Fourth Perspective - Chapter 17

‘Haidu City has a user, his user ID is “Meat King”. His logic skill is—as long as he eats roast pork before 24:00, tomorrow, from 00:00 to 24:00, will be a clear day.’

A day before, Changjie Station’s Infirmary.

The first time Xiao Jinyu encountered a logic skill, Qi Simin used ‘Meat King’ as an example.

Meat King’s logic skill was very easy to understand.

Eat roast pork today and the second day will be clear.

This was a very vivid example.

To be able to promise a million dollars for a task, owning a Lamborghini sports car, and also not caring about being able to pick up a hundred dollars a day… Meat King must be a very rich person.

If he wanted to eat a piece of roast pork in Haidu City, it would be as easy as turning his hand. If he wanted to get down to the ‘cause’ of his logic skill, it would be on the same level of difficulty as a normal person breathing. But right now, Meat King has not been able to eat a single piece of roast pork.

With a steady and calm gaze fixed on the white paper in front of him, Xiao Jinyu crossed out ‘picking flowers → picking up money’ and re-wrote a sentence.

Eating roast pork → clear skies.

Xiao Jinyu: “Do you know the specifics of Meat King’s logic skill?”

[His logic skill?]

[Dad, wait for me to find it.]

After a few seconds, a sentence drifted across the screen. Xiao Jinyu raised an eyebrow.

The information 004 gave was less than what Qi Simin had said in passing. It didn’t even say the time window for eating roasted pork and clear days and only simply said, “eating roasted pork will inevitably lead to clear days”.

“There’s only this much information on Meat King’s logic skill?”

[Yingying.]

“?”

[Of course not, but Dad, my physical body is locked up in a really, really deep place. I can’t find the specifics of the logic skill and can only find the general information from what my physical body detected when he first awakened his logic skill. For the information he manually added afterwards, I can’t find…]

[If my physical body was here, I could find anything!]

So it was like this.

Xiao Jinyu shook his head.

It seems like the only information he has right now is the logic skill content provided by Qi Simin and the fact that Meat King ‘cannot eat roast pork’.

The sun was setting outside of the window and the lights in the room turned on with a ‘click’.

‘It’s so cold underground’, ‘Dad I’m scared of the dark’, and so on kept drifting across the screen, but Xiao Jinyu did not notice and instead stared thoughtfully at the wall.

The yellowing wallpaper had a history of nineteen years and in the corner was a few brown bug blood stains. The light shone on the blood stains, making the shadow blotchy, seemingly swaying out an incorporeal line. The outermost blood stain was the logic skill’s cause and the innermost was its result.

Between the cause and the result, a line appeared between them filled with all kinds of possibilities.

But without a doubt, there will always be a line connecting them, irreversible and uninterruptible.

This was what a logic skill is.

……

Night.

20:47.

Haidu City’s suburbs.

A royal blue Lamborghini sports car drove down the dusky rural road and in the rumble, headed towards Haidu City in the multicolored sky.

The fatty in the driver’s seat held the steering wheel with both hands, a red gemstone ring firmly embedded in his flesh. His eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched, eyes fixed on the road in front of him. Suddenly, the phone rang.

Meat King immediately froze.

He grabbed the phone from the passenger seat.

“Hello…”

The young and hoarse male voice on the other side of the phone, started off saying: “Meat King.”

Meat King’s expression immediately stilled, he slowed down the car as he drove on the empty road. He looked at the number on the screen.

Today, fifty-three users had called him.

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“If you’re a level four user, being able to find out my identity with your network is not very surprising. My logic skill is very well-known in the Haidu City area,” Meat King laughed at himself: “An interesting but useless, rubbish logic skill. The only good thing about it is that it’s simple and easy to upgrade.” But even if it was upgraded, it would be useless.

Xiao Jinyu: “Have you eaten pork yet?”

“No.”

“It seems like you haven’t found the answer yet either.”

Meat King didn’t speak.

Sitting at the dinner table, Xiao Jinyu held his phone in one hand and a pen in the other. And in front of him was a piece of paper full of words.

“Your logic skill is pretty well-known, but rule number five in the APP guidebook says, do not tell anyone about your logic skill. But now, Meat King, your logic skill has a problem. If you really want to find the answer, you must truthfully tell me what your logic skill really is.

“From the cause to the result, every detail, you must tell me clearly.”

Not waiting for Meat King to respond, Xiao Jinyu suddenly continued coldly: “Of course, if you won’t speak, that’s fine too, it’s up to you. I just thought the situation you encountered today was a bit interesting before deciding to stick my hand in and help a bit. You’re a level three user, so you must be very clear on the workings of your logic skill, so you can choose to speak or not.”

Level three users: Clear on the cause and result of their logic skill and can elaborate on all the paths of the logic skill.

The moment the call connected, Xiao Jinyu asked Meat King to say the details of his logic skill, not letting him interject at all.

Yet after he made this request, there was a long silence on both sides of the phone.

Meat King did not respond.

Was he still not willing to say?

Just as Xiao Jinyu thought the other person wasn’t going to respond, Meat King suddenly spoke.

“I already told two level five users my logic skill’s detailed information, you’re the third and also the first level four user. Because you’re the only user who’s directly guessed my identity, I’ve decided to tell you… I also hope your answer won’t let me down.”

None of the two wanted to waste any time and quickly, Meat King talked about his logic skill, completely laying it in front of Xiao Jinyu.

After hearing what he had to say, Xiao Jinyu realized at that moment, the so-called ‘eat roast pork’, wasn’t that simple.

First, it must be a piece of pork belly with skin on it and must be cut into a cube that is 3.14 cm wide on all sides, then cooked using star anise, cinnamon, and other such spices. Even the cooking time has a requirement, it can’t go past 29 minutes, but also must be over 28 minutes.

“…After making this piece of roast pork, as long as I eat it in one bite, the next day will be clear.

“This is my logic skill.”

After thinking for a minute, Xiao Jinyu asked: “What counts as a clear day. Has it defined what it is?”

Define a clear day? Meat King: “Uh, no clouds in thousands of miles, a clear and boundless sky? More or less like this.”

The black pen drew a circle on the paper, Xiao Jinyu asked: “How large is the range of the clear sky? Can it cover the entirety of the city, or is it the nation, or the entire world? Or maybe, it’s a set place, for example Haidu City?”

The hand holding the steering wheel stilled for a second, Meat King parked his car on the side of the road, under a tall willow tree.

He suddenly decided to stop driving.

He can feel that the level four user on the phone was very serious towards the situation his logic skill encountered, he really seemed to want to find the reason why he “could not eat roast pork”.

Meat King got out of the car.

Meat King: “Sorry, I didn’t explain it clearly earlier. I’m very nervous right now, very anxious. I think if you had encountered a situation like mine, you would also be flustered to the point that you would forget some information. The area of the clear sky isn’t a city or a set area. It’s as far as my naked eye can see, the entire area would be clear.”

Xiao Jinyu’s eyes lit up: “So in other words, it will be clear as far as you can see?”

“Yes.”

He took a deep breath in and out. Xiao Jinyu’s gaze was calm as he looked at the content of the paper in front of him and said in a calm tone: “Meat King, I thought of five answers. I’ll start with the best possible answer.”

On the other side of the phone, Meat King became serious: “You speak.”

“Number one, your logic skill has no problem and instead, someone is deliberately targeting you and they don’t want you to eat roast pork today.”

“That’s impossible!”

“How is it impossible? Were you going to say, you personally made roast pork but still weren’t able to eat it and there would always be an accident in the process?”

“Yes.”

“So why can’t this be targeted? Someone can secretly observe you and at the moment you’re about to eat the roast pork, they’ll use some type of logic skill or prop to knock your roast pork to the ground.”

Meat King: “……”

“I feel like the probability of this happening isn’t high.”

Xiao Jinyu sighed in his heart, how could he not know that the probability of this was low.

If you wanted to stop Meat King from eating meat, you must observe him for 24 hours and stop him from eating meat. Meat King wasn’t stupid either, if there really was such a person, unless the other person’s logic skill was “stopping someone from eating roast pork”, it would be very hard to not be discovered by Meat King.

Xiao Jinyu: “Ok, then I’ll say the second situation.”

Not wasting any time, Xiao Jinyu made a long story short.

The second situation was very simple, that is, there really is a logic skill, and this logic skill was even more strange than Meat King’s. It’s content is: to stop people from eating roast pork. The owner of this logic skill just needed Meat King to enter the logic skill’s cause and the logic skill will automatically take place, not needing to track Meat King for 24 hours.

This answer was also rejected by Meat King.

In fact, this kind of highly specific logic skill, not to mention Meat King, even Xiao Jinyu felt it was outrageous.

Xiao Jinyu: “Then the next three possibilities will have nothing to do with your logic skill’s ‘cause’ and will deal with ‘clear days’. The first possibility is… tomorrow is definitely not a clear day.”

The black pen swirled between his fingers and Xiao Jinyu’s brain also began to move rapidly.

Meat King’s logic skill is, if he eats roast pork, the next day will be clear.

Under this condition, suppose there is someone with a logic skill of “eat roast pork and the second day will not be clear”, then all they need to do is eat roast pork before Meat King and their logic skill will activate before his. Logic skills are irreversible, so if their logic skill activates, deciding that tomorrow must not be clear, then Meat King’s logic skill cannot activate.

“…tomorrow must not be clear, so your logic skill can never be activated. The logic skills, in order to prevent itself from becoming a fallacy, strangled the possibility from the start. That is, it’s your logic skill that is preventing you from eating roasted pork.”

Meat King: “This level four user, your answer is also the same answer as the first level five user who contacted me today. But, the possibility is very low! There are more than twenty thousand users in China, which sounds like a lot, but you have to separate them into various areas afterwards. I have never heard of this logic skill and I believe that there will not suddenly appear a logic skill that is directed at me like this.”

Xiao Jinyu did not refute him and rubbed his lip: “Then the next two possibilities are not good.”

Meat King leaned against the Lamborghini and lit a cigarette.

He held a cigarette and his tone was calm, yet his hands seemed a bit shaky.

“You speak.”

Xiao Jinyu’s expression did not change: “You’re going to be blind.”

Meat King: “……”

Xiao Jinyu: “After eating roast pork, the next day, as far as your eyes can see, it will be clear. This is your logic skill. But you cannot see, so your logic skill will run halfway before stopping and will become a fallacy. So, it’s still your logic skill stopping you from eating roast pork.”

“……”

“I think your sight is very good, tonight the moon is very big, very white.”

There was a long silence.

The phone transmitted the calm and indifferent voice of a young man.

“Then there only leaves the last possibility…”

“What is it?”

“Meat King, you’re going to die.”

……

After hanging up, looking at the various lines on the white paper, Xiao Jinyu sighed and threw the paper into the trash.

Of the five possibilities, Meat King had refuted three.

The last two, he did not refute and only said he wanted to think about it some more and hung up.

Before he hung up, Xiao Jinyu specifically asked about the task reward.

After Xiao Jinyu asked his question, Meat King’s side was quiet for a moment before saying: “The APP has already noted down all of your answers, if I am still alive tomorrow, I will confirm the reward myself. Otherwise, the APP will automatically send the vault password to the users who completed the task according to the answers obtained.”

Xiao Jinyu didn’t know the APP even had this function.

Now that he had already done his best to brainstorm what had happened with Meat King’s logic skill, as to whether there was a correct answer in the five he gave, he could only resign himself to fate.

Sitting for a whole day, Xiao Jinyu stretched and walked towards the bedroom.

He hasn’t slept for two days and one night now.

The lights in the living room turned off with a ‘click’, and Xiao Jinyu entered the bedroom. At this time, a barrage flashed across his screen.

[Dad, what do you think is most likely?]

The light of the phone entered through the corner of his eye, and Xiao Jinyu slightly stopped, lowering his head to look at his phone.

“I don’t know.”

[(⊙∨⊙)?]

The dim moonlight entered through the window, into the room, and onto the youth’s cold face, causing the face to be white to the point of transparency, glowing with a color colder than the moon.

“But if I was Meat King, I would choose, at 23:59, to dig out my own eyeballs.”

Xiao Jinyu’s tone was indifferent, as if he had just casually said a joke, but his gaze was firm and powerful. If there was anyone present, they would definitely believe from the bottom of their heart that the young man in front of them would not hesitate to dig out his own eyes.

Xiao Jinyu closed the door on the way.

As the door closed, a quiet sentence was covered by the sound.

“After all, being blind is better than being dead.”

……

At the same time.

In the suburbs of Haidu City.

The area was silent in the cold moonlight.

A gorgeous sports car was parked on the side of the rural road, in the pitch darkness, a cigarette flame flickered.

There were already seven or eight cigarettes thrown on the ground.

Meat King’s fat body leaned against the car door and he looked up at the snow-white moon in the sky.

…blindness or death?

The strong smell of smoke could not be blown away by the wind, and with a ‘ka-cha’, Meat King lit another one.

In the night breeze, the cold moonlight illuminated the tall willow tree next to the Lamborghini. The shadow of the tree swayed and the long branches fell on the car, making a ‘zizi’ sound, like the sound of nails on a chalkboard.

The sound was like a woman’s nails, and the slender willow branches were like a woman’s feminine waist.

Following the wind, it swung.

Meat King was smoking a cigarette and suddenly saw this scene.

The ‘zizi’ sound began to burrow into his ears and fill it.

Zizi.

Zizi.

Zizi…

…

Chi-la.

Chi-la.

A pair of men’s shoes rubbed against the car’s roof.

Under the moonlight, a long figure hung from the willow tree.

The author has something to say:

I caught up before 12! That’s great.

Today my family came over to visit me and entertained me for a long time, but I was very happy, I haven’t seen them in a long time. But the update was late, so sorry.

Tomorrow will be the VIP chapters, thank you for reading until now, angels.

Recently, there were a lot of regrets this week. This day is very special, I was flipping through the photo album today, and last year at this time I was doing an MRI. I had thought I wouldn’t need to undergo surgery, but in the end I had to anyway. Thinking about this, there seems to be no codes for a year now.

So take care of your body, my babies, sleeping early and waking early is very important, and so is eating on time.

Keke, I accidentally said too much.

So sum it up, I hope that all the angels who have read until now will be happy.

I’ll see you tomorrow in the VIP chapter~

However this novel is written very slowly and each chapter is also revised slowly, and you have also realized that word count for all the chapters are large too…. so tomorrow’s entry of the ten thousand word VIP chapter will be updated later, I might not be able to update before six o’clock.

Lastly, good night, muah.