Chapter 21: Fiction
The next day, Shen Yue chose to ask for leave, and after learning her true identity, Gu Tiantian didn't twist her ears and sneak her to school this time.
It took her and Gu Yun an hour to make Gu Tiantian understand that Mario is a game character and does not exist in reality, this time the position between the three of them has become a little strange, in normal times, the person who persuades the other party not to bring games and fantasies back to reality should be Gu Tiantian's genius.
After taking leave, Shen Yue was not idle, she was studying the information on Weibo and some self-media early in the morning, the appearance of the game characters was limited to X City, in addition to Uncle Mario that she and Senior Sister Gu met on the road and the mask murderer who may be related to this matter, there were also people on Weibo who met Luigi, Xiaofen and Xiaolan.
And the content publisher and the comments below are surprisingly consistent, and judging by their tone, it seems that these characters are real.
However, this time the paranormal phenomenon is different from usual, and the vast majority of citizens who meet Mario and other characters are not attacked, and these characters are very friendly to take pictures with them.
It's no different from meeting a star on the street.
Of course, not all characters are friendly, such as Hu, an enthusiastic citizen who met Kuba, was burned to the ground and threatened to find Kuba's agent to complain.
"What's going on?"
Shen Yue had never seen this face, so much so that she had to ask thought-provoking questions, and the Foundation's encyclopedia had never recorded any similar incidents, which meant that since ancient times, whether at home or abroad, there has never been a strange phenomenon now.
Could it be that this is Ren Hell's latest propaganda policy?
On the other hand, if these game characters do not affect the lives of ordinary citizens, they will become a popular phenomenon among the masses.
Wrong......
It is impossible not to make an impact.
The reason why Mario and other characters did not harm the general public is because they are originally positive characters, and they are friendly NPCs in the game setting, and Kuba, who is relatively unfriendly, immediately set Hu's ass on fire.
Overall, Mario's worldview doesn't have too many vicious characters, but if it does, characters from other worldviews appear......
Thinking along this line of thought, Shen Yue's gaze involuntarily shifted to the animal masks that Gu Yun had placed on the coffee table in the living room, these four masks were really familiar.
"Brother Gu Yun, let's go and meet the four people you caught yesterday now!"
If she guessed correctly, the world view of the game corresponding to these four masks is not very friendly.
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The other side.
Officer Yu rushed to the police station early in the morning after hearing the news, but he never expected that the first time he woke up, he received bad news.
Yesterday evening, the suspect was suspected of being arrested, and by the way, two small leaders of the underground world were arrested, and their group was busy until late at night, in order to celebrate, he also invited everyone to have a barbecue near the police station, originally thought that the unsolved case could end here, but he didn't expect the situation to take a turn for the worse overnight.
When I arrived at the police station, the blood stains in the detention cell had been cleaned up, but there were still mottled blood stains on the walls, which was enough to imagine the tragic extent of the situation.
The deceased is the same little boss who was locked here yesterday.
The surveillance probe in the police station filmed a scene that happened in the middle of the night - they saw that in the middle of the night, the two people who were being detained suddenly showed fierce and hateful eyes towards each other as if they had been in an evil spirit, and they quickly scuffled together, using the handcuffed chains, nails, and even teeth as tools for murder.
Officer Yu has been a police officer for so many years, and it is the first time that he has seen the two of them with their arms clasped behind their backs, and they can still endure the severe pain of dislocated arms and kill each other, and another reason for the huge amount of occurrence is that the two have caused many non-fatal injuries to each other.
There are no words to describe the scene shown in the surveillance footage, because it is so grotesque.
The only possibility he could think of was that the two of them had suddenly fallen into evil and gone crazy, and as for the reason, it was difficult to conclude for a while.
Years of experience have made Officer Yu realize that the cases they are investigating are far from over.
Because when the police were cleaning up the body, they found the letters "E" and "S" on the leader's body, which seemed to be trying to reveal something.
It's just that Officer Yu really can't summarize the current situation.
The killer has been caught and is being held in a detention cell.
But for reasons that are difficult to deduce, they went crazy at the same time and beat each other to death, and he carefully watched the video several times, but he still couldn't see when the two letters appeared on the two of them.
Maybe the four staff members at the playground really had nothing to do with it, because at least last night's bizarre incident had nothing to do with them.
Perhaps, as they say, those primitive impulses are actually the result of masks.
But......
Hasn't the mask already been brought back by Master Gu?
It seems that the Foundation must be contacted again as soon as possible, or someone will be killed sooner or later.
He didn't know what this mysterious word represented, but it was obvious that each letter represented more than one human life.
“『50-Blessings』。”
Officer Yu was about to make a call to Chen Jiang when he heard a girl's voice overhead.
He looked up and saw Shen Yue who appeared in front of him at some point, and then he saw Gu Yun who was following closely behind.
"What did you just say?"
"The full word should be '50-Blessings', you can understand it as an extremely crime-hating civil organization, they will provide information about the mission objectives to the same kind of people with the same philosophy by telephone, and these like-minded people, after receiving the information, usually kill those criminals with cruel methods."
Officer Yu immediately recorded this important word in his notebook.
But he had never heard of this unfamiliar term - as a veteran police officer in X City, he had also heard a little about some of the forces in the city's underworld, and after the financial crisis, some people opened companies and decided to legalize their own industries.
And if there is a non-governmental organization like "50-Blessings", which is extremely hateful to crime, they will definitely cause a counterattack from the underground world of X City, after all, those people are not good stubbles waiting for death.
"Where can I find their operators in this organization?"
"Nowhere to find it."
Shen Yue shook her head, "Because '50-Blessings' doesn't exist in the first place, it's just a fictional organization in the game. ”
As she has speculated before, not all games follow the same childlike route as Mario World, and "Hotline Miami" is definitely a representative work of crime genre.
The famous "Harvest Day" was also inspired by this genre, and it contains many elements that pay homage to "Hotline Miami".
For players, Hotline Miami may be a bloody shooter with a lot of ketchup in every level, but if you put it in reality, real death will not only bring any pleasure, but only more crime and horror of countering violence with violence.
"This time the situation is a bit special, and we are assisting you in your work."