered a spinoff.”
Teacher Nan Zhou strictly demanded, “Don’t remind me about her.”
Jiang Fang raised his hands and said ok with a smile.
“What is so special about this game?”
Li Yinhang woke up with a start, and had also recovered from the image of seeing a person being eaten alive.
Her mind cleared up, and the questions she asked gradually had the sharpness of Nan Zhou, processing the overwhelming information and finding the core, “The other fairy tales we experienced were all single-threaded, without such a branching plot.”
“Why…”
After talking to herself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized something and raised her voice in excitement, “Is it the sound of eating in the corridor…!”
Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang simultaneously made a “shhh” gesture to her.
Realizing her surroundings, Li Yinhang covered her mouth abruptly.
The woodcutter in front also heard something and looked back nervously, his sweating face was as red as a red-skinned egg.
The three pressed down and crouched side by side in the bushes.
Nan Zhou pressed down on Li Yinhang’s head, and Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou’s head on his shoulder.
The woodcutter, looking around, felt that he did hear a female voice.
But fearing that his new wife had followed him, fearing that she would scold him for not being decisive enough to throw away the two children born to his ex-wife, he hugged his two children, quickened his pace, and plunged deeper into the dense forest without looking back.
Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind a bush, was nervous and excited, and her heart fluttered against her ribcage.
The feeling was like when she discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always tactically give up.
She looked at Mr. Nan, trying to verify whether her thought process was correct.
Nan Zhou gave a nod unobtrusively
Li Yinhang’s words did touch on a core issue.
They appeared to be playing five scattered games.
But in fact, the overall name of the copy was called [Brain Invasion].
Theoretically, what they invaded was a person’s brain.
The various subdivisions of the brain, linked and interacting with each other, silently reflect on the person’s preferences.
The brain was a mirror of what the person was like.
The nature of the game is marked by the seemingly innocuous “exploration” of the instance, [Brain Invasion].
Their journey was also a process of exploring this person.
After entering the instance, what impressed Nan Zhou the most was the regular sound of chewing that echoed in the corridor at times.
The sound had a strong presence and lasted for an extremely long time, pausing only for a while as they walked out the third door.
This happened to overlap with the nature of the story at hand.
It is precisely because the person had a particularly strong appetite, that there are two hunger-themed stories “Candy House” and “Inger” on this level.
In this way, the three levels they had experienced before were all showing the “characteristics” of the brain they were exploring.
In fact, Li Yinhang did very well at the beginning of the instance.
As early as when they were in the library, Li Yinhang had given a hypothesis to Nan Zhou.
At that time, Li Yinhang said cautiously, “Mr. Nan, don’t you think there are too many books here?”
What kind of person can read so many books?
Hundreds of bookshelves, enough books to form a “labyrinth”?
However, during the course of the game, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.
Because each level had different fairy tales to distract her, she naturally treated all the games as independent mini-games.
But Nan Zhou never forgot.
Each level he walked through was constantly feeding information to help him sketch the portrait of this brain’s master.
The portrait initially drawn as a brush stroke eventually took the form of a treacherous monster.
Proper hunger can speed up the thinking process.
Excessive hunger will only make people go crazy.
Li Yinhang, “So, we just follow them?”
She was still a little apprehensive.
——What if we meet a witch?
——Could it be that the two siblings wished to kill the witch?
If the witch was also an ordinary person controlled by the candy house and had to rely on cannibalism to feed their stomachs, they might still have a fight.
So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter?
This kind of decision was not within Li Yinhang’s ability.
She turned to Nan Zhou for help.
Nan Zhou thought for a long time and said, “I also think it has something to do with the witch.”
Saying that he looked at Jiang Fang.
But Jiang Fang did not agree immediately.
Shortly after the woodcutter and the children walked away, birds flocked towards the trail.
Four or five small birds gathered around, burying their heads and pecking at the bread crumbs that the brother had sprinkled on the ground and to use as a guide back home.
Jiang Fang raised the question, “Why do we have the story of Inger?”
Li Yinhang, “…?”
She was confused.
Wasn’t it because the owner of this brain was too hungry, so the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals was extremely active?
Didn’t they just discuss this issue?
However, after thinking for a while, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang’s proposal, “You are right.”
Li Yinhang, “…Huh?”
Every now and then, Li Yinhang would feel that she was the foreigner among the three.
“We’ve gone through three timelines. Now it’s the fourth.” Jiang Fang said, “in all four timelines, there is a similarity.”
Li Yinhang guessed cautiously, “… They’re all hungry?”
Jiang Fang, “Well. That is one similarity.”
When escaping from the witch’s house, in the fairytale, the elder brother was afraid that he would get fat and would be eaten by the witch, and he had not eaten for several days, while the younger sister lived in fear and probably had no desire to eat.
Li Yinhang continued to speculate, “…What else… they are in a crisis every timeline?”
…… As soon as the words left her mouth, she herself dismissed her deduction.
In the initial timeline, the two siblings were trying to trick them, rubbing hands and waiting to eat people, it was clearly the three guests who were in greater danger.
So, what was the other similarity?
Jiang Fang offered his conjecture, “What if, with four timelines, all represent a departure from ‘home’.”
“The siblings in the first timeline can’t conquer their appetite, so they take over the candy house and become its new owners. They are seemingly free, but forever tied to the candy house by their appetite and desire to live.”
“In the second timeline, they were equally unable to overcome their appetite and ate their father.”
“In the third timeline, they were blocked by the swamp on their way home. ”
“In theory, if each timeline represented the ‘most fearful moment of their lives,’ I think that the fourth timeline should be the siblings being imprisoned by the witch, consequently leading us to witness how they killed the witch.”
“But it didn’t.”
Li Yinhang suddenly realized, “We arrived at the timeline where they were both abandoned by their father-”
This point in the timeline, for the two children, symbolized the moment of departure from home in their lives.
Coerced by hunger, blocked by the swamp, and abandoned by their father. They were forced to live in a place that couldn’t be called “home”.
Dominated by hunger, they destroyed their “home” with their own hands.
In the timeline with the two siblings as the protagonists, the existence of witches may terrify them, but it did not cause them pain.
They stumbled and fell to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.
Just like the NPCs, the players were also experiencing a gnawing hunger and unease. They charged backward through the paths they took.
However, the siblings’ wish, hidden under the surface of many wishes, was just to return home.
Although it wasn’t warm, it meant heaven to the two children, there was a “home” in their father.
The brother and sister of the first timeline were indeed unable to express their wishes.
At that time, the two had no emotion other than hunger.
Because what they really wanted was already gone.
Jiang Fang said, “That’s why I feel the existence and insertion of Inger is a dark line.”
Li Yinhang finally understood, “The little bird plays the role of a ‘savior’?”
She got excited again, “Then, does that mean that it can also save us if we find half a loaf of bread-”
“Edible bread.” Nan Zhou added, “It said it didn’t want bread from the candy house.”
Li Yinhang got up positively, even the sharp hunger in her belly was not obvious, “Then let’s go to the big swamp first to find the little bird and ask it-”
Nan Zhou did not speak, raised his hand and pointed not far away.
Among the birds that came to feast on the bread crumbs, a familiar little ‘hairy’ bird was mixed in at some point.
But it was just sticking out its neck, pecking at some crumbs in the corners of the grass, with the reserved mannerisms of a girl.
The woodcutter and his children had already left.
Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a frank manner and stopped in front of it.
He got straight to the point, “If we pay you half a piece of bread, can you show us the door to leave?”
Li Yinhang: “…” Can you be so direct?!
The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.
It spoke in a sweet feminine voice, “Yes.”
Nan Zhou, “Will you always be here?”
It said, “You can go to the swamp to find me.”
After saying that, it fluttered its short wings and flew off into the distance.
Seeing that there was a goal and a possibility of getting out of this infernal hunger hell, Li Yinhang was busy saying, “Then let’s go!”
Seeing Li Yinhang walking in the direction of the hut, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang did not immediately follow.
“Should we tell her?” Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, “My secret.”
Jiang Fang asked back, “Now? Here?”
Nan Zhou thought for a while, “Well. We’ll tell her after we get out.”
There were still about ten hours to go before the end of the instance.
For this period of time at least, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.
Wait until they finish the instance of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang.
Inger’s story is also known as “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf”.
She was a vain and extravagant child, ill-tempered and fond of luxuries like a little dragon.
Upon returning to her hometown to visit her relatives, she had to pass through a swamp. Afraid of soiling her beautiful shoes, she laid the bread she was kindly given by her employer beneath her feet.
One foot on and the other lifted, the loaf of bread started to sink into the murk, till she had disappeared altogether and sunk down into the underworld.
Inger was wrapped in dirty leprosy and a snake had also tangled itself in her hair, hanging down her back,
Her back was stiff and her body frozen like a statue, she could not bend down to remove the loaf of bread that was stuck to her feet.
Worse than all was the terrible hunger that tormented her.
Due to the excessive hunger, her stomach ate itself.
And later, her internal organs began to devour each other.
Following her disappearance, stories of the terrible Inger began to circulate among the people.
Her mother wept and her employer lamented, countless strangers mocked and despised her, and there was but one child who shed a tear for what happened to Inger.
The child asked if she could escape if she admitted she was wrong.
Inger suffered in the underworld for days longer than she can count.
Years passed and the little child who cried for her grew old, before the child’s death, she saw Inger suffer in hell, and she shed tears once more.
Swayed by emotions, she wept bitterly, admitting her wrongs. And she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.
She diligently collected lost crumbs wasted by the people and gave them to other hungry birds little by little.
Until the crumbs accumulated to the length of the original bread she had stepped on.
She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and had since disappeared without a trace.
…… Fantasy linkage
T/N- is an Internet term, which refers to the sudden cooperation of two people or brands that have nothing to do with each other and could not have cooperated.
Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself, “I should have realized it earlier on.”
The elements between “Candy House” and “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” overlapped a lot.
Hunger, as well as the bread crumbs, were the two most obvious representational elements.
One was used to find the way back home, while the other was used to atone for one’s sins.
Besides, the overlapping details had been quite obvious for some time.
For example, in “Candy House”, the brother and sister came across a wild duck, but instead what they saw was an ugly small bird.
After the two siblings escape from the candy house, what stops them should be a river.
Instead they saw a foul-smelling swamp.
Nan Zhou, who thought of himself as a scholar of “Candy House”, silently reflected on himself for a while.
Seeing him bowing his head and disappointed at himself, Jiang Fang couldn’t help but “rub” the back of his neck to comfort him.
Both of them had a rough guess of where the next timeline would go.
Therefore, Jiang Fang put on his choker again, they forcibly pulled out Li Yinhang, who had fallen into a hunger-induced sleep in the storage compartment. She was filled in on what was going on by Nan Zhou.
After getting an overview of the situation after she had gone into the storage compartment, Li Yinhang rubbed her eyes and roughly summarized the plot of the game, “So, there are two fairy tales in total?”
Jiang Fang added. “In terms of the plot ratio of the two stories, Inger should only be considered a spinoff.”
Teacher Nan Zhou strictly demanded, “Don’t remind me about her.”
Jiang Fang raised his hands and said ok with a smile.
“What is so special about this game?”
Li Yinhang woke up with a start, and had also recovered from the image of seeing a person being eaten alive.
Her mind cleared up, and the questions she asked gradually had the sharpness of Nan Zhou, processing the overwhelming information and finding the core, “The other fairy tales we experienced were all single-threaded, without such a branching plot.”
“Why…”
After talking to herself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized something and raised her voice in excitement, “Is it the sound of eating in the corridor…!”
Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang simultaneously made a “shhh” gesture to her.
Realizing her surroundings, Li Yinhang covered her mouth abruptly.
The woodcutter in front also heard something and looked back nervously, his sweating face was as red as a red-skinned egg.
The three pressed down and crouched side by side in the bushes.
Nan Zhou pressed down on Li Yinhang’s head, and Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou’s head on his shoulder.
The woodcutter, looking around, felt that he did hear a female voice.
But fearing that his new wife had followed him, fearing that she would scold him for not being decisive enough to throw away the two children born to his ex-wife, he hugged his two children, quickened his pace, and plunged deeper into the dense forest without looking back.
Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind a bush, was nervous and excited, and her heart fluttered against her ribcage.
The feeling was like when she discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always tactically give up.
She looked at Mr. Nan, trying to verify whether her thought process was correct.
Nan Zhou gave a nod unobtrusively
Li Yinhang’s words did touch on a core issue.
They appeared to be playing five scattered games.
But in fact, the overall name of the copy was called [Brain Invasion].
Theoretically, what they invaded was a person’s brain.
The various subdivisions of the brain, linked and interacting with each other, silently reflect on the person’s preferences.
The brain was a mirror of what the person was like.
The nature of the game is marked by the seemingly innocuous “exploration” of the instance, [Brain Invasion].
Their journey was also a process of exploring this person.
After entering the instance, what impressed Nan Zhou the most was the regular sound of chewing that echoed in the corridor at times.
The sound had a strong presence and lasted for an extremely long time, pausing only for a while as they walked out the third door.
This happened to overlap with the nature of the story at hand.
It is precisely because the person had a particularly strong appetite, that there are two hunger-themed stories “Candy House” and “Inger” on this level.
In this way, the three levels they had experienced before were all showing the “characteristics” of the brain they were exploring.
In fact, Li Yinhang did very well at the beginning of the instance.
As early as when they were in the library, Li Yinhang had given a hypothesis to Nan Zhou.
At that time, Li Yinhang said cautiously, “Mr. Nan, don’t you think there are too many books here?”
What kind of person can read so many books?
Hundreds of bookshelves, enough books to form a “labyrinth”?
However, during the course of the game, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.
Because each level had different fairy tales to distract her, she naturally treated all the games as independent mini-games.
But Nan Zhou never forgot.
Each level he walked through was constantly feeding information to help him sketch the portrait of this brain’s master.
The portrait initially drawn as a brush stroke eventually took the form of a treacherous monster.
The rough lines and too many contradictions made this person’s image more and more elusive in Nan Zhou’s mind
Of course, in this time-limited dungeon, it is only suitable for enlightening thinking, not for meditative analysis.
That’s it.
And Nan Zhou also needed a change in environment to help him think.
Proper hunger can speed up the thinking process.
Excessive hunger will only make people go crazy.
Li Yinhang, “So, we just follow them?”
She was still a little apprehensive.
——What if we meet a witch?
——Could it be that the two siblings wished to kill the witch?
If the witch was also an ordinary person controlled by the candy house and had to rely on cannibalism to feed their stomachs, they might still have a fight.
So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter?
This kind of decision was not within Li Yinhang’s ability.
She turned to Nan Zhou for help.
Nan Zhou thought for a long time and said, “I also think it has something to do with the witch.”
Saying that he looked at Jiang Fang.
But Jiang Fang did not agree immediately.
Shortly after the woodcutter and the children walked away, birds flocked towards the trail.
Four or five small birds gathered around, burying their heads and pecking at the bread crumbs that the brother had sprinkled on the ground and to use as a guide back home.
Jiang Fang raised the question, “Why do we have the story of Inger?”
Li Yinhang, “…?”
She was confused.
Wasn’t it because the owner of this brain was too hungry, so the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals was extremely active?
Didn’t they just discuss this issue?
However, after thinking for a while, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang’s proposal, “You are right.”
Li Yinhang, “…Huh?”
Every now and then, Li Yinhang would feel that she was the foreigner among the three.
“We’ve gone through three timelines. Now it’s the fourth.” Jiang Fang said, “in all four timelines, there is a similarity.”
Li Yinhang guessed cautiously, “… They’re all hungry?”
Jiang Fang, “Well. That is one similarity.”
When escaping from the witch’s house, in the fairytale, the elder brother was afraid that he would get fat and would be eaten by the witch, and he had not eaten for several days, while the younger sister lived in fear and probably had no desire to eat.
Li Yinhang continued to speculate, “…What else… they are in a crisis every timeline?”
…… As soon as the words left her mouth, she herself dismissed her deduction.
In the initial timeline, the two siblings were trying to trick them, rubbing hands and waiting to eat people, it was clearly the three guests who were in greater danger.
So, what was the other similarity?
Jiang Fang offered his conjecture, “What if, with four timelines, all represent a departure from ‘home’.”
“The siblings in the first timeline can’t conquer their appetite, so they take over the candy house and become its new owners. They are seemingly free, but forever tied to the candy house by their appetite and desire to live.”
“In the second timeline, they were equally unable to overcome their appetite and ate their father.”
“In the third timeline, they were blocked by the swamp on their way home. ”
“In theory, if each timeline represented the ‘most fearful moment of their lives,’ I think that the fourth timeline should be the siblings being imprisoned by the witch, consequently leading us to witness how they killed the witch.”
“But it didn’t.”
Li Yinhang suddenly realized, “We arrived at the timeline where they were both abandoned by their father-”
This point in the timeline, for the two children, symbolized the moment of departure from home in their lives.
Coerced by hunger, blocked by the swamp, and abandoned by their father. They were forced to live in a place that couldn’t be called “home”.
Dominated by hunger, they destroyed their “home” with their own hands.
In the timeline with the two siblings as the protagonists, the existence of witches may terrify them, but it did not cause them pain.
They stumbled and fell to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.
Just like the NPCs, the players were also experiencing a gnawing hunger and unease. They charged backward through the paths they took.
However, the siblings’ wish, hidden under the surface of many wishes, was just to return home.
Although it wasn’t warm, it meant heaven to the two children, there was a “home” in their father.
The brother and sister of the first timeline were indeed unable to express their wishes.
At that time, the two had no emotion other than hunger.
Because what they really wanted was already gone.
Jiang Fang said, “That’s why I feel the existence and insertion of Inger is a dark line.”
Li Yinhang finally understood, “The little bird plays the role of a ‘savior’?”
She got excited again, “Then, does that mean that it can also save us if we find half a loaf of bread-”
“Edible bread.” Nan Zhou added, “It said it didn’t want bread from the candy house.”
Li Yinhang got up positively, even the sharp hunger in her belly was not obvious, “Then let’s go to the big swamp first to find the little bird and ask it-”
Nan Zhou did not speak, raised his hand and pointed not far away.
Among the birds that came to feast on the bread crumbs, a familiar little ‘hairy’ bird was mixed in at some point.
But it was just sticking out its neck, pecking at some crumbs in the corners of the grass, with the reserved mannerisms of a girl.
The woodcutter and his children had already left.
Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a frank manner and stopped in front of it.
He got straight to the point, “If we pay you half a piece of bread, can you show us the door to leave?”
Li Yinhang: “…” Can you be so direct?!
The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.
It spoke in a sweet feminine voice, “Yes.”
Nan Zhou, “Will you always be here?”
It said, “You can go to the swamp to find me.”
After saying that, it fluttered its short wings and flew off into the distance.
Seeing that there was a goal and a possibility of getting out of this infernal hunger hell, Li Yinhang was busy saying, “Then let’s go!”
Seeing Li Yinhang walking in the direction of the hut, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang did not immediately follow.
“Should we tell her?” Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, “My secret.”
Jiang Fang asked back, “Now? Here?”
Nan Zhou thought for a while, “Well. We’ll tell her after we get out.”
There were still about ten hours to go before the end of the instance.
For this period of time at least, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.
Wait until they finish the instance of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang.
Translator-Rhapsodite
Editor-CherryApple, Proofreader-adjective
Inger’s story is also known as “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf”.
She was a vain and extravagant child, ill-tempered and fond of luxuries like a little dragon.
Upon returning to her hometown to visit her relatives, she had to pass through a swamp. Afraid of soiling her beautiful shoes, she laid the bread she was kindly given by her employer beneath her feet.
One foot on and the other lifted, the loaf of bread started to sink into the murk, till she had disappeared altogether and sunk down into the underworld.
Inger was wrapped in dirty leprosy and a snake had also tangled itself in her hair, hanging down her back,
Her back was stiff and her body frozen like a statue, she could not bend down to remove the loaf of bread that was stuck to her feet.
Worse than all was the terrible hunger that tormented her.
Due to the excessive hunger, her stomach ate itself.
And later, her internal organs began to devour each other.
Following her disappearance, stories of the terrible Inger began to circulate among the people.
Her mother wept and her employer lamented, countless strangers mocked and despised her, and there was but one child who shed a tear for what happened to Inger.
The child asked if she could escape if she admitted she was wrong.
Inger suffered in the underworld for days longer than she can count.
Years passed and the little child who cried for her grew old, before the child’s death, she saw Inger suffer in hell, and she shed tears once more.
Swayed by emotions, she wept bitterly, admitting her wrongs. And she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.
She diligently collected lost crumbs wasted by the people and gave them to other hungry birds little by little.
Until the crumbs accumulated to the length of the original bread she had stepped on.
She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and had since disappeared without a trace.
…… Fantasy linkage.
Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself, “I should have realized it earlier on.”
The elements between “Candy House” and “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” overlapped a lot.
Hunger, as well as the bread crumbs, were the two most obvious representational elements.
One was used to find the way back home, while the other was used to atone for one’s sins.
Besides, the overlapping details had been quite obvious for some time.
For example, in “Candy House”, the brother and sister came across a wild duck, but instead what they saw was an ugly small bird.
After the two siblings escape from the candy house, what stops them should be a river.
Instead they saw a foul-smelling swamp.
Nan Zhou, who thought of himself as a scholar of “Candy House”, silently reflected on himself for a while.
Seeing him bowing his head and disappointed at himself, Jiang Fang couldn’t help but “rub” the back of his neck to comfort him.
Both of them had a rough guess of where the next timeline would go.
Therefore, Jiang Fang put on his choker again, they forcibly pulled out Li Yinhang, who had fallen into a hunger-induced sleep in the storage compartment. She was filled in on what was going on by Nan Zhou.
After getting an overview of the situation after she had gone into the storage compartment, Li Yinhang rubbed her eyes and roughly summarized the plot of the game, “So, there are two fairy tales in total?”
Jiang Fang added. “In terms of the plot ratio of the two stories, Inger should only be considered a spinoff.”
Teacher Nan Zhou strictly demanded, “Don’t remind me about her.”
Jiang Fang raised his hands and said ok with a smile.
“What is so special about this game?”
Li Yinhang woke up with a start, and had also recovered from the image of seeing a person being eaten alive.
Her mind cleared up, and the questions she asked gradually had the sharpness of Nan Zhou, processing the overwhelming information and finding the core, “The other fairy tales we experienced were all single-threaded, without such a branching plot.”
“Why…”
After talking to herself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized something and raised her voice in excitement, “Is it the sound of eating in the corridor…!”
Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang simultaneously made a “shhh” gesture to her.
Realizing her surroundings, Li Yinhang covered her mouth abruptly.
The woodcutter in front also heard something and looked back nervously, his sweating face was as red as a red-skinned egg.
The three pressed down and crouched side by side in the bushes.
Nan Zhou pressed down on Li Yinhang’s head, and Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou’s head on his shoulder.
The woodcutter, looking around, felt that he did hear a female voice.
But fearing that his new wife had followed him, fearing that she would scold him for not being decisive enough to throw away the two children born to his ex-wife, he hugged his two children, quickened his pace, and plunged deeper into the dense forest without looking back.
Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind a bush, was nervous and excited, and her heart fluttered against her ribcage.
The feeling was like when she discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always tactically give up.
She looked at Mr. Nan, trying to verify whether her thought process was correct.
Nan Zhou gave a nod unobtrusively
Li Yinhang’s words did touch on a core issue.
They appeared to be playing five scattered games.
But in fact, the overall name of the copy was called [Brain Invasion].
Theoretically, what they invaded was a person’s brain.
The various subdivisions of the brain, linked and interacting with each other, silently reflect on the person’s preferences.
The brain was a mirror of what the person was like.
The nature of the game is marked by the seemingly innocuous “exploration” of the instance, [Brain Invasion].
Their journey was also a process of exploring this person.
After entering the instance, what impressed Nan Zhou the most was the regular sound of chewing that echoed in the corridor at times.
The sound had a strong presence and lasted for an extremely long time, pausing only for a while as they walked out the third door.
This happened to overlap with the nature of the story at hand.
It is precisely because the person had a particularly strong appetite, that there are two hunger-themed stories “Candy House” and “Inger” on this level.
In this way, the three levels they had experienced before were all showing the “characteristics” of the brain they were exploring.
In fact, Li Yinhang did very well at the beginning of the instance.
As early as when they were in the library, Li Yinhang had given a hypothesis to Nan Zhou.
At that time, Li Yinhang said cautiously, “Mr. Nan, don’t you think there are too many books here?”
What kind of person can read so many books?
Hundreds of bookshelves, enough books to form a “labyrinth”?
However, during the course of the game, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.
Because each level had different fairy tales to distract her, she naturally treated all the games as independent mini-games.
But Nan Zhou never forgot.
Each level he walked through was constantly feeding information to help him sketch the portrait of this brain’s master.
The portrait initially drawn as a brush stroke eventually took the form of a treacherous monster.
Proper hunger can speed up the thinking process.
Excessive hunger will only make people go crazy.
Li Yinhang, “So, we just follow them?”
She was still a little apprehensive.
——What if we meet a witch?
——Could it be that the two siblings wished to kill the witch?
If the witch was also an ordinary person controlled by the candy house and had to rely on cannibalism to feed their stomachs, they might still have a fight.
So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter?
This kind of decision was not within Li Yinhang’s ability.
She turned to Nan Zhou for help.
Nan Zhou thought for a long time and said, “I also think it has something to do with the witch.”
Saying that he looked at Jiang Fang.
But Jiang Fang did not agree immediately.
Shortly after the woodcutter and the children walked away, birds flocked towards the trail.
Four or five small birds gathered around, burying their heads and pecking at the bread crumbs that the brother had sprinkled on the ground and to use as a guide back home.
Jiang Fang raised the question, “Why do we have the story of Inger?”
Li Yinhang, “…?”
She was confused.
Wasn’t it because the owner of this brain was too hungry, so the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals was extremely active?
Didn’t they just discuss this issue?
However, after thinking for a while, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang’s proposal, “You are right.”
Li Yinhang, “…Huh?”
Every now and then, Li Yinhang would feel that she was the foreigner among the three.
“We’ve gone through three timelines. Now it’s the fourth.” Jiang Fang said, “in all four timelines, there is a similarity.”
Li Yinhang guessed cautiously, “… They’re all hungry?”
Jiang Fang, “Well. That is one similarity.”
When escaping from the witch’s house, in the fairytale, the elder brother was afraid that he would get fat and would be eaten by the witch, and he had not eaten for several days, while the younger sister lived in fear and probably had no desire to eat.
Li Yinhang continued to speculate, “…What else… they are in a crisis every timeline?”
…… As soon as the words left her mouth, she herself dismissed her deduction.
In the initial timeline, the two siblings were trying to trick them, rubbing hands and waiting to eat people, it was clearly the three guests who were in greater danger.
So, what was the other similarity?
Jiang Fang offered his conjecture, “What if, with four timelines, all represent a departure from ‘home’.”
“The siblings in the first timeline can’t conquer their appetite, so they take over the candy house and become its new owners. They are seemingly free, but forever tied to the candy house by their appetite and desire to live.”
“In the second timeline, they were equally unable to overcome their appetite and ate their father.”
“In the third timeline, they were blocked by the swamp on their way home. ”
“In theory, if each timeline represented the ‘most fearful moment of their lives,’ I think that the fourth timeline should be the siblings being imprisoned by the witch, consequently leading us to witness how they killed the witch.”
“But it didn’t.”
Li Yinhang suddenly realized, “We arrived at the timeline where they were both abandoned by their father-”
This point in the timeline, for the two children, symbolized the moment of departure from home in their lives.
Coerced by hunger, blocked by the swamp, and abandoned by their father. They were forced to live in a place that couldn’t be called “home”.
Dominated by hunger, they destroyed their “home” with their own hands.
In the timeline with the two siblings as the protagonists, the existence of witches may terrify them, but it did not cause them pain.
They stumbled and fell to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.
Just like the NPCs, the players were also experiencing a gnawing hunger and unease. They charged backward through the paths they took.
However, the siblings’ wish, hidden under the surface of many wishes, was just to return home.
Although it wasn’t warm, it meant heaven to the two children, there was a “home” in their father.
The brother and sister of the first timeline were indeed unable to express their wishes.
At that time, the two had no emotion other than hunger.
Because what they really wanted was already gone.
Jiang Fang said, “That’s why I feel the existence and insertion of Inger is a dark line.”
Li Yinhang finally understood, “The little bird plays the role of a ‘savior’?”
She got excited again, “Then, does that mean that it can also save us if we find half a loaf of bread-”
“Edible bread.” Nan Zhou added, “It said it didn’t want bread from the candy house.”
Li Yinhang got up positively, even the sharp hunger in her belly was not obvious, “Then let’s go to the big swamp first to find the little bird and ask it-”
Nan Zhou did not speak, raised his hand and pointed not far away.
Among the birds that came to feast on the bread crumbs, a familiar little ‘hairy’ bird was mixed in at some point.
But it was just sticking out its neck, pecking at some crumbs in the corners of the grass, with the reserved mannerisms of a girl.
The woodcutter and his children had already left.
Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a frank manner and stopped in front of it.
He got straight to the point, “If we pay you half a piece of bread, can you show us the door to leave?”
Li Yinhang: “…” Can you be so direct?!
The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.
It spoke in a sweet feminine voice, “Yes.”
Nan Zhou, “Will you always be here?”
It said, “You can go to the swamp to find me.”
After saying that, it fluttered its short wings and flew off into the distance.
Seeing that there was a goal and a possibility of getting out of this infernal hunger hell, Li Yinhang was busy saying, “Then let’s go!”
Seeing Li Yinhang walking in the direction of the hut, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang did not immediately follow.
“Should we tell her?” Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, “My secret.”
Jiang Fang asked back, “Now? Here?”
Nan Zhou thought for a while, “Well. We’ll tell her after we get out.”
There were still about ten hours to go before the end of the instance.
For this period of time at least, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.
Wait until they finish the instance of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang.
Inger’s story is also known as “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf”.
She was a vain and extravagant child, ill-tempered and fond of luxuries like a little dragon.
Upon returning to her hometown to visit her relatives, she had to pass through a swamp. Afraid of soiling her beautiful shoes, she laid the bread she was kindly given by her employer beneath her feet.
One foot on and the other lifted, the loaf of bread started to sink into the murk, till she had disappeared altogether and sunk down into the underworld.
Inger was wrapped in dirty leprosy and a snake had also tangled itself in her hair, hanging down her back,
Her back was stiff and her body frozen like a statue, she could not bend down to remove the loaf of bread that was stuck to her feet.
Worse than all was the terrible hunger that tormented her.
Due to the excessive hunger, her stomach ate itself.
And later, her internal organs began to devour each other.
Following her disappearance, stories of the terrible Inger began to circulate among the people.
Her mother wept and her employer lamented, countless strangers mocked and despised her, and there was but one child who shed a tear for what happened to Inger.
The child asked if she could escape if she admitted she was wrong.
Inger suffered in the underworld for days longer than she can count.
Years passed and the little child who cried for her grew old, before the child’s death, she saw Inger suffer in hell, and she shed tears once more.
Swayed by emotions, she wept bitterly, admitting her wrongs. And she turned into a silent bird and flew to the sky.
She diligently collected lost crumbs wasted by the people and gave them to other hungry birds little by little.
Until the crumbs accumulated to the length of the original bread she had stepped on.
She fluttered her wings and flew to the sun freely, like Icarus in mythology, and had since disappeared without a trace.
…… Fantasy linkage
T/N- is an Internet term, which refers to the sudden cooperation of two people or brands that have nothing to do with each other and could not have cooperated.
Nan Zhou expressed dissatisfaction with himself, “I should have realized it earlier on.”
The elements between “Candy House” and “The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf” overlapped a lot.
Hunger, as well as the bread crumbs, were the two most obvious representational elements.
One was used to find the way back home, while the other was used to atone for one’s sins.
Besides, the overlapping details had been quite obvious for some time.
For example, in “Candy House”, the brother and sister came across a wild duck, but instead what they saw was an ugly small bird.
After the two siblings escape from the candy house, what stops them should be a river.
Instead they saw a foul-smelling swamp.
Nan Zhou, who thought of himself as a scholar of “Candy House”, silently reflected on himself for a while.
Seeing him bowing his head and disappointed at himself, Jiang Fang couldn’t help but “rub” the back of his neck to comfort him.
Both of them had a rough guess of where the next timeline would go.
Therefore, Jiang Fang put on his choker again, they forcibly pulled out Li Yinhang, who had fallen into a hunger-induced sleep in the storage compartment. She was filled in on what was going on by Nan Zhou.
After getting an overview of the situation after she had gone into the storage compartment, Li Yinhang rubbed her eyes and roughly summarized the plot of the game, “So, there are two fairy tales in total?”
Jiang Fang added. “In terms of the plot ratio of the two stories, Inger should only be considered a spinoff.”
Teacher Nan Zhou strictly demanded, “Don’t remind me about her.”
Jiang Fang raised his hands and said ok with a smile.
“What is so special about this game?”
Li Yinhang woke up with a start, and had also recovered from the image of seeing a person being eaten alive.
Her mind cleared up, and the questions she asked gradually had the sharpness of Nan Zhou, processing the overwhelming information and finding the core, “The other fairy tales we experienced were all single-threaded, without such a branching plot.”
“Why…”
After talking to herself for a while, Li Yinhang suddenly realized something and raised her voice in excitement, “Is it the sound of eating in the corridor…!”
Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang simultaneously made a “shhh” gesture to her.
Realizing her surroundings, Li Yinhang covered her mouth abruptly.
The woodcutter in front also heard something and looked back nervously, his sweating face was as red as a red-skinned egg.
The three pressed down and crouched side by side in the bushes.
Nan Zhou pressed down on Li Yinhang’s head, and Jiang Fang pressed Nan Zhou’s head on his shoulder.
The woodcutter, looking around, felt that he did hear a female voice.
But fearing that his new wife had followed him, fearing that she would scold him for not being decisive enough to throw away the two children born to his ex-wife, he hugged his two children, quickened his pace, and plunged deeper into the dense forest without looking back.
Li Yinhang, who was hiding behind a bush, was nervous and excited, and her heart fluttered against her ribcage.
The feeling was like when she discovered during the college entrance examination that she had a solution to the last big question that she would always tactically give up.
She looked at Mr. Nan, trying to verify whether her thought process was correct.
Nan Zhou gave a nod unobtrusively
Li Yinhang’s words did touch on a core issue.
They appeared to be playing five scattered games.
But in fact, the overall name of the copy was called [Brain Invasion].
Theoretically, what they invaded was a person’s brain.
The various subdivisions of the brain, linked and interacting with each other, silently reflect on the person’s preferences.
The brain was a mirror of what the person was like.
The nature of the game is marked by the seemingly innocuous “exploration” of the instance, [Brain Invasion].
Their journey was also a process of exploring this person.
After entering the instance, what impressed Nan Zhou the most was the regular sound of chewing that echoed in the corridor at times.
The sound had a strong presence and lasted for an extremely long time, pausing only for a while as they walked out the third door.
This happened to overlap with the nature of the story at hand.
It is precisely because the person had a particularly strong appetite, that there are two hunger-themed stories “Candy House” and “Inger” on this level.
In this way, the three levels they had experienced before were all showing the “characteristics” of the brain they were exploring.
In fact, Li Yinhang did very well at the beginning of the instance.
As early as when they were in the library, Li Yinhang had given a hypothesis to Nan Zhou.
At that time, Li Yinhang said cautiously, “Mr. Nan, don’t you think there are too many books here?”
What kind of person can read so many books?
Hundreds of bookshelves, enough books to form a “labyrinth”?
However, during the course of the game, Li Yinhang forgot the question that was originally raised by her.
Because each level had different fairy tales to distract her, she naturally treated all the games as independent mini-games.
But Nan Zhou never forgot.
Each level he walked through was constantly feeding information to help him sketch the portrait of this brain’s master.
The portrait initially drawn as a brush stroke eventually took the form of a treacherous monster.
The rough lines and too many contradictions made this person’s image more and more elusive in Nan Zhou’s mind
Of course, in this time-limited dungeon, it is only suitable for enlightening thinking, not for meditative analysis.
That’s it.
And Nan Zhou also needed a change in environment to help him think.
Proper hunger can speed up the thinking process.
Excessive hunger will only make people go crazy.
Li Yinhang, “So, we just follow them?”
She was still a little apprehensive.
——What if we meet a witch?
——Could it be that the two siblings wished to kill the witch?
If the witch was also an ordinary person controlled by the candy house and had to rely on cannibalism to feed their stomachs, they might still have a fight.
So, are they going to hurry up and get in front of the woodcutter?
This kind of decision was not within Li Yinhang’s ability.
She turned to Nan Zhou for help.
Nan Zhou thought for a long time and said, “I also think it has something to do with the witch.”
Saying that he looked at Jiang Fang.
But Jiang Fang did not agree immediately.
Shortly after the woodcutter and the children walked away, birds flocked towards the trail.
Four or five small birds gathered around, burying their heads and pecking at the bread crumbs that the brother had sprinkled on the ground and to use as a guide back home.
Jiang Fang raised the question, “Why do we have the story of Inger?”
Li Yinhang, “…?”
She was confused.
Wasn’t it because the owner of this brain was too hungry, so the brain area responsible for the transmission of hunger signals was extremely active?
Didn’t they just discuss this issue?
However, after thinking for a while, Nan Zhou decisively gave up his reasoning and agreed with Jiang Fang’s proposal, “You are right.”
Li Yinhang, “…Huh?”
Every now and then, Li Yinhang would feel that she was the foreigner among the three.
“We’ve gone through three timelines. Now it’s the fourth.” Jiang Fang said, “in all four timelines, there is a similarity.”
Li Yinhang guessed cautiously, “… They’re all hungry?”
Jiang Fang, “Well. That is one similarity.”
When escaping from the witch’s house, in the fairytale, the elder brother was afraid that he would get fat and would be eaten by the witch, and he had not eaten for several days, while the younger sister lived in fear and probably had no desire to eat.
Li Yinhang continued to speculate, “…What else… they are in a crisis every timeline?”
…… As soon as the words left her mouth, she herself dismissed her deduction.
In the initial timeline, the two siblings were trying to trick them, rubbing hands and waiting to eat people, it was clearly the three guests who were in greater danger.
So, what was the other similarity?
Jiang Fang offered his conjecture, “What if, with four timelines, all represent a departure from ‘home’.”
“The siblings in the first timeline can’t conquer their appetite, so they take over the candy house and become its new owners. They are seemingly free, but forever tied to the candy house by their appetite and desire to live.”
“In the second timeline, they were equally unable to overcome their appetite and ate their father.”
“In the third timeline, they were blocked by the swamp on their way home. ”
“In theory, if each timeline represented the ‘most fearful moment of their lives,’ I think that the fourth timeline should be the siblings being imprisoned by the witch, consequently leading us to witness how they killed the witch.”
“But it didn’t.”
Li Yinhang suddenly realized, “We arrived at the timeline where they were both abandoned by their father-”
This point in the timeline, for the two children, symbolized the moment of departure from home in their lives.
Coerced by hunger, blocked by the swamp, and abandoned by their father. They were forced to live in a place that couldn’t be called “home”.
Dominated by hunger, they destroyed their “home” with their own hands.
In the timeline with the two siblings as the protagonists, the existence of witches may terrify them, but it did not cause them pain.
They stumbled and fell to support each other, making irreparable mistakes along the way.
Just like the NPCs, the players were also experiencing a gnawing hunger and unease. They charged backward through the paths they took.
However, the siblings’ wish, hidden under the surface of many wishes, was just to return home.
Although it wasn’t warm, it meant heaven to the two children, there was a “home” in their father.
The brother and sister of the first timeline were indeed unable to express their wishes.
At that time, the two had no emotion other than hunger.
Because what they really wanted was already gone.
Jiang Fang said, “That’s why I feel the existence and insertion of Inger is a dark line.”
Li Yinhang finally understood, “The little bird plays the role of a ‘savior’?”
She got excited again, “Then, does that mean that it can also save us if we find half a loaf of bread-”
“Edible bread.” Nan Zhou added, “It said it didn’t want bread from the candy house.”
Li Yinhang got up positively, even the sharp hunger in her belly was not obvious, “Then let’s go to the big swamp first to find the little bird and ask it-”
Nan Zhou did not speak, raised his hand and pointed not far away.
Among the birds that came to feast on the bread crumbs, a familiar little ‘hairy’ bird was mixed in at some point.
But it was just sticking out its neck, pecking at some crumbs in the corners of the grass, with the reserved mannerisms of a girl.
The woodcutter and his children had already left.
Nan Zhou walked out of the hiding place in a frank manner and stopped in front of it.
He got straight to the point, “If we pay you half a piece of bread, can you show us the door to leave?”
Li Yinhang: “…” Can you be so direct?!
The bird stopped and looked at the three of them quietly.
It spoke in a sweet feminine voice, “Yes.”
Nan Zhou, “Will you always be here?”
It said, “You can go to the swamp to find me.”
After saying that, it fluttered its short wings and flew off into the distance.
Seeing that there was a goal and a possibility of getting out of this infernal hunger hell, Li Yinhang was busy saying, “Then let’s go!”
Seeing Li Yinhang walking in the direction of the hut, Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang did not immediately follow.
“Should we tell her?” Nan Zhou asked Jiang Fang, “My secret.”
Jiang Fang asked back, “Now? Here?”
Nan Zhou thought for a while, “Well. We’ll tell her after we get out.”
There were still about ten hours to go before the end of the instance.
For this period of time at least, they need trust and relatively stable emotions.
Wait until they finish the instance of [Brain Invasion], and then explain to Li Yinhang.
