Chapter 278 Human Rationality
"What did you see?" "Yuan" asked with a smile.
Dong Xiwen had a dream. The surging fog in the dream obscured all irrelevant scenery. He looked around and saw only a small stone table placed in the void. He was wearing pajamas and a suit and leather shoes. The "Yuan"s sit opposite each other.
The shadow of his long-dead brother floated behind him, as silent as a ghost.
The line of sight moves uncontrollably, changing from a God's perspective to a first-person limited perspective, just like the soul pouring into the body.
Dong Xiwen sat on the stone bench, looking at the old god's "Yuan" with empty eyes, and asked: "Is it the effect of that jade pendant that I appear in this ghost place?"
"Yuan" nodded: "Yes."
More thoughts do not need to be transmitted through language, but directly become consciousness and enter the body from all directions.
Dong Xiwen understood a lot of meanings from it, such as what information "Yuan" wanted to know, and that he was currently having a dream that could not be known by a third person - even if he intentionally relayed it, it could not be known by others.
Dong Xiwen said "Oh" with a constipated look on his face. After a two-second pause, he said: "A white mask with hollow eyes and mouth. It looks like a smiling face with golden patterns on it."
He took a breath and added: "Actually, White Crow doesn't avoid people. You should be able to ask for the same information from just anyone."
"Yuan" did not answer, but thought to himself: "It's almost as I imagined. She really went to get 'that thing'. It's really hard for her to mobilize people like this just to convey an attitude."
Dong Xiwen raised his eyebrows: "Boss, can you stop being such a Riddler? Can you elaborate?"
"That was the first weird thing that the weird game put into reality, and it directly led to the demise of the most powerful resistance organization at the beginning of the establishment of the Federation." "Yuan"'s smile was very kind, and his true emotions could not be seen, "It's ridiculous Yes, that mask was brought out of the weird game by the second-in-command of that organization in order to put it on their leader who is considered a 'god' by believers."
"It sounds like an internal fight..." Dong Xiwen looked slightly stern, "This fight has started before we have conquered the country. Is it considered to be opening champagne at half time?"
"No." "Yuan" shook his head, "It is their joint decision to curb the theocratic power and reorganize the forces, and it is indeed urgent amid internal and external troubles. After all, in the eyes of most knowledgeable people, 'religion can be a means, but it must not be a means. Purpose.'
"It's a pity that they overestimated human rationality and underestimated the malice of gods."
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On April 17, the number of online users of the Weird Game Forum reached a peak, and various eye-catching posts emerged one after another.
A prediction post was put on the hot list with lightning speed, only appeared for less than five minutes and then disappeared.
Fortunately, many people kept the screenshots and spread them around. The administrator was unable to ban them for a short time, and more and more people were able to see the content of the post.
#The major guilds are going to hold exchange meetings in Sunset Ruins again, here are a few meeting themes#
The person who posted the message was a well-known theoretical player with the nickname "Er Yi". He had not joined any guild and was not among the invitees, but he seemed to have his own channels for obtaining information.
He wrote on the main floor:
[The Guild Exchange Conference is held once a year. I never paid attention to it in the past, because in my opinion, it was just a ceremony for dividing the cake between some vested interests. But this year may be different, so I specially posted a post on this matter. On the one hand, I want more people to pay attention to this matter. On the other hand, I also hope that friends who know the inside story will feel free to share some information.
[As we all know, it has been thirty-six years since the weird game came to the world. Although everyone knows that clearing the final copy can end everything, but judging from the existing data, no one has ever opened the final copy, otherwise it would be impossible not to leave even a few words. . But now I feel that the final copy may be opened soon.
[The TE clearance rate in the past month has increased by a full 50% compared to the past, reaching the highest level in 36 years. In addition, two dungeons were permanently closed in the short term and were suspected of being destroyed by players through violent means.
[According to statistics from the newcomer list, among the one hundred newcomers in this batch, there are fully thirty-one potential ones. (We usually think that the top ten are players who have cleared ten dungeons, the top ten to twenty are players who have cleared nine dungeons, and so on. Players who have cleared less than the usual number of dungeons in the ranking range are "potential" ".")
[The last time such a grand occasion occurred was twenty-two years ago, the year when "Twilight of the Gods" occurred. You should still remember that that was the closest we came to defeating the weird game. If it hadn't been for the fire from the sky, which consumed a lot of our vitality, we would have probably opened and cleared the final copy.
[Even individuals like me can be aware of it by observing the record stone tablets. I believe that the major guilds headed by "Kyushu" have also noticed those unusual data. So I predict that the theme of this meeting will be "Final Copy of Joint Customs Clearance", and the minor topics may be as follows:
[1. The major guilds will strengthen cooperation, allocate the strongest forces, form a team of five to seven people, run in in advance, and prepare for the final copy (Rubbish: "Jiuzhou" and "Tingfeng" have mastered the production of team props technology);
[2. Each guild will step up its efforts to absorb potential newcomers, and at the same time strengthen internal ties to form several teams of comparable strength as a reserve army;
[3. Disclose some internal information as appropriate, reveal some intelligence with low secret level, which may be related to gods, guiyiruqin (homonym, anti-shielding), and identity cards. ]
The most important information in the post is undoubtedly in the last three lines.
In this era, many people are trapped in information cocoons and lack the ability to actively collect information, so they can only be confused in the known information.
Even if a lot of information is public and can be obtained by searching with just a little finger movement, most people will not take the initiative to understand it before establishing cognition and awareness of a certain concept.
After they were inexplicably involved in the weird game, they finally found a forum where people with the same disease gathered. As soon as they saw the top post of the newcomer's popular science, they naturally regarded it as the backbone.
That post happened to be more comprehensive and could cover most of the situations they encountered. Over time, they easily regarded the framework in the post as the truth and the whole out of inertia of thinking.
According to their stereotype, "team props" are things that only the massacre players of Xila use, and they are things that they use to plot and harm people with acquaintances; "identity cards" are abandoned projects left over from the early stage of the weird game, and they are useless.
Ragnarok and weird invasion are even more unheard of terms.
They were half-believing and half-doubting, but the forum administrator deleted the post and banned the post, which directly confirmed the authenticity of the information.
There were so many nonsense metaphysical posts in the past, why didn't you block them? This post was blocked as soon as it was on the hot list. I'm afraid it leaked the secret?
People have a rebellious mentality. The more they are not allowed to see, the more they want to see it. There are even more people who send screenshots to all passers-by who show up.
After only one morning, almost all players active in the forum saved a screenshot of the post.
New information bombarded people's minds, among which "weird invasion" was the most eye-catching.
A post from 27 years ago was dug up:
[My girlfriend disappeared near Shuangxi Town, Pengcheng. I am sure it is related to the weird game! But she is not a player, and I can't contact her! I called the police, but they didn't believe me and said I was spreading rumors. But I learned that many people also disappeared there, and it must be related to weirdness! You all know the existence of weird games. Please, can anyone nearby help me to testify? At least let them believe me and look around...]
The dusty past was blown away by the surface gravel, and posts containing the keyword "Shuangxi Town" sprang up like mushrooms after rain.
# Who knows the poster in real life? Is the Shuangxi Town thing true? #
# I live in Pengcheng. There is indeed a piece of land here that is surrounded by a cement wall. Could it be Shuangxi Town inside? #
# "Shuangxi Town" has not been blown up for so many years. Is there any big guy who can go in and do something? #
As a result, a lot of important information is covered up by text garbage.
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In the single apartment in Nancheng, Ning Province, Liu Yuhan sat in front of the computer desk, her left hand kept grabbing dried fish and stuffing them into her mouth, while her right hand held the mouse and repeatedly browsed the posts in the favorites.
She didn't care about the hot topics about the strange invasion and Shuangxi Town in the forum. Those information were not secrets to theoretical players, and the fact that they were exposed now was definitely not because of the negligence of the forum administrators, but because the people above wanted the people below to know certain information.
Although it is said that the world is a huge makeshift team, those who can take charge of certain key positions and make no mistakes for ten years are definitely not stupid fools.
If you don't want people to know something, you can't publish it even if you use homophones.
In the past, there were many posts that guessed important secrets, but most of the forum administrators turned a blind eye and let them drown in the vast number of water posts, and were regarded as rumors or metaphysics by the mob.
Deleting posts and banning comments is the stupidest behavior, so stupid that it can only be intentional.
Liu Yuhan blocked the messages that kept popping up x-on:her, and quietly sorted out the information about [Lin Chen] in her favorites.
"At the moment when Lin Chen TE cleared the "Ghost" dungeon, the rankings of thirteen guilds, including Fengyu, Pansy, and Unnamed, rose, among which the Unnamed guild was the most suspected.
"Qisi and Lin Chen are teammates. The vice president of the Unnamed guild, "Siqi", is a pseudonym he used. Lin Chen is most likely the president, "Lin Crow".
"Being able to clear a dungeon as difficult as "Ghost" alone can basically rule out the possibility that he is Qisi's puppet. He dares to be the president above Qisi, and he is probably more difficult to deal with than Qisi.
"Because he is strong enough and is not afraid of being found and targeted, he set a nickname in the list record... It seems that he is an arrogant guy who wants to perform. If we focus on him, we may get more clues about Qisi.
"After the "Ghost" dungeon ended, there were no hanging people or record posts. He may have a skill similar to "contract" that can restrict the behavior of other players. The skill is unique, and the "Soul Contract" skill is definitely owned by Qi Si, so Lin Chen's ability may be "Oath".
"Wait..."
When Liu Yuhan searched the keyword "Lin Chen" again, she noticed a post.
# Amazing discovery! The man named "Lin Chen" bombed two dungeons in a row! #
She clicked in and saw that the host had a good reason:
【As a list lover, the OP goes to Sunset Ruins once a day to record the data of the new player list and the overall list. After comparing the data, the OP made an amazing discovery.
【Just today, a ruthless man named "Lin Chen" blew up the dreaded "Ghost" dungeon. The OP carefully dug up the data of this "Lin Chen" and found that the time he entered the dungeon was very regular, every seven days, no more, no less.
【After he became an official player, he cleared five dungeons in total, which is thirty-five days. As we all know, the "Meat-eating" dungeon was blown up exactly thirty-five days ago.
【With the same rough method and such a coincidental time, has the boss Lin Chen finally revealed his cards? The OP is deeply curious about this man at this moment. I will deduct "+3". The OP will continue to track Lin Chen's movements and update the latest situation in the post——】
After reading the post, Liu Yuhan fell into deep thought and even forgot to chew the dried fish in his mouth.
"My thinking was probably wrong from the beginning, because of the preconceived stereotype, I put Qi Si in the strongest position, but ignored the inconspicuous Lin Chen.
"No wonder Qi Si didn't care at all after I submitted those evidences, but instead sneered at them. He didn't want to break the contract, but because my reasoning was completely different.
"There are three people who have cleared "Rose Manor". Lin Chen can survive the most difficult copy of this novice pool and get the recognition of Qi Si, a madman who likes to kill teammates at will. His strength must be good, and may even be far better than Qi Si, which makes Qi Si unable to do anything to him and has to choose to cooperate.
"He also knows Chang Xu. Although he is arrogant and has a strong desire to perform, as a sinister slaughter player, he is still in the "Meat-eating" copy. It is very reasonable for him to choose to impersonate 'Chang Xu'.
"With Qi Si's level of caution, he would only randomly choose irrelevant pseudonyms, such as 'Cheng An' and 'Si Qi'. Only an arrogant guy like Lin Chen would impersonate a real player out of bad taste or laziness, and deliberately choose the most distinctive name.
"There is no asterisk among the top 30 potential players on the newcomer list, and most of the top 50 are members of the Jiuzhou Guild who I know well. Qi Si is probably outside the top 50, and even if he is strong, he is not strong enough. Lin Chen is the stronger of the two.
"Next, you just need to enter the game forum and find the record of the last player to pass the "Carnivore" copy to compare, and you can confirm some things." (End of this chapter)