SFS Book 4: Chapter 54: Mental Defense
Book 4: Chapter 54: Mental Defense
Book 4: Chapter 54: Mental Defense
I looked at the empty cliff and saw some lingering fire. Fortunately, I was immediately 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 somewhere else to implement 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 meant that Poker-Face at least had time 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 time Xiao Hua fell asleep to the time I went down to see Fatty and then discovered that something was wrong and shot the imposter, only to climb back up here.
When it came 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 mean 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 become 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 formed a magnetic field that protected everyone in this area.
"Little Master Three, what should we do next? Jin Xingsan asked me. What part do we play in your plan?"New novel chapters are published on
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 come out of the darkness around the cliff and make us feel as if he had been with us the whole time.
Suppose the initial logic behind the nicknames was: all twelve people owe me money.
He lent money to twelve people in total, so he used all the names 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 me money who I met before 2007, went to Hangzhou together in 2012 and 2013, and paid back some 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 extremely 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 meant 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 come up with a bunch of these things in no time at all.
So, after utilizing such a complicated method, 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 some dumbass reported an age that didnt conform to the sequence when everyone was reporting the age of their second celebrity persona every time 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 immediately expose himself.
At this time, we could all determine that the other party was incapable of directly confusing us into forgetting our own plans, so Xiao Huas mental 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 moment ago.
The bee man had appeared.