Chapter 314: Inhuman (122) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]

It sounded as if this body was not his.

Bai Jinshu subtly reached out and took a portable mirror that someone had dropped from the side, and looked at the face in the mirror.

It was indeed my fault.

A few more murmurs echoed in my mind: "Did the newcomer not hear it?"

"You can speak louder."

"We are not hard of hearing, so what difference does it make if we speak loudly or softly..."

"Maybe he thought it was an auditory hallucination. Didn't Cen Bingqi think he was hallucinating before? He even pretended to be normal to fool the experimenter and went to the infirmary for a checkup."

"What does it have to do with me? Normal people would go to the hospital for a checkup if they suspected something was wrong, right? Why didn't you go to the hospital when you were sick before?"

"You didn't go to a hospital, so what did the doctor diagnose you?"

"Damn it, how should I know! Cen Bingqi came out when the doctor was preparing to diagnose. None of you told me at the time. When I regained consciousness, he was already in bed. I thought it was a ghost, okay? Don't think I didn't know that you, Cen Bingqi, wanted to kill me at the beginning."

A voice coughed a few times and said, "Let's not talk about the past. You didn't show mercy to us back then."

This conversation is quite interesting.

"You wanted to kill me at first" and "You didn't show mercy to me at first", these voices suddenly appeared in his mind. Have you ever experienced very fierce internal struggles?

Bai Jinshu put down the mirror thoughtfully, feeling that this matter was about to go beyond his imagination.

As far as he could remember, these sounds were definitely the first time they had appeared.

If they had already had a very serious internal fight before, to the point where one side wanted to kill the other, and these voices took turns appearing in the foreground as the consciousness controlling the body during this process, and even took the initiative to seek medical treatment, then he could not have been unaware of it.

Even if we take a step back, it is impossible that Old Wu didn't know.

If he were an ordinary person, it would be possible for him to suddenly lose consciousness and appear somewhere and have no memory of the experience after coming back.

But he happens to be an actor with a certain fame.

The Internet is so developed that if he is photographed somewhere, it is impossible for it not to be posted online no matter what.

Once he appears on the Internet, not to mention Old Wu, even old ladies like Old Wu will definitely come to ask him where he has been.

Old Wu never asked, which proves that such news has never appeared.

If it was before he became famous, it would be even more impossible.

Bai Jinshu had good hearing, and the voice appeared directly in his mind. He couldn't have ignored the fact that they mentioned "infirmary" instead of "hospital".

In contrast, they mentioned that Cen Bingqi once pretended to be normal and deceived the experimenters.

Sounds like something that happened in a laboratory.

This really was beyond his imagination.

Bai Jinshu reviewed the past twenty years of his life in just a few dozen seconds, and confirmed that he had never been through a laboratory since he could remember, let alone come into contact with an experimenter.

"Hello? Hello?" The voice sent out by the crowd did not receive a response for a long time, so it raised its voice and asked a few more questions, "Can you hear me? I am not your hallucination, nor am I an illusion. The conversation between us is absolutely safe, and there is no other device that can monitor or detect it."

The representative sent by everyone was still trying to communicate with him.

He didn't seem to realize that he was slow to respond because he had heard other people's conversation.

In other words, they don't know they can hear them communicating.

Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed, and he pretended to be confused and asked, "Who are you?"

"Huh..." The voice in his mind seemed relieved that he was willing to communicate. "My name is Cen Bingqi, and I'm one of the consciousnesses in this body. You should have come into contact with a few other people before. Do you remember how you ended up here?"

Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes slightly.

This voice defaults to him appearing in this body, not them appearing in this body.

In just over ten minutes, he had almost figured out the current situation.

These voices that suddenly appeared in his mind knew each other and had a set of ways of dealing with the appearance of "newcomers" that they had used before. It can be seen that they had faced this situation of newcomers many times before.

Among these voices, an internal fight broke out for unknown reasons, in which they wanted to kill each other.

The reason for the internal strife is still unknown, but Bai Jinshu speculates that it is to fight for control of the body.

Somehow, these voices, which initially tried to kill each other for control of the body, changed from a life-and-death struggle to living in peace after something happened, and classified this experience as a thing of the past that "does not need to be mentioned again."

This is all the information revealed in just a few sentences of conversation.

If it is regarded as a fantasy, it is too rich and too complete.

And if it was true, it was impossible for these things to exist in his mind for such a long time without his knowledge.

Bai Jinshu closed the portable mirror in his hand, put it on the table, and decided to continue communicating based on the ideas of these voices.

However, faced with these voices that inexplicably appeared in his mind and even gained short-term use of his body, he should change his approach in order to avoid being led by the nose and having control taken away on the grounds of being a "newcomer."

"Appeared here?" Bai Jinshu leaned back slightly, crossed his legs, and instantly constructed an image of an elite who was not to be trifled with in his mind. His tone became sharper and more pungent. "I don't think it was me who appeared here. In my opinion, it was you who suddenly appeared in my mind."

"In fact..." Cen Bingqi, who came out to discuss the matter, spoke gently and tactfully, "We may have existed about five or six years earlier than you. If you think you have been in this body from the beginning, then it is very likely that some minor accidents occurred during the transmission process..."

"Ok, let's not discuss this topic for now," Bai Jinshu stood up from the stool, glanced at his phone, and interrupted the topic forcefully, "Let's put aside the question of whether I showed up first or you showed up first. I still have work to do. Let's talk about it after I finish it."

In just over ten minutes, three people on the set had called him seven or eight times. Even if he wanted to figure out the source of the voice that suddenly popped up in his mind, he had to finish his work first.

Director Qiao on the small road not far away suddenly disappeared at some point, as if he had come here on purpose to stop him. As soon as he left, Director Qiao's copy also left.

Bai Jinshu stood up and asked in his mind, "Let's not talk about who appeared where. Just now, a voice told me not to go forward, saying that as long as he appeared, it meant that something was wrong. So what on earth was that thing at the door?"

Upon hearing this, Cen Bingqi hurried back.

When they saw him come back, a group of voices surrounded him, all asking him how the talk went.

It seems that these voices could not hear the conversation between the two of them just now.

If his mind is compared to a front and back stage, then the consciousness that can control the body, or the sound that communicates with the consciousness that controls the body, is in the front stage.

Among these voices, there is no communication between the front and back stages, and the two cannot hear each other's conversations. If the consciousness that comes to the front stage wants to communicate with other consciousnesses, it must return to the back stage.

From their perspective, if the consciousness in control of the front stage enters the back stage, the body will temporarily lose control and enter what appears to be sleep from the outside. That is why when everyone was looking for that "Cen Bingqi" in the beginning, they said things like "It's not good to sleep in the daytime" and "Find a stool to take a nap".

The situation backstage now is that a group of people are surrounding Cen Bingqi who just returned from the front desk. Cen Bingqi doesn't know what the "thing at the door" that Bai Jinshu has encountered is, and can only look at the other people who have gone out before.

Bai Jinshu walked forward, and for a moment, his whole head was filled with noise.

Director Qiao's replica disappeared, and Cen Bingqi didn't know what he was saying. The warning voice that came out before seemed to have appeared only because he sensed danger, and he didn't know what specific danger he had sensed.

The group of voices discussed for a long time, and finally they all pointed to [11] who had left here before. [11] said angrily: "How do I know what's outside? The last time I went out, Cen Bingqi was still there, and he asked me to kill two people. After one night, I don't know where Cen Bingqi went, and there's a new person. Who knows what's going on?"

Someone asked with concern: "Did Cen Bingqi ask you to kill someone? Could the thing the newcomer mentioned be the person who was chasing him? Who did you kill?"

“I don’t know,” [11] said unhappily, but his tone was matter-of-fact and his temper was straightforward. It seemed that this had happened more than once. “How should I know? Cen Bingqi is not the kind of person who would tell me anything if asked. When I left, he was still being hunted. If he asked me to kill someone, I would just kill him.”

【11】They actually thought he was one of them.

Bai Jinshu subconsciously felt that this mistake was not quite right, but now his CPU was fully occupied by these sounds, leaving him with no extra brain power to think. He could only press his forehead and plan to think slowly when he had time.

He walked into the recording studio amidst a cacophony of voices in his head. At Director Qiao's repeated urging, he apologized repeatedly to the staff and quickly returned to the center of the recording studio.

"What took so long?" Everyone at the recording site seemed to be waiting for him. The teachers invited by the program team didn't say anything, and the staff didn't feel comfortable complaining. Only Hong Conghua pulled him aside and asked in a low voice before the live broadcast started, "Didn't I send you a message more than ten minutes in advance to urge you?"

"It was a bit unexpected," Bai Jinshu avoided the camera that was being adjusted nearby and lowered his voice, "I met a replica of Director Qiao."

“Oh my god,” Hong Conghua was startled and turned to look at Director Qiao involuntarily. Then he carefully made a gesture on his neck, “Please put that thing…”

Ersi killed that thing?

This is not the deserted hotel park from yesterday.

Although the two villas of the crew are located in remote areas, it is now recording time, and there may be staff members walking back and forth between the two villas to get things on the road in the middle at any time.

There were people coming and going, and he just killed people like that?

There was only pure admiration left in Hong Conghua's eyes.

I was late for more than ten minutes because my makeup was not finished. Saying it out loud would only make people think I was procrastinating.

But if being late by ten minutes means going to kill someone, it sounds incredibly efficient.

After she said this, several people nearby came over.

Although Bai Jinshu spoke in a low voice just now, the staff couldn't hear it. Could they also not hear it?

Meeting the replica of Director Qiao can only mean that these things have evolved from imitating them to imitating the people in the crew. Except for the yellow-haired man who didn't know what Hong Conghua meant, the expressions on the faces of the other three people showed different subtle changes.

Nianyu's expression changed slightly for a moment, and he typed a line of words on his phone without letting the AI ​​read it out: [Has the body disappeared? If it disappeared, how do we explain Director Qiao's memory? ]

Xiaoying also lowered her voice and asked, "No one else saw it, right?"

Herbisk even pulled up his limbs from the side to check if there were any scars or bloodstains that had not yet disappeared.

Bai Jinshu was amused by the rich imagination of this group of people and shook his head slightly: "I hid back in the villa and waited until he left before coming here."

His mind was still full of conversations with Cen Bingqi, and in front of him were several guests who were worried about him. He had to absorb information from the conversations of these people, and explain the situation calmly when his companions asked him questions. For the first time, he felt that his brain was not enough.

Hearing that he did not attack Director Qiao's replica, Hong Conghua first breathed a sigh of relief, and then got angry again.

Ersi did not take action against Director Qiao's replica, which means that Director Qiao's replicas will continue to appear around him.

According to the behavior pattern of the replica they encountered a few days ago, in the next few days, this replica will spare no effort to kill its own copy and try to replace it.

How should they tell Director Qiao that his life might be in danger at any time in the next few days?

Director Qiao was naturally unaware of the concerns of several people. Seeing that everyone had arrived and the on-site dispatch was completed, the live camera immediately aimed at the guests' positions.

"Stop chatting, stop chatting, get ready to start filming," Director Qiao shouted, "Don't get together."

Herbisk noticed that Bai Jinshu's condition was not right, and gave him a questioning look.

"It's okay." Bai Jinshu shook his head slightly.

Compared to the mystery of the replica and the voices in his head, recording the show is more like a brain massage for him.

The production process of the intangible cultural heritage products selected by the program team takes several days. For the sake of program effect, not all of them are arranged together. Instead, several steps are carried out every day. The whole production process spans seven or eight days.

We hastily arranged this project for a whole day a few days ago, all because the program crew encountered too many strange things. Director Qiao felt that it was too unlucky for accidents to happen outdoors, so he quickly moved out the interior scenes that could be shot in advance to save the situation.

Now, two days have passed safely, and the production crew has made up for the opening ceremony. The sky has cleared up and the rain has stopped. Director Qiao obviously feels that he is back in good shape and has put the outdoor shooting back on the schedule.

After the morning recording was completed, Hong Conghua and others walked towards Director Qiao.

During the entire recording process, Bai Jinshu was paying attention to what the voices in his head were saying. He didn't know how many times he missed the eye contact between the guests, so naturally he didn't go with Hong Conghua and the others.

However, even though he did not go there, Bai Jinshu could roughly guess why Hong Conghua and the others wanted to find Director Qiao.

It was simply because he met a copy of Director Qiao. These people felt that Director Qiao was unsafe, so they simply planned to stay with him all the time to ensure that they would not be deceived by another Director Qiao in the absence of any means of identification.

On the other hand, they have been following Director Qiao so that if the replica dares to appear in front of the real owner, they can explain the current situation to Director Qiao in time.

However, after this lesson, no one dared to let anyone leave the crowd alone.

Hong Conghua, Nianyu and Xiaoying went to Director Qiao. In order to have a fighting force when the replicas attacked, they dragged away Huangmao, leaving only Bai Jinshu and Herbisk.

The crew's lunches are all packed lunches that are ordered and delivered at the same time. Before the meal, except for the shooting site, all other places are occupied by staff who are either standing or sitting.

Bai Jinshu made the excuse that he was still sleepy in the morning and found a table to lie down on, but in fact he was listening to what the voices in his head were saying.

When recording the program just now, the discussion in my head was about what the things outside were, and then it turned to [11] who went out to kill people, and was the only one who came into contact with these things, and why he didn't know anything. Then it went all the way to the attack. He didn't pay much attention to the outside world, otherwise they wouldn't be like this now, and they don't know what happened.

Finally, [17], who was the first to appear and leave the memo, watched the excitement for a long time before finally interjecting with mercy: "Cen Bingqi is probably being hunted by something that looks like him. I don't know what that thing is, but it's definitely not a human. After killing someone, it will disappear along with the body and blood. I went out once a few days ago because that thing was planning to kill him in the middle of the night, but I took care of it."

"A thing that looks the same is chasing us?" Seeing that the topic had finally returned to the main track from the crusade against [11], Cen Bingqi, who had come out to talk, had no time to care about other things. He quickly grabbed [11] and asked, "Cen Bingqi killed that thing, so what did you kill?"

“How should I know?” [11] He said this subconsciously.

Cen Bingqi did sound good-tempered, and he was not angry at [11]'s retort: ​​"Think about it again. You and Cen Bingqi were the only two people who went out recently."

"You ask him... His memory is not trustworthy, Cen Bingqi." [17] added fuel to the fire, "You should spare Cen Bingqi. His brain is filled with fighting moves and has no room for anything else."

“How much space can you put in your head?” The man called Cen Bingqi [11] responded bluntly.

“Of course I can,” [17] said with disdain, “How else would I know that there was something that looked like us chasing Cen Bingqi? Did you tell me?”

"Alright, alright," everyone seemed to be used to the bickering between the two from time to time. Cen Bingqi even interrupted as usual, "So the thing that appeared at the door was also the one that imitated someone else? Then where is the person you killed, Cen Bingqi?"

After he interrupted him, Cen Bingqi thought for a few seconds and finally dug out a picture from the depths of his memory. "When I killed someone... there were other people present. The person I killed looked like someone who was present. I thought they were twins."

He guessed impatiently: "That thing is a replica of that person, right?"

“A yellow-haired guy?” [17] interrupted.

Bai Jinshu's eyes flashed.

That night Huangmao said he had seen me, so I guess he had seen this [17], right?

"Cen Bingqi, how do you know?" Cen Bingqi asked back.

"Tsk, of course I've seen him," [17] said disdainfully, "Did you really go out and ask what Cen Bingqi was doing? He seemed to be being hunted by something. That thing didn't look like a normal species. It was probably a product of an experiment. He even used a fake name to become an actor and joined a film crew. The yellow-haired guy was in the crew."

As soon as these words were spoken, the surrounding area suddenly became lively.

"Was Cen Bingqi there when you went out?"

"What about the new guy? Did he go back to the lab?"

"The equipment in the laboratory is long gone. He can't find a new person even if he goes back, right?"

"He didn't tell you anything?"

"No," [17] answered quite bluntly, "When I went out, Cen Bingqi was sleeping. This is all my guess based on the circumstances. Cen Bingqi and I are different."

"So," Cen Bingqi quickly interrupted, "the current situation is that there is a suspected experimental product that is not human and is hunting Cen Bingqi, and he sneaked into a film crew to investigate or to hide?"

“Well, that’s about right,” [17] thought for a moment and added, “When I went out yesterday, he was still in a hotel. It didn’t look like he was investigating in the lab.”

"Then according to Cen Bingqi, when he went out yesterday afternoon, Cen Bingqi was still there..." Cen Bingqi concluded, "But Cen Bingqi is missing today? Nothing happened to him, right?"

"I think even if something happens to any of us outside, nothing will happen to Cen Bingqi..." Someone whispered.

The murmur received widespread support.

No one knows what this person named "Cen Bingqi" is like in his daily life, but it seems that everyone has pure trust in him.

After a few words, the topic turned to where the newcomers came from if Cen Bingqi was fine.

Seeing that the topic was getting more and more off-topic, Cen Bingqi simply planned to go to the front desk: "So it is confirmed that the thing is chasing us, right? In this case, I suggest... choose someone to go out first. I don't feel comfortable letting a newcomer go first in this situation."

Bai Jinshu frowned and sat up.

"What's wrong?" Herbisk thought something was wrong and asked with his head tilted.

Bai Jinshu did not respond to his question, but continued to listen to the conversation between these voices in his mind.

After Cen Bingqi finished speaking, someone suddenly called him, "Wait a moment."

"Don't leave yet," the voice said, "Don't you think the appearance of this newcomer is a bit strange..."

"Cen Bingqi was being hunted by something that looked like himself. He joined the crew under a fake name. He was still there yesterday but suddenly disappeared today," the voice analyzed calmly. "At the same time, when the laboratory had been destroyed by us and it was impossible for a second instrument to appear, a new person appeared."

"Don't you think..."

Bai Jinshu seemed to have guessed what he would say next and subconsciously sat up straight.

"Don't you think this newcomer is Cen Bingqi?"

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This is the result of the version update patch package not having full coverage.

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