角色故事•三(解锁条件:角色等级60)
无貌的少女意识到自己一定受到了某种诅咒,不然为什么感受不到任何外部的刺激?痛感、味觉、嗅觉都很正常,她却无法对此做出反应,自然也丧失了喜怒哀乐,体会各种情绪的能力。她只能尽力弥补,试图提供不同的场景,通过观察来询问其他人的感受。
「…如果你在喝一杯很苦的茶,你觉得怎么样?会怎么喝?」
虽然被绑在椅子上不得动弹,但左边的流浪汉男士还是做出赞赏的姿势点点头,中间的女孩马上哭了起来,摇着头拒绝,右边的年长女士则嫌弃地皱了皱鼻子。
「如果你身处一个极其寒冷的小屋,手边只有这杯茶怎么办?」
男士自然不必说,女孩哭闹了一阵后接受了,女士则还是摆出拒绝的态度。
她不断变换预设,日以继夜地提问,直到受访者忍受不住昏了过去。她将他们送回家中,搜罗另一批人来接受她的采访。
那段时间,小镇里的居民都做着同一个噩梦,他们被关在一个地方,面容模糊的少女礼貌地向他们提问,他们没有拒绝的权利,只能对回答做一遍又一遍的补充,直到少女将每一处细节都面面俱到地记录在一个又一个纸面具上。一个写满了,就换下一个。
这个噩梦很快又被另一个噩梦取代了,居民们声称半夜会看到纸面具在空中飞舞,彼此交谈,它们隐隐发光,又转眼熄灭,就像夜空中的花火一般。他们每晚都会出现,仿佛是在小镇暗处生活的居民。
在一个幽暗的地下室,少女并不知晓这个噩梦。她搜集了足够多的资料——人们细微的情感,对不同事物的看法——用于制作更多的纸面具。她坚信,虽然自己无情无泪,但自己制作的那些面具却有血有肉,甚至终有一天,会成为真正的生命。
Character Story: Part III
• Unlocked at Character Level 60
The faceless girl realized that she must be under some kind of curse. Why else couldn't she feel any stimuli? Her sense of pain, taste, and smell were all intact, yet she was unable to react to them. Naturally, she couldn't experience joy, anger, sadness, or a range of emotions. She could only strive to observe others' reactions in various situations to understand their feelings.
"...How would you feel if you were drinking a cup of bitter tea? How would you drink it?"
Although tied to the chair and immobilized, the homeless man on the left made an appreciative gesture and nodded. The girl in the middle immediately cried and shook her head in denial, while the madam on the right wrinkled her nose in disgust.
"What if you were in an extremely cold hut, with only this cup of tea at hand?"
Naturally, the man nodded. The girl cried for a while and then reluctantly accepted, while the lady still reacted in disgust.
She continued to change her scenarios and ask questions day and night until her interviewees passed out. She would send them home and seek out new targets for her "interviews."
During that time, the town's inhabitants all had the same nightmare. They found themselves trapped in a place where a blurred-faced young girl politely asked them questions, and they had no choice but to answer. They could only provide responses repeatedly until the young girl meticulously recorded every detail on paper masks, one after another. Whenever a mask was filled, it was replaced by another.
This nightmare was soon replaced by another, as residents claimed to see paper masks flying through the air in the middle of the night. The masks would talk to each other, faintly glowing before eventually fading out, resembling sparklers in the night sky. They appeared every night, as if they were residents living in the shadow of the town.
In a dark basement, a young lady remained unaware of this nightmare. She had gathered enough information about people's nuanced emotions and their perceptions of different things... To make more paper masks. She firmly believed that although she possessed no emotions, the masks she created had flesh and blood. She even believed that one day, they would become real beings.