Chapter 107 Doubt
Chapter 107 Doubt
"If we want to move around in the dormitory building, we have to follow the time specified in the dormitory building rules. Suppose we get on the elevator at 21:00, then even in this case, we must return to the dormitory before 22:00, otherwise it will trigger the part of the rules that prohibits staying overnight in the dormitory."
"If it comes to that, before we have a clear solution, it will be game over."
"That is to say, to be conservative, we have less than 40 minutes to explore the dormitory building. Even with this 40 minutes, we still need to consider the problem of losing time in case of special circumstances in the dormitory corridor..."
"In short, there's no need to rush to explore the dormitory building. Use other tools to practice first, get used to it, and then you can explore the dormitory building later."
"In comparison, the teaching building and the cafeteria leave us plenty of time."
"Especially the teaching building, there are so many parts to explore. For example... we can do the next best thing and first find out what's going on with the stairwell leading to the underground first floor, and what's going on with the elevator in the teaching building."
“Remember my theory of games?”
"Assuming that the area we are in now is a novice village, then what we need to do is to abide by the rules, understand the rules, and then use the rules to broaden our scope of cognition little by little."
“The size of our safety zone depends on our level of awareness.”
"As long as we can expand the scope, the Novice Village can continue to expand."
“Just like the information you wanted to write down on paper, when you cognitively affirm it, it becomes knowledge you possess.”
“We don’t have teachers. We have to learn all the ‘knowledge’ by ourselves. We will feel confused and lost about what we haven’t learned. So we have to learn it piece by piece, grasp the thread of ‘knowledge’, and then gradually piece together its full picture and incorporate it into our cognition.”
"Only by rewriting your own 'cognition' step by step can you firmly believe that when you have mastered the types of questions in the college entrance examination, you can take the college entrance examination. Otherwise, it will be in vain if you don't know anything and hand in a blank paper."
Lin Yi kept thinking: "You mean, we should explore as many ways as possible within the scope of the rules?"
"We must also make use of all available resources." Tian Bufan lowered his voice.
"All resources?" Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
"It's still game theory." Tian Bufan's tone suddenly became extremely cold, as if he was a sophisticated calculating machine simply introducing a certain concept.
"If we are playing a game, and everyone is a chess piece, and each is an NPC to the other, then, in addition to our own people, all units, remember, all units, including Xu Shunkang, the boss and others you mentioned, should be used as long as they can achieve our goals."
Tian Bufan's words shocked Lin Yi: "Using everyone as pawns? This..."
"Too cruel, or too ruthless?" Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows, then shook his head, "This is a death game with almost no margin for error, Lao Lin."
"I can understand that you can't understand what I'm saying now." Tian Bufan patted Lin Yi's shoulder and narrowed his eyes.
"But in order to prevent any accidents from happening to one of us someday, I must tell you in advance what I should say. The real calculation is to take yourself into account when necessary."
"Because if we fail... we will become inhuman things here."
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.
Yes...if they fail, they might become inhuman things, or even become something beyond their cognition that they don't even know about now!
Although he didn't know what the transformation pathway was, something that was infinitely close to death or even completely dead but still able to move must be some kind of "unit" located in a deeply polluted area.
"pollute……"
"White powder particles..."
"Green powder particles..."
"That powdery particle... after being absorbed by the boss, it turned into some kind of plaster-like crystals on her skin. If it is absorbed into the body all the time, will it infect the human body like a virus and then transform the human body into... that kind of plaster-like substance?"
"And the plaster-like substance...seems to solidify into...a sculpture?"
The sculpture that Lin Yi had in mind at this time was a pure and true sculpture, just like the sculpture in the stairwell leading to the dormitory building from the teaching building, and not the one he saw in Tian Bufan's vision that was labeled as a "sculpture", an indescribable, incomprehensible, strange existence with a human outline that seemed to be made up of countless broken glass fragments.
"Or... is there some unknown connection between these two sculptures?"
Thinking of this, a dark shadow suddenly spread in his heart as if he had fallen into an abyss.
The long-lost cold breath that made him feel uncomfortable and creepy came over him again, as if countless cold tentacles stretched out from the darkness and wrapped around him.
But this time, after he felt a little panic, he immediately consciously controlled his breathing rhythm, slowly calmed his panic in a relatively gentle way, and gradually suppressed the discomfort and terror in his heart.
During the entire process, he did not even reach the point where he needed to silently recite his name or student number in his mind to consolidate his understanding of the current world, nor did he need to use his beautiful legs in black stockings to divert his attention and free himself from the erosion of darkness.
He continued to think, allowing the darkness like a tide to slowly envelop him.
He could clearly feel the swallowing feeling while thinking, and he could also realize that his body was losing temperature at a certain rate, just like a piece of white paper gradually turning yellow, until his hair stood on end again, until his muscles began to tremble again because of the cold, until he once again felt himself falling into the abyss.
He took a deep breath, and then told himself in his heart with a kind of "blind" confidence:
"I'm Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, and I'm on my way from the dormitory to the cafeteria."
"I'm Lin Yi, my student ID is..."
As he began to recite this information silently, the cold corrosive feeling slowly receded as if time was turning back. The darkness that had originally extended from behind him like a tentacle also quietly dissipated. He took a few steps forward and walked out of this dark and gloomy atmosphere and returned to the cobblestone road.
As soon as he came back, he found Tian Bufan, Wei Shan and the others were all looking at him.
He found that Wei Shan obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and his body slowly relaxed from the tense state.
"Are you okay?" Wei Shan said in a low voice.
"Yeah, it's okay." Lin Yi nodded.
Tian Bufan smiled and said, "It seems that your 'adaptation' speed is on the right track. This is good news for our operation."
"What did I look like just now?" Lin Yi asked curiously.
Tian Bufan said: "The body temperature drops and the skin becomes pale."
"Only in this way?"
"What else do you want? A beam of light descending from the sky, and then you transform yourself?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi curled his lips. He thought to himself, I thought you would discover more...
If that were all, it would be the same as his reaction when he saw his "past self" through Mao Feiyang's perspective in his dream.
"It seems that it was overthinking, and then the changes in the body occurred because the will began to fall to a lower level..." Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.
"In that case...Ryoko's second appearance in front of the dormitory building and in the dormitory corridor was probably due to...overthinking?"
“That shouldn’t be the case…”
"Ryoko has been walking on thin ice since he came in. He has blocked any unusual clues in advance. Why did he show signs of 'overthinking'?"
A huge mystery arose in Lin Yi's mind, and he couldn't help but look back at Wei Liang.
This guy Wei Liang... was hanging at the end of the team, covering his ears with his hands. When he saw him looking at him, he winked and teased him, like a handsome version of the second brother.
Lin Yi silently withdrew his gaze.
"The place where Ryoko was acting strange was in the dormitory building... Could it be related to the fact that he stayed there for the last two days?"
Lin Yi became more and more curious about what Wei Liang had experienced in the last two days in the dormitory, because judging from the current situation, the experience of those two days was definitely not as easy as Wei Liang said.
"It's definitely not a good idea to ask proactively. When Liangzi gets ruthless, he even deceives himself... He seems to know something, but he also seems to be deceiving himself and saying he knows nothing. It's like he's doing the opposite of Master Tian..."
"Those tricks..."
Lin Yi even suspected that Wei Liang's unique skills might have been "self-developed" based on his own experience, just like -
His pupils shrank slightly.
"Just like the truth about the school is a taboo, so we need to use 'rules' to describe the 'correct behavior' that should be implemented! Ryoko is using the 'tricks' engraved in his bones to show his abnormal behavior towards the school!"
“It seems… that’s the case!”
"He knew, but he chose not to know, and he still firmly believed that he didn't know?"
"But the only thing that doesn't make sense is that if Liangzi knew the problems on the campus or part of the truth, then why did he come back?"
"Just for a 30,000 yuan bonus or to show off in front of me as a veteran driver?"
“That’s unreasonable…”
"It's too dangerous here. The death rate or the missing population rate is so high. If you know the truth, you won't come here to risk your life..."
He had also learned about the experience life content from the official website of S City University and some forums before choosing to sign up. According to those uploaders and those so-called senior big Vs, the campus was just a little weird and could be regarded as an adventure with a strong atmosphere. No words related to life-threatening were mentioned...
He thought it was just one of those survival variety shows where you could get 30,000 yuan for clearing the levels. However, the strange events he encountered frequently since entering the campus hit his "cognition" like a heavy hammer, causing him to subconsciously doubt the truth of the rules and the boundary between reality and falsehood...
Admittedly, the source of his contamination came from Mao Feiyang, but after being infected by Mao Feiyang, his so-called high inspiration began to take over, forcing him to start having some crazy thoughts. The existence of this kind of thinking pushed him into desperate situations several times, until he relied on a kind of "adaptability" that he himself didn't even know what was going on to overwrite his own cognition, and then the situation improved...
But what about Wei Liang...
What happened to Wei Liang?
Lin Yi couldn't help but look at Wei Liang again. Looking at Wei Liang's innocent smiling face, he didn't know why he had an urgent urge to go over and beat him up.
Lin Yi suddenly realized that not only did he not know Tian Bufan well enough, but he also had some unfamiliar feelings towards this guy Wei Liang.
“How strange… It’s really strange…”
"If he knew in advance that the danger on campus was likely to endanger his life, he would never have come in..."
"After all, there's no need to risk my life to raise 30,000 yuan for grandma's medical expenses."
"It's not you, wait..."
"grandmother?"
"What... Grandma?"
A hint of doubt suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's eyes.
"'grandmother……'?"
What a strange name...
"Do I...have...a...grandmother...?"
"No...I should have a grandmother, right?"
"If there's no grandma... then what's the purpose of me coming in and getting thirty thousand dollars?"
"It's not...my...purpose...?"
"My goal is thirty thousand dollars...?"
"No... If not for the thirty thousand dollars, then why am I here?"
Lin Yi's mind became increasingly confused, and he suddenly began to seriously doubt the purpose of his coming here...
Just when his mind was about to become a mess, Tian Bufan patted his shoulder.
"Lao Lin, what's wrong with you? Are you okay?"
Lin Yi suddenly came back to his senses: "No, nothing..."
He shook his head and suddenly felt that his previous thoughts were a bit ridiculous.
He laughed at himself, thinking that he was probably influenced by the school district, and even his purpose of coming here had become unsteady.
"It's okay, let's go." He looked down at his watch.
7: 11.
Wei Liang, who was walking at the end of the team, looked at the backs of the group of people. The muscles in his cheeks tensed slightly and his brows frowned.
"There's something wrong with Lao Lin... He keeps looking back every three steps. Could it be that he really has some improper thoughts about me?" He muttered to himself, and suddenly felt a slight chill in his anus, and subconsciously tightened it a little...
Thanks to the book friend "555 Street Light" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)