“He understands what I want: I want my brother to be strong, I want my brother to be safe, I want my brother to be free.”

"If I die, if I sacrifice myself, how can I achieve all that I want? So, the meaning of the word 'sacrifice' contradicts what I want."

"Based on the possibility of His wisdom, then it can only be that the 'sacrifice' He speaks of is different from the 'sacrifice' that humans understand."

"Is it about killing others? Or targeting the entire human race? Or... targeting a specific individual?"

Xiao Linlin tilted her head, as if she had thought of something, but she didn't say it out loud, only squinting her eyes slightly.

"Analyzing the answer to the third question and combining it with the word 'cage' in the answer to the second question, we can deduce from the surface that we will encounter even more terrifying enemies in the future, and there will be opportunities for promotion. If we seize these opportunities, we can get what we want."

"So, are enemies created by the game mechanics? Or are the mechanics themselves the enemy?"

"And, must what we want necessarily be obtained from this cage? Is this 'wanting' something we actually want, or something the system requires?"

"Or perhaps, the 'we' here also includes the mechanism?"

Xiao Lin tilted her head and murmured, "When he left, he mentioned a man, which should refer to a human being, a man like me who asked similar questions and took a different path."

"Before he set out on that road, the man was human; after he set out on that road, he was no longer human."

"Did he get promoted? I think... probably not."

Xiao Linlin looked at Su Lin and made a guess that was almost terrifying: "Brother, I think he might be the mechanism. He has become the mechanism."

"Become a mechanism?!"

Su Lin was taken aback; this was an answer he hadn't expected!

From His answer, Xiao Linlin deduced a shocking truth, though... it may not be the truth at present; it remains a speculation.

Even as speculation, it is shocking enough.

Was the precursor to this mechanism human?

"Girl, that's unlikely, isn't it?"

Li Xingtian asked from the side, "Although I don't understand these things very well, according to your discussion... if the current mechanism was once a man, then who was the mechanism before he existed?"

Li Xingtian had only been with the company for a short time, but the old man was extremely talented and insightful, and quickly realized the core of the problem.

If the mechanism was once a person, then who was the "old mechanism" before the person became the mechanism?

"Grandmaster, you've overlooked one thing."

Xiao Linlin looked at Li Xingtian with a smile and said meaningfully, "How do we know that there must have been an 'old mechanism' before the new one?"

Yes, whether the old mechanism still exists is completely unknown.

All that can be confirmed is that there is now a mechanism that controls everything in the escape game.

But before that... everything was unknown, just like humanity will never know what the universe looked like before the Big Bang.

Everyone was taken aback, and Li Xingtian also frowned and lowered his head in thought.

"Even if the old mechanism exists, can the mechanism itself be replaced, thus becoming the new mechanism?"

Xiao Linlin laughed as she dropped an even more terrifying bombshell, offering an even more frightening analysis: the mechanism itself might also be replaced!

etc!

This seems quite possible!

What can become something naturally has the potential to be replaced!

Li Xingtian was stunned for a moment, looked at Xiao Linlin, and smiled helplessly: "Little girl, you're really smart. It's a pity you're not cultivating immortality with such a brain."

"Thank you for the praise, Grandmaster."

Xiao Linlin smiled sweetly and then returned to the main topic: "Let's not think about whether the mechanism has been replaced, whether there is a possibility of a new mechanism replacing the old one, or whether such a mechanism existed before this."

"It belongs to the historical level and should not be the main focus of our analysis now. What we need to confirm now is... whether it has really become a mechanism."

"Currently, I am 50% confident about this. What I think is: a man came to Him in a unique way, got the [answer] he wanted, became the [mechanism], created or replaced the escape game, and became the manager of the cage."

“If the cage existed before him, then he brought the faint hope of promotion. This also aligns with the assumption that he belongs to us. We are all pursuing what we want, and of course, he has a greater say in our group.”

"If the cage did not exist before him, then he brought the cage. The so-called promotion is just a new reward, just like a slave owner always encourages the most capable slave to create greater profits. Then he does not exist among us, which means that we are facing a more difficult situation, which fits the characteristics of 'scarce hope'."

"I was initially more inclined to believe the former possibility, but considering the ambiguous nature of His answer, it seems He couldn't afford to offend the mechanism itself too much, so the latter possibility is also very high."

"So far, both of these ultimate guesses are only 50% likely."

Xiao Linlin shrugged: "I know this is terrible, but any truth is terrible and cannot be easily accepted; since brother wants to know the answer, I will pursue the answer."

"Of course, it is also possible that both of my analyses are wrong; in the absence of other supporting intelligence, I will assume for the time being that my analysis is probably correct."

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