Chapter 35: Reality

As expected, [Game] has a higher authority than [Real World] and can tamper with [Facts] in the real world.

This is a world that has been tampered with, and they, the chosen [players], have discovered this [reality], but have been [banned], unable to reveal the slightest bit of this reality.

I just don't know how far this [Gagging] can go. It's easy to tamper with and erase things that can be recorded objectively, such as deleting words written down on paper and sending out tweets to friends, but this level of [Erasure] can be done by humans in the real world as well.

Bai Liu from the drawer to find his screen fell to pieces did not want to change the phone, find a friend's phone inside, dialed the past, before the other party responded to the rapid speed of their own encounter with everything said, the friend listened to a succession of groaning, Bai Liu's hand on the table tapping, with the tapping carelessly counting down in low tones: "7, 6, 5". 6, 5 ......"

"What are you counting down for! You're going to tell me about this thing you've got going on! Is it true, you didn't make it up, it's too exciting-"

Bai Liu drops his eyes, "--3-2-1."

My friend's voice came to an abrupt halt and then started to become confused, "Eh, Bai Liu what are you calling me for? Eh? When did I answer your call! Why don't I have any memory of it!"

"Nothing." Bai Liu said casually, "I just missed you and called you."

Seven seconds is the time that Bai Liu just sent out a tweet and then until the last word of the tweet he sent out completely disappeared, he specially memorized it, he didn't expect that [the game] can even easily tamper with human memories such as this kind of [non-objective existence], and also only needs seven seconds to completely tamper with it, it didn't take a second more.

It seems that the difficulty of tampering with a person's memory is not much more than tampering with a piece of data for [Game].

"Vomit, Bai Liu, people like you only say think about money, don't disgust me." My friend, who obviously knows Bai Liu very well, joked and asked, "Seriously, why did you remember to call me? What's up?"

"I was thinking about a question, Lu Yizhan, would you say that a person's memory is only seven seconds?" Bai Liu taps his fingers on the table in a loose manner, using a pen to record his experiences in the game on paper before watching the words disappear one after the other.

Lu Yizhan's voice lurched, as if a little confused, "Why are you suddenly thinking about such philosophical questions? Moreover, this question of yours is wrong, isn't it? Isn't it true that a fish's memory only lasts for seven seconds?"

"Did I remember it wrong?" Bai Liu lazily propped up his back, "Maybe, after all, with only seven seconds of memory, it's normal to misremember things, eh, do you think it's possible that the original sentence of this sentence was [Humans only have seven seconds of memory], and then it was tampered with by something to become [Fish only have seven seconds of memory], used to fool us humans who only have seven seconds of memory? "

Lu Yizhan has been accustomed to Bai Liu said some very strange words after losing his job, he cried and laughed: "What are you thinking about after losing your job, I paid my salary today, I invite you to dinner, don't think about these people ah fish ah seven-second memory, if people only have a seven-second memory, what do you want us to memorize the terms of the law of the people who have to memorize the book every day? "

"Of course I'll come if you invite me to dinner." Bai Liu casually threw the coin around his neck into his collar, and was cooled by a different cold touch than the coin, it was that piece of King Seiren's scale ironed on his heart, Bai Liu hadn't yet hung up the phone, he ghostly asked, "If a human being's memory only lasts for seven seconds, and a fish's memory only lasts for seven seconds, Lu Yixiang, you say --How many seconds does a mermaid's memory last?"

"Why are you still obsessing over this issue ah, you even brought up mermaids." Lu Yizhan laughed helplessly, "According to your hypothesis, both humans and fish have only seven seconds of memory, surely a mermaid's memory must be even shorter, zero seconds?"

"I suppose."

Although he said goodbye to the mermaid named Taville, perhaps the other party forgot about him the moment Bai Liu left.

Bai Liu seldom felt a sense of loss due to being forgotten and ignored, he himself didn't seek human recognition, as long as he had the money to entertain himself he lived well, but King Seiren was such an unprecedentedly beautiful piece of data, that even an emotionless guy like Bai Liu felt a slight bit of regret for the few seconds he had been erased from the other's memory.

It was just a little bit though, just a little bit the size of a fish scale.

The main reason why Lu Yixing and Bai Liu can play together is because these two people are as stingy as each other, these two people have become unshakable revolutionary buddies by sharing information about all kinds of discount sweepstakes, of course, some people think that these two people play together only because these two people have no parents, a pair of orphans who can understand each other's misery.

Bai Liu had just sat down at the barbecue stand when the road stage opened up with an arched eyebrow, "Bai Liu, I'm getting married."

"Congratulations." Bai Liu is not surprised, the road stage and his girlfriend for several years, it's normal to get married, "Then today this meal I invite, later to give you a package of two thousand of the share money."

The road stage nearly sprayed a mouthful of cold beer on Bai Liu's face, and he stared in dismay, "Are you crazy? It's another treat to have something to pay me a share of the money? Also two thousand! Didn't you say you'd never in your life give someone a wedding favor, doing this kind of meat bag to beat the dog with no return?!"

Yes, that's what Bai Liu said when a coworker got married.

This colleague usually and Bai Liu this kind of not pretend to get along with the person not too much, has been gossiping about Bai Liu, but when the wedding has been licking face to come up, want to let Bai Liu out of the money, and also said that the other colleagues have given a thousand and two, Bai Liu, you also here to come up with a monthly bonus, a thousand and two on the line.

At this time Bai Liu said with a calm face [I personally do not have a marriage arrangement, so I am not going to give strangers packages of wedding portion money, do this kind of meat bag to beat the dog with no return investment] this kind of stone-breaking statement.

The coworker's face was black, he was directly scolded by Bai Liu as a dog, Bai Liu means that he and his wife are a pair of [dog man and woman] is it! The coworker was so angry that he said something crazy about Bai Liu behind his back, saying that Bai Liu would be cut off from his children and grandchildren.

However, Bai Liu was not fluctuating when he heard it, and he really had no intention of raising any offspring, so this kind of dirty talk was just an objective account of his future life for Bai Liu, and he had no need to get angry.

"It's not necessarily that I won't, I just won't wrap up a stranger's share of the money." Bai Liu took a sip of his beer, "But you're not considered a stranger, we've had our comings and goings, and me bagging you a share isn't an invalid investment."

The road stage listened to a little heart and a little want to laugh: "What, you are still ready to from me to this investment in the share of money back to earn? Eh seriously Bai Liu, I really don't need you to shell out money, I'm just happy to be married, I want to invite you over for dinner, I don't have many friends, you count as one, I'm quite happy that you're here, and you're not in a good situation now, are you? Really forget it."

"We'll talk about that when you have money." Road Stage said as he waved his hand in a gesture of virtual ground pushing back.

If Bai Liu's meticulousness is natural, the stingyness of the road station is the necessity of life.

Lu Yizhan is a poor police officer, just recently a little better, but compared to the unemployed Bai Liu is also considered too good, he really do not want Bai Liu out of this money.

Bai Liu ate a skewer of roasted cashews and wiped his mouth, then suddenly spoke, "I recently earned a hundred thousand dollars in a week. " "Pfft--!!!! " the road stage really sprayed, "What did you do?!"

He knew that Bai Liu would not lie to him, saying that he earned 100,000 is 100,000, so the road stage was really shocked: "You will not really go to do something illegal and criminal, right? I will be righteous to arrest you myself!"

Lu Yizheng has always known that Bai Liu's brain is very good, but it is used in some very strange and crooked ways, such as designing horror games and designing some traceless crime plots and so on, so when he suddenly heard that Bai Liu had become rich, the first reaction of Lu Yizheng was not lemon, but to pull out the cell phone with a hairy spine, alertly ready to call the police to notify the colleague.

Road station knows Bai Liu this goods moral bottom line is very low, in addition to that what [money hoarding] psychological problems, in the absence of a source of income, Bai Liu this person can do what is really not easy to say.

"I changed jobs, you don't have to be so nervous, I asked, it's legal." Bai Liu cackled as he peeled a peanut, "This job pays well, it's just a bit more dangerous, but it kinda suits me."

"What job pays that well?" Road Stage would be skeptical, "A hundred thousand dollars a week?"

"Emm, it's probably selling your soul to some large underground organization, which I can't reveal the existence of." Bai Liu stroked his chin in thought as he tried to say his experience in the [Game] in a way that wouldn't be banned.

"Then I would perform on stage, or live as it's called, and do this and that selling my body and soul on stage, and there would be some strange things to abuse and bully me, and then I would show them to the audience, and some of the audience who watched me would reward me with a lot of money, and then I would make a hundred thousand dollars."

"...... "Confusion, shock, fear, complexity and so on appeared on the face of the road stage, and finally settled on pity, the road stage looked at Bai Liu sadly, "Do you work as a, duck in a nightclub, Bai Liu? "

Bai Liu: "......"

After Bai Liu's explanation, Lu Yi Zhan reluctantly believes that Bai Liu is not doing that, but is determined not to accept Bai Liu's share of the money, which he feels is Bai Liu's selling money! He can't take it!

Bai Liu: "......"

If Road Stage has to be interpreted that way, it doesn't seem to be out of the question.

After a short party, Bai Liu went home for two days of rest, paid his landlord for six months of rent, briefly cleaned his house, and was ready to enter [the game].

Although the [game] required one entry in seven days, Bai Liu felt that he needed to go in early to learn something else.

But you can have a good meal before you go, even if you die in the game it's still equivalent to having a nice severed meal, Bai Liu thought, and went downstairs to eat a bowl of noodles with a fried egg.

The owner of the small noodle shop downstairs is quite good at his craft, and the shop also has a TV on a shelf covered in grease, broadcasting social news right above Bai Liu, who is now eating noodles:

The voice of the hostess on the news was clear: "Lawyers for Li Gou, the prime suspect in the rape, murder and dismemberment of a high school senior, have filed another lawsuit claiming that there is insufficient evidence for Li Gou to maintain his death sentence, and preparations are underway for a second trial-"

A picture of a cross-faced suspect on the TV and a picture of a smiling girl in a school uniform with her eyes mosaiced are placed side by side in stark disjunction.

The male owner of the noodle shop also saw the news, he wiped his hands with his apron and shook his head and sighed: "Sins ah, a good girl doll was spoiled, I if this female student parents I now may all be crazy, were going to be sentenced, and now suddenly said that there is insufficient evidence, said that the evidence suddenly disappeared, and now the Internet noise over the sky."

The hostess on the TV was still broadcasting in a tone of voice without any ups and downs: "At present, the victim's family members have serious emotional ups and downs, and are gathering at the entrance of the court to cause trouble, and the relevant personnel have intervened in the investigation and coordination."

The video behind the scenes shows a hysterical hairy middle-aged woman being stopped by a group of people, emaciated to the point of almost losing her human form, a ring around her eyes white and wrinkled from tears, and even though she barely wipes away her tears with the backs of her hands, the tears and snot that she had managed to wipe away instantly fall from her eyes and nose when the next breath arrives.

This woman was stuck in the cackle under the nest by a group of people stopped, but she lacked a crazy general rushed to the court door, almost half-kneeling on the ground howling, opening like a heart-breaking mother beast howling: "She is only eighteen years old ！！！！ Why is the evidence missing! Why all the record of that beast on my fruit what things to do the evidence and documents are gone! Are you guys harboring him!!!"

A middle-aged man next to him had already been subdued by the security man's head being held down on the ground, he was writhing and screaming miserably on the ground, his clothes were torn by his struggles.

The man cried with tears streaming down his face, "Let go of me!!!! Return my daughter's justice!!! Return my daughter's innocence! Call out Li Gou, that beast! I swore at Gou Gou's grave dad would kill the bad guy to avenge her!"

The video turned, eyes on a circle mosaic Li Gou appeared in the video, he implicitly pressed the corners of his mouth, but the kind of success of the crime of triumph still from the corner of the eyes of the eyebrow overflowed: "did not do is not done, the previous evidence are those two fictional to frame me."

"Good people like me." Li Gou cracked his mouth, his mosaic-masked eyes and the corners of his mouth that had been rising gave his expression an eerie grimness and tyranny, and he whispered hoarsely, "--God help me, it's the kind of bad people who randomly make up rumors about me that deserve to be burned to death."

"Good tragedy ah." Panel boss is a doughy, soft and chubby man, now watching a social news look with an apron to wipe tears, "These two mouths I still know, before living on our side, the daughter is called Gogo, the results are quite good, I did not expect ...... how this will happen?"

"Evidence that suddenly disappeared?" Bai Liu raised an eyebrow as he finished the last bite of his pasta and he looked at the social news on the screen.

This technique of erasing some kind of objective existence is a bit subtly similar to the [game] [banning] ah ......

"Where is this girl's grave?" Bai Liu asks the noodle shop owner, "Or do you have her parents' phone number?"

The noodle shop owner froze, "Yes there is, what do you want Bai Liu?"

"I might be able to help them." Bai Liu wiped his mouth and stood up after placing ten dollars on the table to press under the noodle bowl.

The noodle shop owner froze, "Help them? How are you going to help?"

"By an unconventional yet legal means." Bai Liu commented calmly.

Bai Liu has already found out that this game is completely a pyramid scheme, where players and players are like dominoes one after another, being knocked down by events that seem to be unconnected, but are in fact intrinsically connected, and falling into traps and despair that are pre-determined by [the game] to stimulate intense desire, and thus being taken into the [game] to be the [player] who sells their souls to [the game] to satisfy their own uncontrolled inner desires. The [Player] who sells his soul to the [Game] to satisfy his uncontrollable inner desires.

Entry into the game is contingent upon personal desires so drastic that they have no regard for life or death, such as Bai Liu's desire for money over life.

If Bai Liu is not wrong, probably the [players] in this world, soon there will be one more pair of sad and desperate parents.

That [Li Gou] should also be a player, this [Li Gou] should use props to eliminate his own crime, and Li Gou's action forced the parents who lost their daughter to seek help and fall into an extreme desire for vengeance, thus fulfilling the game's criteria for accepting players.

It's like [Mu Ke] parachuted into Bai Liu's former position because he had a bad heart and wanted to experience life, forcing Bai Liu to enter the game by going into a runaway desire for money after being laid off.

Everyone in this world is like a chess piece or a block under [the game], and [the game] is like a god playing with their lives as it pleases, as if it were a fun game.

What a cunning and cruel [game].