Chapter 1481: Terrifying Conjecture
Chapter 1481: Terrifying Conjecture
However, before the man receiving the package could think further, the curtain of the sedan chair was pulled open again.
Chen Mu leaned his arm out the window and waved to him, "Hey buddy, we've opened your letter."
This task is quite challenging, but helping others is my greatest joy in life.
"Follow our sedan chair, you are safe now."
Hearing Chen Mu's words, the recipient was somewhat incredulous.
He didn't expect that the other party would actually help and wouldn't return the letter.
"But it's already dark, and there are zombies everywhere..." the delivery man couldn't help but whisper a reminder.
"Zombies everywhere? You mean the guys behind me?" Chen Mu smiled, his words showing no sign of panic, and even a hint of teasing.
Seeing the countless zombies following behind Chen Mu, the recipient realized that his worries had been a bit ridiculous.
Seeing Chen Mu's confident demeanor, the recipient couldn't help but ask curiously:
"May I ask, what is the background of you all?"
"You don't know who we are? We're postmen," Chen Mu asked curiously. "What do you think our identity is?"
Based on Chen Mu's previous speculation, in order to maintain the plausibility of the bizarre missions, the players should have a second identity in the minds of these men and women who receive the mail, in addition to their identity as postmen.
This secondary identity must at least be related to the letters. Otherwise, it's inexplicable why the male and female recipients appeared so terrified upon seeing the player and the letters.
The man who received the package shook his head. "I don't know."
"You don't know? Then why are you looking at us with such fear? We came to you with this letter, and you don't know anything about us?" Chen Mu asked, somewhat surprised.
The recipient said, "To be honest, what I'm really afraid of is this letter that was sent out and then returned."
A dozen hours ago, when my daughter had a fever, I was at my wit's end.
A dark figure appeared in front of me, guiding me to the camp's garage, where I bypassed the guards and stole the car.
At the same time, it also allowed me to write my wishes on letter paper.
It taught me three rules:
1. If the letter is not returned to me, then my wish will come true;
2. If the letter is returned to me, I cannot refuse, but my wish will not be fulfilled, and I will die.
3. I cannot remind the messenger that I cannot accept this letter before it is opened. If the letter is opened by the messenger, then rule 1 will be fulfilled... (I cannot guarantee this; it depends on the messenger's abilities).
In addition, the shadowy figure told me that if I relied solely on this car, it would be impossible to reach the hospital.
It gave me the choice: whether or not to take the gamble.
I have no choice, and I know that relying on this beat-up little car, the hope is slim.
To save my daughter, I had no choice but to agree and write this letter.
After I finished writing the letter, it told me to burn it, saying that this would get it delivered to the mailbox.
I did as you said, and what followed was that I was on the run with my daughter, and then you guys caught up with us.
When I saw the letter you were holding, I was terrified, worried that you would return it to me.
So I slammed on the gas and sped forward as fast as I could.
When you caught up with me later, you showed me the opened letter.
Those rules no longer bound me, and I felt a little relieved, so I told you about the whole story.
Chen Mu nodded slightly upon hearing this. It turned out that the recipients, whether male or female, were also subject to the rules.
No wonder the woman receiving the mail in the basement looked so terrified, yet she didn't say a word and still reached out to take the letter from Lin Shanshan.
"So, the NPCs who receive packages are actually also bound by rules. Everyone acts according to the rules, and NPCs, like players, are subject to specific rules."
Chen Mu analyzed in his mind that, from this perspective, the boundary between NPCs and players becomes somewhat blurred.
Everyone is following the rules and acting in accordance with them.
In a sense, NPCs are players, and players are also NPCs.
However, the rules for players are more complex and allow for flexibility and change.
The rules for NPCs are much more rigid, and there is no room for maneuver.
A possibility couldn't help but come to Chen Mu's mind.
Is there a strange mission where NPCs, like players, act according to the same rules?
Everyone is bound by rules, and these rules are not rigid; they allow for flexibility and change.
In this way, the variability in bizarre missions becomes much greater.
The line between players and NPCs is also becoming much blurred.
Even when both sides have similar rules, or are both bound by the same rule system, then who is the player and who is the NPC?
It's hard to say.
Going even further, what if the number of NPCs and players were increased countless times? We could have millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even billions of players and NPCs.
They mingled among them; everyone was a player, yet everyone was also someone else's NPC...
Does such a bizarre scene exist?
No, at least not yet, Chen Mu has not encountered one.
But in a sense, it does exist, and Chen Mu is also involved in it!
Weird apocalypse!
From this broad perspective, isn't the entire bizarre post-apocalyptic world, and even other worlds like Hell and the New World, all just a bizarre scenario that brings together a huge number of players?
Even Chen Mu couldn't help but gasp when viewed from this perspective.
The truth of the world can't be like this, can it?
If that's true, it's absolutely terrifying. What kind of power does the mastermind behind this bizarre scene possess?
This conjecture is far too terrifying.
Chen Mu shook his head, temporarily putting the idea out of his mind.
As I undertake more and more bizarre missions, I always encounter more and more novel and bizarre mission types.
These types of information can also provide great inspiration, allowing us to see the world from different perspectives.
But these are things to consider after completing the bizarre mission.
Now, I've finally pieced together all the backstory of the Death Postman.
It must be said that a lot of thought was put into designing this bizarre boss, the Death Postman.
Even the newspaper's unique feature—the ability to move between different scenes—is incorporated into the storyline.
"So what exactly is your identity? Why can you make these zombies... bow down and submit?" the recipient asked in astonishment.
Chen Mu smiled mysteriously, "My identity is not important. You can call me the postman, or you can call me... the King of Zombies."
In the zombie-infested city under the cover of night, Chen Mu, the "King of Zombies," rode in a sedan chair and merged into the vast sea of zombies.
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