white night syndrome

Chapter 220 188. A choice with only one option (please order in full)
The faces of the two girls looked rosy, and they were surprisingly thin. Their faces were exactly the same, as if they were copied. Even the biological parents of the children couldn't tell them apart.

Li Ming glanced at Kurosawa subconsciously, and the young man felt a little creepy when he thought of her weird sixth sense.

The various schedules of the Shanghai University Seminar are recorded on the front. Today’s day is circled in red, and the date a week ago is written——

"We must stop the professor. It just happened that Lin Lu said she wanted to see me at this time. We must not involve her."

From the first part of the handbook, you can also find transfer receipts and several returned letters. After careful study, you can find that these are all money transferred from Mizuno Rinji's account, but then withdrawn.

"How can you sell your dignity with such despicable means? Can the suffering of life be used as your excuse?
Just like you look down on my research and my ideals, Rinlu, I am also ashamed of your lazy and miserable life, and of having a sister like you. Maybe we can't walk on the same path after all.

I don't need your dirty money, and don't contact me again.

——Liu Li. "

Such letters were found among them.

"Explain it, Miss Linlu."

"At that time... because my life was poor... I relied on my sponsor who was a member of parliament to support me..." Lin Lu had already burst into tears.

"What a pathetic man."

Mr. Shanshi suddenly spoke up at this time.

"I saw this... Although it sounds a bit ridiculous to say it, I still couldn't bear it. The employer who hired me... was the congressman. I had an order to kill everyone except Liuli, so in the previous history , killed you countless times."

betray.

Betrayal everywhere.

Despair filled everything.

It seems that the owner of the handbook stopped recording today, and what is left is the messy handwriting of another person——

"Liu Li", "Find Liu Li", "Stay awake", "Don't despair", "Don't go crazy".

The person who wrote these words seemed to be recording something and kept writing numbers. The handwriting became wild and crazy, and finally turned into a series of numbers squeezed together, until in the end it was these continuous strings of numbers, and finally One page just repeated "972739727497275".

This...maybe the number of times Lin Lu recorded his own death.

At this moment, there was a sudden muffled sound in the previous conference room, and then a steady stream of black mucus poured out of it.

Regardless of whether everyone understands everything that has happened here, they still have to defeat the ghouls that threaten their lives.

Mr. Shanshi still looked disapproving. He changed the magazine carelessly, filled all the vacancies in it with bullets, then held the remaining bullet in his mouth, tilted his head and pulled the plate towards the ghoul. machine.

This time the ghoul seemed a little slow. Instead of dodging the bullet, it dragged its tired body towards the crowd.

The bullet penetrated its head, erupting in a beautiful yet tragic spray of blood.

When the ghoul was about to die, before delivering the final blow, Rinlu suddenly let out a mournful cry.

"No-no-wait, this is impossible! Liuli, Liuli!"

No one had time to stop her from the sudden outburst. Lin Lu screamed and rushed towards the monster desperately.

It seemed that even the monster was frozen in place, and Lin Lu rushed towards it almost rolling and crawling.

Suddenly something tripped her heel, and she had no time to scream. Lin Lu fell in the direction of the ghoul, but she neither retreated nor ran away. She clung to the ghoul's ugly body, but her voice was Sad and tender.

"Are you always so close to me? Countless deaths, countless times! In order to find you——"

Terrifying green spots began to cluster on her body, and gradually, Lin Lu's body began to emit a deep-rooted stench, but she did not let go, touching the ghoul's blood-covered body like a child. Face with meat.

"Sleep well and never wake up again this time."

Moss-like, black asphalt-like mucus covered Lin Lu's body, and the already exhausted ghoul also wailed in response. The two twisted and rotten limbs supporting each other fell to the ground like dolls.

Hoshino Katsura wanted to rush forward to save the two men, but was stopped by Shanshi with a gun.

After a while, the rotten stench floating in the air gradually dissipated. The two strange corpses were glued to each other. The gelatinous objects floating on the surface gradually receded. The ghoul's body was slowly shrinking, and the flesh and mucus melted into it. in the air.

The last thing lying on the ground were the bodies of two thin women.

The women's faces are exactly the same, almost as if they were cloned by a machine. There is no difference. The blonde hair and the black hair are intertwined together. The faces fit the same facial features. The eyes are closed, like lilies side by side. The leaves of the branch, a soul divided into two halves, so similar to each other.

The black-haired woman was wearing a set of work clothes, with a delicate face, as motionless as if she was sleeping. Holding her hand tightly was Lin Lu, whose face was full of tears and a sad smile.

Li Ming resisted the surging emotions in his heart and checked the black-haired woman's body, only to find that she had been dead for a long time and there were bullet holes with dried blood on her forehead.

Lin Lu beside him seemed to still be breathing, and his body exuded the smell of the tea he had drunk before.

So the previous guess was completely correct, those scented teas were the antidote to ward off ghouls.

Just the breath...

Everyone returned to the exhibition hall in silence, preparing for the next development.

But at this moment, they heard a familiar voice.

"In this way, maybe the tragedy can finally end."

"Now that my consciousness has been liberated, I don't have the energy to say congratulations to you."

The voice she spoke was clearly exactly the same as Maria's, but she seemed more calm and mature, but it was what was hidden in this persistent calmness that made people shudder.

The sound comes from the Qingyi Ichimatsu doll on the table.

"I am Mizuno Ruri, Maria's twin sister and Professor Zhu Jin's doctoral student."

"What's the situation now?" Li Ming was a little at a loss and asked softly tentatively.

"Do I need to tell the whole story about this incident from my perspective? As a student of Takei, Mizuno, a doctoral student at the Folklore Research Society, I noticed the truth about the summoning of Shoggoths and the transaction of the Order, but I was captured by the cultists. , unfortunately became the victim of a living sacrifice.”

The voice was a bit intermittent, and the volume of the voice showed that the owner of the voice seemed to be far away and yet very close.

"And you also came into contact with religious groups or folklore research societies for various reasons, and then became victims. My sister Linlu deduced the date of the summons from the electronic check information left on my computer. Ask the police for help After getting no results, she was angry and reckless and personally sneaked into the summoning place located underground in the research association, and even hired a killer to help through illegal means under a strange combination of circumstances."

At this point, Liuli paused, her voice a little annoyed.

"But I advise you not to believe this person."

Upon hearing this, Shanshi just sneered disdainfully at her speech, as if he didn't take her words to heart at all, or maybe he had always been like this.

"In the end, Rinlu was controlled by the cultists before the summoning, and when the killer arrived, the summoning had been completed, the living sacrifices were killed, the Shoggoths were awakened, and everyone would be killed... "

"This is how it should have ended."

"But because the rain washed away the center of the magic circle, this exploration seemed to be unusually long." Liuli's voice was a little tired.

"What about going back in time?"

Li Ming thought of something and immediately asked. Although he heard some clues from Jiang Wenkan's mouth, he still wanted to know a clearer truth, especially from the mouth of the person involved.

Moreover, he also had a bold conjecture that needed to be verified.

After being asked about turning back time, Liuli fell into a brief silence.

"I am the one who activates the machine that can rewind time. I can't let Lin Lu die, but no matter how hard I try, I can only go back to the time when you were killed. Lin Lu has memories of retrospection, maybe with us. It must be related to identical twins, our souls must be connected."

"Maybe a miracle will happen, or maybe I have been going back in time, which has led to you and Lin Lu being killed continuously. At first, I just hoped to let her escape, but gradually I felt scared .”

"If Lin Lu also leaves me, I can only be trapped here forever, forgotten by her or the world."

"Only Rinlu, I hope she won't forget me."

Li Ming was a little silent. Although it was completely different from his guess, for such a reason, the result was reasonable.

"What about Mitsuru Takei?"

Yuan Qingtama suddenly thought of this female professor. They had searched almost all the places underground in the research facility. Except for the ghoul that Shirai had turned into unexpectedly, there seemed to be no other characters among them.

So where is this vicious old man?

But speaking of it, it seems that the older the scholar or researcher is, the easier it is for him to make mistakes.

Takei is like this, Shirai Kuranosuke is like this, Onodera and Mitarai are like this too.

This may be a certain pattern, or it may be a meaningless complaint.

After hearing the question about Takei, Liuli said coldly: "Isn't the originator of this hell always by your side?"

Following these words, a voice rang out from the fragments of the Ichimatsu doll in red. It was an extremely warm and happy smile, an amazing laugh, and the neutral voice gradually turned into the whisper of an old woman. .

"It's ridiculous to call it hell. Mizuno-kun, I thought you could understand my ambition... What you and your sisters created is heaven, a perfect perpetual motion machine, and it is the eternal life we ​​are pursuing."

"Time keeps turning around, resurrecting from the dead and living forever in the age of youth. So what if you pay some price? It may be painful decades for you, but it is just a matter of 10 minutes for me."

"This is a miracle, a miracle that belongs to you and me! We made the moment become eternity!"

What a pathetic lunatic.

"There is a bomb buried underground in this facility, enough to destroy all evidence. I will activate it in half an hour."

Takei's tone was kind, as calm and gentle as talking to a child, while the doll represented by Liuli fell silent and refused to talk to the madman.

"Fight for your own life, for that is what we, miserable creatures with a finite life, must do."

"So what will happen this time?"

"Will time go back? What is your choice?"

"Complete your mission and work hard. Maybe this memory will disappear without a trace this time..."

Everyone looked at each other. Although they now understood the whole story, they still didn't know how to get out.

Li Dang walked to the exit door and found that there was no way to open the door no matter what. This was their only way out.

"I remember seeing it somewhere before... yes, that tattered ancient book, about the spell on the door." Yuan Qingyu thought for a while and said, "Maybe we can't leave the door because of this spell. reason."

Everyone fell into silence. They had no idea how to unlock this spell. Now there were only scattered clues and some guidance was needed...

At this time, everyone saw a familiar figure dragging a somewhat mutilated body into the hall.

It's Mizuno Rinji.

The remaining breath and will had already awakened her from her coma.

Facing Liuli's consciousness trapped in the machine, Linlu cried quietly.

"Stop crying, Rinlu, I know everything."

"I can no longer return to my own body. It is a kind of happiness to disappear like this. Takeui transferred my consciousness to a machine, and now it can only be used as a container."

"My consciousness will resist the newly transferred consciousness, and maybe that person will still have a chance to survive."

"As for the only answer to get out, no, it should be said to be the only answer. The first method is to perform the ritual of binding the soul. You must choose a person to stand in the magic circle, prepare the container, and recite the incantation to restart the magic circle. The subject needs to be killed; the second method is to summon the Shoggoth... but no one knows what the consequences of this will be."

But as the documents from the administrative office show, the object of sacrifice must be a person who has no remaining reason. If a normal person is allowed to perform the ritual, he will become a ghoul like Liuli.

Although Li Yan was very reluctant to let Jiang Wenkan become the object of the ritual, it was obvious that he was the most suitable object of the ritual among all the people here. He was about to become a ghoul, and the so-called sanity no longer existed.

It's a choice.

It is also a choice with only one option.

But despite this, Li Ming still set his sights on Shan Shi, this executioner, this executioner who was not worthy of belief so far.

(End of this chapter)