Mu Qin told Peng Zhe that those who hunted down and targeted Mu Qin, what they wanted from Mu Qin was this blank Tarot card.
After listening to Mu Qin's narration, Peng Zhe had an expression of "you seem to be teasing me", then took the Tarot card in Mu Qin's hand and looked at it carefully, and finally returned the card to Mu Qin, saying : "Anyway, I can't see the mystery of this card. It's so common that it can be torn off with a single click. Why do those people chase you for this card?"
Mu Qin smiled wryly: "If I told you that the statement 'they hunted me down for this card' was completely conjectured by me, would you still believe me?"
"Conjecture..." Peng Zhe looked at Mu Qin in amazement, "What do you mean, why can't I understand?"
"I don't have any evidence to prove that they searched my home, searched Zhou Yue's ward, and drove an Audi to kill me. This behavior is to find this Tarot card." Mu Qin tried his best to brief Peng Zhe expressed his meaning, "I mean, the idea of 'they chased me for this card' is my personal speculation and self-feeling, I think they came to me for this card, although It's a weird idea, but I don't know why ... I just believe it."
"That is to say, it's just your intuition. You shouldn't know who those people are, and the reason why those people hunted down and killed you. You don't know these things, but you inexplicably attribute the reason why they hunted down and killed you." On such an ordinary white card, right?" Peng Zhe finally understood what Mu Qin meant.
Mu Qin nodded: "Yes, it's amazing, right? Even I can't figure out why, it feels like... that kind of indescribable, something in the subconscious dominates my thinking."
After listening to Mu Qin's narration, Peng Zhe lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally came up with an idea: "Have you been hypnotized?"
"Hint?" Once Peng Zhe made this statement, Mu Qin felt an inexplicable sense of horror: "Why do you think so?"
"I think this is completely a spiritual suggestion." Pengzhe said, "When ordinary people are hunted down, they will find out the reasons from various aspects. He will think that maybe it is because he has sinned against someone in the past, or it may be because of unintentional crimes. Some of the mistakes you made led to your death, but you didn't think about it, and you just thought that the reason why the other party was chasing and killing you was this card... Isn't this like some kind of spiritual hint?"
"I don't think I've been 'hinted'." Mu Qin put the card in his hand into his pocket.
Peng Zhe continued: "People who have been hinted by spirits generally don't know that they have been hinted like this."
Mu Qin shook his head slightly: "I'm serious, Peng Zhe. If you are Xu Haoyu's subordinate, you should know what identity I have had before. General spiritual hints have little effect on me, and... no matter how magical It is impossible for me to attribute all the reasons to a white card in a short time, because the idea is very illogical, and such illogical hints usually do not succeed.”
Peng Zhe did know Mu Qin's previous identity.
As far as Pengzhe knows, some departments, occasionally those that are more mysterious and special, will specifically look for those soldiers who have no parents, no relatives, and no reason in the team. Mu Qin is the best choice. They Let these soldiers enter special agencies and train them for two or three years to become... spies.
This kind of person does not need to have excellent fighting qualities. It is enough to know several weapons and basic fighting methods. The key is psychological quality and some intelligence gathering skills, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, interrogation and anti-interrogation, criminal investigation and diplomatic psychology, Acquisition of these skills will vary depending on the department you belong to.
Of course, even after receiving these trainings, some soldiers did not continue to serve in this kind of department in the end, such as Mu Qin, who finally retired and returned to his hometown to become an ordinary person in a small city.
However, the knowledge he has learned and the training he has received are still engraved in his bones, which will bring him various conveniences. As he said just now, Mu Qin's excellent mental quality is destined to prevent him from being Simple spiritual suggestion is defeated, so the conjecture of spiritual suggestion is not established.
"This is why you are always so calm." Peng Zhe sighed, "No matter how dangerous the situation is, you seem to be too calm."
"It's not a good thing to be too calm." Mu Qin said, "Sometimes the panic that should be shown is not shown, but it will arouse suspicion."
Peng Zhe originally planned to chat with Mu Qin for a while, but just when Peng Zhe was about to say something, a policeman suddenly walked by and called Mu Qin's name. Mu Qin raised his head to respond, and saw a policeman in police uniform with his head bowed. He stood at the end of the corridor and called Mu Qin's name, and asked Mu Qin to "come here."
Mu Qin didn't know what was going on, and thought he was going to be interrogated about the car accident, so he stood up and said to Pengzhe beside him, "Wait for me."
Then Mu Qin walked towards the policeman.
When Mu Qin just walked in front of the police officer, the police officer turned around and walked into a room, motioning for Mu Qin to follow. Mu Qin followed obediently. As soon as he entered the room, the policeman opened the door closed.
Mu Qin took a look at this small room. It should be the kind of room specially used for interrogating prisoners. Except for a door, there is only an air vent in the corner of the ceiling above the head. There is a table and a few chairs in the center of the room. Nothing else.
Mu Qin felt a little strange. It was just a car accident. As for bringing him into this interrogation room? Moreover, there was only one policeman who brought him in, and it seemed that he was going to have a private conversation with Mu Qin.
The policeman who brought Mu Qin in over there still lowered his head, opened his chair and said to Mu Qin, "Please sit down."
Mu Qin went over to sit down without knowing it, and the police officer went to the opposite side of the table, and also pulled out the chair and sat down. The policeman also acted a little strangely. Covering most of his face, he seemed normal, and Mu Qin didn't feel any uncomfortable breath from him.
But the moment he sat down, Mu Qin began to feel that the small interrogation room was filled with coldness and gloom, making this narrow space suffocating.
Muchinton felt bad, and asked the police officer, "You called me here, what's the matter?"
The police officer put his hands on the table, still lowered his head, and said slowly: "I want to get something from you."
Hearing this sentence, Mu Qin felt that his mind was a little confused. He vaguely guessed the identity of the police officer in front of him. He knew that those who chased and killed him might be a group, but why did this group have With such supernatural powers, how could he sneak into the police station, or even have an undercover agent in the police station
"I want the card on your body, the card you got from Zhou Yue, I know it's on you, give it to me." The police officer's tone became a little hurried, he still lowered his head, Mu Chin could only see his lips moving up and down.
Mu Qin lied routinely at the beginning, and added questions to divert attention: "I don't understand what you mean by that, what kind of card? And... how do you know Zhou Yue?"
The policeman seemed to have no patience at all. As soon as Mu Qin finished speaking, the other party yelled: "I said give me the card on your body! Are you deaf!?"
He roared, and finally raised his head, with a ferocious face, his face was completely unfamiliar to Mu Qin, but his eyes...
Those are a pair of pure black eyes!
No matter the pupils, irises or the whites of the eyes, they are all pitch-black eyes, as if the inside has been hollowed out, leaving only a black eye socket. The other party stared at Mu Qin with such eyes, which scared Mu Qin One jump, even though Mu Qin is so calm, after seeing something so surreal, he can't keep his usual calm.
So Mu Qin stood up suddenly from his seat, stood up and took a few steps back, and stepped back to the door behind him. His keen intuition made him feel that the man in police uniform in front of him... was like a man in a police uniform... A monster of human skin.
And the other party exuded killing intent. The man stood up and stretched his hand to his waist. Mu Qin saw that he had a holster hanging on his waist, which contained a standard police pistol. He moved quickly, quickly pulled out the pistol, and immediately pointed it at Mu Qin's head.
"You don't have to give it to me." The monster said hoarsely, "I can take it from your corpse."
The other party obviously did not intend to negotiate with Mu Qin at all. Mu Qin knew that he was determined to kill him when he saw his movements. Aim at Mu Qin's head, and Mu Qin will surely die.
Therefore, at this moment, Mu Qin felt that his thinking was blank. He didn't understand how things had come to this point, why he was easily driven to death and ended up at the end, obviously he didn't do anything, obviously he Just want to be with the people I love the most.
On the other side, Pengzhe sat on a chair and waited for Mu Qin to come back. While waiting, another policeman came by and asked strangely after seeing Pengzhe, "Where did your friend go?"
Peng Zhe was also a little strange after hearing this: "Didn't you call him away?"
"If I want to call, I'll call you two together. How can I call someone away alone." The policeman was puzzled, shaking his head and said, "We just dug out the traffic surveillance video of that section of the road, and we want you two to take a look together..."
Peng Zhe's expression changed suddenly after the policeman's words. He stood up suddenly, and walked quickly towards the direction where Mu Qin was called away just now, leaving the policeman at the spot confused, and then quickly followed Liao Pengzhe said, "Wait, where are you going? Over there is the interrogation room..."
Peng Zhe turned a deaf ear to the police's call, and walked directly to the door of the interrogation room, calling Mu Qin's name loudly. He put his hand on the door handle and was about to push the door, when he heard a gunshot from inside.
The gunshot frightened Pengzhe and the policemen around him for a moment. Pengzhe reacted immediately and opened the door of the interrogation room, and saw the policeman who called Mu Qin away just now standing inside, holding a pistol. The muzzle was still smoking.
Peng Zhe stepped in and lowered his head to look at the door. Sure enough, he saw Mu Qin lying on the ground leaning against the wall, his body limp and motionless, his face covered in blood.
Peng Zhe felt that his heart missed a beat, and immediately squatted down and pressed Mu Qin's shoulder, and shouted anxiously: "Mu Qin!"
The policeman who followed Pengzhe also recovered from his daze, pointed his gun at the opposite policeman, and yelled at him: "Axu! What are you doing!?"
And this policeman who was called "A Xu" and just shot Mu Qin, his eyes are no longer as dark as what Mu Qin saw just now, and his eyes have returned to normal. He also seemed to be very dazed. He looked at the smoking pistol in his hand blankly, then at Mu Qin who fell to the ground, and at his companion with a gun pointed at him. He seemed to have no idea what the situation was like.
"I..." A Xu choked out only one word, he put down the gun and scratched the back of his head strangely, "What was I doing just now?"
Out of professionalism, even though A Xu is a partner who has been working with him all the time, the policeman next to Pengzhe rushed forward quickly after seeing him put down the gun, grabbed his arm and knocked out the pistol in his hand, and Push him down on the table in the interrogation room.
Immediately afterwards, other policemen and staff in the police station who heard the gunshots rushed to the interrogation room following the gunshots.
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"Welcome to the edge world, here is the gap between hell and dreams."
Mu Qin vaguely heard a soft female voice resounding in his ears. He opened his eyes and found that he was standing in a large white room with a relatively large space.
A square, white room with an area of about a hundred square meters. The walls, floors, and ceilings are all white. There are no windows or doors. It is a completely enclosed independent space.
In the middle of this white room, there is a virtual computer similar to... a virtual computer in a surreal sci-fi movie, the kind that projects a 3D screen and floats in mid-air. Some pictures are being played on this projection screen. When Mu Qin looks carefully, he will find that it is the picture of his death.
On the screen, Mu Qin was sitting on the ground with his back against the wall, his whole body was limp, his body was covered with scars and wrapped in some gauze bandages, but his face was covered with blood.
Next to him, Peng Zhe knelt beside him, pressed Mu Qin's shoulder, and shouted at him anxiously and silently.
Looking at the picture played on this virtual screen, Mu Qin felt a little confused in his mind, and he said to himself in doubt: "I'm dead?"
"Only the dead can enter the fringe world." Just as Mu Qin said to himself, a soft... but mechanical female voice came out from the virtual screen, "This is the edge of hell and dreams."
"The edge of hell and dreams, what do you mean?" Mu Qin didn't quite understand, and asked another question.
The female voice answered Mu Qin calmly and patiently: "It means that this world is connected to hell and dreams."
Mu Qin felt a little confused: "Hell and dreams are connected. Is hell that kind of hell? The kind of place where people who commit crimes go?"
"Yes." The female voice continued to answer patiently.
"What about the dream?" Mu Qin asked, "What does it mean to be connected to the dream?"
The female voice said: "People in the real world will peek into a corner of the marginal world in dreams, and we... can also observe people in the real world through dreams."
Mu Qin suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence, and he was surprised: "It means that we 'undead' can carry out dreaming? Tell the people in the real world the message we want to express through dreaming, right?"
"If you can do it, of course you can," said the female voice.
"Then how can I do it?" Mu Qin asked the female voice.
"I can't tell you this. I can only provide you with the services you need in the game and answer some of your basic questions." The female voice was still soft and melodious, like a bird chirping in spring, singing with a crisp voice A melodious and long song.
"Game..." Mu Qin recalled it in a daze, and he said in a trance: "Yes, it's a game... I experienced a game, I escaped, I should be teleported to the safe house... here is the safe house. house?"
The female voice replied to Mu Qin: "This is a safe house in the marginal world."
Mu Qin felt a little terrified, he put his hands on his head, "No... something is wrong, I was in the real world just now, I was with Peng Zhe, we were at the police station, and someone pointed a gun at my head... "
Mu Qin couldn't help shaking his head, trying to sort out his thoughts. He felt that he seemed to have forgotten something, but he seemed to remember all the forgotten things. He continued to ask the female voice: "Everything is finished, escape Humans on the map should be sent to the safe house immediately, right!?"
"Yes, at the moment of escaping from the map, every player will be instantly teleported to this safe house."
"That's not right!" Mu Qin pointed to the virtual screen in front of him, pointing at the picture of himself dying on the screen, "I was there just now, and I was there! In the interrogation room of the police station! I escaped I lost the map, but I returned to the real world, what is going on!? Didn’t you say that only the dead can enter this world?”
"Only the dead can enter the border world." The female voice did not reveal the slightest impatience, her voice was still sweet, but she repeated this sentence, "You are already dead, that's why you appear here, you have not returned to reality world."
"I remember it very clearly!" Mu Qin was in a state of confusion and couldn't help but shouted loudly, "I advanced into the game, escaped from the map and returned to reality, and then came to this safe house after being attacked! I didn't die before !"
The female voice repeated unhurriedly: "Only the dead can enter the border world. You are dead, so you will appear here."
Mu Qin almost laughed out loud: "Then you mean I died twice, right?"
The female voice mechanically said: "I can't answer your question. You can ask about other events, or check the rewards you get in the game, or buy the props you need in the mall, or strengthen your skills and physical fitness."
Mu Qin understands that this female voice is just an artificial intelligence-like existence. She will only answer some questions that Mu Qin can answer within her limited range, and will only serve Mu Qin with game-related things. Others, she knows nothing Tell Mu Qin. "
…
Mu Qin didn't immediately use this virtual computer to check the rewards he got in the game. The first thing he thought of was the agreement he had with Zhou Yue.
I don't know why, when he returned to the real world, he naturally forgot everything about this marginal world, but when he returned to this world, he naturally recalled everything he had forgotten.
When he recalled all this, he immediately remembered the agreement between himself and Zhou Yue. Zhou Yue agreed to carve a code on the wall behind the virtual computer for Mu Qin to see. However, Mu Qin returned to the real world for no reason. His arrival at the safe house may have been delayed for a few days, and Mu Qin didn't know whether he could still contact Zhou Yue, which made Mu Qin feel very uncomfortable.
If he can't contact Zhou Yue, what are the chances of them meeting in the game next time
Mu Qin came to the wall behind the virtual computer. On the pure white wall, if you look closely, you can indeed see many scratches and the like. Someone wrote and drew some unknown patterns on the wall. According to Zhou Yue told Mu Qin that these are marks left by other players in the safe house, but because the safe house has a self-healing effect, these scratches will only exist for 1 to 2 hours before disappearing automatically .
It is obviously impossible for Zhou Yue to stay in the safe room all the time. Just now Mu Qin asked the female voice of the virtual computer system. The female voice said that the player can only stay in the safe room for three days, and these three days are rest periods. At 12 o'clock, the player must start a new game. If the player does not open it himself, the system will force the player to open it.
Mu Qin estimated the time. After he escaped from the first game map, he immediately returned to the real world. On the first day in the real world, he woke up from the hypnotic dream of the psychiatrist He Qiu, and then he went to the hospital to take care of him. Zhou Yue became a vegetative state, but unknown people invaded Zhou Yue's ward and searched it.
The next day, he took Zhou Yue out of the hospital under the pretext of trying to take him back to his home, only to find that his home had also been raided by unknown persons. After that, he contacted his old friend and asked him to take Zhou Yue away. The old friend left Peng Zhe as Mu Qin's helper, because they could not contact Zhou's family, they drove in the evening to find Zhou Yue's mother Xie Zhu, but were chased by the Audi driver, and then shot and attacked by a police officer at the police station .
After this series of events, Mu Qin estimated that he only stayed in the real world for two days.
Only two days have passed since the three-day rest period. If Zhou Yue is in the safe house, he still has one more day to rest. He will definitely write on the wall!