Chapter 234: Scavenger (30) A very, very, very difficult puzzle. …
When sneaking into the management area, He Luo controlled multiple NPCs at the same time, consumed a lot of mental points, and was urgently teleported back to the dormitory from the cylindrical building. He Luo was so tired that only a small ball was left. He found a bottle of mental recovery agent, pulled out the cork with great effort, and put it to Wei Wei's mouth.
Before Gao Mengtang could catch his breath, he raised his eyes and saw Lin Li's face hanging above him.
Her glasses were dirty, stained with fingerprints and tiny dust particles, and had slid to the tip of her nose. Her dull eyes stared straight at Gao Mengtang from above the frames.
"Prophet, the people you trust have been betraying you." Lin Li said slowly, almost enunciating each word.
Having heard this prophecy at least three times, Gao Mengtang frowned: "Lin Li, I know. Um, this is the boys' dormitory."
He Lun and Bai Jie huddled in the corner of the room, wrapping their naked upper bodies tightly with quilts.
"Suspicion... suspicious... and then... death." Lin Li continued, his eyeballs moving slowly and evenly as the program had programmed, and when he reached Wei Wei, he stopped mechanically.
Wei Wei:……?
"Please speak frankly," Wei Wei frowned and said unhappily, "Do you mean that I have always betrayed the blind man?"
Lin Li's answer was to turn around and drift away quietly. It seemed that she was just sleepwalking and talking in her sleep.
"Sister, please close the door!" Bai Jie huddled in the quilt, calling out desperately, but Lin Li didn't hear her.
The octopus's tentacles popped out, sucked the door panel, and slammed it down. There was a loud bang in the corridor, and the voice-activated lights on the entire floor lit up. Wei Wei was obviously quite dissatisfied with this unwarranted questioning of his character.
"Avi, don't be angry." Gao Mengtang patted his shoulder. "If you want to understand Lin Li's prophecy, you have to think in 18 different ways. The person she is talking about is definitely not you."
"But she has said this several times." Bai Jie lifted the quilt and quickly put on a hurdle vest. "Who betrayed the boss?"
He Lun quickly raised three fingers and shouted, "It definitely can't be us! Brother Mengtang, our love for you is evident to all the world!"
"With sincere respect." Wei Wei corrected the wording with a cold face.
"Keep your voice down." Gao Mengtang made a silent gesture, "It's two o'clock in the morning, and the ward is next to our dormitory."
"It can't be you, it can't be me, it can't be Lin Li, and it can't be Brother Wei." Bai Jie counted on his fingers, "Then, who is left?"
In the [Scavenger] dungeon, among the Moon Banner members, Wo Lanbei was killed, and among the Black Gull members, only the leader Yin Mingwu and the deputy leader Wei Xiangchen were left.
Are they the two? No, they are not the ones Gao Mengtang "has always trusted".
"Then there is only one possibility..." Bai Jie pointed to the east wall.
Their dormitory was against the mountain wall, connected to the ward area by a corridor. The person lying in the ward area had only one option left after the process of elimination: Tu Cheng.
"Tu Cheng," Wei Wei said softly, "he betrayed the blind man?"
Gao Mengtang: "This...is not very likely."
He Lun and Bai Jie also said at the same time: "Tu Cheng is impossible."
Wei Wei lowered his voice even more: "I played chess with Tu Cheng this evening... I saw with my own eyes that after Tu Cheng was infected with the virus..."
His voice was as soft as a whisper as he told the other three what he saw and heard while playing chess with Tu Cheng.
"...Stay away from Tu Cheng these few days." After Wei Wei finished speaking, he took a sip of the spirit value recovery potion. Just as he was about to continue speaking, He Luo's tentacles stretched out three tentacles and twisted around.
Wei Wei looked at it for a few seconds and said, "What, there's someone outside the door? Why didn't you say anything just now? Oh, you were too tired and didn't have the energy to detect the surrounding environment. You were just taking a rest."
He pushed the door open and saw a dark corridor extending to both sides without a single person in sight.
Gao Mengtang poked his head out from the door frame and looked around: "Well, I just smelled a faint smell of blood outside the door. It seems that the man stood outside the door for about 3 minutes."
There were a few drops of half-dried blood on the floor illuminated by the dim light.
It's just blood, that's normal.
"Everyone, I don't suspect Tu Cheng of betraying us, so please don't distance yourself from him," Wei Wei didn't take this little episode to heart, and continued after closing the door, "Just be careful when you come into contact with Tu Cheng, and don't let him infect you with the virus."
*
In the early hours of the morning, Tu Cheng finished washing his face and looked up at his deformed face in the mirror. He immediately felt cold all over. What happened? Did he become a monster?
The deformed face on the left already had a nose and eyes, and a mouth that opened and closed. What Tu Cheng had always thought was hallucination turned out to be the newly grown face speaking.
"Look at what you look like now, how disgusting."
"Wei Wei already hates you, what's next?"
Tu Cheng quickly wiped the water off his face and shook his head repeatedly in front of the mirror: "No, no..."
"Do you think Wei Wei would be friends with you? Who is Wei Wei? A university professor, a respectable man. And you, an illiterate pirate, a criminal, a jailbreaker, a marginal figure in society, a scum."
Shut up!
"You're disgusting, you're trash."
Shut up shut up shut up!!!
Tu Cheng scratched his face until it was bloody, tore his mouth, and blinded his eyes. The nagging voice in his ear finally disappeared, and the blood stained half of the hospital gown.
What to do? Will he die? No, never! Tu Cheng frantically found an admission letter. It was a product he bought from a black marketeer. As long as he got out of this copy, he would have a legal identity and become a student, which was the life he had dreamed of during his more than 10 years of drifting on the ocean.
He must not die in this copy. He must do everything he can to survive.
Tu Cheng ignored the rules of the ward, kicked the door open, and went to the dormitory where Gao Mengtang and others lived. He asked for help, and Gao Mengtang must have a way to save his life...
As he walked through the corridor, he saw He Luo's tentacles reach out and slam the door.
"Do you still want to go over? Wei Wei hates you. He banged on the door. He doesn't want to see you."
That’s not the case. Wei Wei didn’t know I was coming... Tu Cheng paused for a few seconds and continued walking towards their dormitory.
"Did you hear that?" An ear grew out at the position of Tu Cheng's cheekbone. All the trivial sounds in the middle of the night were clearly transmitted to Tu Cheng's brain through that ear that should not have appeared.
"Tu Cheng? He betrayed the Blind Man?" It was Wei Wei's voice.
"I played chess with Tu Cheng this evening... I saw with my own eyes that after Tu Cheng was infected with the virus..."
"...Stay away from Tu Cheng these days."
Tu Cheng stood outside the door in a daze, his hand hanging in the air as he tried to knock on it.
"Did you hear it clearly this time?" The mouth that grew on the side of his face healed quickly, and the blood on his cheek was half dried.
"Tu Cheng, entering this dormitory will only let them see your disgusting face."
"Every time Wei Wei speaks to you, his stomach churns. He hates you so much."
Tears rolled down Tu Cheng's eyes, mixed with half-dried blood, and dripped onto the floor.
Tu Cheng withdrew his hand, and returned to his ward with a heavy heart in his chest. He sat by the bed all night, his deformed face reflected in the glass at night.
When the dawn came, the image of that face gradually faded, but Tu Cheng still looked out the window and didn't even notice that it was daybreak. He just listened to that face repeatedly saying things like "You are hated" and "You are disgusting", and his aching heart gradually became numb.
There was a knock on the door, and Wei Wei pushed the door open and came in: "Good morning. How are you?"
Tu Cheng turned his back to him, looking out the window, without any reaction.
"Tu Cheng?" Wei Wei walked closer with the medical record, bent down, turned his head and looked at his expression. The face on the left was glaring at him fiercely.
Wei Wei sighed secretly, took out twice the standard amount of virus suppression pills, and placed them on the bedside table: "Take these pills, and your condition will improve. Don't worry too much, we will find a way."
"Don't worry too much? It's not you who turned into a monster, of course you don't have to worry!" His mouth opened and closed, but no one could hear the sounds except Tu Cheng.
"Why don't you speak?" Wei Wei frowned, "Tu Cheng?"
No reaction. Tu Cheng kept looking out the window, not even looking at Wei Wei for a second.
"Kill him, kill him, kill him. He pretends to care about you. What a disgusting face!"
"Go ahead! Kill Wei Wei! Infect him with the virus! Why are you the only one who turned into a monster?!"
His hands on the bed sheet slowly clenched. Tu Cheng shook his head violently to get rid of the voices.
"Remember to take your medicine." Wei Wei patted his shoulder. "I'll play chess with you again when I'm free."
After the door of the ward was closed, Tu Cheng stretched out his stiff arm, picked up the pills, and just as he was about to put them into his mouth, he heard the voice in his ear again, saying, "This is poison. Don't forget, one more person needs to die in this copy."
Yes... When Jiaming Medical College completed the decomposition task, a mysterious red number suddenly appeared in the sky. It was 4 at first, and then the number decreased by 1 for each death.
Now, the number has become "1", and it seems that one more person needs to die before the mysterious number will disappear.
"Wei Wei wishes you would die."
"Eat it, and be poisoned to death by Wei Wei. Anyway, there is no better ending for a scum like you."
Tu Cheng roared, and crushed the pill into powder with his clenched fist. At the same time, two rows of tumors appeared on his right face, vaguely in the shape of a mouth.
*
After a busy morning and lunch, Wei Wei took the chessboard to find Tu Cheng, but Tu Cheng was still imitating the marble sculpture, not moving or paying attention to him. Wei Wei had no choice but to leave in embarrassment.
"Tu Cheng is very strange." Wei Wei returned to the dormitory tiredly, "The medicine I sent doesn't seem to be of much use."
"Brother Octopus, are you serious about putting these 1x2mm small powders together into an original document the size of an A4 paper?" Pegana was more concerned about another thing. He fiddled with the paper foam on the table, with more than 20 eyes wide open.
Wei Wei: "Seriously. You and Lin Li restore these documents."
Pegana wailed, "This is personal revenge! Last night Lin Li hinted that you were a traitor, and you hate her, right? I don't doubt you, why do you want me to do this job!"
"This is not a personal vendetta. Get to work." Wei Wei ignored the "No Smoking" sign and lit his pipe. "He Luo, you go help too. Your eyesight is pretty good, and the tentacle slime can be used as adhesive."
The octopus huddled in the pipe and refused to come out. Wei Wei grabbed one of its tentacles and pulled it out without resistance, throwing it on the counter. The octopus remained motionless, pretending to be jelly, so he poked it with his pipe.
"Stop daydreaming, Linli, come and work." Wei Wei sat on a high chair with his legs crossed. With his other hand, he grabbed Linli by the back of the neck and pulled him to the table.
He Lun, who was huddled in the corner, said weakly, "Brother Wei, Pegana and He Luo's eyes are like magnifying glasses. They can see the patterns on the paper foam clearly. Asking them to piece these together is equivalent to a super-super-super-super-difficult jigsaw puzzle. You, you, you are so cruel to let a highly myopic person in Lin do this job!"
After saying that, He Lun quickly hid away, fearing that he would be beaten.
"That's right." Bai Jie said bravely, "Besides, this pile of paper foam should be a lot of documents that were shredded and mixed together. It will take a lot of time just to separate the paper foam from different documents. Isn't this pure torture!"
Wei Wei was unmoved: "That is why I made this arrangement. Linli, here are the tweezers for you."
Lin Li, who was being bullied, had no objection. He sat at the counter with a pair of tweezers, picking up the paper foam like a sleepwalker. He stared blankly at the wall opposite, not even looking at the things in front of him.
Her movements were slow and absent-minded, but the pieces of paper she picked out all belonged to the same document and were very close to each other before they were shredded.
First, piece together the paper foam picked out from the forest, and your work speed will increase by at least 10 times.
Gao Mengtang held up his cheek and said with a smile: "Lin Li has some metaphysical qualities. She always does things smoothly. She has a keen eye and sees the key points."
Wei Wei raised an eyebrow: "Taking revenge for personal gain?"
The two men dared not say a word.
The whole afternoon, a man, a dog and an octopus were working on a jigsaw puzzle. After finishing a day's work, Gao Mengtang returned to the dormitory and saw that an A4 document had been completed.
The document contained an anatomical diagram of a cylindrical object, with detailed annotations of wall thickness, height, floor space, etc. The file name at the top read: Shredder Fence.
"Hmm, there is indeed a shredder in there." Gao Mengtang weighed the document, which was wet with He Luo's mucus.
The second document has 4/5 of it pieced together, shaped like a funnel, with a few wavy lines below the funnel to represent water. The text is "The bottom of the funnel is connected to the ocean, near Clear Sky Harbor."
In the corner, there was a signature column for the project manager. However, only a small part of the signature was spelled out. Gao Mengtang followed the fragmentary strokes that had been spelled out, gestured with his fingers twice, and said in surprise:
"The project manager's surname seems to be Gao, which is the same as mine."
"Woof woof woof woof woof!" Pegana barked wildly to release the stress from work.
Gao Mengtang patted his head twice: "Be good, dog. Get the signature of the project manager today before you rest. By the way, where's Avi?"
Just as he finished speaking, there was a loud knock on the dormitory door. Everyone hurriedly hid the documents and paper foam. When they opened the door, they saw that it was Director Meng.
"Your friend?" Director Meng held Wei Wei's collar with one hand, "Tell him to keep a distance from the patients. I was doing rounds tonight, and he actually wanted to play chess with the patients in Room 310."
The patient 310 is Tu Cheng.
After that, Director Meng pushed Wei Wei in unhappily and said sternly, "Patient 310 is in danger. He kicked the door of the ward open last night. We saw in the surveillance that patient 310 stood outside your dormitory door for a long time. You only have one life, use it carefully."
After Director Meng left, Bai Jie laughed so hard that he pounded the bed: "Brother Wei, there will also be a day when you will be caught, hahaha. Well, it's okay." The desire to survive made his laughter stop abruptly.
Wei Wei was too lazy to pay attention to him, but thought silently: Tu Cheng stood outside the door for a long time last night, so was he... eavesdropping?
What did he hear? His reaction today was so strange, maybe it was related to the eavesdropping last night?
Since there were so many things to worry about in this instance, no one except Wei Wei paid attention to this little episode.
Late at night, Gao Mengtang was awakened by the furry Pegana.
"Master, we have spelled out the signature. Dog thinks you should take a look at it now." Pegana let his fur droop, seeming a little uneasy.
There are two names written in a flamboyant style in the signature column: Gao Yaxuan and Gao Huan.
Gao Mengtang's sleepiness evaporated with a sizzle, and then his skin became cold, and his brain also worked slowly due to the low temperature. After a long while, he found his voice and whispered to himself: "These are the names of my parents!"
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