…… In other words, whether the "Pilkin" in front of him is real or not, his real body is already there, or has already entered this room. Although there was no communication, Jin Shaolan and Finley reached an intention to cooperate with each other to find their own chance of survival. First, they both realized that they needed more time, both to observe and to try, and that they could not compare to the premeditated Pilguin in their understanding of the circumstances and the situation, and that only time would give them a chance to close the gap.

“…… So, you've done this carefully, and it's not really for us two rookies, right? ”

Jin Shaolan sat on the ground and asked, propping one hand behind him, which was not very comfortable, but he didn't try to change his posture. Luckily, as he expected, Pilkin seemed to be interested in the topic:

"Oh? Why do you think so? ”

Although it was a question, the look on his face told Jin Shaolan that the senior of the Mage Tower quite agreed with his judgment, even if he was now tantamount to fish on the chopping board in the eyes of the other party.

"Because you have too many chances to kill us, don't you," he said with a smile, his mind cleared with the rush of adrenal hormones, and although cold sweat was still oozing from his forehead and waistcoat, he found that he could react calmly and control his tone and expression.

Jin Shaolan knows very well that although it is not uncommon for a cat to play a game before catching a mouse, and "catch and release Cao" before swallowing it in one bite when it is satisfied, it is by no means as popular as the "villain must die of talking too much" in the ten clichéd episodes. So there is no need for Pilguin to talk nonsense here when the situation, the balance of power, and time are all on his side, and delaying time will not bring him better results or bring him more benefits to his carefully planned trap, so still doing so shows that Pilkin still has other needs for this. And accurately locating and dissecting the psychology of a "character" is precisely the specialty that a film director relies on to make a living.

Many viewers often complain about why the villains in the movie stories always have to be endless, and have a long discussion with the protagonist who was knocked to the ground, so that he was counterattacked by the other party's Jedi, and lost his low-hanging fruit, not to mention burying himself, which became a record that added glory to the protagonist. Jin Shaolan himself is also a member of the army of complaints, but the object of his scorn is not the screenwriter who "arranges the villain clearly" but his peers, unable to let the audience discover and agree with the rationality in it, the two knives among the film directors.

"Those four yesterday are all authentic law system specialty contractors, and after you get rid of them, they have not affected your own situation, so it is obvious that if the target to be dealt with is changed to us, you can start at any time." He said with a wry smile, which made his heart beat a little faster, and he noticed a hint of joy and complacency in Pilkin's expression.

proved that the angle of entry chosen by the "director" was right, so Pilkin neither killed them nor stopped him from speaking, which was undoubtedly equivalent to encouragement to him in Jin Shaolan's eyes.

"Yes," he said, ponderingly, "your absence at lunch is undoubtedly our first chance. ……”

Just like when Jin Shaolan was fortunate to be Kenneth Branagh's third-line assistant when she was studying abroad, and participated in the "White Horse Hotel" that brought Agatha Christie's classic suspense novel to the screen, Inspector Li Jun (Lejeune) in the play made a heart-to-heart exposition after bringing the murderer to justice-

Lee Jun also took advantage of this by deliberately accusing the pharmacy owner Shacholi Osborne of being stubborn and stupid, which made him mentally unbalanced...... Osborne screamed in rage, and retorted how clever he was in orchestrating this series of crimes......

As a film director, Jin Shaolan is keenly aware that the reason why Pilkin has to show up to talk to them is also because he has an unbalanced mentality and needs to vent urgently.

Most people, he thought, must be like that—everyone but the seasoned killer wants to vent: whether it's to show off their ingenuity or to vent their anger; He needs an object to talk to, and this object must be able to interact with him, and the tree hole in the story of the King with Donkey Ears is certainly not good, and that is also a beautiful artistic process - a stranger on the other side of the computer screen who does not know where he is or even does not know whether he is actually a dog is certainly not - the so-called "catharsis" does not mean that he has to find someone to talk to, this object must be able to give feedback and give him positive incentives; in other words

The object had to be in front of him: shock, admiration, despair, horror, or both.

"I get it, too," Finley said. Jin Shaolan believes that the object of his previous sentence is actually himself. "It was too coincidental that the notebook that gave us important information appeared; And the blacksmith Kurrenn gave us the notebook, which is strange in itself, in fact, if he finds something and thinks it shouldn't be kept by himself, he will first try to give it to you, the squad leader. ”

He sighed and shook his head as if resigned to his fate: "It's ridiculous that we didn't even think of this at all. ”

"Yes, yes," said Pilkin, applauding him with joy, "very clever, gentlemen, and now you might as well guess why?" ”

Looking back, looking at Kurain's behavior when he took out his notebook, what he said at the time actually hinted at a lot of information:

It is impossible for a craftsman like the blacksmith to leave his tools there in the morning and leave them there at the end of the evening, so it is strange that he only found out in the morning, but no one has been to him in the meantime, so that Kurren is puzzled and can only think that he was lost yesterday when the contractors went to look for him.

In addition, he said that when he failed to find them, he did not say that "but they are gone", but that "I could not find them", which indicates that in his eyes, the four people did not leave Karazan but disappeared.

And Kuren's last sentence was actually a complaint of grievance, and normally he should have given the notebook to Pilgin first. But he didn't, instead tried to give the notebook to the two new apprentices, and defended himself - "I never thought to hide it. Apparently he went to Pilkin, but the latter not only did not accept it, but also hinted or explicitly told him to take it if he wanted.

But he didn't report the idea of taking it for himself!! - The blacksmith who was so honest that he wanted to give flowers to the maid he liked had to fake his hands was wronged by this, but he was only a countryman, even if he was a good blacksmith, so even if he was very wronged, he didn't know how to express it, so he had to find the other two "Mr. Mage Apprentices" (even if they had just arrived here today), ask them to take the notebooks, and at the same time defend themselves, "I never thought of stealing it, gentlemen!" ”