Chapter 82: The Beginning of the Leaves (I)
"I want to play a game, the key in your hand, the key to open something in this room. But trust me, this will definitely not be the key to that door. Find the keyhole for this key, just as you find your definition of life.
As a reminder, it's a good habit to be good at discovery. ”
The prompt came to an abrupt end, which made the seven people present look at each other. Not because the content is too scary, but because it's too concise. Aside from the trio with a very low presence who don't seem to have figured out the situation yet, Miranda, Roma, and Monica all know that once you start introducing the game, it means seeing blood, and it means that someone is going to die if you don't care.
However, this recording is as simple as asking everyone to find the key, and does not explain what the consequences will be if the game fails.
After a short silence, it was Monica who spoke first: "Let's look for it first, since the voice recorder says that there is a hidden keyhole, let's find it first." As she said this, Monica's eyes were fixed on Miranda and Rom, who were also confused, but she didn't notice that the fool was still smirking.
They're all people who have been in the Game of Death, and of course they know that Monica is right. But the room was so big, there was nothing but some dust and fallen stones, and the only thing was the big black box in the middle of the room. Hardly any surprises, all eyes were on the box.
But just as Monica found out at the beginning, the whole box was tightly sealed, and there was no keyhole at all. After a few unsuccessful attempts, everyone gave up and turned their gaze to the wall, where there was nothing left to search.
Röm knocked on the wall on the left, and the other six noticed almost nothing but what was on the wall, but nothing was painted on it. At this time, they realized that the graffiti on the wall was all poetry.
In fact, they don't understand most of the verses, and the sentence that really says these words is verse, it is the middle-aged passer-by girl Emily in a nurse's uniform. Facts have proved that not only literary youth are useful, but also middle-aged literary women are also useful.
According to Emily, most of these verses come from an unpopular collection of poems, The Leaves of the Dawn, written by a Roman named Guderian. Basically, the reason why he is not famous is simple, because his work is contrary to the mainstream culture of the time.
It means that in that era of praising emperors and gods, this guy wrote some poems that admired death. Belch... According to today's parlance, it is about the difference between the traditional culture of the 90s and the emerging non-mainstream culture. Basically, this guy's poetry collection is not only niche, but can even be said to be "hitting the street". However, in that era, not only was this product not killed, but part of his works were compiled into "Qiye Collection", and finally the remaining fragments have been handed down to this day.
After understanding the origin of these graffiti-like words on the wall, even if the other people are stupid, they understand that the key to this game lies in this middle-aged passer-by girl Emily.
They get out of the way, leaving Emily to stand in front of the graffiti, looking for the so-called keyhole.
Soon, the passer-by girl noticed that something was wrong, pointed to one of the blood-red graffiti on the wall and said, "Here, this sentence is not from "Qiye Collection"! ”
"To live is to die!" (Live,hen you as dead!)
Basically, the translation is wrong, but Monica still sees the clue, and no one fails to see it.
The i character of Live, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, formed a direction like an arrow.
Rom, a part-time demolition worker, subconsciously glanced at Miranda, who was not far away, and the latter was also looking at him. After the two looked at each other, Röm walked past Miranda and took the rotten wood and removed the bricks from the wall again. After a few knocks, the bricks of this house were easily knocked out of a hole like a tofu slag project.
Röm pulled out a brick with a few clicks. After picking out two bricks in quick succession, a corner of a photograph is revealed. Röm was very cautious and did not pull the photo out, but Emily, a middle-aged passer-by behind him, suddenly screamed frantically, rushed up and pushed Röm away, grabbing the photo with one hand...
"Don't!" Monica and Miranda shouted in unison, but it was too late. Emily pulled that picture out with one hand!
The expected light sound of the mechanism did not happen, which made everyone stunned for a moment, and Emily did not notice the reaction of the person behind her, and crushed tears as she grabbed the photo. The photo shows a little girl smiling brightly.
"Maggie—" She looked very pained, and then she looked into the deep black hole, as if her daughter was inside, and a hand jerked into it again! This time, the familiar whisper sounded again!
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Emily, a passer-by, tried to pull her hand out of the hole with a frightened look, but her hand seemed to be fixed inside, and she couldn't pull it out. Emily screamed a little uncontrollably, and after being slapped twice by Monica, she slowly calmed down.
"Hoffman, help, make this hole a little bigger!" Monica walked over to the wall, tried the bricks around it, and when it was loose, she beckoned the fool to come and help.
The fool nodded and stepped up to help. Soon the hole was enlarged a lot, and the whole inside was finally revealed to everyone.
It was a metal mechanism, and Emily, a passer-by, had her right hand held to a metal table by the bracket, and her wrist was holding a metal block. There are five needles under her palm, corresponding to the five fingers. The underside of the needle is blocked by black metal, and it is impossible to see what is underneath. And above the wrist hangs a circular chainsaw, just not yet opened.
Next to the metal table, there was a voice recorder, but no one touched it, because it was obvious that a thin line was attached to it. Once it is taken out, it means that the mechanism is officially opened.
Eventually, it was Monica who took the recorder out. The torn string caused the saw above to kick in, causing Emily's body to tremble. I pressed the button of the voice recorder, and the familiar voice sounded again...
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Emily, that game from 12 years ago gave your life a new lease of life, and I'm so happy for you. But it didn't occur to me that I made a mistake, some people... Is there really salvation?
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Author's note: "Qiye Collection" and its author's experience are fictional, but the content is real, because the psychological darkness of the book is higher than that of the author, I don't know how many levels, so the title of the book is shamefully hidden