0129 Chapter 3: The Unbelievable Kidnapping Case (End of Chapter 39)
Behind the black "safety exit" is pure darkness.
And as the mechanical synthesized sound sounded, the only light appeared here.
Zhen Cheng couldn't describe the color of this light. There were dark red and pale silver, but most of them felt like deep black.
Is there a deep black light in the world? This is of course impossible. So Zhen Cheng felt as if he had seen something unlike this world.
Just five meters away in front of her, deep in the shimmering light that seemed to exude an ominous aura, was a metal column about the same height as her that could be wrapped around with both arms.
The surface of the cylinder is not smooth, but is covered with many metal wrinkles and ripples that are constantly twisting like water waves and tongues of fire. Interestingly, these things are opposite to flames and water splashes, and they all roll downward.
Under the "dark" light, the shadows cast by these twisted wrinkles flash on the surface of the cylinder, resembling facial features, and it looks as if the entire cylinder, which is as tall as a person, is a living human face totem.
On both sides of the column, two smooth metal balls were suspended in the air and waved slightly to Zhen Cheng, looking like the hands of a blue mechanical feline creature.
"Are you...the dark truth?" Miss Thirteen, who always acted unconventionally, did not ask "what are you", but directly asked such a strange question.
Accompanied by the waving of the two balls and the rolling of the ripples on the cylinder, the mechanical synthesized voice replied: "Right and wrong only depend on human cognition."
"Talk like a human being." Zhen Cheng said angrily.
She didn't hate playing Jifu, but she had just experienced a series of thrilling mental and physical challenges, and now she was still in a situation where life or death was uncertain and the future was uncertain. Even she was not in the mood to listen to such nonsense that there was no single correct answer.
The cylinder was not angry at being rebuffed like this. It really responded like an emotionless machine system: "My name is Ollie. It is indeed a dark truth, but it is not what you want in your heart."
This answer was equally clueless, but it made Zhen Cheng feel slightly relieved.
If she had gone through so much trouble to find out what was going on in the secret space, and then encountered a pillar that told her what I call the "dark truth", you have seen it now. I'm afraid she would have to tear down the pillar.
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"So, now that I have cleared the level, I should be able to know the truth, right? What can you tell me? Does this so-called truth refer to the forces that plan to deal with me in reality? You just mentioned it, right? You know it is
Who did it, right?"
The light and shadow on the metal pillar flickered, and the shadow that looked like a human face seemed to be staring at Zhen Cheng. After a while, the mechanical synthesized voice sounded again, saying only three sentences:
"Tiger has the power to fight against hunters and has priceless fur, so it will be targeted by hunters.
A tiger being targeted by a shotgun cannot avoid bullets by staring at the muzzle of the gun; it can only escape by staring at the hunter holding the gun.
A tiger only sees shotguns because hunters are everywhere."
Ollie, who only knows how to play riddles, speaks like an ancient poet. He gives the impression that he knows everything and is a liar who knows nothing. He just throws out some ambiguous answers to pretend to be profound.
Of course, this is just the feeling of ordinary people. With Miss Zhen's ability, she can still hear that this fable is a genuine answer to her question.
But to be honest, even Zhen Cheng only had a partial understanding of this answer. It wasn't that Zhu Zhu's words were too abstract, but that everything that happened to her was so sudden that she didn't have enough clues to fully understand it.
Even so, she still kept the parable of the pillars in mind. When more clues were gathered, she believed that these hints would eventually help her figure out the truth of the matter.
The reason is of course not that she can discern any emotion from the abstract shadows that resemble human faces on the surface of the pillar. This kind of outrageous thing may not be possible even if Detective Impas himself is present.
The reason for her belief is that the rules involved in the "first type of secret space" are absolute. Since the correct clues clearly point to the dark "truth" behind the black "door", there is no way that the pillars can deceive her.
Seeing that he could not pry out a more specific answer from Zhu Zhu, Zhen Cheng turned to ask another thing that he was curious about:
"So what's the truth about this 'secret space'? I saw the logo of Thetis Pharmaceuticals, so this must be the real world, right? What are the Scarries doing in secret? What are [them]? Here
Will what happened affect the real world?"
The two ball players waved comically, and the pillar named Ollie gave another three-part prophetic answer:
"The cage is hidden in the forest, but the forest in the tiger's eyes may not be the real forest.
The tiger does not know that the forest is deserted, but the forest is dying because of the tiger.
Time is irreversible, but what is contained in the cage may indicate the future.”
This time the answer was clearer, and Zhen Cheng could roughly guess what Tiezhu meant.
If her guess is correct, the cage may refer to the secret space she just experienced. Combined with the previous answer, the tiger should be talking about herself. Maybe the last forest represents the real world?
As if he was about to guess something, Zhen Cheng's thoughts were interrupted again by a series of sudden, very rapid electronic synthesized sounds.
Although it was similar to the voice of the previous riddle pillar that was full of prophecies, Zhen Cheng instinctively felt that these voices were colder and emotionless than Tie Zhu's statements, and seemed to be a reminder from another place other than the pillar:
"The amount of free consultation information for candidates has been exceeded, and the consultation service has ended. The Lamarck badge structure is in progress...
Warning! High-dimensional energy intrusion has been detected, the game area is being reset...the area reset has failed...the candidate's personal space is under emergency construction...the construction is successful, the candidate's entity is transferred across dimensions...the delivery failed.
Abnormal error checking in progress...check successful. Error code [παρ??δοξο], 32% chance that the candidate will be abnormal and cause an error!
Due to the detection of the first abnormal phenomenon outside the safety protocol, the error code involves [Paradox] and [Abnormal Candidate], and it needs to be reported to the C Entropy Integrated Management Bureau for manual approval... The emergency backup program is being activated...
The startup is completed. The candidate's contract is terminated and all candidates are forcibly returned. Execution is in progress..."
A series of overlapping mechanical synthesized sounds came and went, as if some system was about to crash. Zhen Cheng even felt that the entire dark space was crumbling.
What followed was a desperate, tearing headache. She felt like she was about to pass out from the pain... In fact, she was passing out from the pain.
In the last moment of clarity, in a half-dream and half-awake illusion where the world seemed to be shattered, she heard a voice that sounded like a sigh coming from the other side of the pillar:
"Peace...isn't it good?" This chapter has been completed!