Survivorship Bias

    Wu You originally followed Yang Erci and Josh to find clues in an office on the first floor.

    This office is bigger than he imagined, and it is still a suite inside and outside. Originally, I wanted to see if there was any available information, but there was too much information. He couldn't figure out why the digital age still exists. There is so much useless paper stuff.

    I was complaining in my heart when a strange bell came from outside the door.

     Very crisp.

    The bell rang repeatedly, getting closer and closer. Wu You felt strange, so he put down the information in his hand and walked out of the room.

    I don't know if it's the building itself, or the closed state caused by the collapse of the so-called security system. There is no window in this containment center.

    Wu You came to the door defensively, but he did not go out immediately, thinking that maybe the NPC in this game was doing something wrong. Hearing the source of the ringtone clearly, planning the escape route, and being prepared to shout at all times for Yang Erci and Josh to escape, Wu You finally turned his head to the side and looked at the source of the sound, which is his right hand.

    It turned out to be that rude Taoist...

    A false alarm.

    The Taoist smiled, "Little boy, why are you so disappointed?"

    He was wearing a strange work uniform, but he was holding a copper bell in his hand. The upper end of the bell was a handle in the shape of a "mountain", and a strange totem was carved on the bell.

    "Why are you ringing the bell?" The defensiveness on Wu You's face was unabated, he never felt that this Taoist priest was a good person, "Where did the bell come from?"

    "Of course I brought it in myself." The Taoist priest still smiled and shook the bell in his hand again, "This is called the Sanqing bell, which is an important instrument of our Taoist school, "Taiqing" There is a cloud in the Jade Book: 'The Taoist so-called hand-held imperial bell, throwing fire for thousands of miles, flowing bells and eight rushes is also'..."

    Wu You only thought he was nonsense and didn't want to answer, so he turned his head and walked to the left side of the corridor. But the Taoist priest was unrelenting and followed behind him, waving the bell in his hand regularly as he walked.

    "Don't underestimate our Sanqing bell, this is a great tool for exorcising demons and warding off demons. Do you hear the sound of this bell is particularly clear and pleasant, but in those evil spirits In their ears, the sound could torture them to death."

    I don't know if Wu You can torture the evil spirit to death, he only knows that he is about to be tortured to death by this long-winded Taoist priest.

    Forget it, find an excuse to throw him away when you get to the corner.

    Just like that, Nanshan chased Wu You all the way like a duck. Walking and walking, Wu You stopped.

    He looked puzzled, stared forward, and then looked back.

    "What's wrong?" Nan Shan shook the bell in his hand again.

    Wu You did not speak, and tried to walk a few steps forward, and even ran.

    Nan Shan also followed him and ran forward, but after a while, Wu You stopped again and turned to look back.

    "Didn't you find something wrong?" Wu You asked Nan Shan.

    Nan Shan did not speak, and shook the bell again.

    Wu You said to himself: "The 'corner' in front of you can't get there... No matter how long you go, it just stays in the state of 'coming soon'."

    A very mysterious smile appeared on Nanshan's face.

    "You're so smart, you found out so quickly."

    He put his hands behind his back, and his tone was still the same as before.

    "We have a word in China called ghosts hitting the wall, which means that no matter how you go, you are going in circles." After that, he shrugged, "I just rang the bell because as soon as I walked around the corner, I realized something was wrong."

    Nan Shan also looked back and said to Wu You, "No matter how many steps I take, there is always a corner behind me."

    Wu You frowned.

    "But your bell didn't break the wall."

    Nan Shan smiled, "Indeed, but I dragged you in." He shrugged, "Before you saw me, I was alone here at least halfway. hours."

    This made Wu You's heart tremble.

    "No one is with you? I clearly saw you with Brother Wu Jiu before."

    "Oh yes, originally we were researching a safe evacuation route map, but we were surprised that there was no elevator or stairs on the map. How to get upstairs became a big problem, so we planned to separate Look for the stairs and the exit." Nan Shan shook her head slowly, "But that guy with green eyes doesn't seem to like me very much, so he won't let me go with An Wu Jiu."

    Wu You heard the expression "I know" on his face.

    "He said he was afraid of ghosts and needed someone to accompany him. I said I was an exorcist, and he said he would have nightmares when he saw the ball head." Nan Shan touched the hair on the top of his head. Bun, "What a strange person."

    "He's like that." Wu You said.

    This is already the case, it seems that they can only go out through this ghostly corridor. He thought for a while, and said to this Taoist priest who was not much more reliable than Shen Ti: "Is there any way to crack the ghost?"

    "There is, but there is." Nan Shan turned forward with her hands behind her back, and then turned around, "If the ghost hitting the wall, if it is not a spatial illusion, it cannot be ruled out that there is a possibility of evil beings. Taoism The so-called Qimen Dunjia technique can also create a game and break it with a certain degree of certainty."

    "Originally, I just didn't bother to use it."

    Wu You frowned, "Is there a way to not use it? What do you think."

    This strange Taoist priest.

    "I usually get bored with these metaphysical spells, and I have to chant a spell when I enter the game." Nan Shan looked at him with a smile, "Besides, I was the only one, how boring it was to cast spells. No audience."

    Wu You's face collapsed.

    And the audience...

    Do you think your peacock is on the screen?

    "Besides, the conditions here are limited." Nan Shan paused, stretched a hand to his back, and touched it for a long time.

    Wu You stared at him.

    Don't tell me you're tickling.

    Fortunately, Nanshan finally pulled out something from her back, which was a wooden carved long sword.

    "It's a pity that I couldn't bring my high-grade peach wood sword in, I only brought one that I carved to deceive children. I don't know how it will work."

    Wu You: "...Are you really a serious Taoist priest?"

    "Of course, I'm a decent child of a famous family." Nan Shan blew on the Taomu sword, then slowly took out a yellow talisman and looked left and right.

    "At this speed, can we catch the ghost before we die?"

    "No rush, no rush."

    Nan Shan walked to the empty corridor two or three meters away from Wu You, stopped in the middle of the road, and drew a nine-square grid on the ground with the wooden sword.

    What Wu You didn't expect was that this tattered sword with no magic weapon style could draw black lines on the ground out of thin air.

     Immediately afterwards, Nanshan filled in the numbers in the nine-square grid, but the way of filling in the numbers seemed to have no regularity and order.

    4_9_2

    3_5_7

    8_1_6

    Nanshan stood facing the Jiugongge, and threw the yellow talisman into the air. The yellow paper fluttered and stayed in front of Nanshan, suspended in the air.

    This time, Wu You believed that this guy was not a Taoist priest.

    But the next second he was even more confused.

    Why in a virtual game like the altar, the Taoist magic can still be effective?

    Shouldn't this ability be impossible?

    Also, the altar is not just a virtual game in his imagination...

    While he was thinking, he heard Nan Shan say something.

    "The disciple is disturbing."

    I saw his peach wood sword fly out of his hand, circled the ceiling a few times, and then dived straight down.

    "Southeast." The smile on Nan Shan's face disappeared, and she became very serious.

    The voice fell, and the diving mahogany sword flew above the number 6.

    He put one hand behind his back and the other palm in front of his chest, chanting incantation: "Please press Tianmen to worship the Six Ding Jade Lady Zhenjun, paint the earth bureau, go out of the heavenly door, enter the earthly household , Close the golden gate and ride the jade chariot, the jade girl, the blue dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, the Xuanwu, the Gouchen, the snake, the Liuhe, the Liujia god, the **** king and the **** general, ride on me, go to a certain place, patrol the left and right..."

    While he read, the peach wood sword drew lines on the ground in a certain order, and the red lines penetrated the numbers of each palace.

    6-7-8-9-5-1-2-3-4-5

    "The gentleman sees me with great joy..."

    In the 5th house, which is the central house, the Taomu sword stays for a few seconds.

    The hair next to Nanshan's face is flying up, and the distance is only two or three meters. Across the nine palaces from him, Wu You felt that there was no wind.

    Two seconds later, Nanshan Lengmian said the last sentence.

    "A hundred evil thieves and ghosts, those who see me will die."

    Peach Wood Sword regained its stability and moved from the stagnant 5th house to the first 6th house.

    With a loud noise, a golden light flashed in the nine palaces, and then it disappeared.

    Wu You, who frowned to avoid the light, turned his face, looked at the ground where the nine palaces were once painted, turned his head again, and looked around.

    "Success?"

    The peach wood sword has now returned to Nanshan's hand, holding the sword on his back, he walked towards the direction they were going.

    "It's hard to say." He returned to his frivolous and unreliable tone, "Let's go and have a look."

    Wu You had no choice but to follow behind him. They continued to move forward, and the further they walked, Wu You felt that it was still the same as before, as if there was no difference, still in the place near the corner.

    It's just that he feels that the temperature is not so low, even a little hot.

    Walking, Nan Shan, who was the first, stopped, stretched out a hand, and pressed it against the wall.

    "What's the matter with you?" Seeing that he was acting strangely, Wu You followed him and reached out to touch the wall like him.

    It's hot.

    He took his hand away, "Why are the walls here so hot."

    "This is the source of the weirdness." Nanshan put the spell on the wall. The strange thing is that the wall was completely continuous. A steel door appeared out of thin air where the talisman was.

    The same material as the room door they encountered before.

    The only difference is that this door has a display screen that shows a nine-square grid.

    "This is what you became?"

    Nan Shan shook her head slightly.

    He was brought here on purpose.

      With blood, Nan Shan continuously drew on the screen in the order of the nine palaces of Fangcai's anti-closing game.

    A centrosymmetric blood line diagram is presented above the nine palaces.

    The door suddenly opened inwards, with only one crack in the door, Wu You was about to be burned by the hot air gushing out from inside, and a strong smell of burning protein made him cough.

    Nan Shan pulled him behind her, "Be careful."

    Wu You, who was avoiding the heat, glanced at the display screen on the door just now, and found that it was no longer a nine-square grid, and the blood was gone, but a new line of words appeared.

    [Welcome back, E07.]

    Is this…

    Where Nanshan characters work.

    "You're E07, right?"

    "Yeah."

    Suddenly, Nan Shan and Wu You raised their hands and touched their ears at the same time, because they suddenly heard a beep, and the words they said to each other after that seemed inexplicable in their ears It's strange that they overlap each other.

    Wu You looked sideways and saw a black dot on Nanshan's auricle. He reached out and touched it, "It looks like something like a microphone."

     Nanshan also saw Wu You's auricle.

    He stretched out his hand and tapped the raised dot on his auricle twice in a row, and found that the overlap disappeared, "Because we are near each other, there is an overlap after connecting the signal."

    "It should be." Wu You thought for a while, "I don't know if I can contact other people."

    "Come and see this strange house first."

    Although Zhong Yirou was well prepared, she was startled by the children who sat up at the same time.

    At the same time, she found that the lullaby lingering throughout the shelter stopped abruptly.

    They called "sister, sister..." one after another on the bed, trying to get out of bed one by one stiffly.

    Seeing those little blue-white hands and feet about to step on the ground, Zhong Yirou, who was stunned, immediately reacted.

    Is it the temperature?

    She endured the strong smell and ran to the console where she was placed, frantically clicking on the panel and turning down the temperature on it.

    10, 9, 8, 7…

    Hurry up.

    Suddenly, she felt something grab her ankle, but she didn't look down.

    What to look at, at most it is just a disgusting ghost doll grabbing the leg.

    "Don't scratch my old lady's stockings!"

    She finally adjusted back to the previous 3 degrees, and ran out the door without looking back. Zhong Yirou felt something wrapped around her legs, but she couldn't care about it. As soon as she left the sleeping room and saw An Wujiu outside the door, she took a deep breath and groped for the white button with one hand.

    The door slammed shut, leaving nothing behind.

    "Just closed?"

    Zhong Yirou couldn't believe it. At this moment, she remembered that something was hugging her ankle just now, so she closed her eyes and threw one of her legs desperately.

    "What's wrong with you?" An Wujiu asked, "Is there something on your leg?"

    "What's the matter?" She squatted down to check, "It really happened just now."

    She felt incredible, stood up again, a little emotional, "Did you see it? It was just that scene, blameless, this place is not a place for children to sleep together, it is a park. Corpse!"

    An Wujiu had a puzzled expression on his face.

    "How come? They were sleeping when you entered."

    "I'm still telling you outside, be quiet, high heels will wake them up."

    Zhong Yirou was stunned.

    She didn't believe it was her own illusion, so she dared to press the white button again.

      On their cots, even their chests were heaving slightly with their breathing.

    Everything is alive and peaceful.

    They went from dead to living children.

    There was a beep in her ear, followed by some loud noises.

    The blame behind her said to her: "Are you too nervous?"

    "Otherwise, don't search this place first. It is normal to shelter all children. I just saw the work log in an office. You must have your permission to open it. Let's take a look at that first."

    "Oh, good." Zhong Yirou closed the door of the sleeping room again, still having lingering fears in her heart.

    Is it the same as permissions, only you can see it.

    "It's really strange, if you don't believe me, let's see it later."

    Suddenly, the noise heard by the ear that had just beeped disappeared, followed by a familiar voice.

    [Yirou, I just found out that our right ear has a device with intercom function, did you run out by yourself? Don't be alone, do you want to come and turn with us now? We are on the southeast corner of the first floor. ]

    Zhong Yirou, who was silently following behind An Wujiu, suddenly fell silent.

    [Can you hear that? I am innocent. ]

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