That's right. In fact, He Fei had already realized that this mission had the risk of group destruction since he learned about the abilities of the Faceless Man. There was a very high probability of group destruction. It was true that He Fei kept calm during the call. He was communicating in a tone of voice, but in fact he had been pretending and pretending to be calm all the time. The reason was that he was the captain and the backbone of the entire team. Imagine that if even he, the captain, was frightened and panicked, then others would What would you think? How should teammates and companions who are looking for cards in the forest react? He Fei will not and cannot show such things that affect morale. Not only will he not show it, on the contrary, he must face everyone with a calm attitude as much as possible. Only in this way can he create the illusion that He Fei is confident, and then start. To stabilize military morale and strengthen belief.
As for why he didn't tell Peng Hu and others about the current situation of the farm?
At this moment, listening to Qian Xueling's question full of doubts, He Fei shifted his gaze and retracted his sight from the window. Then he shook his head and smiled bitterly at the woman. While smiling bitterly, he said something meaningful: "Sister Xueling, it's not me. We don’t want to tell Brother Peng and Zhao Ping about our current situation, but there is no need to say it. Even if we tell it, it will have no practical significance at all except to make Brother Peng and the others worry about us."
As soon as He Fei said this, Qian Xueling seemed to understand, because she suddenly realized that the current situation was quite special. In other words, even though the farm and the forest were not far apart from each other in the plains, they had actually evolved into two. There are two worlds, two independent spaces that basically do not interfere with each other. In the forest, Peng Hu and others are risking their lives to collect cards and are executing the second mission goal. On the farm, he, He Fei and others are just executing In the time-consuming survival mission, due to the different goals of both parties, the crises they face are also different. Except for the psychic link that can forcibly break the supernatural blockade and allow the two groups to communicate, the two parties are essentially unrelated. The executor is trapped in the forest. It cannot help the executor who is on the farm, and the executor on the farm is also helpless to the executor who is being chased by locusts in the woods. Unless the members of the farm group also enter the forest collectively, it will be difficult for the two groups to help each other. At most, the farm team can provide early warning to the forest team members with that sketch that can predict life and death, but the forest team cannot help the farm team at all.
Thinking of this, Qian Xueling suddenly realized, and then even more admired He Fei's thoughtfulness. Indeed, based on the current situation, it can be clearly seen that the members of the forest group are now unable to protect themselves. So do you still need to tell the other party about the situation of the farm? Once the truth is told, the result can only be to affect morale and disturb the morale of the army, making Peng Hu and others who are always facing the threat of monsters even more desperate and nervous!
"I'm sorry, I didn't think well." After thinking about it in her mind, Qian Xueling apologized directly with a look of shame on her face, while He Fei waved his hands and shrugged and responded: "No, it's not your fault, but I have been paying attention to this matter since I was divided into groups. At first, I imagined that Brother Peng and the others would be able to exit the forest and return to the plains even if they couldn't find all the cards. I never thought that the place was completely controlled by the tigers! It has become a closed space with no entry or exit. In the final analysis, I underestimated the strength of the worm. I, I really didn’t expect that the worm in this mission would be so powerful!"
He Fei frowned and looked ugly. At the end of the sentence, he clenched his fists and got emotional. Qian Xueling felt the same way, so why wasn't it unexpected? Seeing that the college student's mood was fluctuating, Qian Xueling hurriedly offered words of comfort. However, coincidentally, just when she was about to say something...
squeak.
With a sudden soft sound, the front door of the living room was pushed open. Everyone looked for the sound and saw a girl covered with snowflakes appearing in front of the living room door. The person who came was none other than someone else...
It was Cheng Ying who ran away from the farm not long ago!
………
Based on the clues I have obtained over the past few days, and then integrating all the information clues, I can currently draw the following argument.
First of all, I can be sure that there is nothing wrong with my original strategy of dividing our troops into two groups. The original idea of not putting all the eggs in one basket also proves that my ideological argument and that of everyone are basically consistent, or that there is only two groups of troops. Only in this way can the team have a glimmer of hope, and the two optional mission objectives are not much different in nature. Both can pose a serious threat to the team. The reason is that for the first time in this mission, there is a creature that exceeds the cognitive understanding of the executor. A special lynx with an elongated shadow.
If the team adopts a team-up strategy to perform a certain task alone, the consequences will always be worse than splitting into two groups. The reason is that I have now learned that the faceless man has the ability to create worms. In other words, it can be understood as the faceless man. The Face Man can forcibly elevate the soul of a person after death, forcibly advance it, and then create worms in disguise. The ferocious characteristics of worms are obvious to all and need not be described in detail. If the soul is too fragile to pose a threat to people, then the lonely soul is more advanced than the soul. Woolen cloth? Where's the charm? What about the even more terrifying Li Qi?
Undoubtedly, this is a shocking and heaven-defying ability. Unexpectedly, this heaven-defying ability is precisely mastered by the faceless man. So this is the biggest reason why I am glad that the team is divided into two groups. For example, if the team does not adopt the strategy of dividing the troops Instead of staying together on the farm, with the signal ability of the Faceless Man that can affect the brain and cause people to go crazy, the consequences will definitely be that people will be tricked frequently and people will die continuously. Either the crazy executors will kill the non-crazy executors, or they will not The crazy executor is forced to kill the crazy executor in order to protect himself. In fact, no matter who kills whom, the ending is always fixed, that is, cannibalism. The team will gradually reduce its members through cannibalism again and again until it is destroyed.
However, the matter is not over, and the horror is far from that. Even if the executor finally miraculously finds a way to defend or immune to signal attacks and stops the members from killing each other, then, next, the Faceless Men will sacrifice their lives. Hand, an unsolvable killing that is more terrifying than cannibalism.
The souls of the enforcers who died of cannibalism before will be forcibly upgraded by the Faceless Man through some means. Once the souls advance into the true meaning of evil spirits, the enforcers gathered on the farm will face disaster. , the team will continue to lose members in a new round of slug attacks, and the killed will continue to transform into slugs. Every time one person dies, the number of slugs will increase by one. This vicious cycle will continue until the end, no matter how you think about it, The only outcome for the execution team would be total annihilation.
what does that mean?
Very simply, it means that all the executors cannot gather on the plain farm and not all of them can perform the seven-day survival mission together. The more people there are, the greater the crisis will be. Therefore, it was decided to transfer half of the people from the farm to the forest to perform the card collection mission. That's very true. Since the team has lost half of its people in one fell swoop, the crisis faced by the executors on the farm will also be halved.
Of course, everything always has its relative nature. It is not advisable for the executors to stay on the farm collectively. However, half of the members leaving the farm and going to the forest does not mean safety. Although there are no signal attacks in the forest that can affect the brain and make people crazy, it still does not mean that they are safe. Don’t forget that the faceless man is in the forest! The executors who go to the forest have to face the direct threat of the Faceless Man, who will be killed if they are not careful. After all, the Faceless Man is too powerful and has all kinds of unheard-of and unsolvable perverted abilities.
Seeing this, some people may ask, it is very dangerous for the enforcers to gather in a group on the farm, and entering the forest is equivalent to a narrow escape. Based on the logic of choosing the lesser of two evils, since the forest area is obviously more dangerous than the farm area, then He Fei Why send half of the team to the forest? Wouldn't it be better to give up the card collection mission from the beginning, and then everyone gather at the farm to carry out the seven-day survival mission alone?
On the surface, there is nothing wrong with the above point of view, and the overall feeling is quite consistent with the logic of choosing the lesser of two evils. Rather than sending half of the people to the forest to perform higher-risk card collection tasks, it is better for everyone to stay together on the farm. At least he doesn't have to face the threat of the faceless man.
only……
If He Fei does this, the team will be doomed!
The reason is that after a few days of observation, He Fei discovered the problem and found that the seemingly relatively simple 7 days of survival was basically impossible to complete!
The reason is that the faceless man can rush out of the forest and spread his abilities to the outside world. It is a strange signal that can neither be seen nor touched. The signal has two effects. The first is that it has been accurately known by the executor. Interfering with the brain can make people go crazy. The second one is unproven but highly likely to be created by soul advancement. In fact, whether it is interfering with the brain or soul advancement, the signal itself is unpreventable, which means that the executor There is currently no way to defend against the death signal. Even if Will builds a signal detector, it will only detect the signal. At most, it will allow everyone to discover in advance who the next person in the team will be attacked by the signal. In fact, there is still no way to block the signal. Being unable to defend means being helpless, and being helpless means that the executor can only watch his teammates being affected by the signal, watching his teammates gradually evolve into murderous demons who refuse to recognize their relatives, and finally being forced to kill their crazy teammates to protect themselves, and their teammates will die again. Later, it transformed into a wolf, and then continued to attack them in the form of a more threatening spirit body.
There is a hidden rule that the closer you get to the end of the mission in the combined time limit, the more powerful and crazier you will become...
Thinking of this, He Fei suddenly felt horrified! ! !
With frightened and pessimistic thoughts, He Fei finally came to a conclusion, a terrifying conclusion that he couldn't find a way to deal with even if he tried hard recently, that is, the first mission target issued by the curse was at Pingyuan Farm. The executor cannot complete the 7-day survival mission requirement, or the executor is unable to persist for 7 days in this mission world called 'Black Forest Mantle'!
Since it is impossible to persist in the mission world for 7 days, everyone can only end the mission early and return to the Hell Train before the situation becomes irreversible. As for how to return early? The answer is undoubtedly to perform the second mission goal and go to the Black Forest to collect cards. As long as 8 cards can be collected, everyone can instantly escape from the mission world.
I was half right.
Yes, half, half right, half wrong. Right means that although I personally preferred the conservative strategy of staying on the farm at the beginning of the mission, in the end I still implemented the logic of not putting all my eggs in one basket. Then half of the members were sent to the forest to collect cards.
As for the error, the error was that only half, only half of the executors entered the forest.
If I had known this would be the outcome, I would have definitely given up on the stranded farm and led everyone to the forest to search for cards. But then again, it was precisely because I insisted on the egg basket strategy that it evolved into the half-pair today. Half wrong.
To remedy the situation? After learning the truth, he rushed to the forest with the farm team members?
No, it’s not necessary, it’s too late, because it’s already the fifth day of the supernatural mission, and six cards have been collected through the efforts of Peng Ge and Zhao Ping. Only the last two have not been found, and the one named The faceless man with the slender shadow is too powerful. Going to the forest now will not help much in collecting cards. On the contrary, it will expose the members of the farm team who are currently safe to a more direct threat of death. Maybe it will be worse. The group was destroyed in the forest. Because of this, it is not advisable to make amends. It is better to maintain the status quo and continue to wait. At this point, we place our hope on Brother Peng and the others to collect 8 cards as soon as possible.
After a night of careful consideration and analysis of the pros and cons, I decided to maintain the status quo and let half of the executors, headed by Peng Ge and Zhao Ping, search for the last two digital cards in the forest, while I and others continued to stay at the farm and continued to try to hold on for 7 days. , at first glance, I was at a loss, and all my hope was placed on collecting all the cards in the forest group, but...
I don’t accept it, I don’t believe it. Even if the analysis results clearly tell me that surviving for 7 days is not advisable, I still firmly believe that there is still a trace of hope hidden in that seemingly unsolvable survival task!
………
Day 5 of the supernatural mission, 12:44 noon, Will Farm.
The heavy snow that fell for nearly a day and night gradually faded in the early morning, and finally stopped when the morning came. The only regret is that the end of the heavy snow does not mean that the sky will clear up. Looking around, the earth is covered with white light, and the sky is still cloudy and manic. The cold wind here is still howling like yesterday, sweeping and raging across this vast plain.
As discussed yesterday, in order to thoroughly find out whether there are locusts in the world, and because he was personally curious, after lunch, Will went to the basement to continue making the signal detector that he had not completed yesterday. Let’s not talk about how Will was doing it at the moment. Working hard with curiosity in the basement, the scene shifts to the living room above...
The firelight flickered and warmth spread.
The burning flames of the fireplace brought enough warmth to the living room, but it could not warm everyone's cold hearts. In front of the sofa, he raised his head and looked at the left and right sides, and saw Qian Xueling, Chen Shuihong and Chen Guangyu sitting on the sofa like him. Only Cheng Ying was standing in front of the window, currently looking out the window with her back to everyone. It was obvious that the professional killer was on alert, and after experiencing yesterday's incident, he had completely raised his vigilance to the highest level.
Seeing this, He Fei looked hesitant as if he was reminiscing. In the end, he couldn't help but asked Cheng Ying: "Hey, Cheng Ying, are you sure you didn't catch anything yesterday afternoon? Didn't you find anything?"
That's right, just as He Fei asked tentatively just now, since he saw Cheng Ying running out of the farm yesterday afternoon, He Fei concluded that the other party must be chasing something, and most of the things he was chasing were human beings. It was a guess. Correct. Unexpectedly, Cheng Ying returned alone in the evening. Seeing that Cheng Ying returned safely and unscathed, He Fei felt a little relieved, but he still asked curiously after seeing clearly that the other party came back alone. He and Qian Xueling asked about the cause and effect. Faced with everyone's inquiries, Cheng Ying naturally told the truth without reservation, but the girl's answer was really incomprehensible and even unbelievable.
Cheng Ying said that she did see someone sneaking into the farm, but the other person was very strange. He was just a strange man who had never seen him before. Of course, a stranger is a stranger. In order to find out the truth and get clues, Cheng Ying was still confirming Since the other person was a human, he immediately followed him and chased him in the wind and snow. Unexpectedly, the other person was extremely fast. After chasing him for a long time and following him for a long time, the strange man finally managed to escape his pursuit.
When they heard that there was someone in the world who was faster than Cheng Ying, a professional killer who could reach the peak of human speed, to be honest, He Fei and others were shocked and dumbfounded after hearing the news. If Cheng Ying hadn't admitted it personally and said it conclusively. He is a man but not a Qi. He probably wouldn't even believe that such a thing could happen even if he killed He Fei. Perhaps he had already pointed the finger of suspicion at Qi. After receiving such an answer, He Fei couldn't help but murmur. Since Cheng Ying was sure that the other party was a complete stranger. I have never seen him before, so I completely rule out the possibility that the other party is from the James farm next door, and then...
He Fei was confused. A strange man sneaked into the farm for no reason? Then he escaped and disappeared at an extremely fast speed while being chased by Cheng Ying?
This, what is going on?
As mentioned before, He Fei has very strong analytical skills. Many times, he can deduce a large number of guesses with just a few clues. However, the problem is that the basic premise for doing this is that there must be clues, and many reasonable analyzes must be based on clues. , As a result, He Fei was caught blind this time. The reason was that he only learned from Cheng Ying that the other party was a strange man and did not know anything else? Imagine that in this situation where there are so few clues that there are almost no clues, unless He Fei is a god who knows the unknown, he will not be able to analyze the results anyway, let alone the results, and even guess. So it is natural. Due to a serious lack of clues, after thinking for a moment, He Fei was forced to give up the analysis and just told everyone to be more vigilant while he redirected his thoughts to the direction of the task.
Time passed slowly, and the night passed quietly, and we entered the fifth day of the mission inadvertently.
At this moment, staring at the drawing paper in his hand and looking at the group of firewood people in the painting who had not changed since the end of the spiritual link yesterday, He Fei felt a little relaxed. After all, the lack of change meant that Peng Hu and other members of the forest team were temporarily safe. This means that the Faceless Man has not yet attacked them. As long as they are not attacked, the opponent still hopes to find the last two cards.
After confirming that the strange pictures were normal, He Fei unconsciously shifted his thoughts and recalled what happened yesterday afternoon again.
"Hey, Cheng Ying, are you sure you didn't catch anything yesterday afternoon? Didn't you find anything?"
Listening to He Fei's tentative inquiry full of doubts, the female killer turned around at the window with a dissatisfied look on her face, and then responded casually in a slightly angry tone: "Hey, hey, hey, aren't you a bit too chatty? From now on? You have asked me no less than three times since last night, and this is the fourth time. I still say the same thing. Yesterday afternoon, I only saw an unknown stranger. I chased him for a long time, but he ran away. No discovery, I know you want to find out the truth, but there are only so many clues after all, you can’t let me make up clues out of thin air, right?”
"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I really wanted to find out what was going on, so I couldn't help it..." He Fei felt embarrassed when Cheng Ying said this in a tone that was completely in line with his past personality. He hurriedly raised his hands and scratched his head and laughed and apologized. However, it was the young man's laughing and apologizing that injected a relaxed atmosphere into the living room environment that had been suppressed for a long time. Not only that, as the person with the highest emotional intelligence on the scene, Qian Xueling saw the young man in embarrassment, and Qian Xueling promptly He launched a rescue operation and smiled at the somewhat annoyed Cheng Ying at the window and explained: "Cheng Ying, please forgive He Fei. The reason why he is like this is actually for the safety of all of us."
"Yes, yes, Miss Qian is right. The captain is indeed thinking about everyone. After all, what happened yesterday was too strange. Now we all know that this plain called Dalusen has been inaccessible for a long time. There are only There is no one else on the two farms except Will and James' family, and a stranger appears out of nowhere. This thing is wrong no matter how you think about it, and it is best to find out."
Chen Shuihong is worthy of being a veteran in officialdom. Not only is he very good at observing people's movements, but he is also very good at communicating with others. In order to show his worth in front of the captain and everyone as much as possible, Qian Xueling's words trailed off. Fatty Chen saw the opportunity and answered in time. First, he made a lot of logical arguments that no one could refute, then he took out a cigarette and offered it with a smile: "Come on, come on, Brother He, have a smoke."
It is well known that cigarettes are good for relieving stress, and He Fei knows how to smoke. As expected, when the fat man handed over the cigarette, He Fei, who was restless in his thoughts, was not polite and directly reached out to take the ignition and lit it.
"call."
Lighting the cigarette and taking a deep breath, He Fei looked at Cheng Ying and smiled bitterly: "Okay, I won't ask you anymore. You continue to be vigilant for everyone. I'll go to the basement to take a look first. By the way, Sister Xueling, you come with me." Want to go together?"
"No, I know nothing about machinery. Ever since I accompanied you to the basement last night and witnessed Will assembling in front of a large pile of parts, I have been full of questions. Instead of assembling a machine that I don't understand at all, I might as well put the tableware first. Clean it up.”
After the conversation after the meal, Cheng Ying took charge of security, He Fei got up and left to find Will, Qian Xueling also carried the tableware to the kitchen as usual, but Chen Shuihong and Chen Guangyu both found themselves with nothing to do. However, just because he had nothing to do, when he saw Chen Shuihong smoking happily, Chen Guangyu, who also smoked frequently in real life, couldn't help but get addicted to cigarettes. He pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment, and finally coughed and asked awkwardly: "Hey, Well, Brother Chen, can you give me one too?"
"Oh? Could it be that Brother Chen also smokes?"
"Yes, yes, of course, I did. I did it a long time ago."
"Then what brand do you usually smoke?"
As mentioned above, as He Fei and Qian Xueling left one after another, there were only three people left in the living room. Since they had nothing to do, Chen Shuihong began to talk about cigarettes with Chen Guangyu. As for Cheng Ying, who had been standing in front of the window with her back to the living room...
Looking out at the white snowy scene outside the window, the girl suddenly smiled. Without any warning, the corners of her mouth raised slightly, and then revealed a sinister smile.
