Escape from the Madhouse [Unlimited]

Meng Bie has been extremely cautious in doing things all his life, but he has a big shortcoming, that is, he likes to gamble. He met a group of players who had just come to this semi-open dungeon at the Blue Harbor Casino, and unexpectedly entered the Honkai with them. after the city.

Not long after the game started, Meng Bie realized that the wristbands of certain colors were being reduced in a targeted manner. Meng Bie quickly guessed that there was a massacre, so he led his teammates on the road to escape by virtue of his detection skills.

It was on the way to escape that they were rescued by Bai Zhou, and then joined Zhou Qian's team, and now they are all members of the Peerless Legion.

Meng Bie was cautious and suspicious by nature, he didn't trust Bai Zhou enough at the beginning, and later reunited with Zhou Qian, he still had some reservations, and he didn't tell everything he knew.

Until this moment, Meng Bie obviously had enough trust in Zhou Qian's ability and character, so he went to Zhou Qian and confessed the matter.

Hearing Meng Bie's words, Zhou Qian walked to a corner with him.

After Bai Zhou, He Xiaowei, Yindao, and Yin Jiujiu all arrived here, Zhou Qian took out an airbag prop that can isolate the sound, and let everyone sit in the airbag.

In this way, it is absolutely impossible for the people of the pink army to hear the conversation of the few of them.

After everyone sat down, Zhou Qian looked at Meng Bie: "Tell me about the specific situation of Saiyan Hotel that you found."

Meng Bie: "There are so many killers related to that hotel! We found that after killing someone, one killer would cut off the tattooed part of the person to make a decoration, and then add a swastika himself—"

Zhou Qian interrupted him: "Let's not mention him. What about the others? The heads of the corpses were covered, and the cause of death was beating to death. Have you found the murderer corresponding to these corpses?"

Meng Bie immediately said: "Yes. This case is indeed the most mysterious. Our team spent the most time on it, and finally let the truth come to light.

"The corpse you mentioned is actually divided into several situations. The first one is the earliest one. It was committed by a killer composed of a man and a woman."

At this point, Zhou Qian expressed his understanding. The writer Luo Yu took the serial murder case of this pair of men and women as the source of inspiration, and made the manuscript based on the collected information and his own imagination.

—Then, what about other situations?

Meng Bie said: "Another similar serial murder happened many years later.

"We suspect that the murderer is a writer named Luo Yu. We found many magazines, which mentioned Luo Yu, and they said that Luo Yu's temperament changed drastically.

"Luo Yu is a novelist. His works often reveal some dark things about human nature, but the theme of his novels is always positive. The protagonist's attitude towards life is never negative, and he is also very decent.

"But Luo Yu changed later. He only wrote one work later, which was the one he wrote in the Saiyan Hotel. After reading that novel, many people will feel...he is empathizing with the murderer .He thinks the murderer is right to do that, and he no longer shows any critical attitude in his works.”

After a short pause, Meng Bie said again: "Luo Yu stayed at the Saiyan Hotel, claiming to be looking for inspiration. But during his stay, there were a lot of cases. The murderers of those cases were the same as the murderers in his novels for many years. The previous man and woman were very similar.

"At first, no one suspected Luo Yu. Until the book was published, the police carefully studied his novels and found that his novels were highly overlapped with the actual case, and then went to check his words and deeds in detail when he lived in Saiyan Hotel , Only then was it confirmed that he was the murderer, and he was arrested. In addition..."

He Xiaowei was a little addicted to listening, so he hurriedly asked, "What else?"

Meng Bie said: "What's more frightening is that Luo Yu gave many lectures before he was arrested. Many people were brainwashed by him and started to kill people in the same way. They even changed their names and called themselves Luo Yu.

"The word 'Luo Yu' has become a god-like existence that criminals believe in."

Zhou Qian probably understood. "That is to say, Luo Yu imitated a man and a woman to commit crimes. Later, many people imitated him to commit crimes. One after another."

"Yes." Meng Bie said, "That's what I mean. Among Luo Yu's followers, there is a man who is very famous. His original name is Zhu Gao. He is tall and beautiful. He has seduced many beautiful housewives and told them His name is Luo Yu. The most amazing thing is—"

Zhou Qian looked at him curiously: "What is it?"

Meng Bie said: "This guy is really good-looking and good at flirting. He not only seduces beautiful housewives, but also seems to seduce their husbands at the same time... even worse than the original Luo Yu.

"In a worse way, he destroyed the relationship between husband and wife, and finally killed them all!"

Zhou Qian seemed to have realized something. "I saw a handsome killer just now, and I saw it right away."

He Xiaowei was very surprised: "Ah? Is Mr. Youlong handsome?"

Zhou Qian didn't know when He Xiaowei started calling Bai Zhou the "Big Dragon", and he didn't know if he was trying to get angry or if his EQ still didn't improve, so he immediately glared at him, and then looked sideways at Bai Zhou.

Meeting Bai Zhou's eyes, Zhou Qian reached out to cover his ears: "No, you heard it wrong. I didn't see anyone. What handsome guy?"

Everyone: "..."

"Cough, that..." Meng Bie coughed twice and continued, "In short, many people have been brainwashed by Luo Yu and become his followers, but not everyone can become a successful serial killer.

"There are only two people who have stayed in Saiyan Hotel, successfully committed serial murders, and are related to Luo Yu. One is the handsome guy Zhu Gao just mentioned, and the other is a woman named Liu Mei.

"As for the other killers in this hotel..."

"The other killers are not in a hurry." Zhou Qian said, "I know enough about Luo Yu. This is very important, and it confirms one of my guesses."

He Xiaowei was so anxious that he scratched his head and asked, "Qian'er, tell me quickly. I'm very curious!"

——The corpses in exhibition C are divided into two categories, one corresponds to the swastika killer; the other corresponds to the murderer, players may never actually meet them.

Now through Meng Bie's words, Zhou Qian is sure that Luo Yu is the murderer.

But why is this important?

He Xiaowei really couldn't figure it out.

Only to hear Zhou Qian say again: "After walking out of this prison door just now, I deliberately walked very slowly. It is not difficult to read all 55 killers.

"I have seen everyone's face. But there is no Luo Yu's in it."

Hearing this, everyone present was unavoidably surprised——

It stands to reason that Luo Yu is also a serial killer, and he is also the link that caused the collapse.

But why didn't he show up?

Is it because of Meng Bie's reasoning error, Luo Yu is not the murderer, or is there any other deeper reason behind this?

"Luo Yu isn't here..." He Xiaowei frowned and murmured, "So, a killer is missing. Why is there a killer..."

Zhou Qian asked him: "Do you remember that I asked Ruan Mei a word? I said, I know how she committed the crime."

He Xiaowei nodded: "I remember! I thought it was weird at the time! I was worried about what she would do to you, but she just walked away with a bad face. She even seemed...a little afraid of you?"

"Yes. This is also very important." Zhou Qian said, "When I saw the 'Spirit of the World', what it said to me further confirmed this point. Killers will not kill people who are too smart or know too much information. There is a very special point - killers will not kill useless people. The combination of these can explain a problem."

As if he had a premonition of something, He Xiaowei swallowed hard: "You mean..."

"I mean... Maybe the real Linekong City hasn't collapsed yet," Zhou Qian said.

He Xiaowei:?

Zhou Qian: "Luo Yu's story must have a purpose. Then could it be... In fact, as written in his novel, there is indeed a double world in Linekong City?"

Gliding his eyes over everyone one by one, Zhou Qian said: "Before we guessed that the world collapsed because someone rescued criminals who should have been imprisoned or even executed. They killed too many people, causing The chain effect finally led to the demise of the entire city.

"But in the logic chain of this story, there is a key link that is missing. Another purpose of the exhibition hall has not yet been reflected—how did the killers really get away with it?"

He Xiaowei asked: "Speaking of this issue, I discussed it with my master. Many of the corpses in the exhibition hall were just when they died. For example, those babies... They just drowned, and they appeared in your Hall A In the middle, when you inspected the dead bodies, you touched them and left fingerprints, which will bring clues to the past...

"Then logically, the suspect will emerge from among us. Master and I agree that the killer will visit us, pick one of us, bring them back to the past, and let us take the blame for them.

"In this way, we will be trapped in the past, and we will never be able to leave, and even... we will be shot instead of the condemned prisoners!

"That's what the exhibition hall is really about. It's just, just..."

"It's just that... this intention has not been realized so far."

Zhou Qian took He Xiaowei's words and said, "What you just said is completely fine. I think this is the most reasonable logic. The exhibition hall can connect time and space. We have left fingerprints and other clues in the past time and space, and the killer has indeed come from the past. Now. But now in this logic chain, one of the most critical links is missing——

"Only when the real culprit chooses someone and makes him a suspected culprit in the past, go to jail instead of him, or even receive the death penalty for himself, can the real culprit truly get away with it, and then cause the subsequent collapse.

"But now all the players are here, and no one is considered a suspect.

"Players, haven't been chosen by the murderer yet, haven't gone back to replace them. Why?"

Zhou Qian looked at everyone's expressions, and said again: "So I suspect that the real meaning of this so-called 'King Game' is for each murderer to select a 'suspect'."

"This world is not the real Linekong City, it is the second level of the double world. The real Linekong City is still fine, but no matter which world, the real collapse has not yet come."

Zhou Qian said, "The spirit of the world I met is the incarnation of the dual world.

"If the real world is compared to the yang side, the dual world is the yin side. It will always live attached to the real world and will always be the shadow of others. Therefore, the spirit of the world wants to go to the real Blue Harbor City, and also wants to share everything that happened here. become real."

The balance, the door, the missing Luo Yu...

So far, Zhou Qian has a fairly complete guess as to what exactly happened——

There are double worlds in Linekong City.

The normal world is called the positive side, and correspondingly, there exists a negative side world that is exactly the same as this one.The people, things, and things in the shadow world are all projections of the sun world.

Looking at it from another perspective, the yin world actually exists dependent on the yang world.

The two worlds originally did not interfere with each other, but sometimes, after self-awakening, people in the yin world will go to the yang world in a certain way and live instead of the other self.

Luo Yu is an example.

Originally he was a writer who would convey correct values ​​in his novels.

But he was killed by himself in the shadow world.

The dark face Luo Yu has since replaced him to live in this world, his temperament has changed drastically, he has become a serial murderer, and gained countless followers through brainwashing.

What's more, one day, the world spirit of the shadow world awakens, and it is so powerful that it can even interfere with the sun world.

Like the homicide gallery, which probably exists in both worlds.When Zhou Qian and the others visited last time, when they entered the gate of the courtyard, what they saw was the exhibition hall of the Yang World.

But when they entered the exhibition hall to visit, they actually went to the dark world.

What they visited was the exhibition hall of the shadow world. The killers and corpses they encountered from beginning to end... were all from the shadow world.

No one wants to be someone else's shadow forever.

The spirit of this world wants to be unique.

It was born in the shadow world and possesses all the negative energy in this world.

So it wants to bring Honkai to this world first, and then to the real Blue Harbor City.

Zhou Qian guessed that the balance might be the bridge connecting the two worlds.

It's leaning towards one end.

And about five hours later, at twelve o'clock midnight, the tilt ends, and the balance will completely tilt to the other end——

At that time, yin and yang will be reversed, and the yin world will replace the yang world, causing the entire Linekong City to truly collapse.

This is what the spirit of the world refers to as "going out".

He and all the killers are going to Yang World.

Before the yin and yang are reversed five hours later, the spirits of the world and the killers still need to complete one more thing - to select suitable "suspects" to return to the past time and space of this world for them.

In fact, the real collapse of the shadow world has not yet come.

The reason why the players saw the collapse was only because the powerful world spirit created a chaotic time and space, which made the players mistakenly think that this had already happened, and ignored their real purpose.

The logic chain is still missing the most critical link.

When the player is selected to replace the killer as the murderer and executed, and the missing link is filled, Honkai will really exist in the Yin world.

And when the balance is tilted, the collapsed Yin World will completely replace the real Blue Harbor City.

At that time, it will be the real end of Blue Harbor City.

Luo Yu did not appear in this world, which is the best proof.

He from the shady world has already gone to the yang world and was arrested in the yang world.

He is not in the causal chain related to Honkai in the Yin world.

He Xiaowei pondered for a long time before he figured out what Zhou Qian meant.

He was about to ask another question, but Meng Bie brought it up.

He said to Zhou Qian: "Forget about the double world... let's just talk about our current world... I probably understand what you mean. The killers were completely acquitted. In fact, there is still a lack of 'suspects caught and executed' Relevant historical events. Therefore, the Blue Harbor City in this world has not collapsed.

"Since the spirit of the world can connect time and space, it is indeed not uncommon to create a hypothetical 'chaotic' time and space, which is not difficult for the pair...

"In short, he created the current false time and space, making us all think that the collapse has happened according to his needs...but it didn't. They still have to choose 'suspects' from the players to fill in the most critical One ring."

After thinking for a long time, Meng Bie said again: "Can I understand it this way? We are actually in a false hypothetical time and space. Then the killer will massacre players in the 'King Game' for a while. This massacre is actually fake, just a Something of a ritual.

"Of course, the slaughtered players will still die. It's just that they don't die in this hypothetical time and space. They will actually..."

Zhou Qian affirmed his guess and said, "They will actually go to Blue Harbor City in the real dark world and be arrested as real murderers to fill in the missing 'historical events'. With these filled 'history' , the Blue Harbor City in the shadow world will truly collapse. Wait until 12:[-], and the Blue Harbor City on the sunny side will be replaced and disappear.

"Assassins can actually pick players and take them away. Why do they kill people in this false chaotic time and space? I'm afraid it's just like you said, it's a sense of ritual. The killers are full of negative energy, they take pleasure in killing, and flesh and blood are their carnival, and they are also a sacrifice to start the doomsday."

After Zhou Qian finished speaking, He Xiaowei rushed ahead of him this time and said, "Hey...then it's better if we don't die in this game? Then we won't be selected!"

"Of course. In fact, the three rules mentioned by the spirit of the world are completely in line with our guess. The killer dare not choose someone who is too smart and knows him too well, because it will not help him get rid of the crime.

"That's why I said to Nguyen that I knew everything she had done and she left angrily. She would never dare to choose me to replace her. Especially after I won the game and said I was 'smart'. I' Smart', knowing her flaws, might exonerate himself and get her arrested.

"In addition, the last rule mentioned by the spirit of the world is also very important - killers don't kill useless people.

"It's also easy to understand. For example, in some cases, the age range of the murderer may have been roughly determined, so people beyond this age range are useless to him. Such people will not die in the 'King Game' 'middle.

"therefore--"

Zhou Qian made a conclusion: "The most important thing in this game is neither the wristband nor the weapon. Just like our initial judgment, the most important thing is the information of each murder scene.

"There are too many murder scenes in this city. Different people are scattered all over the place, and the information they get is completely different. No one can guarantee that the murderer you encounter is related to the scene you have investigated. Therefore, information exchange is very fast. important.

"Whoever has more people can get the most information. If everyone in the team wants to survive, they must exchange information without reservation, not as the system misled us at the beginning. —Everyone will kill each other.”

"Lead everyone to kill each other, but the condition for customs clearance is unity and cooperation..." He Xiaowei scolded, "This system is really... its bad taste has never let me down!"

Zhou Qian ignored He Xiaowei's words, but seemed to be thinking about a certain problem.

Then he felt his hand being squeezed.

Turning his head, he met Bai Zhou's eyes.

"The game officially starts, there is still 1 minute left."

Bai Zhou didn't ask how Zhou Qian could obtain Taohong's information.

Through the private chat tool, he asked: "People from Taohong, how many do you want to keep?"