0106 Chapter 3: The Unbelievable Kidnapping Case (Section 16)
"Why would I want to kill everyone?" Zhen Cheng pretended to be aggrieved, making the coach grind his teeth in anger:
"In this case, we can't let multiple people take care of the key together. The only way is to give it to someone who can be accepted by everyone. In this case... what about the fireman?"
This is a somewhat unexpected proposal. The rest of you look at me and I look at you. No one understands why Zhen Cheng would propose such a proposal that seems to have no benefit to him and requires giving up the advantages he has obtained, but
In the end, everyone agreed with the decision.
What else should I do? In order to ensure that no one releases monsters to attack me, I can only throw away the key.
So under everyone's wary and suspicious eyes, Zhen Cheng calmly handed the key to the firefighter.
Of course, how could she really not leave some backup plans? It is easy to guess what will happen after discarding the key. The key in her hand was originally intended to be left to the firefighters. And using this as a cover, she
My own handful was left among the pieces of drawers that were dismantled in the room.
There were only six keys that were actually thrown out of the window by Zhen Cheng. And at that time, when she was unprepared, even if someone's dynamic vision could really capture how many keys Zhen Cheng threw out of the window, it would be because of the
Without knowing the whole story, it is impossible to count and remember in detail.
In the warehouse in the living area, everyone found a large amount of canned food. Although there was unusually no expiration date on it, the short-haired sister was very confident that she could eat it with confidence and started eating it regardless of other people's concerns.
Zhen Cheng also opened a can and ate it. She had always suspected that short hair had some special way of identifying objects in hidden spaces. This speculation had appeared since she was convinced that the scalpel was just a common thing.
The label on the can is very weird, it only says "citizen food" without any other explanation. The taste... feels like a hybrid of lunch meat, compressed biscuits, and cat food.
The taste is not too unpleasant, just hard to describe.
After tossing for so long, Zhen Cheng was also hungry. She bit the bullet and ate a third of the can, and didn't stop until she felt an obvious feeling of fullness.
The guys who had finished eating during this period were not idle, and began to inspect the living area in detail under her nose.
There was no deep reasoning in it. They simply thought that Zhen Cheng went to the accommodation area outside to find so many clues. Logically, there shouldn't be any hints in this living area.
This idea makes no sense, but I have to say that they guessed it right.
The doctor walked over from the bookshelf and threw a diary to Zhen Cheng. They worked separately and generally checked all the contents on the bookshelf.
The diary is not very thick, but it is very interesting in Zhen Cheng’s eyes. Because the first page is full of garbled characters...
Of course, it's not the kind of garbled code composed of unknown symbols. In fact, I know every word, but when connected together, I can't understand it into a sentence at all.
"Turn to the third page," the doctor prompted, and then asked: "You are a detective, do you know how to decipher the cipher text? I don't know why this damn thing makes people feel dizzy and nauseated, but we have tried it and it doesn't seem to make any difference.
It's a more serious problem, so I can only trouble you to try to do the same."
Zhen Cheng turned over and saw a paragraph of text with the same characters arranged in an abnormal order, but the degree of confusion was greatly suppressed:
"On the 12th day of the month
The director has repeatedly emphasized that all personnel files must be kept in an encrypted file cabinet in the office. We understand the meaning of not doing so, but the committee members seem to [them]
】The production of abnormality has a certain degree of understanding.
Hey, what kind of situation can a clear destiny lead to misery? I can't stand it anymore. This world is getting crazier and worse every day than before."
Although the order of this paragraph of text is out of order, the doctor must be able to roughly understand it, otherwise he would not point it out to Zhen Cheng. He asked about it, probably hoping to decipher the contents of the remaining pages.
Those things should be very important. Even if they do not directly involve the rules of the game, they will definitely help them understand the strange environment they are in.
Interestingly, Zhen Cheng did not experience the nausea and dizziness that the doctor said while reading. She did not think the doctor was lying, because the middle school student did cover his head and vomited when he was reading something. It was just temporary.
She still couldn't understand the meaning.
After Zhen Cheng read it, he flipped through two more pages and took a look, then tapped his temple and said, "I don't think this is a secret text. Do you still remember the characteristics of [them] in the document in the dormitory?"
As for the chaos in the middle sequence, or the diary that has been corrected, it must be a phased reminder destined to be given by the first type of secret space.
"Distorted space..." The doctor opened his eyes in panic: "This is not a secret diary, but an ordinary diary with the words' positions distorted so that we can't understand it at all?
Because the space is distorted, do you feel nauseated and dizzy when reading? So this place has actually been captured by [them]? That's why there are no normal humans left? Then aren't we also in danger?"
"Probably not," Zhen Cheng comforted: "[They] themselves may be the rules of the first type of hidden space. We know some of them, and understand that the space rules will guide the way to escape safely. But the indigenous people here do not understand,
Therefore, for them, the distortion of familiar reality is relatively fatal.
Even if this were not the case, [they] would not be able to transcend the rules of the hidden space itself. Otherwise, our world would not only have occasional incidents where gods disappear in the hidden space, but there would not be things that humans cannot understand, cannot contend with, and can only sit back and wait for the world to be destroyed.
[They] are gone.”
"So we are going to the office now? But we haven't found a way to open the door there yet..." The doctor understood and asked a question.
"No, let's rest for a while. Everyone must be a little sleepy after eating. We might have to face some dangers when we open the office. It's safer to adjust to the best condition while we still have the chance to recuperate now.
"Yes." Zhen Cheng suggested.
She was indeed quite sleepy. If she was drugged and anesthetized until she woke up after a full sleep, this feeling would seem very confusing. But since she was drawn into a secret space, she might not have been there just after she fell asleep last night.
, and then I worked under high tension for several hours. I would be damned if I wasn't tired.
But even though she was tired, it was not impossible to hold on for a while if necessary. Her real purpose was to delay the opening of the office a little bit.
According to the current conclusion, the rules that require everyone to kill each other to escape are likely to be placed in the office. Zhen Cheng, who has anticipated this opportunity, will need some time to design the layout and come up with a way to ensure that no one will die.
Or a way to ensure that you are the one who survives to the end.
As for the problem of the office door not being able to be opened, she was not worried at all. According to the rules of the first type of secret space, it should be possible to find clues now. Maybe the method to open the door is hidden in this diary.
Under Zhen Cheng's instruction, the doctor quickly suggested to the others that they should take a rest first, and deliberately skipped the real reason for not opening the office for the time being.
The doctor must have understood Zhen Cheng's purpose, but he also tacitly supported Zhen Cheng's approach. For no other reason than because neither of them was the type to rely on force.