The Days I Clear Escape Games Pretending to be an NPCCh96 - Isolated Island (29)

 

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      • The spirit of the ship is trapping all of the ghosts of her passengers in an illusion where all of them are alive and living as their ideal self on an island.

        The ship’s spirit is reenacting something similar to the shipwreck through a natural disaster– the island flooding.

        The ship’s ghost created the setting, while the passengers populated the setting as the kind of people they wanted to be before they died.

        The islanders, ship passengers, water ghosts, and coffin skeletons are all the same people at different points in time. In the real world, they’re just skeletons of the ship passengers. Spiritually, they are water ghosts. The islanders are basically like… actors? Avatars?? The entire world setting basically shows that the base nature of these people is still rotten, even if they’re living their own dreams, excluding certain characters like the Captain, who continues to try and “save” his passengers by warning them to not go to (board) the manor (ship).

        …Trying to explain this whole plot makes me feel like I’m back in literature class 😭😭

  2. I did expect the crazy man to be the ghost (I even wrote a comment predicting this) and later it seemed obvious that he was the captain. I just expected the captain to be the ghost. If the manor owner is the ghost, why did two players fail the identification, though? 🤔

  3. I thought it was the Goddess 1 or 2 chapters ago but didn’t manage to figure out anything else other than that hahaha.

    This arc is definitely more confusing than the one before so its lotsa fun

  4. I knew it! I also felt like the crew was kind! That the crazy ol’ man is the captain is also reasonable, could’ve guessed if I tossed my brain a little more. And Starlight’s motive… it’s kinda tragic, like the first and third instance. But that also means that she can peacefully resolve herself to follow A Fei, hehe.

    Thank you for the chapter! <3

  6. tbh this entire novel makes me think “Damn, am I stupid?” especially because a lot of other infinite flow/mystery webnovels are pretty easy– a lot of them abuse genre tropes. I only figured out her identity when they discovered the Goddess of Starlight statue; though I guess it’d be pretty weird to guess “Yeah, the ghost is the ship!!!” before that LMAO

    regardless i was like. ???? this whole arc. i think the only arc that didn’t melt my brain was Neighborhood, where A Fei and Saman met.

    anyways i can’t wait for the later arcs where A Fei fully blackens and turns Saman into potpourri to keep on his nightstand! mmm bakery scented.

  7. Wouldn’t it be ironic if RYF was also the captain (from the instances he had to run as a child that were always doomed.). He mentioned one where he had been the captain of a sinking ship.

  10. I feel so heart broken 😞 our boy had to off people again. It is cool that the ghost didn’t do nothin to him even when she spotted him from the getgo

  11. Where did the cat go? Back to the ghost world?

    So, was the Goddess the penetrating stare that RYF received at the beginning?

    Thx for the ch (ㅅ˘ㅂ˘)

  12. The ship finally got to see at least one show of humanity being its best self! Ren Yifei strikes again. It’s funny, but technically Ren Yifei chose to be a good person all on his own—he fully made up this fantasy character of the boy and brought it to life the way an idle musing of a hurt child never could. He doesn’t think of himself as naturally likeable on his own, but ultimately it seems like he does usually choose to be

    Thank you so much for translating! <3

  16. I’ve been binge reading this and I’m really enjoying it! TY for the translation!

    For me it made a lot of sense that the woman was the physical manifestation of the ship. I can only speak from an English background, but traditionally all ships are considered female by default (this is not necessarily true in other languages and countries). This is probably because of the way English developed from other languages that have gendered nouns. Many wooden ships had female figures carved on their prow (the front of the ship). The figurehead was supposed to represent the soul of a ship, and there was a lot of superstition attached to it. The female figure was supposed to bring good luck and calm seas. Any damage to the figurehead would be seen as very bad luck. When they found the splintered remains of the prow it was equivalent to finding the broken soul of the ship. The top half of the goddess prow was found in the shed at the top/center of the island, right above the tomb area (coincidence? unlikely). It turned out that the island actually WAS the ship, and everything they’d been seeing before was a phatasm created by the soul of the ship. I can see where the story was leading to this. However the identity of the captain was a lot less clear because the readers had been implanted with the suggestion that the crazy man at the gate was maybe the ship’s doctor. The captain’s character and the violinist really reminded me of the crew from the 1997 Titanic movie. That part all seemed very English-centric to me, but the spirits in the water seemed a lot more like the Asian water demons I’ve read about. From the European based folklore I’ve read there are occasionally evil spirits that do want to drown people, but they are not the resentful ghosts of drowned humans. Or at least that’s how I’ve interpreted this all.

    Ty again~ Keep up the good work!