Survivorship Bias

Chapter 153: Festival prophecy

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The last piece of information revealed by Zhou Yijue hit on the numbering issue that An Wujiu was most concerned about.

"Could it be that the number on the back of our hand represents the model we were in when we initialized?"

After An Wujiu finished speaking, he really wanted to deny himself. If this is the case, everyone here is number 98, including Wu You Nanshan, who has played with An Wujiu several times in a row, so he is not an outsider who broke into other models

Zhou Yijue thought for a while, "I thought of this when I found out that numbers appeared on everyone's hands. Since it's such a coincidence, I have to think in this direction."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the floating timer and said to the two of them: "Time is running out, and that's all I want to say. You can rest assured that I will use the information I have to achieve my own goals." Share it, so you don't have to doubt every word I say."

After Zhou Yijue finished speaking, he opened the door and planned to return to the room.

Hearing that he said information sharing, An Wujiu hesitated a bit, and still shared a usable information to Zhou Yijue.

In addition to telling him that everything here is not pure technology, but has a more unknowable power, he also told Zhou Yijue the content of the human innovation plan.

"The altar is not a simple game, as you can see, maybe this place really lives up to its name, it is a real altar." An Wujiu said in a low voice.

Zhou Yijue was silent for a moment, then nodded, before the corridor parted, he said to himself, "If you want to investigate further, go to Chauvin."

After he left, Shen Ti grabbed An Wujiu's shoulder, "He doesn't seem to be lying this time."

"I think so too." An Wujiu said softly, "If Zhou Yijue is always smiling, that's when he's fooling others."

Once he stops smiling and other emotions emerge, that's who he really is.

An Wujiu thought that Zhou Yijue would rush to tell him this information at this time, probably not only because of the numbers that were displayed on the backs of everyone's hands during the sacrifice, but also because he knew that he might be the one who died tonight. , at least in this game, there is no chance.

"Go back and rest." An Wujiu let Shen Ti escort him to the door, turned around and leaned against the door panel, and smiled at him.

But Shen Ti didn't turn his head and leave, but opened his arms to embrace him.

An Wujiu kissed Shen Ti's collarbone, buried his head in the socket of his shoulder and rubbed it, then heaved a long sigh.

"I know you're tired." Shen Ti raised his hand, rubbing gently on An Wujiu's back, "No matter what happens, I will be by your side."

An Wujiu nodded in his arms, he knew that this was not just a simple promise.

Shen Ti has always been like this.

He raised his head finally, and pressed a kiss on Shen Ti's lips. The timing was just right, and when he returned to the room alone, he had no vision at all.

Unable to see, An Wujiu didn't draw the last card.

According to the speech during the day, only Megan was left as an ordinary werewolf on the field. It should be difficult for her to target the murder target on him tonight. The good guy camp has obviously left the prophet and witch. tomb man.

Not long after, the bloody arrow appeared in front of An Wujiu again, pointing to the direction he should go.

But An Wujiu is too lazy to test, Matsuura Mori has no need to test with him, since Andrew is a good person, Matsuura can only be a wolf.

Besides, An Wujiu didn't want to go through the process of smearing the autopsy again, so he touched the bed and lay down, closing his eyes.

Compared with the previous game, this dungeon looks long and psychedelic, full of weird religious overtones everywhere, both true and false, coupled with the memory that is gradually going back, many things are unclear.

As soon as I closed my eyes, those memories resurfaced again. An Wujiu suddenly discovered a strange thing. If he really recovered his memory naturally, why he couldn't remember the memory of him at the altar until now. These memories seemed to be arranged. When, at a certain time nodes restore a certain part.

For example, in this game, he can just remember what happened in his childhood and even his adolescence.

These all seem too "artificial".

If it is true that someone deliberately destroyed his memory, then what kind of purpose would this approach be trying to achieve

An Wujiu tried to imagine from that person's point of view.

Without memory, you will not remember the terrible things that happened when you were a child, you will not remember the picture of your father dying in front of you, you will not remember the operation of those experiments and the torture you have suffered.

It is undeniable that most of the memories he has are cruel and better to forget.

From this point of view, the purpose of the other party seems to be out of good intentions, trying to make him live a life closer to a "normal person". Thinking of Yang Ming, and the man who was wrongly matched in this copy, they all seem to have fought against their pre-amnesia self, so they seem particularly fearful.

An Wujiu can't think of anyone who treats him so kindly, at the expense of erasing his original memory and implanting a new, safe one, so that he can be a good human being.

The only things he could think of seemed to be those "scientists" who regarded themselves as research objects.

Maybe they did this because they wanted to be a control group before and after amnesia. In their eyes, he was just one of the more special ones in this huge data set.

In other words, it was one of many sacrifices.

Probably because of gradually accepting his own destiny, An Wujiu's heart suddenly calmed down, he no longer thought about the past, no longer thought about why that evil god chose his family alone.

So God seemed to let him off for a night, let him sleep without dreams until dawn.

When I opened my eyes again, my sight had recovered, and it snowed all night outside again, dazzlingly white.

"Good morning, players."

The holy sound broke the peaceful morning.

"Today is the day when the water city holds a ceremony. All kinds of taboos in the city can be opened today, so the discussion of the morning sacrifice for the priests has also been changed from the morning to the afternoon. Carry out exile sacrifices."

Shengyin paused, "Enjoy this grand ceremony, everyone, and you will gain a lot."

His voice faded away.

An Wujiu felt a little dizzy, he thought, maybe Shengyin and that rabbit are the same body, they may both be that evil god.

When he opened the door, he thought he would see Shen Ti, but unexpectedly the door was empty, An Wujiu turned his head and found Shen Ti sitting on the wall by the door, seemed to be still asleep.

How can you sleep so soundly

He knelt down and poked Shen Ti's cheek with his index finger.

Nothing happened.

"Shen Ti."

He pushed.

Unexpectedly, Shen Ti actually fell to the other side.

An Wujiu's heart seemed to drop suddenly, he stretched out his hand to touch his heart.

Who knew that at this moment, Shen Ti burst out laughing, grabbed his wrist, and fell into An Wujiu's arms with a smile.

"I lied to you!"

His eyes were smiling into crescents, he hugged An Wujiu, pulled him up, seeing An Wujiu's face changed, Shen Ti felt that his joke was a bit too much, "Scared you?"

An Wujiu shook his head.

"No? Then you really don't care about me at all." Shen Ti said with a smile, "What if I really die? Won't you be sad?"

"Of course I will be sad." An Wujiu lowered his eyes, "So stop talking nonsense."

Shen Ti immediately agreed, and then kissed An Wujiu's forehead.

They walked outside side by side, An Wujiu didn't speak all the way, just listened quietly and occasionally echoed. Before they reached the hall of the temple, they heard the sound of singing and dancing from outside.

"There seems to be a lot of people gathered in the water city." An Wujiu said softly.

These days, the once warm and humid water city fell into the heavy snow for days and became lifeless. Today's festival ignited the original enthusiasm and carnival here.

Due to the postponement of the morning sacrifice, everyone could not know who died last night, and the remaining eight people were still present today. They looked at each other, suspicions abounded in their hearts, and no one knew whether it was a wolf or a dead person beside him.

Shengyin asked them to go down to participate in the ceremony with the city residents. Even if they don't like the excitement, they still have to do the task of the altar.

The snowstorm outside was worse than yesterday, but An Wujiu saw from a distance those townspeople dancing barefoot in the snow, the frenzied dancing almost flattened the thick snow, their feet were frozen It must turn blue and purple, almost the same as those stone carvings.

"Is it cold?" Wu You trembled as he hugged his arm.

"Are you cold?" Nanshan proposed to take off his cloak and put it on for him, but Wu You waved his hand.

"I don't need it." Wu You breathed a sigh of relief, and the white mist blew out in front of his eyes, "You wear it yourself."

Shen Ti smiled and hugged Nan Shan's shoulders, trying to lead him to fight, "Oh, some kids are really heartless, aren't they?"

Nan Shan smiled and said "No", but Wu You turned to An Wujiu with a downcast face, with displeasure written all over his face, "Brother Wujiu, does it have to be him?"

An Wujiu slightly opened his eyes, "What?"

"Just..." Speaking of this, Wu You pulled up his collar to cover up his unnaturalness, "I mean you just have to like him, what is there about him that you like?"

An Wujiu raised his eyebrows, and once again accidentally answered the wrong question, "Is it so obvious?"

Wu You sighed, "All the things in your mind, this is the only one I can see. But I just don't understand why, just him? Just him..."

Shen Tipa pulled his raised hand away, "What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me, is there anyone else in this world who is willing to quarrel with a child like you who suffers and hates so much?"

Wu You: "Don't you still think that you are very sensible to quarrel with children?"

Shen Ti: "You admit that you are a child!"

Wu You: ...

I have nothing to say why I haven't changed my name.

Nan Shan looked at An Wujiu, and found that he seemed to have a natural barrier, separated from the noisy two people, completely unaffected, and now he was thinking seriously while going down the stairs.

"Actually..." An Wujiu raised his head, "Many people would like Shen Ti."

Wu You turned his head when he heard the voice.

An Wujiu said seriously: "In terms of appearance, Shen Ti has been praised by countless people just from what I've heard."

He is also very honest, "When I opened his mask and saw him for the first time, I thought he looked very suitable to me, and he was very special. Don't you think his eyes are beautiful?"

Wu You: ... Enough is enough.

He hated himself for talking.

An Wujiu added: "Even if you don't look at the appearance, Shen Ti's character is very interesting, smart but good at playing dumb, deceptive but sometimes frank, sad but also very attractive when he is serious, isn't he? ?”

The corners of Nan Shan's mouth could not fall off.

The one who's really being honest is you, right

He felt that An Wujiu was also a very special person, not to mention the extreme two-faced nature, just his daily thoughts of calculating and playing games, and his current frankness and loveliness, contradictory and incomparable unity, this is Nanshan's What others can't see.

Thinking about it this way, she and Shen Ti are really a good match.

An Wujiu directly made the self who was praised froze in place, and even forgot to walk.

Zhou Yijue, who still passed by and overtook him, laughed, and the laughter drifted into Shen Ti's ears, and he regained his senses all of a sudden.

Shen Ti never thought that he has so many advantages, the advantages in An Wujiu's eyes.

"I can't say anything else." An Wujiu smiled, "Maybe I just like someone special."

After speaking, he realized that Shen Ti hadn't followed and was not by his side, so he turned around.

Shen Ti just raised his eyes and saw his clean and pure looking back in the snow.

But in the next second, An Wujiu raised his eyebrows, deliberately playing tricks, "Did these two words make you blush?"

Shen Ti immediately raised his hand to cover his face.

An Wujiu smiled, walked over, and stretched out his arms towards him.

Shen Ti embraced him naturally, "You lied to me?"

An Wujiu shook her head in his arms, and leaned against him quietly.

At first they thought they would just hug him, after all they were already behind the main force, Shen Ti didn't expect that An Wujiu didn't seem to want to let go, but hugged him quietly, with his side face pressed against his chest.

"Is it cold?" He touched An Wujiu's cheek.

"not cold."

An Wujiu had enough hugs and came out of Shen Ti's arms.

Shen Ti keenly sensed that something was wrong with him, but that feeling was fleeting, just when he was about to speak. A white object flew towards them at an extremely fast speed.

An Wujiu's sensitivity to danger has been trained, so he subconsciously tilted his head, trying to pull Shen Ti away, but he didn't.

A snowball directly hit Shen Ti's side neck, and the snowflakes shattered instantly and fell into his robe.

Behind Wu You's rare childish laugh, calling him an idiot.

An Wujiu watched the two of them quarreling again, and thought of making excuses for Shen Ti.

After all, he has only just become a human being, so it's normal for him to be a little naive.

He stepped on the snow step by step, following them forward.

Just now he purposely hugged her for so long just to hear Shen Ti's heartbeat.

How many times in the past they hugged each other and had intimate contact, An Wujiu never noticed it, until today when Shen Ti made fun of him, he stretched out his hand to find out that he didn't have a heartbeat.

He didn't know if it was the moment or normality, so he hugged him just now and listened carefully.

heard nothing.

Shen Ti has breathing, pulse, and warm body temperature, but no heartbeat.

Before entering the city through the frozen lake, there were suddenly many more city dwellers around them. Some of them held torches, some carried oil lamps, and many of them carried huge stone carvings and stone pillars together, and others danced around the stone carvings. The flowers here are all withered due to the extreme cold, so they twist them with dead vines into corollas and put them on their heads.

Those stone carvings are of various kinds, but they all look like clones of the statue in the temple, only a part of it. The torch gradually turned blue, and the dots of blue were like aquamarine dotted on the white velvet. An Wujiu looked into the distance along the light of the fire, and saw the glass room on the top of the tower at a glance.

In the daylight, it shines like the most precious diamond.

In order to celebrate this grand ceremony, the city residents set up countless red tents, and each family offered their own precious food. They walked forward tent by tent, Wu You was attracted by the red jelly-like food in one of the bowls, and asked the city residents what it was.

"This is a piece of cactus that has been peeled off. My dear priest, we marinated it with cochineal sauce, so it has such a beautiful red color." The young man proudly said to him.

"Cochineal??" Wu You almost couldn't hold back his mouth, waved his hands repeatedly in front of the other party's warm hospitality, smiled dryly and hurried to the next tent.

"Welcome, my dear priests."

There must be an old woman sitting in the tent, with a dark blue totem painted on her face, which covered her entire face, making her look a little weird.

An Wujiu stared at her face, thinking of Shen Ti's hand.

"This is divination?" Nan Shan picked up one of the stone cups, which contained two pieces of animal bones cut into strange shapes.

"Yes, that's right, your eyesight is really good." The old woman giggled, with a wrinkled face, she enthusiastically solicited, setting out four stone cups, "Let me divination for you, It will be the greatest honor of my life.”

An Wujiu subconsciously wanted to refuse, but the other party had already moved and shook the stone cup.

Shen Ti was curious and wanted to see how she would do the divination, so he stared at the old woman's movements with his arms crossed.

She shook the stone cups one by one, and then added some weird potions in order, red and green, extremely sticky. The old woman stirred it directly with her index finger, so frightened that Wu You thought she was going to eat it, but the next moment, the old woman hit a flint and ignited all four stone cups.

When the stone cup was burnt out, she looked inside, raised her eyes again, and smiled strangely at the four of them.

"Okay." The old woman pushed out one of them, pointed at Gui Shan, "This is yours."

There were indeed some words on the inner wall of the stone cup, but Nan Shan couldn't read them.

The old woman explained to him directly: "It says: Abandonment, Piety, Cherishing and Faith."

Nan Shan heard this, her heart moved slightly, "Is this the past or a prophecy?"

"Maybe both, maybe none." The old woman didn't stop, and directly launched a new one.

"This is yours." He pointed at An Wujiu, "That's right, it's you."

An Wujiu stood on the spot and nodded.

The old woman narrowed her eyes, watched carefully, and finally looked at An Wujiu with a smile, "You are also three words: put all your eggs in one basket, repeat the same mistakes..."

"The last one," her expression changed, "self-destruct."