The Blood Words on the Seat

From Ye Ming's and Ye Qin's perspectives, they both clearly remembered their identities, except for Ye Ting.

Yu Xing's gaze fell on the first half of Ye Ting's perspective, on the part where she "lingered for a long time".

Was it because Ye Ting had spent too long in the church, so long that time and memory had become blurred, yet she was still following her instincts, searching for something that could make her leave the church?

He narrowed his eyes, rejecting the answer.

From Ye Qin's perspective, he saw the Female Ghost as soon as he entered the church and was discovered, which led to a chase. This shows that the Female Ghost has a strong sense of perception. It is impossible for Ye Ting, a young girl, to have built the church for so long without being discovered by the Female Ghost.

And as she herself said, if she were discovered and chased by the Female Ghost, he definitely couldn't outrun Female Ghost.

Combining the Yugi's name, Reincarnation, with Ye Ting's distorted memories, Yu Xing had a guess.

Perhaps, after the three siblings entered the church through the attic, they were all quickly killed by the Female Ghost, killed many times, yet the cycle repeated itself, making them believe they were still alive.

This is certainly not the real world, but rather a spiritual world created by the three siblings after their deaths in reality, where their spirits, driven by some obsession, still connect the attic and the church, and are tormented time and again.

The third and fourth documents show Ye Ming and Ye Qin's spiritual entities when they first entered the church and their cognition was still clear. The fifth document shows Ye Ting's spiritual entity long after it entered the church.

This experience was the subject of a deduction and turned into a mini -Yugi, becoming the most important clue in the entire world. Thus, the reason for the formation of the deduction world was revealed.

Yu Xing's lips curled into a smile as she suddenly understood.

This world, devoid of history and existing only in the present, is likely a medium created by one of the three siblings in the hope of breaking the cycle of reincarnation and finding what is hidden in the church in another way.

If Yu Xing finds what they're looking for in this world, the three siblings can end their cycle of being killed and fleeing, and finally break this nightmarish, endless cycle.

However, the creation of the world is accomplished by the subconscious, so the sibling relationship is still remembered, and most of the world's logic remains correct, leaving more room for paranormal events, making it more likely to come into contact with that "thing".

Therefore, Ye Ming and Ye Ting in this world became abnormal after coming into contact with the Yugi. Perhaps the subconscious of the deducing subject was stimulated by the content of the Yugi, bringing the twisted and amnesiac side of the church that had been killed into this world.

This simulated world is a victim's self-rescue in an endless cycle. All the strange things, as well as the pallor and illusion that Yu Xing noticed as soon as he arrived, are explained. Everything has a traceable origin.

Ye Ming has become completely Ghostification in this world. Perhaps because he has been exposed to the Yugi too much, the deductive subject instinctively feels that Ye Ming is no different from the Yugi. Although Ye Ting was the first to be exposed to the Yugi, she did not play it many times. In the deductive subject's imagination, she is still the cute and sensible younger sister in the subconscious.

However, this does not mean that the subject of the deduction must be Ye Qin. Even Ye Ming or Ye Ting may have a bias in their own perception.

In conclusion, the complete worldview of this deduction should be a nested doll: the three siblings were killed in reality by the real thing represented by the Female Ghost. After their deaths, their ghosts, due to obsession or some overly strong special emotion, created the attic and church spiritual worlds. In the spiritual world, the ghosts were again killed by the Female Ghost, who was transformed from fear. One of the siblings became aware of this cycle, and in order to end the nightmare, the subconscious created the place where Yu Xing is now, hoping to find a clearer way for them to escape the cycle of reincarnation in this subconscious world.

While keeping an eye on the data on the Yugi, Yu Xing also diverted a small portion of her attention to Ye Ting, who was sleeping on the bed, and sorted through all the clues in her mind.

Since the subconscious believes that only in such a world can a way to break the cycle of reincarnation be found, it means that "it" believes that there is no way out in the spiritual world with churches.

The biggest difference between the spiritual world and the world Yu Xing is currently in is that the three siblings in the church are forever unable to realize that they have died because of reincarnation, but here, they have the opportunity to come into contact with the concept of death.

Making the subject of the simulation realize that they are dead is the ultimate solution to everything.

That's right, that's it.

Ye Ming's unusual obsession with the Yugi before his death was perhaps partly due to a confused understanding, and partly because his inner obsession was reminding him that something was wrong with the Yugi and that he needed to solve the mystery.

Unfortunately, he died before he could succeed, because he played too many times.

Based on data collected from a horror Yugi, Yu Xing was able to basically guess the worldview of this hypothesis. Even though there isn't much evidence to support this hypothesis yet, he believed he was right.

Having lived in this world for over a week, he had adapted to its rules. This conjecture was the most reasonable and clearest line of thought he had found after eliminating all contradictions.

Such deductive ability seems a bit excessive, significantly reducing the overall difficulty of the reasoning process.

In fact, such behavior is not considered outrageous, because it is just a test of deduction ability conducted by the system on all registered deducers. What it wants are people with outstanding abilities. If most deducers cannot even deduce the worldview, it can only mean that the deducer group is too useless. What is there for the system to fight for? It might as well die.

"It seems that if I want to pass this level correctly, I must find evidence that proves the three siblings are completely dead. Only by seeing this evidence will the deducer realize the truth and overturn everything," Yu Xing muttered to herself. "The location of this evidence is either in the master bedroom next door or in the attic. If I choose the master bedroom, my challenge is to find the key to the large lock in the master bedroom and figure out how to open the door without disturbing the bell."

"By choosing the attic, I need to overcome the memory of the attic that may disappear in the next second. I only know that the attic is a special place, but if I don't calm down and think about it, I may never have the idea of going to the attic. The problem is, under what circumstances will I be able to calm down and think carefully about things related to the attic."

"Furthermore, if the evidence really is in the attic, I'll face the possibility of a Ghostification Ye Ming and Ye Ting. These two have blurred the lines between the spiritual world and the real world in the Yugi. Once the attic is involved, it will trigger the panic they experienced in the spiritual world, and they will definitely do everything in their power to stop me."

"The only variable we can use is Yu Wan," Yu Xing thought to himself. "Only Ye Qin's file mentions Yu Wan's name among the five documents. If Yu Wan isn't the owner of the first two documents, then she really is just a purely friendly and helpful NPC... No, we can't jump to conclusions so quickly. These five documents might not be all the information. Maybe after I play the Yugi, I'll find new documents belonging to Yu Wan."

After deducing the worldview, Yu Xing's thinking was completely clear: the owners of the two sheets of paper could only be three people—either Yu Wan, or her father or mother.

It can be seen that the source and cause of all the events are related to the decision that "I" confessed in the confessional on the first piece of paper. Even the priest sighed, which reflects that this decision may have been very cruel.

The three siblings' obsession and fear of the Female Ghost likely stemmed from this decision.

Thinking about it now, Yu Xing was certain that there wasn't much time left for this deduction. It was very likely that he would find more clues in the Yugi tonight and confirm that the first two pieces of information belonged to his father. Then, after Yu Wan arrived tomorrow, they would have to engage in the final battle. The most likely scenario was that he and Yu Wan Yu Wan face the two Ghostification characters, Ye Ming and Ye Ting, and perhaps there would also be a Female Ghost with an axe. Only at the end of the incident would the secret of his father be revealed.

If he discovers Yu Wan is the mastermind while playing the Yugi today, then tomorrow he will face three Ghostification characters. The Female Ghost with the axe should appear at the end, while his father, whom he only saw in the refrigerator, is not very relevant to the whole affair.

Of course, besides these two endings, there is a third ending: he is killed by the Female Ghost in the Yugi today, and then becomes like Ye Ming and Ye Ting, confused in his mental world, forever sinking into the identity of the deducer until death.

As the deduction has progressed to this point, various details have proven that this world has the ability to interfere with the deducer's memory and mind. Presumably, confusing the deducer's memory and making the deducer believe that they are playing this role would not be difficult.

When you play the Yugi again and again in this world, get killed again and again, and completely lose your identity like Ye Ming, that's when you'll be rehearsing your death.

Those who predict death should not be eligible to return to the Blood Pool Middle School examination hall. They will be removed from the examination hall midway as losers and will lose their eligibility for the preliminary activities.

No matter how much I planned, I still had to wait for him to take a good look at the strange things in the Yugi.

Yu Xing calmed down, exited the data collection interface, and after pausing for four or five seconds, chose to enter a new Yugi.

A sinister and terrifying shriek from a Female Ghost suddenly blared from his headphones. The pixelated image began to shake, the background turned deep black, and a bright slit in the middle, initially flat, became an oval, like a person's eye just opening and adjusting to the light.

A dialog box popped up at the bottom.

[How strange, why did I faint?]

As Yu Xing interacted with the dialog box, it refreshed repeatedly.

[My whole body aches so much, it hurts so much, it feels like I've been chopped into eight pieces.]

[Huh? Where am I...?]

[Oh my god, my head hurts so much. Shouldn't I be going up to the attic to find Ye Ting's doll? How did I end up in a church when I woke up?]

The darkness and light in the scene have temporarily faded away, and the background has changed to the main prayer room of the church. Rows of deep red seats are arranged side by side, with a wide aisle in the middle. At the end of the aisle stands a very common statue of a god. The pulpit is in front of the statue of a god, where a priest should be preaching, but now it is empty, just like the rows of empty chairs.

Above these structures, the church walls are covered in cracks and cobwebs, as if they had been abandoned for a long time, and even the color scheme carries a sinister and terrifying feeling of being invaded by evil forces.

Yu Xing saw a tiny, pixelated figure waking up from one of the empty chairs, its abstract head turning left and right as if surveying its surroundings.

In the upper left corner of the Yugi interface, there are three special status bars. The first row has five hearts, the second row has ten green squares like battery levels, and the third row is the item bar with only three empty slots. At this time, there is nothing there.

These should correspond to the pixel character's health, stamina, and items, respectively.

Regarding the health bar, it differed from Yu Xing's guess. He originally thought this was a one-life Yugi where you would die as soon as you were hit by the Female Ghost. But now, seeing this status bar, he knew that there should be five chances to be hit in a single Yugi.

Ha, five chances.

How could Ye Ming and Ye Ting die so carelessly, even with five chances?

Were these two people simply bad at the Yugi, or was the Yugi much more difficult than Yu Xing had anticipated?

Yu Xing suppressed her divergent thinking about these two scenarios and focused on the Yugi's plot.

The little figure stood up from the chair, began to walk around in a small area, and finally returned to its original position. The dialogue box reappeared.

[Am I dreaming? This church looks so eerie. Could I have encountered some kind of supernatural event that Yu Wan likes?]

[Oh my god, is this my karma? I never wanted to hear Yu Wan tell these boring stories, and now I'm completely stumped. If only Yu Wan were here...]

[No, never mind. It's best if she's not here. Who knows what dangers might lurk here? I can't drag her into this.]

While looking at the chat box, Yu Xing listened intently to the sounds in his headphones. It wasn't his imagination; he heard footsteps approaching slowly from a distance.

The Yugi indeed started under Ye Qin's identity, exactly as described in the fourth document.

So those footsteps must have been the Female Ghost's! At the end of the document, Ye Qin was discovered by the Female Ghost as soon as he woke up, and a chase ensued.

Is this really the beginning, forcing players to encounter a wave of Female Ghost right away?

Yu Xing clicked her tongue twice in her mind.

Am I all alone here? Maybe I should wander around... Wait, what's this?

The plot begins to take a new turn. Ye Qin, the pixelated character who is still not under Yu Xing's control, notices the words on a chair next to him.

[Lie down...?]

The dialog box displayed red text.

[Who wrote these words here? This smell, this color, could it really be blood? But... is this telling me to lie down?]

A selection bar appeared on Yu Xing's screen.

There are two options: the first is to [look around], and the second is to [lie down on the spot].

Looking around would inevitably lead to a direct encounter with the Female Ghost who was wandering this way. Although Yu Xing didn't know why there was a somewhat special option here, nor did he know which character left that line of blood-written words, he was glad that the line of blood-written words gave him a reasonable new option.

He chose to lie down on the spot, and immediately, the pixelated figure obediently lay down on the ground and moved under the chair.

Almost instantly, a woman with a pale complexion mixed with blood walked towards the direction where the church pews were facing.

The woman had her hair down and was only wearing a dirty white dress, somewhat like the gowns worn by seriously ill patients in a mental hospital. She was dripping with blood from head to toe, leaving a trail of bloody footprints that lasted for several seconds in the path she walked.

She was carrying a giant axe, about half her size, stained with thick blood, and looked extremely ferocious.

This is, so far, the only boss Female Ghost in this horror Yugi.

Perhaps the Female Ghost had heard the pixelated protagonist walking around the church earlier; instead of wandering away, she looked around purposefully and then began to check each row.

Yu Xing discovered that at this moment, he was actually able to control the pixelated protagonist.

The Female Ghost's inspection was rather cursory; she simply walked through each row once and considered the inspection complete. Now, with half of the pixelated protagonist's body exposed, Yu Xing used the Yugi console controls to slowly move the protagonist under the chair.

Soon, the Female Ghost arrived at the row where the pixelated protagonist was. She walked around as if she were anywhere else, found nothing, and then left.

Only after the Female Ghost had checked every place and found no one suspicious did she sway and stagger back the way she had come, dragging the large axe with her gait.

The pixelated protagonist popped its head out, as if spying, and then a dialog box appeared.

[Oh my god, what is that thing? Is it Female Ghost? She looks somewhat familiar, but that axe is terrifying. I feel extremely scared whenever I see her.]

Why did I end up here, facing such a terrifying Female Ghost? I just want to study hard, graduate from high school, take the college entrance exam, get accepted into a good university, and then confess my feelings to Yu Wan.

Why did this have to happen to me? Will I ever be able to go back...? I wonder if my older brother and Xiaoting will worry about me, they definitely will.

[Phew, since I've inexplicably ended up here, there must be a way back. Let's explore this church first; maybe we can find a way back?]

[By the way, there must be other people in this church. That kind person must have experienced something similar to what I went through to write a warning on the bench. I need to find that person first!]

After the pixelated protagonist finished expressing all his feelings and opinions, Yu Xing was able to control him again.

However, Yu Xing felt that Ye Qin, the protagonist, was right about one thing: the person who wrote those words in blood must be very important.

The fact that the person who wrote this message in advance to warn Ye Qin to be careful indicates that they were already aware of something amiss in this mental world, making them most likely the subject of the deduction.

Only if the subject, who has already begun to contemplate self-preservation in their subconscious, leaves a glimmer of hope for survival for their companion in this mental world can this explanation be made sense.

So, is it Ye Ming or Ye Ting?

Judging from Ye Ming's crazy behavior of playing Yugi in this world, the person who sensed something was wrong was very likely him.

Yu Xing turned the volume up louder in her headphones so as not to miss the footsteps of the Female Ghost wandering over, and then controlled the pixelated protagonist to walk towards the confessional.

The church is laid out like this: on the side of the statue in the prayer hall, there are confessionals on one side and storerooms on the other, while on the side where the chairs are backed, there are staircases on both sides leading to the second floor.

Based on the Female Ghost's route, she should have gone up to the second floor. Yu Xing didn't know if the second floor was connected to the second floor, as she hadn't gone up to check yet.

But now he's most curious about the confessional, because all the decisions made in the first document were made in the confessional. He wonders if this will be reflected in the Yugi. It probably will, otherwise, how would Ye Ting or Ye Ming have obtained this clue while playing the Yugi?

He led the pixelated figure to the confessional. The confessional had no key and no lock; the door opened with a push.

The next moment, Yu Xing realized just how terrible this Yugi was.

A creaking sound, the sound of a rusty wooden door, could be clearly heard through his headphones, carrying far into the distance.

[Oh no, what's that loud noise? That Female Ghost can definitely hear it!]

Yu Xing thought for a moment and chose to hide among the rows of seats instead of rushing into the confessional, because he hadn't seen the layout of the confessional and if there was nowhere to hide inside, he would be caught by the Female Ghost.