Chapter 476 Above the Posa (11) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
A-Lian's voice was soft enough, but unfortunately the pharmacy was small enough that everyone heard what she said.
Bo Jiren almost couldn't hold the scale in his hand.
"The people in this world cannot be killed..." He stuttered, "Have you ever killed anyone?"
The focus of this narrative is very strange. When a normal person conveys this information, shouldn’t the narrative method used be “People here will not die” instead of “People here cannot be killed”?
The subject of the former falls on "the person who will not die", while the subject of the latter actually falls on "the person who killed the immortal".
Just three words seemed to vaguely reveal that A-Lian's identity was not normal.
A-Lian narrowed her eyes: "Guess?"
Bo Jiren almost lost his grip on the scale for weighing medicinal herbs. The weight hanging at the end of the horizontal bar slipped and fell straight to the ground.
Bai Jinshu was quick to catch the weight.
"Hold it steady," he glanced at Bo Jiren, who had a shocked face, and casually placed the weight on the table, making a not-so-light "dong" sound, which successfully woke up Bo Jiren, who was still in shock.
Bo Jiren suddenly came back to his senses and looked at Jiang Jie, the original Huang Daxian, who was not far away, and then looked at Skao, who was closer to A Lian than himself. He felt that even if he exposed A Lian's identity and she was ready to kill her on the spot, he would not be her first target. He felt a lot safer.
"Hehe...hehe, I was just kidding," he laughed awkwardly a few times and quickly tried to change the subject.
Ah Lian stared at him for a few seconds, until Bo Jiren's back felt numb, and then she suddenly curled her lips and said, "Puchi."
"I'm just teasing you," she laughed, "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous. Do you think I look like a murderer?"
The comments were unusually sincere:
【picture. 】
[Although you don't look like a murderer, but Ao Shen said you look like one. ]
[The way she stared at Bo Jiren just now was quite scary. Was she planning to stab the exploration team members?]
[It’s hard to say, but with Ao Shen here, Bo Jiren shouldn’t be killed so easily by the natives. ]
[Why do I feel like she just has nothing better to do and wants to tease others? ]
[Who is teasing people about whether they look like a murderer? You should stop teasing them. ]
…
The comments started a discussion about A-Lian, and Bo Jiren laughed awkwardly: "Ha...haha, it doesn't look like it. I was just joking."
Bai Jinshu glanced at Bo Jiren and took the scale from him: "Go get the medicine."
Bo Jiren was overjoyed and immediately slipped out of the counter and started dispensing medicine according to the prescription.
"How do you know that the people here won't die?" He turned to look at A Lian who was smiling happily.
"Well..." A-Lian smiled like a child who had played a successful prank, "We must have seen someone else kill someone. You don't think I was the one who did it, do you?"
"The murderer was a companion who came in here with you?" Bai Jinshu put the weight down and ignored her next topic.
"Not really a companion," A-Lian propped up her hands and sat on the table, swinging her legs, "He's someone we met after we mistakenly entered here."
Yuan replied at the right time: "On the first day that A-Lian and I accidentally entered here, we met someone who also accidentally entered here. The psychic game we tried only had a way to come here, but no tutorial to go back. The person we met entered here through the Bloody Mary game, but he accidentally broke the mirror when he came in, so he couldn't go back either."
The three people who couldn't go back temporarily formed an alliance.
Yuan and Lian were new here and had no idea what was going on here or how to live in another world. The third person they met also had no idea where this place was. The three of them went out onto the street without knowing anything and wanted to ask shop owners or passers-by where this place was, but they ended up exposing themselves as outsiders.
"The shop owner on the roadside lied to us that we could rest in her shop, and then she turned around and called the police," A-Lian swung her legs. "More than ten minutes later, the police came to the store and took us away."
"Then you guys now..." Zhao Ying interrupted.
"We have escaped now," Yuan explained. "The police put the three of us in the car and planned to lock us up, but on the way they received another call from someone who said there was an outsider in his private residence, so the police rushed over again. We took this opportunity to escape."
"Are you sure he escaped, and it wasn't the third person you met who attacked the police?" Zhao Ying complained.
"Okay, it was an attack on the police," A-Lian admitted very quickly, "At that time, the police went to the street to arrest the outsider who was found in a private house. There was only one person left in the car to watch us. We planned to escape, so that person attacked the police in the car at that time."
It is unclear who came up with the idea of attacking the police, but now A-Lian and A-Yuan have put all the blame on a third person.
The third person first attacked the policeman next to him and planned to take the opportunity to escape. However, A-Lian and A-Yuan could not just sit there and wait to die, so they naturally chose to follow the third person and run outside.
The three men ran in the residential area for a long time and finally ran out of the area. The third man said in a trembling voice that he seemed to have killed someone.
"He said that when he attacked, he just wanted to knock the policeman unconscious and then run away," Yuan added, "but he felt that the policeman's head was particularly fragile. When he hit him, the back of his skull seemed to be shattered, and the policeman fell to the ground in an instant without moving."
Accidentally killing someone is not a trivial matter. Even in another world, it is a bit too unacceptable. In addition to A Lian and A Yuan, the third person immediately decided to go back and confirm whether the policeman is dead or alive.
But having just escaped, A Lian and A Yuan definitely did not want to go back, so after an argument, only the third person carefully turned back to confirm the life or death of the policeman, while A Yuan and A Lian waited for him outside.
More than half an hour later, the third person came back in a daze and told them that the policeman might really be dead. He was lying motionless on the ground, and the surrounding policemen covered him with a white cloth. He probably really killed someone by accident.
"And then?" Bai Jinshu asked with interest.
A-Lian: "Then of course we want to find a place to hide temporarily. This is another world different from the one we came from. We cannot reveal our identities as people from another world here, otherwise we will be hunted by the police. Unfortunately, we already knew this information too late."
The three had been caught by the police once, and had even accidentally killed a man. Their plan to follow the exploration team's method of finding a temporary job to find an identity for themselves was no longer feasible. The three could only hide from the police during the day and find a way to leave at night.
As for where to hide, as the old saying goes, the most dangerous place is the safest place.
"You went back to the roadside shop where the owner called the police?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyes.
"To be precise, the three of us hid in the store's warehouse," A-Lian pointed out. "We hid there for two days. On the third day, we were finally too hungry to bear it anymore and planned to go out during the day to find some food. That's when we met the police again."
But this time they met on the street. When A-Lian and A-Yuan saw the police, they turned and ran, but the third person stood there in a daze.
"I told him to run, but he said he saw the policeman he had killed," Yuan twitched his lips. "Lian and I were in a hurry to escape and ignored him. After a while, there was a sudden noise outside, and we knew he had been caught again."
Yuan and Lian said they hid in a corner and saw the third man being arrested by the police, and among the police who arrested him...
"The person who died yesterday really exists," Yuan took a deep breath, "and he is alive again."
"Maybe that guy saw it wrong? He just knocked the police unconscious that night. He thought he killed the police, but he didn't." Bo Jiren couldn't help but interrupt, "After all, you didn't see the body from beginning to end, right?"
"Hmm... that's a possibility," A-Lian tilted her head. "Anyway, that's all we know. The man behind us never came back after being taken away by the police, so Yuan and I have been hiding from the police to avoid being caught by them."
At this point, Bai Jiji's watch vibrated slightly.
In the temporary group chat, Zhaoying came: [@Skao, do you believe her? ]
Bai Jinshu glanced at A Lian who was looking around curiously, and typed slowly.
Skao: [I don't believe it.]
Skao: [You passed the buck too cleanly. ]
If we ignore the fact that he figured out that A-Lian had killed someone, this story still has a very obvious flaw, which is that the narrator is trying too hard to pass the buck.
It was the third person who initially planned to attack the police, it was the third person who accidentally nearly killed someone, it was the third person who went back to confirm the body, it was the third person who was taken away and never came back, and it was also the third person who died without any evidence.
The three of them acted together, but in the end it was the third person who took action. This is a bit too unrealistic.
It is true that under normal circumstances, ordinary people would try to shift all the blame when faced with such a situation. No one wants to admit that they almost killed someone by accident, even if the person did not die in the end. But if there is a perfect scapegoat who can take the blame, ordinary people would tend to shift all the blame to this person and clear themselves of the charges.
But it is a bit far-fetched for A-Lian and A-Yuan to conclude that "the people here cannot be killed" without ever seeing a corpse.
William Chang: [So...then the story they told was made up?]
Zhao Yinglai: [Probably not. ]
Skao: [Half true, half false.]
These two people must be hiding from the police. When they first entered here, the owner of the restaurant where Tang Ling applied for the job recognized them at a glance as a group of people who had just arrived here not long ago, and he accepted Tang Ling as a waiter in his store as if it was normal.
This can indicate two pieces of information. One is that the people here can indeed tell the time when these outsiders enter this world. The other is that in addition to them, there are some normal outsiders who will not be caught by the police and enter here. The people here cannot distinguish between regular outsiders and irregular entrants.
Those who strayed in were reported mostly because they exposed their identities themselves, such as asking the indigenous people questions like "Where is this place?" or "Let me go back", just like the car accident driver they met on the mountain road when they first entered here.
His identity as an outsider was too obvious, so he was quickly arrested.
A-Lian and A-Yuan might not be like them. They received the information "Don't reveal your identity or you will be caught" as soon as they entered here, but they came prepared and knew that they would definitely enter another world, so they would definitely not ask such stupid questions that would expose their identities.
Then the question is, if they won't reveal their identities voluntarily, then why can't you just find a part-time job in a store like them?
There is only one reason, they have indeed been registered with the police and the police are arresting them.
So the fact that “he was caught by the police once but escaped” should be true.
However, it is not clear whether they attacked the police or whether they used this method to ensure that no one here would die.
Skao: [I am more inclined to believe that they killed someone in order to take over their position, but the next day they found that the dead person was alive again.]
Seeing the person she had killed come back to life with her own eyes, only this kind of impact could make A-Lian firmly believe in the message that "people in this world cannot be killed."
Skao: [But now I am curious about another question. ]
Bo Jiren: [What?]
He raised his eyes and looked at Skao who was weighing medicine behind the counter.
There was a very obvious thoughtful look on Skao's face. After a few minutes, he spoke again: [I want to know why she told me this information? ]
Skao's intuition told him that Alian had killed someone, and Alian's reaction when she first met him proved that she also felt that Skao had blood on his hands. The two of them hated each other tacitly, and neither Alian nor Bai Jinshu wanted to see their companions again that night.
As a result, A-Lian slapped herself in the face and came to the pharmacy again this afternoon.
The excuse she gave was that their hiding place was discovered by the police, so she wanted to hide here and go out to find a new hiding place at night.
It would be fine if they came here to avoid the limelight due to force majeure, but suddenly telling another person who also has blood on his hands why the people here cannot be killed?
You can't be trying to persuade him not to waste his time just because we're in the same industry, right?
Like Scarao, Alian has little muscle on her body. She looks quiet and bookish, and her physique will not give her the upper hand in a fight.
A Lian's thugs should be A Yuan. If she mistook Scarao for someone like herself, then she would guess that Scarao's thugs were people around him.
She had met Qiu Zihan, Tang Ling and Di Xueni yesterday. This was the first time she met Bo Jiren, who came here today. She had just tested him by revealing a not-so-small flaw.
What on earth did she want to do by sharing this information?
Bai Jinshu was lost in thought as he kept moving his hands. He divided all the herbs that needed to be boiled this afternoon, then looked at his watch and pretended to have just noticed the time: "Why is it already half past three? Who's going to get the herbs from the address the old man gave me yesterday?"
Skao: [I want to go out.]
Skao: [Jiang Jiechang William stays.]
He didn't believe that A-Lian and A-Yuan were really hiding from the police, so he planned to go out and take a look.
Chang William's mouth was able to control the two murderers who intended to kill him for more than an hour last night. If he stays today, he will surely be able to continue to control A Lian and A Yuan.
Zhao Yinglai is guaranteed by force. Even if the shadow puppet Jiang Jie she is using now looks weak and muscleless, the shadow puppet is originally a bug-level existence.
Bai Jinshu still remembered that when he was in the novice village of the investment bank, another shadow puppet Tang Tang from Zhaoying also had no muscles on his body, and looked like a girl with an average or even skinny figure. But when he exploded, even Cen Bingqi couldn't match him, and he was truly born with supernatural strength.
The shadow puppet Tang Tang has natural supernatural powers, so there is no reason why her other shadow puppet Jiang Jie does not have it too.
If a fight really came to that, Bai Jinshu had no doubt that Jiang Jie's killing power was comparable to that of [Non-Human] Xiao Tang.
"You go ahead," Zhao Yinglai cooperated well with him. After scanning the two lines of words, he immediately replied, "Chang William hasn't finished boiling the medicine yet. I have to stay and pack it. You can ask Jiren to go out with you to get it."
"Okay," Bo Jiren also quickly stood up from the stool, "Brother Fa, let's go?"
Bai Jinshu nodded slightly, and he and Bo Jiren opened the door of the pharmacy and walked out.
"Brother Faye," Bo Jiren asked quickly after walking a short distance, "What are you looking for?"
He was not stupid and knew that Bai Jinshu was going out to look for something.
Bai Jin said: "I don't know."
Bo Jiren: “Ah?”
"I don't know what they're looking for," Bai Jinshu explained, "but I think A-Lian and A-Yuan are definitely hiding from more than just the police."
It doesn't matter where you hide from the police.
The two of them ran into a drugstore in broad daylight and closed the door to make it look like they were not open for business. If they were not just hiding from the police, they could only be hiding from other things that were looking for them.
It could be someone who has a grudge against them, or it could be someone like those blurry shadows on the street last night who could take their lives.
But no matter what, it was strange enough that A-Lian suddenly told him that "the people here cannot be killed". Skao was a master at killing people with borrowed knives. Bai Jinshu intuitively felt that A-Lian wanted to borrow the "knife" he used to learn this information to resolve her own crisis.
Otherwise, someone like A-Lian would not tell him such crucial information for no reason.
Bai Jinshu couldn't figure out what A Lian was hiding from, so he could only wander around the area aimlessly.
The pharmacy was surrounded by some ordinary small shops, such as hardware stores, grocery stores, and fishing tackle stores. There were few customers after three o'clock in the afternoon. Familiar owners moved rattan chairs to lie in front of the door, basking in the sun and chatting.
It doesn't look like the person A-Lian is hiding from.
Bai Jinshu walked and observed all the way until he reached the commercial street where the remaining three members of the exploration team worked, but he did not see anyone who looked like a policeman.
Since we are already on the commercial street, we can naturally go and see the other three companions.
There were not many people in the stir-fry restaurant where Qiu Zihan worked. The owner's son was playing with building blocks on the dining table. Qiu Zihan, who looked at most eight years old, was playing with the child. When he saw Bai Jinshu and the others coming, he enthusiastically invited them to play with them, but Bai Jinshu politely declined.
There were still many customers in the hotpot restaurant where Di Xueni worked at this time, but fortunately none of them sat within her stand. Her colleagues at the hotpot restaurant saw that the friend who came to see Di Xueni last night came to see her again, and they all winked at her to leave.
Di Xueni brought out some rice crust snacks from the hot pot restaurant and distributed them to Bai Jinshu and Bo Jiren, explaining that she went home too late last night. When her colleagues asked her why she went out, she made up an excuse about her boyfriend.
Bai Jinshu nodded and said nothing. He just took a few glances into the store while talking to Di Xueni, but there was no one special.
What are A-Lian and A-Yuan hiding from?
There were not many people in the small restaurant where Tang Ling was. She and another waiter were setting up the table and chatting. Tang Ling had no idea what was going on in this world, so it was quite difficult for her to chat. She was afraid that her identity would be exposed if she was not careful. Fortunately, Bai Jinshu arrived in time and rescued her.
"Are you out looking for someone?" Tang Ling saw the conversation in the temporary group chat. Although he didn't know what happened in the pharmacy, it was obvious that Scarao came out to look for someone.
Bai Jinshu nodded and asked her directly, "Did you see anyone who seemed to be looking for someone during the day?"
"People who are here to look for someone..." Tang Ling muttered, "No, they are all ordinary customers today."
"Then let's go and take another look." Bai Jinshu turned around.
"Hey, wait a minute, you said you were looking for someone?" Another waiter behind Tang Ling suddenly came over and said, "I've seen him."
"When?" Tang Ling turned around in surprise, "Has anyone come to our store looking for someone?"
"I didn't come to the restaurant," the waiter waved his hand. "Before lunch started, I was standing at the door handing out restaurant menu flyers to passers-by. A few men came over and asked me if I had seen the person in the photo."
"The girl in the photo had long hair, a high nose, and a very pointed face," she described it. "I said I had never seen her before, and they left."
Bai Jinshu roughly compared this description with A Lian's appearance.
Long hair, high nose bridge, and pointed face, it actually fits the look perfectly.
However, these three descriptions are too general. If we have to fit them in, they can also fit in with Di Xueni, and cannot be considered as one of the evidences that this group of people are looking for A Lian.
But Bai Jinshu still kept it in mind, thanked the waiter, and continued walking with Bo Jiren.
With the clue "looking for someone with long hair, high nose bridge and pointed face", the next questions will be much easier.
Although most of the shop owners and people who were questioned said, "Why are there so many people looking for someone today?", they all provided corresponding clues.
I followed the directions of these people and walked for more than two hours. Finally, not far ahead, I saw a few people holding photos and asking questions.
Bai Jinshu was standing in front of a newsstand. While flipping through newspapers, he saw a few people holding a photo and asking, "Excuse me, have you seen the person in this photo?"
"No." The young woman who was asked checked and shook her head.
"Okay, thank you." The man who asked the question put away the photo, shook his head behind him, and the group continued to move forward.
"Brother Faye?" Bo Jiren came closer, "Is this the person who is looking for A-Lian?"
"Please put it another way." Bai Jinshu said.
Bo Jiren got it in seconds: "This is... the person that A-Lian is hiding from?"
"Yes." Bai Jinshu nodded.
"Who is she hiding from?" Bo Jiren continued to ask.
Bai Jin said: "Police."
"Ah?" Bo Jiren was stunned for a moment. "Brother Faye, didn't you just say that A-Lian is probably not just hiding from the police?"
Why are they the police again now?
These people don’t look like the police they saw when the car accident happened that day?
"She's not hiding from the police from this world," Bai Jinshu thought thoughtfully, "but who says...these police are from this world?"
The comments were faster than Bo Jiren's reaction:
[Police from another world? ]
[It's easy to tell that these people are not ordinary people. ]
[A police officer from one world goes to another world to arrest someone. Is this considered plainclothes? ]
[You should ask if this is considered field work? 】
[The police from that world have come to another world? ]
【Good fellow.】
[Alian and Yuan must have done something wrong, so they were arrested and brought to another world...]
[It has to be some kind of shocking case, right? If I were a police officer, you could ask me to investigate a case in the next city, but the next world is a bit weird.]
[Not to mention that the way to enter the next world is to play a psychic game, and this game even has a success rate. It seems like a joke no matter how you look at it.]
[I am becoming more and more curious about A-Lian's identity. ]
[Isn't A-Lian a murderer? Ao Shen said so himself.]
[You, Ao Shen, only said that you were stained with blood. In addition to being stained with blood, A Lian must have done something else. ]
"Follow me," Bai Jinshu said softly, "Let's see who these policemen are looking for."
Bo Jiren said: "Isn't it A-Lian..."
"Not necessarily," Bai Jinshu glanced at the group of people, "If they were here to look for A-Lian, then why did they only mention her and not A-Yuan?"
If this group of people came to look for A Lian, then in addition to the appearance characteristics, the fact that the suspect was often followed by a man was also one of the key points.
They only mentioned A-Lian and not A-Yuan. Either A-Yuan was hiding something deeper than A-Lian, which was impossible, or the person they were looking for was not A-Lian.
But A-Lian was guilty and thought these people were out to look for them, so she hid herself.
Or maybe it was indeed A-Lian.
That's interesting. According to A-Lian, in their world, playing psychic games to enter another world is just a rumor, and the success rate is unknown and doesn't seem high.
A-Lian and A-Yuan would definitely not announce loudly that we are going to play a psychic game and escape to another world. So how can this group of people be sure that A-Lian has entered here?
"No matter what, let's follow him first." Bai Jinshu followed.
The author has something to say:
First 20 + Random 20
I recommend my friend Mechanical Squirrel’s article: [English and American] Gotham Witches, which is a comprehensive English and American themed novel from Yanjie’s hometown (x)
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"The fates of modern witches vary. Some return to the earth, some return to the past, some return to the first, and some fall into human form. Before making a choice, there is a short period of time to stay."
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I don't know when it started, but a new urban legend began to spread in Gotham.
Pay the witch a price and she will grant your wish.
The price of a wish varies, but it has nothing to do with money. It can be as small as a shabby doll by your pillow or as big as your eyes, heart or soul.
——What if you have a bigger wish?
“That involves some risks.”
"Gotham will hold a wish-granting ceremony."
>The rash and ambitious people want to seize this land
>>Evil spellcasters are running rampant in our cities
>>>Fairy tale characters throw sweet bait
>>>>The hero's guardian made his choice
>>>>>The great witch arrived at his loyal Gotham
Four fairy tales, and a miracle.
Have you decided what wish you'll make at the end of Gotham's Holy Grail War?
"Human beings are a drug to us, like drinking Coke."
"I feed on your love and pain."
cp batman
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