Infinite spooky game

Chapter 65 The Dialectical Game (End) Existentialism

In the abandoned temple, the corpse hit the cold stone bricks and splashed fine dust. Its back was facing the mural of the gods on the dome, bathed in the compassionate gaze of a pair of scarlet eyes.

A young man wearing a white shirt and black trousers walked out of the shadows behind the corpse. His appearance was almost the same as that of the deceased, except for a shiny silver bracelet on his right wrist.

The young man tore off a corner of his shirt, wiped the blood off the blade in his hand, and put it back into the special bracelet.

He lowered his eyes and looked at the corpse of clone No. 9 in front of him, tilted his head and thought for a moment, then bent down and turned it over.

——In any case, he doesn't like a creature with his face pressed against his face, lying face down on the ground.

……

[Main mission: Get the key to superego]

Back in time, after the copy of "Dialectical Game" was loaded, Qiss opened his eyes and found himself sitting on the throne in the temple.

At hand was a long roll of parchment, with rules written on it in handwriting he could read:

[1. You are here as a temporary designer of a weird game, and you cannot leave the main hall until you complete the task.But you can redesign and layout the buildings outside the main hall through your consciousness, and put in a certain amount of NPC]

[2. After the design is completed, the scene will be put into operation, and you will not be able to make any changes to any details]

[3. The key to the superego is located in the side hall and cannot be seen or known by the NPC. The NPC cannot perform any interaction related to the key to the superego]

[4. There are eight death points in the corridor outside the main hall. They can only be triggered once. They cannot be avoided or resisted. If you encounter them, you will die.]

[5. There will be nine clones with your complete set of memories and ways of thinking as players, who will be put into the scene one after another.You can select your birth point. Once selected, it cannot be changed]

[6. After the clone dies, the body will not disappear; except for the location of the Superego Key, other scenes and NPCs will be reset, and new clones will be released until all clones are released]

The rules are very clear, and basically even the solution is told to the players: first use eight clones to fill the eight death points, and then let the ninth clone complete the task.

But it is not easy to achieve such a result.

Qisi knew that he was very suspicious. Once the clone of "him" saw the corpses of the previous seniors, what would happen next would be uncontrollable.

Therefore, it is necessary to find a reasonable explanation for the existence of these corpses, but not to make this explanation too logical and appear too much like the result of a layout.

The two explanations of "clone" and "parallel time and space" are well connected and can effectively reduce the suspicion of clones.

Ziss also knew that he was absolutely selfish and self-interested, and could not let the clone notice the existence of the main mission, otherwise he would most likely not be willing to make a wedding dress for the mother, and might even maliciously destroy the key to the superego.

Then, it is necessary for the replica to gradually strengthen the illusion of "I am the best individual and most likely to escape" in the doubt of its own existence, and then believe that all its actions are for its own survival.

In the end, Zeiss designed a copy of the institute out of some evil sense.He was curious about what kind of expression he would show when faced with a situation where his existence was denied.

Playing with people is very interesting, why not playing with yourself?

Everything was ready, and under the watchful eye of Zeiss, Copy No. 1 woke up in the small room and found the key to the superego from the drawer.

He didn't know what the key was for, but before the researcher entered the door, he hid the cold key under his tongue in time and took it out...

……

"Oh, it's a pity that you, who are naturally suspicious, were carried away by the ecstasy brought by the false truth, and you actually lost your vigilance at the last moment... I originally thought I could fight with 'myself', or even be beaten by 'myself' Kill, get an interesting death experience..."

Zeiss crouched beside the body, feigning regret.

After a moment, he opened the corpse's clenched right hand and took out a key.

【Name: Key of Superego】

[Type: props (copies cannot be taken out)]

【Effect: None】

[Remarks: Did I kill "me", or did "me" kill me? 】

Seeing the question in the notes, Qi Si smiled: "What does it matter? Even if he kills me, as long as he thinks he is me, I will be the one who survives."

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest. When I came to this world, I was the one who won the one-in-a-billion competition. Now why not have a one-in-ten competition?"

"Memory, intelligence level, way of thinking, behavioral logic and other multiple dimensions constitute a person's consciousness. For me, my material existence is not important. I am happy to select the best me through competition to become 'me' .”

[The main task has been completed]

[Congratulations to the player for clearing the single-player puzzle copy "Dialectical Game"]

[In the game of rationalists, the existence of ego, id and superego has long been out of the original category.From a macro perspective, “I” is always me]

["Dialectical Game" True End-"I" has been included]

……

[Normal End (Normal Ending) - "You" prompt: "You" was killed by yourself, and "You" survived. Is it really "You" who survived?Or, just a monster who thinks he is "you"? 】

Different from the previous two dungeons, this time the system interface actually refreshed the reminder of the NE ending.

This undoubtedly points to the ending where the player is killed by the clone.

Qi Si walked to the throne, sat on it, and raised his eyebrows slightly: "That is to say, no matter what happens next, as long as you send the key of the superego to the main hall, you can pass the level, right?"

What he answered was a cold reminder text——

[A copy will be automatically sent out after 3 minutes]

The moment the electronic sound sounded, he suddenly gained an overall perspective, like a god in charge of all things.

The entire research institute presents a complete picture in the thinking hall, down to every dark corner and various details, as if it is an extension of his body.

The sci-fi building starts from the corridor close to the temple, and the bright colors fade away inch by inch as if being scorched by a raging fire, and become dark and dark.

The broken stone wall quickly swallowed up the white alloy wall, and the junction was like burning paper money, curling up and yellowing irregularly, and spreading further away.

In just a few seconds, the entire institute disappeared, and the remaining buildings were the winding corridors of a temple. The past glory had been eroded by the years, leaving behind a dilapidated body with broken walls.

And the nine corpses lying around inside and outside the temple turned into black smoke at the last moment and disappeared into the void...

Invisible threads and vines entangled Qisi, and all actions and thoughts were out of touch with their original intentions, and were arbitrarily manipulated by unknown existences.

Time stretched out for a long time. Excitement, doubt, consternation, fear... all kinds of emotions were gradually washed away, and in the end only a pool of stagnant calm remained.

He seemed to have forgotten something, and learned something, which he could not detect or understand in detail. Gradually, his awareness of these contradictions disappeared into the deep darkness of the seabed...

(End of this chapter)