In the dream, after waiting for Lin Chen to resolve the crisis, Qi Si recreated the English song they had heard at the start of the Instance from memory and finally obtained a translation.
"Abortions, abortions..."
(Abortions, abortions)
"Frogs crowded the pond..."
(Frogs crowded the pond)
The wording could not have been more blunt. It was practically telling the Players outright that the frogs in the pond had been transformed from the resentful spirits of dead infants.
Frogs formed from the resentful spirits of dead infants fed on dead infants. From any angle, it was bizarre and abstract—realistically speaking, it was cannibalism among their own kind; humorously speaking, it was eating what you lacked...
What concerned Qi Si more was that, when asked, Lin Chen claimed he had scored 146 on his English college entrance exam.
Back in middle school, Qi Si had been good at Chinese, math, science, and social studies, but his English had never ranked in the top ten.
He felt that if he had attended high school, he could still have entertained hopes for his other subjects. But scoring even 130 in English would have required him to dig up an ancestral grave before the exam...
Well, Lin Chen's academic performance really was quite good—more impressive than he had imagined.
"I remember there was a book called Frog more than twenty years ago. It had a similar metaphor in it..."
Lin Chen held nothing back and began telling Qi Si information outside the Instance concerning its worldview.
Most of it came from the miscellaneous knowledge he had accumulated in reality.
For example, the absurd claim that "eating fourteen tadpoles could prevent pregnancy" had originally come from an official Federation propaganda newspaper.
For example, in the study of color symbolism, green represented new life and hope, while