The Easter Egg Game

For Song Hanzhang, no matter when he thinks of his childhood and most of his youth, it will not be a pleasant memory. Even after so many years after he completely got rid of that kind of life, he still has dreams from time to time The scene at that time.

This is almost an eternal theme throughout his dreams.In the dream, he is always a marionette, repeating the movements that will never make mistakes under the supervision of countless eyes. Once he crosses the "limit", he will fall into the abyss with one foot. Then woke up from the dream.

After many years, he returned to this basement again, and the memories were opened up as a matter of course, but this time, he was no longer alone.

Song Hanzhang pondered for a long time, then slowly said: "My adoptive father, Song Lv, is a well-known policeman in the field of criminal investigation, especially good at solving serial vicious cases, and enjoys a high reputation in the police circle at a young age. The case committed by my biological father is very interesting. It took three or four years to figure out the cocoon, and finally locked the suspect. During this process, he met my mother. She is a well-educated woman and is said to have a gentle and kind personality. , but the paradox is that she was an ardent admirer of my biological father, even though she had never lived, but she was attracted by his cruelty, cunning and genius."

Lin Jue was dumbfounded, he never thought that Song Hanzhang's life experience would be so bizarre.Although I have heard that serial murderers often have fanatical admirers, Lin Jue doesn't understand the psychology of this.

"She approached Song Lu very enthusiastically, got a lot of information from him, and even contacted my biological father before Song Lu-this is something I can't figure out. Based on what I know about Song Lu, he This person is very sensitive and good at identifying lies, but he didn't notice the abnormality in her behavior, even if he likes her, his judgment shouldn't drop to this point." Song Hanzhang frowned.

"Wait...you mean your adoptive father likes your mother?" Lin Jue was dumbfounded again.

"Well, he has a successful career, a normal sexual orientation, and is not a bachelor, but he has never married. I can't think of any more reasonable reason except for this reason, and I can more or less hear that meaning from his words. He I always feel that my biological father has inherently evil criminal genes. His parents, that is, my grandparents, were all shot, and all living brothers and sisters were in prison without exception. And my mother...he felt She is the most gentle and kind woman in the world, and her only mistake was being deceived by my biological father, who gave birth to me out of wedlock, and later suffered from postpartum depression and committed suicide." Song Hanzhang's tone was very light, as if talking about A thing that has nothing to do with him, "He thinks that my body has the most evil blood, but it also has the most beautiful things. He wants to get rid of this evil nature from my genes, and the method is of course the day after tomorrow. teach."

"He made me a set of rules and asked me to follow the rules at all times. As long as I can remember, I have to report to him the whole day's activities every day, including my thoughts. He is too good at judging other people's lies, When I was a child, it was difficult for me to fool him. I had to be careful in everything I did. I had to think carefully about whether it was violent and cruel by stepping on a cockroach. He had obviously started to become neurotic in this regard, and the real What makes me feel creepy is actually an incident that happened after I was in elementary school."

Lin Jue pricked up his ears and listened. Even though he had never experienced such a life controlled to suffocate, even if he just imagined it, he felt that he was going crazy.

"One day when I came home from school, I saw a stray cat that was hit by a car on the road. Several children picked up the cat to the side of the road. At that time, the stray cat was still breathing, but it didn't take long for it to die. These children There was a lot of discussion about hanging it up. According to folklore, cats have nine lives. If they are hung up after death, they will not come back to life. I watched for a while out of curiosity, and I saw them hang the dead cat in the When I reported the day's activities to him that night, I didn't mention it, because in my opinion, there was nothing to say about it, and the wild cat was neither injured by me nor by me. I just passed by and looked at it for a while, and I didn’t have anything to say. But Song Lv doesn’t think so.”

Song Hanzhang paused, and his tone changed slightly: "He asked me why I watched it die and why didn't I save it? If my mother saw this scene, she would definitely take that She was taken to the pet hospital for treatment by a stray cat, she is such a kind person.”

Lin Jue opened his mouth and was speechless for a while.Song Lv's logic is too strange. He is using Song Hanzhang's mother's behavior to demand him, but this is actually very unreasonable.

"Actually, this matter itself is nothing special. He thinks that I did something wrong. At most, he asks me to go to the basement to reflect on myself. After going to school, there is another kind of punishment, which is to write a self-criticism. He basically does not use corporal punishment. I, at best, hit my palms with a ruler. As usual, I went to this basement to 'reflect on myself'. Even if I don't feel that I have done anything wrong, I have to think in the way of Song Law, 'sincerely' Find out the mistakes and criticize him. But this time, I feel scared."

Song Hanzhang looked at the familiar wall lamp, as well as the familiar tables and chairs, and asked to himself, "How did he know my every move?"

There was a chill behind Lin Jue, he remembered what Song Hanzhang said just now - for a while I liked staying here alone, until I found out that there are hidden cameras monitoring my every move .

"Maybe he just happened to see me on the way home from work. It's most likely a coincidence, but I don't believe in such a coincidence. I'm going to give it a try. So I took the risk of doing an experiment. A piece of paper, on which I wrote a diary. In addition to today’s events, the content of the diary also complained about Song Lv’s strictness in a child’s tone. Then I folded the paper and hid it in my pocket. Fold the paper I folded in a small scrap of paper that I scraped off when tearing the paper. The scrap of paper was only as big as a grain of rice, and it would fall out when I opened it. Unless I knew it in advance, it would be hard to find. Although It's a little risky, but it's the most covert way I can think of at that age."

"After the confinement was over, I washed as usual and hid this folded diary under the newspaper used as a bedding in the drawer of the desk. Three days later, I pretended to remember keeping a diary again and wrote the second diary. I hid it in the same room. In one place, I 'by the way' took out the first diary and opened it to take a look... I was careful when I opened it, but no matter how cautious and careful I was, the scraps of paper stuck inside were still gone."

"From that day on, I knew that I was being watched by Song Lu all the time."

A cold feeling haunted Lin Jue. He felt terrible from the bottom of his heart, and felt sorry for Song Hanzhang.

He could imagine that this fear of being controlled by others is like a gangrene, which has been haunting Song Hanzhang since he can remember. Even if Song Lu is dead, the shadow he created will haunt Song Hanzhang all his life.

In a sense, Song Lu has succeeded, he completely changed Song Hanzhang's life.Without him, Song Hanzhang might have become a criminal, an ordinary person, or even a kind and dedicated person like Shen Tuhong.But he wouldn't be what he is now, he wouldn't hide himself deeply forever, he wouldn't have a skeptical attitude towards everything, and he wouldn't have this deep-rooted restlessness and indifference.

"This kind of life continued until I was 16 years old. At that time, I was mature enough, at least I could perfectly disguise the appearance Song Lu wanted. He was basically convinced that I was 'corrected'. He was very Satisfied, proud, even proud. He has finally 'improved' the dirty genes left to me by my father, and I am becoming more and more like my mother, gentle and elegant, hard-working, and kind to others... …In short, it’s not like what I am now, and I also think that I am well disguised, and the only person who can see through me at a glance is Lu Yan.”

——Your appearance is really ridiculous, just like me, ah no, you pretend to be more presentable than me.Lu Ren, who hadn't seen him for a few years, walked around Song Hanzhang a few times with a smile, and dropped such a sentence mockingly.

"Lu Yan's mother is Song Lu's younger sister, that is to say, Song Lu is Lu Yan's uncle, but the two of them hate each other, and he thinks that Lu Yan also needs corrective education, but Lu Yan's mother dotes on her son. After Yan went home and filed a complaint, he never bought his account again. Lu Yan was very free when he was a child, because his family opened a martial arts gym, and he hung out there since he was a child. When he was on holiday, he went to his grandparents’ house in the deep mountains of the north. Calling cats and dogs to bully pheasants and hares, sometimes you can’t see him for a few days, it’s almost a free-range wild animal.”

Lin Jue couldn't help interjecting: "Did he receive any stimulation when he was a child?"

Otherwise, how did he become such a perverted character?Lin Jue cursed in his heart.

"No. His family relationship is harmonious, his parents are still alive, and his personality is also very good. He is not a wealthy family, but he is also a well-off family. As for his personality, he can only be said to be born. At most, this game gave him the opportunity to indulge himself. You'll see him in college, and it's already shown that he hasn't been that bad before."

Lin Jue reluctantly agreed with this statement.

"In that year, Song Lu died. The cause of death was a very common car accident. The car accident caused serious intracranial injury and severe cerebral edema. The doctor removed a piece of his skull to prevent the cerebral edema from compressing the nerves, but in the end the injury was too severe. I died again. Life is amazing. At that time, my mood was probably that of a prisoner who was about to finish his sentence and suddenly learned that he had been wronged and acquitted. Anyway, from that day on, I was completely free, and I no longer needed to report or write a review. , I don’t need to be locked up, I can do whatever I want, and I don’t have to think about it. But habit is a terrible thing. Until now, I still follow the trajectory he drew. I don’t know how long this habit will last. , but one day, I will be free."

"Of course you will be free!" Lin Jue said with certainty, more sure than ever, "We will definitely leave this game alive, you will get what you want, and so will I."

Song Hanzhang looked at the wall lamp and slowly regained his determination from the confusion of reminiscence, and even smiled: "I'm not as confident as you."

Lin Jue touched the two burn marks on the back of his hand, and said a little embarrassedly: "I am not that confident, but I have confidence in you. I believe you can do it."

Bearing other people's expectations should not be a happy thing. For Song Hanzhang, he hates bearing Song Lv's expectations, but for Lin Jue's expectations, he feels the exact opposite.

He actually felt that this was not bad. This kind of expectation meant that he was trusted, almost unconditionally.In his eyes, this is already the most supreme emotion that a person can give another person.

"Aren't you afraid of me? Sometimes even I feel abnormal." Song Hanzhang asked, staring at Lin Jue so intently that it was almost greedy.

"Why should I be afraid of you? You don't want to kill me." Lin Jue asked inexplicably, "Even if your father is a serial murderer, it has nothing to do with you! He imposed his crimes on you It would have been ridiculous."

Song Hanzhang smiled, a rare non-sarcastic smile.

In fact, Lin Jue was wrong, he seriously thought about killing him - when the antibody was lost in the first round of the game.If Lin Jue chose to abandon him at that time, he would use his corpse as a prop to attract zombies and regain the antibodies from the corpses.

But Lin Jue's choice changed Song Hanzhang and his own destiny.

He still thinks that Lin Jue is an unbelievable person. For a stranger he has known for a few hours, he dared to risk his life, but he is not a good person like Shen Tuhong who has the heart of helping the world and saving others. Just a kind, courageous, and cute ordinary person.

"Senior, look there!" Lin Jue suddenly pulled Song Hanzhang's arm, and Song Hanzhang looked in the direction he was pointing, and the split iron gate was slowly disintegrating.

This kind of disintegration is like the mirror world in the second round of the game. After finding the correct answer, it will start to destroy itself, and the substances that built it here will quickly dissolve and turn into black fragments.

Song Hanzhang stood up and gave Lin Jue a hand: "It seems that the rules still restrict us from avoiding battle for a long time. In order to prevent us from delaying leaving the illusion after defeating a monster, once the staying time exceeds a certain limit, it will Forced us to leave. How are you feeling? Can you move around?"

Lin Jue nodded: "It's okay, I'm strong."

Song Hanzhang glanced at him distrustingly, and Lin Jue felt guilty: "Really, I have a good physique. I haven't been sick since I was a child, so I can support myself!"

"Then get ready, we'll meet a few more monsters before midnight."

The corners of the basement have been "steamed" by unknown forces. Among the large black debris, the two of them flashed before their eyes and returned to the place before entering the "black hole".

The street lamps faintly lit up the terrifying darkness around, and the campus seemed older than it was half an hour ago.

The time is now 21:35, 2 hours and 25 minutes until midnight.

PS: In addition, Song Lv’s criminal inheritance theory was popular a long time ago. I think it happened a hundred years ago. I don’t remember the details.The current mainstream attitude in academia is not very supportive. It is believed that this view ignores acquired influences. Even if you do inherit some genes that are prone to crime (such as lack of empathy), you may not be on the wrong path. However, the cause of crime is mainly in terms of acquired influence.So this is just an existing but non-mainstream point of view, but there is indeed a point of view that the files of babies carrying genes that are prone to crime should be secretly guided...