"It's true. All of you have really become Believers. The pocket dimension is … Sigh."
Jiang Tian suddenly stopped talking. The second half of her sentence turned into a tired sigh. This was the fourth time she had repeated this sentence. Aside from Duck Down, who was nodding his head to prove it, it didn't seem to have any effect.
Duck Down was also very discouraged. He waved his hand. "It's up to you whether you believe it or not. Anyway, Lin Sanjiu's words won't affect your lives …"
At this moment, everyone who had just escaped from the pocket dimension was pulled to the riverbank by Lin Sanjiu's Higher Consciousness Net. They lay paralyzed on the narrow and long riverbank, gasping for air. Most of them couldn't even react to what had happened. Hana even thought that the pocket dimension was broken.
"They still have a 5% chance of recovery," Lin Sanjiu whispered to Duck Down, "Don't give up. You guys continue!"
After pulling everyone to the riverbank, she assigned a mission to the two people who knew the most about the situation when none of the Believers were paying attention: Tell them what happened in the pocket dimension. Perhaps, the Believers would recover after "resetting" the truth.
Actually, she had tried it before. Since the seven of them were her believers, shouldn't they believe her without a doubt when she told them that they had become her believers?
In the end, Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that Wan Volt's face would turn as white as a sheet the moment she revealed her intentions to him. The expression on his face was washed away. His lips were twisted into a crooked shape, as if something in his mind had been shattered. Lin Sanjiu's heart tightened as she thought of another possibility.
If God told a devout believer that "God doesn't exist", the conflict of belief system would definitely affect the believer's mental state, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be safer to get someone else to convince the believer?
"This is too difficult …" Duck Down buried his face in his hands, pretending to be a dead duck down.
Jiang Tian thought for a long time. She felt that it was unbearable for her to not be able to explain a simple principle to others. Once again, she unwillingly said to the crowd, "Let me explain the process in detail. Listen carefully."
When they were in the pocket dimension, Lin Sanjiu had already told them everything.
"You all know about the first half of the instance dungeon and what Guan Nanwenya did. The most important thing is, when we start the second scene … "Jiang Tian clapped her hands like a teacher who was exasperated by her student's failure to meet her expectations." Lin Sanjiu's home ground is the hotel, and the media is the newspaper. When she was leading the search for combustibles in the hotel, she stuffed all the newspapers into her bag … This is preparation for the next step, and also to protect the media. This way, others won't happen to get hold of her media and burn it. "
Lin Sanjiu nodded.
"A lot of people might have the misconception that the media needs to spread the news on their own home turf. That's wrong." Jiang Tian explained, "The media can be taken away from their home turf. Or rather, only when the media is taken away from their home turf will they have a chance to be picked up by others. Why? Think about it, if you put one or two medias in every scene, when people see that there are so few of them, won't they lose their guard? "
"Oh!" said Vanvolt in sudden understanding.
"That's exactly what Lin Sanjiu used. She asked us to search for combustibles in preparation for the third scene. When we are in the dark, it will be easier for us to cooperate with her request and search for the materials to start the fire … "
"But," Rat-Face immediately asked, "How did she get the newspapers into our hands?"
"Do you remember that after we entered the dark, Lin Sanjiu took a long time before she started the fire?" Jiang Tian spoke bluntly, "During that time, she actually placed a few copies of the media on the office table. Then, she went across the room and stuffed a newspaper into the bag beside Doctor Chen's corpse."
Eider Down nodded in agreement, "If Wen Adam compared the contents of the bag with Doctor Chen's records, he would have found out that there were only books and magazines in the bag, not books, newspapers, and magazines. I was the one who misled him. "
Then, the young woman sighed at Lin Sanjiu, "I didn't expect you to be so quick-witted … Hmm, what I mean is, you are really smart … You can even see through the person who created the narrative."
Lin Sanjiu laughed bitterly. "It's not that I'm smart," she explained, "I'm not as smart as the average person in the Twelve Worlds Centrum. It's just that I've seen too many cases of people trying to use narratives to influence others."
"No no no, that's not right." Rohab shook his head stubbornly. "In the dark, she said 'I'm here'. Then we followed her voice, found the basin, and threw the paper into it. According to what you said, she couldn't have been standing next to the basin."
Lin Sanjiu scratched her nose.
Eider Down pointed at Vanvolt and said, "You guys forgot about him! Didn't he take a tape recorder to record everything on the beach? When they found out that Doctor Chen had just died, weren't they so scared that they threw their records away? Once the tape recorder left his hand, Lin Sanjiu took it away. After all, there's a difference between a recording and a human voice. So, after I played a short recording, I was the one who led everyone to throw the papers into the basin. "
To be honest, Lin Sanjiu didn't take the tape recorder for the pocket dimension. Lin Sanjiu might be quick-witted, but she couldn't think ten steps ahead.
"I have an item that needs the tape recorder to work, so I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a backup …" Lin Sanjiu had just started when she noticed that everyone's expression changed again. She immediately shut up.
"She used Guan Nan and Wen Ya's narratives to force them to take the newspaper," Jiang Tian continued. "Guan Nan insisted that there was an assassin waiting in the dark, so it's impossible that she didn't take anything that could start a fire. In Wen Ya's narratives, the 'papers' couldn't be anyone else's media other than Doctor Chen. Naturally, he had no reason not to take them. In short, Lin Sanjiu waited for the right time to reveal the truth and her identity to us. At the same time, she also sent her message. "
"When did she send her message? Why didn't I hear anything? "Wen Ya sneered.
While Eider Down was rubbing his temples, Jiang Tian said with great patience, "Did you forget what she said, 'A good dog doesn't bite'? Eider Down had said something similar to that in order to lay the foundation for her message and leave an impression in your hearts. "
"I suspected that she was a posthuman for a long time," Eider Down couldn't help feeling proud of himself as he interrupted, "She couldn't even recognize her own projection … That's why I cooperated with her long ago."
All the believers turned to look at her with blank faces. Guan Nan frowned and thought for a moment before he said, "No, that was my own thought. I didn't hear it from her."
"I was thinking the same thing as you at the time," Wen Ya agreed.
Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that her plan to "reset" the truth would be met with so much resistance. She exchanged glances with the two girls and saw the helplessness on each other's faces.
"I thought about it … If I'm a source of belief right now," Lin Sanjiu said as if the believers couldn't hear her, "Then, when I'm around them, their belief should be at its strongest. It's like standing next to a strong light source and not being able to see clearly. "
Rat-Face snorted. Roab shook his head as if to say that she was wrong. No one doubted themselves.
"You guys are from the same place. If you guys manage to return to Fanjia City, I hope you can explain to them. Maybe then, they will recover gradually, "Lin Sanjiu looked at the two girls. Lin Sanjiu looked at the two girls and said, "Before you have the confidence to get out, try to stay on this riverbank."
Eider Down was about to nod when he suddenly froze.
"You're leaving?"
Lin Sanjiu stood up. She had already changed out of her gray robe in the pocket dimension. Right now, her T-shirt and combat pants were soaked with water and pressed against her body. She looked at the raging river and said in a low voice, "It's time for me to take the next step. I want to see what the factory is going to do to ordinary people."
For the past two days, she had given up on herself and ate a lot of cheesecake that was a calorie-bomb. It wasn't a cheesecake at all because there was no cake. There was only a big piece of cheese with a sweet and sour taste. There were a lot of chocolate beans inside and a layer of pastry at the bottom … Anyway, it was greasy and satisfying. Before she swallowed the last bite, her waist had already grown 5 centimeters thicker.
(End of Chapter)
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