Forces of Temptation

After a short rest, Nan Zhou was ready to continue the game.

There is not much time left for them.

And they still have two doors to go through.

Since the door with the eyes peeping in the keyhole was still firmly sealed, there was actually only one door left for them to enter.

The moment the door is pushed inward, what comes out of the door is the wet, salty and slightly cool sea breeze.

The fishy smell that belonged exclusively to the ocean was no small matter. Li Yinhang choked on the food he had just eaten and writhed in his stomach for a while before he managed to hold his ground.

The scene of the game was gradually refreshed, and the sequence was laid out in front of their eyes.

They are in the center of the ocean, embraced by the boundless ocean, and isolated from everything.

The three of them were standing on a rock.

There are four reefs, forming a rectangle with each other, and the distance is almost equal, about 15 meters away.

Therefore they cannot touch each other.

Besides them, there is a reef.

There was a fourth person besides them sitting on it.

It was a young young girl with seaweed-like long hair falling down to her waist, and her expression was gentle and gentle.

Her eyes are especially beautiful, as if the blue of the whole sea is condensed into her eyes.

Her lower body was submerged in the sea, but instead of a pair of legs, it was a fish tail about one and a half meters long.

The end of the fishtail is crystal clear, like a bride's tulle, slowly floating and sinking like silk in the sea water.

Because the moonlight was just right, there was a lighthouse in the distance. Under the double light, the little mermaid's skin was white and almost transparent.

She put her hands on the rock behind her, looked at the three players, and said softly: "... Hello, players."

The figure in front of her was so clear that none of the three asked who she was.

Like Little Red Riding Hood, it is an old classic story that does not need popular science.

The only question now is which functional block in the brain does this door represent.

Nan Zhou traced the shape of the rock he was on with his fingertips.

The pitch-black reef stands in the middle of the sea, and it is riddled with holes by the slightly corrosive sea water.

But it's fairly well-defined.

It's in the shape of a seahorse.

...Is it the hippocampus?

Memory storage point?

The moonlight like silver snow fell down one after another, casting moving shadows on Nan Zhou's long eyelashes that drooped because of thinking.

The sea breeze at night was still chilly.

A gust of wind passed by, causing Li Yinhang to shiver.

As if sensing Li Yinhang's shrinking, the Little Mermaid raised her beautiful fish tail and patted the surface of the sea lightly, creating a splash of water.

The sea breeze stopped immediately.

The sea water is as transparent as an emerald crystal, like a picture of Eden manifested on a postcard.

Li Yinhang lowered his head, and saw a cluster of sparks not far from the bottom of his feet, which was about the size of her feet by visual estimation.

At first, she thought it was a glowing fish like an anglerfish.

But when she concentrated on taking a look, her scalp exploded.

—It was a fish eye that was open.

Fortunately, the nameless giant fish just passed by, glanced at her lightly, and showed no interest in her.

It turned over silkily and silently, dived into the deeper abyss, and disappeared.

At the same time that Li Yinhang's goosebumps exploded, the little mermaid opened her mouth gently again.

Unlike all the NPCs they met before, the little mermaid's temperament is more like a melancholy girl who loves literature and art.

In a level like this, it's almost like running on the wrong set.

"Welcome to the sea of ​​memories," she said.

She said: "The sea taught me that memory is all that constitutes a person."

"This sea area is my home, and every bubble in it is the memory left by the players."

"After dawn, I will also turn into a bubble." The little mermaid said, "So, before dawn, I want to play a game with you."

...very open and honest.

This is indeed the hippocampus related to memory.

After briefly explaining, she dropped a drift bottle in the water.

The pieces of paper in the drifting bottle are rolled into paper tubes and tied around the waist with thin colored threads.

No one knew what was written on the note.

The glass bottle is supported by Haibo, floating and sinking.

The body of the bottle keeps spinning, reflecting the charming and beautiful light under the moonlight.

The little mermaid continued to explain: "The waves of the ocean waves are all random, and the questions are also random."

"When the waves stop and the bottle is still, whoever the direction of the bottle's mouth is facing will be the answerer of this round."

"This game is for players to give answers based on the questions in the bottle."

"Don't worry, these questions are all read and analyzed by the sea of ​​memory and confirmed that you can answer them. Therefore, answers like 'I don't know', 'I don't know much', and 'No' are all wrong. Compliant wrong answer.”

"Whether the answer is correct or not, Sea of ​​Memory will make a fair verdict."

"Please give the answer honestly based on your memory."

...Drumming to pass flowers, adding truth games?

Li Yinhang relaxed his mind.

Is this too simple?

After experiencing the three copies of the stepmother in painted skin, the big bad wolf who never showed his true face, and the brothers and sisters in the candy house who couldn't even express their own wishes, the little mermaid's unpretentious attitude and the book Like the tin soldiers in the museum, there is a sense of comfort.

And, probably because of the influence of the sea of ​​memory, she was even more honest than the tin soldier.

"However, games also have punishments," she said.

"The judgment of the sea of ​​​​memory will not be wrong."

"So, if you violate the principle of honesty, do not follow the memory to give the correct answer, or think for more than 15 minutes to answer the question, then it will be regarded as a failed answer."

"As a punishment, a part of the body of the person who answered incorrectly will be replaced with a puppet of the same size and proportion."

"When the answer is wrong more than five times, the player becomes part of the sea of ​​​​memory."

"I'm sorry, but that's what the rules say."

Nan Zhou was listening to the little mermaid, but his eyes were on the isolated island with a lighthouse not far away.

At first glance, the island is dark and dark, with ups and downs, like a floating corpse of a small man lying quietly on the water.

But there is no island there.

...it was a pedestal made of bodies.

Dense wooden sculptures standing upright in the water like meerkats, guarding the lighthouse,

It won't be easy, he thought.

There are quite a few players here.

Jiang Fang had the same idea as him.

Even if he didn't see the lighthouse island filled with the corpses of countless players, his natural vigilance would never allow him to take it lightly.

As for Li Yinhang, although she thinks the game is easy, as someone who has experienced at least compulsory education, she understands that those who can give "15 minutes" to answer the questions are usually the final questions.

Therefore, none of the three of them lowered their guard against the game at all.

Because the rules of the game are too simple and clear, there is no need for redundant explanations. The mermaid, who is the game host, announced the official start of the game.

After recovering the drifting bottles used for the demonstration, a large piece of drifting bottles wobbled towards the little mermaid like fish affected by the tide.

She picked one of the countless drifting bottles and threw it to the center of the reef matrix.

The bottle is surrounded by the tide, one up and one down, up and down.

Finally, the mouth of the bottle was aimed straight at Li Yinhang.

She became the first person to eat crabs.

There was a numbness in her back, and she became 12 cautious in an instant.

Seeing the drifting bottle drift towards him like a small fish, and finally stopped in front of the reef, Li Yinhang picked it up with his hands, uncorked the bottle, and unfolded the paper.

The question on paper was: What is the name of your best friend of the same sex in real life? "

Li Yinhang asked carefully: "This same-sex friend, does it refer to an intimate relationship beyond the scope? For example, relatives, lovers?"

The little mermaid answered patiently: "'Friend' refers to the definition of an ordinary and common friend in your value system. If it refers to other relationships, you will use other terms to refer to it."

Hearing this, Nan Zhou frowned slightly.

This definition puzzled him.

Since we are all friends, can we not involve "intimacy"?

But it was Li Yinhang who answered now, he didn't want his words to interfere with her thinking and judgment.

Li Yinhang thought about it seriously.

Aside from winning the grand prize and entering Gravity, her life has been fairly ordinary.

She has a lot of friends, but most of them are ordinary, and they can occasionally drink a cup of milk tea together and watch a few movies together.

There is nothing unforgettable, and there is no test of life and death, so overall, it is just "ordinary".

Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang are both of the opposite sex, so they are not within the scope of the answer, otherwise, she would like to brazenly count Nan Zhou.

...Even if Nanzhou only regards her as a teammate.

After a short thought, Li Yinhang gave the answer.

"Che Jie."

This is her colleague, and also her roommate who unfortunately disappeared when the mass disappearance broke out.

The two of them were originally college classmates, and they lived next door. After graduation, they joined the same unit and lived together for two years. They have a harmonious relationship and occasionally quarrel.

All in all, it was because the other party was sick and would go to the hospital overnight behind his back.

In comparison, Che Jie should be regarded as her best friend since she became an adult.

Hearing Li Yinhang's answer, Nan Zhou frowned subtly and did not speak.

The scale-covered fish ears of the little mermaid moved slightly, as if listening to the instructions of the ocean.

After a while, she helplessly and gently uttered a word: "No."

Li Yinhang couldn't understand for a while, and was stunned: "...Huh?"

"...No." The little mermaid said firmly, "She is not your best friend."

Li Yinhang was stunned, and a chill rushed straight to Tianling Gai: "...Why not?"

"This is not my judgment. It is the judgment of the sea of ​​memory."

The little mermaid's voice is soft,

After a while, she gave Hai Yang's feedback: "Your best friend is Xia Yushi."

Li Yinhang: "...?"

It took her some time to recall who Xia Yushi was.

That was her classmate who lived in the dormitory with her for a year in her sophomore year.

Because two roommates in her original dormitory applied for day study, Li Yinhang moved to a new dormitory.

At the beginning, she didn't know Miss Xia's situation, and she didn't understand why the other roommates ignored Miss Xia.

Just after moving into the dormitory, Li Yinhang had a warm conversation with Miss Xia who was hiding alone.

Li Yinhang didn't know that because of family problems, Miss Xia suffered from serious mental illness until he got in touch with her.

She is moody, and when she is good, she is very kind. When she is bad, she can break glass in the dormitory and cry and want to commit suicide, and she is extremely dependent on others.

She immediately clung to Li Yinhang who had shown her goodwill.

After getting along with her this year, Li Yinhang was tired and worried that if he broke up with her, it would cause her to be overwhelmed, exhausted physically and mentally, and almost depressed.

Later, because her condition was too serious, the school suspended her from school.

After dropping out of school, Miss Xia still persevered and wrote to her frequently.

This situation did not get better until Li Yinhang went to other places to study in university.

The little mermaid said: "According to the hormones you secrete when you get along with her, the emotional value you pay and other factors, after a comprehensive evaluation of the scores, the sea of ​​memory says that she is your best friend."

Li Yinhang still wanted to argue: "But..."

"Your memory will deceive you." The little mermaid said, "but the sea of ​​memory will not."

Before he finished speaking, Li Yinhang felt his legs suddenly go numb.

She looked down in panic, and a part of her calf could no longer move.

With a strong panic, she covered her hands.

The tentacles are the icy texture of a puppet.

——Memory is a weird thing.

——It cannot be seen or touched, and it will beautify some things that you want to remember, and it will also dilute some things that you deliberately want to forget.

In the end, what appeared in my mind was just an illusion of chaos.

And they have to look for the truth in the illusion that has been formed in their minds and is believed by them without a doubt.

...Even though, this kind of truth is formed by stacking various objective data that has nothing to do with emotions.

Game continues.

New Drift Bottles enter the Reef Matrix.

After shaking and floating for a while, the mouth of the bottle was aimed at Nan Zhou.

Nan Zhou calmly picked up the drifting bottle, and after unpacking it, started a bunch of questionnaires.

The above question is: "What is the happiest thing you and your same-sex friends have done together?"

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