Chapter 236 204. Living and Dying (please order in full)
Kurosawa came to Li Deng's room next door. It was a guest room with exactly the same size and layout, and the furniture configuration was exactly the same.
Kurosawa turned his attention to the closet. Hidden in the corner was the backpack Li Ming carried. Inside the backpack were transparent medical gloves, some small glass bottles with labels, a notebook and a pen.
The gloves are normal medical transparent gloves. I don’t know where they got them. Kurosawa put them away. They might be useful for investigating the scene later.
The glass bottle is a small bottle filled with transparent liquid. There is a label on it with words that Kurosawa cannot understand. Her intuition tells her that the words are not human words, and a strange sense of blasphemy arises spontaneously. , as if I have come into contact with some knowledge that humans should not know...
It might be some kind of potion, but she couldn't see the use.
If you look through the notebook, the first few pages are all about work, nothing special, and the latest page has a few lines like this...
"I'll wait. The god who unites all things.
I would like to prove my will to go to the gate of the extreme.
First, I offer the tranquility of all martial souls. br>
Second, offer praise to all living things. "
There is a lot of unintelligible text behind it——
"OGTHRODAI'F
GEB'L-EE'H
YOG- SOTHOTH
'NGAH'NGAI'Y
ZHRO"
Another strong sense of blasphemy...
After exploring Li Ming's room, Kurosawa vaguely heard Quiet footsteps were heard near the corridor. She quickly held her breath and ducked into Eri-chan's room.
Same as the previous investigation, the luggage was in a mess, clothes and jewelry were randomly thrown on the ground, but there were no signs of struggle.
Kurosawa lifted the blanket covering the body, and Eri-chan's body was completely exposed. The skin and hair on the head were completely singed, but she noticed a strange sense of dissonance.
Look carefully at the skin of the body. Although it has been left in a warm room for a day and night, there is no sign of decay at all. Although there is a burnt smell, there is no rancid smell.
Looking at the head of the corpse, you will find that the skull on the top of the head has been cut open in a circle, with signs of being re-fixed, and there is a depression in the forehead.
This reminds Kurosawa of the trepanation technique in the European Middle Ages, which is a medical method, but it looks like evil magic...
The traces of the skull being cut are for a long time It was left before, and the dent looks relatively fresh...
Could it be that the head was burnt entirely to cover up the traces of surgery?
This seems quite reasonable.
There was an inconspicuous blood stain on the pillow on the bed... Could it be the blood stain left by the injury caused by the operation?
When leaving the room, although the size of the room was exactly the same as hers, Kurosawa still felt that she had received inconsistent information somewhere. The size of the room gave her a wonderful sense of dissonance. .
Uesugi's room is located directly above the hot spring. It is much larger than other guest rooms. It may be the bedroom of the previous owner. Just like when I came to investigate before, I found nothing special.
The room is indeed large, but not as big as the hot spring.
…Why does this illusion occur?
When I tried to look down from the window, I saw that the wall was very flat, with no concave or convex places except the entrance.
I tiptoed to the hot spring, and after confirming that Li Ming was not nearby, I turned my attention to it again.
The conditions of the hot springs are the same as those investigated previously. Uesugi-kun’s body is floating miserably by the pool. Although it is such a scene, if you look closely, there is no sign of decay. The head and Eri The situation with sauce is exactly the same.
When I came to Ji Qi's room, the furniture configuration was exactly the same. The room was tidy and there was a mobile phone on the bed.
This is a rose gold iPhone 6s. The phone has a fingerprint lock. You can only see the date and time and a screen saver picture. On the screen saver is a photo of three people. Two of them are wearing high school uniforms. It looks like it is a graduation ceremony. , and the tall figure of the other person can be seen as an adult, but the face cannot be seen clearly.
Tizaki-kun's appearance has not changed at all compared to the photo, and the date on the phone is also very strange. It shows the date seven years ago, which is January 19, 2016.
The reason why it feels strange is that from all angles, this white dream is definitely not the past, but the future.
Because Kurosawa didn’t know Li Ming at all in the past...
After seeing the figure leave Yamada's room, Kurosawa looked around vigilantly and tiptoed into Yamada's room. As soon as he opened the door, a smell of blood rushed straight into his nose and walked into the bed, where Yamada's body was lying... …
A body that has lost its head.
Other than that, there is nothing special, and Li Dang does not seem to have left any clues.
After all the locations have been investigated, Kurosawa hid in a room and began to reason.
Is it really the classic plot of a mystery novel in the end?
First of all, these rooms were filled with a sense of dissonance. Kurosawa thought of the floor plan he had seen on the wall before, and finally realized that this was where the sense of dissonance came from. On the floor plan, the guest rooms on the first floor looked smaller and squarer. , but in reality it looks like the same rectangle as the room on the second floor.
So the outlines of the two floor plans cannot completely overlap. No matter which window on the second floor you look down from, the walls are vertical. Except for the entrance, there is no recess or protrusion on the first floor.
...In other words, this villa actually has a secret passage?
Kurosawa suddenly felt a little ridiculous.
Overlapping the two plans and facing the light source, Kurosawa quickly discovered the location of the secret passage.
After removing the white cloth covering the fireplace and checking inside and out, Kurosawa finally found a very inconspicuous button inside.
Press the button and the fireplace slides to one side, silently revealing the space hidden behind the wall. It is a dim corridor with a downward staircase at the end.
Kurosawa did not dare to go in.
She looked around, then tiptoed to the restaurant, took out a knife, then took a deep breath and entered the secret passage.
Kurosawa held on to the concrete wall and carefully walked down the long and narrow stairs. The cold air came from below. Her intuition told her that what was waiting for her below would be a blasphemous "what" that humans cannot understand. ".
Even so, Kurosawa gritted his teeth and moved forward in order to find the truth.
Step by step, until the feeling of the wooden stairs disappears, and there is a hard cement floor under my feet. I gradually get used to the darkness. What is reflected in my field of vision is an inorganic and huge space that is wider than the entire first floor. space.
Kurosawa had the illusion that this place was the body of the building and the villa was just its attic.
In the room, there are several huge machines placed in a space like a research room. The machines operate quietly. One wall is covered by lockers, the other side is a bookcase, and there is an iron door at the end. Door.
Looking closely at the machinery, I felt a power beyond human intelligence.
Is this really modern technology?
Except for a few medical and psychological books on the bookcase, most of them are written in incomprehensible languages. There were a large number of bottles and cans inside the lockers, some of which looked like medicines, and some of which contained animal specimens. The labels were written in English, Latin and incomprehensible characters. Kurosawa thought of the ones he had visited in Li Ming before. A medicine bottle was found in the bag. The appearance and label of the medicine bottle were consistent with those in the locker. It should have been obtained from here.
The tightly closed iron door was covered with blasphemous patterns and inlaid with a row of transparent beads like eyes. Kurosawa felt a chill.
Beside the iron gate is a machine like a card reader, but there is no card slot. Instead, there are a few lines of poetry engraved on it.
These words are completely consistent with the information in Li Ming's notebook...
Suddenly, there was a sound from behind. It was someone walking down the stairs quickly.
Kurosawa turned around and saw that the person who came was not Li Ming, but Terada. He was completely opposite to his gentle appearance during the day. He staggered, breathing heavily, and his dull eyes showed a fierce light. He raised the heavy iron rod in his hand high and attacked Kurosawa without any explanation.
"Kurosawa...!!"
Probably sensing the movement in the basement, Li Ming quickly rushed down the stairs and came to Kurosawa's side.
Li Ming was shaken when he saw the scene in front of him, but he still gritted his teeth.
“Once these guys become like this, they won’t listen to others. If you have anything to say, wait until you defeat him!”
Kurosawa nodded and took out a meal from his pocket. Throwing the knife to the young man beside him, he took a few steps back and quickly moved away from the battlefield.
Deception.
For a sensitive person like Kurosawa, this has already crossed the bottom line.
So she just needs to reap the benefits.
This is not indifference, but a basic principle.
Who can be sure that the Li Ming in this white dream is the Li Ming she knows?
No one can guarantee that.
After a scuffle, Terada fell to the ground, completely losing the ability to resist. His bangs were messily spread out, revealing his forehead - there was a terrifying scar on it, and with a weird gurgling sound, the limb moved toward him. The natural direction is twisted and it squirms on the ground.
That is obviously no longer a living human being...
It is a sad victim that has lost its soul and was created through blasphemous experiments.
While understanding everything, Kurosawa's hands moved naturally. She closed her eyes and gave him the final blow.
The splattering blood, the ear-piercing screams, and the disgusting feeling conveyed to the palm of the hand through the weapon.
"Kurosawa, you..."
Li Ming took a breath and looked at the girl in front of him in shock. Then he knelt down slumped and held Kurosawa's blood-stained hands with his trembling hands.
"Why? Why do you want to do this kind of thing? There is no need for you to do anything. It should be me! Everything should be done by me! It's all my fault. It's all my fault for not dealing with him earlier. If it hadn't been for me Even if you are a step too late, your hands will not be dirty..."
Li Ming was half-crazed and kept apologizing to Kurosawa.
The murderer who killed four people in a row without hesitation was kneeling beside Kurosawa like a frightened child, begging for forgiveness.
From what we can see in front of us, we can know that the purpose of Li Yan's actions to become a murderer is to let Kurosawa leave here without knowing anything. However, Kurosawa has become a murderer like himself. This is very important to him. It’s not an exaggeration to say that in the worst case scenario, he would fall into random madness.
Although the Li Ming in front of her was not the Li Ming she knew, Kurosawa still felt his kindness, but he was just not used to it.
"I already understand...but why did you choose to cheat?"
"I thought...I thought you hadn't recovered yet..." Li Feng paused for a moment. "Speaking of which, you also remember what happened a few times before, right? Just like the moment I killed Uesugi, you should also have a chance to recover...can you tell me?"
"I have already recovered since you confessed your love." Kurosawa's expression was a little cold. , the voice is a little cold, but the heart is hot.
– and that didn’t show.
"How could..."
Li Ming was speechless.
“Although I know that they are no longer alive, after all, the feeling of killing is the most real. Every time I can clearly feel whose life I have taken away, so the more the plan goes on, Something in my heart seems to be going bad faster and faster "
"With so many people's blood on my hands, even if I successfully leave here, I won't be able to get along with you like before... So I want to become someone else before I go completely crazy. I confessed my love to you before.”
"I didn't expect that this simple wish would become the biggest obstacle to my plan, haha... It's really ironic."
"What does your note mean?" Kurosawa asked.
"You have already read the text on the card reader. I have investigated the information in the research room and found that the verse-like text is actually a method to stop the entire system. Maybe it was the human beings in the past. The researcher left a code just in case."
"One of them is the silence of all soulless things, which are things that have been lost long ago. Terada and the others, who are still alive, must completely stop their functions before they can move to the next step."
"Secondly, they offer praise to all living things and stay in the villa. Man... the current situation is that you and I must sing praises together. I think we should recite the incantation below to open this door.”
"Initially, I tried to open the door while you were asleep, but it failed. Maybe the two of us couldn't do it together."
"I originally planned to kill everyone silently, I pretended to stumble upon this basement and asked you to open the door for me, but I didn’t expect to come to the door with you in this way. It’s really incredible.”
“Wait a moment...”< br>
Kurosawa paused, and she suddenly remembered something.
"Do you and Jisaki-kun... have any hidden secrets? Do you two know each other?"
"Jizaki-kun..." Li Ming seemed to be lost in memories, and then nodded, with a regretful expression on his face, "..."
Kurosawa didn't hear what he was saying clearly, he thought I want to continue asking, but I don’t know how to proceed. Is it because of the white dream?
So why...?
(End of this chapter)