Chapter 1296

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"Rule attack..."

"Account switch..."

"How exactly should I get out? Or put another way, can I be immune to attacks without the Second Will?"

Over and over, he overturned his own train of thought; Lin An felt he had fallen into a deadlock after a long time, and could not find the slightest idea to break through.

Twenty-seven hours ago, his Eternal Body had been completely exhausted, which meant that he now, like the former Second Will, could only hide deep in his thoughts and painstakingly ponder.

As long as he dares to go out and overthrow the Second Will, the command from Shen Yan will immediately take control of him...

Moreover, his instance time was also completely stuck; he had previously considered whether this 'loophole' could be used—using the mastery of strengthened rules gained from infinite time—to instantly take down the Second Will, and even the speculation of destroying the instance was shattered.

With the Second Will completely taking the 'brunt' of the rule attacks for him, he could mobilize nothing. He is now pure thought, unable to even deduce rules; all he can do is think.

Moreover, he could feel that the stuck time was the time to leave the instance, not real time.

This means that real time is still flowing; outside, Long An is slowly marching toward the countdown to its destruction....

Why didn't Chu An tell me about this instance's problem before entering...

Or perhaps he cannot say?

Why did Chu An vanish like that? Since he could anticipate the Second Will's effect, there's no reason he wouldn't realize the Second Will would stop me from leaving.

Or perhaps Chu An also wants to destroy Long An? He doesn't want me to be a burden.

Impossible... If that were the case, everything before would be meaningless...

As if standing in a mist, with each line of reverse deduction, Lin An had completely stopped paying attention to the outside world, devoting all his mind to thought.

Reverse deduction, counter-inference—since his current clues are insufficient to find a breakthrough, he attempts to seek clues from every move of Chu An and the Second Will! By simulating their thought processes, he reverse-deduces what actually happened!

If I were Chu An, what is the purpose of doing this? What would I know? What could I do? What effect do I want to achieve?

His eyes vacant, Lin An, as far as possible simulating Chu An's thought process, mechanically combined various information.

All that could be seen was him even mimicking the motion—within the dark, lightless Thought Space, he subconsciously lifted the nonexistent Glasses Frame.

Now, I am Chu An...

Assumption one: I would not let Long An be destroyed and simply flee; otherwise, the Star Link Plan and Long An would have no meaning, and the food crisis would not need to be resolved.

Assumption two: I would not wait until the last moment to go out; otherwise, any member's death would affect Lin An's psyche, at least core members cannot die.

Assumption three: I did not arrange for Jing Tian and others to escape; otherwise, Jing Tian would not have sent a message via paper, nor expressed a death wish. The external Long An would certainly have chosen to hold fast, and I made no 'arrangements'.

Assumption four: Lin An must be able to deduce a breakthrough method from the information I give, or even without extra information he could discover it. Moreover, the clue is extremely simple, and the means to break through must necessarily lie with Lin An. Otherwise, all the above assumptions would be meaningless...

In summary...

First, if not spoken, then it cannot be spoken, or one does not know.

Second, taking the path of knowing but being unable to speak, branching into the first logical line... then there would be no possibility of failing to judge that the Second Will would block my action...

So.... 【I know the Second Will will block Lin An】-【I know Lin An, when under rule attack, can only let the Second Will come out】-【I know Lin An will think using reverse deduction】-【I know Lin An cannot obtain the truth from reverse deduction】-【I know Lin An will not give up】-【I know Lin An, upon realizing his thought process cannot break through, will definitely...】

Simulate.... me!

Frozen in place.

At this moment, Lin An seemed to have frozen, countless logics converging into a great net, yet each logic's background seemed to point to the same train of thought.

So..

So..

Lin An's simulation of me is correct; Lin An surely realized he needed to do this... logic returns to the first layer, the reason I cannot speak is because the instant I speak, the Second Will would block me!

In other words, this breakthrough method is very simple, a method both Lin An and the Second Will can use, a method that gets consumed once spoken, a means usable only once in a short time!

So, I cannot tell Lin An; I can only let him, under the simulation of my thought, independently realize this. Then.. use it!

He and the Second Will are one; no matter how subtly I hint, it will cause the Second Will to guess what I am saying... so, only Lin An himself can think! Only then can he not be stopped by Lin An!

His mind jolted; when the final result pointed to the answer, at this moment, while exhausting all possibilities and simulating Chu An's thought process, he found he could hardly continue.

After painfully covering his head and returning to himself, Lin An felt weak all over and couldn't help but gasp heavily.

He knew that was his mental overload reaction when he first tried to exhaust all possibilities.

He is ultimately a human with various emotions, and his difference from Chu An is like that of two different kinds.

He is used to backward reasoning, whereas Chu An relies on exhaustive enumeration.

The former relies on key information to reason backward to find the answer, while the latter uses brute force, calculating every possibility repeatedly.

Previously Lin An didn't think much of it, merely believing Chu An possessed much information he didn't know; but after trying Chu An's way of thinking, Lin An suddenly realized Chu An's brain is like an infinite-core processor that can wildly compute all possibilities and then summarize them.

Even without information, one can rely on continual hypothesizing to fit various answers, then find the optimal solution from the infinite set!

But he can't; his logical chain can only run a few in parallel at most, after all he still has the seven emotions and six desires, which are like useless programs occupying computer computing power, constantly consuming his computing ability.

Unless he completely abandons these things, even if he forcibly suppresses these "useless programs," he cannot push his computing power to the limit!

Meanwhile, watching Lin An, who looks somewhat pained but still searching for the final answer, Second Will's eyes flickered, a flash of coldness passing through his gaze.

He knew Lin An had already come into contact with the correct answer.

The two are one entity; he understands Lin An's way of thinking too well, so... he knows that if Lin An thinks using backward reasoning, it's fundamentally impossible to find the correct answer.

One only needs to give false information; no matter how much backward reasoning, it's meaningless.

But once Lin An begins exhaustive enumeration, a false misleading clue can no longer interfere with him.

Now, as long as Lin An simulates step by step, it won't be long before he knows how to leave here.

(Lin An, this instance is very simple...)

Unavoidably, when Second Will looked at Lin An at this moment, his face couldn't help but show a trace of inexplicable self-mockery. He also recalled Chu An's words.

"Another yang scheme, really there's nothing I can do..."

"From the moment I came out, no clue can stay hidden... but if I don't come out, I can't mislead Lin An..."

His expression was desolate, as if talking to himself; Second Will shook his head, and he didn't show much emotion either.

Even though Lin An now seems still not to have found a way, his contest with Chu An has already been lost—just as when experts exchange moves, once the game is halfway through, victory or loss is decided.

Or put another way, inside this instance, any action he takes is a loss.

The only difference lies in how much time can be bought for Lin An...

Now it seems, it can't be delayed for long at all.

"I'm really curious—what exactly do you want to tell Lin An..."

"Is it that you want to use this instance to tell Lin An, after becoming Fourth Stage, humanity's way of thinking is no longer suited for Fourth Stage? To gain stronger computing power, one must abandon all emotions. After Fourth Stage, human emotions will become only a knife that harms oneself..."

"But if you want to tell Lin An this, wanting him to become like you... what's the difference between us?"

"Why don't you 'choose' me?"