Absurd deduction game

Zhao Mou didn't know why.

Perhaps he realized that part of his loss of control was due to looking directly at the fish with a human face, but he wasn't quite sure what the meaning of what he was doing was.

For example, grouping Qu Nianqing and himself together is not the optimal solution to the grouping.

Qu Xianqing's eyebrows were lowered, and she was quietly and intently looking for the entrance to the secret passage that might exist in the surrounding area. Zhao Mou stared at her for two seconds, squinted his eyes, and looked down at the first thing on his body when he woke up. He suddenly realized something while wearing clothes that were torn to pieces by himself.

There should be some connection between "pagan" and "model".

Although everyone can hide their identity in the opening scene, their team knew each other's identities before entering the scene. Therefore, when he officially appeared on the island and became a pagan, knowing Qu Xianqing's model identity, This cognition will have a certain biased influence on his behavior. After seeing the human-faced fish, this subconsciousness was amplified.

As a person who usually competes with fate and time, he is very sensitive to changes in his own mind, so he bypasses a bunch of distractions and directly perceives the center of the problem.

While exploring the environment on both sides, he slowly approached Qu Nianqing. He looked around and found that Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiao were walking towards him with a strange look in their eyes. In addition, No one noticed them, so he calmly called to Qu Xianqing: "Wait a minute, can I take a look at the back of your waist?"

"Behind the waist?" Qu Xianqing raised her eyebrows, slightly surprised, but after hearing Zhao's calm and sober tone, she chose to trust her teammates, "Okay, just take a look."

Zhao Mou stretched out one hand to Qu Xianqing's waist, which was firmly covered by Qu Xianqing's long skirt. There was no damage at all, but there was a very big hole just above the waist fabric. Qu Xianqing's fair and fair back skin was exposed.

He pulled the fabric down a little along the hole, thinking that a voice had told him a long time ago. Sure enough, he found a black mark on the back of Qu Xianqing's waist, like some kind of totem. .

And there was actually such a slightly different totem on the palm of his hand. He was very careful to hide it along the way and did not show his palm to others.

"Sure enough, there is a connection. If the NPCs on Dead Island will be divided into different factions, you and I should belong to the same faction." After comparing it, Zhao Mou said firmly, "The system only told us at the time that we would not force anyone to do so because of identity issues. Opposite, but I didn’t say that our identity will not make us any different on the Dead Island. I have thought about it for a long time, this should be a hidden rule, and now with your confirmation, I am quite sure.”

"I see." Qu Xianqing curled his lips, "You are still so calm under the influence. This is very rare."

Zhao Mou smiled, pushed up his glasses, and glanced at Yu Xing and his younger brother who had obviously misunderstood something, and said: "Eliminating interference and sticking to one's heart is also one of the compulsory items for a deduction. Compared with To me, your restraint is undoubtedly more perfect, I've been watching you for a long time and I didn't find anything unusual about you."

"It's not that the restraint is perfect, but it's not there in the first place. It's not like you don't know my physical condition. This appearance can receive very little interference. That fish didn't leave anything for me." Qu Xianqing did not explain too much. Many, but obviously, even if the sacrifice is temporarily sealed, her body and soul are still in a state of separation. To a certain extent, her evil grace is similar to Yu Xing's unknown sacrifice. They are all the kind that can produce certain effects when sealed.

"By the way, are you watching?" Qu Xianqing found that Zhao Mou's fingers were still hooked on the back of her clothes.

"Let's take a good look. When you enter the building later, you can use a mirror to observe for yourself. The skin on your back... seems to have cracks." When Zhao Mou said this, his tone was not as sure as before, because he didn't really think too much. Touching Qu Xianqing's lower back made him look ungentlemanly, but from what he could see with his naked eyes, there was another square crack just under the totem on Qu Xianqing's lower back.

Her skin seemed to have a "shell crack" that could be opened from here. The moment he saw the crack, Qu Xianqing's image in Zhao Mou's heart changed from a living person to a humanoid. Even though he knew it was a matter of identity, the feeling still made his hair stand on end, as if an uncanny valley effect had occurred in an instant.

"...There is such a thing." Qu Xianqing's head moved, and his delicate face looked strangely gorgeous for no reason, "After I woke up, I didn't feel any discomfort or difference in my body. If If it weren’t for you, it would have been a long time before I realized that, thanks.”

"You're welcome." Zhao Mou let go, and at this time, Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiao also came closer.

"What are you doing?" Yu Xing's eyes were a little strange, indescribably strange.

Zhao Yijiu also said nothing.

Zhao Mou's temples twitched. Just now he felt a little joking to see how deeply these two people misunderstood him, but when he saw the serious looks of these two people, he felt a heart attack: "...Look at you two. Doesn’t this look show a little too much trust in your vice-captain?”

"Zhao Mou found a clue." Qu Xianqing glanced at the status of the two people and frowned slightly, "On the contrary, it seems that something is wrong with you."

Zhao Yijiu asked: "What clue?"

"..." For some reason, Qu Xianqing met Yu Xing's eyes, and then vaguely received a hint - don't tell the clues.

This is the unique tacit understanding between her and Yu Xing.

Yu Xing lazily leaned against a twisted and leaning dead tree, as before, as if he had no bones everywhere. There was a hint of a smile in his tone, and he said to Qu Nianqing: "It's not too bad. That’s right. Brother Jiu said that the influence I received was to lower my intelligence. I think he was right. No, he told me some abnormalities of others, including that Zhao Mou and you were grouped together for evil purposes. Isn’t that right? Do you believe it?"

Zhao Yijiu was startled and looked at Yu Xing.

What Yu Xing said was so wrong. He still had the abrupt feeling of being clearly depraved when he and the two of them were standing together. On the contrary, this tone sounded like he was holding back some bad thoughts. After listening to Yu Xing's words, Zhao Yijiu was a little confused and realized that the bad intentions seemed to be directed at him.

Zhao Mou's mind was spinning very quickly. After he noticed Yu Xing's attitude, his eyes were filled with a coldness: "Are you saying there is something wrong with my brother?"

Zhao Yijiu: "I didn't..."

"They talk a lot more than before, and their enthusiasm is unusual." Yu Xing interrupted Zhao Yijiao, "Observation can still explain it, but tell me that Wen Qinghuai and Huang Bai cannot show affection at this time. This is It’s off the mark.”

"Even if I have seen the information of these two people before entering the deduction, Brother Jiu will not know that they are in a relationship, and secondly, he will not know what the relationship between these two people should be like. Don't say that Brother Jiu doesn't know, even I can't know either."

In the blink of an eye of Zhao Mou, Qu Xianqing had already grabbed Zhao Yijiu's neck. The angle she found was very good. It was the blind spot caused by the surrounding trees, so others would not notice what they were doing.

Zhao Yijiu's face was condensed, and he subconsciously wanted to resist, but after realizing something, he gave up the resistance and allowed Qu Xianqing to suppress him.

"Also, he just told me that the change in his personality was due to the big fish affecting 'him' in his body, but this is even more impossible. His existence will only give Brother Jiu a greater advantage. The same We should have a better understanding of the system. How could it magnify the impact?" Yu Xing crossed his arms across his chest, making it clear that he wanted to watch the show. He tilted his head and said to Zhao Yijiao, who was being restrained by the neck but did not resist, "I'm walking. On the way here, I realized something was wrong with you. There is nothing wrong with your walking posture, but your eyes are different from Zhao Yijius."

"So I had the idea to test you and deliberately pretended to find nothing. You thought I only noticed other people's problems after hearing Fei Jing's voice. In fact, it was after you told me all other people's problems. Instead, I noticed you."

Yu Xing: "Besides, Brother Jiu has been able to resist in the outside world for so many years, but here he accepts these influences without resistance. Do you think he is a vegetarian~"

"..." Zhao Yijius didn't say anything, but his brows furrowed more and more tightly.

Zhao Mou stood beside Qu Xianqing, his tone was already very unkind: "I was careless. I only felt that there was a mysterious connection with Qu Xianqing along the way, and my focus was off. Where is my brother? Who are you? ?”

Zhao Yijiu finally listened to the sudden accusations. He thought about it and found that these accusations could be established.

Yu Xing was not actually affected, or the affected aspect was not his intelligence, so Yu Xing found flaws in his performance, but...

If he wasn't Zhao Yijiao, who could he be?

Zhao Yijiao said: "I'm sorry, I don't know anything. I thought I was Zhao Yjiu. My memory tells me that I am."

This answer surprised the three of them.

"If I weren't Zhao Yijiao, how would I know what's going on with my body?" Zhao Yijiao looked at Yu Xing, "The reminder I gave you is also correct."

He looked at Zhao Mou again: "Brother, I have all the memories. When I told Yu Xing about your strangeness, it was also based on speculation and there was no malice at all."

"..." Looking at such a scene, Zhao Mou felt a little uneasy.

When did things start getting so weird?

Whenever his brother was involved, he would always be biased. The man in front of him did have everything that Ah Jiu had, but he just... wasn't like Ah Jiu.

Yes, just now Zhao Yijiu and Yu Xing were on the other side. He was far away, so he didn't notice it unless he observed it. But now, Zhao Yijiu said a few words to him, and he could feel the sense of dissonance.

The sense of dissonance is too strong, it just doesn’t look like it.

"Well..." Yu Xing made a meaningful nasal sound, "You think you are, but you are not; your memories are all there, but your personality is different; you know us better, but you don't know us well enough - for example, no matter how Zhao Mou I will not make mistakes in decision-making at this time if I am influenced. And I, a madman, how can I be affected? My crazier state definitely does not include such messy things as intelligence. My crazier look , in fact, it was exposed.”

Zhao Mou suddenly said: "Is it a shadow?"

"Huh?" Yu Xing's voice rose.

"This state is like Ah Jiu's shadow." Zhao Mou asked Qu Xianqing to let go of Zhao Yijiu. He took a step closer, his eyes suddenly sharp, as if he could hide nothing, "Are you a shadow?"

Zhao Yijiu's identity is a high-level shadow wizard.

The shadow follows its owner, so the memory is the same, but everything it sees is one-sided, from an alternative perspective.

At the moment when he was called a shadow, Zhao Yijiu's body trembled. Suddenly, it was like a 3D thing suddenly reduced in dimension to 2D. His body instantly became thinner, lost color, lost lines, and only an outline remained.

It’s really a shadow!

The shadow still maintained the outline of Zhao Yijiu. It nimbly left the circle surrounded by several people and swayed on the ground.

"This means something terrible." Yu Xing exclaimed, "This is a shadow. The real Brother Jiu seems to be... missing?"

"Where can he go?" Zhao Mou was not as worried at this time. Precisely because Zhao Yjiu's identity was a shadow wizard, after confirming that this strange Zhao Yjiu was a shadow, he could also confirm one thing.

This shadow is Zhao Yijiao's ability. The shadow has no ill intentions towards them, but was exposed because of his lack of business ability. Zhao Yjiu put the shadow here, and he is gone, which means that Zhao Yjiu left on his own.

In order to prevent them from worrying blindly, he used his identity and abilities to hide it from his teammates, and even tried to hide it from his own brother - it was hard to say whether it had the opposite effect.

Qu Xianqing's cold eyes scanned the surroundings sharply, but saw no other shadows: "I have a guess. Since the fish on the sea just now gave people the feeling of being a monster, it should indicate how many ghosts there are on the Silent Island. Shao and Ke are similar. The one who talks more is also from this series. Could it be that after seeing the big fish, the talkative one needs to act alone for certain things, so he puts a shadow here, and If we knew, we would definitely stop it, so he didn’t give us a chance to stop it.”

This is my experience after seeing too many ghosts.

Yu Xing was also inclined to this answer. He had once faced the Horror Hospital and the evil spirit in Zhao Yijiu's body. When the evil spirit abducted the sea monster related to the deep sea, Yu Xing had already guessed that this evil spirit might have something to do.

But before Li Gui had time to find the sea monster, he discovered by chance that the background of this deduction was also what he needed, so he left early.

As for the opportunity, it must be the moment when the giant fish with a human face had a psychological impact on everyone. After all, Zhao Yijiao was still normal on the coast.

If the ghost's consciousness wakes up at that moment, and uses the ability of the ghost's consciousness to amplify the impact and temporarily allow Zhao Yijius' other side to gain the upper hand, it will make sense.

Zhao Yijiao, who was affected by Li Gui's consciousness, was still Zhao Yjiu himself, so he would consider his brother and teammates and use his shadow to forge himself. Unfortunately, the shadow was still a shadow after all, and it did not achieve the effect he wanted.

Zhao Mou wanted to understand the whole story, but he was not in a good mood: "Fuck, that damn boy, he is really good at scaring his brother. He is afraid that I have a good heart and wants to stimulate me, right?"

The ghost consciousness has the upper hand, which means that Zhao Yijiu should be in a very powerful state now. Perhaps he can avoid the ghosts on the island by being careful.

But at the same time, he left the team alone and no one could find him. Even if he was in danger, they had no way to rescue him... Maybe it was a ghost that could put Guijiu in danger. Even if they rushed to the rescue, they would only end up with a few more heads. .

Zhao Mou thought, it was so sad, why couldn't Ah Jiu discuss it with him? Could it be that he was really doing something good for Ah Jiu, and could he stop him? ?

Yu Xing patted Zhao Mou on the shoulder and smiled at the troubled Zhao Mou: "Okay, although this matter is a bit beyond my expectation, if he is in that state, he is quite reliable. Nothing will happen if you leave. At worst, when you find your own platform, you can be the first to divine his location and we will go find him."

A flash of memories flashed in Qu Nianqing's eyes, then he nodded, and patted Zhao Mou's head half-comfortingly and half-seriously: "That chatterbox is very strong and smart. Like Yu Xing, madness cannot hinder their judgment. You can rest assured and you can trust your brother more."

Zhao Mou: "...?"

He couldn't say anything: "Comfort, comfort, I'm twenty-eight years old, what does it mean for you to touch my head!? Don't touch me next time!"

"You pulled my clothes and I didn't tell you anything. Why can't I touch you?" Qu Xianqing didn't care. Her logic was very straightforward, "Don't make trouble."

Zhao Mou didn't want to talk at all.

A smile flashed in Yu Xing's eyes. He felt that Zhao Mou had a really good temper towards his people. Regardless of his age, Zhao Mou was like the irritated big brother of the whole team.

"By the way, I suspected that Brother Jiu had been replaced just now, so I didn't let you give me any clues. Now it seems that I was worrying too much. You have been working here for a long time, what did you find?" He suddenly remembered.

Zhao Mou told Yu Xing about the totem angrily.

"Hey, I don't know if I have it on me." Yu Xing couldn't see it himself, "Even if it's not a totem, there might be a number or something like that -"

It is not known whether the Class A contaminants escaped from a certain laboratory.

"Hey, we found the passage!" Just as a few people were muttering, Bai Junrui made a discovery not far away. They kept their voices down, but the news soon reached Yu Xing.

They immediately walked towards the source of the sound, and Yu Xing found that the shadow of Zhao Yjiu, who was swaying idlely on the ground, merged into the shadow of Zhao Mou, and there was no difference at all from before.

The shadows of these two brothers are very similar.

…

On the other side, under the cover of weeds and gravel, a downward passage was dug out by Bai Junrui. The passage was very narrow and could only accommodate one person. Through the gray clouds glowing with the moonlight, the people who passed by were surrounded. Deducers can see what is near the entrance of the passage.

This is a circular passage with a curvature, and the circles of soil texture can barely provide a certain degree of buffering for those who slide in. They just don't know where this passage will lead in the end, but they have only this way to go now.

"Who gets off first?" Xu Huan asked.

Bai Junrui is the discoverer and has made contributions. He almost tacitly agrees that the Mysterious Eye where he is located does not need to be a pathfinder.

Zeng Lai looked at this and inexplicably remembered the scene where he and Yu Xing jumped out of the abyss under the bed in Aliceland. He could still vividly remember how terrifying the roses underneath were.

But when everyone has basically no ability, things like pathfinding have to be left to people with good skills. Unfortunately, he is a habitual gambler and does whatever he wants in other deduction worlds. Hell, his good skills are recognized by others.

In fact, there are also Qu Nianqing, Xu Huan, Zhao Yijiu, Dai Yuefu and Bai Xiaobing, but... Qu Nianqing and Xu Huan are both very cold-tempered. They don't want to go out to explore the way, and no one can force them. Dai Yue Although Bai Xiaobing is physically weaker than him, and Bai Xiaobing's character is not good enough for him, it seems that he is the only one who is the most suitable.

Zeng Lai looked around and was surprised to find that Zhao Yijiao was missing, but Yu Xing and the others didn't look worried. Out of some kind of cooperative mentality, he suppressed the questions that came to his lips.

"I'll go first." In fact, he didn't really care. There was always the possibility of danger, but as long as he was not destined to die, he was confident that he could escape.

Yu Xing originally wanted Qu Xianqing to go. He didn't trust many people here, so he wanted Qu Xianqing to master the first piece of information, but seeing that Zeng Lai was the leader, it seemed to make no difference.

No one objected to Zeng Lai's self-recommendation, but the fact that Zhao Yijiu was missing was still discovered, and Yu Xing and the others didn't hide it at all.

"Where are the people?" Fei Jing asked warily.

"The person is missing." Yu Xing said with a smile.

"Are you so happy to be missing?" Fei Jing frowned, "You... aren't you in the same team?"

"Yes, our team trusts our teammates." Yu Xing replied, "He left us a message before he disappeared, saying that we didn't need to worry about him, so we just let him go."

"What a nonsense..." Fei Jing muttered.

"Each deduction has his own style. Our team likes to mess around." Yu Xing admitted that Fei Jing was right this time, but he was taking advantage of the idle command power among the twenty people. "Don't worry. , he will follow soon."

Seeing that the people in Zhao Yijiu's team were so relieved, even his brother didn't say anything, and it was inconvenient for others to interrupt. Moreover, not many people believed Yu Xing's words. They were all wondering whether it was Yu Xing or Zhao Mou found the clue and sent Zhao Yijiao to perform some task.

But due to their status, they were in no position to ask.

The deducers did not waste time. Wen Qinghuai tied Zeng Lai's waist with the long rope made from grass, and Zeng Lai quickly slid in along the passage.

He, Huangbai, and Sha made this straw rope together. The three of them were very mobile and used the time just now to make an absurdly long rope. Not to mention, Sha sat on the ground and rubbed the rope. Sometimes, I feel like an autistic child who has found fun.

They didn't need the straw rope to be strong. After all, they didn't expect to use the straw rope for rock climbing. The rope was only used as a communication tool. If there was no problem at the bottom of the channel, just pull the rope twice and everyone above could go down.

Yu Xing looked at Wen Qinghuai who was able to make such a long rope in such a short time, and guessed that he had used his identity skills, otherwise no matter how much three people worked together, they wouldn't be able to make such a long rope.

Hmm...craftsman? Sports expert?

The rope lived up to expectations and did not reach the end or break. When the rope stopped falling, two pulls came from the other end, indicating safety.

Everyone then slipped down one after another.

Only Yu Xing was unhappy. It was so slippery that it was inevitable to get bruises all over his body. It was really sad that his pain was amplified.

He showed a certain degree of reluctance, and everyone else understood. He dilly-dallyed, and soon stayed at the fourth from the bottom. The people who had not yet left were Wen Qinghuai, Huang Bai, and Qu Nianqing.

"On purpose?" There were no outsiders here, and Wen Qinghuai suddenly exposed Yu Xing's plan.

Yu Xing put aside his anxiety about not wanting to go down, and chuckled: "Well, there is something I want to talk about."

…

Ten minutes later, everyone passed through the passage and slid to the finish line.

Yu Xing ranked behind Wen Qinghuai and Huang Bai, and Qu Nianqing stayed behind him. As expected, he received another scratch in the passage, which made the already not wealthy family worse, and his whole body was protected except by his subconscious. No part of my head hurts.

There are also a lot of holes in his clothes, but fortunately, it won't be seen that he is in neutral for the time being.

After the deducers gathered together again, they launched a search for the space below.

This is a somewhat winding passage, not vertical, but the overall trend is downward. At the bottom is an unexpectedly clean space, full of traces of human life. The four walls are made relatively smooth, and there is a There was a table, a bed, and some suspicious signs, like someone had scratched here.

The space is very large, about eighty square meters. Excluding the furniture, it is a bit crowded with twenty people standing there, but it is more than enough.

This seems to be a secret room that someone has lived in!

There is a door wrapped in rust on one side of the secret room. Some people have a very good sense of direction. They realize that when the door is opened, it should be facing the city in the basin. In other words, as long as they open the door, they will be facing the city in the basin. You will officially enter the town on the Dead Island.

But a key is required.

They did not rush out, but continued to search in the secret room. Such a secret room would not appear in the mountain for no reason. Although the secret room was full of cobwebs and holes gnawed by insects, judging from the details, it had not been inhabited for a long time. , but if you don’t keep it all, there will be some key clues that will be used later.