[4000-word chapter] Chapter 82 The Devil's Choice and Why Chiyo Triggered
Gu Xing read the contents of the book, which consisted of more than seventy chapters. Each chapter was a complete story, clearly recording how each trigger person was ungrateful and how he was taken away by Eijiro Kita.
Placed in the toll booth passage.
On the last few pages, Gu Xing saw the names of Negishi Ryozo and several other colleagues, and felt a sense of sadness in his heart.
etc……
And Chiyo, Chiyo also triggered Kita Eijiro’s rule tonight, right?
Why did Chiyo get triggered? Is it really because of Gu Xing?
Gu Xing turned directly to the last page of the book, which only contained Chiyo's name, age, occupation, residence and other information.
As for why Chiyo triggers the weirdness, there is no mention of it.
Gu Xing thought for a while and decided to take a look at Kita Eijiro's rules first to see if he could find the answer.
Kita Eijiro’s rules are also recorded in the preface of the book——
This is the grotesqueness of a man who desperately hates ungratefulness.
He can receive a story about an ungrateful person every day. The greater the resentment of the person who was let down, the more hateful the behavior of the ungrateful person, the higher the chance of being picked up by Kita Eijiro and taken away, and the earlier the order (E+).
He is used to traveling at night, and all night alleys are a weapon for Eijiro Kita to travel through space in his taxi (E-).
The toll booth passage at the city exit is a storage room where he hides corpses and punishes the ungrateful. The more corpses collected, the more perfect his weird rules will be (E).
When the locked ungrateful person refuses to leave the house late at night, he can change the other person's inner thoughts. He can even teleport the other person to the vicinity of the vehicle through certain door openings (E-) (recently supplemented rules).
The following are not rules, maybe they are just habits before the monster was born——
He is sentimental and likes the weirdness of rainy days. The red rain and fog will closely follow his taxi, but others cannot see the red rain and fog. Only the trigger person who gets into the vehicle will fall into the sadness caused by the rain and fog, and then forget himself.
The purpose of getting on the bus.
"It Rained Again in Nagasaki Today" is his favorite song. It may be a bit old-fashioned, but he has been listening to this song for many years.
Before every departure, he would find Yosuke Kita and drop a coin into his son's bowl to keep him in a good mood all night long. It seemed that the power of his rules would also be greatly improved as a result.
He believed that every ungrateful person should be buried at the entrance of the toll station, with their consciousness preserved, and allowed to be run over by thousands of cars, so that their sins could be washed away.
He likes to induce the trigger person to mutter to himself, saying that he seems to have forgotten something. Then, he looks at the trigger person with a cold smile and tells him: "Maybe he forgot to be grateful."
Often when these words are said, the taxi is already approaching the toll station of death.
"We've arrived at the station. On behalf of XXX, I'd like to say hello to you."
This sentence is his verdict announcing the death of the other party. At the same time, it also reminds the triggerer whose kindness he has forgotten.
In the end, the ungrateful people will go to the outermost position of the corpses in the toll station passage, and recall their forgotten kindness while being crushed by cars one after another...
…
Gu Xing noticed two key factors that trigger the rules:
First, the resentment of the person who has been let down becomes heavier;
Second, the behavior of an ungrateful person is more hateful.
For Chiyo, the second article is definitely not true. Such a kind-hearted Chiyo would never do something that would make people and gods angry.
The only thing left was the first one, but Gu Xing didn't realize how much resentment he felt in his heart.
At most, it was just a feeling of helplessness when Chiyo first moved. After that, even this helplessness quickly disappeared, and he had more understanding of Chiyo.
Doesn't this work?
Look further down.
Sure enough...this monstrosity has a high growth potential.
So far, Eijiro Kita has taken away a total of 71 lives.
The harvested life span is 781 years and 5 months, all of which are added to Gu Xing's life span ledger.
After doing the math, Gu Xing's lifespan now totals 1,377 years and 8 months, which is really a thousand years...
"That's not right, Dongsang,"
Gu Xing said: "How come the average life span of the people Kita Eijiro took away is only about ten years? Did you keep it for yourself?"
[I'm thinking about it... you have to get used to this situation in the future. After every contained wild monster kills humans, including of course the monsters you describe, it will draw a certain amount of life to strengthen itself or complete the rules]
[I said that the first weirdness of the describer will be very buggy. One of the reasons is that after Grandma Satomi kills someone, she will give you the largest share of your lifespan]
It seems that this is not what Xiaodong said at the beginning...
Forget it, there is no need to study it in detail.
Gu Xing has long been used to Xiaodong's fickleness.
On the contrary, Gu Xing felt at ease after learning about the weirdness or the information that the small hole would swallow up part of his lifespan.
He has understood a truth a long time ago - a transaction that benefits only one person is by no means a long-term transaction.
The layout can be as large as possible.
If he does not gain anything from the grotesques he describes and contains, he will become paranoid.
Speaking of Rimi’s grandma, as the loan shark companies in Lidu City went bankrupt one after another, the number of loan sharks who had killed debtors due to malicious debt extortion in the past was getting smaller and smaller, and the number of times Rimi’s grandma came forward to enforce the rules was also becoming less and less.
For nearly a week, business has almost ceased.
The life span in Gu Xing's account only has a subtraction item, not an addition item.
Gu Xing actually felt that this was a good thing, as it also meant that people who were driven to death by malicious debt collection would soon be extinct in Lidu City.
But what about the entire country... I heard that many loan sharks in Lidu City have moved to other cities.
It seems that Rimi's grandma can only exercise the rules within Lidu. I wonder if it will be possible to expand to the whole country in the future.
Regarding this issue, Gu Xing consulted Xiaodong, and the answer was: [It is not sufficient for the time being]
"Also," Gu Xing looked at his hands, "This time, I feel that my mental and physical strength have not increased much. Why is this?"
[How many days have those people been dead? Their essence has long since returned to nature]
【Gu Xingjun】
"Um?"
[Because it is an E-class monster, you only need to pay 25 years of life to continue driving Kita Eijiro back on the streets of Lito City.]
[In the future, when he takes away the missing person, the life span gained will continue to be distributed to you]
[Don’t worry, the people killed this time are all fresh, and you can get some mental and physical strength again]
Gu Xing remained silent.
[Wait a minute...you guy...don't you have no intention of putting him back?]
Gu Xing really thought so——
In the beginning, he did have the intention to put Eijiro Kita back.
However, after carefully studying the other party's rules, we discovered that Kita Eijiro's criteria for identifying ungrateful people are extremely vague, especially when they are linked to the resentment of those who have been let down, which makes it easier to cause unjust, false, and wrongful convictions.
For example, Tetsuo is to everyone in the Criminal Division.
Because Tetsuo had more or less feelings for everyone in the Criminal Division, the resentment accumulated and eventually the rules were triggered.
But in fact, the police officers of the Criminal Division did not deserve death at all.
For another example, some people are naturally stingy and very careless. If they give others a little kindness and others do not repay it, or they are a little more selfless in certain things, great resentment will arise in their hearts, and Eijiro will look for it.
The passengers who came to the door and were taken away in this way were too unjust.
This set of rules is really not perfect enough, and Gu Xing has no way to adjust or change it for the time being... Therefore, it is best to let Kita Eijiro stay at home first.
In addition, there is Chiyo. Why was she taken away?
Moreover, Chiyo is still recording on the last page of Kita Eijiro's book that if Eijiro is really released, Chiyo will definitely be the first to suffer.
[Give me a suggestion - if Eijiro Kita suddenly disappears, it may attract the attention of the Bizarre Investigation Division. Don’t you want to get yourself into trouble because of this? 】
"Isn't this reason for persuasion too contradictory?"
【Um?】
"Didn't you say before that what happened tonight happened at the intersection of reality and the realm of weirdness, and that it is invisible to others. Even if the Weirdness Investigation Section discovers that the taxi is missing, they won't be able to find out the reason."
In addition, based on Gu Xing's understanding of the Bizarre Investigation Section of the Lidu Headquarters, if the taxi suddenly disappears, Sequoia will only open champagne and beer to celebrate, while Saury will devote himself more to the comic pursuit business, and the dead elementary school student should quickly
Just finished reading it.
Submit a closing report and everything will be fine.
After thinking clearly about the pros and cons, Gu Xing decided not to launch it for the time being. If there is really a need, just pay half a year for targeted delivery.
【Uh...this is it】
[Well, actually, you have the right to approve Kita Eijiro’s rules]
"Right of approval?"
[That is to say, every time Kita Eijiro implements the rules, he must present the background stories of the trigger person and the punished person to you. Only if you agree will Kita Eijiro implement it]
"And this one... why didn't you say it just now?"
[Didn’t I tell you now?]
The little hole is obviously not honest.
Gu Xing didn't intend to continue to dig deeper. Anyway, he knew that Xiaodong had evil intentions.
[How about it, since you can be responsible for review and control, Eijiro will never cause unjust, false, and wrongful convictions again, right?]
[However, you have to think carefully about it]
[In this way, in a sense, Gu Xingjun has completely become a judge in the moral court outside the legal system. Your ruling will directly determine someone's life or death...]
[Please note that it is decided directly]
[This time, it is not a general description of a set of rules like Grandma Satomi, facing an entire group, but a specific person]
[When you see this person’s name in the morning and pronounce his sentence, in the evening Kita Eijiro will be like an executioner, or like a policeman executing a death penalty, taking that person away from this world]
【are you ready?】
[Based on your moral conscience and values, would you be such a judge?]
"snort,"
Gu Xing sneered, "You were the one who encouraged me to release Kita Eijiro just now, and now it's you who want me to back off."
【Hey, so what】
"You don't care which way I choose,"
Gu Xingdao: "You just want to see me struggling with the devil's choice, right? Obviously, both choices are traps——
First, I became a describer in order to punish evil and promote good. If I choose to retreat at this time and lose the courage to punish evil and promote good, then the foundation for me to embark on this path will no longer exist, right?
Second, if I choose to release him, as you said, I will completely become the judge who decides and pronounces the life and death of others on a moral level, but in fact I do not have this power."
[Haha, don’t call me so cold-blooded... I’m just curious, what would you choose?]
"No matter what choice I make. Or rather, every time I make a difficult choice,"
Gu Xing said: "You will feel that you pushed me into the abyss, right?"
[It’s not that... you can consider it carefully, the door of choice will always be open to you]
"No, I'll tell you the answer now."
Gu Xing turned to the page in Kita Eijiro's book where the rules were recorded. He held the light on his back and his face sank into the darkness.
"Since Kita Eijiro is placed in front of me, a sharp sword to punish evil and promote good.
Then, I will raise it. If I don’t even have the courage to hold the sword, why should I continue walking?"
Gu Xing knew very well in his heart that the small hole was constantly tempting and bewitching him, heading towards the real devil, or in other words, falling.
But since he had chosen to become a describer, he had prepared to sink into the night one day. He always believed that as long as his heart was bright and open, he would never become a devil even if he was in the abyss of hell.
[Gu Xingjun, don’t be too optimistic]
[Just like a knight who fights a dragon, he will be stained with the blood of the dragon]
【Dancing with the devil, you will definitely be contaminated by the devil's breath】
[No matter what your original intention is, you will eventually find that you are the evil dragon]
"You know what, Dongsang"
Gu Xing was silent for a long time and replied: "These are not the most terrifying things."
【Um?】
"The most terrifying thing is to dance with the devil without knowing it, to fight with the dragon without realizing it."
[You mean, you are self-aware and enlightened]
[Haha, okay then. Let’s make the deal and pay for the life span...]
[Gu Xingjun, I’m waiting for that day]
With Gu Xing's consent, Chiyo's story appeared on the last page of the book.
It was a long story, from the beginning when Chiyo and Ryuichi met and fell in love, to Ryuichi's death, to when Ryuichi turned into a ghost and attached himself to the motorcycle.
Gu Xing was about to look down.
A bloody palm pressed against the book...
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