Whispers

(text-colour:cyan)["I'm a famous explorer, interested in all things paranormal even though I despise their authenticity. In fact, I've explored numerous rumored haunted places, all of which I've proven to be false. As an atheist, one of my greatest pleasures is to squash these rumors about ghosts and gods."] [[continue]]

[Recently, the rumor about a missing persons case is stirring up. It is said that a group of people have mysteriously disappeared after entering an old castle in the wilderness. The investigation team that went to find them and the families of the missing people have not returned.] [You think it's another rumor spread by some boring person, so you don't pay attention and decide to stay home and rest.] [One day, however, your friend Jason drops by to tell you that his nephew Leo is part of the missing police investigation team. Jason wants you to go with him to the old castle to find out what happen and find Leo.] [[Pack up and head out with Jason]] [[Refuse Jason's request]]

[Your wife stops you by saying that you haven't had a good rest in a long time and that she wants you to stay home and spend more time with her.] [[Continue to rest at home]]

[Jason left with his head down. He said he would go alone.] [[Continue to rest at home]]

[A few days later, your landline phone suddenly started ringing. Not many people know it's number, almost all are your friends or relatives.] [[ Answer the phone]] [[Don't answer the phone]]

[It was Jason. He was screaming for help. He was yelling "Help me" and "Demon!" . Then there was a muffled, thick echo on the line that did not sound like a human or animal voice. A few seconds later, the call was hung up] [You know Jason is a prankster. This is not the first time he has done a prank like this. However, you decided to go to the castle anyway. After all, it seems that Jason was really interested in the rumors about the castle, otherwise he wouldn't have staged this prank to attract you] [[Pack up your gear and head out alone]]

[Your wife answers the phone and her expression gradually changes from surprise to horror Then the call seemed to be hung up. The wife turns to look at you.] [[Ask her what happened]]

["It was Jason on the phone," she said, her voice shaking. "He kept screaming 'help' and 'it‘s demons'. His voice trailed off until there was a blur of indistinguishable noises on the other end of the line. And then the call was cut off."] [You know Jason is a prankster. This is not the first time he has done a prank like this. However, you decided to go to the castle anyway. After all, it seems that Jason was really interested in the rumors about the castle, otherwise he wouldn't have staged this prank to attract you.] [[Pack up your gear and head out alone]]

[You drive off and, following the route your phone has guided, you gradually drive into a sparsely populated forest. Here the trees hid the sun from the sky, and the forest was dead. Not even the birds appeared.] [The road ahead gets narrower and narrower, and you decide:] [[Get out of the car and explore the road ahead]] [[Keep on driving]]

[Not far ahead, there's a twisted birch tree with something black hanging all over its branch. You can't make out what it is from your current distance. From here the road on the left becomes very wide for driving through. You decide:] [[Close to see]] [Get back in the car and [[keep on driving]]]

[Not far ahead, there's a twisted birch tree with something black hanging all over its branch. You can't make out what it is from your current distance. From here the road on the left becomes very wide for driving through. You decide:] [Get off the car and[[Close to see]]] [Turn left and [[keep on driving]]]

[When you get close to the birch tree, you find that the black things hanging from the tree are crows! As you approach, they make a shrill call and fly away.] [You are curious about such strange things. "Is there something in this tree that attracts them?"] [[Check the tree]] ["I'd rather stay away from such unlucky things." Back to the car and[[keep on driving]]]

[When it is completely dark, you come to the gate of the old castle. The door is unlocked and you enter the castle.] [You find yourself in a dimly lit hall surrounded by a few candles on the walls. You decide:] [[Walk around looking for useful clues]] [[Shouting "Jason? Were are you?"]] [[Sleep where you are before you make any plans]]

[The rest of the trip goes smoothly until you notice that your position on your phone's navigation hasn't changed since a certain point, even though you've been driving for a long time.] [You look at the time. It's getting late and the car is running out of gas. It looks like the phone lost signal and the navigation wasn't working properly.] [You look around and suddenly there is a huge building in the distance. It looks like a castle. It seems that despite the navigation error on your phone, you managed to get near your destination.] [[Leave the car, which has run out of gas, and hike to the castle with your gear]]

[You can see the garden through the Windows at the front of the hall, which has narrow aisle on each side.] [[Exit through the side entrance at the front of the hall to the garden]] [[Head for the left aisle]] [[Head for the right aisle]]

[There is no reply, only your echo echoing in the hall]

[Soon, you fall asleep. You do not know how long later, you are suddenly awakened by a loud ringing of bells.] [You look up at the place where the bells are ringing. At the very front of the hall, a huge brass bell is swinging and making a sound. "Dang Dang Dang......."] [As you look at it, an unspeakable, strange sound begins to echo in your head....] [#@%^~/'*! ·》*#、% T ▇ e nnn'drnog ▇ ▇ ▇ loud ng nilgh'nahyar.*%#@%-— Sit llll pe▇▇ch ng ai ot▇er_ s ▇▇ ahf' l' ah] [You have a splitting headache. You feel almost delirious and start repeating the same words as the voice in your head.] [[Y''m mglw'nafh]] [[Stab yourself in the thigh with a pocket knife and force your sanity]]

[You gradually descend into madness, and you see a group of men in long black robes approaching you.] [It was dark under their hoods, and you couldn't see their faces. One of them comes up to you and he holds out his hand.] ["Sir, I wish I could tell you the story of our heavenly Father and savior, Cthulhu"] [He got close to you, and you seemed to see his face] [["Jason?"]] [[Stab him with the knife you carry]]

[The whisper in your head dies down and you can finally breathe.] [This sudden freak event has shaken your steadfastness. You are aware of the danger coming. "I must to get the hell out of here!"] [[Fighting with the pain in leg and run for the door.]] [[Escape down the hallway on the side of the hall]]

[You don't know if the chaos is causing you to hallucinate, or if it's all real, but it doesn't matter anymore. Now you know that the grace of Your savior will bring answers to the world. You put on the black robe and stood with "them"] [^#%^&*@#$%*▇ ▇ ▇▇] [You lost.... (Bad end)]

[Blood ran down the blade to your hand, and you felt cold.] [A sharp pain in your stomach brings you back to yourself and you realize that there is no one around and that the clock at the front of the hall does not exist. Blood gushes from your stomach and you find the knife sticking into yourself.] [The loss of blood has weakened your limbs. You collapsed in a pool of blood. Remorse and fear come over you. You regret being here. You don't want to die yet.] [You reach for your phone with your last gasp of strength to call the police, but your pocket is empty...] [You are dead.(Bad end)]

[You push hard on the door, but it's locked. The terrible truth makes you break out in a cold sweat.] [[Escape down the hallway on the side of the hall.]]

[Shortly after you escaped through the tunnel, you heard a loud bang. Huge stone walls have collapsed, blocking the passage you just came through.] [Terrified, you look around and see what looks like a bedroom. In the center of the room was a large, ornate bed studded with purple gems. But now you don't care about these valuable things, you just want to find a way out of the castle....] [[Look around the room]] [[Look out the window of the room]]

[Just before you are about to cross the narrow corridor, a stone wall falls from the sky and crushes you into mud.] [You are dead.]

[When you go to a dressing table, you see your own face in the mirror. You see twisted, indescribable tentacles squirming out of your features and all over your face....] [[You can't believe your eyes and decide to take a closer look]]

[The room doesn't seem to be too high up, but it's so dark out that you can't be sure if your observations are correct and all your gear is left in the hall.] [[Jump out the window.]] [[Look around the room]]

[You try to adjust your landing motion, but you fail. You misjudge the height of the room, which is much higher than you thought. You broke your leg.] [[Call the police for help]]

[Luckily, you made the call and told them exactly where you were, and it was just a matter of waiting until you were rescued.] [[Waiting]] [[Use the knife to carve "I was here" on the wall as a distraction and to ease the sharp pain in leg.]]

[Suddenly, a Wolf's cry was heard not far away. Then one Wolf after another appeared nearby. They're drawn to the sound of you hitting the ground.] [You are eaten by wolves in fear, pain, and despair, until nothing is left but bones. When the rescue team arrived, they even couldn't tell whose bones it was.(Bad end)]

[Right after you put your name on it, suddenly, a Wolf's cry was heard not far away. Then one Wolf after another appeared nearby. They're drawn to the sound of you hitting the ground.] [You are eaten by wolves in fear, pain, and despair, until nothing is left but bones. When the rescue team arrived, they even couldn't tell whose bones it was. But they found your name on the side wall. (Bad end, But at least you left your name)]

[You scream and unconsciously reach for your face. Then the horrible whisper in your head began again. "Ehyenah ahor escape geb, ahnyth ya, ngnah ah'mglw'nafh....."] [*$%@ .. #^& ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇ ▇] [You see your hands turn into disgusting tentacles, twisting uncontrollably and wriggling around your body.] [Your body starts to feel soft, and the bones feel like they're being pulled away. Your vision becomes blurred and you become an indescribable puddle of ooze.] [..>%▇&*#@#▇#@)__-,▇/~``%^▇#$@....▇---\#] [You're in a frenzy. (Bad end)]

[You find a rusty pocket watch on a branch. It has stopped working, and time stands at a point forever. Some passerby probably dropped it here.] [You decide to take it.] [[Take the watch and get back in the car and drive]]

[When it is completely dark, you come to the gate of the old castle. The door is unlocked and you enter the castle.] [You find yourself in a dimly lit hall surrounded by a few candles on the walls. You decide:] [[Shouting "Jason? Were are you?" ]] [[Sleep where you are before you make any plans.]]

[There is no reply, only your echo echoing in the hall]

[Soon, you fall asleep. You do not know how long later, you are suddenly awakened by a loud ringing of bells.] [You look up at the place where the bells are ringing. At the very front of the hall, a huge brass bell is swinging and making a sound. "Dang Dang Dang......."] [As you look at it, an unspeakable, strange sound begins to echo in your head....] [#@%^~/'*! ·》*#、% T ▇ e nnn'drnog ▇ ▇ ▇ loud ng nilgh'nahyar.*%#@%-— Sit llll pe▇▇ch ng ai ot▇er_ s ▇▇ ahf' l' ah] [You have a splitting headache. You feel almost delirious and start repeating the same words as the voice in your head.] [[Y''m mglw'nafh?]] [[Stab yourself in the thigh with a pocket knife and force your sanity.]]

[The whisper in your head dies down and you can finally breathe.] [This sudden freak event has shaken your steadfastness. You are aware of the danger coming. "I must to get the hell out of here!"] [[Fighting with the pain in leg and run for the door]] [[Escape down the hallway on the side of the hall ]]

[As soon as you see the pointer, you feel that time in this world stands still. Then the world turned upside down and time began to go backwards.] [You return to the birch tree where the watch was found, and the rusty pocket watch is now hanging quietly from its branch.] [[Take the watch and get back in the car and drive]] [[All this is really too terrible, I don't want to experience it again!]]

[You haven't find it.] [You are dead.]

[You make a quick U-turn and drive home. Years later you remember the experience with horror. You have long since given up being an explorer to study theology, and now you are serving as a priest in a church in another city.] [Congratulations! You found one of the few survival outcomes.]

[You push hard on the door, but it's locked. The terrible truth makes you break out in a cold sweat.] [[Escape down the hallway on the side of the hall ]]

[Just before you are about to cross the narrow corridor, a stone wall falls from the sky and crushes you into mud.] [You are dead.]

[You try to adjust your landing motion, but you fail. You misjudge the height of the room, which is much higher than you thought. You broke your leg.] [[Call the police for help ]]

[You can't find your cell phone. You probably left it in your room when you climbed out of the window. However, you pulled out the rusty pocket watch you had found in the birch tree.] [Despondently, you [[Flip the lid off the pocket watch]], thinking you'll soon bleed to death. "Is my life going to stop like this watch? It must be the damned pocket watch that brought this bad luck."]

[When you get to the garden, you find that it is full of purple flowers that you cannot name. In the middle of the garden is a sculpture, but it's more of a weird stone than a sculpture. From a distance, each bump on this strange-shaped stone resembles a [[human face]], and you can't help but look away.] [Strange flowers make you curious, so you pick one to [[observe.]]]

[In the hallway, you hear a beautiful piano in front of you, it seems to be an old lullaby.] [You walk down the aisle and enter a room. It seemed to be a concert hall, with the piano playing automatically in the middle of the venue, and no one was there.] [[Check the piano]] [Come back the way you came, and[[Walk around looking for useful clues]]]

You are stopped at the entrance by a door hung with a board that says, "Before the clock strikes midnight, the impious will be turned here into the nourishment of the Savior." [["Oh, that's funny", Pry open the lock]] [Return and [[Walk around looking for useful clues]]]

[Just before you are about to cross the narrow corridor, a stone wall falls from the sky and crushes you into mud.] ["Drown in the endless darkness, you ignorant" The sound reverberates in your ears.] [You are dead.]

[You find that it is an ordinary automatic piano, and the score on the piano says, "Carefree child, carries away the seed of nightmare."] [Come back the way you came, and[[Walk around looking for useful clues]]]

[When you look at the flower, you feel a trance for a moment. Just then, a [[bell]] suddenly sounded from inside the hall. You check the time and find that several hours have passed since you entered the [[garden]].]

[No matter which direction you go, you feel these faces staring back at you] [There are smiles, anger, pain on these faces, but either way, all you can feel is longing, as if they want you to join them.]

[You look up at the place where the bells are ringing. At the very front of the hall, a huge brass bell is swinging and making a sound. "Dang Dang Dang......."] [As you look at it, an unspeakable, strange sound begins to echo in your head....] [#@%^~/'*! ·》*#、% T ▇ e nnn'drnog ▇ ▇ ▇ loud ng nilgh'nahyar.*%#@%-— Sit llll pe▇▇ch ng ai ot▇er_ s ▇▇ ahf' l' ah] [You have a splitting headache. You feel almost delirious and start repeating the same words as the voice in your head.] [[Y''m mglw'nafh]]

[You look around again and suddenly the flowers on the ground seem become different.] [Twisted tentacles are its branches and leaves, and human eyeballs are its stamens. The whole garden is so dense, they're looking at you, looking at you.] [#@%^~/'*! ·》*#、% T ▇ e nnn'drnog ▇ ▇ ▇ loud ng nilgh'nahyar.*%#@%-— Sit llll pe▇▇ch ng ai ot▇er_ s ▇▇ ahf' l' ah] [You get a splitting headache, a fading consciousness and fall into a sea of flowers. In a trance, it's as if some plant is sending its roots from your ear into your brain. It takes your brains as nutrient, root whisker is full of intracranial] [After you wake up, you find yourself lying on the grass outside the old castle.] [You feel more aware of who you are and your goals than ever before.[["The seeds of happiness have sprouted, and I will be the messenger of the Savior to spread the bounty over this barren land."]]] [[I can't do this!]]

[After that you don't know anything, but you are in the ultimate happiness every moment, this world is really too beautiful.] [Good end? Maybe it is. #@▇%^▇~/'*! ·》▇*#、% T ▇ e n]

["Y' ephaiot ephaiah'hri savior"] [["The seeds of happiness have sprouted, and I will be the messenger of the Savior to spread the bounty over this barren land."]]

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"I'm a famous explorer, interested in all things paranormal even though I despise their authenticity. In fact, I've explored numerous rumored haunted places, all of which I've proven to be false. As an atheist, one of my greatest pleasures is to squash these rumors about ghosts and gods."

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