I looked at the empty cliff and saw so lingering fire. Fortunately, I was imdiately able to recover my calm since I was quite experienced.
The people in Xiao Hua's team had all followed behind us, so I waved them back while saying to them, "Everythings fine. They've gone sowhere else to implent the plan."
"What plan?" Jin Xingsan asked.
How should I know? I asked myself. I was just saying those words on a whim to stabilize the troops morale, but I also knew that it wouldnt work if I didnt do a good job lying, so I said to them, "If you want to get out of here, don't ask any questions. The stones here can understand peoples words."
This sentence was also complete nonsense, so Jin Xingsan and the others all looked at each other. Xiao Hua's people were not idiots and were clearly skeptical, but they were helpless in the face of my great reputation. When I looked back at Jin Xingsan, he didnt dare ask any more questions.
I turned and pointed my flashlight at the cliff where Xiao Hua had been resting just now and discovered that the bronze piece had also been taken away. I felt a little relieved since this indicated that they had left voluntarily. Or it ant that Poker-Face at least had ti to take the bronze piece with them when they left. I just didn't know what exactly had happened.
As long as they hadnt received the heavenly gift, then it should be the opponents bad luck with these two people together. The only thing was, they hadnt worked together before, so I didnt know what the situation would be like.
I checked up and down carefully, but didn't see them around. Fatty also climbed up and looked everywhere, but there was nothing at all.
I recalled that it took no more than ten minutes from the ti Xiao Hua fell asleep to the ti I went down to see Fatty and then discovered that sothing was wrong and shot the imposter, only to climb back up here.
When it ca to climbing in this place, you couldnt go very far in ten minutes so youd definitely appear in our flashlights glow. Unless the two of them had also jumped or were eaten by the rocks here.
We would have definitely felt it if they had jumped, so did that an that they were eaten by the rocks?
It was only when I asked everyone to go back below that I finally understood the setup here. This appeared to be a vertical campsite that Xiao Hua had carefully designed. There was no need for complicated hanging beds and tents; everyone simply found a rock protrusion and rested on it. The rock crevices were filled with safety buckles, snack wrappers, and portable mountaineering lampsthis kind of lamp had a clamp on the bottom so that it could be inserted into the rock crevices and beco a kind of street lamp.
There were a lot of bags hanging up around the area, all of which contained bronze pieces that had been taken from the Zhang familys suicide temple.
These bronze pieces must have ford a magnetic field that protected everyone in this area.
"Little Master Three, what should we do next? Jin Xingsan asked . What part do we play in your plan?"
I told him not to talk and then swept my eyes over everyone's faces, my mind calculating quickly.
Honestly, my way of thinking was very simple because what was happening here was just so strange. A person would suddenly co out of the darkness around the cliff and make us feel as if he had been with us the whole ti.
Based on what had happened just now, he could even take on any appearance, including ours.
So, the first thing I needed to be sure of was who was my enemy.
If this bee man was just an illusion, then that ant that my enemy was myself. If there was a power here that was affecting my mind, then I had to overco it by myself. But if this bee man was really a person, then I just couldnt understand what was going on. But if it was human, it also ant that we should be able to kill it.
There were so details I wanted to verify, so I asked Jin Xingsan, "How do you know about the bee man?"
He gave a blank look, "What bee man?"
"When we first appeared, didnt you fire at us directly to keep us from approaching? Soone was even pretending to be . Who was it? Didn't you fire because of the bee man?" I looked at everyone in the group.
Jin Xingsan gave a puzzled look. He obviously didnt know what a bee man was, so I had to explain it to him, "Have you never experienced an extra person suddenly appearing in your team? You all feel like you know each other, but in fact, this person suddenly mixed into the team while you were on the cliff? You dont know where they ca from and its like they appeared out of thin air?
Jin Xingsan was still very confused, so I continued, "Master Hua and I only recognized each other when we ntioned the calculus problem. Dont you rember?"
Jin Xingsan nodded and said, "Everything we do is by Master Huas orders. We don't know the logic behind it, we just do it. We don't know what a bee man is, but Master Hua said that we must have two sets of identities in order to keep the strange phenonon from happening here. In fact, we don't even know what the phenonon is."
"So Master Hua told you that sothing strange will happen here and ordered you to do this?"
Jin Xingsan nodded again. "We each have two identities: one is our own and the other is fictitious. We use celebrities from the business that weve encountered in our day-to-day lives. For example, this guy is you, Little Master Three."
He pointed to a person in the team, who greeted and nodded.
I thought about it and realized that Xiao Hua's thod was called information blocking.
"If Ive guessed it right, Xiao Hua is the one who gave all of you your second celebrity nas, right?" I asked him.
When Jin Xingsan nodded, I looked at Fatty. Fatty's mind also worked very fast, so he imdiately winked at to show that he understood.
There had to be so hidden logic to the way Xiao Hua chose their nas, but this logic was only known to him and would be sothing very insignificant. As long as the power here was unable to read his mind, it wouldnt know what logic he used.
Xiao Hua had taught this ntal defense exercise, which was used to fight against hallucinations, so I knew that there was a limit to the number of celebrity nas you could utilize with this logic.
So, if sothing showed up and this thing needed two identities, then it must also have a celebrity nickna.
Suppose the initial logic behind the nicknas was: all twelve people owe money.
He lent money to twelve people in total, so he used all the nas of people who owed him money. If that weirdo wanted to mix in with the group, then he needed to create a person and make Xiao Hua think that this person owed him money.
This could hardly be done, because if the weirdo had that kind of ability, then it could prevent us from finding its words suspicious.
But I knew that the logic behind Xiao Hua's actions would be very complicated, with more than one level. For example, the second level might be: people who owe money who I t before 2007, went to Hangzhou together in 2012 and 2013, and paid back so of the money in 2015 and 2016.
The third level might arrange these people by taking their age differences from youngest to oldest and then subtracting the number of the youngest from the oldest. This would be consistent with the unpopular finite mathematical sequence.
The fourth level.
When this weirdo wanted Xiao Hua to believe that he had been with the team from the start, hed have to create an extrely detailed lie. Every level of this logic-based blockade had a special direction at which the blockade was set up so Xiao Hua's illusion maker would need to be widely read and study both the arts and sciences.
For example, with the third level, there was a special number sequence. You couldnt insert another number in the middle, so all you could do was put one more in the front or one more in the back.
But because the number sequence had its own logic to it, if you put one in front, then the number would have to be very small. You couldnt say that you were three years old, so you could only put this other number at the back. But that ant that the number would be very large, and youd probably end up admitting that you were over two hundred years old.
Im not sure if Im making much sense, but in short, many hallucinations in horror films could be ruined through the use of psychological traps.
Mathematics could destroy any dramas plot device.
Moreover, Xiao Hua could quickly co up with a bunch of these things in no ti at all.
So, after utilizing such a complicated thod, they didn't encounter the bee man here.
There was no way for the bee man to show up. Xiao Hua may not have found it strange initially if so dumbass reported an age that didnt conform to the sequence when everyone was reporting the age of their second celebrity persona every ti before going to bed, but he would realize that this person didnt conform to the sequence and would wonder why he didn't put this person in the sequence.
As long as he thought like this from the beginning, then the weirdo couldnt run away. Plus, even if the opponent really was so powerful that he could give an age that was in line with the sequencewhether it was three years old or two hundred years oldhe would still imdiately expose himself.
At this ti, we could all determine that the other party was incapable of directly confusing us into forgetting our own plans, so Xiao Huas ntal trap was clearly a great deterrent.
But now Xiao Hua was missing, and as I looked at his team, I couldnt help but feel that the number of people had been wrong since just a mont ago.
The bee man had appeared.
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