0713: You who shine in the parallel world

Let’s not talk about the content of the code for now. Just look at the serial numbers. The first half contains the preface and articles 1-4 of the code, and the second half starts directly from article 6. Article 5 is nowhere to be seen. It’s impossible that the person who wrote the code couldn’t count to 5.

Moreover, the last article of the code obviously conflicts with the preface of the code.

The preface says that these codes are absolutely correct after being accumulated over generations, but Article 9 says that there are no absolutely correct codes.

If the preface is true, then all rules, including Rule 9, are absolutely correct, but Rule 9 says that the previous rules are not correct. And if the previous rules mentioned in Rule 9 do have loopholes, then it will contradict the preface.

This is a paradox.

Zhang Yuan and Lu Hu felt that they were almost dizzy, so they decided to sit down and have some tea.

Chen Qisheng took the rules from Yu Yu and looked at them carefully with squinted eyes.

"I have something to say but I don't know whether I should say it or not." Yu Yu glanced at his elder brother several times.

"Hmm?" Chen Xinsheng noticed Yu Yu's shameless smile and knew that the child was going to be naughty again, so he directly blocked her with one sentence, "Don't say that."

Yu Yu, who knew it was inappropriate to say but still wanted to say it, spoke quickly: "Brother Sheng, you look like an old man reading a newspaper. Please help me edit the newspaper later. Thank you, teacher."

The other brothers laughed. The eldest brother was indeed a little farsighted. Seriously, he always held his phone or a book far away from him. It would have been fine if Yu Yu hadn't said anything, but now that he had said it, the sense of déjà vu was getting stronger and stronger.

“In later stage, you have to photoshop a glass teacup next to me and a palm-leaf fan in my arms.” Chen Qisheng himself helped to perfect the scene.

"Then wear a white vest and put a row of watermelons in front." Su Xing began to add.

Zhang Yuan immediately showed a look that said, "Then take a look." "Is this melon ripe, Uncle Chen?"

Wang Zhengliang disagreed: "No, people from Shenggeqiong Province should put coconuts on the ground."

"Is this coconut ripe?" Land Rover asked again.

"The coconuts won't be picked if they're not ripe. They're eight dollars each if you want to buy them. If not, don't bother me with my business." Chen Qisheng waved his hand to dismiss them. He couldn't help laughing after he finished speaking.

Wang Yuexin was also surprised. He imitated Haipu's tone, but it sounded more like the accent of Guangxi Province: "Wow, is this your attitude towards doing business? How can you sell coconuts like this?"

After the brothers had gone off topic, they got back to the point. Chen Qisheng carefully read the contents of the rules. Although he was farsighted, he had excellent observation skills and noticed the inconsistency at a glance.

"Brothers, look, what if the original Rule 1 is actually Rule 2, and the preface is not the preface but Rule 1? The font of the serial number on the first half is different from that on the second half."

The others came forward and knocked carefully, only to find that the serial number on the first half of the paper was indeed slightly different from that on the back, as if it had been modified by someone and then filled in using the original serial number font.

The number of letters indented in the preface of the code is aligned with the position of the beginning of the text section of "Code 1" below. In conventional typesetting, the first word of the preface should be aligned with the number of "Code 1" below. From the perspective of typesetting, the number of spaces in the first line of the preface is a bit too much, and it seems that there should be some words in the front, but they were erased.

So the introduction is not a introduction, but the real rule 1. There are actually five rules on the first half of the paper, so everything fits in.

"So, there are really mistakes in the previous 1-6?" Wang Yuexin scratched his head. If the previous rules were not necessarily correct, then his statement that Wang Zhengliang was "non-human" based on Rule 3 would not be valid.

Su Xing's thoughts remained clear. He asked his brothers to stay calm and not panic. "Since these are the rules for moving in, they can't possibly give us completely wrong instructions. Otherwise, these things would be completely worthless and unnecessary. They must have reference value, but they can only be used as references and reminders. They can't be completely trusted."

The dining table had already been cleaned up by the brothers. Su Xing placed the rules on the table and looked at the big and small kings who were the first to carry out the single-line tasks, motioning them to share the clues they got in the tasks with everyone first.

They described their mission, including the two "big rats" in the storage room and the diary on the letter paper they found at the end. They speculated that everything they experienced during the mission was similar to the story in the diary, or perhaps it was a replay of the old man's experience in the diary, but a horrible version.

There are also red words on the back of the diary, similar to those on the letter paper that Yu Yu found, warning everyone who sees this sentence not to believe "them" because "they" are not human.

"So Brother Xiaoliang's current state is that he doesn't trust anyone." Wang Yuexin added jokingly.

"Of course, don't believe them. 'They' refers to the plural. There may be several 'them' among us, more than one 'non-human', and more than one 'rat'." Wang Zhengliang raised his glasses and returned to his role in the game. Of course, he could continue to "not recognize any relatives and not love anyone."

Su Xing looked at him with new eyes: "Oh, Brother Liang has provided us with a new idea."

"He's an undercover agent, a traitor, a 'non-human', and a 'rat'. According to this statement, there are only seven of us, and there are probably three or four bad guys. Why don't we all be bad guys and form a whole family?" Zhang Yuan played a good hand of cards with everyone being bad.

Wang Yuexin took out the diary they had obtained and placed it on the table, next to the rules.

Yu Yu gave the letter paper obtained in the single-line task of the Four Corners Game to Su Xing, and Su Xing also took out the task item and put it next to the diary. They had already read the content of the letter paper, which was about a little girl pestering her mother to play hide-and-seek. At first glance, it didn't match the style of the nursing home and the old man's diary in the first task.

Yu Yu was the first to get this piece of letter paper, and he spent the longest time studying it, so this time it was his turn to share his guess.

"Since we are in a mental nursing home, perhaps this story can be viewed in this way." Yu Yu leaned back. "You all know about Alzheimer's disease. The old man in the first diary suddenly couldn't remember the way home, and after staying in the cold snow for most of the night, he only remembered to make soup for his grandchildren when he returned home. This is actually a manifestation of this symptom."

"This irreversible symptom usually occurs in the elderly. Some will have difficulty controlling their emotions, some will develop personality disorders and lose their sense of shame, and some will gradually forget the people and things around them, but slowly remember memories from long ago."

"Sometimes people say that the older they get, the more they become like children. This is not just a change in mentality, but a manifestation of the symptoms. They can't take care of themselves, they can't control their emotions, they don't understand what they should and shouldn't do, they have no logic, and they can't speak."

"Perhaps there is such an old lady who has forgotten everything, but still remembers that her daughter loved to play hide-and-seek with her when she was a child. She doesn't know and can't understand where the little girl who loved playing hide-and-seek has gone. She thinks that she is the little girl and regards the daughter who has been taking care of her as her mother..."

The sentimental and sensitive Lu Hu couldn't listen any more after hearing this and thinking about the contents on the letter. He took out a tissue to cover his red eyes and stopped Yu Yu who was telling the story in a gentle tone: "No, don't go on. I can't listen to this. I really can't listen to it."

Looking at the mixed expressions of the others, Yu Yu zipped up his mouth and closed the microphone.

"Hey, you, hey you are really, Yu Shao, your overly cruel story makes people wonder what you have been through in the past ten years."

Su Xing pinched Yu Yu's shoulder in a teasing tone, destroying the slightly heavy atmosphere created by Yu Yu. He always felt that this child sometimes looked at problems too rationally and realistically, and wondered if it was his illusion.

Well, maybe it wasn't his illusion. After all, he died and came back to life, experienced despair and was trapped in a baby's body and grew up again in such an environment. If it weren't for these brothers, one day he might not be able to bear the repression for too long and become a madman, bah, paranoid.

"Your story is so dark."

Chen Hesheng couldn't bear to hear all this. He frowned and looked at Yu Yu, just like when he was in the sea view villa on the top of the mountain, frowning at Wang Yuexin who said that the end of love is darkness. These two are both worry-free brothers.

It’s not that his answer is incorrect. In this horror book, it can almost be said to be the correct answer. However, it is indeed a bit outrageous that Yu Yu could instantly understand the true meaning behind the story in the tense atmosphere of being locked in a small dark room.

Yu Yu shrugged and decided to skip this topic. He turned the paper over and pointed to the red words that told them not to wear the little red flowers: "Okay, everyone knows this story, let's look at this question that none of us understand. Should we wear our little red flowers?"

Speaking of this, Su Xing also changed the topic. He had asked the "Pen Fairy" about the little red flower before in his game session. There was no clue to the story of the letter paper in his single-line task, nor was there a red letter reminder, but he could ask three questions in his task, and the clue to the story was also hidden in the questions of the paranoid teacher who played the game with him.

The first question is actually risky because there are too many conditional restrictions in the question. As long as one condition is not met, the entire question can be judged as "no", and then the first opportunity is wasted.

Fortunately, Su Xing won the bet. These conditions were a risky addition based on his previous observations and careful consideration.

During the first day after entering the nursing home, all the NPCs they met hinted that they needed to get the red flowers as soon as possible, otherwise there would be bad consequences, so he added the first condition, "the first day".

As for the condition of "not getting the little red flower", this condition is clearly stated and there is absolutely no problem with it.

When they learned that they needed to get red flowers, they guessed that they would become old people without them. However, the first half of the admission rules stated that there were no elderly people in the nursing home and that if they encountered an elderly person, they would have to wait for medical staff to treat them. So Su Xing guessed that the existence of the elderly might be "not accepted by the nursing home rules."

The pen fairy answered "yes".

Therefore, in the Pen Fairy's understanding, if you don't get a red flower on the first day after moving in, you will become an old man excluded by the rules. This is true.

However, the Pen Fairy did not reveal what variables would appear after obtaining the little red flower, nor was it clear what the consequences would be if the little red flower was taken during the next curfew after moving in.

The words written in Yu Yu's red characters seemed to be left by a patient who got the little red flower but encountered some strange things and became mentally disturbed. The other party believed that he was no longer himself after wearing the little red flower.

"Rule 6, the little red flower stands for the 'medal of good behavior', Rule 8, 'Absolutely well-behaved resident'. Do you remember what the caregiver called us on the radio when there were less than eight people in the eight-person room at the beginning? 'Brainless livestock'..." There was a hint of persuasion in Yu Yu's voice, and it was obvious that he had already thought through some issues clearly.

Su Xing took over the conversation very tacitly: "Perhaps, after we wear the little red flowers, although we will be relatively safe, we will also gradually lose a part of ourselves. The more little red flowers we get, the more docile lambs we will gradually become."

"The subconscious self is still resisting. There may be a moment when the self-consciousness will overcome the hypnosis of the little red flower, and our self-consciousness will be determined to return to ourselves. At that time, we will no longer be docile lambs, but a stubborn donkey that wants to break free from the cage and shackles."

"Once the hospital realizes that we have a rebellious spirit, our situation will be dangerous...but can you change the words?" Su Xing glanced at Yu Yu. Originally, their thoughts were in sync, but this kid suddenly became stubborn and ruined the whole paragraph.

"What's the matter?" Yu Yu said with a smile, "We are all stubborn donkeys. You are a stubborn donkey, Sheng Ge is a silent stubborn donkey, and the rest are all stubborn donkeys of different varieties."

"And you, my friend, are a stubborn ass."