Absurd Deduction Game

Chapter 41 The Witch’s Time House

 In the open field, three people gathered around a claw machine, watching the movements of the metal claws attentively.

Before Wang Jue arrived, Zhao Yijiu tried twice more, but failed, so Wang Jue became the hope of the whole village.

"Awesome!" Yu Xing watched as the penultimate coin was put in. Wang Jue manipulated the button with ease, grabbed a doll with a human head and sent it to the exit.

Wang Jue’s arrival gave the stagnant amusement park a way to survive. Two heads had already appeared in the passage below. Yu Xing picked them up and placed them on top of the claw machine.

 Now catching the third one.

"This is not difficult at all. It is firmly fixed and it is not easy to shake it off. It is much easier to catch than the claw machine outside." Wang Jue thought to himself, unable to imagine what Yu Xing and Zhao Yijiao did. Five coins could not hold a head, but Zhao Yijiao remained silent, while Yu Xing was beside him and echoed "Hmm, huh".

Soon, the third head of an old man was pulled out.

“Luckily you are there, otherwise we would have scrapped this project.” Yu Xing sighed.

“Hey, it’s okay.” Wang Jue took out the third head from the passage and looked around at the wrinkles on his face, “Where are the clues?”

The sign said that clues could be obtained with three heads, but it did not mention where the clues were. Yu Xing spread his hands and randomly touched the heads placed on the top of the machine, but unexpectedly found nothing.

He raised his eyebrows and turned around to see that the two heads he had placed before were gone—where is my head?

Where are these two big heads that I just put here?

Without giving him a chance to think too much, Yu Xing felt a chill on his neck, and something downy and densely wrapped around him.

He reached out to touch it, and the thing around his neck immediately tightened, causing a feeling of suffocation.

 It’s hair!

In addition to his hair, there seemed to be something touching the back of his neck, making him laugh.

That should be the face.

The movement of the two heads was really silent. Yu Xing was so close to the heads that he didn't even hear them disappear.

His eyes were cold, and he took a moment to look at the other two people in his hair that was getting tighter.

The three heads were distributed evenly. One of them rolled in a circle on the ground, and then bounced up like a ball. Every time it hit the ground, it would leave a few pieces of meat on the spot. It was very disgusting.

　　While flicking, Zhao Yijiu's knife hit the Tianling Gai. Half of the machine collided with the metal of the knife, making a faint buzzing sound.

"Wow!" Before Wang Jue had time to see what happened, the head in his hand suddenly opened its eyes, opened its **** mouth, and bit his wrist.

 He was so close that he could clearly see the **** carrion in the mouth of the human head, as well as the teeth that were particularly sharp for some reason.

With this one mouthful, his hand will become useless!

At the moment, Wang Jue didn't care about anything. A yellow talisman appeared out of thin air at his fingertips and quickly stuck it on the man's mouth.

After the talisman paper came into contact with the human head, a cold air flow erupted. The head opened its mouth in pain, and was cut with a series of cuts by the invisible sharp blade. It was quite effective on the human half, leaving only a light white color on the mechanical half. scratches.

 Fortunately, after Wang Jue was on guard, the human head could not bite him for a while.

Seeing that all three of them were under attack, the big doll with Alice's head on the claw machine finally spoke: "The clue is in the mouth of one of the heads."

Wang Jue reacted instantly and looked at the heads that were screamed by Huang Fu with complicated emotions, but actually nothing happened at all: it was only in the mouth of one of the heads, so it must not be mine?

He didn't want to see the mouth more clearly.

"Not with me." Zhao Yijiu skewered the head like a skewer, opened the head's mouth and said in a deep voice.

The clue can only be found in the mouth of the long-haired man who entangled Yu Xing.

 The two of them looked at Yu Xing, whose hair was still tangled around his neck and who seemed to be unable to breathe.

Wang Jue looked at Yu Xing, a nice young man with a cheerful personality and good manners. His face turned pale at this moment, as if there was no blood under his skin. He couldn't help but want to help: "Quickly try to see if you can break it apart! No!" If so, I—"

"Yes." After hearing this, Yu Xing raised his hand and pulled his hair out hard, and immediately regained his breathing ability, "I just wanted to see how thick the hair was. After tying it for a long time, it was just a small bunch, and I couldn't even cover my mouth and nose. Come on, it’s bald!”

 Wang Jue: “…”

 Zhao Yijiu: “…”

Yu Xing was still a bad guy, so the man's hair was divided into two bunches behind him to strangle him. He grabbed one bunch with each hand and pulled it out. The force was so strong that he almost tore off the hair of the man's head and his scalp.

The head stopped laughing a long time ago, and with the severe pain in its scalp, it howled in pain.

 It sounds quite miserable.

“This head is so strong, you can actually tear it off with your bare hands?” Wang Jue suddenly realized that something was wrong after being speechless for a short time.

"Yes, you are stronger than I thought." Zhao Yijiao also followed, with a flash of caution in his eyes, "Although this is the first time we have played a simulation game together, I never noticed that you have such a talent when we usually work. One side. You are good at hiding."

Wang Jue looked at the two of them and thought a little.

It is said that the two of them are colleagues in reality, but judging from this, Zhao Yijiao doesn't trust Yu Xing very much? That is to say, in Zhao Yijiu's mind, there is a possibility that Yu Xing is the murderer?

He observed Yu Xing and found that the other party's hands paused after hearing Zhao Yijiao's words. The expression on his face seemed to be embarrassed for a moment, but was immediately covered up: "Ah ha ha ha, no, which deducer is not good at hiding" ah."

"Maybe." Zhao Yijiu glanced at Yu Xing coldly, his eyes falling on the head held by Yu Xing, "Get the clues."

Yu Xing stopped talking nonsense and handed over his head.

The long-haired human head was dying, and its eyes were rolling. Zhao Yijiu took it, forcefully opened the head's mouth, and saw white paper behind the two rows of straight teeth.

 He pulled out the paper in disgust and saw a sentence on the paper: "The detective has never walked with the murderer so far."

 After reading, he showed the paper to the other two people, and then stuffed the paper back into the head's mouth in disgust.

As soon as his hand was released, the head fled from the passage and flew back into the claw machine, filling the empty space in an orderly manner.

this…

What kind of clue is this?

After Zhao Yijiu read out the clue, Wang Jue's expression cracked a little.

But this clue... does seem to be a little helpful for reasoning.

"Wang Jue, did you act with Xie Ze before? Why did you suddenly come to us?" Yu Xing thought about it in hindsight and asked curiously.

"Xie Ze and I were playing the merry-go-round just now, and then Xie Ze suddenly said that he was worried about the two of them walking together, which means he was worried about me - he happened to see the couple on the Ferris wheel and was going to look for them over there." Wang Jue He said depressedly, "I originally went with him, but for the next project, they planned to play with a big swivel chair, with a limit of three people, so they threw me away. Ling Heng told me that they saw you two on the Ferris wheel. Airport, let me come to you.”

I see.

Yu Xing nodded thoughtfully.

The murderer will inevitably approach other people to find which one is more like the deceased. The detective can contact the deceased to protect the deceased, or he can stay away from the deceased so that the murderer cannot figure out who is the deceased.

 Everyone is secretly observing others. In addition to the clues on the surface, everyone's intentions and behavior can reveal a lot. The three of them each had an idea and headed towards the next project. The sign in the claw machine area was replaced with the words "This project is temporarily closed".

 …

 Originally I wanted to play in a haunted house.

But Wang Jue howled that he was afraid of ghosts and did not want to be scared by ghosts in non-paranormal deduction games. He was stunned when he arrived at the door of the haunted house and was unwilling to enter.

So Yu Xing showed the few brilliance of humanity in her body, patted Wang Jue on the shoulder very tolerantly and compassionately, and changed the target from the haunted house to other indoor projects.

They walked for a long time and finally found a rather peculiar facility in the corner of the park. It was a small wooden house that looked small, with gears all over the walls, and a steam pipe sticking out somewhere, whirring white smoke out. gas.

 Alice's head was made into a sign and hung on the door, with the words "The Witch's Time House" written in Gothic font underneath.

When he opened the door, a bell rang out. Yu Xing slowed down for a moment and looked around in surprise.

 This place... is special.

Especially when the three of them came in, they all fell silent.

 As soon as you enter the house, you can feel the difference between this place and other places. It is also decorated in a steampunk style, but here there is a more visible sense of obsolescence than other places.

 The overall tone here is a hazy moon-gold color. Under the illumination of the light, a few rays of gray appear in the gentleness.

 It's like time that should be moving forward normally...is rusty.

 Time is an abstract concept, but Yu Xing had this idea in an instant.

 In his eyes, time...

  It is such a helpless thing.

He recovered his thoughts at the sound of Zhao Yijiu and Wang Jue's footsteps and continued to look around.

 The hall is covered with dark gold carpets. In addition to the brown hardwood sofa and coffee table, there is also a display stand.

The display table is filled with exquisite artifacts from various eras, including ornaments from the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Big Ben in London, as well as notebooks that can be used as gifts, pen holders decorated with small gears, and models of Gothic castles...

Hundreds of items were piled up gorgeously, and he could only name most of them. There were some things on the table that he had never even seen before.

I picked up a quill at random. The weight of the pen was unexpected. It was heavy and I didn’t know what material it was made of.

Thick white wires are wrapped around the hall, and there are several photos clipped on them with iron clips. There are portraits, scenery, blurry pictures with unknown meanings, and uncomfortable horror scenes.

Yu Xing looked at these photos and suddenly felt they looked familiar.

 He ​​put down his quill and stopped in front of an earth-toned photo of a scene. In the photo, the earth-toned photo was of an old wooden boat that had been washed up in the mud. The wooden oars were leaning crookedly against the hull.

Through the small wooden boat, you can vaguely see the village not far away.

"So familiar..." Yu Xing murmured, seeming to feel something, and carefully observed these photos.

 Everything in the photo seems to be something he has experienced before...probably.

“Why are you staring at a tree?” Wang Jue came over and pointed at the photo of the small wooden boat. “This big willow tree looks so familiar to me. Why can’t I remember it?”

Tree?

Yu Xing looked at the small wooden boat and then at Wang Jue.

There should be nothing wrong with Wang Jue’s brain.

 So, what I see in the same photo is different from what Wang Jue sees.

 He instantly realized that these photos should be generated based on each person's different memories.

Suddenly, Yu Xing caught sight of a flash of red from the corner of his eye.

His face suddenly darkened, leaving Wang Jue who was still sighing, and walked towards the photo where the red stain was.

 This photo is old and has begun to turn yellow.

In the photo, a handsome man wearing a light-colored robe and mandarin jacket sits on a wooden chair with complicated patterns. His naturally smiling eyes look at Yu Xing outside the photo with indescribable penetrating power.

There is a very distinctive earring hanging on the man's left ear, with long tassels hanging under the slender glass, and the red color is the color of the glass and the tassels themselves.

 It is a strange blood color.

This man has a beauty that transcends gender. Yu Xing stared at him calmly, but his fingers unconsciously clenched tightly, almost sinking into his flesh.

 “Player...” He murmured silently, and the faint smile on the man's face seemed to have a hint of sarcasm.

Yu Xing did not expect that this so-called time cabin could reproduce his memories in these photos.

These photos brought out many experiences that he had deliberately buried, especially the blood feud.

"welcome."

Suddenly, the door on the inside of the hall was opened. First, a cold and smooth voice greeted him, and then, a woman with long hair walked out from the inside.

 All three people in the hall came to their senses.

Yu Xing looked away from the photo, with a faint smile on his lips, and looked at the owner of this room.

 Unexpectedly, I can see an NPC here who looks like a normal human being.

This woman was wearing a black robe and her bare feet were on the dark golden carpet. Her white feet were beautiful and delicate.

Her face was even more stunning. She was completely bare-faced, without any makeup, but she was more beautiful than any woman Yu Xing had ever seen, especially those eyes with a dark golden light. When she looked at her, she seemed to be smiling and cold, and she seemed to be able to It makes people fall into obsolescence and fall into the vortex of time.

For some reason, the woman's eyes stayed on Yu Xing for a long time. The two looked at each other, and they both saw indifference in each other's eyes.

"Hello!" Wang Jue shouted, his eyes widening, "Who are you!?"

This woman’s style is wrong.

If we use the Cthulhu running group as an analogy, then this woman’s appearance (appearance) is definitely above the highest level of human beings, and she belongs to the category of mythical creatures!

 Me, I can tell at a glance that you are not a human being!

The woman finally removed her gaze from Yu Xing and nodded gently to Wang Jue: "I am a witch, and I work part-time in this shop for a day."

 “Meow.” A black ball on her shoulder moved. It turned out to be a kitten integrated into the black robe.

“Meow.” The little black cat said hello.

　　(End of this chapter)