It is strictly forbidden to collapse people [Unlimited]

Shen Yongle's heart was beating wildly, but for a moment, he couldn't tell that he was concerned about Billy's situation.

Mo Jue had already run towards Yan Ye and Li Fan, obviously ready to save someone.

However, the distance is too far, and it is almost impossible to catch up.

Yan Ye roared and pulled Li Fan back, and raised his hand subconsciously to block Barnum's attack: "Use the item card!! Use Abe Seimei to seal 'him'!!"

Li Fan was pulled to the ground, completely flustered: "But didn't you try it before and it didn't work?"

Yan Ye's arm was kicked by Barnum, and his whole body was kicked and flew out. He rolled twice on the ground and barely stopped when he hit the tent.

"I'm not talking about Barnum..." He couldn't get up at all, his mouth was full of blood foam, and he couldn't explain it clearly for a while, so he could only grit his teeth and shout at him, "You use it directly!"

Li Fan: "Cocoa is..."

Barnum raised his foot and was about to stamp on Yan Ye's chest.

The clown behind him didn't know if he was protecting him, but he just followed him like that, and he didn't intend to continue to attack.

Shen Yongle was in a state of anxiety, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

"Hey! Commander Barnum!" Shen Yongle gritted his teeth and shouted, "Look behind you! Is the one following you..."

Barnum paused slightly, the clown was caught off guard, and seemed to be a little flustered for a moment, but the next moment he raised his hand to the leader and made a gesture to slash the back of the man's neck...

However, the Sir was waiting for this opportunity, and instantly attacked from the side, and once again grabbed the hand that was stretched out from the darkness.

The other party was obviously taken aback.

Yan Ye roared, "Now!!"

Li Fan was finally so yelled that he forgot to doubt, he raised his hand, his mind was almost blank, and followed the guide knot of the item card to recite the spell...

This time, facing the real "ghosts", the legendary onmyoji technique of the son of the white fox finally showed its due power.

A white light in the shape of platycodon marks rose "swish" from the ground, trapping the clown in the middle.

The darkness that swallowed everything in the void receded like a tide in an instant, revealing... Miss Warren's beautiful but desperate face.

Everyone was startled.

Only Shen Yongle's brows relaxed, and his heart was so true—this actually makes more sense. Barnum is the one who is completely hidden in the cave, and naturally he will not judge who is normal and who is abnormal. He only wants to protect him all the time. He, the one who allowed him to stay in the cave with peace of mind, would not hesitate to kill for him...

Barnum finally noticed something was wrong, frowned suspiciously, and was about to turn his head slowly.

However, in just a few breaths, the light of Abe Seimei's spell quickly dissipated, and darkness once again shrouded Warren.

Her brows loosened suddenly, and she struggled violently like a trapped animal struggling for the last time.

With a "click", the joints shattered, and they broke free from the lord's shackles abruptly, and then raised their hands to chop Barnum's side neck, knocking him out and dragging him into the darkness together.

"Hey, wait?!" Li Fan finally came back to his senses, and looked at his hands in a daze.

The item card... expired so quickly? !

Shen Yongle was not too surprised.

From Yan Ye's words just now, one can roughly guess what happened. Li Fan has probably tried the seal on Captain Barnum once, but it didn't work—Barnum is not a ghost, and the onmyoji's spells are naturally not good for him. It didn't work, but it was a waste of the item card specifically for this dungeon boss.

In fact, item cards of [Abe Seimei] level can be used twice in one dungeon, which is considered generous of Aksha.

The more powerful the item card, the greater the restrictions it receives.

In the previous forums, because the proportion of people who obtained item cards was too low, and most players liked to hide them for fear of committing crimes, no one was able to make a clear research, and they always confused usage restrictions and side effects.

But in fact there is a significant difference between the two.

The biggest difference is: the side effects are derived from the character's experience and may not be triggered; while the use restriction is enforced by the system to limit the ability of the item card and ensure that it does not disrupt the game balance. If the upper limit is exceeded, the item card will definitely become invalid.

In addition, once the side effect is triggered, in addition to causing the card to fail, it will also have a slight or severe impact on the user himself.

For example, Calgu Garcia of Minnan Book, who hides the clues of the robbery, will be broken by other players; Vincenzo Perugia of Xie Xinjun, who gives the stolen goods to others, will be approached by the boss...

Use restrictions are mostly restrictions on the use range, frequency, time, etc. After being triggered, it will only cause the item card to become invalid, and will not directly affect the user itself.

Li Fan's [Abe Seimei] has obviously reached the "maximum output threshold", and was demagnetized by Aksha mercilessly on the spot.

All this happened in the blink of an eye, and before everyone could react, the two NPCs had disappeared from sight.

After a while, Yan, who was still lying on the ground, let out a "hiss" gasp.

Mo Jue came back to his senses and turned to check his injury.

"Don't move yet." The count laid his body flat, pressed his chest and abdomen, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, "There should be nothing wrong with the internal organs. Do you feel any pain?"

Yan Ye was covered in cold sweat, and tried to lift his left hand, but soon gave up with a muffled grunt: "The arm is completely out of control."

Yan Ye's hand was originally injured in the car accident, and it was simply fixed with two wooden boards. Now the wooden board has been completely broken, and it is conceivable that his hand is seriously injured.

But it's good to be blocked like this, otherwise Yan would face the boss and go berserk, and if he didn't die, he would lose half his life.

Shen Yongle was closer to Billy, and when he heard that Mu Jia was anxiously asking for help again, he turned around to help with the inspection.

Mu Jia was already crying, and her whole body was a little broken. She kept asking over and over again: "Leshen, we can't get out? What about Leshen, can you still modify the rules? Woohoo, I don't want to die yet ..."

Shen Yongle had no choice but to comfort her while checking: "Don't worry, in fact, protecting Billy is also our guess, maybe the task is not this at all."

It was obvious that people could not be saved.

Shen Yongle checked the condition of the corpse, and quickly noticed that Billy seemed to be holding something in his tightly clenched hands.

Shen Yongle tried to break it but failed to break it, and turned to call the lord.

Mo Jue came over and opened his hand, only to find that there was another mission note inside, and he didn't know if Billy got it from the clown during the fight.

There were four words written on the note: "Who Killed".

Shen Yongle frowned slightly.

The few players except Yan Ye heard that they found the quest note, they quickly regained their spirits and surrounded them.

Li Fan: "Is there another note that I haven't found?"

Mo Jue took out the previous "Billy" and placed it side by side with this new note, then reached out and changed the positions of the two notes.

Shen Yongle frowned: "Who killed Billy?"

Yes, after a little adjustment of the position, it can be clearly seen that the two notes should have been put together in the first place—the Billy’s medical record card had grids on it before, and the words on both cards were on the top row and on the left. Writing, everyone regarded it as Linde's habit, and didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

Putting the two pieces of paper together now, I realized that the horizontal grid and characters were originally in the center of the paper.

And the second line on the "Billy" piece of paper was empty before. Based on another player's medical record card, everyone thought that they would wait for Billy to wake up before filling in the details of his illness, but now it is the same as the first line. Spelled into a long horizontal line.

Combined with the question on the previous line, it looks more like a grid reserved for filling in answers.

Yan Ye's hand couldn't move for the time being, and Li Fan didn't dare to say a word, so he took the initiative to find a simple fixing device, and the Lord Ferguson helped him temporarily fix it.

The players didn't want to stay near Billy's bloody corpse, so they returned to the tent.

Under Yan Ye's indifferent gaze, Li Fan didn't dare to hide it, and quickly explained everything about the diary and item cards.

[Abe Seimei]'s technique is only effective for "ghosts", and the fact that Barnum is not human has always been guessed by everyone. He is still dealing with his teammates, and when he sees Barnum appearing, he will instinctively doubt his identity. He probably won't just use up the most important item card in this dungeon so casually before confirming the boss.

"But think about it better, now at least I know the true identity of the Boss." Shen Yongle didn't think there was any problem with Li Fan taking the card, everyone grabbed the card according to their own ability, and naturally whoever got it first would get it.

On the contrary, the barrage is very unfair: [Although I am still angry! !That Li Fan's goal is so clear, it is obvious that he went straight to the captain's tent because he heard Leshen talking to Sir Alex! ]

[And Yan Yeda saved him a few times, just now he was asked to use cards to deal with the clown, he was still desperately hesitating, even if it was unintentional, I was very upset...]

[Yeah, when I was protecting myself, I wasted the card without even thinking about it! ]

[So angry!You worked so hard to make the list for us, not for the sake of cheap cats and dogs! ]

[Sisters, don’t accidentally hurt me, cats and dogs are very cute]

The other players obviously also have some contempt for Li Fan's behavior. They took advantage of other players' resistance to monsters to steal other players' item cards and so on. In the past online games, it was enough for others to kill others.

Li Fan didn't know whether it was thick-skinned or nerve-wracking, except that he didn't dare to look at Yan Ye and Mo Jue, but his tone was normal when analyzing clues.

"Who killed Billy?" Li Fan asked, "Didn't we all see it? Miss Warren who was trapped by the spell."

He Yizhu nodded: "Our guess at the beginning should be correct. It is indeed Barnum who cannot see other 'normal people', but the murderous clown is Miss Warren who loves him deeply."

Mo Jue has briefly looked through the diary that Li Fan got back, which was obviously also written by Miss Hualun. It even clearly recorded her psychological process of hurting other circus members and luring audiences who strayed into the elephant cage by mistake.

The diary records in detail the discrimination, ridicule, and cold treatment they encountered when dealing with outsiders.

Because they are deformed, even those who invite them to perform will always make some self-defeating jokes without hesitation, and laugh at their shortcomings behind their backs.

Hua Lun is indeed a gentle and enthusiastic girl. She will considerately comfort the group members, help them rebuild their confidence, and even deliberately avoid their contact with the outside world in order to protect everyone. Camp and survive in the wild.

Treating the members of the group is like this, protecting the people she loves... obviously spare no effort.

Yan also lay on the bed, and said weakly: "Warren constructed a comfortable cave for Barnum, and everything she did was to allow her lover to continue hiding in it safely, without being impacted by the normal world. You don’t need to realize that you are abnormal, and you don’t need to care about other people’s strange eyes.”

Li Fan couldn't wait any longer: "Then can we fill it out? Just write Warren's name on this note?"

"Wait a minute..." Shen Yongle was also reading the diary, but because of his limited eyesight, he read it much slower than his master.

But after only turning a few pages, he realized something was wrong.

Warren's visits to Dr. Lynde were too many.

Mo Jue thought for a while: "It should be for psychological adjustment. Lin De was originally a psychiatrist, and Hua Lun digested so many unfriendly attitudes from the outside world by himself, so he probably needs to find a way to counsel himself."

Yan also agrees with this statement.

Shen Yongle always felt that in this way, the dungeon mission was too simple.

He thought for a while, and suddenly had another guess: "Hua Lun was originally a very kind girl, but she will become more and more paranoid. Could it be because of some kind of psychological suggestion?"

"I mean, the Barnum of the main quest...could be referring to the 'Barnum Effect'."

The barrage is not like players who can do their homework in advance, and they all look confused, wondering what the "Barnum Effect" means.

In fact, Shen Yongle himself is not too sure about the conjecture about psychological induction. On the one hand, it is for the self-evidence of logic, and on the other hand, it is used as a science popularization for bullet screens. First, he briefly explained the Barnum effect.

Barnumeff is a psychological phenomenon proved by psychologist Bertram Fowler through experiments in 1948. It is named after the clown Barnum.

Experiments have shown that everyone will easily believe that a general and general personality description is especially suitable for him, even if this description is very empty, he still thinks that it reflects his own personality, even if he is not such a person at all.

In fact, there are many subtle examples in life. For example, many people think that their horoscope analysis is very accurate. If they are in a small group that believes in horoscopes, they may even take the initiative to change their behavior to better fit the horoscope. describe.

Shen Yongle: "The latter actually has another psychological phenomenon called the 'Hawthorne effect', which refers to the effect that when people realize that they are being watched or observed, they will deliberately change some behaviors or verbal expressions. "

The general psychology of the public is: love will make people lose themselves and do things that go against their hearts.

Shen Yongle guessed: "Perhaps Hua Lun has been instilled with this kind of thinking repeatedly, so he gradually deviated from the original track, and became more and more stubborn in wanting to keep the head in the comfort zone."

"It is indeed possible," Mo Jue nodded. Aksha's main line cannot be as simple as just an NPC name. It would be much more credible if it were replaced by the Barnum effect. People with the Mu effect are almost 'cave prisoners' on a deeper level."

Yan also started to have a fever, he closed his eyes, and said in a low voice: "The vast majority of people in the world actually live in a conventional 'cave', and the reality they believe in is just an illusion projected by 'truth' .”

Prejudice against deformities, exclusion of the LGBT community, incomprehension of minority cultures, stereotypes of female images...

Isn't it because they run counter to the "cave shadow" they are used to, that they become "abnormal" in their eyes?

Plato's allegory of the cave fundamentally expresses doubts about subjective perception. In other words, everyone may be intruded and deceived by the "shadow of the cave" to varying degrees.

Mo Jue cleared his throat and brought the discussion back: "But—the question is 'who killed Billy', even if Warren did it after being induced, it should be Warren who killed Billy .”

Shen Yongle instantly understood what the lord meant.

According to the explanation of the Barnum effect, Dr. Linde didn't even persuade her to kill, but just gave her a hint to protect the regiment leader.

Whether it is the person who decides to kill, or the person who actually does it, it should be Warren himself.

Everyone was silent for a while.

After a while, Li Fan clicked the ballpoint pen he took out from his backpack with a "click".

"Everyone is sure, right? Then I wrote 'Warren'."