The image froze. In the deathly silence, Lin An stood alone in front of the television, motionless as a sculpture.
A few seconds later, Lin An took a deep breath, then slowly lowered his left hand and clenched it tightly.
Damn it!
Wrong! His entire line of thought had been wrong!
They hadn't had their heads switched, nor had they been suddenly killed. They had always had two heads on their necks!
The answer was simple yet absurd.
Blue Armor's last words had been correct.
The Ghost Skull was on their necks.
Andrew had been right too. Not having a head didn't necessarily mean death.
His own thoughts had also been correct. There was indeed a kind of awareness that could let someone lose their head without dying!
The mistake lay in which head was lost!
The clues and information all connected. Lin An hadn't expected the final answer to be so preposterous, even beyond normal logic.
"The so-called Minimum Awareness is realizing that you have two heads on your body, one belonging to the ghost and one belonging to yourself!"
"If your own head falls off, you'll die, but if the Ghost Skull falls off, you won't! That's the path to survival! But if neither head falls off and you don't realize the Ghost Skull exists, the System won't let us leave either, because we won't have met the Minimum Awareness requirement!"
"The greatest danger of the mission is that before realizing this, your awareness and logic will be misled."
Slowly closing his eyes, Lin An couldn't help giving himself a self-mocking smile, his heart filled with mixed emotions.
During the Completion Mission, most people's thoughts would be restricted to three paths.
1. They would believe that the more they completed, the more dangerous it became, and that whatever