Chapter 404: Triple-Layer Simulation (1)

'In Classroom Rule Three, those who can solve the question must immediately tell the Homeroom Teacher after class.'

'In the Teacher's Office rules, teachers dislike students who snitch.'

'In other words, what I say next must state the facts without snitching.'

Chen Ran suddenly thought of something.

He turned and walked to the Math Teacher's desk, organized his wording, and said: "Teacher, although I solved the question you gave me in the last class, I felt the steps were a bit cumbersome. Is there a more simplified solution?"

As soon as these words came out, the teachers who originally had burning gazes all withdrew their gazes and instead looked at the Math Teacher with gloomy and ruthless expressions.

"What question?" A slightly authoritative voice came from the radio.

Chen Ran didn't speak. He casually grabbed a piece of paper and a pen from the desk and wrote down the question he solved in the previous class.

After thinking for a moment, he handed it to the middle-aged bald teacher's desk. The latter picked up the paper, glanced at it, and immediately flew into a rage, pointing at the radio and cursing: "If I remember correctly, this question is the finale question for the next exam. Old Zhao, what's wrong with you?! I f*cking kept telling you to always pay attention to this batch of..."

Chen Ran nodded, turned around, and walked out of the Teacher's Office.

'The bald man dared to scold the Homeroom Teacher...'

'The bald man's authority is greater than the Homeroom Teacher's, so he should be the Grade Director.'

'The finale question for the next exam.'

'The Math Teacher must have leaked the exam question.'

'But the Math Teacher is a robot, or at worst, a cyborg.'

'Her leaking the question indicates she possesses selfishness, meaning human emotions. For a robot, this classifies as a broken product.'

'And the Grade Director didn't deal with her immediately, indicating the Grade Director's authority isn't high enough.'

'But the Principal has this authority.'

'This conclusion can be drawn: if a problem occurs with red leather shoes themselves, only white leather shoes have the authority to deal with it. Although blue leather shoes are one rank higher than red leather shoes, they have no authority to deal with it.'

'But there's a problem here. What if I put on the red leather shoes?'

'Two processes. One is to identify my identity. If the identity is wrong, then I won't be protected by the red leather shoes and will be killed by any robot. If the identity is correct, then following the deduction above, only those with white leather shoes have the authority to deal with me.'

Previously, Lin Xuan experimented many times to get this answer, but now Chen Ran easily deduced it.

It had to be said.

Even among three-star players, there is a gap.

But there was a problem here.

'This time I am going to invite the Principal over, which means I will also come back with this Principal.'

'If I go to the Principal's home to steal the white leather shoes, there's a high probability I'll be discovered.'

'In other words, in this event, I probably won't be able to get the white leather shoes.'

'But the problem is, in an Instance designed by Shu Renjun, he should know that as long as a player suppresses their Mental State, they will conclude: this time, going to the Principal's home to steal the white leather shoes will highly likely result in death.'

'Will he play against expectations?'

He looked at his watch.

There were still three minutes until class. Chen Ran immediately walked out of the Teaching Building. Looking at the colorful zebra crossings in front of him, according to the rules, the end of the white line was the Principal's home.

'Very strange.'

'Why the Principal's home, and not the Principal's Office?'

'Furthermore, there is no Principal's Office in the Teaching Building, unless...'

'The Principal's Office is in the Laboratory Building!'

'Going to the Laboratory Building would require issuing a certificate. I should go to the Principal's home to take a look first.'

Having made up his mind, it was impossible for him to return to the Teaching Building to get a certificate now, otherwise, once the class bell rang, as long as he was in the Teaching Building, he would have to return to the classroom.

He walked forward along the white line. After walking for about ten minutes, he saw a small forest.

Inside the small forest, he walked for about another five minutes and saw a villa.

The white line extended all the way to the front of the villa and came to an abrupt halt. This should be the Principal's home.

'Calculating by walking speed, a round trip takes about 30 minutes, and the time for each class is 45 minutes. In other words, I will waste 15 minutes in the villa.'

This deduction was actually very simple.

If the entire process only took 30 minutes to bring the Principal over, then Chen Ran would have to go back and attend class for 15 minutes. If the English Teacher asked a question, Chen Ran would definitely die.

If the Principal's Office was in the Laboratory Building, whether it was the classroom, the office, or the Laboratory Building, there were no clear signs proving that the Principal's Office was in the Laboratory Building.

Therefore, in this event, players could only go to the Principal's home to look for him.

Going to his home to look for him would definitely evade the 45 minutes of the English class.

However, calculating by walking speed, a player's round trip only took 30 minutes. Therefore, the final answer was that the player would be at the Principal's home...

Wasting 15 minutes of time!

Chen Ran guessed that there was a high probability he had to complete some task within these 15 minutes.

Simply put.

The Principal's home had a decryption puzzle, the decryption had a time limit, and it was exactly 15 minutes.

'I hope it's not playing a game.'

Chen Ran composed himself, arrived at the front of the villa, and prepared to knock. He had just knocked twice when he found the villa door opened automatically.

'Sure enough!'

"Principal, are you there?"

After saying that, he walked in. Just as he walked in, with a bang, the door closed.

Chen Ran's brain spun rapidly.

'According to my understanding, this is a school where robots and cyborgs coexist.'

'The Math Teacher malfunctioned and possessed human emotions, which is not allowed by the school. Also, if players act like humans, they will violate the rules.'

'Then, if the Principal is at home, how would he/she identify...'

'Whether the person looking for him/her is a robot or a cyborg possessing human emotions?'

Simply put.

Among humans, if a mental illness occurs, normal people will consider this person's danger factor to be very high and they must be sent to a psychiatric hospital.

By the same logic.

Among robots, if a robot possessing human emotions appears, to other robots, the danger factor is very high, and it must be sent to the Laboratory Building to be returned to the factory or scrapped.

But the problem is, how would the Principal judge whether the robot looking for it is a normal robot or a malfunctioning robot?

Therefore, screening is required.

Then, the underlying logic of the decryption in the Principal's home was very easy to deduce.

'Prove that you are a normal robot!'

'Just like a person has to prove that they are not mentally ill.'

'I can confidently assert that the decryption this time is a psychiatric hospital!'

Sure enough.

When Chen Ran finished deducing, the distortion of the scene also ended. What was previously the Principal's home had now turned into a hospital ward.

There were five beds in the ward, and a person was lying on each bed.

Chen Ran was lying on the innermost bed. The other four mental patients were respectively...

Big Gold Tooth, Qiu Yinong, Lin Xuan, and Hua Changsheng. When they saw each other's appearances.

Their pupils shrank instantly.

Chen Ran was also slightly startled, simply because he saw that in the eyes of the other four...

There was a complex emotion called 【Human】. This complex emotion could not be simulated by a robot.