Chapter 17 Administrator

Chapter 17 Administrator

Chapter 17 Administrator

At this time, Du Lei looked at Wu Rui behind Luo Xi.

He wasn't surprised.

"The seventh person you said was hiding was her, right? Ha, I've felt something was wrong with her for a long time, Luo Xi, let me tell you, she has cycled as many times as I have, and has killed as many people as well."

Wu Rui did not refute.

She didn't say anything, but just stood quietly behind Luo Xi, with her hands behind her back, holding the hilt of the knife, like a guard with a knife.

"Give me this cigarette." Luo Xi said at this time.

It can be seen that Du Lei felt a little painful about this request, but he did not refuse and nodded.

"Luo Xi, you must have realized that we have just escaped from the wolf's den and entered the tiger's den. The danger is not over yet. At this time, we should cooperate."

"How to cooperate?" Luo Xi asked back.

"This" Du Lei obviously hadn't thought it through, he didn't have any plan.

"Mr. Du, I'm just like you. I don't understand the current situation. Why don't we each act separately and see what we can find? If there are any special clues, how about contacting us by phone?" Luo Xi made a very reasonable suggestion.

Du Lei thought about it carefully and nodded.

Indeed, he is no longer in the closed place of the company. It can be said that he can go anywhere except the company.

Very free.

If they were forced to act together in this situation, they would be constrained, and besides, they had not established real trust before.

Most of the time, they even have to be on guard against each other to see if the other is stabbing them in the back.

"By the way, Mr. Du, please lend me your lighter. It won't do to have cigarettes without fire." After Luo Xi finished speaking, Du Lei generously took out a lighter from his arms and handed it to him.

"Luo Xi, let's keep in touch and share what we have."

"must."

After Du Lei finished speaking, he glanced at Wu Rui, got in the car and left.

After the other person walked away, Wu Rui spoke up, "In other words, you broke a certain balance last time, causing the time anchor points of all the memory collectors to be advanced?"

"No, it's limited to people who have memory cards and can retain their memories. If you don't have a memory card..."

Before Luo Xi finished speaking, an acquaintance came over.

Lao Gao.

Gao Shengjie.

Seeing Gao Shengjie, Wu Rui instinctively felt a little guilty, but Lao Gao seemed to have forgotten everything that happened before. He greeted Luo Xi and Wu Rui indifferently and went straight into the office building to wait for the elevator.

"For example, Lao Gao took the risk last time and ambushed me in the toilet because he no longer had a memory card. So, he was a memory restorer last time. Even if we completed a 'clearance' in a certain sense, he couldn't enjoy the rewards for this clearance."

"That is to say, the memory restorer who has preserved his memory will never go to the company again, unless he dies outside and loses his memory. In other words, there is no memory restorer in the company today. If this is the case, what will happen? Will the scene disappear? Or will new memory restorers continue to be born?"

Wu Rui couldn't answer any of Luo Xi's questions.

“Also, memory anchors do exist.”

Luo Xi had already thought of the concept of "memory anchor point" because the last time he suddenly "woken up", he was already sitting at his workstation.

But before that, how did he get to the company?
Since the scope of the imprisonment is not limited to the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors, it is inevitable that there will be a 'time point' for the amnesiac to recover his memory.

Before this point in time, the person who regains memory is actually the same as an ordinary person with amnesia.

Do what they are supposed to do according to their original memory.

The last time he recovered his memory was at 7:41 in the morning, but after clearing the work area scene, the time he recovered his memory became 6:09 in the morning.

Wu Rui and the others should be about the same, there won't be much difference in time.

"What about cigarettes?" Wu Rui couldn't help but ask.

Just now when Luo Xi took the cigarette, he said "as expected".

Luo Xi didn't waste any words and directly handed over the cigarette in his hand.

After Wu Rui took it, she immediately understood what Luo Xi meant.

Because she actually saw a blurry card floating above the cigarette. Looking closely, there was a cigarette pattern on the blurry card, and the text below read: [Fighter Cigarette], Status: Materialized (can be converted into a card), Quantity 1/20, smoke one, increase 30% of physical fitness, strength, speed and reaction within ten minutes, and gain fighting skills (level 1) during the duration, which will disappear after the duration expires. Please note that smoking is harmful to health and is addictive.

At this moment, Wu Rui's expression was very interesting.

"So that's why. Now I remember. No wonder Mr. Du always has a cigarette in his hand. Once, Brother Mao went crazy killing people and there were corpses all over the ground. Mr. Du was holding a lighter in his mouth while smoking a cigarette."

"It's just an ordinary lighter."

"So, you came here this time just to meet Mr. Du and have a cigarette?" Wu Rui felt that she had seen through Luo Xi's plan.

Having this cigarette is equivalent to gaining ten minutes of "superman time". After all, all physical qualities are improved by 30%. If she smokes a cigarette, she can definitely fight a man head-on, because it is not only the strength that is improved, but also the speed, reflexes, and resistance to blows.
If one has a weapon, or is a strong man, smoking this cigarette can indeed make it easy to kill someone.

This time, the purpose was achieved and it was worth it.

Luo Xi shook his head: "The cigarettes are just for fun. It doesn't matter whether I take them or not. It's not the purpose of my coming here this time."

"Ah?" Wu Rui was stunned: "Then why did you come here?"

Luo Xi looked at Wu Rui with a helpless look: "You are a senior after all. You have repeated it many times. Haven't you ever thought that there is a problem here?"

"What's the problem?" Wu Rui tried her best to recall, but to be honest, her mind was blank. She either felt that there was no problem, or she felt that there were problems everywhere, but she couldn't point out the key point.

"Well, since we are already teammates, I should explain it to you." Luo Xi looked up at the building: "First of all, why are they the 23rd and 24th floors?"

"." Wu Rui shook her head. She didn't know where to go.

"Wu Rui, the unknown is not scary. On the contrary, getting the answer is not the key to going from the unknown to the known. Discovering the unknown is the key. For example, when I had the question 'Why are they the 23rd and 24th floors?', if I only considered the question itself, I would inevitably fall into an endless loop. Because I don't know, I have questions, but because I can't answer the questions, I still don't know the result."

"." Wu Rui nodded. She felt that what Luo Xi said made sense, but she couldn't tell exactly where it made sense.

"This is a typical thinking trap. Cognitive bias will definitely limit the problem to known conditions. For example, a child who has only learned addition and subtraction cannot solve multiplication and division problems, but can point out the irrationality of the problem itself and force the question setter to change the question. The problem we encountered is not that simple. Fortunately, we are the question setter, so we jump out of the original question and raise a new question with another diversified thinking, that is, replace the original question with 'Why can't other floors become scenes?' In this way, the thinking of solving the problem has become diffuse."

".Is that so?" Wu Rui still didn't react.

"Yes, for example, you can get inferences and concepts like 'scope limitation' or 'duty and authority' from the two questions. Or, if you expand your thinking and regard the two floors as 'territory', then you can make inferences based on the law of the forest, biological evolution and territory rules. There are all kinds of creatures living in the forest. In order to survive and reproduce, they continue to evolve to adapt to the environment and fight against enemies. The premise of the existence of territory is competition, enemies, and scarce survival resources. Since there are enemies, they must have 'territory' controlled by them."

Luo Xi spoke expressionlessly at this time, as if there was a written script in front of him and he was just an emotionless parrot.

"That's why there are 45rd and th floors, and why there is the subway that Guo Zening takes and the No. bus."

"And then what?" Wu Rui had given up resisting. She felt like she understood, but it seemed as if she didn't.

"A core concept of territory is dominance, which can also be understood as control. I told you before about the cycle mechanism of the Day of Confinement, restart, memory card and cleaner. Of course, now it seems that it is just a scene in the Day of Confinement, and the mechanism that supports this scene requires all three. So, who designed this mechanism? You don't think it was nature, do you?" Luo Xi said as he walked to the lobby on the first floor of the building.

"I think there must be someone who has the management and control over this scene. Let's call him the manager. Of course, the above are just my guesses, so I have to verify it."

There is a floor distribution map on the wall here, indicating the function and affiliation of each floor.

Luo Xi pointed to the sign on the first floor of the building: Building Monitoring Room, Security Room, Logistics Center.
"Got it, Room 104!"

That's the building's monitoring room.

After saying that, Luo Xi walked over there.

"Wait, wait a minute!" Wu Rui spoke up and stopped Luo Xi.

"how?"

"Luo Xi, please wait a moment. I roughly understand what you mean, but if your inference is correct, and there really is a ruler, an administrator, then it will be dangerous for you to go directly there." Wu Rui had a worried look on her face.

Luo Xi nodded: "Yes, but if you want to gain something, you must pay a corresponding price. This is an equal exchange. If you only see the danger and stop moving forward, it will be impossible to break the cycle mechanism last time."

"I understand. Your [Ebbinghaus Pen] should be able to be used again, so you have the capital to try and make mistakes, but if it really turns out as you think, the benefits may be very huge." Wu Rui's eyes lit up at this time.

Only then did she feel that she had caught up with Luo Xi.

Luo Xi did not continue to explain, but walked towards Room 104. However, after walking a few steps, he stopped again and turned to Wu Rui and said, "Go to the women's restroom over there. You can see Room 104 at the door of the women's restroom. It is about seven or eight meters away, so the distance is relatively safe. Then you can act according to the situation."

When Wu Rui heard this, she quickly grabbed Luo Xi and asked, "What do you mean by 'act according to circumstances'?"

"Twenty minutes is the limit. If I don't come out, run away. If I come out and ask me something that only you and I know and that is not related to the last time I was imprisoned, and I give a wrong answer or act as if I don't understand, run away. If I shout 'Brother Mao', you rush in with a knife and help me kill people. Apart from that, ignore what I shout and just leave."

After saying that, Luo Xi took the cigarette he got from Du Lei in one hand and the lighter in the other, walked to the door of Room 104, pushed the door open and walked in, leaving Wu Rui behind who was frightened and anxious.

The latter stomped her feet and could only jog all the way to the door of the women's restroom, where she began a nervous countdown.

(End of this chapter)