At the end of the dark staircase, a deep corridor appears at your feet.
The dim light illuminated the cobblestone road in front of me. The walls on both sides were two pieces of cold iron. It was dead silent everywhere, and tiny dust particles floated in the light.
Su Yi looked around, searching for the room here. Soon, he saw a yellow-brown iron door, which was already rusty and locked with an iron lock.
Su Yi inserted the key mold into the door. He carefully held his hand in the air so that his fingers would not touch the peeling rust on the door. If he was not careful, the rusty iron powder would fall off. This way, the murderer would not notice that the door had been opened when he came back.
Unlocking the iron lock, Su Yi gently pushed the door with his fingers:
Squeak, squeak…squeak——
The old iron door hinge let out a painful groan, which echoed in the empty underground layer and gave people goose bumps.
Su Yi entered the room very cautiously. He was careful to cover his mouth and nose. There was no ventilation or light in this room all year round, and the smell was moldy and stinky.
...well? It smells bad.
Suddenly, his lips softened, and Su Yi felt something covering him...
"Wife, I'll bring you a mask."
The life-saving system controlled the thin strap of the mask and gently hooked Su Yi's white and tender little ears:
"Don't be afraid, I will always be by your side."
In the dim and moldy basement, Su Yi held a lamp that looked like yellow dew. At this moment, a sense of familiarity suddenly arose in his heart, as if this sentence... someone had said it to him before.
...Who was it?
The face of that person in my mind is so blurry, like a reflection floating in the water, which disappears as soon as the ripples appear.
"Wife?"
The life-saving system noticed that Su Yi's brain waves were sluggish and asked him with concern.
"It's okay." Su Yi recovered, took out a flashlight from his backpack, and began to search for evidence.
It was a mess here, as if it was a small abandoned warehouse, filled with all kinds of old furniture, sofas covered with cobwebs, moldy wardrobes. Su Yi kept moving around as if he was passing a level, for fear of stepping on something.
The flashlight was flashing in the dark environment, and it was difficult for ordinary people to enter the mode of focused observation in such an environment. Even if they knew they were coming in to search for evidence, they would just look around. But the moment Su Yi flashed the flashlight, he suddenly and keenly caught something on the ground!
...It was like some powder scattered on the ground.
The scattered powder mixed with the dust in the old warehouse. Such a tiny detail was difficult for ordinary people to find, but it was very obvious in Su Yi's eyes. He immediately turned back to check:
Under the illumination of the white light flashlight, the powder on the ground was clearly visible; it was bright yellow powder!
The yellow powder that the murderer used to kill player No. 13 was stuck on the corpse's suit pants. The murderer was afraid of being exposed, so he turned back and wiped off the powder after they all left.
[Ding! Fragments of truth collected: yellow powder scattered on the ground]
Su Yi saw two fragments he had collected pop up on the light screen. One was the [yellow powder on the suit pants] at the beginning, and the other was the [yellow powder on the ground] that he saw in front of him now. The two fragments were pieced together:
[You have opened up the chain of evidence: This place is the murderer's hiding place. Congratulations on successfully identifying the real murderer and officially entering the stage of tracking down the murderer! ]
[You are the first player to enter the stage of hunting down the murderer in this instance. After catching the real murderer, you will pass the level smoothly. The system will give you the highest reward value. Please bravely confront the murderer! Use your wisdom to defeat evil.]
Su Yi felt a little ironic as he watched the light screen system type out a series of encouraging words. Shouldn't you, the light screen system, be the most evil person in this script-killing game?
The next second, a red warning popped up on the screen again:
[Please note! The stage of chasing the murderer is a chain of truths. After completing a series of plots, you will be given the truth of the murderer. The exploration degree is 15%. If you fail, no reward will be issued! ]
[Friendly reminder that you may be caught and tortured by the murderer during the pursuit process. Please subdue the murderer as quickly as possible during the confrontation with the murderer, otherwise you may be brutally killed. Please be mentally prepared.]
I knew it wouldn't be that simple. Su Yi wasn't afraid. Compared to a real murderer, the script-killing system looked more terrifying. If there was no life-saving system, and his thoughts were monitored all day, he would probably be crippled in no time.
Drop, drop.
With the [reverse tracker] in his hand pointing forward, Su Yi walked to the wall. The top of this wall was exactly the bottom of the partition wall between Miss Peng and Miss Lin's rooms.
There were old tables and chairs piled against the wall. Su Yi stretched his legs and stepped on the table. The ceiling of this warehouse was not high. After he stood up and shone a flashlight, he immediately saw a receiver installed on the top of the wall.
There is also a small screen next to it, which is broadcasting the situation in his bedroom cloakroom in real time. The murderer should usually sit in front of this table and chair, and look up to see the situation when necessary, and then take the opportunity to scare him.
Su Yi thought of the ghost face that suddenly appeared in the mirror at that time, and he felt unhappy. The murderer behind the pinhole camera must have been very happy to see him about to have a heart attack.
Since this person is so good at using tools, why not...
Give someone a taste of their own medicine.
"Life-saving system." Su Yi said casually, "Please buy me a pinhole camera."
The tiny lens reflects a faint light.
The tiny pinhole camera hides behind the screen, and while the murderer is spying on others, it is also secretly spying on the murderer.
[Oh my god? This new guy is amazing. He ran into the room of a serial killer for the first time and he was not afraid at all. He even installed a pinhole camera for the killer? His mental quality is amazing!]
[The best defense against such a brutal murderer is to attack proactively. I am beginning to believe that he is the new god-level person who broke the historical record. My god, is he going to witness the birth of a new god?]
[I also think my wife is amazing, but let’s be restrained. After the murderer is successfully tracked down, let’s see if the person in the historical record has an immediate 15% increase. If so, I think there’s no way out! Before that, let’s not tell anyone about it, so that people won’t use it to accuse us of bragging]
[When you are staring at your wife, she is also staring at you. Woohoo, why am I suddenly a little jealous of this murderer? I also want my wife to install a pinhole camera on me!]
[@白神, @魔法师, @白大少, come on, someone is trying to take your place]
…
Su Yi jumped down from the table carefully, without looking at the barrage of comments on the small TV behind him. He was wearing bridal gloves and gently opened the drawer of the table.
Since the murderer usually sits here and watches the screen, there should be something handy and useful in the drawer.
The slide rail of the drawer of the old desk was stuck, and Su Yi pulled it several times before it came out. In the drawer was a glass bottle, a stack of information and photos.
The glass bottle is empty?, with a? label attached to the bottom:
[Psychosis powder, it greatly stimulates the killing desire in the brain. After taking it, the person will first become unresponsive, then gradually lose their sanity, become mentally violent, and die from the poison after a severe attack.]
Su Yi looked at the bottle mouth carefully and saw yellowish powder stains on it. This should be the toxicity of the yellow powder.
He then flipped through the information collected by the murderer, all of which were investigations of the characters of various players. For example, this player No. 13 died too early and did not participate in the first concentrated reasoning self-introduction. Su Yi did not know who this person was until now:
The murdered first bride, Jennifer, was her ex-boyfriend.
In the couple's photo, Jennifer huddled next to him, her emerald green eyes clouded over, and she looked scared.
Su Yi glanced at the character setting. This ex-boyfriend was vicious and irritable, and seemed to suffer from a certain degree of mental illness. He often beat Jennifer violently. After they broke up, he went to her house again and again to harass her and threatened to kill her. Jennifer had no choice but to move frequently.
It happened that Jennifer's parents lost a large sum of money in business. In order to alleviate financial difficulties and get rid of her ex-boyfriend's entanglement, Jennifer decided to marry the wealthy Bai family and become the wife of a disabled young master. As a result, she was killed at the wedding.
The ex-boyfriend was furious when he heard the news, thinking that Jennifer had betrayed him and that others had dared to kill his property. He once vowed to kill all the Bai family members. He once approached the Bai family's mansion, but was blocked by a row of strong bodyguards and finally returned in disgrace.
Since then, this man's mental state has become worse, and he has been hostile to all brides wearing wedding dresses. He always feels that Jennifer, who betrayed him and married into a wealthy family, has behaved violently towards brides at weddings many times.
The above are all the character settings in the script-killing game. Su Yi flipped down and saw the following piece of paper was the player information. The player who played the [ex-boyfriend] was a complete newcomer and his level was zero when he entered the dungeon.
I wonder if this newbie found something in the garden? His boots were stained with red mud from the land of bones, so the murderer gave him yellow powder poison, dooming him to die?
Because his character is set to have a mental illness, the newcomer immediately went into a frenzy. When he saw Su Yi, who was also dressed as a bride, he hallucinated Jennifer and tried to kill him with a chainsaw, but was shot by the young master Bai who arrived.
The murderer did not kill the man directly with a knife, but instead took advantage of the man's hatred for the bride to play this trick. Su Yi thought, if he had not dodged at that time, he would have been killed directly. It was a good trick for the murderer to kill two birds with one stone.
He became more and more eager to fight this murderer who had been hiding.
The A4 paper of documents that were being flipped made a slight rustling sound, and suddenly, a few photos fell out.
Su Yi took a quick look and found the photos of the players who participated in the dungeon: Bai Ye, Bai Da Shao, Magician, Fang the Postman... Soon Su Yi saw himself:
Wearing a snow-white wedding dress, there was a huge red cross on the photo, and bright red liquid was running across his face, leaving his facial features covered in blood.
Su Yi felt a little uncomfortable and uneasy. He turned the photo over and saw a number written on the back:
five.
……number?
Su Yi immediately thought of the question that he had not figured out before, the sentence: [A big, wide mirror... put the fourth body on the table, and you are only one pair of hands away from the truth]
At that time, he was placing the silver skull in Grace's box, but he never understood why Grace pointed to the number "four".
Now that his photo is marked "five", are there any similarities between him and Grace?
Su Yi thought about it and the only thing that came to her mind was that they both married into the Bai family, which meant that they had been brides.
"Wife, hurry up." The life-saving system reminded me in my mind, "Don't stay here too long."
Su Yi put all the things he had been looking at back in their places and carefully closed the drawer. He looked up at the screen on the top of the wall. The pinhole camera at the back could take a bird's-eye view of the entire room.
There was no new clue to be found in this warehouse for the time being, so Su Yi quickly left here and climbed up the stairs to meet up with the eldest young master.
The midday sun was a little warm, and they returned to the bedroom together. Su Yi placed the receiver and screen of the pinhole camera on the bedside table and started the connection:
Ding! The electrical signal was successfully transmitted, and the warehouse where the murderer was hiding was reflected on the screen.
The picture was very clear and Su Yi was very satisfied.
When the murderer comes back, he wants to see who he is.
when?--
The bell struck twelve o'clock at noon, echoing melodiously in every corner of the church.
[Attention all players, it's lunch time. Please go to the round table meeting hall to receive today's lunch box.]
Young Master Bai looked at Su Yi who was standing in front of the screen and offered, "I'll go get you some food."
"Oh, okay. Thank you." Su Yi stared at the scene in front of him, trying to capture the first-hand picture of the murderer's return.
The wheelchair slid across the ground and gradually went away. The young master went out.
The scene before my eyes showed an empty, darkened small warehouse, completely silent and silent.
Su Yi stared at it for a while and rubbed his eyes. Real-time monitoring of others is not an easy task. The picture is so dark that it hurts the eyes and is boring. He also has to stay nervous and beware of the murderer coming back.
...No one knows when the murderer will come back.
It would be great if there was someone who could help him keep an eye on him in real time and dutifully tell him that the murderer is coming.
Su Yi suddenly had an idea and remembered that he had collected a large number of slaves after his gold coins were robbed.
It would be better to let those who have scolded him work for him.
The little slave is free and loyal, and must always complete all the master's orders. Su Yi turned on the light screen and opened a ranch icon in the upper right corner: [Slave Circle]
[Oh my god, is the wife finally going to start punishing these slaves? So exciting!]
[Hahahahaha, God will punish the lowly, I have waited since yesterday and finally today, the wife let us see what a slave looks like!]
Su Yi opened the slave circle and projected the screen onto the small TV. Every viewer could see the appearance of the slaves inside:
Every person was forced by the system to become the appearance of a puppet doll, with a big head and a small body, round eyes, and covered with black bandages. It was a special attire for slaves. Only after paying off all the money owed to Su Yi could they return to their original human appearance.
The iron bars were high around them, enclosing them like a sheepfold. The puppets looked up, and a few of them saw Su Yi coming to see them, and immediately bared their teeth, looking at him fiercely, as if they wanted to curse.
But before they opened their mouths, the black bandages on their bodies were immediately tightened. The puppet dolls fell to the ground in pain, and were bound by the black bandages into a standard kneeling position.
Su Yi poked his head into the slave pen and saw a row of shivering backs:
"Welcome, Master! May I ask what you want me to do for you?"
Su Yi couldn't help laughing, he thought the scene was very funny. After becoming slaves, they had no control over their words and deeds. Even if he wanted to scold him or struggle to escape, there was no way. He had to pay off all the debts first.
[Hahaha, no, I am so happy. Let’s see. Will they dare to do such evil things in the future to steal money and curse the newcomers to death?]
[Just, I think their current puppet costumes are actually... quite cute?? I feel like I don’t hate them anymore even though they’ve become my wife’s slaves, hahaha, stop standing there and start working for my wife]
Each puppet doll has a white number written on its chest, and there are more than 100 of them in total. Su Yi opened the list and checked it, which had the ID and the amount of money owed.
According to the rules of the gold coin snatching at that time, each slave owed him more than 7,000 gold coins. Once the debt was generated, it would be automatically deducted from the property under the name of that ID. Some viewers with savings had their property emptied, and after some deductions, they actually only owed him a small amount of money.
Su Yi observed that the puppet dolls that were "unruly" towards him were basically slaves who owed a small amount of money. The least owed only ten gold coins at the moment. If they earned a little more, they could be free again. There was no need for them to be nice to him.
In addition, most of the puppet dolls showed panic. After they became puppet dolls, they were left here for a night. Su Yi didn't care about them at all. They didn't know how they would be dealt with, and they couldn't sleep well all night and were very worried.
There was a great fear in the puppet dolls' round eyes. At first, they thought that this newcomer was weak and easy to bully. They didn't expect things to turn out like this. After becoming slaves, they couldn't even commit suicide. The master controlled everything about them. If he wanted them to die, they had to die. If he wanted them to live a life worse than death, they would be tortured.
This is exactly the reason why Su Yi left them alone for a whole day. They would think a lot and then become panic-stricken and anxious.
[Wife! Punish them severely. Think about what they did to you when you had a heart attack!]
[Does anyone remember that when the old woman received a message from a slave, she asked the system: Can I kill him?]
The barrage of comments on the small TV floated above the slave pen, and the puppet dolls became even more frightened. They shrank their heads, fearing that they would be killed.
"Ahem, ahem."
The puppet dolls heard a noise, and they saw their master Su Yi's beautiful face appear next to the tall iron fence, looking down at them:
"I believe you also know that the master has the power of life and death over the slaves."
The puppet dolls trembled with fear, and then heard Su Yi's soft voice:
"Now, I have decided to give up this power."
The puppet dolls present were stunned. Some of them were so scared that they couldn't help crying. They cried tears of joy and knelt on the ground to give thanks and thank God for letting such a kind person be their master.
The comments on the small TV exploded, and everyone was wailing: [No! Wife, please think twice, don’t be kind here, don’t be soft-hearted to these people! ! ]
Oh.
There are also a few black puppet dolls laughing secretly. They didn't expect that this newcomer is a kind-hearted saint. How great! This newcomer doesn't look very old. He must be a stupid student who has never been in contact with the society and has never experienced the truly cruel world. They can be used just like that. They will rob his money next time they have the chance!
"You don't need to thank me, nor do you need to be happy secretly."
Su Yi spoke softly and slowly. He felt uncomfortable speaking in front of so many people, even the puppet dolls. His social phobia was quietly acting up. His voice was relatively small, sounding timid and powerless. His tone was soft and gentle, and he spoke the terrifying words very naturally:
"In exchange, each of you will owe me another 100,000 gold coins."
! !
The puppet dolls present were frightened and stunned.
"What?! How... is this possible? Such a thing..."
Several puppet dolls with fangs grinning started to scream, but their mouths were soon covered by the black bandages on their bodies. They whimpered and could not utter a word. As slaves, they were not allowed to contradict their masters.
"I hope everyone will think carefully about whether your own life is worth 100,000 gold coins?"
The ferocious puppet dolls stared at Su Yi hatefully, baring their teeth, as if they wanted to rush up and bite him.
[Hahahaha, my wife is so awesome! Why kill slaves? Why make it so bloody? Isn't it better to make money?]
[My wife is so rich, so nice! ——Reward 100 gold coins, I hope my wife will become richer and richer! ]
Su Yi asked the life-saving system to instantly generate a master-slave agreement for a debt of one hundred thousand, which was automatically distributed to each puppet doll.
"Bullshit! I might as well kill me instead of owing you a hundred thousand!"
Many puppet dolls were furious. They threw the contract papers on the ground, stepped on them, and tore them up angrily.
Su Yi didn't care either. He closed the [Slave Farm] without any reluctance and ignored those puppet dolls.
After he left, some of the little puppets timidly picked up the master-slave agreement from the ground and looked at me carefully:
After signing this agreement, Master Su is also willing to promise to the script-killing system that he will permanently give up the slaves' right to life and will not kill or torture slaves for any reason, causing serious threats to their lives or bodies.
In exchange, the slave needs to carry 100,000 gold coins, and the total debt is: 100,000 + the original debt. After paying off the debt, the slave status will be automatically cancelled and regain freedom.
When the master encounters difficulties or needs help, he will issue a small work notice. Slaves who are willing to work can accept the order. Afterwards, gold coins will be settled according to the slaves' performance to offset the debt. Please work hard and strive for freedom!
Puppet doll: “…”
Inside the tall iron fence, a large electronic screen was erected: Ding——
[Accepting orders! The owner has issued a new task: Watch the surveillance and report any abnormalities immediately. 3 gold coins will be issued every hour. Two people are needed.]
Su Yi looked at the surveillance screen at the head of his bed. There was still no movement. The murderer had not returned yet.
He had just watched for a second when he heard a series of "ding-dong, ding-dong" sounds from the backstage:
[Your order is very popular. There are 36 slaves competing for the order. Please choose 2 slaves you like to complete the task.]
Su Yi glanced sideways, and at that moment, the number of people vying for the order became 42, and 48 of them had signed the master-slave agreement.
“You can actually force them to work for you.”
The life-saving system said in the heart, "Slaves are originally the property of their masters, so they should do whatever they want for their masters."
Su Yi: "If you force it, the melon won't be sweet after all."
Since there are clever ways to make these slaves actively rush to work for him, why do he have to force others? Su Yi casually swiped through the list of slaves who came to grab orders and picked out the two slaves who signed up the fastest to work.
call out--
A big hole appeared on the light screen in front of him, and two puppet dolls fell out of the hole.
Su Yi pointed to the surveillance video screen and said, "You two just watch here and tell me if anything happens."
They nodded, and two black puppet dolls jumped and sat next to the display screen, diligently helping Su Yi monitor the murderer.
[Hahahaha, this picture is really beautiful? I wish keyboard warriors in the world could do more work and talk less]
[Each person owes an additional 100,000 gold coins. My god, multiplying this by more than a hundred people is more than 10 million!]
[But this is just the amount owed, not the actual money that has arrived. My wife just wants them to work hard.]
[Wow, am I the only one who is a little jealous? I also want to be my wife’s puppet doll and do work for her!! /Going crazy]
After handing the work over to the two little slaves, Su Yi's tense nerves were finally able to relax a little.
He worked all night last night and took a short nap in the morning. Then he went to catch ghosts, dig up bones and investigate the murderer. His body was filled with fatigue.
"Wife, lie down and take a rest." The life-saving system said in its heart,
Su Yi pulled back the quilt, lay on the bed and closed his eyes to rest. If he didn't rest, his body would not be able to hold on until the afternoon, and he might have to deal with the murderer at any time.
The life-saving system hummed a lullaby softly: "... beautiful baby, go to sleep quickly..."
Su Yi lazily raised his hands to cover his ears, muttering in his heart:
"Don't sing it, it's a bit hard to hear."
Come to think of it, this unpleasant off-tune sound is somewhat familiar, as if I have heard it somewhere before...
Su Yi closed his eyes. He lay on the velvet bed that looked like a white cloud. There was darkness in front of him. In a trance, he felt that everything around him had turned white, the bed, the pillow, and the quilt. He could faintly smell the smell of disinfectant at the tip of his nose...
It's a bed in the hospital's operating room.
I dreamed about this again. Su Yi felt uncomfortable, but fortunately this time he was not tied up. He lay on the bed like a normal patient, and the doctor gave him an injection of general anesthesia.
The intense white light of the operating lamp shone on him. Su Yi couldn't open his eyes, but he still opened them hard. He wanted to see something.
He saw the female doctor standing beside him with a smile, holding a shiny silver scalpel in her hand and wearing a blue medical mask, leaving only her eyes exposed. Her pair of green eyes were staring at him on the operating table.
Many foreigners' eyes are green in color, such as azure blue or green, but these eyes are grass green with some goose yellow of new leaves mixed in. They are very rare and beautiful.
Su Yi was deeply impressed. It was the last impression of the world that remained after he was anesthetized.
"Go to sleep, kid?"
The female doctor's gentle voice and the cold scalpel reached out to his chest...
“Master, Master!”
Su Yi heard someone calling him, and then there was a vibration. He woke up and saw two puppet dolls pushing his pillow:
"Report to the master, there is a situation!"
Su Yi quickly sat up and asked in his heart: "How long have I slept?"
Life-saving system: "Just five minutes."
He turned to look at the surveillance screen and saw a figure walking in.
The pinhole camera was shooting from above, and only captured the top of the person's head. She was wearing black clothes and had long hair. Her face was not visible for the time being, but the figure seemed to be that of a female.
The murderer walked around the house, as if checking if anyone had broken in. Not finding anything wrong, he turned and walked towards the shabby wardrobe, opened it, and threw the black coat inside.
She took off her coat, revealing an ordinary black shirt underneath. Su Yi saw that she was carrying a lunch box, probably the lunch she received from the script-killing system.
Sizzle——
The chair was pulled away, the lunch box was thrown on the table, and the murderer sat down and prepared to eat.
She lowered her head, but the outline of her face could be roughly seen. It was not Maid Lin, nor Planner Peng, nor any of the players currently present, but Su Yi felt that she looked a little familiar...
Suddenly?! He realized, isn't this...Jennifer?
The first bride to die, the old pastor's daughter, Player 13's ex-girlfriend, Jennifer.
He had seen Jennifer's photo several times, and gradually the photo overlapped with the murderer in front of him. But, if Jennifer was the murderer, why did she kill him when her father, the pastor, came to investigate the truth of her murder?
And Jennifer… was clearly dead. It was almost impossible for her to survive with the knife stabbed into her heart. Didn’t she die at that time? Why?…
Click.
On the surveillance screen, the murderer opened the lid of the lunch box, took out a spoon, and prepared to eat. At this moment, she looked up at the receiving screen on the top of the wall, wanting to see the surveillance situation in the bride's bedroom cloakroom——
At this moment, Su Yi could clearly see every one of her facial features, especially her eyes.
He was immediately shocked to the spot, so surprised that he even held his breath, and his scalp began to numb:
These are a pair of green eyes.
Not blue eyes like Jennifer's, but grass green eyes mixed with yellow, very rare and beautiful, you will never forget it after seeing it once...
It was the eyes of the female doctor who performed the operation on him at that time!
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