Infinite Nerves [Infinity]
Chapter 31 The Other Side of Purgatory
Qian Wu and others approached Fat Er's house, the children were still crying, and the woman asked, "Who are you?"
"We are townspeople, and we want to know the cause of Fat Er's death." Qu Ying smiled at her tenderly, "I'm sorry for being so abrupt, I hope you understand."
The woman frowned and said, "He was killed by the devil. My fat second accidentally triggered the devil's killing intent. What's the point?"
"Is death such a common thing?" Zhong Liye looked at her, "Has Fat Er's body been buried?"
"There are no corpses, they are eaten clean by the devil, and the remaining bone dregs are buried in the morning." The woman frowned more and more tightly, "You are so strange, it's not like you haven't seen people killed by the devil, some devils like Kill people, some devils like to eat people, what is there to inquire about?"
Everyone fell into silence, and the other party took it for granted, but it made people stare and didn't know what to say.
After a long time, Jiang Chen said: "We are new townspeople, and we don't know much about the town's rules yet."
Chen Ma, who was squatting on the side eating apples, suddenly raised his head and glanced at Jiang Chen, Qian Wu looked over sharply, and then he lowered his head and continued to eat apples.
"Here's a newcomer." The woman loosened her brows when she heard this, "Say it early, come in and sit down, and tell you, there will be this day sooner or later."
The crowd was silent again.
Peng Peng said: "Thank you... I have been comforted."
Everyone entered some old houses, Qian Wu felt someone behind him, looked back, Chen Ma came in with a bare apple core.
"Why are you in here? If the adults say something, the children should go out, go and go." The woman turned around and wanted to chase him away.
Chen Majian said bluntly, "I still want to eat an apple."
"Here you are." The woman turned around and picked up another apple from the table, wiped her bib twice and threw it to him, "Hurry up and take everyone to school!"
"You don't need to remind me." Chen Ma put the apple into his pocket and waved his hand, "Go to school!"
A group of children ran far away, and Qu Ying couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips: "If you want an apple, you won't eat it, you're a big kid."
"It's for his brother, it must be." The woman waved her hand habitually, "Chen Make is thinking about his brother, and he usually asks Chen Shu for whatever the neighbors in the neighborhood give him."
"Sit down." The woman said, "When you're new to the town, it's raining. Are you scared to death?"
No one uttered a word, and it seemed that the frightened matter was actually confirmed. The woman lowered her vigilance and said: "Our small town is evil and supervised by purgatory. Life and death are at the whim of the supervisor. Enough."
Qianwu asked, "I heard what you asked, the condition of death last night was heavy rain, and the townspeople already knew?"
"No. It's just that the selection criteria are obvious this time." The woman sighed: "Every day, the big shots in the devil will think of a way to screen a group of townspeople into the death pool for the devils to divide up and choose. Who can be killed in the end?" , who can be killed depends on the ability of each devil. The conditions for killing vary from ghost to ghost, but the conditions for entering the pool every day must be the same for everyone. It stands to reason that there are so many people in the town, the probability of being drawn is actually Not big."
Qu Ying: "Then yesterday..."
"Sometimes the big shots among the demons are in a bad mood, and if they want to start a killing spree, they have to set a screening condition that can circle many people." The woman said that she was normal, but her eyes were still a little red, and she said in a low voice: " Yesterday, maybe God helped the regulators. It rained heavily, and everyone participated in the screening virtually."
"The big man you're talking about is Purgatory?" Jiang Chen asked.
The woman nodded and shook her head, "Purgatory Man is indeed the leader, and he has never pretended to be a townsman, but how can anyone know about the devil? It's hard to say."
"Do you know that there are four outstanding people in this town?" Qu Ying asked, "They are especially rich, or they are very beautiful, they are very ugly, they are very pitiful, they can be anything, anyway, they are very memorable in the village. four of them."
Zhong Liye added: "Or people who can speak to the governance and development of the town also count."
The woman thought for a while after hearing the words, "The supervisor is respected, and everyone else is equal. If you say it is particularly impressive... Old beggar, right? The townspeople are very friendly, after all, no one Knowing that he will die someday, he is the only one who doesn't want to interact with others, and is crazy by himself."
Qianwu asked: "Is there any more?"
"Hmm..." The woman frowned and fell into thought.
Several people stared at her nervously, after a while she suddenly whispered mysteriously: "Do I count?"
"What?" Qianwu subconsciously leaned forward.
The woman rubbed her hands on the bib embarrassingly, "Actually, many people know me, because I have a thick skin. This is mainly due to my fat second. There are seven or eight hundred children in the school. He is always the last one. Every time I have to be criticized by the teacher, as time goes by, everyone with children knows me and is very friendly to me."
"..."
Jiang Chen said lightly, "It's very distressing, maybe it's okay."
The woman sighed, "If I want to count, then my family's fat second must also be counted. He is very fat and special, and he is also very famous."
The crowd was silent again.
After leaving Fat Er's house, everyone was visibly more worried.Peng Pengchou showed wrinkles on his forehead, wrinkled his face and walked on the street with his hands behind his back.
"What should I do? When can I find the key NPC after searching for a needle in a haystack?" He broke down and said, "What if the woman is really convinced that Fat Er is the key NPC?"
Zhong Liye pressed his hat, "You, calm down."
"I don't have much talent, don't let me calm down." Peng Peng muttered.
Qian Wu still lagged behind, he looked at the passers-by on the street, thoughtful.
Jiang Chen stopped and waited for him for a while, then asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"
"I was wondering, are there thousands of people in this town?" Qianwu asked him.
Jiang Chen: "There are only seven to eight hundred children in the Optical Hall, there must be some."
Qian Wu slightly raised his lips and said: "The woman just now is obviously an old townsman, but she can't think of anyone suitable for her at all. This shows that there is indeed no important role in the usual sense in the town."
Jiang Chen nodded, "According to what you said, nerves can't design dead ends, so there must be NPCs among the dead. We will meet up with everyone after we walk through the next few houses, and ask them what they have gained."
Hearing this, Peng Peng shrank his shoulders, "Don't, don't say that there must be an NPC among the dead, it makes people feel hairy."
"There will be no clues if there are no dead NPCs." Qu Ying understood what they meant, "The first NPC to die must be the beginning of all clues, if none of the 50 people who died yesterday must have something to do with them .”
Qian Wu nodded, "Everyone, be careful later."
Having said that, things backfired.The last few houses were holding funerals, and there were one or two hundred guests, and no one could remember them.
The assigned households left quickly, and the sun just reached noon when the last one came out.On the contrary, there were fewer people on the street, and they all huddled in tea shops and small restaurants to hide from the sun and kill time.
"Now we only have the option of going back to the inn." Zhong Liye said.
Qianwu didn't say a word, he stretched out his hand to press his temple and rubbed it gently, the headache still hasn't dissipated.Probably, the closer we got to the sun, the more sleepy we became.
Jiang Chen suddenly leaned over and said in a low voice, "Purgatory."
Qianwu looked back, and there were two rows of men with indifferent and empty expressions at the other end of the long street, and Lian Jizi was walking at the end wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat.
A few people leaned to the side, Jiang Chen casually entered a teahouse, and asked a man eating melon seeds: "What are you doing?"
"You're new here, you've never seen this before."
The man raised his eyelids and glanced at him, licked the melon seeds and said, "The adults in Purgatory patrol the streets every day, once at noon and once at night. Hey, don't be afraid, I can't do anything to you."
Unlike the coldness of last night, Purgatory Son was a little less interested, and when the team approached, he lowered his eyes and yawned sleepily.
When they walked away, Jiang Chen said: "Let's go back and ask others about their progress."
The other two teams have arrived.There was nothing to gain from going out, but fortunately there were not many people, and everyone sat together and barely pieced together the information.
Qu Ying was in charge of sorting out the list. There were several sheets of paper in the list alone, and it made people confused at a glance.
"We're afraid we're doomed." Fatty in Xiaobai's team murmured, "I have no clue, and I don't know the progress of death. This shouldn't be the end of the game."
"No." Qianwu rubbed his temples and said softly.
Xiaobai looked at him, "Does the boss have any clues?"
"There are no clues." Qianwu said and paused, "The progress will not be so fast, and the boss may not have appeared yet."
"How do you know?" someone asked immediately.
Qianwu said, "When the BOSS appears, I should feel it."
Everyone was silent for a moment, Peng Peng couldn't help applauding, "This is the confidence of the boss!"
"This is the sense of superiority of the gifted!" Xiao Bai immediately cheered.
"This—!" Zhong Liye suddenly paused, and frowned, "Wait, isn't Purgatory a BOSS?"
Everyone stared at Qianwu eagerly, Qianwu frowned and hesitated for a while.
After a while, he rubbed his temples harder, and said in a low voice: "It's hard to say, according to inference, he is very likely to be. But I just don't feel that way, do you understand?"
More than a dozen heads shook together.
Jiang Chen couldn't help laughing suddenly, don't start to look at the bluestone field scorched by the sun with a smile.
Peng Peng muttered: "I don't understand, but anyway, if you say no, you don't have it. Anyway, it has no inner taste?"
"Yes." Qianwu nodded, "It seems that something is missing."
"Do you still have a headache?" Jiang Chen asked.
Qianwu hummed, "Is there any water?"
Qu Ying stood up, "You must be suffering from heat stroke, I'll make you a bowl of sugar water."
"And me!" Peng Peng immediately raised his hand, "I also want to eat the chef's syrup."
"Sweet water?" Jiang Chen asked in surprise, "Are there any new ingredients?"
Miaomiao: "When we came back, the kitchen was already full. Didn't the Purgatory say yesterday that someone would come to deliver supplies every day? You really don't have to worry about eating and drinking."
Jiang Chen followed everyone to the kitchen to check, Qianwu was dizzy, and sat alone at the table with his eyes half-closed to rest.
I don't know how long it took, but the scorching heat seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. Just when he was so tired that he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly felt a coolness coming from the door.
It is the kind of eerie coolness that is out of place in the midsummer heat.
Qian Wu raised his head, facing the Purgatory who suddenly appeared at the door.
One pair of eyes met the other, but he was suddenly startled for a while.
Purgatory Man smiled: "I'm here to do a routine daily check for the new townspeople."
Everyone came out of the kitchen when they heard the movement, and when they saw that it was Purgatory, everyone was silent.
Purgatory Man smiled and swept across the crowd, "Thirteen, one is quite a lot."
Listening to what he meant, it seemed a bit pity.
"Are you still used to eating? How are you sleeping?" He leaned against the door and asked.
Xiaobai said in a low and trembling voice, "It's pretty good."
"That's good. Let me know if you need it. Purgatory takes good care of the new townspeople." He clapped his hands in a good mood, and went straight into the house, "When you enter the town for inspection, go to the storage behind the kitchen Let's go to the room. Come one by one, who will go first?"
No one spoke.
No one knows what will happen if you follow him in.
After a long time, a man said, "Then I will go first."
That was the third person in the soldier's team. Yesterday the soldier introduced him as Wen Li, but this person was taciturn and had never spoken much.
Purgatory Son didn't seem to care who came first, and went straight into the kitchen without looking back.
After both of them went in, Qu Ying suddenly said, "I feel that Lian Guizi is easier to talk to than last night."
"Indeed." Eggplant said, "It rained heavily last night, and he didn't seem to be in a good mood, and he didn't like to talk to people. It turns out that he still laughs normally."
"Laughing is not necessarily a good thing." Jiang Chen glanced at them, then turned his gaze back to find that Qian Wu was lying on the table in the scorching heat, and asked worriedly: "Is it more uncomfortable?"
Zhong Liye said, "Maybe it's the collateral effect of encountering ghosts."
"His saliva dripped on me." Qianwu sighed, "Although there is nothing on my body after struggling out of the hallucination, it may still be affected."
In fact, not only uncomfortable, but also a little weird.
From the moment I saw Lian Jizi on the street, I felt something was wrong—he had an indifferent demeanor last night, with a slight sense of dissociation.Today, he suddenly became gentle and amiable, smiling but not respectful enough, chatting casually with humans like teasing kittens and puppies.
and……
Qianwu lowered his eyelids and said in a low voice: "Do you think... this purgator looks a bit like me?"
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "So I'm not the only one who thinks this way."
"Huh?" Qian Wu looked at him in a daze.
Jiang Chen said thoughtfully: "Last night I felt a little, no, it should be said that I was more like you last night, but showing my true face today is not very attractive to people."
Peng Peng eavesdropped, and couldn't help interjecting: "Why don't I think so? He and Qianwu are both really good-looking, but the facial features are still very different."
"It's not that kind of facial resemblance." Jiang Chen frowned, "It's an overall feeling... It's hard to say. Anyway, he was a bit like Qianwu when he was in a low state last night, and now he doesn't have that feeling."
Within a few words, Wen Li walked out from inside.
The tall and resolute man had a hint of confusion on his face. When everyone surrounded him, he hesitated and said, "It seems like nothing happened."
"What did he question?" Qu Ying asked.
Wen Li said, "Name, job, age, who else is in the family. Nothing else, but I asked him more."
"What did you ask?" Jiang Chen asked.
Wen Li said: "He is very frank about the killing of demons, which is similar to what we heard from the townspeople. There will be criteria for screening the death pool every day, and players who enter the pool will be targeted by demons. Whether they live or die depends on fate. "
"Can you not be honest." Peng Peng curled his lips, "In their eyes, we are all small animals."
"The next one." Wen Li said, "It should be fine. The task of this dungeon is not to allow us to join the township smoothly. Instead, you can prepare any questions you want to ask. I don't think he is too lazy to lie to us. .”
Players entered one by one, after five or six, the speed was getting faster and faster, Purgatory seems to be tired, just go through the process and ask the name, age, professional family four-piece set, and then drive people out.But he still has a bit of professional ethics. As long as the player really wants to ask a question, he will answer it patiently.
When Qu Ying went in, he asked him if he knew the old beggar. He said that there was a whole gang of beggars in the town, how could he know.
The longest one belonged to Peng Peng. After half an hour, the door opened with a bang.
Everyone hurried over to watch, and the Purgator personally threw Peng Peng out, with a very ugly expression on his face.
"Come on, Rory." He pointed at Peng Peng, "Your investigation today is over, get out."
Peng Peng looked aggrieved, "I'm just curious about the origin of Purgatory. What rank do you have? Is there anyone on the top? What's the level of salary in Purgatory? Does every devil use the trick of fabricating hallucinations before killing people? My friend was killed by you. Are you responsible for the heat stroke? Does the screening condition of heavy rain and clothes end at sunset? If you don’t stay in purgatory and run to the human world, are you looking for a sense of existence to brush your KPIs?”
Purgatory Man reached out his hand and pointed at his nose firmly, "Starting tomorrow, you don't have to accept interrogation anymore."
Everyone: "..."
Peng Peng was stunned for a while, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Say it earlier, okay!"
"Next." Purgatory turned around and went back to the storage room.
There are only two people left.Qian Wu was about to go over, Jiang Chen patted his arm, "I'll go first."
Jiang Chen is the fastest one, about 30 seconds before and after.
Before Peng Peng's butt touched the stool, Mr. Commander had already walked out calmly.
"Is this the end?" Peng Peng stared wide-eyed.
But Qianwu seemed to have expected it, pouted and walked in.
When passing by Jiang Chen, Peng Peng asked: "Young Marshal Jiang, did you use your eyes to dissuade him? He didn't ask you any questions at all, did he?"
"I asked. Name, age, occupation, who else is in the family?" Jiang Chen said.
Peng Peng: "Then it won't end so soon, right?"
Hearing this, the corners of Qianwu's mouth twitched unconsciously, and muttered in a low voice, "There's nothing wrong with it."
He can imagine it all.
Jiang Chen said about ten words in total.
"Jiang Chen."
"26."
"Lead troops."
"just me."
It is basically impossible to expect this guy to condescend and get something out of the boss who doesn't like him.
Qianwu sighed lightly.
Jiang Chen is really an unreliable master.
He walked into the storage room, and Purgatory Man was sitting on the table holding a pottery bowl casually, looking bored.
Seeing him coming, Purgatory Man smiled and waved, "Come and sit."
"No." Qianwu stopped a few meters away from him.
Purgatory Man smiled, "What's your name?"
"Qianwu."
"Qianwu?" Lian Guizi was stunned, picked up the paper next to him, and confirmed, "It's Qianwu?"
Qianwu didn't say a word, and suddenly thought of something after a while.
"The person in front—" he paused, "Did you mention me?"
"Yes." Lian Guizi circled the paper.
"What did you do before?" He asked again.
Qianwu thought about it this time, "Graffiti."
"Oh..." Lian Guizi scratched casually again, "How old are you?"
"25."
"Who else is there in the family?" Purgatory son said directly: "It's the guy up there, right? What's his name Jiang?"
"Jiang Chen." Qianwu couldn't help but said.
Lian Jizi paused at the tip of his pen, raised his eyes and looked at him for confirmation.
After a while, Qianwu gave up the entanglement, looked away indifferently, and said: "Then let him."
Lian Guizi threw the paper away and looked at him with a smile, "You seem very proud."
"Is there?" Qianwu was expressionless, his head hurt again, and he pressed his temple again.
Lian Guizi shook his feet with a smile, "It's really annoying, the arrogance of a humble human being is almost on par with that guy just now. Oh, by the way, do you have anything to ask me?"
"Yes." Qian Wu raised his eyes and looked at him, "You seem to be different from last night, why are you pretending to be kind?"
Purgatory son paused in surprise when he heard the words, and then laughed again, "I don't think it's different, maybe I was in a bad mood yesterday."
Qianwu looked at him, "I'm in a bad mood, so you set the screening criteria for rainstorm clothing?"
Purgatory Man didn't answer, he approached Qianwu with a smile on his face, "Why don't you care so much, anyway, I'm cuter when I'm in a funny mood, right?"
"No."
Qian Wu frowned lightly, and took a step back.
"None of them are cute," he said. "You have misunderstood what cute means."
The smiling person suddenly paused.The smiling face seemed to fade away in an instant, turning into an indifferent face.
But even so, it was still very different from last night's temperament.He seemed indifferent last night, but now, there is contempt and cruel killing intent in those black eyes.
After thinking about it, Qianwu suddenly realized what was the most different.
"You are not a purgatory."
There was a hint of clarity in his black eyes, he raised his eyebrows, and his red lips raised a hint of a see-through smile.
"So that's why...you look exactly alike, are you twins?"
The author has something to say: It is forbidden to misidentify family members in the nerves.
Little Nervous moved in a serpentine shape on the ground indifferently, and if he refused to listen, he would go punting for me.
"We are townspeople, and we want to know the cause of Fat Er's death." Qu Ying smiled at her tenderly, "I'm sorry for being so abrupt, I hope you understand."
The woman frowned and said, "He was killed by the devil. My fat second accidentally triggered the devil's killing intent. What's the point?"
"Is death such a common thing?" Zhong Liye looked at her, "Has Fat Er's body been buried?"
"There are no corpses, they are eaten clean by the devil, and the remaining bone dregs are buried in the morning." The woman frowned more and more tightly, "You are so strange, it's not like you haven't seen people killed by the devil, some devils like Kill people, some devils like to eat people, what is there to inquire about?"
Everyone fell into silence, and the other party took it for granted, but it made people stare and didn't know what to say.
After a long time, Jiang Chen said: "We are new townspeople, and we don't know much about the town's rules yet."
Chen Ma, who was squatting on the side eating apples, suddenly raised his head and glanced at Jiang Chen, Qian Wu looked over sharply, and then he lowered his head and continued to eat apples.
"Here's a newcomer." The woman loosened her brows when she heard this, "Say it early, come in and sit down, and tell you, there will be this day sooner or later."
The crowd was silent again.
Peng Peng said: "Thank you... I have been comforted."
Everyone entered some old houses, Qian Wu felt someone behind him, looked back, Chen Ma came in with a bare apple core.
"Why are you in here? If the adults say something, the children should go out, go and go." The woman turned around and wanted to chase him away.
Chen Majian said bluntly, "I still want to eat an apple."
"Here you are." The woman turned around and picked up another apple from the table, wiped her bib twice and threw it to him, "Hurry up and take everyone to school!"
"You don't need to remind me." Chen Ma put the apple into his pocket and waved his hand, "Go to school!"
A group of children ran far away, and Qu Ying couldn't help but raise the corners of her lips: "If you want an apple, you won't eat it, you're a big kid."
"It's for his brother, it must be." The woman waved her hand habitually, "Chen Make is thinking about his brother, and he usually asks Chen Shu for whatever the neighbors in the neighborhood give him."
"Sit down." The woman said, "When you're new to the town, it's raining. Are you scared to death?"
No one uttered a word, and it seemed that the frightened matter was actually confirmed. The woman lowered her vigilance and said: "Our small town is evil and supervised by purgatory. Life and death are at the whim of the supervisor. Enough."
Qianwu asked, "I heard what you asked, the condition of death last night was heavy rain, and the townspeople already knew?"
"No. It's just that the selection criteria are obvious this time." The woman sighed: "Every day, the big shots in the devil will think of a way to screen a group of townspeople into the death pool for the devils to divide up and choose. Who can be killed in the end?" , who can be killed depends on the ability of each devil. The conditions for killing vary from ghost to ghost, but the conditions for entering the pool every day must be the same for everyone. It stands to reason that there are so many people in the town, the probability of being drawn is actually Not big."
Qu Ying: "Then yesterday..."
"Sometimes the big shots among the demons are in a bad mood, and if they want to start a killing spree, they have to set a screening condition that can circle many people." The woman said that she was normal, but her eyes were still a little red, and she said in a low voice: " Yesterday, maybe God helped the regulators. It rained heavily, and everyone participated in the screening virtually."
"The big man you're talking about is Purgatory?" Jiang Chen asked.
The woman nodded and shook her head, "Purgatory Man is indeed the leader, and he has never pretended to be a townsman, but how can anyone know about the devil? It's hard to say."
"Do you know that there are four outstanding people in this town?" Qu Ying asked, "They are especially rich, or they are very beautiful, they are very ugly, they are very pitiful, they can be anything, anyway, they are very memorable in the village. four of them."
Zhong Liye added: "Or people who can speak to the governance and development of the town also count."
The woman thought for a while after hearing the words, "The supervisor is respected, and everyone else is equal. If you say it is particularly impressive... Old beggar, right? The townspeople are very friendly, after all, no one Knowing that he will die someday, he is the only one who doesn't want to interact with others, and is crazy by himself."
Qianwu asked: "Is there any more?"
"Hmm..." The woman frowned and fell into thought.
Several people stared at her nervously, after a while she suddenly whispered mysteriously: "Do I count?"
"What?" Qianwu subconsciously leaned forward.
The woman rubbed her hands on the bib embarrassingly, "Actually, many people know me, because I have a thick skin. This is mainly due to my fat second. There are seven or eight hundred children in the school. He is always the last one. Every time I have to be criticized by the teacher, as time goes by, everyone with children knows me and is very friendly to me."
"..."
Jiang Chen said lightly, "It's very distressing, maybe it's okay."
The woman sighed, "If I want to count, then my family's fat second must also be counted. He is very fat and special, and he is also very famous."
The crowd was silent again.
After leaving Fat Er's house, everyone was visibly more worried.Peng Pengchou showed wrinkles on his forehead, wrinkled his face and walked on the street with his hands behind his back.
"What should I do? When can I find the key NPC after searching for a needle in a haystack?" He broke down and said, "What if the woman is really convinced that Fat Er is the key NPC?"
Zhong Liye pressed his hat, "You, calm down."
"I don't have much talent, don't let me calm down." Peng Peng muttered.
Qian Wu still lagged behind, he looked at the passers-by on the street, thoughtful.
Jiang Chen stopped and waited for him for a while, then asked in a low voice: "What are you thinking about?"
"I was wondering, are there thousands of people in this town?" Qianwu asked him.
Jiang Chen: "There are only seven to eight hundred children in the Optical Hall, there must be some."
Qian Wu slightly raised his lips and said: "The woman just now is obviously an old townsman, but she can't think of anyone suitable for her at all. This shows that there is indeed no important role in the usual sense in the town."
Jiang Chen nodded, "According to what you said, nerves can't design dead ends, so there must be NPCs among the dead. We will meet up with everyone after we walk through the next few houses, and ask them what they have gained."
Hearing this, Peng Peng shrank his shoulders, "Don't, don't say that there must be an NPC among the dead, it makes people feel hairy."
"There will be no clues if there are no dead NPCs." Qu Ying understood what they meant, "The first NPC to die must be the beginning of all clues, if none of the 50 people who died yesterday must have something to do with them .”
Qian Wu nodded, "Everyone, be careful later."
Having said that, things backfired.The last few houses were holding funerals, and there were one or two hundred guests, and no one could remember them.
The assigned households left quickly, and the sun just reached noon when the last one came out.On the contrary, there were fewer people on the street, and they all huddled in tea shops and small restaurants to hide from the sun and kill time.
"Now we only have the option of going back to the inn." Zhong Liye said.
Qianwu didn't say a word, he stretched out his hand to press his temple and rubbed it gently, the headache still hasn't dissipated.Probably, the closer we got to the sun, the more sleepy we became.
Jiang Chen suddenly leaned over and said in a low voice, "Purgatory."
Qianwu looked back, and there were two rows of men with indifferent and empty expressions at the other end of the long street, and Lian Jizi was walking at the end wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat.
A few people leaned to the side, Jiang Chen casually entered a teahouse, and asked a man eating melon seeds: "What are you doing?"
"You're new here, you've never seen this before."
The man raised his eyelids and glanced at him, licked the melon seeds and said, "The adults in Purgatory patrol the streets every day, once at noon and once at night. Hey, don't be afraid, I can't do anything to you."
Unlike the coldness of last night, Purgatory Son was a little less interested, and when the team approached, he lowered his eyes and yawned sleepily.
When they walked away, Jiang Chen said: "Let's go back and ask others about their progress."
The other two teams have arrived.There was nothing to gain from going out, but fortunately there were not many people, and everyone sat together and barely pieced together the information.
Qu Ying was in charge of sorting out the list. There were several sheets of paper in the list alone, and it made people confused at a glance.
"We're afraid we're doomed." Fatty in Xiaobai's team murmured, "I have no clue, and I don't know the progress of death. This shouldn't be the end of the game."
"No." Qianwu rubbed his temples and said softly.
Xiaobai looked at him, "Does the boss have any clues?"
"There are no clues." Qianwu said and paused, "The progress will not be so fast, and the boss may not have appeared yet."
"How do you know?" someone asked immediately.
Qianwu said, "When the BOSS appears, I should feel it."
Everyone was silent for a moment, Peng Peng couldn't help applauding, "This is the confidence of the boss!"
"This is the sense of superiority of the gifted!" Xiao Bai immediately cheered.
"This—!" Zhong Liye suddenly paused, and frowned, "Wait, isn't Purgatory a BOSS?"
Everyone stared at Qianwu eagerly, Qianwu frowned and hesitated for a while.
After a while, he rubbed his temples harder, and said in a low voice: "It's hard to say, according to inference, he is very likely to be. But I just don't feel that way, do you understand?"
More than a dozen heads shook together.
Jiang Chen couldn't help laughing suddenly, don't start to look at the bluestone field scorched by the sun with a smile.
Peng Peng muttered: "I don't understand, but anyway, if you say no, you don't have it. Anyway, it has no inner taste?"
"Yes." Qianwu nodded, "It seems that something is missing."
"Do you still have a headache?" Jiang Chen asked.
Qianwu hummed, "Is there any water?"
Qu Ying stood up, "You must be suffering from heat stroke, I'll make you a bowl of sugar water."
"And me!" Peng Peng immediately raised his hand, "I also want to eat the chef's syrup."
"Sweet water?" Jiang Chen asked in surprise, "Are there any new ingredients?"
Miaomiao: "When we came back, the kitchen was already full. Didn't the Purgatory say yesterday that someone would come to deliver supplies every day? You really don't have to worry about eating and drinking."
Jiang Chen followed everyone to the kitchen to check, Qianwu was dizzy, and sat alone at the table with his eyes half-closed to rest.
I don't know how long it took, but the scorching heat seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. Just when he was so tired that he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly felt a coolness coming from the door.
It is the kind of eerie coolness that is out of place in the midsummer heat.
Qian Wu raised his head, facing the Purgatory who suddenly appeared at the door.
One pair of eyes met the other, but he was suddenly startled for a while.
Purgatory Man smiled: "I'm here to do a routine daily check for the new townspeople."
Everyone came out of the kitchen when they heard the movement, and when they saw that it was Purgatory, everyone was silent.
Purgatory Man smiled and swept across the crowd, "Thirteen, one is quite a lot."
Listening to what he meant, it seemed a bit pity.
"Are you still used to eating? How are you sleeping?" He leaned against the door and asked.
Xiaobai said in a low and trembling voice, "It's pretty good."
"That's good. Let me know if you need it. Purgatory takes good care of the new townspeople." He clapped his hands in a good mood, and went straight into the house, "When you enter the town for inspection, go to the storage behind the kitchen Let's go to the room. Come one by one, who will go first?"
No one spoke.
No one knows what will happen if you follow him in.
After a long time, a man said, "Then I will go first."
That was the third person in the soldier's team. Yesterday the soldier introduced him as Wen Li, but this person was taciturn and had never spoken much.
Purgatory Son didn't seem to care who came first, and went straight into the kitchen without looking back.
After both of them went in, Qu Ying suddenly said, "I feel that Lian Guizi is easier to talk to than last night."
"Indeed." Eggplant said, "It rained heavily last night, and he didn't seem to be in a good mood, and he didn't like to talk to people. It turns out that he still laughs normally."
"Laughing is not necessarily a good thing." Jiang Chen glanced at them, then turned his gaze back to find that Qian Wu was lying on the table in the scorching heat, and asked worriedly: "Is it more uncomfortable?"
Zhong Liye said, "Maybe it's the collateral effect of encountering ghosts."
"His saliva dripped on me." Qianwu sighed, "Although there is nothing on my body after struggling out of the hallucination, it may still be affected."
In fact, not only uncomfortable, but also a little weird.
From the moment I saw Lian Jizi on the street, I felt something was wrong—he had an indifferent demeanor last night, with a slight sense of dissociation.Today, he suddenly became gentle and amiable, smiling but not respectful enough, chatting casually with humans like teasing kittens and puppies.
and……
Qianwu lowered his eyelids and said in a low voice: "Do you think... this purgator looks a bit like me?"
Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "So I'm not the only one who thinks this way."
"Huh?" Qian Wu looked at him in a daze.
Jiang Chen said thoughtfully: "Last night I felt a little, no, it should be said that I was more like you last night, but showing my true face today is not very attractive to people."
Peng Peng eavesdropped, and couldn't help interjecting: "Why don't I think so? He and Qianwu are both really good-looking, but the facial features are still very different."
"It's not that kind of facial resemblance." Jiang Chen frowned, "It's an overall feeling... It's hard to say. Anyway, he was a bit like Qianwu when he was in a low state last night, and now he doesn't have that feeling."
Within a few words, Wen Li walked out from inside.
The tall and resolute man had a hint of confusion on his face. When everyone surrounded him, he hesitated and said, "It seems like nothing happened."
"What did he question?" Qu Ying asked.
Wen Li said, "Name, job, age, who else is in the family. Nothing else, but I asked him more."
"What did you ask?" Jiang Chen asked.
Wen Li said: "He is very frank about the killing of demons, which is similar to what we heard from the townspeople. There will be criteria for screening the death pool every day, and players who enter the pool will be targeted by demons. Whether they live or die depends on fate. "
"Can you not be honest." Peng Peng curled his lips, "In their eyes, we are all small animals."
"The next one." Wen Li said, "It should be fine. The task of this dungeon is not to allow us to join the township smoothly. Instead, you can prepare any questions you want to ask. I don't think he is too lazy to lie to us. .”
Players entered one by one, after five or six, the speed was getting faster and faster, Purgatory seems to be tired, just go through the process and ask the name, age, professional family four-piece set, and then drive people out.But he still has a bit of professional ethics. As long as the player really wants to ask a question, he will answer it patiently.
When Qu Ying went in, he asked him if he knew the old beggar. He said that there was a whole gang of beggars in the town, how could he know.
The longest one belonged to Peng Peng. After half an hour, the door opened with a bang.
Everyone hurried over to watch, and the Purgator personally threw Peng Peng out, with a very ugly expression on his face.
"Come on, Rory." He pointed at Peng Peng, "Your investigation today is over, get out."
Peng Peng looked aggrieved, "I'm just curious about the origin of Purgatory. What rank do you have? Is there anyone on the top? What's the level of salary in Purgatory? Does every devil use the trick of fabricating hallucinations before killing people? My friend was killed by you. Are you responsible for the heat stroke? Does the screening condition of heavy rain and clothes end at sunset? If you don’t stay in purgatory and run to the human world, are you looking for a sense of existence to brush your KPIs?”
Purgatory Man reached out his hand and pointed at his nose firmly, "Starting tomorrow, you don't have to accept interrogation anymore."
Everyone: "..."
Peng Peng was stunned for a while, and after a while, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Say it earlier, okay!"
"Next." Purgatory turned around and went back to the storage room.
There are only two people left.Qian Wu was about to go over, Jiang Chen patted his arm, "I'll go first."
Jiang Chen is the fastest one, about 30 seconds before and after.
Before Peng Peng's butt touched the stool, Mr. Commander had already walked out calmly.
"Is this the end?" Peng Peng stared wide-eyed.
But Qianwu seemed to have expected it, pouted and walked in.
When passing by Jiang Chen, Peng Peng asked: "Young Marshal Jiang, did you use your eyes to dissuade him? He didn't ask you any questions at all, did he?"
"I asked. Name, age, occupation, who else is in the family?" Jiang Chen said.
Peng Peng: "Then it won't end so soon, right?"
Hearing this, the corners of Qianwu's mouth twitched unconsciously, and muttered in a low voice, "There's nothing wrong with it."
He can imagine it all.
Jiang Chen said about ten words in total.
"Jiang Chen."
"26."
"Lead troops."
"just me."
It is basically impossible to expect this guy to condescend and get something out of the boss who doesn't like him.
Qianwu sighed lightly.
Jiang Chen is really an unreliable master.
He walked into the storage room, and Purgatory Man was sitting on the table holding a pottery bowl casually, looking bored.
Seeing him coming, Purgatory Man smiled and waved, "Come and sit."
"No." Qianwu stopped a few meters away from him.
Purgatory Man smiled, "What's your name?"
"Qianwu."
"Qianwu?" Lian Guizi was stunned, picked up the paper next to him, and confirmed, "It's Qianwu?"
Qianwu didn't say a word, and suddenly thought of something after a while.
"The person in front—" he paused, "Did you mention me?"
"Yes." Lian Guizi circled the paper.
"What did you do before?" He asked again.
Qianwu thought about it this time, "Graffiti."
"Oh..." Lian Guizi scratched casually again, "How old are you?"
"25."
"Who else is there in the family?" Purgatory son said directly: "It's the guy up there, right? What's his name Jiang?"
"Jiang Chen." Qianwu couldn't help but said.
Lian Jizi paused at the tip of his pen, raised his eyes and looked at him for confirmation.
After a while, Qianwu gave up the entanglement, looked away indifferently, and said: "Then let him."
Lian Guizi threw the paper away and looked at him with a smile, "You seem very proud."
"Is there?" Qianwu was expressionless, his head hurt again, and he pressed his temple again.
Lian Guizi shook his feet with a smile, "It's really annoying, the arrogance of a humble human being is almost on par with that guy just now. Oh, by the way, do you have anything to ask me?"
"Yes." Qian Wu raised his eyes and looked at him, "You seem to be different from last night, why are you pretending to be kind?"
Purgatory son paused in surprise when he heard the words, and then laughed again, "I don't think it's different, maybe I was in a bad mood yesterday."
Qianwu looked at him, "I'm in a bad mood, so you set the screening criteria for rainstorm clothing?"
Purgatory Man didn't answer, he approached Qianwu with a smile on his face, "Why don't you care so much, anyway, I'm cuter when I'm in a funny mood, right?"
"No."
Qian Wu frowned lightly, and took a step back.
"None of them are cute," he said. "You have misunderstood what cute means."
The smiling person suddenly paused.The smiling face seemed to fade away in an instant, turning into an indifferent face.
But even so, it was still very different from last night's temperament.He seemed indifferent last night, but now, there is contempt and cruel killing intent in those black eyes.
After thinking about it, Qianwu suddenly realized what was the most different.
"You are not a purgatory."
There was a hint of clarity in his black eyes, he raised his eyebrows, and his red lips raised a hint of a see-through smile.
"So that's why...you look exactly alike, are you twins?"
The author has something to say: It is forbidden to misidentify family members in the nerves.
Little Nervous moved in a serpentine shape on the ground indifferently, and if he refused to listen, he would go punting for me.
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