13 Mink Street

12 people?

There are 10 team members, plus Karen, the captain, and there are 11 people in total. This is a fact that everyone knows.

So when everyone heard that Alfred's report was "12 people", everyone was stunned.

Karen wouldn't think Alfred had made a mistake, but he had to count it himself anyway.

"Alfred."

"In." 1.

"Bart."

"In." 2.

"Aisley."

"In." 3.

"Ventura."

"In." 4.

"Murrie."

"In." 5.

"Memphis."

"In." 6.

"Richard."

"in" 7.

"Mass."

"In." 8.

"Blanche."

"In." 9.

"..."

"In." 10.

"Philomena."

"In." 11.

Karen pointed to himself, counting himself, 12!

Rolling names one by one, how could there be a wrong number? And Karen calculates a number by looking at a person, calling out his name and hearing his response.

"Then I realized, eh, no, I came in alone, hehe..."

The letter ended here, Piston did not continue to write, but here is only a puppet, no bones.

For more than a hundred years, even if a person dies here, the bones can still be preserved.

Even if he was killed here, but... what happened to the mud on the envelope?

Therefore, Piston found that there was one more person beside him, and then wrote this sentence casually, and then sealed the envelope, made a sealing mud, put it into the puppet's mouth, and pressed it behind the stone.

He should not have died here, at least not in this place.

However, now is not the time to think about Piston, the immediate situation must be dealt with first.

"12 people? I also counted 12 people."

"How come there are 12 people?"

"Who is the extra one?"

Everyone began to count the number of people, without exception, the result was 12.

Karen clapped his hands and said to everyone, "Everyone hold hands and form a circle."

Everyone obeyed Karen's order and formed a circle hand in hand.

"Now, remember who is on both sides of your hands, and then, starting from me, the second Alfred, we will start counting. 1!"

"2!"

"3!"

"4!"

"5!"

"6!"

"7!"

"8!"

"9!"

"10!"

"11!"

"12!"

The last one to call out 12 was Richard.

12, or 12!

Everyone's expressions instantly became dignified, because this means that the extra person is now standing with everyone holding hands?

Maybe, what I hold in my hand is...

"Richard, start with you and count down along Memphis!"

"Yes, Captain. 1!"

"2!"

"3!"

"..."

Alfred: "Eleven!"

Karen said, "12."

12 again.

Karen let go of his hand and ordered: "Everyone has notebooks and pens in their backpacks. Now I ask you to ask each other who is on both sides of him, and then draw me a name in the form of a name on the paper." Circle, don't record the wrong position!"

You can't ask only one person alone, what if that person has a problem or is the one affected?

Soon, including Karen's own, a total of 11 papers with names written on them were spread out in front of Karen.

Karen began to compare one by one.

"This is 11 people, this is also 11 people, this is also..."

The font and layout are different on each paper, but the result is the same, the positions are very accurate, and there are 11 people's names on each paper.

Count the paper again, 11 in total.

"The number is right again?" Murray asked puzzled.

"Well, the number is right again." Karen stood up and ordered, "Everyone, form a circle and count."

Everyone immediately followed suit, and a new round of counting came down, 12 people.

Karen pursed his lips and said, "Mass, Memphis, use formations to detect the environment here to see if there are any special energy fluctuations."

Memphis reminded: "Captain, do you want to set up an isolation formation, and then recount the number in the formation?"

Karen shook his head and said, "There's no need for that."

"Okay, captain." Memphis didn't ask much, and started to arrange the detection array with Mars.

Karen is not trying to save trouble, but that "extra person" can force his presence under the eyes of everyone so many times without everyone noticing, which means that even if it is an isolation formation, There will be no restrictive effect on its existence.

Most importantly, Karen already had a guess about its existence.

A similar situation was recorded in Mr. Huofen’s notes. It was in the form of a story about a team from the Abyssal God Sect going to a secret place to investigate. There were 9 people in total, and only one survived in the end. The person who came down was also crazy, and every time he asked about the relevant situation, he would just keep shouting "the tenth person!"

The degree of this person's insanity is beyond recovery, even if he uses the method of memory search, he can't do it, because his whole cognition has been distorted.

The main clue still came from a notebook he was carrying, which was written before he went crazy. Probably the experience was similar to what he and others are now in contact with. The team of 9 people has become 10 people, but no matter how hard you look for it, you can’t find it. Find out exactly where that tenth man is.

Finally, the "tenth man" kills the others one by one.

At the end of this story, Mr. Hoffin made a clear comment, three sentences.

The first sentence: The only person who survived is not because of luck, but because the "tenth person" may not have the ability to kill the only person.

The second sentence: This "tenth person" must really exist, but the team composed of priests can't find it anyway, excluding the possibility of hidden mysterious strongmen playing boring cat-and-mouse games on them for fun, It may be that this "tenth person" has a big problem with the way of existence. He can exist in people's perception and cognition, but he can't form specific traces.

Combined with the fact that he can kill but cannot kill the last person, it means that his way of killing should require a special medium for transmission. This is not a matter of physics, or even a matter of theology... Maybe it was recorded in theology before, but I have not yet Find the record.

This should be a cognitive problem, a way of cognitive killing.

The third sentence: I added this with a little excitement. I was very interested in this incident, but the final ending was very sloppy, because I couldn't conduct specific investigations and researches, but when I When I knew the special way of existence of the evil god Ranedar, I suddenly thought of this incident.

Raniedre exists, but is hard to perceive, even when he is standing next to you.

Even though Diss sensed him, he couldn't hurt him. In order to try an extreme method, Diss even tried with the soul flame, but still failed to touch him. Instead, he accidentally burned himself.

But in the end, Diss caught him, grabbed him, and I personally sealed him into Kevin's body.

Because his state of existence has changed, just like the change after a raw egg is boiled, you can't pick up the egg liquid with a fork, but you can easily catch it in a boiled egg.

Unfortunately, I am dying. Oh no, I am already dead, so this subject can only be put on hold. Of course, if you, Karen, hear about related things in the future, you can try to help me continue the research on this subject.

...

Karen recalled the contents of the note in his mind and took a deep breath.

Therefore, this "12th person" is likely to kill people.

Although I don't know when and how he will choose to do it, but he is definitely not a harmless spectator.

According to Mr. Hoffen's guess, this "extra person" is very similar to Raniedale's state at that time, which means that his dog may have a certain understanding of this aspect.

It's a pity... I didn't bring the dog with me.

The evil god is very useful, because the evil god represents "wisdom", but in most cases, if you take the golden retriever on an adventure, once you encounter any danger, the possibility of your pet's sudden death is very high.

But the immediate problem must be resolved as soon as possible.

"Captain, the detection results have come out. There is no special energy fluctuation here." Ma Sihui reported.

Murray guessed: "Captain, could this be due to the environment here, or the function of a special device, which caused some deviations in our collective cognition? For example, we will subconsciously think that there is one more person , this extra person does not actually exist, but our cognition has been modified invisibly?"

Alfred first said: "No, if it is a collective cognition modification, then the list we wrote on paper should also be 12 people, not 11, because it makes no sense to only modify the number of people when we report the number. , don’t change the paper together, after all, you said it has the ability to modify cognition.”

Karen said: "Alfred is right, we can't ignore it as a natural phenomenon, I now think it may be very dangerous."

Murray nodded and said, "Yes, Captain."

Karen raised his hand and commanded Mars and Memphis, "Set up a defensive formation."

Immediately, Karen said to the others: "Everyone be alert!"

"Yes, Captain!"

Karen found a place to sit down, and he counted three more times, still 12 people.

When other people are doing things, they are also counting, and the result is the same.

In this situation, Karen began to think about how to break the situation. No matter what, he must find out that thing.

How did Diss catch Raniedar in the first place?

Karen silently placed his hand on his chest. Back then, Diss made a hole in his chest. When Ranedare wanted to enter his body to snatch him, he was directly pulled by Diss through the hole.

But the problem is that I am not Diss. Diss can achieve this goal in this way, but I can't do it at all, and I can't even understand it.

The array was set up, and the guards on the outer, second and inner circles were also set up, but everyone was very restless.

This feeling is like the sound of human breathing coming from the back of your head when you are sleeping on your side on the bed.

Alfred came over and said to Karen: "Master, this subordinate is going to use his own method to investigate again."

"Well, yes, besides, you go to collect other people's ideas and try them in an orderly manner."

"Yes, master."

Seeing Alfred walking away, Karen decided to try to contact the outside world.

He first arranged a simple shielding barrier for himself. When everyone saw what the captain meant, they immediately turned their eyes.

Then, Karen began to activate his symbiotic contract relationship, and soon, Pu'er's figure appeared behind Karen.

At first, Pu'er closed his eyes, but soon, Pu'er should have received the induction and began to respond, and Pu'er's eyes behind Karen slowly opened.

"Karen, what happened?" Pu'er spoke very fast, because this kind of "communication" consumes energy, and Karen can afford it, but it can't do it now.

Karen spoke quickly and said: "I encountered difficulties in the depths of the tomb. The 11 people in the team turned into 12 people when they called for the roll call. Mr. Huofen recorded similar things in his notes and it was the same as Kevin's existence at that time. The status has been compared, and now I need to find the extra person, otherwise I can't continue to rob the tomb, and it is likely to kill people."

"Isn't that Xie... its exclusive state? We all thought so before, oh, so it's not an exclusive state, but a special ability of Stupid Dog himself?"

"I think so, can you reach Kevin now?"

"It's really no problem. Arcelos inherited its father's inheritance. The communication altar I placed in its father's stomach and other things are also stored in the belly interlayer. The maintenance is not bad. I can use it by tinkering. Here There is still a small amount of spar that can be used as energy. I can try to contact the communication circle at home here, and talk to the stupid dog.

That's it, I'll cut it off first, I'm afraid I'll fall asleep. "

"good."

The figure of Pu'er closed his eyes, Karen let out a breath, and the figure of Pu'er dissipated.

Immediately, Karen laughed again, was he looking for an off-court connection?

In fact, when Karen contacted Pu'er at the beginning, Karen wanted to get some experience and advice directly from Pu'er with a fluke mind, but now Pu'er can contact Kevin in the stomach of Arcelos, which is very great.

Alas, next time, let's bring all the cats and dogs at home.

Karen sighed. In fact, he still has a choice now, which is to return immediately, withdraw from this tomb, return to Arcelos' body, and then go ashore, go to that small town to have a good rest, and then talk to Kevin on the phone Have a good chat on the plane.

For the safety of himself and his team members, Karen is willing to temporarily stop this tomb robbery operation. Anyway, he has no other big costs other than rewarding 3,000 order coupons. The information money is still given by the captain.

The most important thing is that the Kangjiesi family has passed away. Even if this ancient tomb leaves first, it will still lie quietly on the seabed.

How easy it is to come in this time, how easy it is to come in next time, no one will come to sweep the tomb or re-adjust these organs, so I can retreat temporarily.

But what Karen is most worried about is that the extra "twelfth person" has not done anything. He is very afraid that when he is about to retreat, he will provoke that thing to kill immediately.

Think about it differently, if you are that thing, you will not see a living person here for a hundred years, and how excited you are when you suddenly see a group of living people, you must be very happy.

Maybe, that thing is now surrounded by a person, and he is reluctant to kill him so soon, and wants to watch, perceive, and play for a while.

Once it realizes that these people are going to leave, it won't hesitate anymore.

Under the current circumstances, Karen hopes to spend more time with "that person".

...

"What are you doing?" Memphis saw Richard scratching the paper with a pen.

"Memphis, I feel like it's playing with us," Richard replied.

"It's obvious."

"Actually, there is another way." Richard pointed to the list on the paper in front of him with his pen.

"any solution?"

"Karen... the captain just asked us to draw our respective positions. In fact, we can report our numbers on this basis. There are 11 of us, and we finally reported the number of 12. Then in this list, we must There are numbers between two adjacent people, the interval is 2.

And the middle of these two people is likely to be the position of that thing. "

Memphis looked at Richard in surprise.

"Hey." Richard smiled a little embarrassedly, "Don't look at me with such adoring eyes."

Memphis shook his head and said, "You don't understand at all."

"Um?"

"It's not holding hands with us and playing a handkerchief throwing game, or standing between two people and calling out to tell the number, when we can't see it or when it's in this hidden state, our perception of it and its Compared to our existence, we are not alone... Do you understand?"

"It's a bit... esoteric, you can explain it later."

Memphis continued: "It's not a transparent person standing among us, don't imagine it so simple, understand?"

"It seems that I understand a little bit."

"Oh, you are so stupid."

"It's really not my fault. You know, my dad has a brain problem. As a son, I have some inheritance."

Memphis: "..."

...

After sitting for a while, Karen was waiting for Pu'er to contact him. What he was most worried about now was that Pu'er would not be able to support himself and fell asleep. After the last "communication" by himself, he fell asleep directly for two or three days.

At this time, Alfred walked up to Karen, squatted down, and reported: "Captain, I tried many methods, but none of them worked."

"Don't be discouraged, I'll be able to find a solution after a while, and then..."

Suddenly, Karen's body trembled, and when he looked down, he found that Alfred's palm had pierced his chest!

A gloomy and sneering voice sounded:

"Hey, you seem to be able to find a way to catch me."