Chosen Prophet [Unlimited]

Four students participated in the Four Corners game. Xiao Hua was killed while playing the game. She wanted to find the real murderer who killed herself, so this obsession formed a consciousness space.

She repeated the story of the murder scene in this space, hoping that someone could help her find the real murderer.

In her opinion, the murderer is the four sleeping people on the left. There is no clue for analysis of the identity of the four people.

The player's task is to help Xiaohua find the real culprit.

As for Xiao Shuang, Xiao Short, and Xiao Ping who played games with her, these three people may be the real culprits, but Xiao Hua didn't realize it.

This is the conclusion everyone has made before.

Dongfang Yu finally raised a possibility that the three students might also have died in the game.

Dongfang Yu's words were quite reasonable, and for a while, everyone couldn't find anything to refute.

After she finished speaking, there was a moment of silence in carriage 2 because everyone was deep in thought.

Several players ran through their comprehensive inferences from beginning to end, and found that they couldn't seem to find any logical bugs, but they always felt something was wrong.

There seems to be a subtle sense of incongruity throughout, but no one has been able to find it out for a while.

Duan Yi also felt that something was wrong, he thought for a while, and said: "Dongfang Yu is right. But this leads to a new problem. All the inferences we have made so far, there are too many uncertainties in the middle. Just talking about Xiao Duan, Xiao Ping, and Xiao Shuang, they are very likely to be the murderer, or they may be the victim... It's so strange.

"There are only three chances to clear the level without injury. We have already used up two chances. If the ultimate task is to find the murderer for Xiaohua, I don't think it should be even sure how many victims there are. We should still What was overlooked."

Having said that, Duan Yi flipped through his notes. "Wait, let me review the experience of playing the Four Corners game for the first time."

There is only one last chance to pass the level without injury.

But now the victim is undecided, the motive is undecided, if the murderer is found, how to convey this to Xiaohua, the owner of the consciousness space, is another undecided matter...

Going into 3-2 with so much undecided and trying to figure it out in that time is a risky thing to do.

Therefore, Duan Yi thought that there must be some details that he had overlooked.

Closing his eyes, Duan Yi recalled the whole process of the four-corner game.

When entering the game, there are signs made of the four letters ABCD in the four corners of the ground.

Duan Yi is at point A, and Xiao Shuang, Xiaoping, and Xiao Duan are at points B, C, and D respectively.

Duan Yi remembers everyone's most original position as the 0th round of the game.

And each person's position changes once, which is regarded as a round of the game.

The first round of the game started when Xiao Short, who was behind Duan Yi, stepped forward and patted Duan Yi on the shoulder.At this time, Xiao Duan left point D where she was originally, and point D became empty.

Then, when Xiaoping at point C is patted on the shoulder by Xiaoshuang, walks to the empty position at point D, and coughs, it is considered that the first round of the game is over.

According to this calculation, the second round of the game started when Xiaoping at point D stepped forward and patted Xiaoshao's shoulder at point A.

If there are no so-called "ghosts", according to common sense, there will be an empty seat every round, and everyone will hear a cough.

From Duan Yi's point of view, when the game progresses to the 3rd round, 7th round, 11th round..., whenever these rounds are encountered, he will walk to an empty seat and cough.

As for the rounds in which other people met the vacancy and coughed, it is also very easy to summarize.

Small pair at point B: 2, 6, 10...

Xiaoping at point C: 1, 5, 9...

The shortness of point D: 4, 8, 12...

In other words, after the game started, the first cough was from Xiaoping, followed by Xiaoshuang, Duan Yi, and Xiaoduan, and after that, it was nothing more than a cycle.

Of course, this is without ghosts involved.

The situation is different when one more ghost joins the game.

From Duan Yi's point of view, when the game progressed to the third round, he did walk to an empty position, so he coughed and continued to move forward, only to touch a pair of ponytails, and then patted Xiaoshuang's shoulder with his palm down .

In the 7th round of the game, he didn't go to the empty spot, but encountered the double ponytail again.

Then the real culprit who pretended to be a ghost was inserted between the third round and the seventh round of the game.

Thinking of this, Duan Yi carefully recalled that before the 7th round of the game, coughing sounds from other positions were normal.

Then it can be further inferred that Duan Yi walked from point C to point D in the seventh round of the game, and the person he touched at that time was no longer Xiao Shuang.

Therefore, there is a great possibility that when Duan Yi was walking towards point D, the real murderer came to point D in advance, pretending to touch Xiao Shuang, and let Xiao Shuang continue to move forward.

And the real murderer himself played Xiaoshuang, waiting for Duan Yi to shoot him.

At first, Duan Yi thought it was impossible for this to happen.

Because the game space built by the cardboard box is too small, Duan Yi only needs a few big steps to go to point D. During this period, a person squeezes in out of nowhere and will kill people in the later stage. He wants the whole process not to be noticed by Duan Yi. It's almost impossible.

But that is consciousness space, a projection of real events.

If you zoom in to a large classroom, it's entirely possible that this happened in the real world.

When Duan Yi reasoned to this place before and told everyone else his thoughts, no one thought there was a problem.

But when the reply reached here, the tense strings in his mind seemed to be touched suddenly by some inspiration, and there was a clang, and then Duan Yi suddenly knew what he had overlooked.

However, Duan Yi did not express his new ideas for the time being, but continued to review the game.

From the 7th round of the game, the cough disappeared.

From the 21st round of the game, the coughing sound reappeared.And this is Duan Yi's first cough.

According to their previous analysis of the murderer's action line, the murderer killed Xiaoshuang at this time, dragged her to the center of the field, and then pretended that nothing happened, and re-entered the four-corner game.

One person was missing, so the coughing sound reappeared.

——The murderer was standing in front of Duan Yi all the time. When he came back after killing someone, he left his position and went to the next position to pat Xiaoping on the shoulder.So when Duan Yi walked forward, he would find that the position in front of him was empty.

So in this case, the murderer killed Xiao Shuang happened in the 21st round of the game.

At this point in the replay, Duan Yi couldn't help thinking, even in a real big classroom, killing people and dragging corpses, is there no sound at all?Could Xiaohua really not hear anything?

Squinting his eyes, Duan Yi continued to review the game.

Following the previous line of reasoning, in the 21st round of the game, the real murderer did not leave after killing someone, but continued to play with everyone.Therefore, there will be no abnormal situation of two empty slots in the game.

Everyone continued to play a few rounds, and found that the situation of the game had returned to the beginning - each round had a different cough, and the sound of the cough was exactly the four people Duan Yi, Xiao Shuang, Xiao Ping and Xiao Duan dispatched.

So everyone felt that the game was over and the ghost had been sent away.

Short is the one who announces the end of the game.She ran to turn on the light, but then she said it was broken and couldn't be turned on, and asked if anyone had a torch.

Regarding this process, Duan Yi recorded two doubts before.

First, where did the little short flashlight go?

Because it concerns the space of consciousness, this problem has been explained.

So now there is only one doubtful point - dozens of rounds of the four-corner game have been played. If Xiao Short hadn't deliberately recorded which corner she went to and knew where she was, how could she easily find the light switch?

Regarding this second doubt, Duan Yi thought about it for a while, but he also figured it out.

There is no light in the conscious space, but the real game place may not be able to do this.

Duan Yi can't see the light because Xiaohua can't see the light.

Duan Yi previously speculated that during the game, the players' eyes may be blindfolded.

The reason why players do this is probably that the place itself is not dark enough, and it is somewhat bright.

"There is light outside, but this game requires complete darkness. I'm afraid the ghosts don't want us to see it. Besides, if we really saw a ghost, how terrible would it be? So let's play the game with our eyes blindfolded! Even if it is really recruited Ghost, if we can't see it, we won't be so scared!"

It is likely that someone made a suggestion like this before the game started.

In this way, the fact that Xiao Duan can accurately find the light switch is easy to explain.

——She thinks that the game is over after sending the ghost away, so of course the blindfold can be removed.

Now that she had taken off the blindfold, she could of course find the switch easily in the dim light.

The real game field has light, which can be used for everyone to identify the direction, but this light is not enough to illuminate.

So Xiao Duan wanted to find a flashlight, so he asked who had a flashlight.

Finally, the lamp was repaired, and everyone found Xiao Shuang lying in a pool of blood.

After the replay ended, Duan Yi looked at the other players and suddenly said, "I think the question Dongfang Yu raised is actually very important. Who is the victim?"

Peng Cheng blinked and asked, "I'm not sure now, is the victim Xiaohua, or all four students were killed, right?"

Surprisingly, Duan Yi shook his head: "This space of consciousness must belong to Xiaohua. Because everything is observed from her perspective. We can accurately capture her perspective through this game, and even through our own The feeling of the game, guessing how she felt when she played the game. But it doesn't apply to other people. For example, I have no way of knowing where the little short flashlight went, it just disappeared out of thin air."

When the topic changed, Duan Yi raised a very crucial question.

——"The consciousness space belongs to Xiaohua, does that mean she must be the victim? Is she definitely looking for the real culprit for herself?"

Peng Cheng blinked several times this time. "Damn it, you've confused me!"

Duan Yi looked at Bai Sinian: "Let me ask you, are there any details in that photo that you didn't mention? For example, where are the four of them standing?"

Bai Sinian thought for a while, and suddenly thought of something, and immediately sat up straight: "Yes! Xiao Hua and Xiao Shuang are very close! They are holding hands, cheeks to cheeks, very close! But the other two are very close to them! is farther away. And—

"Xiao Shuang is in Class D. Xiao Hua, Xiao Duan, and Xiao Ping are in Class A. They are not in the same class!"

Duan Yi suddenly said: "That's right."

Peng Cheng immediately asked, "Why is it right?"

As for the other players, some reacted quickly, while others looked at Duan Yi with half-knowledge.

Duan Yi looked at Bai Sinian and Yun Hao, and asked: "All three of us have been in 3-2. Do you think that the items there are very old? Like equipment from the 80s or early 90s?"

"Yes. The flashlight, bed, and suitcase are all old-fashioned." Bai Sinian said, "And that summer camp poster, bright blue and bright yellow, looks very ugly."

"We speculate that this car is equipped with souls, so Xiaohua must be dead. This is unmistakable. In addition, the 3-2 space is indeed her consciousness space. But have you ever thought about a question—— Did the things in this space of consciousness have to have happened before she died?

"Besides, if Xiao Hua's request is not to find the murderer for herself, is it possible... it is for her good friend, Xiao Shuang?"

Speaking of this, Duan Yi explained again: "We reasoned all the way before, and I always felt that there was a sense of violation. Now I found this violation. That is, I saw Xiaoshuang's body. I stood in Xiaoshuang's body. Behind her arms, patting her on the shoulder, and finally witnessing her death... the whole process feels very real. This means that Xiaohua, the master of the consciousness space, feels real about it.

"If the person who died was Xiao Hua, then who was the person who saw Xiao Shuang's body? This is the most important point of violation.

"I saw Xiao Shuang with a dagger stuck in her back and fell into a pool of blood. It was probably because Xiao Hua had seen this scene. Therefore, I am afraid that the real victim was Xiao Shuang, not Xiao Hua.

"Xiaohua experienced a terrible night. Her best friend Xiaoshuang died that night, but she didn't know who the murderer was. So in this space of consciousness, she asked us to go through the whole story from her perspective, so that We find the murderer.

"Only in this way, everything we players see after participating in this game, our perspective and mission, will be more logical and consistent."

Pausing for a moment, Duan Yi said: "Maybe you can imagine it boldly, maybe Xiao Hua didn't die until a long time later. After that summer camp, she lived for many, many years. She had no other regrets in her life. The only regret was that she didn't find a way to kill herself The real murderer of a good friend.

"Then, in Xiaohua's consciousness, why did Xiaoping and Xiaoduan's suspects be ruled out? Four of them were playing games, Xiaoshuang died, and the other three were alive. Of course, the suspicion is the greatest. Over the years, the police must have arrested the three of them. After repeated investigations, they were finally ruled out as suspects. Therefore, at least in Xiao Hua's eyes, the suspicion of the other two has been ruled out. That's why she thought that the murderer was one of the other four people who were sleeping soundly.

"Although there are few clues at the moment, all reasoning must be supported. From this perspective, why Xiaohua excludes those three people can be completely explained."

After hearing this analysis, Dongfang Yu commented after a while: "It makes sense. But it's not hard enough. I mean, all of this doesn't seem to be enough for a stone hammer. Is there any more decisive factor?"

Looking up at her, Duan Yi replied with certainty: "Yes."

Hearing Duan Yi's answer, Peng Cheng suddenly became interested and asked, "Where? What stone hammer?"

"When I was playing the game, there was Xiao Shuang in front of me. I touched her ponytail from the beginning to the end, and felt that her height had not changed. This is Xiaohua's consciousness, which means that when Xiaohua was playing the game, she also had a similar relationship with me. Same judgment and feeling, right?"

Duan Yidao, "When you play this game, you should be blindfolded, and then move with your hands on the corner of the wall. Playing the ghost game in the dark, with fear and fear, you must feel everything you touch with your hands. Very profound. So even though so many years have passed, Xiaohua still remembers everything she touched with her hands clearly.

"When I was in the seventh round, I was supposed to go to an empty seat, but there was someone in the empty seat at that time, with a ponytail, and the same height as Xiao Shuang. If Xiao Shuang was replaced by the murderer at that time. It means that the murderer is the same height as Xiao Shuang Pretty much, or at least she's taller than Xiao Shuang, and she can squat down to imitate Xiao Shuang's height, and besides, she might be wearing a wig, right?"

Peng Cheng nodded very vigorously: "It must be right! She also needs to be able to imitate Xiao Shuang's cough! Because the frequency and sound of the cough you heard later is correct? That means that the murderer imitated Xiao Shuang's cough after killing someone. Shuang played with you for a while. So you didn't notice the abnormality until you turned on the light."

"Yes. Logically, it's not bad. But after me? After Yunhao and Bai Sinian entered the game, although their experience is generally similar to mine, the details are quite different. Yunhao stood behind Xiaoping. , right? He has a crew cut from the beginning to the end. Could it be that the murderer himself has a crew cut, and he first wore a double ponytail wig to play Xiao Shuang, and then took off the wig to play Xiao Ping?"

Duan Yi asked, "Even if he can do this, how can he imitate the voice? Doesn't he just happen to be a master imitator, who can imitate both Xiaoping's voice and Xiaoshuang's?

"In fact, the most critical problem is that he doesn't have the clone technique. In this game, after killing a person, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the game, he has to replace the victim for a period of time. He can't play two people at the same time. "

Duan Yi said with certainty: "So there is only one victim."

"When there is only one victim—" After a short pause, Duan Yi continued, "We have to think, why does Xiaohua design such a repeated consciousness space? Why does she let different people die every time? Besides, Xiaohua Why not pick people who can play the game, why does it seem like any of us can participate in the game?

"In addition, she didn't make any requirements on the positions of our players in the game. I chose A at random. If I stood at point D, the person in front of me would no longer be a little pair. I just I can't tell if the ponytail of the victim, Xiao Shuang, has changed. For the same reason, Yun Hao also randomly stood behind Xiaoping. Why is that?"

"Wait, wait a minute..."

It was Peng Cheng who interrupted Duan Yi, and he asked: "Don't ask so many questions. Let's go back to the place where there are several victims. From Xiaohua's perspective, from the beginning to the end of the game, it's like attracting ghosts. It’s like the ghost has left again. Then, a murderer who killed so many people in a row, but also cooperates with everyone to play the game, making the game look like four people are playing, this is impossible. I understand this. I have no problem.

"But is it possible that two murderers come and play two people respectively? In this way, four people are still playing the game.

"Also, is it possible that the four-corner game lasted more than one round, and there is a possibility that the murderer participated in it multiple times and killed multiple people?"

"No." Duan Yi answered him decisively, "Impossible.

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