"Ye Lin!?"
"Ye Lin!!?"
Amid the repeated cries, Ye Lin's heart pounded violently.
Under the immense psychological pressure, he felt as though darkness had swallowed him, leaving him able to hear only his pounding heartbeat.
The Candle should not have been here. The moment it appeared, it meant there was a flaw in his earlier reasoning!
The figure outside the window vanished as if it had been an illusion. Looking at everyone's blurred faces, he suddenly could not tell whether they were humans or ghosts.
In theory, he could not be trapped in an illusion, and a ghost could not falsify system information.
But how could he prove that?
If he could not, all his reasoning would collapse. They had never left the third Examination.
Forcing himself into the Interferer state, Ye Lin suppressed every useless emotion and tried to find the problem.
If everything was fake, then everyone else had to be fake too. Otherwise, the ghost would have no reason to trick him into blowing out the Candle!
Conversely, the Candle had to be real, and so did he.
Should I have someone else blow out the Candle?
If the Candle goes out, the others are real. If it doesn't, they're fake.
No...
The instant the thought arose, Ye Lin swiftly rejected it.
If he was inside an illusion, the ghost could just as easily fabricate the sight of the Candle going out.
Not only that, the ghost could even use him, trapping all four of them in separate illusions. Once he ordered He Zheng to blow out the Candle, the real He Zheng would do it.
He considered the worst possible scenario.
They had died in the simulated space, which meant the ghost could fabricate all five senses.
He had seen the system update, which meant the