In a fertile land full of snails
Ji Yunding sighed and did not rush to start exploring. Instead, he sorted out the current situation first.
"First of all, you can use psychic abilities - I'm not surprised by this. After all, it's written in the textbooks that according to statistical research, the predecessors of psychic-type weirdness are mostly people with strong sensory abilities."
Having said that, investigators are basically people who are emotional in nature but are used to thinking logically.
A senior colleague had said before that Ji Yunding's personality made her a natural investigator - her deep emotional intuition allowed her to sense the flow of rules in ghost stories and make the right choices, but her logic and self-centered value choices allowed her to protect herself from being troubled by guilt.
"Secondly, in your strange story, the rules seemed to be shown to me by that guy, and the form is very strange. You can do this because you are a special...human?"
Ji Yunding tried his best to avoid using the word "weird" to describe Ji Liuxing. She could relatively understand this and respected him.
With a creak, a door on Ji Yunding's left opened. The original crying mask poked its head out of the door and waved, signaling her to come over.
To be honest, Ji Yunding was a little helpless now. He just walked over and as soon as he entered the door, he found four chairs arranged horizontally. The smiley mask from the beginning was sitting on the leftmost side, and it seemed that he had lost his life.
"Oh, simple instructions. Find the four masked men, kill them and then release them."
Ji Yunding nodded, and when he saw the crying mask next to him start clapping, he felt even more helpless.
"And team leader, can you please stop trying to provide me with emotional value in inexplicable places? At least wait until I pierce your solar plexus before praising me. Even a monkey can make this level of inference."
The crying face mask tilted its head and thought for a while, looking at Ji Yunding, as if considering something.
"No, if you don't do anything I won't end up like those retarded teammates you had before. In the final analysis, that's their own problem. It has nothing to do with you, and even less with me."
Ji Yunding sighed, and while searching the room with a headache, he said,
"But you're the kind of person who won't listen even if I tell you a hundred times that it's not your problem. To some extent, you're also the kind of person who does what you want. So I can only tell you in a more extreme way. Wait for me a moment. I'll be there soon."
“…You’ll die.”
Ji Yunding heard a harsh sound that did not sound like the sound of vocal cord vibration, so he looked at the crying face mask.
"People will die here."
Its mouth opens and closes, changing constantly.
"You need to think it over carefully."
"Ah, so people can die. That's great. I almost started to feel very unhappy. I thought you would still make people so angry but unable to do anything to you even if you were like this."
Ji Yunding never let her guard down for a moment, and even when searching, she always made sure the masked man was within her field of vision.
Normally, Ji Yunding doesn't talk so much, but she is now in a state between "conversation" and "talking to herself", which causes her to talk a lot more than usual.
Ji Yunding is used to talking to herself a lot, a lot. After all, she used to only be with herself for a long time. On the contrary, she tends to listen more when talking to others.
As for the reason, Ji Yunding believes that interacting with others is a relatively difficult thing, and it requires careful acquisition of information in order to make correct judgments and choices.
At the same time, Ji Yunding also learned from Ji Liuxing that he should carefully consider what kind of information to give to others.
"Well... it's very troublesome. To be honest, you know my oath ability and that I can use bipolar energy. And you seem to know everything about me. And I seem to have lost some memory information about you somewhere."
While Ji Yunding was searching, he spoke unilaterally as if in a conversation.
"But there is one thing I am sure I have never told you. You can guess whether what I said is true or false, what this thing is, and how I plan to use it."
Riddler eh, come on, Riddler Hedge.
Ji Yunding has fully understood that when being annoyed by the Riddler, the only way out is to join the Riddler and become a Riddler for him.
Especially when facing someone who is 80% likely to see that she is telling the truth and knows that there is something she has not said, the effect should be better.
After the atmosphere in the room froze for a while, the vibration sound of the mask sounded again.
“Be careful not to go to either extreme, look within for the answers.”
"Got it. You should be careful too. Don't go to the mirror. I just broke the glass while searching."
Ji Yunding used one sentence to pull the atmosphere back from the strange story to the mother telling you not to touch the broken glass on the ground, and then he saw it raise the scissors again. And the feeling of powerlessness as if I was in a nightmare came again.
But I must say, the slightly gentler part is that there doesn’t seem to be any pain here, it’s just like falling into a deeper dream.
When he opened his eyes again, Ji Yunding first tried to move his body, but found that his fatigue was even worse and he needed to concentrate to move his body.
After adapting for a while, Ji Yunding looked around and found himself in a fairyland. There was a waterfall rushing down from the mountain, splashing cool water. Nearby was a newly planted green lawn, with some unknown small flowers swaying, and it was strangely peaceful.
The air here was fresh, the sun was shining, and there was the sound of the wind blowing through the leaves and the chirping of insects. In the distance, there were a few figures wandering aimlessly, with no discernible pattern to their movements.
But even in such a place, Ji Yunding felt a little chest tightness and felt an discomfort that seemed to come from the soul.
"Ah... a place where positive energy gathers."
Generally speaking, no monster can create such a place. Ji Yunding tried to let the spiritual energy flow through his blood vessels, but found that it was completely impossible - the spiritual energy here was too strong, causing the use of spiritual energy locally to cause an imbalance in the body.
Ji Yunding remembered that she had heard from a senior in the same group that if one wanted to use spiritual power in such a place, one must have sufficient medical knowledge and understand the structure and working mechanism of the human body.
Just standing here, Ji Yunding vaguely felt a repulsive force of hesitation. This place seemed to be deciding the identity of the person in front of her. The water, leaves and flowers seemed to be looking at her.
The bipolar energies are mutually exclusive. Ji Yunding, who is essentially a weirdo, feels that his soul and body are almost separated in this place where the unipolar energy is extremely pure.
On the one hand, the human body told Ji Yunding that it was comfortable and safe here and there was no need to worry; on the other hand, the soul with core desires was clamoring for Ji Yunding to leave quickly.
This sense of disconnection did not affect Ji Yunding's actions. She continued to move forward and carefully explored. Her tools were gone again, so she picked up a stone and dug up some soil beneath the surface, trying to analyze something with the knowledge she had learned.
The snails were piled up in piles, as densely packed as the holes in a lotus pod, which was a bit disgusting.
Ji Yunding frowned as he looked at the soil that had been turned over by the stone.
Snails like moisture and are afraid of flooding. They will thrive in loose and fertile soil. The fact that so many snails can be found here probably means that the climate is very stable, without excessive rainfall or other climatic disasters, which is extremely suitable for plant growth.
While conducting basic geological analysis, Ji Yunding noticed a shadow falling down. Slightly startled, he immediately stepped back and kept a distance, looking at the humanoid creature approaching in front of him.
When? And there was no sound at all.
When Ji Yunding looked at the guy's face, he was almost stunned - should he say, too beautiful? But he couldn't see anything.
It is so beautiful that it transcends everything and strikes the essence, making people ignore everything else. It is extremely difficult to observe its gender, because at the moment when your eyes fall on it, it seems that the only information that the brain can process is the thought of "beauty".
It used its slender white hands to pick up the snail with its jade-like thumb and index finger, and then...
Crush.
Ji Yunding just watched as the snail turned into a shattered calcium carbonate shell and a sticky, stringy soft body between his fingers, and was then thrown away without mercy.
This is... killing snails? But why?
It looked at Ji Yunding, as if frowning slightly, and seemed to be a little hesitant about Ji Yunding's identity.
"Hello, um?"
Following Zheng Nuo's instructions, Ji Yunding used "Hello" to try to initiate communication.
More beautiful people gathered around, looking at Ji Yunding without saying anything. Ji Yunding felt the sticky positive energy like substance pressing towards her as they gathered together.
Comfort, discomfort, closeness, distance, protection, killing...
Conflicting thoughts entangled in Ji Yunding's mind. She took a deep breath, stood there looking at them, and tilted her head.
"Excuse me, what can I do for you?"
Ji Yunding remembered - this was probably what Wei Qianqiu had told her at the Third Middle School, the zombie.
They are extremely beautiful, have almost no self-will, are driven by a large amount of positive energy, act instinctively, maintain "order", and hate negative energy. Moreover, they are considered to be special and weird in textbooks.
Thousands of years of experience as the only intelligent species on Earth have accustomed humans to measuring everything by themselves, and classifying anything different from themselves as weird.
Come to think of it, I seem to have heard a senior complain before, saying...are all the people from the Ji family good-looking psychopaths?
"ah?"
Ji Yunding suddenly thought of something and was almost startled, then immediately shook his head.
No, that doesn't make sense. If the leader's bloodline is related to this thing, he shouldn't be able to use negative energy.
She watched as the zombies crushed the snails that could be seen in the soil, then covered the soil and continued to wander aimlessly. One of them walked up to Ji Yunding and stretched out his hand towards her neck, but quickly gave up.
They seemed to be maintaining something. Ji Yunding found that their footsteps were almost inaudible, and even Ji Yunding had to prick up his ears to hear the slightest sound of plants on the lawn being bent.
The wind direction here has never changed, and the sound of the flowing water here seems to always maintain a certain fixed frequency. Ji Yunding observed and always felt that the forest looked very pleasing and neat at first glance, but there was an indescribable sense of disharmony.
Ji Yunding narrowed his eyes and looked carefully for a while, then frowned.
"The number of branches is fixed. Although the heights of the trees are different, I always feel that..."
The investigators undergo monthly physical examinations, which include some unusual items - measurements of body parts such as arm length and finger length, so that if necessary, the investigators can use themselves as a quantitative ruler.
Ji Yunding raised her arm, measured it, and was about to make a mark, but she found that the zombies around her were all looking at her, so she gave up and tried to climb up the tree swiftly.
"About 1:0.6... No, it's a little bit worse, but it can't be more precise."
Ji Yunding quickly finished measuring the quantitative relationship and jumped down from the tree with a frown.
"It should be the golden ratio. Almost all the quantitative relationships you can think of are in this ratio. The distance between trees, the distance between branches, and even the distance between leaves."
Moreover, each leaf was exactly the same, with no difference in the direction of the veins. Ji Yunding hesitated for a while, but in the end he did not hastily pick a leaf to study.
After exploring this side, Ji Yunding jumped down from the tree again, walked to the side of the waterfall, squatted down and observed the river.
As an ordinary college student, Ji Yunding was not prepared to complete any precise calculations. He just stared at the ripples caused by the nearest splash of water.
There will always be drops of water falling exactly on the same place, and the time of landing seems to contain some kind of pattern, but it seems impossible to infer it based on Ji Yunding's pulse alone.
Ji Yunding moved to the side to make room for the zombie that was approaching and observed it.
It seemed to be observing Ji Yunding's series of abnormal behaviors without any malicious intent - or Ji Yunding suspected that they had no malicious intent at all at the moment, and were just being "eliminated" instinctively.
After all, the essence of positive energy includes "order", and their behavior of maintaining order is as natural as nature's self-regulation.
The human body is generally orderly. For example, when blood sugar concentration increases, the level of insulin secretion will increase, thereby lowering blood sugar to achieve balance. An unbalanced human body will become abnormal, sick, or even die.
It also squatted down. Although Ji Yunding could not see its face at all, he could still tell from the subtle difference in movements that it was the zombie that had tried to strangle her just now.
Zombies are generally not dangerous, but they are immortal and indestructible. Their order cannot be disturbed, and any damage done to them disappears the moment they are created.
Ji Yunding watched it reach out and dive into the water several times, finally grabbing a small fish from the water, and then squeezing it to death.
Red blood flowed along the scattered fish scales, one fish eye was squeezed out, and the other was squeezed out and fell into the river and disappeared. In its hand, there was only a broken fish carcass, which exuded a not-so-pleasant smell.
Ji Yunding saw it throw the fish back, and then washed its hands in the river as if nothing had happened.
The body of the fish spun and sank from the surface of the river. It was unknown how deep it sank. The river was extremely clear, but Ji Yunding watched the body of the small fish fall until it could no longer be seen.
How deep is this place?
Ji Yunding hesitated for a moment, but considering that he had no diving equipment, he did not rush into the water, but shifted the focus of his observation to the zombies.
"Excuse me, can you tell me why you kill the fish?"
“…”
Getting no response, it looked at Ji Yunding, as if it was already troubled by the very act of her talking to it.
Regarding this point, Ji Yunding could actually understand it for some reason - because Ji Yunding didn't like being talked to before.
To a certain extent, talking to others means disrupting personal space and order. Given the nature of zombies, they will naturally feel uncomfortable.
"If you tell me, I might be able to help you."
Ji Yunding saw that it seemed to be hesitating whether to strangle her to death, and immediately continued to speak,
"I can help you sort these things out, I have no problem with that, I can be on the same page with you guys."
It looked at Ji Yunding, thought for a moment, and pointed at a small fish that had just emerged from nowhere.
Ji Yunding did not hesitate, and her movements were much faster than the zombie's. She fished the fish out in one go, then exerted force with her hands and gripped it much more thoroughly than the zombie.
Ji Yunding felt the fish bones and scales scratching her hands, but in this environment, the positive energy seemed to be scrambling to repair the "imbalance", so the wound healed quickly.
As long as it doesn't "collapse instantly", I shouldn't die here.
Ji Yunding suddenly became a little curious about how these places were handled in reality. Sister Qianqiu said that they were only used for medical purposes, but could the benefits of immortality really be handled so easily?
But these are things to be considered later.
Ji Yunding looked at the zombie in front of him and tilted his head.
It imitated Ji Yunding and tilted its head. Ji Yunding could not see its expression or feel its emotions, but he knew that it was weighing something.
After a long time, it signaled Ji Yunding to throw the fish back.
Ji Yunding did as he was told and washed his hands like it did. He felt that it seemed to relax a little and was not as nervous as before.
To be sociable, to adapt, to be consistent, and to follow the "rules".
"So, to do the 'right' thing?"
Ji Yunding had not forgotten the note he saw when he first entered the strange story - generally speaking, the rules would not be invalidated, only the scope and restrictions. If there was no mark, then the entire strange story was valid.
Ji Yunding walked around it twice and found that it was obviously troubled and didn't know what to do.
Haha, the wind of compulsory education is blowing, physical examination!
So Ji Yunding caught this poor lone guy, measured its body length without any physical contact, and then sighed.
"If you were thrown into the Renaissance, you might be filled with cement and turned into a sculpture."
Why did Ji Yunding choose an individual who had a tendency to exclude her for the experiment? The reason is simple. It was because it was the only one that showed an "inconsistent" response that Ji Yunding thought it was most likely to get the answer.
The Three Triangles and Five Eyes couldn’t see or measure it, so Ji Yunding just tried to continue communicating with it.
"Well, do you know about the five social insurances and one housing fund? Listen to me, human life is very difficult..."
Instilled some corporate speech.
As Ji Yunding was talking, she felt that the person on the other side seemed to have stopped walking and was listening to her attentively.
To be honest, Ji Yunding felt that he had never spoken so much to anyone in his life - after all, Ji Yunding was not used to confiding in others. He usually stated the problem directly. If the other party could provide a solution, that would be great. If not, he would ask the next person.
"So, I can retire in my thirties. But after I retire, I still want to continue working in this industry, be a teacher or go to Sister Tang to train new people or something..."
"What are you talking about?"
When Ji Yunding heard this clear and pleasant voice, he was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized that the other side had responded.
"Um...my life plan?"
It seemed a little inappropriate to talk about life plans in this kind of situation, but Ji Yunding was not very good at chatting, and this was one of the few topics she could talk about for a long time.
"Your words sound..."
Ji Yunding felt that it seemed to be hesitating.
"That doesn't sound right."
"What is right? Tell me."
When Ji Yunding heard this key word, he immediately dropped the topic and asked, regardless of what was said before.
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