"You've played the game, right? I mean, that kind of big online game. ”

"It doesn't matter what the game background is, fantasy or sci-fi, it doesn't matter - we can all play our own roles freely, and we will become stronger if we work hard, and we will make friends if we are serious, beautiful and real, right?"

The other party was a little excited, and since the conversation began, I saw the brilliance of a normal person in her eyes for the first time.

I looked at her with some concern, but I objected.

"The real world is better? Ah, how wrong you are! ”

Her emotions stirred.

"If I could succeed with just serious effort, I would choose the real world."

"If all difficulties could be solved as directly as defeating the boss, I would choose the real world."

"If the affection can be increased like the NPC's favorability, and there will be no betrayal, of course I will choose the real world!"

"What if...... Every time I fail, I can be resurrected, and I will choose the real world! ”

"Who wouldn't?!"

"But is the real world really as beautiful as you say?!"

Her body arched suddenly, her gaze narrowed in with mine, the restraint suit held to the bed was torn slightly deformed, and the iron-framed bed made a tooth-aching sound.

One of the nurses next to her quickly pressed her body, and another nurse opened the medicine box on the shelf.

I was a little helpless, and even a little afraid to look directly into her aggressive gaze.

This is the question of the whole human society, and I have no answer to it, and I can't explain it - I'm just a member of the ordinary human race.

A syringe was inserted into her arm, and a tranquilizer was injected into her body.

She slowly fell back into the bed, the sparkle in her eyes gradually dissipating, and her voice became softer.

"If there is such a game, its world is infinitely large, it allows you to freely choose and reset your life at any time, its servers are never shut down......"

"Have you ever thought that way - if only there were games like this?"

The nurse gestured to me to "end of the meeting", and I nodded, turned and walked out of the room.

Outside, a long, narrow white corridor, the beige sunlight cut into neat shapes by the half-moon-shaped colonnade arches, several mentally ill people in hospital gowns stood in the sunlight, looking at me with dull eyes, one of them smirking at me.

Behind me, I heard her hoarse laughter coming down the white hallway.

"Ha, haha!"

"Hahaha......"

The hazy sleepiness of waking up early is long gone, but my spirits are still hard to lift at the moment.

Very bad morning.

All the clues are broken, and this state has been going on for more than three months.

Who can blame me for anything? I've done my best, but that's the way it is, so it's time to give up no matter what, right? I think.

Albeit...... I still have a great deal of curiosity about the truth of this whole thing.

"If only there were games like this?"

Her words still echo in my ears, and this is what I have been thinking about seriously for three months......

Really, does that kind of game exist?

I stopped at the exit of the hospital and took off the makeshift pass pinned to the placket of my trench coat, the caretaker took it and put it on the table, and tapped his finger at the thick record book that was spread out: "Sign here." ”

He shoved an old ballpoint pen wrapped in white cloth tape into my hand.

I did.

The double heavy iron door was opened.

My car, a Beijing jeep with an unknown number of hands, was parked across the asphalt road.

I opened the car door and sat in the cab, just in time to catch a glimpse of eight large silver plastic steel characters at the entrance of the hospital: "Castle Peak Psychiatric Sanatorium".

Closing the car door, I didn't start the car for a long time,

Again, I was reminded of the first time we met.

……

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"You want me to help you retrieve a hard drive?" I turned the pen in my hand, "To be honest, I usually don't answer theft cases, and I can't solve cases more often than the police - did you call the police?" ”

"Hmm." The other party nodded, and answered in a very feminine whisper, which was an answer.

I have a bit of a headache.

The client is a woman, named Ji Lan, twenty-seven years old, her delicate figure is set off just right by a black professional outfit, with short black shoulder-length hair and light makeup.

She sat across from me with her head slightly bowed, and only made eye contact with me when she was talking to me.

I don't know why, I think this woman is a little weird, but I can't describe it accurately: not only is her appearance not weird, but she is also quite eye-catching, her behavior does not go beyond the category of normal people, and her mental state is also very stable.

However, from the moment she sat down in front of me, this strange feeling slowly enveloped me.

Imagine a person sitting in front of you and telling you something – but you feel like you're sitting in a theater where you're the only audience, the stage is infinitely close to you, separated only by a desk less than one meter two wide, and her narration is less like a statement of truth than a line of speech......

Her expressions and movements are also like a stage play, beautiful and flawless, but there is an infinite sense of alienation based on reality.

That's half the reason for my headaches.

The guy named Li Yi and nicknamed Koi standing on the side was the other half of the cause of my headache.

"Brother Ji, it's not a simple theft, this beauty's lost hard drive is related to several suicides!" Li Yi lined up the file bags that were originally stacked on the desk in front of me, "Look at ......"

I pressed the portfolios: "Wait, with what I know about you, you're definitely not interested in these things, so if you don't want me to investigate your motives first, you'd better find a reason to convince me first." You said you two just met today, and then you had such a deep exchange, and then you recommended me - do you think I'll accept that reason? ”

Li Yi also stiffened: "Isn't there a saying called seeing that...... Right! It's like a home at first sight! Hey, Brother Ji, you should do a good deed and help me once, okay? ”

Maybe it's an occupational disease, I'm very suspicious, so when Li Yi was talking, I actually kept looking at Ji Lan, trying to see something on her face, but Ji Lan kept his head down and didn't give me this opportunity.

However, I heard some clues from Li Yi's words, this kid didn't know what kind of ulterior pigtails he was caught, and the strange thing was that the other party only asked him to ask me for help, and it was just a theft case.

At this time, the doubts in my heart became more and more serious, but my mouth said: "You have said so, it will be unrighteous for me to shirk it again, okay, I will take this commission." ”

Li Yi looked extremely happy, he thanked me first, and then said: "Brother Ji, although this case is a brother please ask you, but this case is really strange!" It has something to do with a recent serial suicide! ”

I saw that when Li Yi was talking, I didn't even look at Ji Lan, and said in my heart that this didn't seem to have anything to do with the relationship between men and women, and then I heard Li Yi say something about "continuous suicide cases", and my brows suddenly wrinkled.

"I've only heard of serial murders, but can you explain to me what a 'serial suicide' is?" I asked.

"Oh, I know something, didn't I bring you all the files? Brother Ji, take a look for yourself. ”

I clicked on the huge police department's official seal on the file bag: "When will you kid get the police case file?" ”

"This ...... Hey, don't we still have that relationship with Brother Dao! ”

I don't care about Li Yi's obvious vague words, anyway, didn't I also accept the commission?

So, I looked through the file.