Bad news: Yin Zhu cannot calculate everything perfectly in the world of rules.
Good news: So far, none of the things Yin Zhu couldn't foresee have gotten her into serious trouble.
Surviving successfully is the best answer Yin Zhu can give to the audience of Blue Star. Adventures in this bizarre world aren't like the college entrance exam in China, where missing even a single point means missing the entire exam; it's more like a university exam where passing is all that matters.
Having spent these days with the Mirror Ghost, Yin Zhu had enough time to figure out its personality.
He's a bit short-tempered, ruthless, and loves to gloat.
The Mirror Ghost only deceives humans when hunting; in most daily interactions, it is quite honest. If it has anything to hide, it will stammer or change the subject, which is a very typical sign of guilt.
Yin Zhu didn't know if this was related to its components, because it incorporated the souls of different humans, so it exhibited more of the commonalities of humanity.
Greed, arrogance, and foolishness.
In fact, Yin Zhu didn't believe the Mirror Ghost was a fusion-type chimera, because it clearly exhibited uniqueness and never showed signs of self-consciousness confusion. If one had to put it into words, there was a subtle "Ship of Theseus" analogy: when all the parts of a soul are replaced, is it still the same person?
Yin Zhu wasn't a scientist or a philosopher; she was just an ordinary chosen one. Clearing the dungeon was her top priority, so she wasn't going to waste her brainpower on that.
The think tank might analyze that if we can pass the test, we can ask these professionals for their opinions.
Back in room 202, which she hadn't seen in a long time, Yin Zhu looked at the room full of mirrors and felt a strange sense of familiarity—although 80% of the room was filled with mirrors, only the small corner covered by a bed sheet was her own.
"No wonder you always want to go home. It seems that home has really become your territory. Not bad."
Yin Zhu was generous with her praise.
This immediately caused the mirror ghost's tail to flare up, leaping directly from Yin Zhu's eyes back into the mirror, frantically shuttling between all the mirrors, and finally appearing in every single one of them.
It used its inherent black body shape, which is more three-dimensional than before, and you can even vaguely see the facial features.
Yin Zhu stared at the black human figure in the mirror, wrinkled her nose, and couldn't help but ask:
"By the way, don't you look a bit like me?"
"Maybe a little bit. After all, I see you 24 hours a day. I've seen you so much that when I was shaping the character, I subconsciously sculpted it to resemble you. Isn't that normal?"
"...Okay, I have plenty of sisters, one more won't make a difference. However, I think you need to improve your personal aesthetic sense. For example, the receptionist at the temporary apartment and Bai Hai from the kindergarten are both quite good-looking. You can consider taking them as references when you're sculpting."
Yin Zhu sincerely suggested that the Mirror Ghost could be made more visually appealing.
She has always had a good understanding of herself. She is at most pretty, far from being a beauty. In addition, due to certain psychological reasons, Yin Zhu really doesn't want to see any man or woman in the mirror who looks like a little black version of herself.
Not only does she feel ashamed when she sees herself, but she also sometimes feels ashamed when she listens to her own recordings.
"Understood." Jing Gui didn't really think Yin Zhu was that pretty, so he readily agreed.
Having successfully reached their first consensus, Yin Zhu was full of confidence for their subsequent conversations. After all, a good foundation often paves the way for a successful dialogue.
What do you need my help with?
Instead of asking Jing Gui how he did it, Yin Zhu offered to help.
If the Mirror Ghost truly becomes the supervisor, it might not be incapable of harming itself. The reason why the supernatural cannot directly harm humans is due to the rules, but the supervisor is not bound by the rules and even has many ways to bypass the rules it sets.
This is the worst kind of leader.
To avoid conflict between the two, Yin Zhu took the initiative to extend an olive branch, diverting Jing Gui's attention to Yin Zhu's importance.
Useful people will always be treated well.
In this respect, Yin Zhu is very good at making herself useful, even if it's only on the surface.
When it came to the issue of helping, Jing Gui immediately became hesitant again: "Actually... I didn't become the manager, I was just an agent for Jiayuan Community. This is a tacit rule of Sin City that I overheard before."
As Jinggui recounted his story, Yin Zhu learned about many things that had occurred before she arrived.
Sin City itself has rules, but they are not the ones that new citizens see. Instead, there is another set of rules called the "Sin City Residents Rules," which appeared on the same day that Sin City was born.
On the contrary, the new citizen rules that Yin Zhu saw, as well as the office building and the temporary apartments for new citizens, all appeared later.
It seems that because the "Rules for Residents of Sin City" were not effective in limiting the crime rate in Sin City and many other incidents occurred, the city lord later established rules for new citizens in order to better restrain criminals from outside the city.
The office building was responsible for having new citizens recount their sins and warning their fellow citizens.
The temporary apartments for new residents are meant to give newcomers time to adjust to Sin City.
It seems that these arrangements are indeed intended to help new citizens survive better, and are intended as a beginner's guide, without any malicious intent.
As for what happened before, the Mirror Ghost said it hadn't been born yet, so it didn't know.
However, the focus of Mirror Ghost is still on the identity of the "agent": "The existence of the [agent] was initially only to better manage the area when the supervisor was away, but due to a series of coincidences, there was a time when citizens in Sin City plotted against the supervisor in order to seize the supervisor's identity, resulting in a bloody incident. Therefore, this point was directly deleted by the city lord in the new version of the rules."
"Then how did you become an agent? There's no supervisor here, so how did the rules come about?"
Yin Zhu's questions came out like cannonballs, all at once, directed at the mirror.
“In reality, the agent’s identity wasn’t completely erased, but rather retained,” Mirror Ghost explained. “The Sin City Residents Rules state from the beginning that [if the supervisor disappears, the most feared person in the area will become the agent until the supervisor reappears.]”
"so what?"
"Because citizens cannot interfere with the actions of the person in charge, the situation where the person in charge is away will be described as 'missing,' and Jiayuan Community falls into this category."
"Wait a moment."
Yin Zhu interrupted the story of the mirror ghost: "I said, have you mixed up the order? You have to become the manager first before you can establish rules, not the rules come first and then Jiayuan Community. Do you think I can believe the lies you've told me?"
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