As she pondered, the phone screen suddenly changed.
The yellow food delivery app was opened, and a list of restaurants popped up.
The screen didn't stop; the list scrolled on and off at a leisurely pace, as if another invisible hand was operating it.
Wen Jing tensed up immediately, using all his abilities to perceive everything around him.
However, no unusual activity was detected other than that involving the phone.
During this time, the phone was still being scrolled through and selected items intermittently.
Wen Jing tried to intervene, but found that no operation, including pressing the power button, worked; only the 'other party' could control the phone.
Finally, the list stopped at the red-and-yellow McDonald's of the logo.
Some of the text here is still blurred out with mosaics; you can only see '*** Burger is ranked third on the popularity list' and '*** Second Store,' but you can't see any regional information. However, you can see the food information.
By this point, Wen Jing could clearly see that someone else was using the phone, and that she was only able to view it via screen mirroring, not operate it.
So she decided to wait and see, watching the mysterious person order a morning voucher set meal, which included hash browns and soy milk, and then place the order.
On the confirmation page, the address and name were indeed all blurred out.
Putting aside the nearsightedness that comes with Tactical Glasses, no matter how close Wen Jing focused his gaze, he still couldn't see clearly through those mosaic-like images.
After placing an order, Wen Jing can only obtain three pieces of valid information:
First, the single-person meal suggests that the mysterious person likely lives alone and may not have a habit of cooking.
Secondly, the note "arrived on the door" suggests that the mysterious person might be lazy, socially awkward, or both.
Third, the mysterious person liked to eat potato cakes...
After placing her order, she saw the mysterious person close the food delivery app and open a green app instead.
The icon features a book, so it looks like a reading app.
Sure enough, when the interface opened, book covers appeared one by one, but the book titles and text on the covers were also missing.
Without hesitation, the mysterious person entered the page and expertly clicked on the first book in the list, a dark blue and white novel titled "*** *** Calamity ".
"This..."
Wen Jing was initially curious about the novel's content, but then she saw a screen full of mosaics and was speechless.
However, instead of reading novels and waiting for takeout as she expected, the mysterious person immediately opened the book review section.
Unlike the novel's content, the book review section displays rows of clear Huaxia characters.
Although some information such as the book title and date is still blurred, at least the book review content is fully displayed.
"Landmine? Nutrient solution? Looks like this is an automatically generated reply from a reader's donation..."
Just moments before, Wen Jing had been following the mysterious man's perspective with great interest, gathering information and speculating about his connection to this world.
The next moment, a book review discussing the plot caught her eye.
The above content caused all four of her senses to tremble violently.
Netizen: Eating 300 lychees a day will cause internal heat. Comment: "*** *** Calamity" Rating: 2 Published: ****-- 00:49:07 Chapter Reviewed: 170
This Prophet is utterly wicked, his brain is practically oozing rotten! How dare he feign compassion in front of Teacher Bai and use his own mother to cause trouble! Bai's mother was definitely also the work of this old devil; her Genetic Collapse and were then recycled. When he discovered the female lead posed a threat to him, he caused her genes to collapse, creating a nested doll-like effect.
Chapter 198
The words that came into view, or more precisely, the keywords in those words, quickly grabbed Wen Jing's attention.
Prophet, Teacher Bai, Genetic Collapse...
The number of people who know this information and can connect it is very small. She only told Dean Bai and Xie Ming about the Genetic Collapse through Mental Link.
No, this passage even mentions that Dean Bai's mother intervened... something even Xie Ming didn't know.
Only those who personally experienced that massacre can know the truth.
The next moment, Wen Jing suddenly snapped out of his reverie, and more importantly, it was a 'book review'.
The 'female lead' mentioned above clearly refers to her.
As I scrolled through the book reviews, one of them explicitly mentioned her name.
Netizen: Mucha Primrose
This knife... it's not entirely incomprehensible that Wen Jing destroyed the Federation.
She is a character in a novel, and the only information we can glean from the novel's title is...
[ *** Calamity ], her?
In an instant, Wen Jing's thoughts were in turmoil.
Absurdity, confusion, anger... and even an indescribable sense of absurdity welled up in her heart.
Her existence and experiences may be a story to be written.
What she saw, heard, thought, and felt was constantly being observed and evaluated by a group of viewers;
Then what was the meaning of all her choices, evolution, and suffering?
Even if all of this is true, then her complex emotions at this moment are a product of 'character writing logic', which can be endlessly nested.
However, all these superficial emotions only rose for a moment before being suppressed by Wen Jing's powerful mental strength and Calmness, and she began to Analysis rationally.
There are three possibilities regarding what we see before us.
The first possibility is the rules governing the ruins themselves.
This relic recreated everything before her eyes based on her memories, whether it was 'home' or the contents of her phone.
The world has attacked her, the intruder, just like the ruins of civilizations she has encountered in the past. But this attack is not the kind of physical attack that occurs when enemies appear in other ruins. Instead, it is a spiritual and mental attack that makes her question the ultimate meaning of her own existence.
While the book review is astonishingly detailed, it can also be interpreted as a reconstruction of her memories by this world, much like the various objects in the room.
If it weren't for the contradictions revealed in the book review, this would have been the most probable possibility.
However, the book review inadvertently revealed some content that went beyond her personal will.
For example, Wen Jing's subconscious would never attribute the teacher's death to a "plot twist" from a higher-dimensional narrative layer. This idea is essentially a powerless escape, similar to finding an unavoidable force to shift the blame.
She always knew who her enemy was and was on the path of revenge.
For example, the title ' *** Calamity ' is something Wen Jing has never defined himself as before; it seems more like a title given to him by others.
If the book review were truly based on her memories and subconscious, then these contents shouldn't exist.
It's like those novels where 'a certain character awakens and suddenly sees the audience's comments.'
The various bullet comments that appear in the article are essentially used to drive the plot. Even if the content of each bullet comment is different, the symbols, sentence breaks, language logic, emotional feedback, etc., they all reflect the same thing, because they are all written by the same author.
The book reviews I see before me, in Wen Jing's eyes, who has been exposed to and learned about multiple civilizations and cultures, clearly come from different individuals.
The second possibility is an accidental projection from a higher-dimensional universe.
This perspective is based on the fact that Wen Jing's past life and this life exist in two completely independent and different worlds.
As a mysterious multi-layered, high-dimensional spacetime, the Ancient Wilderness may have served as a window through which she glimpsed a work from an unknown dimension that happened to describe experiences similar to hers, even sharing the same protagonist's name.
The world is infinitely deep, so even the smallest probability event has a probability of happening that is not zero.
Conversely, the more matching details there are, the closer the probability of this coincidence becomes to zero.
The last possibility... is that 'authors' and 'readers' truly exist.
The content of the creation is projected directly or indirectly onto the world level in which Wen Jing exists; everything about her is at least part of what is observed and recorded.
This can directly explain all her phenomena, but it is also the most mind-blowing and the most difficult to verify.
"Statistically speaking, we can't rule out any possibility, especially the third one..."
The insect's compound eyes reflected the light from the phone. From being overwhelmed by the content to completing this complex Analysis, it took her less than ten seconds.
Rationally speaking, the third possibility isn't the most likely, but she can't help but care.
Meanwhile, the mysterious person controlling the phone was still browsing the book reviews at a normal reading speed.
Wen Jing memorized all of this information without missing a single detail.
Whether the source is the rules of the ruins or a higher-dimensional author, these book reviews are a valuable source of information.
The book review was fake; she could deduce the rules of this ruin.
The book review is genuine... She might be able to glean some information from it that she herself, limited by her perspective, couldn't perceive.
Even though she already knew she was the 'protagonist,' even novels written in the first person sometimes insert third-person perspectives.
The mysterious man was reading the book reviews under Chapter 170 of the novel. Most of the reviews expressed the sadness and grief over the teacher's death, as well as anger and various speculations about the Prophet.
"This chapter corresponds to the time when the Prophet were besieging and killing us..."
Wen Jing felt a surge of emotion, but quickly suppressed it to prevent it from affecting her rational judgment.
She quickly gleaned some noteworthy information.
Although the phone could only passively 'project' the mysterious person's screen after testing, Wen Jing directly used his computing power combined with spatial imagination to simulate the actions of a human figure.
By observing the speed and rhythm of the other person's thumb movements and their neural responses, one can discern their level of interest in different book reviews.
In some book reviews, the mysterious person showed a higher level of attention compared to other reviews.
Netizen: Zuo Liu
They were ruthless and merciless, leaving no room for retreat. They sent several people to kill them.
Netizen: moontree
So the Prophet was behind the female lead's Genetic Collapse, right? He coveted her special talent, but when he realized she hadn't broken down, he immediately switched to his killing move.