Weird Regulator

Suddenly a gust of cool wind blew by, hitting Shao Yongan's face, bringing him a moment of clarity and comfort.

He suddenly opened his eyes, but he felt no tingling sensation at all. Everything was so normal and easy.

Then the light came, although it was not that bright, but the dim light source made it easier for him to accept it.

He touched his face in surprise. There was no blood or wounds on it.

The steel needle had long since disappeared, as if all the previous suffering had vanished.

And then, a handsome man with a smile squeezed into his field of vision.

When he saw the man's appearance, he was stunned for a moment, then turned to panic, pointed at him and shouted:

Wen Yongxin? You're not dead!

Wen Yong held a cigarette in his hand. After taking a deep breath, he looked at him contemptuously and smiled:

“I thought Store Manager Li would be waiting for me, but I didn’t expect it was you.

But that's okay, at least you are better than Guo Liang.

Shao Yongan didn't understand what these words meant. He just glanced around in panic.

It was found that this place is still in the corridor, the surrounding layout has not changed much, and the floor is displayed as 12.

He subconsciously touched his eyes again and looked at Wen Yongxin's smiling face, feeling as if he was dreaming.

Huh? Yes, you are indeed dreaming.

Wen Yongxin seemed to know what Shao Yongan was thinking, pointing at him with the finger holding a cigarette, and agreed with this idea.

Shao Yongan looked at him in horror, thinking of the square box he had just touched, as if he had been struck by lightning.

He took a breath, finally looked at the man in front of him carefully, and said in surprise:

Your supernatural totem is our store manager's sinful object? Is this okay?

You're not particularly stupid...

Wen Yongxin looked at him in surprise and nodded slowly, as if he was satisfied.

After that, he shared all his experiences, including the current situation, one by one.

Shao Yongan also went from being confused at the beginning to gradually understanding, and finally turned into shock.

You mean, I'm actually in your dream now.

To be precise, it is our common dream.

Wen Yongxin's body has died, and only his thoughts are trapped in the color box.

Strictly speaking, he was already dead, but his dreams were preserved.

After Shao Yongan came into contact with the color box, he became connected with this dream.

It's like a computer player accidentally entered a private local area network and became a part of it.

Wen Yongxin has a certain degree of autonomy in dreams, which of course is limited to actions that do not affect the dream.

For example, having unlimited cigarettes.

After lighting another cigarette, he looked at Shao Yongan who was sorting out the information and said softly:

“I have been trapped in a dream for over four hours.

As one of the first store clerks to enter this place, I think I should have some extremely critical information.

Originally, I hoped that it would be Li Yi who found me, and then assisted him to complete this mission as soon as possible.

But you also have a chance when you are here. Tell me about what happened during this time.

Although Wen Yongxin is dead, his mind is still there and he can still integrate clues and make inferences.

The reason why he is important is because he is the only one who has almost mastered the complete path of death.

After this period of uninterrupted derivation, he already had a more novel perspective on this mission.

Shao Yongan looked at him and licked his chapped lips, feeling a sense of enlightenment in his heart.

No wonder that mysterious man spared no effort to help me get back to the corridor.

He probably knew that Wen Yongxin was trapped here, and was waiting for me to recover this clue.

So if the clues from both our parties are integrated, it is very likely that a new way of life will be opened up for me!

Thinking of this, he quickly revealed all his experiences, and even his speculations about Li Yi's plan and the psychology of ghosts.

It took about half an hour to share information between the two sides.

After the exchange, the two people in the dream world fell into silence.

In this atmosphere, Wen Yongxin was the first to speak. He sat on the floor, touched his chin and said:

Your thinking is correct, you can't put all your eggs in Li Yi's basket.

Once the rules are deduced incorrectly, everything waiting for us will be lost.

Shao Yongan was also thinking about the information and speculation he got from Wen Yongxin, and said after a while:

You just said that there are three elements in a dead end: place, character and death.

But avoiding the road of death may not mean the road to life.

Especially the dead end of this mission is so obscure and difficult to understand.

Could it be that the way out is for everyone to leave No. 444 Diaoying Road, avoid Nong Yueke's family, and go to a place where no one can find them?

In regular missions, passing the path of life and death is a firm opposition.

Failure to find a way to live is a way to death;

Avoiding the road of death is the road of survival.

But the situation in this mission is completely different, because what they have to face is not regular ghosts, but rules throughout the mission.

Now, the rules have been formed and the tasks have long been finalized.

The three elements of a dead end, the ten clerks have already satisfied the first two.

Ji Li is in Qingyuan Community, and the other nine are at No. 444 Diaoying Road;

Everyone came into contact with the Nong Yueke family;

As for the last condition, according to what Shao Yongan saw, except for a few people, all of them would have their own corresponding corpses.

This declares that the conditions for a dead end have long been met. As long as you are on a mission, you will reach a dead end sooner or later.

This is also the conclusion Shao Yongan came to after combining the experiences of both parties.

On the surface, Shao Yongan's conjecture can be said to be flawless, and there is no way to refute it.

But Wen Yongxin blew out a smoke ring, looked at him with an even more contemptuous look, tapped the ground with his finger and said:

Mr. Shao, Brother Shao, why do you always stick to the rules and regulations?

Does the way to life have to be to avoid death?

If we can destroy the path to death, wouldn’t that be equivalent to executing the path to life?

One sentence made Shao Yongan freeze on the spot.

He looked at Wen Yongxin's contemptuous expression and had no time to be dissatisfied. Instead, he was completely attracted by the last sentence.

Destroying the way to death is the way to life...

He suddenly realized the crux of the problem, which was a mental dilemma.

Shao Yongan has a conservative personality, so his perspective on things is always limited.

All along, he has followed the tricks and tricks based on regular mission experience.

The ghost poses questions and the clerk solves them, thereby finding the direction of survival step by step.

But that clearly didn't apply to this mission.

Because this is a task whose framework has been set from the moment it begins.

Events, accidents, including deaths that occurred during this period were all caused by the rules.

Therefore, it is impossible to break through the framework of the rules with regular evasion routines like Shao Yongan's.

This is also the reason why he has never been able to find a way out, because he has never thought about the problem in this way from the beginning.

Destroy the dead end, destroy the dead end...

Wen Yongxin shook his legs, looking carefree, but what he said was extremely reasonable:

“To destroy dead ends is to destroy the framework of rules.

First, we have to reverse the rules from the dead end.

Article 1, location:

Qingyuan Community - No. 444 Diaoying Road.

We cannot destroy this one.

Article 2, characters:

Nong Yueke's family.

It was their presence that led to this mission.

So I can conclude that this last household, Nong Yueke, is one of the prerequisites for the establishment of the rules.

To destroy the dead end, it is of course best to start with them.

After listening to his dictation, Shao Yongan changed his thinking and suddenly realized that everything was so logical.

If three of the conditions for establishing a dead end are destroyed, one will lead to the collapse of the rules framework.

All the original rules will be invalidated, and the logic of the entire mission will completely collapse. This is the only way to survive.

Shao Yongan was overjoyed and stood up from the ground. He was about to speak, but he immediately realized a new problem.

No, we can't kill Nong Yueke.

Ji Li had actually done this before the mission began, but the result was obviously in vain.

And now they are facing the same problem.

This is the biggest problem in this way of life and the biggest blind spot in thinking.

But Wen Yongxin blew out a smoke ring confidently, and the old god said:

Don't worry, we haven't used the third dead end yet.