Chapter 56: Goto Town (8)
"What's wrong with you?" Seeing Dong Xie's suddenly stunned appearance, Wang Qiu couldn't help asking.
"Hmm...... I just thought of a question. Dong Xie thought about it and decided to say the question that had just come to mind, ready to brainstorm.
"It occurred to me just now...... If we really go back four years ago. So four years ago, we weren't apartment dwellers, were we? So, in this way, wouldn't we all get rid of the identity of apartment residents?! β
Hearing Dong Xie's flash of inspiration, Wang Qiu and Goto Makoto's eyes lit up, obviously agreeing with Dong Xie's idea. However, Director Ma shook his head again and again, and Hideki Saito also frowned.
Director Ma said: "Comrade Xiao Dong, your idea is very good. But I'm afraid it's not so easy to implement. Not to mention whether the apartment will really give us this loophole, how are we going to get out of this town? We haven't had time to experiment yet, but what if we can't get out of this town at all? Even if we can escape, if we escape from this town, the time in the outside world is still the time we came in, and even in the outside world, October 15th, then we will not be in Goto Town during the 15th and 30th, wouldn't we be dead? β
Director Ma's words immediately dispelled the excitement of Wang Qiu and Goto Makoto, and Dong Xie also nodded, and said, "I also guess that it is impossible for us to exploit loopholes in the apartment so easily, at least at present, I have not found any loopholes in the apartment." However, I always feel that this time is ...... There's always something wrong. β
Although Dong Xie wanted to get out of the apartment, he actually realized that they had returned to this point in time four years ago, and there seemed to be some kind of problem, so he thought of this scene. It's just that he didn't grasp the point, so he took the initiative to let everyone help think together.
"Four years ago...... Four years ago? What's the point? Caricaturist...... Caricaturist...... Caricature? Four years ago? Saito Hideki's heart became like being scratched by a cat with its paws, Dong Xie's naΓ―ve idea he naturally didn't think much about it, the curse of the apartment was much more terrible than that of Goto Town, he came here because of the blood letter mission, he definitely didn't think that this was the apartment's mercy would make them get out of the apartment.
Therefore, Hideki Saito also struggled to think about what this means.
Four years ago...... Why did they go back to Goto Town four years ago? Could it be that after they finally escaped from Goto Town four years ago, the terrible Vortex Curse broke out in Goto Town, and then gradually subsided, so in order to put them in a desperate situation, the apartment would let them go back to four years ago?
Wrong...... It doesn't make sense. Not to mention the history of Goto Town, which has a history of hundreds of years, if the Vortex Curse in Goto Town broke out, it would not have subsided so quickly, otherwise it would not have resumed communication with the outside world until 2017. You know, before they entered Goto Town, they couldn't learn about the current situation of Goto Town from the outside world, and Goto Town had been cut off from the outside world for four years.
And, more importantly, the scarlet quest of the apartment. In the apartment's Scarlet Quest, one or even a group of ghosts will be arranged at each time, waiting for the residents to go to the location where the Scarlet Quest is performed. And the content of the Scarlet Quest itself often contains hints about the apartment.
This is mainly related to the difficulty of the blood word task, the higher the difficulty of the blood word task, the content of the blood letter task in the apartment, there will often be a very metaphorical hint. Because it is difficult for the residents to find a way to survive when they arrive at the location of the Blood Word Quest, at that time, these hints are the key to the residents to find a way out, which is also an important reason why the Blood Word Quest is nine deaths and one life instead of ten deaths!
Moreover, these blood word tasks, except for the demon king-level blood word task, are all ghost-based, without exception!
So when the ghost-based blood quest encounters the Vortex curse in Goto Town, which is only for humans......
Wait a minute......
Hideki Saito was shocked, and an extremely bold guess came to his mind, if this guess was true...... So, aren't they dead?!
Suddenly, Hideki Saito was soaked in cold sweat, but he immediately forcibly suppressed this thought.
No, I can't say it frankly now, if this guess is true, then, my words and deeds, I'm afraid they will be known by it! In that case, it is impossible to predict whether it will do it to them in advance.
Although he was panicked, he still had to pretend to be as steady as an old dog on the surface, Saito Hideki said: "But whether we go back to four years ago, or we were just deceived by the apartment, the safest thing to do is to follow the apartment's bloody mission instructions." The fragments of the Hell Contract, even if you don't get them now, you must do a good job of intelligence work first. When the time comes, when we are about to return to the apartment, we will find a way to get the fragments of the Hell Contract and return to the apartment. β
Wang Qiu shrugged his shoulders and said, "Agreed, I think so too." β
Dong Xie touched his chin and looked at Saito Hideki with some suspicion, not that he saw anything, but now he inexplicably had a feeling that Saito Hideki seemed to be hiding something from what he said just now. Although Hideki Saito disguised himself very well, with Dong Xie's understanding of him, he felt that Hideki Saito must have thought of something.
It's just that Hideki Saito doesn't say it, and Dong Xie can't force him to ask. Moreover, with Saito Hideki's steady character, there must be a reason for what he refuses to say, anyway, Saito Hideki will definitely say it when he can say it, and he will say it when he needs to say it, so there is no need to rush to dig something out of his mouth.
After a while, everyone's discussion focused on how to investigate Uncle Ito Ayako. In this matter, Wang Qiu felt that since there was a problem with that Ito Ayako, he would simply bypass that black long straight and inquire from somewhere else. Moreover, her uncle is not necessarily the cartoonist they are looking for.
What Wang Qiu said is actually very reasonable, when carrying out the blood letter mission, a lot of information on the surface is likely to be misleading...... For example, the Scarlet quest asks you to investigate the identity of a murder suspect, who is basically assumed to be a ghost. But in reality, it is a kind of misinformation, and maybe the detective who gave you the clue, or the relatives of the victim, is the real ghost. Even ghosts may not appear in human form, but in the form of hair, clothes, weapons, and the like.
Therefore, Ayako Ito's uncle is not necessarily the manga artist they are looking for, although there is a high probability that the manga artist they find is also a ghost, but that is not a 100% guarantee, maybe the manga artist is not a ghost, and the pen and manuscript paper used by the manga artist or even the manga itself are ghosts.
(End of chapter)