Survivorship Bias

    Shen Ti stared at the screen and suddenly spit out two words, "Dead?"

    "Who?" Wu You asked.

    "The people on the first few floors." Seeing the automatic destruction of the last log, Shen Ti shrugged, "Or I can only explain it as a power outage."

    After the log disappeared, the screen returned to its original state, but another email popped up, but it was unfinished in the draft box.

    The title is Research Developments in Children's Psychological Experiments.

    He paid attention, but the email soon disappeared.

    So fast.

    He felt someone beside him beside him, his head was on one side, and the tip of his nose almost touched An Wujiu's cheek.

    "You are so close." Shen Ti said in a low voice.

    An Wujiu also answered in a low voice, "Is it very close? You are always so close to me."

    When he said this, Shen Ti was stunned for a moment, then laughed.

    Seeing his smile, An Wu Jiu felt a little uncomfortable.

    Josh was still immersed in the previous question, and suddenly thought of something, "By the way, the security system mentioned at the beginning broke down, right, when we first came in."

    "Is it related to the fact that the log is not finished? If there is a problem with the system of the whole building, it should have an impact. And the first log also seems to say that the management of the E floor There has been a bug in the permissions."

    "The collapse of the system should be an important clue." After Yang Erci finished speaking, he felt that his neck was also uncomfortable, so he reached out and touched it, and the touch was not right.

    An Wujiu looked at her and said without surprise, "It also appeared on you."

    There is an extremely terrifying scar on her neck.

    This is the injury after the throat was cut.

    He paid attention to the countdown to the right of his field of vision, and after a rough calculation, they had less than four hours left.

    The end time of the game, like the initial time, is close to zero o'clock.

    "I have a question." Wu You said, "If they are really dead, who killed them?"

    Josh said tentatively: "A02?"

    "But on the fourth floor, a lot of evidence shows that A02 is the one who has died, the diamond 2 is replaced with a ghost card, the ghost we waited for in the dark corridor, and heaven The words displayed on the door, A02 said 'they're going to kill me'."

    Nan Shan also agrees: "And that nursery rhyme, I remember the original version should be the death of the big rabbit, but the fourth floor is just replaced by the death of the second rabbit."

    The fatal wounds appearing on everyone's body are contradictory to the corresponding evidence.

     Are you going out of the building?"

    The other six also thought it made sense, so everyone decided to leave the room. Before leaving, An Wu Jiu glanced at the screen and found a line of words on it.

    [All for humanity. ]

    It's the same sentence again.

    He left anyway. When looking for the next door in the corridor, An Wujiu also told everyone all the information he saw about the relationship between A02 and A01.

    "A02 has a genetic defect..." Wu You frowned, "Congenital heart disease?"

    An Wujiu nodded and found that Wu Changchun couldn't come out of A02's story for a long time, a dark cloud shrouded his eyebrows.

    When they came to the next corner, they suddenly heard the sound of the door opening. They turned around and saw that a door appeared out of thin air on the wall inside the corridor.

    This door leads to the center circled by the cloister.

    This floor is relatively easier to get to than other floors, and there are not so many side games as obstacles, so An Wugui feels strange.

    "Wait, be careful there's a problem inside." He said to the people walking in front.

    So the other people also waited and didn't go in the first time, but there was nothing but the walls except for the dim light inside, which was even more empty than the central space on the fourth floor.

    After waiting for a while, nothing appeared.

    "Would you like to... go take a look first?"

    Wu You who was standing in front glanced at An Wu Jiu, time was tight, An Wu Jiu had no choice but to nod and follow everyone in.

    Shen Ti stood beside him, and the two walked at the end. The door slammed shut, and as expected, Shen Ti once again slapped it like a frightened cat.

    "Are you really timid or just pretending?" An Wujiu turned to look at him.

    "Of course it's true. I was scared and cried when I was locked in the room by myself, and you couldn't hear me."

    Shen Ti's eardrops wobbled when he spoke, which easily distracted An Wujiu.

    He opened his mouth and found out that there is a problem with the agency.

    "But even if you hear it, you will definitely not care about my life or death."

    Seeing his serious expression, An Wujiu turned his head and looked forward.

    Who said that.

    He wanted to manage.

    The ground here is sunken, and the seven people walked down the steps to the open space in the middle.

    "Why is there nothing here?" Josh turned around, "In such a big venue, wouldn't there be zombies to bite us in a while?"

    Nan Shan smiled, "I'm not surprised what happens here."

    An Wujiu looked at Wu You, even though he was never a talkative person, An Wujiu was very keenly aware of the change in Wu You's expression.

    It seems like she has something on her mind, since she said A02's life experience.

    Is Wu You's life experience related to A02's story?

    Suddenly, An Wujiao felt something was wrong, the floor he stepped on seemed to be sinking.

    He heard Wu You's voice, "Run up the steps!"

    But it was too late, the floor was not a slump, but from a solid to some sort of flowing liquid, swamping each of their legs, no matter how hard they tried No matter how hard you try, you can't break free.

    "No." Yang Erci reminded everyone, "This is a non-Newtonian fluid. The more you struggle, the deeper you sink. Don't move."

    Seeing as everyone sinks, the fluid from the floor has reached their thighs.

    An Wu Jiu frowned, a certain ominous foreboding haunting her mind.

    After a while, a huge screen was projected from the hologram directly above the hall, and the text appeared on it. At the same time, according to the text, the corresponding synthesized speech also follows.

    [You are one step closer to success. ]

    [Now, your task is to infer, by asking questions, what actually happened in this containment center, about each of you, and about the entire containment center, including its ending. ]

    Sure enough, in addition to each layer of decrypted side games, they still have to find the hidden plot line after all.

    [Ask an unlimited number of times, unlimited time, every time you ask a question, you will get a yes or no feedback. When you think you can reason about the real result, stop asking and describe it completely, if it is 80% similar to the truth. The screen will display a celebratory animation and you will be able to escape from the current fluid swamp. ]

    "No limit?"

    An Wujiu's eyes are calm, it is impossible without restrictions and punishment mechanisms.

    The so-called unlimited time actually wants to consume the player's remaining time.

    [Only one. ]

    New text appears on the screen.

    [If the response to your question is "No", everyone present will sink ten centimeters. Once fully immersed in the fluid, it is considered eliminated. ]

    Change the limit from time to danger, which not only kills the player's time, but also increases the elimination rate.

    [The player closest to the truth will receive the right to pardon, leave the fluid, and open the final gate to heaven. The fate of the remaining uneliminated players will be determined by the pardoned players. ]

    It really is a personal battle.

    If it was a group of people with different ideas here, the end result would be very dramatic.

    [The game starts, please feel free to ask questions. ]

    The game started silently like this, the text on the screen disappeared, and it became a symbol, which was a strangely drawn sun.

    This symbol is familiar to Ann.

    "Who asks first?" Josh looked at the others.

    Yang Erci said, "I'll come first."

    She thought about it and asked a question: "A02 is dead, right?"

    A white circle appears on the screen.

    "Yes." Answered in synthetic voice.

    Everyone's faces showed such expressions.

     Nan Shan asked: "Did he die in this shelter, and the cause of death was a heart attack?"

    The circle shows again, "Yes."

    The two correct answers gave everyone a little encouragement. The next second, Wu You asked: "One of the reasons why A02 was cloned was whether his congenital heart development deformity, so a lot of him were cloned. As a substitute and organ provider?"

    A different icon suddenly appeared on the screen this time, and a red cross appeared in the middle of the white circle.

    Synthetic voice replies: "Yes and no."

    Some guesses are correct, and some are not.

    "I'm sorry." Wu You felt sorry for the punishment he caused, he didn't want to hurt everyone.

    “It’s okay.” An Wujiu reassured him, “At least we know, if it’s not completely right, it will sink 5cm.”

    "So the first half sentence is wrong or the second half sentence." Josh thought about it, and felt that the first half sentence should be fine, and the second half sentence seemed to make sense.

    “It shouldn’t be as simple as supplying organs.” An Wujiu explained, “A02’s heart problem stems from genetic inheritance, even if it is cloned, the cloned person has the exact same DNA as him, and the same It's a deformed heart."

    Shen Ti on the side was in a passive strike state, yawning and stretching. Hearing this, he raised his hand and asked a question: "It was A01's father who proposed to clone A02. ?"

    "Yes."

    "A01 and A02 are lovers?" Shen Ti asked a very evasive question.

    The circled cross from before reappears on the screen, "Yes, not exactly."

    With this feedback, everyone sank five centimeters again, and the fluid tightly absorbed their legs, completely unable to move.

    "Definitely not exactly, in name, they should still be brothers." Josh said.

    Zhong Yirou thought of something and said weakly: "I want to ask... Did the ghost of A02 appear in the building?"

    "Yes, not exactly." The circle crossed symbol appeared again on the big screen.

    They sank five centimeters again.

    “Not exactly…” An Wujiu thought for a while.

    "The ghost that appeared is not A02's, but his clone, right?"

    "Yes." The screen gives a positive circle symbol.

    Nan Shan sorted out the clues, "So before A02 died, many clones were cloned and stored in the freezer, but not only A02 himself, but also his clones died."

    Yang Erci thought of the previous log, "It was written in the log that the lifespan of clones is very short." Thinking of this, she asked a question, "The clone of A02 died naturally, not murder, was it? ?"

    "Yes, but not exactly."

    Another incomplete answer.

    "It was a natural death, but not exactly..." Wu You frowned, "You mean, some clones died naturally, and some were killed?"

    "Yes."

    They answered yes.

    Wu You asked again: "Is it because the A02 clone was killed after learning the truth?"

    "Yes."

    Josh asked again: "Is the clone of A02 going to avenge everyone else?"

    "Yes."

     Adopted, cloned, and died of congenital diseases, this is the fate of A02. A02's clones continued his life, either by natural death or by man-made disappearance, and the result seemed to be utter tragedy.

    An Wujiu listened to everyone's questions and felt that something was not quite right.

    Wu You looked at the others and remembered something: "Are these injuries from the revenge of the A02 clone?"

    "Yes."

    "The staff log of the BCDE layer is not finished because the person who wrote the log is in danger or killed at the moment?"

    "Yes."

    "Is it the ghost of the A02 clone who came to take revenge?"

    "No."

    Everyone sank ten centimeters all of a sudden.

    This time, everyone has sunk by a total of 30 cm, and the fluid that did not reach the thighs is now almost reaching the crotch.

    Not the ghost of the A02 clone, who else?

    Zhong Yirou asked again, "It was the A02 clone who found out that he was just a clone, and the memory he got was implanted, so he was very angry and wanted revenge, right?"

    The results again deviate from their imagination.

    "Yes, but not exactly."

    I thought it was the clone that discovered the truth about the clone to be so angry, but the truth seems not so simple.

    When everyone was silent, Shen Ti asked another question: "A02 does not have permission to enter other floors of the containment center, unless the people on that floor give him permission to the corresponding location, such as Circus, right?"

    "Yes." He got an affirmative answer.

    Shen Ti asked again: "So, the black surrogacy factory and various human experiments behind the containment center, A02 and A02 clones are not aware of it from beginning to end, right?"

    The screen lights up with a circle, "Yes."

    With this addition, Josh immediately asked: "That's when the clones of A02 learned about these bad things they did by accident, and found out that they were actually just clones, killed when they resisted, So the ghosts come to them for revenge, right?"

    "Yes, but not exactly."

    What's missing.

    The face of things has been pieced together little by little in their questions and each other's answers, but there seem to be some inconsistencies and gaps that are hard to fill.

    Nan Shan thought for a while and asked, "It was said that the clone of A02 died abnormally. Was it because several other people besides A01 killed the clone of A02?"

    "Yes and no."

    The crowd continued to sink deeper and deeper.

    "Yes or no." Yang Erci frowned and made an unreliable guess, "Could it be that...A01 also participated?"

    A white circle appeared on the screen.

    "Yes."

    Everyone froze in place for a moment, and their backs were a little cold.

    Josh was stunned, "I thought... A01 was in love with A02 and couldn't accept that A02 was sick and died, so he cloned him as if he was still alive. If A01 really loves him , won't kill the clone of A02."

    The truth starts to get weird.

    Shen Ti pouted, "Maybe this A01 is also a lunatic."

    An Wujiu said softly, "Don't you think the reason for adopting A02 is strange from the very beginning? A01's father is none other than the director of an abandoned baby shelter, and he has all the The resources also had a reason to adopt a healthier child, but he adopted a child with a congenital disorder."

    "Maybe it's the fate of the eyes?" After Josh finished speaking, he denied his statement, "Indeed, in this kind of game copy, there is usually an antecedent."

    An Wujiu closed his eyes and went through everything that happened in this shelter.

    There are many pictures in my mind, like watching flowers on a horse, and finally staying in the laboratory on the fourth floor.

    An Wujiu raised his head and raised a new question: "A02 was taken in because of his congenital disease. A01's father wants to use his genetic defect for experimental research, right?"

    "Yes, but not exactly."

    This result caused the seven people present to sink again, but at the same time it also opened up a new idea for them - there is a hidden meaning behind A02's adoption.

    Not exactly...An Wujiu frowned and thought, indeed, there should be many children in the abandoned baby center with congenital defects. To choose A02.

    He carefully recalled the image of A02 and found that in the second layer of Josh's video, he should be the closest to the real A02. At that time, he was kind and just, running for those intersex babies , find the truth.

    Be kind...Is this also one of the criteria for them to choose A02?

    Or do they want A02 to be like this?

    Everyone's thinking began to diverge, "Could it be that A02 is the illegitimate child of A01's father? Are they related by blood?"

    "No."

    "Is it because A02 actually has a special physique, such as a higher success rate of cloning, or a higher success rate of gene editing?"

    "No."

    The feedback from several questions in a row is a red cross, and the situation is not optimistic. The fluid gradually engulfed their bodies from bottom to top, and the slightly shorter ones were about to reach their chests.

    "In short, they used A02 as a test product, right, and they chose him from the beginning. It's good for him. In fact, they want to use him to verify the experimental results." I don't know because the fluid He was about to bury himself, or because of these gradually approaching truths, Josh felt very suffocated. It would be terrifying if a person adopted himself, just like adopting a guinea pig.

    "They are also full of madness and hypocrisy."

    For Humanity?

    An Wujiu narrowed his eyes slightly.

    Suddenly I heard Shen Ti muttering to himself, "Everything is for human beings."

    An Wujiu turned his face to look at him, Shen Ti also turned around, his eyes met.

    Their brainwaves seem to be matching the same signal at some point.

    An Wujiu said, "I always thought that the phrase 'everything is for human beings' sounds strange, this kind of words have the nature of a typical slogan and can give people a strong sense of belief. "

    "It's like a cult organization that uses such bright and righteous slogans to control believers. The purpose is actually very different from the slogan."

    He thought of the unsent mail he just saw on the host under Shen Ti's authority.

    Maybe it was what he thought, albeit absurd.

    An Wujiu raised his head, "I want to ask, besides being the subject of gene editing and cloning, is A02 the subject of another kind of psychological experiment?"

    His conjecture was verified.

    "Yes."

    “Another kind?” Josh looked at An Wujiu, “What is it?”

    Shen Ti thought of the contents of the work log. No matter who the log was, it basically stated some experiments about A02, but one of them was very unclear and was referred to by a noun. Appears in Josh's character's job log.

    Shen Ti raised his eyes and asked the system: "Is this experiment called a growth show?"

    After a while, the conjecture was confirmed.

    "Yes."