ID number 019

Violation?

Chen Yang looked at the puddle of transparent mucus at the door, and his mind was running fast.

"What rule did Wang Hao violate?" Li Zheng was dizzy, "He ate someone who didn't break the taboo?"

Chen Yang looked at him sharply.

Li Zheng's scalp was numb from Chen Yang's gaze: "Did I say something wrong?"

"No." Chen Yang said, "Maybe that's it." He cast a confirming look at Chao Jian.

Chao Jian didn't respond at all.

Chen Yang knew immediately that his partner wanted him to analyze and conclude by himself.

Zheng Zhitan raised his eyebrows. The way these two get along is really amazing. He thought of childish teasing on a whim. The teacher didn't give the students the answer, so he just handed it over.

"It can only interfere, not induce." Zheng Zhitan became the focus as soon as he opened his mouth.

Brother Yu, who was paralyzed on the ground, asked in a hoarse voice, "Induce what?"

"Inducing the tasker to break the taboo." Zheng Zhitan looked at Chen Yang and said.

Chen Yang's breath was stuffed in his throat. He felt like he was solving a problem. Halfway through the solution, when his thoughts became clear, someone suddenly said the answer.

This made him immediately lose the enthusiasm to continue the calculation.

My brain is blunted.

Chen Yang didn't notice that Chao Jian and Zheng Zhiqin were eyeing each other. He sat down to drink water and let his mind go blank.

"Monsters have the rules of monsters, why does it foul?" Qiao Qiao, who was in a bad mood, suddenly called out.

Seeing that she was finally willing to speak, Li Zheng hurriedly replied, "Maybe he was afraid that he would not be able to complete the workload, so he took advantage of the loophole and cheated."

Qiao Qiao looked at him with red and swollen eyes: "Workload?"

"It's an indicator," Li Zheng said after thinking, "How many people must be eaten?"

"If we discover the taboo quickly and avoid it, no one will die, and the later we decipher the clues to find the taboo, the more people will break the taboo and die."

Li Zheng said: "So the completion of the monster's work is closely related to itself. It will interfere when we search for clues, analyze and discuss, disrupt the rhythm, delay our progress, and even use others as shields to hide itself."

"A monster's job is mental work." He raked his hair.

Everyone:"……"

During Xiao Huanyu's work, the rules set a taboo for taskers to tread water. This taboo is easy to be discovered, and it is easy to accidentally violate it after being discovered. It does not need to cheat at all to complete the target, and finally gets off work smoothly.

Wang Hao's work is more difficult than Xiao Huanyu's. Although the headless hexagon "A" is not easy to solve, it is not easy to touch it.

As for the hidden taboo "I'm tired of work", that's a trap, both for monsters and taskers.

"It turns out that this is the monster's identity reminder." Pan Lin found the video at the service desk, and the screen stopped on the back of Wang Hao's head. His hands shook and he clicked delete.

"It's so obvious that I didn't even see it through." Pan Lin leaned on his waist and moved towards the wall, leaning his back against it. He stared blankly at the sea water above his head, "It's too difficult to do the task..."

A gloomy despair emanated from Pan Lin, quickly enveloping the area.

"Actually, when I first saw Wang Hao move his mouth in the video, the first word that popped up in my mind was 'Aries'," Qiao Qiao smiled wryly, "It's just that I didn't say it because I thought it was impossible."

"I thought about it too, and it was automatically blocked." Brother Yu sighed in frustration, "I threw it away without thinking about it, and never picked it up again."

The video was discovered by Wang Hao. It was his face in the video. Who would have thought that the mouth shape he made was his own constellation.

simple?Simple.

So why wasn't it easy to find out?Because the answer is so simple that it does not conform to fixed thinking.

The rules are terrible, and they can understand people's thinking patterns thoroughly.

I like to go retrograde and go the other way.

Sometimes the least likely is the answer.

But now that everyone understands this truth, they will still be trapped the next time they look for clues.

"The clue of the video indicates a message." Chen Yang said, "Wang Hao was not a monster at the time, and he didn't realize that this was a reminder of his identity given by the rules to the taskers, otherwise he would have concealed the video."

The mineral water bottle on Chen Yang's chin was taken away by Chao Jian, and he grabbed the opponent's leg in time to avoid falling to the ground: "A monster only knows that it is a monster when it is time, and it didn't know it before."

Pan Lin didn't know when to take notes in a small notebook: "What time?"

"Nine in the morning, it's time for work." Chen Yang said.

There was a dead silence in the corridor.

Ten seconds later, there was a "ding" sound in the dim light, and Zheng Zhitan lit a cigarette.

This is the only sound around.

Two reminders of this task emerged in Chen Yang's mind. One was that they had to survive in half of the A3 building for four days, and now they had just completed half of it.

This one-half of progress directly pushes out the meaning behind another hint.

23 divided by 23, divided by the number of people, is equal to 1.

Chen Yang has been thinking about what "1" stands for ever since he heard this reminder from Pan Lin.

Everyone has also shared their own ideas, some of them think that they want them to attack and kill each other, some people think it is a 1V1 mode.

Neither of those guesses could be verified.

Chen Yang's bloodshot eyes shone brightly. According to these two rounds, "1" means—no matter how the number of taskers changes, one of them is a monster.

Chen Yang expressed his thoughts.

Chao Jian threw the half-drinked water into Chen Yang's arms.

Chen Yang stroked the body of the bottle a few times, then turned his head and whispered to him: "Is the solution to 1 correct?"

"You think it's right." Chao Jian said.

Chen Yang observed the look of Chao Jian: "Brother is to blame for slow solution."

Zhao Jian silently pulled his lips and laughed, and pushed away the face that was close at hand, without using much force, like touching.

It was quiet around.

The light from the flashlight hit the wall and scattered among the tired group of people, blurring their expressions.

So far, counting the female white-collar worker who did not participate in group activities, 12 people survived. At nine o'clock tomorrow morning, one of them will become the third monster in the mission.

After a while, Pan Lin's voice was like a gnat: "Is it possible for anyone?"

Li Zheng said at the same time as him: "Is the monster random, or is the candidate determined from the beginning of the mission?"

Neither question was answered.

Chen Yang glanced at his partner, then at Zheng Zhitan, who was thinking about something while puffing out smoke rings, and said in a deep voice, "It's not clear yet."

Pan Lin was like asking a question at school: "Then when I go to work tomorrow, will people suddenly become mutated, or...in the beginning, the monster turned into a human and stayed in the team. It thought it was a human, and waited until that time. Realize your true identity, and then switch from the camp of missionaries to the camp of monsters?"

Those are two concepts with completely different natures.

The surrounding air was sucked away in an instant, and the suffocating feeling of hypoxia swept over. One or two began to have difficulty breathing, and their limbs became weak.

In the latter case, neither Xiao Huanyu yesterday nor Wang Hao today is human.

The real ones didn't come to work, or... died at the start of the mission?

"Baby, it's a good thing to love learning, but," Zheng Zhiqin picked up Pan Lin, and carried him towards the corridor like a chicken, "If you have any questions, find the answer yourself, and be a good kid who loves to use his brain."

Pan Lin struggled a few times: "Brother Tan, if I become a monster, what will you do to me?"

"You should think, what would you do to me if you were a monster." Zheng Zhitan walked into the corridor and threw him away.

Pan Lin screamed twice in pain, and he stood up against the wall: "Brother Qin, don't worry, if I become a monster, I will definitely tell you what the taboo is."

After finishing speaking, he lowered his head in embarrassment, the words were so fake that he was ashamed.

If you really become a monster, how can you care about those.

Maybe he would lure Zheng Zhitan into violating the taboo for the sake of work targets... Ah, that won't work, then it's a violation, and it can't be violated.

Pan Lin couldn't help but think that if Zheng Zhitan became a monster, he hoped that Zheng Zhitan's obsession with ugliness would remain.

At that time, Zheng Zhitan might be able to see him as the ugliest and let him go.

As soon as Pan Lin looked up, he found Zheng Zhitan standing two floors below the stairs, looking at him with a half-smile and a cigarette in his mouth, as if he had guessed his mind, he flicked down his flashlight in a panic, hiding his expression in the secretly.

Zheng Zhitan turned around and went downstairs.

Pan Lin ducked behind and said without hesitation: "Brother Tan, why don't you knock me out..." He realized what he said, and when he thought about it, he thought it was the best policy, and his voice trembled with excitement, "I Being dizzy all the time, not talking or moving, wouldn't that be able to avoid taboos and survive the remaining two days!"

Zheng Zhitan stopped at the top of the stairs, turned his head and smiled: "You can play tricks."

Pan Lin couldn't guess what the man was thinking, so he asked cautiously, "Will that work?"

Zheng Zhitan said: "It won't work." He turned to the first floor, continued walking, and said casually: "The mission will change."

Pan Lin's heart was pounding: "What variable?"

The man in front didn't answer.

"Brother Tan, if I die, can you sell the house and luxury accessories you gave me and donate the money to charity?" Pan Lin sobbed.

Zheng Zhitan: "What?"

"I want to accumulate some virtue, so that I can have a good pregnancy in my next life, and stop having an asymmetrical deformed face." Pan Lin wiped his eyes, "Then I will have friends."

Zheng Zhitan said: "When you die, everything in the real world will be erased, and the house will not be yours."

Pan Lin looked at the back of the man's head: "Oh..."

Chen Yang smelled the smell of smoke left by Zheng Zhitan, his mouth was a little dry, he took out the cigarette case and lighter from his backpack: "Zheng Zhitan plans to train Pan Lin?"

"What do you care about that ugly monster surnamed Zheng?" Chao Jian said in a bad tone.

Chen Yang was dumbfounded, the rule of "one positive and one negative" couldn't help popping up in his mind, and thinking of Chaojian's aesthetics, Zheng Zhitan's aesthetics, a bold idea exploded in his heart.

Chao Jian let Chen Yang get closer and look at him.

One minute passed, two minutes passed... At three minutes, Chao Jian couldn't bear it any longer: "What are you thinking?"

Chen Yang carefully probed: "Are you also fond of ugliness?"

Chao Jian vaguely took a deep breath: "Fart!"

"The saliva is all sprayed up." Chen Yang wiped his face, wiped his hands from the eyes and nose all the way down, and when he passed the lips, he found that Chao Jian was staring at him, and raised his eyebrows in confusion.

Chao Jane looked up at the sea water.

Chen Yang flicked the lighter, and suddenly heard Chao Jian say: "I don't like ugliness, I have normal aesthetics."

"……"fart.

Chen Yang really wanted to return those two words to Chao Jian, but he shook his head, this guy didn't even find a better excuse, coaxing him was like coaxing a three-year-old child.

"Don't believe me?" She looked at him at Jane.

Chen Yang said: "I really want to believe it, but..."

"You're not ugly." Chao Jian interrupted him.

Chen Yang was stunned for a few seconds, he touched the tip of his nose: "Then I believe your aesthetics is normal."

"No, why do you see other handsome men and beautiful women..." Chen Yang opened his mouth and didn't make a sound. He felt that he touched something, but he didn't know what it was.

Maybe he knows?

Chen Yang pressed the lighter, the flames danced in his eyes, he looked at Chao Jian.

Chao Jian took Chen Yang's lighter, and put the cluster of flames under the cigarette near his mouth: "Does anyone else have anything to do with you?"

Chen Yang smelled the smell of burning cigarettes: "No."

"Then what are you asking?"

Chen Yang stroked Chao Jian's hair: "Okay, okay, don't ask." He took a cigarette and sighed, "I thought I was ugly to you too."

Chao Jian grabbed the hand that was still on the top of his hair, pinched the ulna of that hand, and rubbed it imperceptibly before letting it go.

Chen Yang was about to drag Chao Jian downstairs when Brother Yu called to stop him.

"Mr. Chen," Brother Yu said, pointing to the three people by the wall, "Mr. Zhang, Sister Wang, and Liu Liu have all passed out. Should we put them here overnight, or?"

"Go downstairs." Chen Yang said.

Brother Yu picked Liu Liu, who weighed the lightest. Even so, when he carried the person on his back, his legs still swayed.

Chen Yang looked at Brother Yu, he was tall and burly, how could even someone like Liu Liu have such a hard time reciting it, so weak?

Brother Yu gritted his teeth and walked towards the end of the corridor with Liu Liu on his back.

Chen Yang didn't look any more, he lowered his head to carry Sister Wang on his back, and looked at Jian as if he wanted to eat people.

The mute was so close to Qiao Qiao that they suddenly took a breath of cold air. They quickly took Sister Wang from Chen Yang's hand, and each of them helped her down the stairs.

When Chen Yang came to his senses, Mr. Zhang had already been scooped up by Li Zheng.

"It's nothing to do with me." As soon as Chen Yang finished speaking, a warm body lay on his back.

The young man wrapped his arms and legs around him skillfully and neatly.

Chen Yang picked up the man on his back, and walked steadily at the end of the line.

"Judging from Wang Hao's performance, monsters are also stupid." Li Zheng muttered behind Mr. Zhang's back, "Suddenly I feel that the hope of getting out alive is a little higher."

Qiao Qiao put Sister Wang's arm on his shoulders, and pursed his lips: "It is said in the horoscope book that today is the lucky day for Aries, good luck."

"Wang Hao's violation was cleared, and he didn't get off work smoothly, which shows that the constellation book sometimes doesn't work." Li Zheng said.

Qiao Qiao was listless.

The mute stopped in her tracks, and when Qiao Qiao looked over, she gave a soft "ah" a few times.

"I'm fine." Qiao Qiao pretended to be relaxed, "It's fine."

"Fairy, the horoscope book also has spirits," Li Zheng grinned back, "It's not suitable to go to work yesterday, that's why it's very clever."

He breathed out: "We really shouldn't come to work."

"Li Zheng!" Qiao Qiao's face turned pale, and his baby voice was thinner and sharper than usual, "Don't complain!"

Li Zheng heard the girl's concern and nervousness, he paused, and said knowingly: "I love to go to work, I like to go to work, I love to death, no one can stop me from going to work."

"..."

Everyone ate something casually and rested in the hall.

The puddle of liquid at the door has disappeared, along with several headless corpses and the bloody hexagon.

Sitting next to Chao Jian, Chen Yang watched him sort out the information points in the star chasing diary. The cigarette around his mouth had accumulated long ash, which would fall off at any time.

As soon as the mute came over, the pinch of cigarette ash fell on Chen Yang's trousers. He waved the ash off with his hand, and before he could speak, the cigarette was pulled out from between his lips and teeth by Chao Jian.

Chen Yang turned his head to look at the little mute: "Why are you listless?"

The mute didn't make a sound. She counted how many times Chen Yang's saliva drank a day, but found that she couldn't count it, too many times.

And Chen Yang didn't feel anything wrong at all.

Chao Jian is really capable.

If Chen Yang is eaten one day, there probably won't be much psychological struggle.

"Sister, what are you thinking, why is your face as red as a tomato?" Chen Yang couldn't help laughing.

The mute covered her face and shook her head. She took out a post-it note to write.

[Brother, do you remember that I told you that I have an intuition that is different from ordinary people since I was a child? 】

"Remember." Chen Yang said, "In the mission at the train station, you said you approached me because your intuition told you that if you make friends with me, the chances of getting out alive are higher."

[I can't do it this time, my intuition is useless. 】

Chen Yang recalled what the little mute said before, "The monster is not extra", "It is among us", "It was there from the beginning", "More than one", all hit.

"You are amazing." Chen Yang said with a smile.

The mute waved her hand, not very strong, she wanted to tell Chen Yang that she felt that she would not be able to make it to the end, to be precise, she would not be able to survive this task.

Chen Yang felt strong anxiety from the dumb boy, he wanted to comfort him but couldn't speak.

No one knows what will happen tomorrow and what the situation will be on the last day.

Chen Yang maintained the posture of talking to the little mute, and in his sight was the work card around her neck, shaking and shaking.

The mute thought that Chen Yang wanted to see it, so he took it down and gave it to him.

Chen Yang caught it casually, turned it over, something flashed through his mind suddenly, his hand shook, and the work card fell to the ground.

He overlooked a horrific detail!

Most of everyone's work permits don't have a photo on them, and those who hang the certificates may not be the owners of the certificates.

The mute was frightened by Chen Yang's expression, she didn't bother to pick up her work card, and wrote eagerly.

【elder brother? 】

Chen Yang suppressed the thoughts in his eyes: "It's nothing, I just thought of something." He looked around the doors and windows in his field of vision, it was all dark sea water, and there seemed to be countless pairs of eyes looking at them in the sea.

"Jingle Bell--"

The sudden ringing of the phone instantly froze the air in the hall.

Everyone on the sofa seat stood up.

The desk phone rang, but no one moved.

"Is the phone a reminder of the identity of the next monster?" Li Zhengkuang rubbed the goose bumps on his arms.

"Then if I hang up, will there be no more?" Pan Lin stared wide-eyed, "I have to pick it up quickly, just go quickly!"

However, neither Pan Lin who said this nor the audience took any measures.

Who will pick it up?

The phone was still ringing, and Chen Yang went. The moment he took a step, there was the sound of crutches behind him, and his partner followed him all the time.

Chen Yang stopped in front of the phone, connected it, and turned on the speakerphone.

There was the sound of breathing on the other end of the phone. Someone was panting, one after another, as if they were being squeezed out of their throats, like a blown bellows.

"Hu-hu-hu-"

The call time is five seconds.

Chen Yang recorded it, the panting sound for five seconds, very vague, as if separated by a barrier, not sure if it was a man or a woman.

"If I usually hear this wheezing, I will think that the other party is doing some kind of exercise." Li Zheng coughed.

"Sports?" Chen Yangfu was in his heart, and he looked at Zheng Zhitan, an old athlete present.

Zheng Zhitan raised her lips: "I won't pant like that more than four times."

Witness Pan Lin nodded to Chen Yang.

Chen Yang: "..."

"Are you..." Qiao Qiao said uncertainly, "climbing the stairs?"

"Is this the sound of the tasker climbing the stairs just now?" Li Zheng followed her train of thought, his face changed, "But, everyone climbed the stairs just now."

"Listen to see if I look like me." He gasped as he spoke.

Doubt yourself.

"How about we all record our breathing and compare it with the one on the phone?" Brother Yu suggested.

This proposal was adopted.

It's just that after recording the gasp, they didn't lock on to the target.

The phone at the service desk didn't ring again, and everyone went back to the sofa chairs and sat down, fainting still fainting, brewing drowsiness brewing drowsiness, communicating with each other.

When it was almost ten o'clock, Chen Yang and Chao Jian went to the toilet.

"Don't try the phone password, we'll talk about it tomorrow." Chen Yang washed his face and looked at the blue eyes of Jane through the mirror.

"Hmm" to Jane.

Chen Yang glanced at Jane's still dragging left leg, and thought of Zheng Zhitan, that guy's arms, legs and face were injured, but he seemed to be fine.

Zheng Zhitan's pain system is very abnormal, probably caused by psychological effects.

Chen Yang suspected that Zheng Zhitan once hypnotized himself "no pain" on the edge of life and death, and over time, a protective wall of self-paralysis was created.

The back of his neck was pinched, and Chen Yang came back to his senses. Just as he was about to talk about Zheng Zhitan, he suddenly met Shang Chaojian's gloomy gaze, and his spine felt a chill.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yang asked.

The corners of Chao Jian's eyes were a little scarlet: "I want to bite you."

Chen Yang: "...Huh?"

"Brother, calm down, there is something to discuss, biting is wrong." Chen Yang broke his neck away from Chao Jian's fingers, his sister liked to bite him very much, and it didn't hurt when he was a child, it was like grinding his teeth.

When you grow up...

The younger sister is still obsessed with biting the same place. Really, Chen Yang feels very sour when he thinks about it now.

Chao Jian stared at Chen Yang for a moment, then lay on his back: "Let's go."

Chen Yang carried him on his back, thought about it, and persuaded him earnestly: "Don't have that kind of thinking in the future."

"Big children can't bite, and adults can't bite." Chen Yang said as he walked, "If you bite me a watch, I can't help but give you back one. That's not good, you say yes."

The sound of warm breathing brushed against the ear, very long, and the person on the back fell asleep.

Chen Yang: "..."

In the second half of the night, Chen Yang slept very restlessly. The water vapor seemed to form an invisible tissue, covering his nose, and he unconsciously opened his mouth to breathe.

The body was scooped up, and Chen Yang woke up instantly.

"It's me." Chao Jane stopped the fist he swung under his muscular reaction, "Go upstairs."

Without thinking at all, Chen Yang shouted to the others: "Go upstairs, go upstairs!"

His trust in Chao Jian has already penetrated into his bone marrow, crawled into his heart, entangled his soul, and surpassed his sensibility and reason.

However, the temporary teammates did not have such trust. Some of them went upstairs with their intuition, and some were still hesitant and slowly asking what was going on.

"Water!" Li Zheng, who had already run to the second floor, yelled, "Water is coming in, come up quickly!"

Boss Zhang and Sister Wang who were downstairs hurried upstairs.

The ground floor was flooded.

Everyone looked down from the second floor, and there was no sign of just waking up on their faces. They were disturbed by the change in front of them.

Brother Yu was still in shock: "Where did the water come from?"

Li Zheng shook his head, and said blankly, "Isn't it impossible to enter the building?" He pointed to the top of his head, and then pointed out the window, "The sea water is still kept out."

[The water on the first floor seems to seep from below. ] The mute held up a post-it note.

"So much?" Qiao Qiao muttered, "I have a bad feeling."

Everyone was silent.

Chen Yang whispered to Chao Jian, "I want to go downstairs."

Without saying anything, Chao Jian put away her crutches and opened her arms to him.

Not long after, Chen Yang and Chao Jian stood on the stairs on the first floor. He took Chao Jian's crutches and poked them into the water, then took the crutches back, and looked at the water marks on it.

"The water is knee high." Chen Yang said.

"That's okay." Brother Yu leaned closer, "Shall we go down?"

"Observe for a while first." Chen Yang handed the crutch to Chao Jian, staring at the water surface, he suddenly held his breath.

There is something in the water!