The thick darkness rolled away in clusters like thick smoke drawn by a range hood.
When the light of dawn entered the central hall, the people who survived the long and terrifying darkness looked at each other in silence.
"Yu Long..." Fang Fei looked at the empty space beside her, and after a while, tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Xue Ge is gone." Ke Xun went out, picked up the bamboo slip that Xue Ge left on the deck, and showed it to everyone.
For a while, everyone couldn't care less about celebrating their own survival and mourning the dead, and all gathered together to look at the bamboo slips.
There was only one character written on the bamboo slip, and the handwriting was very scribbled, and it seemed that it was only a few strokes away before it was completely written.
"... What do you mean?" Wei Dong looked at Mu Yiran and Shao Ling in confusion.
The two think tanks did not understand for a while, and each fell into thinking.
"It was agreed in advance that she would leave the most critical reminder," Zhu Haowen said, "then this 'chicken' must be the most critical."
"So, after lighting the rhino horn last night, what Xue Ge saw was a chicken?" Wei Dong looked absurd, "This is too out of line, will there be a chicken in the vast sea? Where did the chicken come from? Come? From the sea?"
"Or, it's something that starts with the word chicken," Qin Ci pondered, "she didn't have time to write the word chicken completely, maybe the real thing is a phrase, let me use an analogy, such as cockscomb flower, Or a feather duster, which is something completely different from a chicken."
"No, if that's the case, I'll just write 'flower' or 'dust'," Zhu Haowen said while drawing the words on his leg with his fingers, "so that we can write the key points in the limited time."
"It also depends on the situation," Qin Ci said, "in a tense or critical situation, people's first reaction is to follow their usual habits, and there is no time to analyze how to write so that they can directly point to the key points in the shortest time. ."
Zhu Haowen pondered for a while, then nodded: "You're right, then it seems that what Xue Ge saw last night was probably something that started with the word 'chicken'."
"So will there be a chicken in the sea? Cockscomb and feather duster are also impossible," Wei Dong said, "or is it a fish that starts with the word "rooster"? I don't understand this at all. ?"
Just as she was talking, she suddenly saw Fang Fei who had been stunned beside her, stood up, and was about to walk out.
Ke Xun got up and stopped her. He felt that the expression on the girl's face was not right: "Where are you going?"
"Go to the sea," Fang Fei still had tears left on her face, but her expression had calmed down, and there was a determination in the strange calm, "Go find Yu Long's body."
Ke Xun didn't stop him any more, he just said, "Tie a rope around your waist."
Although she knew that she would get nothing in the end, it would be good for her to take this as a vent.
"What was your illusion last night?" Wei Dong looked at Fang Fei's back and sighed a little.
"I don't want to mention it." Ke Xun said, with a little anger in his eyes.
Wei Dong knew him better than anyone else, thinking that last night's phantom designation made him very unhappy.
He lowered his voice to a very low level: "Thanks to the method of warning objects put forward by Mr. Mu, otherwise I would have been tricked last night. At the beginning, there were many illusions that bewitched me to leave the place, and I survived. Later, I felt that a long time had passed, and the illusion gradually disappeared. After a while, I heard Ke Er say 'it's almost dawn, it's all right', and footsteps began to move in the darkness, Haowen Er also said Say 'I'm going to the toilet'.
"Actually, I was holding my urine. I wanted to go out and solve it at first, but I thought that the sky was not completely bright, so I had to wait and talk. Then I heard everyone start talking, but Yu Long and Fang Fei didn't say a word. When he talked about dealing with it, there was a quarrel. Yu Long may have become angry and beat his girlfriend when he started...
"The young couple kept arguing, I didn't doubt it, and everything was so realistic, Fang Fei was beaten and fell directly at my feet, I subconsciously helped her, and then 'Keer' got angry , I know that what Ke Er despises the most is the person who hits the woman, and then 'he' got into a fight with Yu Long.
"Yu Long was beating and scolding, the scolding was so unpleasant, I couldn't stand the fire - the whole process was too realistic, too triggering my anger points and reversal scales, I couldn't hold back and wanted to stand up and get started. .
"Fortunately, I have a pen in my hand - if I really do, I have to throw the pen down first, right? I was about to throw it when my head was hot, and suddenly I remembered something that happened when I was in school.
"That's a gang of hooligans near the school. They came to our school to ask for trouble. The target was a mutual friend of Ke'er and I. Ke'er was about to run to help. Down, Ke Er said to me at the time: The other party is a social scumbag. When you move your hands, you don’t care about seriousness or seriousness, but you only go hard. Don’t come. Your hand is holding a paintbrush, and you will use it in the future. Earn money to support your family.
"Thinking of this, I can't let go of this, I held the pen, and gradually calmed down, and then realized that these are probably all illusions - the sky has not yet dawned, even if it is not an illusion, even if it is In reality, I also decided to wait until I saw the light of the sky before relaxing.
"It turns out that the illusion is really fucking cunning. Fortunately, I took this, otherwise I would have confessed it last night, and it made me suffocated with fire and urine!"
Wei Dong stood up and looked at Ke Xun: "I should be fine when I go to the toilet now, right?"
"Take me one, bro!" Luo Yu's voice muffled from the corner.
Wei Dong walked over to help him untie the rope.
Shao Ling raised his eyes and looked at Mu Yiran: "The deceptiveness of the illusion is getting more and more sophisticated, let's confuse us with an illusion first, let us preconceived that this is the main show, and wait for the illusion to pass, before we relax our vigilance. At the same time, it was followed by a more deceptive vision."
"Did you wake up from a syncope by an illusion?" Mu Yiran asked him lightly.
Shao Ling lowered his eyes and said "um".
Apparently the syncope method he chose didn't work.
"I don't think the nightly illusions are created and superimposed according to the five senses." Mu Yiran threw out another light sentence.
Shao Ling raised his eyes and stared at him, this person once again denied his previous inference.
"Last night's hallucinations didn't specifically create a plot for smell and taste, let alone vision," Mu Yiran didn't mind Shao Ling's scrutiny staring at him, "and it's worth noting that after the night before After all of us have experienced hallucinations that disgust us, it seems that last night we all experienced hallucinations that would make us emotionally out of control, or rather a hallucination that angered us, of course, this needs to be asked It will be determined after everyone has passed.”
"This is mine," said Ke Xun, who sat next to him. "Illusion fabricated a scene that made me the most uncontrollable anger."
"Me too." Zhu Haowen replied.
"Me too." Qin Ci nodded.
"So, what's your inference?" Shao Ling looked at Mu Yiran, "The first night was trust, the second night was disgust, and the third night was anger?"
"No," Mu Yiran said in a clear, slow and calm voice, "the third night is anger, the second night is evil, and the first night is love."
Shao Ling was stunned, and was about to argue, but Mu Yiran didn't give him a chance, and continued: "Love, hate, anger, if we look at it this way, the power behind the scenes is not creating illusions based on our five senses, but It is based on human emotions - people have seven emotions and six desires, the so-called seven emotions: joy, anger, sadness, fear, love, hatred, and desire. Want these four emotions to create illusions.
"Humans are sentient beings. As long as they are normal and healthy human beings, they will have emotions. As long as they have emotions, they will have mental weaknesses. As long as they have mental weaknesses, they may be affected by illusions, and their thoughts and behaviors may be affected by emotions.
"Illusions use the seven emotions that humans have in turn to find the most vulnerable point in our spirit. People who are still alive do not mean that they are spiritually strong. It is probably just because they have not been touched. point.
"Perhaps we should carefully reflect on what our own mental weaknesses are, and what will make us 'happy' and 'sad'... Only by admitting and facing our weaknesses can we be able to resist it. s attack."
The voice fell behind, and everyone didn't make a sound. They lowered their eyes and explored the weakest part of their hearts.
Mu Yiran's eyes fell on the bamboo slip with the word "chicken" written on it, and he fell into contemplation again.
"So do you think that anyone who ignites the rhinoceros horns will be safe?" Shao Ling asked him.
"I'm not sure," Mu Yiran looked at the place where Xue Ge was last night, "to put it coldly, for a person like Xue Ge, who has a very short lifespan, any emotion may cause some disturbance to her, but it can make She couldn't bear it and lost control, I'm afraid it's unlikely, of course, nothing is absolute, maybe her... 'disappeared' because of emotional interference, maybe because of some force majeure, or maybe she has completely given up The belief in survival has settled itself here.”
"Then what about tonight," Shao Ling looked at him and the others around him, "who will light the rhino horn?"
"I come."
The voice of the answer was so calm that it didn't seem to be facing life and death. It came from Fang Fei who stepped in from outside the door.
"Girl, the deceased is gone, there is no need to despise your own life because of this." Qin Ci's doctor's parents looked at this young girl with red eyes with pity, but she never showed any vulnerability.
"Don't get me wrong," Fang Fei said calmly, "I'm not because of Yu Long, I just can't stand being passive like this anymore, this is not my character, I'm not afraid of death, otherwise I wouldn't choose the high-risk diver. I just can't stand the feeling of being toyed with, death is part of nature, and it's my life's desire to challenge death and nature."
This brave and unyielding girl made the men present in awe, Luo Meng couldn't help but suggest: "Isn't there a knife in the kitchen, or Miss Sister, you can take one tonight and give it a knife when you see that chicken? try?"
"If this is the case, Fang Fei will not be able to be in the same room as us," Shao Ling is still rational and calm, "otherwise, I am afraid that under the influence of the illusion, we will be stabbed, even if we are not there. In the same room, the person in the bow can accidentally injure the person in the stern because the illusion allows us to break through the space constraints."