Five sticky notes
First note:
[I am the second personality to wake up, my name is Morning Star. Sticky notes are our only way of communication, but there are only 3 minutes from waking up to the lights going out.
Do not attempt to take the note out of the building.
I suggest that each person write a maximum of 300 words, giving everyone enough reading time so that the seventh person can finish reading before the lights go out.
The resident inside the door calls himself Shou Lao and is an elderly man.
When he heard my voice, he immediately recognized me as A Ku and asked which of the seven personalities I was.
Because the main personality woke up first and had visited him, he knew about our situation, but the main personality did not leave a note.
I followed the rules and told him that everyone in the world has super powers. Our super power is split personality. A Ku split into 6 selves and they appear in turn.
Strangely enough, he felt that there really were gods in the world, and that he had "ascended" to our world full of gods.
Don't tell Shou Lao that you can communicate with sticky notes. This is our common trump card. 】
Second note:
【sorry.
Please call me to clear my eyesight. I wasted my time indoors. Only after finishing my conversation with Shou Lao did I learn that I could write notes.
I guess there must be some Morning Star notes on the room, but I didn't see any.
I told Shou Lao about my superpower - being able to detect lies.
But I didn't tell him the conditions for activating super powers. I need to keep looking into the speaker's eyes to activate the power.
I used my super powers to threaten Shou Lao not to lie, and here is the information I got:
1. Shou Lao's room cannot be entered.
2. The first person Shou Lao saw was A Ku’s main personality.
3. Shou Lao has super powers.
After Shou Lao said this, he suddenly refused to talk to me. I tried to write as much as possible on the note so that the people behind me could see it at a glance.
Third note:
[My name is Rouyuzhe, and I am the fourth Aku to wake up.
To make a long story short, I fabricated a personality called "Amao". The seven of us didn't know about Amao's existence, and Amao appeared randomly.
Ah Mo asked Shou Lao for his blood and promised to take him out of the old factory.
Shou Lao did not refuse A Mao, but he said he could not leave the room.
Ah Mei asked, if he broke into the house by force, would Shou Lao go with him?
Shou Lao suddenly stopped talking.
If there is a next round, everyone can use the identity of Ah Mo. I will use the identity of Soft Whisperer to talk to Shou Lao and try to use my super powers.
I created a false personality in order to create conditions for the use of my superpowers.
My superpower is telling the truth. The conditions for activating it are extremely harsh. I need to have a round of questions and answers with Shou Lao and tell the truth. If it is activated successfully, I can hypnotize Shou Lao and ask him a question.
The answer given must be true, and Shou Lao will forget about being hypnotized.
But if Shou Lao tells a lie during the activation process, I will not be able to use my superpowers on him today.
Please tell me the truth about Shou Lao. After I am sure he is telling the truth, I will use my super powers to ask him about his true identity. 】
Fourth note:
【Captain Nutcracker, 5
Shou Lao asked me what the world outside was like, and I answered according to the rules that the world is full of people with super powers and there are no ordinary people.
Shou Lao said, since everyone has super powers, they are all ordinary people, and the concept of "ordinary people" should not exist in the world.
I asked Shou Lao what A Ku's master personality said, and Shou Lao said that the master personality asked us to get along well.
Can't the main character write a note?
TO AKoo: If you see my words, please leave a note.
Doesn’t anyone find the “dimensionality reduction virus” mentioned in the rules strange? I described it to Shou Lao, who laughed out loud and said he would go out and spread the disease.
I replied that if he dared to come out, I would kill him. 】
The captain was afraid that the protagonist Ah Ku could not read Chinese characters or English, so he drew a little man holding a pen and writing notes. The little man had a short low ponytail, exactly like Ah Ku.
Fifth note:
[I am Two-Faced, the 6th one to wake up.]
Resident is a good profession and Shou Lao is an interesting person.
This sentence seems to be nonsense, but it doesn't matter. If the 7th A Ku can't even finish reading the note, she will definitely not be able to deceive Shou Lao and will be of no use to us.
I made a very constructive suggestion to Shou Lao.
I asked him to open the door, and I went in as the resident, he left the factory and went outside, and I would live in the old days forever.
Shou Lao neither refused nor agreed. He first asked me what the outside world was like, and then asked me if there were really no ordinary people in the world. He was very interested in the outside world.
I answered him truthfully and told him that there were ordinary people out there. He stopped talking, probably because he thought I was lying to him. 】
The notes from the five people totaled just over a thousand words, and the Memory Master finished reading them in less than three minutes.
She became very interested in the Whisperer's super powers.
Just as he was trying to analyze whether the three pieces of information obtained by Mingmu could be used by Rouyu, the Memory Master smelled a pungent smell.
It's ethyl/ether.
It seemed that she stayed in the dark factory for too long and the factory owner was very dissatisfied with her.
It seemed that ether was flowing directly into the room from the pipe on the top, and she would be knocked unconscious if she didn't leave.
The illusionist quickly covered his mouth and nose, lowered his body and touched the alloy door.
With a strong push, the door opened, but it was still dark outside. The alloy door made a slight sound, and it sounded like it was automatically locked.
Then, diluted disinfectant sprayed toward the Memory Master from above his head and from the wall.
The Memory Master finally understood why Morning Star said not to take the note out of the factory.
She was forced to take a shower with disinfectant. If she carried the notes with her, the words on them would have been oxidized and would have been difficult to read.
The illusionist closed his eyes tightly, but inevitably inhaled some disinfectant into his nasal cavity.
Her nose felt an intense burning sensation.
After the disinfectant was sprayed, the light above my head slowly lit up.
The illusionist looked around and found himself in an airtight isolation chamber.
The sides and ceiling of the isolation chamber are made of double-layer plywood made of high-strength aluminum alloy, and the disinfectant just now was sprayed from the plywood.
Facing her was a medical airtight door surrounded by a circle of high-quality airtight sealing strips, as if it was used to isolate patients with infectious diseases.
No wonder the captain focused on the dimensionality reduction virus mentioned in the rules.
The specifications of this isolation chamber are so ridiculously high that it makes people feel that Shou Lao himself is a huge virus.
The Memory Master walked to the blue airtight door and saw the scene outside through the small observation window.
Outside the door was actually an indoor garden, but the plants had long since withered, the path was covered with yellow fallen leaves, and the cracks between the bricks were filled with wild weeds.
At the end of the path, there is a round wooden door that doesn't seem to provide any protection.
There was an intercom device installed below the observation window, and the Memory Master tapped it three times with his fingers.
"Stop knocking, I know you're coming."
The resident's voice was heard over the intercom.
The voice of the residents was so old that it was beyond description, like a loofah that had been used to scrub pots and pans for ten years, with rotten rice grains and fragments of insect corpses embedded in it.
It is difficult to tell his exact age from his voice, all we know is that he is an elderly man.
"Hello." The Memory Master greeted.
She agreed with Qimingxing's decision. She must not let Shou Lao know that they had the means of communication. She had to pretend that she knew nothing about Shou Lao.
"Haha, you're the sixth person to say hello to me. You Aku are very polite."
"What's your name?"
"Call me Shou Lao."
Shou Lao, a very strange self-proclaimed name.
The word "lao" is a derogatory term full of contempt in the southern coastal areas. For example, "country bumpkin" and "poor guy" are not good words.
The illusionist politely refused: "You are the elder, this is inappropriate."
"Just shout when I tell you to. There's nothing inappropriate about that." Shou Lao scolded in a hoarse voice.
Judging from the tone of his voice, he sounds like someone who has been in a high position for a long time.
When he speaks, he lowers his voice and is reluctant to speak loudly. I believe that no matter how soft his voice is, there will be people listening attentively.
"Why is he called Shou Lao?"
"I'm very old." Shou Lao paused, "very old."
How big is the illusionist? Could it be someone born before the new calendar?
People before the new calendar had never seen super powers, and they were very much like the low-dimensional visitors described in the rules.
Shou Lao asked: "Are you a person with super powers?"
"I have super powers, but I've never heard of the term 'superpower'."
"Why?" Shou Lao's voice trembled.
"Because everyone in the world has superpowers, there's no need to have a separate category for 'superpowers'."
The concept of "superpowers" is relative to people without abilities. In a world full of superpowers, the original standard used to distinguish between superpowers and non-powers disappears.
Because there are no people without abilities as a comparison, it is impossible to define "people with super abilities".
The illusionist thought her disguise was good, so she followed the rules and pretended to be Aku from a world where everyone had superpowers.
“Hahahahaha, cough cough.”
Shou Lao burst into laughter, his voice no longer trembling, it turned out that he was trying to hold back his laughter. Halfway through his laughter, he couldn't hold it back anymore and started coughing.
After coughing, Shou Lao asked: "What's your name?"
"Ah Ku."
"I meant the name of your personality."
"Call me Memory Master."
"Well, Memory Master, you are smarter than your previous personality, but not smart enough."
The Memory Master showed some interest: "What did they say?"
"The captain told me that there are only people with super powers in the world, and no ordinary people. I asked him, since everyone has super powers, then everyone is also an ordinary person, why does he make a distinction between the two?"
"Guess what he answered?"
Shou Lao was testing whether A Ku's personalities were familiar to each other, and the Memory Master made a silent judgment.
She replied: “I can’t guess.”
"You guessed it right. He couldn't answer it."
"The personality called Mingmu is more interesting. She gave me, a low-dimensional visitor, a scientific explanation, saying that there are no ordinary people in the world."
"So you are a visitor from a lower dimension?" asked the Memory Master.
"Do you think I am?"
"I have no idea."
"Alas." Shou Lao sighed, "You are as slippery as the morning star."
The Memory Master gladly accepted his compliment.
Shou Lao suddenly asked: "Are there still ordinary people in the world?"
“We are all ordinary people with super powers.”
"If a person without super powers appears, how will people outside treat him?" Shou Lao said in a hoarse voice.
Whether there are ordinary people in the world seems to be very important to Shou Lao, and the Memory Master keeps it in mind secretly.
She replied: "Who knows? I've never met anyone like that."
Shou Lao asked stubbornly: "What if there is?"
The Memory Master thought about it seriously.
"No one cares," she said nonchalantly, "like a stone or a weed, who would give him a second thought that he is less attractive than a stain on the wall."
Shou Lao seemed to be thinking about something.
The Memory Master did not give him a chance to think: "Have you seen such a person?"
"Yes, I have. I have seen a lot."
"Please tell me about it. I have never seen such a person."
The goal was achieved.
From the beginning, the illusionist placed herself in the position of a junior and treated Shou Lao with great respect. She needed to arouse Shou Lao's desire to express himself and make him say more useful information.
Maybe because she was the last A Ku to visit, Shou Lao really wanted to say something.
He said in a long voice: "Once, I sat on the shrine, saw the pale poems hanging in the sky, and heard the flowers that bloomed accidentally in life."
The Memory Master didn't understand, so she chose to remain silent.
"But the flowers could not blossom into beautiful new life. Day after day, year after year, all I saw when I opened my eyes were the dregs of medicine climbing up from the bottom of the holy pillar."
"The drug residue covered the entire Holy Pillar. Most of them could not hold on to the end and fell off the Holy Pillar, becoming new Holy Pillars."
The illusionist was confused, he only heard that the drug residue should be people, many of them fell to death.
"Their begging sounds were mixed with wails and curses, echoing the hymns in the sky. I walked to the edge of the shrine, and they looked at me eagerly."
"I don't know what they are looking at. They are definitely not looking at me, but looking through me at something I don't know."
Shou Lao paused for a moment. Speaking so many words in one breath was a challenge for his aging body.
The illusionist couldn't help but ask: "Are they looking at the gods?"
"Ahem, no." Shou Lao coughed weakly, "It's not the god who loves to descend from the sky."
What kind of god is possessed by a mortal?
“They are looking at the object of entrustment.”
"They don't need God, and they don't need me. They are looking for something to put their pain, their hope, everything."
Shou Lao was almost breathless: "I stood on the edge of the shrine, and it felt as if I was pierced by their eyes. The whole shrine was about to collapse."
"They don't know that my pain is the same as theirs. A huge and overwhelming sadness lingers around me, and I decide to step down from the shrine."
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