white night syndrome

Chapter 236 204. Living and dying (please order in full)
Kurosawa came to Li Ming's room next door. It was a guest room with exactly the same size and layout, and the furniture configuration was exactly the same.

Kurosawa turned his attention to the closet. Hidden in the corner was the backpack Li Ming carried. Inside the backpack were transparent medical gloves, some small glass bottles with labels, a notebook and a pen.

The gloves were normal medical transparent gloves. He didn't know where he got them from, so Kurosawa put them away. They might be useful for investigating the scene later.

The glass bottle was a small bottle filled with transparent liquid. There was a label on it with words that Kurosawa could not understand. Her intuition told her that those words were not human words. A strange sense of blasphemy arose spontaneously, as if she had come into contact with some kind of human being. Knowledge you shouldn’t know…

It might be some kind of potion, but she couldn't see the use.

If you look through the notebook, the first few pages are all about work, nothing special, and the latest page has a few lines like this...

"Our god is the one who unites all things.

I would like to prove my will to go to the Gate of the Ultimate.

First, offer all your martial souls to the tranquility.

Second, offer praise to all living things. "

There is a lot of unintelligible text at the back——

"OGTHROD AI'F
GEB'L-EE'H
YOG-SOTHOTH
'NGAH'NG AI'Y
"ZHRO"

Another strong sense of blasphemy...

After exploring Li Ming's room, Kurosawa vaguely heard the sound of quiet footsteps coming from the corridor. She quickly held her breath and ducked into Eri-chan's room.

As in the previous investigation, the luggage was in a mess, and clothes and jewelry were randomly thrown on the ground, but there were no signs of struggle.

Kurosawa lifted the blanket covering the body, and Eri-chan's body was completely exposed. The skin and hair on the head were completely singed, but she noticed a strange sense of dissonance.

A closer look at the skin of the body showed that even though it had been left in a warm room for a day and a night, there was no sign of decay at all. Although there was a burnt smell, there was no rancid smell.

Observing the head of the corpse, you will find that the skull on the top of the head has been cut in a circle, with signs of being refixed, and there is a depression in the forehead.

This reminds Kurosawa of the trepanation technique in the European Middle Ages, which is a medical method, but it looks like evil magic...

The marks on the skull were left a long time ago, while the depression looks relatively fresh...

Could it be said that the head was burned entirely to cover up the traces of surgery?

This seems quite reasonable.

There was an inconspicuous blood stain on the pillow on the bed... Could it be the blood stain left by the injury caused by the operation?

When leaving the room, although the size of the room was exactly the same as hers, Kurosawa still felt that she had received inconsistent information somewhere. The size of the room gave her a strange sense of dissonance.

Uesugi's room is located directly above the hot spring. It is much larger than other guest rooms. It may be the bedroom of the previous owner. Just like when I came to investigate before, I found nothing special.

The room is indeed large, but not as big as the hot spring.

...Why does this illusion occur?
When I tried to look down from the window, I saw that the wall was very flat, with no recesses or protrusions except for the entrance hall.

He tiptoed to the hot spring, and after confirming that Li Gu was not nearby, he turned his attention to it again.

The condition of the hot spring is the same as the previous investigation. Uesugi-kun's body is floating miserably by the pool. Although it is such a scene, if you look closely, it does not appear to be decayed. The condition of the head is exactly the same as that of Eri-chan.

When I came to Ji Qi's room, the furniture configuration was exactly the same. The room was tidy and there was a mobile phone on the bed.

This is a rose gold iPhone 6s. The phone has a fingerprint lock. You can only see the date and time and a screen saver picture. On the screen saver is a photo of three people. Two of them are wearing high school uniforms. It looks like they are attending a graduation ceremony. The other one is tall. The figure can be seen to be that of an adult, but the face cannot be seen clearly.

Jisaki-kun's appearance has not changed at all compared to the photo, and the date on the phone is also very strange. It shows the date seven years ago, which is January 2016, 1.

The reason why it feels strange is that from all angles, this white dream is definitely not the past, but the future.

Because Kurosawa didn’t know Li Ming at all in the past...

After seeing the figure leave Yamada's room, Kurosawa looked around vigilantly and tiptoed into Yamada's room. As soon as he opened the door, a smell of blood rushed straight into his nose and walked into the bed, where Yamada's body was lying... …

A body that has lost its head.

Other than that, there was nothing special, and Li Dang didn't seem to leave any clues.

After all locations had been investigated, Kurosawa hid in a room and began to reason.

Sure enough, it finally reached the classic plot of a mystery novel?
First of all, these rooms were filled with a sense of dissonance. Kurosawa thought of the floor plan he had seen on the wall before and finally realized that this was where the sense of dissonance came from. On the floor plan, the guest rooms on the first floor looked smaller and squarer. , but in reality it looks like the same rectangle as the room on the second floor.

So the outlines of the two floor plans cannot completely overlap. No matter which window on the second floor you look down at, the walls are vertical. Except for the entrance, there is no recess or protrusion anywhere on the first floor.

...In other words, this villa actually has a secret passage?
Kurosawa suddenly felt a little ridiculous.

Overlapping the two plans and facing the light source, Kurosawa quickly discovered the location of the secret passage.

After removing the white cloth covering the fireplace and checking inside and out, Kurosawa finally found a very inconspicuous button inside.

Pressing the button, the fireplace slid to one side, silently revealing the space hidden behind the wall. It was a dim corridor with a downward staircase at the end.

Kurosawa didn't dare to go in.

She looked around, then tiptoed to the restaurant, took out a knife, then took a deep breath and entered the secret passage.

Kurosawa held on to the concrete wall and carefully walked down the long and narrow stairs. The cold air came from below. Her intuition told her that what was waiting for her below would be "something" full of blasphemy that humans could not understand.

Even so, Kurosawa gritted his teeth and moved forward in order to find the truth.

Step by step, until the feeling of the wooden stairs disappeared, and the feet were on the hard concrete floor. Gradually, as I got used to the darkness, my vision reflected an inorganic huge space that was wider than the entire first floor.

Kurosawa had the illusion that this place was the body of the building and the villa was just its attic.

In the room, there are several huge machines placed in a space that looks like a research room. The machines operate quietly. One wall is covered by lockers, the other side is covered by bookcases, and there is an iron door at the end.

Observing the machinery carefully, I felt a power beyond human intelligence.

Is this really modern technology?
Except for a few books on medicine and psychology, most of them were written in incomprehensible languages.There were a large number of bottles and cans inside the lockers, some of which looked like medicines, and some of which contained animal specimens. The labels were written in English, Latin and incomprehensible characters. Kurosawa thought of the ones he had visited in Li Ming before. A medicine bottle was found in the bag. The appearance and label of the medicine bottle were consistent with those in the locker. It should have been obtained from here.

The tightly closed iron door was covered with blasphemous patterns and inlaid with a row of transparent beads that looked like eyes. Kurosawa felt a chill.

There is a card reader-like mechanism next to the iron door, but there is no card swipe slot. Instead, there are a few lines of poetry engraved on it.

These words and the information in Li Ming's notebook...

Exactly.

Suddenly, there was a sound from behind. It was someone walking down the stairs quickly.

Kurosawa turned around and saw that the person who came was not Li Ming, but Terada. Completely opposite to his gentle appearance during the day, he staggered, panting heavily, a pair of dull eyes with a fierce look, and raised his hands high. The heavy iron rod was attached and struck Kurosawa involuntarily.

"Kurosawa...!!"

Probably sensing the movement in the basement, Li Ming quickly rushed down the stairs and came to Kurosawa's side.

Li Ming was very shaken when he saw the scene in front of him, but he still gritted his teeth.

"Once these guys become like this, they won't listen to others. We can wait until we defeat him to speak!"

Kurosawa nodded, took out a table knife from his pocket and threw it to the young man beside him. He took a few steps back and quickly moved away from the battlefield.

deceive.

For a sensitive person like Kurosawa, this has already crossed the bottom line.

So she just needs to reap the benefits.

This is not indifference, but basic principle.

Who can be sure that the Li Ming in this white dream is the Li Ming she knows?

No one can guarantee that.

After a scuffle, Terada fell to the ground, completely losing the ability to resist. His bangs spread out messily, revealing his forehead - there was a terrifying scar on it, and with a weird gurgling sound, the limb moved toward him. The natural direction is twisted and it squirms on the ground.

That is obviously no longer a living human being...

It was a pathetic victim created by a blasphemous experiment that had lost its soul.

After understanding everything, Kurosawa's hands moved naturally. She closed her eyes and gave him the final blow.

The splattering blood, the ear-piercing screams, and the disgusting feeling conveyed to the palm of the hand through the weapon.

"Kurosawa, you..."

Li Ming took a breath and looked at the girl in front of him in shock. Then he knelt down slumped and held Kurosawa's blood-stained hands with his trembling hands.

"Why? Why do you want to do this kind of thing? You have no need to do anything. It should be me! Everything should be done by me! It's all my fault. It's all my fault for not dealing with him earlier. If I hadn't been a step too late, I wouldn't have done it. It will dirty your hands...!"

Li Ming was half-crazed and kept apologizing to Kurosawa.

The murderer who killed four people in a row without hesitation was now kneeling beside Kurosawa like a frightened child, begging for forgiveness.

From what we can see in front of us, we can know that the purpose of Li Yan's actions to become a murderer is to let Kurosawa leave here without knowing anything. However, Kurosawa has become a murderer like himself. This is very important to him. It is not an exaggeration to say that in the worst case scenario, he would fall into random madness.

Although the Li Ming in front of her was not the Li Ming she knew, Kurosawa still felt his kindness, but he was just not used to it.

"I already understand...but why do you choose to cheat?"

"I thought... I thought you hadn't recovered yet..." Li Ming paused, "Speaking of which, you must have remembered what happened a few times before. Just like the moment I killed Uesugi, you should also have recovered. The opportunity...can you tell me?"

"I have recovered since you confessed your love." Kurosawa's expression was a little cold, his voice was a little cold, but his heart was hot.

– and that didn’t show.

"how come……"

Li Ming was speechless.

"Although I know that they are no longer alive, after all, the feeling of killing is the most real. Every time I can clearly feel whose life I have taken, so the more the plan goes on, something in my heart seems to be... It’s breaking faster and faster.”

"With so many people's blood on my hands, even if I successfully leave here, I won't be able to get along with you like before... So I want to confess to you before I go completely crazy and become someone else. "

"I didn't expect that this simple wish would become the biggest obstacle to my plan, haha... It's really ironic."

"What does your note mean?" Kurosawa asked.

"You have read the text on the card reader, right? I have investigated the data in the research room and found that the verse-like text is actually a method to stop the entire system. Perhaps it was used by a former human researcher just in case. Leave the secret code behind."

"The first is the silence of all the soulless things. The soulless things are the lives that have been lost long ago, but Terada and the others are still alive. They must completely stop their functions one by one before they can move to the next step."

"Secondly, I offer praise to all living things, the living people left in the villa... The current situation is that you and I must praise together. I think it should be reciting the incantation below to open this door. .”

"At first I also tried to open the door while you were asleep, but failed. Maybe it's not the two of us who can do it together."

"I originally planned to kill everyone quietly. I pretended to stumble upon this basement by accident and asked you to help me open the door. I didn't expect that I would come to the door with you in this form. It's really incredible."

"Wait a moment..."

Kurosawa paused, and she suddenly remembered something.

"Do you and Jisaki-kun... have any hidden secrets? Do you two know each other?"

"Ji Qijun..." Li Ming seemed to be lost in memories, and then nodded, with a regretful expression on his face, "..."

Kurosawa didn't hear what he was saying clearly. He wanted to continue asking, but he didn't know how to ask. Could it be because of Bai Meng?

So why...?
(End of this chapter)