Chapter 68.
Tang Yu stood on an empty street.
There are tall buildings on both sides of the road. Judging from the furnishings, this was once a prosperous downtown district, but now there is no one in sight.
The tall building in front of me had a doorplate with only the words "Police Station" written on it, a name with Western characteristics.
But there was no house number or address mark, so Tang Yu couldn't get any more information from it.
She guessed that this was the police station mentioned in the copy. If she wanted to complete the copy mission, she would need to go in and cooperate with the investigation.
But Tang Yu did not plan to go in immediately. She first walked along the streets on both sides, trying to get more clues.
Generally speaking, most strange copies are born in the real world that is eroded by strange forces. This copy should be a public security agency somewhere in the real world.
If we could determine where this was, perhaps we could deduce some useful information from it.
Tang Yu walked and observed, but he could not see anything at all.
Those buildings seemed to be a blurred image by the camera, and she couldn't even make out the words on the roadside billboards.
As we got further away from the police station, this blurry feeling became more and more obvious. At the end, the bricks and stones under our feet turned into pixel particles.
Having found nothing, Tang Yu had no choice but to return to the police station.
She glanced at the closed door of the police station, calmed herself down, and pushed the door open.
The moment I pushed open the revolving glass door, a burst of noisy sounds hit me in the face, forming a sharp contrast with the dead silence and emptiness outside.
The spacious and huge service hall in front of me was filled with uniformed police officers. It looked busy and lively.
There were residents rushing to and fro on business, habitual thieves who had been arrested and were awaiting punishment, and a sheriff reprimanding his subordinates for their poor performance.
No matter how you look at it, this is just an ordinary working day at a police station, except that everyone's expressions seem numb and stiff.
The sheriff who was scolding his subordinates was obviously very angry, and his voice clearly revealed his excitement.
But its expression was calm, and its eyes, on its pale and bloodless face, were a lifeless gray.
This feeling of disharmony appeared in everyone in the police station, and Tang Yu couldn't tell for a moment whether it was abnormal or normal.
The police station did not show any sign of abnormality regarding her arrival, and everyone continued to do their own thing.
Tang Yu looked around and found a police officer sitting motionless at a workstation.
Compared with the busy figures of other police officers, its motionless appearance is quite eye-catching.
Tang Yu subconsciously walked towards it, and when she reached the police officer's desk, she bent her index finger and tapped on the table.
As the thudding sound was heard, the police officer turned his head and looked at Tang Yu, like a computer whose power button was pressed.
The face of the white man with golden brown curly hair was expressionless, just as his voice was flat and calm.
"Hello, is this Miss Tang?"
Tang Yu nodded and looked carefully at the police officer in front of her, but there was nothing special about this man except that his face was pale and bluish.
Even those eyes did not contain any resentment, as if they were just two cloudy glass beads.
I didn't feel any danger at all!
Tang Yu did not let his guard down. After getting confirmation, the police officer directly took out a form from the drawer.
"Now we're going to start recording some information," the police officer said, adding, "Please answer truthfully."
Tang Yu didn't know whether this was a necessary procedure in investigating the case, and she didn't notice anything unusual, so she nodded to show her cooperation.
The police officer took a pen and began to ask questions: "What is your name?"
"Tang Yu."
"gender?"
"female."
"age?"
"19."
"Home address?"
Tang Yu thought for a moment and said, "No. 58, Shiqing Street..."
Before she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong.
"Where exactly is it?" The police officer raised his head and looked at Tang Yu. His face, which had been expressionless, now showed a strange smile.
A cold malice permeated the surroundings, and something was wrong.
Tang Yu suddenly realized that the noisy sounds around her had become quieter at some point, and she subconsciously turned her head to look.
Everyone was looking at her!
A ferocious look gradually appeared on their originally expressionless faces, and resentment emanated from their turbid eyes.
The red-haired young man handcuffed to the long wooden chair was now facing her, growling like a wild animal, with light red saliva dripping from the corners of his torn mouth.
Described as being like an evil spirit!
An instinctive sense of crisis enveloped Tang Yu, and she realized that she might have accidentally triggered a death trap!
What is it?
Tang Yu's face remained expressionless, but his brain was working rapidly.
She forced her eyes away from the things around her, and then she noticed that the police officer in front of her still had that malicious smile on his face, with a hint of gloating.
It is still waiting for her answer.
Tang Yu suddenly thought of a sentence the police officer said before registering his information.
Please answer truthfully.
She took a deep breath and asked, "Can I take the statement again?"
The smile on the officer's face faded, and he asked, "Why?"
Tang Yu said without any burden: "I just lied, and now I want to confess. Give me a chance, sir."
The police officer looked at her for a long time, and finally took out a new form from the drawer and started asking questions again.
"Name?"
"Tang Yu."
"gender?"
"female."
"age?"
"16." After Tang Yu finished speaking, he found that the cold and malicious feeling lingering around him had dissipated a little.
"Home address?"
"Lingxiang Orphanage."
By the time he said this, the people around him had completely returned to normal.
Sure enough, the police officer set a trap from the beginning. She couldn't lie, otherwise everyone in the police station would start to mutate.
Just when Tang Yu thought he had mastered some rules, the incandescent bulb above his head suddenly began to flicker, on and off, as if a mischievous child was constantly pressing a switch.
Except for Tang Yu, everyone in the police station seemed to be completely unconcerned about this anomaly, and the police officers were still concentrating on their work under the flickering lights.
The police officer in front of him spoke again: "On May 18, you and eight other people agreed to go hiking together, but unfortunately you encountered an accident. In the end, except for you, the other eight people all died. Is this true?"
Tang Yu frowned slightly, and she subconsciously asked: "The other eight people are dead? Are you sure?"
The police officer stared at her with his cloudy gray eyes and said, "The rescue team only found three bodies on the mountain. The other five people are all missing and have not been found yet. The police have now determined that these five people were murdered."
After hearing this, Tang Yu remained silent for a while.
The three corpses found by the rescue team should belong to Ren Qingqing, Chang Ziang, and He Yibo. The other four, Zhang Cong, were directly liberated by her.
As for that guy Xila, there is absolutely no way he can die.
She had just thought that the police station had found Silla's body, and now when she heard the police officer say this, she felt a little regretful.
It's just that something seems to be wrong.
Before Tang Yu could figure it out, the police officer started asking questions again.
"As the only survivor, can you describe in detail what happened to your team?"
The copy mission required Tang Yu to cooperate with the investigation, and there was no need for her to hide anything, so she recalled and narrated the entire incident.
Having learned from previous experience, Tang Yu could not lie while telling the story.
This time, no unusual circumstances occurred in the police station, but the police officers gradually started to act up.
When Tang Yu was recounting what happened in the "Hikers" copy, the police officers would interrupt and ask questions from time to time, initially just some questions to confirm details.
But later, the questions started to get a little outrageous.
When Tang Yu talked about Ren Qingqing being injured but insisting on continuing the journey, the police officer interrupted.
"Do you think this is inappropriate?"
Tang Yu thought about it, nodded and answered truthfully: "It is indeed inappropriate. I think that in general, in this situation, if you are injured, you should return."
The police officer continued to ask: "So you are dissatisfied with Chang Ziang's behavior of carrying the injured Ren Qingqing?"
Tang Yu felt that the police officer's words sounded strange, but he couldn't find the problem for a moment, so he could only nod based on his feeling.
"A little, indeed."
Seeing her nod, the police officer's strange smile appeared again.
He said, "You are dissatisfied because you are jealous. You have a crush on Chang Ziang, so you want to kill Ren Qingqing. Ren Qingqing's disappearance led to Chang Ziang's death. He Yibo died of mental disorder due to shock. The other five people were killed by you because they witnessed your cruel methods!"
Tang Yu: “…”
The police officer's fantastic logic made Tang Yu silent for a moment.
As the lights above her head flickered on and off, she felt a strange mental erosion.
There was some inexplicable force that tried to control her to nod and acknowledge the police officer's guess.
But this level of mental control doesn't work on her.
Under the gaze of the police officer, Tang Yu calmly shook her head and said, "Sir, don't talk nonsense without evidence. I will sue you for defamation."
Police officer: “…”
After the first attempt at mind control failed, the police tried again.
Similar questioning occurred twice, and the final results directly pointed to Tang Yu as the cause of the deaths of eight people.
Faced with these accusations, Tang Yu denied them all.
Perhaps realizing that this tactic wasn’t working, the police officer lost his patience.
It stared at Tang Yu with its cloudy white eyes and changed the subject.
"We extracted some suspicious substances from He Yibo's body, which confirmed that he seemed to have eaten some problematic food before his death. And you said that you cooked soup for them. We have reason to suspect that you poisoned these people. Do you admit it?"
Tang Yu suddenly remembered that on the last day, she used a pot of mushroom soup to send away Zhang Cong and the other four weirdos.
She didn't know if this was considered poisoning as the police department considered it. If she denied it, would that be considered a lie? Would the people in the police department mutate by then?
As for admitting it, that was even more impossible. The blond and blue-eyed Western ghost in front of her was worried about not finding an excuse to kill her!
Tang Yu observed the changes in the people around him, shook his head cautiously, and said, "I have never poisoned He Yibo and the others."
This sentence is the same as what the police officer said, which is to some extent a substitution of concepts.
The "they" Tang Yu mentioned refers to He Yi Bo and his companions, and does not include Zhang Cong and his four companions. Ren Qingqing and Chang Ziang died early and never drank the soup she cooked.
The soup He Yi Bo drank was not toxic except for causing sanity, so it was not considered poisoning.
Overall, Tang Yu did not lie this time.
Sure enough, after Tang Yu said this, no one in the police station changed.
"You lied!"
Just when Tang Yu thought she had gotten through, the police officer suddenly pointed at her and yelled at her.
The sound was extremely sharp, like a metal knife and fork scraping against a porcelain plate.
Tang Yu frowned uncomfortably. She looked at the police officer and asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that I'm lying?"
The police officer's pale face broke into a bigger smile.
It said maliciously: "I said you went hiking on May 18, and you didn't express any objection, but your team clearly went up the mountain on July 14. Your statement is inconsistent with the facts."
Tang Yu couldn't help but twitch her lips. She said helplessly, "You said the date of May 18th, but I didn't notice it at the time. How can this be considered a lie?"
At that time, she did vaguely sense that something was wrong, but the police officer's words "all eight people died" diverted her attention.
Later, there were more questions one after another, and she forgot what she said.
I never expected that this guy would bring up this issue!
Faced with Tang Yu's rebuttal, the police officer behaved quite unreasonably. He picked up the densely written form in his hand and showed it to her.
"I have written down your entire story on the form. Since you have not raised any objections, it means you have confessed everything. Everything on this form was said by you personally, and you lied about this part."
As he spoke, the police officer tapped the place where "May 18" was written with the tip of his pen to remind Tang Yu.
Tang Yu glanced at the police officer and knew that it was useless to continue arguing, so she asked: "Can I re-..."
The police officer interrupted her and said with a grin, "Sorry, you just changed your statement. That was your only chance!"
Tang Yu looked at the police officer who was using dirty tricks in silence, knowing that this guy was determined to punish him.
She guessed that even if she tried to change her confession, the police would have thousands of verbal traps waiting for her, and the result would be the same.
"Although you accused me of lying, I have always refused to admit that I killed those eight people. If you continue to use the same rhetoric to trick me, I will not say another word."
Faced with Tang Yu's non-cooperation, the police officer did not show any displeasure.
"Since it has been proven that you lied, it means that you concealed something in this case. We have every reason to suspect that you are closely related to the deaths of those eight people."
It stood up and said, "Now, you are arrested by us as a murder suspect."
As the police officer finished speaking, silver handcuffs appeared out of thin air on Tang Yu's hands. The moment the handcuffs appeared, she felt that she could not move at all.
Looking at the smug yet malicious smile on the police officer's face, Tang Yu suddenly realized that perhaps his original intention was to arrest him.
The previous interrogation session was just a test.
Before going to the prison, the police officer searched Tang Yu's belongings and took away the boning knife from his backpack.
This guy can actually open the space backpack!
This surprised Tang Yu a little, but luckily he had sold some items before to clear out his inventory, so there was nothing to search in his bag.
What she didn't expect was that Tang En had secretly put the Scepter of Blessing in her backpack at some point.
The police officer held the scepter, and a strange look flashed across his stiff and numb face.
When Tang Yu was about to ask further questions, it quickly put down the scepter and searched her bag again.
"What is this?" The police officer held up two lunch boxes and waved them towards Tang Yuyang.
Tang Yu shrugged calmly and said, "As for the box lunch, you can always bring this, right?"
The police officer looked at her and asked, "You want two servings for yourself?"
Tang Yu said generously: "How about you have a portion? I made it myself. Do you want to try it?"
"Please don't bribe law enforcement officers!" The police officer refused righteously and had no intention of opening the lunch box to check.
The police officer returned the empty backpack and two lunch boxes to Tang Yu and then put her under custody.
Tang Yu was handcuffed and unable to move. She looked unwillingly at the confiscated props and was forced to follow the police officers carrying her backpack.
Fortunately, the scarf she had been wearing around her neck was not taken away, which at least ensured her safety to a certain extent.
"Sir, I think the Siara who was traveling with me at the time is more suspicious than me. I suggest you catch him and interrogate him thoroughly."
Tang Yu tried to inquire about Xila from the police. She always felt that this copy had something to do with Xila.
Especially when the police officer saw the blessed scepter just now, the feeling in her heart became even stronger.
However, since she entered the copy, Xila has never appeared, and she is not sure whether this person is hiding in the dark and doing bad things.
The police officer seemed to have not heard anything Tang Yu said. He took her to open an iron door, walked through a dark corridor, and magically arrived at the prison.
Weird copies are often illogical. Tang Yu couldn't understand the irrationality in them and didn't intend to think about it in detail.
There is not a single window in the prison, which makes the air inside smell very bad, and the composition is so complex that it is difficult to distinguish all of it at once.
The only source of light was the old incandescent lamp above our heads, with one lamp every three or four meters, barely enough to illuminate the aisle. The rooms on both sides were completely dark.
Tang Yu was forced by the police to walk in front, and the corridor in front of him seemed deep and long.
The rooms on both sides were separated by thick alloy steel fences. There was a strange and deformed figure lying on the fence, staring motionlessly at the two people walking in the aisle.
These prisoners exuded an ominous and cold aura, and they locked their eyes on Tang Yu with murderous intent.
The reason for the silence was the presence of the police.
For these prisoners, the police officers have a powerful force field that can easily suppress them.
Even when police officers walked past some cells, the prisoners inside were so scared that they shrank into a corner.
Tang Yu guessed that the police officer behind her might be a powerful monster, but it did not kill him directly, probably because of the limitations of the copy.
However, the police officer's murderous intent towards her was quite obvious. Since he couldn't kill her directly, did bringing her to prison at this time mean that this was a place of death?
While she was thinking, the police officer's voice sounded from behind her: "There are not enough cells. You and this suspect should stay in the same room."
The police officer directly pulled open the iron door beside him, pushed her in, and then closed the door with a bang.
Tang Yu also wanted to ask if this arrangement was too hasty. Was there no distinction between men and women?
Then she saw her "roommate". It was huddled up in a strange shape. Not to mention being able to tell whether it was a man or a woman, she couldn't even tell if it was a human.
The moment she entered the room, she smelled an indescribable odor, which was a hundred times worse than the smell in the corridor.
"Can I apply to change rooms?" Tang Yu immediately turned around and asked the police officer.
The police officer glanced at Tang Yu and actually comforted her: "Just make do with it for now. There is insufficient evidence of your crime. If someone comes to bail you out, you can go out."
Tang Yu couldn't possibly believe that the police officer had good intentions. After all, the way he looked at her was as if he was looking at a dead person.
The police officer quickly left the place, and with his departure, the handcuffs on Tang Yu's wrists disappeared.
She regained her freedom, and at this time, the atmosphere of the entire prison began to change quietly.
It was as if a wild beast that had been suppressed by madness had been released from its cage, and a sense of danger descended.
Tang Yu glanced warily at the thing behind him. It had been squatting in the corner without moving from beginning to end. Apart from emitting a horrible stench, it seemed to have no other deterrent power.
She walked up to the cell bars and tried to pull them, but as expected, the bars did not move at all.
But her actions seemed to alarm the "prisoners" on the opposite side and on both sides. One by one, strange and deformed figures slammed heavily on the iron fence like balls.
The dull sound was almost like the sound of a truck crashing.
Tang Yu was very sure that if he was hit like this, he would definitely fall apart.
Faced with the brutal charge of the "prisoners", the iron bars only made a rustling sound.
The "prisoners" however, never got tired of this kind of game. They kept banging against the bars that imprisoned them, and let out hoarse, wild-animal-like growls.
Tang Yu was a little annoyed by the continuous banging sounds, but she was still thankful that her roommate was not lively.
At this moment, a sharp and somewhat distorted voice suddenly sounded from the next room. The voice was only separated from Tang Yu's room by a wall, so she heard it particularly clearly.
“It’s so noisy!!”
Every word was a torture to the ears, like a metal knife and fork scraping across a porcelain plate.
Tang Yu subconsciously covered her ears, but she found that it didn't work at all. The sound was penetrating and resounded directly in her mind.
It was an obvious mental infection, so strong that even Tang Yu felt a little uncomfortable.
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