Chapter 339: Inhuman (147) (1st + 2nd) [VIP]
"Found it," Yuan Shanming and Yin Ge whispered as they were searching for something, "Look, here are all the sleeping pills they saved."
"Er Si, Er Si?" Yuan Shanming called him a few times.
Bai Jinshu followed his line of sight and saw that among the things Brother Yin had found, there was a small package wrapped in a piece of cloth that came from nowhere. After unwrapping it, there were sleeping pills broken into quarters.
At first glance, the sleeping pills in this small cloth bag may not be as powerful as the handful that Zhou Ju and his team took out. However, that handful was the amount that the entire team of eleven people had accumulated over ten days, while the amount in this small bag is probably only accumulated by the child on the bed alone.
"About thirty or so pills," Brother Yin counted them and said in a whisper, "so this kid has been here for about a month."
Given his current appearance, it is actually a bit funny to call people of the same age "kid", but judging from the behavior of the owner of this bed, he is indeed just a child.
At least if it were them, they would definitely carry the sleeping pills they saved up, which are as deadly as things, with them instead of putting them among the miscellaneous items near the bed.
"Does anyone else want to turn over?" Yuan Shanming lowered his voice.
They have only found sleeping pills for one child, and there are at least five or six empty beds in the entire room. Should they continue to find the sleeping pills for the others?
"Let's take a look at another one to be safe," Brother Yin carefully put these things back to their original state and tiptoed to another empty bed.
There was a sound outside the window, perhaps a building collapsing or something exploding, which suddenly woke up Bai Jinshu, who was already drowsy.
"We've been seen," Huai Jiamu saw that he had regained consciousness and repeated his previous words, "Do you want to kill him?"
Bai Jinshu opened his eyes wide and looked back at the child's face thoughtfully.
Huai Jiamu's voice was not loud. Brother Yin and Yuan Shanming went to a bed a little further away to look for something, so they probably didn't hear it.
But for this child who had been watching them with his eyes open, he must have heard what Huai Jiamu said just now.
It was too dark in the room and I couldn't see the child's expression clearly, but I could see that his eyes suddenly widened, and there was no sign of sleepiness in them, but rather vivid confusion and disbelief.
He seemed...unable to understand why they were ready to kill him after discovering he was awake.
There was continuous gunfire outside the window, and he seemed to be trying to express something with his eyes, but Bai Jinshu was too sleepy. After realizing that his eyes were full of disbelief, his brain turned into a mess again due to extreme sleepiness.
Fortunately, at this time, Yuan Shanming and Brother Yin found another sleeping pill in time. It was now very obvious that all the children who left the room tonight deliberately did not take sleeping pills and intended to leave after everyone fell asleep.
It was almost four in the morning, and even Brother Yin and Yuan Shanming could no longer hold on. Their plan to move a few more beds was officially scrapped after they felt sleepy. Bai Jinshu took one last look at the child with his eyes open, turned around and followed them out of the room.
In their dormitory, all the other people who stayed behind had fallen asleep. Xiao Tang was still barely conscious. When he saw them come back, he finally settled down in bed with peace of mind.
The ones who were on guard during this period were Brother Yin and Yuan Shanming. The two of them were yawning all the time, but they still signaled Bai Jinshu to go to sleep first, and wait for Guan Hongyan and the others to come back and wake everyone up if they found anything.
Since they all said so, Bai Jinshu didn't hesitate and buried his head in the quilt.
No one slept well that night.
Various loud noises would be heard outside the window from time to time, and everyone would be woken up intermittently. After waking up, they would look at each other with sleepy eyes, bury their heads in the quilt in pain, and wait to be woken up by the next explosion.
During the time when he was awake intermittently, Bai Jinshu saw that Guan Hongyan and the others had returned from outside and returned to their own beds.
Since no one woke them up, Guan Hongyan probably didn't find any important clues.
Bai Jinshu was more inclined to believe that they had lost the person or had not found him at all.
After all, when Team Member Zhou Ju came to report the news, it was already too late. The people had been gone for several minutes, so it was difficult to catch up with them.
The people on night watch changed again and again. After being woken up countless times, a little hazy dawn light finally appeared outside the window. In the distant place outside the thick fog, the sun finally rose.
The continuous sound of gunfire gradually subsided, and in the remaining two or three hours, everyone finally had a rare good sleep without being woken up again.
Zhou Ju and her team members have been here for more than ten days and have probably gotten used to the nights here. When it is time to get up in the morning, Zhou Ju wakes everyone up.
There were very good reasons to call everyone up. Zhou Ju said that according to their observations, the shelter had three standard meals a day. No matter whether these three meals were all clear soup and rice porridge, three meals a day were guaranteed.
But there were too many children in the shelter, and they were too dull to respond to the conversation. Food was in short supply, and the amount of each meal was fixed. If there were more people, they would eat less, and if there were fewer people, they would eat more. The two nuns obviously would not count the number of children, so if they did not get up in the morning, they would not have breakfast.
All the new triggerers who entered here didn't eat dinner last night because they were worried about what was in the food, so they were hungry all night. Now it was eight o'clock in the morning, and even the sleepiest people were so hungry that they dared not stay in bed anymore and had to crawl to the dining table to eat.
Xiao Tang has been talking non-stop since she woke up. She was either cursing and typing some beautiful C language or yawning. After tidying up simply, she and Huangmao stumbled out of the room to the restaurant, yawning wildly.
Although the others were not as sleepy as them, they were also very sleepy.
Bai Jinshu was almost hallucinating from the sound of artillery shells last night. Although the environment was quiet now, he could hear some familiar explosion sounds in his ears from time to time.
If this continues for a few more nights, he'll immediately suffer from a nervous breakdown.
Under this kind of neurasthenia-like auditory hallucination, Bai Jinshu was distracted and fell on Huai Jiamu's legs, allowing him to press his solar plexus with his much smaller hands for a long time, and completely gave up struggling.
Forget it. Huai Jiamu's fixed attributes are very cheating. What good person would become a native after entering an unknown space? He is a mortal exploration team member. Even if he has twenty-four personalities, he can't compare with a ghost story.
It was only natural to squeeze out the weird talk. If he wasn't afraid of the investment bank discovering the problem, he would have wanted Huai Jiamu to blow up this broken place right now.
It seems that lack of sleep can indeed cause some emotional instability.
Everyone got up painfully, and walked to the long dining table like zombies, looking at their equally depressed companions, and then realized belatedly -
Wait, that's not right.
Aren’t their current conditions just like those dull kids?
Guan Hongyan swept her eyes around the restaurant. The other children in the restaurant also had numb faces with no desires or ambitions. Only when they looked at the rice porridge in front of them did a hint of other light flash in their eyes.
Looking at it this way, it’s hard to tell who’s real and who’s pretending.
Zhou Ju looked at the porridge in front of him: "Hmm? More?"
"What's more?" Yuan Shanming, who was closest to her, looked in Zhou Ju's direction in a daze.
"Porridge, there's too much porridge," Zhou Ju added when he saw that it was Yuan Shanming who was asking the question, "When we had dinner last night, there wasn't even this much porridge."
The new team members didn't finish their meal with everyone last night.
"There's too much porridge..." Yuan Shanming stared at the bowl blankly for a few seconds, then he woke up a little and said, "That means there are fewer people!"
Someone died last night!
"Not necessarily?" Zhou Ju was startled by his sudden energetic performance and whispered, "Maybe someone went out last night, so they didn't get out of bed this morning?"
"How is that possible?" Yuan Shanming was not stupid. "We only have this much rice porridge for every meal here. People can't stand skipping a meal. How is it possible that someone would skip breakfast just to sleep in?"
You know, they were a group of poor people who had hardly slept last night and were so annoyed by the sound of artillery fire that they wanted to go out and fight in person and kill both sides of the war. They all climbed out of bed to eat breakfast.
Although this hunger was not as great as the hunger Lu Yun had in the third nightmare, it still had some charm. He didn't believe that anyone could withstand this hunger that struck the soul directly.
"Could those people who went out last night have killed the sleeping child..." Yuan Shanming muttered, thinking it was possible.
After all, a night had passed and Ersi's words had gone through his mind several times.
If these triggerers who were adults turned into children still cannot get over the psychological barrier, then the evil of the children who grow up in such an environment is pure evil, and perhaps in their hearts it cannot even be called evil.
In order to survive and get more food, we have to get rid of some of our companions every night.
This is normal.
As long as someone dies, there will be more food the next day. In this case, even if someone finds something wrong, they will keep silent after getting real benefits.
After all, if someone died the night before, everyone would have more to eat the next day and would be able to get full. If this were to be exposed, they would get less food.
So it’s better to just accept that this is happening.
Yuan Shanming was not a hypocritical person. Although the extra food probably meant that someone had lost their life, he still ate it all in order to fill his stomach.
Most people did the same thing as him. No matter what happened last night, eating was important.
Only Xiao Tang is different.
She was so sleepy that she almost dropped her head into the bowl several times. Then she let out a long sigh, pushed the bowl aside, and fell asleep on the table until she passed out.
The yellow-haired man sitting next to her was speechless for a long time, and pushed her several times, and finally got a reply: "No, I'm too sleepy, I don't want to eat anymore, you eat it. Damn it, if you have the guts, starve me to death."
It was this sentence that made everyone realize that the children around them were not always dull in their reactions to everything.
Just like the looks they received after they entered the shelter yesterday, Huangmao hesitated for a while and finally poured half of Xiao Tang's bowl of porridge into his own half bowl of porridge, making it a full bowl.
Sparks could already be seen in the eyes of the children sitting around him.
If looks could kill, then Huangmao would be tortured to death by everyone right now.
He himself did not expect that this action would attract so many eyes. He was in a dilemma as to whether to eat or not. After looking at everyone for help, he finally woke up the groggy Xiao Tang: "Sister Xiao Tang, Sister Xiao Tang——"
The yellow-haired man said pitifully: "Why don't you get up and eat, Sister Tang. I feel like if I finish this whole bowl by myself, I'll be assassinated tonight."
"Why are you wasting so much time talking?" Xiao Tang was shaken awake several times. He looked around with a pair of bloodshot eyes full of murderous intent. Seeing many children looking away, he rolled his eyes and fell down again, "Eat yours."
Even the other triggerers were a little jealous of this.
That was a whole bowl of porridge. Before entering into this strange story, they never thought that one day they would be so hungry that they would envy others for being able to eat a whole bowl of rice porridge.
Huai Jiamu was not jealous. While everyone else was looking at Huang Mao, he retracted his gaze, looked at Bai Jinshu and whispered, "I don't need to eat. Do you want to eat?"
"No need," Bai Jinshu shook his head and sighed, "I don't want to become the target of public criticism yet."
Huangmao is now like a target standing among everyone.
I don't know if Xiao Tang did it on purpose, but after this incident, everyone's attention is now drawn to the yellow-haired guy.
Zhou Ju's teammates were also a little confused.
Bai Jinshu had already heard them whispering, "Isn't this guy a big shot who was suppressed to the age of three or four? Why is he acting so cowardly?"
"I guess the two of them planned this act together," another team member guessed, "to attract the attention of other kids?"
Maybe.
Bai Jinshu glanced thoughtfully at the yellow-haired boy who was concentrating on eating.
Before leaving the Mirage, he never suspected that Huang Mao had problems. He had always been an uneducated gangster who accidentally got on Xiao Tang's big legs and became her little follower. If Xiao Tang hadn't been helping him during fights and escapes, he would never have survived.
Ever since he entered here, a question has been lingering in his mind. How could a triggerer like Huangmao, who has no special ability, be reduced to the lowest age in such a strange story that compresses age according to strength?
Could it be that... he was hiding his incompetence? Did I misjudge him?
This doesn't make sense.
Bai Jinshu's brain was working rapidly while he was eating.
If Huangmao was very capable and was just hiding his incompetence, then why did he keep hiding when his life was in danger several times?
The person is about to die, how can hiding one's incompetence be more important than life? How can he be so sure that Xiao Tang will help him?
However, Huangmao also revealed a flaw once.
In the mirage that no one should have remembered, Bai Jinshu somehow gained some fragmented memories. In this memory, he was very sure that when everyone left here on the plane, Huangmao was not on the plane.
It is very likely that he chose to leave alone to do something in order to get them out of there smoothly.
But after coming out, Huangmao, Xiao Tang and Guan Hongyan appeared in the sea together.
This only means that although he was not on the plane in the end, he also found other ways to leave at the same time, and this method was not the normal method used by other people who participated in the mirage, otherwise he should have left through normal channels like those people and would not have appeared in that sea area.
So do Xiao Tang and he know each other? If they do, then Xiao Tang is helping Huang Mao hide his shortcomings every time, so Huang Mao is actually also from the foundation?
In this case, Xiao Tang is most likely also from the foundation, and the proportion of foundation members in Yuan Shanming's team is too high.
Apart from Lao Ma, whose background is still unclear, half of the team members are from the foundation.
Or maybe Xiao Tang really met him by chance, and Huangmao never thought that he would get such a big crush, so he just kept hiding until now, until he was exposed by the ghost story mechanism and his actual level was revealed.
This doesn't make sense.
If Xiao Tang treated him as her younger brother, then this time when Huangmao was suppressed to three or four years old, his actual level was completely exposed. Xiao Tang, this girl, enjoys taking revenge, and after realizing that she was deceived, she would never treat him like this again.
She would rather pour out the half bowl of rice she didn't eat and feed it to the dog than give it to Huangmao.
So they definitely knew each other in advance, and all their previous performances were just acting.
Bai Jinshu's eyes sparkled as he glanced across the back of Xiao Tang's head buried in the table and fell on the yellow-haired man.
Are there these two people in the foundation? Xiao Tang has a distinct personality. Even if she is acting, she must have some traces of her own personality. If she has been in the foundation, Guan Hongyan cannot have not heard of her in the high-end space for so many years. In addition, Xu Zichen did not feel familiar. Could it be that these two people are old members of the special space? Or were they promoted directly by some organization?
Huangmao pretended to be perfect throughout the journey. If it weren't for this strange story, no one would have noticed anything wrong until they left here.
Fortunately, the only people who were familiar with Huangmao and would notice something was wrong were a few in Yuan Shanming's team: himself, Huai Jiamu, Guan Hongyan, and Jin Ling. Except for Yuan Shanming, the other four were members of the foundation. Even if they noticed something was wrong, they would not say it out loud.
As long as he can find a reason to fool Yuan Shanming... or as long as Yuan Shanming himself knows the truth and won't tell anyone about it, then there won't be any major problems with Huangmao's disguise.
I don’t know if the other people noticed Huangmao’s problem, but after Xiao Tang’s commotion, everyone finally came to their senses one after another.
You can't tell the answer just by looking at it. Remembering that there was a problem with the live broadcast last night and he reported it to the administrator, Bai Jinshu glanced at the live broadcast room.
The live broadcast room has now returned to silence, and last night's snow screen and various garbled characters have disappeared.
No signal again.
This kind of no signal means that the terminal is directly scrapped. Different from the garbled code that only appeared in the live broadcast room last night, now all friend functions including live broadcast, private chat function, background function, email and mail have no signal.
The email function has no signal, so we can't see whether the programmer has responded to last night's bug. Everyone sighed with regret and could only pray that the next signal would come soon, and by the time it came, the bug in the live broadcast room would have been fixed.
After finishing their meal, the children in the restaurant entered low-power mode. They sat in front of the statue in the church as usual and began to daydream.
The two nuns prayed in front of everyone in the church. After the prayer, the nun Zhou Ju and the others called her a good girl brought four or five more children in. Amid the murderous eyes on the dull faces of the children around him, Bai Jinshu saw Xiao Tang, who had finally regained his vitality, winking at him crazily.
"What's wrong?" He walked over calmly.
"Hey, aren't these two good people? Are Zhou Ju and the others blind?" Xiao Tang pointed at the two nuns above him with his chin. "There are children who kill people on purpose every night. How could they not know?"
"They are deliberately intensifying the situation." Bai Jinshu continued.
Children died every night, and the nuns couldn't have been unaware of this. Even though there were so many children here that they couldn't remember everyone's face, the consumption of food and kitchen utensils would not lie.
Although the total amount of food per day is the same, if a child has more food, he will have more bowls than rice, while if a child has less food, he will have more food than bowls. This cannot be missed.
Even Zhou Ju could notice that there was more food this morning than last night, so how could these two people not know?
"People keep dying. Not only does this good guy not stop it, he also deliberately brings in children from outside and gives them sleeping pills every night to create conditions for others to take action..." Xiao Tang muttered, "Is this shelter breeding Gu?"
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously.
Xu Zichen next to him was startled and his eyes suddenly became strange.
This place really looks like a small Gu farm, but compared to the law-based devouring in the investment Gu farm, the "Gu breeding" here is more old school style.
Put all the children in a jar like an orphanage, then intensify the conflicts and let them kill each other.
This operation is a bit difficult to achieve in peacetime, but it is just right in times of war.
Staying here still gives them a little food to eat, but leaving means death. The catalysis of the environment also makes these children different from ordinary children. Violence and death are almost the way to solve problems engraved in their bones.
"But this method of raising Gu is still a bit crude," Xu Zichen suddenly said after a brief shock, "The physical fitness gap between children is too big. The physiological difference between three or four-year-olds and nine or ten-year-olds is almost the same. This model may not necessarily produce the most suitable Gu. In the end, the children standing at the top of the food chain must be older and better developed. This is unfair."
"That makes sense..." Xiao Tang pinched his chin, "Yeah, isn't this just like a Sanda wrestling match? It should be divided into groups based on age and weight. Put them all in one place and cook them in a big pot. The champion of the light heavyweight group won't be able to beat an ordinary heavyweight player in a few moves."
While thinking seriously, Xiao Tang was sensible enough not to continue to confront Xu Zichen.
In other words, what Xu Zichen said was indeed right, and she had no angle to refute him.
Even if we want to raise a Sanda champion here, we can't have three or four year olds or eight or nine year olds killing each other. How can that be possible?
"What if this place is not for raising Gu?" Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"Then what do you think it is?" Xiao Tang asked back.
"I don't know, but I have an idea," Bai Jinshu thought for a moment and then asked, "Have you ever fished? Or, have you ever caught a scorpion?"
"What do you mean?" Xu Zichen didn't understand.
"When fishing, when catching scorpions, everyone knows that it is impossible for all the fish in a clutch to be alive."
Bai Jinshu looked around the room thoughtfully: "Generally speaking, there is always an acceptable mortality rate in a batch of goods."
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