Forces of Temptation - v2 Chapter 303

    Chen Sufeng was dumbfounded.

    The four of them were surrounded by a five-mile-long fog, relatively silent, which was in line with the mood of everyone at this time.

    When Chen Sufeng reacted, he immediately asked incredulously, “How is this possible?”

    Li Yinhang bit his fingers anxiously, his heart was like a tangled mess.

    She doesn’t have a very clear idea, she just thinks it’s wrong in general, and it’s wrong everywhere.

     But she was asked to describe her mosaic-like thinking in words, and in such an urgent situation…

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    Suddenly, the whistle of the train went all the way up, breaking through the air, like a vertical sword, cutting through the thick fog.

    She shuddered violently, the blueprint in her hand could not be grasped tightly and fell to the ground.

    This is the sound of the whistle from the “crew” in the car.

    It reminded them friendly and icy, 50 minutes before boarding.

    Nan Zhou leaned over and picked up the soft drawing paper, and replied lightly, “It can be done.”

    “I’ve been thinking that in the last copy, the Gaowei people first asked us to sign a contract and then separated us. There must be a reason.”

    “For example, if we separate us and break each of them, we can always kill one or two people.”

    “But, is it that simple?”

    “Yuan, Ming and Qing…” Having said that, Nan Zhou looked at the only high-dimensional people among them, “You said, the high-dimensional people will be satisfied with killing only one or two of us. ?”

    Yuan Mingqing took a deep breath and inhaled a lung of cold water droplets.

    After letting his mind settle down, he solemnly shook his head.

    Not possible.

    But because of the supervision and suspicion of the audience, even if they sincerely want to send the “Cube Ark” to die, they have to leave some clues to break the game, so that they will not be completely lifeless.

    The devil hides in terrifying details that they need to work hard to uncover.

    But it also appears in the middle of the big picture, making it difficult to detect.

    For example…

    Yuan Mingqing asked Nan Zhou: “When did you start to doubt?”

    Nanzhou’s dungeon is very difficult, and if he is not careful, he can never leave that game world again.

    The high-dimensional people didn’t even drop the water on the difficulty of Nanzhou’s dungeon.

    Yuan Mingqing was very curious, how did he…

    “I became suspicious after hearing your copy.” Nan Zhou said, “As I said, your copy is too simple.”

    Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties: “…”

    Nan Zhou eloquently analyzed: “You also said that that is the game you are best at, you just have a certain possibility of dying in the dungeon, but you are not like me, like Yinhang, Just like Chen Sufeng, it’s a game of nine deaths and a lifetime. So, I think your copy itself is one of the clues to breaking the game, telling us that things can’t be that simple.”

    The words that seemed sarcastic at the time have a different shocking effect.

    As Nan Zhou said, the copy of chicken eating experienced in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, in horizontal comparison, is indeed the simplest of them.

    Simple and not in line with the main guiding ideology of high-dimensional people wanting them all to die.

    How can the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties in it think the copy is simple?

    He only thinks he is lucky and thinks that high-dimensional people still have a little affection for him.

    Until now, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties have finally completely shattered the last blind expectation of high-dimensional and disappeared.

    They also don’t want the traitor alive.

    If you don’t die in the dungeon, you will die elsewhere.

    Nan Zhou said: “My copy gave me the most and the most valuable tips.”

    Chen Sufeng tried to join the discussion: “Is the copy time very short?”

    “This is the first point. Remember, save for later.”

    Speaking, Nan Zhou took out five pencils of the same length from the warehouse: “We have already cleared the level with four people, do you still remember your game mission description?”

    It’s a matter of life and death, of course they won’t forget.

    Li Yinhang opened his notebook and counted them one by one: “In Teacher Nan’s game, every game achievement is related to ants, and the game calls the main characters in the three box worlds ‘ants’ …;The theme of the game in Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties is to kill each other, and ‘ants’ compete for blood; in my game, the setting is ‘little ants’ to find the way to leave the farm; Xiao Chen’s game is to use ‘ants and gods’ to A metaphor for the relationship between ‘humans and evil gods’…”

    She closed the notebook and made a summary statement: “The common theme is ‘ants’.”

    “I don’t want you to look for the same, but to find the difference.” Nan Zhou hit the nail on the head, “My copy is the only one that mentions ‘train’ in detail except for the title.”

     There are four of them, and the name of each copy is called [Ant Train].

    Only Nanzhou, on the premise that everyone forgot the content of the contract, got the key information of “going to catch the train” in advance.

    At that time, he understood “train” as a world of boxes lined up in a string.

    It’s like walking from one closed carriage into another.

    His understanding was not wrong.

     However, this understanding should not be limited to a single copy.

    “The first clue, my copy time is the shortest.”

    Nan Zhou raised a pencil and then a second one.

    “The second clue, only my copy is relevant in advance, and I know what the ‘ant train’ may represent. But you should only know why the copy is when you return to the station and see the train Is it called [Ant Train]?”

    Li Yinhang and Chen Sufeng were silent together.

    …Yes.

    Their game itself has nothing to do with the “train”.

    Li Yinhang also expressed doubts about this point, but in the end she forced a wave of understanding, thinking that there were five “ants” participating in the game, and the five people of their “Cube Ark” were together, saying Maybe it’s a “train”?

     Later, when he returned to the station and saw the real “train”, Li Yinhang no longer doubted it, so how could he think about it seriously?

    When Li Yinhang and the others slowly digested the information and tried to analyze how clue 2 should be connected to the present, Nan Zhou placed the second pencil side by side with the first pencil, the upper and lower ends were completely flush, and then , with the back of his left hand facing up, firmly gripping the lower ends of the two pencils with his slender middle and index fingers, making sure that the two pens seem to “stand” on his fingers.

    Soon, he took the third pen with his right hand.

    He said: “The third clue is that I will meet another me in a parallel time and space.”

    Nanzhou did not elaborate on the meaning behind this clue.

    But listening to him say this, a chill grew out of Li Yinhang’s back, and the originally chaotic thinking seemed to have finally found a clear exit.

    “The fourth clue.” After Nan Zhou did the same, he held up the fourth pen, “I had a dream.”

    The Nanzhou in the dream is a poor ant.

    He struggled to break through the hard soil and struggled to survive, thinking that he had found a way to survive, but the result was focused by the beam of the sun-like convex lens and burned to death.

    “The fifth clue is also the most important hint.” Nan Zhou finally placed the five pencils side by side and let them stand between his fingers, “I met… Time difference.”

    During the dungeon, Nanzhou had clear doubts:

    When “Nanzhou” opened the first box and entered the world of “Nanzhou”, he did not feel the obvious time difference.

      {Jiang Fang} was trapped on the bed.

    “At that time, I thought it was a crisis in the box world as time progressed. – Every time I traveled through a box, it took me longer and longer to regain my senses. In this There will be many dangers in the process.”

    “But as it turns out, that didn’t happen.”

    {Jiang Fang} snatched his box and did a crossing experiment.

    At that time, Nanzhou was completely unconscious and immersed in the shattered chaos. It just took an hour until {Jiang Fang} came back and liberated him from the chaos.

    But for Nanzhou, this hour is just an instant.

    Nanzhou used a calm voice to analyze the most terrifying facts:

     “So, I think, is it possible to artificially create a time gap between the ‘Dungeon World’ and the ‘Train World’?”

    He looked down at the five pens lined up in his hand.

    “Each of us thought we were teleported back to the station as soon as we finished the game. Because we checked the time with each other, there was no problem.”

    Nan Zhou’s fingertips brushed the top of the first pen: “Go back to the first clue. My game was completed in a full 12 hours. Also the shortest.”

    His fingertips moved to the second pen.

    “The Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties who did their best.” Nan Zhou said, “It took him 13 hours.”

    Nan Zhou pressed the second pen down slightly.

    The next one is Li Yinhang, the copy time is 13 hours and 40 minutes.

    So the third pencil presses out longer than the second.

    The fourth pencil represents Chen Sufeng.

    The copy took 14 hours and 45 minutes.

    Therefore, he has only a small section of pencil remaining above the back of his hand.

    The four pencils, under the operation of Nanzhou, gradually became like the WiFi signal that was put upside down, and the lengths were scattered.

    Maybe it was the movement of the first four pens, which rubbed against the fifth pen which was the most unstable and was caught by Nan Zhou. The gap slid to the ground, rolled forward for a while, and stopped until it touched the toe of Li Yinhang’s shoe.

    The fifth pencil represents Jiang Fang who has not returned.

    The meaning behind such a fall is too ominous.

    Nan Zhou was silent for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said softly: “…What we know is that high-dimensional people do not have the ability to predict the future, let alone show us the future. But in the car , I see clearly the future again…the future after we get on the bus.”

    “This future includes the order in which we come back, as well as the choices we make based on our personalities.”

    “No matter how good a high-dimensional person is at simulation, it is impossible to simulate such a real scene.”

    “So, I think, what he shows us is not the future, but the past.”

    Chen Sufeng originally had a clear idea, but when Nan Zhou said this, he immediately fell into confusion: “Wait…wait, don’t be so fast! Take it slow. You mean, we’re done After the mission, there is a problem with the time to get back to the station, is there?”

    Nan Zhou leaned over and picked up the fifth pencil, holding it in the palm of his right hand.

    “…Yes.” He said word by word, “After we completed the task, no one returned to the station immediately.”

    “We are ‘buffered’ in the gap between the copy and the station.”

    He looked at the staggered four pencils and placed his right hand under his left.

    “Like in that box world, I entered chaos first. Yuan, Ming and Qing were the second to fall in. Next were Yinhang and Chen Sufeng.”

    “Later, after the last person successfully cleared the customs, we were put into the station in turn according to the real customs clearance time.”

    After saying that, Nan Zhou released the index finger of his left hand.

    The four pencils that originally represented different time progress bars fell into the palm of the left hand and became parallel again.

    The timeline returned to “normal” without them noticing.

    “For us, returning from the dungeon to the station is just a blink of an eye.”

    “Even if we check afterwards, the clock at the station, and our own somatosensory time, are telling us that there is no problem with the time.”

    “However, just by playing such a clever time difference, the high-dimensional people can master the specific return time of each of us from the copy without knowing it.”

    Li Yinhang felt cold all over his body.

    This is…the real first time trap.

    Chen Sufeng: “…But, what are they going to do when we come back?”

    “Easy to make next steps.”

    Nan Zhou said: “What if the first person to come back from the dungeon is the Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties who played exceptionally well in action games?”

    “Or, the South Pole Star missed from the very beginning and was seriously injured, and the time when Yinhang was willing to die was advanced by several hours?”

    “Or, you were caught at the beginning, and ended up sacrificing all your teammates, including yourself, in the same way?”

    “Once everyone’s back is out of order, they have to adjust their plans in time to make sure the copy goes through smoothly.”

    Chen Sufeng’s voice became a little rough.

    Because he thought of a certain possibility, but the only reason left made him afraid to confirm.

    “What… copy?”

    “Don’t you understand?” Yuan Mingqing, who had been silent for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, “Gao Wei can’t predict the future! The only thing that can explain the scenes Nan Zhou saw in the car is not only one A possibility?!”

    “We’ve died many times!”

    “This is not our first time back at all!”

    Chen Sufeng was shocked and took a few steps back: “How is this possible? We are dead, how can we be resurrected?!”

    Yuan Ming looked at Chen Sufeng coolly: “You obviously died in your copy of the evil god, why can you still be resurrected?”

    Chen Sufeng’s ear buzzed, and a water-like tinnitus permeated.

      A contract?”