Absurd Deduction Game

 Farewell to the endless mountains and ferocious water, this elegantly colored hospital room actually made Yu Xing feel a little smokey.

He read the system prompts twice carefully, sat up from the bed, and tied his hair into a ponytail again while checking his physical condition.

 That's right, the power and sacrifices have been unlocked.

But his head hurt a little, as if he had a big dream and spent too much energy...

While he was deep in thought, Zhao Mou opened the door and walked in from behind the white curtain: "I heard some noise, are you awake?"

 “Yeah.” Yu Xing responded lazily.

 It is worth mentioning that there is no need for role-playing in this "real world". Although his identity is still the head of the bodyguard, he no longer needs to play the character all the time.

He picked up the riding whip and the short knife and checked them. Both items felt a little old, but they were far less tattered than after his battle in Yejiang.

 It's like... they didn't go through that with him.

"You woke up early. Ren Yi and Siren are temporarily resting in my hospital, sleeping like dead pigs." Zhao Mou chuckled, "Others are scattered throughout the town, Song The NPC sent by Xue sent a letter saying that Ajiu and Zhao Ruru were taken in by her family as traitors of the Dog God Clan and are currently resting. "

"...What time is it now?" Yu Xing looked out the window at the sunny sky.

“It’s the first morning after we left that world. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss much.” Zhao Mou smiled at him.

Zhao Mou was still dressed as a doctor, and his body was filled with the smell of medicinal herbs. Yu Xing had never taken a good look at him before. At this time, without the pressure of a tense environment, he had time to sigh. This man does not wear glasses and wears long clothes. When I send it out, I really look like the legendary handsome young man.

“I should have been the first to wake up. I was woken up by the rooster at around six o’clock in the morning. I have already found out everything about the current situation to save you from doubts.”

 Zhao Mou handed Yu Xing a piece of paper.

This is a piece of white paper with a rough texture. The words on it are all written with a brush. Zhao Mou's brush calligraphy is also quite beautiful, which is pleasing to the eye.

Yu Xing roughly scanned the information on the paper, and while reading it, he listened to Zhao Mou tell him roughly what happened while he was asleep.

 Yesterday, after he was taken unconscious on the boat, the remaining people spent a lot of effort to suppress Jiang Chong.

During this period, everyone discovered that the power of the fourth Immovable Mountain Curse was particularly powerful and was not on the same level as the first three. However, even so, it was impossible to completely seal Jiang Zong, who was already close to a complete form, with four spells. It's just a fool's errand, but they actually did it.

 It's like a story has come to an end. No matter how powerful the final boss is, as long as the protagonist team finds a way, they will definitely win.

In short, they took care of Jiang Zong. The moment they completed the task, they were reminded that the world was about to collapse, and then they all fell into a coma.

 When I woke up again, I had arrived in a place called the real world.

This should be the real home field of this game.

The identity of each of them has almost remained unchanged. The doctor is still the doctor, and the dart head is still the dart head. It is just that they all have an added "injured coma" status and are scattered throughout the town.

Fengtou Town is a very normal town. The atmosphere is not weird. There are quite a lot of townspeople, each performing their duties and maintaining the operation of the city.

It is not closed. An official road connects the surrounding towns. There are inns and merchants coming and going. The side that passes by Longling also has caravans and horses coming and going from time to time.

 In short, the abnormality in this deduction should not be in the town itself, but in the certain people and ghosts hidden in it.

 The paper contains the locations of all the deducers that Zhao Mou found out.

The medical clinic where Zhao Mou works is called "Baishoutang". In addition to him as a doctor, it also treats lone wolves such as Yu Xing, Siren, Ren Yi, and Nie Lang.

  Nie Lang woke up early and should be wandering around Fengtou Town at this time.

The Song family where Song Xue lives is a major business owner in Fengtou Town. The servant met the injured dog **** and the saint while collecting medicine in the mountains, and brought them back to rescue them after they fell into coma.

The Zhao family, which made its fortune by selling silk, has several young masters and young ladies, including Zhao Zhan, Zhao Huaisheng, and Zhao Dongxue. In addition, Luo Yan, as a businessman from other places, also temporarily has business cooperation with the Zhao family. Rest your feet.

Finally, Quinn and Luo met two bandits staying in an inn in the town. They were also the first to wake up. They had already met Zhao Mou in the morning to buy medicine.

"When we were sealing the Yejiang River, there was also chaos in Yizhuang. Mainly because after the flood, the river overflowed outside Yizhuang. Cheng Yishu suddenly broke free from the rope and threw the body into the water." Zhao Mou said. He spread his hands and said, "They were all slightly injured. Fortunately, it wasn't serious. At least before the world collapsed... not many people died."

 “No one died ‘how’?”

Yu Xing keenly picked out the key points, and then it became clear: "Where is Cheng Yiyi?"

"I don't know. His identity is a beggar. He belongs to the most difficult category of people to locate. I can't be sure whether he is dead or alive. At least -" Zhao Mou narrowed his eyes. "Before the world collapsed, he had already Not himself."

no way.

 In high-level deductions, dead people have long been the norm, but the part where Yu Xing participated always had powerful deductions to support the scene, making the mortality rate look relatively mild.

Cheng Yiyi had no friendship with them, and their moods were not disturbed when they talked about him.

Yu Xing put the finished paper into his lapel and stretched out: "This dress of mine..."

"I bought it for you after I woke up in the morning." Zhao Mou said with a smile, "Before we take over the identity of the character, the character also has its own trajectory of action, just like the saint and the dog **** who met the servant of the Song family."

"I came into the room this morning and saw, good guys, all of your clothes are in tatters, especially you. Maybe the original doctor could stand it, but how could I bear to let my dear captain suffer like this, right? ”

“So I paid for it out of my own pocket, changed your clothes, and gave you a bath—”

　　 Yu Xing’s **** moved back silently.

"They are all men. What do you care about? It's not like you haven't seen it before." Zhao Mou rolled his eyes at him.

The original characters were all injured and not easy to deal with, but after their abilities were unblocked, they recovered well and did not need to be as careful as real patients.

He also bought clothes for the other deducers in the hospital, but he didn't change them for them. He just put the new clothes next to their beds and waited for them to wake up and wash themselves and change clothes.

 It can only be said that fortunately, as a doctor, he has a lot of money in his pocket, which he, an outsider, can squander.

Zhao Mou watched Yu Xing move his body and said twice: "Since you are awake and still so energetic, let's have a chat. Don't let me integrate the intelligence alone."

“Well, what about the deduction settings?” Yu Xing stretched out his legs and put on his shoes and jumped on the spot.

 Judging from the fragmentary information given by the system prompts, Yu Xing has almost clarified the previous situation.

 Everything he had experienced in Guolongling and Yejiang before was, as he realized, false.

　That world, if used as a metaphor in a more understandable form, should be that the real **** head left his body and entered a false story world while he was seriously injured and in a coma.

While he was adventuring in the story world, his real body was still lying on the bed in the hospital.

“I think so too,” Zhao Mou said. “All fifteen deducers were in an ‘injured coma’ state, and then their consciousness was involved in the ‘story’. Now that the story is over, we are waking up one after another.”

“The question is whether the simultaneous coma was a coincidence or someone did it deliberately.”

"It was definitely intentional." Yu Xing complained, "It's obvious that the person who created the story, or that thing, is playing with us like shadow puppets."

They relied on the elements of shadow puppet play to enter the deduction, plus the thin strings falling from the sky he saw on the riverside... He preferred to think that the previous story world was a stage for shadow puppet play.

He discovered when he was walking darts in the mountains that although the dart head used his appearance, the body was by no means his body, it was just an empty shell that had been set up.

Otherwise, with the high status of his curse power, neither Jiang Zhong nor the people behind the scenes can completely seal his abilities. Only the system can do this, but in conclusion, blocking abilities and sacrifices are not the same. It's not done by the system.

 It is only possible that a certain existence took advantage of the situation and directly allowed him to use a false body, so the ability was not blocked, but simply absent.

Yu Xing and Zhao Mou communicated for a long time and thought: "You should also know that you can get your abilities back if you violate your personality."

"Of course, I'm not stupid." Zhao Mou crossed his arms across his chest, "If I hadn't thought of this, how could I have let you go into the water with confidence."

"Well, I think, regarding this, the causal relationship seems to be changed." Yu Xing said, "Since our bodies are all empty shells in that world, there is no such thing as using skills that go against the character to lift the seal."

“It’s more like we broke through the limits set by the ‘behind the scenes’, so the intensity of the soul overwhelmed the empty body, awakening the abilities in our bodies across time and space.”

 As a result, the probability of being assimilated by the character becomes smaller, and the restrictions on it become smaller.

 But then he will be noticed by the "being behind the scenes" and cast a terrifying gaze.    This is not a small detail, but an important point that requires vigilance.

"There is also a system problem." Yu Xing said, "Let's call it the world stage for the time being. When we are in the stage, there seem to be two systems with different stances. One of them releases tasks normally and is neutral."

"There is another person who is madly warning us not to violate the character." Zhao Mou continued, "I suspect that it is a fake system. Its essence is a 'person' who controls the empty shell to carry out the story. In order for us to follow its script He went down and didn’t realize the fakeness of the stage, so he used this to intimidate.”

 Now, they are awake.

　　The task of playing a role anytime and anywhere is gone.

In other words, after they wake up, in this real world, the "fake system" can no longer monitor them in real time.

It can be seen from this that the previous monitors, the ghosts behind the scenes who looked at them with horror when they violated their character, are in the real world.

 Before they were in "two dimensions", no matter what the ghosts did, it was a dimensionality reduction attack.

Now that they are in the same dimension as the ghost behind the scenes, the other party cannot be "condescending".

"This is the truth..." Yu Xing thought for a while and raised a question, "Which dimension does Jiang Cui belong to?"

Judging from the pollution ability of the underwater statue and the oppressive feeling of the shadow in the water, Jiang Chong does not look like an empty shell that only exists on the stage. He is too powerful.

"Is Jiang Zong? Hmm..." Zhao Mou tried to push up his glasses out of habit. After pushing them empty, he had to touch the bridge of his nose, "I still don't know all your experiences after entering the water. Luo Yan is not here, Siren." Still sleeping. Tell me."

Yu Xing told Zhao Mou everything he saw from his own perspective, and then gave his guess: "Is he a projection like us?"

"It's very possible." Zhao Moumeifeng condensed slightly.

There is also a river not far outside Fengtou Town, which is Yejiang River.

Zhao Mou had made inquiries in the town in the morning and found that Yejiang has been relatively peaceful in the past two years, with only seasonal floods. Floods occurred several years ago.

As for whether there is such a terrifying ghost in Yejiang, it is currently unknown.

However, since Yu Xing thinks so, Zhao Mou naturally agrees.

 The person behind the scenes who built the stage should have projected the power of a certain ghost in the real world into the story, setting it as Jiang Zou and making it the final boss of the story.

As for the motivation for doing this...perhaps that's what they need to investigate in the real world.

 There is also the most mysterious NPC in the story, the old man who appears in Yizhuang.

He brought six corpses to Yejiang and then disappeared. At that time, the deducers speculated that he would appear again and cause more trouble. However, until the task was completed and the story ended, the old man did not appear again.

 Is it possible that he is the incarnation of the behind-the-scenes presence on the stage?

 There is doubt for the moment.

 The two chatted for a while, and finally talked about the way to die.

 Two ways to die, two extremes.

 Died three times on the stage, the result is already clear.

 Being assimilated into the role and losing oneself is what the deducer calls a crazy increase in personality alienation, turning into an irreversible monster.

So what will happen if you are punished by the "fake system" and deprived of your life for violating the human design?

"How do you feel after losing two lives?" Zhao Mou looked at Yu Xing curiously for a while, "Both you and the Siren woke up very slowly."

"I don't feel anything is wrong at the moment." Yu Xing had already screened his abilities the moment he opened his eyes, and found no problems. Maybe the hidden danger has been laid before it breaks out.

But what is certain is that they used a "cheating" method to forcefully clear the stage world, and there will definitely be punishment waiting for them.

 “You must be more careful in the future.” Zhao Mou warned.

If there is a hatred value behind the scenes, then the Yu Xing Siren, Zhao Yijiu and the others who did not follow its rules and destroyed the stage world will definitely have the highest hatred value.

He thought for a while and frowned: "You have all been polluted underwater, but the injuries you suffered were left in the empty shell of the stage. After you wake up, your body will not be affected. Although it seems like this on the surface , but I don’t think the deduction would be so kind.”

"The pollution you have received, the black mud and white filth you have received, may have an impact on your souls. Isn't our new mission related to the loss of souls?"

When he thought of this, Zhao Mou's thoughts were instantly opened. He muttered: "The price of using the Immovable Mountain Curse is that the concentration of the soul is extracted. Since this prop is also put into the stage world by being behind the scenes, it means that although he can help us Suppressing the boss is actually harmful to us."

“Being assimilated into a character is also the disappearance of one’s own soul to a certain extent.”

“Yes, our bodies are all lying in coma. What enters the world of the stage is our soul. Could it be that... the goal behind the scenes from beginning to end is the soul!"

 “Different paths lead to the same destination, different paths lead to the same destination—”

“No matter what we do, the soul will be damaged in the development of the stage story, but we ourselves are not aware of the difference..."

Looking at Zhao Mou's sudden excitement, Yu Xing rubbed his forehead.

 Actually, it’s not that he didn’t realize the difference, his head hurt quite a bit.

Even though all the strength has returned, my head is still feeling swollen and aching. Maybe this is a sign of the damage to my soul?

"Hey..." Yu Xing sighed, "I'm such a waste, making the deputy captain so worried, tsk tsk, I really want you to be the captain."

Zhao Mou stopped his musings for an instant, and there was undisguised alertness in his eyes: "Don't even think about it. The most I can allow you is to be a hands-off shopkeeper, but you can't lift the counter."

Yu Xing: "But sometimes you seem like a male mother, with a very strong paternalistic temperament -"

　　　…”

Zhao Moupi smiled but said: "I'm going to make a bowl of the bitterest Chinese medicine right away. Please listen to your parents and drink every drop. Okay?"

Yu Xing is not afraid of suffering, but he also doesn’t like it. It is especially impossible for him to drink the bitter Chinese medicine that Zhao Mou used to retaliate against him.

So the "naughty kid" immediately opened the curtain and hung the dagger and riding crop on his belt: "How about I go out and take a look..."

“The relationship between Captain Broken Mirror and the vice-captain is really good.”

 A faint voice suddenly sounded.

The two of them paused for a moment. They followed the voice and found that the owner of the voice was hidden behind a white curtain.

The hospital room is full of such curtains and beds, making full use of the space while barely maintaining some privacy.

According to what Zhao Mou said just now, the only living people in the room now are a few of them, and he has already found a way to get out the irrelevant residents of Fengtou Town.

Yu Xing walked over and opened the curtain.

He saw Ren Yi lying peacefully on the bed with his eyes closed and his hands folded on his abdomen.

But his eyelashes trembled.

　　　…”

Yu Xing asked quietly: "How long have you been listening?"

Behind him, Zhao Mou also walked over and gritted his teeth.

“You woke up a long time ago and pretended to be asleep to get information for nothing?”

Ren Yi, who was paralyzed, opened his eyes, and the color in his eyes showed that he was no longer "blind".

"yes."

There was no trace of embarrassment on Ren Yi's face. He said calmly, "I heard you all."

 (End of this chapter)