Chapter 11 "Third-person perspective" First, a strong heartbeat
Episode 11 "Third-person perspective" First, a strong heartbeat
There is no doubt that Li Zhi's abnormal behavior is very suspicious.
Since he first met Li Zhi, Li Zhi never took the initiative to talk to him. Sometimes, Shang Hexing also felt that Li Zhi’s face showed the indifference of “not wanting to have any intersection with anyone”. However, less than a day after the farewell party, he said that he actually wanted to make friends with "Shang Hexing".
This is clearly an abnormal thing.
"He doubted me."
Before Shang Hexing fell asleep, this was the only sentence in his mind.
He closed his eyes, and a heavy drowsiness came over him along with a vague sleepiness.
After being in Anubis for so long, this was the first time he had a dream—
Shang Hexing dreamed that he was a child and planned to go to the park with his friends. Two small figures were walking among the crowd coming and going. The sounds of laughter, car engines, wind, and bicycle bells surrounded him, just like any other ordinary moment. However, Shang Hexing felt that among the crowd of people, there were countless invisible eyes staring at him, and the sound of conversation seemed to be discussing him.
He began to feel uncomfortable and wanted to turn around to find the source of the sound.
It's like a game of hide-and-seek. Once you find out who is talking, the voice will disappear automatically. Unfortunately, as soon as Shang Hexing looked away, the sound would sound again.
Suddenly, a gentle voice came into my ear: "Do you feel that you are incomplete?"
The words were spoken softly, but it seemed to have touched his wounds without asking. The pain and anger made the blood in his tense body seem to freeze, and his heart was filled with an unbearable feeling of humiliation. Before he could explode, his friend holding a marshmallow pulled him back from his trance and asked him to take a bite of the sweet marshmallow. Shang Hexing subconsciously pushed his hand away.
The friend wasn't sad or angry, he just looked at him with concern, "He Xing, what's wrong?"
Shang Hexing turned around and ran away, running non-stop, wanting to run back home and hide himself.
It was not until he fell down in his dream that he opened his eyes again and his body gradually regained its freedom.
However, the shock brought by the dream still churned in my heart and could not be calmed for a long time.
Shang Hexing checked the time again.
"5:13 in the morning."
It's too early.
Perhaps because of Fu Lin's body, Shang Hexing did not feel any heaviness or tiredness in his body. Instead, he felt very relaxed. He remembered that the matter of the puppy was not handled very well yesterday evening.
According to forensic expertise, suffocation will inevitably lead to punctate bleeding in the eyes or oral mucosa. Even if the puppy is dying, as long as it has been suffocated, its internal organs and respiratory tract will have abnormalities.
This might be discovered by Li Zhi.
So at that time, in order to avoid Li Zhi from discovering anything strange, Shang Hexing was responsible for the whole process.
Although Shang Hexing did not see Li Zhi become suspicious of the dog until the end, Shang Hexing did not want his wrong handling to continue to ferment.
After dealing with everything, Shang Hexing returned to the dormitory, staring at the amber eyes of "Fu Lin" in the mirror, frowning slightly, his eyes gradually became colder, "Even if Li Zhi suspected, he has no evidence to prove who is in this body. There are no so-called weird gods in this world. How could he guess the problem in less than twelve hours?"
Wait, that's not right.
It was impossible for Li Zhi to imagine such an absurd thing as changing bodies.
Shang Hexing suddenly realized that he had made the same mistake again - being overly sensitive and seeing enemies everywhere.
The reason why Li Zhi behaved abnormally was probably because he just couldn't lose other people's attention. Li Zhi wanted to attract attention, especially when he noticed that "Fu Lin" was not paying attention to him when they first met that morning. .
“…”
But can an NPC have such complicated thoughts?
But overall, you're just scaring yourself.
At this moment, he was staring at himself in the mirror with a calm expression, but outside the mirror, his fingertips were tapping lightly on the sink, and this small action was repeated unconsciously.
The key now is, where is Fu Lin?
He looked at the familiar stranger in the mirror, as if he wanted to spread his voice to a farther place. He paused for a moment, his eyes still fixed on his own reflection, his tone filled with subtle probing and calculation, "Fu Lin, if we are really two souls in one body, it would be better for us to communicate openly instead of keeping silent."
Shang Hexing's voice echoed in the small space. He has connected to all online surveillance cameras. As long as Fu Lin appears in the camera, Shang Hexing will definitely find him.
However, Fu Lin still needs to maintain his social circle.
Shang Hexing spent the entire morning practicing Fu Lin's social style and becoming familiar with his tone and word choice. Just when I was thinking about finding someone to practice with, Xiaozhuang, who I thought was a bit introverted, suddenly contacted me privately, "Fu Lin, your chance has come. Li Zhi wants to go somewhere and needs someone to accompany him. Go quickly!"
This text message gave Shang Hexing a strange sense of dislocation.
Because at the farewell party, Xiaozhuang was brought to him by Li Zhi, and now Li Zhi was brought to him by Xiaozhuang.
Shang Hexing was very curious whether this was Li Zhi's new trick to attract attention or Xiaozhuang's own initiative.
If it was the former, Shang Hexing was basically 80% sure that Li Zhi did not actually notice any changes in himself. If it is the latter, it would be a boring side issue.
"What does Li Zhi think?"
Xiaozhuang has a shallow mind and can tell the bottom with just one test.
Xiao Zhuang didn't think too much about it and responded immediately: "He said he wanted to find a reliable person. Isn't he talking about you?"
Indeed, there is no one more reliable than the Light of Anubis right now.
But even if it were to go along with Li Zhi's idea, Shang Hexing didn't want it to be so easy for him to get what he wanted. Just as he was about to refuse, Xiao Zhuang immediately said, "Fu Lin, you don't have that much time left here. Li Zhi is still trying to spend more time with you. You'll be at a big loss if you refuse."
Xiaozhuang kept chattering, "Li Zhi rarely invites people like this."
Shang Hexing discovered that Xiaozhuang was not trying to help him so much as she was just like the other members of the team, all centered around Li Zhi and trying to make him happy. They also naturally thought that Fu Lin cared a lot about this person.
I wonder what expressions they would have if they knew that Li Zhi would die unexpectedly?
Shang Hexing suddenly had this dark thought, and a hint of coldness appeared at the corner of his mouth. Then, he had another flash of inspiration. If Fu Lin really cared about Li Zhi so much, would he also show up if something happened to him?
This is not impossible.
To Shang Hexing, Li Zhi is just an NPC. If he can force Fu Lin out, it will not do him any harm.
"What time and where shall we meet?" Shang Hexing asked back.
"Please come before 4:30 this afternoon," Xiaozhuang said happily, "You don't have to thank me!"
Shang Hexing: “…”
He didn't think of thanking her.
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Shang Hexing arrived at four o'clock and sat in the empty exit hall waiting for Li Zhi to come out.
He never liked dealing with corpses, even indirectly. He also avoided foods that reminded him of the original appearance of animals. The slightest hint of the outline of a meat part was enough to make him lose his appetite - those jointed chicken feet, greasy pig's trotters, and duck heads with eyes slightly open... all made him feel sick.
Because the waiting time was too long and boring, Shang Hexing briefly recalled why he didn't like Li Zhi very much.
Li Zhi is a student majoring in forensic medicine, and from what others say, we can tell that he seems to be really passionate about this major. Every time he met Li Zhi, Shang Hexing always felt that he carried a lingering smell of a corpse, as if it was seeping out from his bones. It was hard to tell whether the smell was an illusion or a psychological effect, but as long as he stood a little closer, he would hold his breath involuntarily, and he would feel that the cold smell would penetrate his skin.
After waiting for nearly an hour, Shang Hexing finally saw Li Zhi coming out of the door.
When he saw me, he pretended to be surprised and had an unnatural expression on his face.
Shang Hexing really couldn't see anything worthy of appreciation about Li Zhi. His appearance is not outstanding enough to be amazing, and there are many people on the screen who are better than him; his academic performance is just average, and there is a huge gap compared to those real geniuses. No matter how you look at it, Li Zhi is so ordinary that there is nothing special about him. At most, he is just an excellent student with decent looks.
He said he just wanted someone to go shopping for a surprise gift with him.
Li Zhi said, "I want to buy a farewell gift for Shang Hexing, too. Aren't we going to meet him later?"
Shang Hexing was impatient, but he suppressed his emotions and said against his will: "Li Zhi, you are really considerate."
As they walked to the light rail station, he and Li Zhi had basically nothing to talk about. Judging from the chat records, Fu Lin and Li Zhi did not have any idea of "who took the initiative". Therefore, it didn't matter if he didn't speak actively, and he originally intended to treat Li Zhi coldly. To be honest, Shang Hexing would be very happy to see his embarrassed expression if he could take the opportunity to point out his dark thoughts.
"Shang Hexing seems to like Othello chess. I know where to buy handmade chess pieces." Li Zhi suddenly said, "Shall we go buy him a gift first?"
Shang Hexing was startled when he heard this, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, "How did you know?"
Li Zhi: "Last September, when all of us went to the mall, he looked at the window display for a while longer."
"...I see." Shang Hexing's heart moved, and there was some confusion in his cold tone, "...Then why didn't you mention it before?"
Li Zhi suddenly lowered his head, as if recalling something, and said lightly: "He won't admit this. He cares more about other people's attention to him than he thinks, even if it comes from well-intentioned care. I think that if I easily point this out, it would be like disturbing his few moments of peace and freedom."
These seemingly ordinary words were like a stone that stirred up waves in the heart lake of Shanghe Star.
He didn't expect that Li Zhi could point out his indifference and aloofness in just a few words, but didn't say at all that he had a bad character or was mean and cold.
“…”
There was still some time before the train arrived at the station, so Li Zhi took the initiative to buy some water. This gap also allowed Shang Hexing to reorganize his thoughts. In just two or three seconds, he noticed a familiar figure passing behind him.
This person followed them all the way from the Forensic Identification Center.
Judging from his clothes, that person should be a white-collar worker with a certain social status and a good appearance. His disguise was just hiding his face in a scarf.
There are many criminals in Anubis. It is not surprising that there are American serial killers like Ted Bundy who appear to be well-dressed and polite but are actually cold-blooded and cruel murderers.
Shang Hexing didn't take the stalker seriously. Seeing him hiding himself in the crowd, he walked directly towards Li Zhi, even with the intention of watching the show.
If something happens to Li Zhi, will Fu Lin appear?
However, Shang Hexing did not wait for Fu Lin.
Even though Li Zhi shouted Fu Lin's name after being pushed off the track, he was the one who had to save him due to the expectant gazes of everyone.
If it were in the past, Shang Hexing would never have had the energy or determination to save people. When he stepped back onto the platform from the track, he could still feel the strong heartbeat coming from Li Zhi's back in his chest. This undoubtedly pointed out that he had indeed saved people before and almost hovered between life and death.
However, what made him most uneasy was not the discomfort in controlling the body of "Fu Lin", or the thrill of life after death, but his discovery that Li Zhi did not have the smell of a corpse. Instead, there was a kind of warm and familiar woody oriental fragrance, which was stable, warm, delicate, and slightly nutty sweet.
This fragrance made him instantly feel a sense of out-of-control reality - Li Zhi was not a lifeless NPC, but a living person.
Shang Hexing couldn't get rid of this cognition for a long time.
This made him feel uncomfortable.
At this moment, Li Zhi looked at him, smiled gently, and said intimately: "Fu Lin, thank you for saving me."
The voice was very soft and the tone was flat, but it seemed to be challenging Shang Hexing's sanity.
If I told him that Fu Lin had been killed by me long ago, would he still dare to get close to me?
Shang Hexing let out a sigh of relief in his heart and threw away this boring argument again.
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