For some reason, after getting a positive answer from Cheng Ying, Peng Hu, who had just looked horrified across from him, suddenly turned happy! Because the smile was too abrupt, not only Cheng Ying, but also Li Tianheng, who had been short of breath due to excessive blood transfusion earlier, was stunned for a moment. He hurriedly braced himself to catch his breath and asked: "Hoo, hoo, Brother Peng, what are you doing?" Are you there? Why are you smiling all of a sudden? Is it possible that you were frightened?"
"Damn it! Who am I, Lao Peng? I am a being who even dares to chop down an earth-bound spirit with a knife. How could I be frightened stupidly by a mere human-headed worm? You kid can't speak, so get out of here, I The reason why I'm so happy is because I just thought of a solution!" As usual, as a brave and tough guy, Peng Hu did not agree with Tian Heng's guess, but scolded the young man and returned to the topic. , officially announced the answer directly under Cheng Ying's suspicious gaze, and announced the coping method he had just come up with, a logical conjecture that was extremely beneficial to the executor: "Since you said that this girl's soul will come out as long as she enters the illusion space, and Her soul has the ability to suppress the human-headed worm, and can even break the illusion space. Doesn’t that mean that as long as this girl Kong Ling is here, we don’t need to be afraid of the human-headed worm!”
Huh?
Not to mention, when the bald man mentioned it like this, everyone except Cheng Ying remained expressionless and was startled. Li Tianheng also looked happy after being stunned for a few seconds. He then patted his head and nodded in agreement: "I Got it, I understand what Brother Peng means. Since the ethereal soul can suppress the human-headed worm, it doesn’t matter even if the human-headed worm pulls us collectively into the illusion space in the subsequent time. As long as the ethereal soul is there, we can use her soul to deal with the human head. You can survive the 10 minutes of illusion no matter what!"
That's right, just as Li Tianheng just narrated, as soon as Peng Hu finished speaking, Li Tianheng instantly understood what the other party meant. The meaning was very simple. It was nothing more than using Kong Ling's absolutely powerful soul to restrain the human-headed worm. In other words, as long as the human-headed worm If you dare to continue to activate the illusion, then everyone will be able to use their ethereal spirit to deal with the man-headed worm until the 10-minute illusion time is passed or even until the bus reaches the end!
Strictly speaking, this is an extremely reasonable method, and it is also a logical method. If there was no logic, then Cheng Ying and others would never have survived in the first place, but...
There is no reason, no reason. Just when Peng Hu and Li Tianheng could not hide their joy at coming to this conclusion, opposite Cheng Ying, she did not react, did not speak, and did not nod in agreement. Instead, after listening to the two people's seemingly After taking the correct approach, he twisted his eyebrows slightly and turned around instinctively, looking back to the opposite side, to someone, to Zhao Ping who was standing in the middle of the carriage looking out at the night scene outside the window.
Yes, from the moment he woke up from his sleep, the man with glasses has been reacting strangely. After witnessing the cruel situation of mass death of passengers in the carriage and most of the executioners being seriously injured, the man left his seat silently, After that, he stood frozen in front of the car door. During this period, he neither participated in the discussion nor paid attention to anyone. He just looked out the window at the night scene, staring into the endless night. No one knew what the man was thinking, and no one knew what was in his current heart. Plan, but...
Maybe he noticed Cheng Ying's gaze or heard what Peng Hu and others said just now. The moment Cheng Ying looked at the man, Zhao Ping made a move. He turned his head and shook his head slightly, and then said something. , a decisive rejection that although the voice was not loud, was still clearly conveyed to everyone’s eardrums:
"It's useless. Even if the ethereal soul can indeed suppress the human-headed worm, it's only this time."
……………
From the moment I appeared on the bus, I realized that this mission was not easy. Cheng Ying also deliberately asked me what I thought, and my answer was that this might be a long journey.
I guessed it right. This mission, no, this seemingly only 24-hour drive has indeed become a long journey. Although the time has not changed, the frequent deaths during the period have brought me a high degree of panic. That kind of The oppressive feeling that I could die at any time made me restless, which in turn made me feel that the time was long and the journey was long. As a saying goes, the more anxious a person is, the less calm his thoughts will be. Under the intensifying pressure of death, I made some mistakes that were not mistakes.
The so-called mistakes that are not mistakes mean that every move I made was correct, but every move I made was not in-depth. I often just tried it briefly, and almost never delved into it in detail. Specifically, it can be understood that I panicked and was overwhelmed. The human-headed nymph hidden in the bus really scared me. Because I was always flustered and restless, I changed from focusing on quality to quantity. I almost never analyze the ideas that pop up in my mind in depth, and mostly just think about it for a while. I just gave up and looked for the next solution. The only time I did an in-depth analysis was that it was a plan with a significantly high failure rate. I didn’t notice this problem at first, until 10 minutes ago, when I witnessed with my own eyes that the carriage was almost full. Passenger corpses, or in other words, when I realized that the team's destruction was close at hand, I suddenly realized this problem, and then finally discovered some kind of trick behind the curse.
I don’t know if He Fei discovered this, but according to my guess, he should have discovered it as well. The discovery time was even before me, but the reality did not give him a chance to inform everyone that he had been attacked by the wolf and fell into a coma. , as for what is the secret method behind the curse? The answer I came up with is to disrupt the audio and visual, and interfere with the executioner's analysis of thoughts!
Yes, because there are more senior people in the team and they dominate, senior people often subconsciously refer to past mission experience in how to deal with supernatural events, excluding a few special circumstances. In most cases, there are no more than two ways to survive in supernatural missions. , one is related to environmental things, and the other is simply related to hawksbills. It is precisely because the above two points have always been remembered by senior people, so in this mission, everyone also habitually focused on the above two points, and thus couldn't help but pay attention to the bus. Due to the limited space in the bus and the fact that everything inside was clearly visible, after confirming that there was no problem with the bus, everyone naturally paid attention to the oyster, trying to find clues from the oyster that could lead to a way out. In addition, the oyster in front of them was indeed It can be regarded as weird and mysterious, so it has attracted the attention of all senior people, including me.
That's the logic, but what about the reality? In fact, the wolf has nothing to do with the way of life, not even a slight connection. The meaning of its existence is to disturb the audiovisual and disturb the thoughts. Perhaps this is the main reason why the curse arranged this apparently strange wolf into this mission. The human-headed wolf itself It's not that strong. It's at the lower middle level in the Li Qi class. Its strength is not even as strong as Qi Granny in Yin Yang Road. Although the strength is not good, the bad thing is that the human head Qi has weird abilities and can completely give The executor caused great psychological pressure and even made everyone panic all day long. Once the executor felt the fear, it was equivalent to falling into the curse trap. It was only at this time that I just jumped out of the trap and discovered the secret hidden in the trap. The other secret is that the way to survive in this mission has nothing to do with the bus, and it has nothing to do with the human-headed worm.
It is also worth mentioning that although I realized the curse trick late, I locked my way out relatively early, and the key to me locking my way out earlier came from He Fei!
Yes, it was you. It was you who struggled to wake up from the coma with your strong perseverance, and then used that extremely short period of wakefulness to point out the direction for me and focus on the key points. Although you had no time to tell me the answer in the end, I still learned from your eyes and those words. Halfway through my words, I came to a realization. It turned out that the way out of this mission was neither related to the bus nor to the worms, but to the pile of seemingly useless dolls. So I was convinced that as long as I could find If the true purpose of the doll is discovered, then this mission that brings endless panic to everyone will be solved in an instant!
It really echoes what you once said. Once you develop a sense of incomprehension in a normal-level mission, the way to survive this mission is often simple, extremely simple, but you haven't discovered it yet.
As for that theoretically extremely simple way to survive? Or what is the real purpose of the doll?
Sorry, I don't know, I really don't know, but...
But I discovered a problem from this point, an other problem that has nothing to do with the way out of the situation, and also a problem that I have never thought about or even cared about in the past, that is, my IQ is obviously not inferior to You, why did you always find a way out in the end in previous missions?
He Fei, what is the difference between you and me?
Where? What is the most hidden difference between the two sides?
Regarding this point, I have a very weak and superficial understanding.
But because they are superficial and weak, I can't express them in words, so I decided to implement the several conjectures I had about survival options one by one and verify them one by one. It will take time to implement them. I just hope that during this period, the tiger will not launch an attack, otherwise...
We must die!
It is no exaggeration to say that after resisting several waves of attacks by the hawks, everyone was seriously injured, and some people simply fell into coma and lost consciousness. With the current team status, as long as the hawks launch even one phantom attack, they will be dead. They can easily kill us all.
Time is running out and I must stop thinking and act immediately.
………
"It's useless. Even if the ethereal soul can indeed suppress the human-headed worm, it's only this time."
I don’t know whether the bespectacled man’s habit of throwing cold water at others has resurfaced or it’s just the reality. Just when Peng Hu and Li Tianheng were both silent in the joy of finding a solution, across from them, Zhao Ping, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly shook his head and refuted, He directly and categorically denies it, and denies the so-called method of controlling worms with the help of ethereal spirits.
"Eh? You, what do you mean by that?" After hearing this and seeing the man with glasses shaking his head and denying his method, Peng Hu couldn't help but be startled, and immediately questioned Zhao Ping who turned around and walked over. Peng Hu did the same, and Li Tianheng did the same. In this way, Cheng Ying, who had cast her gaze in advance, all looked at the man with glasses. Even Tang Meng, who had just finished stitching Chen Shuihong's belly, subconsciously stood up and looked back curiously, wondering what the man with glasses was going to say.
It is said that communication between smart people is always simple. There is nothing wrong with this. It can be said that with Zhao Ping suddenly participating in the conversation, except for Jiang Liqing who was confused and a few comatose people such as He Fei, no one was awake. With one exception, they chose to remain silent, while their collective gazes stared at the man's indifferent face that had remained unchanged for thousands of years.
"The meaning is very simple, so simple that even an idiot can easily understand it."
Taking a leisurely pace, Zhao Ping opened the conversation with a sarcastic sentence. In addition to immediately arousing the bald man's anger, he also aroused the curiosity of everyone. Seeing this, Zhao Ping didn't talk nonsense and helped him. Glasses explained: "Brother Peng, Li Tianheng and Jiang Liqing, you have never been attacked by a hawk, so you don't know the true characteristics of the hawk. In addition to being able to hypnotize humans and create illusions, the hawk is also a psychological expert. It can use some means to detect the things that humans fear most. If not, it would not have to deliberately use pictures that are close to mental pollution to attack the human spirit. Not to mention other things, from this alone, it can be seen that the human-headed worm has reason and can Think like a human when faced with a problem. Since it knows how to think, then..."
"Put yourself in my shoes, if you were a man-headed worm, what would you do if you found someone in the car who you couldn't kill alive and who could in turn beat you?"
After hearing this, Peng Hu replied casually without hesitation: "How to do it? Do you still need to ask? Of course, just avoid the guy who is stronger than yourself, and then go kill others? After all, everyone knows Persimmon Specializing in picking out the soft ones...Um, wait, wait, do you mean..."
Sure enough, Peng Hu answered quite eloquently in the first half, but as he spoke, the bald man stopped talking. His extremely quick answer just now came to an abrupt end. After that, he and Li Tianheng and other executors who had not been attacked by the monsters all faced each other one after another. Lu suddenly realized.
(I understand, I understand completely. It turns out that this is what Zhao Ping meant. No wonder Cheng Ying didn’t show any joy when I proposed the method of using the ethereal to counteract the worms. It turns out that she had already realized that things couldn’t be that simple. , but, if it is true as Zhao Ping said, doesn’t it mean that when Qi attacks again, Kong Ling will be deliberately let go by Qi? And once Kong Ling is no longer in the illusion space, then I and others...)
Thinking of this, Peng Hu didn't dare to think about it anymore. It wasn't because he didn't want to think about it, but because he had already guessed the result from Zhao Ping's plain expression. What was the result? It's death! That is to say, after personally experiencing Kong Ling's ability to suppress itself, the Cryptozoon will not be asking for trouble and continue to attack Kong Ling. Instead, as he just said, he only picks the soft ones. Since there is no Kong Ling in the illusion space, Once the man-headed slug attacks again, his plan to use the ethereal to counter the slug will be completely ruined. Isn't the result that awaits him and everyone else death?
"Ah, it's over, it's over. This girl Kong Ling is of no use anymore, and there are only a few of us left in the car. I will definitely be involved in the next attack. I will definitely be there!"
If Peng Hu is one of those die-hards who can't hold on until death, then Li Tianheng doesn't seem to have the courage and courage of Peng Hu. This is said to be true, but it is also true in reality. As soon as he understood the mystery, Li Tianheng instantly Panicked, he held his head and muttered to himself under the pressure of too strong fear, looking as if he was as cowardly as he could be.
"What a fool! Look at your character, isn't it just death? What's there to be afraid of? At worst, you will be a good man again in eighteen years!" Faced with the extremely unbearable reaction of the troubled young man, Peng Hu was furious. With a quick look and scolding, the bald man put on the fearless look of a revolutionary martyr, but the beads of sweat covering his smooth forehead betrayed him, clearly showing that the bald man was actually just as scared, and equally attracted by The cruel facts that cannot be changed are tortured to the verge of collapse. After all, not being afraid of death and being willing to die are two completely different concepts. Who can live and who wants to die?
Let's get back to the topic, let's not talk about the current reactions of Peng Hu and the two. After Zhao Ping explained the cause and effect, or after learning that Kong Ling used Impossible as an executor to deal with the beasts, Cheng Ying also made up his mind and immediately After glancing at the time on the watch, he frowned slightly and talked about the topic: "Well, since you have concluded that it is impossible for the worms to continue attacking the emptiness, then this means that we have lost all defense methods against the worms, and remember, The last time the locust attacked was two hours later, and the current time is 2:53 in the morning. If nothing else happens, I think the locust will come back and activate the illusion in another hour. By then, everyone on the scene, including you and me, will No one can escape."
Cheng Ying's words are both an explanation of facts and a verbal suggestion. There is no need to say more to explain the facts, but the suggestion obviously comes from her understanding of the man with glasses. Yes, Cheng Ying knows Zhao Ping too well, and the guy wearing glasses in front of her. , even though he wears glasses and is gentle, who would have thought that this gentle man in front of him is actually a despicable, sinister and timid guy who is afraid of death. Because he is extremely afraid of death, whenever his life is threatened, the man with glasses always She will use any means and will do anything, so naturally, when she saw the man with glasses obviously calm, the female killer thought it was time to remind him, and while reminding him that time was running out, she also told him that everyone was Grasshoppers on a line, I can't run away, and I can't run away from you. If we die, we will die together.
"You don't need to remind me deliberately, I know what to do? But after all, there is a saying that is good, the meal must be eaten one bite at a time, the road must be walked step by step, the knife must be sharpened to chop wood carefully, and if I do not rule out all my earlier guesses, I Unable to execute next step of plan."
Xu Shi noticed the implication of Cheng Ying's words and adjusted the bridge of his nose and glasses. Zhao Ping, who also guessed that everyone only had one hour left to live, did not waste any time. He directly faced the young man opposite who was hugging his head and crying and ordered: "Li Tianheng, you go out now. Look on the roof of the car."
"Huh?"
The order came out of nowhere, without any warning. After listening to Zhao Ping's unquestionable order, except for Li Tianheng, who was immediately stunned, most of the people at the scene, Cheng Ying and others, also looked shocked and slightly startled, and their reactions were honest. So, this kind of daze did not last long. For a moment, everyone turned their heads and looked at the back row as if they had thought of something. As far as they could see, the people who caught their eyes were naturally He Fei, Kong Ling, and Chen Xiaoyao, who were already unconscious. and Chen Shuihong, but...
If you search carefully, you will actually find that one person is missing. There is a guy who should have been at the back of the car but lost his trace at some point. Looking at the entire car, whether it is a comatose living person or a dead body, there is no sign of this person. .
"Understood, I'll get on the roof of the car right now."
Bah.
After looking around at the corpse in the carriage, the next moment, Li Tianheng nodded and turned around as if he had figured something out. Then he pressed the switch and walked out of the bus. As a side note, don't underestimate Li Tianheng. As a person who has engaged in illegal lock picking, Although he was a professional special worker, his physical strength was not good, but his ability to climb over the wall was extraordinary. Sure enough, as soon as he left the bus, Li Tianheng climbed up using his hands and feet, and quickly reached the roof of the bus. .
1 minute later.
As the body landed and returned to the carriage, everyone looked for a voice. The first thing that caught their eyes was Li Tianheng's extremely ugly pale expression.
"He died like everyone else. All the blood was drained from his body."
In fact, after seeing this, careful people must have understood, not only who Li Tianheng was talking about, but also the purpose of Zhao Ping ordering him to climb on the roof of the car. The key to his order was undoubtedly that person. A black drug dealer named Gabri!
Yes, because he had had the idea of a way out for a long time, in order to test whether it was true or not, Zhao Ping deliberately discussed the plan with everyone in front of Gabe, so that the black people could learn more about the way out when they learned that there was a bug on the bus. After this was done, Afterwards, Zhao Ping privately ordered Li Tianheng to open the handcuffs for him. As the handcuffs were opened and he regained his freedom, the rest of the matter became simple. In other words, the black man's subsequent actions were all what he expected. As time went by, he saw the bus passengers becoming more and more dead. More and more, at some point, Gabri, who was supposed to be at the back of the bus, disappeared and disappeared into the bus compartment. Since the executioner, John and others were already tortured by the continuous death oppression at that time, no one noticed the disappearance of the black man. Likewise, no one cared that there was one missing person in the carriage. As for where Gabri was? Presumably no one in the world knows about it except Zhao Ping, who planned this incident.
There is no doubt that Gabri was tricked by Zhao Ping, and he so easily became the man with glasses' test subject, a pathfinder, and a tool in the hands of the man with glasses to find a way out. The reason why Gabri sneaked onto the roof of the car was It also happened to come from Zhao Ping, from the speculation about his way of survival that he had deliberately revealed at the beginning, the analysis and conjecture that the mango could only kill people in the carriage.
In order to save his life, a few hours ago, while the crowd in the carriage was in chaos, Gabri took advantage of the opportunity to escape from the carriage, and then secretly climbed to the roof alone, but unfortunately...
Just now, when Li Tianheng climbed to the roof of the car as instructed, the corpse that came into view was the miserable corpse of Gabri, who was still staring at death!
Zhao Ping guessed wrong, but unexpectedly it was Gabri who paid for the glasses man's mistake, so he paid for it with his own life.
At this moment, in the carriage, after hearing Li Tianheng's truthful answer, Zhao Ping couldn't help but frown slightly.
(It seems that my first conjecture about the first way out was indeed wrong. In that case, let’s start the second step verification.)
