Chapter 69 The truth about Reverse 7
Chapter 69 The truth about Niqi
Although he had come to a conclusion in his mind, Wen Xishu didn't know what to do next.
After all, the point that these seven households were magnified has not yet been figured out.
Wen Xishu walked quietly and followed the family.
When he heard the sound of the security door closing, he quickened his pace slightly and followed the source of the sound to the door of room number 49-3.
“我是的邻居是14-1。阿妙的邻居35-13，闻尊者的邻居7-5。小五的邻居28-11，吴香蕉的邻居21-9。”
"The pattern here... seems easy to find. The remaining two people who will die in six days are either a combination of 49-3, 42-7, or a combination of 49-7, 42-3."
"At the moment, it seems... this 49-3 is very likely one of the seven mission targets."
Standing at the door of Room 49-3, Wen Xishu did not knock. The time was now 12:47.
He has to go back.
"I was interacting with my neighbor before, and the mission was forced to end in about an hour, and I was asked to return to my room... I have to go back now. If the time is up, my body will be forcibly controlled by a strange force."
Wen Xishu was not sure whether he would die in the elevator while returning to the 14th floor if his body was forcibly controlled.
He came to the elevator door, and when the elevator opened, the "staff member" once again stood in the corner of the elevator with his back to Wen Xishu.
After the first experience, Wen Xishu immediately summoned the attribute mirror.
The elevator started moving toward the fourteenth floor, but the "staff" didn't move.
Wen Xishu would never touch or talk to the other person on a whim.
"There's no need to verify something that's dangerous but useless."
Wen Xishu returned to his room smoothly.
Yin Junchi next door is still revising his manuscript. From time to time he would send out:
"There are more and more typos. Damn it, Yin Junchi, you can't make such low-level mistakes!"
"Yes, yes, right here, right here. If I write like this, readers will definitely leave comments here, right?"
"Can they guess my plan?"
Yin Junchi kept muttering, his voice was loud but not too loud either, it was just because the whole floor was too quiet and the other residents were like dead people...
As a result, Wen Xishu could hear Yin Junchi's voice clearly as long as he got close to the wall.
"So full of energy... just like me."
Wen Xishu couldn't help but complain.
In fact, he was still unsatisfied. If today was not obviously more dangerous than yesterday, he would have planned to forcibly explore until the strange power took over his body.
It is now past one o'clock. After fifty points of action power were deducted, Wen Xishu is still energetic and not sleepy at all.
He sat on the edge of the bed, listening to Yin Junchi's constant chatter, and found it very interesting.
But suddenly Wen Xishu realized something was wrong.
"No, it shouldn't be like this."
Wen Xishu took a few deep breaths and calmed himself down:
"Something's wrong with my energy. This isn't my normal self."
"I should have noticed it yesterday. After the meeting, I should have rested, but I had no desire to rest at all."
"When my mobility is limited, the best thing for me to do is to clear my mind and have a good rest."
"But I have absolutely no desire to rest!"
It is difficult for a workaholic to take a break on his own initiative.
"I've also been affected by something!"
When this thought came to my mind, a slight feeling of tiredness finally came over me.
Wen Xishu opened his mouth, closed his eyes, and yawned.
Before Wen Xishu finished yawning, a flash of light passed through his mind.
He stood up abruptly.
The action of yawning actually became the key for Wen Xishu to connect everything together.
He closed his eyes as he yawned, but his eagerness to continue exploring made him feel like opening them again.
Under the influence of just that one thought, Wen Xishu suddenly figured out something.
"It's not an illusion... It's not an auditory hallucination! It's yawning, yawning with eyes open! The horrifying scene that Yin Junchi described was actually a yawn."
According to Yin Junchi's description, as long as Yin Junchi closed his eyes, he would see hundreds of faces looking at him with wide eyes and open mouths.
This action creates an expression of being frightened and extremely terrified. Wen Xishu had been thinking in this direction from the beginning.
But just now, he suddenly realized that it was actually a yawn.
Because of his magnified desire to work, Yin Junchi refused to close his eyes. Then because his body was too tired, he was extremely eager to relieve his fatigue by yawning and closing his eyes.
But the strange thing is that mentally, he resisted closing his eyes. So under the projection of his inner subconscious, Yin Junchi saw a group of people yawning with their eyes open...
The reason why he looked crazy and made that kind of action to himself was not because he was possessed, but because he subconsciously started yawning - yawning with his eyes wide open.
They were exactly the same as those people in Yin Junchi's hallucination. The screams they made were also exactly the same.
"He is already... unable to close his eyes. Affected by some strange force, he won't allow himself to take any rest now."
"As time goes by, this impact will be amplified, and fear will deepen this impact."
"So, as his neighbor, I was also affected by this power. Because I thought too deeply, I noticed all kinds of weirdness in this building, and I actually felt a little bit of fear deep in my heart."
"Similarly, as time goes by, this impact on me will continue to deepen, and if I feel fear during this process... then the impact will be further deepened."
"I couldn't sleep, I was extremely excited, eager to work, and I would have hallucinations when I closed my eyes. I was just thinking, how could a best-selling author with a desire to create die?"
"Now I understand...he died suddenly."
Wen Xishu's inner fear deepened.
After all, he is not a monster who is completely incapable of feeling negative emotions or fear.
The deeper you get into this building, the more frightening it becomes.
"Ah Miao's neighbor, the joy is magnified...it seems to be a good thing during this period of time."
"But if he died, it would be a tragedy. This fate is likely to happen to Ah Miao as well."
"What about Wu Xiangjiao? He's in better shape than me. He's a simple-minded guy, and his brain isn't particularly good, so he didn't realize anything was wrong."
“But Xiaowu and Venerable Wen are in very bad condition.”
Wen Xishu forced himself to close his eyes.
He had begun to feel that it was easy to recall things that annoyed him when he closed his eyes.
For example, the fire that caused him to lose his adoptive parents.
"It seems that this fear is irresistible. I can only delay its impact on me, but I can't stop it."
Wen Xishu opened his eyes and began to find paper and pen, just like Yin Junchi did.
He began to draw a structural diagram of the building.
"Don't be anxious, don't be anxious. My mental state is still good at the moment. I'm just tired, but my body can hold on." Wen Xishu is a student of Luta Academy after all, so his physical condition is naturally impeccable.
"But in two or three days, I might start to have hallucinations like Yin Junchi next door. I have to speed up."
"Keep calm. Keep calm. Keep calm..."
Wen Xishu whispered, and with his slow and long breaths, the uneasiness in his heart gradually disappeared.
He kept his eyes open so that he wouldn't lose focus when he saw the past that bothered him:
"Not bad. The desire to work and the resistance to rest can even be considered a positive buff in the short term."
"Xiaowu met a lawyer. From what we know so far, this lawyer has severe mysophobia and doesn't want you, Xiaowu, to go because the house is too dirty."
"But Xiaowu also wanted to take a bath very much, as if he had developed mysophobia."
"Wait... Xiaowu mentioned this - he should be an excellent lawyer, and there are many trophies in the room."
"Would an excellent lawyer have low self-esteem? Xiaowu kept emphasizing that he wanted to take a shower..."
"Inferiority complex, mysophobia, inferiority complex, mysophobia...delay, urging for submissions, desire to work, inferiority complex, mysophobia..."
Wen Xishu repeated it several times, and suddenly he narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself:
"Maybe this isn't mysophobia, but because Xiaowu feels that he is too dirty. Due to his low self-esteem, he wants to be a little cleaner before dealing with us!"
"So did that lawyer! Great, I totally get it!"
"I finally understand the meaning of the number seven! I finally understand! Why would such a luxurious building charge such a low rent?"
Wen Xishu completely understood what the number seven represented.
But the problem facing him now is——
How is he going to crack it?
……
……
The next day, early morning.
Wen Xishu did not sleep all night.
A Miao had a beautiful dream. In the dream, she was laughing and undergoing surgery.
The doctor told her that the operation was not successful and the cancer cells had spread. She laughed and frightened the doctors. Then she woke up.
But Wu Xiangjiao didn't feel anything, he just felt a little depressed.
Xiaowu's skin was red and swollen.
He wiped his body frantically with a bath towel until his skin turned red. Then he fell asleep in his pajamas sprayed with disinfectant, feeling sleepy.
Venerable Wen slapped himself several times in the kitchen.
The meeting was initiated by A Miao.
For A Miao, action is not that important. It seems that wasting action is a trivial matter and not worth worrying about.
When four frames appeared in front of Wen Xishu's eyes...
Wen Xishu discovered that except for Wu Xiangjiao, the other three all had some problems.
This is only the second day.
It is true that there are no monsters chasing you in this building, and there are no rules that will take your life immediately... but if you can't find the key point, living here will make you die without knowing it.
Wen Xishu thought about this and finally decided to rescue as many of these people as possible.
At least, before finding the invitation letter, I still need these people's help.
"Everyone, I actually wanted to hide something yesterday to slow down the erosion of fear on you..."
"But today, perhaps some of you have realized that something is wrong with you."
The meeting began and Wen Xishu spoke directly.
"I will state the conclusion first."
"We are in a building that has a lot to do with the number seven. As we mentioned earlier, this is a sacrifice."
"Now new clues point to the content of the sacrifice being related to the seven deadly sins."
Wu Xiangjiao is puzzled:
"Seven deadly sins? Wait, isn't it: greed, pride, wrath, lust, gluttony, sloth, and envy? Are you talking about these seven deadly sins?"
"How can you tell? These things don't match us or even our neighbors!"
Wen Xishu said:
"Don't worry, let me explain slowly."
"My neighbor is Yin Junchi, and his pen name is Santianlianghuo Jiao Peijia."
"He must be a very lazy author. He is the kind of author who doesn't want to write a single word as long as he has money. Maybe his readers even think that something has happened to him."
"Although his computer is expensive, it has very little content on it. The calls he receives most often on his phone are requests for manuscripts."
"Such a person must be a very lazy person."
"But what you can't imagine is that he is working extremely hard right now, literally working extremely hard."
Wu Xiangjiao concluded:
"Isn't it that his corresponding word is laziness?"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"Then I met a mother and her son on the 49th floor. The mother doted on her child and was very tolerant of him no matter what he did."
"But based on what the kid said...his mother wasn't like this before."
"I just heard a friend tell a sad story not long ago. Her parents made her go to a cram school because they were vain and liked to compare her with other children."
"There are actually quite a few parents like this. When other people's children become outstanding, they will feel——"
It was Wu Banana who answered again:
"envy!"
Wen Xishu nodded. It had to be said that Wu Xiangjiao, as the only one who had not been affected, or not been greatly affected, was very suitable to be the supporting actor in this meeting.
"Now, she has completely lost her jealousy, and it has been transformed into a kind of love without any restraint. She no longer has any spur on her children, only unlimited indulgence."
Wen Xishu paused for a moment, then said:
"Let's talk about Xiaowu next. According to what you said, your neighbor is a lawyer and a very good one. You saw a lot of trophies."
"You may not know that if a lawyer is really good, his confidence comes from his bones. Because confidence is a kind of momentum. If a person is not confident, how can he win every time in court?"
"I was misled by the lawyer's mysophobia before, but in fact, his problem is not mysophobia. Just like Xiaowu, do you think your problem is mysophobia now?"
Xiao Wu shrank back timidly. After hearing what Wen Xishu said, he seemed to be relieved from some special state, but only for a short while.
"Because he is afraid of being disliked by others because his home is not clean... He is not a mysophobia in essence. Mysophobia is a rejection of dirt. He does not reject dirt, he is just afraid of being disliked by others."
"Just like you, Five."
Wen Xishu looked at Wu Xiangyao, who said "oh" and realized:
"It's inferiority complex! His counterpart is arrogance, but now, he has become extremely inferior!"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"That's right, congratulations, you got it right!"
"Having said that, I think everyone is clear now, right? Your Excellency, and Xiao Wu, you should all be clear about what was taken away from you."
(It’s still 10,000 words. I’ll continue tomorrow.)
(End of this chapter)