Detective as Sword
“What is your purpose?”
The swordsman calmly said: "Guess."
Chen Yingsheng was very calm. "It's impossible for me to commit suicide."
"Yeah"
"Just kill me." Chen Yingsheng said sincerely.
She didn't expect that she would have the chance to say this to the swordsman again. The last time was in Ren Shanshan's kaleidoscope, when she asked the swordsman to let go and let her fall into the deep pit.
The swordsman's expression was extremely strange: "So this is how it feels to hear you say this in person."
Chen Yingsheng immediately asked: "So the function of the Holy Grail is to connect illusion and reality. Do you know what happened in Ren Shanshan's kaleidoscope?"
"No." The swordsman said indifferently, "My boss is a boring guy. In order to have a chance to participate in the case of the Super Management Bureau, he watched the entire video of you entering the kaleidoscope as a consultant. I was lucky enough to watch it with him."
In real life, he is Gongsun Shi, the apprentice of the veteran detective Bai Ma, and the boss he is talking about is Bai Ma.
Chen Yingsheng asked: "Did you kill the real Gongsun Shi?"
The swordsman was obviously stunned for a moment. Chen Yingsheng felt a little uncomfortable seeing him making such a strong expression on his face.
The swordsman asked: "Why can't I be Gongsun Shi?"
"You have always been Gongsunshi, not you who replaced Gongsunshi"
"Yes." The swordsman said confidently.
Chen Yingsheng was strangely silent.
She asked: "Can you continue to work under Bai Ma?"
Bai Ma is the detective who does things in a flamboyant way. He was the one who made a mistake in reasoning and let Wei Wo go.
"I love my boss, he's endearingly flamboyant."
A white-horse detective in his fifties with a big belly and wearing a loose suit with padded shoulders appeared in front of Chen Yingsheng, and she shuddered.
"Because I like detectives." The swordsman looked very happy. "All detectives, professional or non-professional, wise or stupid, as long as they think they are detectives, I will fall in love with them."
Chen Yingsheng was glued to his gaze and felt very uncomfortable. She quickly realized what Jian Xia wanted to say and asked:
"For example, Ren Shanshan"
The swordsman's eyes sparkled, a sickly blush appeared on his face, and he shouted in surprise: "You understand!"
He spoke faster and faster: "Ren Shanshan is not a good detective, but she is a good sword."
Through the secret letters between Liu Tianyi and Zhao Wanting, Ren Shanshan concluded that Liu Tianyi had killed Zhao Wanting, and therefore decided to kill Liu Tianyi.
Chen Yingsheng looked at the swordsman indifferently: "Is that how you got your name? The knight who uses the detective as his sword."
"It's a beautiful sword, isn't it?" The swordsman's eyes sparkled with a bright light.
“When a detective stands at a crime scene and spouts the truth, unravels the scheme and defeats the murderer, he is the truth of the world.”
"No one doubts him, no one denies him, his wisdom is perfect, the voice that comes out of his mouth is a decree, a trumpet, and a sword that pierces the murderer."
The swordsman lowered his head slightly and looked up, revealing the whites of his eyes. He slowly forced out a smile that was not a smile: "But what if his reasoning is wrong?"
"There is no sword sharper than that of a detective!" the swordsman said excitedly, "Kill with the truth! The murderers don't know they are the murderers, they are complacent, thinking they have obtained the truth with wisdom; the onlookers don't know they are accomplices, they are only amazed at the murderers' wisdom!"
Chen Yingsheng commented: "Solving a case is the job of the detective, whether to adopt the result is the job of the police, prosecuting is the job of the procuratorate, and sentencing is the job of the judge. No one is your sword."
This short sentence was like a bucket of cold water poured over the swordsman's head. The muscles on his face twisted visibly. He said:
"You can obviously make a good sword."
He gazed at Chen Yingsheng for a long time with regretful eyes, as if he was admiring a precious piece of porcelain.
Chen Yingsheng had goose bumps on her forearms. She said in disgust: "What is your purpose? Did the Patriarch ask you to do this?"
The Patriarch Swordsman raised his eyebrows, "That madman wants to exterminate humanity. I'm just digging a grave for myself before humanity goes extinct."
"Don't you believe the Patriarch can succeed?"
"Haha." The swordsman laughed twice, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Even if she succeeds, I don't think it is a success."
“Humanity is definitely not made up of the calmest, bravest, most resolute and smartest people at the top of the pyramid, but rather it is made up of millions of ordinary people who are either ordinary or mediocre, and mediocre or vulgar.”
"Just imagine, if there were only people like you and me left in the human world, then what would be the meaning of the world? Can humans really still be considered a group?"
The enthusiasm in his eyes caused by talking about using detectives as swords slowly faded, and the bright light gradually turned into a deep pool of cold rationality.
"Even if rational heroes solve the extinction this time, what if another batch of aliens comes next time? The new aliens are allergic to idiots with chaotic logic and no brains, and only like to replace rational elites. Humanity will still face extinction."
Speaking of the word extinction, Jianxia seemed to recall a joke: "I'm different from her. I never think that human extinction has anything to do with me."
Chen Yingsheng asked: "But you did a lot for her."
"There's nothing I can do." The swordsman said slowly, "She saved me, raised me, and taught me many things. I can't just despise her just because she's crazy."
Chen Yingsheng was speechless for a long while. The swordsman looked at her with a look that was so gentle that it was creepy:
"I have heard a story about a swordsman seeking a sword."
"During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, a world-renowned swordsman was invited to visit the residence of Lord Gao Fu. Lord Gao Fu showed him a collection of famous swords. The swordsman felt like he had seen his lover from his previous life and could not forget the swords."
"Lord Gaofu used this opportunity to keep the swordsman and let him serve him. Following Lord Gaofu's orders, the swordsman attacked the enemy camp at night and cut off the enemy general's head. He brought the head to ask for the sword, but Lord Gaofu refused."
The swordsman's story came to an abrupt end here. He looked at Chen Yingsheng with encouragement: "So, you know what my purpose is, right?"
Chen Yingsheng: ""
The swordsman was a little disappointed, but he quickly cheered up and continued to tell the story: "The swordsman was furious, drew his sword and slashed at Gao Fugong, but was injured by the hidden weapon of Gao Fugong's subordinates."
"The last thing the swordsman did before he died was not to kill Lord Goffer, but to destroy the sword with all his might."
He smiled: "My grave is also missing a sword."
Chen Yingsheng suddenly felt something was wrong: "You committed suicide in real life"
"Don't talk about suicide." The swordsman was a little unhappy, "I just moved to a new place to live."
A feeling of suffocation and absurdity attacked Chen Yingsheng at the same time. The swordsman committed suicide in reality just to live forever in the ghost story. He also wanted to drag Chen Yingsheng to live in the ghost story forever.
The swordsman's plan was successful. Chen Yingsheng couldn't find a way out of the impasse and she couldn't leave the kaleidoscope.
In the past, when leaving the kaleidoscope, one would follow the rules to obtain the truth or fulfill the wishes of the kaleidoscope owner, but this time there were no rules, and all that was left for Chen Yingsheng was a kaleidoscope and two dead people.
Both deceased were killed by the swordsman. No matter whose ghost story you enter, it will be a repeat of everything you have experienced so far.
The feeling of despair surged into Chen Yingsheng's heart. He decided to try suicide, maybe he could escape from the kaleidoscope.
The swordsman looked at her expectantly.
Chen Yingsheng's heart sank, and she expressed her guess: "I have committed suicide before. This is not the first time I have experienced Qiao Fei's kaleidoscope."
"No, you have never committed suicide, but this is indeed your second time entering the kaleidoscope." The swordsman shook his head, "This is not the kaleidoscope that Qiao Fei thought of, but my kaleidoscope."
"The first time you entered Qiao Feixiang's kaleidoscope, I did not hide Chen Tu's body properly. When you saw the body, you immediately recalled everything and decided to enter the kaleidoscope in desperation."
Chen Yingsheng took a deep breath: "If what you said is true, then I should have entered the kaleidoscope that Qiao Fei thought of in the kaleidoscope."
"The machine collects the remnants of my superpowers from killing myself." Swordsman said calmly, "You can't assume that the remnants in the machine are from me killing Qiao Fei just because he wanted to die in the groove."
Chen Yingsheng opened his mouth, and Jianxia immediately said: "Don't rush to refute me, look around, the carefully designed corridors; the dark room that can perfectly hide Chen Tu's body; the bodies of the two white-haired girls in the laboratory, all of which prove that I am the master of this strange story."
Chen Yingsheng shut her mouth. The white-haired girl used two identical corpses to remind her that this was her second time entering the kaleidoscope, and she had nothing to refute.
"Stop deceiving yourself and try suicide." The swordsman coaxed, "What if you can escape from the kaleidoscope?"
The dagger arrived before his next coaxing sentence.
The swordsman dodged backwards reflexively with a slightly surprised expression, then suddenly controlled his body and slammed into Chen Yingsheng's dagger.
Chen Yingsheng looked expressionlessly at the swordsman who looked exactly like her as he got close to her body.
The narrow blade of the dagger pierced into his abdomen. The swordsman held the dagger and pushed forward. He looked straight into Chen Yingsheng's eyes and saw his own shadow in the lens.
He whispered in Chen Yingsheng's ear: "Your death...is so beautiful."
The swordsman was intoxicated by the perfect death, immersed in the joy of being killed by the sword he loved. His pupils gradually dilated, and he finally said forcefully: "See you later."
Chen Yingsheng pulled out the dagger.
Blood accumulated in the grooves of the dagger, and spurted out as she drew the knife. She picked up the swordsman on the ground and slowly walked towards the laboratory.
She wants to do an experiment to verify whether she has super powers.
According to the mentor, she is the prophesied god who will be born soon. She will give super powers to everyone in the world on January 4th, and humanity will become extinct on the same day.
Although he didn't know why the prophecy did not come true, Chen Yingsheng thought about what happened on January 4 again and again, and always felt that the decline of the dynasty was a key node.
Zhao Wanting's memetic suppression may have suppressed certain abilities that she awakened that day, preventing the predicted events from happening.
If this hypothesis is true, Kaleidoscope was able to detect superpower residue from the swordsman she killed.
Chen Yingsheng held the swordsman's hand and brought it closer to the groove of the detection machine.
Accompanied by a "beep" sound, three green words "Collected" are displayed next to the machine.
Chen Yingsheng's heart sank to the bottom.
For a moment, she felt a buzzing in her ears, and the words in front of her seemed to have double images. If she was unwilling to believe the so-called prophecy before, thinking that the prophecy was frivolous and ridiculous, now she had to believe it.
She stood in front of the machine for a long time before she recovered.
No matter what, Chen Yingsheng had to enter her kaleidoscope to kill the swordsman. This was the only way to break the impasse.
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