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"We were too weak at the time. Facing the god-like existence of No. 1, we had no chance to contend with him. Fortunately, it was precisely because we were too weak that he seemed to have no interest in killing us at all."
"Because he is interested in the ship itself." Bai Wu said.
"Yes, it was at that time that we finally found out the reason why the crew members disappeared."
Many people went missing on the cruise ship seven hundred years ago. Wen Hao narrated the disappearance of those people. Some of them came back, but seemed like a different person.
Some people disappeared forever, and there was only one place where they disappeared—
Forbidden area.
The fifth floor of the cruise ship is a non-open area with a no-entry sign. Even the captain doesn’t know who put up the sign.
People were obedient at first, but later, in order to explore the cruise ship, some people ignored the warnings.
Just as Bai Wu said before, it is difficult to persuade a damned ghost with kind words.
In short, people at that time didn’t know how some people disappeared, nor did they know why some people suddenly became like different people.
Until Wen Hao talked about the person who boarded the ship:
"He had a ticket in his hand, so he could board the ship. He destroyed an ark because he was worried that there was something hidden in the ark that was harmful to him. A power that he was very afraid of."
Bai Wu probably understood and said:
"He wasn't actually sure which ark had this power. So he looked for them one by one, and if one wasn't the one, he destroyed it, and then looked for another one?"
"That's right."
Wen Hao admired Bai Wu's reasoning ability, which allowed him to finish his story faster.
"This person later entered the forbidden area to look for what he said Jing San left behind, but after he entered, he never came out again."
"In the past seven hundred years, many crew members have gone to the forbidden area. Some have not come out, and some have come out, as if they have become different people."
"No one knows what the rules of the forbidden area are. Only those who have come out remember vaguely that if you go in, you will sacrifice something and gain something. They say that you will sacrifice memories and gain memories."
"You'll see many doors along the way. Behind each door is a maze, a brand new scene. Once you enter, you can't find the door to go back. They've gone through many scenes, and those who can come back eventually don't remember... How did they come back?"
"Of course... many more people can't come back. That's why we call that place the Memory Maze."
After Wen Hao finished speaking, Bai Wu asked a key question:
"If you don't have a cruise ship ticket, will you be expelled if you enter this cruise ship?"
"Yes, you will lose your memory and be expelled."
Bai Wu nodded, the same information he knew:
"Wenhao, have you ever been to a forbidden area?"
"I have never been to."
Bai Wu nodded again, thinking to himself that Wen Hao probably could not give him any extra useful information.
"Let me sort it out and you can listen to it and see if it makes sense."
"You go ahead." Wen Hao sat up straight, like a student listening to a teacher's lecture.
Bai Wu tapped the dining table, which was as gorgeous as emerald stone, with his fingers and said:
"That's my guess."
“When the cruise ship was first built, it might not have been intended as a scam. Although it was a fake project, a fake plan, perhaps among the people who built the cruise ship… there were some people with supernatural powers. He had other expectations for the cruise ship.”
"What are you looking forward to?"
"The secret of the forbidden area on the cruise ship is related to memory. That's why what you said happened, someone went to the forbidden area and came back as a completely different person."
"Therefore, it is reasonable to explain the words of those who entered the forbidden area. If you sacrifice your memories, you will also gain memories. To put it simply, some memory exchange occurred in the vast memory palace."
"Once the number of exchanges increases, the person no longer has his own memories, so naturally his logic will be completely different."
Wen Hao looked at Bai Wu's calm face and admired him more and more.
Bai Wu continued:
"I've been to the wreckage of another Ark. It was converted into a casino, and the rules have changed greatly due to the involvement of the Black Gold Island. But there is indeed the ability to exchange memories there."
"After that, the people from Black Gold Island never used this ability again and could only conduct other transactions. This can also indirectly prove my inference."
Wen Hao nodded:
"I understand. Those people said that once you enter, you can see many doors. Some people accidentally found the door to go back, while others have forgotten to go back and are forever lost in the maze of memory."
Bai Wu smiled and said:
"That's right, so I made a bold guess... The real purpose of the builder of this cruise ship was to create the last harbor for human civilization."
This statement puzzled Wen Hao:
"What do you mean? Then why didn't he take us to the tower?"
"Perhaps there are others who share the same view as a scientist I know who is wary of the Tower. And notice what I say—"
Bai Wu slowed down his speech and said seriously:
“It is the last harbor of human civilization, not the last harbor of humanity. There is a huge difference between the two.”
Wen Hao pondered over this sentence and gradually understood:
"He wants to preserve the memory of humanity!"
"Yes, the arrival of the Ark Project was very sudden. We don't know what the instigator did."
"But he is obviously a person who is very desperate and pessimistic about the future. He doesn't think there will be any more humans on this ship. Sheng Nation's civilization may remain in the black fog forever."
"The true history will be completely lost due to the extinction of human beings."
"So he thought of preserving people's memories and storing them. When the crew members enter the maze, they will gain some memories, but they will also lose some memories."
"From this point of view, we might as well make a bold assumption."
"What assumption?"
"If I were an evil being, and the whole world was taken over by evil, some humans would still be lingering in the tower, and some would be hiding outside the tower waiting to die.
As a fallen evil being, I entered the maze. Think about what will happen next?"
This is a very interesting conjecture. Wen Hao followed this line of thought and said:
"I will gradually become a new evil because of the memory exchange, because I keep entering new doors in the memory maze, and the memory exchange continues...?"
Bai Wu nodded, motioning for Wen Hao to continue. Wen Hao suddenly understood:
"I am an evil creature whose memories have been completely swapped. Therefore, once I leave the maze, I will still be an evil creature, but my memories will make me a human being... Will my actions choose to protect humans?"
Wen Hao got a little excited when he said this. He didn't care about protecting humans. If it weren't for Bai Wu, he would have killed countless humans today.
But he was still very excited. It turned out that seven hundred years ago, someone really tried to save the world
"That's right. Because the memory has been completely exchanged, it is now the memory of a human being. You carry the memory of a human being, recalling human civilization, and will slowly begin to explore."
"If you are weak, you might be killed by other evil spirits."
"If you are very powerful, you can open up a territory."
"The builder of the cruise ship probably really believed that humans would become extinct, but he chose not to preserve humans, but to preserve human will and civilization. What a beautiful idea!" Wen Hao exclaimed.
"It's just that, Brother Bai, do you have any evidence for your inference?"
"There is only a small basis. Because there are two groups of forces, both are looking for Jing San. Their attitude is not like rescuing, but more like... they regard Jing San as some kind of treasure.
I can only reasonably assume that Jing San has lost his memory and is easily controlled. They want to control Jing San and gain his powerful strength. "
Wen Hao understood that this was indeed a very convincing basis for inference.
Bai Wu continued:
"But it doesn't matter. I will go to the memory labyrinth to confirm it myself. Speculations are just speculations. Maybe there are other secrets in it, and they may be completely different from what I think."
Very frankly, this is how Bai Wu explores. He is brave enough to verify and is not afraid of making mistakes at all.
The so-called guess is just an idea or a direction before entering an unknown area.
Wen Hao admires this courage:
"I am very shallow. I have always wondered what the meaning of the forbidden land is, but I definitely could not have imagined what you said... This makes me feel that human nature is great."
Yes, human nature is great.
The masked man falls into an endless cycle in order to save humanity.
Scientist Professor Tao rejected Xie Yingjie's invitation from the fifth level and vowed to find a way to control the evil.
In order to save the future of mankind, people like Wujiu began a long and arduous practice outside the tower.
There are also countless people who, in order to save others, forge ahead through the years in an inhuman manner.
The owner of the Ark did not choose the tower.
In Bai Wu's inference, this person is very desperate about the future, and perhaps, like Professor Tao, he thinks that the tower is a "place of confinement."
It is believed that if evil is not defeated in the future, mankind will die.
Some are even more pessimistic, believing that humanity is doomed to die.
But as long as human will can return to the world, humans can live in a... brand new way.
Therefore, the cruise ship forbidden area, the memory maze, is more like a "mind converter".
The white mist went deeper into this layer and said:
"This man is very important because he did all this, and even when he finished all this, the tower was not in people's sight."
"The first person to discover the tower was Xu Wei. When Xu Wei entered the tower, the masked monster was active."
"And the plan for the Ark was only known to people at that time, but the people who built the Ark must have already completed the creation of the 'Forbidden Land'."
"This means... the other party is an insider."
"Insider?"
"Yes, maybe he is from a farm like the first generation masked man, or maybe from somewhere else... Anyway, he knows what will happen in the future, so he starts preparing in advance."
This is the timeline that Bai Wu has currently obtained.
Bai Yuan and Lin Rui grew up together and escaped together.
After the two escaped, they worked for a long time and had different opinions. Bai Yuan advocated lying down. Killing a dragon was meaningless. It was enough to live a good life. Why bother about others
Lin Rui, who grew up on a farm, advocates saving humanity.
So the two parted ways, and in some unknown way, Bai Yuan went to his previous life -
A world without distortion.
Lin Rui was unwilling to accept this idea and stayed to fight.
As for how the Ten of Spades (K) went to his own world, Bai Wu had no idea.
This happened before the Tower appeared.
Bai Wu guessed that the maker of the Ark completed the Ark Forbidden Area at this time.
Jing San found this person, but was suppressed by the rules of the forbidden area, that is, the memory maze... and lost his memory.
And after the tower appeared—
Lin Rui saved people for several years, worked hard for several years, and was finally exhausted. It is very likely that under the guidance of Jing Liu, he met... Lin Rui, who grew up in Food City.
Completed the transmission of the mask's will.
As for Jingsan, after experiencing a battle, he was found to have lost his memory and then stayed on the plane.
There were many unfortunate people gathered on the flight, including Yan Chao’s ex-girlfriend and Yan Jiu and Yan Zizai’s ancestor.
Bai Wu had no idea what the purpose of gathering so many unfortunate people on a flight was.
Bai Wu didn't know why Jing San imprisoned himself in the cycle of reincarnation.
Later on, Jing Si discovered that everything was a scam and there was no savior at all, and he went completely crazy.
Xie Yingjie entered the tower in 2127, while Professor Tao stayed in Denglin City... and continued to study ways to restrain the evil.
In 2128, the distortion concentration increased and the tower disappeared.
After sorting out all of this, Bai Wu couldn't help but sigh that in this distorted war, human resistance was actually far more than he had imagined.
He could now surmise—
What Jingsan left behind was memory.
Memories of the well.
As for the people who came to destroy the Ark and pursue Jing San's memory, their stance is not clear at the moment, but there is a high probability that they are against humans.
As for the maker of the Ark, or the creator of the memory maze—
He may be dead, but his memories, Jingsan's memories, and the memories of those who pursued Jingsan are all in the memory maze.
Among them, the memory of Jingsan is the most important. Bai Wu even has a vague feeling that there will be a battle for Jingsan in the future.
Bai Wu stood up:
"You should take me to the forbidden area."
Wen Hao also stood up and said seriously:
"Brother Bai, I have to say it again. This place is very dangerous. You may no longer be yourself after you come back... You don't have to go. After today's conversation, the people on our cruise ship are already your friends. You don't need to prove anything for us."
Wen Hao didn't know that Bai Wu was a madman with an overwhelming desire for exploration, and that Bai Wu also had his own plans.
Especially the notes given by the eyes, which made Bai Wu sure of one thing—
There is a correct route in this memory maze.
The correct route does not mean entering the memory maze and returning safely, which would be a elimination at best.
The correct route should be to enter the memory maze, obtain the memory, and return safely while maintaining your self.
"It has nothing to do with friendship. I have no interest in saving humanity. I even believe, like the creator of the memory maze, that humans will die out in the process of fighting distortion. This path of preserving humanity may be a mistake... No, it can't be said to be a mistake, but an overly idealistic starting point."
"But preserving human civilization is the right approach."
Bai Wu is different from Lin Rui, and also different from this creator.
Lin Rui is like a general who wants to protect humanity and win when the war between humans and evil breaks out.
However, the creator of the memory maze believes that victory is impossible and that all humans will be slaughtered. However, human civilization can be loaded into the bodies of the evil ones, and the evil ones will create human civilization.
Finally achieve a "cultural victory".
Bai Wu only wanted to win, regardless of any loss or cost.
Wen Hao nodded:
"Come on, I'll take you to the forbidden area."
Wen Hao and Bai Wu’s long conversation ended, and the two began to move towards the bottom of the cruise ship.
Soon, after passing through many residential areas, commercial areas, and life and entertainment areas, Bai Wu and Wen Hao came to an area that was covered with seals and dimly lit.
Another 150 meters ahead, Bai Wu saw the sign with the huge forbidden word on it.
Bai Wu knew that the cruise ship could become the real core of the black area - the forbidden area, and this was it.