Thirteenth month of death

Chapter 156 The Prologue Appears

Chapter 156 The Prologue Appears
"Wait, before this, you are not going to tell us what you just did? And why did you do this?" Chen Qing couldn't help but ask.

Li Daosheng was speechless. After thinking about it, he felt that it made sense.

He found that ever since the long white mark appeared between his eyebrows, both his thoughts and state of mind seemed to have changed.

Some changes... he himself couldn't explain.

"Just now?" Li Daosheng explained briefly, "I was just thinking, whether it was last night or just now, the death occurred after the door was opened. Moreover, the deceased and the hotel owner had a conversation after the door was opened."

"I was thinking there might be something wrong with the water, but there was no hot water in the room, not even a container for water."

"Moreover, the residents would have to actively request that water be brought up to trigger the death, which is unlikely."

"Then the problem is most likely with the store owner himself."

"We heard the door opening, the owner's thanks after the hot water was delivered, and polite words like 'you're welcome'."

"There was no water at the scene, which means the owner didn't bring any water up in the first place. So after the door opened, both Sun Qianyun and Chu Ge should have questioned him immediately, but they didn't. Instead, they expressed their gratitude."

"So I guess they died the moment they opened the door, the moment they saw the owner. The noises that followed were all fake imitations created by the owner playing two different roles."

After Li Daosheng finished speaking, Chen Qing shook his head in confusion.

"That's far-fetched. This is almost entirely your speculation. There's no evidence. Is this why you chose to turn your back to the door?"

Chen Qing felt that Li Daosheng's explanation could not convince her.

Wu Keyong actually didn't quite understand. Li Daosheng had too many guesses. The only evidence was that there was indeed no hot water at the scene of death.

But is this alone enough for him to take the risk of doing such a thing?

In fact, of course there is more than that.

But he couldn't say it because he had just received a message from Ren Ou.

Ren Ou's voice transmission is very simple——

"There is a consultation center at the gathering place, and everyone can ask one question every day."

Time goes back to twenty minutes ago.

Ren Ou, who was on the east side of the gathering place, immediately changed direction after receiving Li Daosheng's call for help.

He discovered the anomaly very early on.

Not anywhere else, but here... He seemed to see traces of similar activities.

Yes, the same kind.

A mechanical life form like him.

But Li Daosheng's request for help made him temporarily give up his plan to look for similar people, and instead look for a place where he could inquire about the information.

Ren Ou's observation skills can be said to be the strongest among everyone.

Because in his eyes, everything within his field of vision has no distinction between "focus" and "edge".

The human field of vision is over 120 degrees, but the area that can be truly focused and seen clearly is only about 25 degrees. The other areas are collectively referred to as "peripheral vision" and are not clear.

Just like memory, human memory also selects important things to record. Almost no one will remember how many stripes there are on the striped curtains they see every day, and few people will remember how many floor tiles there are under their feet in the house every day.

But I can remember it.

After he took a quick look, all the items were put into the storage unit without any detail.

So, after scanning everything he saw and heard as he headed east, Ren Ou easily discovered a problem.

In this human gathering place called Tanlong, everyone has a profession and something to do.

Some jobs even require more than one person, and they must strictly follow the job requirements and complete the work content.

A noodle shop owner has to constantly provide noodles to customers, a roadside clothing store has to constantly tailor clothes to customers, and a farmer has to constantly cultivate his own small plot of land...

One or two such things are understandable, but when everyone does it, an extremely strange and awkward feeling arises.

Ren Ou didn't understand this feeling.

But he knew how to exploit the rules of this human settlement.

Since everyone must perform their job duties, then as a place where humans gather, there should be staff dedicated to answering some daily questions, right?
Sure enough, he walked all the way and found the consultation office.

The other person sat in the glass room with a smile on his face, his hands folded together. “Hello, do you have any questions?” “Everyone can ask one question per day.”

"Please state what you want to ask."

After Ren Ou sat down, he asked without hesitation, "Tell me about the rumors about the only hotel in the gathering place."

The lady at the workstation inside the glass heard this, still smiling: "Hello, there is a rumor about the inn owner."

"The innkeeper doesn't like mirrors, and there are no mirrors in the inn."

“If you want to look in the mirror, you can only go to the boss.”

A hotel without mirrors?
Upon hearing this, Ren Ou immediately closed his eyes, pressed his fingers to his eyebrows, and conveyed the message to Li Daosheng.

It was only after receiving the rumor about the hotel from Ren Ou that Li Daosheng was certain that there was something wrong with the hotel owner.

And the element of "mirror" is pointed out, which obviously means things like "face to face", "looking in the mirror", and "replica".

Combined with the information I got here.

So, he concluded that after opening the door, he would "meet" the innkeeper and then die immediately.

However, Li Daosheng did not intend to tell them the news brought by Ren Ou.

"That's what I think. If you continue to dwell on this issue, they're both going to die."

Li Daosheng reminded.

These words also brought Chen Qing back to her senses. Now was indeed not the time to dwell on these issues. Knowing that Chu Ge and Sun Qianyun were not dead, she felt relieved.

"So where do we go next?"

She looked at Li Daosheng.

Li Daosheng was about to speak.

Suddenly.

Including him, Ren Ou, Hua Que, the three people from [Thirteenth Month], all had lines of white text appear in front of them.

【You discovered that the situation in Miro Valley was very abnormal.】

[You have figured out the abnormality of the hotel.]

【Not only the hotel, but the entire town, has a hidden thread.】

【You need to clear all exceptions. 】

【End everything that stands in your way.】

【Remember your position.】

It appeared, it was a wedge!
Li Daosheng remembers the prologue of "The Fifth Season".