On the way to the next room, Feng Bujue found a happy thing, that is, the [Instrument] column of his specialization level was opened, and now it is F. I don’t know whether it is the result of fiddling with Walkman or folding newspaper, but it is good that it is opened anyway, the skills rewarded by the pass should be able to learn directly if they are [Instrument] or [General] system.
A few minutes later, he finally reached another door marked red, this time he pushed the door to enter.
The room was small, with two televisions placed against the wall. There was a table in the middle of the room, and surprisingly, there was a key directly on the table. There was an upright pipe in the right hand corner, poking out of the ground for about a meter, Feng Bujue walked over and looked at it, the diameter was probably just enough to fit a tennis ball.
This time he didn’t touch anything, and the door behind him closed on its own, while one of the two TVs lit up, and the image of the white-faced doll appeared on the screen.
“Hello Arthur, maybe you think the game is nearing its end here, maybe you think you’ll get out of here alive soon. But please ask yourself, do you really have such qualifications? A moment of kindness and a moment of pain can change your hypocritical nature?
You and I both know very well that you have not been truly redeemed.”
Feng Bujue did not say anything, he felt that this paragraph is not right, the so-called “momentary act of kindness” and “a moment of pain” should refer to his choice when he passed the first two rooms, which means that this video may have just finished recording a few minutes, or …… screen is simply playing live.
The screen of the second TV also suddenly lit up, and Feng Bujue saw an incredible scene, that TV actually appeared Wang Sighzhi. The screen also showed Wang Sighzhi walking forward in a corridor, he looked to have been injured, with blood on his body and a somewhat strange walking posture.
“Rolling in the world of fame and fortune has allowed you to meet many villains with whom you call brothers and sisters, and I believe that even if they learn that you are missing or dead, these people will not care. But …… Arthur, you still have a friend, a real friend.” The doll said: “John is now also playing a game, but his end, is a dead end. And the only thing that can take him to escape, and at the same time …… is something that can help you get out of here, is that key on the table.
You can use it to open the last door, or you can throw it into the pipe in the corner and send it to John’s side.
There is only one key, and if the vile and hypocritical Arthur Seeger chooses to die, then the good and decent John can live.
Live or die, make your choice.”
Feng Bujue stared at that TV screen and froze for a full two minutes. He was thinking about what was going on in the second TV Wang Sigh. Is this just a fake image generated in his own script, or is he really seeing another single-player survival mode script of Wang Suyi at this moment? If the latter is the case, then this system is too sharp to actually make two different players’ scripts overlap at a certain point?
He thought to himself, “I guess I’ll have to wait until the end of the script to ask Little Sigh about this answer, but now I can only speculate, not verify.
At this point Feng Bujue could not help but praise the brilliance of this script, the setting of Arthur is indeed not a good guy, the previous two levels are not enough to change anything, but the previous is just padding.
According to the plot, this last choice is the key. If Arthur sacrificed John, choose their own escape, then his whole life thereafter will suffer the condemnation of conscience, living in pain, his selfish hypocrisy will be infinitely magnified, tormenting his mind. Arthur will eventually go to the other extreme, becoming a crazy altruist, a true philanthropist, so as to make their conscience a little better.
This is the so-called “redemption”, so that the gamer after the trial, know how to respect and cherish life, to be grateful for the rest of their lives.
The other situation is that Arthur chose to die himself and let his friend John live, which is directly a sacrificial redemption.
Feng Bujue shrugged, walked to the table, picked up the key, looked at the last closed door, and said to himself; “So, this script of mine ends in failure ah ……” He walked to the pipe and threw the key in without much thought.
Then the screen of the second TV was turned off, and the doll in the first TV spoke again: “Admirable choice, Arthur, don’t worry, death, is the sublimation of the soul.” It seems this is really not a video.
“That door ……” Feng Bujue turned his face and pointed in the direction of the door, “leads to a path of death.”
The neck of the doll in the TV turned slightly and did not respond.
“Your wording is interesting …… and strict, I was almost fooled.” Feng Bujue said, “The thing that can take him ‘escape’ is also the thing that can help me ‘get out of here’.” He laughed: “Oh …… if I take the key to the door, I will die instead, right?”
The doll remained silent with no answer.
“You said I ‘could use it to open the last door’, but didn’t say that I could live after opening it, I would just ‘leave’.” Feng Bujue said: “And the most crucial hint is the phrase …… ‘the vile and hypocritical Arthur Seeger chooses to die, and the good and upright John can live’.” He spread his hands: “I thought about it for a few seconds before I realized that there was no conflict. At this moment, John has the key, he can live, and ‘mean and hypocritical’ Arthur is dead.
Standing here is Arthur Seeger who could sacrifice himself for his friends and passed the trial, an ‘admirable’ man whose ‘soul was uplifted’, am I right?”
The doll finally spoke: “Excellent, you see through the rules of the game, but it makes me question the outcome of the trial.”
“Are you really just a set of scripted data generated by the system?” Feng Bujue raised his eyes in vain and walked towards the TV: “Could it be that for you, my choice is not the logical conclusion of what has become a foregone conclusion? Does it matter whether my basis for passing is conscience or guile?” He squatted in front of the TV, and in the same tone as in the recording, lowered his voice and said, “The final choice in this script is not really between life and death. Rather, it is a game about the ego, the self and the superego.
If I put myself into the mindset of ‘Arthur Segal’, that is to choose with the consciousness of the ego, that despicable journalist will undoubtedly give up others to survive and use the key to open the door, and that will kill him.
If I take the mindset of a ‘player’ completely, it is to choose with the consciousness of the ego. For the players of Thrillerland, this is just a script, the options are simple, pass or GAMEOVER. so I will also take the key to open the door, or die.
Only someone who brings an objective mind into a subjective role, ‘a player who is focused on playing Arthur Seeger’, can make a decision with a superego consciousness, so that even if I don’t break your trick, I will choose to throw the key into the pipe, because this is the most perfect interpretation of the script.
And at that time, you will then give me back a surprise ending, is that so?”
The TV screen actually suddenly went black at this point, as if the doll had forcibly stopped this communication. Feng Bujue’s ears immediately rang with the familiar, unemotional system alert voice:
[You have completed the script, 60 seconds after the automatic transmission]
