Chapter 19: The First Night I
Ding Ding sat on her soft and elastic bed and asked, "Wei Liang, there is something I have never understood, can you solve my confusion?" β
Wei Liang smiled: "Was it just now?" β
Ding Ding frowned and said, "Why doesn't the murderer dare to admit it?" β
Wei Liang said: "Because he has no sense of security." β
Ding Ding sighed: "But if he hides like this, he not only adds to his own killing, but also harms others." β
Wei Liang smiled: "Hide your identity, he is in the dark, we are in the light, and our lives are in his hands." If his identity is revealed, the situation will be completely reversed, and as long as the murderer has a little brain, he will definitely not do such a stupid thing. β
"But ......"
"What's so good? It's not that there are lessons from the past. Wei Liang asked, "The matter of Area 13, you forgot about it so quickly?" At the beginning, Major General Bai was as naΓ―ve as you, and in the end he was deceived the worst. β
"But when I proposed this method just now, you all supported it, including Major General Bai."
"Of course we will support it, but the reason for supporting it is not that we agree with your method, but that if you oppose it publicly, you will be suspected of being a murderer, and in order to avoid being suspected, you can only pretend."
"I see." Tintin was a little depressed.
"But to think of this way shows that you are quite smart."
"Really?" Ding Ding became happy again and said, "I can't help a little bit in the No. 13 area, I feel very guilty, Wei Liang, in fact, I don't want to hold you back." β
Wei Liang was stunned, the smiling, solidified, and cold face fluctuated slightly, no wonder she was going to come out just now, it turned out that she was not deliberately showing, but to prove that she was useful. Wei Liang rubbed her head and said softly, "Don't think about it. β
Tintin asked, "Do you have any good ideas?" β
"Not yet." Wei Liang's tone raised and he said excitedly: "But this is destined to be a very fun game. Is there anything more interesting than reasoning about a homicide, peeling back the cocoon, and finding the murderer step by step? β
Ding Ding sighed lightly, "You are so different. This is reasoning with life, and the murderer can kill you at any time. β
"Then I'll find out before he kills me." After a pause, Wei Liang changed his words and said, "Before killing the two of us, find him out." β
Ding Ding's expression suddenly became mysterious, and he leaned into his ear and said, "Tell you a secret." β
Wei Liangqi said: "What? β
The girl's deep voice came from his ears: "Actually, I already knew who the murderer was. β
Wei Liang sighed lightly and asked, "You know?" β
"Yes."
"Then you didn't say it earlier?"
"You can't sue them."
"Why?"
"Because...... I'm the murderer! β
Wei Liang was taken aback and asked, "You are the murderer?" β
Tintin smiled wickedly and nodded.
Wei Liang grabbed her delicate ears and twisted them in a half circle.
"Oops, it hurts." Tintin screamed, begging for mercy.
Wei Liang let go and said with a smile: "Your acting skills are very poor. β
"People are just joking with you." Tintin rubbed his ears and asked, "How did you see through it?" β
"I can read minds."
"Bragging. Then why don't you read the murderer out? β
"Don't worry, it will be soon."
Suddenly, the light in the room dimmed.
"What's going on?" Ding Ding asked, "Could it be that the voltage is unstable?" β
Wei Liang smiled: "This is a surreal space, how can there be a voltage?" β
"How can the light be dim?"
"I guess it's Taling simulating sunrise and sunset."
"You mean it's getting dark?"
"That's right."
Tintin was scared and asked, "What should I do when it's dark?" β
"Sleep."
"But then the murderer was going to kill."
"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided. Anyway, he will be forced to fall asleep, and even if he dies, there will be no pain. β
Ding Ding gave him a blank look, he had been with Wei Liang for a long time, and he was also affected by his "fearless" temperament, and he was no longer so greedy and afraid of death.
Wei Liang continued to be relieved: "Besides, the murderer can only kill one person a day, but we are a full nine lambs to be slaughtered, and the probability of killing you is one in nine, which is already very small." β
"You're so optimistic."
"Isn't it good to be optimistic?"
"Of course it's good, optimistic people pass on positive energy, and pessimistic people pass on negative energy. I like to be around optimistic people. β
"Although I am optimistic, I don't seem to have transmitted any positive energy."
"Because you're a very strange person."
"Is that a compliment?"
"Yes."
"Thank you." Wei Liang said: "I have to go back." β
"Goodbye." As soon as Tintin finished speaking, the lights in the room dimmed a little, and if the chandelier was like the sun before, it was like a candle now. The girl panicked, hurriedly changed her words, and begged, "Stay a little longer, talk to me, okay?" β
Wei Liang stopped, turned around, sat on the sofa, and said, "What do you want me to say?" β
Ding Ding tilted his head and thought for a while, and said, "Tell me a joke." β
"I'm not going to tell jokes."
"At the beginning, you also said that you couldn't sing, but you sang quite well."
"Okay, I'll just barely say one." Wei Liang thought for a while, smiled and asked, "How can you implicitly express that you have been bought?" β
"How?"
"You don't think about it?"
"I'm too lazy, just tell me the answer."
"The answer is: I'll be fair."
Ding Ding couldn't help but laugh and said, "Why didn't you 'ask me to give you a message from the imperial army'?" β
Wei Liang couldn't help laughing. This time it was a real smile, his lips were slightly open, revealing his white and neat teeth, his eyebrows were bent down, his eyes radiated a soft light, and the whole person was in vain.
Ding Ding was stunned for a moment and said, "Strictly speaking, we have known each other for so long, this is the first time you have laughed." β
"I'm laughing all the time."
"But that's your mask. This time, you have a real smile. β
"So what?"
"You look good when you smile."
"Thank you."
"You should smile more in the future, I mean, a real smile."
"I'll try."
Ta Ling's hollow and indifferent voice came: "After ten minutes, everyone except the murderer will be forced to fall asleep, please prepare in advance." β
Ding Ding's complexion changed, and his mood that had just been relaxed became heavy again, and his chest was tight, as if he had pressed a big stone.
Wei Liang handled it calmly, without joy or sorrow, patted Ding Ding on the back, and said kindly: "Don't be afraid, it's just a beautiful sleep." β
Ding Ding said in a low voice: "I'm afraid I'll never wake up again." β
Wei Liang smiled: "Don't worry about it, you won't die, I promise." β
Tintin lowered his eyebrows, his eyes flashing with helplessness, and asked, "How do you know that the murderer won't kill me?" β
Wei Liang smiled and said, "It's very simple, empathy. If you were the murderer, who would you kill first? β
"I don't know."
"The murderer will kill the most threatening person first."
Ding Ding suddenly realized, nodded and said, "That's right." β
"And you're so stupid, you don't look like a threat no matter how you look at it, if I were the murderer, I would definitely attack you again."
Ding Ding scratched his head, his mood improved a lot, and said with a smile: "This is called stupid people have stupid blessings." But in a blink of an eye, she became worried again, grabbed Wei Liang's arm tightly, and said, "It's over, you're so smart, aren't you going to suffer?" β
Wei Liang said indifferently: "It's still the same sentence, it's a blessing or a curse, and it can't be avoided." β
"You have to be careful."
"It's fine." Wei Liang smiled and said, "I'm leaving." β
He turned, and disappeared into the darkness. The door closed, making a heavy crashing sound, which was an ordinary sound, but it sounded strange and terrifying to Ding Ding at the moment. Once she loses Wei Liang, endless fear overwhelms her, more frightening than in Area 13, although the zombies are terrifying, at least humans can still hide, escape, and resist. And now, once he is forced to sleep, he has to be slaughtered, and he doesn't know how he died.
She locked the door, and remembered that the murderer had a master - the key, she couldn't help but be discouraged, looked around, saw the single sofa at the head of the bed, and pushed it to the door with great effort, blocking the door, of course, this is just self-deception, the game set up by Taling, it is impossible to solve it with a sofa, but at least, she has gained some psychological comfort.
After doing this, Tintin lay back on the bed. Wouldn't it be too conspicuous to sleep here, she wondered? When the murderer enters the room, he can see it at first glance, no, he has to hide, but what about hiding there? With the help of the faint light, she looked around, but the bedroom was so big, there was really no good place to hide, after a while, she made a decision, put some of the sundries in the house into the quilt, it seemed to be bulging, as if someone was sleeping, and she herself got under the bed.
This series of actions seems childish and funny. She lay on the tiles of the floor, her eyes wide open, feeling like a prisoner, waiting for judgment to come.
Time's up.
Ding Ding's neck was crooked, and she fell asleep, even in her sleep, she was still frowning, and her little face was full of worry.
Besides, Wei Liang, because his brain has zΓ i defects, he is not afraid at all. In his concept, life is more like a game, and the person who dies is a full-level ascension; The person who commits suicide, is tired of this qiΔ, uninstalls the game; People who die unexpectedly are due to a power outage or computer malfunction, and the game ends suddenly; The person sentenced to death was opened and permanently banned by the system; The person who died of illness was infected with a virus in the computer, which caused the game to crash......
He thought, what would he say if he died tonight? Obviously, he was killed by someone, and he was about to return to the city, when the murderer jumped out of the grass and took away a set of qer plus a fire.
In his eyes, death is not so terrifying, nor so gloomy, but a little funny, with a little witty.
He lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling of the black hole, and then, when the time came, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep in the face of the unstoppable might.