Absurd deduction game

It was impossible to buy anything, and it was most likely impossible to count all the items in the shop. Yu Xing stopped talking to the clown, and the clown became silent.

"Let's take a stroll first." He was the first to step forward. Qu Xianqing nodded, turned around and walked towards a shelf on the right, intending to adopt a strategy from near to far - remember the items on a shelf first. , and then use this shelf as the base point to explore the surrounding shelves.

Zhao Yijiu walked in silently, apparently wanting to explore the entire grocery store first, while Yu Xing looked much more casual. He was like an office worker who went to a convenience store alone in the early morning to buy simple snacks. Look at the flowers and let your eyes wander everywhere.

This is a very modern grocery store.

After roughly going around in a circle, he divided the goods here into five types. The first type is food, including things like potato chips, bagged bread, instant noodles, sandwiches, and yogurt. The second type is practical items, such as wrenches. , mirror, towel, Durex. The third category is toys, ranging from small plastic fingertip tops that have long since been eliminated to electric toys with a full sense of technology.

The fourth type is clothes. The grocery store is not a clothing store, but it still sells smaller clothing such as hats and sunglasses. In one corner, there are also Silent Island cultural shirts, which is a bit trendy.

The fifth type is sundries that Yu Xing feels are difficult to classify, such as paper money, cold medicine, wooden signs of unknown use, etc., scattered in every corner of the grocery store.

There is still no clear dungeon prompt telling them what they are going to play. Now only one rule has surfaced, that is, if they don't buy things or help the clown take inventory, they probably won't be able to leave the store.

Yu Xing touched his chin and put his thoughts on the counter. Even though the surface of the counter was clean and clear, they had not seen the space behind the counter. The counter looked a bit willful, forming an angle between the entrance and the entrance. A small space was closed off, and it was impossible to imagine how the staff sitting behind the counter would get out of the counter if the store was still open.

He looked around. Qu Xianqing carefully compared the differences between each shelf, and even looked through the prices of items to try to find patterns. Zhao Yijiu focused on looking for some special items and took a look. Are there any things mixed in that shouldn't be there?

Overall, the two teammates were very serious and no one paid attention to him for the time being.

Yu Xing curled up his lips, thinking that this would be the best. He slapped his palms on the counter and tensed his arm muscles. Using his arms as a fulcrum, he jumped over the counter and arrived in the space inside the enclosed counter in an instant. .

Since after entering the grocery store, only the clown's voice talked to them, and judging from the appearance, the grocery store is actually very small, can he guess that there is only one employee and boss in the grocery store?

If so, who would this counter be reserved for? It could only be Crown—the thing that spoke to them.

With this idea in mind, Yu Xing's first reaction was to observe the grocery store from the clown's original perspective. As a result, as soon as he entered the counter, he tripped over an object. The object was so round that he almost rolled over.

He lowered his head with great interest and saw a round clown's head at his feet. In fact, there was more than one head. He reached out and grabbed the circus peaked hat on the top of the clown's head and lifted the whole thing away. When he stood up, he realized that it was a clown doll as big as his upper body.

The clown doll has a round head and a colorful hat. The face is painted with white paint, and star-like patterns are painted around the two eyes. The lips are painted too bright red, and the paint extends to both sides of the mouth and all the way to the cheeks. .

There is a red plastic ball on the nose of the clown doll, completely covering the original position of the nose.

The clown's neck and various joints are ball-shaped, allowing his limbs and head to swing at will. He is wearing a loose one-piece pullover with cartoon patterns, and the toes of the shoes on his feet are curved, and they also push a ball. .

Yu Xing squinted his eyes, feeling that something was not right...

The appearance of such a doll inside the counter was simply terrifying. The moment Yu Xing picked it up and looked at it carefully, the bright lights in the canteen suddenly flashed and dimmed a lot, as if there was a bad contact.

Yu Xing suspected that this was what this doll did - or, was this really just a doll?

"What triggered it?" Qu Xianqing poked his head out and asked.

"Caught a small shop owner." Yu Xing smiled and shook the puppet in his hand. As Qu Xianqing inspected the puppet, he placed the puppet on the counter in a sitting position with his back to him, and then squatted down. He checked to see if there was anything else in the drawer on the counter. Sure enough, he found several business-related information books in the drawer, including purchase orders, wish books, and accounting books.

"You found Croun's account book!" The clown's sharp voice rang in Yu Xing's ears. Yu Xing straightened up with these books and suddenly made eye contact with the clown puppet.

The clown's head turned 180 degrees, connected to his spine, and his face with a weird smile was pointed directly at Yu Xing's face.

Its mouth didn't move, but its voice still sounded: "Are you planning to do something for Crown?"

"Yes." Yu Xing followed the good example, "If we interrupt your business, of course we have to make some contribution to you, such as... help you look after the store?"

"Show me the account book." Qu Xianqing had already walked to the counter and reached out to take the account book from Yu Xing's hand. She was more concerned about the specific information in the account book than the mission that Yu Xing was embarking on.

Yu Xing ignored Qu Nianqing's things and continued to look at the clown puppet.

"Ha ha ha ha--"

This time, as he watched, the clown doll's body joints slowly squirmed, and its body was bent towards him bit by bit, and from beginning to end, its head seemed to be fixed in this space. He didn't move at all. If he participated in a street dance competition, his body separation would definitely win the applause of the whole house.

"Thank you, friendly guest, then... I will leave the store to you today!" In the clown doll's eyes, the eyeballs made of glass beads suddenly shook left and right, and bursts of sharp laughter came from the doll's body. , particularly harsh.

Zhao Yijiu hurried over. He and Qu Nianqing both heard what the clown said. It seemed that Yu Xing had triggered the real rules of this copy. As soon as he walked out from behind the shelf, he saw something that made him stop involuntarily. scene.

He saw that the clown puppet had a palette and a pen in its hand at some point. When Yu Xing and the clown puppet's painted faces looked at each other, Yu Xing bent down, his face and the clown puppet's. His face got closer and closer.

The clown stiffly raised his arm, and the tip of the brush stained with red paint was about to fall on Yu Xing's mouth.

As for this scene, Qu Nianqing, who was very close at hand, seemed to have not seen it, holding the account book and looking at it seriously.

"Luckily!" Zhao Yijiu shouted coldly. At the same time, after a slight pause, he accelerated towards the counter. He grabbed the clown puppet by its neck and lifted the almost weightless puppet. In hand.

"What's wrong?" Yu Xing tilted his head. Zhao Yijiu looked at him and saw that his body was still straight, as if he had never bent down at all.

This made Zhao Yijiu realize something. He turned his head and looked at the clown puppet in his hand. The puppet's hands were empty. There was no such thing as a palette.

does not exist.

Didn't happen.

But he saw it.

Zhao Yijiu was silent for a moment, put the clown doll back on the counter, and told him exactly what he had just seen, which aroused Qu Xianqing's interest.

Qu Xianqing said: "There are only two possibilities. One is for you, allowing you to see hallucinations. This kind of hallucination fabricated out of thin air is very dangerous. You may see ghosts attacking you and fight back. As a result, you attack in reality. It’s actually us.”

"The second thing is about Yu Xing. What you see is not something that didn't happen, but a real event that the victim himself and the people around him may not see. Only if you stop it will it 'not happen'. This is also true." It’s very dangerous. Generally speaking, when the deducer has his own puzzle-solving and defense capabilities, hallucination is always the best attack method for ghosts, bar none.”

Qu Nianqing was the most experienced person with the right to speak on this matter. Zhao Yijius listened silently and then nodded.

He said to Yu Xing: "Anyway, you should stay away from this doll. I confiscated it."

Confiscated?

Yu Xing was thinking about how he was going to confiscate it when he saw Zhao Yijiu pick up the clown doll, turn around and put the doll in a trash can far away from the counter.

It couldn't be put down completely. The funny and round head of the clown doll was exposed outside the trash can. Yu Xing squinted his eyes and looked at it, and found that they seemed to complement each other. This kind of ugly thing with no aesthetic quality should be Stay in the trash can.

"Crown wants turnover!" The clown's voice rang in their ears again, "You three must work hard~ Hehehehe."

It sounds like it's not just Yu Xing, Yu Xing triggered something that made all three of them by default employees who needed to work.

"What a turn of events. Apart from being verbally threatened, we as guests have not been exposed to any other dangers. So what do we as employees have to face?" Yu Xing stretched out behind the counter. He fell back and sat upright on the chair behind the counter, his eyes drifting towards the door of the grocery store.

"If I guessed correctly, it's a customer..."

From the outside, this grocery store will definitely not have any customers, because there is nothing moving on the street except for the wandering pollutants they have not seen yet, but from the inside, how many customers will there be? But not necessarily.

Yu Xing leaned forward and propped his chin with his hands, really like an idle grocery store owner, and began to look forward to customers coming to the door.

Please, let him have some fun. There is nothing new in what this grocery store sells. In reality, it is all over the place and boring.

Seeing how he quickly entered the scene, Zhao Yijius stared at the clown puppet with a cold look, turned around and began to remember the location of the goods even more quickly, in case this little copy would come up with a task to help the customer get the goods within the specified time. Require.

Qu Nianqing flipped through the account book and purchase book page by page and put them back on the counter: "It records the purchase situation within a month. It seems that there is nothing abnormal now. The purchase is relatively regular. New toys will be received on Wednesday. , daily necessities are brought in every half month, and food is brought in every day. As for the account book, it seems to be a new one, with only ten pages recorded. Most of them are transaction amounts of less than ten ghosts. Fortunately, there are many, and one day's The turnover is pretty good.”

"Where's the wish book?" Yu Xing came over with a sideways glance.

"The wish book is written by guests. Looking at the handwriting, most of the people who can write this are children, asking for various toys or something. Occasionally, there will be adults' writing on it, reminding Croun that a certain item is almost gone. Urging him to purchase goods. I took a look and saw that there are many types of items being urged, including scissors, certain flavors of food, medicines, bandages and the like. There may be some kind of pattern hidden in it, and more clues are needed." Qu Nianqing put the wish book back and turned to leave, "I will familiarize myself with the prices on the shelves first. This grocery store does not have a separate warehouse room. All the goods are on the shelves, which is relatively good news. As for you... …Seeing as you are quite skilled in being the boss, just keep an eye on the door.”

This was actually a bit tactful. She almost said, "Looking at how lazy you are that you don't want to move at all, you can just sit here and become a high amputee."

"Bring me a mirror." Yu Xing said suddenly.

"What are you doing?" The mirror was located near the area where Zhao Yijiu was. Zhao Yijiao asked casually, and his body had already taken one down for him honestly.

"I put it in front of me so that if a guest comes in later and wants to talk to me, I can see the clown doll in the reflection of the mirror and not be attacked without knowing it." Yu Xing waved his hand. , took the mirror handed by Zhao Yijiu with his left hand, and placed the mirror at a perfect angle.

He yawned and put the baseball bat at his feet where he could reach it at any time. He looked at the two busy teammates, smiled silently, and put down the right hand that was holding his chin.

There was a strange feeling on the palm of his hand as soon as he held his chin, as if some kind of substance was covering the skin. Unsurprisingly, he lowered his eyes and glanced down. In the palm of his hand, unknowingly... there was something extra There are traces of mixed white and red paint.

Tsk, when.

His face... must have been painted with a lot of paint.

Yu Xing looked at the mirror. He made an excuse not to let his teammates discover his true intention of looking in the mirror. It was precisely because remembering the location and price of the goods was indeed a top priority now. It was not clear when the "customer" would come to the door. , Such early preparations are urgent. He does not feel that distracting his teammates is a wise choice.

In the glass mirror, Yu Xing saw another face invisible to the naked eye.

Although he still looks the same, the lower half of his face has been painted white - truly pure white, several degrees whiter than his pale face.

His lips were painted bright red, and the red paint stretched from the corners of his mouth to his earlobes, making him look like a clown wearing only half a happy mask.

What a wicked Croun, Yu Xing thought.

Why are you putting lipstick on me when you have nothing to do? It was also painted out.

Yu Xing slowly rubbed the red paint with the pad of his thumb. The pad of his thumb was stained red, but the paint on his face did not fade away at all.