Absurd Deduction Game

Chapter 198 Alice Hell (31)-Zeng Lai

Gambler is a well-known straight line. Even if not everyone is well-known among the group of gamers, he is still a very distinctive person.

 The reason why the righteous path is called the righteous path is precisely because the style and style are imprinted with deep moral traces.

Deducers of the righteous path have always been popular. In the righteous group, everyone is happy to have a companion they can trust. In the alienated group, everyone welcomes someone who can take the normal line of deduction, but in the degenerate group... depravity The line's deducers don't mind having one more guy who is more convenient to use.

But this does not mean that people on the right path are good people who do not know how to adapt and sacrifice themselves to help others - deducers who can survive to the differentiation level are not so stupid.

 The so-called righteous way is just a group that has chosen to maintain order and goodwill after getting used to seeing evil in deductions and reality.

There are people like Ren Yi who are serious and a bit old-fashioned, there are people like Zeng Lai who are delicate in their escape, and of course there are extreme people who are "cruel and ruthless" who are dedicated to justice in their hearts. In short, they are not the right path deducers. There will be no hidden sin.

The Alice Inferno game happened to be a special game designed to deal with the sins in "human" hearts. This caused Zeng Lai, who was good at plotting, to lose the space to use his expertise. Instead, he encountered something he didn't really want to encounter.

 The cryer.

 The pale red light shines on the door surrounded by rose bushes, giving the door a rotten and dangerous color.

The cryer appeared here for some reason, and the door was trembling with fierce thumping sounds.

 “Help me!” The shrill cry penetrated the eardrums and made the blood vessels in Zeng Lai’s forehead beat faintly.

The expression on his face gradually disappeared, and the impatience, annoyance, and tension all disappeared. The light fell on him, making the fine wounds on his wheat-colored skin full of a sense of destruction.

 There is a peephole on the door.

Zeng Lai sighed silently and looked into the cat's eyes.

On the other side of the door, a female ghost covered in blood and with half of her head ripped off opened her mouth with all her strength and let out desperate howls one after another.

Her body is very twisted, with bones in several joints dislocated. At a casual glance, you can see that the skin of the elbow of the cryer's right arm is pierced by a milky white bone.

The cryer's lips were still sewn with stitches, but she ignored the pain of her torn lips and forced the threads to lengthen, creating an opportunity to open her mouth.

 This is the ghost corresponding to Zeng Lai. His current situation can be said to be very dangerous.

 Because the cryer is obviously not the type to attack directly. She looks like she will fall to the ground at any time. It is not an exaggeration to say that she can be knocked down by Zeng Lai's punch. She will only appear on the other side of the door, and the conditions for killing are also based on the choice of the deducer at the door.

"I know you are outside...help me, please?" The cryer seemed to know that someone was looking at her through the peephole this time. She raised her face and looked at Zeng Lai through the glass mirror. She could only see the small black hole, two lines of blood and tears left from the damaged eye sockets, and there was a faint pleading in the voice, "I really can't stand it anymore... I don't want to die... I don't want to..."

Zeng Lai's breath was stagnant. He knew clearly that this was the power of magic and distortion that existed in Alice's Castle, but he still couldn't help but feel the pain in his heart, as if he was being pinched by someone.

He gritted his teeth without making a sound and refrained from responding.

 This is really a dead end.

He still remembered what the tour guide nun said: when he encounters his corresponding ghost, he can only run away, even if he gets the corresponding prop.

Therefore, other deducers may be able to give the correct response to the cryer, but he cannot. Regardless of whether he responds or not, whether he opens the door or not, no matter what he chooses, he will be wrong.

"Ahhhh!! Help me!!" The girl's hoarse and broken voice was like a knife scraping Zeng Lai's eardrums, piercing holes one after another in his mind. He opened his mouth and took a step back.

"Are you leaving? Wait, are you leaving me and leaving?" The cryer's voice suddenly became vicious, and he paused, knowing that he could not go back the same way now.

　　Because this is no longer a weak version of the cryer with his mouth sealed, but a "complete" cryer who can open his mouth. For him, leaving is also a choice - a wrong choice.

 Wrong choice represents death.

Zeng Lai closed his eyes. He did not believe that a struggle-level deduction could push him to the point where he was helpless.

 There must be something that has been overlooked, there must be a way to survive even facing your own ghosts.

"You didn't leave... You didn't leave, why didn't you open the door!? Why didn't you save me!? You also want to kill me, right?" The cry of the cryer became more and more fierce. It was obvious that her patience was running out. Depleted.

Zeng Lai was silent for a moment, and a talisman appeared in his hand.

 A piece of yellow talisman paper was stuck to his forehead and began to burn.

The fire flickered, and the burning power did not cause any harm to the user Zeng Lai, but only brought a little heat.

 He was like a zombie, his body became a little stiff.

 【Sacrifice: Gambling on corpses】

  【Form: a piece of yellow talisman paper that people think is stuck on the forehead of a jumping zombie wearing Qing Dynasty official uniform】

　　【This sacrifice has been integrated with the "Personal Mask Gambler". The fusion ability is: ① When attached to the forehead of a zombie-like ghost, the talisman will burn, which can cause a confinement effect. The specific time is determined by the difficulty of the deduction and the target level. ②Put it on your forehead and burn the talisman, which can reduce the hostility of any kind of ghosts and reduce their hostility to infinitely close to zero. During this period, you will be stiff and fragile, your movements will be limited, your thinking will be scattered, you will be unable to resist any human attacks on you, and you will be unable to use other sacrifices. When the yellow talisman is burned out, the ghost's hatred towards you will double. The combustion process is irreversible and cannot be stopped. 】

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　：I don't know which ghost movie the image comes from. In short, it is the product of a gambler's lack of imagination. Whether this talisman paper is useless or powerful, whether it is a life or a death wish, it all depends on the user's balance. 】

  【Note: What is the use of such talismans? You don’t think that people are safer than ghosts, do you? Hahaha... What a strange idea. When you can’t resist, do you think that other people will help you? No! They'll give you a knife! 】

This is the first time Zeng Lai has used the ability of this sacrifice②. The reason is as the system notes say, he would not dare to use it in front of others in any deduction.

As long as others know that his sacrifice will make him irreversibly stiff, someone with intentions will definitely take advantage of this and give him a merciless backstab... After all, he has offended many people after so long.

 So, only when no one sees him like now, can he use [Corpse Control Gambling] to buy himself a certain amount of time to survive.

In this case, the crying and banging on the other side of the door have weakened. The cryer seems to be hesitating, and the cry gradually becomes smaller, but she does not leave, waiting in place, as if she does not intend to give up easily. . The burning speed of the yellow talisman is very slow. At this speed, it can burn for about half an hour.

 Half an hour... Zeng Lai exhaled softly, leaned stiffly against the door, and slowly slid down to sit on the ground.

 Speaking of which, a sacrifice that can give the user half an hour of safe time from ghosts will definitely make people envious and jealous. But due to its negative effects, Zeng Lai had to endure half an hour of stiffness. As long as someone stabbed him at this time, he would die.

Although no one was around today, bad news still emerged—the cryer did not leave directly like many ghosts that change targets when hostility weakens, but waited behind the door.

 Half an hour later, if he has not come up with a feasible solution, he will still have to face his own ghost and face the fate of being killed.

At this time, he had a little hope that Yu Xing could come to him and find a way to help him avoid this dead end.

Although this is just a ridiculous expectation and unlikely to happen - after all, even he himself doesn't know where this place is, so how could Yu Xing find him within more than forty minutes after he fell?

"Oh, what a bad luck... I'm not so unlucky, am I? Did I get infected by hysteria unknowingly? Does that guy think I don't know that he is the brother of the woman Ren Yi killed some time ago?" Action Sufferer However, Zeng Lai leaned against the door and sneered silently.

The figure of a thin young man wearing black-rimmed glasses suddenly appeared in his memory. The young man's black hair was not well taken care of and was always messy. His cold eyes often only contained "strategy", "information", "research", etc. vocabulary.

"Ren Yi, Ren Yi, you don't know that I will be implicated to death by you today... Damn, being a brother with you may be the beginning of bad luck for me."

Although he was nagging in his heart, Zeng Lai's eyes were calm. He remembered the pale face with which he had the best relationship in the guild, and even an inappropriate smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Without his reminder, his brother would probably not have shaved for a long time. He would go to the barber shop to get his hair done when he realized that his vision was blocked. He would stay up all night for several days to submit an analysis report, and he would be woken up by hunger when he finally fell asleep.

Zeng Lai's thinking has been affected by [Corpse Control Gambling], and it has become somewhat scattered, and has spread to others inexplicably. He looked at the firelight coming from the yellow talisman, the bright red roses blooming around him after the firelight, and the pieces of meat strung up by the roses, and felt pain starting to emanate from the small wounds all over his body. In his ears, the cry of the cryer broke out from time to time, which was very noisy.

He murmured silently: "If I die here, you, a vicious and inhumane guy, will really have no friends."

Two seconds later, this young man with well-proportioned muscles shook his head violently. This was an action that he could only do in a stiff state with all his strength: "Bah! Why do you make it sound like you are saying your last words... I am giving you What kind of flag are you setting? You are such an idiot.”

Zeng Lai scolded himself very decisively.

He bit his tongue, not wanting to bleed, and stopped after feeling the pain that made him concentrate a little more.

"There's still half an hour... I must find the loopholes so that the death node of the struggle-level deduction will not be irreversible!"

　　"Isn't that what big bets are for? I bet I can survive."

“That heartless boy Ren Yi won’t miss me just because I’m dead.”

"Mom, you are retarded. What are you thinking about now? Why don't I personally supervise him after I go out? I have to assume that he has no friends... Oh, no, he can't concentrate again."

The influence of distracted thinking was very obvious. Zeng Lai waited for a while before he returned to a state where he could think.

The burning fire of the yellow talisman was a bit dazzling, so he simply closed his eyes, began to discard the interference, and tried to remember the reason why the cryer would become his "past sin".

Memories surged, and Zeng Lai quickly realized that the cryer was not entirely his sin, but...his inner demon.

 …

Zeng Lai is not very old now, and five or six years ago he was an ordinary high school student.

 He ​​doesn’t study seriously. Every day in class, he secretly plays games under the desk with his classmates. He often forms an inter-class team with his brothers in the next class.

He doesn't like studying, but he has a smart mind. He can barely study among the top ten in the class. He is also good at sports. He is the hope of the whole class at the sports meeting. Whether it is among teachers or students, his popularity is not high.

At that time, he battled wits with the class teacher every day, made appointments with his classmates to play basketball after school, and was laughed at and scolded by other brothers on the playground for receiving mineral water and confessions from female classmates. All fun.

  Such a life, although there is pressure from the college entrance examination, is peaceful and youthful.

 Until one Friday night.

That day, he originally wanted to go home on weekends. Because it was winter, it got dark early. Even if he didn't study late on Friday, it would have been completely dark when he left school.

The school was already remote, almost in the suburbs. Since he stayed on duty for more than half an hour, there were not many people on the way to the bus stop when he came out. There was only a school girl he had seen several times following behind him.

We met a few times because Zeng Lai could always see this school girl every time he went home for weekend breaks. However, they had never spoken, let alone being acquainted with each other. They were only familiar with each other - in fact, he was the only one. One person thinks so.

The school girl confessed her love to him on the deserted platform.

Zeng Lai really has no intention of falling in love prematurely. Firstly, he is not interested, and secondly, he takes relationships very seriously and does not want to casually start a relationship initiated by someone else. He refused as usual. He thought that as usual, there would be no follow-up to the refusal. As a result, the school girl may have a fragile heart and cried on the spot. She didn't even take the bus to the station and ran away not far away with her schoolbag on her back. Dark alley.

The street lights in the alley were in disrepair and had not provided lighting for nearly a month. Zeng Lai was worried that the girls would be irritated and in danger at night. In fact, there have been related rumors recently, and many students have heard of them.

So he followed up, intending to persuade the person first so that the other person could return home safely.

 But... when he ran into the alley, he found that the person was missing.

Logically speaking, that girl has small arms and legs, so it should not be difficult to chase her, but he didn't delay for long, so why did he lose his target?

His keen instinct made him hold his breath until he heard a call for help. His pupils shrank and while running towards the call for help, he sent a message and location to his classmate who stayed at school, but he could not receive it after five minutes. Call the police if he hears the news.

   What is your impression of Zeng Lai∠(　∠)＿Let me know if Kangkang is a knife or...

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