Chapter 91 Big Bad Wolf
Before breaking the rules, they never imagined that the town would become like this. It was like falling into another world. The buildings were still the same as before, but only a few familiar outlines remained. The rest were covered by another layer.
The coffee shop was bombed into ruins, but it did not cause much impact on the monster. The crocodile just now could still be stopped by bullets, but for this one now, bullets are really useless.
While Conan was running, he kept thinking about the contents on the two pieces of paper. Now it seems that compared to the one belonging to Rei Furuya, the one on his side is more real. They ran for a long distance and only stopped when they were sure that nothing was chasing them.
"That thing went after another person." Pei Zhen said with some shock.
Conan bent over and gasped, with a look of horror on his face: "What on earth is that thing, and who is it chasing?"
"The man with the surname Dazai." Pei Zhen pondered.
Conan frowned: "Why is it him? Mr. Fūya is the last one... He said before that he went out at night?"
"He seems to be injured." Pei Zhen said.
"Did he break the rules before?" Conan had no idea. In this world, he couldn't even protect himself. "I hope he's okay." He prayed silently.
They looked around and found that this was a deserted neighborhood. Pei Zhen visited here yesterday. At that time, this was a street selling vegetables and daily necessities. There were many animals coming here in the morning and afternoon. And now, they looked at the rows of shelves, which were densely packed with countless pieces of raw meat.
"Dong dong, dong dong." A rhythmic sound came from somewhere, like the sound of a kitchen knife chopping on a chopping board again and again.
Pei Zhen grabbed Conan and shook his head at him, with no intention of exploring the matter. The two of them quietly retreated from here together.
After going out, Pei Zhen said: "It seems that this changed world is not without other creatures."
"That's even scarier, isn't it?" Conan's eyes flickered quickly: "It's just like a horror movie. Who knows what will be chopped after the things inside come out?"
"'Raw meat' is a very important thing," Pei Zhen thought for a moment, "Perhaps the rules tell us not to eat raw meat so that we won't end up like this."
"But we didn't eat either?"
"But someone ate it, so the corpse eaten by the crocodile should be considered raw meat. Plus, we ran out on a red moon night," Pei Zhen thought, holding his chin in his hand, "so now there are two groups of people who broke the rules. Eating 'raw meat' is more serious, so when the new monster came out, it chopped off the crocodile's head with one knife."
Conan sighed: "Old Crocodile cannot be considered the direct murderer of Ms. Lu's death. The real murderer is someone else."
"It was that snail," Pei Zhen said, "He killed someone in a passionate way because of an emotional dispute, and then he tried to cover it up."
Conan was surprised: "How did you know that?"
Pei Zhen said: "There is no evidence, it is just a guess based on some details. I don't know if the crocodile had any involvement, but he came down tonight, completely tempted by the meat, and couldn't control his greed."
"You can't be a good detective like this." Conan smiled bitterly: "Investigating a case requires physical strength to check the details. I did find some things, but now... unless I go back to town, those things are useless." He shook his head.
Pei Zhen looked around and asked, "What do you think of the current situation?"
Conan was in a dilemma. After a long while, he slowly asked, "Have you heard of the setting of inner and outer worlds, which is only found in science fiction?"
"You mean, this is still a small town, but we are now in another space, or, the town is the front and we are on the back..." Pei Zhen quickly understood what he meant. This actually has no scientific theory to support it, but never mind, supernatural powers themselves are not scientific. "Should we go look for 'vegetables'?" he asked, "and see if we can get back to town."
Conan hesitated, "Perhaps we should look for it and try to find clues from this strange world. It should also be created by the Transcendent One. Just like solving a puzzle game, it is difficult to reach the end if you only look for a part."
Pei Zhen stared at him deeply and said, "You are bolder than I thought. You should know that compared with those two, we are the weak ones. The difference in physical strength and experience makes it difficult for us to escape from the 'knife' like them once we encounter danger. They can escape, as Mr. Dazai did before, but we can't."
Conan took a deep breath and said, "Then I can only tell you my other guess."
"I think," he said with a burning gaze, "in today's changing world, the 'rules' written on the paper still exist!"
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Furiya Rei was the last one to escape, with only two bullets left in his gun. The monster didn't go after him, but chose another person. He was not worried about Dazai Osamu, because in his opinion, this man who called himself Yokohama Detective was not only as cunning as a fox, but also had a complicated and dark past. He could survive in this world alone.
He was worried about the other two people. Although they were equally intelligent as Dazai Osamu, they were like two children who had not yet entered society. In such a dangerous environment, if they were careless for a moment, they might lose their lives completely.
He took out the piece of paper he got from the fox, looked at the words on it, and said with a ferocious look on his face: "Don't let me go back!"
As time goes by, the strange whispers brought by the red moon seem to echo in my ears. Pei Zhen and Conan hid in this strangely changed town for two hours, until later, because of an emergency, the two were forced to separate, and he was able to return to being alone again.
The dangers here are much greater than they imagined, and if they stay here for a long time, they will feel a dry and itchy feeling on their bodies, as if something in their bodies is changing with the passage of time. No idea what landmine they stepped on, but when they were passing a street corner, a gray shadow suddenly rushed out from a house. Conan and Pei Zhen had to run away again before they could get anything.
Pei Zhen found a way to lure it away.
When he was alone, he finally took off his disguise and regained his composure. He hid in a house and began to think about everything he had experienced during this period.
Eliot Ötizim Missier Gropius, this is the name of his alias this time. Putting aside the overly long name, the accident was indeed a factor in why he was involved this time. But more importantly, as a subject he does not resist.
When he had enough ability to live a better life in this world, he could finally relax from his previous excessive caution. "Follow your heart's desire without going beyond the rules," this sentence from "The Analects of Confucius" has always been his ideal state of life. He does not refuse to appear in the protagonists' scripts, but of course, there are more things he will not do. Because deep down, he is the type of person who doesn't want to get into too much trouble.
This time, the Rule Town is a world of confrontation and mutual resistance formed by Elliot after he merged [distortion] and [rules] together. If they stay in the town, they are actually safe, but they will be gradually accepted by the town until they become a member of it and can never get out; and if they enter another level of the interface, they will be in danger all the time like they are now, until they can never get out.
Pei Zhen laughed. He felt that his use of the [Alien Space] here was a brilliant stroke of genius. The current balance was achieved after Elliot had worked hard for ten years, at least in his memory. If such a change occurred in reality... He shook his head, not wanting to imagine the misery of the people outside.
This is a fairly tidy house, with tables and chairs. The red derivatives only grow on the side illuminated by the moonlight. There is a lamp on the table. The oil in the lamp has long been burned out, and the lampshade is gray and black. Pei Zhen walked to the table and saw a piece of paper on it.
“……” Pei Zhen picked it up. "Knock knock knock." There was a knock on the door suddenly from outside the silence.
Before Pei Zhen had time to read the words on the paper, he suddenly turned his head and looked outside the door.
He did not try the feeling of wearing a vest because it always felt like cheating. Besides, it's quite interesting here. Invisibly, he seemed to hear someone chuckle, which dispelled the incessant trivial noises and cleared his mind.
The knocking on the door continued, and the person who couldn't wait spoke: "Open the door."
His voice was deep and hoarse, with a hint of bitterness in the syllables. But it doesn't seem like he's irrational.
Pei Zhen ignored him for the time being. He took out the paper in his hand and read the rules on it one by one.
“1. The town welcomes guests, whether it is day or night, guests are the most honorable. Those who are not guests are &＊…％＊
2. Officer Red Rabbit is trustworthy and she can get you back from here.
3. If you see vegetables, don't try to eat them, burn them with fire.
4. Eat more raw meat. Raw meat is the most delicious food.
5. There are no animals in the town. If you see any animals, it is your imagination. You can feed it raw meat so that it will come down from the illusion and accompany you.
6. The residents are friendly, please meet all their requests.
7. Kill the Big Bad Wolf. If we don’t kill it, we’ll all die!
8. The night is peaceful and you can hang out as much as you want. The red moon is a night of carnival, and you can make many good friends on this day.
9. Respect the Master of the town. He is the Master of all things. To deny Him is to deny everything.
The person outside the door became more and more anxious. He knocked on the door fiercely, and every knock made the wooden door tremble. Pei Zhen observed the situation and quietly looked out from the window. He saw that in the moonlight, the person at the door had a hairy tail slightly hanging down.
Seeing that if he didn't open the door, it would most likely damage the wooden door and outsiders would break in, Pei Zhen thought for a moment and opened the door.
Under the red moon, a wild wolf that stood up like a human was looking at him coldly.
Pei Zhen was stunned and almost thought he was dead. But soon, he realized that it had no intention of taking action immediately. Its fur was blue-gray, shining a cold light under the moonlight, and its clothes were covered with erosion and wear, as if it had experienced countless battles. Its eerie green eyes made people tremble with fear. It asked in a hoarse voice: "Why didn't you open the door? What were you doing just now?"
Pei Zhen fell into deep thought. Should he... kill this wolf? He caught a glimpse of its nimble limbs and muscular body and silently paddled it away. "Mr. Wolf, what do you want from me?" he asked, a little casually.
The gray wolf was standing at the door. He glanced inside and saw the piece of paper that Pei Zhen had not put away. As if he had seen the rules above, I don't know how he did it, in the blink of an eye, the paper was nailed to a wall by a dagger, and a sarcastic smile appeared on his lips: "Fake things."
Pei Zhen looked at it thoughtfully and had a guess in his mind.
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