"Did you hear that?"
There was only silence in the car. Apart from the sound of the engine, there was only the pitter-patter of raindrops hitting the roof and the glass.
Lin Guoyun suddenly slammed the steering wheel and laughed uncontrollably. "You heard it. You heard it. God wants to communicate with humans, but how? I don't know about other people, but he always tells me that he is going to kill someone. Kill someone. "
Lin Sanjiu turned her head and stared at him with a pale face. The car door was locked, and the buildings that emerged from the darkness outside looked less and less like the London of the 19th century. The signboards with the words "Tianbao Restaurant" and "Chen's Western Medicine" written in traditional Chinese characters stretched out from the crowded buildings. They were covered by a layer of fog in the rainy night, but they still looked colorful.
Lin Guoyun's Cantonese accent became clearer along with the view of Hong Kong in the 1980s.
"Don't worry. We are almost there." He spoke without looking at Lin Sanjiu. "There are a lot of mountains in Hong Kong. Let's find a mountain path —"
Before he could finish his sentence, Lin Sanjiu pounced on him and aimed a punch at his temple. She had never received any formal training in martial arts. She had only received a few pointers from Hei Zeji. Because of this, even though each of her moves was ugly, they were simple, accurate, and deadly. However, as soon as she threw out her punch, she realized that she was in trouble.
Her strength was so weak that she was like an ordinary girl who had never trained before.
Lin Guoyun tilted his head and caught her hand with his arm. It was as if he had caught a bug. He pushed her hard and threw her back into the passenger seat. The car lurched, and there was a brief screeching sound. Then, the car adjusted its direction.
"You are so annoying!" His face darkened, and a deafening roar filled the car. "We are not even there yet, and you want me to kill you, don't you?"
Lin Sanjiu knocked her head on the window. She froze for half a second in pain. Almost instinctively, she blurted out a question, "Do you always kill people in the car?"
The rain rustled. Lin Guoyun drove for a while. His face was still stiffly facing forward, but his eyes slowly turned to look at her.
"Yes," he answered softly. "I originally thought that Jack the Ripper also killed people in a carriage, but now it seems like he did it in an alley."
At that moment, Lin Sanjiu shuddered. She suddenly understood what was going on.
After entering the game, even though her stamina had dropped drastically, she could at least protect herself. In her first two encounters with Jack the Ripper, she had always been able to put up a fight. It was only in two places that she suddenly degenerated to the strength of a normal woman. One was in the alley where she encountered Jack the Ripper, and the other was in the taxi with the Rainy Night Butcher.
Both of these were their "killing scenes".
The game restored every detail of the serial murders, including the murder location, the murderer, the historical background, and even the weather. Similarly, the role of the "victim" should also be highly similar to the historical facts. No matter who was trapped in the role of the "victim," they would probably be restricted and become like the real dead in history.
"You … Why did you choose to kill me?" Lin Sanjiu asked as she searched through the compartment, hoping to find something that she could use to defend herself. "Also, how did you know about pocket dimensions?"
Lin Guoyun smacked his lips and asked with a smile, "I've always wanted to ask you this. Why do you guys keep talking about pocket dimensions? What is a pocket dimension? "
Lin Sanjiu raised her head abruptly. She was a little confused. "You don't know? You said it yourself once, in this' game '— "
"Yeah, you guys keep talking about this game," Lin Guoyun shrugged. "Do you guys think that it's a real role-playing game? After hearing you talk about it so many times, I decided to follow your lead. "
The car was still driving steadily. Lin Sanjiu gulped. It was only then that she realized that Lin Guoyun had never mentioned the words "Evolved Ability" or "pocket dimension". All along, he had been keeping his head down and not saying anything after the others had finished talking about it.
"The world will only be clean when women like you are dead." Lin Guoyun suddenly let out a sinister and gentle laugh. His voice was strung into a thin line by an irrepressible excitement. "Let me tell you, it's not a real role-playing game, and it's not a pocket dimension either. There's no such thing as a real game! Actually, it's God's plan. God brought you guys and me through history. He's telling me that I'm the current Jack. No, I have to be better than him. I'm destined to kill a woman like you. "
"A woman like me?" Lin Sanjiu suppressed her anxiety. She leaned against the door and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
"Chicken," Lin Sanjiu scolded impatiently.
"That's just a role assigned to me. Aren't you the same?"
The car came to an abrupt stop. The inertia almost threw Lin Sanjiu through the windshield. Lin Guoyun stepped hard on the brake and slowly turned his body around.
"I'm not the same as you." The corners of his eyes narrowed into two slits. His eyes were filled with disgust. "When I suddenly realized that I could enter London freely, I knew it was God's will. I observed for a long time, and I noticed that there were a few other people who didn't belong to this place. This meant that other people could enter as well. The brothers had already arrived, and another man came after me. "
Lin Guoyun was just a pocket dimension creature. That man was the real third posthuman!
In other words, when Lin Sanjiu entered the game, Jack the Ripper had only killed one person.
But did the game start before the fourth posthuman entered the game?
Before she could finish her sentence, Lin Guoyun spoke up again.
"He was very young, but they thought he was an old tailor in his fifties. I didn't know what was going on. When I asked him about it, his attitude was very annoying. He even interrogated me. He asked me why I didn't know about posthuman. So, I just killed him." Lin Guoyun let out a low chuckle. In the shadows, only his long chin could be seen slowly sharpening. "Then, I suppressed my strong desire to kill and walked on the streets. I talked to the prostitutes and told them that I was also a gigolo … If I didn't say that, they wouldn't believe an East Asian at all."
"I was very confused. Why did God let me enter London? Did he want me to see how Jack the Ripper did his job? But when I saw you, I understood immediately. "
The interior of the car was dark and narrow. Outside, it was a dark rainy night. The headlights of the car did not shine far, so they could only illuminate the road and the rain. In the darkness, Lin Sanjiu could almost feel the heavy breathing of the person in front of her.
"What did you understand?"
"I understood why I was there. You were the only woman from the outside. You must be the target that God arranged for me. " Lin Guoyun said in an intoxicated tone, "While Jack the Ripper was killing the local prostitutes, I came to kill you. This is the double act of a killer in the city."
"After that, it was proven that you were indeed a prostitute."
"You also killed Annie, right?" Lin Sanjiu mumbled. At this point, she had already sorted out the sequence of events. The corpse that she saw with her own eyes was actually the second victim, but it was mistaken for the third victim. If Lin Guoyun didn't kill Annie, then when Jack the Ripper killed Annie, there would be a loophole. The woman, who was supposed to be the third victim, had died during the fourth murder. If that was the case, Lin Sanjiu's suspicions would be aroused.
If she turned back to check, she would immediately find out that the first victim wasn't a prostitute. The way she died also didn't match Jack the Ripper's style. Lin Guoyun couldn't take the risk and let Lin Sanjiu suspect him first.
Lin Guoyun smiled and sat back down. However, this made Lin Sanjiu even more nervous.
He tilted his body and rummaged for something, "That's right. I'm also very interested in Jack the Ripper's identity. When I saw that old prostitute, I couldn't help but expose her identity. If I didn't say that, then this wouldn't have happened — "
Without waiting for him to finish his sentence, he turned around and lunged at Lin Sanjiu. The rope in his hand was already wrapped around Lin Sanjiu. Fortunately, Lin Sanjiu was prepared for this. She struggled fiercely and did not let the rope wrap around her. However, this was Lin Guoyun's murder scene, and Lin Sanjiu's physical strength couldn't contend against him. After a few struggles, Lin Guoyun grabbed her by the neck and pinned her against the car door.
Lin Guoyun was very fast. He quickly wrapped the rope around Lin Sanjiu's neck and strangled her. Lin Sanjiu couldn't hold on for much longer than she expected. After a while, she slumped to the ground and stopped moving.
However, the young man was still worried. He tightened the rope a few more times before he sat down on the driver's seat, panting heavily. He listened to the sound of raindrops hitting the car and calmed his heart. Suddenly, he sat up.
Two men, one tall and one short, walked out from the yellow halo of the car's headlights. Their faces, which looked somewhat similar, were filled with shock. They looked back and forth as they walked. When they saw Lin Guoyun in the car, they rushed over.
Lin Guoyun thought for a moment and wound down the window. They couldn't see the woman who was slumped on the seat.
"Hey, I say, what's going on?" Raindrops poured into the car the moment he opened the window. The younger brother squinted his eyes and asked, "Didn't you say that this is London, England? Why did everything change? "
Lin Guoyun lowered his eyes. He still didn't like to look people in the eye, "I … I don't know."
The younger brother snorted. Obviously, he didn't believe him. Just when he was about to speak, he suddenly stopped talking. His round eyes looked past Lin Guoyun and stared at the back of the car. The young man's heart skipped a beat. He turned his head abruptly. Then, an ear-piercing scream came from the car.
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