Strange rules: starting with a white-haired beauty

"In fact, I also learned from Long Guo that no matter what actions the players took on the forest trails of Qingzhu Mountain, the final result I got was the same, even if they chose to turn around and run away. "

"Different from what I encountered in the abyss, these people... at least most of them, seem to be acting according to a fixed line of logic, including the woman who gave me clues when I first entered Qingzhu Village. There is reason to believe that it is not a coincidence at all, but it was arranged like this from the beginning..."

Albon scratched his head, obviously he still didn't quite understand what Lan Zhirou meant.

"Have you heard a story from about three hundred years ago? From 1820 to 1821, Caroline of Brunswick was the titular queen of the country where the sun never set. From 1795 to 1820, she When I was still the Prince and Princess of Wales, there was a popular revenge drama in "The Land on which the Sun Never Sets", but the author's true feelings were poured into that revenge drama, making this drama a "substantial" existence."

"All the actors in that drama had to wear masks."

“Once you are too obsessed with understanding the story of this drama, you will become a part of the drama and complete the actions through the established behavioral logic. Once you participate in this drama, you will lose your understanding of yourself and think that you are the actor. They play the role themselves and act mechanically according to a certain special logic, and they may also unconsciously engage in self-mutilation and suicide because they think they are the characters in the play."

"I think this is why there are people who have never questioned the rule that they can become gods. How can someone who is only an extra performer play the leading role?"

"I understand... because everyone's behavioral logic is too fixed, you think Hong Yue has the ability to approximate that revenge drama." Albon showed a look of sudden realization, "Those masks actually imply the silver dove and the raven. But they are all part of Red Moon's drama. It's just that one of them thinks he has power over Qingzhushan, and the other thinks he can protect everyone. Because in Red Moon's drama, Crow only thinks that he has become more beautiful, but has not changed in essence. Mei, the silver dove only thinks it can protect everyone, but in fact it is just under the control of the red moon. The person who thinks it is a god is actually still trapped in the human world?"

After hearing what Lan Zhirou said, Alban once again remembered the words about "there is only one God". At that moment, he finally understood what the person who left the note wanted to tell him, whether it was a raven or a silver dove, None of them are "gods".

"But what does this have to do with those ordinary villagers? Aren't they not wearing masks? Why are they wearing masks in the painting?" Albon asked again with confusion after reacting.

"This starts from what was mentioned in that diary. On a certain day, the villagers no longer worshiped the perfect ascended person... When I first saw the content about the raven, I subconsciously felt that when the raven took its place, After becoming the Perfect Ascended One, he must have used his previous methods, spreading rumors and building false channels to get the villagers to worship him instead. But I recalled what happened in Qingzhu Village, and comparing it with that person's diary, I found that it seemed That’s not the case.”

"It's those villagers who don't believe in the Perfect Ascended Ones. Similarly, they don't believe in the Ravens either. Moreover, when necessary, they will assist the Perfect Ascended Ones. The Ravens don't seem to interfere with anything, otherwise they wouldn't You have brought your village to such a status." Lan Zhirou explained to Albon while finding some rules she found in Qingzhu Village from a pile of paper.

"Then why do the villagers not believe in the Perfect Ascended One? Logically speaking, when the Perfect Ascendant loses its worship, the power of Qingzhu Mountain protected by the Perfect Ascendant weakens. Shouldn't the villagers have discovered it immediately? Why? Is this still the case?”

"It's because they discovered the 'lie'. Do you still remember one thing? When you saw the pink masked man who broke in before, you subconsciously blurted out a question to him: 'Do you still retain your sense of self?' This means you’ve seen other masked people who don’t have their own consciousness, right?”

"Um... I should have said 'Do you have a will of your own?', but that's exactly what it means. I have indeed seen other masked people, and they do have no self-awareness, just like lifeless puppets. Likewise, although they still speak occasionally, I can't feel any...emotions from humans in their words."

"Then, what will those who believe in the perfect ascender do in the end?" Lan Zhirou asked with a chuckle.

"Put on the blue mask...ah! I understand." Albon hammered his palms and said with a sudden realization, "You want to say that even if you believe in the perfect ascension, you will eventually end up wearing the blue mask." People with masks, and people with blue masks will eventually lose their self-awareness. Although people with blue masks essentially do not belong to the ghost camp, to the villagers, it is no different from becoming a ghost?"

"Bingo, I don't know who among the villagers discovered it first. As we are discussing now, maybe they didn't realize that this was a 'drama' that was staged according to the established logic, but they obviously also discovered that something was wrong. Where the raven dies, a new raven fills the place, and when the silver dove dies, a new silver dove is chosen, but for them caught in the middle, nothing changes.”

"So they chose to go in the opposite direction, no longer worshiping the perfect ascended person, intending to break this cycle and drama? But in this way, haven't they already escaped from the identity of the actors themselves? Why are they in the painting Are they still wearing masks?”

"You have escaped the identity of an actor, is it true?" Lan Zhirou glanced at Albon with a half-smile, and said slowly: "Have you read the clues I gave you? After reading the part dedicated to everyone, Notice, you should also know that in addition to the rules for rescuers, there are definitely many villager rules. Even if you only count the groupings mentioned on the surface, the total number of rules should be fifty or sixty. , I’m right.”

"No problem...but..."

"Listen to me first. Qingzhu Village is not an ordinary village, but a small village in a tourist attraction. I have not carefully studied how many households there are in the village, but sixty or seventy households is already the limit of Qingzhu Village. , absolutely impossible to have more.”