Chapter 179 "The Murderer's Letter of Expiation"
Chapter 179 "The Murderer's Letter of Expiation" (1200 words added!)
Tian Bufan leaned back slightly, gradually transferring his weight to the back of the chair, and looked at Kuai Hongji with a half-smile: "Why do I think they need to drag people out of the dormitory and then kill them?"
"You talk first, I'll blow dry my hair." Kuai Hongjie rubbed the towel and wiped his hair, "Fatty, it's your turn."
He pointed to the bathroom, leaving some space for Wei Shan to pass by, and threw his changed clothes into the washing machine.
Lin Yi glanced at him subconsciously and frowned slightly. He found that Kuai Hongji's shirt seemed a little dirty, but his school uniform was very clean.
But it only flashed by and disappeared, and Kuai Hongji had already turned off the washing machine and pressed the button to send the clothes away.
When Kuai Hongji started to blow dry his hair, Tian Bufan said, "Don't forget, even if the layers of the campus begin to fall, the non-human students still don't have much combat power when the lights come on."
"I presume that this incident happened after 22:00, when the lights in the dormitory corridor were turned off, but the lights in the dormitory were still on."
"After Song Rentou opened the door, those inhuman classmates rushed in, dragged Song Rentou's roommate into the darkness, and then killed him."
After Kuai Hongji finished blowing his hair, he smiled and said, "Although the insect swarm is weak, when there are enough of them, they can still drown a small number of people."
"The non-human classmates are like robots, never tired or in pain. As long as there are enough of them, they can cause enough damage under the lights..."
"And don't forget that if the layer falls off, the dormitory corridor will likely experience fog and wind as described in the regulations. In this case, fog will also invade the dormitory."
"Do you remember the day we entered the school? The fog was thick enough to suppress the illumination range of the street lamps, so I don't think the non-human students have no fighting power in the dormitory. Not to mention, they are not facing a group of people with strong wills, but a group of people on the verge of mental collapse."
Tian Bufan's eyebrows curved slightly, and he smiled and said, "Interesting... Keep talking, let me see what you think.
"Tsk, how could you not think of what I thought of?" Kuai Hongji sneered.
"Come on, use your ideas to guide Lao Lin." Tian Bufan pointed to the chair beside him, "From today on, the campus will not be peaceful. It's time to let Lao Lin feel your ideas..."
Lin Yi's black question mark face: "???"
What do you mean... "Use your ideas to guide Lao Lin", "Let Lao Lin feel your ideas", am I the fucking Dragon Ball that can switch forms, or Kamen Rider that can insert cards to change costumes?
Under normal circumstances, it is the "Lin Yi Dragon God", but can it be switched to the "Tian Bufan Dragon God" and the "Kuai Hongji Dragon God" at critical moments?
Would this make my "Lin Yi Long Shen Hao" look low-class?
"Follow my train of thought." Kuai Hongji said, "When I saw this piece of paper, the first thing that came to my mind was not what happened, but how did this 'Song Rentou' who left the paper remain 'safe' after the inhuman classmates entered the dormitory?"
"Mr. Tian thinks that he didn't think about his identity information... so he avoided the attack of the non-human classmate." Kuai Hongji glanced at Tian Bufan, "I don't think so."
"Let's use what Mr. Tian said, the dormitory after 22:00 as the time point... After the door is opened, the security status of the dormitory is broken."
"At this time, there is only one place where you can maintain a 'safe state' - lying in bed and sleeping or pretending to be sleeping."
"That is to say, if Song Rentou wants to remain safe, he must return to his bed after the door opens and before the non-human students enter. In other words, his bed must be close enough to the door, preferably this one..."
Kuai Hongji pointed to the bed near the dormitory door.
Friends who often serve as godfathers in dormitories know that the bed near the dormitory door is usually responsible for turning off the lights. However, if the godfather who has not returned home at night suddenly returns home and forgets to bring the key, when he does not want to get out of bed to open the door, he will often use some special auxiliary means to reach the door handle in bed, such as...
Kuai Hongji rummaged through several wardrobes and found a clothesline in the corner.
Looking at the clothesline in Kuai Hongji's hand, Lin Yi's scalp went numb.
He and Tian Bufan were still at the stage of deduction, but Kuai Hongji had already started looking for evidence? !
The key point is, he actually found it!
666, you will defend James alone next season.
"So, let's put aside whether Song Rentou and his roommates had a mental breakdown, and regardless of how the non-human classmate killed his roommates, the person who opened the dormitory door and "invited" the non-human classmate to enter the dormitory was the one who used the clothesline to open the door handle. "
"And this person remained in a safe state of pretending to sleep in bed. Only in this way could he avoid the attacks of his inhuman classmates, and he also became a person who survived because of this."
"This person is the one who finally wrote this piece of paper. Based on the information on the piece of paper, let's call him... "Song Rentou." "
"So as I said, why do you have to drag your roommate out? Once the door is opened and the person lies on the bed, you don't have to worry about anything else. The inhuman classmates will take care of everything, except for the roommate who is taking a shower in the bathroom."
Kuai Hongji weighed the clothes rack and put it aside, as if finding this thing was just an ordinary little thing.
"So this also answers another question... Why did Song Rentou kill his roommate? Please note that what I meant by saying this is not to discuss whether Song Rentou killed his roommate or not, but to say that he killed his roommate as a result of his subjective will."
"Think about it carefully. Why would a dormitory where people just put their clothes in the washing machine and destroy them need a clothes drying pole? And how could there be a clothes drying pole?"
"The only explanation is that someone purchased a clothes drying pole from the canteen with the intention of doing the 'right' thing at the 'right' moment, and that thing... was to use an inhuman classmate to kill his roommate."
"What do you... think?"
After hearing this, Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine and his entire body was cold.
On the contrary, Tian Bufan's expression did not change much, as if this inference was still within his guess.
But Lin Yi felt a little scared.
This was actually a premeditated plot by Song Rentou to kill someone with a borrowed knife? !
"But I still don't understand his motives! I can't figure it out. Could it be that he had a mental breakdown and his mind was disturbed, and he began to doubt the authenticity of his roommate and decided to do this?"
Kuai Hongji shook his head slightly, picked up the piece of paper, glanced at it, and said, "So I said that we thought the same thing at the beginning, but I think that this incident lasted for two days... On the first day, everything was relatively normal. There was such a sound outside the door, but no one in the dormitory opened the door, at least... Song Rentou did not open the door."
"But Song Rentou became suspicious of his roommates and decided to get rid of them. To this end, he planned this incident and even went to the canteen to buy a clothesline... Clotheslines are daily necessities and are one of the things that can be purchased at the canteen by swiping a student ID."
"Wait until the night of the second day, or maybe the third day... Because this kind of situation has definitely happened more than once or twice on this campus. After all, we have been chased by humanoid sculptures and non-human students almost every day since we entered the school, right?"
Lin Yi's face was a little pale, but he looked at Kuai Hongji with some palpitations, and said in deep thought: "These...are all what you deduced from the beginning? Were you so sure before you found the clothes drying pole?"
"The clothes drying pole is just a supporting evidence. If I find it, it only means that my speculation is closer to the truth. It doesn't matter if I don't find it." Kuai Hongji said, "Because the most interesting part of the whole piece of paper is actually the bathroom part, and this part is the most powerful evidence to prove that he killed his roommate."
Lin Yi nodded slightly.
Song Rentou opened the bathroom door and let his inhuman classmates kill his last roommate. This was written by him, which was a self-admission, and it was an indisputable fact, so neither he nor Tian Bufan made this point the focus of the discussion.
But Kuai Hongji put the focus here.
"Just by saying this, you may not be able to feel the picture I inferred."
"Let me tell you the truth I pieced together..." Kuai Hongji took the piece of paper and raised a cold smile: "Watch carefully..."
"First of all, the background is a foggy day that lasted for several nights. The day before the incident, Song Ren, whose mental state had long been unstable, tossed and turned in bed, carefully capturing the movements of his inhuman classmates outside, and stayed up all night. At the same time, he made a plan to buy a clothesline and kill his roommates... I just mentioned this, so there is no need to talk about it again. Let's get down to business."
"On the night of the incident, there was heavy fog, similar to today. Song Rentou and his roommates returned to the dormitory one after another and began to take showers one by one..."
"Don't worry about the time."
"Song Rentou listened to the calls from outside the door. When he heard them start to accurately call out his roommate's identity information, he, who had already been hiding in bed, used the clothesline to push the door handle to open the dormitory door, and then hid in bed and pretended to sleep..."
[“My roommate attracted them…”][“They were right at the door… repeating my roommate’s name and student number…”]
“He tried to present the facts.”
[“I don’t know why they can open the door at this time…”]
"But he lied here. He opened the door, but he could also pretend he didn't know about it. From a victim's perspective, no one would question a mentally ill survivor."
"And the next sentence..."
"['I saw them looking for my roommate...'] and ['My roommate was taking a shower...']"
"The biggest problem with these two sentences, and the misleading nature of them, is that people associate them together."
"In fact, these are two separate things... After he opened the door, he hid in the bed and observed through the gap in the quilt that these inhuman classmates were 'looking for his roommates'. The roommates here refer to all roommates except the one who was taking a shower."
"After they killed the roommates, they didn't leave. Perhaps they heard the sound of running water in the bathroom and were reluctant to leave."
"Song Rentou, who was hiding in the bed, began to get anxious... At the same time, the non-human classmates also noticed Song Rentou lying on the bed, but they did not attack him. I think the 'safety' of the dormitory still protected the mentally ill Song Rentou - of course, this is doubtful, let's continue reading."
"Song Rentou should be safe, but his mind is extremely dangerous. He is afraid that he will be attacked by his non-human classmates... because there is such a sentence in the special version of the dormitory rules-"
"[Don't worry about who they are, as long as you pretend to be asleep, nothing will happen, even if they have crawled to your bedside.]"
"It means that the inhuman classmate even climbed onto the bed and called him in his ear, but he couldn't bear such mental torture and voluntarily gave up his safe state... He got off the bed."
"We have said before that under the lights, the behavior of non-human students is restricted. Therefore, Song Rentou had the opportunity to quickly escape to the bathroom door after jumping on the bed, then open the door and rush in."
"['I was afraid they would hurt me... I was so scared...], so ['I opened the bathroom door...']"
"Here's the second lie."
"['They rushed in and took away my roommate'], don't forget, what was the purpose of Song Rentou? To kill my roommate."
"So the situation at that time was not that Song Rentou secretly opened the bathroom door and diverted the blame, because he got out of bed and broke his own 'safe state'. So here he actually opened the bathroom door, rushed in, and pushed his confused roommate who was taking a shower out of the bathroom, while he hid in the bathroom with the door closed, waiting for the inhuman classmate to kill the last roommate."
“That’s why I said this…”
"['I killed my roommate... No, they killed my roommate...']
"And then this sentence..."
"['They are right at the door, why don't they leave...'], do you think this is the non-human student leaving the dormitory? No, this is the non-human student wandering around the bathroom door, not the dormitory door."
"There is an interesting phenomenon. We could see the door of the office, but Maozi couldn't. So there should be many similar layers in this campus, and these layers have a very obvious feature - they are self-enclosed."
"Offices, classrooms, dormitories, stairwells... all self-enclosed spaces with 'doors' may be an independent layer, or a mezzanine. Non-human units obviously cannot actively open the doors of this layer, and someone needs to help them open them, in short... "invite." "
"As for the following words..."
"Something like 'there is no escape', 'it's my turn', 'my name is Song Rentou', 'they are knocking on the door', just for fun... Obviously, he survived in the end."
"Why are you so sure?" Lin Yi asked.
Kuai Hongji looked at Lin Yi like he was an idiot. He shook the piece of paper and said, "Because what's even more outrageous than this is this piece of paper itself, Old Lin!"
"If someone held a knife to your neck, would you be willing to record your mental journey?"
Lin Yi's pupils suddenly trembled: "This was written by Song Rentou after he escaped from danger!"
Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly and put the piece of paper on the table: "So I set the tone of speculation from the beginning."
"Lao Lin, you also have a notebook, right? You write notes on everything, so you don't stop and write notes when you encounter danger, like those stupid parents who post a message on WeChat Moments when their children get into trouble, right?"
"So this Song Rentou, out of suspicion, accidentally killed one roommate after another, and finally wrote this... "Letter of Confession of the Murderer"."
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently. He looked at the piece of paper in front of him and felt that the pure white paper was covered with words written in blood. The short page of paper looked like a letter written in blood.
His perspective is the state of mental confusion of the severely polluted after being tortured by the devilish sounds of the inhuman units.
In his inference, Song Rentou was a forced perpetrator, similar to a mentally ill person who kills people during an illness.
From Kuai Hongji's perspective, Song Rentou was a premeditated and active perpetrator, similar to a mentally ill person who kills people while sober and then uses his mental illness to exonerate himself.
Kuai Hongji glanced at him and suddenly said calmly: "And do you know what the darkness I'm talking about is?"
Lin Yi was silent for a moment, glanced at the paper, and said thoughtfully: "Yes... He always believed that his roommate deserved to die?"
"It's not just that." Kuai Hongji said coldly, "The real darkness is that only two lies in ten sentences are enough to confuse the entire fact."
"That's it. I'm going to lie down. Call me if you need anything." Kuai Hongji went straight to the bed and lay down. "You guys continue chatting."
At a certain point in the discussion, Wei Shan finished his shower and went to bed, so only Lin Yi and Tian Bufan were left sitting in the dormitory.
Tian Bufan glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall.
"22:23, it's getting late, let's talk about the rest in bed."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, got up and went to the bathroom first, "Do you guys want to go to the bathroom?"
"I did it while taking a shower. It's up to you." Tian Bufan said.
"Hey, I want to go, I want to go! Please move aside, I'll go first~" Wei Liang jumped off the bed like a little gust of wind, and went into the bathroom before Lin Yi. After a quick battle, he returned to the bed and returned to the state of burying his head in his face, "I really can't hear anything".
Lin Yi entered the bathroom and closed the door.
He re-examined the ten-square-meter bathroom. After Kuai Hongji's reminder, he felt more and more that this bathroom was like a simple shelter.
"Is it true that the bathroom can be used for special situations...?"
“It’s not written in the rules…”
Lin Yi did not question Kuai Hongji's speculation, and even felt that Kuai Hongji's speculation was more convincing and closer to the facts than the one he and Tian Bufan discussed.
While using the toilet, he was thinking about Song Rentou's mental state at that time. Suddenly, he shuddered when he walked out of the bathroom after finishing.
Added 1200 words for book friend "Anmingn"!!
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