"So … what exactly is going on?"
When Rena sat down on the steps in front of the train station and panted as she asked this question, Reno and Rena had never looked so pitiful before.
Their high-spirited and nonchalant faces on the train were now smeared with dust, blood, and wounds. The siblings' clothes were in tatters and they looked like homeless people on the streets. One of them had lost a shoe and was barefooted. The other one's hair was blown off. As he was too close to the explosion, his face was covered in soot. He couldn't even see his facial features clearly.
After resting for more than an hour, the two siblings, who were in pain all over their bodies, gradually recovered some of their hearing.
"Hey, how could he be my brother?" Rena spat out a few mouthfuls of dust. Her face, which was covered in blood and dust, was full of doubt. She had just recovered her hearing and wasn't very good. Her voice was still very loud, "Wouldn't a normal person die if they twisted their neck 180 degrees?"
Reno glanced at her innocently and said, "I heard you talking about turning my neck 180 degrees just now. What a mess... When did I do such a thing? Why don't you twist your neck for me to see?"
"It's true. If you don't believe me, you can ask Lin Sanjiu —"
Lin Sanjiu was feeling sorry for the loss of her higher consciousness, which she had painstakingly cultivated. When she heard Reno's words, she came back to her senses. She looked up and saw that the two children were looking up at her, waiting for her explanation. She immediately felt a little guilty.
Even though she had successfully rescued the siblings, luck played a large part in the success. There were still a lot of questionable points in the so-called "truth" that she had deduced.
However, the two children weren't stupid. Perhaps, after listening to her deductions and corroborating them, they would be able to figure out the truth.
Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment and organized her thoughts. Then, she started writing on her "bones". The siblings knew that they couldn't explain the situation with just a few words, so they were very patient. As they cleaned their wounds, they glanced at Lin Sanjiu from time to time. They were afraid that they might miss some words.
"A person who can turn his head 180 degrees can't be a living person. What we saw at that time was definitely a Yin spirit." Although he had used up a lot of his Higher Consciousness, he had been cultivating for the past few days. Lin Sanjiu's higher consciousness was so flexible that it was as if it had become a part of her body. She finished writing the sentence in no time.
"Eh, but I have been keeping an eye on him all this while." Rena pointed at her older brother. The latter was listening to her with his mouth wide open. "I didn't see him change! Besides … How can a Yin spirit come and go without the cooperation of its owner? "
"Have you forgotten that the building itself has a problem?" After Lin Sanjiu wrote that sentence, she suddenly felt that there were some parts that were hard to explain. She decided to start from the beginning. There were a lot of things that she couldn't figure out, and she wanted the siblings to fill in the gaps.
"I think the crux of the matter lies with the residential buildings. For some unknown reason, the entire residential buildings have been transformed into Yin spirits. It's just that they can't move about normally. The moment we entered the building, we became its target. "The first point that Lin Sanjiu wrote down was not hard to come up with after she personally witnessed the transformation of the building. Seeing that, the siblings nodded.
"I don't know how the Yin spirits from these buildings usually, uh, 'hunt'," Lin Sanjiu thought about her words and continued, "But, the two of you are obviously hard to deal with."
During this period of time, Lin Sanjiu had figured out some of the rules of Kisaragi Station.
Unlike other places, the duoluozhongs here couldn't kill people directly. The so-called duoluozhongs were spirits formed after ordinary people were corrupted by dark matter. Due to various reasons, they could only attack people who had been corrupted by dark matter.
It wasn't difficult to achieve this requirement. As long as an outsider still breathed the air and drank the water here, they would slowly be corrupted. It was only a matter of time before it was slowly eroded through. Not to mention that the Yin spirits could even hasten the process.
However, it was different for the siblings. When the siblings entered the building, other than their eyes, there wasn't a single part of their body that had been corrupted. Regardless of their quality, they were fully equipped from head to toe. Lin Sanjiu heard that they even had a tiny dark matter filter in their nasal cavity. It was very unlikely that the Yin spirits would attack them the same way they killed Lin Sanjiu.
However, the biggest difference between the residential building and other spirits was that they couldn't move. In a situation where they couldn't actively search for prey, every prey that came to their doorstep was extremely precious. Therefore, the spirit of the building used a roundabout method.
Just because they had equipment didn't mean that they were infallible. The "residential building" must have made all its subsequent moves based on this conjecture. Also, the siblings did have a weakness. The areas that couldn't be covered by their clothes weren't protected.
As for Lin Sanjiu in her higher consciousness form, He was like a piece of wax stuck in a plate, neither edible nor tossed away. Apart from being a bit of a hindrance, he wasn't even on the list of targets.
"Could it be that … the method of using dark matter to corrupt us is to find a spirit to disguise as us?" Rena seemed to have understood something, but she still didn't.
"I understand what she means. You are so silly," Reno replied. "One will disguise as you and the other will disguise as me. Two groups of people will come into contact with us in two different places … No matter what, it will be much easier!" Lin Sanjiu nodded her head in agreement.
Lin Sanjiu nodded her head in agreement. Furthermore, Rena had mentioned that once they were frightened in Kisaragi Station, it would be very easy for the dark matter to invade them. Also, the strange situation that happened previously had successfully caused the siblings to be in a constant state of anxiety. Rena also said that she had been corrupted by the dark matter a long time ago.
"The thing that disguises as you is probably the person who died in the building," Lin Sanjiu added. Lin Sanjiu wrote another sentence even though she had no evidence to back up her theory. It was all just a guess, "Perhaps, just like the little fish attached to the belly of the big fish, they also need to rely on the residential buildings for these new spirits to 'survive'."
As for whether they were posthumans in the past and whether they could disguise as the siblings because of their past abilities … Lin Sanjiu was afraid that she would never get the answer to these questions if she didn't return to the residential building.
"I understand this part," Rena's face had a deep cut. She reached out her hand and touched it. Unexpectedly, she only sucked in a breath of cold air. Her mind was still focused on the mystery of the residential building, "However, I still don't understand why it's a human and a duoluozhong at the same time."
This part was too complicated. Even Lin Sanjiu didn't know how to explain it. She thought for a while and wrote, "I think that the residential building is using a method of 'building blocks' to confuse us."
"Building blocks?" The two kids stared at those words in disbelief. "What do you mean?"
If she wrote down all her conjectures, it would be too much and messy. Even if she explained it to the next day, she might not be able to explain everything clearly. Furthermore, she needed the two kids to fill in the gaps in her conjectures. Thinking of this, Lin Sanjiu wrote, "Both of you, tell me what happened to you after you entered the building."
The two kids looked at each other and told their own experiences.
It was just as Lin Sanjiu had predicted. Right from the start, there was a strange divergence between the two experiences.
"After brother's prank, we looked for an apartment in that corridor …" Rena had just started when Reno interrupted her, "Wait a minute! Didn't I tell you about the prank? I didn't do it! "
"Did you forget what you did? Besides, when did you tell me — "
Seeing that the two kids were about to get into a mess, Lin Sanjiu quickly wrote, "Don't worry, continue." Only then did the two kids temporarily calm down.
"Come to think of it, it was really strange. All the apartments were run-down. Only the one that brother found was so beautiful … So, we moved in. At midnight, I heard some noises. Lin Sanjiu, didn't you go out to check on the situation? But you didn't come back. So, I woke brother up and went to look for you. I didn't expect that he would be gone for a few hours. I looked for both of you but couldn't find him. I had no choice but to wait in the apartment alone … "When Rena recounted her experience, she shuddered as if she had returned to that strange night. "Luckily, you came back later."
While Rena was waiting for her brother and Lin Sanjiu to return to their room, Lin Sanjiu went to the lobby on the first floor because she didn't see anyone. In the end, she met Reno and Rena at the elevator on the 15th floor.
When she wrote this down, Rena's eyes widened. This was the first time she heard about this incident. Her eyes widened.
Lou Xinxiong was holding back his words, but he couldn't say them. His face was scrunched up. When he saw that Lin Sanjiu had finally signaled for him to speak, he immediately heaved a sigh of relief. Like a machine gun, he said, "That means there was a problem from the beginning! I didn't do that prank. At that time, I just stayed in that beautiful apartment. Rena was the one who found the apartment … Oh right, I didn't see Lin Sanjiu at that time. Rena told me that you went to check out the surrounding area and would be back soon. "
At this point. He also realized that the person beside him was definitely not a living person. His face turned a little pale, "After that, you didn't come back. We went out to look for you. Coincidentally, we saw an elevator going up. When the door opened, we saw you."
Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that Reno and Lin Sanjiu's experiences would connect here. Lin Sanjiu felt that she had one less doubt. She quickly wrote down the part where she heard the toilet flushing in the washroom. Then, Reno saw her dead body. Then, he flew up the stairs and saw Rena. The two kids were stunned as they read.
"Ah, so the timeline is like this …" As Reno spoke, he gestured on the ground. "We entered two apartments at the same time. After that, Lin Sanjiu went out for a while. When we came back, we found that no one was looking for us. Around this time, the fake Rena told me that she was going to look for you. Then, we met in the elevator. You followed us back to the apartment I was staying in. During this period of time, after the fake Reno went out, Rena searched for us alone. However, she couldn't find us … It wasn't until Lin Sanjiu flew up that she met the real Rena. "
Even though it was still complicated, Lin Sanjiu managed to clarify this part of the story.
"No wonder …" Rena's face turned a little pale. "At that time, when I was in the corridor, I felt that it was a little strange. I even looked at the angle of the corner of the wall … No matter how I thought about it, it didn't seem possible for a living person's neck to be twisted like that … Furthermore, my brother has never worn a Special Item in front of his chest. From then on, he was no longer my brother. "
"But how did that residential building manage to do that?" Reno asked. "When Rena was looking for us, why did she miss out on our floor?"
"She didn't miss out … When we were escaping, we actually saw the trick — or rather, we saw a part of the trick," Lin Sanjiu wrote. Lin Sanjiu wrote, "It's actually very simple. Every room and every corridor in the building is like a small building block. They can be arranged and rearranged at will."
"For example, at the time of the prank, when the real Reno turned a corner and walked into another corridor, the corridor had already been moved away and was replaced by another corridor with the fake Reno. I'm afraid that when the duoluozhong died, its neck was twisted and it couldn't recover in time. Hence, the duoluozhong used the excuse of a joke to deceive us … As for the 'building block' trick, it used it many times and it worked every time. Instead, it confused us. "
Reno tried to recall and realized that he didn't notice anything wrong when he walked into the corridor. He couldn't help but gape.
After Lin Sanjiu solved the first doubt in her mind, she was more confident in her deduction. She gestured for the siblings to continue. Their experiences were like two randomly drawn lines. Sometimes, they intersected and other times, they were far apart. There were many differences in between. Sure enough, Lin Sanjiu had answered many of her questions.
When the siblings were almost done, Lin Sanjiu stopped to think for a while. Then, she sighed inwardly.
Even though it sounded a little strange, this apartment building was the most cunning opponent she had encountered ever since she came to Kisaragi Station.
The residential building seemed to be one step ahead of them at every crucial point. It set up a deceptive trap and used the duoluozhong to release a smoke grenade. If Lin Sanjiu hadn't been a bystander, they would have fallen for the trap and killed each other in the residential building.
"Now, we can sort out the truth and falsehood at every point." Lin Sanjiu heaved a sigh of relief after she finished writing. (To be continued.)
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