Chapter 1 Deduction

Shen Wei looked at his adorable right hand, speechless. He could only run and explain helplessly, "As for why I guessed as such, I have the following deductions. These tapes, numbered 1 to 6, are like spatial ley lines. They are segmented, or layered. Every time we watch a tape, we fall down a level of space, or rather, the inner world..."

"And all the houses on this street are like intersections of the timeline and the inner world's spatial lines. Each point where they converge is each villa here. The timeline of each villa is different. My timeline is later, so I don't have tape number 0. Perhaps in my timeline, that tape was taken away by someone else long ago."

"Little nun Angie's timeline might be earlier. She might have tape number 0, a timeline where tape number 0 hasn't been taken away yet..."

After listening to Shen Wei's reasoning, the Evil God's Right Hand was stunned.

"No wonder there are identical villas everywhere here, arranged vertically and horizontally. So each point is where the timeline and the inner world's spatial lines intersect. The point where our time and space intersect is relatively later!"

"The golden-haired little nun's timeline is relatively earlier than ours. In her timeline, we can find tape number 0..."

"Wow, you figured all this out? Tell me, did you steal my brain? Back then, I was as smart as you. You must have stolen my brain..."

As the Evil God's Right Hand spoke, it reached out to grab Shen Wei's hair, but Shen Wei shook it off.

"Cut it out. Even if a zombie opened your brain to take a look, it would leave in disappointment. If it had any sympathy, it might break off a piece of its own brain to donate to you..."

Shen Wei's words were quite sharp, which made the Evil God's Right Hand very dissatisfied.

"Warning: lethal chicken beating imminent..."

Hearing that this guy was really angry, Shen Wei wisely shut his mouth.

"Catch that kid, we'll split the strange object on him equally..."

"I always feel like he has some purpose. Maybe he found a key clue about the path to survival. Don't kill him yet, just cripple him..."

"Leave it to me, I'll turn him into my puppet. Then I can ask him anything I want..."

Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the villa where the golden-haired little nun Angie was, the figures wandering on the street caught up with him.

To Shen Wei's surprise, most of those who mentioned him were human survivors, with only a few rotten, smelly corpses.

"So that's how it is. All the survivors participating in the Rule Anomaly are distributed in layers of the inner world. Whichever tape is played first, survivors with the same tape will be transferred to the same layer of the inner world. And this street full of villas is the timeline of this layer of the inner world. The villas are each time node..."

Shen Wei finally understood why he had only encountered six Chosen Ones from beginning to end; they were all scattered.

Those Chosen Ones were cautious and didn't attack Shen Wei immediately. Instead, they controlled those rotten corpses to test Shen Wei's strength. If he was too strong, they would seek cooperation. If he was too weak, then sorry, even the remaining value of the corpses would be squeezed dry.

Several corpses, like agile zombies, pounced towards Shen Wei. Shen Wei opened the Yin-Yang Umbrella to block the attack of two of the corpses, then drew his knife from the umbrella handle and slashed horizontally, directly decapitating one of the corpses.

Then, Shen Wei moved the Yin-Yang Umbrella away and swept his knife again, sending the heads of the other two corpses flying into the air.

At this moment, the other six Chosen Ones surrounding Shen Wei also showed a trace of fear in their eyes.

"Brother, you're in such a hurry. Did you discover any information about the path to survival? We are all Chosen Ones; we should help each other. If you tell us the information, we can give you strange objects as a reward..."

A skinny old man with triangular eyes chuckled a few times and said to Shen Wei.

"This brother, don't mind what happened just now. The reason we had those corpses attack you was mainly because you were too fast, and we couldn't tell if you were human or ghost. We had to test you..."

A middle-aged man with his hair combed neatly said with a smile. The others echoed his sentiments.

Naturally, Shen Wei couldn't tell them the information about the path to survival. These guys clearly had bad intentions and had temporarily formed an alliance. If he revealed the path to survival, then he and the golden-haired little nun Angie would inevitably be surrounded by six people.

Because according to his deduction, tape number 0 only existed at specific time nodes. The quantity was definitely very scarce, and the difficulty of obtaining it was extremely high. Just look at Shen Wei; he hadn't even completely searched the entire villa before being driven out by those ghosts!

Overall, in the eyes of those cunning Chosen Ones who licked blood from their blades, killing other Chosen Ones was easier.

"Everyone, you also know the dangers inside the villas. I was just chased by a large number of ghosts and had no choice but to escape to the street, wanting to seek the protection of our organization's boss..."

Since the other side had the advantage in numbers, Shen Wei had no choice but to bluff, to exaggerate his own power, and try to intimidate these guys first.

"Organization? Which organization are you from?"

The greasy middle-aged man with his hair combed neatly said with a smile that didn't reach his eyes.

"I'm from the Divine Summoning Society (Shen Zhao Hui). My boss is John, that white, burly man covered in guns. I'm sure you've heard of him..."

Shen Wei directly brought out the name of the Divine Summoning Society to start bluffing, and these guys were indeed intimidated because the people of the Divine Summoning Society were all lunatics.

"You wouldn't be bluffing me, would you?"

The skinny old man's eyes darted around, trying to test Shen Wei.

"You don't believe me? Our Divine Summoning Society has a big operation this time. A total of six people came, each one a master."

"Besides our boss John, there's also a woman cosplaying as Harley Quinn named Kelly. As for the other three, one is a Japanese samurai, one is a wizard, and one is an evil nun. These three don't want me to reveal their names, so I won't say them..."

Shen Wei's words successfully fooled these six Chosen Ones. The skinny old man said in the greasy middle-aged man's ear, "This guy might really be from the Divine Summoning Society. I've heard of John and Kelly's names; they're very brutal. Recently, some lunatics have indeed joined the Divine Summoning Society. Among them, I heard there's a powerful Japanese samurai. I don't know about the rest. It's best to avoid these lunatics, especially since they also have six people. Their combat power is super strong. Once we start fighting, we might not be able to beat them..."

The greasy middle-aged man nodded, indicating that he understood. At the same time, he waved his hand, signaling that Shen Wei was free to leave.

"This little brother, it was all a misunderstanding. We've also cooperated with the Divine Summoning Society before. We can be considered allies, allies! Please go ahead and don't delay your important business..."

"Then thank you, everyone. I'll take my leave first..."

Shen Wei faced these smiling tigers, stepping backward, one step at a time, until he reached the gate of the golden-haired little nun's villa, afraid that these guys would go back on their word and suddenly launch a sneak attack on him. But that didn't happen.

Shen Wei breathed a sigh of relief, leaped up, and jumped over the several-meter-high iron gate, successfully landing in the golden-haired little nun's yard.

Logically speaking, the golden-haired little nun Angie should have noticed his presence outside long ago. The fact that she hadn't come out to greet him meant either she was in trouble or she had already used the tape to escape this layer of space.

But either way, it was very unfavorable to Shen Wei.