Survivorship Bias

Chapter 51: True and false

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After leaving the studio, Yang Erci, Josh and Wu You searched all the way, looking for clues in every openable room.

Probably because of digital management, there are not many clues and materials that can be found.

They only found the hard drives in a few rooms, and plugged them into the host computers in those rooms to check. Most of the contents were information about the children in the detention center, about height, weight, blood type, and whether they had genetic diseases. Information.

To Yang Erci's surprise, there were far more of these children than they had imagined.

"This hard drive is different from the previous one." Josh said, pointing to the floating screen connected to the host, on which was a pop-up window, "This is encrypted, requires a password, and must have administrator privileges, and the host model is wrong , we should not be able to open it in this room."

Yang Erci nodded, "The administrator may be Zhong Yirou, let's go to the room that was initialized before and see if we can plug in."

She always felt a little strange that Wu You never came back after leaving.

This feeling of uneasiness continued when she and Josh returned to the main control room on the first floor. , because Josh was afraid of the dark room, she opened the door directly.

Without saying anything, Yang Erci directly inserted the encrypted hard drive into the card slot of the host, but was patted by Josh on the shoulder.

"Look at the surveillance on the screen..." Josh's voice trembled.

Yang Erci glanced over.

At first she didn't find anything wrong, but after a closer look, she found it strange.

There are obviously countless grids of surveillance images on the screen, from the room to the corridor, there is nothing left.

But in these images, there is no one.

"Where did they... all go?"

The lights in the corridor, the white walls, and the reflective floor make the whole space extremely bright.

But standing here, Zhong Yirou felt shuddering, even the air was flowing past her side in a gloomy way.

There was An Wujiu in front of her, but another An Wujiu's voice came from the earphone.

[Hello? I could hear your voice just now, is there no signal now? ]

He is still talking.

So far, one of the two must be true and the other false.

So far, she hasn't found any bad signals from these two people, indicating that pretending to be another person needs to gain trust. Before that, there should be no danger to her life.

It would be fine if the one in front of her was real, the one in the earphone was probably trying to lure her over, after all the person in front of her appeared in front of her completely, while the one on the opposite side only had voice.

But what if the other way around

Zhong Yirou followed behind An Wujiu, touched her ear, and finally touched a slightly raised dot, she tentatively tapped it a few times with her finger, and with a beep, the voice from the other end was cut off .

Oops.

Why isn't there an instruction manual for this thing

She took a deep breath, walked to the point where she was shoulder to shoulder with An Wujiu, and then showed her usual smiling face.

Fake ones will definitely have flaws, let’s start with this first.

There is always something to come up with.

"By the way, you just said that you have a work log. In which room did you see it?"

An Wujiu turned his face away, and said calmly: "The reference room."

"Oh, that's it." Zhong Yirou nodded, "There is nothing scary in the reference room, right? This dungeon is really scary, there is a weird feeling everywhere, it scared me to death just now."

After hearing this, An Wujiu paused, and said, "This place is weird. I was just wondering if what you encountered just now was a hallucination?"

He added: "I also experienced hallucinations when I was separated from other people."

"What hallucination?" Zhong Yirou stared into his eyes.

It's exactly the same, there is no difference at all from the outside.

An Wujiu glanced at her, then smiled softly, "I saw that you all turned into monsters and wanted to kill me."

Just one sentence seems to be able to make people see the picture and feel horrified.

Zhong Yirou frowned, but quickly let go.

She didn't want to show her flaws.

"Really? That's scarier than me. At least the hallucinations I see are people I don't know. Those children are alive for a while, and turned into fake corpses for a while, and only I can see them."

"This is the morgue you mentioned." An Wujiu lowered his eyes, "After you get the work log, you will know what your job is. Combined with what happened just now, there should be new clues."

Continuing to walk forward, Zhong Yirou felt the temperature suddenly heat up, but there was still this empty corridor in front of him. He thought that he would meet a player, but there was no one else until now.

It's so weird.

She thought of something, so she looked sideways at An Wujiu, and asked in a very casual tone: "By the way, where is the guy with green eyes? He didn't follow you."

An Wujiu was silent for a while.

Perhaps the silence was not very long, but in Zhong Yirou's eyes, every detail of his face seemed to be infinitely magnified.

The face was right in front of her eyes, but at this moment, the voice in the earphone just now echoed repeatedly in her mind, which was no different from the current one.

[Yirou... ]

[I am innocent. ]

Yirou.

Zhong Yirou suddenly stopped.

An Wujiu in front of him also sensed her stopping, so he turned his head.

Zhong Yirou's eyelashes touched up and down lightly, an adventurous idea popped up in his mind, and he implemented it.

"Wu You, you won't get rid of him, will you?"

Her heart almost jumped out.

The face of An Wujiu in front of him didn't change at all, his calmness was terribly calm.

"No, he went to another room to collect clues by himself, saying that it would be more efficient to separate them."

After he finished speaking, he stared at Zhong Yirou's face and even showed a friendly smile.

Zhong Yirou's expression didn't change much, she looked very relaxed, she also smiled, and then put An Wujiu's shoulders, "That guy still has such an independent time."

It seems that this guy in disguise doesn't even know the player's personal information.

I thought it was an npc, but would the altar really let him directly fight against the player without telling him the player's information

This doesn't seem very reasonable.

The moment An Wujiu turned his face forward, the corner of Zhong Yirou's upturned mouth fell down.

Her other hand was silently touching her ear, tapping her fingertips.

Just when this fake An Wujiu said to her, "You know where the others are", there was a harsh noise in Zhong Yirou's microphone, followed by a beep.

"Did you meet anyone else along the way?" An Wujiu asked again.

At this time, a woman's voice appeared in the earphones, and the tone was very cold.

[Who are you? Next to you is An Wugui? ]

Zhong Yirou's heart beat faster and faster, and the cold white corridor in front of her seemed endless, even gradually melting.

Is this hallucination

She even smelled that weird and disgusting smell again, like countless wriggling worms wrapped herself, and then rotted little by little.

Zhong Yirou tried hard to hold back the hallucination that almost made her vomit, trying to calm herself down.

She pretended not to hear the human voice in the microphone, and continued to talk to Fake Wugui in front of her.

"Oh, by the way, where is the room where you said you found my work log?"

[An Wujiu] pointed along the road ahead.

"It's the second room around the front corner."

While speaking, there was also a voice from the microphone, which was cold.

[Zhong Yirou, where are you? Why don't you answer? Can't hear me? ]

Zhong Yirou quickly said again: "Ah, I see."

"Is this the northwest corner? We're in the northwest corner now." Zhong Yirou took a few steps forward, pointed to the corner and looked back at the pretended person.

[An Wujiu] hummed and nodded slightly.

Yang Erci at the other end of the microphone noticed the clue.

[Are you in the northwest corner now? An Wujiu has watched you, so you can't answer my question, right? ]

[You don't need to answer, make a mark, or give a code. ]

Zhong Yirou faced the wall and turned his back to [An Wujiu]. A second later, he turned to look at him, his face full of pride that he had thought of a good solution.

"Why don't we do this. Let's mark it. It's too easy to get lost here. It's too easy to get lost, and you might fall into the hallucination again, and you will be in trouble if you encounter such a dangerous thing."

She deliberately repeated what [An Wujiu] said.

"And didn't you also say that you saw the illusion that other players turned into monsters and killed you. Maybe, this kind of thing will happen again later, and it will be clearer when you make a mark and escape."

What she said was well-founded, [An Wujiu] also nodded, "What do you use?"

Zhong Yirou originally planned to draw the mark with her nails, but after thinking for a moment, she finally stretched out her index finger and middle finger, put them close together, put them to her mouth for a kiss, and then printed the lipstick on the wall.

There was a hickey mark on the snow-white corner wall.

"It's marked, the nails may not be able to see clearly, and the red lips are so eye-catching. This way we can remember when we go around later."

"En." [An Wujiu] nodded, "Let's go in."

Yang Erci heard the conversation between the two on the opposite side, and felt that there must be something wrong.

"I'm going out for a while."

"Where are you going?" Josh asked, but Yang Erci had already run out of the room. At first he thought he was left alone, but soon, footsteps appeared again.

Yang Erci returned to the door and made a gesture to Josh.

"You are with me."

The two of them glanced at the evacuation map, determined their current location, and then went directly to the northwest corner of the first floor, but they went around several times, but they couldn't find the so-called lip print.

"Could we have entered some kind of strange circle?" Josh looked at the corridor without anyone, and felt chills in his heart.

Yang Erci frowned.

We must rescue her.

Just as they were circling in the corridor, they suddenly saw a strange nine-square grid on the ground, with route tracks on it.

Yang Erci stepped forward.

What's this.

Soon, a golden light flashed, and the nine palaces on the ground suddenly disappeared, leaving nothing behind. Not long after, a strange heat flow came from nowhere.

Following this heat flow, Yang Erci and Josh followed the temperature again.

This time, as if something had been cracked, although they couldn't find the source of the heat flow, they saw a mottled red lip print at the corner ahead.

In the next second, Yang Erci heard a voice—

This so-called reference room has no work logs at all!

Zhong Yirou anxiously followed [An Wujiu] into it, and found that there was actually a small suite inside, like an office or something. She felt something was wrong, so she kept asking: "Where is the log?"

But [An Wujiu] never answered.

He let Zhong Yirou walk in front, and he was behind, forcing her to go to the inner apartment, and then approached a wall.

Just when Zhong Yirou's inner panic reached its peak, [An Wujiu] next to him pulled out a soft leather pointer from nowhere, put his hands together, strangled Zhong Yirou's slender neck, and dragged him to on the ground.

The desire to survive made Zhong Yirou try to go up, grabbing the wall with one hand and the whip with the other, shouting "Help" desperately.

"Help! An Wujiu! Yes, someone is pretending to be you! I'm going to die! Help..."

Under the severe pain, the air was squeezed out of this body, and when Zhong Yirou almost lost the strength to call for help, there was a loud "bang" from behind.

Then there was another muffled and hard crash.

The assailant behind him fell down beside Zhong Yirou like a broken wall with its foundation crumbling.

The tight whip was released, and Zhong Yirou was released back into the water like a dying fish at the last moment. She panted weakly and looked behind.

It was Yang Erci who came to save her. There was even a hint of faint emotion on that face that was always indifferent.

Like a lingering fear.

"Help..." Zhong Yirou, who was lying on the ground and regained his clarity, actually grabbed her trouser legs on the spot, with a happy smile on his face.

"Beauty saves the beauty, it's really timely, I love you so much, you are such a good person..."

The voices are all false, and they are still joking here.

Yang Erci breathed a long sigh of relief, put down the chair that he grabbed in his hand, and hit him hard twice, all on the back of the head.

It's better not to be really innocent.

An Wujiu who had been going around in circles with Shen Ti suddenly sneezed.

The way he sneezed was very funny, Shen Ti tilted his head to watch.

As a result, An Wujiu sneezed two more times in a row, then lowered his head and rubbed his nose a few times.

"What's wrong with you?" Shen Ti asked.

An Wujiu looked confused, touched his head with his hand, "I don't know either."

"I always feel... the back of my head is chilly."