Absurd Deduction Game

Chapter 14 Schrödinger’s deduction

The red light flickered, and half of Yu Xing's arm was reflected red. He turned his eyes, and through the candlelight, he saw a large hole in the abdomen of the corpse on the iron bed.

 The long **** opening was hastily sewn up with needle and thread, and the wound was hideous.

"There is also this..." Yu Xing moved to the other corpses and took a general look, ignoring the horrifying gazes of the corpses following his direction, "This is also... The carnival of daring corpses means that a group has committed hara-kiri."

It's a good thing that the corpses couldn't move, otherwise the man who deserved a beating would have been beaten to death.

Recalling the words on the note, Yu Xing realized that the bedroom key must have been sewn into the belly of one of the corpses.

 Twenty-third probability?

Thinking of this, Yu Xing began to observe whether these corpses had any special marks.

 If there is none, it means that he can most likely pick open the wounds of every corpse. Look for them slowly. If there is one, you need to pay attention to it. You cannot choose the wrong one, otherwise something may happen.

 This is not clearly stated in the note, so Yu Xing needs to pay attention to it himself.

He has heard from some people that the mortality rate in personality mask assessment games is relatively low, only about 30%. Many puzzles have more than one way to solve them. The main reason is that the system will determine the player's personality tendency through the player's choices.

For example, in the water tank, if you don't get the key in the microwave...if you have the strength to smash it open, you can still get follow-up clues.

Just as Yu Xing was observing intently, a burst of footsteps slipped past him.

Yu Xing looked up and saw only a red candle flashing past.

"Can it move?" He turned back and counted the number of red candles in the hall. There were still twenty-three red candles, and they were in the correct position.

“So the extra one just now... is the killer.”

 This is strange.

Is the killer who only heard the note but never saw the person finally willing to show up?

 “Dong dong.”

 Suddenly, the iron bed in front of him rang twice.

 “Dong dong dong.”

 The sound was very rhythmic, as if someone was tapping.

Yu Xing followed the bed board and cast his gaze to the bottom of the bed...

 There is no one.

 Only a small half of the extinguished candle lay there quietly.

"Another way to create psychological fear..." Yu Xing stared at the candle calmly for a while, then narrowed his eyes after a while.

 It was a little strange... He felt his stomach was itchy.

Moreover, there seems to be something in my stomach, which makes me feel uncomfortable.

 “Oh haha.” He opened the hem of his coat, and sure enough, a wound that had been stitched with extremely unprofessional techniques had appeared on his abdomen.

 It wasn’t there just now...it doesn’t hurt at all.

 He ​​stretched out his hand to touch, and the completely different touch of thread and skin made his eyes flash with thought.

“If you catch the doctor and don’t kill him directly, you have to let the doctor play such a game with him. The killer’s purpose should not only be revenge.”

 “He always wanted to scare doctors.”

"For example, the key is sewn into the human body, but the killer did not specify whether it should be sewn into a corpse or a living person. Now that there are stitching marks on my stomach, doesn't it mean that the key is sewn into my own body?"

"You want me to harm myself?" Yu Xing sneered, "That's too naive."

From the perspective of his senses, he can be sure that there is indeed a key in his stomach now, and he can take it out at any time if he wants.

 And he is not shy about getting hurt.

 But...he just didn't want to follow the killer's wishes.

 In deduction games, players are already at a disadvantage, and injuries such as forced "plot killing" do not exist. There must be a way to pass this puzzle without getting injured.

He ignored the obvious scars on his abdomen and used a scalpel to pierce the abdominal line of the corpse in front of him. Before he could reach in to look for it, the corpse suddenly sat up.

 “Did you fake the corpse?” Yu Xing took a step back and watched the corpse’s movements with interest.

The corpse was shaking all over, and the candle was shaken off, leaving two drops of hot red wax on the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the corpse turned over, fell to the floor with a muffled sound, and crawled towards Yu Xing in a posture like the classic Kayako in Japanese horror movies.

"Ah... don't be angry. How about you lie down and I'll sew it back for you. My sewing should look better than that person's." Yu Xing asked tentatively.

Of course the corpse ignored his words.

Due to rigor mortis, it was very difficult to bend the joints of its limbs. Although it caused a complete sense of terror, its crawling speed was also very impressive. Yu Xing felt that he could even walk backwards faster than it.

“Tsk…it seems that the key is not on this corpse. Well, is this the punishment for choosing the wrong one?”

Looking at the thing crawling towards him, Yu Xing thought as he moved: Then he couldn't test them one by one. One was fine, but if he was unlucky and got twenty-two wrong in a row, there would be a walking zombie in this place.

 I don’t know what the attack power of the corpse is, and whether it can “physically drive away ghosts”. Yu Xing thought about scratching its paws and trying it.

"Da da da…"

A sound of footsteps passed by him again, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye. As he passed by, he seemed to blow cold air on Yu Xing's neck.

Yu Xing raised his eyebrows: Is the killer provoking? He gave up the idea of ​​teasing the corpse and glanced at another place.

 He remembered that there is another place for the human body.

 This is also a question for sending points.

 …

Two minutes later, the power supply system returned to normal, and the lighting equipment in the hall, kitchen, toilet, and anatomy room came back on, shrouding the entire building in a "peaceful" atmosphere.

Yu Xing looked at the frozen heart cut in half in his hand and the golden key in the center of the heart, and felt a little sad for a moment: "No wonder, no wonder, I didn't mean to break your heart..."

The refrigerator door was wide open and the freezer was pulled out. On the chopping board lay a pitiful large intestine chopped into several pieces with a kitchen knife. Yu Xing rolled up his sleeves and put the heart back into the freezer, leaving only the golden key in his hand.

He just thought that there are "human bodies" in the dissection room and the refrigerator, and the keys can be placed in these two places.

There were too many jars in the autopsy room, and there was a corpse crawling behind him, which was not convenient, so he went to the kitchen first.

Since the corpses outside all had abdominal wounds, he destroyed the large intestine first, and then cut out the heart when he couldn't find the key.

 Sure enough…

  There is no need to be chased by more than 20 corpses, no need to perform seppuku skills, and you can pass the level without any injuries. It just depends on whether the player can think of it.

The moment he saw the golden key, the power supply system was restored. At the same time, the scars on his body and the feeling of something strange in his stomach also faded, as if they had never existed.

 This is a technique that can be used in some deduction games. Someone mentioned something to him and said that this technique was inspired by "Schrödinger's Cat".

 —If he takes the key from his belly, there must be no key in his heart.

If he knows in his heart that there is a key in his stomach but does not take it, then this is only a "possibility". He can use hallucinations and other explanations to cover up the past, and there is a chance that there is a key in his heart.

 Leave room for the system to play, and the system will help the player survive with a certain probability based on the purpose of the deduction. This probability is infinitely magnified in the Persona Evaluation Game, because the focus of this deduction is evaluation rather than survival.

Yu Xing took the key and left the kitchen. After the lights were turned on, the hall outside became the same as before. There were no corpses, no candles, and even the poor thing crawling on the ground was no longer there.

He walked towards the locked door and passed the anatomy room on the way. He even went in to check the time.

 Countdown【2:21:07】.

 Plenty of time.

The bedroom is located on the left side of the hall. The door is embedded in the wall and locked by a large lock.

Yu Xingzai looked at it carefully. The dark brown wooden door was thick and deep, with a faint coldness of resistance.

He opened the door with the key and pushed it open a crack—

 In the crack of the door, a man about the same height as him was leaning against the corner, staring at him unblinkingly!

"Yo, you're—" Before Yu Xing could finish his polite words, the figure disappeared silently, so that when Yu Xing recalled the appearance of the figure, he only felt that the other person's face was blurry, and he couldn't recall any specific image.

“Oh, that’s disgusting. I’ve tied someone up to my house. I’m quite shy.” Yu Xing seemed to be shy, but in fact he stretched his legs and pushed the door open with some skill, holding the scalpel tightly in his right hand.

 What if someone opens the door to kill—

　　Well, there is no opening the door to kill.

Unexpectedly, the scene in the bedroom has a completely different decoration style from other places. The walls are white, the decorations are simple metallic colors, small objects with a sense of design can be seen everywhere, and there are green potted plants in the corners.

The most outrageous thing is that there is a large window in the room, which is covered by light green curtains, and the faint light of the sun comes through.

The figure has disappeared.

Yu Xing turned around and closed the door, then walked to the window, opened the curtains, and immediately looked at the window frame.

He stretched out his hand and pushed it, but it didn't work. It seemed that the window was welded shut.

 After confirming that the figure did not leave from here, Yu Xing raised his head and looked out the window.

There is actually a beautiful scenery outside.

It seems that it is noon now. On the street outside the window, pedestrians dressed in different clothes are walking hurriedly. There are shops on both sides of the street selling everything. Clothing stores and gift shops are actually relatively high-end places.

It’s just that this window blocked all the sounds from the outside world, and the house was still silent.

Yu Xing immediately noticed something was wrong. He stood by the window and looked out, and the scene he saw was from a bird's eye view.

 He made an inner calculation... The area where the killer is located is at least five floors up!

"The logic is wrong. This kind of place is acceptable in the suburbs or underground, but it is unlikely to be in the high-rise." Yu Xing lowered his head and pondered. The existence of this bedroom and this window suddenly opened up the originally closed environment. passage, combined with previous speculations about the killer's character and mental state, an idea emerged.

"If that's the case, it's interesting." Yu Xing raised the corner of his mouth, left the window, and began to carefully look at the layout of the bedroom.

The bed is neat and tidy, the wardrobe is against the wall, and there is a bookshelf next to it with hundreds of obscure books on it.

Yu Xing opened the closet and took a look. It was empty.

“It seems like there won’t be any clues that are too obvious for me...but it doesn’t matter. The lack of clues is also proof that I should be right.”

He was not disappointed at all, and walked to the desk again. There was a thick book with a textured cover on the desk, which felt comfortable to the touch.

After opening it, Yu Xing found that it was a diary, a diary with no date written from beginning to end.

　　【I just built this place today, my morgue! My secret garden! No one can disturb me, and I tremble with excitement just thinking about the days ahead. 】

　　Today I tested the water and pushed it forward, it’s a rush_

 (End of this chapter)