Chapter 218 186. More than 90,000 times (please order in full)
Looking at the showroom office that I had ignored before because there was no magnetic card, the door had been opened without knowing when, as if something had been triggered. The same mechanism.
Li Ming tentatively walked into it. The office was very small, with only gray ordinary information cabinets and a very solid-looking table.
After searching back and forth for a while, I found that there was no foreign object and no other people inside, so I calmly investigated the layout.
The data cabinet is an ordinary gray data cabinet, which probably contains the relevant documents of the staff. Li Dang found a camera with letters on it, and a notebook with "Sakuma" written on it.
Although it is said to be a letter, it is actually a folded piece of paper with square writing on it, written one by one with a black ballpoint pen.
"Professor Mitsuru Takei:
I have noticed what you have done. What you have done to your students, colleagues and even your trusted family members is unforgivable.
But the reason why I write to you is because I respect your noble personality of pursuing the truth, and I think you can still be saved.
The professor I respect who believes in the power of human beings. .
Eternal life does not exist.
Turning back time is nothing but a blinding sweet trap.
Think of the terrible price that will be paid, that is a living life!
It's not too late to give up on pursuing the truth about that alien machine, give up on your mythology. 》
The signature is Mizuno Ruri.
Li Ming glanced behind him subconsciously. Maria and the others didn't seem to be following them. Since it was Mizuno... the relationship between Liuli and Maria should be the twins Mikka Kurosawa said.
It seems that everything seems to be clear.
Looking at the camera, it is an old-fashioned camera. It is not connected to the charging cable, and it does not look like a popular model nowadays.
Fortunately, Li Yan had seen this camera in the past information. It should be a type that would shut down quickly if it was not connected to the power supply.
Li Dang checked and found that the battery was still half full, and there was a video stored inside. The time of the video should be one hour ago.
The image has no sound.
As the screen gradually brightened, Li Dang discovered that it was the exhibition room where he first woke up.
The familiar altar and display, the velvet-covered tabletop, he saw the blue Ichimatsu doll.
After that, a black-haired woman had her hands and feet bound, struggling constantly. Under her feet was a magic circle glowing with a strange red light.
At the south end of the screen is a woman who looks like a professor, about sixty years old. He has his back to the camera and holds a gun in his hand. After about thirty seconds, the old woman’s hand trembled. Suddenly, the trigger of the gun was probably pulled off.
The head of the young black-haired woman was covered behind her hands, and then her body fell down like a puppet with its strings cut off. The moment he raised his head, Li Ming found that it was the face of Mizuno Maria.
"Zi la, zi la."
Noise came from the camera, and then the picture turned into a weird snowflake shape, and it seemed to end here.
Li Dang squinted and discovered that the black-haired woman who was shot in the video was exactly the same as the image in Shanshi's photo.
This is tricky.
Li Ming has not yet touched the deeper secrets, so there are still some reasons for these, and there is no way to judge what is going on.
He looked at the notebook beside him, and had the idea of seeking answers in it, and he opened the notebook almost eagerly.
The year of this year is written in the handbook.
The signature is "Sakuma Yuya".
What was clear and logical at the beginning suddenly turned into a crazy content from somewhere...
"X, month, I'm in a high mood recently
Liuli's dark circles were heavy.
It’s time for the researchers to take a good rest.
X month X day
No, this is not a topic we should study.
The class schedule has changed, why didn’t you notice?
They are just aliens, ancient gods, plagues...ridiculous myths.
Do we really want to believe this kind of thing?
Every time I see those words, I get a headache.
X month X day
Crazy, the old woman has gone crazy, I want to get out of here quickly.
Liuli is an idiot.
You are obviously awake, why not run away now?
That strange malfunctioning machine is definitely not a time machine.
I just hope I don’t die in vain here.
X month X day
Can't leave.
Can’t leave.
Can’t leave.
More and more strange men in black are coming in and out of the facility, and they are forced to work overtime every day...
Colleagues are becoming more and more strange, you can tell from their eyes Come out...
X month X day
Liuli, you have to take Liuli with you.
Escape from here...
But why do you want to leave?
Wouldn’t it be nice to be with everyone
Get eternal life with your beloved Liuli
Eternal life, eternal life, eternal life, eternal life, eternal life
X month, X day
For a more noble mission
For the future Observer
Just wave the knife in your hand.”
What a strange and elusive account.
Li Ming seemed to have suddenly thought of something, and walked quickly towards the reception room with his handbook in hand. The people walking slowly passed by each other, and the others looked at each other with some confusion, Kurosawa Mitsuka But I followed him with unconditional belief.
"What happened?" Kurosawa Mika asked softly. She followed Li Dang and gently stroked his back with her hand to soothe his somewhat aggressive emotions.
Li Deng ignored it and searched around the reception room for something. Finally, he found a number written in blood on the corner of the west wall -
"92575".
"Ninety-two thousand five hundred and seventy-five, what does this mean?" Kurosawa asked with some confusion.
“This is the number of times, this is the number of times Maria Mizuno has been reincarnated here.” Li Yan pursed his lips, “I should have discovered earlier that Maria’s mental state is not like the first time. Come here, so all the strange clues discovered before can be answered here."
"So that means she is actually the key to our escape from this dream, right?" Kurosawa reacted. .
"Theoretically, this is true, but we still need enough confirmation to prove that she has experienced reincarnation for a long time." Li Wei closed his eyes and sighed, "We don't have much time left before this reincarnation. It should be over in less than a minute Time, so we have to speed up."
"What do you mean by speeding up? Does it mean that we will die after the reincarnation is over?"
Li Ming sighed helplessly. He flicked his finger on the girl's forehead: "Don't think nonsense, it's just that some things take time. If we continue to stay here, I'm afraid the pain will spread. Mizuno Maria and Mizuno Ruri will sink into endless pain."
"Mizuno Ruri ...?”
Hearing this unfamiliar name, Kurosawa Mitsuka was a little puzzled, but when she saw that the young man in front of her had already raised his feet and ran towards the place where he had just come, he immediately followed him. The two of them ran like this in the corridor filled with the smell of blood.
But at this moment, at the moment Li Ming left, something changed.
Jiang Wenkan's skin began to secrete black mucus, which was exactly the same as the mucus secreted from the skin of the ghoul just now. It seemed that he had been bitten by a ghoul, so it began to assimilate.
Jiang Wenkan fell to the ground in some pain, his veins popped out, and the transformation of his muscles was completely unbearable.
Li Meng rushed to Mizuno Maria's side and clamped her hands with his hands. There were deep red marks where the handcuffs were previously cuffed, and he saw it on her right index finger. A small wound.
“What are you doing?”
Maria struggled to break free from Li Ming's restraints and asked angrily.
“Ninety thousand reincarnations, how did you come here?” Li Ming looked confused, staring closely at Jiang Wenkan beside him and Maria in front of him, “Time reincarnations again and again. , Don’t you feel pain?”
“It’s none of your business.” Maria’s eyebrows twitched.
"I think in your heart, you still long to leave this cycle of time, right?" Li Dang tried his best to be friendly. He glanced at Jiang Wenkan, who was being controlled by Shanshi, and continued to use His own words, "Do you want to cooperate with us in a real sense?" I will take you away..."
"You want to save me? It's funny, a corpse can actually talk. I've seen your frightened face thousands of times. Ten thousand times, just because of you lying there bloody?”
As if it touched her memories from tens of thousands of reincarnations, Maria tightly covered both sides of her head.
"I don't believe you. Besides, everything is meaningless. It's impossible to escape from here. I have tried every method."
"That's because you didn't seek cooperation."
Cold sweat remained on Li Dang's tense face. He wanted to communicate with Maria while watching Jiang Wenkan at the side to see if he was at risk of posing a threat to them.
"Mizuno Ruri is your twin sister, so your name should also be a pseudonym, and... the most important thing is that I believe you are not the murderer."
"You..."
Maria hesitated to speak. In fact, she had wanted to get rid of all this for a long time, and she had been in pain more than 90,000 times and was unable to extricate herself.
Watching those people dying in front of her eyes every time, seeing the blood flowing all over the room, and smelling those weird smells, her heart had already become cold, and she felt desperate in the true sense.
"Mizuno... Liuli..."
"Then can you tell me your name?" Li Ming stretched out his hand.
"Mizuno, Rinlu."
Maria's shoulders relaxed completely. After saying this name and tearing off the unfriendly crazy disguise, she became tired and melancholy, different from her previous frivolous temperament. Big difference.
“Sometimes I can remember the number of reincarnations, but sometimes I can’t remember how much time has passed. I have already lost count.”
“It’s always about ten minutes each time. That tar-stained monster with multiple eyes will appear, and it will be tortured and killed before it can be understood. Of course, it will also be killed by the surviving teachers, killed by rocks, and killed by ghouls..."
Rin Lu said softly.
"When I wake up again, you people have always been killed by Shanshi in the exhibition hall, and this event lasted the longest. I don't know why you and Shanshi survived, and you still have the memory of the previous time. . ”
Countless ten minutes of cold death.
Perhaps the nerves that have not gone crazy are the most painful torture.
"The name Maria... is the name of a certain writer. I think this name has a lot to do with you, right?"
"Mizuno Maria is Ruri My favorite detective novel writer."
Lin Lu looked sad.
“We grew up in an orphanage. Although she and I have exactly the same face, but very different personalities, our relationship is not very good.”
“I will definitely make money through despicable means. She must have been discriminated against. I also used to hate her who only talked about her ideals.”
“I went to a welfare high school with a church. When this writer debuted, Liuli once joked with me... "Our last name is the same, there must be a special fate. If Linlu realizes his dream of becoming an actor, let's use Maria as his stage name." "
"Liuli, Liuli, now I can no longer see her, it feels like a lifetime ago..."
There was a muffled sound from Jiang Wenkan's side, and he could be heard gritting his teeth. He seemed to have restrained the change, and looked at the people in front of him tiredly.
Li Ming showed a grateful expression and concentrated on the conversation in front of him.
"I think... maybe the time cycle has become longer this time. It may be that the center of the magic circle was washed away by water droplets and the formation was destroyed, so it survived for such a long time."
Hearing this, Lin Lu smiled bitterly.
“The time I can survive is actually determined by the position of the water droplets... I thought that in the despair of so many reincarnations, I can no longer believe in fate, but this time I will survive with you. Maybe it will become different.”
"Yes, you should have such a hopeful mood." Kurosawa said approvingly, "Maybe you don't understand what we are saying, but we people are also trapped in different reincarnations like you, and we still You persist because of this belief."
"Can you show me the briefcase in your hand?" Li Ming asked tentatively.
It was a standard metal briefcase. It felt heavy and difficult to lift easily. Li Ming tried it for a while, and then he realized that Lin Lu had been holding this briefcase tightly for so long... Yes How tiring it must be.
"Of course..."
The combination lock on the briefcase is a five-digit and twenty-six-character alphabet lock. The characters are very small and appear densely packed.
The password is "MARIA".
"This is Liuli's briefcase. It contains all Liuli's belongings...I beg you to find her."
The meaning of the password is Liuli's favorite writer Mizuno Maria name.
After opening the briefcase, you can see folklore research documents and some novels of the famous Mizuno Maria stuffed on one side. Everything is stamped with Mizuno Ruri's full name seal and is being kept. Be well organized.
Search and investigate inside and you will find a notebook with a pen and a small columnar object wrapped in foam plastic.
After unpacking it, I found a carved, pestle-like stone pile with a series of strange symbols on it, which looked like some kind of secret code.
(End of this chapter)