Chapter 16: The Threefold Mystery of the Devil - Interlude

Dilemma

The sun is shining outside the window, and the interior is also beautiful. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

His squinted eyes stared straight at the broken rope bridge in the distance, and his knife-like face was expressionless.

The killer is pondering his own vicious plan.

'Hmph, those self-righteous fools. '

He cursed more than once in his head, but he still didn't say a word.

Yes, I gave them so many opportunities to escape, but they stupidly gave up.

The plan went surprisingly well, and the murderer was secretly glad.

Maybe they're thinking too much of what they're capable of.

This house is its own stage, and without it, you can't do anything by yourself.

Twice, yes, twice.

They were so close to the exit, butβ€”

That stupid, self-righteous fool led everyone into the abyss of death.

Then don't blame yourself for being ruthless, it's they who don't cherish the opportunities they give.

Now, the most important part of the plan is coming.

The cage that he painstakingly created has locked up the prey firmly.

It was a sturdy cage with no chance of escape, and there was absolutely no turning back.

'Hehe-'

The murderer chuckled softly.

The sound of laughter echoed for a long time in the silent room where no one was around, like the sound of a demon from hell.

Chamber

Hunger, thirst, and tiredness were written on everyone's face.

Since last night, they haven't eaten a grain of rice.

Coupled with the continuous incidents, everyone's physical strength is very bad.

Especially Bian Benyi, after all, he is in his fifties,

After experiencing a physical altercation with Jiang Xinglong, running back and forth continuously, and the frantic smashing incident just now,

I don't have any stamina anymore.

At this moment, standing behind Luo Yifan and Jiang Xinglong, this old man leaned on his wife and felt that his hands and feet were trembling slightly.

But he smiled at his wife's worried gaze.

Bian Benyi knew that his loss of control had brought a lot of pressure to his wife.

So he tried to control the discomfort caused by physical exhaustion, hoping to give his wife a little comfort.

Jiang Xinglong glanced at the couple out of the corner of his eye, and sighed softly in his heart.

He didn't want to do everything in his power to protect that man.

It's like this uncle protects his wife.

No, it should be said that this feeling of mine is much stronger than that of the uncle.

'Alas! That idiot. What now? '

Secretly scolding the person who tried his best to protect but did whatever he wanted, Jiang Xinglong raised his eyes and scanned every inch of the wall in front of him with Luo Yifan.

Although the wall in front of him was illuminated by the light, there was still an indescribable sense of weirdness.

It always feels like something is wrong.

Luo Yifan probably stopped because of this. Jiang Xinglong thought to himself.

Just now, a few of them had already carefully explored this wall.

There were no secret doors, no mechanisms, not even a single gap.

"What's wrong?"

The words that accidentally blurted out were heard by Luo Yifan on the side.

Luo Yifan turned his head to look at him: "You also feel it?" ”

"yes, but I just don't know what's the problem?"

β€œswdrgs”

"What?" Luo Yifan's sudden pronunciation of the letters surprised Jiang Xinglong.

Moving his gaze from the wall to Jiang Xinglong's face, Luo Yifan said calmly:

"You just examined the body with me, didn't you?"

"yes, why do you ask?"

"Did you find anything around the corpse?" Seeing that Jiang Xinglong still had a puzzled expression, Luo Yifan changed his statement.

"Didn't you see the code that the murderer left us?"

"Yes...... Is there a code? Lu Huimei blurted out.

Bian Benyi also asked nervously: "The code left by the murderer?" What do you mean? ”

"Maybe the murderer wants to play a survival game with us."

Luo Yifan smiled inappropriately, his eyes sweeping over everyone.

"What are you laughing at?" Jiang Xinglong was a little impatient, "If you find anything, just say it." ”

"Maybe I know a little bit about why the brains of the man's corpse were hollowed out."

"Because I saw letters written in brain pulp on the side of his skull, S, W, D, R, G, S"

β€œswdrgs”

After repeating it, Jiang Xinglong shook his head.

"Is there such a word?"

Jiang Xinglong, who was quite confident in his English level, had no idea that there was such a word, let alone its meaning.

"Wrong," Luo Yifan immediately corrected him: "It's not a word, but a capital S, W, D, R, G, S." ”

Luo Yifan accentuated his tone and deliberately paused for a second in the middle of each letter.

"Are you saying that it's not just one word, but six separate letters?"

"Yes, the letters were written on the edge of the corpse's head, probably with a finger or something about the thickness of it dipped in the brain."

"I guess the killer scattered the brains of corpses and things that resemble brains all over the room just to make this line of letters less easy to spot."

Luo Yifan's words made Jiang Xinglong's temples hurt, and he retorted while rubbing it with his hands:

"Does the murderer want us to find out or not? Since he wants to leave us a code, can't he write it directly? Why make it so complicated? ”

"Because it's a game." Luo Yifan said without hesitation.

"What?" Doubts were written in Jiang Xinglong's eyes, he had never encountered such a thing.

"You probably don't read mystery novels, do you? Great industrialist. ”

The ridiculous voice made Jiang Xinglong suddenly feel a little annoyed.

"How could I possibly have time to look at such a thing."

"Isn't the word 'game' often mentioned in mystery novels? It's the kind of horror-filled intellectual game played between the murderer and the detective. ”

"You're crazy! What nonsense! Are we in the game now? Jiang Xinglong questioned Luo Yifan, but there was not much anger in his tone.

"Of course not, I'm just saying that the murderer could be this mentality."

"You're saying that the killer is trying his best to kill us while leaving us clues because he's playing a game with us? How can there be such a person, isn't this a perversion? ”

"A murderer who can kill people in such a cruel way is a pervert in himself."

Jiang Xinglong was silent, and after a moment, he said to Luo Yifan:

"I agree with you, the murderer is indeed a cruel pervert. However, I'm not interested in knowing if he has the kind of 'game mentality' you call him. ”

"I don't think everyone here will be interested in knowing, now everyone's only purpose is to survive safely, which is what you said 'find out the murderer so that he can't commit another crime'."

"Yes, that's our only purpose." Luo Yifan regained his grim expression and nodded.

"So, do you have any thoughts on the code left by the murderer?"

"I don't think the murderer wants to tell us a word, because if you write it with your brain, you can't write too many words."

"So the murderer only wrote the first letter of each word, and there should be two reasons why he chose to write in English,"

"The first is that there are too many strokes of Chinese characters, which is inconvenient to write."

"As for the second one, it's going back to what I just said, the murderer wants to increase the difficulty of the code out of a 'game' mentality."

"That's why he chose to write only the first letter of each word, let's guess."

Although he couldn't fully believe Luo Yifan's words, Jiang Xinglong still felt that he had some sense.

"So, let's give it a try. Guess what word each letter represents. ”

Before the words fell, Luo Yifan immediately added: "Don't forget that the words are related to the things we see in this house." ”

"Hmm... Things in this house? yes, it should be easier to guess this first. Jiang Xinglong said.

"Also, the code I just said is a sentence, but it just says that there is a possibility."

"It is also possible that the code may be six separate words, which means that each word may represent one thing,"

"The murderer wants us to guess the message he left behind through these six things."

……

So, what exactly do S, W, G, R, D, S represent?

Will its appearance open the next exit for Luo Yifan and them?

Readers might as well guess together, how about it?

Memories 2: The Story of F

"Hey! Come here! The aunt in the communication room called out loudly to the boy who was walking across the playground.

The skinny boy was stunned for a moment, and immediately trotted over.

Running to his aunt, he timidly asked, "Auntie, what's the matter with you?" ”

"Can you help me get her to the infirmary?"

The aunt was holding a girl about the same age as a boy in her hand,

There seemed to be something in her eyes, and she kept blinking and couldn't open them.

And the chubby aunt was talking to the boy while she kept using her hands to stop the girl from rubbing her eyes.

"Watch her eyes and be careful not to let her rub them with her hands."

The aunt looked at the little boy with a worried face.

"Okay, Auntie, I know."

The boy tugged at the sleeve of the girl's shirt who couldn't open her eyes, and carefully led him in the direction of the infirmary.

After watching them walk away, the aunt sighed and went back to the communication room to call the girl's homeroom teacher and the doctor in the infirmary.

It was time for the lunch break, and the boy was secretly observing the girls around him as he walked.

'She's probably a relative of Aunt Conveyor, right?' '

Because the boy likes to hang out on the playground alone during his lunch break, he has seen this girl eating with the aunt in the communication room more than once.

I guess I got shards of glass in my eyes. '

Seeing a lot of shiny things stuck to the girl's face, the boy began to speculate again.

After a while, the two of them arrived at the infirmary.

The infirmary was just across the playground, in front of the school building, so it was there quickly.

At this time, the doctor in the infirmary probably also received a call from the aunt in the communication room.

So I didn't ask the boy about it, I just told him that it was okay and told him to go back to his classroom.

The memories came to an abrupt end here, and I can't remember what happened after that.

However, none of this matters, so there's no need to think about it.

The white and weak man sat on the bed, his eyes looking at his sleeping girlfriend beside him.

All kinds of feelings in my heart are intertwined and messy.

The memories just now had long since disappeared from his mind, but he barely remembered some of them when the woman next to him suddenly mentioned it not long ago.

It turned out that he and she had known each other since childhood, and the man was really excited at that time and felt that everything was fate.

But-

She actually betrayed him!

Everything was fine, but the woman suddenly came home late at night for days without warning.

Every day he came back after he went to sleep and went out again before waking up in the morning.

It's so strange that men instinctively sense that something is wrong.

So, yesterday I finally couldn't help but follow behind.

As a result, the last thing he wanted to see happened - his girlfriend, the woman he loved so much, was actually kissing a handsome man tightly - and the man was trembling with anger.

Because of the blocking, there is no way to see the man's face clearly.

"Thisβ€”" He cursed through gritted teeth, and the scolding was unpleasant.

I really want to rush up and beat them up.

However, the man did not dare. It's not that you don't dare to hit people, but ...... Fear of a showdown.

Once the showdown means loss, he can't accept it.

I don't know how I got home, but I feel like I'm in a trance.

After sitting at home for a long time, my girlfriend finally came home.

It's the same face that doesn't matter anymore and ignores it.

The man really wanted to yell at her: "When you said you loved me, you were so sincere, was it just pretending?" ”

She has no money, no power, and she is not handsome, why did she provoke herself, and finally betrayed herself?

Could it be...... The man remembered the bullies he had received since childhood.

It turned out that she was the same as them, she was deceiving herself, cheating on his feelings, and taking pleasure in it.

Thinking of this, the man's eyes were full of resentment.

The body was slightly hot, and the hands and feet were contracting and trembling unobeyedly.

The man forcibly hid his hands in his arms, pretending to be as calm as possible.

"It's so late, go to sleep."

Urging his girlfriend after taking a shower, he got up and walked into the bedroom first.

"I'll come." As usual, a sweet voice came from behind him.

The man ignored it, and a man got into the quilt that had not been folded in the morning, and covered his head with the quilt.

My ears listened to the sound of slippers back and forth, and my heart hurt so much that I couldn't breathe.

Tears lingered uncontrollably, wetting the bedding.

"What's wrong with you?" The woman who returned to the room asked.

"Nothing, just a little uncomfortable." After vaguely prevaricating, the man was not ready to speak again.

"Hey, let me tell you, I want to go out on a trip with a few girls in the club in a few days, is that okay?"

The woman did shake him by the bed.

'Travel?! He was taken aback and immediately poked his head out of the bed.

"What's wrong with you, so surprised, can't I go out and play?" The girlfriend's tone was full of dissatisfaction.

"I'm going with me too."

"How can this work, everyone made an appointment without a boyfriend." His girlfriend's expression also began to be dissatisfied.

She wasn't usually like that at all, she wasn't so impatient at all, she must be deceiving me. '

Men have always been a little nervous, and girlfriends are usually accommodating.

Du Du is so different today, and he frowned after a few words.

This made the man even more sure of the suspicion in his heart: 'She must be going out with that wild man.' '

Without much argument, the man buried himself in the bed again.

Said sullenly: "Whatever you want." "I started pretending to be asleep.

I thought to myself: 'I must not let them get what they want, I will make you pay the price for betraying me!' '

――

After a long time, the woman next to her came out with the sound of even breathing.

The man sat up from the covers.

He kept staring blankly at the woman beside him, reminiscing about the past for a while, and thinking about his revenge plan for a while.

Before I knew it, it was getting brighter.

But the man didn't feel sleepy at all.

The plan was finally made, first to call to confirm, and then to know where she wanted to go and when.

And then -- 'big deal,' -- the man was trembling all over his body, even his heart.

The sky was getting brighter and brighter, and the woman next to her had no intention of getting up.

'Isn't she going out today?' The man thought, 'Oh, it's already a matter of course, so you don't have to go out.' '

The sun shone into the man's dark and bitter heart, and tears slipped down his face again.

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