Chapter 10: The Mask of Personality
The three ghosts in the abandoned factory finally disappeared from the lens of the camera.
Duration: 1 hour and 20 minutes.
After Yu Xing threw the camera away, he breathed a long sigh of relief: "I finally don't have to hold this thing, I really don't know how the protagonist does parkour with the camera from beginning to end in some foreign horror games." ”
Zhao Yijiu still held the camera in his hand: "Are you sure you don't need it anymore?" ”
"So what's not? The ghosts are gone, and if I don't change the battery, no one can come and sanction me. Patting the ash on his hands, Yu Xing walked back from behind his desk, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a dark figure standing outside the door.
The figure didn't know when it appeared, quietly half-hiding behind the door, a pair of eyes peeping into the office, if you can't change your psychological quality, you can be scared on the spot.
"Assistant Hao, you're here."
Zhao Yijiu quickly put the knife into his pocket and looked at Yu Xing's line of sight casually.
Hearing someone call out his identity, the figure outside the door moved, and a flashlight suddenly lit up, shining on the person's fleshy face from the bottom up, leaving a strange shadow.
It stands to reason that the average "candidate", that is, the person who was tested without knowing it, finally completed the test, and met another ghost, and the mood ups and downs are no joke.
However, the two people in the room were more calm and calm, and watched Assistant Hao's performance silently.
“…… Congratulations. A few seconds later, seeing that he couldn't achieve the effect he wanted, Assistant Hao smiled dryly and removed the flashlight and walked out from behind the door, intending to act as if nothing had happened, "You two have passed our company's recruitment." ”
"Thanks, I'm so sleepy—"
"Hmm."
Assistant Hao has seen many newcomers who questioned angrily when they heard this, and some of them cried with joy, but he had never seen them like these two - they looked like they had already expected.
Look, that pale-skinned young man, still yawning!
Rubbing his eyes, Assistant Hao couldn't help but be a little puzzled, and then thought about it, maybe he was too short a rookie tester for a short time, and he didn't have much knowledge, look, he didn't arrive for an hour and a half, these two proper big guys and newcomers!
Thinking of this, he put that standard smile on his face, and beckoned the two to come closer.
Zhao Yijiu put the camera in the cabinet and approached the past with Yu Xing.
Assistant Hao observed the expressions of the two, although as a ghost, his vivid appearance was really a bit inconsistent: "Actually, your memory should have been recovered by now, think about it, in fact, in reality, there is no such thing as our deduction company." ”
"Hmm." Zhao Yijiu's tone was flat.
"Got it, you go on." Yu Xing didn't care much either.
Before, in his mind, there was indeed information about this deduction company, including online evaluations, well-known anchors, fixed programs, and even the company building used for the previous round of interviews, etc., which can be said to be from the ontology to the society, so that people can't find mistakes.
And after Assistant Hao's words fell, and then recalled these things, Yu Xing remembered that he had only been implanted with these memories a few hours ago, and there was no such thing as a friend recommending him for an interview three days ago.
He didn't do anything like looking up online information or measuring the company's risks.
Of course, although it was inevitable that his memory would be distorted, he had known this for a long time, so he was not affected at this time, and he believed that people like Zhao Yijiu who could get the sacrificial knife in advance were the same.
"Since our company is fake, you must be curious about what forces have distorted your memories and what our purpose is." Assistant Hao didn't care about the clear "not at all curious" looks on the faces of these two people, this was his task, and he had to make it clear.
"Here, I solemnly re-declare—"
"Welcome to the absurd deduction game!"
As soon as his voice fell, Yu Xing felt a chill enveloping him from all directions.
The cold breath burrowed into his body like a maggot attached to the bones, and then gathered into his brain, as if it wanted to devour his soul - if man really had such a thing.
Faintly, Yu Xing heard someone talking in his head.
It was very noisy, not one person, but a lot of people, buzzing like a hundred and ten monks chanting scriptures in their ears.
Gradually, there were cries and screams in the voice, the rumble of things falling, the sound of running, cries for help, and the roar he was most familiar with.
The content of that roar is...... Yu Xing frowned, and took a hard bite on the tip of his tongue, and the smell of blood spread in his mouth, making him forcibly interrupt the voice in his head.
He didn't want to hear it.
He didn't want to hear what was next.
The pain caused full lucidity, and the voices faded like a tide, and at last, he heard only a mechanical—
"The results of the deduction test are being evaluated."
"The evaluation is complete, and the candidate Yu Xing meets the conditions and is qualified."
"Generating a personality mask template."
It is a system of deduction games! A little excitement appeared in Yu Xing's eyes, knowing that everything he did was for this.
No one knows how long he's been waiting for this moment.
But before he could produce results, his pupils shrank, and he immediately covered his mouth with his right hand, swallowing the rusty smell that suddenly surged up in his throat, and a layer of sweat oozed from the surface of his body.
Oh, it's over......
Yu Xing gasped slightly, and said secretly in his heart: The cold breath just now seems to have stimulated the discomfort of the body, and if I don't rest, the consequences will be a little unpredictable.
There were other people here, and he didn't want to expose too much.
The next moment, a mechanical voice sounded again: "The personality mask template has been generated." ”
A translucent white template suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, connected to consciousness, and it took little attention to look at it before he swept it in its entirety.
【Personality Mask•?】 (Unnamed)】
【Holder: Yu Xing】
[Basic information: male, height 185cm, weight 65kg, age *#€*# (error occurred)]
[Identity: To be activated]
[Mask weight: not evaluated]
[Holder Description: Let me see...... Something is wrong with you, how did you get in? 】
[Personality Offering: ??? (Since the first deduction has not been completed, the explanation of the original sacrificial ability is temporarily hidden, and the ability will not be affected, please find out by yourself)]
[Personality Alienation: ??? 】
【Deduction Mall: Not open】
【Wish List: Empty】
[Please choose to start the Personality Mask Evaluation Game within three days, if you do not start the game after 72 hours, it will be forced to enter at the last minute, and the Personality Mask will be activated if you succeed, the loser will be disqualified, and death is the ideal destination]
That's really ...... Yu Xing looked at this string of data equivalent to a player's template and searched for adjectives in his head.
Ah, there it is, "weird everywhere"!
Where the error occurred, and the owner described there, it was extremely suspicious at first glance!
Yu Xing could only raise his eyebrows: Fortunately, others couldn't see it.
In addition to this string of data, he automatically added a lot of new content in his head.
To sum it up:
He's now been selected by a game called [Absurd Deduction] and is already a prospective player.
In this real, weird, and absurd game, players are called deducers, and they need to find answers, truths, and try to survive in the midst of game events.
The surviving Deduction Scorers will receive a varying number of Deduction Points based on the game's rating, which can be exchanged for everything they want in the Personality Mask Store.
Wealth, power, health, beauty, and everything else...... Born from the bottom of people's hearts.
The world of the game is subordinate to reality and independent of reality, and all the order and science of the real world will be distorted and invalidated in this fragmented game world, forming new disorder rules, and the deducers call the game world - [absurd].
Yu Xing glanced at Zhao Yijiu beside him, and found that the other party seemed to be still digesting the information, and stabilized his somewhat trembling body.
He started to get cold.
His body is a curse on him, forcing him to compromise and weaken himself from time to time, otherwise, the more high-profile he is, the more likely he is to put himself in danger.
Tsk, that's annoying.
Yu Xing's face remained the same, and his attention returned to the information in his head.
There are two steps to becoming a full-fledged deducer.
He has just completed the first step, which is this simple deduction test, which is an absurd test of basic qualities such as human intelligence, logic, reflexes and courage, and people who are not qualified are ...... Zhang Shuya is an example.
In terms of gamification, he has already obtained the game invitation code.
However, there is still a bit of work to be done before you can activate the invitation code to enter the game.
This activation operation is the last thing [Personality Mask] wrote, evaluating the game.
The evaluation game is single-player.
This is good news for Yu Xing, playing solo means that he can be a little more casual.
"Got it, right? You still have to participate in a game in three days, if you don't participate......" Assistant Hao watched with a smile on the side, and it wasn't until the two newcomers understood that he approached with compassion, "I'm going to die!" ”
Zhao Yijiu looked at him coldly: "If you weren't so naïve, you would still be that amiable fat man." ”
Assistant Hao belongs to the role of a novice guide, although he is a ghost, he will not do anything to them, which Zhao Yijiu knows well.
So this boring little fright is really unnecessary, if Yu is lucky...... Yu Xing didn't pretend, he was still a little unaccustomed.
The amiable fat ghost suddenly wilted, this newcomer is not fun!
He sighed: "Okay, okay, it's good that you know the rules yourself." Since you are not officially deducers, there is no benefit from the injuries sustained during this test. ”
"By the way, there are three ways to survive this test, one, follow my initial prompt, honestly replace the battery for eight hours. Second, poke yourself in the eyes, so that no matter whether the camera is powered or not, the ghost will not hurt you again. The third, and most difficult one, is your way of clearing the customs, anti-killing ghosts. ”
"When you live to become official deducers, there will be a reward for this performance."
"That's all I have to say, you can go back too."
After speaking, Assistant Hao came with great interest, walked away without interest, and directly turned into a cloud of blood mist that could not be seen clearly, and disappeared into the air.