Ayanokoji in Kexue World

(64) The stakes are a bit high

Tosi still seemed to think I was lying.

After I said "he can poke whatever he wants", his eyes were full of impenetrable meaning.

I can't be bothered to argue with him.

"So, what do you mean he was stabbed by you, and his life and death are up to me? You hijacked him?" I asked back.

Does that mean the port mafia is leaderless?

Instead, it is suitable to observe the power situation of the port mafia.

At that time, I will also know where to apply force, but it is still too early to say.

Tuosi smiled and said: "I originally thought that I should not bring people here. After all, you may suddenly die. If you try to rescue people, I will not be worth the loss. And if you stay in the port mafia, there will be more interesting scenes .But come to think of it, it’s still not interesting to see the scene where you have to pull out your book to save someone. He’s next door, you might ascertain the situation, he’s on minimal treatment right now and won’t last a week.”

Tosira said in a long voice: "You can think about it carefully."

The reason why Tosi dared to allow me to take a look was because three days ago, my belongings had been taken away by Gogol.I don't have supernatural powers, and I don't have the strength to restrain a chicken.

"If you take the book, even if I am released by you, I am a wanted criminal in the whole country outside, and the chance of survival will be small."

Tosi said: "But at least, you won't die now."

He paused and said, "Do you really think you have room to bargain now? If you were to be polite, you might be too ignorant of flattery. You are our hostage now."

The words are high-sounding, if you really have such full confidence to suppress me, you will not give in again and again.

"I want to meet Mori Ogai."

While I was going to see Mori Ogai, let me think about it, what is it called "Tuosi throwing rats?"I am indeed in a weak position now, and it is just an idea for him to deal with me.Is it Sakura Chi who is afraid of the blessed land?Could it be that Fukuchi Sakurachi has the idea of ​​subduing me?That's why Tosi made such a concession?Or is there something else that happened in these three days that I don't know?

Toss remained where he was, and only Gogol led me into the next room.

Different from the warmth of the tea drinking room, the partition wall next door is made of iron fences, relying on the light cast from several gaps near the ceiling, the place you can see is dark and cold.

I smelled blood, a rusty smell mixed with a sickly sweet smell like ripened fruit, and the stink of a lot of raw blood or visceral blood.

I don't like the taste.

Gogol turned on the incandescent lamp, and the lights illuminated several lamp areas continuously, and the front-facing furnishings were unobstructed. Inside was a prison made of iron and white.The wall panels are connected with iron beds. There are upper and lower floors, there are also single rooms, and there are also narrow punishment rooms. There are unshielded shower rooms and external squatting toilets and sinks.It can be clearly seen that they are so clean, they are not newly installed, but have been washed several times with a high-pressure water gun, so they look exactly the same as new at first glance, but there are all kinds of cracks and criss-cross marks. In other words, there have been many stories here.

Mori Ogai is in a VIP prison room with separate showers and toilets, but it is completely uncovered and human rights are not considered at all.Now that winter is approaching, even the floor is oozing cold and damp, and Mori Ogai sleeps on the iron bed with no mattress, only a quilt on his body, his face is blue, and his hands and feet are also shackled to the iron bed , motionless, as if already a dead body.

There is no room for sympathy.

When he proposed the idea of ​​the Undead Legion and forced the sergeants to experience countless deaths, when he sat in the warm medical room and chatted with his nurse relaxedly, he did not regard the lives of others as human lives, and now he does not are treated the same.This is probably the present report.

However, I now have obvious emotions for Mori Ogai lying on the bed, his whole body exuding the breath of death.

This is beyond my imagination.

Probably because he noticed the change in my expression, Gogol put on a caring expression and said, "There are no extra snakes, rats, rats and ants here, so don't worry about him being eaten for no reason."

Bypassing this point, I said: "He seems to be lying on the bed now, he must not have just been stabbed."

"Yes, he was also shot in both legs. Is the smell of blood really too strong?" Gogol didn't think there was any problem with what he said, and said in a very ordinary tone, "Because he was afraid that he would resist too much. , I have the energy to run away, and I am afraid that you will run away with him. Think about it, if you can’t walk, it is also a burden for you to run away, isn’t it? That’s why he pierced both of his thighs.”

Hitting both legs doesn't mean he avoided the lethal part.

As long as you are hit by a bullet, there will be a cavity effect, and the wound surface is several times larger than the area of ​​the bullet, which is likely to cause permanent trauma.Perhaps one can imagine that when a gun hits a block of ice, even if the whole block does not turn into powder, several layers of cracks and shattering can be seen to the extent visible to the naked eye.

What about turning ice cubes into human bones and muscles?

Excessive blood loss alone is enough to cause death.

In addition, in such a harsh environment, there is not enough medical equipment, so he can't live for three days.

Now I sort of understand what the emotion I'm feeling about Mori Ogai is called.

It would be nicer to say "thank you".

To put it bluntly, it can be said to be "fortunately", "fortunately" and "lucky".

If it were someone else I knew, I would probably feel that I would have to start the rescue soon.However, Mori Ogai made me so calm and unhurried, with a lot of leeway to think and react.

"Get the book, what do you want to do?"

"Books don't mean anything to me, but to Tosi, it's a tool to eliminate all supernatural beings, and to Kamui, it's a means to conquer the world. To sum it up, they want to use violence to transform the world. That’s what I think.” Gogol nodded his fingers with a careless expression. "Conquer the world and create new ones?"

"So, is this going to kill all the supernatural beings?"

Then how do they deal with themselves as people with supernatural powers?

"There are no insects that can be eradicated. Even if they are all killed, human beings will not stop pursuing power beyond nature. There will still be some crazy people pursuing supernatural powers, developing superpowers, and doing human experiments. I think , They may have to pull out the "root".What is the specific idea and operation plan?This is a question they are thinking about. "Gogol is not a person who doesn't like to think, but he doesn't have the energy to study things that don't interest him.

He even started asking me, how would I feel if I would be invited to join this program?

Although there is no road to success that does not require sacrifice and blood and tears, I feel that even if their ideas are extreme or too advanced, their affairs have nothing to do with me.

"I want to be alone with Mori Ogai."

"how long?"

"Three ten minutes."

"It's too long, 5 minutes." Gogol refused, "But there is no special monitoring here, so you can chat as much as you want."

Can Mori Ogai get up and chat with me?

And even without monitoring.

Here is also a glance.

Even if you stand at the outermost door, you can still see the dead body of the innermost person.

Due to the space design, the sound inside will also be naturally amplified by the echo.

"10 minutes."

Gogol said: "How about I give you 15 minutes, you do one thing with me, and I give you extra time."

"What are you doing?"

"Very simple."

The more I say this, the more weird I feel.

Gogol said, "Do you like poker?"

"Do you mean me to play a poker game with you? Now?"

Gogol took out a deck of playing cards from his inner pocket and said, "There are many ways to play poker, so let's just play a game of nervous breakdown?"

The so-called neurasthenia is playing pairing.

Pairing pairs of identical numbers is a simple game that tests memory.

If the opponent is a good poker player, it is not uncommon to have a superior memory.Then, it is not difficult to remember the positions of 54 cards.The croupiers in some casinos can even remember the position of each card after they have shuffled, and distribute the cards to their customers so that the other party can win the bet.This is the so-called cheating.But in the final analysis, if gambling wants to develop a long-term business, cheating must also be an inevitable link.No one dares to put career on luck all the time.

However, the playing cards that Gogol took out did not have any numbers or patterns. The back was printed with ordinary brown-red prints, and the front was blank paper.

"This is a pure white card." Gogol said, "It has 54 cards like ordinary playing cards, but it is made of 27 different kinds of white paper."

Gogol didn't keep it private on purpose, but put the card in my hand and let me touch it myself.

Although the above are all the same color, there are still subtle differences in polish, touch, fine lines, and thickness.

"In the past, neurasthenia relied on visual memory, but now we have a different way of playing - "tactile memory". "

In fact, most people also believe that tactile memory is time-sensitive.If you touch a lot of objects in a short time, you will forget what you are touching.But the situation is the opposite. Researchers Fabian and Christopher of the University of Regensburg once invited people to do a "haptically explored" experiment, which proved this point.

Participants touched more than 150 objects in one hour of the experiment, and in the small test after the end-touching two similar objects for comparison, and choosing which one appeared in the laboratory, 94% of the participants Accuracy.A retest a week later was also 85% accurate.

If you think it is too difficult, it is only because you rely too much on your own eyes.

Blind people may soon be able to pass this game.

I didn't think the game would be that simple.

There are more than [-] nerve endings in the fingertips, which is the part with the most receptors in the human body. It is full of Meissner corpuscles called "tactile corpuscles", which are very sensitive.

Are you not allowed to touch it with your hands?Can you only use the sound of falling cards and eyes to capture the difference between light and color?

That would be interesting.

I said, "So, how do you play here? What are the rules for winning? As long as I get more cards than you, will it be fine?"

"Flip and play like a general nervous breakdown. Once you find a pair, you can continue to flip once. After the flip is over, another player flips the cards until it's your turn."

"..."

I listened with a blank face, but there was a question mark in my heart.

Gogol laughed and said: "If you are really like the "book" paper we got before, you were a master of memory in your early years, then playing this kind of game is too easy.So, we have to add a condition - you not only have to win me, but also tell me what cheating I did.I'm bound to cheat, so you'll have to judge how I do it. "

"Then what if you deny it outright?"

Gogol said with a smile: "I will write down a piece of paper, which will describe the method I used. Before the end of the game, it will be placed in a place where we cannot reach it. In addition, in order to prevent counterfeiting, the After I write it down, there will be your own signature on it. In this way, you and I can guarantee that I will not secretly change the note. "

Gogol's idea is very thoughtful. Even if a magician can create two pieces of paper with the same signature, the premise is that the magician has prepared these two things.I'm not going to have to write a slip of paper for him twice.

"What if I lose?"

"If you lose, you have to obey my order. You also feel that it is painful to be bound by emotions?"

I glanced in the direction of Mori Ogai: "You want me to kill him?"

"No, I want to see you cry."

Just to meet Mori Ogai, the gamble seems a bit high.

The author has something to say:

Today's Ayanokouji learned the emotion called "thank you" from Mori Ogai.

Mori Ogai: ...

Mori Ogai: If you say kill me, you don't seem to have any reaction.But telling you to shed two tears is like scratching your flesh, what's going on?

Ayanokōji (not listening): Although I can't lose, this bet is unpleasant.