Everyone in the car was so surprised that they couldn't say a word, until Chi Nan completely tore off the bandage, revealing a clean and intact neck, Jiang Yu was surprised at the same time, a hanging heart also fell: "Sure enough, you didn't really was killed."
Chi Nan touched his neck, slipped his Adam's apple and swallowed. The wound that cut the artery and trachea was completely gone.
The whole person is like 'new'.
"But the scene where you were killed in the hotel...how did you do it?" In addition to An Xin's admiration, Jiang Yu asked, "It's so realistic, we couldn't detect your pulse and breathing afterwards, and there was no flaw at all. "
From just now, she had suspected that Chi Nan was not really dead, but the too real corpses and bloody scenes in front of her made her have to accept the reality.
Chi Nan looked at the dried blood stains on his clothes, and spread out his hands to look at the sun carefully: "There is no flaw because I really committed suicide."
As he expected, the sunlight easily penetrated his palm, and floating dust fell on the leather sofa.
"what?!"
Suicide, true death... Chi Nan's words contained too much information, and everyone couldn't believe their ears.
Jiang Yu was incredulous: "You committed suicide?!"
Chi Nan nodded calmly: "In order to do an experiment."
Jiang Yu: "..." Although she was accustomed to Chi Nan's obsession with dangerous experiments, killing herself was beyond her comprehension.
Chi Nan continued: "The last time Qu Yijun was chasing you, I made a mistake in judgment. Our characters have long since died, and the evil spirit killed by the revenge again is just a formality and will not really disappear. "
Pei Mo's face was terrifying and stunned: "I don't understand what you're talking about... What is it that our characters have already died? Aren't we living well now?"
Chi Nan shook his head: "it's just 'what we think we're alive', but there's nothing to prove that we're really alive. From the moment we hit the road, our characters are already dead."
Pei Mo and Lu Baizhou were at a loss. Is "what we thought alive" a philosophical or literary question
Although Jiang Yu couldn't keep up with Chi Nan's thoughts for the time being, she was more interested in Chi Nan's inference process than questioning: "Since you can't prove that we are alive, how do you prove that we are dead?"
Chi Nan pressed his finger on the position of the Adam's apple, which was deeply wounded: "I did this suicide experiment to finally confirm the guess I just made. If I really die, the experiment has failed, and the inference that the character is dead is not valid, but now I woke up and the test was successful."
Everyone looked at him with complicated expressions, the price of this experiment failing was too high...
"But, how did you think of this possibility?" Jiang Yu asked.
Chi Nan: "The first point is that every time we encounter the "Waiting Man" of the corresponding character, bruises appear on the character's body, which may be a clue to us from Nightmare Book, and these bruises are corpse spots. "
"Second point, after waiting for the car man plot, the scars on my neck were not cuts, but strangulations on the ropes. I suspect that the scars on our body correspond to the character's death method, not the victim's death method."
"The third point, when we first got on the bus, the driver reminded us that we can't get off the bus and walk around on the road at will, it will happen to be sunny. But on the second rainy day, I asked to get off the bus to pick up the passenger, but the driver did not stop me. , and gave me an umbrella. I guess it was because there was rain on the ground at that time as a medium, and the taboo that we "can't get out of the car and walk around" was broken. "
Pei Mo, who has been unable to keep up with Chi Nan's thinking, suddenly realized: "The driver explained it on the first rainy day... Dead souls need water as a medium... to walk on the highway in the world... The rain is to wet the ground and let them die. Our souls are on our way... so, so we are actually... undead?!"
Chi Nan nodded: "Our characters have also experienced death after the victim was killed."
Although Chi Nan said it calmly and rationally, everyone in the car was terrified after listening to it, and they couldn't help shivering, feeling terribly cold on their backs.
"There are also some small clues. The hotel looks like a coffin when viewed on a sunny day. The accommodation area on the second floor of the hotel looks like a morgue. The strange words on the stairs and on the walls may be a spell to suppress us. A day in and out of the hotel may also be hinting at the fact that we are dying."
"The most convincing thing for me is that I saw the character's entire death process in a near-death state. My character committed suicide by hanging, which matches the wound marks on his neck."
Although everyone was reluctant to believe that 'self' was dead, the inferences and clues given by Chi Nan were all closed, and they had to believe it with reason.
Jiang Yu quickly ran through all kinds of clues in his mind, his face was terrifying: "If our characters are all dead people, then the end of this journey..."
Even if he acts as neatly as Jiang Yu, he is still hesitant in the face of desperate inferences.
Chi Nan knew that she had guessed it, and said it bluntly: "It's not a broken dream, it's really the end."
"What, what?!" Pei Mo couldn't breathe anymore, and his whole body froze on the chair.
Jiang Yu explained for Chi Nan: "If we are sinners, this 4000km journey may be our last road to redemption. If we are not sure, we will be judged if we have not completed redemption and rebirth when the car reaches the end. Failing to break the dream, the end point is likely to become hell, and we and the characters will never survive."
Pei Mo was so frightened that his face turned gray, his lips shook a few times and he still couldn't utter a word, Jiang Yu frowned and said to himself: "4000km can be understood as the countdown to our death, this nightmare is not a nightmare. We avoid being chased by evil spirits and endure various road conditions and risks, but complete the task within a limited time. If the task is not completed, everything is over.”
Lu Baizhou held his arms, his nails almost digging into his flesh: "So our task is to atone for the victims? Let the evil spirits' resentment dissipate by being successfully killed by them?"
Chi Nan: "Being killed is only one step. I didn't receive a prompt to complete the task."
Jiang Yu: "Then do you have any clues about your next task?"
After this "suicide experiment", she believed her previous judgment that Chi Nan was the most potential sleepwalker.
Chi Nan nodded: "Find the body of the character's younger brother."
He remembered that before he cut his neck and life completely flowed out of this body, You Yu whispered in his ear—
"Remember, come find me."
Chi Nan didn't think it was You Yuxin's nonsense.
"But in this nightmare book, there is only this road and the motel that appears in the fog. Are the corpses really in these two places?" Jiang Yu questioned.
Chi Nan lowered his eyelashes: "I can't be sure now."
Jiang Yu: "You said that you saw the character's death process in a near-death state. Are there clues about the corpse?"
Chi Nan thought for a while, then shook his head: "The Near-Death Dream didn't give me any information about how to deal with the corpse."
After the death of his younger brother, the older brother found that he could not get rid of his younger brother's influence on his life. All aspects and details of his life were thoroughly penetrated by his younger brother's previous actions. I can't tell who I really are... Brother and younger brother, they seem to have become one person.
What frightened him most was the pervasive loneliness. Loneliness quickly spread to his organs and blood like a virus, and a deformed longing grew out of his bones. He began to miss his brother hopelessly, like a terminally ill Stockholm patient. .
In order to relieve his pain, the elder brother even started to imitate his younger brother's appearance, disguising himself as the other party through colored contact lenses and makeup, wearing the other party's clothes before his death, learning the other party's expressions and ways of speaking, and then rambled on in the mirror. For the whole night, one person will play two roles to fight against the loneliness of being separated.
In the end, the elder brother finally lost his resistance and hanged himself in the place where his younger brother once imprisoned him, ending his chaotic and painful life.
Chi Nan couldn't understand the character's morbid and complex emotions, which were the messages directly conveyed to him by the character itself.
Chi Nan thought that human emotions are really unpredictable. The background of this story is so intricate that it makes him sleepy. Maybe You Yu's colleagues are worse than You Yu.
It's just a pity that in such a detailed and tortuous memory of dying, the only thing missing is the picture of the elder brother handling the body of his younger brother.
The atmosphere in the car was quiet and heavy, and at this moment, the unstable current broadcast sounded again—
[Listener friends, now is the weather forecast time: It is expected that in the next six hours, there will be a once-in-a-century total solar eclipse over the entire 404 section. Travelers in the dark bring surprises and challenges, as well as dangers and uncertainties. Please enjoy this astronomical spectacle and seize the opportunity to better enjoy the journey...]
"Total solar eclipse? What's the situation? Where can a total solar eclipse last for so long for six hours?" Pei Mo, who couldn't bear any more blows, collapsed on the leather chair, his face full of despair.
Jiang Yu went through the broadcast content in his mind: "Since the broadcast mentioned surprises and challenges, it should be Chi Nan's death that triggered the plot point, which should help us in our mission."
At this moment, Lu Baizhou glanced at the road signs passing by outside the window. Their 404 journey only had 2400km left: "Time is running out, we have to speed up."
Less than ten minutes after the broadcast, the warm sunlight seemed to have weakened.
The window glass was covered with shading material, Chi Nan looked up, and clearly saw that the sun had been engulfed in a corner.
The speed of the off-road vehicle slowed down, and the originally straight road was twisted and ethereal like a mirage, making people feel unreal during driving.
About five minutes later, a pothole appeared in the wilderness next to the 404 main road.