Chapter 3: First Mission: Frankenstein
Tang Tu and Yang Yang call out the system menu, open the mission option, and select the two-player mission. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The system matching starts, and after ten seconds, you will enter the task prompt: This task needs to deduct 500 points of physical strength, do you confirm to enter the game?
Click Confirm to officially enter the task.
1. Mission Name: Save Frankenstein
2. Participating players: 2 people
3. Character attributes:
Player Name: The Chef is not a butcher
Pseudonym in mission: Henry. Clayval
Energy: 10000
Health: 9500
Satiety: 100
Somatosensory: 0
Coins: 100
Energy cards: shield, dagger, bag of stones
Intimacy with NPCs (hidden attribute activated): 50
Game Match: 99.9%
(The system evaluates the player's physical and mental state, and the system warns below a certain value, and is forced to go offline.) For example, if a player has been online for eight consecutive hours, the three-dimensional body is tired and excited, and the system detects that the match degree drops below 20%, the player will be forced to go offline. )
4. Mission Objective: Save Victor. Frankenstein or a monster, saving both at the same time will give you additional rewards.
5. Task time limit: none.
6. Failure penalty: Cannot perform the task for one hour.
The cutscene begins, and the scenery goes into cinematic mode.
Subtitle: Geneva, Europe, 17XX AD
Act I: A stormy night, a hot spring bath near Soy.
A couple complained about the bad weather in the living room, they had come to enjoy a wonderful holiday, but now they were stuck in a hotel.
In the adjacent bedroom, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy looked at the bookshelves boredly, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he took down a copy of the book "Konarlius. Agrippa", the boy read the book with great interest, and quickly immersed himself in it.
There are a few lines on the page that are clearly legible and repeat "crystal ball" and "elixir of life".
The subtitles roll again, Act II: An old house on the shores of Lake Belřivi, where a terrible torrential rain sweeps in from behind the Jura Mountains.
A bolt of lightning struck an old oak tree, and the entire tree was blown to pieces.
The people gathered in the house not far away, standing in front of the window and marveling at the scene, one of the gentlemen seemed to be very knowledgeable, explaining the theory of this phenomenon, and a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old next to him listened with relish, and from time to time asked his own questions.
The scene fades out, the animation ends, Tang Tu's eyes flash with white light, and after a slight dizziness, he appears in an eighteenth-century European manor.
Tang Tu hadn't seen the surrounding scenery clearly, and a series of identity introductions had passed on the system light screen in front of him-Henry. Clevard: The son of a Genevan merchant, Victor. Frankenstein's best friend.
After a few minutes, Tang Tu adapted to the role identity in the mission and had a preliminary understanding of the surrounding environment.
Tang Tu stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the beautiful pastoral scenery outside, recalling the content of "Frankenstein".
Frankenstein, also known as Frankenstein, was originally the wife of the English poet Shelley. Shelley's novel written in 1818 is widely regarded as the world's first true science fiction novel. Tang Tu, who graduated from the Department of Chinese with a doctorate, once wrote a paper on this.
"Frankenstein" tells the story of Frankenstein, a young scientist, in order to pursue and use the biological knowledge of the time, to obtain different human organs and tissues from morgues and other places, put them together into a human body, and use lightning to bring this human body to life.
Although giants are kind by nature, yearn for beauty and desire feelings, they are regarded as monsters by society because of their ugly appearance, and are regarded as a huge threat and run into walls everywhere, so their psychology is distorted.
The monster asks Frankenstein to create a spouse for himself, promising to stay away from the world when the deed is done. Fu agrees to the monster, but destroys the female monster when he is close to success, causing the long-awaited monster to retaliate.
After the monster killed Fu's fiancée and several other relatives, Fufu vowed to destroy his work, track the monster all the way to the North Pole, and died of illness after being tortured, and the monster also **** died after all hopes.
Frankenstein is an immortal masterpiece, the author lived in a period of profound historical changes throughout Western society, when Europe and the United States and other countries completed the industrial revolution one after another, scientific and technological civilization was unprecedentedly developed, and astronomy, geography, physics, biology and other disciplines also made great discoveries.
The broad masses of people who have been baptized by scientific reason generally blindly follow science, and have all kinds of illusions about science and technology changing the world, and they are superstitious that scientific knowledge is a magic weapon with boundless magic power, which "can always provide you with spiritual food, so that you can continue to explore and discover miracles".
The tremendous progress and success of science and technology are encouraging at the same time, but they also make people fall into panic and contemplation. Mary. In this book, Shelley argues that if you act impulsively in order to appreciate the vagaries of nature, you will pay a terrible price.
Frankenstein had a profound impact, and countless adaptations of novels and films followed.
The role played by Tang Tu is Henry. Clayval was not only a good friend of Bishop Victor, but also one of his spiritual comforters, and one of the people who died tragically at the hands of monsters.
Recalling this, Tang Tu called out the system and took a look, he and Yang Yang were still in a team state, but Yang Yang's name was displayed in gray, and the system remarked later: teammates who are not on the same map cannot communicate.
It seems that before the convergence, we can only rely on ourselves for the time being.
Except for the cutscene at the beginning, the system doesn't have any prompts, and it seems that the rest is up to the player to play.
According to the plot development of the original novel, the next thing should be Victor's mother died suddenly, after which Victor went to Inglestad to study. The obsession with unnatural magic such as "immortality" and a misunderstanding of natural science, combined with the sudden death of his mother, led Victor astray.
Tang Tu looked at the task goal column on the light screen of the system, and the corners of his mouth hooked, save Victor or the monster, this game is a bit interesting.
What's next? Of course, it's to meet the protagonist.,As the protagonist's friend.,You should be able to visit at any time.。
The NPCs in the game are very intelligent, as if they interact with real people. When the housekeeper heard that the young master was going out to visit friends, he immediately asked people to prepare carriages and gifts.
Henry's father was a typical Geneva merchant, and the Cleval family was not interested in luxury but in practicality.
For example, the carriage looks simple, but there is a lot of space inside, which can put a lot of things, and there is a hidden compartment at the bottom of the carriage to store valuables. The butler's gifts were vegetables from the estate and two barrels of home-grown wine.
Tang Tu thought that he could enjoy the scenery from the carriage, but as soon as he entered the carriage, the system began to count the seconds, and after fifteen seconds, the map was transmitted, and the carriage arrived at Frankenstein Manor.
As soon as Tang Tu got out of the carriage, he saw a handsome young man coming over.
"Dear dear friend, you are here...", the name of the young man's head was displayed "Victor. Frankenstein".
Victor was very enthusiastic but his face was very haggard, Tang Tu knew in his heart and deliberately asked, "My dear friend, why are you worried?" ”
Victor really stepped forward and pulled Tang Tu to complain about his bitterness.
The plot of the mission is the same as that of the original novel, and the adopted daughter of the Frankenstein family, Elizabeth. Laventor was stricken with scarlet fever, and their mother, Carolina, took care of her several times, and was persuaded by Victor and his father. But Elizabeth's condition was not optimistic, and just this morning, the caretaker who cared for her said that Elizabeth might not survive.
According to modern medical research, "scarlet fever is caused by hemolytic streptococcal infection, which is an acute respiratory infection, and antibiotics generally have a good effect." ”
Today, after the energy wars, a medical spray would have solved the problem, but in eighteenth-century Europe, it was like a plague, a disaster.
Tang Tu was about to offer to visit Elizabeth when a maid suddenly ran over out of breath, shouting "Young Master, Young Master" as she ran.
Tang Tu looked at the maid, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching, because the oncoming frizzy maid had four green words on her head, "Scratch if it's itchy".
As soon as he got off the carriage before, Tang Tu received a system prompt, and the "scratch if it's itchy" in the teammate bar turned green, showing a communicable status.
Because Victor immediately greeted him, Tang Tu didn't have time to deal with it, and planned to contact Yang Yang later, but he appeared in front of him like this, which was a shock.
Tang Tu was still distracted, and Victor on the side reproached the maid dissatisfiedly, "Justin. Miss Moritz, where is your upbringing? I don't remember my mother teaching you that. ”
In an instant, there was another line of words on the head of "Scratch if it's itchy" "Justin. Moritz (the maid rescued by Frankenstein)".
Yang Yang's role turned out to be female, and the system would assign it, it was really interesting, Tang Tu couldn't help laughing.
Yang Yang's character, Justin, the maid, is arguably the most tragic character in the entire novel, being abused by her biological mother as a child, and later being rescued by the Frankenstein family to become their maid, and Victor's mother, Carolina, is very kind and does not hesitate to raise her as an adult. Later, her biological mother repented and took Justin back, and it was precisely because she left the Für family that she was accidentally encountered by a monster, and was inexplicably jealous and framed by the monster, and was wrongfully accused of being a murderer for no reason and sentenced to be hanged.
It seems that the game system is quite kind, and both of them are assigned characters who have direct access to the protagonist and monsters, instead of arranging them as various passers-by.
Yang Yang obviously saw Tang Tu as well, because he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then squeezed his eyes at Tang Tu.
Tang Tu almost burst out laughing, because Yang Yang might be afraid that he wouldn't see it, so it was very obvious, and the pretty girl's face became distorted.
Victor was also thundered by the grimace of "Justin", and apologized to Tang Tu very sadly, "My dear friend, please forgive Miss Justin for her rudeness, she must be too tired to become delirious." ”
Tang Tu hurriedly said that he didn't care, but Yang Yang remembered the reason why he came over, and shouted again.
"Young master, Madame is disobedient, while we are not paying attention, she has run to see Miss Elizabeth again, you go over and stop her..."
Victor was in a hurry, and almost trotted towards Elizabeth's room, Tang Tu and Yang Yang followed, and the two of them chatted privately with the system.
"Baa, how did you become a maid, and even your gender has changed?"
"The system is so casual and capricious, it's not the first time, I've been used to it for a long time, anyway, it's not for me to dress as a man, it doesn't matter."
Yes, Tang Tu and Yang Yang are now completely mission characters, which is different from their characters in the community. In other words, Yang Yang's role now is a complete woman.
"Brother Tu, our mission has begun, I have read this "Frankenstein" novel, but I don't remember the specific plot, you can give my brother science popularization first."
Knowing the possible development direction of the mission plot is of great help to complete the task, so Tang Tu roughly told Yang Yang about the storyline and pointed out in detail the possible plot development in the future.
"According to what you say, Lady Carolina will die, this incident is a big blow to the young master, and it is also one of his motives for creating monsters?"
"Yes, because of the loss of his mother, Victor had the idea of creating life, longing to use it to get rid of the fear of death."
"Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and stop Carolina, don't let her take care of Elizabeth, she won't get scarlet fever, she won't die, if you don't lose your mother, Victor won't make a monster, he won't die, it's equivalent to saving him, and our mission will be done."
"Your idea is a train of thought, but to do so is tantamount to completely denying the existence of monsters, and giving up on monsters in the first place."
"You want to save monsters? Any thoughts? ”
"In the end of the novel, the protagonist failed to kill the monster, but he **** died, which shows that his force value is very high, and I can't make a plan to control him for the time being, so I always have to contact him before I can make a judgment."
"Contact with monsters? Won't he be killed as soon as he looks at him? Big Brother ~, Brother Tu ~, the death of the character means that the mission has failed, you have to think clearly. ”
"No hurry, I need to gather more mission information, let's do what you think first."
Unfortunately, the plot develops much faster than they expected.
When they arrived at the door of Elizabeth's room, they could only look through the door at Carolina's busy figure.
Because of the caretaker's ultimatum, Carolina finally entered the room despite the obstacles and took care of Elizabeth herself.
Carolina said to Victor through the door, "Honey, I have to do this, Elizabeth is the treasure of our family, I can't just watch her leave us, she is still so young, I am willing to exchange my life for her life." ”
At this time, Carolina was like a virgin, and her body shone with the greatest and selfless brilliance of her mother. She had entered that door, the gears of fate had turned forward, and her end was sealed.
Yang Yang was disappointed that his plan had failed before it could be implemented. Tang Tu was noncommittal, he didn't have much hope for this plan.
Victor and his father are very worried, and there is one more person who worries them.
Because of the owner's uneasiness, Frankenstein Manor seems to be shrouded in clouds, but Tang Tu has a reason to stay, and Victor needs his support and comfort.
"Dear friend, please let me stay here with you, you and your uncle are also in a bad state, I really can't leave with confidence."
"Thank you, my dear friend, I'm glad to have a friend like you..."
Tang Tu's active concern moved Victor very much, and he hurriedly instructed the housekeeper to prepare a room for him.
Subsequently, the scene floats with a hazy white light, which is a prelude to the scene change and plot jump development.
Tang Tu closed his eyes to avoid being blinded by the white light in the switch. After being silent for dozens of seconds, he reopened his eyes, and the scene really changed.