PFRG: Chapter 114

The red go-kart was speeding on the track. Chi Ting could almost feel his heartbeat that might burst out of his chest at any time, but his mind was still spinning rapidly at the critical moment, analyzing the situation he was facing layer by layer.

If he was unsure whether he was lost or not and came across a fork in the road without any signs, this question obviously couldn’t directly be substituted into the content of the rules.

If he wasn’t sure if he was lost then there were two possibilities. One was that he wasn’t lost, and the other was that he had actually deviated from the track.

In this situation, it seemed that the only way to truly solve this puzzle was to determine which of the two situations he was in.

The only possible variable was still in the first stage of answering questions.

After this section of the road, Chi Ting could assume that he didn’t deviate from the track and follow Rules 3 and 4, never pressing the communication button to seek help from the track. If he finally encountered a fork in the road without any road signs again, he could strictly follow Rule 4 and continue to drive along the left fork.

Assuming that his initial assumptions were correct and Rules 3 and 4 were right, it meant he was still on the right track when reaching the fork in the road. Then according to Rule 4, he wasn’t lost and hadn’t deviated from the track. The correct answer was undoubtedly the one on the right, ‘drive along the left fork.’

The logic was perfect.

On the contrary, if he assumed that he had actually deviated from the route when he ended the answering area of the first section, he should still be in a lost state even if he continued to turn left according to the rules.

In this case, if he encountered a fork in the road without any signs, the so-called driving according to the road signs in Rule 4, or driving along the left road on a road without road signs were both invalid. Then excluding the correct answer of ‘driving along the right fork’, the final choice was still ‘driving along the left fork’ on the right hand side.

In other words, there was only one final answer.

Chi Ting continued to steer the wheel. As he was about to pass the fork in the road, he turned a corner and drove into the right lane.

The barrage of comments in the live stream room was scrolling rapidly.

[Right! Right! He thinks the same as I do. In other words, he should choose the right side!}

[Huh? Why?]

[Isn’t this obvious? The rule states it. Isn’t the answer to drive along the left fork? So it is the right sign.]

[This is only if he can be certain that he is still on the right track.]

[I feel like he has already gone off track. This is clearly another track area…]

[The streamer’s reaction is really fast. After all, he has driven to the left for so many turns. If it was me, I would’ve continued to turn left again out of inertia.]

[I feel like there is no point in turning in any direction. The only answer to deviation is to press the communication button. Why isn’t he pressing it? It is making me anxious!]

Some viewers who entered the live stream room had jumped to the Jazz team’s live stream room next door. After jumping over, they saw that the substitute player who took over the relay from Miao Zhou had just completed the first lap. They were afraid that Chi Ting wouldn’t follow the rules and would be overtaken because he was completely lost. After discussing it on the barrage, they were suddenly as anxious as ants on a frying pan.

Unfortunately, such an urgent emotion obviously couldn’t be felt by Chi Ting in the instance.

After the first fork in the road, the second question soon appeared in view.

Except for the nursery rhyme that he had unknowingly completely forgotten and the changed content on the sign, everything seemed to be a replay.

Then he finished answering questions again and entered the familiar straight road. The continuous weird developments should be enough to drive the player in the game completely crazy, but the smile in Chi Ting’s eyes became more and more intense.

On the straight road, he leaned back in his chair more comfortably and slightly raised an eyebrow in a sneer.

Repetition.

This project seemed to be full of repetition.

First, there were the repeated forks in the road without any road signs. Then there were the repeated questions to answer and now he re-entered this seemingly endless straight road.

Human beings weren’t very patient creatures, especially when faced with a life or death situation.

This endless cycle of repetition was enough to make a person fall into complete self-doubt.

In such a situation where there was no end in sight, even Chi Ting felt for a moment that he had already deviated from the track.

This was obviously the effect that the designer of this instance wanted to achieve.

It was a pity that no matter how hard the designer had racked his brains, everything that happened allowed Chi Ting to successfully obtain the flaw he had been waiting a long time for.

It was too similar.

These experiences, which were repeated time and time again, were indeed too similar.

No matter whether it was the trees with unique shapes at the first fork in the road between the two answering areas, or the overly eye-catching broken street lamp on the roadside, these identification signals that were extremely easy to capture at first glance also made Chi Ting notice them.

The appearance of these two completely identical marks seemed to be enough to serve as a signal that he had returned to the start of the project. However, for humans who had completely fallen into self-doubt due to repeated cycles, they would become more and more certain that they had deviated from the track.

As the saying went, once something was abnormal then there must be something wrong.

The more easily something was placed in front of them, the more shaken the players would feel since they had already started to doubt everything.

Once the turmoil reached a sufficient warning level, the final outcome was to follow the known rules and press the communication button to see rescue in the event of a deviation from the track.

Chi Ting had to admit that this Designer No 7 was really good at playing with people’s hearts.

Unfortunately, the more he did, the more mistakes he was likely to make. This time, his cleverness really backfired.

If Chi Ting wasn’t driving on the correct track, why did the designer create so many misleading settings and try every means to make players confirm the fact that they were off-course?

The designer would never kindly guide players to a way out. This meant there were only two possibilities for players knowing that they had deviated from the track.

Either the designer wanted to lead the player who hadn’t deviated from the track to break the rules, or the methods mentioned in Rules 3 and 4 were wrong in themselves, and pressing the communication button was an absolute death rule.

But no matter what, there was only one conclusion. It was that he must never press the communication button.

The familiar unguided forks in the road appeared in his field of view again. Chi Ting smiled slightly and continued to turn the steering wheel to the left.

It was indeed very troublesome not knowing whether the rules were right or wrong, but sometimes, finding the wrong rule wasn’t something that must be done.

After a series of unguided forks, there was the familiar straight track again.

The moment the signs for the answering section appeared in their field of view for the third time, the audience in the live stream room was almost completely numb.

Some people were so frustrated with Chi Ting’s overly ‘conservative’ operation that they wanted to quit. But just after passing the [1] in the road, they actually saw the end of the road in the distance.

All the audience members were completely stunned for a moment. The barrage of comments suddenly exploded.

[Fk fk f*k, he’s out??]

[So all the roads he took along the way were really the correct ones?]

[I don’t know whether he deviated from the road during this game or not, but the streamer was calm the whole time. He really knows he could pass the game!]

[Awesome! I really don’t know what to say except for awesome!]

[As expected of the first batch of players to enter the Sanctuary from the 13th World. I will follow them directly and wait for the new gods to ascend the throne!]

[You are all so excited. Am I the only one who feels like crying? I haven’t seen anything along the way. If I really enter this instance later, I don’t know how to solve it.]

[I don’t understand the entire operation at all, but he cleared the instance. This is really awesome. I’m really impressed.]

After entering the final sprint area, Chi Ting had already seen a familiar figure at the finish line in the distance.

Obviously, his teammates in the surveillance area were observing his progress along the way and the last player had already come over to make preparations.

After crossing the finish line and driving for a distance, Chi Ting got off the go-kart and made a cheering gesture from a distance.

He could vaguely sense the deep helplessness in the other person’s expression beneath the helmet. Finally, the other person gave an OK gesture in response, stepped on the accelerator, and rushed out.

Chi Ting watched the figure disappear from his sight. He shook his heavy helmet and was silent for a moment. In the end, he could only silently curse the designer in his heart.

It was bad enough that the game process was designed to be abnormal, but he also caused trouble for the players outside the field.

Why did he have to add Rule 9 that they couldn’t take off their helmet at any time? Didn’t he know that people would be very hot after a game?

Chi Ting slightly suppressed the corners of his mouth. He pulled at the collar that was stuck to his chest with sweat. Then he turned around and walked towards the red team’s surveillance area.

The people who stayed there were obviously looking forward to his arrival. Before he even got close, a figure came up to him with big strides. The first thing this person did was to hand him a bottle of ice water that had been prepared in advance, and even considerately helped him open the lid.

“Thank you.” Chi Ting took it and thanked him politely. Then he tilted his head back and drank it all in a few gulps.

A comfortable feeling instantly spread throughout his body. This alleviated the unbearable feeling of heat.

Yue Ren was observing his expression from the side. After a pause, he asked tentatively, “Um, before…”

Before he could finish his words, Ji Xingque was already unable to hold back and interrupted him first. “Captain, is Old Song really okay?”

Chi Ting’s gaze swept directly over Yue Ren, and he looked at Ji Xingque. “Why do you ask that?”

Yue Ren, who was ignored: “.”

Ji Xingque’s face was full of worry. Just now, it was inconvenient to say anything due to Song Xuefeng being there. Now, he finally asked, “Don’t you think this is totally unlike this style? Originally, only three people needed to play. Under normal circumstances, he should’ve reserved the substitute position with peace of mind, right?”

Yue Ren opened his mouth. “I want to say…”

Chi Ting replied to Ji Xingque’s question and said, “That’s normal. This project isn’t suitable for you. Old Song must be worried about letting you play.”

Yue Ren: “………”

Ji Xingque was a bit stunned before he became a bit touched. “So Old Song is worried about me getting into trouble?”

Chi Ting nodded. “He is indeed a bit worried. After all, he will have to take over as a substitute after you if something happens to you. If you can’t finish the third lap, he will have to continue driving the fourth lap. This will waste time.”

After he finished speaking, he reached out and gently patted Ji Xingque’s shoulder. “You know, Old Song hates being forced to work overtime the most.”

The emotion on Ji Xingque’s face froze in an instant. “???”

He finished digesting the information and finally burst into tears.

F*k, it turned out that compared to his safety, the priority was to not work overtime?!