Chapter 178 The "Truth" of Paper 20th Edition
Chapter 178 The "Truth" of the Paper...Version 2.0
Lin Yi ran to the dormitory door again and read the two dormitory rules carefully several times. Then, with a sullen face, he sat back down at the desk.
"It's completely different from what I thought at first." He gritted his teeth, his face grim, and slammed the table heavily.
"That's why I said this piece of paper is very interesting." Tian Bufan always seemed to think one step ahead of Lin Yi. He took the paper and read it while Lin Yi was taking a shower. He seemed to have guessed the truth. "What did you find?"
Lin Yi said in a deep voice: "It's very contradictory."
"First of all, before the lights go out in the dormitory, which is before midnight, the non-human students can't enter the dormitory at all. Only Song Rentou, who uses his student ID to open the door, can come in."
【Dormitory Rules 1】Article 5: Never extend an invitation to someone who knocks on the door. Only people with student ID cards are allowed back into the dormitory, and they will open the door themselves.
"If those inhuman students want to meet the conditions of 'breaking in' before midnight, there are only two possibilities. First, they have student ID cards..."
"But what they were talking about was the identity information of Song Rentou's roommate. If they had the roommate's student ID, they could swipe it in, then what about Song Rentou's roommate?"
The dormitory rules have strict regulations:
[After exiting the elevator, please find your dormitory according to the dormitory number and swipe the door with your student ID to enter. ]
There are also regulations:
【Don’t go to the wrong dormitory! 】
"If you want to enter, you must be a resident of this dormitory and use your student ID to open the door."
"But based on the statement, 'I don't know why they can open at this time,' it means they don't use student ID cards to open the door at all."
"And please note that he wrote 'they', and 'they' means there are at least two of them!"
When entering the dormitory, one person enters at a time and the door is closed. The next person swipes the card to open the door again. There is no such thing as multiple people entering in succession.
“So they don’t even have student IDs.”
"And they were able to enter because they were 'invited', and the inviter... was Song Rentou!"
"That was a misleading statement, so I felt a little strange and didn't think of it at first."
In [Dormitory Rules 2 "Special Edition"], Rule 1 is: If you feel that the door of your dormitory is opened, don't doubt it, because the door is opened.
It was because of this that Lin Yi did not doubt Song Rentou's words that they had come in at first. However, this was becoming more and more wrong. The reason was that the situation corresponding to the "Special Edition" of Dormitory Rules 2 had a very harsh premise -
[If your mental state is abnormal and you still cannot fall asleep after turning off the lights, please keep the following rules in mind to prevent you from being unable to stay in a 'safe' state].
The special version of Dormitory Rules 2 is for those who cannot fall asleep in bed after midnight and are still on the edge of a "safe" state.
At this time, the dormitory was in a period of "lights off and water supply cut off", so it was impossible for "a roommate to be taking a shower in the bathroom".
These two contradictory situations illustrate one thing: Song Rentou "invited" a non-human classmate into the dormitory at some time before 0:, who directly killed his roommate who was taking a shower in the bathroom.
And everything he said was to avoid the fact that he killed his roommate.
[“I don’t know why they can open the door at this time…”]
Of course he didn't know, because it was not his inhuman classmate who broke into the room, but he who opened the door himself.
On the entire piece of paper, only this sentence used to clear the name is false, and it is precisely this sentence that creates the strongest sense of incongruity.
But if this sentence itself is a lie, then everything makes sense.
Lin Yi told Tian Bufan the conclusion he had drawn from his analysis. Tian Bufan nodded slightly after listening to it: "Indeed, not only did he do this, he also used this method to kill all his roommates."
[“My roommate is dead. I don’t have any other roommates…”]
"But why did he do this?" Lin Yi frowned.
What was the motive for the murder?
You killed someone, there must be a reason, right?
Class teacher-039 once mentioned that those who apply for the experience have been screened by the company or the school.
Moreover, dormitories are not selected randomly, but are reserved after the application for admission is approved and before entering the school. Basically, people in a dormitory are familiar with each other.
"So why would one person kill another person, no, why would he kill several other acquaintances?" Lin Yi couldn't figure this out. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the things written on the piece of paper were a bit confusing.
Sometimes I thought my roommates had attracted them, and sometimes I thought I had attracted them.
Sometimes I think I am a Song Rentou, and sometimes I say I am not, just like...
"Nervous breakdown?"
"Could it be that this was written by Song Rentou when he had a mental breakdown? Otherwise, how could the logic be so confusing and contradictory?"
If it was a mental breakdown, then it would seem much more reasonable.
"Master Tian, do you think his will is on the verge of collapse? In this case, he is extremely sensitive to everything in the outside world, and his mind is full of crazy thoughts, so..."
"He opened the dormitory door when the layer was unstable?"
Tian Bufan listened to Lin Yi's inference with great interest. Seeing that Lin Yi stopped talking here, he said, "In fact, there is a situation that may explain why he opened the door... I wonder if you heard the calls of those human-shaped sculptures on your way back to the dormitory building?"
"It was probably... 'Get away from one of your companions, I am him, he is a fake'?"
When Lin Yi heard this, a bright white light suddenly flashed behind his head. He had indeed heard a similar voice!
Just when he looked back, he found a fake Wei Liang lying on top of Wei Liang.
"You mean... Song Rentou returned to the dormitory, and his roommate went to take a shower. At this time, he heard a call from outside the door, which roughly said something like 'Old Song, he is not your roommate, I am your roommate, he stole my student ID, let me in, I will deal with him', and then he opened the door?"
"Yes." Tian Bufan said, "Do you think this is possible?" "This..."
"Don't rush to deny it. Just listen to me."
"First we simulate an environment... This situation is not possible under normal circumstances, so we assume that the day is a foggy day similar to tonight."
"Song Rentou and his roommates were returning in the fog. In order to avoid getting lost, they kept repeating their names, student numbers, and what they were doing. When they got to the dormitory building, they changed their words from 'heading to the dormitory building' to 'returning to dormitory number x'."
"This gives the human-shaped sculptures an opportunity to capture this information."
"When they returned to the dormitory, Song Rentou had been through so many things on the way and was already extremely nervous. At this time, he heard words like 'Song Rentou, don't trust so-and-so, he is fake, I am the real one, open the door for me, I will deal with him' from outside the door. He didn't need to believe it, as long as he showed a little suspicion, it would be like planting a landmine."
"And this bomb, when a person's mental will is not strong enough, will be detonated by many small details that were not originally noticed, such as... one of his roommates has always been accustomed to brushing his teeth and washing his face before going to bed, but today he did not do so."
"Once he starts to doubt the authenticity of his roommate, he will gradually be bewitched by the sound outside the door and eventually open it."
"Once he opened the door, he invited them in."
"You can't predict whether a person who has begun to become neurotic will do those abnormal behaviors due to impulse...Put yourself in that kind of scene and think about it. It's foggy, there are strange figures, and the whole dormitory is wrong. Your ears are full of disturbing noises, both good and bad. There is also a voice telling you that your roommate is not your roommate. Can you still sleep?"
"Think about the girl who had a mental breakdown at the cafeteria door. Do you think she would be able to overcome such suspicion and not open the door?"
"Impulse is like a devil. Once an idea emerges, it can no longer be controlled."
Lin Yi pondered, "But won't his roommate stop him?"
Tian Bufan shook his head slightly: "From a behavioral psychology perspective, once Song Rentou has this idea, it is impossible to stop him unless several roommates hold him down violently. Because the more you want to stop him, the more Song Rentou believes that the person outside the door is really his roommate, and the one in front of him is not."
"When you believe a lie, the truth becomes a lie."
"What's more... wouldn't the situation at the time have been even more bizarre? For example, everyone in the dormitory heard a similar sound, but in the end, only Song Rentou left a note. If Song Rentou hadn't left a note, we wouldn't even have known about this incident?"
"Everyone in the dormitory was mentally unstable. Everyone was suspicious. After that, such a sound was heard outside the door, so... opening the door became the popular demand. Everyone acquiesced to opening the door."
"So... someone opened the door. This person may not be Song Rentou for the time being."
"As soon as the door was opened, the inhuman classmates rushed in and dragged the people in this dormitory out one by one."
“Those who were dragged out must have struggled to get back in, but those who stayed in the dormitory must have struggled to close the door, leaving them to be killed by their inhuman classmates.”
"There may be people left in the dormitory. Maybe Song Rentou is the only one left... As for why he survived, maybe he hid in the bed and pretended to sleep. You know, even if you pretend to sleep, you can still be safe as long as you don't care about what happens outside."
"When the non-human classmates left, he quickly closed the door."
"He thought he was safe, but after those inhuman classmates killed his roommates, they turned their attention to his roommate who was taking a shower."
"But Mr. Tian..." Lin Yi thought of a loophole, "How did Song Rentou avoid the lock of the non-human classmates?"
"Would you like to hear an explanation that's a bit outrageous but very reasonable?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes mysteriously.
"Can you... tell me about it?"
"In the whole dormitory, Song Rentou was the only one who didn't mention anything related to his name or student number during the entire journey back. He might have only said something like 'I'm returning to the dormitory building' or 'My dormitory building is 1414, I'm returning to the dormitory'..."
Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine when he heard this: "You mean, Song Rentou bypassed the tracking logic of the humanoid sculpture and the non-human students?"
"It's not impossible." Tian Bufan said, "This is the interesting part. He was able to stick to his dormitory even when he was mentally ill, instead of his identity. At the critical moment, he was able to use his roommate's life to fill his own hole."
"How outrageous is this? So it's reasonable to say 'I killed someone', right?"
"However, after he closed the dormitory door, the non-human classmates did not leave, but lingered at the door, and at the same time, they were still muttering the identity information of his roommate who was still taking a shower in the bathroom."
"At this time, Song Rentou knew that no matter who was real or fake outside, someone would eventually get a student ID and swipe in."
"And he must find a way to fall asleep before that, because in the dormitory, the only safe state is 'sleeping'."
"But he was afraid that his roommates in the bathroom would feel strange after they came out. After all, everyone in the dormitory was killed, but you, Song Rentou, were the only one sleeping soundly. Is this reasonable? It's totally unreasonable."
"In order to solve this problem, he first secretly turned the door of the bathroom, then opened the door of the dormitory, and when the non-human classmate came in, he chose to "ignore" and went to bed, pretending to sleep, waiting for the non-human classmate to find the bathroom and go in to take care of the last roommate, and then closed the door after he left."
"After doing all these things, his mental state did not improve at all. Instead, he became more and more depressed, so he hastily wrote this vague note."
"But when he was writing the note, he found that those inhuman classmates still hadn't left..."
"But all his roommates had died, and he finally began to doubt himself, which led to the following words."
"Am I right...Kuai Kuai."
When Tian Bufan finished speaking, the bathroom door suddenly opened. He immediately looked up with a questioning look.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then he noticed that the sound of water in the bathroom seemed to have stopped for a while.
After drying himself and changing into pajamas, Kuai Hongji walked out of the bathroom, glanced at them, and then expressed his opinion: "I heard... the beginning part, which is similar to what I thought, but... why do you think they need to drag people out of the dormitory when they kill people?"
"Huh...?" Lin Yi was stunned.
Kuai Hongji narrowed his eyes slightly: "You are still too naive. What I have in mind is... much darker than yours."
He looked at Tian Bufan: "I don't believe you can't think of it, you just want to wait for me to say it, right?"
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(End of this chapter)