"These are two..."
Li Zheng discovered something, his eyes suddenly widened, his mouth closed tightly at the same time, and his facial muscles trembled.
Two a's!
Two-thirds of the task participants who were originally confused were shocked. Chen Yang added two heads to the top and bottom of the hexagon, and then added the dotted line in the middle. The hexagon became two a's, one is the positive a and the other is the negative a.
At this moment, everyone's sense of danger and defense reached their peak at the same time. To be on the safe side, no one of them shouted out that sound.
Chen Yang wrote down his analysis on paper.
Everyone's breathing was disordered. The taboo in this round was actually a letter.
Not all letters that begin with "a", but capital "a".
Xiao Sun couldn't understand and muttered to himself: "But this letter has nothing to do with us, who would mention it for no reason?"
"Are you stupid?" Wang Hao said, "What is the name of this building?"
Xiao Sun's face changed immediately, a3, this is the a3 floor!
A3 floor, Block A.
The house numbers of all the companies on these four floors are axxx.
Building A3 and Block A are okay and are unlikely to be mentioned, but the company's house number... there are always people who ask and chat about it out of curiosity.
It’s okay to say a few numbers, but it’s taboo to say a few numbers.
Unable to tell the full house number.
"Not good!" Wang Hao suddenly shouted, "Jia Jia is in danger!" He staggered towards 302, and the others reacted and hurried to catch up.
When Wang Hao ran to the door, his tall and thin figure froze in panic.
“Dead… dead…” The flashlight in Liu Liu’s hand shook.
The beam of light shone into the office, illuminating a headless female corpse into the sight of everyone standing by the door.
Chen Yang, who was a little behind, walked closer to Chao Jian with the help of crutches. He saw the situation in the office clearly and his expression was a little tense. When the monster dealt with Mr. Yang, it did not kill Jia Jia, which meant that she had not violated the taboo at that time.
She was talking to them...
Chen Yang rubbed his throbbing temple and cast inquiring eyes at the people around him.
Yu Ge and Wang Hao avoided Chen Yang's gaze. They seemed to know the reason, but were worried about something and didn't dare to speak out.
"It's her!" Liu Liu was furious about the horoscope book. He pointed at Qiao Qiao and glared at her. "She was the one who asked why Jia Jia was not in her company. That's why Jia Jia broke the taboo."
Liu Liu said sarcastically: "Did your horoscope book say that you will kill someone today? A murderer."
Qiao Qiao took a step back with a pale face, covering his mouth with his hands at a loss, tears of guilt and self-blame flowing from his eyes.
Li Zheng clenched his fist with one hand and gently embraced Qiao Qiao with the other hand, his face looking very ugly.
"It's not her fault." Mr. Zhang gave an objective and superior comment, "She was asking a normal question."
"Of course, this is not the fault of the deceased. The fault lies in the fact that the rules are good at using trivial details to play tricks on people," he said. "We should be sensible and distinguish right from wrong, and not talk nonsense."
Liu Liu's face was burning with anger, as if he had been slapped in the face. He laughed and said, "Boss Zhang, if it was your daughter who died, would you still be saying these high-sounding words?"
Mr. Zhang was choked to the point of having a heart attack. He quickly swallowed two pills, put his hand on his chest and sat on the ground, not intending to get angry with the young man anymore.
There were two headless corpses hanging upside down in the office. The people near the door did not move. Qiao Qiao's suppressed sobs hit their eardrums.
Chen Yang finally found the relevant memory fragments in his mind. When Qiao Qiao was talking to Jia Jia, he was standing next to them and heard the conversation. However, he was immediately aroused by the second half of Jia Jia's sentence, "The office is full of people", and he forgot the first half of the sentence.
"Mr. Chen, it would have been better if you had figured out the taboo earlier." Xiao Sun said suddenly, with obvious resentment between the lines.
Chen Yang held down Chao Jian, who was about to hit the crutch, and glanced at Xiao Sun.
Xiao Sun realized later that he had said something he shouldn't have said, and he hurriedly explained: "I don't mean to blame you. I know this is not something that can be clarified just by wanting to! I, I..." He was afraid that the old tasker would be angry and isolate him, but the more he wanted to clarify, the less he knew what to say. After a long time, he blushed and whispered, "I just feel sorry for Jia Jia."
Before Chen Yang could express his opinion, a voice rang out.
"No one wants to see such a tragedy happen." Wang Hao looked at Xiao Sun and said in a deep voice, "She is pitiful. How about you? Aren't you pitiful? Aren't I pitiful? Aren't you all pitiful?"
Xiao Sun couldn't say a word when asked. They were all pitiful. All those who were forced to enter the mission with their ID numbers were innocent.
"If Mr. Chen hadn't cracked the hexagon now, someone else would have gotten into trouble today. You know, that taboo is easy to violate, and it's easy to say it casually." Brother Yu patted Xiao Sun on the back, "Jia Jia's death should not be blamed on him anyway."
“I didn’t…” Xiao Sun stuttered for a while with a tingling face, then apologized to Chen Yang awkwardly.
Chen Yang didn't care about such a small matter. They were just temporary teammates. He was thinking, if he had thought of Jia Jia's violation of the taboo the moment he solved the hexagonal puzzle, and had run in to watch her in time, trying not to let the monster take advantage of him, what would the monster do? Would it not hide and directly show up to fight with them, kill Jia Jia and then hide? It would definitely be like that.
It is the monster's job to deal with those who violate taboos, and it cannot go home before finishing the get off work.
If it were really that lazy, the rules would most likely wipe it out.
Chen Yang had an absurd idea that the monster was very tired from work. He pulled Chao Jian but failed.
"I want to check the body." Chen Yang pulled him again, "Why don't you wait here for me."
Chao Jian picked up his crutches without saying a word.
Chen Yang saw that Chao Jian was in a bad mood, so he kept holding him and didn't let go.
Jia Jia's body was warm, and there was some mucus on the place where her neck was bitten off, which showed that the monster had eaten it in a hurry and did not clean it up thoroughly.
Chen Yang used a flashlight to search the area around the body but found nothing unusual.
"Everyone is together during this time." Yu Ge said with certainty, "No one has left."
Liu Liu murmured and continued: "So the monster is not among us."
The atmosphere eased a little.
"Who is not here now?" Wang Hao asked.
"Boss Zheng, the deformed... Pan Lin, and that crazy woman waving a steel pipe around." Xiao Sun scratched his head, "That's the three of them."
Wang Hao's face was solemn: "The scope has been narrowed down. One of those three people is a monster in this round."
"It's probably Pan Lin. He looks like the right person," said Xiao Sun.
Liu Liu looked at his body proportions and said, "Don't you fit the bill?"
Xiao Sun glared at him in embarrassment.
"Mr. Chen, what do you think?" Brother Yu scratched his little mole and looked at Chen Yang without blinking.
Chen Yang pondered the discussion of Brother Yu and the others, and felt something was wrong. He looked at the little mute and asked the others, "When the little mute called you, who was the last one to come out?"
"Me." Xiao Sun raised his hand.
"After I came out, I quickly walked to the front. I don't know what happened behind me." Xiao Sun saw that everyone was staring at him, and he was shaking with anger. "You suspect me?"
Xiao Sun gritted his teeth and said, "When I was walking forward, there must have been someone behind me!"
Liu Liu: "Who is it?"
Xiao Sun's mind went blank, and he said hesitantly, "I don't know."
"You all know that there is only backup light on the first floor. It's dark upstairs. You can't see anything where the flashlight can't reach. And I don't have eyes on my back. I just rely on my intuition." Xiao Sun's eyes became redder as he spoke. "It's definitely not me. I swear on my character!"
Everyone: “…”
A few minutes later, everyone sat in the lobby on the first floor, some drinking drinks, some daydreaming.
Qiao Qiao sat listlessly on the sofa, trapped in guilt, and Li Zheng accompanied her.
The mute gave them two bottles of water.
"Thank you." Li Zheng took it and asked Qiao Qiao softly if he wanted to drink.
Qiao Qiao did not respond.
Li Zheng slumped his shoulders and stood by her like a big dog.
Chen Yang twisted the cap off the soda bottle and gulped down a few big gulps. He casually wiped the water stains on his mouth with the back of his hand. He glanced at Qiao Qiao and Li Zheng and couldn't help but sigh, "It couldn't be more obvious."
"Someone is stupid." Chao Jian took away his half bottle of soda.
Chen Yang nodded in agreement: "That's right."
Chao Jian: “…”
Chen Yang took out his cell phone and looked through the photos and videos he had taken in the building one by one.
Judging from everyone’s reactions, they haven’t violated the taboos of this round, so the monsters won’t have any work today.
Three people died today.
Chen Yang wasn't sure whether the monster had met its targets, nor could he confirm its identity.
It is now past eleven o'clock, and the monster will get off work in less than seven hours. At that time, it will show up on its own, clock out in its own way, and leave through the gate.
"Xiaoqin didn't mention that letter..." a weak voice sounded.
It was Sister Wang. She was a little more conscious, her hair was disheveled, and her red and swollen eyes were full of confusion.
"That means I didn't tell you, but I told others." Xiao Sun kneaded the instant noodles until they were mush.
Sister Wang said "Oh" in a trance, she straightened her messy hair, her dull eyes passed across the faces, then returned and stopped on one face.
"Xiaoqin told me about you," Sister Wang stared at the man, "Mr. Yu."
Yu Ge paused while playing with the bottle cap and said, "Really?"
"You gave her some candies." said Sister Wang.
Everyone looked at Brother Yu. He was not panicked, but just had a confused expression.
After a while, Brother Yu tightly closed the bottle cap in his hand and said, "I remember now. I gave her the candy this morning when I went upstairs. We chatted for a few words while walking."
"Xiaoqin said that she had a fellow villager who worked at Mr. Chen's company. He had just arrived here and was a very nice uncle. They entered the building together yesterday. Later, she went to the coffee shop to buy coffee, and the fellow villager took the elevator up. She didn't know what happened to him after he escaped."
"At that time, she mentioned the address of Mr. Chen's company. She mentioned it casually, and I listened to it casually and didn't take it seriously." Brother Yu's throat was dry.
Chen Yang looked at Brother Yu twice more. Could it be that Xiaoqin's fellow villager is the lazy uncle next to him who wants to lose weight? Is it such a coincidence
Chen Yang felt a chill on his arm. He lowered his head and saw Jian holding a soda bottle with only the bottom left. He took the bottle and drank it all in one gulp. He glanced at the people present, wondering who would be the monster today...
"Another murderer." Liu Liu glanced at Brother Yu.
Brother Yu lowered his head and did not refute.
"Just do the task, talk less and do more. There's no point in chatting so much, and asking questions is really harmful." Liu Liu snorted, as if he had forgotten that he had asked this and that more than once.
Liu Liu's attitude is a typical example of hindsight.
Xiao Sun spat in disdain. Thinking that he was fine, he felt relieved and scared at the same time: "I would say that sometimes. Fortunately, no one talked to me, otherwise I would be finished."
In fact, I will inadvertently say the full house number whenever someone asks me or we talk about related topics.
Seeing that no one paid attention to him, Xiao Sun closed his mouth in disappointment.
Eleven people were either sitting or lying down. The hall was very quiet and the air was humid as if drops of water could fall at any time.
There were some manuscript papers scattered on the table. Everyone thought of all the solutions to the hexagon, but they just couldn't connect the "headlessness" of the headless corpse with the hexagon.
The hint of this taboo was very simple, but it took them half a day to decipher it.
It is a common problem for normal people to complicate problems.
Only non-humans and those who have received special training can jump out of that circle.
"Mr. Chen, I don't understand something." Brother Yu said, "The taboo is that letter. Isn't it enough for the monster to just eat the tasker's head and leave a hexagon? Why does it have to turn the body upside down?"
"Dude, the upside-down corpse corresponds to the letters under the hexagon." Wang Hao looked at him like a fool.
Brother Yu turned over a piece of manuscript paper and wrote questions on the back.
As a taboo, the a on top of the hexagon would be enough, so why do the rules include an upside-down a
Wang Hao, who thought Brother Yu was a fool just now, remained silent, and no one else could answer.
Chen Yang leaned back on the sofa. When he solved the taboo, he focused on the positive and negative "a"s and thought of a possibility.
"You can understand it this way, the one below is a reflection." Chen Yang pinched his fingers.
The atmosphere suddenly changed.
Reflection? That explanation is strangely eerie.
Chen looked up at the sea water above his head and suddenly said something that made no sense. That sentence caused the temperature around him to drop for the second time, instantly reaching the bottom.
"Actually... this building has no head either." Chen Yang said.
Everyone looked up and felt a chill down their spines. The roof of Building A3 was swept away by the sea water at the very beginning.
Now it is indeed headless.
"Ahem." Mr. Zhang cleared his throat that was blocked by smoke and tapped the table. "It's safe today. Cheer up."
As soon as the boss spoke, the scene immediately felt like a meeting.
"Yes, there are only two days left. Let's hold on." Xiao Sun clenched his fist and encouraged himself, "We will definitely be able to return home alive."
Chen Yang's heart was stung by his last two words.
The words "brother" and "going home" both touch his heart, and every time he hears them, he gets an indescribably complicated feeling.
"No, the taboo in this round is to speak." Liu Liu pointed the drink bottle in the direction of the mute, "Then doesn't she have to be in the safe zone from the beginning of today?"
These words caused quite a stir.
Liu Liu, Xiao Sun, Sister Wang and several others looked at the mute. Although they did not say anything, their eyes revealed their thoughts: It was unfair.
"If you also want to be unable to speak, you can pierce your throat." Li Zheng, who was accompanying Qiao Qiao, blurted out.
Liu Liu and others: “…”
This topic was just started but not continued.
Everything has its pros and cons. Although this round is favorable to the mute, when she encounters danger, she will not be able to shout and ask others for help.
As the person involved, the mute remained calm from beginning to end and she didn't care what irrelevant people said.
Noticing Chen Yang's gaze, the mute pursed his lips slightly and smiled at him.
Seeing her like this, Chen Yang knew that she didn't take it to heart.
The little mute has one thing in common with the literary youth. When she is doing a task, she also likes to be alone and not hang out with others.
More than ten minutes later, the two people on the fourth floor came down.
For a moment, all kinds of suspicious and questioning eyes were focused on them. The well-dressed Zheng Zhiqin didn't care at all, but the poor little Pan Lin was trembling with fear.
When Liu Liu saw Zheng Zhiqin was about to sit over, he quickly ran to Xiao Sun and whispered, "Which of these two do you think is the monster?"
Xiao Sun disliked Liu Liu. He didn't understand why the other party still had the nerve to act like "we are a war camp".
"I don't know, they all look like each other except me." Xiao Sun distanced himself from him.
Liu Liu's face darkened: "If you say that, then we can't continue the conversation."
Xiao Sun said, "Then let's stop chatting. My legs are shaking from talking."
Liu Liu: “…”
Zheng Zhitan sat down opposite Chen Yang, folded his legs, and soon understood the progress of the mission. He put one arm on the back of the sofa, holding a cigarette between two fingers: "So the information unlocked by the hexagon and the headless corpse is that."
Chen Yang could almost conclude that Zheng Zhitan had thought of it a long time ago.
Zheng Zhiqin seemed to see through Chen Yang's thoughts and smiled at him through the floating smoke.
Chen Yang covered his eyes with his hands.
Chao Jian poked his shoe with his cane and said with a sinister smile, "Are you shy?"
"Why are you shy?" Chen Yang turned his eyes from the shadow of his palm to Chao Jian, "I think he..."
Chao Jian clenched his jaw.
Chen Yang thought about the wording and said: "A bit greasy."
Chao Jian was stunned for a moment, silently took away the crutch that was poking at his shoe, and grabbed a few milk slices for him.
"I don't want to eat." Chen Yang said.
Chao Jian put the milk slices back into his pocket.
Zheng Zhiqin on the opposite side witnessed this scene. He leaned his head and smoked intermittently, thinking about Chen Yang and Chao Jian's ID numbers.
There are only two days left in the mission. If you don’t take this opportunity to check it out, it will be difficult to get another chance later.
There was a calculating gleam in Zheng Zhiqin's eyes. Relatively speaking, it would be easier to start with Chen Yang who was still in his growth stage.
But the two of them seemed to be stuck together layer by layer with invisible glue, inseparable all the time, so he had to use a trick to separate them.
The shirt at the waist was grabbed. Zheng Zhiqin tilted his head and met Pan Lin's tearful eyes.
There was a pot of boiling water in Pan Lin's heart, bubbling and bubbling, and it was so hot that he shivered.
Not long ago, he came out of Zheng Zhiqin's office and walked towards his seat in a daze. When he passed by Li Zheng, the other party asked him what the address of Changxiang Technology was.
Pan Lin originally wanted to say a304, but just when he was about to say it, Zheng Zhitan's words flashed through his mind, and for some unknown reason he only said 304, and as a result, he escaped the disaster.
It feels like a dream, so unreal.
Li Zheng's heart was on the depressed Qiao Qiao. When he saw Pan Lin, he didn't say anything. It seemed that he had forgotten that he almost killed him.
An unintentional question, an unintentional remark, and your life is gone.
"Old..." Pan Lin didn't want to cry out loud, so he bit his fingers and whimpered, "Brother Qin, can you explain it more clearly next time? I'm stupid and I can't think of it. A hexagon is just a hexagon in my eyes. I can't think of anything." Pan Lin pleaded softly.
If Zheng Zhiqin speaks so vaguely next time, he may not be as lucky as this time.
"Then make yourself smarter." Zheng Zhiqin stroked Pan Lin's slender waist, caressing her in an ambiguous way, but his words were somewhat cold and ruthless, and also very realistic and cruel. "You need luck to complete the mission, but strength is more important. If you don't improve, you will survive this one, but you will still die in the next one."
Pan Lin cautiously probed: "Do you want to teach me?"
Zheng Zhitan glanced at his hands on his shirt.
Pan Lin immediately released his hand and smoothed out the wrinkles.
Zheng Zhitan moved closer to Pan Lin.
Pan Lin quickly showed him the ugliest angle.
Zheng Zhiqin's aura did not change. He looked at Pan Lin's ugly face with basically no fluctuation.
Pan Lin's eyes dimmed. It was over. This old beast had seen uglier monsters and his interest in him faded.
Chen Yang had a vague concept of homosexuality and would not deliberately try to describe it until he met Zheng Zhitan and Pan Lin by chance. The door to a new world then opened to him.
Back then, in the bathroom of the leisure club, Chen Yang thought they were in a normal relationship, but the older one couldn't control his lower body and liked to have one-night stands.
Only when we got here did we realize that they were the owner and his pets.
Chen Yang found that everyone was not surprised by the way Zheng Zhiqin and Pan Lin got along with each other, but he couldn't help but observe. He seemed to be interested in sex between men...
No, no, not curious, he was not curious at all.
"what's on your mind?"
Hearing Chao Jian's deliberately lowered voice in his ears, Chen Yang unconsciously spoke out what was in his heart.
Chao Jian's breathing stagnated almost unnoticeably: "Curious?"
"I didn't..." Chen Yang had just said two words when he heard Chao Jian say in a lowered voice, "Be patient for now, business is more important."
Chen Yang: “?”
"They must have known each other for a very long time." Pan Lin glanced at Chen Yang and Chao Jian across from him and murmured, "The aura between the two is very tight, and no one else can get in the way."
And so handsome.
One has clean and smooth contours, the other is exquisite and luxurious.
Although this occasion is not suitable for admiring handsome guys.
Pan Lin was caught off guard when he realized Zheng Zhitan was looking at him. He panicked and was about to flatter him to show his loyalty when his face was pinched very hard.
"Baby, did you see the scar behind his left ear?" Zheng Zhiqin said in a whisper.
At first Pan Lin didn't know who "he" was referring to. He looked around and finally found that the target was far away in the sky or close at the opposite side.
Chen Yang was whispering to Chao Jian with his long neck turned towards him. A small half of the scar on his left ear was hidden in the ends of his hair, and a small half was buried under his collar, with only the middle part exposed.
Pan Lin nodded, having a bad feeling.
"Your husband wants to lick you." Zheng Zhitan's breathing became heavier.
Pan Lin was dumbfounded, and Zheng Zhitan's reaction was extremely big, which showed that the scar was so ugly that he felt deeply about it.
but…
Pan Lin looked at the scar behind Chen Yang's ear again. Was it ugly? The scar looked wild and manly. How could it be ugly
"I've done so many missions that you can't even imagine." Zheng Zhiqin used his fingertips to scratch Pan Lin's squinting eyes, which were shaking with shock. "If you can find a way to get the dog next to him away for two minutes, I'll teach you something."
Pan Lin's slanted eyelid twitched violently. Is that a dog? That's clearly an evil ghost.
Not to mention two minutes, even twenty seconds is impossible. He doesn't have the ability to snatch the private property that the evil ghost is afraid of melting in his mouth, otherwise he will be hit to death by the cane.
Zheng Zhiqin patted Pan Lin's face and asked him to think about it carefully.
Pan Lin thought of the temptation thrown by Zheng Zhiqin, and his inner fear wavered. If it was just two minutes, it should be possible... He stole a glance at the opposite side and was caught off guard by a cold and fierce gaze.
No, absolutely not!
"Brother Qin, I've thought about it carefully. I'm no longer at the age to learn anything, so I won't bother you to teach me." Pan Lin said.