Absurd deduction game

Crown is the owner of a grocery store. Although his store is not big, it is very popular among the poor people in the nearby neighborhoods.

Because there is a bakery next to it, and black bread is the staple food of the poor, there will always be people who stop by his grocery store after buying bread - even if the level of mechanical manufacturing has become higher and higher, for people in poor neighborhoods , those things are still out of reach. Without money to study in school and without relevant training, they can still only do the lowest-level jobs.

Day after day, year after year, generation after generation, the poverty that cannot be seen is inherited.

Croun felt that life like this was not bad. At least his life was much better than those of the lower class. He also had his own shop. Compared with it, the daily purchase of goods and boring care became so insignificant. .

After living here for several years, Kroun knew who would come every day, and whose children liked to buy what kind of toys in the store.

To be honest, sometimes, sitting behind the small counter and watching the acquaintances in simple clothes passing by the store, he would feel endless boredom.

How annoying, he thought.

Look at the lives of the rich. Why are the children of the rich destined to inherit a large amount of wealth from birth?

Look at those nobles again, my God, as long as those nobles give a little bit of charity, the wealth they usually don't care about can be enough to feed people in poor areas for more than ten years.

It’s enough to buy several grocery stores like his.

He is almost 40 years old and still has no wife because every woman he has access to is boring to him - especially after he once caught a glimpse of an aristocratic lady wearing a gorgeous dress.

There is really no hope and no ups and downs in life. He will probably live a boring life like this. Occasionally he will find a lowly street girl to have fun for a night, and then spend the whole day staring at the same boring things in the store. .

Crown felt restless and unsatisfied.

When did things start to change?

He couldn't remember clearly, but he had a vague impression. It seemed that on a snowy day, he had just opened the door of the shop to prepare for business, and the first customer of the day came to the door.

It was a tightly wrapped woman. Not only was she covered in a dark robe, but her face was also covered with a scarf. Croun looked at her and wondered if this woman had some infectious disease.

The woman, with a husky voice, buys him a roll of bandages and a pair of scissors that are mostly useful only for cutting fabric.

With awe of infectious diseases in his heart, Crown quickly completed the transaction and watched the strange woman's back disappear behind the corner on the other side.

Soon, the second guest arrived.

Crown knew her. She was a resident of the row houses in Dandelion Street. She was a laundress who raised three daughters by herself. She heard that her husband had been beaten to death because he owed money in gambling. After that, the woman moved out of her original residence and came here. She was immersed in a huge workload every day. Fortunately, her three daughters have grown up and can help her share some of the cleaning work.

Time has left irreversible traces on the woman's plain face, but for Crown, this face has become the most unforgettable face in his long years.

ugly.

nausea.

fear.

"Please give me a roll of bandages..." The woman wrapped her head with a piece of cloth, but she was obviously not as prepared as the previous guest. Kroen saw blood stains and pustules on her exposed face, especially There is also a bulge as big as a knuckle on the eyelid of his left eye.

"Oh my god, what's wrong with you?" Crown asked in shock.

This became the thing he regretted the most since, he shouldn't have asked.

Because after the woman who had always been known for her gentleness heard his question, she suddenly became extremely panicked and angry. The cloth used to wrap it fell down during the movement, exposing the woman's mouth.

It was a... big, cracked mouth that extended from the corner to the ear.

"You saw it, didn't you?" The woman's big mouth opened and closed, and the fangs inside were as sharp as shark teeth. Croun saw that there were still a few strands of meat in her mouth, and the whole mouth was filled with blood. As she spoke, blood stains emerged from her shark teeth. Crown, who had never seen such a thing before, backed away in fear, which angered the woman even more.

Croun remembered that he had not seen the woman's three daughters in the past two days. If it were normal, they would go out for a walk every day after dinner.

The woman rewrapped the cloth with trembling hands, but it still couldn't cover the marks on the upper half of her face. Her eyes showed an emotion that Kroun knew very well - the slums were very chaotic, and there had been several murders and robberies before. He also had this look on his face when he was taken away by the sheriff.

God, what's going on? Is it really an infectious disease?

Crown grabbed the wrench next to him.

His thoughts drifted to the first female customer who bought something. She also wanted a bandage...

He tightened his grip on the wrench, thinking that if the woman jumped towards him, he would blow her head open with the wrench.

When the Sheriff comes and sees this woman's appearance, he will definitely believe everything he says.

But at this moment, the third buyer of the day came to the door.

She was an apprentice girl in a tailor shop. She was very young and very beautiful. Many men in this neighborhood liked her and regarded her as the outlet for all their unspeakable emotions. But the girl They are jealous of her.

But today, the apprentice girl covered her head with a hat, with homemade fabric hanging from the bottom of the hat, blocking her entire face.

The girl pushed away the woman who looked like she was about to go crazy: "Excuse me, please give way, Mr. Crown. Please bring me a roll of bandages."

No, no, why the bandage again! ?

Crown shouted in his heart, he had already guessed what the apprentice girl's face looked like under her hat.

This must be a nightmare, right? When he wakes up, everything will be as usual...

"Boom!"

Reality shattered Croun's fantasy. The woman who was about to go crazy seemed to be unable to hold on, and fell to her knees slumped on the ground. She vomited a large amount of blood in her mouth, staining the entire surrounding ground red. While vomiting, she Muttering something incoherently, both Kroon and the apprentice girl took a step back, looking at this scene in horror - maybe only Kroon was horrified, who knows what the apprentice girl's expression was under her hat?

This scene attracted many people who had gone out in the morning. They gradually gathered around and made noises. Someone seemed to be suggesting that the woman should be sent to the rescue station, but Crohn could not hear clearly. He was too close to the woman and he saw something like Several fingers protruded from the woman's mouth.

Then an arm, then a bald head and... a bald face.

Oh God!

The people around him exclaimed uncontrollably. Everyone watched helplessly as a faceless baby crawled out of the woman's mouth. The apprentice girl put her hand to her stomach and rubbed it. Croun believed that he heard her correctly. He said: "You are so ugly. This child, my child will definitely have beautiful facial features."

"Oh my god, this is too scary, Mr. Crown." Many people noticed the sluggish Crown. They came over and said in a comforting tone, "Are you okay?"

"No, I'm not good!" Crown felt that he was still in a nightmare, but at least he was not the only one here, which gave him some sense of security. He clenched the wrench, intending to pull out the incompetent creature crawling towards him. The face baby was smashed to death. She didn't want to look at anyone else at all. Her eyes were all about this monster baby. He felt great malice in this baby.

The people who came to comfort him sounded disappointed: "Mr. Crown said he is not very well, so can his store still be open?"

"Mr. Crown, is your store still open?"

"Mr. Crown, get us some rolls of bandages..."

Crown's hand paused, and he felt something was wrong.

Like a rusty doll, he twisted his neck bit by bit towards the crowd around him, and then found that everyone had wrapped their heads in various things, and their eyes were now focused on him. .

Some people's eyes are still beautiful and look normal, some people have huge pustules on their foreheads, some people have a few tiny tentacles sticking out of their eyes, some people...are these really people?

"Sir, I came first." The apprentice girl put her hands on her hips dissatisfied, not looking like the lady she usually is. "Can you bring me the bandage?"

"Why...you...became like this?" Crown lost the courage to resist under the gazes of many people. He tremblingly asked the apprentice girl whose voice sounded normal.

"I don't know. This situation suddenly happened two days ago. Everyone was contaminated. You should have discovered it. The schedules of people nearby have been disrupted in the past two days." The apprentice girl was not at all concerned. There was no panic, and there was even a smile in his tone, "Mr. Crown, you are really lucky, you still have intact facial features, but... if you don't want to be eaten by others, you'd better destroy them, this is me Well-intentioned advice~”

"If you can't do it, I can help you." With that, the apprentice girl lifted her hat.

As expected, her face also changed.

The eyes, nose and ears disappeared, leaving only a mouth, open from forehead to chin, and she stuck out her tongue - two - in Crown's fearful eyes.

The long tongue is like a frog, with a fang at the top.

She reached out and grasped Croun's shoulder. The huge strength made him unable to move. Then, the two tongues separated instantly, and the fangs touched the skin at the edge of Croun's mouth, like a sharp blade, instantly cutting open The corner of his mouth.

"Ah——!!" Kroun screamed, his body twitching continuously due to the severe pain. He didn't remember much about what happened after that, because he fainted from the pain.

When he woke up again, he was still sitting in his grocery store. It was empty outside. He sat there waiting for business to come to him, but the children and adults who usually came to visit him had not come for a long time.

Year after year passed.

Every few years, one or two strangers would open the door of his shop. Kroun didn't know what was going on outside. He just felt idle and boring.

I used to be able to sell some things, but now I don't even have anyone. It's really strange.

Crown never stepped out of his shop. He forgot to ask why he didn't need to eat bread and why he didn't go home. He just stared at his shop door, hoping to see someone open it.

He would occasionally touch his face to make sure he still had a face, but he always touched a hand full of colorful paint.

Finally, today, his store door was opened again.

Two young men and a young woman walked in. Although these three people were plainly dressed, they were clean, especially their faces. This was not what the slums should have. Even the apprentice girls could not compare with them. .

Hey, someone's finally here, Crown thought.

He could once again paint the faces of his guests' corpses.

…

"This... is a grocery store?" Qu Xianqing looked at the world behind the door with some surprise. The space inside was much larger than it looked from the outside. Rows of shelves were neatly placed on the floor, which was clean. The cleanness was in stark contrast to the dusty streets outside.

The counter was right next to the door, empty, with a sign written on it in the Chinese language they were most familiar with - "Welcome to Crown's Grocery Store."

Zhao Yijiu was last. As soon as he stepped into the space inside, the door slammed behind him.

In comparison, the three of them are not surprised at all. After all, a building is an independent "copy" and must be separated from the outside world.

"It's so big." Yu Xing praised, "At first glance, I thought this was a supermarket."

"..." Zhao Yijiao didn't want to pay attention. He had already told the other two people in the hotel that it was okay to talk in most buildings, but he had to be careful if he went to a place like the concert hall.

The three of them stood cautiously and first observed the scenes that could be captured in their field of vision.

Within two seconds, Yu Xing said again: "Brother Jiu, didn't you say that every building has its own rules? Do we need to discover the rules ourselves, or will they be directly promulgated to us?"

Zhao Yijiu: "It depends on the situation."

Perhaps his mouth was enlightened because he cherished words like gold. He said it would depend on the situation, and the situation would come immediately.

The three of them heard a clown's shrill laughter coming from afar.

Yu Xing looked towards the source of the sound, but saw nothing but shelves. He thought to himself, indeed, this building is related to clowns, and Clown is also known as "clown" in English, which is the clown in the circus.

"Guests." The invisible clown spoke, "What do you want to buy?"

Qu Nianqing made a defensive gesture, while Yu Xing was responsible for answering: "We are passing by and are a little curious. Let's take a look first. If there is something we want, we can buy it, okay?"

He finally said something normal, which made Qu Xianqing and Zhao Yijing feel a little abnormal and looked at him more.

"Guests, please feel free to visit my store, but I don't really want you to buy nothing." The clown giggled, "There are a lot of things here, and I'm looking forward to exciting deals!"

"What if we don't have a deal in the end?" Yu Xing tilted his head.

After all, they don't have a single ghost among them, so a deal is impossible.

"If you come to disturb my business without buying something, it will be difficult for me to do it, and Croun will not be happy! Well, if you don't plan to give me money, just count it for me. In my store How many products are there?"

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows and scanned the rows of shelves.

This is not a small amount. If you really count it... can you count it in three days?

What's more, clowns exist only to cause trouble for people.