Chapter 4: The Hive (I)

I left Seongnam Yucai High School a little embarrassed - Li Yuanxiang's abnormal behavior aroused Si Huaguang's extreme suspicion, he shouted a few times, and several tall physical education teachers rushed out of the office next door and surrounded me.

If I hadn't finally called Cheng Cheng and confirmed my identity as a "temporary special bottle consultant", and then found Li Yuanxiang to help me explain what happened at that time, otherwise I might have been sent to the police station by Si Huaguang and this group of strong physical education teachers.

Back at Kee Kee Grocery Store, I began to sort out the information about Xu Wen.

For a 17-year-old underage boy, his information is actually very scarce, and through the connection of the police department, I can call up Xu Wen's file, but the content is roughly equivalent to a birth certificate and a list of family members.

After finishing this, I made a phone call to Xu Wen's parents. They contacted all the relatives and friends who could be contacted, but there was still no news from Xu Wen, and I had no other way than to calm and stabilize their emotions for the time being.

This is the way this is the world, and many times, the turn of things is not dictated by the will or actions of the individual, and luck and chance are important factors beyond basic effort.

The only valuable information today is probably what Li Yuanxiang said.

What does she mean by "Xu Wen went to participate in the human wolf game"?

I asked Li Yuanxiang this question later, but she refused to elaborate on me, only vaguely and vaguely - to be sure, Li Yuanxiang did not know where Xu Wen was, and they had not been in contact since Xu Wen left the hospital.

What is Li Yuanxiang hiding?

Or rather, why is she hiding it from me?

She and Xu Wen can be called childhood sweethearts in the true sense, if she really has clues to Xu Wen's whereabouts, why don't she tell me?

Especially after I confirmed my identity as a detective, is there any special reason why she has to keep it a secret from me?

As for the "man-wolf game", I do know it.

The man-wolf game, also known as werewolf killing, is a well-known tabletop game.

The game is mainly composed of werewolves, special villagers and ordinary villagers, among which special villagers are some special characters, such as elders, hunters, witches, little girls, prophets, etc., each with their own special abilities.

The time course of the game is represented by the alternation of day and night. During the night, the werewolf secretly chooses a villager to kill. When daylight comes, the slain villager is eliminated from the game. All the remaining people, including the villagers, the werewolves hidden among the villagers, and those with special identities, discuss and vote for the player who is suspected of being a werewolf. The player who is voted for will be "lynched", he will be revealed, and he will be eliminated from the game.

In the most basic gameplay, the goal of the werewolf is to kill all the villagers, and the goal of the villagers is to find the werewolves hidden among the villagers and eliminate them.

I also played a few wolf games with friends when I was in school, and after dropping out of college to become a "spirit detective", I was running for a living and was often in danger, and in addition, I was messing around with people like Lao Dao and Li Yi all day long, and they didn't look like guys who had the patience to play board games with me.

Based on the information in hand, I believe what Xu Wen and Li Yuanxiang said, maybe someone really offered a million prize money to hold a game of human wolves, but the problem is also here - who is it, and for what purpose is he, to hold a human wolf game with a prize of up to one million?

I started searching the web for relevant keywords...... Among the many urban legends in Jinguan City, there is indeed a legend called "Million Jackpot Man Wolf Game", and its content is basically the same as Xu Wen's statement, but about the method of participating in the "Million Dollar Man Wolf Game", netizens have different answers.

I browsed through dozens of pages of web content, my eyes began to ache, and I still couldn't find the exact address of the mysterious location, which was said to be able to board a bus and participate in the "Million Jackpot Man Wolf Game" as long as I arrived at the mysterious location at a certain time.

I searched for this information until late at night, and finally, I lay in front of my computer and fell asleep.

……

I was woken up by a loud bang - someone was smashing the steel roller shutter door of the grocery store!

When I ran to the floor-to-ceiling window and shouted who it was, I saw a man fleeing on a motorcycle under the dim street lamp!

The man was covered in a black jumper so large that I couldn't even determine the gender of the man.

And in front of my grocery store, there seems to be a small box.

I hurried downstairs, opened the roller shutter door, bent down and copied the little box in my hand, and then, with a shock all over my body, the last trace of sleepiness vanished!

What I was holding in my hand was actually a transparent disc case containing a CD, and on the back of the CD were eight large blood-red characters written on the back -

"Mega Millions Jackpot Man Wolf Game"!

Without thinking, I immediately pulled down the roller shutter as fast as I could, and then rushed upstairs, and before the desktop computer upstairs was turned off, I immediately put the disc engraved with "Million Jackpot Wolf Game" into the DVD drive.

The contents of the disc were a video file, and I moved the mouse and pressed the play button.

At first, the video was dark.

Then, a pillar of light lit up, enveloping a girl cowering in a corner.

The source of the pillar of light is supposed to be a flashlight, and the video shooting location appears to be a closed room.

The girl was wearing a dirty and torn white T-shirt, and the beige shorts she was wearing were almost invisible, her arms and legs were covered with stains, her face was gray and black, and only a pair of eyes that were wide open in fear were still clear under the flashlight.

"It seems that you are too weak. It's not just the ability to escape – that's why those buzzing stupid bees have chosen you. ”

The person speaking is not in the shot, only one of his backs can be seen, holding a flashlight, which is the only light source in the film.

But judging by his voice and body shape, this is a middle-aged man of average stature - perhaps younger than speculated, but it really doesn't have too prominent features.

"You are indeed fit to be a victim. So, I started ......"

The flashlight was placed firmly on the ground, and in the center of the aperture was the girl's helpless face.

"Don't, don't come! Please......"

Hearing the man's words, the girl began to beg for mercy, she trembled and kicked on all fours on the concrete floor, as if trying to shrink deeper into the corner, tears sliding down the gray skin of her face, as if digging two ditches in the dirt.

The man stepped forward.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't be afraid."

His words were soft, mantra-like.

Then the man slowly pulled the girl up from the corner and took advantage of the situation to stand behind her.

"Please, please, please......"

The girl let out intermittent sobs.

"Quiet, quiet, ......"

The man reached out his left hand and covered the girl's mouth from behind, while also imprisoning the girl in his arms.

A knife glowing with silver light slowly pressed against the girl's throat.

Touched by the cold blade, the girl's body straightened in an instant, and her frightened expression froze on her face.

The throat was quickly sliced open.

Bright red blood even splattered onto the lens of the camera.

The girl's body struggled like a dying fish, but was controlled by the man.

In vain, his hands tried to cover his already cracked throat, but blood continued to gush from his fingers.

The girl's throat was filled with only a "gurgling" sound and a worn-out bellows-like pumping sound from a severed trachea.

Her big eyes, which were originally beautiful and moving, were now red all over the place, and the despair and fear in her eyes made people shiver all over her body.

Then, his gaze dimmed.

A pair of slender arms, soaked in his own blood, drooped limply, like the dead branches of a willow tree.

Only then did the man let go, and the girl's body, which had lost her vitality, collapsed to the ground like a bed of torn cotton wool.

"Click-"

There was a sound of heavy iron moving on the ground, and then someone began to speak, more than one person.

"Hit, open!" Immature male voice.

"Ah, who's on the ground?" Someone immediately noticed something unusual in the room.

"Dead, someone's deadβ€”" The female scream rang out.

"Quick, push him in!" Several people shouted in unison.

Then, as if being forcibly pushed into the room, the "click" sound sounded again, and finally there was a "bang", and the entrance and exit of the room seemed to be closed again.

"Are you the next chosen idiot?" The man standing in the flashlight shook the short knife in his hand, and the girl's blood remained on it, "What's your name?" He asked.

"Xu, Xu Wen."

The visitor replied.