Absurd Deduction Game

Luo Yan had a dream.

 Once his strength had accumulated to a certain level and his inspiration could be heard as cause and effect, he rarely dreamed. Every time he fell into a dream, it meant that something was about to happen.

This dream seems a little different.

In the dream, there was no broken heart, no anger, no yelling, no **** death, just a bottomless water.

 He was at the bottom of the water, his body sunk into the mud, lying on his back, unable to move.

He raised his face and looked up. The water surface was filthy, with layers of melted oil-like things floating on it. It was sticky and suffocating, shrouding the entire bottom of the water in a dark and lightless cage.

A cold feeling enveloped his body. He wanted to sit up, only to realize that before he knew it, the mud at the bottom of the water had covered him, trying to bury him alive.

 His perspective became increasingly narrow.

 His breath was also blocked.

He couldn't help but open his mouth and wanted to shout, but found that his tongue was long gone and he could only make a guttural sound of "ho ho".

 “Ho ho…”

 It’s not him, it’s not his voice.

Luo Yan's attention was finally no longer attracted by the water. He tried to raise his eyes to take a look around.

 The perspective in the dream began to change, rising as he wished.

 He changed from looking up to looking down, and saw large areas of the river bed.

 There are so many people.

There are many, many "people" embedded in the mud like nails. Their bodies are covered with mud and sand, and only one face is exposed.

 Most of them are old people, then women, occasionally middle-aged people, and finally children.

Every...every face is filled with twisted anger and fear, with their mouths wide open, eyes staring, and silently shouting upwards.

Their mouths were full of mud, their tongues fell aside, and they were silent.

 Despair, sadness, resentment…

Unquantifiable resentment gathered from countless faces and condensed into fifteen pale corpses in the water.

They have grown tongues and are qualified to shout. They swim upstream with all their strength, swimming, swimming, as long as they can get out of the water, as long as they can reach the shore -

 You must be able to appeal for grievances and seek justice!



 The bottom of the water ripples.

 Huge humanoid shadows swam past and swallowed fifteen corpses.

 They struggle unwillingly, still covered by shadows, they are unwilling to stop, they are the only hope for the people under the water——

The child's body made its first scream.

Like the first cry of a newborn, the desire to live coats the child's body with a layer of light. A ray of moonlight breaks through the dirty water, illuminating it as white as jade.

 It was the first to break away from the shadow and rush to the ground.

Threads as thin as gossamers also penetrated the bottom of the water in the moonlight, penetrating the limbs and torsos of the fourteen corpses, and with a boost, pulled the corpses upward, and then upward.

The human-shaped shadow in the water tore angrily, with an overwhelming appetite and hungry bowel sounds.

At the bottom of the dark and dirty water, a giant face seemed to emerge. Its eyes were as big as copper bells, and it was painted with weird bright makeup. Bloody oil paint was dotted on its cheeks and lips, and the two lips slowly opened.

 “I’m hungry…ha…”

The strange tone is inhuman and inhuman, like the rumble of thunder.

 Luo Yan didn’t know when the dream ended.

He only felt that after having this dream, his mind had been feeling groggy, as if it had been contaminated by something, and he could not wake up.

All kinds of bizarre scenes turned into glass shards, mercilessly piercing the flesh and blood in his brain, dripping with blood.

I don’t know how long it took, but he finally showed signs of waking up. His various senses gradually returned, and the touch of his body being wrapped in water gradually became clearer, just like in a dream.

  “!”

Luo Yan opened his eyes suddenly, breathing heavily, and there was a faint light falling around him.

 His skin could clearly feel the touch of water around him, but after he realized he was still in the water, he still breathed as usual.

what happened…

 The chaotic dream affected his memory, leaving him with only confusion in his mind for the first time.

 The next second, an arm stretched out from beside him and waved in front of him.

Since the owner of the arm did not have any offensive intentions or malice, the moment Luo Yan realized that there was someone next to him and his whole body went numb, he had already suppressed his instinct of resistance and looked to the side.

 He saw Yu Xing.

The other person raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming to be a little curious about his current state. The slight joking in his eyes seemed to say...drowsed?

Well.

 Luo Yan suddenly woke up.

The scene of being saved by the person in front of him came back to the forefront of his memory. He still remembered the feeling of merging Yu Xing and the figure in his youth into one.

Looking at it again at this time, the once blurred perception became clear again, making him very, very sure that the injured person in the back mountain of the Taoist Temple was Yu Xing!

Luo Yan was a little surprised, although he didn't understand what kind of species Yu Xing was - judging from the fact that he hadn't aged at all over the years, and had inhuman resilience before entering the absurd deduction game, it was probably not normal. "Human" is all.

But this feeling was like meeting an old friend in a foreign land. The strange experiences that troubled him when he was young finally came to a conclusion when he grew up. And the "spirit" he once thought he would never meet again turned out to be a deducer. The identity is active in the system.

 And the other party will definitely remember him.

　What Yu Xing said to him on the bank of Yejiang River is the evidence!

 Luo Yan’s eyes were bright.

Yu Xing didn't know what was wrong with this man after he died once. He stared at him as soon as he woke up. He squinted his eyes and patted Luo Yan's forehead to signal him to pay attention to the front.

Luo Yan calmed down, remembered his mission, and quickly sat up.

 He could feel that he was still under the water, with dark rocks below him and pitch black above him.

This should already be the interior of the abyss. The suction tornadoes and whirlpools have disappeared from sight, replaced by an underwater ruin with man-made traces.

The bright light he saw when he woke up just now also came from the ruins. The Siren and the groom were standing in the middle of the ruins, in a place that looked like half a temple.

Even though it was clearly underwater, two huge and pale flames were burning in front of the temple. The candlesticks carrying the flames solemnly illuminated the door of the temple.

Not only that, on the collapsed half of the temple, there were scattered candlesticks that served as lighting.

These fires that can burn under water exude a strong sense of gloom. Just being shrouded in the light of the fire, there is a feeling of being watched by evil.

The reef is steep, like a ruined wall, acting as a cover for Luo Yan and Yu Xing. The two of them are huddled behind the reef, which should be a blind spot. They can see the sea monster, but are far enough away that they will not be touched by the fire. .

Luo Yan observed carefully.

His arm has been reattached and his hair has long been cut off. There is still a reminder on the system panel that he did not notice when he was unconscious. Not surprisingly, it reminded him that he died of drowning and lost his life.

Next to him, Yu Xing's chest was rising and falling, and he was obviously breathing. He should have used death to gain the right to breathe, but he died later than him, but woke up faster than him. He even took his arm and pulled him to hide behind the rocks.

It’s really reliable.

Luo Yan sighed in his heart, and immediately observed the temple side more carefully.

 The Siren is kneeling in front of the temple.

  The groom's suit hangs behind the Siren, like a big net, trapping the Siren here.

Due to their location, Luo Yan couldn't see the face of the sea monster, but he could see the sea monster's trembling body. Perhaps the sea monster in the center of the fire was carrying pollution that they couldn't understand!

  Is this some kind of ceremony?

Luo Yan's eyes sharpened and he silently asked Yu Xing about his plans.

Yu Xing stretched out his hand and pointed to the inside of the temple, intending to wait for the siren to complete this part of the ritual and enter the temple.

 The lighting at the bottom of the abyss is an unexpected blessing. Although the cost of lighting is pollution, the light sources provided do bring them great convenience.

Yu Xing looked at the ruins at the bottom of the river. Among the many collapsed buildings, half of the nearly complete temples simply stood out.

This couldn't help but remind him of the last Immovable Mountain Curse.

 He guessed that the last Immovable Mountain Curse was in the temple.

The structure of this underwater ruin is chaotic. It does not look like it was built on land and then submerged by water. Instead, it looks like it was washed directly from the land into the water during a flood. Many buildings flowed with the water and were demolished during the period. It was broken into pieces, and finally fell into the abyss, becoming a pile of ruins that could not be seen as it was.

 Only half of the temple has been preserved due to the existence of the Immovable Mountain Curse.

Since "Jiang Shou" is a newly born evil spirit, he may also like a mysterious residence like a temple. What's more, temples in ancient times have a special status. If you have a temple and attract people to worship, the ghosts can even turn around. An evil god.

This temple descended from the sky will probably become Jiang Zou’s property after that, serving as its residence and the place where its rituals are completed.

Well ... Haiyao was knelt over and stood up in the groom's uniform.

Unable to stand still in the water, her figure was erratic, she turned around with some staggering, and came face to face with the groom.

This time, Yu Xing and Luo Yan could see half of her face.

  The delicate makeup on the sedan girl's face had already melted mostly under the erosion of the running water. After the makeup was gone, the black, black, red and red colors gradually became terrifying.

 Her face was pale under the makeup, and the white candlestick in front of the temple made her face even more pale.

The laughter of a man from an unknown place came, faintly, sometimes louder and sometimes smaller. The groom's clothes were filled with water, and he "bent down" to the siren.

It seems to want, husband and wife worship each other?

The Siren’s back was stiff, obviously resisting the movement of bowing down.

 But she had no choice.

 Click.

 The strong force forced her spine to bend. When it was stretched to the extreme, almost breaking his spine, the Siren finally agreed to compromise and bowed to the groom.

This moment.

Yu Xing vaguely heard the sound of something falling from above.

 He raised his head sensitively.

The water flow at the bottom of the abyss was much calmer than above, reaching an almost stagnant effect. At this moment, many rotten flesh and bones that had been sucked in fell from above, and finally deposited into the gaps in the ruins. middle.

 A piece of flesh and blood, a bone, a rag, a copper coin.

 Everything is falling, and everything is falling.

This grand scene reminded him of the gold and red paper and platinum scattered along with the playing of musical instruments at human weddings in this era.

 The festive outpourings and lively wishes were transformed into the screams of flesh and blood under the water.

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Indistinct murmurs came from all directions. The more flesh and blood fell, the more confused the murmurs became.

Yu Xing couldn't understand what they were saying at all. He could only vaguely pick out a few familiar syllables, but it was difficult to piece together the meaning.

He only felt that there was anger hidden in the murmur, cursing this "wedding"!

 Boundless resentment filled his chest, and Yu Xing’s head began to feel dizzy. The range of his ravings was wider than the range of the white Yin Fire. Even if they hid behind the rocks, they could not escape the influence!

Luo Yan was very experienced in this type of pollution. He stretched out his hands to cover his ears and motioned Yu Xing to do the same.

It is difficult to transmit sound underwater, and the existence of gibbering is unreasonable, but covering your ears can at least weaken the impact slightly, so the two of them did the same action, staring in the direction of the siren.

Jiang Zong doesn't care about blessings. It actually uses the bones of the drowned people who resented Ye Jiang as wedding decorations. Even if the resentful ghosts of the drowned people are cursing it and the bride, it doesn't matter!

Those souls had already died here and had no rest in the river. Now they are still being disturbed and insulted. How can they not complain?

As the bearer of the curse, the Siren spit out a mouthful of blood.

She staggered, her eyes blurred, and her lips became brighter red, approaching the color of her wedding dress.

 The curses of countless resentful souls and the pollution of the white firelight acted on her at the same time, and she almost forgot who she was.

One scene after another that did not belong to her memory flashed through her mind. The ugly faces of some people were deeply imprinted on her, and their desperate cries were as real as reality.

 Pollution eroded her will.

  She wants to stay here forever, as a bride, as a sacrifice, as a sacrificer...as the last piece of the puzzle for the gods.

The scene in front of her was distorted. The ruins shrouded in white light turned into a pile of white corpses and bones, and then turned into a crowd with strange smiles.

 The crowd clapped their hands, loudly congratulated her on her wedding, praised her contribution, and praised her love for the gods.

 Go and meet it.

 Go ahead and love it.

 Go, what are you still hesitating about?

go! go! Do you want to escape? Bitch, can you escape!

The smiles on the faces of the crowd gradually turned into sarcasm and anger. Their twisted faces were like evil spirits, and they stretched out their hands to push her.

The strong man cursed and grabbed her arm, dragging the gorgeously dressed bride toward the river like an animal. Others clapped and shouted something.

 She was thrown into the water, as if reincarnated.

At the moment it "touched" the water, the Kraken's head felt a stinging pain, and the faces of his teammates flashed across the surface, especially Zhao Yijiu's face, which was equally ghostly, but particularly dependable.

The Siren was not frightened to death by anything else, but when he realized that he actually thought "Guijiu is trustworthy", he was so frightened that he woke up from the endless illusion.

 Damn it, she can’t be Stockholm!

She opened her eyes and quickly scanned the surroundings. She was still in front of the temple, surrounded by mud and flesh and bones. There was no crowd applauding and applauding. There was only a solitary groom's suit in front of her.

The siren touched his chest with lingering fear - was this the memory of the sedan girl just now?

  Zhao Yijiu had brought too much shadow to her before, and it actually became the anchor point to wake her up. This fact, Siren decided never to mention to others.

 She forced herself to calm down and try to think about the current situation.

 The wedding is not finished yet.

 But after she and the groom bowed down, it was almost over.

 The next step is...entering the temple?

 Just like entering the bridal chamber in a human wedding?

She was panting in the water and glanced at Yu Xing's hiding place from the corner of her eye.

Yu Xing dragged Luo Yan down and found a favorable terrain. She knew all these things. She also knew that she was a decoy and a radar. Yu Xing was waiting for her to open the temple gate and attract Jiang Chong's attention as much as possible. Okay Let Yu Xing and Luo Yan enter the temple and take away the Immovable Mountain Curse!

She must follow Jiang Zong's wishes, but she must not make it to the last step, otherwise, what they will face is a complete and dead ghost.

 The system prompts have not stopped since she entered the water.

　　【The first stage of the personal mission "Shadow in the Water" is completed. 】

　　【The second phase of the personal mission "Step into the Vortex" is completed. 】

 …

　　【The fifth stage of the personal mission "Applause from all directions" is completed. 】

  【Task progress: 72%】

  【The sixth stage of the personal mission begins: "Sacrifice to the Temple". 】

　　【If you are not ready to sacrifice all your life to prevent this wedding, then follow your groom into the temple. But once you step inside, it will be hard to leave. 】

 At every stage of the mission, the system advised her to commit suicide.

She can use her whole life...that is, at the cost of not being resurrected, to sacrifice herself, interrupt the wedding, and help other deducers survive.

  This option has never been in Siren's mind.

She has long felt weird. This system is so unfamiliar, and it doesn't look like a deduction system.

Even if she really died and ruined the wedding selflessly, others would still not be able to get the Immovable Mountain Curse.

As long as they cannot get the Immovable Mountain Curse, the deducers on the Yejiang boat will be exhausted sooner or later.

As soon as they die, the corpses on the shipyard will be swallowed up by Yejiang together with the overturned ship. Yejiang, who has obtained the power of the corpses, will become stronger again and find the few people in Yizhuang who are in bad condition and the remaining corpses. Easy as pie.

 The system that advised her to commit suicide was just depriving everyone of the hope of living in the name of salvation.

 Fortunately, the Siren is not stupid.

  She suppressed her doubts about the system and reexamined the task.

After entering this temple, is it difficult to leave...

The Siren only hesitated for a moment, and then the groom came over again.

The red color on its body is getting brighter and brighter, like a strange creature that is full of blood. With a wave of its sleeves, it suppresses the endless curses around it.

 The cheerful male laughter came again, as if laughing at the insufficiency of those flesh and blood.

They are trying their best to curse, but it can suppress it with just a wave of its sleeves. What a difference is this?

After he stopped murmuring, the sleeves of the groom's suit hugged the siren from behind and pushed her towards the temple gate.

 A voice appeared in the Siren's mind.

It was not any existing writing or language. What she heard were some obscure syllables, but she strangely understood the meaning.

"open the door."

 The voice in her head ordered her.

"open the door."

 The Siren put his hand on the temple door.

Due to the erosion of water flow and the covering of silt, the material of this door is difficult to identify. It may be wood or stone. When her fingers touch the door, she can feel that as long as she pushes it gently, it will Jiang Shui followed her strength and pushed the door open.

But at the same time, boundless malice seeped out from the cracks in the door, and death seemed close at hand.

 (End of this chapter)