84.6 per cent for option one and 15.4 per cent for option two.

……

[Option 1]

【Notice】

……

Realizing Chu Huairen's gaze, Zheng Zhuo picked up the pilot's handbook.

"Let's see."

He handed it to Chu Huairen.

"I'm on duty."

Seeing is believing, he thought.

He's gambled too many times, and he's not missing this most crucial one.

……

When Zheng Zhuo finished his shift a few hours later and returned to the crew's dormitory, Chu Huairen was still sitting where he had stood during the day. His face was pale, his hands clutching his hair, and his hand account was spread out and thrown on the bunk beside him.

Seeing Zheng Zhuo come in, Chu Huairen raised his head blankly. His eyes were not focused, and Zheng Zhuo couldn't tell for a moment whether he was looking at himself or looking at something in the void through himself.

“…… Isn't this the real world? ”

Chu Huairen repeated the same sentence lightly and quickly. His voice was hoarse, and he thought he had repeated it countless times.

"Here it is...... Subconscious...... How can it be...... I...... My parents...... My Childhood...... Why...... Can't remember? Is it ......?"

Zheng Zhuo looked at him, walked past him, and picked up the handbook.

Chu Huairen moved. His self-talk stopped.

A moment later.

"Are you from outside?"

He asked.

Zheng Zhuo nodded.

"What about me?"

"So are you." Zheng Zhuo said, "You and me." Of all the people here, only two of us are from reality. ”

"This ...... This ......"

Chu Huairen grabbed his hair hard.

After a while, he let go of his hand and stood up.

“…… I need a little time to accept. ”

He uttered it with the last of his strength and staggered out of the crew's quarters.

……

After knowing the truth, Chu Huairen's state is good? Is it bad?

Zheng Zhuo couldn't judge for the time being. [Identification] could not bring him an answer.

Zheng Zhuo was the only one left in the crew's bedroom. And that handbook.

Zheng Zhuo sighed. He would pray that Chu Huairen would not go crazy like this, although prayer was not very applicable in the current situation.

“…… So, I haven't finished the second half yet. ”

He reopened the journal. That's probably the only thing he can do right now.

……

After the "unreachable roundabout" that Zheng Zhuo saw during the day, the handbook was still about half a thickness. Just seeing this, Zheng Zhuo knew that the next step would not be a smooth development.

And so it was. After discovering that the crater always turns into a phantom when approached, the pilot hovered around for several minutes. Suddenly, he noticed that dark clouds were gathering in the sky.

"The clouds were so fast that they brought a hurricane. After that, a thunderstorm came. ”

The pilot piloted the plane and tried to leave the place, but suddenly found that the outline of the island became clearer.

It's time to get in there!

At that time, there was only one thought in his head. He raised the speed of the plane's engine to the limit and rushed towards the island—

There was a bang. The world suddenly became silent.

A thunderstorm hit the plane! The eardrums in both of his ears were blown through, and the wings of the plane were on fire. The plane flew out of control, and he watched the plane crash into the sea, so he desperately pulled up the joystick and climbed up.

He held it up like this for dozens of minutes, and the plane slid out far, far away. In the end, the plane crashed anyway. His persistence only saved him from dying in the belly of a shark for the time being, as he managed to operate the plane and crash on the only island he saw.

……

"I'm missing a token."

The pilot recalled in his journal.

"I think it must be so. I've seen it on the record, and to get there, a token is necessary. At the time, I thought that the information I had gathered was a token, but in retrospect, I might have needed something more straightforward, such as the map mentioned in the document. ”

After that, the pilot wrote about how he survived in the woods. During that time, he tried to take off again several times, but the plane completely broke and he couldn't move. He has lived on the island ever since, hoping that a ship will come to his rescue.

Soon, though, he contracted scarlet fever.

"I don't think I have much time. Hopefully, this time, death will help me return. ”

After this sentence, he never wrote down any more words.

……

Zheng Zhuo closed the account. He was silent for a long time, and finally forced himself to start thinking again.

Token.

The token is mentioned in the journal. Moreover, there is a high probability that the token is a map.

And the pottery piece that Zheng Zhuo asked Chu Huairen to take out from the professor's box had a pattern similar to a map on it.

Will it be it? No, now we can only believe that it is it.

The remaining question is......

(Enters on a thunderstorm day.) ）”

……

In the following days, Chu Huairen did not appear. Zheng Zhuo studied the charts alone and speculated that the third island was already very close to everyone.

But the dish antenna, which had been damaged once by a bird, began to malfunction again. For a time, the research ship lost its direction and could only idle and wander in place.

Zheng Zhuo hopes to put down a miniature deep-sea probe to survey the seabed, as he did on the previous two occasions. But this time, there were no superfluous personnel to manipulate the detector. Zheng Zhuo dragged out Professor Lin Wen, who had lost his agency, from the storage room, and the two reluctantly sent the ragged probe into the water, but when they dived to a depth of 500 meters, with a muffled sound from several impacts, the probe completely lost contact.

As a result, the research ship lost both eyes and ears. It drifted day and night on the ocean, groping and groping, like a helpless traveler in the dark.

Days like this go by, and the rainy season arrives. The sky is covered with clouds all day long, and there is not a single ray of sunlight in sight for thousands of square kilometers.

The last remaining crew members also changed one by one at this time. They slept less and less, the scales began to cover their faces, and their eyes became more and more protruding. With faces tilted to the side like a stroke, saliva dripping from their mouths, they walked up and down the deck day and night.

Every day, Zheng Zhuo watched the [aggressiveness] of the crew jumping up slowly, slowly, number by number.

He began to hallucinate, auditory hallucinations.

He knew that if he waited any longer, he would be crazy like that.

……

Evening.

It rained a little harder. There were no lights on the deck of the huge research ship, and at this moment, only the light of Zheng Zhuo's flashlight was shaking.

Zheng Zhuo was wearing a raincoat and standing on the side of the deck. He was covering the escape dinghy with a tarp and stuffing it with what he had brought with him.

Food, repair tools, and artifacts from Chu Huairen.

Had to leave in a dinghy.

Zheng Zhuo's temples were pounding suddenly. He began to understand how the pilot felt when he rushed into a thunderstorm — he was doing the same thing now.

Finally, he shoved everything in. Next, there was only one person left.

How do you call Chu Huairen out......

Just when he thought so.

"Zheng Zhuo."

Zheng Zhuo heard someone calling him.

He looked back.

It was Chu Huairen who came.

He hadn't seen him for days, his hair was messy, and his face and body were covered in ash and oil. Don't know what he's eaten these days? His face turned palier than ever, and his pupils trembled irregularly within his eye frames.

Finally, in the end, this only normal person finally began to slide into the abyss of madness.

"You are to enter on the day of the thunderstorm according to what he says in his account."

Chu Huairen said. The tone at the end of his sentence became light.

Zheng Zhuo nodded.

"Take me with you." Chu Huairen said, "I'm going too." ”

“……”

Zheng Zhuo nodded again. He looked behind Chu Huairen.

There were no lights on in the dark cabin. Nothing can be seen.

([Identification].) ）”

But Zheng Zhuo can see it.

Information.

……

【■■■■■■】

【■■■■■■■■■】

【■■■■■■■】

[Aggressiveness: 91]

……

[Aggressiveness: 92].

[Aggressiveness: 93].

[Aggressiveness: 91].

……

The values of "those things" in the cabin are becoming more and more dangerous.

Zheng Zhuo then looked at the sky again.

The rain was heavier, but it was far from thunderstorming.

I don't know the distance to the thunderstorm...... How far away.

……

【Question】

[When should I abandon ship and set off?] 】

[Option 1]

【Start Now】

[Option 2]

[Wait until the thunderstorm appears and leave]

[Option 3]

[Hold on until you can see the roundabout]