"The townspeople don't need the internet, so from this, it can be inferred that the network signal is unrelated to them, or at the very least, they don't know of its existence."
"But... if the signal isn't for them, then who is it for? Could it be for 'it'? That seems even more far-fetched."
Jack sat on the sofa, holding his head, feeling an intense headache.
"This town is really bizarre, from being surrounded by forests yet constantly supplied with resources, to the cyborg-like citizens, to the nightti cyberspace, and finally to this inexplicable signal..."
"I really don't know what secrets are hidden here or why such strange things are happening."
"There are too many peculiarities in this town; it's not lacking in weirdness."
Yun You shook her head, speaking casually, unsure whether she was reassuring Jack or calming her own restless heart.
"Without concrete information, all of this is just speculation."
"Information... information..."
"Wait a minute!"
As she spoke, Yun You suddenly realized sothing.
She abruptly lifted her head, looking upward.
The place where her gaze landed was the last trace left by Aurora in the room.
A bizarre pattern drawn with filthy oil stains and broth.
Previously, Yun You had managed to decipher the scratched text on the floor, obtaining a wealth of information.
But she had never been able to decipher this secret text overhead, only obtaining a line of incomprehensible strange words.
[Sky, darkness, look up, its blood]
Among them, Yun You had understood the anings of darkness and look up, roughly indicating to look at the ceiling at night.
But the anings of "sky" and "its blood" remained unclear to Yun You.
She first thought of the Hunters she encountered in cyberspace before.
These monsters could bleed, and it was substantial blood.
But after the collapse of cyberspace, their blood disappeared, along with the entire world, leaving not a trace behind.
This was completely uncollectible.
"Could it be referring to our own blood?"
Yun You thought for a mont, then squeezed her right hand fingers, squeezing out two drops of blood from a previous wound, and flicked them accurately onto the ceiling.
However, even after those two drops of blood landed with a "plop," Yun You still couldn't discern anything.
"Strange..."
The little girl furrowed her brow, continuously stroking her chin.
"What is the aning behind Aurora's riddle?"
"Its blood, the sky."
"The sky, its blood."
The little girl muttered to herself.
"Sky... sky... sky?"
As she thought, Yun You glanced out the window at the night with her peripheral vision.
The sky over the town was vast and boundless, much more expansive than the cramped town.
But for so reason, Yun You didn't see any stars here.
This was really unusual.
When she was young, she had been to the Nest Suburbs, and although there was a lot of heavy industry that kicked up dust, due to the lack of high-tech light pollution, you could still see a few stars.
In other words, the lower the degree of urbanization, the more stars should be visible.
Not to ntion a whole night sky, at least a few bright stars, like the Big Dipper and the Morning Star, should be visible.
But in Yangshan Town, which had no industrial pollution and virtually zero urbanization, Yun You couldn't see a single star.
This certainly wasn't normal.
However, under this expansive sky, Yun You didn't see nothing...
At precisely midnight in the night sky, a perfect full moon the size of a fist hung in the sky, emitting a faint glow.
But its light wasn't a golden-orange glow; it was a reddish, blood-like shimr.
Because it was the only luminous body in the entire sky, its blood-colored glow almost covered the entire night sky.
Basked in this moonlight, Yun You didn't feel any "agile" or "light" aura, only a sense of being "watched," chilling to the bone even through thick glass windows.
At the sa ti, its scarlet light cast so shadows in the room.
Whether it was a person or an object, even the scratches on the floor and the oil stains on the ceiling were cast in a frenzy of shadows, twisted with the window's trembling.
The shadows weren't obvious, but they existed.
"Could it be... the sky refers to the entire night sky, and 'its blood' refers to this form of moonlight that resembles blood?!"
Yun You was startled, suddenly realizing this.
Yes, if that's the case, then it makes sense.
"Let see if this light can reveal any answers..."
The little girl hesitated briefly, then gritted her teeth, unlocking the window.
Although Mayor Kong had previously told her not to open the window, at this point, their room had already been invaded by "Cyberspace," the rules had been broken once, so what was there left to follow?
With that thought, Yun You opened the window directly.
And in the next mont...
"Whoosh—!"
The cold wind, like a knife, blew into the room along with the scarlet moonlight.
Instantly, the tables and chairs trembled, the curtains and bed sheets fluttered wildly, and small objects like cups and jars were swept to the floor, presenting a scene of impending doom.
But in the end, the destruction was limited to this.
Just as Yun You expected, tonight, "it" having already invaded the room once, wouldn't and couldn't invade a second ti.
The crisis didn't arrive, but the red moonlight that wasn't blocked by the window brought "opportunity."
It unrestrainedly spilled onto the ceiling, almost instantly fusing with the oil and filth, drawing a new slip of information for Yun You.
Only this ti, Yun You noticed that there seed to already be faint "painted characters" on the ceiling.
The broth Aurora spilled was just to make them more noticeable.
Without further hesitation, Yun You directly pulled Jack in to read.
[Temporary Note]
[Ti: August 16, 2077, 10 p.m. (the second day in Yangshan Town)]
[Recorder: Aurora Miles]
[Congratulations, you've successfully solved the puzzle I temporarily set]
[You may wonder why I went to such great lengths to set these puzzles instead of recording my findings more simply, right?]
[I had no choice; this was a helpless act after much consideration]
[You might not believe it, but that thing, "It," is learning...!]
[I discovered this by accident; on the first night, I left a simple puzzle in another room, and just one day later, "It" had cleaned up that puzzle]
[This proves that "It's" intelligence is gradually increasing, so I had to rack my brain to create these chain puzzles to protect the information]
[Forgive , successor; I had no better way but to do this...]
[Let's return to the main topic]
[After the second encounter with the "Pursuer," I ca up with so deductions about unraveling the whole town's secrets]
[And the most crucial source of information actually cos from a small story below this text]
[You should have noticed? My broth, part of it, is my own inscribed text, and the other part is applied to make the "paint" on the ceiling more visible]
[This "painted text" is the source of all my deductions, so before discussing the deduction, please read this story first]
[This is a record from a long, long ti ago]
[It seems to docunt the origin of the entire Yangshan Town and the origin of "it"...]
[And the story is called —]
[Internal Organ Sacrifice]
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