Chapter 73

After the boss took Mu Ke away, Mu Sicheng was already woken up.

He leaned lazily on the back of Bai Liu's chair, and Mu Sicheng put the coat that Bai Liu had given him on his shoulder. At first, Mu Sicheng strongly prevented Bai Liu from participating in the game, but he soon discovered that Bai Liu The guy's determination to participate in the competition is firm. Considering Bai Liu's usual style, Mu Sicheng feels that Bai Liu's determination to participate in the competition cannot be easily shaken by him.

Mu Sicheng watched Bai Liu lure Mu Ke into the thief boat with cold eyes, and fell asleep unhurriedly, because after he realized that he could not easily shake Bai Liu's thoughts, all Mu Sicheng could do was to tell Bai Liu seriously that he would not He will mess around with Bai Liu to participate in this extremely dangerous league.

However, the coat that Bai Liu gave him made Mu Sicheng's tone soften a lot: "Why, you tricked that little beauty into your boat?"

"Your name is Mu Ke, little beauty, are you gay?" Bai Liu glanced at Mu Sicheng, "Mu Ke is sexually attractive to you?"

Mu Sicheng was choked instantly: "I'm a straight man!! Can't you understand the joke?!"

Bai Liu nodded casually: "I understand now, from the way you look, do you have something you want to tell me?"

Before Mu Sicheng spoke, Bai Liu found a bench and sat opposite Mu Sicheng.

Bai Liu sat very comfortably and casually, but involuntarily brought a sense of oppression to Mu Sicheng, making Mu Sicheng go from being as lazy as a boneless one in Bai Liu's armchair to sitting up straight.

Bai Liu looked directly at Mu Sicheng indifferently: "I guess you want to tell me that you will never participate in this e-sports with us."

"Can you give me a reason to convince me?" Bai Liu leaned back on the desk, tapped on the desk with her fingers, "Why don't you want to participate in this e-sports league?"

"The death rate is high, the risk is high, the number of people is not uniform, and the number of copies is not enough." Bai Liu asked several questions one after another, and he looked up at Mu Sicheng, "You can leave all these to me, you just need to be responsible for participating , do you have any other concerns?"

Mu Sicheng almost laughed angrily at Bai Liu's calm look.

If he was before a dungeon, he might have been fooled by Bai Liu's way of controlling everything, but now Mu Sicheng is no longer the same Mu Sicheng as before. After a dungeon, Mu Sicheng has a little understanding of Bai Liu's situation. The character of the goods-that is, the gambling is not good.

Even if the success rate is very low, as long as the income is high enough, Bai Liu dares to try.

"These are the main issues I worry about." Mu Sicheng said in a rare serious tone, "Bai Liu, the league is really not a joke, the player death rate is very high, you don't have to give up your real life for this game, although this game does It can bring a lot of things, and with your strength, you can earn points slowly, which is more secure, except for games, you always have to make some retreats for real life..."

"Really real life?" Bai Liu repeated this sentence in a low voice with unclear meaning. He waited calmly for Mu Sicheng to finish his persuasion, and then asked irrelevantly: "What do you think about Mu Ke's previous life?" How about the single-player game that was cleared in rounds?"

Mu Sicheng was taken aback, he didn't expect Bai Liu to mention this suddenly, but Bai Liu did talk to Mu Ke about this just now, Mu Sicheng was sleepy at the time, but he also listened to it.

The game that Muke cleared in the last round was called "The Day of Leaving School", which is a single-player game with a Japanese-style campus background.

The content of the game is not what attracts Mu Sicheng's attention the most, what attracts Mu Sicheng's attention even more is——

——Muke said that the school in it has a prototype. It is a private high school he studied in Japan. It used to be haunted because a girl committed suicide by jumping off a building, and many students died intermittently afterwards.

In the dormitory where Mu Ke lived, everyone died in various bizarre ways except him. This is also an important reason why Mu Ke confused the game and reality and came out with injuries—the high school in the game is the same as his education. The high school background setting is exactly the same.

This is also very similar to what Bai Liu and the others experienced - the prototype of "The Last Train Exploding" is the last train that exploded that Bai Liu once got into by mistake.

Mu Sicheng was silent for two seconds: "I don't think it's such a coincidence that two consecutive games have prototypes in reality."

"Yes, I think so too."

"So I personally feel that there are three possible explanations to explain this." Bai Liu pulled out a piece of paper from his desk.

Bai Liu is used to recording when he has thoughts, especially now that Bai Liu has confirmed that their memories can be tampered with and deceived at will.

Because the words written with specific information will be disappeared by [Forbidden Words], so Bai Liu only extracted some simple keywords and wrote them down. After writing them, he held the paper with five fingers and turned it around, showing Mu Sicheng across the desk, Bai Liu The tone of the explanation is smooth:

"I tend to think that many games in this game have prototype events in reality, but some people know the prototype and some people don't. For example, you and I both know the prototype of the Mirror City bombing, because we are both in Mirror City, but Obviously Zhang Puppet doesn’t know about it, and for example, about the haunted Japanese high school that Mu Ke mentioned, he knows about it, but neither you nor I know about it.”

"But the question is, how are the real [prototypes] of these design games selected?"

Bai Liu wrote a [scene selection] on the paper:

"The first possibility is that the game randomly selects scenes and events in reality as the prototype design horror game, but judging from the Jingcheng bombing and the haunted Japanese high school, the selection of the game is obviously biased. It will choose The game was originally designed for horrific tragedies, so this possibility is not high, pass."

Bai Liu wrote down the words [source of inspiration] on the paper again, and continued:

"The second possibility is that the game will design the game based on the tragedies and supernatural locations experienced by the player. You and I both know that the game can delete and modify people's memories. Is it possible that the game can also read the player's memory? And take inspiration from the player's memory, and use the player's memory as a reference to structure the game."

“This makes it easy for players to enter horror games to a certain extent, and the scenes are more realistic. For example, the train scene setting in the last few minutes of the second copy is exactly the same as I remember. The illusory reality is actually very difficult to achieve.”

Mu Sicheng crossed his arms in thought, and tapped his index finger on the arm of the other hand: "I think the second possibility you mentioned is more reasonable in deduction. I'm inclined to this one, then What about the third possibility you mentioned?"

"No, but there is a very big loophole in this possibility, that is, the logic of the timeline is wrong." Bai Liu looked up at Mu Sicheng, "Do you remember when the "Burst Last Train" we played existed?" ?”

Mu Sicheng was taken aback, and he recalled: "It seems to be a long time, right? I've been there since I went in."

Bai Liu calmly reminded Mu Sicheng: "But the Jingcheng bombing happened this year, which means that the game "Burst Last Train" was earlier than "Jingcheng Bombing". The prototype game already exists, Mu Sicheng, do you understand what this means?"

Mu Sicheng's face began to change, he seemed to realize something, and looked at Bai Liu slowly, Bai Liu continued to speak calmly:

"This shows that we have mistaken the reference prototype, and it is not that "The Last Train" refers to "The Explosion in Jingcheng". game."

After saying this, Bai Liu wrote down the four words [Testing Phase] on the paper.

Mu Sicheng looked at Bai Liu's unwavering eyes, as if his head had been poured down by a basin of ice water, he stared stiffly at the four words written by Bai Liu on the paper, the chill came wave after wave from behind. After coming out, Mu Sicheng's hands trembled a little, as if he had been shocked to the extreme, he understood Bai Liu's meaning, but this also made him look at the words written by Bai Liu on the table paper, and refute in disbelief He said: "How is this possible?!"

To use an in-game term to describe Mu Sicheng's current state is - the mental value has dropped below the safety line.

Bai Liu's tone was calm: "When every game is developed to the end, there will be a version called the public beta version. Simply put, it is for partial public testing and will not be open to all players."

"If we are satisfied with the response of some players in a certain copy, we will put this game copy in the official game, and open this game copy to everyone, which is the final official version of the game."

Bai Liu opened his eyelids: "The third possibility I guess, is that the game and the reality we live in are the beta version and the official version of a game respectively."

"The game is to test the reaction of our selected local players to a certain dungeon. If the [system] is satisfied with our performance in this game dungeon, the corresponding game will be put into our reality and made public to everyone. , become the official version."

"For example, if "The Last Train" is put into reality, it is "Mirror City Explosion", and "The Day of Leaving School" is put into reality, it is the Japanese high school that Mu Ke attended before. Generally speaking, it is just the same one. It's just two different manifestations of horror games."

"In other words." Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng without any emotion in his eyes, "Our world is not safe, and we will be released into the official version of the horror games in the system at any time."

"If this is the case, the meaning of the real life you are pursuing, Mu Sicheng, is no different from surviving in the game, so I don't think you need to refuse a competition for your so-called real life."

"Because the reality you are in is just a game competition that you can't see."