{After a long while, you finally recovered and slowly got up from the floor.}
{Back in your room, you found it even harder to fall asleep.}
{Only now did you truly feel the fear and helplessness your parents must have experienced.}
{It was unimaginable how terrified and powerless they must've been when the Female Ghost possessed your sister!}
{To negotiate with a tiger, what benefit can that bring?}
{To make a deal with a ghost, how can that possibly end well?}
{This truth, you understood. And your parents must've understood it too. But they had no choice.}
{Suddenly, you sat up straight in bed, a flash of insight hit your mind.}
{Connecting all the events of the day, you boldly speculated:}
{The real goal of this Rule Horror wasn't to find out who the ghost was, or who the extra person was.}
{It was to make you change the future, to stop the misfortunes that were about to happen, to help him protect his family!}
{He was the older brother of this family. The one whose identity you had now taken over.}
{In that moment, your thoughts surged forward like a flood, and all the questions that had long plagued you were instantly resolved.}
{Why would you die if Mom got angry? Because he didn't want Mom to be upset!}
{He deeply regretted how disobedient and immature he used to be. Even during such a dangerous time at home, he still made Mom angry and caused his parents worry.}
{Another example, why would you die if you rode the elevator with Dad? Because he wanted to protect Dad, perhaps Dad eventually died in that elevator!}
{So many similar rules were actually his way of teaching you how to make Dad, Mom, and your sister happy and reassured.}
{He wanted to use you to atone for his past mistakes and to change the tragic fate that was coming.}
{If what you did went against his will, you would die mysteriously!}
{Father, mother, younger sister, all three of them most likely died in the end. Only you survived... or became something unspeakable, some eerie, anomalous tale, like this Rule Horror!}
{Also, why was a family of four called a "Three-Member Family"? Because he felt his actions made him unworthy of being considered family by Dad, Mom, and Sister!}
{He was filled with endless regret!}
{He had always been living in remorse!}
{Helping him make amends for his wrongs, protecting his family, and changing the future—so that he truly deserves to be called "family"—and turning a family of three into a family of four, that is very likely the correct way to clear this rules-based horror scenario.}
{Everything clicked into place. Although some details remained unclear, you felt confident that you were now heading in the right direction!}
{Suddenly, it felt like the clouds had parted, and you could see the blue sky.}
{What had once been shrouded in fog was now revealed. Before, no one could be trusted; everyone was a suspect.}
{But now, the sides were clearly drawn: who was an ally, who was an enemy, who was neutral, they were all clear.}
{You could trust Dad, Mom, and Sister. Just follow the rules, and everything would be fine.}
{The Human Trafficking organization and the mastermind were enemies, absolutely unforgivable.}
{The Female Ghost was currently an ally, though the alliance could break at any time. She was a ticking time bomb, but not irreconcilable.}
{The Man in Black Trench Coat was an assassin, an enemy, and for now, you didn't know if he could be redeemed.}
{The three wearing rabbit, pig, and dog masks were enemies, mere minions, but equally dangerous and irreconcilable.}
{The hemp rope, duct tape, and towel were usable for warding off evil.}
{Grandma's Pocket Watch could break an Illusory World and show accurate time. Though half-damaged now, outside the Simulator, it was still intact and functional.}
{Mom had a friend of Grandma's who knew a bit about Taoist arts. She was currently trustworthy and possibly a source of help in critical moments.}
{The next task was to figure out how to deal with the Man in Black Trench Coat.}
{And investigate why the rooster crowed at midnight. Was it connected to the assassin's appearance?}
{Lastly, and most crucially, identify the Human Trafficking mastermind: who they were, and which forces they represented.}
{[Night Chapter], [11. If you hear a rooster crow at midnight, leave this city immediately!!], [12. If you hear suona or other festive noises at night, leave this city with your sister immediately!!]}
{Based on those rules, the mastermind probably had terrifying power in this city and many people might be involved.}
{Also, Dad's undercover identity might have been exposed. Otherwise, the rooster crowing and the assassin wouldn't have happened at the same time.}
{In other words, your home might already be unsafe!}
{But there was another possibility: the Man in Black Trench Coat only appeared because you entered the basement. If you hadn't gone there, maybe he wouldn't have shown up.}
{Because in both simulations, the assassin's arrival time in the basement wasn't the same.}
{Especially in this simulation, you had deliberately avoided his usual time of appearance, yet still ran into him.}
{You silently noted that down. It seemed worth testing.}
{Having sorted out your thoughts, you stopped the simulation!}
{Simulation End. Duration: 7 hours 45 minutes. Current Mental Value: 69!}
Consciousness Return. Andrew gasped for breath.
This was his first time stopping a simulation manually without dying.
At the time, he had just wanted to try it. He hadn't expected it to work!
And this time, he had only lost six points of Mental Value!
Compared to being forced out of the simulation by death, which often cost more than ten points, this was a savings of four or five points.
It was basically the equivalent of gaining one extra simulation attempt!
"It seems this is the proper way to use the Infinite Simulator, that is to exit the simulation before dying!"
Andrew thought.
But then he shook his head.
It wasn't that he hadn't wanted to exit early before, it was that death had come so suddenly, so unpredictably. He had died without warning.
In that situation, it was clearly impossible to quit the simulation in advance!
But now that he knew a more efficient way to use the Infinite Simulator, he could be much more flexible in the future!
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