Chapter 6 Luo Xi's Solution
Chapter 6 Luo Xi's Solution
Maybe it was due to the situation, or maybe she was moved by Luo Xi's "sincerity", in any case Wu Rui was convinced.
The atmosphere during this exchange was obviously much better.
"Everything I said before is true. I didn't lie to you. You should remember that the last time Brother Mao mutated, I was the one who dragged you away because you were not yet a Memory Master at that time. You are essentially a good person. As you said, we had a little ambiguity before, so saving you was just a matter of convenience."
Wu Rui tried to keep her voice down.
She began to take the initiative to build closer relationships and increase favorability.
This is a good beginning.
The two of them returned to the work area on the 24th floor, to two adjacent workstations.
"As for the questions you asked me, I don't know many of them. Yes, I can barely be considered a senior. Including the last time, I have retained four memories in total. At the beginning, I didn't know what happened. Everything was normal until the murder happened."
"Oh, your first time, who died?" Luo Xi was obviously very concerned about this question.
Wu Rui said seriously: "I know what you are thinking. I have also analyzed it myself. The people who died here are most likely the ones who have recovered their memories. Because the rules of the fight dictate that if you want to get the memory card, killing other people who have recovered their memories is the fastest and easiest way. But the one I encountered should not be the case, because the one who died was a courier boy, and he died in the stairwell between the 23rd and 24th floors."
"Courier boy?" Luo Xi was stunned. He really didn't expect this answer.
"Yes, it seems that he slipped and fell down the stairs and broke his neck. At that time, those police officers were the ones who handled the case."
"Officer Song and the others?"
"Correct!"
Luo Xi thought about it and let Wu Rui continue.
"I had never encountered such a thing before. I was very scared at the time, but the police handled the scene very quickly. The initial investigation showed that it was an accident. Everyone discussed it privately and also thought it was an accident."
"continue!"
"Later, everything seemed normal. I was concentrating on answering the phone at that time. When we were about to get off work in the afternoon, Mr. Du said that he needed some people to work overtime. Brother Mao said that everyone could volunteer. I happened to have nothing to do at the time, so I stayed with several other colleagues to work overtime. As a result, at 8 o'clock in the evening, someone died again. And this time, two people died."
"Who?"
"Boss Du and Xiaolei."
"Zhao Xiaolei?"
"Correct."
Luo Xi glanced at a female colleague sitting about five or six seats in front of him.
The other party was happily answering calls from users, busy and orderly, completely different from Luo Xi and Wu Rui who were slacking off with headphones on, and there was nothing unusual to see.
"Two people died at once, and the incident became a big deal. The police came very quickly and sealed off the scene. I don't know if they found anything. There were not many people left in the company at the time. Everyone was waiting for the results at the scene. People were panicking. After all, including the takeaway boy in the morning, three people died in a row in this place in one day. Some colleagues had already discovered that something was wrong. As a result, after ten o'clock in the evening, Brother Mao suddenly changed, and the killing time began."
"Killing time?"
"It was during the cleaning work hours. I was killed that time. Death happened almost instantly. I didn't feel anything at the time, but I felt scared afterwards. I was scared to death. I entered the cycle of the first day of imprisonment. When I stood in the elevator again and looked at the open door, I thought I was crazy at that moment."
To Wu Rui, these things seemed to have happened just a few days ago, so her memory is still fresh, and there is a hint of fear when she recounts them.
"So how did you know about the Day of Imprisonment, the Cleaner, the Memory Collector, and the Killing Time? Someone must have told you. Who told you?"
Wu Rui looked at Luo Xi with a little surprise. It was obvious that the other party had a very sharp mind.
"Someone did tell me, but I can't tell you who that person is."
"You are not being honest. You are playing with my feelings. I am going to join forces with Lao Gao."
"No, no, this matter is different. I promised the other party to keep it confidential. Without her, I would not be alive today. I owe her a lot. Besides, I know very little about her situation, so it is not considered as hiding it from you." Wu Rui was anxious and angry.
"That person lost his memory later?" Luo Xi returned to normal and suddenly asked.
Wu Rui was stunned, seeming a little surprised why the other party knew that.
It was obvious that Luo Xi was very different from the others. She had noticed this before. There was some unknown secret hidden in him. A normal person would have been confused after experiencing these weird and terrifying things, but she found that he not only did not have that emotion, but on the contrary, he even had a kind of "excitement".
Calm and cool, this was the new impression Luo Xi gave her.
"To be exact, she gave up on her own. She said she had been through too much and was tired of it. Then she gave me the only memory card she had left."
Wu Rui looked a little gloomy.
"I understand!" Luo Xi did not continue to ask about this matter, as if he didn't care at all.
Kill, escape, die... If you are lucky, you can keep your memory and continue to experience it all, or lose your memory and become amnesiac.
The point is that there is no hope at all, which is indeed a despairing thing.
"So, your mentor doesn't know how to get out of here and pass this survival game. Without hope, there will be despair."
Wu Rui nodded: "That's right, it should be."
"Why doesn't she leave?"
"Leave? Where?"
"Go downstairs, go somewhere else."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you that once you become a Memory Collector in a certain place, you cannot leave this fixed area. I don't know about other places, but for example, the activity area here is the twenty-third and twenty-fourth floors. The Memory Collectors here can only move around in this area."
“What happens if it goes out of bounds?”
"Erase your memory and become amnesiac." "Is there a penalty rule? Can the memory card be used as a deduction?"
"No, so remember, don't go out of bounds, don't go out of bounds, unless you want to become an amnesiac."
Luo Xi guessed that Wu Rui's 'mentor' couldn't stand it anymore and chose to go out of bounds, but of course other possibilities were not ruled out.
"How many times has your mentor experienced days of confinement?" Luo Xi continued to ask.
"I don't know. She didn't say it, but I can feel it. It should be quite a lot." Wu Rui sighed: "In fact, most of what I know about the Day of Imprisonment was told to me by that person. She taught me a lot."
"Like, murder?"
Wu Rui was stunned for a moment, then nodded and admitted: "Yes, including killing. In a place like this, if you don't kill people, they will kill you!"
Luo Xi nodded: "So, who are the people who can be confirmed to have recovered their memories during the days of confinement you experienced?"
"Including me, there are a total of 9 people in the several cycles of the Imprisonment Day. But you have to know that even if you are a person who has regained memory, once you lose your memory card, you will become a person with amnesia again after the next Imprisonment Day. The same is true in reverse. Every person who has regained memory was once a person with amnesia. Haha, this is a bit like a very classic paradox problem, that is, which came first, the chicken or the egg. So if you were a person who regained memory last time, you may not be the same this time. If you were a person with amnesia last time, you may be a person who regained memory this time. From my observation, the few people who have regained memory that I can confirm are just the past tense. They have lost their memories. At present, the only people who have regained memory that I can confirm are you, besides myself, and Mr. Gao and Mr. Du are also possible, but I am not sure."
Luo Xi thought for a moment and said, "So the only known way to preserve memory is through memory cards. Then by giving away memory cards, it should be possible to turn a person with amnesia into a person with memory restoration."
"Yes, but it's not limited to this one. We found that there is a certain degree of chance when people with amnesia become people with memory restoration."
"Randomness?" Luo Xi tried to understand.
"That is, without human intervention, a person who has lost his memory will suddenly have the memory of the previous day of imprisonment at the beginning of the next day of imprisonment. Just like you, Luo Xi, I have observed you and recalled carefully. You are one of these people who regained their memories by chance."
"Are the people who regain memory randomly selected from those who have lost their memory? This is a bit like randomly pulling someone to the table to fill the number of people. In other words, there is a minimum number of people who regain their memory during the day of imprisonment. Then what is the card you exchanged from me?"
"Rewards can also be understood as 'newbie gift packs'. The randomly generated memory collectors will have some special 'rewards'."
Luo Xi didn't dwell on the card, but asked another question: "Wu Rui, what is your initial card?"
"Well... I'm sorry, this is my secret and I can't tell you, and it's not within the scope of the deal." Wu Rui actually refused very straightforwardly, without any hesitation in her tone.
"Look, the trust between people is too fragile. I am extremely honest with you, but you are still on guard against me." Luo Xi mocked her.
Wu Rui didn't comment. She glanced at the time on her watch and then stood up: "I'm going to the bathroom."
Luo Xi glanced at the time. It was exactly ten o'clock in the morning.
He suddenly grabbed Wu Rui's wrist and asked a strange question: "Did Brother Mao crawl out of the closet every time there was a killing?"
Wu Rui was stunned for a moment, recalled, nodded, and shook her head: "I think so, I'm not sure, just like last time, if I hadn't gone to the men's locker room, I definitely wouldn't have known that Brother Mao crawled out of the closet, and before that, I hadn't seen how Brother Mao changed."
"I see, thank you!"
Luo Xi let go of the other person's hand.
Wu Rui took two steps and hesitated for a moment, but finally turned back, leaned over and whispered, "You'd better hide, too. No one can be sure whether Brother Mao will start the killing time at around 10 o'clock like last time. Once it starts, it will be a sea of blood and corpses, and there is no way you can escape. However, the killing time will only last for an hour, so you will be safe if you can get through it."
Without waiting for Luo Xi to say anything, she quickly left and went into the women's bathroom.
Luo Xi didn't move. He rubbed his face at his workstation.
The 'he' in the mirror started the mocking mode again, scolding Luo Xi and talking nonsense non-stop.
"The so-called initial card can actually be understood as a certain ability. If my card can save memories twice, then Wu Rui's is most likely a card that allows her to hide, similar to a safe house. It is very important to her and can even be said to be her greatest reliance for survival. I really can't tell others about it casually."
Luo Xi muttered to himself at this time.
The 'he' in the mirror was stunned for a moment and wanted to say something, but at this moment a dark shadow came forward from behind and pulled the mouth-cannon personality aside. In the mirror, there appeared another 'Luo Xi' who looked very strange, wearing glasses, a suit, and the attire of an elite, very calm and wise.
"As expected of you, you figured out that woman's trump card based on just some previous clues. I think there is at least a 70% to 80% chance that it is as you said. It's ridiculous that she thought she was very smart. But it's useless to us. That woman won't cooperate and won't take us to the refuge. If Brother Mao starts the killing time, we will still be dead, let alone an hour. Haha, we can't even last ten minutes."
"It's you. Long time no see!" Luo Xi raised his eyelids and looked at 'himself' in the mirror, who looked handsome, like a successful CEO and an elite.
"Smart people don't talk nonsense. If you have a way, please hurry up, otherwise I'm afraid that Brother Mao will change in a while and everything will be too late. You should know that you don't have a memory card now. If you die, everything will be over. If you can't do it, please give up your position and let me do it. I promise that I can definitely get through this difficult time, and I have already thought of a way."
Looking at himself in the mirror wearing glasses and talking, Luo Xi had no expression on his face.
"It's been a long time indeed. So long that you've forgotten how powerful I am. You even thought you could fool me with such a crude trick? Ha, go back to your corner and read your book, nerd!"
Luo Xi cursed.
The man wearing glasses in the mirror suddenly became furious, his facial features were ferocious, like a devil, but he did not continue to speak. He just changed his expression, sneered, and slowly retreated into the shadows behind.
The shadows in the shadows were a little restless at this time, whispering, but no one came forward to get scolded.
They knew very well, and had personally experienced how terrifying this 'Luo Xi' outside could be when he got serious.
In fact, Luo Xi already had a way to deal with Brother Mao.
It cannot be said to be a response, nor is it a solution to completely solve the problem. At best, it is a means of delaying time and testing the waters.
It is also very simple to operate.
Before being questioned by the police, Luo Xi sent an email to Liu Mao, also known as Brother Mao, using the customer service team's public email address.
Mr. Cleaner:
Please go to the men's restroom on the 18rd floor tonight at 30: to discuss important matters. Be on time and see you there.
Gao Shengjie, July 29, Monday]
(End of this chapter)