Chapter 149: Trolley Problem You are smarter than I expected
Lin Xi has always been particular about immersion when playing games.
Since you want to be a "lamb" and be "hunted" by the "hunter", of course you have to really inhale the anesthetic and get knocked unconscious.
This is the correct way to open the game.
Otherwise, if he was prepared, Lin Xi could hold his breath and keep himself awake.
She looked around at her current surroundings.
The lights were dim, the air was damp, and there was a musty smell, as well as the faint odor of vomit and excrement.
The surrounding walls were made of stone bricks. There were no windows in the room, only an old-fashioned light bulb hanging in the middle of the ceiling.
It is an old-fashioned light bulb that has high power consumption and consumes a lot of electricity and has long been eliminated from the market.
The yellow light shone into the room, allowing Lin Xi to clearly see the moss growing on the stone bricks of the wall due to excessive moisture.
On the wall to the left of Linxi, there is an iron door, which is now half open, and some subtle noises can be heard from inside.
Lin Xi slowly exhaled.
Her hands were tied behind her back with hemp rope, and she was lying on her side against the corner of the wall.
The hemp rope was tied high, just above her wrist, near her forearm. She moved her arm slightly, feeling the texture of the rope.
...Well, it's tied very tightly, and most people can't open it.
Fortunately, her legs were not tied and could still move.
She spread her legs, pushed up her shoes, sat up, tilted her head back, and used inertia to push the hair that was scattered in front of her head back.
At this moment, she saw the woman sitting on her right, her hands also tied with hemp rope and behind her back, her skin was sallow and she looked listless.
When Lin Xi saw her, her eyes also looked at Lin Xi.
When the woman met Lin Xi's eyes, she shrank back.
Compared to Lin Xi's current appearance, she didn't look particularly good. Her skirt was stained, and in the dim light, it was hard to tell its original color. Her face was sallow and pale, devoid of any color, and her lips were dry and cracked. Her eyes were puffy, and Lin Xi noticed scabs at the corners of her mouth—perhaps from dripping food mixed with saliva.
Her facial features were very regular, but in the harsh living environment, she no longer looked youthful and beautiful. Instead, she looked ugly, pale and bloated.
Lin Xi looked at her sympathetically and guessed that she had been captured and detained for at least two days.
"Hi." She greeted her softly.
The woman heard her words and didn't react at first. After a long delay, she seemed to understand what she said and replied, "...Hi."
His voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken in a long time.
"May I have your name?"
Lin Xi moved her body, trying to get closer so that the woman could hear her whispered words.
They all knew that outside the iron gate, the butcher who controlled their fate was active.
Therefore, in order not to attract attention, it is necessary to speak softly...
The woman licked her lips and looked at Lin Xi silently.
"Jessie. Jessie White."
"Ah, Jie Qian." Lin Xi seemed completely unaffected by the dark environment and the bad situation, and her tone was still very relaxed: "Nice to meet you, Jie Qian."
"Jessie, how many days have you been here?"
She said a little louder, earning a warning glance from Jess.
"Keep your voice down!" she said.
"Hey." Lin Xi tilted her head, "Will I get beaten if someone hears me?"
The words still did not lower their volume.
Jessie felt angry: This guy had no idea how powerful the guy inside was, and how weak the two captured people were in this room.
A pampered, naive and foolish young lady!
"That's right." She lied in a cold voice.
Actually, no.
That person will not leave any scars on them.
On the contrary, in some cases, they are treated quite gently.
But there's no need to tell the young lady about this—after all, she's just an idiot...
She stared at Lin Xi's fair skin, beautiful face, and her clean and tidy clothes, and sighed in her heart:
This kind of person was much more beautiful than herself, and was exactly the type that person liked... If she was captured first, she would probably be killed before this person...
God is so unfair.
Giving this person such beauty and wealth - looking at the necklace on the girl's neck and the clothes on her body, these are things that I can only stare at through the shop window.
And she had been locked up here for three... maybe four days? In the dim room, without sunlight, she could only estimate how much time had passed outside by the number of meals she had eaten.
I must look scary now...
Jessie lowered her head and looked at her dirty skirt, which was stained with disgusting filth. She knew that it was the soup, blood and urine stains that splashed on her when the man forced her to eat.
Sure enough, Mom was right. People are only human when they are treated like human beings. Once they are treated like animals—like she is now—they become neither human nor ghost. There is no one who is more like an animal than she is now. Only animals can live like she is now, dirty and smelly...
Perhaps because a new victim was captured, Jess, who had been gradually becoming numb in the past few days, suddenly became lively again, and a sour feeling came to her nose.
How could I... end up like this...
"Sorry. I'll speak a little more quietly then." The girl's voice came from beside her. In her vision gradually blurred by tears, she saw that the girl was trying hard to move her body with her feet and hips, moving herself closer to her.
Jess originally wanted to speak out to stop her and ask her not to get so close, but when she opened her mouth and was about to speak, she felt her throat choked. If she spoke, it would reveal her trembling voice, so she bit her lip, closed her mouth, and just lowered her head even lower.
There was one more person, and this person was still so good-looking, clean and tidy...Jessie felt that all her own embarrassment was magnified by the contrast:
The dirt and smell on the body are unbearable, and even the taste in the mouth is extremely foul.
How can this be... This is really too much...
God, why couldn't this new girl be left alone?
At least don't let her see her ugly reflection in her clear eyes!
The girl seemed to have heard her thoughts and finally stopped moving. However, she was still too close, making Jessie feel very embarrassed.
For the first time, she began to hate her sensitive sense of smell. She wished that God would dull her sense of smell so that she would not be able to smell the clean and fresh scent of orange blossoms wafting from the girl next to her, and the various disgusting odors mixed with her own body.
"Jessie, don't be afraid, we will be rescued." The eldest lady spoke, and the moment she spoke, Jessie wanted to laugh: "I brought bodyguards with me. If they find I'm missing, they will definitely call the police. Although we don't know what the kidnappers are planning, the police will definitely rescue us."
Sure enough, this guy had no idea what situation they were in.
Did she think that the man was just an ordinary kidnapper who kidnapped her and extorted money?
idiot……
That person had no intention of letting them go. In the end, they were like fish on the chopping board, no matter how hard they struggled, they could not escape the fate of being felled by the butcher's knife.
Jie Qian sneered: "Who do you think you are?"
"Big star? Celebrity? President of the United States? Boss of the □□?"
Lin Xi's expression became subtle for a moment, and he turned his head to look away.
Forget about the first three, but the last one is true.
Seeing the girl still looking confused, Jie Qian felt inexplicably angry: "Even if you do, it's useless."
"I've been here for three days now." Her tone was cold and unfriendly. "The most useful lesson I've learned is to be a little more obedient."
"This world is much crueler than you can imagine. It won't let you off just because you... you're pretty or rich."
Lin Xi's cold face was against the warm butt, but he didn't care. Instead, he still maintained a friendly tone: "I know, I have always been very well-behaved-"
She didn't deny that she was good-looking and rich.
Jess didn't see the frustration and hurt she expected from the girl. Instead, she felt that the girl's friendly attitude made her look like a bad guy, which made her even angrier.
"You better be."
This time the girl didn't respond to her. Instead, she smiled and looked around with interest.
Jessie looked at her curious expression and closed her eyes in annoyance.
This guy really has no sense of crisis.
Humph, no matter what, I have to do everything I can to live longer.
At least, I should strive to die later than this girl...
Outside, she was no match for this girl. But here, in that person's eyes, maybe...
She is so well-behaved, maybe she can buy more time than this girl.
Even if everyone died in the end, that was enough. At least in this one thing, she was better than this man.
…
The rustling noise outside the iron gate finally stopped.
Lin Xi withdrew his gaze from his surroundings and leaned his head against the wall. He didn't care if his hair got dirty - it was already dirty anyway - and stared at the iron gate.
In fact, she opened the system map and was satisfied to see that the green dots representing the police and FBI surrounded the house where she was.
This shows that the transmitter she placed on Jack the Ripper worked.
It was something she had tucked into the back of Jack's collar while they were walking in the amusement park.
Earlier, Jin handed this transmitter to her next to the female saint statue.
Footsteps were heard and the iron door was pushed open with a creaking sound.
The middle-aged man who was amiable and a little reserved earlier was now strolling leisurely with a relaxed look on his face, reaching out and pushing open the iron gate.
"Good afternoon, girls."
He saw Lin Xi and smiled: "You woke up earlier than I expected, girl."
Lin Xi blinked and smiled, "I can't believe it... I've been trying to reassure you along the way, telling you not to worry about Jack the Ripper, but I never thought I'd be the one to get hurt."
"So, is your name really Jack, sir?"
Jack's smile faded slightly. He walked closer and placed the food in his other hand in front of Jess. "You're smarter than I expected, girl."
He was wearing gloves, white cotton gloves, the kind most commonly used by workers, and now they were also covered in dirt.
He reached out and pinched Jess's neck, stroking it, then gently moved up to hold her jaw.
Jessie obediently raised her head, opened her mouth, and drank the hot soup he poured into her.
Her throat moved uncomfortably and she suppressed her instinctive coughing reaction - if she spilled the soup again, the man would be angry.
Finally, a bowl of soup was drunk, but even though Jessie tried hard to open her mouth wide, the soup still flowed out from the corners of her mouth.
She hurriedly licked the corner of her mouth, trying to lick off the soup.
But with her hands tied, she couldn't make her face tidier. She could only watch the soup drip down her cheeks onto her skirt, even dirtying the man's hands.
She quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, sir, I..."
"It doesn't matter. You get dirty every time anyway." Jack didn't seem to be angry about this.
But Jess looked even sadder.
Lin Xi watched the whole process of feeding him and silently put this scene into the file bag of "Stockholm Syndrome" in the memory bank of his brain.
So scary.
As if noticing her gaze, the man turned to her and tucked her hair behind her ear with one hand.
"It's my negligence. You've been unconscious for two hours, so you must be hungry."
"There's a little left, do you want some?"
As he spoke, his hand slid from Lin Xi's ear to her chin, as if he wanted to repeat the previous action and pour the soup in the bowl into Lin Xi.
Lin Xi glanced at the soup. Cubes of potatoes, onions, and chopped eggs floated in the murky broth, and it even had the fishy smell of meat...
Lin Xi didn't really want to know what species the meat was from.
She was screaming in her heart: "Get this dark food away from me!" At the same time, a sweet smile appeared on her face and she blinked:
"Mr. Jack, can I do it myself?"
"That doesn't seem very table manners."
Jack didn't move. He just looked at Lin Xi silently, his hands holding her neck.
Then, as if he felt that the gloves were too cumbersome, he paused, took off the gloves on this side, and placed his bare hands on the skin of Lin Xi's neck.
…The blood vessels were pulsating. Jack could clearly feel the warm blood flowing through the girl's carotid artery beneath her skin, and every beat of her heart pumped life into every part of her body.
Before his wife..., vitality also flowed so vividly in her body.
Jack looked up and into the girl's eyes.
He saw his reflection in the honey-colored mirror.
No other pair of eyes were as pure as these, and so... like hers.
Jack smiled and said, "Miss, you are right."
He let go of Lin Xi's neck, walked to Lin Xi's side in Jie Xi's incredulous eyes, grabbed her arm, and took a closer look at the hemp rope he had tied with his own hands.
As if he thought it was too troublesome to untie the rope, he took out a knife from his pocket and cut the rope with it rudely.
As soon as the rope tied around her wrists broke, Lin Xi's arms, which were originally tied tightly, loosened and she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you~"
She said.
Jack put away the knife and smiled very gentlemanly: "You're welcome."
Jess was stunned.
How could that be!
This was completely different from what she had imagined.
She had thought that after Jack arrived, Lin Xi would make mistakes in front of him because of her naivety and stupidity, and then pay the price for her mistakes.
She didn't realize that she was actually secretly looking forward to this scene happening.
When she saw Jack pick up the bowl and prepare to feed Lin Xi, she was actually a little happy in her heart.
She wanted to see Lin Xi make a mistake, wanted to see her choke and cough subconsciously, wanted the girl's clean cheeks and skirt to be stained like hers, and wanted to see Jack's impatient look towards her.
This would make her appear to be the more obedient of the two of them.
Jie Qian even hoped that Lin Xi would struggle and resist. This would definitely make Jack teach her a lesson - let that girl know how powerful he is!
Just like how she was treated when she first came here——
Jessie looked at the iron gate not far away.
The day she was kidnapped here, she didn't do a good job and choked on the porridge, making it go everywhere.
The man looked at her coldly as she fell to the ground and coughed uncontrollably. When she calmed down a little, he pinched her jaw and prepared to feed her porridge.
She was also very naughty at that time. She used her unrestrained foot to try to kick Jack's calf.
Her teeth chattered involuntarily as she recalled that day's experience—Jack didn't hit her, as Jess thought he would. The man simply grabbed her as she staggered, took her to the kitchen—yes, there was actually a kitchen behind the iron door—and submerged her head in a pool of water.
She was caught off guard and choked on the water at the first gulp. The water itself had a salty, fishy taste, but she didn't care at the moment. Survival instinct forced her to hold her breath, and the water sucked into her lungs made her cough uncontrollably. The hands gripping her shoulders and holding her head down felt like iron clamps, impossible to shake.
When she felt she was about to die, her head was grabbed by the hair and suddenly lifted up, taking her back to the world of the living.
She gasped for breath, and before she could say anything, she was pushed into the water again.
This time she learned her lesson and held her breath.
And again. And again.
again.
The suffocation made her eyes go black and her head buzz. She didn't know that this feeling was more uncomfortable than choking on water.
She wanted to beg for mercy, but Jack never gave her the chance.
Finally, when she was about to give up, Jack lifted her head and let her rest against the wall, and brushed her hair back strand by strand, the action could even be described as gentle.
"Be good." The man sighed.
"Don't make it hard on me. Okay?"
He patted Jess's head.
Jess's mind was in a tizzy. The words of plea for mercy on the tip of her tongue turned into a subconscious apology and submission: "I'm sorry..."
"A good girl who corrects her mistakes."
The man said softly.
"It's okay this time... It's over. Next time, you'll do better."
For some reason, when Jessie heard these words, she didn't feel any disgust. Instead, she felt relieved.
Along with this sense of relief came a false sense of security that she drew from the man's words.
"……good."
"I'll be good, Mr. Jack," she heard herself say.
The voice was weak and flattering.
She lowered her head and saw her own appearance clearly through the reflection of the puddles on the ground.
——Smelly and dirty, just like livestock.
That was what happened on her first day in the cellar.
Looking at the black-haired girl, who remained calm and dazzling even though her dress and hair were stained, Jie Qian couldn't help but feel a very awkward emotion rising in her heart:
They are in the same situation, so why is this man still so glamorous while she is like a beast?
Why on earth, even Mr. Jack... is so nice to her?
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