Chapter 204: Wen Huo’s Deduction
Wen Xishu really likes Horn’s personality, and he feels like they met too late.

Wen Xishu said:
“Did you hear any strange noises just now?”

Horn shook his head:

“No.”

Wen Xishu was surprised:
“No?”

Horn was a little surprised:

“It seems that there are off-site clues that only you can sense?”

Wen Xishu was curious about the term “off-field clues”.

“Why are they called off-site clues?”

Horn said:

“Although I shouldn’t be too self-centered in my attitude, I will consider myself a player when solving troublesome situations.”

“In this way, if there is information that does not belong to me, I will consider it to be off-site information.”

Wen Xishu liked this answer very much.

The sky was gradually clearing up at this time. As Wen Xishu defeated the sea beast under Horn’s control, the sea beast in the distance also disappeared.

But Mia next to her was still muttering the same words she had been muttering not long ago.

And the feeling as if being locked by something did not disappear.

“So, he is a woman.”

After defeating the giant beast in the sea of ​​sin, Wen Xishu has gradually recalled some things.

Some obvious characteristics of women gradually began to become clear in my memory.

Horn said:

“In Longxia, there is an interesting saying that I like very much, called Yin and Yang.”

“It seems that there is yin and yang in this world now. Men generally present a yang trend, and women generally present a yin trend. Of course, it is not absolute, but the world is always in a state of harmony between yin and yang.”

“Once the yin is gone, the yang itself is out of balance.”

“Fortunately, we have managed to keep the concept for now. But it looks like the monsters will appear again.”

The behemoth in the sea of ​​sin will not die, but will continue to evolve and become stronger and stronger.

However, after killing the giant beast in the sea of ​​evil, it seems that it will not be attracted again in a short time.

“We have to find a safe place. If the sea monster appears again, it will be very difficult to deal with.”

The sea of ​​evil monsters is like some kind of error correction mechanism.

Wen Xishu and others found the people who had lost their consciousness, just like a bug in this world.

The force used to kill the bug may not be strong at first, but it will become stronger time and time again, and the force will become stronger and more exaggerated.

Horn nodded. Although he didn’t know where to hide, he felt that he should at least leave here first.

So Wen Xishu picked up one person again, pushed another person, placed one person flat on Horn’s unconscious legs, and started on their way.

“After holding on for 24 hours and returning to the Ark, perhaps many questions will have answers.” This is what Wen Xishu thought.

As for Mia, Wen Xishu tried to seal Mia’s mouth.

He had a kind of Mia’s constantly chattering mouth, like some kind of signal transmitter, allowing the sea monsters to locate them.

What’s interesting is that when Wen Xishu blocked Mia’s mouth with something, the surroundings suddenly became quiet, and both of them felt that they could finally stop thinking about “women”.

Horn and Wen Xishu are not easily affected by external factors, but when it comes to the concept of loss, their thoughts are always easily interrupted.

Mia seemed to be awake at first, but after her mouth was blocked, she fell into coma again.

Horn was amazed by this scene.

Horn also did not forget Wen Xishu’s initial question.

“What noise did you hear?”

Wen Xishu said truthfully:
“Someone was calling for help. He told me that the next island was critical and we had to get to the next island.”

If the person who said this was not Wen Xishu, Horn would think that the other person was talking nonsense.

But now Horn listened carefully, and he frowned:

“continue.”

Wen Xishu nodded:
“At first, this person didn’t ask for help. He just told me that the sea monster is difficult to kill and it will continue to evolve.”

“But at least I’m very fast, so fast that the sea monster has a hard time locking onto us.”

“And after I defeated the Sea of ​​Sin monster, it seems that he has other expectations of me.”

“He started asking me for help.”

Horn seemed to have thought of something, and his expression became more serious:

“Go on, go on, what were the key words he said?”

These four key words also made Wen Xishu realize the problem.

Sirius?

No, this information is not critical, at least not to Horn and others.

Wen Xishu immediately thought of:

“He said he was in the ark.”

Horn immediately called a halt:

“Stop, stop! Stop right here.”

Wen Xishu stopped pushing the wheelchair, and Horn closed his eyes and began to think.

After all, he knew more information than Wen Xishu.

But Horn was not just thinking, he began to tell many fragments of information.

“The Ark, the people with special abilities, the people who are constantly being sacrificed, the energy, the normal sea area, the evil sea, the evil soil fragments, the invasion of sea beasts… it’s parked on the island.”

“You were on the island, and you heard a cry for help from someone who claimed to be from the Ark! No, he wasn’t from the Ark, but that person was still in the Ark.”

“I think I’m getting some clues. But I need someone to review it with me.”

Horn and Wen Xishu looked at each other and thought of something. Soon, they began to construct possibilities.

Horn said:

“Let’s piece together a story? By the way, we can continue the action.”

Wen Xishu nodded and started pushing the wheelchair forward, saying:
“you first?”

Horn said:

“There is a very powerful person with special abilities in the Ark. He is extremely powerful. For some reason, this person with special abilities was imprisoned in the Ark.”

Wen Xishu couldn’t help but complain:

“You tell the story too fast. It starts right at the climax?”

Horn fired back:

“I can’t start with the massacre of Indians by the Free State, or the discovery of the Free Continent during the Age of Navigation, right? Or do you want me to start with the coming of the apocalypse, when the Free State built the ark?”

Wen Xishu continued:

“Okay, it’s my turn. This imprisoned man has powerful abilities, perhaps more than any other person on the Ark, but overall, he just longs to ride the Ark away from the end of the world.”

Horn nodded:
“Although I don’t know why you made this assumption, it doesn’t conflict with the story I’m going to tell next.”

“He longs to stay away from the end of the world and has been hiding his abilities.”

“But he was still discovered by other ability users. The captain of the Ark was probably afraid of him because of his strength… or some kind of greedy desire. In order to deal with him, or control him, he joined forces with other ability users to imprison him.”

It’s Wen Xishu’s turn:
“But then, strange things started happening on the Ark. The imprisoned person was so powerful that it was beyond everyone’s imagination.”

“And the original sea area suddenly turned into a red sea area on that day.”

“The Red Sea was named the Sea of ​​Sin by your captain. Of course, if we had more details, we would know why he called this sea the Sea of ​​Sin.”

“Then, the Ark began to be attacked by a mysterious creature – the Sea of ​​Sin monster.”

“There is only one way to stop the sea monster from attacking – that is to arrange for people to enter the fragment of evil land. Eight people go in. As long as these eight people go in, they can temporarily calm the rage of the sea monster.”

Horn felt more and more comfortable, thinking that Wen Xishu thought exactly the same as he did, he felt like he had a close friend. This was the first time he had such a feeling.

“My turn? Well, actually everyone has been deceived, and they all think that the Sea of ​​Sin is a real sea. But the truth may not be like this. Maybe the Sea of ​​Sin… and the fragments of the Sin Land are not real.”

“No matter how far the Ark sails in the Sea of ​​Evil, the monsters of the Sea of ​​Evil will always catch up with the Ark suddenly.”

“Perhaps, the Sea of ​​Sinners has never left the Ark. The Sea of ​​Sinners was summoned by someone in the Ark.”

“That person is the one who was imprisoned by the captain and many people with special abilities.”

Wen Xishu immediately responded:
“Well, it’s not that the behemoth invaded, it’s because the owner of the behemoth has been on the ship since the beginning.”

“The sea monster attacked the Ark because it wanted to rescue that person.”

Horn did not respond immediately this time. Instead, he thought for a while before speaking slowly:
“The imprisoned man has great power, and he wants to save himself. But he can only be saved by the sea beast.”

“We originally thought that the only way to avoid the monster in the sea of ​​evil was to get close to the fragments of the evil land, that is, to land on the island…”

“But now it seems that landing on the island is a means to eliminate the desire of the sea monster to attack? Or a means to cut off the connection between that person and the sea monster?” “Let me be a little conspiracy-theory, assuming that after eight people sacrifice a certain concept, they can calm the sea monster’s desire to attack–“

“That’s where the contradiction comes in.”

Wen Xishu nodded:

“Yeah, I can’t figure this out either. If we all lose the concept of women, the sea monster will be able to stay quiet for the rest of the day and not attack us.”

“So why do we refuse to lose this concept at this moment, and it attacks us instead?”

The piece together of their stories was suddenly interrupted.

Because they were all stuck. After a while, Wen Xishu said:

“Is it possible… that the two sea monsters are not from the same system?”

“Is it possible that the monsters on the Sea of ​​Sin are the imprisoned people’s desire to save themselves?”

“And the monster in the sea of ​​evil in the fragments of evil soil symbolizes… a kind of error correction mechanism?”

Horn also immediately understood what Wen Xishu wanted to say, and he showed a slight surprise:
“What you mean is… there is no Sea of ​​Sin at all? There is no island called the Fragment of Sin Land?”

Wen Xishu said:
“Brain in a vat, have you heard of it?”

Horn’s face turned pale.

“You should remember, right? Once it reaches a certain stage, the giant beast will make everyone fall into hallucinations.” Wen Xishu asked again.

Horn nodded:
“Yes… yes, I understand, Wen Xishu, I understand everything!”

“So that’s how it is… So that’s how everything is?”

Horn did understand, and Wen Xishu also understood.

Horn began to speak:
“If we don’t land on the island, we will see rotting flesh appearing on the bulkhead. It’s like… we are in the belly of the sea monster.”

“There is one more thing. Every island is different. In some islands, the concept of loss is children, in some islands, the concept of loss is the elderly. In some islands… like our island, the concept of loss is women.”

“In addition, the fragments of the evil land, that is, these islands, some are cities, some are deserts, and some are small towns…”

“It’s so varied and chaotic. At first I thought from the perspective of a game player… this is the setting of the game.”

“But now I think about it, it’s not like that!”

“It’s consciousness! It’s the habitat of consciousness!”

“Remember how we left?”

Wen Xishu certainly remembered:
“The scarlet sea fog blocked everyone’s view. The sea monster kept attacking outside. No one could see what was outside the sea fog, and no one dared to open the window to face the sea monster.”

“So no one saw…there were no islands around the Ark!”

“And the so-called landing on the island does not mean that the Ark stopped next to the island!”

“The way to leave the Ark is to take the elevator inside the Ark and enter the portal.”

“But that’s just an illusion. There’s no portal at all! It’s a consciousness connection device!”

“We are…in the mind of the imprisoned man!”

“The eight of us are the victims of a game!”

Horn clapped his hands and said:
“It’s wonderful. Yes, the eight of us are victims of the game. It’s like a kind of…super complex hypnosis.”

“We assume the captain is trying to control the one with the most powerful abilities.”

“By the way, did he say his name?”

Wen Xishu hesitated for a second, and finally decided to tell Horn:
“The imprisoned esper is called Sirius.”

Horn was slightly surprised:

“What a strange name. Well, I can accept it. It’s all part of the game setting. Um… the captain started a game with Sirius in order to control Sirius.”

“The so-called game is that Sirius tries to save himself through mental attacks. This is manifested in the sea monster attacking the Ark.”

“The captain tried to control Sirius through mental attacks.”

“And landing on the island is actually entering Sirius’s world of consciousness!”

Horn continued:

“The captain may have mastered some kind of ritual or method to allow eight people to enter Sirius’s consciousness world.”

“In this world, by making eight people lose a certain concept… it also makes Sirius recognize the non-existence of this concept.”

“But among the eight people, as long as someone can realize the concept of loss…then the concept of Sirius can be preserved.”

“Of course, this possibility is very low. If it weren’t for you, Wen Xishu, I wouldn’t be able to stick to this concept. I have to thank you.”

Wen Xishu remembered that before landing on the island, he knew that many people had lost some concepts. Some people had no old people, and some people had no children.

He couldn’t help but ask:

“If… a world without women means the loss of harmony between yin and yang, then what does it mean to a world without old people?”

Horn shook his head:

“Maybe it means…conservatism, respect, something that only old people can give.”

“Many people say that when you have no relatives or elders, you will undergo a huge transformation. You may become cold-blooded, or you may become free.”

Wen Xishu said:
“And the children?”

Horn said:

“Hope, change. I’m not sure, just like men and women don’t necessarily represent yin and yang. I’m just saying that the elderly, children, women… these things may just be appearances, and they may be metaphors for some kind of image.”

“But what is certain is that the more these images or concepts are lost… the more Sirius deviates from himself, the more he becomes – like a puppet.”

Through the disappearance of different categories of people at different stages… to influence Sirius’ inner world?

Wen Xishu felt horrified. An ordinary person actually tried to make a demigod into a puppet through some means?
This is indeed a very bold, yet logical idea.

Horn said:

“So…when we returned to the Ark, the sea beast we faced was Sirius’s desire to save himself.”

“But when we entered the conscious world, the sea beasts we faced were some kind of trick used by the captain.”

“The two sea beasts look the same, just to paralyze us, but they are fundamentally different.”

Wen Xishu added:

“The reason why they are the same…may also mean that after the previous successful completion of the ‘landing on the island’, the captain has gradually mastered some of Sirius’ abilities.”

Horn nodded:
“In short, old people, children, women… they all seem to be some kind of images. If Sirius loses these images, will he gradually become indifferent and numb, or give up on redemption?”

Wen Xishu agreed with this view.

He and Horn deduced…and felt that although everything was absurd, it made sense.

They had never left the Ark, never landed on the island, but had always been in the spiritual world of Sirius.

There is no doubt that they helped Sirius to maintain the concept of “woman”.

However, the two of them didn’t know whether they would encounter trouble after returning to the Ark if everything was as they had speculated.

In this trip to the mysterious tower, the island is a level and the ark is also a level.

There is one more thing that Wen Xishu cares about very much——

Land of Evil, Sea of ​​Evil, are these names really just a way of saying it?

If it was to cover up the truth, why not give it another name?
Why not call it the Scarlet Sea, but the Sea of ​​Sin? Why not call it the Islands of Chaos, but the Fragments of Sinful Land?
Is it true that he has no connection with the evil world mentioned by the old tea seller?
Horn looked up at the sky:

“Another dark cloud is looming… It looks like the next wave of attacks is coming. Even though Mia is unconscious, it seems we can’t escape the pursuit of the sea monster.”

Originally, Horn planned to use Wen Xishu’s handle to control Wen Xishu to defeat the monster in the sea of ​​evil again.

But when I think about the possibility that the sea monster might be even more powerful than before, and when I think about the fact that defeating the sea monster is only a temporary solution but not a permanent one…

Horn suddenly asked:

“Endless fighting doesn’t seem like the right solution. Wen Xishu, do you think that someone like me can make it through the game on my own without your help?”

Wen Xishu heard the hidden meaning:
“You mean, is there a way for ordinary people to regain their lost concepts… without triggering the error correction system and being discovered by the sea monster?”

Horn lamented:

“I wish we had known each other earlier.”

Wen Xishu thought for a moment:
“In this world without women, we who know that women exist will be erased by the world.”

Horn continued:
“It’s like, we are viruses, and we need to be cleaned up by anti-virus software. But before we met Mia, we didn’t really unlock the word ‘woman’.”

“What if we turn the whole world into a virus?”

Wen Xishu said:
“I think I understand why you’ve been unwilling to abandon Mia and Judy.”

The sky was still getting darker, and Wen Xishu discovered that there was indeed time for the giant beast from the sea of ​​sin to arrive.

This time is enough to do a lot of things.

Horn nodded:
“We have to join forces to defeat the sea monster once again. This time it might be a little tricky, but next time, we can stop running away meaninglessly and do something crazy enough.”

Wen Xishu smiled and threw the handle to Horn:

“Horn, I really hope you can leave the Ark in the future.”

(End of this chapter)