The "Driver" copy has assigned the roles of "Hunter" and "Prey" from the very beginning, and there seems to be no intention to maintain the balance of power between the two parties.
The warning issued by the copy to the prey is not so much for the sake of the prey as it is to increase the difficulty for the hunter - but this is the only slight advantage he can seize.
He speculated - no, to be more precise, he hoped that the copy also set other restrictions for the hunters, which could be used by the prey to protect themselves. So after finishing the story, Yachiyanagi confirmed with "Abi"
Once: "What will happen to the person being driven after the instance ends?"
"Abi"'s answer was: "It's completely mine."
He thought the word "thorough" was very interesting - could it be that it was not "thorough" before the dungeon ended? Is there still a chance for Abi to break free from the identity of "car"?
But having said that, this is not reliable evidence at all. It may be a hidden fact revealed unintentionally, or it may just be a casual word used by "Abi" without any deep meaning.
Which one is it?
In anxiety, Wu Yiliu stared closely at the woman sitting across from him in the heavy rain.
The face that was whitened by the rain, after a few breaths of silence, suddenly raised its head and burst into laughter - Wu Yiliu's heart sank into his stomach.
"No wonder he kept nagging in your ear for so long and you didn't react at all!" The man sitting inside Abi patted his knees while laughing, but his eyes were looking behind Wu Yiliu, as if there was another person there.
Similar.
Sure enough... Sure enough, there is an invisible third person here?
Wu Yiliu squinted his eyes in the heavy rain, and his whole body was tense. After the story was told, the tool to resist the whispers was gone; if Abi really couldn't be saved, he would be the only one left in this mountain forest shrouded by heavy rain.
, facing four other players.
"You are really unpredictable. You actually attacked from this angle. We all thought you wanted to kill someone and escape, so the two of us watched you one after the other, but you didn't even move."
...That person is behind?
"Abi" said with a smile: "What a pity. Successful brainwashing is successful brainwashing. This is stipulated by the dungeon. Do you think you can resist the dungeon's rules by telling a story?"
The rain flowed into Wu Yiliu's eyes, making him feel a little uncomfortable. He blinked hard, but his vision was still blurry. In the rain curtain, he could not see anything strange about "Abi".
Is there really no hope?
When this player "checks in", the original Abizhen disappears?
After Wu Yiliu rushed into the forest with Abi, he belatedly realized that something was wrong with her. At that moment, Abi didn't know that he had noticed it. Facing the unprepared enemy, he
There are two options: one is to sneak attack Abi and then try to escape; the other is to try to "awaken" Abi himself.
Needless to say, the second option was risky and the probability of success was low. But Yachiyanagi subconsciously chose it - not only because it was more humane, but also because he felt that he had a certain degree of certainty.
Now that he thought about it carefully, he didn't dare to say what caused him to feel this way.
The rain stung his eyes and it was really uncomfortable. Wu Yiliu couldn't help it and raised his hand to wipe his eyes. The moment he lowered his gaze, he saw his other hand on his knee suddenly raised his index finger.
After two seconds, the index finger was slightly raised again, as if he was tapping time leisurely.
Wu Yiliu couldn't hold it back any longer and jumped to his feet - because he was lucky that he hadn't heard the whisper, everything turned into a basin of ice water and soaked into his bones.
"Where? Where is he?" He looked around quickly, his eyes piercing the dark rain curtain, but came up empty. It seemed that when his story ended, the whispering in his ears started again,
He didn't even realize that he had been "listening".
"Abi" paused for a moment, then said with a smile: "Forget it, will I remind you what to do? Since you know that we can't let you go out alive and talk nonsense, you'd better accept your fate. Anyway, you don't mind.
It’s a clear death, right?”
Calm down, be sure to calm down - the more confused your mind is, the easier it is for brainwashing whispers to take advantage of you.
Unless "Abi" attacks him, these players pose no other threat to him except whispering and brainwashing him. It's too late to run now, because he has been targeted; the invisible third person can completely
Follow him and whisper to him all the way to escape. Under the power of "brainwashing", I'm afraid he will run back to the camping cabin unknowingly.
So, will "Abi" attack him?
Wu Yiliu clenched his two fists tightly and dug his nails deeply into his flesh; he focused all his attention on this subtle and clear pain, hoping to block the inaudible whispers in his ears -
—He didn’t know whether it would work or not.
No, "Abi" shouldn't attack. He is a intact broiler at the moment. He can't escape and can't resist the brainwashing anyway. There is no need to hurt the broiler.
What's more, the relationship between "Abi" and the third person may not be a seamless cooperation——
This thought was like a shock of electricity, and the room suddenly shook, and I suddenly understood.
He understood why he subconsciously felt that "waking up" Abi was a sure thing; he also understood that "Abi" had lied.
"I have a question for you, 'Abi'. That player who has been whispering to me, if you really exist, then I suggest you stop for a moment and listen to what I am going to say next."
There was still only the rumbling sound of the rain in his ears, like an unbreakable curtain, preventing him from hearing any other sounds.
Before the woman sitting on the stone could say anything, Wu Yiliu continued: "Why did you attack me?"
"Abi" was silent, as if he didn't understand what he meant.
"After you took her body, you lied to me and covered me with your blanket, and whispered to me, trying to brainwash me too." Yachiyanagi said slowly, "What's going on? You four
We are four players, one on one, very fair. Why do you want to eat more and take more for yourself?"
He smiled softly at "Abby" - he wanted to look as confident as possible.
"Of course, I also understand that after all, one more body is almost equal to one more life. So, even if it makes one of your companions lose, you can't resist the temptation to get another body for yourself."
"At this time, do you still want to sow discord?" the woman sitting on the stone said coldly.
"No, I didn't intend to sow discord, because that's not the point." Yaichi Liu paused and said: "You said that after the brainwashing is successful, we are like cars driven by others. Then it is very strange... You
How can one person get into two cars and drive them at the same time?"
"Abi" said nothing.
"In retrospect, it was you who first used the word 'seize the body'. You wanted me to think that it was like moving, that you moved into Abi's body, and the original owner was driven away by you... After all
This is the implicit meaning of 'seizing the body'." Yaichi Liu continued, "But the fact is, that's not the case, right? You are alone and obviously cannot occupy two bodies at the same time, but you still attacked me... because of this
It’s not a wasted effort. You haven’t ‘lived’ in the body of a broiler at all.”
He slowly turned around in a circle, his eyes sweeping across the woods, rain curtains, and grass, and finally returned to "Abi".
"It's like you whispering to me to raise my finger... After Abi is successfully brainwashed by you, the way you control her body is not to live in her body, but to whisper to her. Once the brainwashing is successful, and
The only difference before is that Abi no longer has his own ideas and will not resist you."
What the player said through Abi was made by Abi's brain, vocal cords, and tongue working together before he made a sound and repeated it out loud.
"In other words, the Abi who was successfully brainwashed by you willingly obeyed your orders, followed your instructions, did everything you asked her to do, and said everything you asked her to say."
Wu Yiliu looked closely into Abi's eyes and whispered: "She has not disappeared from this body as you suggested. On the contrary, if she really disappeared from this body, then
Instead, you are in trouble - you cannot directly control her muscles and nervous system, you need to go through the owner of this body to control this body."
"...This is just your conjecture."
Wu Yiliu nodded.
"If my conjecture is correct, it means that when you listened to my story attentively, Abi also heard my story. When I told the story, you did not tell Abi step by step how to think about this.
Story, what should you think here, how should you feel there... You were also busy listening to the story at that time."
The woman sitting on the stone suddenly sneered.
"During this blank period, Abi had the opportunity to develop his own views on external information and develop his own feelings - thus, he had the opportunity to regain control of himself." Yaichi Liu said almost flatly, "If
I am wrong, then it is very simple for you to prove me wrong."
"oh?"
"When I told you about my past experiences, I noticed that you have never stood up from the stone. For so long, you have moved your hands and mouth, but you have not moved your legs. It is as if you are paralyzed."
Wu Yiliu looked at Abi's legs that had never changed positions and said: "If I suddenly turn around and run away, you have to stand up first before chasing me, which will inevitably waste the precious first second. But when I jumped up just now,
You're still sitting motionless...I think it's not because you don't want to stand up, but because Abi resisted the order to stand up, right?"