Chapter 061 The Executioner and the Death Row Prisoner
"Once upon a time, there was a prisoner on the execution ground, and he was about to be executed.
The prisoner knelt on the ground, trembling.
The executioner walked behind him and whispered: "Don't be afraid, I will not chop off your head, I will only cut off the ropes on your body . After the knife falls, run out as quickly as possible, the farther the better, remember never look back."
The prisoner was surprised, but still believed what the executioner said.
The knife fell with a sudden movement.
The prisoner suddenly felt the rope on his body falling to the ground. He quickly lowered his head and ran out, running for dozens of miles.
Finally, he ran back home panting and saw his wife.
The wife asked, "Why are you back?"
The prisoner said: 'I escaped and someone saved me.'
A few years later.
The executioner was on a business trip and passed by the prisoner's home. He was surprised to find that the prisoner's wife was holding a newborn baby in her arms.
When the prisoner saw the executioner, he knelt down and kowtowed on the spot.
The prisoner said: "Thanks to the benefactor for saving me, otherwise I would have lost my head now."
The executioner was startled, and after a long while he said: "Didn't I chop off your head that year?"
The prisoner said: "My benefactor, didn't you say that you would help me cut the rope and let me run forward without looking back?"
The executioner replied: "I was just comforting you back then. I would have chopped off your head a long time ago."
The prisoner cried out, and disappeared into ashes.
The prisoner's wife, children and his newly built house also disappeared into the air."
Gu Yi listened to the story with a frown on his face, and felt a chill down his spine. He seemed to have vaguely grasped some key point.
"Yaoyao, isn't this story interesting?"
"Yeah... Wu Song is really powerful. He can even kill a tiger."
"Wuson beats a tiger?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
Gu Yi was stunned for a moment. The stories he and his sister heard were completely different.
This must be the system's reminder to itself - it is introducing the worldview setting about life and death in the copy.
In the story, the prisoner had actually died a long time ago, but if no one had exposed his lie, the prisoner would have survived.
If we understand this strange incident in light of our current situation...
The island town is actually an illusion.
Pixel sign of passerby.
Empty dead fish eyes.
Invisible sister.
Weird flow of time.
Everything in this small town proves this point.
During the last simulation, I asked my sister if the person in the painting was me.
This kind of behavior is like an executioner exposing a lie, so he would trigger the death flag on the spot.
in other words.
"I" am actually the ghost in a family of three. "I" have been dead for a long time and live in a false lie like a prisoner.
The photos and diaries sent by anonymous users are what happened in the real world. As long as you show these evidences to others or let something slip, you will trigger the death flag.
Based on this inference, the anonymous user may not be in his camp - does he want him to die?
If the town is really an illusion, then if I escape from the town and return to the real world, will I die?
Don't I rely on the illusory world of the small town to survive?
Why does the system require me to flee this town?
Gu Yi felt a chill on his back.
According to this logic, if you leave the town, you will die; if you don't leave the town, you will not be able to pass the dungeon.
This is a deadly outcome as you are stuck at both ends!
Where did my reasoning go wrong?
There is no problem with the reasoning process, so the problem can only lie in the premise.
1. The premise that "I" am a ghost is wrong, so the conclusion will naturally be inconsistent, and the definition of "ghost" needs to be reset.
2. The "town" mentioned in the copy does not refer to the "island town" where you are now.
In summary:
The island town is probably the other world, and my first task should be to find a way to escape from the other world and return to the real world. In addition, I must not expose the lie that "I" am dead.
"Brother, are you feeling unwell?"
His sister's words interrupted Gu Yi's thoughts.
Gu Yi turned his head and glanced at his sister, and found that she was gradually becoming transparent. Gu Yi quickly drank a sip of almond water and said with a smile: "No, I was just thinking about something."
"What are you thinking about?"
"Nothing. You won't understand even if I tell you."
The bus arrived home very quickly. It took Gu Yi a total of forty minutes on the way. The countdown was now [6 days, 11 hours and 30 minutes].
There were leftovers left by his parents in the kitchen. Gu Yi simply heated them up and made dinner.
Gu Yi sat at the desk, holding his cell phone, in a daze.
In the small town, my own time flow is out of sync with the countdown time flow, but when I stay in the old house, the time flow is synchronized again.
"It looks like we need to add another rule to the countdown."
Gu Yi took out a pen and paper and added this new discovery to the countdown rules.
If the world outside the town is the inner world, then the old house is most likely the place that connects the inner world and the surface world, so the time flow will be synchronized.
Gu Yi pondered for a moment and decided to explore the third floor of the old house.
(Deduction begins!)
(You drink a bottle of almond water and leave the room.)
(You go straight up to the third floor.)
(There is a rotten wooden door at the end of the stairs on the third floor. You kicked the lower right corner of the door, but still couldn't open it.)
(You took a detour and climbed out of the window to the windowsill on the third floor.)
(You lie on your back outside the window and pry it open.)
(You have reached the third floor.)
(The room is full of dust, and you turn on your phone to illuminate it.)
(The corridor on the third floor was empty, with nothing but two lonely guest rooms.)
(One room has a lock, one room does not.)
(You walked into the unlocked room.)
(There is a desk in the room, and two mahogany chairs are placed opposite each other next to the desk.)
(The mahogany chair facing away from you is slightly lower and more plainly decorated.)
(The rosewood chair facing you is slightly higher and very ornately decorated, with a lifelike golden dragon carved on the back.)
(You touch the desk, and it feels as if it were a living thing, as if it were a human body.)
(You feel your phone suddenly getting hot.)
(You open it and see that the countdown has reached zero.)
(Everything around you begins to distort.)
(The tide of the void swallows you up.)
(You become nothing.)
(you are dead.)
(The deduction is over!)
"Hey, there really is something in this old house."
Gu Yi opened his eyes and wrote down the third rule of the countdown on the paper.
[In the unlocked room on the third floor , the countdown will be accelerated a hundred times. ]
"There's nothing on the third floor except a set of tables and chairs. Those should be plot props that can only be used later. The other room is locked. There should be another key that can open it."
Gu Yi closed his eyes and returned to the deduction state.
