Chapter 59 The copy ends

"Growing up show?" Josh's brows frowned in doubt suddenly loosened, he remembered his character's diary, "Could it be that...A02 went from adoption to growing up, to work, illness, being cloned...all of this It's all just a reality show."

“It is possible, and it can be seen from many places.” An Wujiu said, “Especially the ubiquitous cameras on the A floor.”

This possibility was beyond everyone's imagination, but Yang Erci was not surprised. She quickly thought of the list of movies she saw in the fourth-floor laboratory, and the last one was "The Truman World".

Maybe A02 is really like Truman in the movie, all the social connections he has are part of the experiment, part of this growth show.

So she also asked: "Excuse me, was this experiment planned by A01's father?"

Circles appear on the screen.

"Yes."

"And then continued from A01?" Yang Erci continued to ask.

"Yes."

The two must have basically laid the plot trend.

An Wujiu rationalized his thoughts, "We now know at least that A02 is nominally the management of this shelter, the adopted son of the former manager, and the younger brother and lover of the current manager, but in fact, he is actually the manager of this shelter. An important experiment in the shelter center. Judging from A02's character, he has been cultivated to be kind and dedicated to those children, so the content of this experiment is likely to be carried out under the slogan of "everything for human beings". The gene-edited A02 clone is a continuation to ensure that the experiment is not interrupted.”

"For what purpose? Just raising a child?" Josh asked.

"It may be brainwashing with beliefs, let's see what kind of person this child will grow into in the end." Nan Shan made a guess.

Yang Erci thinks there is a possibility, "Maybe they also set up a control group for experiments, such as clones that have not received positive guidance and have incomplete memory."

After speaking, she looked in the direction of the screen, "Am I right?"

The system's answer confirmed her guess.

"Yes."

This can explain why some A02s have very bad personalities, but in his own videos, he has an upright appearance.

"They just chose a child with a natural pathological defect from countless abandoned babies, and under artificial manipulation, let him grow into a perfect and sustainable child."

Hearing this, Shen Ti felt uncomfortable and wanted to move, but he still didn't move, because he was very close to An Wujiu, if there was any movement in him, An Wujiu might sink deeper.

"You can almost describe it to the system, right?"

"Wait," Zhong Yirou said, "it's not just the ins and outs, the system requires that the similarity of the truth be more than 80%, and we still have a lot of omissions, such as..."

She thought about it, "Every character we represent belongs."

“We are all dead.” An Wujiu said very directly.

"All dead..." Wu You looked at Shen Ti, "Including A01?"

An Wujiu nodded, "Everyone, from the time we initialized this game, all died. The scars on Yirou Nanshan's neck should be traces of their being killed. In a bathtub or something, you have water on your knees and your upper body is soaking wet, and you may be forced to kneel by the bathtub."

"But how do you explain that they died during the editing process?" Wu You said, "My journal has not been edited."

“This is easy to handle.” An Wujiu said, “First of all, you don’t have to be in front of the host to write, maybe you only need permission. Second, A02 is an acquaintance, and you are writing something he can’t read. If he suddenly When it appears, think about it, will it be turned off temporarily and get up to deal with him?"

Wu You nodded.

An Wujiu looked at Yang Erci, "Your throat was cut, I suspect it was cut with tools from the B05 laboratory."

"What about A01?" Nan Shan looked at them, "There is no wound on his body."

“We both have watches on our hands.” An Wujiu took Shen Ti’s wrist very naturally, “and they are all broken watches, the time on Shen Ti’s watch stopped at 3:19 am on October 8th. minutes, and mine was around 3:20 that day."

"The most important point." An Wujiu put down Shen Ti's hand, "I have the same smell as him."

Wu You and Nan Shan narrowed their eyes at the same time.

"No." An Wujiu reluctantly denied it, guessing that they had misunderstood, Shen Ti kept laughing beside him.

"It's bitter almond smell, very light, maybe I'm more sensitive, I've only smelled this smell on him and me."

Yang Erci understood, "You mean cyanide?"

An Wujiu nodded, "I speculate that A02 poisoned A01 that night, and at the same time took the poison and committed suicide."

After hearing all this, Nan Shan suddenly thought of what she had said on the first floor before about the bad feng shui here.

"The zigzag-shaped structure blocks fortune and feng shui does not work well. And a long time ago, there were some places where baby towers would be built. They were very small. They would throw unwanted babies inside and let them fend for themselves. Most of them were baby girls. ."

After he finished speaking, he looked at the others, "I think that this building is built in this shape, and the structure of each floor is very likely to lock the souls of the children who were sacrificed inside, but in the end it was locked. It's the seven of us who died."

"This statement is quite creative." Shen Ti raised his eyebrows, "So, the game starts at twelve o'clock in the evening, and the last person dies at three in the morning, maybe the first person is twelve o'clock in the morning. Died around the point, just in time for the log preservation time."

An Wujiu felt terrifying, "So this game, in fact, let us players replace the ghosts of the dead to return to the first floor, discover and experience the darkness and ugliness here with our own eyes from beginning to end, 72 hours, the solution If you don't open the secret of the containment center, you will be trapped here forever, and you will have a chance to leave if you unlock it."

Nan Shan nodded, "It's very possible that there was a tradition of three days before burial a long time ago, and the 72 hours here may be what it means."

"So that's how it is..." Josh sighed, "We're like ghosts who lost their memories after death, trapped in this building."

Things gradually became clear.

An Wujiu was cautious and thought about it carefully, not only describing the ins and outs of the matter, including everything the containment center had done, to the system, and waiting for the final result with others.

"Analyzing the results."

"Accuracy rates are now published."

A number appears on the screen.

"The similarity between the results of your analysis and the truth is about 95%. Congratulations on completing this task, and this is the first time that all members have passed this level since the opening of this round of game dungeons."

Most of them are not afraid that they have already died in the previous level.

"Is this a record breaking?" Shen Ti raised his mouth and turned his head to look at An Wu Jiu.

“It’s not necessarily the case.” An Wu Jiu said lightly.

The screen suddenly played some surveillance footage, and the people inside had the exact same face as An Wu Jiu.

It turned out that the system had to restore them in this way.

In the picture, A02 grew up as a child to become the pillar of the shelter. He was very busy every day, and devoted most of his energy to giving the children a better life and a better future.

But what he didn't know was that the jobs were actually a hoax and that he was working for something that didn't exist, even something that went against his values ​​and beliefs.

What he believes to be colleagues, such as B05 and C04, are in fact the engineers who edited his genes, E06 and E07, who preserve and process his clones. And D03, who has always been regarded as a friend, is only a "made" friend.

Even "lover" is fake.

Aside from work, the rest of the time A02 is spent chasing A01. A02 on the screen has An Wujiu's face on his face, showing affection to his titular brother A01 in every possible way, and eventually they became an underground couple.

"It's not necessary to use the player's face to model..." Wu You looked at this extremely OOC picture and felt very uncomfortable.

Shen Ti sighed shamelessly, "Fortunately, I look good."

An Wu Jiu glanced at him, did not expect some images that are not suitable for children to appear on the screen.

Nan Shan immediately lowered Wu You's hat to the lowest level and covered her eyes, "Don't look at it, children."

Yang Erci shook her head speechlessly and turned her face to the side, but Zhong Yirou opened her eyes wide and began to appreciate it carefully.

"You two...forget it." She said halfway through, and didn't say any more.

The surveillance even recorded the sex between A01 and A02 as material.

At first, An Wu Jiu was still watching with an exploratory heart, but suddenly his face burned.

He didn't know if it was because the person in the video was holding his face, or because the other person looked exactly like Shen Ti.

The face on the bed was almost red, covered in powder, gasping for breath with his mouth open, his fingers almost pinching into each other's arms, the whole person seemed to be drowning in a hot and humid sea, exuding an unfamiliar feeling. The temperament that An Wujiu has never had before.

Weird and embarrassing.

An Wu Jiu lowered his eyes and waited for this period to pass.

But the red ears betrayed him.

Just when this episode was about to end, when A01 put on his clothes and was about to leave, the silent Shen Ti let out a long sigh.

"Ugh."

An Wu Jiu turned his face sideways, "What are you doing?"

Seeing his indifferent expression, Shen Ti smiled, "I won't tell you."

An Wu Jiu succumbed to a bite and felt unhappy in his heart, but he did not continue to ask questions, otherwise he seemed to be very concerned.

Monitoring updates, A01's performance even on the bed is recorded in the growth show's experimental manual. Once A02's body is found to be deteriorating, it will directly start the "inheritance" experiment, that is, collect the memory of the current clone, and then analyze the current situation. He euthanized, resuscitated the next one, and transplanted the memory into it.

He typed a line.

[This experiment will provide enormous value to mankind in achieving immortality. ]

It turns out that A02 is just a small screw to promote the future of mankind.

Just a fresh experimental data.

In the picture, A01 was controlling the system when A02 came in suddenly, saying that he was going to give him a surprise, and covered A01's eyes with his hands.

A01 was afraid of being exposed and shut down the system when he closed his eyes in a hurry, causing the system to have bugs during self-healing.

In fact, the bug is not big, but the authority of layer E is delegated to all staff, including A02.

The curious A02 entered the E layer and found that countless bodies were frozen in the liquid nitrogen chamber.

So everything that followed was also discovered by him.

The moment the scam was exposed, A02 lost everything, including his identity.

He is nothing, not even a separate human being.

And his unshakable faith has been completely shattered. This is not a paradise for saving children at all, but a cannibal hell. The children he cherishes have no freedom at all, and even lost their lives, and he himself is not What a savior, just a test item.

The seven people in the fluid swamp also fell silent when they watched A02 cry.

No one can understand such a tragic life.

So on the night of October 7, A02 started killing people from the E floor and went all the way to the top floor.

He added the highly toxic substances and red wine brought from the B floor, changed his blood-stained clothes, and came to A01's room.

In the video, A02 smiled poignantly with An Wujiu's face, which could easily win anyone's love and pity, perhaps because of this, he also got a rare and sincere kiss from A01.

After the kiss, he said to A02, "I'm going to make our relationship public."

"Don't you like children? We also adopt one and treat it as our child."

Adoption?

Pick another test item?

A02 said yes with a smile, and then handed the red wine to his hand.

Unprepared, A01 took a sip, then wrapped his arms around A02's waist, uttering half-truth love words.

And A02 also leaned on his shoulder meekly, "I really love you, from the first time I saw you."

"No," he smiled, "the first face I saw you from my body."

A01's face suddenly changed, he let go of the hug, backed away, and before he could ask, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

A02 reached out and wiped the corner of his mouth for him, "My memory is either flawed or repeated, but there is one thing, no matter how many times I have copied it, I firmly believe it."

"I just love you."

"What about you?" A02's eyes no longer had a light spot, "Do you remember who I was?"

A01's blood kept pouring out, dyeing the new shirt that A02 gave him, as well as the couple's watch bought for him.

Before waiting for an answer, A02 kissed A01, mixing blood and poison, to put an end to their hoax with no survivors.

"Brother, let's go to hell together."

The monitor has been recording to the end, the good and the ugly, the deceit and the sincerity, the calculation and the revenge, each of which has been turned into data and saved forever.

The system makes a sound.

"This is the hidden plot of this round of the game."

The fluid that imprisoned them disappeared, and everyone regained their freedom.

And the huge screen slowly came down and turned into an incomplete puzzle.

An Wujiu found that the pieces of the puzzle were the same shape as their key.

The system told them: "After the key puzzle is completely restored, you will be given corresponding instructions to hit true end and leave the game."

All the key fragments were on An Wujiu's body, An Wujiu stretched out his hand, but the fragments in his pocket were gone.

"What you're looking for is with me."

It was Josh who spoke, and he spread out his hand, with shimmering fragments stacked between his palms.

Wu You frowned, "What are you doing? Why are you taking key fragments?"

Everyone was more or less surprised by the development of things, but An Wu Jiu was very calm, as expected.

"You have a special mission, right?" An Wujiu took a step closer and turned his back on the guest, "Let me think about it...you are a player who will be resurrected soon. After doing enough NPC missions, you came here, too. It's your last chance to become a player, right?"

Josh's face was stubborn, and after being exposed, he smiled and confessed, "Yes, I am, now I have to clear the customs by myself."

Saying that, he walked directly to the incomplete puzzle with the fragments in his hand, and restored the fragments somewhat irrationally.

"Brother Wugui."

Wu You glanced at An Wu Jiu.

"Let him go." An Wu Jiu let it go, staring at Josh's back, watching him work hard for his resurrection.

"Actually, I have already noticed it, and even know when you took the fragments."

Josh's movements stopped.

“I am a very cautious person, every fragment here means the life and death of the seven of us, so I take care of it very carefully.” An Wujiu’s eyes were indifferent, “Only in the fluid, my lower body completely sinks into it, You can't take care of it if you're too busy asking questions. You took all the pieces by your special means at that time, right?"

"I just use you to collect all the pieces." Josh didn't look back, "When did you find out?"

An Wu Jiu smiled, "You really don't have any flaws, because you didn't hurt anyone, you even gritted your teeth and endured the pain to help us complete our mission."

"But since the system has set a special character, it will inevitably set up clues for players to discover his existence."

"And this clue is the playing card you found at the time."

"Playing cards?" Wu You frowned, thinking of something, "Ghost cards."

An Wu Jiu nodded, "That's right, Josh, you know that playing cards will reveal your identity, so you deliberately did some tricks, if I guess right, there must be glue on the back of the diamond 3 on your body now. Sticky marks."

Shen Ti smiled and began to applaud while watching the excitement.

"Yes, you're right." Josh didn't turn around, but admitted, "I just ripped off your diamond 2, and then ripped off the ghost card stuck behind the diamond 3 to make the second card disappear and the box. There is an illusion of a ghost card hidden in it, pointing the clue to the metaphor of A02's death."

"You found out long ago, why didn't you expose me?"

Josh pasted the last piece of the puzzle in his hand.

"Because it's not necessary."

An Wujiu walked towards him, "This is not a zero-sum game, since we can all survive, why not do it?"

"I was indeed used by you, but from another angle, you also made the necessary sacrifices for our customs clearance. Without you, we would not be able to pass the fourth floor."

Josh's hand trembled a little, he took it down and looked at the puzzle in front of him, plus the words they had collected before, it was a paragraph.

Everything is a hoax.

A child conSecration. (A child sacrifice)

This is your sin.

I truly love you deeply.

This is our revenge.

Nobody is innocent.

___ should be destroyed.

We shall be burned in hell.

One word is missing.

Josh turned his head and frowned at An Wujiu.

An Wu Jiu's face was always indifferent, not disturbed, there was only a faint smile on his face, as long as it didn't change into another shape, it would be like a perfectly tuned machine.

"Here I am."

Shen Ti stretched out his hand, holding the last piece between his fingers.

"You still have a hand," Josh said.

Shen Ti smiled and stepped forward, "A soldier is never tired of cheating, not to mention knowing that there are two or five boys among us, of course, we must keep one hand on me who is the most reliable."

He grabbed An Wu Jiu's shoulder and shook it, "Really."

An Wu Jiu feels that he is like a successful puppy now, or the kind of success that the Paw Wang team made great contributions to.

"Yes, you are the most reliable."

"Why doesn't it feel like a compliment?" Shen Ti walked over, put the last piece of the puzzle in place, and patted it.

The complete puzzle disappeared, something fell from the sky, Shen Ti picked it up, it was a pack of chocolates, the number of which was the same as their current number, a total of seven pieces, it looked very unpalatable.

"Eat it." Shen Ti opened it and distributed the chocolate to everyone.

"Let's eat." Wu You was a little suspicious.

An Wu Jiu took Shen Ti's bag and took out his own, there was only one left.

"Eat it, do you remember the puzzle just now? It's the secret code of the hidden head. The first letter of each sentence is connected to 'eat it now', and the last piece reads organization."

"I see."

Everyone else ate it with confidence, An Wu Jiu finally handed the chocolate bag with one left to Josh.

Josh's big eyes looked at An Wu Jiu, with some doubts, and then he looked very pitiful.

"Are you sure you want to give it to me?"

"Of course." An Wujiu ate his chocolate, "I've been acting for so long."

"Aren't you afraid that I will go out by myself and kill you?"

An Wu Jiu smiled, "I guess there should be no killing other players in your resurrection mission, if there was, you would have already done it, because you are one-on-six and weak, it is impossible. Hidden to the end, at least it will attack Yirou, who is physically weak."

"But you didn't, so I judge that you don't have this kind of task, you just need to go out alive. Of course, you can get the most points by going out by yourself."

Shen Ti next to An Wujiu, "More than that, if you hide so much, I'm afraid there is still the task of concealing your identity. If you are discovered, you will fail."

"So I didn't expose you." An Wujiu said.

"But you exposed yourself yourself."

"Yes, the hidden mission failed."

An Wujiu asked, "But you shouldn't fail completely because of your identity exposure, you can still be resurrected."

Josh was in a complicated mood, he didn't understand why An Wujiu wanted to help him, to condone his lies and betrayal, but he also felt sad because no one cared about his life or death.

Perhaps because of this, when he could hide clearly, he still chose to be electrocuted under Wu You's instigation.

An Wu Jiao is an existence that can easily influence others.

A holographic projection appeared where the puzzle once hung, and there was only one problem on it.

[Leave the containment center? ]

Below is [Yes] or [No].

He raised his hand, intending to press [Yes] to leave, even though he knew it was useless now.

An Wu Jiu grabbed his hand and pressed [No].

Josh thought it was An Wujiu regretting, "Are you crazy? So you can't go out!"

An Wu Jiu let go of his hand and calmly said, "This is not the true end."

Sure enough, after choosing [No], the complete system of the containment center appeared in the holographic projection, including those underground experiments and the corresponding data.

This is the hint given by the last two sentences of the puzzle.

An Wujiu and Shen Ti used the permissions of A01 and A02 to organize and send everything done in the containment center to the outside world, revealing the ugly truth, and finally disintegrating and deleting the permissions of the entire organization.

"You didn't realize that we didn't actually see a few real children."

An Wujiu said, "Those alienated monsters are not actually children, it is our characters who are alienated, their obsessions and fears have transformed all monsters."

Yang Erci understood, "The children were released by A02."

An Wujiu nodded and entered a line of words.

"Burn down the abandoned baby shelter."

A fire came suddenly and devoured everything.

In the flames, all seven of them also disappeared.

"Congratulations to the seven players who cleared the level and became survivors, setting a new record for the survival of all players in this round of the game.

There are no eliminated players in this round. When the identity of the resurrected player is revealed, the reward points for this round will be lost. "

"Go to the checkout page."

They fell into a pure white void and kept falling.

An Wu Jiu opened his eyes, the person closest to him was Shen Ti.

He is a man who has to solve all doubts.

So after confirming that he survived, An Wu Jiu couldn't help but speak.

"I want to ask you a question."

Falling too fast, the hunting wind pulled the distance between the two of them, blowing innocent long hair.

Shen Ti stretched out his hand and grabbed his arm as he fell.

"What are you asking?"

"You..." An Wujiu hesitated for a while, but only for a second, "Why did you say wow?"

Shen Ti reacted for a while, looking a little stunned, but quickly laughed.

It was this.

In An Wu Jiu's pupils, meaningless pure white is reflected, but the green eyes, the red coral, and everything in Shen Ti are colorful and seem to be sparkling.

"I said it might offend you."

Their speed slowed down and gradually fell into place, An Wu Jiao's feet landed slowly, a lock of hair stuck to his cheeks.

"It's hard for me to be offended."

"Okay, then I'll tell the truth." Shen Ti thought what he said was cute and a little funny. Seeing his face, he subconsciously stretched out his hand and gently brushed the strand of hair to the side of his face.

"I admit that after seeing the video, I had a little, little, little, kind of weird, unexplainable..."

An Wu Jiu stared into his eyes and listened to his last two words.

"……expect."