I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 85 Lots of doubts
"I'm telling An An a story. Are you done eating?"

Xu Can opened the car door.

In Lin Xing'an's eyes, she still looked like Yu Shi.

But his expression, temperament, and even his voice had all changed.

Only then did Lin Xing'an realize that Yu Shi had no memory of Xu Can.

She just did her homework...

"I'm done eating. Let me wait for the designated driver to come and have a cigarette before I leave."

Dr. Xu put the half-eaten cake into the back seat, then stood in the night breeze and lit a cigarette.

"Dad, where's Mom?"

There was smoke outside, and Lin Xing'an looked up at Lin Yunchen and asked.

"...Mom is out and will be back in a few days."

A gloomy look flashed across Lin Yunchen's face.

He looked at Lin Xing'an deeply, as if he had never expected that Lin Xing'an would ask this question.

"Oh."

Lin Xing'an leaned against the car window like a well-behaved child, closed his eyes, and silently digested what Yu Shi had just said.

Why is this happening?

According to Yu Shi.

Seven years ago, Taoyuan used the "soul formula" to turn Yu Yu into a "human".

A year later, because he wanted to adopt a "human animal", in order to pass the committee's review and avoid being discovered, Yu Yu turned into a glutton again.

Until that night a week ago, Yu Yu was "woken up" again.

And then tonight...

Lin Xing'an closed his eyes, and the doubts in his heart became even greater.

"There are still too many doubts about seven years ago, and about Taoyuan itself..."

"How did Taoyuan, as the enemy, convince Yu Yu seven years ago to use the 'Soul Formula' on him?"

"Why did he delay waking up Yu Yu?"

"And why did the awakening take place that night..."

Lin Xing'an pursed his lips slightly.

The doubts about Yu Yu did not seem to be completely resolved.

But what puzzled him even more now was Taoyuan's "soul formula".

"For a glutton, these three rules are commands ingrained into their genes."

"This 'Soul Formula', originally intended to give AI a soul, can actually allow the glutton to break through the limitations of rules..."

"You can even cancel it at any time, allowing Yu Yu to become a glutton again, and then wake up again..."

“…How on earth did they do that?”

The more Lin Xing'an thought about it, the more unbelievable it became.

And since this "soul formula" is so powerful that it can turn a gluttonous ghost into a "human", why did Taoyuan only give it to Yu Yu?
Why doesn't he wake up the other gluttonous ghosts?
If Taoyuan could create a super AI that was fifty years ahead of humans, and even give this AI a "soul", Lin Xing'an would believe it.

But applying this formula to a real glutton...

Yu Yu is not a robot, Lin Xing'an can't imagine it at all!
So this "Soul Formula"...

Does it really exist?

In other words, did Yu Yu really become a "human" because of the "soul formula"?
After all, Yu Shi's words all came from Yu Yu's narration, but Yu Yu...

Is it really completely credible?
Could she be lying?

Lin Xing'an looked at the window.

In the flickering lights outside, he seemed to see Yu Yu's gentle face again.

Do you believe it?

"..."

"Hello! Designated driver!"

The designated driver in a red vest opened the car door.

Doctor Xu had just finished smoking two cigarettes. He exhaled the smoke comfortably, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.

Lin Yunchen, Yu Shi and Lin Xing'an sat in the back seat.

"Let's go."

The car started slowly.

But Lin Xing'an's pupils suddenly shrank...

When he was reversing and turning around, in the shadow of the corner beside the hotel gate, he saw a figure wearing a gray windbreaker, a mask, and holding a small notebook in his hand, writing something down.

"It's Tian Ming from that committee..."

Lin Xing'an's breath hitched.

After watching the surveillance video that morning, he still couldn't believe that Tian Ming would let him go like this.

Because the way Tian Ming looked at him that day was clearly like a falcon staring at a lamb.

So he has actually been paying attention.

But Tian Ming never showed up again.

Until now...

"It's Yu Yu..."

"She really is protecting me silently..." Lin Xing'an lowered his eyes.

Whether it was cleaning up his traces from the entire building that night, or her words "Don't be afraid" when Tian Ming came to check the surveillance that morning.

No matter what the real reason is, Yu Yu's protection of him over the past week was at least real.

She was like a warm shield, blocking countless doubts and temptations, allowing him to avoid the committee's surveillance and do his best to eliminate the mark.

but now……

No one will hold his hand and say "Don't be afraid" anymore.

A complex emotion surrounded Lin Xing'an.

In the rearview mirror, Lin Xing'an could feel Lin Yunchen's sharp gaze, which was constantly scanning him without any concealment.

Doctor Xu's fingers tapped on the car door again and again, like drum beats, making people feel uncontrollably irritated and nervous.

The car was driving at a constant speed on the dark road.

The car was filled with the pungent smell of white wine and a faint smell of cigarettes.

The weird and cold atmosphere spread little by little.

In the darkness that flew by outside the window, it was as if something was staring at him.

goodong...

An unprecedented sense of crisis surged in Lin Xing'an's heart.

The so-called passing of the test tonight is just the beginning of greater despair.

"The day after tomorrow at summer camp, no matter how dangerous that villa is, I must go and kill that illusion ghost and remove the mark on my body."

"This may be the last chance."

"The last chance to leave this 'home' alive..."

His eyes flickered.

It was as if I had regained the feeling of uncertainty and unease after the full moon, when I was surrounded by a dark ocean and had only a wooden plank under my feet...

……

"Goodbye Uncle Lin! Goodbye An An!"

In silence, the car slowly drove into the community.

"Cancan, good luck in the competition. Don't feel too stressed."

After sending Dr. Xu and Xu Can home, Lin Yunchen also waved his hand.

"An An, can you sleep alone today?"

After arriving home, Lin Yunchen did not turn on the lights, but sat on the sofa in the shadow.

"can."

Lin Xing'an washed his face and closed the bedroom door.

In the darkness, there was not a sound in the entire house.

……

……

One forty-five in the morning, Central Hospital.

In the darkness, Lin Yunchen pushed open the door of the morgue.

Behind him was Tian Ming, wearing a gray-black windbreaker and a mask, and...

"Grandma, I'm really sorry to bother you this time."

Tian Ming and Lin Yunchen leaned against the door together, holding their notebooks in their hands, half bent over, and spoke respectfully.

In the empty corridor without lights, a series of light footsteps were heard.

"It's okay. Tongtong is also curious whether An An can eat it~"

Tongtong, still wearing a cute princess dress, blinked and came over skipping.

The soft and sticky voice continued to echo in the cold morgue.

In the corner of the corridor, there was a round black camera with two red lights flashing gently.

In the room full of screens, Tongtong's portrait was locked and enlarged on the large screen in the center.

【searching……】

"Crack!"

After closing the door of the morgue, Lin Yunchen turned on the light.

The light was supposed to symbolize warmth, but it made the whole room feel cold.

"Grandma, that's him."

Tian Ming opened a compartment where corpses were stored and placed a corpse wrapped in a black body bag on the dissecting rack.

Lin Yunchen also respectfully moved the stool next to Tongtong.

"Eh... How long has he been dead? It stinks..."

"Your brain is okay, right? If it is, Tongtong can't do anything..."

Tongtong covered her nose, frowned and waved her hands, her chubby little face full of disgust.

"Last Saturday night, on the fifth day, he was killed by Yu Yu."

"Oh? Killed by Yu Yu?"

Tongtong seemed to suddenly become interested. She sat on a stool beside her on tiptoe and opened the body bag.

Inside was the conductor at the train station.

(End of this chapter)