Chapter VI "Consensus"

"Oh? How so? Lance asked knowingly, but he still had a mysterious look on his face, which was elusive.

"So far......" Sakaki replied methodically, "your predictions about what didn't happen have come true, and you've played a role in the progress of the agenda on several occasions, even though your actions have been either disguised as a joke or in the form of sidekicks...... But in the eyes of a gambler like me, this level of manoeuvre simply can't hide the essence.

"In fact, every word spoken by each of you in this 'trial' and the reaction of all the other people around you when you spoke...... From facial expressions, micro-expressions, to language, body language, and even habitual small movements, I have observed and written down all these details.

"Even the two anomalies I just mentioned about you can be explained as ...... How do you explain that you have excellent reasoning skills and a strong ability to 'rhythm', but how do you explain the fact that every time you say something that sounds like trash talk, but actually means something, it actually points to some kind of fact? ”

At this point, he paused for a few seconds, glanced at the table again, and then fixed his gaze on Lance's face again: "Yes, when you just said 'very optimistic about me', I learned from your sinister expression and tone that 'you have seen through my lies about the gambling game', but because everyone had not spoken at that time, I did not pay any further attention to you, so I could only pretend not to understand, so as not to talk too much." ”

"Hmm." Lance nodded, still with a calm and sinister smile on his face, "Then you have made this matter clear now, presumably to make a point of view." ”

"yes." Sakaki continued, "After all, the goal of the gamble I'm taking now is not to 'find the organizer's accomplices', but to find 'undercover agents sent by an organization', and what I just said is mainly to increase the credibility of what I'm going to say next......"

Finally, he turned his face to Juror No. 1 beside him—Sui Bian, who was disguised as Yan Wuxian.

"Based on what Second just said to you, and the ...... I've observed you in the more than an hour since you walked into this room," Sakaki said in a categorical tone, "I'm 90% sure that you're undercover." Moreover, you are also a shape-shifting person, which can be inferred from this...... Most likely, you are not really 'Yan Wuxian'. ”

When the words fell, there was silence in the room.

The jurors who were pregnant with ghosts focused their eyes on Sui Bian's body at this time.

"You've said that...... you're in the middle of this," Sui Chang didn't panic anymore, he looked at Sakaki very calmly, and responded, "If I simply deny it, it will be a little pale, but I really can't talk as much as you do......" He paused, "So, in my opinion...... Let's use the results to speak; Let's say you win, then the 'he' on the phone will show up and give you an explanation, right? Then we'll wait until he's coming, and if he's not coming...... It proves that you have lost and that your inference is wrong. ”

This is a typical delaying tactic, indeed...... It is also the most correct approach at this stage.

Sui Bian's idea is: as long as that "he" doesn't show up for a second, he can drag on "one more second", even if "he" really appears, in the final analysis...... Most of the people in this room are still neutral, they are not members of the Reverse Cross, and there is no reason to help "him", so they have every chance to take "his" life by raiding.

"It's a good idea to stall for time...... "Juror No. 8 suddenly spoke, "but unfortunately, the 'he' you mentioned is already sitting here." ”

While he was talking, he was still holding his phone and bowing his head to send messages.

Almost at the same time that his voice sounded, everyone else present felt an abrupt change except for Dark Water, and after a second, the same question suddenly appeared in their hearts - when did this guy sit there?

"It's you!" After a few more seconds, Che Wuchen directly recognized No. 8.

"Yes, that's me." At this time, the eighth, that is, ...... Zi Lin said leisurely, "If you want to ask...... Why didn't you realize that the number eight was me, then I can tell you...... Before entering this room, I had one of my abilities perform some sort of 'elimination' on me. As he spoke, he picked up the mobile phone in his hand and shook it lightly twice, "It wasn't until I sent a message to her to disable her ability more than ten seconds ago that you noticed my existence." ”

"Huh...... Is there such a means other than memory adjustment......" The doctor sneered when he heard this.

Zilin didn't answer the doctor's words, but just said to himself: "By the way, there are clues about the identity of that capable person and the effect of the ability, in fact, there are clues in the document that Detective Che read not long ago...... But can you decipher it, or how much can you decipher...... It's a matter of how it varies from person to person. ”

"Slow down ......" At this time, Sui Bian forced Zilin to look at Zilin, and said with a straight face, "Brother, I don't care how you eliminated your sense of existence before, I just want to ask, do you mean ...... now You're the 'he' who has been giving us orders in the shadows? ”

"yes." Zilin replied in a natural tone.

"Hah! Joke. Sui Changzi didn't believe it, "How did you call ......the electricity at the same time in this room?"

"That's a recording of a phone call." Zilin interrupted before the other party could finish asking, "I have already recorded several recordings in advance, and I can directly use the mobile phone in my hand to dial the number on the table, and then press the button to play it, of course...... My own phone doesn't make a sound. ”

"Ridiculous, can't we see ...... you call" Sui Biangang wanted to further deny the other party, but realized something halfway through his words, and swallowed the second half of the sentence back.

"Huh...... Thought of it, huh? Zilin leaned back in the chair, "That's right, I've been playing with my phone almost all the time for more than an hour, but under the influence of the ability, you completely ignore what I'm doing, even if I squat on the chair and dig up the boogers for an hour, you won't take it seriously." He tilted his head and looked at the people around him, "Besides, you should all know that before you entered this room, all your belongings had been 'cleaned', and all other electronic products had been taken away except for the I-PEN I gave you...... And the fact that I have a 'mobile phone' in my hand is already an anomaly. ”

"Hmph......" Sui Bian twisted his eyebrows and whispered, "Even if the matter of the mobile phone can be explained by the ability to 'eliminate the sense of existence', but 'use the pre-recorded telephone recording to control the field', aren't you afraid that something will go wrong?" ”

"It's possible." "But judging from the actual process...... That didn't happen, did it? As he spoke, he slowly stood up from his seat and fixed his gaze on Sui Bian's body, "Because...... You, the 'first person to answer the phone,' were very cooperative with me. ”

Zilin walked along the wall, began to walk around the table, and said in a gentle tone: "When you were the first to pick up the telephone receiver and hear the recording I had recorded in advance, you did not make any resistance or radical behavior, you just chose to listen to the recording silently...... He didn't interrupt me or question me.

"As for the number two who answered the phone after you, needless to say, he is in the same group as me; When the second call comes and you hear the phrase 'let number two answer the phone', you don't hesitate to give him the call, and he ...... Naturally, I won't refuse, delay, or interrupt my recording......

"In this way, the process of the two of you has invisibly become a fixed 'pattern', affecting all the people who answer the phone in the future.

"All in all, at the end of the day...... It's you, the 'undercover agent', who are weak in your heart and don't dare to mess around, that makes our play go so smoothly. ”

At this point, Zilin had already walked behind Sui Bian and grabbed the back of the other party's chair with both hands.

At this moment, although Sui Bian's face still forcibly showed a calm expression, his back was already soaked with cold sweat; Adrenaline was running through his veins, and he was ready to strike at any moment.

And Zilin is defenseless.

He slowly leaned over, poked his head to Sui Bian's head with a ladylike and elegant movement, and whispered in his ear: "Staff Officer Sui, did you feel that your body was a little abnormal before you entered the door?" ”

When he heard the words "Sui Staff Officer", Sui Chang knew that his identity had already been completely exposed...... Even the position he held under the command of Juezun was well known to the other party.

In a moment's breath, a chill rose from his heart, making his hairs stand on end and his scalp tingle.

"You...... What was done to me? "Sui Chang is no longer concerned about the task, but about his own safety.

To say that he is not afraid of death is false, but Sui Chang's posture in the face of death should be more calm than that of most ordinary people; It's just that...... Now he is facing a simple death, but something more terrible than "death".

"Why do you think 'I' did something to you?" Zilin straightened up, left the No. 1 seat, and paced two steps, "The person who tore you apart 'last time' was clearly No. 9, okay?" ”

"'Last time'?" Sui Bian didn't fully understand the meaning of this sentence.

"What are you talking about? Why don't I remember having sex with him? Fang Xiangqi was also puzzled.

Unexpectedly, in the next second, an unexpected person took over the conversation.

"Because you really didn't deal with him in 'this time' trial." Jack replied with his almost grim expression.

"Huh?" Before the words fell, Li Xiaofan heard some clues, and he immediately said to Jack, "That's not right...... right" He glanced at Uncle Xue as he spoke, "Didn't No. Seven say that he only went back in time once, and the difference between that time and this time was only that No. 10 was killed by you on that timeline?" ”

"So Seven lied?" Meng Yuhan also asked along with this.

"No, he wasn't lying." Jack replied, "It's just that he 'doesn't remember.'" ”

At this moment, Uncle Xue's expression also became confused and solemn, and he looked at Jack and said, "What do you know?" ”

"I don't know much more than you do, but ......," Jack said, pulling out his I-PEN and opening the document he had read earlier, "this passage of words that you didn't see or hear reminds me of some possibilities. ”

What he said was [Mr. Anderson, in the course of your narration of the following document, you may discover something, but please do not let that stop you from narrating and attacking the other jurors; At the moment when you have the intention to attack, think about whether your actions make sense and the phrase "Is it too late?" and I think you'll calm down.

"As I read the document, I kept thinking about the meaning of this passage." Jack amplified and showed this information to everyone, and continued, "Obviously, the person I will attack in this passage can only be Yan Wuxian, Uncle Xue, or Fang Xiangqi, because the incident described in this document only mentions the three of them, and does not explicitly mention the others present. He paused for half a second, then said, "So...... Who am I going to attack?

"At least at the time, Yan Wushu can definitely be ruled out, I have no intersection with him, and his ability will not pose any threat to me.

Fang Xiangqi's words...... I'd have to be a little bit on guard against his rampage, but before reading the document, I had already made the gesture of tripping him and throwing him out of his nose, and that he didn't ram out in that way, indicating that he was still very restrained, and a real attack on him would make him rampage.

"So...... The only possibility for the rest is Uncle Xue.

"His ability to go back in time is indeed tricky, and there is a certain restraint to my ability, but that is not a reason for me to do anything to him; The decisive reason is hidden in the second half of the message, and the phrase 'is too late' is a subtle hint......

"I started to think about it...... Perhaps, the trial I am experiencing has also been retraced several times.

"In that case, killing Uncle Xue is undoubtedly a shortcut to stop more 'reincarnations'."

When he said this, everyone basically understood the logical relationship.

"But you still didn't kill me after all." Uncle Xue looked at Jack Dao.

"Yes." Jack replied, "Actually, it's not that I don't want to kill, I'm just wondering if I can kill it...... So, as soon as I finished reading the document, I asked you - 'Have I tried to kill you before?' and the result was ...... Although the motivation is different from this one, I have already tried and failed, which is in line with the phrase 'please consider whether your actions make sense'. ”

As he spoke, Jack took a pack of cigarettes out of his jacket pocket, took one in his mouth, lit a fire, took a puff, and said, "Uh-you then told us that this was your 'first trial' and that you only did one 'brief backtrack' to save Ten's life...... As far as I can tell, you weren't lying at the time, you were just ...... Sometimes, even if the person thinks he is telling the truth, what he says is not necessarily the truth......"

"Understood." Uncle Xue continued, "Right now, what No. 8 said, and No. 10's inference about 'memory adjustment', let you determine that ...... 'backtracking' is definitely more than once, but I, the user of the backtracking ability, only remember 'once' myself." ”

Smack-smack-smack-

After Uncle Xue finished speaking, Lance immediately applauded the two.

"It is worthy of the ability of the time system, and when thinking about the layout of this aspect, the thinking is faster than others." Lance clapped his hands and smiled, "Hat? Don't look at me like that...... Like you, I also participated on the premise of being repeatedly erased and retraced...... At the moment, there is only one person in this room, whose memories are neither adjusted nor affected by backtracking......"

Although Lance did not explicitly identify that person was Zilin, his eyes that seemed to turn into arrows had already betrayed his companion.

"Then ......" At this time, Solid suddenly opened his mouth and asked a very pragmatic question, "Juror No. 8...... Can you tell us how many trials this is? ”

"It's the sixth time." Zilin replied, "The previous five times all ended in fighting or backtracking, and I won't describe the details one by one...... Fortunately, the 'space' we are in cannot be separated by the ability to go back, otherwise Uncle Xue will have to find and adjust his memories every time he uses his ability to get out......" He walked slowly at the edge of the room, that is, behind the jurors, "The other processes are not troublesome, and it is very easy to recover and reassemble the corpse in this space, like picking up the blocks that have fallen apart...... Once you've done that, adjust your memory, and you'll be ready for a new trial.

"Like I said at the beginning...... We are here today to 'agree' on something, and until then, no one should want to leave, not even death. ”

When he finished saying this, he happened to circle back behind Sui Bian.

This time, he naughtily leaned down towards the table, looked at Sui Bian with a sideways face, and said, "To sum up, Staff Officer Sui, you should have realized it...... At this moment, it is not more than an hour before midnight...... In fact, it's almost dawn by now. He straightened up again, put his hands in his pockets, and continued in a relaxed tone, "Your accomplices will not come, they have already retreated at one o'clock in the morning, and I can understand your procrastination, but I still have to tell you...... I'm sorry. ”

Sui Bian's psychological defense finally collapsed completely, his last glimmer of hope was extinguished, and his desire to resist ...... It had dissipated a few minutes ago.

"What do you want?" Sui Chang asked this question with a breath out of his strength.

"Aren't you called a 'copycat'?" Zilin's voice suddenly turned cold, "Since you have sat in this position in place of my guest today, then show your consciousness...... Play your role to the end. ”

When Sui Chang heard this, he hesitated deeply for a few seconds, and then put his trembling right hand on the table.

"Guilty."

Here's his answer.

It was both a surrender and a truth that he had realized in just a few seconds.

"I'm guilty, too." After a while, Sakaki also put his hand up, raised his head, looked at Zilin behind his side, and said, "Don't ask me why, gamblers don't answer such questions." ”

"Huh...... It's fine, I wasn't going to ask. Zilin smiled and continued, "Because ......" As he spoke, he took another step, and his gaze made brief contact with everyone present one by one, "...... Each of us is guilty. ”

"The beliefs that we humans follow, the institutions we have built, the history we have written...... Everything is full of sin.

"The first thing you have to recognize today when you gather under the banner of the Reverse Cross is this......

"After all, that's the basis of everything.

Of course, I can see that not everyone understands the meaning of their choice of guilt; Even those who think they understand may have very different understandings.

"But that's okay...... As long as you vote guilty, you are all right.

"Walk on this right path, and sooner or later you will find ...... Your own share of the truth. ”

With that, he walked right behind Jack, who didn't look back, but just raised his hand lightly and stopped him.

"You're talking about...... Do you want to be a guide for all of us here? Jack asked in a deep voice.

"It's not that I want to be......" Zilin patted Jack on the shoulder, leaned over and whispered, "Even if I don't want to...... I already am. ”

"Brother, I don't even know you." Sakaki had already cocked Erlang's legs at this time, and changed his sitting posture to a special market, "Why don't you report to me first." ”

"Huh...... All right. Zilin smiled, raised his voice slightly, and said to the twelve people at the table, "Although some of you will naturally remember my identity after the effect of 'memory adjustment' is removed, however, here...... I might as well say it again......" He sat down back in his seat, propped his elbows on the table, interlaced his fingers in front of his nose, and said, "My name is Son Lin, Son of Heaven, King Come." ”