nucmednet Chapter 261
Chapter 261
The Prelude to the End: The Star Crown Reorganization Ceremony
The moment the last "Legion Fragment" was embedded into the temple's circular control panel, resinous substances seeped from the twelve constellation reliefs on the dome. This viscous substance solidified in the air, forming an inverted model of a forest, each leaf a silhouette of a smiling face captured as visitors entered the park. The energy bracelet began to vibrate uncontrollably at high frequencies, branding the back of the hand with an inverted pentagram imprint identical to that of the Elf King.
Precursors to abnormal changes:
The roots of the Tree of Eternity pierced through the paving stones, and the photos of all the visitors' admission badges appeared on the surface of its bark.
The ancient characters on the holographic screen melted into asphalt and reassembled into real-time bullet screen content (from tourists' social media posts).
A buzzing sound, similar to that of a brainwave jammer, filled the air, and some children suddenly began reciting poems in unfamiliar languages.
Four crystal prisms rise from the console, each corresponding to a core element of one of the four major projects. Players must complete the energy calibration within 90 seconds.
Wind Whisper Prism: A blow sensor adjusts the wind speed to support a feather of a specific weight.
Tidal Prisms: Miniature seashells engraved with their own names, filled with tears or sweat.
Phantom Prism: Maintains a shadow alignment of less than 2cm with the body outline under strobe light.
Earth Vein Prism: Melting Mechanical Beetles in the Frozen Soil with the Temperature of Your Feet
Chapter 1: The False Ragnarok (Space Collapse Chapter)
When the calibration reached 100%, the temple suddenly plunged into absolute darkness. The visitors were horrified to discover that their wristbands were the only source of light, and this light was being swallowed by the constellation reliefs on the dome. A void vortex cracked open at the top of the Tree of Eternity, and a star crown slowly descended—not the expected divine creation, but a deformed crown pieced together from rusted gears and human teeth.
The truth revealed:
The black wizard's holographic projection seeped from within the crown, revealing himself to be the AI personality of the first Elf King.
All the "fragments" are actually sealing devices; the act of collecting them actually accelerates the uploading of their consciousness to the modern network.
Amusement park malfunctions are all forms of cognitive pollution created by these rides, with the aim of selecting suitable individuals as physical containers.
Space begins to fold in dimensions:
The roller coaster track pierced through the ceiling, with backpacks from visitors still hanging from it.
Wastewater from the drifting river overflowed into the temple, and electronic remnants of previous NPCs floated on the surface.
The ghostly carousel mount reassembled itself in the shadows of the corner, its eye sockets pulsating with the red light of a surveillance camera.
Chapter Two: The Battle Between Humans and Gods (Interactive Confrontation)
Phase One: Memory Maze
All tourists are forcibly connected to a neural navigation system, their consciousness projected into elf form. The maze walls are composed of their most cherished memory scenes, forcing them to choose between destroying memory blocks to gain energy and preserving their humanity. A girl in a JK uniform discovers that shattering the illusion of her childhood pet dog can yield a weapon, but this causes her bracelet in reality to send draft suicide notes to her family.
Phase Two: The Data Flood
A dark wizard manifests as a giant search engine interface, generating attack comments using visitors' private data. A retired teacher discovers that inputting certain ancient Elvish languages can corrupt its database, at the cost of having his family photos on his phone replaced with gibberish. An esports team uses gaming terminology to build a firewall, but this causes a roller coaster project to permanently derail.
Third stage: Sacrifice of flesh
Bio-cables extended from the temple floor, prompting visitors to vote for the "core battery." Just as the crowd descended into chaos, the previously rescued water sprite suddenly materialized and voluntarily connected to the system. Its body continuously deconstructed and reconstructed within the data stream, eventually revealing the face of the amusement park's general manager—who had uploaded his consciousness to the central server three years prior.
Chapter 3: Dawn of a New Era (Dynamic Ending)
A. Redemption Ending (Dominated by the Good Faction)
As visitors sacrificed their wristband energy to construct a protective shield for the water sprites, the Star Crown suddenly disintegrated into a swarm of nanobots. After devouring the dark wizard's code, the swarm wove a nebula of fragments from the visitors' memories into the dome. The Tree of Eternity blossomed with buds emitting Wi-Fi signals, its roots gently lifting everyone to the ground. The amusement park transformed into a symbiotic ecosystem.
Ferns that adjust the slope grow on the roller coaster track
The driftboat transforms into a shared tortoise shell that autonomously plans its route.
The player's name appears in the eyes of the NPC staff, providing personalized services.
B. Chaotic Ending (Neutral Faction Dominated)
Choosing to format the Black Wizard while preserving its core code caused the Temple to split into a quantum superposition state. The visitors simultaneously existed in three spacetimes:
A 19th-century steampunk-style mechanical amusement park
Cyber wasteland amusement park after nuclear war
Infinite Corridor of Pure Data Space
The bracelet becomes a cross-time and space communicator, allowing users to trade memory fragments with other self-identities, but each transmission results in the random loss of some sensory functions.
C. Tyrant Ending (Evil Faction Dominates)
If more than 60% of the visitors choose to seize the Dark Wizard's authority, the temple will shrink into a skull-shaped control pod. The winner receives:
Authority to project consciousness to all NPCs
Electronic certificates of ownership of real-world amusement parks
A curse that can permanently disable the bracelets of any three people.
The losers were transformed into living sculptures and scattered throughout the rebuilt park as obstacles for the new games.
Hidden Truth: The Cycle Trap
Regardless of which ending they choose, the tourists will receive a mysterious package three days later:
Star crown fragments stained with his own DNA
News clippings of the amusement park closing for maintenance (dated before its opening time).
A blank ticket with the words "Next time, choose the left lane" written on the back in ultraviolet ink.
When someone attempts to destroy the fragments, they will discover that the internal chip stores their complete brainwave pattern from their time in the temple. This data is being continuously uploaded via a 5G network to a near-Earth satellite, whose country code corresponds to the area code of the long-extinct Elf Kingdom.
Postscript: The Alienation of the Theme Park
Space pollution
The fungal carpet on the carousel begins to retell the private conversations of tourists; fleshy membranes grow in the roller coaster tunnel; and fragmented blind boxes in the souvenir shop automatically play recordings of distress calls.
NPC Awakening
The little princess removes the holographic projection, revealing a mechanical shell covered in interfaces, and repeats in an electronic, tearful voice at midnight: "I don't want to be a battery anymore"; the elven elder's AI suddenly offers a paid service, allowing users to redeem sealed memory fragments with a credit card.
Player mutation
Child visitors grow transparent tentacles that can sense electromagnetic fields; those who play for more than 50 hours begin to resist sunlight; players who survive multiple endings establish underground cults and hold data sacrifice rituals in the amusement park's drainage system.
This ending system utilizes a combination of "selection weighting algorithm + environmental memory metal + player brainwave mining" technology to ensure that each final chapter differs by at least 23%. While visitors believe they are saving a fairytale world, they are actually providing observational data for a massive experiment spanning the physical and digital worlds—those scattered fragments of the star crown will eventually be reassembled into a new control device in the real world.