Chosen Prophet [Unlimited]

One p.m.

On a bench in a secluded alley, Duan Yi, Ming Ming, and Gu Liang sat in a row eating hot dogs.

Duan Yi sat in the middle, and tomorrow and Gu Liang sat on both sides of him.

After eating the hot dog, Duan Yi said: "Every time the psychics travel through, they will bring a small change to history, just like when I and I went to October 10st for the first time tomorrow, we shot the bullet at the scene of Pauline's death. The bullet casings were all picked up. There must be many such small changes, so let’s not analyze these minutiae, but directly analyze from the big incident.”

Around the death sequence of the six prostitutes, Duan Yi temporarily divided time and space into two.

The first time-space is the time-space whose history has not been changed.

The first two victims were Mary and Anne, who killed them is not discussed for the time being.

Beginning with the death of Pauline on October 10, the context of the subsequent serial murders is very clear.

- Xi Fei killed Pauline, Aga killed Xi Fei, Rui killed Aga, and finally Rui committed suicide.

These four women are like drumming and passing flowers, one kills the other until the last remaining one commits suicide.

The second time and space is the time and space in which history has been changed by Duan Yi and the others.

Still ignoring the first two dead for the time being, starting with the death of Pauline - Xifei killed Pauline, Aga killed Rey, Xifei killed Aga, and finally Xifei committed suicide.

Different from the previous situation of killing one by one like drumming and passing flowers, this time Xi Fei killed Pauline and Ajia, and finally she killed herself.

At this point, Duan Yi said: "I had a detailed chat with Ajia today. Speaking of which...men like Tom spend money on them in order to seek physical stimulation. But they spend money on Tom just for a little bit Emotional comfort."

"These girls can actually see clearly that they are trading with Tom. They love Tom, are willing to be with him, and are even willing to spend money on him to buy the feeling of being in love... But if we say how much they love Tom, yes It’s beyond question how naive he was. Most of them are well aware of where they are.”

"That's why—" Duan Yi frowned, "They can't talk about jealousy and hatred for each other, let alone kill each other because of it. At first I thought they might kill each other because of Tom, but now it seems that That motive is not very valid.”

Tomorrow nodded: "Agreed. Take Ajia as an example. It can be assumed that there is some personal enmity between her and Xi Fei that we don't know for the time being, so she wants to kill Xi Fei while Xi Fei is attending the funeral. But she killed Xi Fei. Failed, and immediately went home and killed Rie, which is a bit abrupt and unreasonable. It looks more like..."

"She gave herself the task of killing someone that day. If she didn't kill Xi Fei, then she can kill Rui. She just needs to ensure that she will not be arrested as a murderer for the time being."

"Yes. That's the feeling. It seems that they are killing each other, it's a completely random choice."

Duan Yi nodded in agreement, "Now that the motives of the girls killing each other have been ruled out, let's look at other clues. I saw Ajia's fingers. She doesn't look like someone with a gun. As for the backgrounds of the other girls, we You can go back to the file room of the police station and look at it. But in my impression, they shouldn't look like people with guns."

Duan Yi came to a conclusion, "So now I think that this matter can only be said. It seems that these girls are killing each other. But they must not be the real murderer. It may be that they are controlled by someone."

"The randomness we analyzed just now is very important. A can kill B. If she can't kill B, she can kill C instead. In short, under some kind of guidance, they kill each other, and finally one commits suicide... In this way, The murderer's purpose has been achieved."

"That is to say, as long as these girls are all dead, this matter will be considered over. But which girl dies first, which girl dies later, and who leads to kill who in the middle, these processes are not important."

"Agreed. All inferences need basis. But now we can't find any motives for these girls to kill each other. In addition, judging from Ajia's matter, the targets she chooses to kill have a certain degree of randomness." Open tomorrow "I also tend to think that there are not multiple murderers, but only one."

After thinking for a moment, Duan Yi said again: "The church door sweeper, didn't he say that there is something evil? Will these girls be controlled one by one? Who has such ability?"

Gu Liang next to him kept silent, because he ate the hot dog very slowly.

At this moment, he finally finished eating slowly. He took Duan Yi's words and said, "Based on what I know about this kind of game, it is impossible for us to find a needle in a haystack to find the murderer from so many NPCs. The real murderer has to be found among the key people." .”

"The key person? That's actually the six victims, Nicole who is suspected to be the real culprit, Nicole's husband Tom...and at most one Lisa, the innkeeper's wife. It is very likely that the real culprit is among them. Having said that... In fact, Lisa is already somewhat marginalized. At present, she has nothing to do with the story of this dungeon at all."

Duan Yi frowned and said, "In the original time and space where history has not been changed, Rui died, and the murder did not continue. Now that we have changed history, everything should stop with Xi Fei's suicide."

At this point, Duan Yi sat on the bench and frowned in thought for a long time, then suddenly stood up. "I thought of one thing. I have to go to the cemetery." Looking at Gu Liang, he asked, "Together?"

Tomorrow next to him followed Duan Yi and stood up.

Gu Liang, who was watched by Duan Yi, opened the book in front of him and read it as motionless as a mountain.

"Brother, are you not going?" Duan Yi was asking him.

Gu Liang said: "I'll study these books here, maybe I can find key clues. You guys go to the cemetery. Gather here later."

What came to mind, Duan Yi asked him: "You still don't want to go to a place like a cemetery. Are you still afraid of ghosts?"

Gu Liang turned his head and squinted his eyes to look at Duan Yi.

Duan Yi laughed, turned around and ran away.

He and Duan Yi walked a few steps towards the cemetery, and asked him curiously tomorrow: "About being afraid of ghosts, is there any story between you two?"

Duan Yi smiled and said: "I was not sensible when I was young. My brother supervised my studies, and I didn't want to be supervised by him, so I thought of a bad move. Several times, I pretended to be a ghost to scare him after his evening self-study. Ghost stories are very popular in school. I My brother often studies very late, and in the dead of night on campus, it’s quite scary for me to pretend to be a ghost. Tsk, I’ve brought my brother out of a psychological shadow.”

Having said that, Duan Yi paused, turned his head to look at tomorrow, and found that he was smiling at him without even a moment.

"What are you laughing at?" Duan Yi asked him.

Ming Ming said: "It's just that I didn't expect Brother Xiao Yi to be so naughty."

Hearing the "naughty" evaluation of himself from a younger brother who was six years younger than him, Duan Yi always felt that it was not pleasant, so he subconsciously frowned.

After taking another look at tomorrow, Duan Yi wanted to say something, but suddenly stopped, turned around and walked towards Gu Liang who was on the bench not far away.

"What's wrong?" asked him tomorrow.

Duan Yi didn't look back: "I have something to explain to my brother. Wait for me for a while."

Returning to Gu Liang's side again, Duan Yi sat down and asked in his ear: "How did Wen Ruyu die? It's like what I said tomorrow, he asked Wen Ruyu to go back to the clothing store to wait, and he didn't know why Xi Fei suddenly Went to a clothing store to kill people? According to what you said before, you have already borrowed books from the church. Brother, do you have something to hide from me?"

Gu Liang's index finger slid across the corner of the page, and then he looked at Duan Yi: "I'll talk to you about this tonight."

"it is good."

Duan Yi didn't struggle too much, got up and waved to Gu Liang, and then returned to tomorrow's side. "Let's go to the cemetery."

·

The cemetery is located on the northernmost side of the Red Light District.

The cemeteries located in the slums lack professional care, and the surrounding weeds are overgrown, and various shrubs grow out of order, looking disorganized, and individual tombstones are covered by weeds, which looks like barren tombs.

Continuing to the north of the cemetery, there is a jungle.

After Nicole was strangled before, the body was thrown here.

At this moment, Duan Yi and tomorrow gradually walked to the place where Nicole was dumped last time, and she could still see her bones still scattered in the ground.

Following Nicole's bones and looking around, Duan Yi found a branch and held it in his hand, and kept pushing aside the weeds to find clues.

"Tsk, yes, there are moldy donuts and a broken flagon." Duan Yi said.

"Jug?" Tomorrow guessed something, "Is there a tramp's body here?"

"Maybe." Duan Yi said, "I was thinking, besides those six prostitutes, might other people have been killed, so I came to try my luck at the back of the cemetery. After all, in this dungeon map, this is the right place The body was dumped."

"Looking at it now, I really guessed it. It's just that they were thrown into the wilderness, and the homeless people didn't have names, so the police station didn't have any records."

Next, walking northward for about 3 miles, Duan Yi found what he was looking for - two corpses.

These two corpses are incomplete, just like Nicole, their corpses were chewed to pieces by wild dogs, and now there are only two skeletons left that cannot be chewed any more.

The reason why they can be recognized as homeless people is that apart from the jugs scattered around the corpses and the rags and clothes left on them, they are very familiar.

Duan Yi picked up a jug and looked at it carefully. "I recognize this wine jug. He was the homeless man who...did something disgraceful to Nicole's body last time he was here."

"Yeah. I know him too. I was talking to a homeless man by the fountain on October 10st, and it happened to be him."

Speaking of this tomorrow, I squatted down and turned over the body of one of the homeless men. The bullet wound at the sternum was very obvious. "He died from a gunshot wound."

Walking a few steps to the side, I found a tree and leaned against it.Duan Yi bent his legs against the tree trunk and thought for a while.

After a while, he looked at tomorrow, nodded his chin and said: "As far as we know, the only person who has hatred against these homeless people should be Nicole herself. It's just—"

With a serious expression, Duan Yi said again: "Nicole's hatred for them happened after she died. They ruined her body after she died."

Nodding tomorrow: "These homeless men were also killed by shooting. According to limited information, they were probably also killed by Jack the Ripper."

Duan Yi frowned: "So based on this, can we boldly speculate that Nicole is conscious after death and knows that her body has been defiled. Moreover, she can kill people after death."

The voice sank, and Duan Yi said again: "The police may not have caught the wrong murderer at all. The murderer is indeed Nicole."

"Nicole is dead, and the homicides are still going on. At first we thought that either Nicole was not Jack the Ripper and she was wronged, or that someone copied the crime later. But now maybe both of these possibilities can be ruled out. "

"In fact, there is a third possibility that we have overlooked—the murderer was actually Nicole. The only thing we don't know is how she did these things after death."

Looking at Duan Yi tomorrow, he asked, "Do you still remember that song? Jack the Ripper was killed, Pauline and Xi Fei were walking in the white church, the footsteps of snipers sounded, and Jack the Ripper came..."

"Yes. The lyrics of this song." Duan Yi's eyes lit up, "I said at the beginning why the lyrics of this song are inconsistent with the facts. Why Jack the Ripper was killed, and then there is a story behind it. The facts are obvious Yes, Pauline was killed when the Ripper was imprisoned. So... so it was. I finally figured it out."

Turning around, facing the direction of the white church tomorrow, he said, "Yes. Jack the Ripper was killed, and this incident is precisely the beginning of everything."

·

after an hour.

Duan Yi and tomorrow returned to the bench where Gu Liang was.

"Brother, did you find anything?" Duan Yi asked as he walked to Gu Liang and sat down.

Tomorrow also came over, and naturally sat beside Duan Yi.

Gu Liang nodded, opened the book to a certain page, and said, "I found something related to psychics. I'll read it to you."

"The source of power for psychics lies in the eyes. Eyes observe everything and can absorb the power of heaven and earth."

"Under the influence of spells, some powerful psychics can travel through time and space to return to the past. Psychics who return to the past can change history. The moment history changes, multiple time-spaces in a superimposed state will be formed at that point in time; At 12 o'clock in the evening, the time and space of multiple superimposed states will be transformed into a unique state—that is, the state after the psychic participates in changing history."

"Therefore, after the psychic medium travels, they must return to the normal time at 12 o'clock that night, otherwise they may fall into the vortex of space-time chaos. In addition, due to the cunning of the psychic medium, they will use their power to remove their traces from history. Except. Memories will be rewritten, and no one will know they were there."

After listening to this passage, a word appeared in Duan Yi and tomorrow's mind at the same time - Schrödinger's cat.

The so-called Schrödinger's cat is an experiment done by the physicist Schrödinger.

To put it simply, he kept the cat in an airtight container with a poison that could kill the cat, and there was a 50% chance that the poison would be released.In other words, whether the cat will be poisoned to death by this poison is a random event.

No one knew if the cat survived until the airtight container was opened.

From the perspective of quantum physics, during this period, the cat is in a superposition state of "live" and "dead".If we don't open the container and never know whether the cat is dead or alive, then it will always be in a superposition state of being both dead and alive.

But when the container is opened and the superposition state ends instantly, the cat is in the only state—dead or alive.

In a sense, opening the airtight container and looking at the cat is like the hand of God throwing dice, deciding whether the cat lives or dies.

The setting of time travel in this dungeon has a similar principle.

Suppose Duan Yihe travels to October 10 tomorrow, and does something at 2 pm to change history, causing Aga to kill Rui instead of Xi Fei.

Then, starting from the time point of 10 o’clock in the afternoon on October 2nd, there will be two kinds of time-space in superposition state——the time-space whose history has not been changed, and the time-space whose history has been changed will exist at the same time.

It is also for this reason that Bai Lihui and Su Lezhang on October 10 were not affected in any way, because they were still in the time and space where history had not been changed, so what they saw was that Aga was killed by Ruiyi, and finally Ruiyi Yi committed suicide.

As for 12 midnight every night, it is equivalent to the moment when Schrödinger opened the airtight container and looked at the cat in Schrödinger's experiment, or the moment when God rolled the dice.

——The time and space in multiple superposition states will end the superposition state and transform into a unique state.

If it is purely the same as Schrödinger's cat experiment, which one of the multiple parallel space-times in the superposition state will be left is a random event, just like the life or death of the cat.

But now, due to the introduction of the setting of psychic spells, the only space-time that is left is no longer random, but is chosen by the psychic—that is, the psychic can choose what they want to keep. , Continue to exist in a certain time and space in this world.

"Seeing this setting, my previous doubts were finally answered. I said, why does this world seem to exist in parallel time and space, and it seems to not exist, so this is the reason——"

Duan Yi couldn't help sighing, "Parallel time and space exist. Every time we go back to the past and make a change, a parallel time and space will be created. However, the magic power of the psychic and midnight every night will cause a wave similar to "wave" function collapse' effect, which together lead to the end of the superposition of parallel spacetimes."

"That is to say, at midnight every night, all redundant parallel time and space will disappear, leaving only one time and space selected by the psychic medium. In fact, it is equivalent to the psychic medium directly rewriting history."

Gu Liang looked at Duan Yi very relieved: "Physics is not bad."

"I don't understand quantum physics either. It's just superficial." Duan Yi smiled, "Then we psychics are quite powerful. Not only can we change history, but we can also prevent ourselves from being remembered. Everyone who has seen us People, memories will be rewritten."

Psychics go back in time and can change history.

Every time they change history, no matter how small an event, a parallel time and space will be created.

When different psychics return to different times, they will make a lot of small changes, and countless parallel time and space will be produced.

But every night at midnight, all parallel time and space will collapse and return to one time and space.

Under the influence of the psychic's mana, this time and space has been chosen by the psychic.

It can be understood that what kind of time and space the psychic wants to leave behind will be left as the only existence at 12 o'clock in the middle of the night.

Meanwhile, psychics erase the memory of everyone who has seen them.

This is the secret of psychic mediums quietly changing history.

Once this is figured out, the time setting for the entire dungeon will be very clear.

The only remaining question is - how did Nicole manage to continue to kill people after death.

Stretching, Duan Yi looked at the book on Gu Liang's lap. "In addition to the problem of time and space, you also mentioned a key message in what you said just now. The power of the psychic is hidden in the eyes. Does this mean that a knowledgeable person can recognize the psychic if he sees the eyes of the psychic?" ?”

Gu Liang nodded in agreement. "The first time we went was on October 10. We were attacked by Aga because we looked her in the eye.

"

"So are we."

Duan Yi recalled Xi Fei's emerald green eyes when he first traveled to October 10st.

That day, Xi Fei and Pauline walked arm in arm, passed by Duan Yi and the others, and then walked towards the white church.

It was at that time that Duan Yi saw her eyes.

She has a gentle face, but her eyes are chilling.

"So, in fact, our disguise...is meaningless." Duan Yi laughed helplessly at himself, "The most important problem is that we can't let that person see our eyes. The eyes of the psychic and the key The characters look at each other, this is the condition that really triggers the risk of death in this dungeon."

At this point, many images suddenly appeared in Duan Yi's mind.

First of all, on October 10st, when Xi Fei passed her by, the pair of cold green eyes.

Secondly, on the afternoon of October 10, at the funeral of Mary and Anne, Duan Yi guessed the sniper point where Aga was ambushing, and ran to the woods behind the tombstone. Blue, murderous, vicious eyes...

Finally, on the morning of October 10, when Nicole was hanged, Duan Yi watched Nicole look at him from a distance away from a fountain—her eyes were as vicious as a poisonous snake.

Green, blue...all kinds of eyes overlapped at this moment, and finally condensed into the same pair of vicious eyes.

At this moment, the girls are no longer themselves.

The soul in their bones seems to have become another person.

After a long silence, Duan Yi looked at Gu Liang and said, "I suddenly remembered the question you asked when we first went to the police station."

At that time, they had just come to this copy and saw the photos of the six dead in the archives of the police station.

Among the six photos of the crime scene, only Rui Yi showed a state of suicide.

At that time, Gu Liang was very curious about why this happened.

The murderer killed six people in a row, and only tampered with the last deceased, faking her as a suicide, which did not meet the characteristics of a serial murderer.

Either he faked all six as suicides, or he should have done nothing at all.

At this moment, Duan Yi said again: "We feel that the murderer's actions are completely illogical, because he didn't pretend that Rui's death was a suicide. Now I finally know. Rui's suicide was not a disguise."

"Everything is as we have witnessed. She did commit suicide, but someone temporarily hid in her body and manipulated her suicide."

"When all six prostitutes are dead, this series of events is over. Jack the Ripper no longer needs that gun. Therefore, she chose to commit suicide to end the life of the last deceased. In the unaltered history In time and space, she made Rui commit suicide and left the gun at the scene. In the time and space after the history has been changed, the gun was left in the hands of the last deceased Xi Fei."

"As for the person who must kill the six prostitutes, judging from their motives, their gun habits, and the testimony left by various witnesses when they killed Mary and Anne... the murderer can only be Nicole."

"The police in this world don't investigate wrong cases. It's just that they can't handle this case. So they hired psychics, not detectives."

"You suspect Nicole is a ghost?" asked him tomorrow.

"Yes." Duan Yi said, "After being hanged, she turned into a ghost, and then killed people by possessing her soul."

Ask tomorrow: "Then how do you explain that Nicole died on October 10nd, but Pauline died on October 2st?"

Duan Yi said: "We can travel through time, maybe ghosts can too."

After saying this, Duan Yi turned to face Gu Liang, patted him on the shoulder, and said seriously: "Brother, I didn't expect that you would run into a ghost copy when you came here. I will protect you! "

Gu Liang: "..."