《Nothing happens after ten days》


 Chapter 1 The Empty House

    An old tungsten lamp hung with a black wire in the center of the room, glistening dimly.


    The quiet atmosphere, like ink dripping into water, spread through the room.


    In the middle of the room stood a large round table, which looked mottled, and in the middle a small clock with a very intricate design on it, which was now ticking.


    Around the table sat ten people in different clothes. Their clothes looked shabby and their faces were covered with dust.


    Some of them were lying on the table, some were sitting back in their chairs, and they were all asleep.


    Next to them stood a man in a black suit and a goat mask.


    He peered through his worn goat-head mask, staring at the ten with interest.


    The clock on the table struck, and the minute and hour hands pointed to "twelve" at the same time.


    At the far end of the room, a dull bell rang.


    At the same moment, ten men and a woman sitting around a round table slowly woke up.


    As they gradually came to their senses, they looked around confused and then at each other.


    No one seemed to remember why they were here.


    "Good morning, nine o ''clock." The goat''s head was the first to speak, "I am glad to see you here. You''ve been sleeping in front of me for 12 hours.


    The man''s outfit was so strange that it startled everyone in the dim light.


    His mask appeared to be made of a real goat''s head, with many hairs yellowed and blackened, knotted and stuck together.


    Two holes were cut into the eyes of the goat mask, revealing his cunning eyes.


    Between his gestures and movements, there was not only the distinctive mutton smell of a goat, but also the faint smell of decay.


    A man with a tattooed arm stared for a few seconds before finally seeing the irrationality of this and hesitantly asked Goat head, "You...... Who said that about me?


    "I''m sure we all have this problem. Let me introduce you to nine people." The goat''s head waved his hand happily, as if he had already prepared the answer.


    A young man named Qixia sat farthest from the goat''s head. He surveyed the room quickly, and after a while his face became serious.


    Strange. This room is so weird.


    There''s no door. There are walls on all sides.


    In other words, the room is closed on all sides, the roof and floor are closed, but there is a table in the middle of the room.


    So how did they get here?


    Is it a wall, you send people over, and then you build it?


    Qi Xia looked around again. Whether it was the floor, the wall, or the ceiling, there were horizontal and vertical lines, and these lines divided the wall and the floor into many large squares.


    There is also a point for seven Xia to care about, that is, the goat head said that "nine."


    There were at least ten people around the round table, plus the goat''s head, and eleven in the room.


    What does "nine" mean?


    He reached into his pocket, and sure enough, the phone was already gone.


    "No need to introduce us." A cold woman said to the goat head, "I advise you to stop your behavior as soon as possible." I suspect that you have held us for more than 24 hours, which constitutes an offence. UL detention. Everything you say now will be recorded and used against you.


    As she spoke, she wiped the dust off her arms in disgust, as if she hated being dirty more than being imprisoned.


    A cold woman''s words, really let everyone wake up a lot, no matter who the other party is, dare to kidnap ten people, in any case, violate the legal bottom line.


    "Wait a minute......" A middle-aged man in a white lab coat interrupted the crowd''s thoughts, slowly looking at the cold woman and asking, "We have only just woken up, how do you know we have been imprisoned for ''24 hours''?"


    His tone was smooth and forceful, but to the point.


    This story originates from a different website. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.The cold woman calmly pointed to the clock on the table and replied, "The clock here points to twelve, but I have a habit of staying up late." The last time I looked at my watch at home, it was twelve o ''clock, which meant we had been incarcerated for at least twelve hours.


    With that, she gestured to the surrounding walls and continued: "You should also note that there is no door to this room, which means that this man made a lot of effort to get us into this room, he said we had been asleep for twelve hours, and now the clock is pointing to twelve again, which means it has turned at least twice, so I suspect" more than twenty-four hours, "is there a problem?"


    After listening to this answer, the white lab coat coldly looked at the woman, still with doubts in his eyes.


    After all, this woman is too calm in these circumstances.


    In the face of such an act of kidnapping, would a normal person calmly say?


    Then a stout young man in a black T-shirt asked, "Goathead, why are there ten people here and you say there are nine?"


    The goat''s head was silent, and there was no immediate answer.


    "ƒÝ, I don''t care how many people are here......" The man on the arm swore and wanted to stand up on the table, but found that his legs were paralyzed and his strength could not be sent out, and he could only continue to point to the goat''s head and say: "Powder sausage, I advise you to understand, you may not know how serious the consequences of provoking me, I will really kill you."


    As soon as the words came out, the expression of the men present gradually became serious, and this time there really needs to be a leader, if the goat head can be subdued together, the situation is still controllable.


    But they found that their legs did not know what had been injected, and they were completely unable to exert themselves.


    So they threatened the goat''s head with words and shouted curses.


    Seven summer did not open his mouth, reached out and gently touched his chin, staring thoughtfully at the clock on the table.


    Things are not as simple as they seem.


    He knew that the goat had "Nine participants" written on its head, and that if there were ten participants, it would only prove that one of them was not a participant.


    Then who is he?


    There are five men and five women in this room. Is one of them the kidnapper?


    Goat head said no more, slowly walked to Qixia, stood behind a young man,


    They followed his gaze and saw that the young man in front of them was different from everyone else in the room. Although his face was dirty, there was a happy smile on his face.


    Go, Art''s head slowly lifted the palm of his hand and laid it on the back of the young man''s head.


    The young man''s smile became more and more strange. He seemed excited, looking at everyone. Looks like he already knows something.


    There was a loud bang and the shepherd smashed the young man''s head against the table.


    Pink and white, like paint, spread across the table in an instant, and everyone''s face was splattered with blood.


    The young man''s head was smashed on a table top.


    Outside the room, the distant bell rang again.


    Qi Xia was very close to the deceased, and he felt an unidentified object sticking to his face, warm and sticky.


    He asked himself, his psychological quality is strong enough, did not expect at this moment began to tremble.


    The girl sitting to the right of the dead woman froze for three seconds, then turned her face away and screamed.


    The screams tore through the crowd''s psychological defenses.


    Can you smash the hardest human skull into a table with your hand, and that goat''s head is still "human"?


    How can his thin body be so powerful?


    The goat''s head began slowly and said, "We have ten men because we need one of them to keep you quiet."

 Chapter 2: Lying

    The woman''s screams stopped, and the crowd''s thoughts stopped abruptly.


    The men who had been Shouting abuse were now silenced.


    Now it''s not about "breaking the law," this weirdo actually kills people.


    After a full silence of more than a minute, the goat''s head nodded slightly: "Very good, nine, it seems that you have all calmed down."


    Everyone changed color, but no one dared to speak, as he said, it is really "nine people" now.


    Qixia reached out with a trembling hand and removed a piece of pink from her face.


    The shattered brain was still beating with body heat, but after a few seconds, it was as lifeless as a deflated ball.


    Pointing to his mask, he said, "I am the Sheep, and you are the participants."


    After listening to a startled, then some puzzled, "people and sheep", "participants"?


    "You are now brought together to participate in a game that will ultimately create a God." Goat head said in a flat voice.


    These two words in succession have made everyone frown.


    After these few minutes of getting along, everyone has generally understood that the man in front of him is a madman, but this madman said he wanted to create a "God"?


    "To create... What God?" The strong young man asked nervously.


    "A God like Nuwa!" Goat head dancing and saying, he exudes the smell of mutton, voice with a ferocious, "how wonderful!" Along with us, you will witness the history of the former Nuwa who created mankind and turned into a rainbow when mending the sky... We can''t lose Nuwa, so we have to create one! There is a great task waiting for God to do!"


    His voice rose higher and higher, and he felt as if he had been shaken.


    "Nuwa..." The strong young man, frowning, felt this fact too much to accept. After a pause, he asked, "Are you some kind of religion?"


    "Religion?" The goat, with a slightly startled head, turned to the young man and said, "We are much bigger than religion. We have a world!"


    At these words, the crowd fell silent again.


    The problem with Mighty Man is very pertinent. The goat man''s behavior is no different from that of a cult, but most cults tend to invent a new god rather than using a heroic figure like Nuwa.


    "In that case..." The strong man continued, "What do you want us to be here for?"


    "I told you, it''s just a game." The goat''s head answered without thinking, "If you win, one of you will become a God."


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    "ƒÝ home shovel... The man with the flower arm seemed to calm down, and he swore and said, "'' The cult ''is it? What if we don''t win?"


    "Can''t win..." Goat head looked at the blood on his hands and said with some disappointment, "It would be a pity not to win..."


    Although he did not say so, the crowd understood what he meant.


    If you don''t win, you die.


    The "out alive" route was not one of the options he presented.


    Either become what he called a "god," or die here like the young man with his head blown out.


    "If everyone understood... Then the "game" has officially begun, and this game is called "Liar." Goat head from the arms slowly took out a stack of paper, and then casually walked to each side, put down a piece.


    Then he took out several pens and distributed them among the people.


    There was a lot of blood on the table, and everyone''s white paper was stained red when it landed on the table, and the blood red was spread out like paint, making the white paper redder.


    "Next, I want each of you to tell a story about the last thing that happened before you came here." The Goat''s head continued, "But beware, of all the storytellers, there is one who tells a lie. When all nine have told their stories, you will vote, and if all eight have chosen the liar, the liar is out, and all the others survive. If one of them is wrong, the liar lives and the rest are out."


    "A liar... ?"


    People are a little puzzled, really will someone lie in this life and death moment?


    "Wait, can we discuss tactics?" "Asked the strong man suddenly.


    "At will." Goat head nodded, "Before the game starts, you have one minute to discuss tactics, may I ask you to use now..." Or will you use it later?"


    "I need it now." The strong man said without thinking.


    "Go ahead."


    The goat''s head took a step back, away from the table.


    The burly man pursed his lips, then looked around at the crowd, looking as far away as he could from the decapitated corpse lying on the table, and said, "I don''t know if any of you are going to lie later, but this'' rule ''sounds so arbitrary that if one person votes the wrong way, we will all die." And even if we choose the right one, the liar will die, so it seems there will be a death anyway, and now I''ve figured out a way for all of us to survive..."


    People heard this sentence, have looked at the strong man.


    Is it possible to keep everyone alive?


    "All of us don''t lie." The strong man did not wait for everyone to understand, then announced the answer, "We nine people all tell the truth, and finally write" no one lies "on this paper, so that we do not violate the rules, we can survive."


    The white coat tapped his finger slightly on the table for a moment and then said, "Your plan is very good, but there is a premise, that is," you are not a liar yourself, "but how can we believe you? If you are a liar, and we all write "No one lies," then you''re the only one who survives."


    "What do you call that?" The strong man''s face was slightly angry, "If I were a liar, how could I suggest such a thing?" I just need to protect myself."


    The head of the goat waved his hand slightly and said, "One minute is up, please stop communicating."


    The two men gave a cold snort and said no more.


    The card looks about the size of a playing card, with the word "Nuwa game" written on the back.


    The strong man gasped and asked, "What is this thing?"


    "It''s a dog tag." The goat''s head laughed and said, "If you get ''Liar,'' you must lie."


    The strong man gritted his teeth hard: "Are you kidding us?" ! Why didn''t you say so in advance? "


    "This is to teach you a lesson." The Goat''s head sneered, "You asked me if I could discuss tactics before I had finished the rules. It was you who wasted a precious minute, not me who didn''t."


    The strong man''s face was a little ugly, but he swallowed his anger when he thought of the means of killing the goat head.


    In a minute, all nine men drew a card from the goat''s hand, but no one dared to look at it.


    If the card says "liar," it becomes a question of whether you live or someone else lives.


    The hands of all four girls trembled slightly, and the faces of the men were not attractive.


    This is not "identity", but "life and death".


    Qixia took a deep breath, casually clasped her card in her hand, and then moved it to her eyes.


    Open it gently.


    The words "Liar" were written on it.

 Chapter 3 The Skilled Man

    "A liar..."


    Qixia read these three words several times in the heart, after confirming his identity, and quietly the card is held.


    Just a minute before, he had imagined the idea of "everyone leaving alive."


    But things are different now.


    Although he and the eight people in front of him did not know each other, but this time, they could only die.


    "If there is no objection, please remember the rules, there is only one liar in this game..." Goat head pointed his finger to the sexy girl on Qixia''s left, "Then start with you, turn clockwise."


    "Huh? Me?" The girl was stunned and then pout her mouth.


    Qixia turned his head to look, from his left side of the girl began clockwise to tell the words, is not very favorable to themselves.


    I will be the last narrator.


    In extremely stressful, stressful situations, people usually only remember the first and last narrator.


    But to question it now would be too much of a leap, and we can only look at it step by step.


    I saw the sexy girl frown, a pair of big eyes rolling around, and finally sighed and said: "Okay... I will tell you first, but I have not been able to tell stories since I was a child, so don''t blame me if I don''t tell them well..."


    At this moment, everyone did not know what to say, and could only listen quietly.


    The sexy girl held out her slender fingers, pinned a strand of hair behind her ear, and said:


    "My name is Sugar, and I''m... Errrm... He''s a "tech guy." We make money on merit, and I''m not ashamed."


    At this time, everyone noticed that the girl called Sweet was wearing very little, only wearing a dirty low-cut skirt, which did not block the place.


    But she didn''t seem to care.


    "Many of my stories are inconvenient to tell... In short, call me "action" can, call me "description" really do not know how to speak, after all, a little culture, who will do my line of work ah..."


    "Anyway, I was at work before I came. But the guest I met was really weird... We had a service space in the store, but he insisted on going to his car, saying it would be more exciting... So in order to make money, I had to go with him..."


    "This is also my first time to work in a car, I did not expect to look very high-end car, but it is so narrow inside, not long before I was covered in sweat." I really don''t know what is "exciting" in this kind of place, during this period, the guest''s mobile phone has been ringing, he will not answer the phone, I am really upset..."


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    Tian Tian seemed to want to continue to scold the guest, but her eyes accidentally glanced at the dead body on the table, immediately scared, and then took a deep breath and said:


    "Well, forget it, this industry I chose, I accept it." But I didn''t think there would suddenly be an "earthquake" ah, I thought we were too big at first, so the shaking is severe, who knows the real earthquake."


    At the word "earthquake", all the faces moved slightly, as if they remembered something.


    "Our car was parked in the alley... Right above is a big billboard... That''s when I stuck my head out of the car and saw it." Sweetly pointing his fingers at the top of his head, his voice trembled and said, "That huge billboard does not know why, after a" clanging "it broke, fell directly onto the car, and I lost consciousness..."


    She took another big breath and said, "When I wake up and I''m here, I''m scared to death..."


    Sweet showed a face of grievance expression, this expression seems to be specially practiced, let a man see some heart.


    The man with the flower arm sitting beside her took a moment and said, "Gentlemen, do we need to continue talking?"


    The white coat froze and looked at the flower arm man: "What do you mean?"


    "This" lady "has lied, let''s just vote directly." The man with the flower arm vowed to say.


    "You... ! What did you say? " Sweet was shocked. "Where did I lie?"


    Flower arm man took a cold look at Tian Tian and said, "Your name, you said your name is Tian Tian, but all the hostesses are pseudonyms, such as" Tian Tian ", "Xiao Fang", "Li Li" this alias is very common, so you hide your real name, you have lied." "


    After saying this sentence, the sweet face is full of red.


    "You... What are you talking about? My name is Sweet! I haven''t used my real name in years!" She then looked around at the group and added, "At my place of work, the only way to find me is to call me Sweetie, saying that no one knows my real name!"


    Everyone began to think, and Qixia''s face was a little serious.


    From the sweet passage just now, Qixia could not hear any sense of lying, and she described the story with a smooth rhythm and a soothing tone.


    This kind of talk like a friend can only prove two results. The stories she tells are either made up long ago and told many times to herself; The second is that she''s telling the truth.


    But now the flower arm man offers Qixia another way of thinking.


    That is "name lying".


    Name lies don''t have to involve logic and rationality, and it''s hard for the average person to spot a flaw.


    After all, everyone here has never met, and their names can only be known through each other''s stories.


    Qixia carefully recalled the goat''s head''s words, he said that "out of all storytellers, one lies", the rule does not say that the liar must lie with "false story", "false name" also applies.


    Sweet saw himself suspected, eyes wide, looks very nervous: "You, if you don''t believe it, my real name Zhang Lijuan... I''m from Shaanxi... You can call me by my real name try ah, you call me by my real name I will not promise, I will only promise the name "sweet"...... I, I..."


    Hearing this, Qixia silently shook his head.


    This woman is not as clever as she thinks.


    That is to say, she can not weave this lie in advance, let alone think of the "name lie" strategy.


    Goat head says, "There is and only one liar," and that person can only be Qixia herself.


    If no one else has noticed the magnitude of Sugar''s problem, he has found a way to win.


    If you want to make up a name, "Qi" is not a good family name, this family name is not rare, but it is not common, to avoid this easy to remember the surname.


    In other words, everything he says needs to be as unobtrusive as possible.


    So he is going to call himself "Li Ming".


    He can tell the rest of the story normally, so that even the most powerful people can not see the flaw.


    The game is almost over.

 Chapter 4: The Disaster?

    At this point, the man with the flower arm raised his hand and looked at the goat''s head: "Hey, judge, what about someone with an alias like this?" Does that count as lying?"


    The goat head did not nod or shake his head, but said faintly: "I will not participate in all the process, you only need to write down the name according to your own ideas." Just remember, "The rules are absolute." Finally, I will personally punish those who fail.


    The word "sanctions" was so loud that everyone could not help but shudder.


    "That, that means I''m not lying!" "If I''d lied, I''d be dead right now, wouldn''t I? Even if it is a pseudonym, my pseudonym is really called "sweet"!"


    Everyone who did not answer her, now is the critical stage of life and death, any doubt can not let go.


    "Then it''s my turn to talk." The man with the flower arm curled his mouth and looked reluctant, "If this lady''s story is not a lie, then I certainly am not."


    "My name is Qiao Jiajin, living in Guangdong, there is no occupation. I was collecting debt before I came here."


    Joe home strength of Mandarin is relatively poor, they can only listen carefully.


    "It''s funny how people these days agree to everything when they borrow money and then start crying when it comes time to pay it back."


    "ƒÝ, they call us debt collectors devils and cold-blooded."


    "But that sausage should also think about it from another Angle, when he was most helpless and needed money, it was I who extended a helping hand." I lent him money when no other institution would. To him I am not the devil, but the savior."


    "But how did he treat me, the savior?"


    "He went around crying, saying how hard it was for him to be cheated out of two million. And lambasted us for how cold-blooded the debt collectors were, trying to solve their own plight with the sympathy of their neighbors. But when he borrowed the money, we signed the contract, and all the interest was made clear to him. Is it our problem that he doesn''t?"


    "Last night I was going to teach him a lesson. He tied him to the roof of a bar, but did not expect an earthquake suddenly, originally I did not want his life, but this sausage actually took advantage of the chaos took out a knife ready to kill me!"


    "In the midst of the chaos, I fell off the roof with him in my arms and hit a billboard. The next thing... I can''t even remember."


    The crowd frowned at the man''s story.


    And Tian Tian seemed to find something like, laughing angrily and said: "Look! I''ll tell you why you''re throwing dirt on me! So you''re the liar!"


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    "What? Who are you to call me a liar?" Joe said fiercely.


    "I''m in Shaanxi, you''re in Guangdong!" Tian Tian pointed at him and said, "Your story is based on my story! I had an earthquake, and you had an earthquake. I got hit by a billboard, and you hit a billboard! What are you not lying about?"


    "Where do I care? I just had an earthquake." The man with the flower arm stared and said, "It would be a lie if I didn''t tell you! As for billboards, there can''t be just one billboard in the whole world, right?"


    "You''re lying anyway!" Sweet pointed at Qiao Jia Jin said, "You this profession is the bad guy talent, lying is not strange!"


    "Oh, how is your profession any better than mine?"


    Qixia looked at the two people who argued fiercely, and felt that this matter was really a little strange.


    Not because what either of them said was false, but because he had also encountered an earthquake.


    He is neither in Shaanxi nor Guangdong, but in Shandong.


    Is there such a large scale earthquake in the world?


    The quake spanned half the country and three provinces.


    If what they say is true, wouldn''t this be an unprecedented disaster?


    "Stop arguing and finish early." The muscular man sitting across the table stopped the two and then looked at the next girl, "Your turn, if you really want to judge who is lying, it is better to wait until everyone has finished talking."


    Both heard this sentence after a cold hum, no longer speak.


    The woman around Qiao Jiajin shyly nodded and said: "Well... My name is Xiao Ran and I am a kindergarten teacher."


    The girl, Xiao Ran, appeared to be very frightened, her voice small and trembling.


    "Before I came here, I was accompanying a child waiting for parents, the child was originally picked up by the mother, and then I heard that the mother was seriously ill, and something grew in the brain, and she had to have an operation... So these days, my father comes to pick me up, but his father often forgets to come..."


    "It was more than six o ''clock in the evening yesterday, in fact, I have already passed the work time, I do not know why, the child''s father has not answered the phone..."


    "I didn''t know the address of the child''s home and couldn''t take him home. I had to stand at the intersection with him and wait."


    "Actually, I had something to do that night... I''ve made an appointment with a therapist. I feel like I''m not really enjoying my job, and I hope the therapist can help me get some guidance."


    "But I didn''t realize that it would take hours and that the evening meeting would fall through."


    "Just as I was distracted, the whole ground suddenly shook, I was scared out of my wits... It was several seconds before I noticed the earthquake..."


    "The earthquake didn''t feel like what I heard... The earth did not beat, it shook from side to side, as if I were standing on a table and someone was shaking the table..."


    "I held the child in my arms for the first time, but I did not know what to do, and I saw the three towers of Chongsheng Temple in the distance were cracked... Luckily we were standing in the open."


    "The next thing I knew, I saw an out-of-control car racing towards us... I could only run to the side, holding the baby, but the shaking ground made me fall every step."


    "I hit my head when I fell at the end... Then I passed out, and when I woke up, I was here."


    This is an underwhelming narrative.


    Only let Qixia feel strange, is the "Chongsheng Temple three towers".


    These three towers are in Dali, Yunnan Province.


    Qixia gently stroked the cards on the table, although the hand clasped the three words, but he knew that it was written "liar."


    So, can there be multiple liars?


    If "the rule is absolute," then what the goat''s head just said, "There is and only one liar," is absolute.


    Since I have chosen "liar", I prove that no one else can be a liar, and that there is only one liar.


    They''re telling the truth.


    But the stories, which span three provinces, are vaguely linked.


    It''s not just the earthquake, it''s what they''re talking about. Isn''t that weird?


    At this point all eyes turned to the next person, the middle-aged man in the white coat.

 Chapter 5 The Doctor

    "I..." The white coat looked calmer than the others, not even the corpse on the table. "My name is Zhao Haibo, and I''m a doctor, as you can tell from my clothes."


    Reaching for his dirty white coat, he continued, "Before I came here, I was operating on a lady. The woman suffered from an intraventricular tumor, which grew rapidly and continued to increase in the past six months, causing mild hydrocephalus, which will be life-threatening if not treated by craniotomy as soon as possible."


    "I chose the frontal lobe approach, which involves a CT scan directly into the ventricles. There are considerable risks associated with this procedure every time, but the woman chose to take the risk in order to be with her young son for a long time."


    "Generally speaking, in order to ensure the stability of the environment, the operating room can not even have a breeze, but nobody expected anything stronger than the wind."


    "When the earthquake hit, I had just removed the woman''s skull and was cutting the dura, a step that can easily cause brain bruising and devastating aftereffects if it goes wrong."


    "I made the immediate decision to terminate the operation and cover the woman''s skull for the time being. Otherwise, with the dust everywhere, the lady''s life is in danger."


    "But I didn''t expect this step to be more difficult than I thought, I can''t stand still, how can I accurately cover a small piece of skull back?"


    "The nurse next to me knocked me upside down and everyone couldn''t keep their balance. In my panic, I covered the woman''s head with a sterile sheet and immediately turned to organize the evacuation, but then a medical cart hit my leg and I fell to the ground."


    "Before I could stand up again, the ceiling of the operating room cracked and I immediately lost consciousness."


    After listening to the doctor''s story, the face was not very natural.


    He uses a lot of medical terms in this story.


    If any of these terms were made up, no one would be able to identify them.


    "Dr. Zhao, where are you from?" The stout man asked casually.


    "I don''t feel obligated to answer your question." Dr. Zhao replied, "My story is finished."


    The big man opened his mouth, but said nothing.


    "Is it, is it my turn? A boy wearing glasses flashes his eyes for a moment and says, "My name is Han Yimo, and I''m a..."


    "Wait a minute." Goat head suddenly interrupted Han Yimo''s speech.


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    This move Han Yi Mo was startled, he did not know why he turned back.


    ''What, what''s the matter?


    "It''s time for halftime." The goat smiled and said,"


    Everyone was at a loss.


    How can there be a "halftime" at a time like this?


    Qixia looked at the clock in the center of the table, and half an hour had passed since she woke up.


    It''s half past twelve.


    "That means this'' break ''is mandatory." Qixia silently read in her heart, "At 12:30, no matter who the narrator is, he will take a mandatory 20-minute break..."


    But 30 minutes into the game, and now it''s 20 minutes?


    Qixia frowned. He knew it wasn''t something he had to think about.


    The organizer of this game is crazy, there is no need to use ordinary people''s thinking to consider.


    So he had to brainwash himself over and over again.


    "My name is Li Ming. I come from Shandong."


    Only by instilling this paragraph into yourself countless times, can you blurt it out when it is your turn to tell.


    Everyone waited in silence with a look of embarrassment on their faces.


    It was called "intermission," but the atmosphere was more subdued.


    "Excuse me... Can we talk?" The strong man asked the goat''s head.


    "Oh, of course, it''s your free time. I have no right to interfere."


    The strong man nodded and looked at Doctor Zhao again: "Doctor Zhao, where are you from?"


    Dr. Zhao''s face sank: "I say, you seem to be very dissatisfied with me from the beginning, why do I have to tell you where I am from?"


    "Don''t get me wrong. I mean no harm." The strong man said in a steady voice, "The more you say, the stronger the authenticity, since everyone said their hometown, you don''t have to hide it?"


    "The more you say, the stronger the truth?" The doctor shook his head, "I only know that" say more wrong more ", if the rule is absolute, I now tell there is no problem." And I don''t trust any of you."


    "That''s a bit biased." The strong man said, "There are nine people present, only one is the enemy, if you are willing to cooperate with everyone, we can work together to find out the liar, now the more you hide the more suspicious, I have asked you for the second time, you still hide?"


    The strong man seemed to be very good at cross-examination, and it took only a few words to force Dr. Zhao into a logical corner.


    His meaning was clear.


    Only a "liar" does not need to trust others; after all, he knows his own identity.


    Now, if the doctor keeps hiding it, he''ll be a target.


    But how can the person who can become a brain doctor be an ordinary person, I saw him with a cold hum and asked: "Then you answer me first, who are you?" Do what?"


    "Me? Strong man did not expect the doctor will suddenly turn against a military, the expression is not natural.


    "Yes, since you asked me after I told you, I can ask you before you tell me." Dr. Zhao smiled. "Fair enough, right?"


    The strong man thought for a moment, nodded and said, "You are right, I have nothing to hide, my name is Li Shangwu, I am a criminal police officer."


    A word out, the crowd looked at him.


    At this time, the word "Interpol" gave everyone an unimaginable sense of security.


    "Are you a policeman? " The doctor gasped.


    No wonder from the beginning it feels like this man is probing something, he is also the first person to say "to keep everyone alive", maybe he really wants to save everyone out.


    The doctor''s attitude obviously changed a lot: "If this is the case, then I apologize for the attitude just now, I am from Jiangsu."


    At this time, the flower arm man Qiao Jiajin''s face is a little ugly: "I said, Doctor Zhao, do you want to believe this officer Li?"


    "Huh?" Doctor Zhao did not know so looked at Qiao Jia Jin, "What are you going to say?"


    Qiao Jia Jin tapped the table with his fingers and said faintly: "Now is not the time to tell" ah, in other words...... Anyone can lie now."

 Chapter 6 The Police Officer

    "Don''t stir up trouble, boy." Officer Li stared at Qiao Jia Jin and said very sternly, "You are a lender, and I am a police officer, who do you think everyone will believe?"


    Qixia looked at the noisy people, he knew officer Li should not lie, he is really a criminal.


    But he was going in the wrong direction.


    Perhaps because of his professional nature, perhaps because of a sense of justice, he always wanted to organize people in order.


    Half way through the interval, the crowd began to die down.


    Qixia has said "My name is Li Ming" in her mind countless times during this time, until she is a little upset.


    After all, he was lying next to a body with a broken head, and it was impossible to calm down.


    Blood trickled down the table to the floor, and as the crowd had been in the same room with the corpse for almost an hour, a strange smell began to drift away.


    Qixia man did not look at the body around him, his pants have been dirty.


    After death, various organs will lose the constraint of muscle strength in a short time, resulting in incontinence.


    Before the smell of the dead body arrived, a stench was already in the air.


    Qixia and another female sat on either side of the body, and the girl seemed to be very unhappy with the smell, and kept covering her mouth and nose with her hand.


    After another ten minutes, Goat Head finally said, "Twenty minutes of intermission is over, and the game begins again."


    The young man named Han Yimo gathered his mind, took a deep breath and said, "My name is Han Yimo, and I am a writer of online novels."


    "Before I came here, I was working on the finale of a novel in a rented house, and since there are hundreds of characters in the book, almost all of them will appear in the finale, so I was so focused on writing that I didn''t hear anything outside."


    "Even... I don''t even know when I lost consciousness or when the earthquake struck..."


    The story Han Yimo tells is different from everyone else, and it seems that he is completely "independent" and stops abruptly after only three or five sentences.


    "That''s it?" Strong man slightly startled, "you say a" don''t know "even if it is over?"


    "Since I can''t lie, I don''t have to make up an answer to suit everyone." Han Yimo''s voice is not big, but inexplicably convincing.


    "Well... The next one, then." Officer Li, still incredulous, added, "The lady''s turn."


    "Hey, cop." Qiao Jiajin is somewhat dissatisfied with the attitude of the Li police officer, "everyone is a" participant ", you don''t make yourself like a captain."


    "Someone has to organize everyone, right?" Officer Lee retorted. "I told you, only one of us is the enemy. The other eight have to stick together."


    "It''s not your place to be in charge." Qiao Jiajin did not take Officer Li''s words to heart, "I may be afraid of you outside, but now in this situation, no one knows whether you are a liar."


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    "Don''t quarrel any more." The cold woman interrupted the two.


    The cold woman, who from the very beginning accused the goat''s head of keeping the crowd captive for twenty-four hours, seemed very coherent and calm.


    Seeing the two calm down, she continued: "This time the so-called" game ", no matter who wins in the end, the rest of the people will be regarded as "indirect murder", which is the problem you should consider."


    Hearing this sentence, Qixia''s face moved slightly.


    If he did make it out of the room alive, he did "kill" the other eight people.


    But what can you do?


    The card in front of you is a real "liar", who would be willing to voluntarily give up their own life so that others can live?


    "My name is Zhang Chenze, and I''m a lawyer." The cold woman folded her arms and said with a blank expression, "I''m sorry to meet you in such a weird place, otherwise I would have handed over my business card."


    Everyone simply can not understand the humor of Zhang Chenze, but it seems that she herself does not care.


    "Before I came here, I was putting together my court papers. My client was defrauded of $2 million, which involved a huge amount of money and was egregious in nature."


    When the number "two million" was mentioned, everyone''s expressions were normal, but Qiao Jiajin was visibly shocked and asked, "Two million?"


    "Yes, two million. They say lawyers are the most impartial people, but we also have an affair, and the man borrowed money from a loan shark to feed his family, which is very worrying. But illegal lending is another case, not mine."


    "When the earthquake struck, I was driving to meet the parties, on Qingyang Avenue, just past Du Fu''s Cottage, near the temple of Wu Hou, I remember... At that time, I was not driving fast, about 40 miles, and suddenly I saw the ground not far in front of me cracked."


    "I immediately braked and stopped steadily in front of the crack, but I did not expect the car behind me to avoid and there was a continuous rear-end collision."


    "I just heard a couple of loud bangs and the car was pushed into a crack and then I passed out and came here."


    Another story ends, and there are only three people left to tell.


    "Wu Hou Temple..." Doctor Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Is it the Temple of Wu Hou in Chengdu?"


    "Yes, I work in Chengdu."


    It seems that this earthquake spread all over the country.


    It''s really hard to guess who''s lying based on one strange story after another.


    "My name is Li Shangwu. I am a criminal police officer from Inner Mongolia."


    "Before I came here, I was on the lookout for a fraudster, and according to reliable sources, we have the exact whereabouts of the suspect."


    "The suspect defrauded a huge amount of money, up to two million yuan, which is the first huge amount of fraud that our city has received this year."


    "My colleagues and I have been watching from the car, waiting for the fraudster to show up."


    "But the suspect was smarter than we thought. He seemed to smell danger and didn''t show his face for three days."


    "We have been eating, drinking and shitting on the bus for three days, and our spirits are broken."


    "But do you know what''s worse for a grown man than having nothing to eat or drink?"


    "There are no more cigarettes."


    "The two of us didn''t have a single cigarette on us. As a matter of principle, we were not allowed to leave our posts, but the feeling of not having a cigarette was terrible."


    "So I asked my colleague to run to buy cigarettes, while I closely watched the entrance and exit of the suspect''s residence."


    "But to my surprise, shortly after my colleague left, the whole earth began to shake violently. I wanted to get out of the car to see what was happening, but suddenly I was strangled by a thin wire from behind."


    "Although we are both good at close combat, the thin lines coming from the back of the car are very difficult to deal with. Not only was I completely unable to touch the man behind me, but I couldn''t get the thread out of my neck."


    At this time, they stared at Officer Li and found that there was indeed a red mark on his neck.


    "I immediately put my seat back down and got my breath back, but I couldn''t turn around because I was so big and my legs were stuck under the steering wheel."


    "While I was lying down, the man behind me hit me on the head with something so hard that I lost consciousness."


    After listening to Officer Li''s words, they began to suspect.


    He recounted a completely different situation where, before him, all the participants were in a coma due to injuries caused by an accident.


    He''s the only one who came here because he was attacked.


    If I had to choose the most suspicious person of all, wouldn''t it be him?

 Chapter 7: The Odds

    "Police, you''re lying." Qiao Jia Jin cold voice cheers.


    "Well, I knew you''d say that, but what proof do you have that I''m lying? Just because someone attacked me?"


    "Of course not." Qiao Jiajin smiled, "Although I don''t know why, but all the stories told before are more or less related, there are many shared roles in these stories, if you put aside geographical location, everyone''s story is reasonable."


    "So what?"


    "That''s the problem." Qiao Jiajin pointed to the lawyer Zhang Chenze, "There is a common character in the story of you and the lawyer, that is," the fraudster who cheated two million ", but your story is contradictory, which shows that one of you said a lie."


    Officer Li followed with a pause and asked, "Where is the contradiction?"


    Qiao Jia Jin shook his head, looked at Officer Li and said: "Lawyer Zhang has to prepare for the trial, which shows that in her story has" caught the suspect ", and you are still squatting, indicating that in your story, "the suspect is still not caught", this is not a contradiction?"


    Officer Li thought for a moment and said, "I have to say, your words have a certain truth, but I think you are affected by this'' game '', first you have to understand the premise that all the previous storytellers are not in the same city as the others." In other words, even if our experiences are similar, they can never be the same thing. Since they are different things, they will have different results."


    Qixia quietly looked at the two people who were always arguing, and did not open their mouths to stop.


    Yes, argue. Argue as hard as you can.


    If either of them votes for the other, the liar wins.


    After all, the rules are absolute, and if anyone except the liar votes the wrong way, the rest will die with him.


    Although Officer Li has given an explanation, but QiaoJiajin words or printed in the hearts of the people.


    After all, this is the first time anyone has found a plot that contradicts the two people''s stories.


    Qixia could not help but take a look at the gangster called Qiaojia strength.


    He may seem Bohemian, but he''s smarter than he gives him credit for.


    "Well... It''s my turn..." ''said one of the girls.


    Then they gathered their thoughts and looked at her.


    The girl screamed loudly when she was first dead.


    Now she seemed to calm down, but her eyes did not dare to look around.


    "Hello, everyone. My name is Ringo. I''m a psychologist."


    Qixia gave me a quick pause because the name "ringo" is interesting.


    Before the Tang Dynasty, "rinngo" means "apple".


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    These two words are rich in poetry and impressing people.


    Perhaps Ms. Lin''s parents wanted their daughter to have a different name, but that name would clearly kill her here.


    Chinese writers, teachers, lawyers, doctors and police officers among the crowd probably know the meanings of ringleaved trees.


    Bother to ring the name in your mind a few times and the story Ringo tells becomes unforgettable.


    "I''m a native of Ningxia. I was waiting for a counselor. She''s a kindergarten teacher."


    They see no wonder to look at the child teacher called Xiao Ran, this time the story is connected again.


    "According to her, the kindergarten teacher industry is difficult to do now, and children cannot be beaten or scolded." Parents take the kindergarten teacher as a nanny, the child takes the kindergarten teacher as a servant, every classroom is equipped with monitoring, parents real-time monitoring, your tone is a little harsher, parents will call the principal there."


    "But when parents send their children to kindergarten, isn''t that what they want them to do?"


    "If the teacher can''t be strict, how can the child realize his own mistakes?"


    "She felt that she had been lost and depressed for a long time."


    "So I put together a treatment plan for her for about a month."


    "But for some reason, the consultant never showed up for the appointment, so I waited in the studio."


    "When the earthquake hit, I had no chance to escape. After all, my studio is on the 26th floor."


    "The higher the floor, the stronger the shaking, I felt the whole building shake."


    "I never knew there could be an earthquake in Ningxia before, but this time I felt it."


    "Then I vaguely remember the ceiling caving in, and as soon as it got dark, I didn''t know anything."


    After listening to the story of Ringo, we seem to have come up with something.


    Qiao Jiajin first said: "I have two questions."


    "You say it." Ngo asked, clutching her mouth and nose.


    "What do you mean every classroom has a surveillance camera?"


    This is what the parents have focused their attention on. But Lin, a psychologist, patiently answered: "I think the surveillance system has been installed so that parents can see the pictures in the classroom at any place."


    "It turned out to be ''closed circuit television''... Is it a noble kindergarten..." Qiao Jiajin said to himself, and then asked, "Then the kindergarten teacher you met, is this Xiao Ran next to it?"


    "I don''t know about that." Ringo shook her head. "I''ve only signed wechat with that person. We''re ready to meet and discuss other issues."


    "Wechat?" Qiao Jia strength leng for a moment, seems not to understand.


    Officer Li reached over and interrupted them, saying, "You''re doing it again, punk." "Xiao Ran is in Yunnan and this Ringo is in Ningxia. Who would cross so many geographical distances to find a psychologist?"


    Qiao Jiajin is not weak: "I just think there are doubts, this is the first time anyone''s story mentions other participants."


    This time, Dr. Zhao felt that Qiao''s words made sense. He also nodded aside and asked, "Xiao Ran, have you given the same reasons to the psychologist as those described by Ringo here?"


    "Well..." Xiao Ran hesitated for a moment and said, "It''s not the same... I am depressed because I have been criticized by a parent for a long time..."


    "That proves it''s just a coincidence." Dr. Zhao nodded, "After all, it is a matter of two regions, and there is no need for us to forcibly associate."


    At this time, everyone was silent for a moment, but Lawyer Zhang suddenly opened his mouth: "Ms. Lin, half of the stories you told are the stories of the" kindergarten teacher ", is this not against the law?"


    "Huh?" "I''ve talked about the kindergarten teacher to give you a better understanding of my work."


    "Don''t get me wrong. I didn''t mean anything else." Zhang Chenze smiled, "I want to say that if the experience of the kindergarten teacher is made up by you, it will naturally be different from Xiao Ran''s story, which can prove that you lied."


    "You... " "Doctor Zhao and police officer Li have already told me that our provinces are different. It''s just a coincidence," Lin said.


    "Coincidence, isn''t it? Zhang Chenze folded his arms and continued, "Think about it, why did you choose only nine of us to gather here?" Don''t forget, we are nine strangers, if you want to hear the flaw in each other''s story, you must give us a clue. And the "clue" is that everyone''s story is connected, and listening to everyone''s story, I feel like we are the chosen ones. In this way, we can successfully find the flaws in everyone''s story and find the liar, otherwise the game is too crazy, because the "liar" has too much to win."

 Chapter 8: Showdown

    These words almost awakened everyone, and also awakened Qixia.


    Yes, the odds are stacked against Liar.


    Qixia frown, why their chances of winning will be so big?


    Lying to a group of strangers, they do not know themselves, do not understand themselves, any lie is difficult for anyone to see.


    Is it really possible to kill eight people with a false name?


    Or to say that


    The person who draws "Liar" is the chosen one. It''s an unfair game, right?


    "No..." Qixia heart secret way, "If the draw can survive, it is better to write" life "and" death "directly on the card, so that it will be easier to achieve the purpose." Otherwise, what''s the point of playing nearly an hour?"


    A deep sense of disharmony spread in his heart.


    Qixia kept recalling every word the goat''s head had said.


    Is it possible that


    "Hey, it''s your turn." Qiaojia strength hand patted Qixia.


    Only then did he come to his senses and find that everyone was looking at him with strange eyes.


    It''s too late to think about it, or I''ll look even more suspicious.


    He gathered himself and reorganized his thoughts.


    The words "My name is Li Ming and I come from Shandong" keep coming back to him in his mind...


    But at this moment must not use this answer, want to find the "solution" of this game, can only gamble.


    Qi Xia opened her eyes and said to the crowd, "Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Qi Xia, from Shandong Province, and I am a professional liar."


    "Liar?"


    The people present only heard the first words of Qixia and they exclaimed, after all, the role of "liar" appeared in many people''s stories.


    This con man will also be the story of everyone vaguely linked together.


    More ironically, they have to determine whether a "liar" is telling the truth.


    "Before I came here, I was trying to clean my two million."


    "Anyway, it took a lot of effort, and I finally got 1.4 million." This is the cheapest way I can think of."


    "But on my way back, there was an earthquake and I saw my house shaking."


    "Logically speaking, you can''t go indoors at this time, after all, the house is in danger of collapsing at any time." But I was worried about the occupants and had to rush in at such a time."


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    "Sure enough, at the same time as I entered the room, the porch collapsed and I was pinned down and lost consciousness."


    Qixia tone plain, a few words to tell the story, the people are wary of staring at him.


    He knew he was doing something risky, but it was the only way to see if his idea was right.


    As long as the goat head opens his mouth at this moment, it means that his guess is almost complete.


    Just as Qixia thought, the goat head slowly came forward and said to the crowd, "Well, everyone has finished telling their stories, and he has written a name on the white paper in front of him."


    "Sure enough! Qixia frowned, "Sure enough, there are twenty minutes!"


    That explains everything!


    The crowd was in a bit of a panic. After all, there were only twenty minutes left before their lives were to be decided.


    Qiao Jiajin and Li Shangwu all want to vote for each other, perhaps because of the professional relationship, two people are full of hostility.


    And Zhao doctor began to question the writer Han Yi Mo, after all, Han Yi Mo''s story has nothing to do with everyone''s story.


    Lawyer Zhang and Xiao Ran seem skeptical about Qixia, while the three of them, Lin Ngo, Han Yimo and Tian Tian, are still hesitant.


    On the face of it, the liar is already winning this game.


    Because the votes were not unanimous.


    The rules are very clear: only if everyone chooses the liar can all eight survive together.


    Qixia did not participate in any discussion and silently closed her eyes.


    A million clues swirled around in his head.


    The goat''s head says, "Among storytellers, there is and only one liar."


    Goat head said, "The rules are absolute."


    "You have been asleep for twelve hours," said the goat''s head.


    Qixia opened his eyes, and now only the last piece of information, this "problem" can be solved.


    But where is that information?


    Suddenly, a bright light came to my mind.


    The lines on the wall and the floor made him instantly awake. He looked at the clock on the table again. It was almost one o ''clock now.


    "So that''s it..." Qixia widened her eyes, "Good hanging... I was a liar, but you almost fooled me."


    Everyone seems to have found Qixia strange, but this liar from the beginning rarely speak, do not know what he was thinking.


    "Hey, can I have another piece of paper?" Qixia asked goat head.


    Hearing this sentence, the goat head was obviously stunned, and then tentatively asked: "You... Another piece of paper?"


    "Yes." Qixia nodded, "I need a scratch paper."


    Goat head was silent for a long time, took out another piece of paper from his suit pocket, and gave it to Qixia.


    Qixia is also welcome, took the paper and began to calculate.


    He counted nine squares on the wall, and sixteen squares on the floor and ceiling.


    "If I''m right..." Qixia quickly wrote something, "The squares are one per square meter, which means we are now in a room three meters high, four meters long and four meters wide..."


    "Four by four by three... Forty-eight cubic meters."


    Qixia''s hand trembled slightly. "Not enough... Not enough at all..."


    They do not understand to stare at Qixia, this is clearly a problem to infer who is lying, but he started a math problem.


    I saw that he listed many vertical formulas, and finally came to the two numbers "54.6" and "49.14".


    At the sight of these two figures, Qixia''s face was deathly grey, as if trying to accept something.


    If he''s right about what he thinks, this is a terrible situation.


    His eyes were constantly flapping, and his thoughts had already flown to the clouds.


    The voices of the crowd died down.


    This man does not participate in any discussion, just has been calculating something, can he really find the "answer" to this problem?


    It was a long time before he lifted his head and looked at the crowd.


    There was a little fear, a little hesitation, a little doubt, a little confusion in that look.


    "Everybody." Qixia cleared his voice and whispered, "Originally I didn''t want to save you, but if you choose the wrong one, I will die, I absolutely can''t die here, someone is waiting for me outside, so I have to find a way out anyway." I can only give the answer here, and I hope you will hear me out."


    "What does" answer "mean, pretty boy?" Qixia nearest Qiaojia strength slightly stunned, "You know who is lying?"


    Qixia did not answer, but reached out and picked up his "identity card", and then slowly opened it in front of everyone.


    "This is the identity I drew."


    When everyone looked at the card, the words "liar" stood out.

 Chapter 9: The Inconvenient Truth

    After seeing these three words, everyone looked a little stunned.


    "I drew ''Liar.''" Qixia said slowly, "But it doesn''t matter whether this card is lifted or not, because it is not important."


    He picked them up and casually dropped them in the middle of the table.


    "If I am not mistaken, each and every one of you has a ''liar'' in your hand."


    No one moved. After a while, Officer Li asked, "So... Do you mean everyone was lying?"


    "That''s right." Qixia nodded, "You are smarter than I thought, and you have all added a little lie to your story to make it completely valid without affecting the plot logic."


    Officer Li thought for a moment and seemed to think of something.


    "If what you say is right..." Officer Li sighed meaningfully. "The problem is even more difficult."


    The crowd looked at Officer Lee again, not knowing why.


    Officer Lee continued: "According to the rules, we can only survive together if we all choose the liar, but then the liar loses. So we..."


    Doctor Zhao was the first to understand Officer Li''s meaning: "You mean... We can vote any way we want because everyone is lying, and it becomes a "must-win game" where only the person voted dies?"


    "That''s right." Officer Li nodded, "Now the best plan is to concentrate all the votes on one person, so that the loss can be minimized, after all, the rest of the people can live..."


    His words suppressed the atmosphere of the crowd to the extreme, but the goat''s head did not make any movement.


    In this light... They''re just voting for one of them to die?


    Qi Xia sighed helplessly, looked at Officer Li and said, "Officer, is it your hobby to interrupt others?" Does that give you a sense of accomplishment?"


    "What do you call that?" Officer Li frowned and replied, "I''m trying to help you out, aren''t I?"


    "I don''t need your help." Qixia said without hesitation, "Your ideas will kill everyone."


    ''What? Officer Li froze, "Why did I kill everyone?" Am I wrong? If everyone was lying, wouldn''t any vote be valid?"


    "Officer Lee, Goathead said, ''The rules are absolute,'' and ''There is and only one liar,'' do you remember?"


    "This..." Sergeant Lee paused for a moment, recalling that the goat''s head had indeed said these two words.


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    "I''m going to put it together for you now." Qi Xia said coldly, "In this game, it seems that the" liar "has a good chance of winning, because everyone feels that they are going to win, but if we vote randomly, all of us will die in the end."


    Qiaojia Jin, sitting beside Qixia, touched his flower arm and said to himself: "Because we broke the" rules "..."


    "Yes." Qi Xia nodded, "But the interesting thing about this game is that we can''t infer whether the other side is lying, as lawyer Zhang said, we can only rely on whether the respective experience is contradictory to infer, but we are not a region at all, even if the things that happen are contradictory, there is no 100% certainty that the other side is lying."


    Qi Xia looked at the crowd in deep thought, and then said: "The organizer" deliberately chose nine of us to sit here, which must have his purpose, that is to let us from a seemingly interrelated story, self-righteous to find the flaw."


    "But is that really right? How do we know that someone is lying?" Qixia sneered, "In this game, the only ''liar'' we can 100% confirm from the known clues is only this one person." What he said is completely different from where we are right now."


    Qixia took the pen, "brush" on the paper to write "people and sheep" two words.


    "I was wondering why goat Head would introduce us to such a strange name as'' human sheep ''in the first place, which seemed unnecessary. Now that I think about it, it''s part of the game."


    They slowly turned their heads to look at the "man sheep", he still did not have any action.


    Officer Lee was stunned, then shook his head. "Liar, I have a question. The goat-head rule is," Of all storytellers, one and only liar. "But he''s not telling stories."


    "No?" Qixia shrugged his shoulders, "I remember the goat head clearly said that he gathered us here to create a" God ", this is not a strange story?"


    Officer Li silently bowed his head, he felt that Qixia said is very reasonable, but always feel where strange.


    "But..." Dr. Zhao said, "All your assumptions are based on the premise that everyone is a liar, but why do you conclude that we are liars?" What if we open the cards and you''re the only one who''s a liar?"


    "You can''t be telling the truth." Qi Xia smiled wryly, looking a little desperate, "I also spent some time to verify this question, I not only know that you are lying, but also know where you tell lies."


    He pushed his scratch paper forward, then looked at the sweet beside him: "Sweet. You were "working" in the car, with your head out, and the falling billboard really hit the car and made you unconscious?"


    Sweet pressed her lips, afraid to speak.


    "Qiao Jiajin, you fell from such a high place to the billboard, is it really just" lost consciousness "?"


    Qiaojia strong silence.


    "Teacher Xiao Ran, did you really dodge that speeding car with that child?"


    Xiao Ran''s eyes dodged for a moment.


    "Dr. Zhao, in order to stabilize the environment, most of the brain operating rooms are built underground, but you said that the" ceiling "collapsed, and what does the ceiling in the basement collapse mean?"


    Doctor Zhao turned his head to one side.


    "Han Yimo, you said you had no idea what was going on, but you were most afraid of being disturbed when you were concentrating on writing. Don''t you know how you got here?"


    Han Yimo sighed slightly.


    "Lawyer Zhang, your car was hit into a crack, how deep is that crack?"


    Lawyer Zhang folded his hands and kept a blank face.


    "Officer Lee, what make of car do you drive? Can you instantly put the seat down and free yourself from the shackles of the person behind you?"


    Officer Li touched the red marks on his neck and stopped talking.


    "Ringo, your ceiling has fallen in, too. But you said your studio is on a high floor. If the upper floors start to cave in, the whole building won''t exist, right?"


    Cystoids bowed their heads deeply.


    Seeing everyone''s expressions, Qixia gritted his teeth and said:


    "Everybody, let''s face it, we''re all dead, including me."

 Chapter 10 is over?

    This time there was silence for a few minutes as everyone accepted the incredible truth.


    Moments later, Officer Li was the first to turn over his dog tag, which said "Liar."


    The people also opened their cards one by one, and all were "liars."


    "You are very good..." Lawyer Zhang cast a look of approval to Qixia, "but how did you find that we are all dead?"


    Qixia pointed to her scratch paper and said, "It''s not difficult. I keep thinking, why is the room sealed? Why are the walls and floors lined? Why is there a clock in the center of the table? And why does the Satotaurine make us force a "halftime"?"


    "A normal person''s air consumption is 0.007 cubic meters per minute, which is 0.42 cubic meters per hour. There are 10 people in this room, which means that the air consumption per hour is 4.2 cubic meters."


    "According to the Sheep-man, not only did we sleep in this room for 12 hours, but we played the game for nearly an hour. If you multiply 4.2 cubic meters by 13, you get the number "54.6."


    Qi Xia circled "54.6" on the scratch paper with a pen and said, "This is the number of air cubic meters we should consume."


    He looked around the room again and said, "But how many cubes do we have in this room?"


    The crowd followed his gaze.


    "The organizers gave us a clue. They drew lines on the walls and floor to divide them into squares, each with a side length of about one meter." Qi Xia pointed to the marks on the wall, "The number of squares on the wall is 3 by 3, the floor and roof are 4 by 4, the length, width and height of this room is 4 by 4 by 3, a total of 48 cubic meters."


    "How can a 48 cubic meter room hold 54.6 cubic meters of air?" Qixia frowned and said sadly, "After such a long time, it is reasonable to say that the air is becoming thinner, but we do not feel any lack of oxygen..."


    After pondering for a moment, Dr. Zhao took Qi Xia''s scratch paper, pointed to "49.14" and asked, "What does this number mean?"


    Qi Xia looked at Dr. Zhao with a very serious face and replied, "This is also the number of air that needs to be consumed, but the calculation is" nine people."


    "Nine people?


    Dr. Zhao froze for a moment, after all, there are clearly ten people in this room consuming air, but he calculated the number of "nine people"?


    "I made a bold assumption." Qixia deadpan said, "If the sheep-man" is not human ", then we have enough air? Obviously not enough."


    "What kind of lunatic are you?" Doctor Zhao mused, "Can you make such a strange assumption?"


    "Is it hard to understand?" Qi Xia pointed to the headless body on his right side, "Doctor Zhao, you should know skulls very well. Generally speaking, can humans crush skulls with one hand?"


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    Dr. Zhao did not answer, because he knew it was completely impossible.


    Needless to say, a human skull, even a rabbit''s, is not an easy thing to smash with one hand on a table.


    Qixia withdrew his eyes, looked at the crowd again, and said, "There is not much time, I have written down my choice, then it is up to you, but remember, as long as there is a person who answers differently from me, everyone here will be" sanctioned."


    The crowd was timid.


    A monster that can kill at will will now be voted out by them.


    Is he willing?


    Qiao Jiajin looked at the goat man with peripheral vision, found that he has no action, deep eyes from the goat mask to wear out, I do not know what to think.


    "ƒÝ home shovel, go for it!" Qiaojia strong big hand wave, also wrote down the "people sheep" two words.


    Everyone hesitated for a moment, but also wrote down the answer.


    Qixia looked around, without exception, all are "people and sheep".


    The clock struck 1 o ''clock and the game was over.


    The Sheep-man slowly stepped forward and said, "Congratulations, you survived the game of Liar.


    Before the crowd could react, the goat man pulled a pistol from his arms, turned the gun to his heart, and pulled the trigger directly.


    An unimaginably loud noise echoed through the narrow room.


    In this closed space, the sound is difficult to dissipate, and everyone feels some tinnitus.


    Then the goat covered his chest with his head and began to scream.


    The loud cry soon drowned out the echo of the shot, and the constant agitation in the room sent a chill through the hearts of everyone who called.


    The goat''s head was screaming and spitting blood, and it was a full minute or more before the sound subsided into a bitter snort.


    "Screw What the hell..." Qiao Jia Jin stared at the sheep man, "He really?"


    After another few minutes, the dull hum was no longer heard.


    Nine people in the room suddenly found that they could use strength in their legs.


    Dr. Zhao stood up first, went to the side of the goat man, reached out and touched the artery at his neck and found that it had stopped beating.


    ''Hello! Doctor Zhao shouted at the goat''s head, "The game is over, how can we get out?" "


    But a quiet corpse could not give Doctor Zhao any answer.


    The others stood up slowly.


    Nothing had changed in the room except a dead body.


    "It''s strange... Are we really dead?" Sweet seems to still struggle with this problem, she stretched out her slender palm, hard to slap himself a slap.


    ''Alas! Sweet exclaimed, "It still hurts... Why do you feel pain when you''re dead?"


    Qiao Jia strength helpless shook his head: "How, you have died before?"


    "I..." Sweet slightly stunned, "it seems that did not die..."


    "So who knows what happens when you die. From the look of things, maybe this is hell." Qiao Jiajin looked at the two bodies in the house, feeling uncomfortable, "I can not only feel the pain, but also smell the smell."


    "So what are we? A soul?" "Asked the writer Han Yimo.


    Doctor Zhao also checked his body after listening to it, and found that his heart rate, temperature, and pulse were all normal, and he was breathing normally, but he did not consume oxygen.


    It seems that death really is a mysterious thing that no medical sense can explain.


    "Whatever we are, I don''t want to be stuck in this little room for the rest of my life." Officer Lee said, "Find a way out."


    Officer Lee walked over to the goat''s head and picked up the gun that had fallen to him.


    This move startled the crowd, subconsciously away from him.


    Officer Lee skillfully pulled the chamber of the gun, looked at it, and then withdrew from the magazine, and found that the gun had only one bullet, and was now empty.


    This is both good news and bad news.


    The good thing is that they don''t have to worry about someone else getting hold of the gun and hurting someone else. The bad thing is that they can''t protect themselves from other dangers.


    And Joe is very bold, he reached out and slowly took off the mask of the goat man, and found that under the mask was a man whose face was completely rotten.


    His eyes were rolled up and there was no sign of life.


    "What a terrible face..."


    Lawyer Zhang concurred in one side.

 Chapter 11: Go On

    Chia remained in her seat, neither getting up nor looking for clues.


    He still feels a little weird.


    Also not standing up was psychologist NGO NGO Lin.


    "What are you thinking?" Ngo asked carelessly, covering her mouth and nose.


    "Me? Qixia froze, "What? Are you going to give me a psychological diagnosis?"


    "That''s not true. A man as intelligent as you is more or less mentally ill, but it''s not a situation that lends itself to therapy." Ngo ngo smiled slightly. "I just want to ask you what you''re thinking."


    Qixia pondered for a moment and said, "I''m thinking about the reason."


    "Why?"


    Qixia ignored Ringo''s attention. Instead, she called on Doctor Zhao and asked, "Doctor, how long can an average person survive being shot in the heart?"


    Dr. Zhao looked back, thought for a moment, and said, "If I remember correctly, a person who is shot in the heart will enter a state of unconsciousness within a few seconds, but since medical" death "means" brain death, "even if unconscious, the brain will continue to work for a few minutes."


    Qixia nodded: "Just now the sheep-man screamed for a few minutes, indicating that his body structure is much stronger than the average human?"


    "Yes. He was shot in the heart for several minutes before he completely lost consciousness."


    They heard Qixia and the doctor talk, couldn''t help but quiet down.


    Only because of this liar''s clear thinking, all nine people can survive.


    "Why do you think that is?" Qixia held out his index finger and thumb, compared to a gun shape, and placed it on his temple, "Ordinary people will choose to commit suicide like this."


    He thought for a moment, then pointed his hand at his jaw from the bottom up. "Or this."


    Qixia withdrew her hand and pointed to her heart:


    "Anyway... A suicidal person chooses to die in a way that causes him as little pain as possible, but why would he aim at his heart?"


    Joe''s strong hand played with the sheep''s head mask, and then turned the man''s head, said: "Maybe this sausage head is harder, a shot can not beat."


    "If he vomits blood, it proves that his body is made the same as ours." "Even if he was strong, the next shot to the head at that distance would have killed him," Li said.


    Qixia nodded: "In that case, I can only think of one reason."


    He reached out and pointed to the mask in Qiao Jiajin''s hands, and said: "The reason why the sheep man chose to shoot his heart is 80% to protect something, and the game is not over yet."


    Qiao Jia Jin startled: "You mean... Is he afraid of breaking his mask?"


    "That''s right."


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    Under the command of Qixia, Qiaojia strength turned over the sheepskin mask, the rough sheepskin lining exposed in front of everyone.


    A rotten, sour smell came from it.


    As Qixia had expected, the inside of the sheepskin mask was written in black pen.


    Just some places stained with blood, Qiaojia strength also do not care, grabbed his T-shirt wipe, handwriting can finally be recognized.


    "What the hell?" Qiao Jiajin froze for a moment and began to read the above words in his non-standard Mandarin:


    "I''m a human dog."


    "You are cursed."


    "I want you to live."


    "The clock is ticking. There is killing on all sides."


    "If you want to survive, turn a hundred times in the direction of your hometown."


    "By the way, it is said that spring shoots after rain, why spring shoots are not afraid of rain?"


    "See you after the rain."


    Qixia frowned slightly, and it was a hint for the next game...


    The shadow of death that hangs over all of us never goes away.


    They''re already dead, and they want to die again?


    "Well, liar, what does that mean?" Qiao Jia Jin asked.


    "How should I know? Qixia snorted coldly, "There are nine people here, do I have to think?"


    Zhang Chenze, a lawyer, slowly sat down on a chair and said, "Although I don''t want to admit it, your thinking is very much in line with the organizer. If you have any ideas, you should say it."


    "I..."


    Before Qixia could speak, the walls around him suddenly changed.


    In the shock of everyone''s face, a hole appeared out of thin air.


    What had been a concrete wall now looked like a constantly changing piece of software.


    A moment later, rows of holes lined up neatly on the wall as if they had been there before.


    At the same moment there was a tug of chains on all sides.


    "What''s going on?" The crowd was suddenly in a panic.


    ''Look at the roof! I don''t know who exclaimed.


    Everyone looked up and found that even the roof was dense with holes.


    Qixia finally stood up and took the sheepskin mask from Qiaojia Jin and looked carefully at the last sentence above.


    "See you after the rain."


    "The rain... ?"


    Qiaojia strength tiptoe to the wall, lie on the empty side to look, suddenly startled, consecutive back several steps.


    "I lost it!


    He cried out for a place to hide, but found that there was nowhere to hide.


    "What''s the matter? What''s in it?" Xiao Ran asked with some fear.


    Everyone know Qiaojia strength of courage has been very big, now can let him scare back again and again, must be something great.


    "I threw you old... " Joe shouted loudly. "It''s a harpoon! The hole is full of "retreating" harpoons!"


    "What do you mean, ''going backwards''?" Zhao doctor puzzled asked.


    "It should be winding up." Qixia said, "Since just now, the sound of chains has been heard from all sides. Now these harpoons are all strung and may be launched at any time."


    "Hey! Liar, you quickly think of something!" Qiaojia strength came to Qixia side, said in a hurry, "the four directions together launch words, where do we hide ah?"


    Qixia carefully thought about it, it is not difficult to live, after all, there are already two bodies on the scene.


    The penetration force of the harpoon is limited, and you only need to pile two bodies in the corner and hide yourself behind the bodies, so that although there is a possibility of injury, the survival rate is still high.


    "It''s going to be hard to keep everyone alive this time, and I need to protect myself, so I won''t be saving you anymore." Qixia said softly.


    "You..." Qiaojia strength want to speak, can only ask officer Li and doctor Zhao for help, but the two people look more at a loss.


    Qixia looked again at the signs on the sheepskin mask.


    Did I get it wrong?


    The game is not really over until the last person is left.


    If we keep everyone alive, this killing game will keep coming back.


    After all, this room is very strange, the walls can change at any time.


    This doesn''t seem to make any scientific sense, more like magic.


    But if the organizers are powerful people who can work magic, why bother them with nine dead people?


    Is this some kind of evil game played by the agency that manages ghosts?


    While Qixia was preoccupied, Ringo looked at the mask in his hand and said, "This mask... He wrote about how we would survive, saying, "Turn a hundred times in the direction of home."


    The crowd calmed down a little, and began to think about these words.


    "Do you turn around by yourself in the direction of your hometown?" "Tian Tian asked.


    "That''s not right." Qiao Jia shook his head, "In this room, how do you judge the direction of your hometown?" And turning it a hundred times will have no effect except dizziness."


    "Never mind! I''ll try first!" Sweet found a random direction and began to circle by herself.


    Qixia thought a little and knew that things could not be so simple.

 Chapter 12 Your hometown

    If the phrase "rules are absolute" still applies to this second "game," then what is written on the mask is the solution.


    But how do you crack it?


    When is the harpoon going to fire?


    "The clock never stops"...


    Is it a quarter past one?


    Qixia turned to look at the clock on the table, it was already one and a half minutes, if "one and a quarter" is the time of the harpoon launch, then there were only ten minutes left.


    "Turn a hundred times in the direction of home"...


    The hometowns of the nine people present are different, and "100 laps" is not a small number.


    If they think in the wrong direction, they will easily waste the ten minutes.


    But in this room, besides oneself, what else can "rotate"?


    Qixia''s eyes rested on the clock in the center of the table.


    He leaned out, reached out and gently stroked the clock, but found that it was firmly fixed on the table, unable to move a cent.


    "The clock won''t move. Is it a chair?"


    Qixia looked down at the chair under him, which was an old, ordinary chair with a musty smell, and it was placed on the ground casually, without any organs.


    In that case, all that remains is...


    Qixia reached out and turned the table, and sure enough, there was a faint chain sound from inside the table.


    But the table was heavy, and he could only turn it a few centimeters with great effort.


    "A hundred laps..."


    This number is definitely not only by two or three people can complete, the nine people present need to work together to turn the table, in order to have a chance of survival.


    Cystoids keenly caught Qixia''s action, then shouted to stop the crowd.


    Everyone went to the table to look at it, and found that the table could turn.


    "Good for you, liar." Qiao Jia Jin nodded and said, "Let''s turn this table a hundred times, should be able to open the invisible door."


    Qixia looked at the clock again, and though time was pressing, the question now became purer.


    Turn the round table a hundred times in the direction of "home" and there are only two answers.


    To the left or the right.


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    But the hometown of the people are seated in all directions, how can you determine left or right?


    "Chia, do you already know when the harpoons are launched?" Ngo asked, clutching her mouth and nose.


    "The sign says the time is" non-stop "and that it will be at 1:15." Qixia said softly.


    Qiao Jiajin after listening to a change of face: "That is not left less than ten minutes?" Let''s start spinning quickly."


    Dr. Zhao moved the body lying on the table to one side, sat down slowly, reached out to test the weight of the table, and said: "But we only have one chance, such a heavy table turned a hundred times, what if the wrong direction?"


    "That''s a fifty percent chance of survival!" Qiao Jiajin said in a hurry, "If you don''t move how are dead, turn up then there are 50 hope to live, seize the time!"


    Then, with all his strength, he began to turn the table to the left.


    Although Qiao Jia Jin looks thin, but his strength is very large, only one person will turn the table half a circle.


    "What are you still doing? ! I lost, help ah!" Qiaojia strength roared to everyone.


    The rest of the people know Qiao Jia strength said is reasonable, can only help him turn together for a while.


    Now there is no right answer, but a gamble.


    But Qixia never moved.


    He didn''t know where to think.


    Left or right?


    Why is the key word "hometown"?


    Everyone is Chinese, so it''s "Oriental"?


    Up north down south, left west right east, the answer is "right"?


    What about the people who live in the west?


    Or is the hometown of everyone present related to the "Zuo Zhuan" of the Spring and Autumn Period, and the answer is "Zuo"?


    Qixia''s eyes were slightly closed, and she wanted to shield herself with two corpses, but what if everyone else died and the next game came?


    "Now is not the time to give up on them."


    Qixia whispered, and then reached out, grabbed a piece of white paper from the rotating table, picked up the pen, stood up and walked to the side, he found an open space to sit down, began to "brush" to write something.


    Although the crowd is a little puzzled, but the hand action is still not stopped, so far has turned the table more than a dozen circles.


    "If he hadn''t introduced himself as a liar, I''d have thought the guy was a mathematician." Qiaojia strength to the side of the sweet said.


    Sweet just spin a little dizzy, can only perfunctory nodded.


    This time, Qixia did not list vertical forms, but drew a general map of the country on paper.


    "My hometown... ?"


    His mind was racing and something suddenly occurred to him.


    "Wait, wait..." Qi Xia widened his eyes, "If the magic of the" host "is so vast, you can find people with similar experiences from so many provinces, then" province "is also a key point?"


    He turned around, looked at the people who were rotating the table, and asked seriously, "Did any of you just lie about your hometown?"


    Everyone shook their heads.


    After all, "hometown" involves accent and expression habits, and lies are easy to reveal.


    "Very good." Qixia nodded slightly, "Now please take turns to tell me your hometown again."


    Officer Li was the first to say, "I''m from Inner Mongolia."


    Qi Xia reached out and drew a black dot on the location of Inner Mongolia.


    "I''m from Sichuan." Lawyer Zhang Chenze said coldly.


    "I''m in Shaanxi..." "Said Sweet.


    "Dali, Yunnan Province." Kindergarten teacher Xiao Ran said.


    "Guangdong." Qiao Jiajin said.


    "People from Ningxia." Ngo Shi, the psychologist.


    "I work in Jiangsu." "Said Doctor Zhao.


    Qi Xia marked their hometown on the map one by one, and wrote his own "Shandong".


    At the moment, all eyes are on the writer Han Yimo, because he never mentioned his hometown from the beginning.


    "Han Yimo, are you from Guangxi or Taiwan?"


    Han Yimo froze and asked, "How do you know?"


    "Time is of the essence. Answer me first."


    "I''m from Guangxi..."


    Qixia nodded, at this time left Han Yimo only two provinces.


    Guangxi Province and Taiwan Province.


    If his answer is not one of these two, he is telling a big lie.


    Fortunately, he told the truth.


    Qixia also marked the last province on the map, and now there are nine black dots on the sketch.


    "Sure enough."


    Qixia whispered, "Stop and turn right."


    "Right?"


    Qixia ran quickly to the table, threw the white paper on the table, and began to turn the table in the opposite direction.


    The crowd, although somewhat puzzled, also followed him.


    Doctor Zhao looked at the map and the nine black dots on the table.


    "Why ''right''?"

 Chapter 13: A Rain

    "The positions of ''Ningxia'' and ''Shandong'' can be connected in a horizontal line," Qi Xia said while trying to turn the table.


    "Inner Mongolia", "Sichuan" and "Yunnan" can be connected into a "skimming"."


    "And the four points of" Guangxi ", "Guangdong", "Shaanxi" and "Jiangsu" can be connected into a square, which is the word "right"."


    "No matter where Han Yimo''s hometown is in the end, as long as it is either Guangxi Province or Taiwan Province, it will form the word ''Kou'', so the answer is determined from the beginning."


    They all accelerated the action in hand, while showing strange eyes.


    Qixia''s thinking is too jump, but it opened the mystery twice in a row, which can not help but let everyone begin to doubt it.


    Qixia himself also understood this, so he opened his mouth and said to everyone: "Don''t misunderstand, if the next game is to abandon you to survive, I will also resolutely let myself survive."


    Hearing him say this, the crowd could only be silent, and turned the table with clenched teeth.


    Nine people sitting around the table, constantly fiddling to the right.


    "How many laps?" Qiao Jia Jin asked.


    "Twenty-six laps." Cystoids replied.


    "Can you count that, too?" Qiao Jia Jin blinked his eyes, "This table looks the same."


    "I counted it by looking at the blood on the table." "Counting is important to us therapists," Lin says earnestly.


    Qixia frowned: "Less than thirty circles, we have to hurry."


    Then they became quiet and quickened their hands.


    But the more difficult it became to move the table, it seemed that the internal chain was getting tighter.


    "I lost, what happened?" "Said Joe, gritting his teeth." This is too heavy."


    "Come on... Maybe it''s connected to a door!" Sweet also grinned and said.


    Her words let everyone see a glimmer of hope in the despair.


    Doors.


    If this room can be made out of thin air, why can''t it be made out of thin air?


    Everyone''s arms were a little sore, but they still turned the table round and round.


    "Don''t give up! Five laps to go!" Ngo shouted.


    Everyone at this moment is clenching their teeth to make strength, no one dares to relax.


    "Kara, Kara."


    As the final lap ended, it was clear that the table had been set into something.


    Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the pain in their arms gradually emerged.


    It''s only three minutes to a quarter past one.


    "And the door? " Joe''s family let out a cry of great anxiety.


    The walls around him remained unchanged, and the cold glow of the icy harpoons could be seen in the dark void.


    "I lost it! There is no door!" There was a hint of despair in Joe''s strong voice.


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    "Wrong! We guessed wrong!" Xiao Ran screamed, "You should turn left, right? ! We shouldn''t have trusted that liar! We''re all going to die here!!"


    Qixia frowns slightly...


    A mistake?


    Waiting for everyone to react, the clock in the center of the table suddenly began to look different.


    It wobbled a little, then fired eight lasers.


    Eight laser beams emanate from the clock and gradually move to the edge of the table.


    In the confusion of the crowd, the clock divided the table into nine equally sized slices as accurately as pizza.


    "Clatter!"


    There was a loud bang and the table fell apart.


    The central clock now stood on a small stake.


    Time is so tight, everyone is scrambling.


    "What is it? Han Yimo exclaimed, "Why is the table broken?"


    Officer Li now noticed that there were handles on the back of each fan-shaped table, and years of professional experience made him understand what was happening in an instant.


    "It''s a shield!"


    He picked up the scalloped table top and held it in front of him.


    "We can use this shield to stop the harpoons!"


    Hearing this, the crowd also raised their tables.


    But it only took a few seconds for everyone to figure out what was wrong.


    "How do we stop it? " Lawyer Zhang Chenze rarely showed a hint of panic, "If there are harpoons on all sides, we can only block one direction ah."


    "Be cooperative." Qixia recovered her voice and said, "We formed a circle and covered each other''s backs."


    After listening to the crowd quickly adjusted the formation, quietly waiting.


    All they could hear was each other''s breathing.


    Nine strangers now become teammates, indispensable.


    Qixia inadvertently looked back at the writer Han Yimo at this time, and found that his face was full of fine sweat, and he was shaking all over, and he looked particularly nervous.


    A bell rang again in the distance outside the room.


    "Are you all right? Qixia asked.


    "Nothing, nothing..." Han Yimo shook his head.


    "Hey! Dr. Zhao, turn your desk upside down!" Zhang Chenze suddenly opened his mouth to say.


    ''Why? Dr. Zhao looked at the table in his hands, his sharp head at the bottom and his broad head at the top.


    "You can''t stop my legs like that!" Zhang Chenze said nervously, "I will be shot!"


    "I can''t cover my head upside down!" Dr. Zhao is not to be outdone, "Is the head important or the leg important?"


    Some people heard the quarrel between the two people and felt that Dr. Zhao''s words were quite reasonable, and they actually turned the fan over at the moment.


    Pointy head down, broad head up.


    This creates a strange situation.


    That is, the harpoons coming from all directions will only get caught in the top half, and everyone''s legs will be broken.


    "Is that really right?" Xiao Ran froze for a moment, "Even if we can hide our legs in the pointy end and block the front, but what about the harpoon flying behind us?" What about the harpoon flying from the sky?"


    "I''ll block the top!" Officer Li held up his desk. "Come closer, I''ll protect you."


    "Let''s give each of us the chance to shuffle off the shelves," Lin said, musing quickly.


    "Yes! That makes sense!" Qiao Jiajin also echoed.


    "No." Qixia interrupted the two people, "If everyone''s table is perpendicular to the harpoon, it is too easy to be penetrated..."


    "Pretty boy, what do you say?" Qiao Jia Jin asked.


    Qixia''s eyes rested on the sheepskin mask on the ground.


    "Why are bamboo shoots not afraid of rain?"


    The last hint made Qixia think.


    "Wait, wait... Just give me more time." Qixia frowned.


    The crowd held their breath as the minutes ticked by, and there was only one minute left before the harpoon was launched.


    "Never mind him!" Doctor Zhao gave a cold drink. "Let''s give it to me randomly according to what Lin has said."


    "Keep your voice down!" Qiao Jiajin also shouted, "I believe what the liar said."


    ''You! Doctor Zhao gritted his teeth and swallowed back the words.


    "I got it! Qixia suddenly widened her eyes, "Everyone pointed up!"


    There was some suspicion, but most people''s minds were blank and they had to do it for the time being.


    Doctor Zhao thought for a moment and turned his pointy head upside down.


    "Everybody bend down!" Qixia continued, "Move the prongs back and lean together. Officer Lee, you don''t have to block the top anymore. Come with us! "


    Under the command of Qixia, all the fans were slowly juxtaposed to form a cone.


    No one could have imagined that all the fan segments were so tightly closed that they blocked the space in all directions and directly above.


    From a distance, the vertebral body is like a bamboo shoot, waiting for the arrival of a heavy rain.


    The nervous heart of the crowd in the dark space "thumping" straight beat, only the sound of breathing echoed between the people.


    "Coming..."


    Qixia heart calculate time, open a whisper.


    The next second, they only heard the wind burst, an invisible thing hard hit the table in the hands of Qixia.


    Then the noise came from all sides like a storm.


    The force of the harpoon was surprisingly large, and they only felt their arms were shocked and painful, and they were about to hold the table.


    Fortunately, everyone''s tables were now pushed together, creating a delicate balance.


    ''Ah!


    The table in front of Xiao Ran was suddenly pierced by a harpoon, making her scream.


    Qixia looked back and found that the harpoon stopped only two or three centimeters away from Xiao Ran''s eyes.


    Fortunately, the table was hard enough, or Xiao Ran would be dead by now.

 Chapter 14: After the Rain

    "Hold on! Officer Li shouted, "The number of harpoons is limited, hold on a little longer we will survive!"


    Before they could answer, another scream was heard.


    Turned his head to look, was sweet.


    She was not as lucky as Xiao Ran, and the penetrating harpoon pierced her palm.


    Sweet lost strength for a while, and the table in front of her was also knocked sideways by the whistling harpoon.


    ''Be careful!


    Qiaojia strength a bite, reach out to grab the table in front of sweet.


    In this gap, a harpoon accurately flew in from the gap, through Han Yi Mo''s shoulder.


    Han Yimo cried out in pain, but his hand still held the table tightly.


    ''Don''t panic!


    Officer Li reached out his hand to help Han Yimo, then separated his hands and held half the table for him.


    Qiao Jia strength also made a quick decision, hand for sweet hold the table.


    Fortunately, these two men were very strong, and the whole formation began to stabilize again.


    As the noise of the collision gradually subsided, everyone understood how reasonable this formation was.


    If, as Officer Li and Doctor Zhao thought, the table was placed in the hands of the people, then the table and the harpoon would be vertical and extremely easy to penetrate.


    Now the "spring up after a rain" shape will make the contact surface of the harpoon in five directions and the table board become inclined, and the penetration force of the harpoon is greatly reduced.


    In particular, the harpoons flying from the top have changed their course because of the conical nature of the moment.


    After a while, there was no sound outside the table.


    "Is it over?" Han Yimo gritted his teeth and asked.


    "Just one more minute." Qixia answered.


    They held up the table and waited for another minute, and found that there was no movement outside.


    Joe gingerly moved a gap and looked out.


    "I lost..." He was instantly stunned by what he saw.


    They also slowly moved the table and found that the ground and the table were almost filled with harpoons.


    And the two bodies on the ground is even more terrible to see, now like two hedgehogs, densely filled with thorns.


    Each harpoon was connected by a rope, and the other end of the rope was connected to the hole in the wall.


    Doctor Zhao decided to roll up his sleeves, came to Han Yi Mo side.


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    He''s in critical condition. The harpoon is through his shoulder and needs immediate attention.


    Han Yimo slowly sat down and gave a bitter smile: "Just now I was thinking that I would not be so unlucky, I did not think that I was really caught..."


    Sweet expression is very guilty, she quickly apologized to Han Yimo.


    But everyone knew that this was not a sweet problem, she was also harpoon pierced the palm.


    "Hey, pretty girl, come here." Joe beckoned, "I can wrap it for you."


    "Huh?" Sweet one stunned, "You will bandage?"


    "A little bit."


    Qiaojiajin tore off a suit cloth from the dead goat head, and tore the cloth into two pieces.


    One was tied tightly around the sweet arm to stop the bleeding, the other carefully wrapped around the wound.


    "I used to get hurt a lot when I was on the street, so I learned to dress myself." Qiao Jiajin said.


    Sweet slightly nodded, no words.


    After coming here, everyone is rarely quiet, as if they have temporarily escaped the shadow of death.


    But there was still no door around, and the damn room kept them trapped.


    What the hell is this place?


    What''s outside the room?


    In less than a minute, a sigh came from Dr. Zhao''s direction.


    Qixia turned to look, is to Han Yi ink wound treatment zhao doctor at the moment unexpectedly a face difficult.


    ''What''s the matter? ''Officer Li asked.'' Are you badly hurt? ''


    "It wasn''t badly hurt." Dr. Zhao shook his head, "Only I can''t get the harpoon off."


    The people moved forward and found that the problem was indeed very difficult.


    The tip of the harpoon is a barb, and pulling it out will cause more damage to the victim.


    And the end of the harpoon is connected to the rope.


    At this moment, Han Yi Mo is like a fish that has been shot, no matter where it swims, it will be held by this rope.


    "Had to cut the rope and pull the harpoon out through the front." Doctor Zhao looked up and said, "But I have no sharp weapon at hand."


    Han Yimo''s lips are a little white at the moment, and the harpoon running through his shoulder blades makes him painful.


    "Just use another harpoon." Officer Li said immediately, "Although the harpoon is pointed, it is also a sharp weapon."


    "It''s the only way." Dr. Zhao also nodded, "Writer, I want you to choose a most relaxed posture to lie down, we need to cut the rope on your back, you don''t worry, take your time." Watch your front harpoon and be careful not to get hurt twice."


    Han Yimo nodded and began to move his body with difficulty.


    Qixia looked at this scene always feel some sense of violation.


    Take it slow?


    Is there really time for that on this occasion?


    He looked at the rope on the floor, and a sense of foreboding came into his mind.


    If they''re right, they''re still racing against the clock.


    "You can''t take it slow! Qixia suddenly said, "Take off his harpoon at once!"


    He walked quickly to the doctor''s side and said to Han Yimo seriously, "You bear with me, I will pull out the harpoon for you now!"


    Han Yi Mo some puzzled, but did not refuse.


    "What are you doing? " Doctor Zhao tired of pushing a Qixia, "you will make his injury worse!"


    ''There is no time! He''ll really die if he waits any longer!" Qixia also pushed Zhao doctor, from behind a catch Han Yi ink back harpoon.


    A terrible cry was heard.


    Harpoons with barbs are easy to penetrate, but harder to remove.


    ''Hello! At this moment, Officer Li also ran over, pulled Qi Xia away and shouted angrily, "Are you going to kill people?"


    Qixia was blocked twice, and her face became ugly.


    "I understand you want to save people, but if you don''t hurry, the harpoon will..."


    Before Qixia finished, the sound of the chain around him rang again, as if some huge organ had started again.


    Followed by Han Yi ink''s heart-wrenching screams.


    They then returned to their senses and found that all the harpoons were slowly recovered under the traction of the rope.


    And Han Yi Mo on the ground is also being dragged by a huge force at the moment.


    Qixia discovered this long ago, the rope on the harpoon is not a decoration, they will sooner or later take the harpoon back.


    All the panic followed Han Yimo ran, during the police officer Li tried to pull the rope, against the huge power between the black holes, but in the end it was in vain.


    The harpoon table on the ground was gradually torn apart by the harpoon and began to retreat.


    This kind of force that can tear wood is definitely not a bare hand.


    Although the pain was unbearable, Han Yimo soon discovered another problem.


    If you are pulled to the wall, but still not free from the harpoon, the whole person will be firmly nailed to the wall and wait for death.


    Thinking of this, he stood up painfully, grabbed Qixia again, and said one word at a time: "Help me take down the harpoon!" Take it off now!"

 Chapter 15 An Open wave

    Qixia expression is a little difficult, just he has tried to try, this harpoon barb is very delicate, it is difficult to pull out of the body.


    Looking at the gurgling blood, Qixia was in a trance.


    Are they really dead?


    The dead people... Will it hurt, too?


    Now was not the time to think about it, but to cut the rope at once.


    Now that all the harpoons are slowly backing away, how do you cut his rope with the others?


    The only thing that is certain is that when the rope is all back into the wall, the harpoon will all disappear and Han Yimo will die.


    "To get a harpoon... But what is to be done..." Qixia frowned slightly and looked around quickly.


    I have to take another gamble.


    He grabbed the two harpoons slowly retreating from the ground and quickly tied their ropes together in a dead knot.


    "Hey! Don''t surround Han Yimo anymore." Qixia began, "All do as I do! We must leave at least one harpoon."


    Ngo Ngo immediately understood his meaning. She also found two harpoons and tied a knot neatly.


    But the knot she tied was of a strange shape, and Qixia had never seen it before.


    He had no time to think, but could only stare at the two harpoons in front of him.


    With the continuous contraction of the rope, the two ropes are now tightly pulled together.


    At this rate, it won''t be long before one of the ropes breaks, leaving one of them.


    Qixia slowly back back, the two ropes now made a terrible sound, if he guessed right, in this huge pull under the break of the rope may hurt people.


    Sure enough, the next second, one of the ropes made a loud noise and broke.


    The other rope also took the harpoon in the air without rules for a few disorderly dance, and then violently dumped on the ground, leaving a deep mark.


    Qixia ran forward, trying to untie the broken rope before the harpoon reached the wall.


    But now it was found that the two ropes previously tied together had been completely deformed due to the huge pulling force, and it was not necessary to untie the rope, even the shape of the rope was difficult to identify.


    ''I''m all right! "Whoever is strong, please go and help me cut the writer''s rope."


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    "All right?


    Looking back, Qixia found that the knots the trees had made were so ingenious that they separated automatically when the ropes broke.


    Officer Li had not even tied the knot at the beginning, and after hearing this sentence, he quickly put down his harpoon and said, "I''ll cut it, give it to me!"


    After taking the harpoon, Officer Li took three steps and made two steps, and came behind Han Yimo just as he was about to be pulled against the wall.


    Fortunately, although the harpoon in this hand looks pointed, it also has a small blade at the tip, enough to be used as a knife.


    Qiaojia strength also came forward to help, although Qixia has thought of the way in the first time, but Han Yi ink has been less than half a meter from the wall.


    The pain of this tear makes Han Yi Mo unable to resist, he can only follow the rope slowly back, otherwise the barb in the chest will make him miserable.


    Officer Li grabbed the rope behind him, thought briefly, aimed at the rope closest to Han''s body, and began cutting it with a sharp harpoon.


    His hand was steady, and every cut was right on the rope.


    But the rope was stronger than expected, and after several cuts only a small gap was left.


    He did a quick eye survey and found things a little tricky.


    This rope is bound to be cut sooner or later, but time is the last thing we need.


    In less than a minute, Han Yimo''s body will come into contact with the wall, making it impossible to cut the rope from behind.


    "I lost, still not good?" Qiaojia strength some anxious asked, "you slow, to kill this sausage!"


    "Don''t beep! Officer Li gave a cold drink, and then continued to increase his strength.


    As Han Yimo''s body got closer and closer to the wall, Officer Li''s face was already full of fine sweat.


    It has to be said that his psychological quality is very strong, although the air is full of tension and depression, but he used that small harpoon not even a mistake, each knife cut on the previous gap.


    But seeing Han Yimo less than 30 centimeters away from the wall, Officer Li''s arm has been difficult to move.


    Qiaojia strong eyes and hands, directly block behind Han Yi ink, with his own body cushion him. In this way, although Han Yimo will be hurt prematurely, the distance between him and the wall will not change in a short time.


    "A cop! Quickly!"


    Officer Lee caught his breath and continued to cut. The rope was now mostly broken, but still held together.


    Han Yimo constantly wailed in pain, and the harpoon pierced his chest with a barb after running through his body, at this time his blood had been stained with clothes, which looked very frightening.


    "Am I going to die..." Han Yimo gritted his teeth and said, "I really am going to die... Who is trying to kill us..."


    "Be a man!" Officer Li said seriously, "So many people are trying to save you, don''t give me crying!"


    Han Yi Mo heard this sentence immediately stopped, he knew that Officer Li was right, now everyone is running around here, he can not drag everyone''s back legs.


    Barb deep into Han Yi Mo''s flesh and blood, he issued a dull hum, constantly gnawing teeth.


    Doctor Zhao immediately picked up a piece of cloth and shoved it in his mouth.


    After all, people may break their teeth in extreme pain.


    All around Han Yi Mo side.


    Twenty seconds seemed like hours, and Officer Lee cut the rope without any trouble.


    Finally, with the last hand rise and fall of the knife, the strong rope was divided.


    At the same moment, Han Yi ink and Qiao Jia Jin all because of the loss of strength and fall to the ground.


    People around them immediately stepped forward to help them.


    Looks like Han Yimo saved his life.


    Zhao doctor immediately took Han Yi Mo to one side, began to examine his wound. At this point, his wounds are as expected, and the harpoon still needs to be removed from the front.


    Now the most difficult problem is to stop the bleeding.


    Zhao doctor thought for a long time, and finally used a few pieces of cloth to block the wound near Han Yi ink harpoon.


    "Well, Doctor, aren''t you going to take the harpoon off?" Qiao Jia Jin asked.


    "You can''t take it. He''ll die if you do." Doctor Zhao looked grim said.


    "Dead?" Qiaojia strength some doubts, went forward to push a doctor Zhao, "what?" We went to all this trouble, and you didn''t help?"

 Chapter 16: One incident after another

    Although they do not understand what medical knowledge, but also generally understand the meaning of Doctor Zhao.


    Now it''s easy for them to disengage the harpoon, hard to stitch up a wound.


    "Now that the writer''s life is saved, the only thing we have to do is get out of here quickly and find a place where we can re-treat his wounds."


    Zhao doctor a word will pull the thoughts of the people back to reality.


    If they can''t get out of this weird room, they''ll end up like Han Yimo.


    "But how do I leave? Is the game over?" Cystoids asked, covering her mouth and nose.


    Qixia thought carefully and shook her head.


    The mask had just made it clear that the man named "Man-dog" wanted them to live and said, "See you after the rain."


    Logically speaking, after this storm of harpoon random shooting, the so-called "human dog" will appear, he may bring the next game.


    But why didn''t he show himself?


    "Hey, liar." Qiaojia strength slowly walked to Qixia side, a serious face asked, "you have a way to live, right?"


    ''Why? Qixia answered coldly, "What does it matter to you whether I can live or not?"


    "I''m not as smart as you, so I have to find someone to work with." Qiao Jiajin seems to recommend himself, "You have the brain, I have the strength, let''s cooperate."


    Qixia frowned slightly when she heard this.


    "I''m sorry I''m a liar. I''m not going to trust anyone but myself."


    Wait for Qiaojia strength to speak again, Li police officer suddenly came a question.


    "What is this?


    After listening to the crowd turned to look, but found that Officer Li is now carefully examining the harpoon in his hands.


    ''What''s the matter?


    Doctor Zhao approached Officer Li and asked cautiously.


    "There are words." Officer Li handed the harpoon to Doctor Zhao.


    Dr. Zhao took it and looked at it, and his face changed, and the tail of the harpoon with the thickness of his fingers was indeed small words:


    "I am a" human sheep ", can see this paragraph, means you survived."


    "But how many of you will survive?"


    "Is anyone hurt?"


    "I''m really worried about you."


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    "I can''t let you die."


    "A quarter of an hour later, death fell again."


    "Avoid them and find a way to survive."


    Doctor Zhao gritted his teeth and then slammed the harpoon to the ground.


    "When I shriveled color is it! It never ends!" He growled loudly, as if he wanted to release all the emotions he had repressed so far.


    "Calm down!" "If you can''t control your emotions, how are you going to survive?"


    "To live... ? But we''re already dead!!" Dr. Zhao finally could not stand, "We are already dead, but also be tortured by the fear of death, what does the" sponsor "want? ! Can''t he just kill us or let us go?"


    Everyone''s face is a little ugly at this time, yes, this wave of death threats, what do you want to do?


    Is it true, as the sheep-man said, to select a "God"?


    Is it true that only one person will become "God" and the rest will go to hell?


    "Guys, we''ve lived through two" games, "do you think you''re smart? Not yet!" Doctor Zhao clenched his fist hard, "We are so lucky! But what about next time? What about the next one? How long can we live in this ever-changing room? "


    Officer Li pursed his lips, stepped forward, reached out his hand and grabbed Dr. Zhao''s collar. "Hey... Dude! At such a critical moment, the most important thing is "morale"! If you don''t want to live, you can die! Do not shake the hearts of the army here!"


    "I... " Dr. Zhao''s lips trembled slightly. "But how are we going to get out? Is there any way you can get us out?"


    Officer Li pondered for a moment and said, "I don''t have a way, I just know to survive!" As long as you survive, there is hope."


    He let go of his grip on Dr. Zhao, went to one side and picked up the harpoon to look at it, and then went to Han Yimo and looked at the harpoon on his shoulder, and found that the two harpoons had the same words.


    It seems that their luck is very good indeed.


    Just this level not only to avoid the deadly attack, but also to leave at least one harpoon to know the clues of the next level.


    "Anyway, this at least gives us a clear lead." Officer Lee read the words on the harpoon carefully and said, "Unlike before, this attack will only come from above."


    He pointed to the small words on the harpoon that read "Death falls again."


    As he spoke, the whole room changed again.


    All the holes in the walls were now slowly disappearing, and the countless holes in the ceiling were beginning to shift shape and position.


    Only nine were left.


    Three holes in each row, three rows in total.


    "It looks like the game is getting easier." Officer Li looked at the nine holes in the ceiling and said with a sigh, "This is the silver lining."


    "But why did it become a" human sheep "this time?" Lawyer Zhang pointed to a body on the ground that had been torn apart by a harpoon and asked, "Weren''t the people and sheep already killed by us?"


    Qixia thought for a moment and felt very strange.


    The man who just died called himself "Man-goat," but his mask said, "I am a Man-dog."


    Now sheep, now dog.


    Is that one of the clues?


    "There''s not much time." Sergeant Lee opened his mouth and said, "It''s already one twenty-three minutes, and it won''t be long before those nine holes in the sky shoot down the harpoon." Let''s take our tables and stand against the wall."


    By this time most of the tables on the floor had fallen apart, and only a few small ones were barely functional.


    Fortunately, the nine holes in the ceiling are all clustered in the center, and it seems that the wall is safe.


    Everyone silently went to the ground to pick up the broken table, came to the wall and stood scattered, away from the central hole.


    And now Qixia did not move, and slowly closed her eyes.


    In every way, the third game is too strange.


    Because the "sponsor" gave the solution very directly.


    In Qixia''s view, this time the prompt is very unnecessary.


    Do you want them dead or do you want them alive?


    Why separate "human sheep" and "human dog"?


    If "human sheep" and "human dog" are not names, what do they mean?


    "Hey, liar, come here!" Joe shouted loudly, "You are standing in the hole


    "Death... ?" Qixia looked coldly at the hole in the sky, "I can''t die here, I have a reason to go out."


    "What''s going on... Does it look like the smartest people have turned into two or five?" Qiaojia strength some dont understand.


    Qixia reached out her index finger and gently tapped her temple.


    "Wait... Wait a minute... Just give me more time."


    Everyone even breathing slowed down, quietly looking at Qixia in the center of the room, and everyone did not understand what place such an obvious game needed to think repeatedly.

 Chapter 17 The Sheep and the Dog

    "Sheep and dogs..." Qixia narrowed her eyes and thought about everything carefully.


    At first, the self-proclaimed "man and sheep" wanted them to kill each other, but now the "man and sheep" said that they were very worried about them, and that they could not watch them die.


    "Isn''t that a lie..."


    Suddenly, there was a flash of light in Qixia''s mind.


    Yes, I have!


    This is it!


    Lies!


    All this is the same direction as Qixia envisioned, "sheep" and "dog" are not names at all, but "game types"!


    "Sheep" high probability represents the story of "Wolf is coming", the sheep children because of lying many times and no one to save, so "sheep" is a "lying class" game.


    And "dog" represents loyalty, which is a "cooperative" game. Just like in the harpoon game, if they had not worked together, none of them would be alive by now.


    Qixia picked up the harpoon again and looked, and he knew that the "sheep" might lie when explaining the rules.


    But which of these short sentences is a lie?


    "I can''t watch you die," if that''s a lie...


    "Wait a minute..." Qixia slowly opened his eyes, "This paragraph is not an" answer ", but a trap to kill everyone."


    ''What are you talking about? Qiaojia strength dont understand asked.


    "This is all a lie!" Qixia said decisively, "Standing by the wall will" die ", standing in the hole


    Doctor Zhao and Officer Li looked at each other, not knowing what Qixia was trying to express.


    "Remember, guys? Sheep can lie!" Qixia stood in the center of the room, trying to get everyone close to him, "We follow the rules he said, we will eventually kill ourselves, this is the difference between" sheep "and" dogs "!"


    "But is that really reasonable?" Xiao Ran asked a little timidly, "In the whole room, only the top of your head has a hole, how can you think that it is the most dangerous place..."


    Qixia did not understand this point.


    What could fall from a hole in the top of the head that would kill the man on the wall?


    "Well..." Qixia thought again and changed his statement, "No problem, after the end of this pass, we have a great probability of getting out, so you can choose according to your own ideas."


    "How do you know we can get out?" Officer Li asked warily.


    "Because in this tip, there is no" preview "of the next game." Qixia replied, "There are two possibilities. Either it means that this is the last game, or the organizer has a good chance of killing us all in this game."


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    The faces of the people were heavy after hearing this, but there was no reply.


    "I''ll be standing here anyway." Qixia pointed to his feet again, "As for how you choose, it''s up to you."


    After listening to Qixia''s words, Qiao Jiajin slowly came to his side and said: "I said it, I believe you."


    "But I''m a liar." Qixia answered coldly.


    "It doesn''t matter."


    Ringo mused about it, covering her mouth and nose, and stroked toward the center of the room.


    "Hey! What do you do?" Xiao Ran shouted against the wall, "Do you really believe him?"


    Ngo Lin nodded slightly. "Yes," she said. "Think about it. Who have we lived with?"


    Xiao Ran after listening to a startled, suddenly felt that the ringo said quite reasonable, after a moment of ideological struggle also followed up.


    Han Yi Mo covered the wound on his shoulder with his hand and walked over.


    "Your name is... Chia, right? And I believe you."


    Sweet, Zhang Chenze followed the past.


    Only Dr. Zhao and Officer Li were left clinging to the wall.


    "Hey, aren''t you coming?" "Cried Sweet.


    "I..." Dr. Zhao looked hesitant, as if he had not decided what to do.


    "There''s no need to force people." Qixia put out his hand to swing, "this pass does not involve cooperation, as long as they can survive."


    The clock on the ground gradually came to one twenty-eight.


    Officer Li squinted at Qixia.


    He did not think that the liar would choose to die at this moment, but why did he stand in the hole with everyone


    Ringo read their thoughts and asked them: "Qixia doesn''t seem to be lying. Do you want to come here?"


    "You can see that? ''Officer Li whispered.


    "That''s right." Ringo nods. "Because of my job, I can always tell if someone is lying or not."


    "In that case..." Police Officer Li and Doctor Zhao glanced at each other. "Some professionals have asked us. We believe you," they said silently to Lin.


    Despite these words, the two of them still clutched the shattered table in their hands.


    Two people walk to something under the hole, the first time can also be prepared.


    "You guys are pretty calculating." Joe''s all cursing and trying to pick up a table.


    Qixia glance at the time, pull Joe home strength.


    "Don''t go, it''s too late."


    Just as the words stopped, the clock struck one thirty, and there was a loud sound of chains on the roof, as if some unseen thing were winding.


    "Is that all right, liar?" Qiao Jiajin some timid look up, always feel the scene is a bit like gambling, but the cost of gambling is a little big, is nine lives.


    Qixia shook her head: "I also guess, just see if I can guess right."


    Suddenly, the whole room shook a little, so that the nine people''s hearts tightened.


    Tian Tian subconsciously moved closer to the direction of Officer Li and Doctor Zhao.


    Qixia looked up and stared at the nine holes leaning together, a pair of eyes seemed to see through the darkness and find the mystery hidden in it.


    The next second, something dark from the nine holes suddenly burst out, and everyone was scared and quickly closed their eyes.


    Only Qixia saw clearly the true face of those dark things.


    Nine old, dirty pieces of twine.


    He reached out and took a piece of twine in his hand.


    The twine is about two fingers thick, just enough to hold firmly.


    "It''s broken..." Qixia''s face changed, "It''s worse than I imagined."


    They slowly opened their eyes and found that the front was a rope with a rotten smell.


    "What''s going on?"


    Before a few people asked to understand the current situation, Qixia immediately shouted: "Hold on to the rope!!"


    Three or four people who responded quickly immediately reached out and held the rope, and the rest of them followed suit and reached out and grabbed it.


    Qixia turned to look, Han Yi ink due to right shoulder injury, at the moment can only use the left hand to hold the rope weak.


    "No, you..."


    Qixia just want to open to say what, the floor under the feet of the people crashed into powder.


    ''Ah!


    "I lost it!


    A cry of horror broke out at the same moment.


    Their bodies led to the next fall, and thanks to the rope in their hands, they did not fall directly.


    Han Yi Mo biting teeth, holding the rope with his left hand, but he has begun to lose blood, the strength of the body is losing, at the moment Qixia helplessly watching his left hand bit by bit loose.

 Chapter 18: Right and Wrong

    The nine men were now swinging like chandeliers from the ceiling, pulled by a rope.


    Ringo''s heart shivered when she looked down.


    Underneath is a hole about ten meters deep.


    If you had not caught the rope, you would have fallen to your death.


    "Now, writer, hold fast!" Qiaojia strength at this time also found Han Yi ink is constantly slipping down, don feel anxious, "How powerless you are at the critical moment?"


    "I..." Han Yi Mo''s face is full of difficulty, but his left hand is still loose.


    Joe home strength from Han Yi Mo is very close, immediately loosen one hand, grabbed his rope, wrapped around his waist, but he has only one hand, in any case, not tightly wrapped.


    Officer Li also reached out to help, and the two men, one hand at a time, tied the end of Han Yimo''s rope to his waist.


    They were about to breathe a sigh of relief when they heard another dull snort.


    Looking around, sweet could not help but cry out, at this time a few talents remembered her hand has been injured.


    But the girl seemed very tolerant, and did not snort until her own blood was covered with the rope.


    Her right hand loosened, only with one left hand to grasp the rope, but the girl''s strength is small, want to use one hand to prop up the weight of the whole body is even more difficult, so suddenly slide down.


    Qixia''s face changed and immediately reached out and grabbed her injured wrist.


    A short touch, he found that sweet thin body has been slightly trembling, wrist is also very cold.


    "Yo, liar, you''re not bad." Qiaojia strength opened his mouth to say.


    Qixia sighed helplessly and said: "I just don''t want to see the dead body anymore, you don''t think too much."


    As the minutes passed, everyone''s arms began to ache.


    It''s not easy for anyone to hang for a long time, and even Officer Lee''s forehead began to sweat.


    "How long do we have to hang? Cystoids asked one side of Qixia.


    "I don''t know." Qixia answered in a deep voice.


    He knows that there is no "next game" hint, but people still see no hope.


    If the organizers had been a little more ruthless and let the people hang, it would only be a matter of time before they died.


    But...


    Is there really no hint for the next game?


    Qixia heart some drumming.


    Could there be some unknown hint hiding out of sight?


    He looked down at the ground below, and if there was a hint, it would be down there somewhere.


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    "Huh?"


    As he looked out, there were new walls at the bottom because of the collapse of the ground, and in the wall at the bottom corner, there appeared to be a door.


    But that door is really out of reach for everyone.


    They were still about ten meters from the floor at the bottom, and there was no way they could jump unharmed from that height.


    Cystoids followed Qixia''s gaze for a long time and found problems, too.


    "Is it a door?


    After hearing this, they looked down and found the old wooden door at the bottom.


    On the occasion of everyone''s jaw-dropping despair, the door unexpectedly slowly opened.


    A black figure walked in from the shadows, and Qixia looked around. This man was also wearing a black suit, but his mask was completely different from that of the Goat Man.


    He was wearing a huge, dark green snake head.


    "Long time no see, everybody, I am the snake." He spoke slowly.


    "Your old mother!" Joe''s family roared loudly, "Sheep, dogs after the snake?" Do you believe I''ll kill you right now?"


    "Please don''t get excited." The snake''s voice was steady. He looked up at the crowd for a moment and then said, "You are having your last test. I have a lever near me, and if I pull it, you can land slowly and nobody will get hurt."


    They looked at the sound, in the side of the wooden door was really an inconspicuous pull rod, just because of the dim light no one noticed.


    "That... Will you pull it off?" Xiao Ran timidly asked.


    "I..." The snake smiled a little and said, "I play a game with you. Whether you can survive depends on your own performance."


    "Games again..." Dr. Zhao''s hair was a little messy, and he was biting his teeth hard, as if he wanted to eat people.


    "Listen up, folks, the game is called Yes and No." The Serpent stepped forward slightly and said to the crowd dangling in the sky, "Now all of you can ask me three questions, and I will only answer yes and no, and be careful that I will not lie." At the end of these three questions, if I promise to save you, I will pull the lever; if I do not, I will lock the door and leave you to die."


    Qixia frowned.


    Three questions?


    Can only answer "yes" and "no"?


    This game is a little tricky.


    In any case, the purpose of the crowd is to get the snakehead to let them down, so they can only ask questions around the topic, but will he agree?


    Xiao Ran, the kindergarten teacher, took advantage of everyone''s thinking and immediately opened his mouth: "Hey, can you let us down?" "


    ''Don''t! Qixia was startled, and quickly reached out to cover Xiao Ran''s mouth, but the girl spoke quickly, and the problem was clearly transmitted to the ears of the snake.


    The snake sneered and said, "No."


    "Hey! Pretty girl? " Qiao Jiajin shouted, "A total of three questions, you do not mess with ah!"


    "I..."


    Xiao Ran embarrassed bowed his head, the expression was very sad.


    "That leaves two questions." The snake quietly stepped back and moved closer to the wooden door.


    Looks like he''s given up on the crowd.


    Xiao Ran inadvertently asked a question, let this game into the hell of difficulty.


    Of course the snake won''t let them down so easily.


    If he wanted to save people, why set up this game?


    But then again, if he doesn''t want to save people, how do you get him to agree to pull the pull bar?


    Even if the question was changed to "Won''t you let us down?" his answer would just be "yes."


    "Liar, do you have any ideas?" Qiaojia strength looked back to Qixia.


    Qixia closed her eyes slightly, her mind scrambled.


    A way, a way.


    As a person, where are there so many ways?


    Every step from entering this room requires Qixia''s method, how can he carry the lives of so many people?


    But then he felt some despair.


    If he gave up, would anyone have a way to live?


    "I can''t die here..." Qixia''s eyes lit up faintly again, "She''s still waiting for me..."


    A gentle female voice sounded in Qixia''s head: "Xia, you know what? There are many paths in this world, and everyone has his own."


    He opened his eyes slightly, and the thoughts in his mind became much clearer.


    Yeah, his mistake was totally following the other guy''s path.


    "Coyote." Qixia cried in a low voice.


    Officer Li looked back and asked, "Hey, what do you want to ask?" Let''s communicate well in advance so as not to cause a situation like that again."


    "It doesn''t matter. I''ve figured out a way to live." Qi Xia solemnly bowed his head, looking down at the snake, "You don''t talk, all this will be over soon."


    "Do you really have a way?" Mr. Zhang asked.


    "Yes." Qixia took a deep breath and pondered the next two questions.


    No, it''s actually a problem.


    All it takes is one question and the game is over.


    From the beginning of the game, you can''t worry about how to get the other side to pull the pull bar, just consider the logic of "yes" and "no".


    The human snake seemed very interested in Qixia, and the eyes were peering out from the hollow of the snakeskin mask.


    Qixia paused and asked, "Snake, if my next question was, ''Can you pull the lever?'' would your answer be the same?"

 Chapter 19 omnipotent

    "I..." The snake slightly startled, he wanted to choose an answer, but found that in any case the answer is futile.


    "Ha ha ha ha!


    The snake suddenly laughed, laughed back and forth, and soon stopped laughing and said: "You are really funny."


    "Interesting?" Qixia looked at the snake coldly, "Where is interesting?" Haven''t I already won?"


    The snake slowly came to the wall, reached out and pulled down the rod.


    People just felt their bodies fall, and then began to slowly decline.


    Qiaojia strength face puzzled, he turned and asked Qixia: "Liar, what do you mean?" Why is that a win?"


    Qi Xia found that the rope was indeed falling, and breathed a sigh of relief and said: "You think about it, as long as this question is asked, we have been saved anyway."


    "If my next question was, ''Can you pull the lever?'' would your answer be the same?" Qiaojia strength silently repeated the question again, simply dont understand.


    "So..." Dr. Zhao nodded thoughtfully, "If he answers'' yes'', then the next question can only be answered ''yes'', and we will be saved." After all, the next question is "Will you pull the lever?"


    "But is he going to say no? " Qiao Jiajin felt what hole he found, "he said" no "not on it?"


    "If he says no, he can only say yes to the next question." Han Yi Mo said feebly, "The wonderful thing about this question is that if he answers'' no '', he admits that he will give different answers to the two questions, remember?" The snakehead says he can''t tell lies."


    Qiaojia strength a terrified, turned his head again to Qixia, opened his mouth and asked: "This is what you just thought of..." What kind of monster are you?"


    "Monsters are not worthy." Qixia shook her head, "I''m just a wandering liar."


    While speaking, several people have slowly fallen to the ground.


    Due to the long time hanging, everyone''s palms are some burning pain, and the situation of the two injured is not optimistic.


    "Everyone, congratulations on surviving the interview. Open the door. A new world awaits you." The snakehead stood next to the wooden door with his hands behind his back.


    "Po Kai Tsai..."


    Qiao Jia strength vicious went up, it seems to want to put all of the "people and sheep", "people and dogs" dissatisfaction are vented to the eyes of the "people and snakes" body.


    The snake turned cold eyes, looking at the menacing Qiaojia Jin but did not move.


    "Are you all perverts? " Qiaojia strong drink, came forward to catch the collar of the snake, "wearing these strange masks, want to kill us again and again, now finally let me catch!"


    The snake sneered and said in a low voice: "While you are still alive, I advise you to let go early."


    "What did you say? "


    The Qiao family raised his fist vigorously, and when he was about to fly into the face of the snake head, he was pulled by the arm of Officer Li.


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    "Well, have you forgotten the man whose head was smashed in?" "If they''re all the same people, how are you going to beat them?"


    "I..." A trace of unwilling expression emerged in Qiao Jia strong hard face, he bit after biting teeth, slowly spit out a few words, "but these days kill..."


    "Don''t worry, can''t we go out now?" Officer Li interrupted him and whispered, "If they can get out, I''ll give them a damn."


    After listening to the people no longer speak, but slowly came to the front of the snake.


    Look at this guy up close and realize how weird he is.


    The temperature around the snakehead was colder than elsewhere, and his old suit and mask on his head smelled eerily fishy.


    His eyes were shooting out of the mask, and he was clearly human. But he smells like a snake that''s been dead for a long time.


    "Welcome to the new world, everyone."


    The snakehead''s muffled voice came out of his mask, then he turned and opened the door.


    With a soft creak, light came in from outside.


    Qixia frowned, and he found that the door was not outside at all, but a corridor.


    "Where is outside?" Qixia asked.


    "I told you, the new world." The snake head man slowly raised his hands, "The future" God "will be born in you! Will be born in the new world! How exciting!"


    "God again..." Joe asked fiercely, "What are you planning?"


    Seeing someone ask a question, the snake head man is obviously interested: "An omnipotent god... ! He can do anything!"


    "Omnipotent?" Joe''s strong brow is twisted into a string.


    Doctor Zhao quietly waved his hand at Qiao''s house, and then said to the snake: "OK, we know, let us go out."


    The snakehead stopped, then nodded and stepped aside.


    Qixia took the lead to go up, and the people behind him looked like they did not want to stay here more, and they quickened their pace to follow.


    As they stepped into the corridor, a special smell filled their nasal passages.


    How do you describe the smell?


    Heavy. A very heavy smell.


    It smells like billions of people around the world have died and then been exposed to the air to rot, and the smell of decay attracts millions of insects competing for food.


    They multiply, they die, and they rot.


    Let this overwhelming smell of decay settle for a while, and when it becomes no longer pungent, it becomes as heavy as it is now.


    It took Qixia a long time to recover, then opened her eyes and looked, only to find that she was confronted with another desperate scene.


    They were in an endless corridor with a low, depressing ceiling that stretched straight ahead.


    On both sides of the corridor, countless wooden doors are slowly opening.


    Just like the wooden door behind them.


    Before long, the wooden door began to appear gradually.


    Most of them were masked people covered in blood, and from a distance, only a handful of normal people walked out of the door.


    And the so-called "normal" people all looked tired and wobbly.


    Like Qixia, they too survived.


    "What is the situation..." Han Yimo asked weakly, "Are there more than nine of us who were captured?"


    Qixia''s face was particularly heavy, and the situation in front of him was far beyond his imagination.


    This group takes countless people, and then they play a killing game?


    "But... So few people survived..." Zhang Chenze sighed darkly.


    Out of the thousands of doors we looked at, only a few people came out.


    There was not even a single case of "all survivors" in the room where Chisha was.


    "Everybody, please."


    The coyote waved to one side to indicate the direction of the crowd, then stood at the door with his hands folded, as if he were not going to leave.


    "Let''s go."


    Everyone knew that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, and left slowly in a long line.


    As they passed the old wooden doors, they saw up close the men in animal masks.


    There are cows, there are horses, there are dogs.


    And the sheep and snakes we''ve seen before.


    They all exude a strange smell, filled with the smell of decay. The scene inside the door is mostly full of bodies, do not know what they are involved in the "game".


    After a dozen more steps, they were shocked by the two animal masks in front of them.


    The man on the left, wearing a large mouse mask, leans against the wall; The man on the right wore a large rooster mask and folded his hands around his chest.


    These two masks are clearly not man-made, but are actually made of animal heads.


    But where in the world would there be such huge mice and roosters?


    These two people and other people wearing animal masks, just a light look at Qixia and other people, no other movement.


    "What are these animals..." Alarmed, Ringi turned away from the pair.


    Qixia frowned slightly, as if thinking of something.


    Sheep, dog, snake, mouse, chicken...


    "It''s the zodiac." His lips moved and he uttered a few words.


    Everyone was startled and looked.


    Indeed, the animal masks worn by those in shabby suits were all within the zodiac.

 Chapter 20 The Search

    What does the Chinese zodiac represent?


    What''s at the end of the corridor?


    The underworld?


    In the dark corridor with no end in sight, the crowd moved forward trembling.


    After the previous intense rounds of the "game," everyone felt physically and mentally exhausted. At this moment suddenly relaxed, has been wrapped around a few people around the death of the breath also faded.


    Qixia inadvertently turned her head and saw the ringi standing beside her.


    She kept her hands over her nose and mouth.


    "Won''t it hurt you?" "The smell here is awful, but it makes it difficult to breathe," Qixia said, putting her hands on her nose and mouth.


    "Breathing?" Ringi blanched slightly and smiled. "I don''t have difficulty breathing. I just feel weird without covering my mouth and nose. It''s like..."


    "Like what?"


    "Like no clothes on." Ngo smiled sheepishly and took off her hand covering her mouth and nose.


    Her nose is very straight, lips are very red, there is no need to cover. Qixia does not understand what "like no clothes" means.


    Ringo smiled slightly, still uncomfortable, and put her hand over her mouth and nose again.


    "A little shy... Wouldn''t that be weird for you?" Ngo asked Qixia. "I bare my nose and mouth like this."


    "Why is it weird?" Qixia felt strange.


    "It''s ''mask''..." Ringo looked at Qixia with disbelief. Her eyes looked like those of an alien. "Why don''t you wear masks?


    "Mouth..."


    Wait for Qixia reaction, the distance suddenly came a strange light.


    The crowd looked forward, attracted by the light.


    It''s an exit.


    There was a bright light, like sunset, coming in from the exit.


    "Going out!!" Qiaojia strength excited called a voice, "I see the light of the sunset!"


    This cry is no doubt to give a few people a shot of heart, Zhao doctor supported Han Yi Mo, followed the people together to speed up the pace.


    "Sunset?" Qixia thought a little and said to the crowd, "We woke up at twelve o ''clock, after more than an hour of playing time, it should be about two o ''clock now." Whether it is two o ''clock in the morning or two o ''clock in the afternoon, it is impossible to see the sunset."


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    "I think you''re worrying too much." Officer Li shook his head, "The time in the room may not be accurate, maybe the real time is evening now."


    Qixia nodded slightly, he knew that Officer Li was right, all his knowledge of time comes from the clock in the room, but no one can guarantee that the clock in the room is the correct time.


    After a few more steps, they saw a dark figure near the exit.


    As he continued to advance, the dark figure gradually emerged into a human form, he also wore an animal mask, but this mask made everyone feel a nausea.


    Unlike all other animal masks, this one was not made from the head of a single animal, but from a number of organs stitched together with wool.


    He had a mouth like a crocodile, a nose like a cow, fish scales for his face and snakeskin for his neck, and he had sewed lion''s mane and stag''s antlers into his mask.


    This animal, it''s like...


    "Hello, I''m the Dragon." The sewn monster slowly opened his mouth, "All alive? What a novelty."


    "The dragon... ?"


    Everyone subconsciously stopped the pace, the nerves all over the body are tense up.


    It''s not that there''s anything scary about dragons, it''s that they''re so familiar with this opening sequence.


    Every time someone introduces themselves like this, it''s a scary game that ensues.


    "Don''t be nervous, gentlemen. Your" test "is over." The dragon waved his hands, and they found that his hands were still wearing gloves with eagle claws.


    All the animal organs on his body were a little putrid and bloated, emitting a bad smell, but he said as if he did not know anything:


    "I''m not going to give you a new ''test,'' just a little advice."


    They did not speak, but leaned closely together, looking at the dragon in front of them with a wary face.


    "Ten days. You have ten days to change all this." The dragon slowly said, "If you do not get 3,600 Tao in ten days, then the world you live in will disappear." Everything you can see will die with you."


    A short sentence was difficult for everyone to understand.


    "Three thousand six hundred paths?" Qixia frowned, "What is Tao?" What do you mean when you say the world we live in will annihilate?"


    "There''s a problem. Hey, hey, hey, good." The dragon nodded, "If there is a problem, you are still very sober, the so-called" Tao "is..."


    The dragon reached into the pocket of his black suit, fumbled for a while, and pulled out four golden balls.


    The outer ring of the ball is white, the inner ring is gold, shining all over the body, it looks a little strange.


    "This is the Tao." The dragon continued, "As long as 3,600 Tao, you will be saved."


    Qixia thought for a moment, reached out and took a small ball, this ball feels not hard, and even a little elastic.


    "Take it, it belongs to you." Renlong said with a smile.


    Qixia thought for a while and took the four "Dao".


    "You have passed the four tests, ''liar,'' ''mushroomed,'' ''Death from heaven,'' ''Yes and no,'' and this is your reward and your ''chips.''"


    They never expected that what they exchanged for their lives many times was these inconspicuous beads, and they did not know what to say at this time.


    "Tao"... Qixia frowned and said helplessly, "Do you mean that if we don''t find 3,600 such balls, this place will be destroyed?"


    "Hey, hey, yeah. If this place is destroyed... You can''t get out." The man-dragon nodded, the scales on his face and the lion''s mane moving with his head, looking very awkward.


    "It seems you have quite a few of these. Can''t you make up three thousand six hundred yourself?" Officer Li said immediately, "And you are stronger than us, when you can find it yourself, why choose us?"


    "Me? The dragon sneered, "We are all guilty people. The sinful cannot receive the Word, but only the chosen, like you, can receive the Word and finally become God."


    ''This is ridiculous! Zhang Chenze began to interrupt the dragon, her hands clasped to her chest, and asked slightly angrily, "Do you know what you are saying?"

 Chapter 21: The Hinterland

    "Of course... Hey, I know what I''m talking about." The dragon slowly took a step forward and said to the crowd, "There are countless people walking out of this door, and I have said this to each and every one of them."


    "Countless..."


    The crowd froze for a moment, and Officer Li said fiercely: "What are you?" How many were arrested?"


    "Catch it?" The dragon tilted its head, revealing a pair of dirty eyes from the hollow of the mask, he stared coldly at Officer Li and smiled, "Are you wrong?" Did we really "arrest" you?"


    "Isn''t it? " Officer Li gritted his teeth and said, "Did we come here by ourselves? "


    "You all know they''re crazy, so don''t try to argue with them," Lin said with a sigh. Let''s get out."


    Her words made everyone awake a lot, these people wearing animal masks are not normal, and this person who stitched together various animal heads is crazy.


    If you follow the ideas of a madman, you will soon become mad yourself.


    They bypassed the dragon and walked to the exit behind him.


    "Remember, no one can get out without 3,600 Tao." "The dragon finally whispered.


    Qi Xia mysteriously turned his head and asked him: "How do we get" Tao "? "


    "I lost, you ignore him why?" Qiaojia strength boring pushed Qixia a, "You really want to find those gold beads?"


    "No matter what, I must get out." Qixia''s eyes were full of determination, "Someone is waiting for me."


    The dragon slightly nodded his head and said: "It is the" game "you have experienced, and different games can obtain different" Tao "."


    Qixia''s face was a little ugly, and he looked down at the golden beads in his hands: "You mean... Do we have to participate in the game to get the Tao?"


    "Hey, yeah, take them, take them." The dragon''s dirty hands keep waving, "Must get out of here ah."


    Qixia looked at the beads in her hand and thought thoughtfully.


    They also do not know how to persuade him, can only go out of the door.


    There was a breeze blowing against my face, with an indescribable heavy smell.


    The few people present slowly opened their eyes, but there was no joy like being born again.


    Because I was looking at a dead city that looked like ruins.


    An earthy sun hung above a dull red sky. The sun has a dark line on its surface, spreading inward.


    Under this strange sky, a ruined city came into view.


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    It looks like a bustling part of a small town, only like it was bombed once and then burned to the ground.


    The fire had not been put out for several days and nights until it was like this.


    Most of the houses were damaged and the walls cracked. Countless dark red plants covered the walls.


    Officer Li swallowed and asked, "Hey, Renlong, what the hell place you brought us to..."


    He turned his head, his voice suddenly stopped, and his mouth slowly opened wide.


    The crowd followed his voice and looked back.


    There were no buildings behind them at all, but an empty square.


    The nine stood alone in the middle of the square, as if they had fallen from the sky.


    "How did we get here?"


    "And the door through which we came out? ! What about the human dragon? "


    Unfortunately, there is no one here who can answer their questions.


    In the very center of the square, there is a particularly prominent large electronic display, which looks like it has been used for some years, and even the edges are a little rusty.


    The screen now lit up with a sentence that made everyone confused:


    "I heard the echo of ''catastrophe.''"


    "A disaster? What the hell is that?" Qiaojiajin read this sentence twice, or did not understand.


    Qixia found that above the electronic display also stood a huge and mottled copper clock.


    This ancient thing looks very jarring when placed together with the electronic display.


    After a long time, the writer Han Yimo slowly raised his head and whispered, "So we are really dead... This is the underworld, isn''t it?"


    Before he saw this, he had a glimmer of hope.


    Maybe they weren''t dead, they were just caught here before they died.


    But what about this apparently dysfunctional world?


    "I don''t know if we''re dead, but I do know that if we don''t take care of your wounds, you''re going to die." Zhao doctor strong spirit, set up Han Yi Mo''s arm.


    This sentence also slowly pulled everyone from the trance back to reality.


    Anyway, they seem to be "alive" now, and since they seem to be alive, they can''t give up.


    "There seems to be a convenience store." "It looks so damaged. Do you have any needles or gauze in it?" she asked.


    Qiao Jiajin without saying a word, set up Han Yi Mo''s other arm, said with a wry smile:


    "Go and have a look. It would be better if you had something to eat."


    The crowd moved slowly forward.


    All the time, the scene here reveals a strange atmosphere, which makes everyone a little uneasy.


    The convenience store is in the middle of a road, the window of the doorway is completely broken, and the sign is half collapsed.


    When the crowd was about to walk to the door, they slowly stopped.


    There was a restaurant opposite the convenience store, and a figure was standing in front of the store.


    He wore a bull mask and a black suit, with his hands behind his back like a statue.


    The mood of the crowd could not help but be a little nervous.


    These people in animal masks are crazy.


    Now that he is standing here, is he going to issue some "test"?


    Several people carefully waited for a while, found that the minotaur completely did not move. Not only did he not speak, he did not even look at a few people.


    They finally took courage and moved forward a few steps until they reached the convenience store.


    "Is it a dummy?" Sweet asked carefully.


    Qixia looked carefully at the minotaur, his eyes under the mask were still slightly rotating, should not be a dummy, like guarding the restaurant behind him.


    "Whatever he is, we''ll pretend he doesn''t exist." Officer Lee turned and opened the dilapidated door of the convenience store.


    No sooner had the door opened than a disgusting smell hit me.


    The smell of the city itself has been particularly "heavy", and the taste of convenience stores is not good.


    The smell of fishy, foul, burning, mixed with the silk of heat, echoed in the room.


    They all smell fresh, like they just came out.


    "Oh..."


    Lawyer Zhang Chenze could not bear it, and directly bent down and retched up.


    Tian Tian looked at her worried and asked, "Lawyer, are you okay?"


    "I''m fine..." Zhang Chenze wiped his mouth, looked at Tian Tian and said, "You don''t seem to be affected at all..."


    Sweet expression is not very natural, can only smile and say: "May be related to my career..." I''ve smelled worse."


    "Don''t... Stop talking..." Zhang Chenze almost threw up again.


    Qixia covered his mouth and nose and came to the room, where most of the shelves were on the ground, and the floor was black and sticky, and I did not know what it was.

 Chapter 22: The Clerk

    "Disgusting..." Qiao Jia Jin frowns at the dirty things on the ground, "This pungent smell, will not be excrement?"


    Excrement?


    Qixia suddenly turned to look at Joe home strength.


    It''s an interesting idea.


    In other words, there are other people here besides the nine and the animal mask.


    Or to say that Other "things."


    This person or "thing" seems to have lived there for a long time, otherwise it would not be possible to leave excrement all over the floor.


    They rummaged around but could not find a needle, thread or gauze. And the convenience store outside also can not see a pharmacy or clinic, blind to go out to find, Han Yi Mo afraid is not so long.


    "What can we do..." With his hands on his hips, Officer Li looked helplessly at Doctor Zhao, as if asking for his advice.


    Before Dr. Zhao could speak, there was a noise behind the cashier of the convenience store, and the door of the staff lounge opened slowly.


    The nine people were shocked, and immediately stepped back and looked at the slowly opened door.


    A thin figure appeared from behind the door.


    A close look, out of the door was actually a thin girl, can not see the age.


    Her cheeks sank deeply and her eyes bulged outward, as if the flesh had disappeared from her whole face.


    She pursed her chapped lips and looked curiously at several people.


    After a brief moment of amazement, she seemed to react, hastily arranged her dirty and shabby clothes, and said with a husky voice: "Welcome to..."


    Welcome to A visitor?


    Officer Li carefully understood the meaning of this sentence, and seemed to understand.


    "You are... A clerk?"


    The girl nodded, "HMM."


    No more was said, for there was an unreasonableness to the matter.


    Aside from the fact that there are other humans here, even if she is a "shop assistant," why would she be working in a completely dilapidated convenience store?


    The clerk saw no action, can only tentatively say: "Please feel free to choose."


    That being said, where is there room for "picking" here?


    There were few goods on the shelves, and what was left was rotten and covered with filth.


    The clerk''s eyes glazed over, looking at a few people.


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    The look scared a few girls.


    "Is there a needle and thread?" Qixia face did not change color asked the clerk.


    "The needle... Thread?" The clerk''s deadpan eyes flickered, then held out his hand, simulating the action of threading a needle. "You mean... This needle and thread?"


    Only then did they find that her hands were covered with dry black blood, which was terrible.


    Qixia took another step forward and said, "This is the kind of needle and thread, do you sell it?"


    "Liar, you..." Qiao Jiajin in know Qixia before, think he is the world''s boldest person, but now even he also dare not talk to this woman, "this woman is not normal, you can''t see?"


    "So what if you see it?" Qixia said smoothly, "We can''t get any worse than we are now."


    The salesgirl thought for a while, then suddenly opened the front desk partition and rushed out.


    Then the people saw her in all her glory.


    She was wearing a dirty, fat white shirt that looked as out of place as if it were hanging on a hanger.


    I don''t know what was smeared on the shirt, it felt like oil, it felt like blood.


    The shirt reached almost to her knees, her lower body appeared to be pantless, and her thighs were covered with dried blood.


    Qixia frowned slightly and wanted to take a step back, but the salesgirl grabbed her wrist.


    His wrist felt as if it had been caught in an old vine, dry and painful.


    "I have it here!!" The salesgirl opened her mouth, showing yellow teeth, "there are" needle and thread "! Come with me!"


    She kept pointing her hand toward the "staff room," as if she wanted Chia to follow her in.


    People are really scared by her, and based on the woman''s current performance, it''s not a good idea to go in with her.


    "Never mind... We''re not buying it!" Qiao Jia strength went up to try to open the woman''s hand, "you let go first."


    But the salesgirl seemed not to hear the general, while pulling Qixia to move the pace, while showing a happy smile.


    "There are needles and threads in this room! Come on!"


    Her strength is even bigger than Qiaojia Jin and Qixia two big men put together.


    "Hey!! Come and help!" Joe roared back.


    Police Officer Li and Doctor Zhao came to their senses and rushed up.


    The shop girl quickened her pace in spite of herself.


    Qixia only felt a huge force dragging himself, completely unable to break free.


    The two of them were not far from the staff room, and now six or seven steps had entered the door.


    Doctor Zhao and Officer Li are pulling out Qixia, but did not think that the female clerk suddenly let go of his hand.


    ''Ah!


    There was a cry, and several people nearly fell.


    After their own firm body, but to see the female shop assistant did not care about a few people, but turned around in the room to find something.


    Four men also looked around the room in shock.


    It was a little cleaner than outside, and in the corner stood a rollaway bed with yellowed bedding.


    There''s a big pool of blood on it. It looks fresh.


    In the other corner, on a simple stove, a rusty iron pot purred to cook something.


    The salesgirl, however, turned a blind eye to everything and was rummaging through an old box.


    "Where is it... Needle and thread..." She kept throwing out the contents of the box, which contained cans, old magazines, and POTS and pans.


    Qiao Jia strength touched his nose and looked at the iron pot.


    "Speaking of which, I''m really hungry." He whispered to Qixia, "If only she wasn''t a crazy woman, I''d like to ask her if she can spare me a meal."


    Qixia forgot the iron pot at a glance, there was a white thing cooking inside.


    He''s feeling a little hungry, too.


    "Do you dare to eat food from this place?" Officer Lee asked. "Who knows how dirty that thing is..."


    "But it smells good."


    Qiaojia strength said that it is true, the blessing of this iron pot, the smell of the house was actually fragrant, covering the stench.


    "What are you cooking?" Qiaojia strength dare to ask, it seems he really want to share a bite.


    "Little pig." "Replied the shop girl.


    "Little pig?"


    Joe home strength came to the interest, is to go to the iron pot there to have a look, but the salesgirl exclaimed.


    "Ah! Found it!"


    She turned around, holding something in her hands, and excitedly said to the crowd: "Look! Needle and thread!"


    Officer Li looked forward and looked a little embarrassed.


    This is not a "needle and thread", but a rusty fishing hook with a small bundle of tangled fishing line.


    He turned and looked at Doctor Zhao, gesturing to him with his eyes.


    Doctor Zhao thought a little, stared at the hook and line and asked, "Girl, do you have any other needles?"


    "No more." The shop girl shook her head, "Only this, do you buy?"

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    Zhao doctor difficult looked at Qixia, Qixia also dont know how to answer.


    "Does this work?" Qixia asked quietly.


    "It''s not the best option, but it does work." Doctor Zhao nodded, "Straighten the hook, put on the fishing line, should also be able to sew the wound."


    Qixia thought for a while, then spoke to the salesgirl and said, "Girl, we have no money, can we exchange things with you?"


    "Money?" The shop girl looked at Qixia with blank eyes and seemed to understand what "money" meant. After a long time, she said, "I don''t want money, you and I can sleep."


    "Sleep... ?" Qixia''s lips moved, "What do you mean?"


    "We can eat the piglets after we sleep!" The salesgirl had a crazy look on her face, and then she drooled.


    Then she walked over to the dirty bed, stooped down and sat down, then patted herself next to her.


    There was a large pool of dried blood right there.


    "Come on, come quickly."


    The salesgirl quickly took off her blouse. She was wearing nothing underneath. Her shrivelled body was covered in mud and blood, and she looked like a skeleton.


    Qiao Jiajin was silent for a long time, only to poke Qixia with his elbow, and said: "You are dedicated to it."


    "Why don''t you go?" Qixia said angrily.


    "The boss ordered you." Qiao Jiajin gloated, "Didn''t you hear? As long as you sleep with her, we can eat the little pigs in her pot, and the writer''s waiting for that hook. You are of great merit anyway..."


    Waiting for Qixia to reply, the salesgirl seemed to hear what Qiao Jiajin said, so she turned to him and said: "You can also come!" All four of you can come!"


    "Huh?" Joe''s strength stunned, "I... ?"


    "What the hell..." Officer Li finally could not resist, so many years from the police, the situation in front of him completely beyond his cognition, "girl, what do you figure?" We''re here to buy something, so why do you want to get involved with yourself?"


    "I..." The shop girl widened her eyes and suddenly shouted, "I want to eat piglets!!"


    As if she remembered something else, she quickly put the hook and line in her hands on the bed, and then ran to the iron pot to look inside.


    "Little pig... Don''t spoil it..."


    Worried, she picked up a branch and stirred it in the pot.


    Qixia took advantage of this effort, quietly walked to the bedside, and then picked up the fishing hook and fishing line, turned back to Doctor Zhao, and said: "First to save people, here we deal with."


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    ''Good!


    Dr. Zhao took the fishing hook and fishing line to the outside, from the ground to find a fairly clean stone, began to deal with the hook, he put the situation in the house with a few words to a few girls.


    As a professional, Tian Tian still can''t understand the behavior of the shop assistant.


    "Never mind that, Qixia is right, save people first." Ringo took the fishing line and turned back to check the situation of Han Yimo.


    Doctor Zhao polished the rust off the hooks with stones and twisted them as straightened as possible while Lin sorted the cluttered lines nearby.


    "Almost..." When Dr. Zhao made sure everything was ready, he turned to Han and said, "I''m going to take off your harpoon and sew up the wound."


    "Well..." Han Yimo nodded slightly.


    "But we don''t have any anesthetic." "The pain may be beyond your imagination," said Dr. Zhao.


    "It''s okay... At least I''ll survive, right?" Han Yimo asked with a wry smile.


    "If the wound doesn''t get infected... It''s okay to survive."


    "That''s good... Come on..."


    ...


    Inside, three men stood behind the shop girl, watching her fiddling with the pan.


    She did not wear any clothes, but the three men''s hearts were not stirring, even a little want to escape.


    "Hey, liar." Qiao Jiajin asked quietly, "You have stolen other people''s" goods ", she will be angry for a while to do?"


    "I don''t know." Qixia shook her head.


    Officer Li was silent for a while, then whispered, "Don''t we still have Tao?" I wonder if she wants it?"


    "How can that be? " Qiao Jiajin said with some displeasure, "That is the" Tao "with the lives of all of us, you gave this madman?"


    "We''re saving lives, too!"


    The two were arguing when the shop girl slowly turned around.


    As if relieved, she calmly walked to the bed, where the hooks and lines were now empty.


    She looked at the bed somewhat hesitantly, as if she felt something wrong: "Huh?"


    But soon she shook her head and said, "That''s right... Sleep. Which of you four will go first?"


    The salesgirl looked up at the three people in front of her, looked puzzled again, and asked, "Not four? Have you always been three people? Never mind, three will do."


    Qiao Jiajin shook his head and whispered, "Look, she''s crazier than I thought."


    "Well..." Qixia froze for a long time and then said, "We don''t want to sleep with you, we just came to buy things."


    Then he took a golden "Tao" out of his pocket, placed it next to the salesgirl, and continued, "I don''t know if it''s worth anything, but it''s all we have."


    According to Qixia''s thinking, people living here must know those animal masks, and must have heard of "Tao" more or less, and this kind of thing in exchange for life is of some value, no matter how you think.


    The salesgirl looked at the bead curiously, then picked it up and pinched it several times.


    Then, under the shocked eyes of the three men, she threw the beads into her mouth.


    Only hear "creak" sound, beads were she chewed chewed, swallowed into the stomach.


    "It''s not good..." The shop girl shook her head. "It''s not nearly as good as a baby pig."


    "This..."


    The three big men never thought that the things they exchanged for their lives would be used as snacks, and they were speechless for a time.


    "No sleep... Then go away..." The shop girl sighed helplessly, her expression was very lost, "Someone will always come and sleep with me."


    Although the situation makes three people can not understand, but now at least can go.


    Three people angrily quit out of the house, is planning how to say with the people that they lost a "way", but see the Zhao doctor has pulled out Han Yi ink harpoon, at this time his blood gushing, full of sweat.


    "Come and help! Ngo gave a cry.


    Qiao Jiajin and officer Li rushed up, help hold down Han Yimo hands and feet.


    In this kind of extreme pain, people can''t help but move.


    "Han Yimo, you look at me!" Dr. Zhao said seriously, "Do you still know who I am? "


    "You are Dr. Zhao..." Han Yimo frowns and grits his teeth.


    "Yes, you must stay awake!" Doctor Zhao threaded the hook through the line and punctured his flesh at once.


    Han Yimo again dull hum.


    "You talk to me!" Dr. Zhao said unhurriedly, "Distract yourself by talking about something that interests you!"


    "The things that interest me... ?" Han Yimo smiled ruefully.


    "Aren''t you a fiction writer?" "How about talking about your work?"

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    "Hehe..." Han Yimo smiled ruefully, "Doctor Zhao, you think too much." As a fiction writer, the last thing I want to talk about is my work... When I have spare time, I want to forget everything in my work for a while and relax myself."


    "Then talk about something else!" Dr. Zhao has been slowly stitching the wound, but the wound is round, stitching up more complicated than the ordinary wound, he fixed his mind, and asked, "Tell me, in addition to writing, you usually how to relax yourself?"


    "I... Can play games."


    Dr. Zhao nodded: "That''s great, I will also play games after work, what games do you play?"


    Han Yi Mo due to excessive blood loss, now the thinking is very slow, after a long time he said: "League of Legends... There''s a female ninja named Akari, and I really like the character."


    ''Oh? Dr. Zhao smiled, "That is really a coincidence, I also play the League of Legends, also like Akali."


    Although he spoke in a calm tone, everyone could see his hands shaking slightly, after all, in all his years of medical practice, this was the first time that he had stitched a wound without anesthetic and while the patient was awake. Now also do not know whether he really like this role, or simply want to follow the topic of Han Yi Mo to talk.


    "Dr. Zhao, do you like Akali, too?" Han Yi Mo nodded feebly, "I am fascinated with everything about Akali... This female ninja called "Shadowfist", I feel that her story background is also..."


    Dr. Zhao paused slightly, then touched Han Yimo''s face and asked, "Han Yimo, can you see me?"


    "Huh?" Han Yi Mo do not know why Doctor Zhao suddenly asked this question, can only answer, "I can see you..."


    "Who am I?


    "You are Dr. Zhao..."


    Doctor Zhao nodded again and said, "Han Yimo, you have hallucinations now, you must stay awake."


    "Hallucinations?" Han Yi Mo feels that his current state is still normal, do not understand what the doctor Zhao said, "I am not chatting with you normally?" How can I have hallucinations..."


    "It should be a symptom of excessive blood loss, a lack of blood supply to your brain. As you say of Akari, her heroic title is called "The Thorn of the Outcast," not "The Fist of the Shadows."


    "The thorn of the outcast?" Han Yi Mo narrowed his eyes and could not help but hesitate, he had never heard the name, is this also the reason for the illusion?


    Qiao Jiajin poked Qixia on the side and asked: "Liar, what are they talking about?"


    "I don''t know." Qixia shook her head, "I don''t play games, I don''t understand."


    "I''ve played video games." Joe''s strength left his mouth, "But I have not heard of this game they said, ah, this hero what the battle game is more interesting than" Wolf Legend "..."


    Qixia did not want to engage in the topic, went aside, found a clean stone and sat down.


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    He was thinking about something else.


    Han Yi ink and Zhao doctor chat also lost the voice, it is estimated that Han Yi ink illusion too much, lead to chat simply can not go on.


    The atmosphere of the crowd gradually fell silent.


    Cystoids found herself unable to help, so she sat beside Qixia.


    "What are you thinking?" Cystoids asked.


    Qixia turned to look at the ringhu one glance, expression cold.


    "That''s the second time you''ve asked me what I''m thinking." Qixia said, "Do you always ask patients so frankly when you do psychological counseling?"


    "But you''re not my patient." Ringo shook her head. "We wouldn''t call the consultees'' patients. That''s impolite. I''m just curious what goes on in the head of such an intelligent person."


    "Pretending to be my wife." Qixia said with a look of dismay.


    "Your wife?" Ringo nodded silently. "You said before that someone is waiting for you outside. Is that your wife?"


    "Yes." Qixia nodded.


    Ngo NGO smiled slightly. "I didn''t guess this answer. Are you already married?"


    "Why can''t I get married?" Cystoids seemed to have some words.


    "I didn''t mean to offend you. But you are a liar, and what is your wife like?"


    "You..." Qixia rare angry, he slowly stood up, eyes ice-cold, "What do you mean?" I''m a liar, so the man who marries me will only be a trashy one, right?"


    "Huh? I..." "I don''t mean to offend you. I''m just curious about it."


    "I advise you not to be curious about me." Qixia still cold said, "I am a liar, what I say will not be the truth."


    The two men''s chat ended angrily, but Ringo''s expressions didn''t bother her.


    Dr. Zhao finally stitched up the wound.


    "Almost..." "We''ve done all we can for now," Dr. Zhao said as he wiped blood from his hands. "Now we just hope the wound doesn''t get infected."


    "Thank you..." Han Yi Mo''s lips pale, slowly said to Doctor Zhao.


    Seeing that everything came to an end, Qixia slowly stood up and said to the crowd: "Everyone, it is time to say goodbye."


    The other eight people heard this sentence have doubts.


    Farewell?


    "Where are you going?" Qiao Jia Jin asked.


    "It''s none of your business." Qixia looked thoughtfully at the restaurant across the street.


    "You''re not really going to find the Way, are you? " Officer Lee froze for a moment.


    "Why? What advice do you have?" Chia seemed to acquiesce to that answer.


    "With all due respect, you''re killing yourself." Officer Li shook his head helplessly, "Three thousand six hundred" Dao "! What is the concept of 3,600 Tao? ! If you can get one "Tao" every time, the previous kind of near-death game, you have to beat 3,600!"


    "Yes." Qixia nodded, "It sounds like the odds are very slim, but there is hope."


    "There is hope? Officer Li sighed, "Ten days, three thousand six hundred games, an average of three hundred and sixty games a day. Even if you do nothing every day to finish the game, this time is not enough. Besides, you can die in the game at any time, but if you don''t do anything, you will die in ten days."


    After that he paused and added, "And this'' death ''is based on the complete truth of what the'' man-dragon ''said." In other words, in ten days we won''t necessarily be dead, and this place won''t necessarily be destroyed. He may not let you out if you find 3,600 Tao."


    "I understand everything." Qixia interrupted Officer Li and said, "But I''m not going to wait here. Even if I''m just going out, it''s better than staying here."


    "But you..." Officer Li also wanted to argue with Qixia about something, and the door of the staff room "creaked" open again.


    The crowd turned to look, and the salesgirl came out.


    She was naked, her mouth was stained with oil, she was holding something in her hand, and her shriveled body looked like a skeleton.


    With a slight frown, Zhang took off his lady''s suit and went up to throw it over her.


    She turned her head and looked at several men, her face slightly angry: "What do you big men do when you enter the room?" Where are the girl''s clothes?"


    Qiao Jia strength helpless shook his head, said: "This time half can say can not understand, I advise you to leave her."


    "That''s very kind of you." The shop girl''s eyes looked straight at the clothes on her body, and looked at Zhang Chenze, "It is a pity that you are not a man, otherwise I must sleep with you."


    "Sleep?" Zhang Chenze was startled by the girl, "What nonsense are you talking about?"


    "Since you can''t sleep, I''ll give you this..."


    She opened her dirty hands and held a boiled baby arm.