Lu Xin followed the man and dog in front of her and kept walking through the damp alley. Looking at the man lying on the ground on all fours in front of her, she still couldn't feel any disobedience in her heart. On the contrary, it was the current investigation of the case that made her feel Very inconsistent.
She wanted to end this ridiculous farce, but the words the man said tied her feet like a rope, making it impossible for her to look back.
This is the most unnatural thing that a police officer must do——
All requests for help are worth heeding. It would be better to be deceived three thousand times than to miss a person worth saving.
It was this belief that made her follow this man's actions and walk into the alley.
The alley was dripping with water, and it would drip onto her shoulders from time to time, soaking her medal.
The man's name was Li Mang. He struggled to avoid the obstacles at the entrance of the alley while muttering to himself. He didn't know whether he was talking to Lu Xin or to his heart.
"Officer, I know you don't remember. I will report all the previous progress and the conclusions you made to you later. As for what you are going to do in the end, you didn't have time to tell me."
"You just said...you will understand today."
"Sorry, Officer Lu, please open the door for me."
"I can't stand straight today...I'm sorry."
Finding the key from Li Mang's pocket, Lu Xin opened the door. This door was still the oldest iron fence. She pushed the rusty iron fence to one side and then opened the wooden door. Lu Xin was stunned. He I saw a boy squatting in front of a chair and writing homework.
The lighting in this house was very poor, relying on the yellow light bulb hanging on the roof to emit a pale yellow light. Hearing the sound of the door opening, the boy looked at the door happily, then there was a puzzled look on his face, and he timidly said :
"Dad, you are back... Hello, police sister."
"Quanquan, you go out to play first and let dad say a few words to the police."
"good."
After stuffing all the homework into her schoolbag, she walked out of the house carrying her schoolbag in circles. Lu Xin lowered his head and met Li Mang's ashamed face. He said regretfully:
"Sit down, Officer Lu."
"This should be the last time we talk because I don't have much time and tomorrow I will be completely reduced to a dog."
In Lu Xin's mind, this was the first time they had talked.
"Is that your child just now?"
"That's right... If it weren't for the children, I probably wouldn't be able to persist until now."
Li Mang just sighed for a while. He knew that time was running out. When Lu Xin was about to come into contact with the truth, her perception would be forcibly changed. This was an almost unsolvable matter.
Li Mang couldn't think of any solution. If it weren't for Lu Xin's last words yesterday, he might have given up.
He sighed, then regained his composure and began to say:
"Officer Lu, first of all, let me briefly tell you what I experienced."
"A few days ago, I received a strange photo. The meaning of the photo is that as long as I do what is in the photo, I will receive a large amount of money to solve an urgent need."
"I didn't think much of it at the time. I just thought it was some rich guy who was bored and playing pranks on us. Money is so important to our single-parent family. We can't even pay the rent."
"In the beginning, we did receive a sum of money and we solved the problem."
"But then, I realized something was wrong."
"The difficulty of the photos is getting higher and higher, and the things to be done are becoming more and more contrary to human common sense, from eating disgusting things, to harming others, to... killing a dog."
"From all the traces in the photo, I suddenly realized that this might be a trap."
"Following up, I called the police, but you ignored me at all, even at the beginning."
"And my body began to twist and deform from that day on, accepting the punishment of not completing the photo."
"Until one day, Tangcheng suddenly announced the existence of ghosts, and I realized that I was haunted by ghosts, so I went to the police again for help. This time, you finally paid attention to me."
"You didn't fully believe what I said on the first day, but it doesn't matter. I answered all your questions in advance on the second day."
"I am not bewitched by religion, and I don't raise puppies in my daily life. The reason why I turned into a dog is because I never killed the dog according to the behavior in the photo."
"My inaction really has no way to change the death of dogs. The dogs in the photos are constantly dying. The photos are based on the hope that I can actually take action and kill the dogs."
"But I didn't."
"You asked me why I didn't do it."
Li Mang paused and said:
"Because I am also afraid. If I kill this dog today, maybe my son will be killed tomorrow."
"And as long as the photo appears, there will be results."
"I simply don't dare allow the photos that killed my son to appear."
The woman paused and looked into Li Mang's serious eyes. Although she didn't see anything strange in the scene, she... somewhat believed what Li Mang said.
His logic is self-defeating.
"After that day, our experiment officially began."
Li Mang told, and the pictures of each day appeared in Lu Xin's mind as the words described.
"On the first day, you asked me to use PS technology to simulate a photo to make it look real."
"But the experiment failed."
"This photo is useless. It may be a technical problem, but I think it may be because I want a 'real' photo."
"The next day, we faked the photo together and took an almost identical photo through the camera."
"The difference is, the dog is alive."
"But... it still failed."
"My health deteriorated again and I was getting closer and closer to the dogs."
"On the third day, you did not choose the previous method, but chose to be tough. You raised your gun and tried to find those strange existences."
"But you failed again. There was no weirdness at all. My punishment just appeared so suddenly."
"At the last moment, I want you to kill me. I want to abort this mission."
"You pointed your gun at me and prepared to kill me according to my wishes."
"But... it still failed."
There was a bitter smile on Li Mang's face at this moment. He was sneering with despair in his eyes.
"There is no way you can kill me. As long as you try to kill me, you will be cognitively distorted and unable to shoot me."
"And there are only two ways I can think of in the end."
"Or commit suicide."
"Either give up resistance and become a human dog."
Lu Xin listened to Li Mang's fantastic words, but she began to believe it in her heart.
Although Li Mang does not have the symptoms he mentioned, all his sequences... seem to be smooth. Even if Lu Xin starts to verify again now, it will still be in this sequence.
"And when all this happened, you said a conclusion."
Li Mang turned to look at Lu Xin and said exactly the same words that Lu Xin said at that time.
"Experimental conclusion three: The photo is absolute, and the person who obtained the photo is also absolute. People who have not obtained the photo cannot interfere with the person in the photo."
"You call it - NPC theory."
