Chapter 220 188. A choice with only one option (please order in full)
The faces of the two girls looked red, they were surprisingly thin, and their faces were exactly the same, as if they were copied, even if they were The biological parents of these children can't tell them apart.
Li Feng glanced at Kurosawa subconsciously. Thinking of her weird sixth sense, the young man felt a little creepy.
The various schedules of the seminar at Shangying University are recorded in the front. Today’s day is circled in red, and the date a week ago is written -
"It must be stopped. Professor, it happened that Linlu wanted to see me at this time, so we must not involve her."
From the first part of the handbook, you can also find transfer receipts and several returned letters. After careful study, you can find that these are all money transferred from Mizuno Rinji's account, but then withdrawn.
"How can you sell your dignity with such despicable means? Can the suffering of life be used as your excuse?
Just like you look down on my research and my ideals, Lin Lu, I also think you are so lazy and pathetic I'm ashamed to have a sister like you. Maybe we can't walk on the same path after all.
I don't need your dirty money, and don't contact me again.
——Liu Li."
Such letters were found among them.
"Explain it to me, Miss Linlu."
"At that time...because my life was poor...I relied on my financial sponsor who was a member of parliament..." Linlu had already broken down in tears.
“What a pathetic person.”
Mr. Shanshi suddenly spoke up at this time.
"I saw this... Although it sounds a bit ridiculous to say it, I still couldn't bear it. The employer who hired me... was the congressman. I had an order to kill everyone except Liuli, so in the previous history , killed you countless times."
Betrayal.
Betrayal is everywhere.
Despair fills everything.
The owner of the handbook seems to have stopped recording today, and what is left is the messy handwriting of another person——
"Liu Li", "Find Liu Li", "Stay awake", "Don't despair", "Don't go crazy".
The person who wrote these words seemed to be recording something and kept writing numbers. The handwriting became wild and crazy, and finally turned into a series of numbers squeezed together, until the end it was just these A continuous string of numbers, the last page just repeats "972739727497275".
This...maybe the number of times Lin Lu recorded his own death.
At this moment, a muffled sound suddenly came from the previous conference room, and then a steady stream of black mucus poured out from it.
No matter whether everyone understands everything that has happened here, they have to defeat the ghouls that threaten their lives.
Mr. Shanshi still looked disapproving. He changed the magazine carelessly, filled all the vacancies in it with bullets, then held the remaining bullet in his mouth, tilted his head and pulled the plate towards the ghoul. machine.
This time the ghoul seemed a little slow. Instead of dodging the bullet, it dragged its tired body towards the crowd.
The bullet penetrated its head, bursting out with beautiful and tragic blood.
When the ghoul was on the verge of death, before delivering the final blow, Lin Lu suddenly let out a mournful cry.
"No-no-wait, this is impossible! Liuli, Liuli!"
No one had time to stop her sudden surge. Lin Lu screamed and rushed towards the monster desperately.
It seemed that even the monster was frozen in place. Lin Lu rushed towards it almost rolling and crawling.
Suddenly her heel tripped over something, and she had no time to cry out. Lin Lu fell in the direction of the ghoul, but she neither retreated nor ran away, holding on tightly to the ghoul's arms. The ugly body, but the voice is sad and gentle.
"Have you always been so close to me? Countless deaths, countless times! In order to find you——"
Terrifying green dots began to cluster on her body, and gradually , Lin Lu's body also began to emit a deep-seated stench, but she did not let go, touching the ghoul's face covered with blood and flesh as if touching a child.
"Go to sleep, and never wake up again this time."
Mossy, black asphalt-like mucus covered Lin Lu's body, and the ghoul, which was already at the end of its strength, also wailed in response, and the two bodies The twisted and rotten limbs supporting each other fell to the ground like a doll.
Hoshino Katsura wanted to rush forward to save the two people, but was stopped by Shanshi with a gun.
After a while, the rotten stench floating in the air gradually dissipated, the two strange corpses bonded to each other, the gelatinous objects floating on the surface gradually receded, and the ghoul's body slowly shrank. The flesh and mucus melted into the air.
The last ones lying on the ground were the bodies of two thin women.
The women's faces are exactly the same, almost as if they were cloned by a machine. There is no difference. The blonde hair and the black hair are intertwined together. The faces fit the same facial features. The eyes are closed, like lilies side by side. The leaves of the branch, a soul divided into two halves, so similar to each other.
The black-haired woman was wearing a set of work clothes, with a delicate face, as motionless as if she was sleeping. Holding her hand tightly was Lin Lu, whose face was full of tears and a sad smile.
Li Ming resisted the surging emotions in his heart and checked the black-haired woman's body, only to find that she had been dead for a long time, and there were bullet holes with dried blood on her forehead.
Rin Lu beside him seemed to still be breathing, and his body exuded the smell of the tea he had drunk before.
So the previous guess was completely correct, those scented teas were the antidote to ward off ghouls.
It's just the breath...
Everyone returned to the exhibition hall in silence, preparing for the next development.
But at this moment, they heard a familiar voice.
“In this way, maybe the tragedy can finally end.”
“Now that my consciousness has been liberated, I don’t have the strength to say congratulations to you.”
The voice she spoke was clearly exactly the same as Maria's, but she seemed more calm and mature, but it was what was hidden in this persistent calmness that made people shudder.
The sound comes from the Qingyi Ichimatsu doll on the table.
"I am Mizuno Ruri, Maria's twin sister and a doctoral student of Professor Zhu Jin."
"What is the situation now?" Li Ming was at a loss and asked. Asked softly.
“Do I need to tell the whole story about this incident from my perspective? As a student of Takei and a doctoral student at the Folklore Research Society, Mizuno, I discovered the truth about the summoning of Shoggoths and the transaction of the Order. But I was captured by the cultists and unfortunately became the victim of a living sacrifice.”
The voice was a bit intermittent, and the volume of the voice showed that the owner of the voice seemed to be far away and yet very close.
“And you also came into contact with religious groups or folklore research societies for various reasons, and then became victims. My sister Linlu deduced the summons from the electronic check information left on my computer. On the date of the incident, after seeking help from the police to no avail, he became angry and Being reckless, she personally sneaked into the summoning place located underneath the research association, and even hired a killer to help through illegal means."
Speaking of which. , Liuli paused, her voice a little annoyed.
“But I advise you not to believe this man.”
Upon hearing this, Shanshi just sneered disdainfully at her speech, as if he didn't take her words to heart at all, or maybe he had always been like this.
“In the end, Linlu was controlled by the cultists before the summoning. When the killer arrived, the summoning had been completed, the living sacrifices were killed, the Shoggoths were awakened, and everyone Will be killed..."
"This should be the ending."
"But because the rain washed the center of the magic circle, this exploration seemed to be unusually long." Liuli's voice was a little tired.
“What about going back in time?”
Li Ming thought of something and immediately asked. Although he heard some clues from Jiang Wenkan's mouth, he still wanted to know a clearer truth, especially from the mouth of the person involved.
Also, he has a bold conjecture that needs to be verified.
After being asked about turning back time, Liuli fell into a brief silence.
“I am the one who activates the machine that can rewind time. I cannot let Lin Lu die, but no matter how hard I try, I can only go back to the time when you were killed. Lin Lu has the ability to go back. Memory may have something to do with the fact that we are identical twins. Our souls are the same. They must be connected.”
“Maybe a miracle will happen, and maybe I have been making time go back, which has also led to you and Lin Lu being killed continuously. At first, I just hoped that it would be possible. She just ran away, but gradually I felt scared.”
"If Lin Lu also leaves me, I can only be trapped here forever, forgotten by her or the world."
"Only Lin Lu, I hope she will not forget me."< br>
Li Ming was a little silent. Although it was completely different from his guess, for this reason, the result was reasonable.
"What about Mitsuru Takei?"
Yuan Qingtama suddenly thought of this female professor. They had searched almost all the places underground in the institute's facilities, except for the unexpected ones. When I saw the ghoul that Shirai transformed into, there seemed to be no other characters among them.
So where is this vicious old man?
But speaking of it, it seems that the older the scholars or researchers are, the easier it is for them to make mistakes.
Takei is like this, Shirai Kuranosuke is like this, Onodera and Mitarai are like this too.
This may be a certain pattern, or it may be a meaningless complaint.
After hearing the question about Takei, Liuli said coldly: "Isn't the originator of this hell always by your side?"
Following these words, a voice rang out from the fragments of the Ichimatsu doll in red. It was an extremely warm and happy smile, an amazing laugh, and the neutral voice gradually turned into the whisper of an old woman. .
"It's ridiculous to say it's hell, Mizuno-kun, I thought you could understand my ambition... What you and your sisters created is heaven, a perfect perpetual motion machine, exactly what we want. The pursuit of eternal life. ”
“Time keeps turning around, resurrecting from the dead and living in youth forever. In the age of spring, so what if you pay a price? What is painful for you is just a matter of tens of minutes.”
“This is a miracle, it belongs to me and you. Your miracle! We make the moment become eternity! ”
What a pathetic madman.
"There is a bomb buried underground in this facility, enough to destroy all evidence. I will activate it in half an hour."
Takei's tone is kind, as calm and gentle as talking to a child, while Liuli represents The puppet fell silent and refused to talk to the madman.
“Work hard for your own life, this is the only way for us miserable creatures with limited life.”
“So what will happen this time?”< br>
“Will time go back? What is your choice?”
"Complete your mission and work hard. Maybe this memory will disappear without a trace this time..."
Everyone looked at each other. Although they now understood the whole story, they still didn't know how to get out. .
Li Dang walked to the exit door and found that there was no way to open the door no matter what. This was their only way out.
"I remember seeing it somewhere before... yes, that tattered ancient book, about the spell of the door." Yuan Qingyu thought for a while and said aloud, "Maybe we can't leave the door. It's because of this spell."
Everyone fell into silence. They didn't know how to solve this spell at all. Now there are only scattered clues and some guidance is needed...< br>
At this time, everyone saw a familiar figure dragging a somewhat mutilated body into the hall.
It is Mizuno Rin Road.
The remaining breath and will had already awakened her from her coma.
Facing Liuli’s consciousness trapped in the machine, Linlu cried quietly.
"Stop crying, Lin Lu, I know everything."
"I can no longer return to my own body. It is a kind of happiness to disappear like this. Takeui transferred my consciousness to a machine, and now it can only be used as a container."
"My consciousness will resist the newly transferred consciousness, and maybe that person can still have a chance to survive."
"As for the only answer to get out, no, it should be said to be the only two answers. The first method is Execute To perform the ritual of binding the soul, one must choose a person to stand in the magic circle, prepare the container, recite the incantation to restart the magic circle, and kill the object; the second method is to summon Shoggoth... but no one knows What are the consequences of this? "
But as the documents from the administrative office show, the object of sacrifice must be a person who has no remaining reason. If a normal person is allowed to perform the ritual, he will become diseased like glass. Ghoul.
Although Li Dang is very reluctant to let Jiang Wenkan become the object of the ritual, it is obvious that among all the people here, he is the most suitable object of the ritual. He is about to become a ghoul. The so-called reason is more rational. It ceases to exist.
This is a choice.
It is also a choice with only one option.
But despite this, Li Dang still set his sights on Shanshi, this executioner, this executioner who was not worthy of belief so far.
(End of this chapter)