The day I was forced to be a detective pendant

Six days before the game started.

"Cat, I ask you."

The serval cat was combing its hair intently. Hearing this, he raised his head. His cat's eyes were wide open, but his hind leg was erected high, in a rather unsightly posture.

"You sit still."

The serval bent its hind legs obediently, put its two front paws together in front of its body, and swung its long tail back and forth.

I observed his sitting posture and said sadly: "I think you have lived here for a long time, and you are becoming more and more like a dog."

The second fastest cat in the world jumped up, jumped on me at the speed of a cheetah, and gave me a cat punch.

"I was wrong! I was wrong!" I screamed, and Bian Yao walked by and sneered: "The teenagers reached the stage of rebellion, and the old father was brutally beaten."

"Cat, let me ask you, what time did you go to bed last night?" I squeezed its soft front paws, "What do you do when you sneak out every night?"

Serval was pinched so that it could only stand on its hind legs, not very happy, and tried to pull its claws away but couldn't.

Bian Yao said quietly: "He is a nocturnal creature..."

I turned a deaf ear to it, and continued to teach Serval: "It's not right for you to stay up late like this. Don't learn from Bian Yao. Young people must ensure sleep, so that they can grow up healthy, you know?"

Bian Yao looked at us expressionlessly: "Please, he will soon be taller than you, our whole family will soon be taller than you, and when the serval surpasses you, you will be the shortest person in the family..."

"I am a good young man of 179, how come I become the shortest here!" I roared angrily.The cat took the opportunity to retract its paws, and ran away with an "ow", and its tail slapped me in the mouth.

The old father who was abandoned by the rebellious teenagers began to cry, Bian Yao looked out the window and suddenly said, "Ah, the old man is leaving."

I also raised my head and walked to the window when I heard the words - Bian Yao's father, who had been absent for several days, was standing by the car saying goodbye to Brother Yue, and a few wolves filed out of the room, pressing down on the two we hadn't seen for a long time. People get in the car.

"Huh? Your dad is taking Dee and the others away?" I was surprised.

"It's fine to leave, so you don't have to worry about it." Bian Yao waved his hand like chasing flies.

I asked him, "Aren't you saying hello and goodbye to your dad?"

Bian Yao showed a disgusted expression: "I don't want to go."

I immediately opened the window with a "snap", stretched my arms and waved, and called out loudly: "Uncle Bian Shun!"

Bian Yao's father raised his head in surprise at my angry roar, and met his son with the same stiff expression. I raised Bian Yao's arm and shook it twice, saying, "Goodbye! Have a good journey! "

Bian Yao's father was forced to have no choice but to nod with a straight face, then quickly got into the car and drove away quickly.

Seeing Brother Yue walking back into the house, I pushed Bian Yao and said, "Hurry up, your dad is gone, we agreed to confess to Brother Yue."

Bian Yao was full of reluctance, but he still went downstairs with me to find Brother Yue. We explained the past and the results of the investigation about SIP as planned, and Brother Yue didn't say a word during the whole process.He just crossed his legs and played with a lighter back and forth in his hand, his face expressionless.

"Things, things are just like this..." I made the concluding remarks in a low voice, and raised my eyes to secretly look at Brother Yue.

"How long?" Brother Yue asked, "How long has this happened?"

Bian Yao: "A few days."

Me: "More than two weeks."

We both spoke at the same time, Bian Yao gave me a hard look, and then died down under Brother Yue's murderous gaze.

"Two weeks..." Brother Yue looked down at the trembling us two, and a strong sense of "The Lion King" emerged in front of my eyes—Brother Yue was Uncle Scar who stood on the top of the mountain and looked down at us. Chu Huaixing, who is wandering around watching the show, is a mane dog with a strange smile, I am the young Simba with a drum in his heart, and Bian Yao is... um, Bian Yao is Nana.

"So what are you going to do next?" Brother Yue asked.

"We want to get involved in the name of participating in the game, no, we want to participate in this game." Bian Yao revised his wording, "I have contacted the management personnel of the other party once, so it is not easy to fool me, and I am very vigilant. It is relatively difficult to obtain more information in the name of participation. In order to better understand the process of this killing game, as well as the implantation points and key steps of brainwashing, I think it is only possible to participate in the game once in person.”

"Are you both participating?" Brother Yue asked.

I nodded: "Different from the interaction of online groups in the form of pure text in the past, we learned that this game is an immersive running group in the form of VR, so it can only be played by one person, and you cannot participate alone while others are watching. To be honest, I can't imagine how they can present so much random content in the form of VR, but this can only be known by personally participating in it and waiting for the game to start."

"Every time you participate in this game, how many players are there?" Brother Yue asked again.It’s just that every time he asks a question, the doubts in my heart increase. Brother Yue doesn’t seem to be particularly angry, but is just interested in the methodology of our investigation and reasoning. As if knowing our movements.

"I heard that there are 5 to 7 people. We have contacted a player on the Internet before. He mentioned that the old players inside are wary of each other, and some enter in teams." Bian Yao said, "So I think the bonus should not be based on The head count is counted, but the surviving players have to share equally. Thinking about it this way, it is more logical for them to choose to create a plot where players cannibalize each other, similar to the Hunger Games."

Brother Yue nodded, and repeated softly: "5 to 7 people... That's fine, take me with you when you participate."

"Ah???" I was startled, and even suspected that I had heard it wrong: "What?"

I turned my head to look at Bian Yao, he also looked blank, Brother Yue said vaguely: "It just so happens that I also have some concerns recently, so let's sort out the miscellaneous options myself."

Seeing that the two of us were still confused, he explained without hesitation: "Recently, you have read the news. Many executives and shareholders of companies and enterprises have committed suicide one after another, leaving behind a lot of shameful wills. The shareholdings and structure are messed up, so that cats and dogs jump out and make trouble." He lowered his head and said to the serval who looked up in confusion when he heard the word "cats and cats", "I'm not talking about you, go to sleep."

"After listening to what you said, I remembered that although there is no suffix of the three letters SIP, the contents of the wills left by these ignorant guys before their death are indeed full of this weird sense of relaxation, as if It's like relief at last—if I didn't know what these old men were supposed to be."

I opened my mouth and nodded, suddenly the phone rang cheerfully, I looked down and said, "It's Senior Brother."

Brother Yue thought for a while, then he understood, raised his eyebrows and asked, "That Bi Fang who saved you last time?"

I nodded: "Yes."

Brother Yue: "Go."

I picked up the video and said, "Hello, brother."

Zhai Qi probably put his mobile phone on the countertop of his kitchen at random, lowered his head and didn't know what he was doing, and asked, "Hello, little classmate."

"What's the matter, brother?"

"No, I just remembered it and cared about it... What happened to that last time?" Zhai Qi asked, "It's about the child committing suicide."

As soon as he said this, I immediately felt two sharp gazes, and Bian Yao quickly explained in a low voice: "No, brother Yue, he is not a professional, so we asked and consulted."

Brother Yue said vaguely: "Oh, before consulting me..."

I bit the bullet and followed up our investigation progress with Zhai Qi, but after he listened and pondered for a while, his first reaction was also: "Interesting, that game or something, I also want to take part in it. It is very interesting to observe from the point of view.”

"What?" Bian Yao turned his head in amazement, "He too?"

I looked at Zhai Qi in the camera, and then at the murderous brother Yue, and suddenly felt a bit of inappropriate emotion-I mourned for SIP in advance.

Under Brother Yue's instruction, I asked hesitantly: "Uh, of course, but it takes a little time to prepare for this type of game to get familiar with, otherwise... Brother, do you want to come?"

45 minutes later, Zhai Qi's car appeared in Chu's yard.

He walked into the building casually, not surprised by the size of the castle at all. He looked around, nodded and said, "You moved here? It's good, it's safer here."

I didn't know what he saw and came up with this evaluation, so I could only nod foolishly. Unexpectedly, just as I led him into the common room, a huge black shadow sprang out from the side.Before I could react in time, Zhai Qi had already stretched out his hand to block it. I didn't see what happened in the blink of an eye, but it turned out that he was holding a serval cat with its teeth and claws in one hand.Zhai Qi squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, then smiled inexplicably: "Oh, little cat."

I hurriedly picked up the serval cat by the waist—this guy liked to play with birds and butterflies on the balcony when he was still the size of a house cat, and whispered a lesson: "What are you doing? This is not an ordinary bird, you can't take it casually." Come and grab it."

The serval cat was not very happy, its eyes were still rolling round and round, its paws were opening and closing, looking eager to try.I shut him out, but he quickly opened the door and came in by himself, squatting behind Bian Yao's bench, peeking with half of his head exposed, his tail flicking back and forth on the carpet anxiously.

Not long after, Brother Yue also came over from his work. He and Zhai Qi stood at the two ends of the living room, their eyes crossed in the air. communication.In my mind, I imagined the scene where the nine-tailed fox and the eight-entertainment snake in Naruto met—the two big monsters each had a mountain top, staring at each other indifferently.

And I just want to eat a bowl of Ichiraku ramen.

Bian Yao was in charge of giving Zhai Qi and Brother Yue a popular science on the process of running the group. After listening to Brother Yue, he said: "The whereabouts of the two of you have been exposed, so when the time comes, we will go to meet with that Johnson. Me and...he is still in the house. In the dark, it is best to contact each other separately."

"Brother Yue, how are you going to introduce yourself?" I asked curiously—a normal person would assume that Brother Yue is a mafia boss or a domineering president when he sees him. How could he join a running group game full of middle school students without arousing suspicion?

He seemed to have just realized this problem, and after looking around the room for a week, he said, "Huai Xing, go find some clothes that you used to wear when you were young, and they're a little bigger."

"Don't! Don't!" I hurriedly stopped loudly—I had seen Chu Huaixing's dressing taste when he was a child, and saw how our servals were dressed up. I sincerely persuaded: "Put on school uniforms, brother Yue, Chu Huaixing and the others The school is quite famous, private schools, it is easy to create a kind of temperament that people are stupid and rich, which is very good."

Brother Yue thought about it and agreed.

"What about me?" Zhai Qi stroked his chin and thought, "I'm here to pretend to be someone, and I'll just be a university teacher."

"It's not easy to have flaws..." Before I finished speaking, Zhai Qi said again: "Then my girlfriend in college cheated on me and ran away with a 50-year-old, 200-pound local tycoon. Because my college salary is low and I have no money. So I was so angry that I decided to take the risk and participate in the game to make a fortune.”

Bian Yao: "..."

Me: "I see."

Zhai Qi looked at me puzzled, not understanding what I meant.

I said, "I will lend my clothes to your brother. If you wear your own outfit, no one will believe what you just said."

Zhai Qi reacted, smiled, looked at me silently for a while, and asked, "What's wrong? Didn't you want to give me clothes?"

Me: "Now???"

He nodded and said, "That's right, it's better to hit the sun than to choose a date. That little snake, how do you sign up? Come and help me send an application."

Bian Yao ruthlessly rejected him: "Send it back to your own home. What if the other party monitors the IP address? The four of us all submit the application from one place, and no one can see that there is a ghost."

"Okay, okay." Zhai Qi shook his head.

I added: "There is one last thing to note before confirming participation in this game."

Brother Yue: "What is it?"

Three days before the game started.

"So, how do you choose, the red pill or the blue pill?" Johnson asked.

Bian Yao and I looked at each other, and reached out to the small box containing the red pills at the same time.

Bian Yao picked up the white plastic box and opened it, poured two pills on the palm of his hand, stared at it for a while, and then twisted one into my palm.

I took a deep breath, clenched my fists and thought for a moment, then patted my mouth, grabbed the cup on the table and swallowed it down.Bian Yao turned his head to look at me in astonishment, then raised the small pill on his fingertips for a closer look, and finally put it on his tongue and rolled it in.

Johnson was very satisfied. He shook his finger and said, "Take out your phone."

The two of us took out our mobile phones without knowing why, and he took it, scanned a code, entered a series of keys, and said: "When the app is downloaded, you click to register in the background. This is the 'official website' of SIP. Verify After the approval, the electronic version of the rule book, the story background of this team start and the guide for making character cards can all be downloaded from it, and if you have any questions, you can also contact the management through the background.”

I looked at the icon of that APP and thought to myself, we have not been able to find the official forum or website of SIP. It turns out that the APP needs to be loaded through a specific path. I don’t know how they bypass the review and put it on the app store. .I thought again—then the so-called "interview" is actually for the administrator to be able to install the app for the player one-on-one, which is really careful.

SC Johnson has raised his head again - he took out two thick and beautifully bound booklets from his schoolbag, and said, "Rule book, let's go through the formalities. The content on the APP is the latest, but the basic rules have not changed."

I finally took the rule book I had seen in the photo and put it in my bag.

"Then, you won't see me for a long time. If you can see me again, congratulations in advance." Johnson said, "Before then, I wish you good luck."

A staff member with an apron around his waist stepped out from behind the bar. He went to the door and unlocked it. The moment the shutters were all pulled up, the sun shone in again, which was extremely dazzling.Bian Yao and I left this place without saying a word, and it was not until we returned to Chu's house that Bian Yao opened his mouth and took out the two red pills hidden between the fangs on the upper jaw.

He smiled contemptuously, but this look was a little strange—a human face with pointed venomous snake teeth made his facial features look gorgeous all of a sudden, like a handsome vampire.Bian Yao threw the two medicines into a plastic bag, marked it, and waited for it to be tested.

The two of us walked into the room and found that Brother Yue and Zhai Qi had just come back, and probably went to meet with different SIP managers respectively.Brother Yue was still wearing Chu Huaixing's school uniform shirt, with the ironed gray uniform trousers sticking to his long legs, while Zhai Qi was wearing my "monster biscuit" pullover, both of them looked a little ridiculous.They shook the plastic bags in their hands, each containing a pill.

I asked curiously, "How did you hide it?"

"Open a small illusion, cover the entire hotel building for ten seconds, and that's it." Zhai Qi said easily.

Me: "...pretend I didn't ask."

Among the four, Brother Yue was the busiest, always dealing with emails and various phone calls, so Bian Yao and I took the initiative to take on the important task of learning the rule book.Zhai Qi listened to our study report, occasionally asked a very critical question, and finished the whole book in a short while.

"Then let's start building character cards now." I closed the book and opened the APP, "Generally speaking, the running team will recommend players to choose characters that are close to themselves when they join for the first time. A player who plays a role, so I think it’s better not to set too much performance barrier for yourself.” Speaking of this, I glanced at Bian Yao and said, “It’s okay for Bian Yao. He doesn't mind either."

Bian Yao was noncommittal about my evaluation and shook his head.

"There are three chances to roll the dice for the basic attributes of the characters. The occupation is chosen by the player. After the selection, it will correspond to different basic skill points." I said, "Then there are 240 skill points that can be allocated at will. Let me see ..."

"The background of the story is modern. The introduction recommends at least one student occupation among the players to be responsible for communicating with classmates. I guess many clues come from visiting students. The introduction also recommends studying electronics or computer science, so I can do it A student with a hacker background." I said.

"Okay, then I'll be the teacher of the school and continue to act in my true colors." Zhai Qi said indifferently.

"It's very good, so you can improve your knowledge and library science." I said, "Since the background is modern, the methods of searching for information and obtaining information are estimated to be largely based on today's Internet technology, so we It’s best to bring a smartphone with you, and then I carry a computer with me as a hacker.”

"Then I..." Bian Yao thought for a while, and said, "I'll also act in my true colors."

I said "Oh?", "Are you acting as a student too?"

Bian Yao nodded, clicked and added points to the professional skills column of the APP character card, and said, "I am an actor in a drama club that everyone loves, a good social worker, and a handsome man like a flower."

As soon as he said this, the whole family fell silent. I reached out and touched his forehead: "This child doesn't have a fever."

"What name is more handsome?" Bian Yao asked persistently.

I said speechlessly, "Jake Su."

He nodded, expressing his satisfaction: "I decided to call Jack."

After hearing this, Zhai Qi also became interested: "Then I don't want to be a teacher anymore, I want to..." He showed the result of rolling the dice: "I am 1 meters tall, weigh 6 kilograms, and the damage is increased by [-]D[-]. I want to be a veteran special soldier, at school...at school..."

He thought for a moment, and said happily, "I am the security guard of the school."

Me: "...don't make trouble."

Brother Yue put down his work, stretched out his hand and waved his fingers: "Show me."

Bian Yao happily showed him the professional skills of "Flower Boy Jack": "Look, I'm a bit better at speech and fast conversation, and I'll order charm and hypnosis...by the way, I'll add disguise and skill."

I:"???"

Brother Yue stroked his chin and thought for a while, then said, "Why do you feel that the IQ of this team is a bit low..."

"Yeah Brother Yue!" I cried, "And if our credit value is so low, we can't even afford a car when we go out."

"Okay, okay," Brother Yue said, "I see, I will be an intellectual person. I know foreign languages, physics, and mathematics. I am a librarian."

Me: "...Shouldn't you be a professor? And bro, isn't your appearance too modest.

Seeing that Brother Yue was unmoved, I said seriously: "And according to my experience, in this kind of group, if listening, intelligence, and inspiration are too high, sometimes the San value will drop very quickly."

Brother Yue didn't even roll the dice for the second time, and directly clicked submit: "It's okay, I worry about the world first, and let me bear the prophet's pain."

I looked down at my overly honest and conservative career choice and bonus points, and suddenly realized that although I have many more teammates, I seem to be the only one who plays the game seriously.I looked at the playwrights in this room who were infected by Jack the Flower Boy, and I felt deeply worried about our group tour.