Survivorship Bias

Chapter 58: punishment mechanism

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After separating from Nanshan, An Wujiu always felt weird.

In this round of the game, apart from leaving the closed containment center, there are no additional tasks, and there are no settings for players that may break down trust.

I'm afraid the hidden mission is to find out what this detention center actually does.

What happened to the children in the detention center in the end.

This detention center was larger than he had imagined. According to the evacuation map, the floor space on this floor was already very considerable. If the American was really just a philanthropist, his kindness could be seen as a lesson from heaven and earth. But it is very strange why this building is built in the shape of a pagoda.

There must be some special meaning.

In order to better understand the direction, An Wujiu and Shen Ti made small marks on the four corners of the corridor, and then walked forward.

They met no one along the way.

The most incredible thing is that after going through four corners and returning to the first place where the mark was made, the mark disappeared.

Going down, down, the four marks that were made before are all gone.

An Wujiu and Shen Ti's eyes met under the light, and there was a tacit understanding.

"We should be isolated from other people by some kind of force." An Wujiu said calmly.

Shen Ti spread his hands, "So there are supernatural things in this game."

"Maybe." An Wujiu has a natural resistance to supernatural things, and he can't tell the reason. But if it does show up in the game, it's going to be tricky.

"What I'm worried about now is Yirou. It seems that she is the only one left alone."

Originally thought that Shen Ti would approve, or sympathize with his worries. Unexpectedly, he inexplicably pointed out a fact, "She has a surname."

An Wujiu looked at him with a confused expression.

Shen Ti crossed his arms and continued to emphasize, "Her surname is Zhong, Zhong Yirou."

An Wujiu couldn't understand this, "For people with a good relationship, it is possible to omit the surname in the address."

"Then you can also try to omit mine." Shen Ti said suddenly.

After hearing this, An Wujiu looked puzzled.

He made a pitiful expression again, and pursed his mouth, "Don't we have a bad relationship? Just because I fought a duel with you before, aren't you willing to forgive me now?"

Another person, such as Wu You, might turn around and leave.

But An Wujiu accepted this trick by accident, and even denied it with a straight face.

"No, I've never held a grudge. Of course we have a good relationship."

"Then you call it a try."

An Wujiu stayed where he was, as if he swallowed three eggs in one go, stuck in his throat and couldn't get up or down.

Be wary...

He finally shook his head, "It's strange to pronounce your name alone, like visiting a stranger's house and answering his question 'Do you want coffee or tea'."

A disappointed expression appeared on Shen Ti's face.

But he thought about it, this might be An Wujiu's trick. For example, when he calls everyone by his last name, he only calls himself by his full name, which is also special.

After all, he is also very different. Some people call other people's names repeatedly, which will only be annoying, but some people can pronounce a person's name with some wonderful feelings, like a gift attached to it. Butterfly ribbon.

"Okay, An Wugui."

An Wujiu seemed to have forgotten their discussion just now, he put his finger on his ear, and frowned.

"What's wrong?" Shen Ti asked. But An Wujiu quickly silenced him.

"Yirou, I just found out that we have installed a device with intercom function in our right ear..."

Shen Ti noticed the black dot on the pinna of An Wujiu's ear, this guy's ear is like a snow-white shell, anything else can be clearly seen on it.

Could it be this that made him contact Zhong Yirou

Shen Ti touched it too, and it was on his own ears too.

At this moment, the signal An Wujiu received seemed to stop, he called Zhong Yirou's name several times, and then gave up.

"The signal was cut off suddenly." An Wujiu looked at Shen Ti, and suddenly saw a huge ball covered in dark green slime from behind him, and it wasn't exactly a ball, because the ugly and disgusting slime protruded from his back. Out of countless hands.

Childish little hands.

At that moment, An Wujiu felt a huge shock, but in the next second he came back to his senses, reached out and grabbed Shen Ti's arm, and pulled him towards him, "Be careful!"

In the next second, the giant spherical monster covered in slime disappeared without a trace.

An Wujiu was surprised, could it be his illusion? But it was so real that he could even smell the strong smell of decay.

Suddenly, a pair of arms hugged him, An Wujiu was stunned for a moment, looked up very vigilantly, and found that the distance between him and Shen Ti was too close, so close that when he raised his head, his lips could almost touch the edge of Shen Ti's lower lip .

"What are you doing?" An Wujiu's tone was unexpectedly flustered, which was an emotion he would not have had even when he was on the verge of death.

Shen Ti also let go of the hand clasped on An Wujiu's back.

His expression was pure, like a child who just learned to hug.

"It was you who pulled me." He retorted in advance, and then put his hands behind his back, "I just think this distance is suitable for... hugging."

Really weirdo.

An Wujiu turned around, "It's because I seemed to see something very dangerous just now, and it appeared behind you."

After explaining, An Wujiu left Shen Ti and walked a few steps forward alone. He found his heart beating a lot faster for no reason.

Then, as expected, the heartache struck again.

He clutched his chest and stopped there.

"What dangerous thing? Someone is going to kill me, right?" Shen Ti deliberately put on a frightened tone, chased after him, and stuck to An Wujiu's side, "You have to protect me."

After he leaned over, An Wujiu was so painful that he could barely stand, but he put down his hands pretending nothing happened, and walked forward slowly.

"It should be a hallucination..."

"We're probably hallucinating."

Just finished speaking, a Nine Palaces appeared out of thin air on the ground in front of them, and numbers appeared one by one on it.

But soon, Jiugong disappeared again.

"Did you see it?" This time, An Wujiu confirmed to Shen Ti.

"Well, Jiugong."

Sure enough, he was not mistaken.

An Wujiu stood in place, staring at the connecting line between the wall and the floor.

If this corridor, which is always going around in circles, is an optical illusion similar to the Penrose stairs, then the ground will have at least a certain degree of inclination, and it cannot be horizontal.

Plus they haven't met anyone...

In a daze, An Wujiu heard the sound of a blunt blow, but it was not close, it was more like an auditory hallucination.

"Hello? Hello..."

Shen Ti seemed to have received a message from someone, and said "hello" to him, then "hello", and even said Moshi Moshi in Japanese.

"Who?" An Wujiu moved closer.

"Ah?" Shen Ti shrugged, "Your brother Wujiu is right next to me... I don't, I won't be your mouthpiece if you beg me... Ha, am I immature? I'm the most mature and reliable here The tallest adult male, you, are just an underage kid... "

An Wujiu held his forehead, "Stop bickering."

Shen Ti became more honest, "Okay, I'll be your mouthpiece once."

Then he quieted down, listened to a few words, and then turned into a poker face, and said to An Wujiu: "Brother Wujiu, Nanshan and I met a ghost hitting the wall, and later he cracked it with the gossip and nine palaces, and then we found He is the place where E07 works."

It's really like learning.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Ti continued to listen, but his expression changed subtly.

An Wujiu saw it and knew that they must have discovered something.

After Shen Ti listened, he said to An Wujiu.

"Nanshan is a special worker."

"That's right." An Wujiu nodded, "The overalls he wore were different, and there was a mask." After speaking, he seemed to have some kind of bad guess.

Shen Ti told him, "It's the burning workers."

"There was a very large incinerator in the house where he worked, and there were still broken bones with residual heat in it. The bones were very thin and belonged to children. A work log was also found, which recorded information about the people who were burned. , I don’t have a name, but judging from her height and weight, she’s not very big.”

When saying these words, Shen Ti's tone was too calm, but An Wujiu was stunned in place, the ball full of tiny hands and feet just now appeared in his mind, and for a moment, he even wanted to vomit come out.

He resisted the strong nausea, raised his eyes and asked, "How many are there?"

Shen Ti relayed his words.

They arrived at a result that was less clear, but still startling.

"A lot, a lot."

In An Wujiu's heart, this detention center has become a purgatory on earth.

Why do so many children die here and be quietly cremated.

What happened

At this moment, a new nursery rhyme came out from the corridor.

"Pick up a small stone, draw a grid on the ground, big grid, small grid, draw a good grid to hopscotch..."

The moment the clear and crisp child's voice appeared, a new grid appeared on the ground in front of An Wujiu and Shen Ti, which was different from the previous Jiugong. This seemed to be an outdoor game that children in a certain era liked to play.

The grids are connected along a vertical forward direction, marked with numbers 1 to 9, among them, the grid with 4 and the grid with 5 are horizontally juxtaposed, the grid with 7 and the grid with 8 are also juxtaposed, and all other grids are separate. In columns, fall together in a straight line.

Behind the grid marked 9, there is a final grid that is shining with golden light.

There are two words written inside - Heaven.

The jingle was still going on, An Wujiu suddenly felt a gust of wind behind them, and when he turned around, he found a magnificent bronze relief door appeared out of thin air behind them, full of lifelike little angels.

An Wujiu walked towards the door, but the door knocker could not be opened after pulling it up, and many red warning words popped up in front of the door instead.

[! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid

! Please do not be a bad kid]

Four identical English sentences, warning him to be a good boy.

But strangely, besides this warning, there is a blank input box below. An Wujiu clicked and found that characters could be entered.

When he tried to type, a prompt appeared in front of him.

[You only have one chance.]

It's too risky.

"I want to play this game."

Hearing Shen Ti's voice, An Wujiu turned his head and saw that he was already standing on the starting grid marked with the number 1.

"Maybe it's a scam." An Wujiu finished, then asked him, "Can you play this game?"

Shen Ti doesn't know it, he doesn't know many things. But he observed the ground, there is a single number grid, and there are two side by side, and it has to go from the starting point to the ending point.

"I guess it's walking or jumping over. A single grid uses one foot, and a double grid uses two."

An Wujiu suspected that he was just pretending not to.

"Be careful."

Shen Ti nodded, and then started his game.

A 1.9 meter tall guy jumping on one foot in a small grid, it's a little bit funny, An Wujiu thought.

But this mentality didn't last long, because Shen Ti suddenly failed.

He landed firmly with both feet, stepping on top of 4 and 5, but when he jumped to the number 6 with one foot again, suddenly a transparent wall appeared out of thin air, blocking him who was jumping, so Shen vigilant Unsteady center of gravity, left the "house".

So above the house, a red exclamation mark appeared, and the singing there also stopped and became an alarm.

"It's okay."

An Wujiu was about to check him, but found that his chest was covered with blood, and the front of his shirt was almost completely stained red.

"What's wrong?" An Wujiu grabbed Shen Ti's arm and checked his chest.

But the strange thing is that Shen Ti was not injured at all.

Where does this blood come from

"I'm fine, it's not my blood." Shen Ti shook An Wujiu's hand, "Stay farther away."

The siren disappeared, and the immature and crisp child's voice reappeared, repeating the nursery rhyme of hopscotch.

"Big grid, small grid, well drawn grid hopscotch..."

"Single grid, hop on one foot, double grid, hop on both feet, stop and catch your breath, it's not good if you fall down."

Shen Ti knew that this was a new opportunity.

He again starts at 1 in order. Shen Ti is like those kids, he has a quick learning ability, if you give him a negative feedback, a threat, a scare, and again, he will know what to do and what not to do.

This is punishment education.

This time, with both feet on 4 and 5, Shen Ti stretched out his hand and touched the top of 6, and found that there is indeed a wall of completely solidified air, even hot.

He withdrew his hand, "After 6, I can't get through."

An Wujiu nodded, remembering the number.

He stood where he was, and suddenly realized that there was a follow-up to the children's song.

"The road is blocked, don't be discouraged, go back to the beginning and jump. Children, remember, don't run away when you encounter difficulties."

"This means to let you go back." An Wujiu said, "jump back."

Shen Ti also understood, he jumped back to the first frame, a thumbs up animation appeared on the top of the "house" immediately, and a very excited encouragement appeared: "You are such a good boy!"

Immediately afterwards, the nursery rhyme was played again, and Shen Ti moved forward again. He stretched out his hand very carefully at 6. Sure enough, the transparent wall that blocked him disappeared, but he was still careful. Reach out first.

At the moment from 8 to 9, the hand he stretched out was full of blood when he came back, and the blood beads were connected into a line, dripping down.

"9 this time."

6 and 9, An Wujiu silently remembered.

This might be a hint.

When Shen Ti returned along the original road, the little house gave him a thumbs up again and encouraged him.

What a nice boy.

The third time he set off, the point where he was forced to stop unexpectedly fell on 6's head again.

Is it a cycle

"Try again." An Wujiu said.

Shen Ti tried again, and this time, when he stepped on the grid marked with 1, he suddenly felt a sharp pain. Standing on it, his internal organs seemed to be corroded and melted.

"What's wrong?" Seeing him squatting down, An Wujiu immediately went over. Shen Ti also backed out, and just like that, the severe pain from the inside disappeared instantly.

An Wujiu watched him get up, and when he turned around, the corner of his mouth was overflowing with blood.

Even though he knew it wasn't Shen Ti's blood, his heart skipped a beat for it.

Shen Ti also felt it. He wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand and his cuff, and told him a few numbers, "6, 9, 6, 1, the last time you reach 1, you can't continue."

The grid on the ground behind them suddenly disappeared, together with the last sentence left behind.

"You are such a good boy."

An Wujiu recited this sentence silently in his heart, and suddenly felt that it was wrong.

The red warning that appeared on the gate of heaven just now said that please be a good boy.

He pulled Shen Ti to the front door, staring at the four lines of English characters above, "It should be for us to fill in a result."

The scarlet, almost jumping letters are like a bloody punishment.

Four lines of warning.

four numbers.

"I see."/"It's a kind of password."

Two people spoke at the same time, and their voices overlapped.

Their eyes met again, An Wujiu nodded affirmatively, "There is a kind of cipher that requires long text as ciphertext."

"Bill Code." Shen Ti answered, but he doubted why he knew these things. In his memory, he had not received systematic education, but his range of knowledge was abnormally wide.

An Wujiu said "um", "The sixth letter in the first line..." He hesitated for a moment for the beginning of the exclamation mark, but after quickly going through the possible answers twice, An Wujiu was sure.

"To count the exclamation point, the sixth character on the first line is S, and the ninth character on the second line is O."

Shen Ti stared at the red warning, "The third is S, and the fourth is an exclamation mark."

[SOS!]

An Wujiu entered the result with complicated emotions, and clicked OK.

He got a feedback in which he was called little bird and informed.

[You have no right to choose.]

Amidst the dull sound, this magnificent door, which looks like a door leading to heaven, slowly opened.