Chapter 10

However, the "comic consciousness" directly rejected his request: "No, because this thing has not happened now, so you can't see it. Just like you can't see the future, as long as it hasn't happened, you can't see it."

The phrase "comic consciousness" also reveals a hidden message, which is that he estimated that he would not be able to change the plot by reading the comics in advance.

But this was expected. Su Bei frowned helplessly, and after a moment he said a compromise: "But this page of comics has already been drawn, right? I just want to see the actual content of this page of comics, is that okay?"

In fact, this was his original plan to personally experience comics, but it was obvious that this was not going to work. He just needed to be able to intuitively see the clues left by "himself", after all, who knows himself better than himself?

But the problem is that if he directly puts forward his request, "comic consciousness" may not agree, and that little bit of guilt is not enough to make the other party give in.

Therefore, Northern Jiangsu chose to take advantage of the house demolition effect.

If you want to put a window in the room, you might as well ask to remove the roof first. When the other party refuses this request, you can then make the original request, which will make it difficult for the other party to refuse.

As expected, how can the newly born "comic consciousness" fight against the insidious and cunning humans? It realizes that it has already rejected the request once before, and now the other party has settled for the second best, and it is at its own fault. This request should be satisfied: "Okay, Do you want to read it now? But I can only give you a physical photo that is equivalent to the comic content."

"Look now."

Suddenly, a photo appeared on his phone. Su Bei clicked on the photo and saw him lying on the toilet floor covered in blood in his school uniform.

Seeing his own death with his own eyes was still a bit shocking. Su Bei raised his eyebrows and began to observe the details.

Just as I had seen in the comics, there were indeed many gears of different shapes and sizes scattered around the body. At first glance, these gears did not seem to have any pattern, as if they had only appeared subconsciously when they encountered danger.

But Su Bei knew that he had no such subconscious intention, so the fact that there were so many gears must have been the result of his deliberate act in the comics.

Suddenly, he noticed something unusual: "These gears are interesting..."

Su Bei zoomed in on the picture and noticed that among the gears in the photo, there were several gears with very inconspicuous dark golden patterns. If he didn't know his own ability, he might have really overlooked these patterns just by looking at the photo.

Family members know their own business. Although his [Gear] ability can indeed create gears of different shapes, sizes, and patterns, but because he has just awakened and has not trained enough, he can basically only create random gears instinctively. It takes more effort to create patterns.

Why would he, who was dying, spend so much energy to create these three patterned gears?

It could only be that the gears contain clues to the murderer! In the photo, he fell at the door of the last toilet cubicle with his feet rushing towards the cubicle door. He was almost lying flat, but his left hand seemed to be trying to defend himself from the sudden danger, so his posture was a fist blocking his face, which looked like a blocking posture.

There are three patterned gears, two of which are located on each shoulder, and the last one is under the naturally hanging left hand.

What do these three gears imply?

Triangle But this triangle is neither congruent nor isosceles, and has no right angles. It has no special features and has little meaning in suggesting anything.

Could it be that these three gears are hinting that he was injured in these three places?

No, that's unlikely. When faced with a dead person like him, the school would definitely do an autopsy, and by then it would be clear what the problem was, so there would be no need to bother to remind him.

What is so special about these three places that hint at the murderer?

That's not right. Su Bei confronted the murderer head-on and didn't see anything special.

He stared at the photo with a frown, not wanting to miss any details.

Suddenly, Su Bei noticed something incongruous in the photo: why did he use his left hand to block

There is no doubt that he is right-handed, and when facing danger, he must subconsciously use his right hand to save himself, unless the opponent attacks from the left.

But this is not true.

He still remembered that this morning when he was in the toilet, driven by the plot, he was so dazed that he planned to go straight to the last toilet cubicle.

From this photo, we can also infer that in the original comic, he should have pushed open the door of the last compartment and was killed in one blow by the killer hiding inside.

Since it was a frontal attack, he should have blocked it with his right hand. Why did he use his left hand?

Su Bei realized this and looked at the clenched left hand in the photo. He suddenly had a bold guess: Is it possible that there is a patterned gear hidden in his hand?

It was not difficult to verify this. Su Bei did push-ups crazily in the room for a while until he was exhausted and had no strength left. Then he used his supernatural power and tried his best to create as many patterned gears as possible.

Soon, he was completely out of strength, and four more gears appeared scattered around him. This was the limit of what he could do when he was exhausted.

After a long pause, he grinned, looked at the ceiling and said to himself: "I really have one in my hand."

Once you have confirmed the clues you left behind, the next step is to solve the puzzle.

It is almost certain that the clue lies in the placement of these four patterns.

Two hands and two shoulders, is it to show that the murderer's shoulders and hands are different from those of ordinary people?

No, it's impossible. Su Bei quickly denied this guess. It's not like he hadn't seen the murderer himself. The murderer was wrapped up tightly, and judging from the appearance, there was nothing abnormal about his hands and shoulders.

Even he, a prepared person, did not notice the problem, let alone the "Su Bei" in the comic book that was attacked.

Since it is not a question of body parts, the clues that these gears are trying to show should be patterns or designs.

If you connect all four patterns with a line, it will probably form a diamond.

"Could it be that there is a diamond pattern on the murderer's exposed skin?" Su Bei muttered to himself.

This is indeed possible, or it is the most likely assumption at the moment. After all, he was fighting the other side at the time and didn't really pay much attention to this aspect. And it is really normal for an organization in comics where everyone has a special mark.

Perhaps he could start from this direction and see if there were any organizations with symbols on them. But it didn't have to be a diamond, after all, the pattern formed by the four gears could be something else, but the diamond was the best choice.

With this in mind, he jumped up, walked to the desk, and simply drew the outline of a corpse according to the comic, marked the positions of the four gears, and then began to arrange them in various combinations.

Keep the diamond, lightning, arrow, cross, Z, etc. shapes in mind.

Su Bei sorted out the effective clues he had about the murderer. The first was the tattoo clue, but this would presumably be reflected in the next deceased person. Therefore, he can only use this clue to remind the protagonist to show his foresight, but it cannot be used for his own purposes.

The only clues he could really provide were the murderer's red eyes and his ability to turn into smoke.

How can I express these two points using my own [Gear] ability?

After studying for a while in the dormitory, Su Bei finally came up with an idea. After making all the preparations, he checked the time, stretched his waist, opened the door and walked out.

It's time to prepare for the next step.

It was 4:30, and his destination was the cafeteria. He obviously didn't go to the cafeteria at this time to eat, but just as Su Bei thought, he went to prepare for the next step of the plot.

The original manga plot was completely disrupted because of his awakening cannon fodder. He didn't die in the toilet, so the plot that triggered the first plot point no longer exists.

But the comics still have to go on, so the same events will happen again, but the dead person is no longer himself.

As the "comic consciousness" says: someone else will die in his place.

Many things can be inferred from this. First of all, the gray mist murderer must still be lurking in the school, or maybe he was already a member of the school.

Secondly, the next person to die should die today, and will definitely appear in a place where the male protagonist is likely to go, such as the cafeteria, the bathhouse...

After all, the protagonist has to see this incident today so that the plot can develop smoothly. If it happens tomorrow, the pace of the comic will be a bit slow.

Going to the cafeteria now is a precaution. If the next person dies in the cafeteria, maybe he can see the murderer's murder process again. Even if he doesn't witness it, it's good to see the deceased in advance.

If the crime scene was not the cafeteria, it would not matter. He could just go to the bathhouse to wait. If nothing else, he would not sleep tonight and keep an eye on the outside. Su Bei firmly believed that the next murder would happen today.

Thanks to lunch, he had already observed all the surveillance cameras that were in plain sight along the way from the cafeteria to the dormitory building.

He walked carelessly into the public toilet on the side of the road, and when he came out, he began to carefully avoid surveillance.

Thanks to the existence of superpowers, there are not many surveillance systems in the school. After all, superpowers naturally believe in superpowers more. They think they have superpowers such as the ability to view memories, so of course they don't put much effort into surveillance.

Therefore, Su Bei is not worried about any hidden surveillance in the school. He just needs to avoid the ones that are obvious.

Su Bei followed the shadow of the teaching building that was not under surveillance and walked quickly to the cafeteria.

When he was about ten meters away, he suddenly saw a stream of smoke floating out of the side window.

This wisp of smoke looked so familiar that Su Bei's eyes suddenly lit up and he realized that he had come to the right place.

He arrived at the second murder scene!

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