章節 319: Chapter 319: Ancient Greece
As for why there are speculations about entering the DC Universe, it is simply because the DC Universe contains traces of God's existence.
"So..."
York's gaze lingered on the laptop screen, murmuring to himself.
"Besides the DC Universe, it's indeed possible that we might enter other familiar movie worlds in the future, especially since even 'The Cabin in the Woods' has appeared."
"But it's not certain yet, we need to confirm," York put down his cup and started typing on the laptop keyboard with both hands, clacking away rapidly until a person's background information appeared on the screen, at which point he stopped.
"So, it's really 'The Cabin in the Woods'?"
[Dana Polk]
Accompanied by the information, a photo appeared.
She had long red hair, a youthful and quiet face, looking very demure.
York stared at the photo, expressionless.
The memory fragments in his mind flashed through.
This girl was none other than Dana, the female protagonist of the movie 'The Cabin in the Woods'.
According to the movie's setup...
As mentioned earlier, every country's Sacrifice Management Bureau, to keep the ancient gods asleep beneath the earth, selects sacrifices each year to perform a ritual.
As long as one country is successful, the ancient gods will continue their slumber.
Why this is the case, he leans towards a pact made with the ancient gods.
Or perhaps, sealed beneath the earth by some terrestrial deity.
The sacrifices are just a necessary act to maintain the seal.
And the rituals are naturally annual supernatural events orchestrated by humans.
The Sacrifice Management Bureau acts like a director, the sacrifices like real people, unwittingly entering a directed supernatural movie.
The difference is, everything truly happens, the sacrifices really die, and the monsters may be sealed or counterattacked.
Thinking this, York continued to click through and view the second page of the red-haired girl Dana's information.
If it's 'The Cabin in the Woods' world, then this red-haired girl is the key.
Because Dana, still a university student, was specifically chosen as one of the sacrifices by the USA.
Yes, she was just one of the sacrifices.
There were four others.
All according to the typical horror movie character archetypes of virgin, whore, scholar, athlete, and fool.
York, expressionless, danced his fingers across the keyboard using his exceptionally advanced hacking skills, quickly identifying the second sacrifice at this university.
The second protagonist of 'The Cabin in the Woods'.
[Julie Gilman]
A blonde, her photo's attire and smile revealing her usual social standing.
Her voluptuous figure combined with an outward personality, likely made her popular among many boys.
York, having attended university himself and combining it with the movie's situation, could easily imagine this girl's daily life.
"Girls like her are usually the center of social circles, yet ironically, she is still a virgin."
York recalled scenes from the movie, a hint of mockery in his eyes.
In the movie, the USA's Sacrifice Management Bureau had labeled this seemingly promiscuous blonde, Julie, as the whore.
Unexpectedly, Julie turned out to be chaste despite her image.
And Dana, labeled the virgin, appeared demure but had been involved with her professor, which broke her purity, although it involved some deception.
After thoroughly viewing Julie's personal information, York continued to identify the third sacrifice.
[Horton Goff]
Labeled by the Sacrifice Management Bureau as knowledgeable, calm, and gentlemanly—the scholar.
In reality, he fit the athlete archetype.
[Kurt Lewin]
The future football star of the school, marked by the Sacrifice Management Bureau as sunny and muscular—the athlete.
In reality, he fit the fool archetype better. Although knowledgeable, he was influenced into the fool by the bureau's drugs.
The last one, [Marty Anderson]
Thin and unimpressive in appearance, his information also frequently mentioned his smoking habit, looking like a loser.
Labeled by the Sacrifice Management Bureau as the fool, in reality, Marty's performance in the supernatural event more closely matched the scholar archetype.
"This is 'The Cabin in the Woods' main characters, no, the five sacrifices specifically chosen by the USA."
York carefully noted down these five actual people.
No other reason, he had a strong premonition that if he could get close to, or insert himself into this group of sacrifices, he might trigger a random task, and potentially find a spatial rift node.
So, from this moment, his goal has changed.
No longer strenuously searching for a spatial node, but planning to insert himself into this group of sacrifices, to become one of them, in hopes of finding a random task.
Considering that these five seemed to have just enrolled.
According to the beginning of the movie, they should have been in school for a long time.
"It seems I arrived just before the start of the movie..."
Deciding in his heart, York closed his laptop and suddenly tilted his head, pondering
.
"This situation seems like the first world I was in, that wasn't a movie world, was it? Could it be that Mirta really was a character in a plot?"
Thinking this, York squinted his eyes, packed up his laptop, and got up to pack.
The cup on the desk flew automatically towards the kitchen sink.
The faucet turned on by itself, and the cup moved up to it, followed by the detergent and a dishcloth coming together to start cleaning...
Everything proceeded autonomously, eerily so.
But regardless, York quickly packed up his belongings, brought his shoulder bag, a few sets of clothes, his laptop, and other necessities, and walked downstairs.
He stopped at the door, giving the house one last look.
"Goodbye."
Before long, he appeared in an ordinary SUV and drove off.
Regarding leaving this place to continue living elsewhere, York had no great psychological burden, nor any particular emotion.
Because all this was the product of his robbing the rich to aid the poor.
Brutally simple.
The rich being the drug dealers, involved in organ trafficking and all sorts of evil through the gangsters, the poor being him, a newcomer to this world.
Recalling the late-night memory of grabbing the gang boss, flying hundreds of meters high in the air, making the gang boss scream, York couldn't help but smile.
Because that guy, scared into a heart attack, had really too much dirty money, like John Wick, after slaughtering hundreds of scum, he accidentally had millions of dollars in cash.
Don't look at it as just a few million, this was the gang boss's attempt to retire and live carefree, unmonitored by the authorities, clean money after all, the rest being monitored by the authorities, he couldn't possibly use it.
With this money, everything else followed, new identities, houses, and so forth.
Especially after he sent the gang boss off with a shot, spending this money had no psychological burden.
"What identity should I use this time to get close?" York thought as he drove, seeing a traffic light changing to red ahead, he slowly stopped the car.
While waiting.
The car's console radio suddenly broadcasted a news about a major gang being destroyed overnight by a mysterious person.
York glanced at the console screen, found the music library, then clicked on a song to replace the broadcast.
"Cornell University, huh..."
"Being a punctual student? That might be difficult, quite troublesome, still have to listen to others, not much freedom.
Maybe play a professor instead? After all, that knowledge probably won't stump my brain."
As York's thoughts accompanied him, the green light came on, and the ordinary, inconspicuous SUV continued forward.
One month later.
In the northeast of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York State.
Main campus of Cornell University.
Outside an office in the hallway.
A red-haired girl holding books about psychology approached but stopped at the door, hesitating.
Her expression was very conflicted, and eventually, she bit her lip and hurriedly ran off.
This left the man who had seen everything with a corner of his mouth twitching, a look of helplessness on his face.
"What's this about? I accidentally ended up replacing the professor that Dana, the red-haired girl, likes?"
The man was none other than York, who had successfully become a professor of psychology at Cornell University using his psychic powers and hypnotic control abilities.
Psychology, for him, a priest often comforting and guiding his followers, was the easiest subject to handle and not too troublesome.
During his classes, he also selectively encountered the main group from 'The Cabin in the Woods'.
Indeed, from the beginning, these five people had already been targeted by the Sacrifice Management Bureau.
Because no matter where, there's always someone with a different face watching them, also making moves or behaviors, intentionally guiding, letting these five become friends.
Keep in mind, universities in the USA operate on a credit system, unlike in China with the concept of classes and collectives.
"Coincidentally, all five of these people chose my class."
A glint of amusement flashed in York's eyes as he spun his chair to face the floor-to-ceiling window across the desk.
The red-haired girl Dana hurriedly ran down to the plaza below and met up with the blonde girl Julie waiting there.
"How is it?"
Julie approached, wearing a top that showcased her clean neck and shoulders and a skirt that revealed her long legs, her delicately made-up face excited.
"Did you see Professor York?"
Dana was frustrated: "No, I didn't go in."
"What?"
Julie was taken aback, watching her friend walk ahead, she subconsciously looked up at the window above, unfortunately seeing nothing, she pursed her lips, only able to suppress her thoughts and tuck Dana's arm into her ample bosom.
"Weren't you going to ask the professor about something you didn't understand
?"
"..."
Hearing this conversation, York didn't know what to think, his expression somewhat unnatural.
More than Dana showing a liking for him.
Even Julie subtly showed signs, possibly because of this, she even rejected the advances of Kurt, the young man who had made a name in football.
So in the movie, this couple's identity was doomed from the start.
"This storyline seems a bit off, but fortunately, these people from the Sacrifice Management Bureau haven't given up."
York's gaze moved from Julie's alluring figure to a corridor outside a building.
In his 150-meter stereo image, two men in black suits were so clear he could even see the wireless earpieces beside their ears.
At the same time, these two men's gazes constantly followed Julie and Dana's movements.
"And because of Julie and Dana's relationship, it seems they've also started watching me."
York's gaze shifted again, at the edge of his stereo image range, he saw another man in a black suit using binoculars to look this way.
"Best to rope me in, make me part of the sacrifice."
Seeing someone watching, York carelessly smiled, spun his chair around, and faced his desk again.
In front of him, a virtual window displayed a task window.
[...]
[Condition met: Trigger random task, this world harbors a source of danger]
[Task requirement: Eliminate the source of danger in this world, save the innocent sacrifices]
[Task reward: +100 attribute points + seal spatial rift and return]
"So just by becoming a sacrifice, I can find out the ancient god's resting place, thus resolving this world's source of danger and saving the lives of innocent sacrifices."
York thought about his earlier search.
The Sacrifice Management Bureau was really careful, basically leaving no address.
Even on some highly confidential files, only the name of the Sacrifice Management Bureau was mentioned.
York had considered abducting the men outside keeping watch to force information about the location of the Sacrifice Management Bureau, but from the conversation, he knew these people were just collaborators, not actually from the Sacrifice Management Bureau.
Of course, he had also thought of using hypnosis on Kurt to force out the location of his cousin's cabin.
After all, in the movie, the Sacrifice Management Bureau was located beneath 'The Cabin in the Woods', and the ancient god also, in the end, reached out a hand to smash the entire cabin.
But, upon reflection, it surely wouldn't be that simple, because those watching had revealed too much information, once leaking the phrase "preparing 'The Cabin in the Woods'".
This clearly indicated that 'The Cabin in the Woods' was only a result of the Sacrifice Management Bureau's deployment, and even the ancient god's resting place was not there.
Going there now would find nothing, at best alerting the bureau to sudden changes, at worst making the bureau flee, changing the sacrifices, or pitting him against the entire world.
So, better to follow procedure, one step at a time, steadily.
"This secrecy, so secret that it can't be found by ordinary means, really has some style,
But it also shows the power of the ancient gods, making humans, even those with nuclear weapons, still wary or fearful, afraid that something careless might disturb Its sleep."
Thinking this, York calmly lowered his head and continued grading his students' homework.
"So what exactly is this ancient god?"
While grading, York thought back to the movie's giant hand smashing the entire cabin, breaking the massive energy web.
"It's said to be like the Old Gods of Cthulhu I've heard of in a past life, but it rather resembles an ancient god from Greek mythology..."
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