"you lose."
Xie Zhi's voice rang in the bandage weirdo's ears.
At this time, the bandage monster was still pressing Xie Zhi tightly, but he could no longer feel the feeling of absorbing water from the other party's body. Only a simple sense of power suppression was left, and that feeling of power suppression was still there. Disappears quickly over time.
It was as if the power in the "woman" beneath her was gradually increasing, while the power in her own body was constantly disappearing.
"Your expression betrays your confusion."
Xie Zhi laughed, and he raised his blue right hand again, but this time, the crazy scissors that appeared were not smaller scissors.
The five two-foot-long scissor blades were gathered together into a palm and slowly caressed the bandaged face's neck.
The light in the bandaged face's eyes disappeared.
Then there are the eyes.
The smile on Xie Zhi's face turned into shock.
Because as he wiped his right hand across the bandage monster's neck, the bandage monster's bandaged face was like a deflated balloon, rapidly turning from round to shriveled.
Until it turned into a pure bandage skin, and a work clothes suit worn outside the bandage skin.
"The bandage monster turned into a puddle of water..."
Xie Zhi stared at the black liquid that leaked out like a spring from the wound on the bandage monster's neck. The liquid had a strong fishy smell, as if it was bad water that had been rotting for a whole century.
"What kind of monster is this?"
Xie Zhi's brows furrowed deeply, partly because of the strong stench in the air, and partly because he couldn't understand what was happening in front of him.
In the contaminated sites that have been treated in Tianguang Building and the Third Hospital, all patients infected by emotional illness will return to human form after the emotional illness is relieved. But here, the bandage monster in front of them is really dead. , it can't even be called "human", because the bandage monster turned into a puddle of pus after death.
The black evil water did not last long in the sauna. The pool of black water quickly evaporated into black vapor and filled the entire sauna.
Xie Zhi's brows furrowed even more.
He opened the door, ran out while letting out the smell, and leaned against the door of the sauna.
"Is the bandage weirdo a patient with emotional illness? Or is there not only emotional illness in this world, but also many strange beings that I don't know about?"
Xie Zhi thought for a while, then turned his head and looked at the sauna. The black air had completely disappeared.
Only the strong stench that still permeated the sauna room was left, and it couldn't be dissipated, but this time the stench could no longer form a human shape.
Although he didn't know the reason behind this, Xie Zhi knew that the bandaged face should indeed be dead.
Xie Zhi let out a long breath. This short minute or two was really thrilling.
If his reaction was a little slower, or if the water in his body drained a little faster, as long as any coincidence was not so lucky, he would die in the "arms" of the bandaged-faced weirdo before opening the sauna door.
While thinking about this, Xie Zhi remembered that he was still possessed by a woman at this moment, and the woman was still naked, so he felt scared and felt a chill.
"This weirdo with a bandage face should be killed. A big man will not even spare a woman without clothes."
Xie Zhi showed a disgusted expression as if he had eaten a canned herring, and turned back to look at the ground where the bandage monster had turned into pus.
But looking back, Xie Zhi discovered something different.
"Huh?"
Xie Zhi raised his eyebrows. The bandages left behind after the death of the bandage monster were no longer rotten and dilapidated gray-white, but turned into a fresh white.
That feeling of pure whiteness is like...
Xie Zhi walked over curiously, while guarding against possible threats.
Like, the dead bandaged-faced weirdo suddenly attacks me.
Fortunately, the bandaged-faced monster was completely dead, with not even ashes left.
And the humanoid bandage left by the bandaged-faced monster...
Xie Zhi stretched out his fingers and touched it. It was soft, moist, and a little elastic.
"Perhaps this bandage can suppress the water loss in my body."
A girl's voice talking to herself suddenly appeared in Xie Zhi's ears.
"Who is speaking?"
Xie Zhi was shocked, but he looked around but saw no one.
It's strange. If there was no one around, could it be that I said those words myself?
Xie Zhi was stunned. It seemed possible?
If I entered the old man's memory illusion in the Third Hospital and experienced the near-death experience from the old man's perspective, then whose experience was it that I experienced in this strange hot spring?
Since there is memory, there must be a subject of memory.
That is to say...
Although the "corpse" of the bandaged-faced monster he sees now was completed by Xie Zhi after nearly dying, during the time period when this memory originally occurred, the woman he is now possessing also completed the killing of the bandaged-faced monster. The opponent's execution was even easier than his own when killing the bandaged monster.
Xie Zhi closed his eyes and tried to hear the "girl's voice" he heard before again.
The air around him gradually became quiet, leaving only the sound of Xie Zhi's breathing.
The breathing sound gradually stabilized, and then gradually split from one group into two groups.
Yes, Xie Zhi heard the girl's voice again.
"Maybe I should put the bandage on myself."
The two groups of split breaths were reunited into one group, and then Xie Zhi's heartbeat was no longer stable.
He felt an impulse coming from his body.
This impulse wanted him to put the bandaged body in front of him on himself.
"I'm riding a horse... You're a girl, don't you have a little bit of mysophobia? A little bit is fine!"
Xie Zhi's pupils were shocked.
Is this thing in front of me wearable?
Or wear it on yourself? ? ?
No, no normal human being would be able to come up with the decision to wear the enemy's corpse or even the skin peeled off from the corpse on his own body! ! !
Who is possessed by me?
Xie Zhi swallowed.
His instinct told him that this thing was too dirty. Even if he didn't consider that it was peeled off from the bandage monster, he still had to consider the pool of black water that the bandage monster turned into when he died.
All the information told Xie Zhi that the thing in front of him could not be worn.
At least not on yourself.
But even though Xie Zhi thought so, the impulse in his heart could never go away.
Moreover, this sense of impulse continues to expand as time goes by.
At first Xie Zhi could bear it for a while, but after more than a minute, Xie Zhi's eyes were constantly attracted to the "bandage skin", and the desire to "wear the bandage skin" in his mind continued to strengthen.
Finally, Xie Zhi sighed.
Wear it.
This is like the prerequisite for the main mission in an online game. No matter how much I can endure it, as long as I don't wear it, I won't be able to proceed to the next mission and will be trapped in this hot spring.
Xie Zhi took the bandage skin into his hand.
After looking up and down for a while, I didn't see any zippers or buttons. I looked carefully again and found that I couldn't see the threads of the bandage either. Maybe the original bandage had been integrated into the whole bandage skin.
Xie Zhi thought for a while, took off the work clothes and suit from the bandage skin, and then made a hole from the back of the bandage skin from top to bottom.
That opening was just enough for Xie Zhi to get in and out, just like the stuffed doll salesmen hired by shopping malls to enter their work clothes from the back of the stuffed doll.
To Xie Zhi's surprise, the inside of the bandage was very comfortable.
The texture of the moist bandage is like fine hydrophilic leather, which not only locks in moisture on the body, but also protects the skin. The place where the bandage-faced monster's eyes were originally exposed was now left open, just enough for Xie Zhi to expose his own eyes in the bandage holster.
By the time Xie Zhi had completely put on the bandage and holster, only his eyes were still exposed on his entire body.
Xie Zhi left the sauna and tried it. The amount of water lost by his exposed eyes every minute was almost negligible.
“I never thought it could really solve the problem of constant water loss!”
Xie Zhi couldn't help but marvel at the magic of everything in this huge moon world.
What's even more amazing is that the bandage holster he was wearing was obviously a head taller than him before he entered it. But somehow, when he entered it, he felt that this holster was made for his height and figure. The design is the same, no matter the height, waist circumference or even the fit of the feet, it is the same as mine!
etc……
Xie Zhi suddenly realized something.
The hair on his body stood up.
He hopes his "consciousness" is wrong.
He touched his back...
The crack disappeared.
He was trapped in the bandages.
Xie Zhi's pupils trembled again.
Was he deceived by that woman's memory?
Xie Zhi swallowed, but after his eyes moved downward, Xie Zhi understood.
No, it was not that woman who deceived herself.
He is still possessed by that woman.
It was that woman and herself who were both deceived by the bandage weirdo.
A woman's voice came from Xie Zhi's head again.
This time there was some exasperation in the woman's voice.
"Goddess of the Moon, this bandage skin is alive! It is a pollutant, not a contaminated patient! It is not the weirdo in the bandage that is controlling the bandage, but the bandage is controlling the weirdo in the bandage skin!"
"How could I make such a stupid mistake! I'm done for!"
Xie Zhi was stunned, it was okay if it was over.
Are these ladies so self-destructive?
But the next moment he realized that the woman did not give up on herself, she was just complaining about her stupidity while thinking about how she should plan her next move.
"Let me think about how long I can live after being entangled in pollutants..."
"I can feel some substances that contaminate me slowly seeping out from the bandage skin, but these substances seem to be able to neutralize another type of pollution in my body."
"Therefore, I should not be assimilated by pollution for a while."
"Then there is only one answer. Maybe I don't need to think about how I should leave the bandage now. I can carry out the next step of investigation with the bandage on."
"..."
Xie Zhi quietly listened to the soliloquy of a girl in another time and space.
Those words were not continuous, more like fragmented dreams.
But from those words, Xie Zhi still heard some key words.
"Professor", "Clue", "Elder Care", "Murder"...
From these narratives, Xie Zhi still didn't know the girl's name, but Xie Zhi understood where this place was and the girl's purpose here.
Xie Zhi combined the key words and short sentences he heard and pieced together a possible picture of what happened in this hot spring fantasyland.
This is a hot spring hotel that was converted into a hot spring nursing home by a relevant company in Yanshui City.
In the nursing home, a professor named Zhang is the girl's father.
The girl's father devoted his whole life to the research of a certain special knowledge. After retirement, due to his desire to return home, he gave up the retirement conditions of the first urban agglomeration in the central part and returned to his hometown, the second city in the east. He moved to the Yanshui City in the group and was transferred to this private hot spring nursing home.
At first, everything seemed to be going well. The nursing home was a happy place. Although the old people living here were not as knowledgeable as Professor Zhang, they also felt cordial in their interactions with each other. They took walks, played chess, and bubble tea every day. Hot springs and gatherings to chat are also very uncomfortable.
But suddenly one day, this harmony disappeared.
The harmony seemed to disappear in an instant. By the time Professor Zhang reacted, he was the only one left in the entire hot spring nursing home.
Professor Zhang's body began to rejuvenate. On the surface, for the elderly, rejuvenation is a good "mutation", but the problem is that the reversal process of rejuvenation is too fast. It does not take more than an hour. After drinking a large bucket of water, Professor Zhang's body will change from an old man of seventy or eighty years old back to a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old.
When the mutation occurred, all the old people except Professor Zhang were taking a nap. Professor Zhang's sleep quality was not good. After being awakened by thirst, he found that he had turned into a young man under the age of twenty, and those who were still taking a nap The old people turned into puddles of yellow water and melted directly on their beds.
In shock, Professor Zhang dialed the number of the Department of Negative Cleaning, only to find that no one answered the phone, and even the entire hot spring nursing home became a shielding field with no signal.
The only good news is that there is a special communication device between Professor Zhang and his daughter, which is a button. As long as the button is pressed, the recording can be transmitted over a long distance. The transmission of this recording is asynchronous rather than real-time, so even if the signal is so bad that it is almost non-existent, the recording is eventually transmitted over a period of time measured in hours.
Professor Zhang sent a recording of the strange experiences he experienced to his daughter, who works at the Ministry of Truth, and this is the reason why the girl possessed by Xie Zhi arrived here.
But even members of the truth team who came to the rescue with a team of professional investigators encountered the same problem as Professor Zhang.
Everyone is contaminated.
They have all become infected by this unknown pollution. As long as they are away from the water source for too long, they will grow in reverse until they disappear completely. What's even more frightening is that there is more than one type of pollution in this hot spring. In addition to this kind of pollution that causes human body changes to reverse growth, there are also many different types of pollution, including bandage weirdos!
There were a total of sixteen people from the truth team who came to the rescue. Less than half a day after entering the nursing home, only Professor Zhang’s daughter was left!
"Where is this nursing home? This is obviously an experimental field dedicated to pollution research!"
Xie Zhi couldn't help but take a breath while listening to Ms. Zhang's soliloquy.
But as he said these words, the girl's voice on the other side of his heart suddenly stopped.
Immediately afterwards, there was the girl's urgent and panicked voice.
"Who is it? Who is talking?"
Xie Zhi suddenly fell silent.
Is the girl talking about herself?
Or is it that she on the other side of the memory is suddenly threatened by another person at this moment?
If it's the latter, then...
Xie Zhi looked around. There was still no one in the sauna, and the locker room was equally quiet.
So Xie Zhi organized his language and tried to have a dialogue with his own heart.
"You...can you hear me?"
The girl on the other side of the memory fell silent again.
It was obvious that the girl could hear Xie Zhi's voice.
She was silent for a long time, and then all the panic and urgency suddenly disappeared.
"I understand, I will die in this hot spring truth incident, right?"
"After I die, a copy of my memory will be made and placed in the illusion of the mind, so that outstanding detectives can conduct a new round of detection of the case until the suspicion in the hot spring case is completely lifted?"
…
There was an eerie silence in the sauna room.
Xie Zhi felt that he was trapped in an unspeakable awkward atmosphere, but this embarrassment was not caused by hearing the girl on the other side of the memory say "I will die in this hot spring incident", or by learning that The hot spring truth incident remained unresolved until the girl's death.
It was because Xie Zhi suddenly realized that the girl he was communicating with at the moment was the owner of the body he was possessing.
Even though Xie Zhi had already controlled the girl's body and entered the tightly fitting bandage skin at this moment, he had seen it from head to toe a few minutes ago...
Xie Zhi pinched the bridge of his nose, hesitated to speak, and finally spoke.
"Due to some force majeure factors... when I was thrown into this illusion, you were wearing no clothes. I'm sorry for that."
To Xie Zhi's surprise, deep in his heart, on the opposite side of the distant memory link, came the girl's somewhat surprised reply.
"That's why you interrupted me and apologized to me?"
A girl's laughter suddenly came from the other end of the memory link.
"It's funny. You don't look like a modern person at all. You look like an antique from the early millennium."
Xie Zhi scratched his head. The girl seemed to have no feeling about his apology, or maybe she didn't care at all...
Just as he was thinking about it, the girl's voice came again.
"Since I can appear in this illusion, hear your voice, and realize that I am special. Then it can only mean one thing, and that is that I am dead, and maybe I will be dead for a long time."
"If you see the body of a person who has been dead for a long time, what is there to apologize for?"
There was a sense of freedom and ease in the girl's voice, which surprised Xie Zhi. In just a few seconds, the girl seemed to have accepted the fact that she was "inevitable to die" or "already dead", and could even do the opposite. Xie Zhi came to comfort the apologetic Xie Zhi.
At the same time, there was another thing that surprised Xie Zhi.
That is, as I heard the girl say more and more, the words and phrases the girl said became more and more coherent, and even long sentences gradually appeared, no longer just a splicing of words like before.
