Chapter 3: The Dilemma
“......”
Quiescence.
Before the brain and vocal cord muscles can return to normal, the congested and dilated pupils preemptively complete the work of adapting to the dark environment.
The tiles, the bathroom, the toilet, and the kitchen knife held in the palm of the hand in the panic were dripping liquid down the blade, black and illegible.
Then there's hearing, dripping liquid hitting the floor, moths flapping their wings, and sewers flowing through the liquid, all replaced by a rapid heartbeat.
Zhang Guoqing broke away from his stiff knuckles and held up his palm in the faint light, only to see an unknown depth of the opening, blackened, and some liquid that kept coming out was reflected.
The left hand took the blood-stained kitchen knife, and the cold and numb right hand wiped the clothes twice to prevent slipping.
The restless hormones hijacked the cranial nerves, and Zhang Guoqing planned to fight with him.
Turning back and grabbing the doorknob, he squinted at the frosted glass, which was blurred with a shimmer.
What about people?
There was only white moonlight on the other side of the door.
If you rush out now, it is an act of looking for death. Zhang Guoqing's sanity finally returned somewhat.
"Goodo......"
Clench your teeth and suppress the voice, take a deep breath, and think.
First, the other party has a knife and is strong and tall, and the time to enter the room is before the power is off? What are those purple-ting, black-brown marks? Blood?? Then he stayed in this room for at least two or three days??!
Zhang Guoqing may have been in the same room with a pervert and a murderer for two or three days.
Zhang Guoqing's face was distorted together, and he opened and closed his mouth twice with bared teeth, but he still didn't say anything after all.
Continue to analyze, there is always a way.
Second, your mobile phone is placed next to the computer desk and you can't contact the outside world.
Third, the walls of the toilet are very thick and windowless, and you want to beat the wall to contact the outside world...... No way.
Fourth, at present, there are toilet cleaners, laundry detergent, plastic basins, a knife, some moths, and the faucet was only checked last time.
Fifth, the other party is in the light, he is in the dark, the other party can leave at any time, he must wait to survive.
Sixth..... No, enough is enough.
In the best case, the other party is a thief who has just come in, and he just needs to wait for the other party to withdraw the money and leave before continuing to live as if nothing happened.
At worst, the other party is a pervert who can hide in his house for days without being discovered.
And he is likely to be locked up in this toilet, and finally died here in aggrieved due to blood loss, hypothermia, panic and other reasons, and finally became today's headlines, leaving only his family sad and crying, and then no one remembers.
This may be the grave of Zhang Guoqing.
Certain salty, moist-smelling liquids drip off.
Spread out his feet and sit on the ground decadently. Zhang Guoqing was going to give up.
What can be done? The silent roar was useless, and he put his head on his knees. I didn't dare to speak up, because if I cried too loudly, I would die immediately.
After about a few minutes, Zhang Guoqing was tired of crying, and put his hand in his trouser pocket to wait for death in a posture that looked more elegant and natural.
Something familiar came to me, it was a hard object.
Zhang Guoqing twisted the thing out with trembling hands, and reverently and incredulously shone the thing into the moonlight.
It was a USB stick, glowing in the moonlight.
It was a USB flash drive that he had just thrown on the ground and disappeared inexplicably, the USB flash drive that had made him notice the situation in the toilet so much that it was in such a situation.
The corners of Zhang Guoqing's mouth twitched twice, maybe he was really in a dream now, or some surreal postmodern art painting?
[Any small object that is inexplicably lost for more than five minutes and then looks for it, most of them can be found]
[The USB flash drive must be rotated once before it can be inserted]
The two jokes just now appeared in Zhang Guoqing's mind, and he obviously felt goosebumps.
"No, but, this, this ......"
The verbal shock didn't stop the brain from going crazy and far from common sense, and a bold idea was born—
"Can I speak?"
"I'm Iron Man? Spider-Man is okay, Huang Rong? Xiaolongnu, Qiao Feng, Xiaoyuan?? ”
Noises from the living room reminded him of his current situation.
He was a little too excited. Take two deep breaths to suppress the sound, and your brain kicks in.
Okay, now what's working? Is it really the spirit of words? How to take advantage of such a situation?
Zhang Guoqing recalled the first time the object disappeared, and it took five minutes to reappear, so now it has been five minutes since he got off the computer desk? Or longer?
What can an adult male do in five minutes?
If it is a thief, he will most likely go straight to the valuable items when he has a clear advantage, and the only valuable thing in this room is his 20-series graphics card case and some cash on the bedside table.
Five minutes is definitely not enough for the other party to rob money.
But if you make more arrangements at the door, it will definitely be enough to kill him first. As far as Zhang Guoqing can think of at present, he can only be dumbfounded by pushing down heavy objects such as refrigerators and cabinets to close the door.
Judge that any situation should be considered as bad as possible, provided that it is within your means.
Time is precious, and he only has a short time to seize the opportunity.
Rotten life, live blood to earn, desperately scare the other party and do not lose. Zhang Guoqing pursed his lips and comforted himself with the rotten mentality he learned from school.
Zhang Guoqing, who is much easier, flipped the USB flash drive twice, how to use this thing?
[The USB flash drive must be rotated once before it can be inserted]
Zhang Guoqing, who is proficient in all kinds of film and television works and online novels, has some conjectures in his mind, picks up the USB flash drive and reverses it once, and then slams the back of his head-
"Click." The back of the head resisted the USB flash drive.
Is it just plugged in?
Zhang Guoqing turned the USB flash drive around again and slammed it to the back of his head:
"Dah."
Well, he didn't become a USB flash drive man, nor did he gain any super brain arithmetic ability or mysterious system, which is completely useless.
Time waits for no one, Zhang Guoqing shook it twice, and trembled and tried to see what he could see around.
Wooden door, failed.
All parts of the body, failed.
Bathroom door, failed.
Failed, failed, failed, failed, failed.
"Buzz—"
The moth fluttered past his ears, Zhang Guoqing flapped twice irritably, and his mind began to be born, "How about inserting this thing into your eyeballs?" Absurd ideas.
He needed to be quiet for a while to adjust to the psychological gap.
"Buzz—"
"Don't bother me!"
Zhang Guoqing roared in a low voice, and slapped himself in the face, so that he couldn't hit his face.
"Buzz!" Not to be outdone, the moth is here again, this time in hand.
"! I've had enough! ”
Zhang Guoqing threw it at the moth, and the USB flash drive spontaneously rotated in the air for half a circle.
The USB flash drive is inserted into the moth's body.
Some microcurrent brought out sparks in the darkness, and the moth in front of it was charred.
The USB flash drive that fell on the floor showed some small words, and Zhang Guoqing hurriedly picked it up.
[Object 1: Unnamed-1]
[Intensity: 1 Not measured]
[Ability Speculation: Illusion]
[Speculation on the Scope of Rules: Liquids]
With the death of the moth, the light returned to normal, and the two moths were crashing into the lampshade, making a few "sizzle" sounds from time to time.
The light came naturally, as if it had been turned on and never turned off by anyone.
"Hallucinations? Hallucination. Muttering to himself, Zhang Guoqing stood up and looked at the remaining two moths. Anger comes and goes quickly, and it seems that their previous experience is caused by them, and the remaining two are estimated to be [Unnamed-02] and [Unnamed-03].
Hurry up and put this thing away before talking about the aftermath, he really received too much information today, and he will go crazy if he continues.
His gaze swept to the shelf in front of the mirror to find the container, and subconsciously swept the mirror with his peripheral vision, and in addition to his smile, there was a blurred face behind him.
A reflective object is being lifted high.
It's over, more than one.
"Ah!!!!! Grass!! ”
Zhang Guoqing's roar cut through the silence of the night.