Chapter 102: A Common Lie
Anning New District, Jingzhe Talent Apartment.
Six groups of players have settled here, and the total number of people has exceeded 80.
Dinner was naturally held in the cafeteria, which was very large. The number of 80 people was only the number of people in two classes in reality.
When there are too many people, there will be quarrels and chaos.
There are many kinds of dishes in the cafeteria, and players eat just to fill their stomachs, and most people don't have much appetite.
"Brother, you are still wearing sunglasses." Ge Huiru sat next to Mo Fei and ate her meal listlessly.
"Yeah." Murphy said calmly. He didn't have much appetite, although the food in the cafeteria tasted good. With sunglasses on, he looked at the food through a color filter.
Cui Xiangwan sat across from them. Mo Fei thought for a moment and said, "Brother Cui, when you attended the wedding banquet, were there only ten players?"
Cui Xiangwan put down his chopsticks and said, "Yes, there are ten of us, and we all survived."
Mo Fei wiped his mouth. "This Happy Amusement Park dungeon is my second time meeting Luo Qing. Since you guys rented a house, you should be more familiar with her, right?"
"I've actually always had a question in my mind, and others have raised it in the forum, but no one has given a clear answer."
"In our Yinhuai Village dungeon, five out of seven players survived. What we know for sure is that one of the players called out, and the other player is unsure what taboo he violated."
"Your wedding banquet instance has a 100% survival rate."
"Including the Renhe Art Museum and the Qimiao Museum copies we saw, the Art Museum survived because the entire park obtained the business card, while the Museum's players were reduced by half."
"Among the players who encountered Luo Qing in the same dungeon, some survived completely, some had half of their lives dead, and some had a survival rate of only 70 or 80 percent."
Cui Xiangwan pondered for a moment before speaking, "Do you think that the death rate and survival rate of players who come into contact with Luo Qing in dungeons are not fixed? It seems to depend on their mood?"
"I, I'm not sure. I just can't tell what kind of attitude or perspective she has towards us. She will give hints about the copy, and if you follow them, you'll be fine." Murphy stumbled, not knowing how to describe his feelings.
"Have you ever seen her in a different way? Different from the one in the dungeon, or the one in the neighborhood?"
Murphy only needs to recall Luo Qing's attitude when she asked him questions and gave him sunglasses in Happy Amusement Park.
Then think about how she took the initiative to introduce the house, acted as a tour guide in the amusement park, and her attitude in Yinhuai Village.
From the moment the Ferris wheel started shaking to the moment it fell, and the moment the players left, she seemed to stop pretending.
She arranged for the players to follow the broadcast, and was obviously aware of everything, switching from one mode to another.
The person is still the same person, but his state and aura are completely different.
Cui Xiangwan thought about it again and again, and then he thought carefully: "I can roughly understand some of what you mean. Most of what we see in the dungeon is her everyday self."
"Only when dealing with something strange, to be honest, do I feel that her state is very different from when she rented the house. Of course, if you didn't mention this to me, we would just think she was very angry."
"That's right." Yue Ye interrupted at this moment.
"If we follow normal logic, the house we just rented out is guaranteed to be fine, but there was a strange attack that night. As an agent, I was humiliated. And it was in the middle of the night, and my sleep was disturbed. I would definitely be very angry."
"So before, we didn't think carefully about her rather irritable state." Cui Xiangwan continued.
"But if you put it that way, dealing with a water pipe caused all the pipes in the community to burst. Dealing with a door resulted in all the doors in the community being gone. To some extent, this suggests that Luo Qing is unable to control his abilities, or strength."
"According to what we learned from official Comrade Liu, the residents of Ping'an Home are doing their best to avoid situations that would anger Luo Qing."
"Anger and emotions are likely to cause fluctuations in her state."
Xia Tian raised his hand at this moment, "Do you remember? The night when we fixed the water pipe, Luo Qing's husband originally planned to fix it himself with some kind of pipe cleaner, but she refused. Her husband tried to persuade her twice but then he didn't dare to persuade her anymore."
"Also, when we went downstairs with her, a resident downstairs came out. Luo Qing told that resident that the water pipe would be repaired tomorrow, is that okay?" Xia Tian imitated Luo Qing's tone at the time.
"She clearly knew what she had done. The resident immediately agreed and escorted her downstairs in a very fawning manner."
"So, she clearly knew what she had done and how it had affected the entire community, but she didn't care, or perhaps took it for granted. This attitude of taking it for granted has become something even the residents of the community are accustomed to. She needs a way to vent her anger and rage."
"Residents would rather have their water pipes and doors blown apart than see another possibility happen."
Xia Tian's analysis plunged everyone into deep thought. Little Pigtail spoke up at this point, "I remember, we just got back a few days ago. And my hairstyle might be a bit eye-catching, so a neighbor in the neighborhood, a fierce-looking one, came up to me and asked who I was and why I came to Ping'an Home."
"After I explained I was a tenant, the neighbor said he was from the community property management committee's security team and was on patrol, and told me not to worry about it."
"That's right." Princess Head also spoke.
"Don't forget the situation in that harmonious community. A single photo of Luo Qing was enough to get even the original residents and weird owners of that community to work. Although the tone of the player's post might have been a bit exaggerated, most people's focus was on Luo Qing's special status and identity."
"But the message from the interim chairman of the Harmonious Community told the owners to think about the consequences themselves."
"This consequence must have been caused by Luo Qing's anger. Judging from the reactions of the indigenous people, they clearly don't want to face this consequence."
Murphy nodded slowly. He couldn't help but murmur, "Do you think she was pretending from the beginning?"
"From the moment we were sent out to this apartment, it's clear that the natives all know about the existence of the copies. Everyone seems to be pretending."
“Sometimes I really doubt the world.”
Whether it is from the fact that Luo Qing's business card can save the player's life, or that she can easily make the water pipes in the Ping'an Home community burst, if she is weird, she must be the most advanced weird. Then how could Luo Qing's "memory" be deleted by the copy just like that?
In Yinhuai Village, after Zhang Wei and Plaid Shank died and their luggage disappeared, Luo Qing looked at them innocently and said, "Aren't there only five of us in this group?"
If she had been pretending from the beginning, Mo Fei's throat would roll and his thoughts would become even more complicated and indescribable.
"It's six o'clock." Yue also looked at the time.
He didn't say anything else, but all the players present knew what this meant.
Whether it is an amusement park or a museum or art gallery, many one-day dungeons will end in the afternoon.
At five or six o'clock, many players who have finished the dungeon that day will contact the official Special Affairs Bureau to record the dungeon.
If it's early, a group of players should have finished the dungeon around four o'clock.
The official will find out that the players are missing and have not returned.
What will happen next?
"It seems that all the people living in our apartment are Japanese today." Li Xiang looked around.
Xia Tian immediately reacted: "Oh right, besides the players who entered the dungeon today, there should be players who have been stranded in the dungeon for many days. I don't know if they were sent out or are still in the ghost city."
"It should be dark outside. It always gets dark early in this dungeon. Judging by the response speed of the natives we've seen in several dungeons, if they were sent here, they should have arrived long ago. Maybe they were assigned to another apartment? And the dungeon message mentioned a scenic area, so they're definitely not assigned here."
"It's not easy to move here at night. Let's wait until tomorrow. If the dungeon doesn't send us away, we can try to find another apartment."
*
Haunted city.
Luo Qing sat in the tent by Xiansheng Lake, receiving voice messages on his phone one after another.
Ever since Yan Fufeng and Shang Weiyan reconnected, the atmosphere had become a little more relaxed, even though the next things to do were more urgent.
"Have all the necessary instructions and announcements been issued? Can I ask a question? The situation was too urgent just now. I was really curious but didn't dare to ask." Finally, a voice couldn't help but speak.
"I also."
“me too.”
"Qing'er, when did your memory recover?"
"Have you been hiding this from us for a long time?"
Shang Qingyun's microphone lit up: "I can only say that at least she had recovered when she attended Qin Yinuo's wedding. When we went to the hotel, I was completely sure about it, and she didn't pretend to me anymore. If it was earlier, I don't know. After all, she hasn't come out in the past four years." "I am sure of this too." Qin Yinuo's voice sounded.
"When I talked about what happened five years ago, there was no doubt in her eyes."
"What I admire most is the distorted and beautified new memories she created after waking up from her sleep. Everyone has a new identity, and it's very reasonable, half true and half false." Shang Wei said with a hint of laughter in his tone.
"My identity is to start a business and become rich and financially independent as your senior. Don't tell me if it fits your description."
"Mine is strange. I slept in the open air, was chased by monsters, and slept everywhere. She thought it was a university camping club. Of course, it is reasonable for you to change the term 'senior' to 'senior'." Qin Yinuo said.
"At first, I was chased by hundreds of monsters and ran away howling. Later, you said I was a fan of all the monsters and I was convinced. I was actually considered a popular man among both men and women in college."
"I guess it's because she's been fighting more often recently. Even if it's just a simple fight, her whole body will be affected. It's hard not to touch the deep layer of her distorted memory. As long as it's poke a little bit, the false and distorted memory will be completely different, and she will know everything." Another voice spoke.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm guessing it's been restored since she entered the first instance with players. The first one should be the 404 convenience store. Especially since she started renting rooms to players, that's when Plan B, which she set up that year, was launched. I don't believe she was completely unaware and relied solely on the money-making instinct in her distorted memories to find someone to rent a room."
"I have something to say about this. When we were doing special weird training for Xiaowan, a group of us watched and let Xiaowan fight the weird creatures one by one. She actually twisted herself into working part-time in a university cafe, and Xiaowan was facing a blind date! And the most we drank at that time was tree leaf water, not coffee!" said an illustrator whose illustrations have been selling well recently.
"But you still drew everything she made up," someone replied.
"That's great, isn't it? It's for the players, so much peaceful daily life, not much different from real life. Can we really depict the past?"
"It's just that the college scenes in her memory just don't seem real. Actually, what I'm most curious about is the twisted love story between you two, but Xiaoyaner has always refused to tell us. You clearly..."
"She never went to college, so she just imagined college life from what she heard from others. Back then, to build hope for us young people, Aunt Xi and the others only said nice things."
"However, it's quite reasonable that Xiaoyan's memory was changed to an auditor. His job is indeed to monitor the pollution risk control and internal control of all copies."
Luo Qing was silent, her throat rolling and her tone slow.
"Thank you all for your indulgence and tolerance towards me."
After being seriously injured, the distorted memories woven by her subconscious mind covered up her past experiences. After waking up, the distorted memories took over her consciousness. She was immersed in a peaceful and beautiful life. In order not to break her fantasy and cognition and prevent her from suddenly losing control, everyone around her jointly compiled this beautiful dream for her.
Therefore, after Luo Qing clearly realized all this, even after her memory gradually recovered, she still lived according to the beautiful daily life in her memory.
She created the lie about this memory, and they covered up the lie for her. Everyone in the ghost city tacitly maintained their daily lives, treating her as an ordinary person.
If it weren't for today's sudden incident, this shared lie would still continue with unspoken tacit understanding.
"Oh. What are you talking about?"
“Exactly, I like this character.”
"Your distorted cognition and beautiful memories are not only yours, but also the peaceful life that each of us desires."
"It doesn't matter if we dream of this beautiful dream a little longer. We are already on the way to realizing it."
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