Find the exit of the Illusory Maze

📍 The Xianzhou Luofu Illusory Maze: Furynox

Search out clues from supernatural stories

Cirrus

Hey, hey! I'm trying to help you. Go and look at the clues.

Cirrus

...Do I have to make you drag yourself over there?

Find the exit of the Illusory Maze

Meet up with Huohuo

곽향

…잠시만요, 모르는 척하지 마세요!

곽향

이렇게 빌게요. 가까이 있어 주면 안 돼요? 너무 무서워요……

곽향

…저기, 계네빈 씨 보셨어요? 아직 못 찾았거든요. 무슨 일 생긴 건 아니겠죠……

Options

찾으러 가자

아마 어딘가에 갇혀 있을 거야

지금 그게 중요한 게 아니야. 내가 세양에 빙의됐다고!

{NICKNAME}

포기해. 지금쯤이면 계네빈도 세양에게 먹혔을걸?

곽향

그그그그럴 리가요! 양기 넘치는 계네빈 씨가 당했다면… 저는 더 쉽게 표적이 되겠군요……

Options

(내가 그런 말을 했다고?)

(계네빈이 정말 세양에게 먹혔어?)

부연

(히히, 성대는 인체에서 가장 쉽게 조종할 수 있는 근육이지)

부연

(맞혀봐)

곽향

{NICKNAME} 님, 출구가 어딨는지 아시죠? 제발 저를 데려가 주세요……

꼬리

이런 모습을 못 참겠다니까! 시왕사 판관씩이나 돼서 왜 항상 도움을 구걸하는 거냐고?

곽향

전 판관이 될 인물이 아니란 걸 알잖아요. 시왕사에서 오래 일하면 용기가 생길 줄 알았는데… 안 되는 건 안 되더라고요

꼬리

쳇, 쓸모없는 자식. 어쩌다 너 같은 놈에게 봉인된 거지?

곽향

하루 종일 센 척만 하더니 같이 함정에 빠져놓고… 누가 누구더러 쓸모없다는 거예요!

Options

걱정 마! 내가 데리고 나갈게!

나도 탈출구를 못 찾겠어. 판관님만 믿을게

도와줘! 세양에 빙의됐어!

{NICKNAME}

따라와도 소용없어. 난 가볼 테니 혼자 잘 해봐. 안녕!

곽향

아아, 가지 마요. 저도 데려가 줘요……

Options

방금 그건 내가 한 말이 아니야!

부연, 이 짐승 같은 놈…

……

부연

(진짜야? 저 판관을 버리고 갈 생각이 추호도 없다고 맹세할 수 있어?)

부연

(엥? 생물학적으론 네가 더 그 단어에 가까운걸~)

부연

(오, 이제 좀 고분고분해졌네. 그럼, 내가 대사를 지어볼 테니 그대로 읊어봐)

{NICKNAME}

시왕사 판관은 개나 소나 다 될 수 있나 봐? 우습기 짝이 없네

곽향

흑흑……

꼬리

이봐, 그만해. 이 녀석을 혼낼 수 있는 건 이… 몸이랑 그 판관들뿐이라고, 알겠어?

꼬리

…쯧, 잠깐, 동족의 냄새를 맡았어

꼬리

너구나, 부연. 꼭두각시 몸에 숨어서 복화술을 하는 건 딱 너 같은 쓰레기나 하는 짓이지

{NICKNAME}

{F#하…하하하하하하! 재밌네, 재밌어! 난 네가 용광로의 고통으로부터 벗어난 줄 알았는데!}{M#하…하하하하하하! 재밌네, 재밌어! 난 네가 용광로에서 나와 고통으로부터 벗어난 줄 알았는데!}

{NICKNAME}

대세양 「요원」의 가장 전투력이 강한 조각이 울보 아가씨 몸에 봉인되어 감시견 노릇을 하고 있었구나!

{NICKNAME}

아, 아니, 아냐 아냐. 감시견보다도 못하지! 지금의 넌 그저… 「꼬리」니까~ 꼬리꼬리꼬리!

꼬리

어쭈, 요것 봐라? 저 녀석한테서 떨어져 나오면 바로 삼켜주지!

{NICKNAME}

아이고, 무서워라——헤헤, 속았지?

{NICKNAME}

넌 지금 그 판관의 몸에서 벗어날 수도 없잖아. 잡아먹을 수도 없고 도망칠 수도 없어. 히히, 우리 불쌍한 꼬리님~

꼬리

…젠장! 빨리 생각 좀 해봐, 이 겁쟁이야!

곽향

{NICKNAME} 님, 이 종이 부적을 몸에 붙이세요. 일시적으로 세양의 힘을 억제해, 완전히 몸을 지배할 수 없도록 해줄 거예요

곽향

흑흑……

꼬리

이봐, 네가 가서 달래줘. 앵앵거리는 모깃소리보다 더 거슬려

(Optional) Chat with Tail

Tail

Cirrus talks nothing but nonsense... but even so, Huohuo has a sensitive heart. You. Go say something nice to the girl.

Options

Aren't you looking down on her all the time?

Why don't you go say something nice to her?

Tail

Yes, which is why she needs other organic beings like you to support her! Get it? Go!

Tail

Keep dreaming. I have nothing nice to say to anyone.

Options

You can roam free even though you're sealed?

(Leave quietly)

Tail

Roam free!? Is that what you call this? This is as far as I can get from her.

Tail

You think I'd be here playing house with you numbskulls if I could fly away?

Tail

What are you staring at? Go. Say something nice to the girl.

(Optional) Chat with Cirrus

Cirrus

Ahhhh, what a feast! Human emotions are simply delicious. Your sorrowful tears are like bottles of potent wine~

Options

Don't you ever talk through me like that again.

Does it amuse you to make a little girl cry?

Cirrus

Hehe, I'm simply enjoying my freedom. Didn't you use the talisman already? I'm tame as a kitten...

Cirrus

Does the Xianzhou sail through the cosmos?

Cirrus

For a heliobus that enjoys provoking your weak human sentiments, I can assure you there is nothing more amusing.

Cirrus

Now, don't forget about our deal. I will leave only once I've got what I wanted.

Options

Say, are you still possessing me?

(Leave quietly)

Cirrus

Of course. Surely you don't think I've left you just because you can see me? So naive!

Cirrus

I know what you want to ask. Yes, it does amuse me to make a little girl cry, and no, I haven't left your body. There, now you can save your breath.

Chat with Huohuo, and comfort her

Huohuo

*sob*

Options

I'm sorry, Huohuo... Are you okay?

Stay strong, Huohuo — you're a judge.

Huohuo

It's not your fault... It was that bad heliobus making us fight...

Huohuo

...If I were any other judge, you'd already be saved...

Huohuo

Someone as nice as you wouldn't say such mean things — only a possession would make you act like that. Still, what the heliobus said was true...

Huohuo

I've always been shy and scared... My life's been a nightmare ever since Tail possessed me...

Huohuo

When I was at school, people were always asking why my tail was on fire... Everywhere I went, people would notice.

Tail

Oh, so it's all my fault? If you'd just let me devour you at the start, I could've spared you the trouble!

Huohuo

Th—Then I got into the Ten-Lords Commission. Everyone there is weird, so I thought I'd found somewhere I belonged. But the job... the job is too dangerous! I have to fight demons and ghosts and bad guys every day...

Huohuo

I... I'm just not cut out for it. If I make it back alive... I'm handing in my resignation.

Huohuo

Who thought making a heliophobe with a heliobus in her tail hunt heliobi was a good idea... I'm sorry, I've been so useless...

Options

You're doing very well already, Huohuo.

You're the one who left the paper dolls for me. Thank you.

Huohuo

...R—Really?

Huohuo

...I—I'm glad it helped...

Tail

You hear that? Stop crying. You're useful. And your paper dolls are useful too.

Tail

Ugh, I've had enough of this! As soon I swallow that coward Cirrus, I'm gonna devour this little crybaby too!

Cirrus

What a pity that "Mr. Tail" is nothing like he used to be. If we still had our old power, we could forget about this maze and devour its creator, Furynox.

Huohuo

Your old power?

Cirrus

Well, "Mr. Tail," seems she knows nothing about your past... Little missy, do you know why the heliobi are gathered in this abandoned garden instead of seizing human habitations?

Huohuo

...Team-building?

Cirrus

...

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Options

Evenly matched... Really?

I didn't know Jing Yuan had such a history.

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Cirrus

...but there's an exception to everything. "Mr. Tail," I thought you'd escaped to freedom... Who could've guessed you'd be sealed in this tiny foxian girl? Humiliating...

Tail

Sealed my foot! My power was weak when I ran into this fox child. It was bad luck, nothing more!

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Cirrus

Hilarious! It's a pity "Mr. Tail" didn't devour you... He might've recovered his power and turned the Xianzhou upside down... just like Ignamar did!

Options

Why did the heliobi challenge the general?

Do you have a grudge against the Xianzhou?

Cirrus

Why? Does there have to be a reason?

Cirrus

The official answer is that the Xianzhou is sealing heliobi in a cage and forcing them to supply energy to the ship... In reality, however, we just want to fight the general... and see what the Xianzhou is truly made of!

Cirrus

Grudge? How shallow. If you must know the forces behind our actions...

Cirrus

...there's a pinch of envy — envy towards the potent emotions you corporeal beings have. Then there's a dash of aggression — the desire to see whether the heliobi or bodies of flesh and blood are stronger. Lastly, there's a drizzle of desire. We desire to possess your physical bodies, so we can eat, kill, love, and hate.

Cirrus

We heliobi were carefree lifeforms, but were tainted with the illness of humanity once we came into contact with it. It's humanity's fault for having such intense emotions and desires — now, we can never, never return to the purity of our past.

Cirrus

I want to be free again! I want to return to the cosmos! Mr. Tail, you don't want to regroup with the fragments, and you don't want to be her tail forever — why don't you return with me to the great beyond?

Tail

...Don't get ahead of yourself, Cirrus.

Huohuo

That's impossible. Mr. Tail was sealed by the judges of the Ten-Lords Commission. He can't escape... and neither can you...

Huohuo

Wahhhh! That door just opened on its own!

Tail

Less screaming, more thinking — this is an opportunity, is it not? Let's go in and check it out.

{NICKNAME}

(There's a book of ghost stories here, just like before. Could it have anything to do with this puzzle?)

(Optional) Search out clues from another volume of supernatural stories

Find the exit of the Illusory Maze

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Group==2

Huohuo

Look! Th—There's a mirror behind the door...

{NICKNAME}

(Didn't I see a similar mirror when I was dragged in?)

Voice From the Mirror

That... sound... Huohuo... this way.

Huohuo

What's going on...? Th—There's a voice in the mirror?

Huohuo

That voice sounds familiar...

Investigate

Listen to the voice in the mirror, and determine whether it's real or fake

📍 The Xianzhou Luofu Fyxestroll Garden: Locufox Forest

Huohuo

Are we... above Fyxestroll Garden?

Cirrus

Hmm, so many bronze mirrors. Could it be that...

Options

Not all the mirrors are real.

This illusion is shifting.

Tail

You're right, {M#boy}{F#girl}. This place is changing. It's trying to stop us from escaping.

Huohuo

But one of these mirrors must contain the exit, right? Let's check them all...