Chapter 79 Who am I?
Three...
In the last cycle, there were 15 bullets in Zhang Xingzhi's brain. At that time, Li Ziyue thought that Zhang Xingzhi had simply cycled 15 times. It seems that Zhang Xingzhi was trapped in three large cycles, and each large cycle contained five small cycles of being shot.
No, if we look at it from this perspective, why did Li Ziyue later see Zhang Xingzhi being shot on the base surveillance?
This cycle was even more chaotic than he had imagined, with too many things that did not conform to normal logic.
Is it because he didn't capture all the information points?
Or is the focus of this copy not here?
[Okay, okay, I’m completely confused. It’s okay to put the big loop inside the small loop, but there are other problems.]
[This is so strange, if I mess around, won’t there be no way out? ]
[I have seen other anchors’ silence on “Snowstorm Manor”, I can only say that everyone is thinking in the wrong direction]
Why did he know he was trapped in a loop this time?
[“The terrible thing is that once a person is trapped in a loop, without external interference, he or she will not be aware that he or she is trapped in the loop. When a new loop begins, my memory of this experience will be completely cleared. Only when you help me break the loop will some of my memories about the loop emerge.”
Zhang Xingzhi shook his head: "I didn't expect to get into trouble here. The key is this cycle... The system didn't give any prompts at all. It's really hard to guard against. Fortunately, I have teammates in this game, otherwise I would be doomed."
teammate?
Li Ziyue stood there in a daze.
He remembered that at the beginning the system reminded him that he would be in a team of five, but so far, he only has three teammates: Zhang Lian, Liu Yuche, and Zhang Xingzhi.
Who is the final fifth person?
Is he out of the loop now because the fifth person on the team broke the loop on the other side?
Li Ziyue shook his head and forced himself to stop his thoughts which were extending endlessly.
Now is not the time to think about these things.
He began to re-evaluate his current situation, and at the same time heard the system pop-up window for the second time.
[Congratulations to the player for triggering the "Save Me" main quest]
[Mission Difficulty: Four Stars (On a snowstorm night, many people died in the howling cold wind)]
[Task requirements: Save me]
[Task Reward: 1000 Gold Coins]
The main quest has also been refreshed.
Li Ziyue glanced at the clock at the door, which showed that there were still 2 minutes until 10 o'clock.
The last time I heard zombies knocking on the door in the loop was at 10 o'clock.
2 minutes to change the ending?
Li Ziyue took a slow, deep breath.
All the experiences of the previous cycle turned into a long timeline, clearly laid out in front of him.
First, he found the diary under the system's instructions, and learned from the end of the diary that someone wanted to harm him.
Then there was a knock on the door. As soon as Li Ziyue hid behind the door, he saw the iron needle and axe that could solve his current dilemma.
The system reminds you that you can use iron needles to temporarily repel the zombies outside, and you can use an axe to break open the door lock.
There is nothing unusual in this paragraph, which conforms to the common idea of "discovering the problem → finding a solution based on the prompts and actual situation → solving the problem".
But what about going a little further in time?
After Li Ziyue used the sharp needle to hurt the NPC zombies, he was also cursed with [Blood Debt Must Be Repaid with Blood], which directly led to the final destruction of their group.
Everyone died in [Blood Debt and Blood Repayment], and that's where the weirdness lies.
The [Blood Debt Must Be Repaid with Blood] mechanism is so deadly that the copy should have given sufficient reminders. Why didn't the copy tell the players at all, but instead adopted the unreasonable "afterthought" approach?
Isn't this forcing them to be annihilated?
The weirdness continues.
He stabbed a zombie and had to leave the residential building to avoid being hunted. However, there was poisonous fog outside, so he was forced to go to the hospital to find a gas mask.
In the hospital, Li Ziyue found Zhang Lian, his companion No. 1, but was also targeted by the doctor and the nurse, two mutant zombies who [had no flaws at all].
Under the setting of [no flaws at all], the only way out is still [blood debt paid with blood].
The cold wind was howling outside, and Li Ziyue got goose bumps all over his body. He felt his skin and heart were cold.
Afterwards, in order to prevent the doctors and nurses from being resurrected, they had no choice but to go to the only safe place - Human Base No. 108.
There they met Zhang Xingzhi and Liu Yuche.
When Zhang Xingzhi suggested that there was [only] one way to go to Human Base No. 108: shooting the sniper and waiting for the wind field to close, Li Ziyue felt that something was wrong.
The whole path was so absolute that from the very beginning, they had no other choice.
Unable to find any information, no prompts, the system and copies constantly force them to take this planned path through rogue methods such as "hindsight".
And there is no end to this road.
It’s not that there is no way to break the cycle, but the prerequisite for breaking the cycle is that you have to know that you are in the cycle.
If the memory of the looper is erased every time the loop occurs, then things will just repeat themselves over and over again, making it impossible to play.
In short, if he follows the prompts given by the system now, he will be forced into a cycle of wakefulness again, and the bullets in Zhang Xingzhi's brain have accumulated to 15. If this situation is not solved, Zhang Xingzhi will die.
Died in the fourth cycle.
Without Zhang Xingzhi, what will happen next? There are too many variables and Li Ziyue cannot be sure.
However, can we break the impasse if we don’t follow the path given by the system?
He had already realized in the previous cycle that the house was on a high floor, and it was icy and foggy outside, so he couldn't jump out the window and could only go in through the front door.
[I understand. Let's escape now before the zombies come knocking on the door! If there is no conflict, we won't be punished by the [Blood Debt and Blood Repayment] mechanism!]
[No, everyone saw it in the last cycle. There are a lot of chains wrapped around the door lock. It can't be opened directly. It can only be smashed open with a sharp object. It will take a minute to smash it open.]
[And what if that NPC hears the noise and comes here early? ]
Because time was tight and there were people peeping outside, and with the "encouragement" of the system issuing tasks, Li Ziyue did not notice anything strange about the process of going out.
Now that I think about it, the whole process is full of doubts.
It is known that there was a conflict between "I" and the person opposite. The person opposite went back to the house and warned "me" that "I" could not escape.
So where do I need to defend at the door?
My purpose should be to prevent outsiders from coming in, but now the door is locked with a chain, making it difficult for me to get out.
Is this to prevent outsiders from coming in, or...
Prevent "me" from escaping?
As things went smoothly, conflicts arose again.
[If it was to prevent me from escaping, why did the person knock on the door? Why did he have to wait for me to open the door? Couldn't he just come in directly?]
[Oh, isn’t this my home? It’s normal that it’s hard to get in from the other side.]
[No, are you kidding me? The other person trapped me here, and left for no apparent reason. He has to wait for me to open the door for him when he wants to come back. Is he a moron or am I a moron? Does he think I will open the door?]
This is totally inconsistent with normal thinking logic, and the door lock is trapped by an iron chain. Without breaking the chain, the door cannot be opened at all. No one outside can come in, and no one inside can go out.
Li Ziyue's eyebrows suddenly jumped.
The above logic has always been based on: we think that the person opposite has left the room and he wants to come back later.
What led us to have such a basic assumption?
Diary!
Li Ziyue ran to the bedroom and opened the diary.
In the previous loop, the reason why Li Ziyue wanted to escape from the house was because he read the last sentence in the diary: "[He wants to kill me! He really wants to kill me! I was tied up by him and I finally escaped... Now he has gone back to his room, and he said I can't run away...]".
But if you think about it carefully, the logic behind writing this paragraph is wrong.
My wrist hurts and the situation is urgent. Someone wants to kill me. Instead of looking for a solution in a hurry, I sit in front of the bed and write a panic diary, enduring the pain?
[Okay, okay, I understand now. Everything comes down to the fact that there is something wrong with my brain.]
[That’s right, who would write a diary?]
[A diary, as long as it appears in a suspense story, will become one of the clues to solve the mystery~]
[The one who is writing in the diary has not offended anyone]
[I am also writing. Fortunately, we did not appear in a suspense novel, otherwise my diary would probably... (I dare not say it)]
Summarize the ideas again.
Someone wants to mislead deliberately + has the leisure to write a diary, who meets this requirement?
——The person who kidnapped me.
To sum up, the last paragraph of the diary is most likely forged, and the evidence to support this speculation has also arrived.
Li Ziyue picked up a piece of torn paper from the bottom of the trash basket, pieced it together, and saw that it was written on it.
[10/15]
[That person came to visit me and flipped through a few books of prose in my house. He said he wanted to borrow them to read because he was too bored sitting at home all day. I didn’t expect that he also liked these.]
The torn fragments from the diary were recovered.
At first glance, there is nothing unusual about this passage: it does not indicate that the person has any ill will towards "me", and it even shows that he has a good relationship with "me".
There is absolutely no reason for it to be torn up, it must be just a coincidence.
If you think like this, you will fall into the smoke screen again.
Li Ziyue opened the collection of essays beside the bed, looked at the beautifully written comments below, and suddenly understood.
Reading the essay was all a pretense. That person just wanted my handwriting and borrowed it to imitate it. Otherwise, how could he have written the misleading paragraph at the end?
[I have a question, is it possible that the entire diary is forged? ]
[Oh my god, your imagination is too big]
[This possibility cannot be ruled out, but if the entire diary is a forgery, then all the previous inferences will be overturned, and many questions will arise: ① What is the reason for completely fabricating a diary? ② What is the relationship between the fabricated diary and the main line of "Save Me" ③ Who fabricated it, "me" or the person opposite... If all the questions can be answered, then your guess may be correct]
[…My scalp is tingling. Never mind. I withdraw my speculation above.]
Following this line, there is actually another question that arises.
And this question...
Li Ziyue took another deep breath.
It may subvert the entire inference process.
To be honest, Li Ziyue found the torn diary by accident, and he had other purposes in rummaging through the trash can.
The diary states that today is the 22nd, which is my birthday, and I invite the person across from me to come and eat [compressed biscuits] together, but where are the biscuits?
There was nothing to be found that had anything to do with biscuits, and there was only a plate of cold, smelly meat on the table.
Okay, let’s summarize all the findings and conjectures.
Li Ziyue glanced at the clock at the door.
There is less than a minute left until 10 o'clock.
① “I” am trapped in this house and cannot get out.
②The other party borrowed my essay, which is at the bedside of this room (it is not ruled out that I only borrowed part of the book, so information No. ② is questionable).
③I couldn’t find any compressed biscuits, only cold meat. The diary mentioned that the other party would give me some meat.
The above three pieces of information lead to a guess - is the house where Li Ziyue is really "my" house?
If it is the "other person's" house, the above three points are all reasonable.
If "I" am in the other person's room at this moment, then... where is the other person?
One more thing.
Li Ziyue looked at his injured wrist.
In fact, the misleading underlying logic of the final diary is very strange.
If the whole thing was simply a case of "me" being murdered, there would be no need for the final diary to mislead.
This place is full of zombies and almost all the living people are dying. Who has the leisure to uphold justice and find out who murdered "me"?
Just kill him, and then blame the zombies afterwards. Who can tell?
This misleading sentence directly makes Li Ziyue feel a sense of crisis and want to escape from the room. In other words, the misleading sentence serves the main plot, but it directly forces Li Ziyue into a cycle of no return.
Everything is clear again.
No matter whose room Li Ziyue is in, there is no need for anyone who wants to kill "me" to knock on the door. The NPC knocking on the door is most likely just a bait to lead Li Ziyue into a wrong cycle.
He made Li Ziyue mistakenly believe that there were only him and Li Ziyue in the entire scene. If Li Ziyue was "me", then the NPC knocking on the door was the person who wanted to harm "me".
With this idea in mind, how does Li Ziyue complete the main plot of saving "me"?
Only obey the system's prompts to escape.
If you want to avoid the escape route, just turn all your guesses upside down and go back to the beginning.
Does the fact that “I” have an injured wrist prove that “I” am “me”?
If the whole process is like this.
"I" invited him to come → he tied me → I broke free → tied him → he broke free → tied me and brought me to this house.
This can also explain the above.
At the same time, Li Ziyue didn't need to escape at all.
Because the role played by Li Ziyue is not "I".
But the person who kidnapped me.
[Okay, okay, I fainted again. What does this mean? What is “I” and “not I”?]
[People are easily influenced by "habitual reasoning". For example, at a kidnapping scene, if you see someone sitting next to a broken rope and there are red and swollen rope marks on the person's wrists, your first reaction is that the person is the kidnapper or the victim? Your first reaction is not equal to the fact.]
【??? So we subconsciously thought that this room was "my" room, but this judgment is actually unreasonable】
So where is "I".
Li Ziyue glanced down and saw the plate of cold meat on the table which was gradually losing its ice.
The other party has no grudge against me, why does he want to kill me?
Always assume malicious intent in everything. In the last days, killing and eating meat is not surprising.
The meat was frozen, even though it wasn't actually that cold inside.
Li Ziyue searched the whole house but couldn't find the refrigerator. The power supply in this abandoned residential building had been cut off a long time ago, so the refrigerator was once again in doubt...
wrong.
There is a natural refrigerator.
Li Ziyue pushed open the balcony glass violently, and the cold wind from outside rushed in, even tiny pieces of ice brushed across his face.
The clock ticks.
at the same time.
“Boom boom!”
There was a knock on the door.
[A vague male voice came in through the crack in the door, bringing with it a damp, cold and gloomy feeling.
"are u there."】
The time was exactly 10 o'clock.
Li Ziyue seemed not to hear the knock on the door or the questioning. His attention was on the other side of the balcony, where a third person was huddled there, almost freezing to death.
His hands and feet were tied tightly, and a cloth strip was stuffed in his mouth, making it impossible for him to make a sound.
A layer of frost had formed on the man's eyebrows, and he looked like he was not far from death.
The moment Li Ziyue touched him, he heard a system prompt sound pop up.
[Congratulations to player Li Ziyue for successfully finding "me" and completing the main quest "Save Me"]
[Reward: 1000 gold coins]
Li Ziyue breathed a sigh of relief, his tense nerves finally relaxed for a moment, and he even couldn't stand steadily for a moment.
This copy is too misleading. It would be a dead end for him to focus on the loop. It would also be a dead end for him to insist that he is the "I" in the main quest.
If he didn't dare bet that the shooting was related to the cycle, if the cycle continued...
If there is any mistake in the middle, it means death.
[You will now be transferred to the final stage - Blizzard Zoo]
[Countdown starts]
[3]
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