If I start from the premise that black text is correct and blue text is wrong...
First, I can rule out the note I found.
There was no blue text on that note, so it offers no basis for comparison.
The first visitor rule and the first rule on the Security Guard’s office memo essentially said the same thing.
Hold firm to your perception!
In other words, "it" might contaminate visitors' perceptions to set the stage for hunting them down.
The more violently their perceptions fluctuate, the easier it is to fall victim.
Following that logic...
The second rule on the Security Guard’s office memo most likely meant: trust humans!
But the blue text on the memo said to trust animals.
If the visitor rules were meant to help visitors escape...
And the memo was meant to help staff avoid contamination...
Why include such confusing rules in blue?
Just then, Su Chen remembered the seventh entry on the note.
[The first four white lions are apes, the fifth white lion is a goat, rabbits are elephants, and blue is black (this sentence was emphasized).]
The person who wrote that note was extremely incoherent.
Clearly, their perception had already been contaminated by "it."
That meant their perception must have been drawing closer to "its."
In that case...
The statement that blue is black takes on another meaning.
Taking a bold guess...
Perhaps "it" cannot distinguish blue from black.
With that premise, the blue text might be a covert warning to visitors that these are traps.
At the same time, changing the text color like this would not attract "its" attention.
But this also points to something even more terrifying.
"It" is close to breaking free of the rules.
"It" is distorting the rules.
That must be why the staff resorted to this.
When printing the rules, they marked the problematic ones in blue.
To prevent "it" from randomly distorting the text.
As for the visitor rules that contained no blue text...
Su Chen had some ideas about those, too.
For instance, the rules concerning apes.
The Security Guard’s memo explicitly stated that rabbits eat humans.
But the third entry on the note I found said that rabbits eat apes, with a question mark beside "apes."
From this, I can tell...
"It" cannot distinguish apes from humans.
That is why "it" did not choose to distort the rules concerning apes.
As for the rule about tearing off the map along the dotted line...
Perhaps, in "its" perception, the zoo consists only of the area inside the map's dotted line.
The other areas on the map might actually make "it" uncomfortable.
Tearing off that part of the map would bring things into alignment with "its" perception.
So that rule was not altered either.
The remaining undistorted rules are easy to explain.
They all mention white lions.
Clearly, "it" fears white lions.
Because of that, none of the rules involving white lions were distorted.
Having worked out this basic logic, Su Chen turned his attention back to the fifth and sixth entries on the Security Guard’s memo.
[Do not let "it" know you have noticed "it." Eat. I like you. Once you finish eating, we will go see the jellyfish together (marked in blue).] [Humans have two eyes, arranged horizontally, one on either side of the nose. Anything else is not human. If a human's appearance changes, it means "it" is watching them. When this happens, try to keep your perception aligned with "its." At the very least, do not waver.]
These two rules establish one thing first.
To protect myself, once "it" notices me, I must keep my perception as close to "its" as possible.
At the very least, my own perception must not fluctuate too drastically.
Only then will "it" stop paying attention to me.
Otherwise, something terrifying might be triggered.
At the same time, the last rule reveals something else.
"It" might have a flawed perception of eyes.
So, whether it is a human "it" has turned into or someone "it" has targeted...
The number and position of their eyes will undergo strange changes.
And those changes serve as a warning.
After figuring all this out, Su Chen felt his head ache.
This rules-based horror scenario is far too difficult.
"It" has broken through the restrictions of the rules and begun distorting both reality and the rules themselves.
That leaves far too many uncertainties.
For the moment, Su Chen had no good way to deal with that.
He tore down the memo from the Security Guard’s office and stuffed it into his pocket.
There were still some parts of these rules he had not fully figured out.
He would study them further when he had the chance.
For now, he needed to look around elsewhere.
Perhaps he would find something else useful.
By cross-checking the information, he might be able to solve the remaining mysteries.
Meanwhile, the viewers in Dragon Country's livestream were utterly dumbfounded.
"Holy shit, guys, these rules have my head spinning. Can someone smart break them down?"
"I don't get them either, but did you notice the changes in Su Chen's expression? He seems to have figured some of it out."
"I get that feeling too. Su Chen doesn't seem as stupid as everyone said! Is it possible he was only pretending to be dumb before?"
"Regardless, at least Su Chen has found two sets of hidden rules, and nothing abnormal has happened in anything he's done so far. That's already the best news we could ask for."
After watching him this far, the viewers gradually began to change their opinion of Su Chen.
Previously, they had looked down on him and scoffed at him.
Now, without even realizing it, they had begun choosing to trust him.
After all, he had been remarkably steady every step of the way.
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