The Truth of the Closed Loop, Bai Zhi's Deduction

Naturally, Anomaly also exist in this Seaside Plaza.

So soon, Li Changyu peacefully departed on his journey, passing away quite calmly... well, actually, he died a very tragic death.

So tragically, even OriginDeficit didn't know how to collect the corpse...

"... So, does that mean we all have to die at least once?"

Turning his gaze away from that direction, Fireworks of Romance's lips twitched involuntarily.

"They were killed by a systematized Anomaly, not just by a simple death. Please figure that out first."

With a slight pursing of his lips, Bai Zhi began to speak.

"If you consider it from this perspective, then I understand where the 0% survival rate comes from."

"Wait a minute, does that mean the weaker the Player, the more likely they are to clear this Dungeon?"

After a slight pause, Fireworks of Romance asked, somewhat puzzled.

"After all, the stronger the Player, the less likely they are to be killed by those weaker Anomaly. They will only be trapped in this endless Closed Loop until their Sanity Value drops to a dangerous critical point and they die... Is this Dungeon targeting us so much?"

"So, when facing those endless Anomaly, strength isn't the primary factor. Also, who told you that just leaving means you've cleared the Dungeon?"

Bai Zhi glanced at the Fireworks of Romance before him with an expression as if he were looking at Fool, and seemed somewhat speechless.

"The real danger lies outside the Closed Loop. Powerful Player cannot break through Closed Loop, and even if weaker Player manage to Closed Loop, the situation outside is beyond Player capabilities... This is why the survival rate for this Dungeon is 0%."

Bai Zhi tapped his forehead with his finger and began to speak.

"Unless you possess absolutely invincible strength that can completely crush the Anomaly, such as Void with one hand or withstanding a black hole with your bare body, the most important thing for us Player in the face of these Anomaly is still to rely on our own brains."

How exactly did this conclusion come about?

As OriginDeficit walked over from the edge of the Plaza, covered in blood, he wiped himself with a towel and asked with a slightly complicated expression.

"How exactly did those Anomaly get involved with the system?"

"Make bold guesses, verify carefully... We entered this Dungeon through the system's Strength to Walkthrough Dungeon, right?"

Bai Zhi shrugged slightly and sat up a little straighter.

"But from the very beginning, the system simply disappeared. All of us Player had our memories sealed and were then divided into ten Anomaly Space. You all know about these things, right?"

"That's right, so what?"

OriginDeficit sat down on the ground.

"At the same time, every Anomaly is immortal and harbors a strong murderous intent towards us Player... What does that prove? Aren't all Anomaly like that?"

"Real people live in a false world. In this false world, is everything you see truly real?"

Bai Zhi pursed his lips, his expression unconvinced.

"First of all, the system cannot be magically stable for no reason; it must exist somewhere. Anomaly cannot affect the system, but they can affect us."

"No wonder! I mean, that guy copy me, how did he manage to copy all my Equipment and Skill, even my Title and ID—things that are absolutely impossible to copy..."

Suddenly, the person standing nearby, who was observing Fireworks of Romance, had a look of sudden realization.

"If that Anomaly itself is System Incarnation, then it's not surprising that it could do this."

"And another thing, didn't you notice that we were using our real names here before we regained our memories?"

Bai Zhi held up one finger in front of him.

"The Anomaly can't affect the system, and the system can't just disappear for no reason. So the system itself has been reminding us in some way that our real name is like this, and the Anomaly that can't be killed are the same."

"Um... is it possible that the Anomaly we're encountering is actually like that?"

OriginDeficit looked conflicted.

"After all, what you just said was just reasoning..."

"Yes, there is a possibility, but it's very small."

Bai Zhi calmly interrupted the other person.

"I never claimed that my reasoning was 100% correct. After Anomaly don't follow logic; I was just betting on probability. To paraphrase someone's famous saying, anything with a probability greater than 50% is worth betting on."

"... So you've never been sure?"

"I never said anything like that, okay? I was just asking him if he wanted to take a gamble, don't make baseless accusations."

Rolling his eyes, Bai Zhi leaned back against the bench railing again.

"Besides, don't you think some things are unnecessary? Our sealed memories are trapped here. If it weren't for the stimulation of the Anomaly, if it weren't for that piece of music, would our memories as Player have been so easily restored?"

"... So it was all unnecessary?"

Bai Zhi's words were a bit convoluted, and it took Fireworks of Romance a long time to barely understand their meaning.

"That's right, the appearance of Anomaly is completely superfluous; it will only stimulate the revival of our Player' memories. In these Anomaly Space, our Player's Sanity Value is constantly being reduced. Is it really necessary to create an immortal Anomaly just to make us recover our memories?"

Bai Zhi placed the back of his right hand on his forehead to shield his eyes from the sunlight, and squinted as he looked up at the Tian Kong.

"Instead of embellishing us with so many undead Anomaly, why not just remove them all and let time slowly erode our Sanity in a world built on False Memory? That would obviously be a much easier and quicker way to kill us. Why go to the trouble of creating an Anomaly that is essentially neither able to kill us nor be killed by us?"

"Well..."

After thinking about it for quite some time, OriginDeficit and Fireworks of Romance had to admit that what Bai Zhi said was indeed very reasonable.

"Therefore, in conclusion, the inference that there is a close connection between those immortal Anomaly and the system is more than 70% likely to be correct."

Yawning, Bai Zhi lazily began to summarize what he had just said.

"If this inference is correct, then we can continue to work backward. If those immortal Anomaly are equivalent to the system, then what exactly is the system’s disappearance from the beginning, trying to do with those immortal Anomaly?"

"It's simple, kill us, then let us out of the Closed Loop."