Absurd deduction game

[You have completed all tasks. 】

The system prompts dutifully.

[A total of 4 optional tasks completed in the second stage. Special rewards will be received at settlement. 】

There were footsteps behind him, and Yu Xing glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw Fang Xiao falling behind.

"She doesn't want to hear my apology." Fang Xiao looked at the mountains and forests in trance, "She will live happily in the future."

"At least I'm happier than you." Yu Xing was telling the truth.

"You may die in which instance you don't know, but she should still live for a long time."

Fang Xiao: "...Alright."

The cheap brother adjusted his mood and became curious: "Is this absurd deduction game... a team game? Do you also have a team?"

Yu Xing: "Yeah."

Fang Xiao: "Can I come in?"

"cannot."

Fang Xiao: "Oh."

He didn't ask why, he just asked because the newcomer was too bad. In short, he wouldn't admit that his "brother" didn't want to be in the same team with him.

"Then, can I continue to treat you as my younger brother?" Fang Xiao asked again.

He explained: "I...can't change my mind for a while. No matter who you are, in my world, my brother is you."

The system has transmitted relevant concepts to him. He needs time to understand, but in general, he is no longer confused.

Yu Xing had already changed into a set of clothes at this time. He put his hands in his pockets and turned his head with a half-smile.

"Let me tell you something."

Fang Xiao's heart skipped a beat, and she felt something bad for no reason. She managed to maintain a calm expression: "You said it."

Yu Xing smiled again: "I'm older than you."

Fang Xiao was stunned. Judging from his appearance, he couldn't tell that Yu Xing was older at all: "How older?"

…

Fang Xiao returned to Fang's Mansion with a devastated expression.

After a while, they will be teleported away together by the system. As for Fang Xiao's identity after he goes out, and where he will land, the system will make its own arrangements.

Yiqing, who had arrived early, witnessed the whole process and realized that Yu Xing was really a gentle and ruthless contradiction.

Oh, but this kind of person has a very charming personality, and Yiqing gradually sees through everything.

Humans are truly amazing creatures, it seems that the more they know, the less they understand.

For him, this is good news and means he'll never lose his fun.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard Yu Xing ask him: "Have you felt that any restrictions on me have disappeared?"

Yiqing looked at Yu Xing for a while inexplicably.

Nothing seems to disappear.

He is Yu Xing's contracted ghost, and he is already very close to Yu Xing's soul, but he doesn't have any special feelings.

What's going on? Are there any sequelae?

Yu Xing discovered some differences that only he had the opportunity to realize?

Yiqing came closer and observed Yu Xing more carefully.

I heard Yu Xing say: "I suddenly remembered something just now. Before that, I had no memory of this matter."

Yiqing warned: "Don't be a Riddler."

Yu Xing spread his hands. Although this was a bit evil, he had gradually gotten used to it: "I remembered the original design when I created this character."

Yiqing was not there at that time, so he was a little curious after hearing this: "Could it be in conflict with the present?"

Yu Xing nodded.

“Not only is there a conflict, it’s an essential conflict.”

When he created the character, he gave some conditions himself, and then the system integrated them, eventually forming some settings that now seem quite selfish.

Excluding the influence of the time process in the investigator type deduction copy, his original character was that of a painter born in a wealthy family. He often sold paintings under the name san, and attracted a certain group of followers.

Here comes the point.

Only at this moment did he remember that the system had added a very special setting for him.

[But in fact, all this is just your disguise. When you were young, you accidentally learned that you were not your parents' biological child, and you spied on the terrible conspiracy that your family had hidden deeply. From then on, you decided to investigate the truth of the matter, so you taught yourself investigation, fighting, shooting, and other aspects of the matter. He has dabbled in knowledge and developed an indifferent character. You don't want others to know and are on guard, so all this is done quietly. 】

The self-taught skills, cold personality, and family conspiracy all match up.

But.

Here is the most surprising sentence.

"When I was young, I accidentally learned that I was not the biological child of my parents."

His character is not the biological child of Fang Deming and Xu Wan.

Then he is not a real Fang family member at all, and does not have the blood of the Fang family.

So, the motivation for the Nanshui Town copy was wrong from the very beginning.

What's the point of the Fang family searching for their youngest son under the control of the Snake Girl for so many years?

Moreover, Snake Girl can sense blood. She thinks that "Fang Xing" is the real youngest son of the Fang family, so that's absolutely it.

What's more, Xu Wan doesn't know whether he is his biological child or not?

After hearing what Yu Xing said, Yiqing was also stunned for a moment.

He felt a little ridiculous and asked: "How could you forget this setting?"

"Yeah, that's the problem. Before this, I didn't remember this condition at all." Yu Xing tilted his head, "You must ask me how I feel, like..."

"In my memory, my persona was originally that of my biological child. But after I talked to Fang Xiao, my persona suddenly changed. What I do now affects my past and makes me live in the past. It’s an extra step of setting up.”

"I'm not sure whether the condition of not being a biological child existed from the beginning and was just blocked in my memory, or whether it didn't exist in the first place but has appeared inexplicably now."

This memory has a great conflict with the dungeon, but it corresponds to the ending after the dungeon ends.

If Fang Xiao knows his true identity, then he cannot be the biological son of the Fang family.

The past and the present are like two winding curves, conflicting with each other and then intersecting at this time.

Yu Xing was no stranger to this feeling.

The feeling of uncontrollable memory, just like his inexplicable fragments in the Yin and Yang Corridor. From the time he entered Qianjie's worship room to the time he came out, a long, long memory was completely erased from his mind. He still has I don't know what I did during that time.

He knew that the evil god could manipulate his memory.

So it should be the same this time.

Yu Xing could be said to be asking Yi Qing, or he could be said to be mumbling to himself. Finally, he tried to poke the system.

Changing memory does not seem to be the function of the system.

But the system is an evil god after all, and may be able to detect when other evil gods take action.

This question made the system silent for a long time.

Finally, the female voice seemed a little hesitant.

[According to my records, when determining the character, "san" is not his biological child. 】

[But, you also know that from the beginning, my purpose was to let you occupy the Fang family bloodline and enter Nanshui Town to help me recover the book. This was my original arrangement. So, it is impossible for me to let your role be adopted. 】

From the perspective of motivation, Fang Xing must be his biological child.

But from memory, he was adopted.

Even the system can't find the starting point of this conflict, but excluding all unreasonable logical chains, there is only one possibility.

The system restored the stability of the tone.

[The result affects the cause, this is the power of time. Your present in turn changes the past, and the original past timeline is erased. 】

The adoption timeline overlays the biological timeline, thus creating a memory conflict.

Yu Xing frowned slightly.

I thought that the incident in Nanshui Town was over, but I didn't expect that another strange thing would be involved in the end.

This kind of ability cannot compete with any evil god he knows.

Even Chiyue, who could delete his memory, couldn't do it. Chiyue only targeted his cognition, but in this incident, even the system's records were changed.

This is more like a complete reversal of cause and effect.

"Did the evil god do it?" Although Yu Xing was asking, his tone was very firm.

There are seven evil gods in Yin Yang Town. The ones he knows about so far are [Him], [Book], [Qianjie], and Gui Chenshu.

If the source of Yiqing's ability is also counted as one, there are only two evil gods whose approximate abilities are unknown.

But there was no reason for him to provoke another one unknowingly, right? What is the ability of that evil god? Law of cause and effect?

[…I can’t remind you more clearly, but I have already told you His name, and you have come into contact with His related figures. 】

The system is hampered by rules, so we can only say this.

Yu Xing already knew the information, but they could communicate without any barriers.

But if Yu Xing doesn't know about it, as a system, it can't tell it directly.

Yu Xing fell into thinking.

Yiqing on the side could hear the exchange between one person and one system. After a brief moment of confusion, he guessed it before Yu Xing.

Because he actually knew the names of the seven evil gods, but for the same reason as the system, he couldn't tell them.

"It affects the past from the present, reversing the results and causes. This is the power of time." Yu Xing whispered, a dark light flashing in his eyes.

"The evil god who manipulated me is called 'time'?"

There is only one answer.

And he did come into contact with time-related characters.

A name that had not appeared in my ears for a while emerged.

Witch.

Hearing what he said, the system did not deny it.

In the loopholes of the rules, if there is no denial, it can be considered as affirmation.

Yu Xing paused and fell silent.

He began to recall it in his mind.

That woman who lingers in time has secretly made many small moves, including the wizard sect. Now that I think about it, she seems to be stealing abilities that do not belong to her, just like the snake girl.

The ghostly sunken tree under the Dead Island acts as a medium for the wizard sect to travel to various worlds. The witches are even trying to copy a "system" and have achieved results.

hiss.

Yu Xing took a deep breath in his heart.

Before the wizard sect was destroyed by him, he was the mastermind behind various dungeon worlds. At this moment, comparing the witch's style with that of the snake girl, he suddenly realized that the snake girl was just repeating what the witch did.

It's just that the witch has bigger plans.

Is it possible that the reason why Snake Girl is obsessed with owning her own world and being the complete controller is because of the witch behind her?

Two things that were originally unrelated were suddenly linked together, and they suddenly became very scary to think about.

The witch's power can travel through time, so theoretically, it can also change the past and the future - just like this conflict in his memory.

They didn't meet by chance. Fortunately, Yu was sure that the witch was an enemy.

The witch is Yu Fengchen's enemy and also his, so it is reasonable to say that he has always been under the witch's attention.

Thinking more deeply, how many nodes have been changed from his past to the present?

Is it possible that more than one timeline was touched by the witch, but he didn't think of the conflict for the time being, so he didn't realize it.

This kind of thing becomes more and more terrifying the more he thinks about it, because even if he knows that there is such a thing, he can't counter it for the time being.

etc!

Yu Xing suddenly looked at Yi Qing.

In the Yin-Yang Corridor, what is that well that Yi Qing calls a "mistake" and is forbidden for him to approach?

The "isolated cabin" itself has no time flow, and stillness is also a kind of control. Therefore, the cabin has the power of the evil god [time].

So is the so-called error a time error?

Once the time is wrong, cause and effect will be affected, fallacies will occur, and the consequences will be serious.

The famous grandmother's paradox is a hypothesis about time.

Yu Xing's breathing was a little heavy. Once some things were cleared up, they all became clear.

Extrapolating back, that means that in the Yin-Yang Corridor, the witch might be staring at him.

The information given by the actor also said that time in Yin Yang City does not flow, so the humans inside are gradually divided and alienated by evil gods. Without new blood to join, the situation becomes increasingly evil.

Yu Xing originally thought time was a noun, but he didn't expect it to be a name.

A cold feeling spread up his spine, and he subconsciously glanced at the sky.

Time is formless and colorless, more abstract than curses and cognitions, and it surrounds him all the time.

[The time is up, Yu Xing, I’m going to teleport you away. 】

The system interrupted his thoughts.

However, when Yu Xing heard the words "time is up" now, he couldn't help but think more about it.

Yiqing whispered: "He came faster than I thought. In other words, He may have been interfering with you for a long time, Yu Xing."

As the green smoke filled the air, Yiqing returned the dagger to Yu Xing and then got into the dagger.

Before going in, his voice was empty and ethereal: "After you go back, check your memory carefully and see how many loopholes you can find, especially... the experience in the tomb palace."

"That time, even I couldn't stop the flow of time."