absurd deduction game

Chapter 331 Strange People and Strange Dolls
Just now when he was half kneeling to light incense, he happened to find this puppet in the gravel in the right corner.

The doll is a little boy in a black suit, only the size of a palm, and it doesn't look like something that would appear in a tomb.

Carlos was taken aback, wondering if he was really blind?Although the corridors of the tomb are dim, he is not so obvious that even a doll cannot be seen.

"Where did you find it?" Carlos asked incredulously.

"Hmm." Yu Xing tilted his head, "Under the gravel, it's buried quite tightly."

"..." Carlos squinted, "Dear Mr. San, not to mention that I failed to find out whether the puppet is blind from the pile of stones, just say you——can you tell me how you clicked?" Did you fish out the doll when it was fragrant?"

This is not how you use it with one mind and two tasks. This is not sharpness, it is clairvoyance.

Yu Xing was silent for a while: "Just take it as... it has a hand exposed."

"Just do it?" Carlos was tired. This person was not even willing to lie, so he just perfunctory him.

"That's not the point." Yu Xing stuffed the doll directly into Carlos's arms. "Look carefully at it. I'm not a little girl who likes dolls. I take away dolls that others throw away when I have nothing to do."

Carlos looked down at the doll in his arms, facing the eyes of the little doll in a black suit.

He actually saw a kind of humanized hope in the doll's cold eyes.

This is not only what is left by the modern people, that is, the people of Auster, but also... what is left by the deducers!
After he realized this, a strange hint surfaced.

[Hopeful puppet: This is a puppet of unknown use, maybe it’s a prop, but you can’t use it. 】

Carlos had never been prompted like this before.

"Maybe it's a prop, but we can't use it?" Carlos repeated, and asked Yu Xing, "What did you see?"

When he was questioning, the sound of the communication equipment was turned off, and the people outside could only see the increasingly blurred images and hear the silence.

"That's right." After Yu Xing picked up the doll just now, there seemed to be a delay, and it took more than a minute for the prompt to come out.

And this prompt is obviously not issued in the tone of a confirmed prop, but more like the system itself.

Yu Xing is still very familiar with the shortcomings of the system.

The strange thing is, what is so special about this puppet that can delay the system for so long, and only come to a plausible conclusion?
Yu Xing didn't say anything to Carlos.

The reason why he was able to find the buried puppet from the pile of rubble just now was not because of sharp eyes, nor because of clairvoyance—he didn’t have that ability either.

Rather, as soon as he approached, there was a faint feeling, and the presence of the doll was particularly strong, and he couldn't ignore it even if he wanted to.

The moment he picked up the doll, a vague phantom of a man appeared in Yu Xing's mind. The background was also in the corridor. The man was squatting next to the doll, wearing an ankle-length windbreaker, and a pair of masks on his face. Silver filigree round glasses.

On the man's shoulder, there seemed to be a small black cat.

Yu Xing couldn't see the specific appearance and expression, but he could clearly feel that this phantom was the owner of the puppet in his hand, but for some reason, the puppet was left behind when the man left.

That person should also be a pusher.

Strange people, strange dolls.

Weird system.

Yu Xing guessed that there should be some connection between that person and himself, otherwise it wouldn't make any sense, so Yu Xing put the doll in a black suit into his pocket and took it away.

After receiving the prompt from the system, he slightly lowered his eyelids and his heart skipped a beat.

The only thing that can produce such an inexplicable connection with him is the similarity of the source of power.

His own strength comes from the actor's laboratory, so this man in the long trench coat...

That person must also be in the tomb. It is estimated that he is from the Oster Company. If he sees him later, he may know it clearly.

Carlos was still studying the doll. He looked over and over for a while, and finally came to a conclusion: "It may be a mandatory binding prop, so we can't use it while its owner is still alive."

After all, he has only been promoted to the alienation line for a short time. During this period, he has experienced many investigator-like deduction, and he is familiar with this type of deduction, but he still lacks other knowledge.

Because he didn't join the guild and team, no one took him.

Yu Xing thought about it, so he didn't make any more guesses, and just replied: "Take it with you, and you will know when you meet its owner."

……

Now, the gatekeeper has been separated from Yu Xing and Carlos by a certain distance. It may not be easy to find them, and it is very likely that they will run into other team members after wandering around.

Yu Xing knew that the others should have found a few safer places, waiting for Carlos' paper figurine to come, and guarding against dangers everywhere.

They walked for a few more minutes and stopped in a spacious small room.

There are many small rooms like this on both sides of the corridor, and there are some large bottles and cans placed against the wall inside. I don't know what's in them, but Yu Xing is not very interested anyway.

The small room was full of cobwebs, and there was no night pearl lighting inside, so it was darker than the corridor. The two sat down facing the door, and Carlos began to fold the villain.

In fact, communication equipment can also help them gather. Shijiu alone can see the location of all the people wearing cameras.

However, the corridors are winding and winding, and the scenery is almost the same. Even Shijiu can't remember the exact location of each person, so he can only give suggestions in Maili.

"How far can you, a paper figurine, go?" Yu Xing asked quietly as Carlos conjured up a piece of paper with magic tricks, and then skillfully folded the paper into a paper figurine.

Carlos is happy now, and Yu Xing gave him the seal of the ghost, which shows that this unpredictable guy has expressed his trust in him—at least in this deduction.

So he answered every question in a good mood: "You can walk a long distance, but the farther you are from me, the more stupid you become, and the slower you move. Inside this tomb, you should be able to walk from beginning to end."

While speaking, Carlos had already folded one. He used the marker pen he carried with him to perfunctorily draw the facial features on the paper figurine, and let the paper figurine out. After walking a few steps, the paper figurine became proficient and looked back at them. , quietly left the small room.

"Go to Unika and Ash for this one. Uncle Zhang asked Ash to protect Unika personally, so the two of them should be together."

According to Shijiu's prompt in Maili, the paper figurine will walk in one direction purposefully.

Carlos repeated the steps just now, within ten seconds: "This is to find Master Li."

"This is for Uncle Zhang."

"..."

In just 2 minutes, Carlos released five little paper figurines.

Yu Xing looked at it and felt something was wrong.

He frowned slightly, always feeling that something had been overlooked, and a few seconds later, a flash of inspiration came to his mind.

"Wait a minute." He grabbed Carlos who was ready to take a break after finishing the work, "How many paper figurines did you just make?"

"Five." Paper figurines consume Carlos' energy, and he needs to rest for a while every time he makes them. He sat listlessly, "Didn't you see that?"

"So, it's not right." Yu Xing's slightly cold tone cheered Carlos up. He didn't ask what was wrong, but thought about it for himself.

One for Eunika and Ash, one for Master Li, one for Uncle Zhang, one for Lin, and one for the man with glasses.

Five, that's right.

"Let me ask again." Yu Xing looked strange, "How many people were in your team before I joined?"

"Eleven." Carlos noticed that Yu Xing was struggling with numbers, and he raised his brows, "Why, you found out that there is one more? Wait—damn? There is really one more person!"

Yu Xing stared at him, as if to say, you finally realized.

Five paper figurines went out to find six people, plus the two of them, a total of eight people went down to the tomb.

Those who did not come down from the ground included Shijiu, Will, and the three members of the Tomb Raider family, a total of five people.

Adding up and down... is 13 people.

Why is there one more person! ?
And this time, everyone has a first name.

"No, I remember it very clearly. From the beginning of the preparations for our burial this time, there were 11 people." Carlos' tone became serious, "When will there be more people..."

The discovery this time is even more creepy than at the ancestral hall.

Because, on the premise that everyone has an intersection, it is already certain...their memories are passive again.

A ghost had infiltrated them and made it impossible for them to tell.

In other words, apart from the fact that the two deducers have a system to prove it, Zhang Shuli may be fake, and Lin, Will, Shijiu, Ash, and Eunika may all be fake.

Carlos felt a chill when he thought of the direction Shijiu pointed him to just now.

If Shijiu was a ghost, then wouldn't it be a great opportunity for ghosts to make trouble just now.

"Don't worry, analyze it." Yu Xing pressed Carlos' shoulder. He knew that Carlos was in a good mood and didn't need him to stabilize his mind, so it's better to start to find out the problem directly.

Carlos first said: "Master Li is unlikely. Without Master Li, the family of tomb robbers will not be able to find a leader among the people who came this time. They will not give such a configuration."

"Uncle Zhang is also impossible. He is in charge of cooking. There is no one else but him. It is impossible that there is no cook in your original plan." Yu Xing said, "Lin and Will's abilities overlap to a certain extent, they can both To calculate the location of the tomb, one of them may be false. But Lin came before Will, and he was already doing this work before Will came. So of the two, Lin must be the real one. of."

Carlos unconsciously touched the ground under his body, and felt the coldness and hardness that matched the environment very well.

He secretly sighed, this tomb is really false and real, it is difficult to distinguish, the labyrinth forcibly creates such a convoluted and huge feeling in a small place, it is hard to imagine whether what they think is true or false is correct.

He said: "Unica is the first group of people who joined the team in our memory, but she is not indispensable. Without her, Master Li guessed that this is the tomb of the demon way, and he will definitely organize later explorations, especially Nika cannot escape suspicion."

"Well, among Shijiu and Ash, Shijiu is the only one you sent to be an undercover agent in Brother Sun's team. Her existence can't be replaced, so you can rest assured of her." Yu Xing said, Carlos Suddenly he was relieved.

After careful calculation, except for Master Li, Uncle Zhang, Lin and Shijiu, and their two deducers, everyone else has reasons that can be fabricated.

"Tell me... Are people's emotions really shaped by memories?" Carlos was still resting, and found that this incident had caused his thoughts to diverge, "If the memory is different, is a person still the same as before? "

The ghosts easily gave them a "friend" and a deadly "teammate" by modifying their memories. They thought that things should be like this, but they didn't know that the so-called friendship for many years or acquaintance for a few months might just be wiped out in a flash. implanted in the mind.

Yu Xing sneered: "You want to think about philosophical issues at this time? Are you going to be an underground philosopher and think about the meaning of life and death all day long?"

Carlos's thoughts snapped: "..."

He wanted to give a thumbs up-you are the best at breaking the atmosphere.

If you can't think philosophically, then think about business.

His mental power spread out, wanting to see where the paper figurine was, but just as he switched to a perspective, he saw Lin who turned on the flashlight and was shining on the paper figurine.

Lin was determined to have no problem. Carlos was overjoyed and manipulated the villain to run over. While guiding Lin Yuan back, he told Lin about the matter.

After hearing this, Lin was not surprised at all. He said calmly: "I noticed when you asked San to tell me the last time. At that time, there were 13 of us in the ancestral hall, but when you counted the number, it seemed that you deliberately I forgot a certain person. At that time, I was not sure about the authenticity of you and San, so I did not tell you when I found out something, I... only told Master Li about it."

Carlos smiled unexpectedly. Lin is much smarter than he thought, and Master Li's acting skills are also good. At least for a while, he didn't see any difference between Master Li and his usual. something happened.

Perhaps this is the calmness of the veteran tomb robber.

"Then why do you trust me now?" Carlos' voice came from the little paper figurine, echoing in the empty corridor, combined with the weird facial features drawn with a marker, it was a bit creepy.

Lin turned his head, not wanting to look at the paper figurine, but as soon as the paper figurine left his sight, it looked like a spider—what was more terrifying than a spider was a spider that suddenly disappeared.

He had no choice but to bear the discomfort in his heart: "You reminded me first twice, if you are a ghost, there is no need for this. In addition, I figured it out, the previous few times I explored the ancestral hall, your paper doll contributed a lot, so you can't It only appeared after entering Chongyin Mountain."

Lin's way of distinguishing the true from the false is the same as that of Yu Xing and Carlos, which is the most effective and simple way.

Yu Xing sat next to Carlos, watching Carlos close his eyes and fall into sleep-like silence.

He looked at the corridor inlaid with night pearls outside the small room, and suddenly there were some distant sounds in his ears.

It's like... a cry for help.

(End of this chapter)