Chapter 226 194. Why bother with a dead man? (Please order in full)
Yuan Qingyu has only one way, and that is to use his strength to climb up to the platform.
But...
When Yuan Qingyu kept trying to climb up the platform, the slippery and straight walls and the sticky liquid around made his several attempts fail. .
At this critical moment, the eyes of Natsume next to her suddenly regained their vitality. When she saw the scene in front of her, she pursed her lips, as if she had made some decision.
Natsume jumped off the platform, pushed Yuan Qingyu's body from below, and pushed him to the platform with all his strength.
With the help of Natsume, Minamoto Seitama easily climbed onto the platform. After that, others reached out to Natsume and tried to pull her up. However, after the scene just now, the girl had already discovered and It was determined that he was just a fake who was instilled with Natsume's memory and existed in a dream.
The girl did not take their hands. She stood in the middle of the track with a helpless expression.
"Go and find the real Yuzu. I believe you can do it."
"I am very happy to be able to help you. After all, I am just a puppet. ——”
Natsume smiled, but you could clearly see the crystal tears in her eyes.
As soon as Natsume finished speaking, everyone saw that the girl's body was cut apart inch by inch as if it had been cut open. Scarlet flesh and blood was scattered on the track, and the internal organs were exposed as the limbs collapsed.
With a roar, the subway passed by quickly, and everyone felt...the flesh and blood seemed to be splashed on their faces.
Everyone was stunned there, unable to accept the reality in front of them for a while. Kurosawa subconsciously reached out and touched his cheek, feeling the non-existent warmth and stickiness.
Natsume's death made everyone feel very sad, but they still need to move forward, just like Natsume said, to find the real Ibi Yuzu.
Looking at the subway passing by in front of them, everyone couldn't help but have this thought in their hearts -
"A doll with self-awareness... is it still a doll?"
They must not And know.
That map...maybe a tool to guide everyone.
Suppressing the grief in their hearts, everyone began to gather their wisdom, carefully compared the similarities between the map and the hand-drawn map, and then found the destination.
Following the map, they came to an overgrown area next to a fast-flowing river. There were not many people around, only high school students occasionally passing by.
Li Tang squinted his eyes and soon discovered a black spot in the grass in the distance. It was a black cat, running very agilely in the grass.
Although the black cat is a stray cat, it can be seen that it is often fed by people, and its coat color is also very beautiful. Its eyes are olive green. At this moment, it stopped and stared at the uninvited guests in front of it vigilantly.
"Cat...?"
Hoshino Katsura, who prefers small animals, saw the black cat in front of him and immediately moved forward tentatively, wanting to hug it.
Upon seeing this, the black cat ran away immediately, its tail wagging, and ran deeper.
Li Dang had the illusion that the black cat was leading them to a new place, but now he was just frightened.
Chasing the black cat, they came to a corner formed by piers and slopes, filled with garbage and beds... consisting of simple sheets and bedding, it looked like it should be for homeless people. Gathering place.
The black cat jumped directly into the arms of a person. The person comforted and teased the black cat's chin: "Lulu, where are you stealing food again?" Then she saw everyone following her. Behind the black cat, there was silence for a long time, and then he slowly said: "Have you... seen the dark night?"
Dark night?
Does it mean the night after the day?
Li Tan considered his speech and shook his head silently.
The girl let out a long sigh. She found that the uninvited guest in front of her looked at her a little strangely, so she immediately reacted and put down the black cat in her arms.
"Ibi...Yuzu." The girl murmured to herself, "My name is Ibi Yuzu...are you here to find me?"
Although the girl's appearance is similar to There are some differences in the photos, but basically the mold is similar, so Li Ming didn't have much reaction.
Upon seeing this, Yuzi immediately bit her lower lip and actively invited everyone to the place where she currently lives, unwilling to answer any more questions from them.
Following Yuzi to an area composed of bridges and slopes, it is full of life. Yuzi is taking apart a sausage and breaking it into several sections, putting them among the instant noodles that are being cooked. He stirred the pot with his chopsticks.
On a hillside in the distance, Li Ming vaguely saw a row of crosses, seven in total.
"That's...their graves, the dead ones."
Yuzi sat on the ground, put down her chopsticks, and hugged her knees.
"Riho Chida, Yoto Saito, Yuma Anzai, Yumi Sanada, Shinya Iijima, Hisashi Ube." The girl slowly reported the names of the six people, "They all died here, this damn dream. Here..."
The girl stirred vigorously in the pot with her chopsticks, as if she was venting something. Then she raised her head and looked at the people in front of her.
"Being able to come here... also proves your desire for knowledge. Just ask me some questions and I will answer you one by one."
What is more important than the answers from the parties involved? What's accurate?
“Where is this place?”
Yuan Qingyu answered the question, looked anxious, and asked.
All the signs he found indicate that this place is related to his major, which is dreams. This may be the sixth sense that an expert in dream science should have.
"This is my dream, a dream constructed by Kuwahara through some means that I don't know." Ibi Yuzu used chopsticks to pinch off one of the sausages, and said thoughtfully, "Kuwabara, you guys You should all know each other, it’s the school doctor..."
"Let me introduce myself first. I am a Ph.D. majoring in dream science. Sir, my name is Yuan Qingyu. According to my knowledge, dead people cannot have dreams." Yuan Qingyu said without hesitation, "And you said this is a dream. Please forgive me. Doubtful. "
With the deterrence of dream science, Yuan Qingyu believed that the girl would tell the truth and change her story, of course, provided that what he said was not the truth.
But it is true.
"I, Yuzu Ibi, did die of suicide."
The girl put her right hand on her chest and breathed heavily, as if suppressing the sadness that was constantly surging in her heart.
"What day was it, the 20th? I saw... Natsume, who had been missing for a long time, appeared in front of me again..."
"Then I saw her walking towards The rooftop of the new school building..." "I chased after her and saw her standing on the edge of the rooftop, and I rushed up to catch her, but I passed her and fell directly due to inertia, and then... ”
Yuzi made a gesture and her voice was very soft.
"Pa."
"This is the cause of my death."
She told the cause of her death in nonchalant words.
"After death, I found that I was alive in this world again, but I found that this place was completely different from reality. Everything had been changed, especially the people around me..."
"You should also find out Come on... There is no night in this world. People in the real world do not feel tired or hungry in their dreams, but they can feel pain... Once they die..."
The girl did not continue, but moved on. topic.
But everyone knows it, has thought it through, and figured it out.
Death in this world is manifested in sudden death.
They died in a dream while sleeping, so in reality... no wonder the police station received the news that they died suddenly of cardiac paralysis in their sleep.
"Miss Ikeda, she was the first outsider to come to this world. She said that she accepted the commission from Sister Zecheng to investigate the cause of my death."
"At that time, she had already It's almost time to find out. The murderer has been found to be Kuwabara, but on the way to school, she was hit by a car and died in front of me..." Yuzi buried her head in her knees, "Miss Masada and I went directly there. school doctor room, and then he summoned many tentacles by some unknown means, and then Sister Masada..."
"I was also penetrated at that time...I remember it seemed to be the abdomen...but it didn't take long. , I found that I woke up completely again...Why am I the one who is alive? Obviously, I should have died long ago."
At this point, tears slowly flowed down Yuzi's face.
"The others are similar. Some were deceived by another me, and some were brutally killed."
"So how do I leave here?" Jiang Wenkan asked.
"That coffee shop, have you all been to that coffee shop? That is the passage leading here. If you want to go back, just go there and sleep again." The girl said with tears in her eyes.
Kurosawa Mika glanced at Li Ming who was in deep thought, and made her decision -
"Since there are so many forerunners coming here, we should also find out how to You should know the way to defeat Kuwabara, Yuzu. Can you tell us the method?”
The girl suddenly raised her head and looked at Kurosawa with disbelief.
She couldn't imagine that she had spoken so clearly, but these uninvited guests still wanted to defeat Kuwahara, the mastermind behind the scenes, and the real culprit.
"That power of attorney, did you all sign your real names?"
Yuzi said this, not noticing that the expressions of everyone in front of her suddenly brightened, and she continued to speak in a sad tone. .
“So what can’t be done has been impossible since you signed the power of attorney.”
"It takes items and people brought in from outside to kill him, but the items you carry cannot kill him after you sign the contract..."
Li Hao sighed with relief at this moment, and then A smile appeared on his face.
"I can only say... I thought very carefully. I had already discovered that there were some problems with the agreement, so I signed it under a pseudonym." Then he glanced at the people around him and sipped. He stopped smiling and said, "Others also signed pseudonyms like me. Maybe they also had a premonition."
"No, you are just following the trend." Jiang Wenkan laughed mockingly, "Of course I do too."
Although they were joking, they quickly realized a problem. They only filled in their real names. That's all, what can really cause damage, that is to say, can only be their fists, there are no weapons at all.
Even if they were extremely smart and realized that they should fill in a pseudonym, they were ultimately defeated by lack of preparation.
Is there really no other way?
Thinking like this, Li Ming looked erratically in different directions, and then he noticed that Yuzi seemed to be hiding something.
The girl's eyes were staring at the pot at the moment, not daring to look at the others.
"Yuzi, do you have something to say? Or are you hiding something from us?" Li Min pursed his lips and licked his dry lips.
After thinking for a long time, the girl took out a box from her residence. Inside was a Magnum revolver and five bullets, stained with red blood.
"This is what Mr. Anzai left for me before he died... He said that Kuwahara looked panicked when he saw him shooting, but I don't know if it can be done. I still hope that you can leave directly. , there is no need to take risks because of a dead person, right?"
"I no longer want to see other people die in my dreams... The second way to solve the dream is It is to prevent people from entering in order to achieve the ultimate goal, so you should leave quickly. I have even told you the answer to getting out. You don’t want to die in the dream, right?”
“Hurry up? Let's go."
The girl kept urging the uninvited guests in front of her to leave. He did not want anyone to die. The failures of the previous forerunners had already brought her to the verge of despair.
Looking back at the performance of the five people, Li Ming always looked thoughtful, Kurosawa Mitsuka had a concerned expression, Hoshino Katsura looked around unnaturally, and Jiang Wenkan looked disapproving. Yuan Qingyu frowned, seeming to be thinking about the dream problem just now.
"Okay, let me express my opinion first. Although the five of us are friends, it is entirely up to you to make your choice. You can directly choose to go to the coffee shop and leave the dreamland, or try to defeat Kuwahara, and Or divide the troops into two groups... It all depends on your choice."
Li Ming stood up and expressed his opinion.
“Everyone is relatively close to me and knows me more or less well. In reality, I am a not very well-known private detective, and the commissions I receive every day are just small commissions. , can only achieve some food and clothing. ”
"And in this dream, the role I play is a policeman." Li Dang paused, glanced at the girl who was staring at the pot, and a smile broke out on his face, "In the spirit of a policeman, Responsibility, I must get to the bottom of the Yuzu incident.”
"What's more, Miss Zecheng put forward a deposit of 500,000 yen when she entrusted it to us. Now if you leave, or retreat, or give up, then all 500,000 yen will be mine. ”
“At that time, I will use this fictitious wealth to , try every means to bring it into reality."
After saying this, Yuzi looked up at the young man, with an expression of disbelief on his face. He could not understand that a stranger could actually do this. For her sake, for a dead man to get to the bottom of it.
"Then now it's your turn to make a choice."
(End of this chapter)