Chapter 129 Behind the Lies
(including the May 22 update)
- They are lying.
This is an affirmative sentence, not a question, nor a doubt.
She is 100% sure that the other party is lying.
After experiencing so many worlds, Tang Yatong now has a variety of skills, props and cards.
Most of the prop cards are offensive and defensive, but she occasionally gets some special props. This kind of props has no offensive or defensive effects and is not very useful in most cases, but it is particularly useful in some special situations.
When the parents who took the cable car to the mountain with Qu Yichen's parents spoke, Tang Yatong subconsciously activated the lie detector function attached to the portable weapon.
This is the effect of the "lie detector card" attached to the weapon. It can be opened ten times in total. After opening, the position range can be circled and all objects within the range can be lied. The time limit is five minutes.
If the other party is lying, then the weapon attached to the lie detector card will send out a vibration alarm. Ordinary lies will only vibrate twice. On the contrary, the more people who lie within the circled position range, the higher the degree of the lie, and the more intense the vibration.
Just a few minutes after the other party spoke, the weapon hidden on her waist kept vibrating, which means that the other party is not only lying, but also lying to the sky, not a word is true.
**
The helicopter went back and forth four times in total, and rescued all the survivors found on the Heron Peak to the hotel area.
But the number of this part is one-third less than the missing persons reported previously.
The passengers who didn't wait for their relatives and family members began to lose control and angrily demanded that the helicopter go up the mountain for rescue again, but it was getting dark and visibility was low, so going up the mountain would be useless.
In the end, the helicopter carried several seriously injured patients away from the scenic area and headed straight for the hospital below the high ground, while the passengers who lost control surrounded the hotel front desk who was previously responsible for contacting the rescuers and continued to ask for an explanation.
For individuals, their family and friends are definitely the most important, but the current situation is that it is impossible to take care of everything. The unlucky family members who were left out became the reason for these passengers to lose control.
In the hotel next door, the parents who were sad and crying in front of "Qu Yichen" not long ago gathered in the same room with gloomy faces, and the atmosphere was silent and a little weird.
Although a night has passed, the images and sounds of yesterday are still vivid in their minds, and they break into cold sweats every time they recall them.
"What should we do? You all saw Qu Yichen's expression and eyes just now. The guy didn't look like he believed it..."
"Who cares whether he believes it or not! It's already like this, why are you still saying these things now!"
"But, what if he gets to the bottom of it..."
"It's groundless, what can he do? This is a natural disaster, and a lot of people died anyway..."
"Well, he was someone we knew after all... If only we had opened the door at that time..."
"Shut up! No one is allowed to mention this again! My son still has to go to college! He must not be affected! You too, if anyone doesn't shut up... then no one will be able to escape responsibility!"
"..."
The room fell into deathly silence again.
**
At the hotel on the other side, after the three returned to the room, Youxi and Tang Yatong found an opportunity to chat alone in the corridor at the entrance of the room.
"Is your mission related to the family of the world character?" Youxi was more worried about this. After all, it was hard to say whether Qu Yichen's parents were still alive. If Tang Yatong's mission was related to the character's family, she would definitely go to the top of the mountain.
But in the current situation, no one can say when the next typhoon and rainstorm will come, and how bad it will be.
"It doesn't matter. My mission is to investigate the truth of the disaster disorder, choose a suitable location, and establish a human base."
Most of the missions in the S-level world are like this. They all start from the big picture and cannot just take care of their own survival. She has done similar missions several times and has a lot of experience in this, and the props are also well prepared.
She knew that many missioners, when they found out that they had become people from the original mission world after entering the new world, and that the characters had nothing to do with the original family, would go crazy and kill the original family just to avoid trouble.
Tang Yatong had her own principles in doing things, and she would help the original family if she could.
"What is the truth about the disaster and disorder?" Because the conversation had been interrupted before, she had not had time to tell Tang Yatong about the speculation about the world fragments.
The first speculation was about the complete Storm World. If the world she was in now was just a fragment, then what about the fragments of other parts? Based on previous experience, the other fragments might have gone to another apocalyptic world, and might have merged.
Then the question came. The first novice world she went to was a fusion of tsunamis and low temperatures. At that time, it was not explained which one merged with which. If the tsunami world was a fragment, could it be the part that split off from the storm world this time? The super typhoon here seemed to occur without any reason, but it was not without reason. It was just that the fragments of the world where the reason was located split off.
The original difficulty of the storm world was low. The fused part retained the low difficulty. The fragments that existed alone evolved into medium difficulty because the world was broken and the time and space were unbalanced.
The second guess was only for the fragment world. The fragments of the world she saw before losing consciousness in the time loop area were only text, which looked like fragments of a book, so she had previously thought that this apocalyptic world (perhaps all apocalyptic worlds) was a novel world.
One dimension is line, two dimension is surface, words are written on the surface, so novels are often called the two-dimensional world.
From a scientific perspective, the two-dimensional world is just a name for the two-dimensional world, and the two-dimensional world does not only include novels, but also comics, games, animations, etc.
To put it another way, if the novel world really exists, then it exists in a two-dimensional world.
People in the two-dimensional world cannot understand the three-dimensional world, just as people in the three-dimensional world cannot understand the existence of a higher-dimensional world, because the higher-dimensional world has other more complex elements in addition to lines, planes, and heights.
In Youxi's cognition, her native world is a three-dimensional world (if time is added, it can also be called a four-dimensional world). She can clearly see everything in the two-dimensional world, but people in the two-dimensional world cannot perceive the three-dimensional world.
The general concept of people in the three-dimensional world is that everything in the two-dimensional world is false.
But is there a possibility that the two-dimensional world is also a real world?
Just like the three-dimensional world in the eyes of the higher-dimensional world, perhaps the entire universe of the three-dimensional world is just a "book" placed on the shelf, a "piece of data" stored in the computer...
But for people in the three-dimensional world, the world they live in is real.
Because perception determines everything.
If this conjecture is true, then would the meteorite world before Tang Yatong also be a two-dimensional world?
And the system tower probably transcends the existence of the two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and even five-dimensional worlds, so it can easily do things that are impossible in their concepts.
For example: people are bound to the system and become taskers.
For example: travel through the world in different ways to gain points (star coins).
...
There is a widely circulated saying: The end of science is theology.
But after experiencing all these, Youxi feels more and more that the end of science is the starting point of another world science. People judge things that cannot be understood and cannot be realized as theology, but it is just because they are not standing high enough.
The mystery of the universe, the end of time and space, there must be another science waiting there.
"So, the system tower may come from the high-latitude world, and we may just be the test subjects." Tang Yatong has experienced so many missions and has a vague feeling about this. She just didn't think that her native world might be a two-dimensional world. "According to the theory of the fragmented world, the mission world we are in now is not complete. It is full of time and space black holes. Once the natives step into it, there is basically no possibility of getting out. Therefore, the reason why the disasters in this world are disordered can be explained, because The world is incomplete and time and space are disordered. "
Tang Yatong finished speaking, her eyes looked into the void and seemed silent for a moment, then she smiled at Youxi: "I submitted the first task, and the reason for the disorder of disasters is indeed because of this."
She originally thought that this would be the most difficult task among several tasks, and it would require the combination of data from many aspects to reach a conclusion. However, she met Youxi, who had already been to the time and space cycle area and even made some judgments, which allowed her to take a shortcut.
The concept of "fragmented world" has never appeared in Tang Yatong's previous mission world.
Now thinking back, some of the worlds she had visited before might also be "fragmented worlds", because some inexplicable and inexplicable things had happened, but she didn't have such a concept at the time, so she could only attribute it to an unsolved mystery.
From Tang Yatong's narration, Youxi also found that the system tower and the star house are indeed very different. At least when traveling through the world, the star house system will provide very intuitive world data, while the system tower does not have it at all, and most of the tasks require the tasker to explore on his own.
It is a world where the strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive.
The only commonality is that the system issues tasks and the taskers complete the tasks. Therefore, the star house system should also be a product of the high-dimensional world, and it is very likely to come from the same world as the system tower.
So what is the purpose of the two systems binding the taskers to perform tasks?
Think about it, so far, Youxi has mostly performed survival tasks or personal rescue tasks.
As for the system tower, from Lin Wu's mission in the acid rain world, Lou Rui's mission in the zombie world, and Tang Yatong's mission in the storm world, we can probably know that the main direction is to rescue the group and repair the world state.
But Lin Wu also said that the direction of the mission can be chosen by oneself. In addition to the rescue mission, there are also missions in other directions.
In addition to the settings of the inner and outer towers, the rest rewards and encouragement of fighting in the peaceful world, etc., You Xi guessed that the ultimate goal of the system tower may be to cultivate high-intensity individuals, just like raising snakes.
As for what these high-intensity taskers who broke through are ultimately expected to do, it is unknown, but it doesn't seem like a good thing.
As for the Star House - not to mention other things, just because it can block the system tower and prevent her native world from falling into the mission world, she is willing to directly label the Star House system as a "good guy".
Especially this time the mission of building a shelter, all kinds of difficulties are imaginable, but now Tang Yatong is here, the two missions overlap, and they can work together in the future, which is great.
Tang Yatong said that although her mission this time has nothing to do with the characters in the world, she still has to find out about Qu's father and mother, even if she guessed at this moment that there is an 80% chance that the other party has been killed...
"You want to go up the mountain?" It was getting dark very quickly today, and it takes time to search, so it is no longer suitable to go to the top of the mountain.
"There are ways not to go up the mountain." Tang Yatong smiled, with a hint of meaning.
Both of them were used to doing things in a straightforward way. You Xi understood: "Wait a little later, I will go with you."
The two chatted for a while. You Zhenzhen had already finished her shower in the bathroom in the room. She saw that "Qu Yichen" was still there, but she didn't rush them like she did yesterday. She even asked them if they were hungry and if they wanted to get dinner.
At present, the hotel provides one breakfast and one dinner for free. Although You Zhenzhen really wants to eat the food in You Xi's space, she can't take it out to eat because "Qu Yichen" is there. In order to avoid eating instant noodles as much as possible, she can only suggest to get the meal.
"I'll go." You Xi sighed and prepared to take some of You Zhenzhen's favorite food in the name of getting a meal, so that she doesn't want to eat and worry about her "exposing the space".
However, everyone will be together for a long time in the future, so she still has to find a way to expose the "space" to "Qu Yichen" in front of You Zhenzhen as soon as possible, so as to avoid having things inconvenient to take now.
**
It was approaching midnight, and the rain outside was still not stopping.
Wang Fen and her husband and son cleaned up the messy interior after the typhoon, and urged the hotel staff to repair the broken window for them. She fell asleep tired and sleepy.
The window was only temporarily repaired with cardboard and plastic, but their room was on the seventh floor, so there was no need to worry about anyone breaking in.
But tonight, a "guest" came.
After You Zhenzhen fell asleep, You Xi locked the door, followed Tang Yatong, and quickly entered the hotel.
The physical fitness of both of them has reached an astonishing level. Climbing to the seventh floor with bare hands is just a piece of cake.
They have a tacit understanding. One of them identified the window of the room, and the other broke the window silently; one caught the fallen cardboard and the other quickly entered; one confused her husband and son, and the other covered Wang Fen's mouth and dragged her to the living room.
Wang Fen was originally slept uneasily and had all kinds of nightmares. As a result, she saw the enlarged face of "Qu's father" facing her, which frightened her to death.
"Hello, are you safe and sound? Why don't you take us with you?"
In the silent night, such a face that just appeared in the nightmare stood in front of her with a smile and said such words to her. Wang Fen was almost scared to death!
"It's not me, it's not me! It wasn't me who closed the door. Don't look for me, go find Zheng Kun and the others! They are the ones who closed the door!" Wang Fen was so panicked that she didn't realize that there was another person in the darkness of the living room.
You Xi stood quietly by the side, holding up her phone silently, and was careful not to let Tang Yatong's face enter the camera.
Her appearance-changing card was better than her [Disguise Lipstick] because it could be changed according to the photo, but the validity period was very short, only one hour.
But according to Tang Yatong's observation in the afternoon, combined with Qu Yichen's previous memory, this woman named Wang Fen was an easier breakthrough because of her personality.
In addition to her current "face", she told everything without asking much.
The situation was almost the same as they imagined.
When they reached the top of the mountain yesterday, the cable car station said it was closed and they could no longer ride down the mountain. The cable car line was too long and the cable car was an older model. If a typhoon came while they were suspended in the air, it would be a death sentence.
They had no choice but to walk to the mountainside.
The mountain trail was narrow, and there were several forks due to different attractions. People walked at different speeds, and a parent twisted his foot and fell and was injured, so he slowed down the pace of others. They soon lost contact with the main group, and before they reached the mountainside, the typhoon and heavy rain came.
Fortunately, there was a small shop built along the mountain wall. The shop was off the main road and needed to cross a bamboo suspension bridge. The owner had already evacuated immediately and locked the door before leaving. They spent time breaking in. Because of the wind direction, they finally avoided the typhoon and heavy rain safely.
Later, the rain stopped and the typhoon passed. Everyone was anxious to go down the mountain, but Qu's father disagreed. He always felt uneasy.
But he didn't have a suitable reason and couldn't persuade others. In the end, only he and Qu's mother stayed in the shop and continued to reinforce the windows.
As a result, it didn't take long for the eye of the storm to pass, and the rain began to fall again, and the strong wind raged again. Qu's father and mother saw other parents and children who had already left were returning here in the wind and rain, followed by several strangers.
On their way out, they met several travelers coming down from other mountain roads. They were knowledgeable and told them about the eye of the typhoon, guessing that there might be bigger hurricanes and heavy rains.
But the place where they had taken shelter before was a cave, without doors and windows to block the wind and rain. If the wind came from the opposite direction, they would definitely not be able to take shelter safely, so they looked for a suitable place nearby.
Several parents told them about the location of the store. Because it was in the valley and had doors and windows, it was already the best place to take shelter nearby, so they hurried back, but it was still too late. The typhoon had already arrived.
When they were halfway on the suspension bridge, the rope broke in half, and a group of people were about to fall on the bridge.
At that time, Qu's father and mother were clearly in a safe room, but they couldn't bear to see their parents and children who were traveling with them get into trouble, so Qu's father finally opened the door that had been sealed with various cabinets and went out to save people.
At this time, people were already having difficulty walking in the typhoon, and the rain made the road slippery. It was very difficult for Qu's father to walk to the side of the bridge and risked fixing the broken rope
. The parents and their children ran across the bridge to the store. The strangers following behind were about to cross the bridge, but the rope on the other side broke again. So Qu's father, who originally wanted to go back to the store, went back to continue fixing the rope for the other party.
The wind speed increased rapidly at this time, and the broken branches hit the doors and windows of the store with a bang, the glass shattered, and the door opened. The strong wind, heavy rain, and broken branches and leaves hit the people in the store
with a crackling sound. Everyone was busy blocking the windows with cabinets and dragging larger cabinets to block the door. Qu's mother stopped them and said that Qu's father and others were still outside, so they should wait before blocking.
However, several parents and children were injured and bleeding. They were shrouded in the shadow of death and were in a panic. They could not hear anything else. All they could think about was blocking the doors and windows to block out the terrible hurricane, heavy rain, and branches and debris outside...
In the chaos, Qu's mother pulled one of them away and ran out to meet Qu's father. But when she supported the injured Qu's father and brought the strangers to the inn, the people inside refused to move the cabinets and furniture that were blocking the door to open it for them.
The second typhoon had reached a terrifying level. Tree trunks were uprooted, rubble rolled down the hillside, and rocks pounded on the roof of the small shop like rain. They desperately leaned their backs against the furniture cabinets and huddled in the small shop, trembling with fear...
Someone suggested moving things to open the door to let the outsiders in, but was suppressed by another person.
That person was injured, and the child at home was hit on the head and fell to the side. When he heard someone say to open the door, he roared back like an angry male dog.
"If you want to die, go hit your head against the wall and die! Don't drag us down! I still want to live! My son also wants to get down the mountain alive! His grades are so good! He will definitely be admitted to Huaxing University! He can't die! I can't die either!..." Zheng Kun was already a little crazy at that time.
"Yes, my daughter is only 18 years old, she can't die either!" The other person who was holding the cabinet looked at his daughter who was shivering in the corner of the wall held by his wife, and gritted his teeth to respond.
Many people who seem polite and courteous in peacetime are suddenly placed in an extreme environment of life and death, and they all show the most real state of being on the verge of death.
Some people are brave enough to save people, while others can abandon their conscience in order to survive.
They had no idea whether the store could survive such a disaster. It was impossible for them to open the door that was already shaky and about to fall down to rescue others.
There were a few people who were very opposed to it, and the others comforted themselves and said that it was not their fault, they were just powerless and could not stop it.
They did not see the scene of Qu's father and mother and others being killed, but they heard the screams outside, such miserable cries for help, calling their names, and they heard every word clearly.
Later, the store finally survived the typhoon. When they moved the furniture, pushed open the broken door, and walked outside, the surroundings had been completely changed and it was impossible to see the original appearance.
Tree trunks were overturned, rocks were mixed with mud and building debris, and bloodstains could be vaguely seen...
The people who were left outside before were gone. Not far from the valley were slopes and cliffs. With such a strong wind, even if people were not swept away, they would be hit by the tree trunks and broken stones in the wind...
"They died on their own. It has nothing to do with us. We didn't kill them..." In the dead silence, someone spoke up to absolve himself.
"Yes, it was the typhoon. They were killed by the typhoon..." Someone soon echoed.
"They should have found some other place to hide, instead of staying outside the door..." Then, a third person spoke up.
...
They spent a night in silence in the small shop because the suspension bridge broke completely and they were trapped in the valley.
After dawn the next day, they agreed to a plan and waited for a helicopter rescue in the afternoon...
"I really didn't want to, I couldn't stop them, it had nothing to do with me, it wasn't my fault, don't come after me..." Wang Fen cried like a madman, she finished her story with a sob, and was knocked unconscious by Tang Yatong.
You Xi put away her phone and asked her how she was going to deal with these people.
Tang Yatong had walked on the edge of life and death countless times, killing people was not difficult for her, but for those who refused to admit their mistakes, death could not make them feel the pain of being stabbed.
Tang Yatong glanced at Wang Fen, who was already incontinent due to fear, and sneered: "It's easy to kill them, but that's too easy for them. They care about what they care about the most, so they just destroy it. But her video alone is not enough. Let's let Qu's father 'visit' the others."
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