Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 1048 This Gray Region is Too Evil

"We're still in the Gray Zone? What the hell is going on… I remember I… I had the impression of returning to my home."

Li Nian looked at the empty, boundless space outside the door, which seemed to be made up of noise and cacophony, and said in disbelief.

Before Lin Yu could answer, Li Nian realized the reality by this reminder.

"No... all this happened too fast, too blurry... I really haven't been back. Oh my god... we're still trapped in the gray area! Those are false memories created by cognitive interference!"

She held onto the door frame and spoke tremblingly.

Lin Yu let out a breath.

"Where exactly did the plan go wrong?"

My plan should be flawless... After uploading a part of my consciousness to the small world, completing the "final exam" and feeling that the "pass conditions" have been met, when I return to the [settlement space], I should be able to gather all my consciousness together and restore it in a "complete" form.

But...why am I still here? What went wrong?

Could it be that my "final exam" is not yet completed, or... most of myself has left the gray area, and now I am just an "isolated" conscious individual?

wrong……

Lin Yu could quickly feel that his soul was very complete.

and……

If it weren't for the dominant "subjective consciousness", it would be impossible for me to carry Li Nian's soul!

So, now it must be that something went wrong with my evacuation plan.

"So, there's a flaw in my plan. While the rules of the 'Death Game' cannot be violated, the 'consciousness' I uploaded into the small world could be deceived... If the central agency in the mirror world can trick me into thinking I've completed the 'final exam,' it's possible they could trap the consciousnesses I'm responsible for escaping."

"But just doing this won't trap all my soul fragments. After all, I've already become a life form of 'group consciousness'. Unless... unless the 'Central Authority' gives up the souls and lives of hundreds of millions of people in the Mirror World and forcibly gathers me together through some means - but how is that possible? How could I be such a threat? To him, souls and the Mirror World are definitely more important than me... This isn't an absolutely rational 'decision'..."

"Does he have the means to forcibly gather my soul? No, if that were the case, he wouldn't have chosen to negotiate with me in the first place and told me so much information..."

Lin Yu murmured, thinking about various possibilities.

Li Nian listened to Lin Yu's mumbling. Since she had no involvement in Lin Yu's plan, she naturally didn't understand what Lin Yu said.

But she could still roughly understand one thing: Lin Yu's original plan to make them leave failed!

"What should we do now?" Li Nian looked out the door. "This is a small world. If we jump out directly, will it succeed? After all, we all saw the blood words... Leaving the Ghost Ship will be considered a success."

"That bloody message is a completely fake reminder created by the 'Central Authority' using cognitive disturbances to imitate the 'Death Game,'" Lin Yu looked outside. "If we really jump out, I think there's a high probability that we will die—of course, I will die, and you will only lose half of your soul, and the part of your soul in the real world will become completely demented."

Lin Yu said calmly.

Li Nian held his forehead with his hand. "In a sense, that's no different from being dead... Anyway, let's not take the risk for now. Since there's a 'photo studio' that fell in from the City That Never Sleeps, can we find a way to go back to the City That Never Sleeps?"

Lin Yu shook his head: "I don't think we have the ability to cross the ten realms... After all, I'm not sure whether this is a fragment of the world of the wasteland world, or whether they simply used some authority to record this information and reproduce these scenes one-to-one in a small world..."

"I was the first to find the [Ancient Notes] that Zhu Ming lent you, and I've just learned… its essence is the 'materialized authority' that circulated in the Gray Territory—and I found it at an abandoned testing ground in the Nightless City of the Wasteland Realm… With all these coincidences stacked together, perhaps it's not just a coincidence; there's a real connection."

As Lin Yu spoke, he seemed to have grasped some clues.

All of this may indeed be no coincidence - but how can this be exploited?

Or in other words...is this really something I can use?

While Lin Yu was thinking, Li Nian asked with some concern: "Speaking of this, if we are still here, where is Sister Zhu Ming?"

"Don't worry, she's in a much safer situation than us. She might have already left," Lin Yu said, rubbing his brow. "Anyway, don't worry about her. If we're okay, she'll definitely be fine too. I can assure you."

Li Nian's worry eased slightly when he heard Lin Yu's sincere tone: "I believe you won't say anything nonsense about Sister Zhu Ming's affairs... Anyway, since you said that the [Ancient Notes] might be related to this small world, how about taking it out and giving it a try?"

When Lin Yu heard Li Nian's words, he looked at her in shock: "You can use [Props], why?"

"It will be fine once I regain consciousness," Li Nian pulled up his sunglasses, "otherwise, what do you think this is?"

"Of course, it's the cognitive perturbation that's making you think it's an item. They know exactly what your item does, so it's easy to create a false impression... How could the 'Death Game' determine that your true self is this side? Since you were able to clear the previous 'Instance' and return to the display, then the real world must be the true self!"

Lin Yu said firmly.

Li Nian thought about it and shook his head: "I don't know either, but I think I can use [props] now. But I think there's no harm in giving it a try, right?"

Lin Yu was about to agree when he heard the door of the control room being pushed open.

Then, a cold female voice sounded.

"No, it's not necessarily without harm. Perhaps the reason this 'Central Authority' still took the risk of keeping you two here is because of that [Ancient Notebook], that materialized authority of 'information'."

A girl with a gentle appearance and her hair tied up at the back of her head walked in. She was wearing a white coat, black jeans, and a gray knitted turtleneck sweater underneath, looking a bit plain.

She walked past rows of workbenches, the light from the huge surveillance screen shone on her face, and the shadows made her originally soft facial features more three-dimensional and sharp.

When Li Nian saw the person coming, he was first surprised, then worried.

Lin Yu looked as if he had seen a ghost.

"This Gray Region is so damn evil."

Lin Yu couldn't help but mutter.

Li Nian had already greeted her: "Sister Zhu Ming, why are you here?"