Survivorship Bias

    After separating from Nanshan, An Wujiu always felt weird.

    In addition to leaving the closed containment center, this round of the game does not have any additional tasks, and does not even add settings that may break trust for players.

    I am afraid that the hidden task is to figure out what this containment center does.

    What happened to the children in the shelter in the end.

      Can be learned. But it is very strange why this building was built in the shape of a pagoda.

    There must be some special meaning.

    In order to better understand the direction, An Wu Jiu 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 passing four corners, when you return to the first place where the mark was made, the mark disappears.

    Further down, down, the four marks 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 others 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 had a natural resistance to supernatural things, and he couldn’t say why. But if it does appear in the game, it will be tricky.

    "I am worried about Yirou now, it seems that she is the only one on the list."

    I thought Shen Ti would approve or show sympathy for his worries. Unexpectedly, he pointed out a fact inexplicably, "She has a surname."

    An Wujiu looked at him with a somewhat unclear expression.

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

    An Wugui couldn't understand this, "For people who have a good relationship, you can omit the surname from the address."

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

    An Wu Jiu listened with a puzzled expression.

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

    A change of person, such as Wu You, may turn her head and leave.

    But An Wujiu accidentally took this set, and even denied it with a straight face.

    "No, I never hold grudges. Of course we have a good relationship."

    "Then try it."

    An Wu Jiu stayed on the spot, like swallowing three eggs in one go, stuck in the throat and couldn't go up or down.

    Warm…

    He finally shook his head, "Your name is very strange, like visiting a stranger's house and answering his question 'Would you like coffee or tea'."

    Shen Ti's face showed a disappointed expression.

    But after thinking about it, this may be an innocent trick. For example, when he calls everyone, he removes his surname and only calls his full name, which is also special.

    After all, he is also very different. Some people call other people's names repeatedly, which is only annoying, but some people can pronounce a person's name. Some wonderful feeling, Like a butterfly ribbon attached to a gift.

    "Okay, it's okay."

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

    "What's wrong?" Shen Ti asked. But An Wu Jiu quickly made a silent gesture to him.

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

    Shen Ti noticed the black dot on An Wujiu's auricle, this guy's ear is like a snow-white shell, and anything else placed on it is very clearly visible.

    Is this what made him contact Zhong Yirou?

    Shen Ti also touched it, and also had it on his ear.

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

    “The signal was suddenly cut off.” An Wujiu looked at Shen Ti, and suddenly saw a huge ball from behind him, covered with dark green mucus, but it wasn’t exactly a ball, because Countless hands stretched out of that ugly, disgusting slime.

    Young little hands.

    At that moment, An Wujiu felt a huge shock, but the next second he immediately regained his senses, reached out to grab Shen Ti's arm, and pulled him hard, "Be careful! "

    The next second, the 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 Wu Jiu was stunned for a while, he raised his head 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 It touched the edge of Shen Ti's lower lip.

    "What are you doing?" An Wujiu's tone was unexpectedly flustered, it was because he didn't have any emotions even when he was on the verge of death.

    Shen Ti also let go of the hand on An Wu Jiu's back.

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

    "You dragged me." He retorted in advance, then put his hands behind him, "I just think this distance is suitable for...holding."

    A real weirdo.

    An Wujiu turned around, "Because I just saw something very dangerous, and it appeared behind you."

    After explaining, An Wu Jiu left Shen Ti and walked a few steps forward. He found that his heart beat faster for no reason.

    Then, as expected, the heartache strikes again.

    He stopped there, clutching his chest.

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

    After he leaned over, An Wujiu was so painful that he could hardly stand up, but he still pretended to be okay and put down his hand and walked slowly forward.

    "Should be a hallucination..."

    "I'm afraid we're hallucinating."

    Just after they finished speaking, a nine palace appeared out of thin air on the ground in front of them, and numbers appeared on it one by one.

    But soon, the Nine Palaces disappeared again.

    “Have you seen it?” This time, An Wujiu confirmed to Shen Ti.

    "Well, Jiugong."

    It wasn't his fault.

    An Wujiu stood there, watching the connection line between the wall and the floor.

    Plus they haven't met anyone...

    In a trance, An Wu Jiu heard the sound of a blunt blow, but it was not too close, more like an auditory hallucination.

    "Hello? Hello..."

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

    “Who?” An Wujiu got closer.

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

    An Wujiu held his forehead, “Stop bickering.”

    Shen Ti was more honest, "Okay, let's be a microphone for you."

    Then he quieted down, listened to a few words, then turned into a poker face and said to An Wujiu: "Brother Wujiu, Nan Shan and I encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and later he used Gossip Jiugong cracked, and then we found him, which is where E07 works."

    It's really like learning.

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

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

    After listening, Shen Ti said to An Wujiu.

    "Nanshan is a special worker."

    “That’s right.” An Wujiu nodded, “He wears different work clothes and a face mask.” After speaking, he seemed to have some kind of bad guess.

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

    "The house where he works has a very large incinerator, and there are still broken bones with residual temperature in it. The bones are very thin and belong to children. Also found a work log, which The relevant information of the burnt person is recorded, and there is no name, but in terms of height and weight, it is not very big."

    When he said these words, Shen Ti's tone was too calm, but An Wugui was stunned in place, and the ball full of small hands and feet just now appeared in his mind. For a split second, he even wanted to vomit.

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

    Shen Ti conveyed his words again.

    They got a less clear, but still startling result.

    "A lot, a lot."

    In An Wu's heart, this shelter has now become a purgatory on earth.

    Why so many children die here and are quietly cremated.

    What happened?

    At this moment, a new nursery rhyme was heard in the corridor.

    "Pick up small pebbles, draw grids on the ground, large grids, small grids, draw grid hopscotch..."

    At the moment when the crisp children's voice appeared, a new grid appeared on the ground in front of An Wujiu and Shen Ti, which was different from the previous nine palaces, this seemed to be an outdoor game that children liked to play in a certain era .

    The grids meet along a vertical forward direction and are marked with numbers 1 to 9. Among them, the grid with 4 is horizontally juxtaposed with the grid with 5, and the grid 7 and 8 are also juxtaposed , all other cells are in separate columns, falling together in a straight line.

    Behind the square marked 9, there is a final square with a golden glow.

    There are two words in it - heaven.

    The jingling voice continued, An Wujiu suddenly felt a gust of wind behind him, and when he turned around, he found that behind them there was an incomparably gorgeous bronze relief gate, full of lifelike little angels.

    An Wujiu walked towards the door, but pulled up the back door knocker and couldn't open it, instead many red warnings popped up in front of the door.

    [! Pleasedonotbeabadkid

    ! Pleasedonotbeabadkid

    ! Pleasedonotbeabadkid

    ! Pleasedonotbeabadkid]

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

    But strangely, in addition to this warning, there is an empty input box below. An Wujiu clicked and found that he could enter characters.

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

    [You only have one chance. 】

    This is too risky.

    "Let's play this game."

    Hearing Shen Ti's voice, An Wu Jiu turned around and saw that he was already standing on the starting point marked with the number 1.

    “There may be a fraud.” An Wujiu finished and asked him again, “Do you know how to play this game?”

    Shen Ti can't, there are so many things he can't. However, he looked at the ground, there was a single number grid, and there were two side by side, and he had to go from the start to the end.

    "It is estimated that it is to walk over or jump over. A single grid uses one foot, and two are two."

    An Wujiu suspects that he just pretended not to.

    "Be careful."

    Shen Ti nodded and started his game.

    A tall, 1.9 meter tall man jumping on one foot in a small grid is a little funny, An Wugui thought.

    But this mentality did not last long because Shen Ti suddenly failed.

    He stably landed on both feet and stepped 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 nowhere, He blocked the jump, so Shen Ti's center of gravity was unstable and he left the "house".

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

    "It's okay."

    An Wujiu was about to examine him, but found that his chest was full of blood, and the front of his shirt was almost all dyed red.

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

    Strangely, Shen Ti was not injured at all.

    Where did this blood come from?

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

    The alarm sound disappeared, and the childish and crisp children's voice reappeared, repeating the nursery rhyme of hopscotch.

    “Large grid, small grid, draw grid hopscotch…”

    "Single grid, single foot jump, double grid, double foot jump, stop and take a breath, it's not good if you fall."

    Shen Ti knew this was a new opportunity.

    He starts at 1 again in order. Shen Ti is like those children, his ability to learn is fast. You give him a negative feedback, one time intimidation, one shock, and then 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 was indeed a completely solidified air wall, even hot.

    He withdrew his hand, "It won't pass after 6."

    An Wujiu nodded, remembering the number.

    Standing on the spot, he suddenly realized that there is a follow-up to the nursery rhyme.

    "The road doesn't work, don't be discouraged, go back and start jumping. 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 immediately appeared above the "house", and an extremely excited encouragement appeared: "You are really good child!"

     Be careful, reach out first every time you go forward.

    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 in a line, dripping straight down.

    "9 this time."

    6 and 9, An Wujiu silently remembers.

    This may be a hint.

    When Shen Ti returned along the original road, the little house once again showed him his thumb and encouraged him.

    What a good boy.

    For the third time, the forced stop point fell on the head of 6 again.

    Is it a loop?

    “Try again.” An Wujiu said.

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

    “What’s the matter?” Seeing him crouch down, An Wujiu immediately goes over. Shen Ti also retreated, and as soon as he retreated, the severe pain from the inside out disappeared instantly.

    An Wujiu watched him get up, when he turned around, the corners of his mouth were full of blood.

    Although he knew it wasn't Shen Ti's blood, his heart jumped for it.

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

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

    "You are such a good boy."

    An Wujiu recited this sentence in his heart, and suddenly felt wrong.

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

    He pulled Shen Ti to the 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, like **** punishment.

    Four-line alert.

    Four numbers.

    "I see."/"It's a password."

    Two people speak at the same time, and the voices overlap.

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

    "Bill's password." Shen Ti continued, but he doubted why he knew this. He had no systematic education in his memory, but his cognitive scope was unusually wide.

    An Wujiu made a "hmm", "the sixth letter of the first line..." He hesitated for a moment at the beginning of the exclamation mark, but after quickly going through the possible answers twice, An Wujiu was confirmed.

    "To include the exclamation mark, the sixth character on the first line is an S, and the ninth character on the second line is an O."

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

    【SOS!】

    An Wujiu entered this result in a complicated mood and clicked OK.

    He gets a feedback that calls him littlebird and informs.

    [You do not have the right to choose. 】

    In the dull sound, this gorgeous door to heaven slowly opened.