Before Su Chen had run very far, his mind went blank.
The scene before his eyes gradually began to warp and distort, and images from multiple viewpoints even overlapped.
Wait, multiple viewpoints?
Su Chen snapped back to his senses.
He hurriedly pulled out his phone and pointed it at his face.
He might have been better off not looking. The moment he did, he completely panicked.
He discovered that an eye had grown on his right brow bone, and another at the base of his left ear.
"Fuck! Why has 'it' set its sights on me?"
Su Chen couldn't understand it.
Suddenly, something occurred to him.
Could it be because I wasn't looking at the animals? Because I wasn't behaving like a visitor? Did that contradict 'its' understanding and make it target me?
Su Chen thought to himself.
After a little consideration, he felt that might be the truth.
In 'its' understanding, visitors were supposed to tour the Zoo and look at all the different animals.
Su Chen's attempt to flee completely contradicted how a visitor should behave.
Once he understood this, Su Chen slowed his pace.
He pretended to admire the elephants as he slowly moved toward the exit.
Not long after he started doing this, Su Chen noticed that his vision had returned to normal.
The overlapping viewpoints were gone.
He knew this meant 'it' had turned its attention elsewhere.
Clearly, this approach worked.
Su Chen kept inching along like this until he finally neared the Elephant Enclosure's exit.
Then, utterly unexpectedly, something happened.
A pure white elephant appeared out of thin air inside the enclosure.
Before Su Chen could react, he discovered that the elephant had a pair of enormous rabbit ears.
Its blood-red eyes stared fixedly at him.
The bizarre sight left Su Chen stunned for a moment.
He remembered the drawing of an elephant on the note he had picked up.
Earlier, he had assumed that visitor's perception had been distorted, and that the drawing depicted something they had imagined.
He hadn't expected the Zoo to actually contain an elephant like that.
At the sight of it, Su Chen knew danger had arrived.
He knew he had to reinforce his own understanding to deal with this danger.
He hurriedly told himself that elephants were enormous creatures with long trunks and legs as thick as pillars.
And an elephant's ears should be...
"Should be what?"
Su Chen's thoughts stalled.
He discovered that he had actually forgotten what an elephant's ears were supposed to look like.
"Right, there are real elephants in the Elephant Enclosure. I'll know if I look at them."
Su Chen hurriedly searched for a real elephant.
But after sweeping his gaze around, he discovered that the real elephants had vanished into thin air.
Before he could even feel surprised, a whole herd of elephants with rabbit ears appeared in the empty grounds.
Each white elephant, with its rabbit ears and rabbit-like head, relentlessly battered his understanding.
Su Chen knew he was in danger now.
His perception had already been distorted. He couldn't remember what a real elephant looked like at all.
If this continued, he might end up wasting this save opportunity.
Su Chen hurriedly tried to move, preparing to flee the Elephant Enclosure.
But to his dismay, he discovered that his legs wouldn't obey him.
Worse still, his eyelids were also beyond his control. He couldn't close his eyes at all.
He even began to feel an urge to believe that he himself was an elephant.
In this moment of despair, he remembered the advice on the security guard's note again.
He concentrated as hard as he could, reinforcing his understanding that he was human.
Sure enough, this unfailing tactic worked. A minute later, Su Chen regained control of his eyelids.
He hurriedly closed his eyes, shutting out the source of contamination.
With the source of contamination cut off, he finally got a moment to breathe.
His mind, which had been flooded with stray thoughts, also calmed down.
But before he could feel happy about it...
He discovered, to his astonishment, that he could see again.
And not only could he see, he had a view from multiple angles, covering every direction.
"Fuck! 'It's' targeting me again!"
Su Chen knew he had once again contradicted its understanding.
For a visitor not to look at such beautiful elephants clearly defied "its" logic.
Naturally, it had targeted Su Chen again.
Looking at those bizarre elephants through a full 360-degree view without a single blind spot, Su Chen felt a flicker of despair.
This was fucking impossible!
To comply with "its" understanding, he had to act like a visitor and look at this bizarre source of contamination.
If he refused to comply with "its" understanding, it would target him, distort his eyes, and force him to look at this bizarre source of contamination.
Most importantly, with his perception constantly being contaminated, he couldn't remember what a real elephant looked like at all.
How the fuck was he supposed to get through this?
Wasn't this certain death?
At that moment, viewers in every country's livestream were terrified.
The Chosen Ones from the other countries were in even worse situations than Su Chen.
Especially those with rabbit ears, led by the one from Ugly Country.
Now, every one of them wore a smile, waving their arms and dancing with delight as they watched the white elephants.
Their hands inadvertently brushed over their heads, bumping the rabbit ears on top and making them sway constantly.
They looked even more delighted.
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