Day of Imprisonment

Luo Xi flipped through the worn-out diary.

Just as it described, it was indeed very old, more like a poor-quality handmade item where someone had torn a dozen pages from a diary and then stapled them back together.

However, the content recorded inside was quite remarkable.

The font was very small, probably to save space as much as possible, so each page of the diary looked like a miniature newspaper.

Despite this, the overall structure, arrangement, and text were very neat and orderly; it just required a bit of effort to read.

“I have a magnifying glass, would you like to use it?” Hao Xiuwen really handed over a magnifying glass at this moment.

“Thank you.” Luo Xi took it and looked through the magnifying glass, and it was indeed much clearer.

The diary recorded many introductions and descriptions about cards and scenarios, for example, to obtain the [Strength Enhancement] card, one had to enter a gym called 'Explosive Power,' and after clearing it, there was a certain probability of drawing this card.

Of course, there wasn't only one way to obtain certain cards unless it was a numbered card; otherwise, other cards actually had multiple acquisition channels, but only a portion of them might be explored and recorded.

Below was a description of the 'Explosive Power' gym level scenario and how to clear it.

The content was very detailed, like a real game walkthrough.

It could be said that it was of great value.

If there was a walkthrough for this scenario, then the possibility of clearing it after entering that scenario would increase dramatically.

Of course, the scenario walkthrough also clearly stated that even if one knew the rules and how to clear it, one would still have to pay a great price to truly clear it; in addition, there would definitely be danger, and if one wasn't careful, the possibility of dying inside was quite high.

But such a walkthrough, having it was definitely better than not having it.

There were quite a few similar walkthroughs and card source paths.

However, some content had been clearly modified, some had been smeared and changed, and some had been directly crossed out and marked as 'Invalid'.

Just like Hao Xiuwen said, although the Day of Confinement was an infinitely repeating day, even this same day was constantly changing.

This 'variable' was naturally the Rememberer.

Luo Xi looked very carefully; for example, he found some rating labels on some scenario walkthroughs, but they were not based on methods like 'Chaos One' or 'Two,' but simply labeled as two categories: 'Easy' and 'Difficult.'

These were obviously experiences summarized with their lives by the Rememberers of the scenarios.

While Luo Xi was looking at the diary, Hao Xiuwen kept staring at the card ring on Luo Xi's hand.

His expression was strange.

“Um, Luo Xi…”

“What?”

“Is that a card ring you’re wearing? Or is it a cheap piece of jewelry from the two-dollar store down the street?”

“…” Luo Xi snapped his fingers and summoned his Human-Faced Card Album.

“Holy crap~” Hao Xiuwen was startled. Not to mention him, even the dog in the store was startled and became nervous, letting out a low growl.

The Human-Faced Card Album was really too scary.

Hao Xiuwen ran a card shop; he even had business buying and selling card rings. Yes, this thing could be used interchangeably by different Rememberers, but the abilities attached to the card ring might not necessarily be inherited, depending on the actual situation.

“Is this your card ring and card album?”

“Yes!”

“I always thought I was knowledgeable, but now I think I’m far from it…” Hao Xiuwen’s eyes were fixed on the faces on the card album. It was obvious that his eyelids were twitching, and his face was a little off.

He seemed to be frozen, his expression solidified. After about two seconds, he began to babble, speaking extremely fast, even the world’s top rapper couldn’t compare.

This was already very wrong, quite strange.

Luo Xi knew that if someone looked closely at these six faces at close range, they would be affected by some kind of crazy mental power above.

Of course, there were also individual differences. Some people had stronger resistance, especially those who were carefree, crude, and very slow; but if it was someone very sensitive, or whose mental state was not very good, seeing it might be taken to the 'mental breakdown' ditch by the six crazy faces.

The current situation was probably like this.

So Luo Xi immediately took the card album back.

Hao Xiuwen shook his head, as if suddenly waking up from a terrifying nightmare. First, he widened his eyes and looked around in disbelief, then looked at Luo Xi, stunned for a moment, and then said: “Do you know? Just now, I seemed to be chatting with a few faces. They said they heard my dog talking, and the dog said that the moon outside was actually a forgotten eyeball, secretly peeping into our dreams every night. They also said I was ugly, said I only had numbers and letters on me, for example, on my face, there’s an S hanging on the left and a B on the right.”

“…” Luo Xi stared at Hao Xiuwen, who looked serious, for a while, and swore in his heart that he would never summon his card album in front of this guy again.

“Um, I came to you actually to ask you if you have any understanding of the Administrators and the forces behind them?” Luo Xi decided to ask about the main issue while Hao Xiuwen’s mind was still normal.

“Administrators?” Hao Xiuwen’s expression became much more normal: “Is there even a need to ask about that? Those guys are accomplices of the Day of Confinement, perverts who play with us. They designed all kinds of level scenarios and then enjoyed the process of torturing and killing us… But if you look at it from another perspective, the Administrators and their level scenarios are also an indispensable existence.”

“How do you mean?”

“It’s very simple, because Rememberers can only be born in those level scenarios. Similarly, cards are the same; most of them can only be obtained from level scenarios, especially [Memory] cards. If there were no those level scenarios, it can be said that Rememberers would not exist at all. Each of us would be an amnesiac, and we would never realize this… In fact, it is those level scenarios that make us realize that this world is fake.”

Hao Xiuwen had obviously considered this issue, so he could describe it from different perspectives.

Anyway, Luo Xi felt that the other party was talking very comprehensively.

Then, Luo Xi naturally constructed a mechanism in his mind.

To be precise, it was the operating mechanism of the Day of Confinement.

“An infinitely repeating day. When the day ends, everything will restart. The eaten apple will be restored, the destroyed buildings and items will be repaired, and the dead will be resurrected… And memory is the key that runs through the Day of Confinement, because the existence of memory can make people aware of the existence of the Day of Confinement, and memory is produced in different level scenarios of all sizes. Each level scenario has a dedicated Administrator to manage it, and a few will have some 'employees'. Scenarios are where Rememberers are born, and also where cards are produced…”

“Rememberers hate level scenarios, hate the Day of Confinement, but they have to obtain cards from level scenarios to enhance their own strength, at least to preserve their memory… No, this mechanism is very contradictory. Who would be bored enough to design such a place? It’s meaningless…”

“How is it meaningless?” Hao Xiuwen, who had returned to normal, immediately retorted, and then took out ‘The World of Players,’ which he had flipped through many times, from the table: “Luo Xi, you know, this is my favorite book. You’ve read it too, right? What does this book say? If you find that this damn world is full of despair, don’t be discouraged, let alone despair, look at everything from a player’s perspective, because we are players, so we can give up, because giving up is the right of the player; because we are players, so we never give up, because clearing the level is the player’s epitaph!”