deadly round table

Jiang Wenyuan went to bed early, and after being awakened, he lost sleepiness. He lay quietly on the bed, listening to the sounds outside.Not long after, there were panicked footsteps and the sound of wheels rolling outside, and some players returned to the dormitory smoothly with a truck loaded with dirt.After a while, another truck came back.But Jiang Wenyuan waited and waited, but he couldn't wait for the sound of the third truck returning.

The player who took back the tools climbed back onto the bed, the human voice fell silent, and the soft sound of the stream behind the dormitory became the main theme again——

The sound of running water has a soft melody with a soothing effect. Jiang Wenyuan waited for a long time to no avail. He gradually became confused when he heard the ding-dong sound of running water. At the last moment of falling asleep, he seemed to hear the sound of a train passing by. .

Strange, the only railway nearby is the one that passes through the tunnel, and the tunnel is blocked. Where does the train come from?

The next morning, when Jiang Wenyuan woke up, Zuo Zhixing and Zhang Chen had already woken up.

"Morning." Zhang Chen showed a bright smile to Jiang Wenyuan. After a night's rest, he seemed to be revived with full blood.

Jiang Wenyuan stepped on the ladder and got down from the upper bunk. He straightened his messy hair, "Zhang Chen is early, Zuo Zhixing is early too."

"Good morning." Zuo Zhixing's rustic overalls did not detract from his social elite aura in the slightest.

In the game, it is a very luxurious thing to wake up on a new day and say good morning to your companions.

Jiang Wenyuan asked the two, "I seem to have heard the sound of a train last night, how about you?"

Zuo Zhixing looked calm, "I heard it."

Zhang Chen pressed his stomach in pain, "I suggest, let's go have breakfast first. I'm afraid that after going through the tunnel, I won't be able to eat the biochemical weapons in the cafeteria."

The three of them came to the dining hall, and there were already many players sitting inside. After the mental torture last night, every player carried their tools with them, even the inconvenient dirt truck.Jiang Wenyuan looked around in the canteen. The target of loading the trucks was huge. He immediately found the two trucks parked in the canteen and their owners. They were a combination of two women and a man and a woman.Jiang Wenyuan's heart became heavier little by little, Qin Gaozhi was not there.

Today's breakfast is lean meat and preserved egg porridge and deep-fried dough sticks. Zhang Chen ate his first mouthful of porridge like an enemy. The delicate porridge melted in his mouth, with the fragrance of ginger and chopped green onion. The minced meat was crispy and the preserved eggs were delicious. It was so delicious Chen almost didn't cry.Zhang Chen said angrily while eating the porridge: "Yesterday, that 14-year-old player must have made the potato fried meat dish. Today's kids are so inactive!"

Jiang Wenyuan has a bit of a tongue, and doesn't like porridge very much. He gnawed on fried dough sticks without taste, "How can you be sure that this porridge is made by Zhao Meng?"

Zhao Meng is the female white-collar player whose hearing has been deprived in both ears. In the past two days, the player's meals have been made by her.Because Jiang Wenyuan's appearance was not bad, Zhao Meng gave him a wink when he served him food.It's a pity that Jiang Wenyuan is gay, Zhao Meng's winking eyes can be regarded as thrown to the blind.

Zhang Chen was about to discuss this issue with Jiang Wenyuan, Li Yong and his friend came over, and they sat down opposite them with breakfast.Zuo Zhixing put down the half of his porridge, "You smell like blood."

"We just came over from the tunnel." Li Yong looked unhappy, "A player who carried the earthwork died. It seems that his name was Qi Gaozhi or something else. He died near the exit of the tunnel. His body had multiple fractures. The left leg was detached from the torso, crushed to pieces and stuck to the rails. We had a hard time cleaning the body up."

"Has the cause of death been investigated?" Zuo Zhixing asked.

"I took a photo." Li Yong handed the phone to Zuo Zhixing, "Initial judgment, he should have been hit by a train to death."

While Zuo Zhixing was flipping through the photos, Li Yong continued: "We talked with most of the workers of the emergency repair team yesterday, and they said that there were four train accidents near the exit of this tunnel, from the first to the fourth. Spanning more than 30 years, the first accident caused disability, and the following three accidents all killed. Those workers are not locals, and they don’t know the specific circumstances of the accident.”

Zhang Chen finished the porridge quickly, took the mobile phone from Zuo Zhixing, turned around and asked Jiang Wenyuan, "Do you want to watch it together?"

Jiang Wenyuan nodded heavily.

The two leaned closer and looked through the phone's photo album. In the photo, Qin Gaozhi had no left leg and died with a terrified expression frozen on his bloodstained face.And the fuzzy flesh and blood sticking to the railroad track, if it weren't for the shoes, it would be impossible to recognize that it was a human leg.

Zuo Zhixing did not take advantage of Li Yong in vain, "We saw four tombstones near the temporary earthwork storage site yesterday. Three of the tombstones have been engraved with the names of He Fang, Liang Xueqing and Pan Ge, and one tombstone is blank. "

Combined with Li Yong's information, the death toll is comparable.So who put these tombstones there, and who is the vacant tombstone? The key to everything seems to be related to the person who survived the train crash.

After seeing Qin Gaozhi's death, Jiang Wenyuan and Zuo Zhixing lost their appetite. They packed up the leftover breakfast and went to the tunnel to clock in for work.

Qin Gaozhi's body was hastily wrapped in a bed sheet from the dormitory and thrown into the bushes near the tunnel, with bloodstains everywhere.The workers of the emergency repair team went in and out of the tunnel, busy repairing the collapsed tunnel, completely ignoring the existence of Qin Gaozhi's body.

Zuo Zhixing put on his gloves and squatted down beside Qin Gaozhi's body.He didn't give Jiang Wenyuan and Zhang Chen any time to mentally build up, and he directly lifted the blood-stained bed sheet, revealing Qin Gaozhi's corpse in a horrific death.

"Oh my god!" Zhang Chen couldn't adapt to the corpse. He trembled when looking at the photos. Now when he saw the corpse, he jumped three meters away.

Zuo Zhixing watched Zhang Chen yelling "Ling Ling Ling Ling Ling Lingling" speechlessly, and he didn't expect Jiang Wenyuan to help, so he directly carried out the autopsy.

He inspected the corpse very skillfully, which made Jiang Wenyuan curious about his real occupation for the first time.Jiang Wenyuan knelt down beside him, "I just saw a strange place in the photo. There seems to be a black mark on Qin Gaozhi's left hand."

Zhang Chen, who had changed his mind to "Amen Hallelujah", widened his eyes, "Chen Mian, aren't you afraid!"

Jiang Wenyuan paused, "I've seen corpses."

Zuo Zhixing's eyes swept over Jiang Wenyuan's body, and finally fell on Qin Gaozhi's body. He took Qin Gaozhi's stiff left hand and wiped off the blood on his wrist with the sheet. Sure enough, as Jiang Wenyuan said, Qin Gaozhi There is a circle of black marks on the wrist.Looking at the shape of the black seal, it seems that someone once grabbed Qin Gaozhi's wrist with force, leaving such a deep mark.

Except for the left leg that was shattered into meat paste, Zuo Zhixing quickly checked Qin Gaozhi's whole body. As Li Yong said, the fractures on Qin Gaozhi's body caused by multiple impacts were basically concentrated on the back.

After the corpse was covered with the bed sheet again, Zhang Chen's face turned slightly better, and he analyzed: "So, Qin Gaozhi was dragged by his wrist while standing on the railroad track, and then he was hit to death by a train?"

Zuo Zhixing took off his blood-stained gloves, and added: "He was hit by the train with his back turned to death."

The three of them joined hands to worship Qin Gaozhi's corpse, and then went into the tunnel to clock in and go to work.

In the tunnel, the workers of the emergency repair team didn't care about the player's arrival, and they were still working intently. The machine advanced about two meters compared to yesterday.Brother Liang mentioned yesterday that the collapsed part of the tunnel was about 20 meters long. According to the work progress of the emergency repair team, the tunnel was just re-dug in ten days.Jiang Wenyuan had a bad feeling that if they didn't clear the game within ten days, they would definitely not be able to afford the consequences.

Yesterday, I already had an experience of clocking in to work. The three of them were familiar with it, and they left the tunnel after an hour counting down the seconds.

"Let's put the shovel back in the dormitory. Half of my lung function was taken away by the doll. It is really inconvenient to carry such a heavy thing." Zhang Chen suggested, "I will add an extra layer of insurance to the doors and windows of the dormitory. You basically don't need it." Worried about safety."

"I have no objection." Zuo Zhixing looked at Jiang Wenyuan.

Jiang Wenyuan's reaction was half a beat slow, and he didn't follow the topic of the two at all, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Chen felt that it was time for him to get back to the scene, and he showed concern, "Chen Mian, what's wrong with you, why do you feel that you have been absent-minded since you entered the tunnel? Did you just see the corpse and you were frightened and kept holding on?" So you're not feeling well?"

Jiang Wenyuan pinched his forehead, "I was thinking about some problems, and I was fascinated. What were you talking about just now?"

"We are discussing about putting the shovel back into the dormitory. What are you thinking about?" Zhang Chen didn't believe that Jiang Wenyuan was really thinking about something. He must be making excuses for himself.

"I was thinking about Qin Gaozhi's death." Jiang Wenyuan didn't notice Zhang Chen's secret thoughts, and replied seriously, "There were five people who went to fetch tools last night, so why did Qin Gaozhi die and not someone else. Compared with other people who came back alive, there are two possible causes of Qin Gaozhi's death. First, he did not follow the rules to use the two-person loader; second, he was alone when he retrieved the tools. In fact, I prefer the second Two reasons, because if he brought the truck back to the dormitory yesterday, he would not have to risk leaving the dormitory at night.”

The three talked while walking, and when they were about to reach the dormitory, Jiang Wenyuan stopped.

"Moreover, Qin Gaozhi's death method is very strange. If the murderer's purpose is to torture Qin Gaozhi and let him die in pain, he can make Qin Gaozhi stand facing the tunnel and witness the moment he was hit by the train, or let Qin Gaozhi Lying on the rails and watching the train run over his head. However, according to Qin Gaozhi's body and his position, Qin Gaozhi stepped on the right rail with his left foot, was held by the murderer's left wrist, and was hit with his back to the train. The murderer The grip mark left on Qin Gaozhi's wrist is slightly larger than that of an adult male. If his body size is also similar to that of an adult male, then the murderer was also on the rails with his back to the train station just a few seconds before Qin Gaozhi was hit by the train. If The murderer's purpose is to kill, so he himself bears the same risk of being killed as the victim, wouldn't that seem strange?"

Zhang Chen was really convinced this time, "Chen Mian, didn't you really open and hang into the game????!"

"Now I'm starting to wonder if you took the initiative to enter the round table game." Zuo Zhixing said.

"Don't make fun of me." Jiang Wenyuan said flatly, "My lover has a bit of a bad taste. He likes new and novel things. He dragged me to watch a documentary about a hundred ways to die. It will be a little uncomfortable, and after getting used to it, I will analyze the cause of death with him. I didn’t expect it to be useful in this kind of place.”

"It's actually a skill developed by watching a documentary? It seems that I have to watch it after returning to reality." Zhang Chen stared at Jiang Wenyuan, "But having said that, your girlfriend's interest is really weird."

Jiang Wenyuan quickly changed the topic, "Now we urgently need to know about the four incidents of train crashes that year. The route for the workers of the emergency repair team should be blocked. There should be two ways for us to contact the local people."

Zuo Zhixing nodded calmly, "The ingredients in the canteen are supplied by nearby farmers, and they should have clues."

"I propose to find the second clue first." Zhang Chen immediately raised his hand, "After all, the second clue is so close to us."

Needless to say, the three tacitly read the answer to the second clue from each other's eyes——

Brother Liang uses the same shovel as the player. He lives in the prefab house with the player, and the player’s identity is set to be a villager who lives near the tunnel. Brother Liang, who has the same standpoint as the player, has a different identity. It goes without saying.

The three of them returned to the dormitory. Brother Liang's room was quiet. He must have gone to the infirmary for treatment. They couldn't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Jiang Wenyuan took the lead and said, "Zhang Chen and I entered the house, Zuo Zhixing, come and watch the wind."

Before Zuo Zhixing said anything, Zhang Chen said, "Why didn't I watch the wind..."

Jiang Wenyuan looked at him, "You are still wronged. Let me ask you, if Brother Liang comes back halfway, are you capable of persuading him to leave? The doors and windows of our dormitory are all in the same direction."

Zhang Chen hesitated, "The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. I am not qualified to take the boss's job."

Zuo Zhixing: "..."