Absurd deduction game

I don't know if it was Yu Xing's illusion, but the joy Ye Ting showed when she said this seemed not only the joy of forcing her elder brother to "turn around", but also a little bit of "schadenfreude" that was not easy to detect.

Yu Xing raised his eyes and took one more look at Ye Ting, then took what Ye Ting brought to him. His thoughts went around in his head and he came up with many different possibilities.

One thing he has never ignored is that his eldest brother became addicted after playing horror games. He died repeatedly in the game every day. It seemed that he just wanted to clear the level, but...

At the beginning, this game console was in Ye Ting's hands, and it was Ye Ting who first played the scary game whose content he didn't know yet.

If you look at it this way, the one who should be affected the most is Ye Ting, right?

The way she looks now makes Yu Xing have to wonder - is Ye Ting's opposition to her elder brother playing games for so many days a result of Ye Ting's hatred as a younger sister, or is it because she feels that what she owns is being robbed?

This involves the nature of horror games. If this horror game is beneficial to the ghosts, then Ye Ting and Ye Ming may rob each other.

And if games are harmful to humans, Ye Ming can be regarded as a victim. His consciousness is being eroded and occupied by horror games. Maybe even he himself doesn't know what he is doing.

Ye Ting's position deserves to be examined. Did she have no knowledge of it, or did she know that bad things would happen to addicted people if they suddenly lost the game, so she did it on purpose?

"What are you thinking about, second brother?" Ye Ting saw her in a daze and interrupted.

"It's nothing, I was just thinking about my brother's current state... games are very harmful." Yu Xing raised his lips in his heart and took the opportunity to say, "Speaking of which, I seem to have never asked what the specific content of that game is, which can make my brother addicted. So, you were playing that game before, right?"

"Now it seems that this game is of no benefit, so even if the elder brother quits in the future, you should uninstall that game and stop playing it." He put on his elder brother's airs and said to Ye Ting righteously.

He must see Ye Ting's reaction to these words. If Ye Ting has the desire to protect the game and not delete it, then Yu Xing will tend to think that this game is actually something that is fought over by ghosts. Yu Wanxiang thought The motivation for getting a game console may not be simple.

"Well, you're right. Although that game is quite interesting, it's scary, and after something like this happened, I don't have a good impression of the game anymore." Ye Ting's answer was a bit unexpected, not only that , Ye Ting also considered Ye Ming's mentality.

"Since my brother became addicted to games, I have never touched that game again, but I have not deleted it directly. I am afraid that after deleting it, my brother will lose his temper." She frowned slightly and shrank, as if thinking of it. The bad thing is, "Now my brother is just addicted to games and has not done anything else too much. I still remember one time when I was a child, I was too noisy and disturbed his study. He told me several times, but I didn't listen. Then He yelled at me directly, it was so scary."

"..." Yu Xing smiled and touched Ye Ting's head to express comfort.

According to Ye Ting, when she was still in that noisy personality, it should be when her body was fine. It seemed that Ye Ming's attack power when she got angry was quite strong, otherwise Ye Ting wouldn't have been squeezed in since she was a child. I can't forget it now.

But is this Ye Ting's truth, or an excuse for not deleting the game?

Yu Xing continued to test: "It doesn't matter, he won't lose his temper with you, and I will. I will have a good talk with him. As for you, it is best to delete that game when you go back to the room later, so that the big brother can Even if I find the game console, I can’t play it right away.”

"No problem." Ye Ting agreed simply this time.

Yu Xing looked at Ye Ting's expression, as if he really had no nostalgia for this game, so he asked from another angle: "By the way, I think there must be a reason for my brother to be addicted to games. Can you tell me what that game is about?" What is it?"

"Well, it's a pixel horror game. The player controls a villain." Ye Ting was probably afraid that her second brother who loved learning wouldn't understand, so she gestured with her hands, "There are buttons on the game console to control the character. Walking, and interactive buttons. Then our character is in a church. There is a female ghost in the church who likes to kill people with an axe. Our character must find the Bible deep in the church to save the female ghost before we can pass the level."

"But that female ghost is very powerful. As long as the player interacts with the surrounding scenes and looks for the Bible, the female ghost can hear the sound and chase after her. She is faster than the character we control, so we don't use obstacles to block the field of vision immediately to escape. If it falls, it will be chased and hacked to death."

After hearing Ye Ting's description, Yu Xing imagined what the game would look like, and found that just listening to the content was actually a pixel-style mini-game that is common in later generations. It didn't even have a plot, just the routine of finding an artifact to eliminate the boss. game.

The problem does not lie in the plot. There is no depressing plot that can brainwash people into crazy people. It seems that the game itself has a curse.

Speaking of the female ghost in the church, how could the female ghost be in the church? Where there is a church, ghosts are usually the most feared, unless the priest of the church has fallen or the church is occupied by demons.

Yu Xing is also familiar with this kind of plot. There are all kinds of weird games now, and the church chase is not a new theme, but he feels that he needs to know the reason why the church appears in this game on the game console.

And the female ghost was holding an ax. When he was in the bathroom, he found traces on Ye Ming's body, which were made by the axe. So it was not Ye Qin who hacked Ye Ming to death, but the female ghost?

"Did you clear that game?" Suddenly he remembered this. Part of the reason why Ye Ming was so persistent was that he kept dying and never cleared the level.

"No, after the little girl I controlled died more than thirty times in the church, I found it too difficult, so I stopped playing." Ye Ting shook her head, "Every time the character dies, the female ghost's face will pop out. It’s really scary, I still don’t have a strong heart like Sister Yu Wan.”

Yu Xing: "That's it." At least on the surface, Ye Ting does not appear to be addicted. When Ye Ming is addicted, he cannot control his own performance. If Ye Ting is also addicted, but can control herself to confuse others, this will only It can mean that Ye Ting's level is higher than Ye Ming.

Wait, the little girl controlled by Ye Ting?

He remembered that when he heard Ye Ming playing the game, the protagonist clearly made a male cry.

The character controlled by Ye Ming is a boy, and the character controlled by Ye Ting is a girl?

Does this represent themselves?

Yu Xing didn't say anything else for the time being. After encouraging Ye Ting to hide the game console and delete the game, he continued to pretend to read and study carefully. Ye Ting also walked out and closed the door for him.

Not long after, Yu Xing lay down on the bed and got ready to sleep as usual.

In fact, tonight should be different from the previous nights. Fortunately, Ye Ming still hugged the game console every time he went to bed. Today, Ye Ming lost the game console. If he really left the game console, what would happen? The bad things should be reflected that night.

Yu Xing tried not to fall asleep. He wanted to see if anything would happen in the middle of the night, but unfortunately, in this deduction world, sleepiness could suddenly hit him at any time, leaving him with no way to resist.

Even if he could drag it out for half an hour, he would eventually fall asleep unconsciously.

Therefore, when sleepiness hit, Yu Xing fell asleep on the pillow without much struggle.

…

In the middle of the night, Yu Xing was woken up by the urge to urinate.

When he first got up, he was a little confused, and it took a lot of effort to pull himself out of the chaotic state. When he woke up, he found that he had climbed up unknowingly and was already standing by the door. , just need to open the door and go to the toilet next to it.

He decided to go along with the plot, then opened the door and quietly stepped into the corridor outside.

Since it was night, his vision should have been completely dark, but the faint red light made him instantly shift his attention to Ye Ting's room.

what happened? Ye Ting's door is wide open.

The deep red fluorescence pierced the darkness with a strong ominous feeling. Not only that, Yu Xing also vaguely heard a familiar voice, which was the eerie laughter of the female ghost in the game console.

Ye Ting was playing games in the middle of the night?

Could it be that from the day Ye Ming unveiled the black cloth, the game console officially began to play its role? Whoever gets the game console will be affected by it and become addicted to games?

With a vague guess in his heart, Yu Xing walked to Ye Ting's door cautiously. The door was too wide open. It was almost impossible for him to look in without exposing his body. However, he originally came out in an upright manner. To the toilet, he stood at the door of Ye Ting like an elder brother who happened to be passing by and couldn't help but come in to ask after seeing the red light.

Then he glanced inside, and he first saw an empty desk and a clean floor - not too clean at all. Several dolls fell from the bed and fell to the ground, but their owners did not pick them up.

The bed seemed empty.

It just seemed that where the quilt should have been placed, the pink quilt turned into black cloth, and a small bulge bulged under the black cloth. It looked about the same size as Ye Ting, and the red PSP game console was playing at the moment. On top of the black cloth, no one touched it, but Yu Xing could still tell through the changes in light and shadow that the characters inside were running on their own.

Even after his eyes adapted to the darkness, he could vaguely see the content on the screen. He saw a small pixel-style character running on one side, with the background being a mahogany-colored floor and various interactive, indescribable objects. Something like that, on the other side, a female ghost with black hair and about twice the size of the main character was chasing the character with a bloody ax in her hand.

Oh, this game has been changed to fully automatic. Yu Xing complained in his mind and glanced at Heibu one more time.

Yes, getting up to go to the toilet at this time is indeed considered a night walk, but now that the seven-day time limit for the death of the neighbor's old lady has passed, he has no taboo even if he goes to the toilet at night. How could he see such a black cloth again?

Could it be that someone else died nearby.

Yu Xing suddenly remembered his brother who didn’t have a game console to play with. If the characters in the game represented Ye Ming and Ye Ting themselves, it would be okay for Ye Ming to die so many times in the game, but if he couldn’t play the game console today, would this happen? Is that the reason for the accident?

Is Ye Ming...still alive now?

Yu Xing had a very bad premonition in his heart. He turned to look at Ye Ming's room. Ye Ming's door was closed tightly, and he didn't know what was going on inside.

At this moment, the sound of scooping water came from the toilet. Due to the limitations of the times, flush toilets at this time were still relatively rare. Even the Ye Qin family, who lived in a two-and-a-half-story house, put two circular toilets under the faucet. Plastic bucket, open the faucet to an almost imperceptible arc, so that a drop of water will emerge from the faucet every once in a while. After a period of accumulation, there will be a lot of usable water. Use a plastic ladle to scoop up a few ladles when going to the toilet. Water to flush.

It sounds like someone is using the toilet. Is it Ye Ming or Ye Ting?

"Second brother, why are you standing at my door?" The person who came out of the toilet was Ye Ting. She had fluffy sleepy eyes and walked leisurely from the darkness. Her hair was messy and her nightgown was relatively neat. Especially when she saw Yu Xing, Then she pulled the hem of her skirt down.

"Nothing." As soon as Yu Xing said these three words, his ears moved and he keenly heard other sounds coming from Ye Ting's room.

He turned around and saw something under the black cloth, which seemed to be squirming and squirming until it reached the edge of the bed and suddenly fell off.

A round ball Gululu fell to the ground from under the black cloth, and rolled from the bed to not far from Yu Xing's feet.

The black substance on the sphere had strong friction, which made it not roll smoothly. It even bumped on the ground twice. When it stopped, the front of the sphere was directly in Yu Xing's line of sight.

That's...Ye Ting's head.

The black hair was wrapped into a ball, but Ye Ting's pale face was revealed from the gap. Her big eyes were open, looking aimlessly ahead.

"What fell?" Ye Ting, who had just finished going to the toilet, didn't know anything and kept walking this way.

Yu Xing's heart suddenly stopped beating for a moment. This was a very violent inspiration. He realized that he must not let Ye Ting, who was walking back to the room, see the head on the ground.

Even the game console is best kept out of her sight.

He immediately came back to his senses and said calmly: "It's nothing, something on your desk rolled down."

As he spoke, he walked into Ye Ting's room very naturally and bent down, as if he was just a brother helping his sister to pick up something on the ground. It seemed like he was picking something up, but in fact he kicked the head to the bottom of Ye Ting's bed.

The layout of Ye Ting's room is different from Ye Qin's. The small pink bed is leaning against the corner between the two walls, which makes it very safe. Similarly, if you don't dig out the things under the bed, you won't be discovered at all.

Then he grabbed the game console on the bed. Before the cold breath from the game console could spread from his palms to his whole body, he hesitated for a second, and then decisively stuffed the game console under the black cloth.

In fact, the first time he touched the game console, he pressed the shutdown button, but found that shutting it down had no effect. The screen stayed on even when it should, and the female ghost inside was still chasing the little pixel girl.

This game console has light and sound. It's not easy to hide it. Maybe only this mysterious black cloth can isolate it.

Of course, Yu Xing also knew the danger of the black cloth, but at this moment his intuition told him that if Ye Ting saw the head and the game console, the danger that would follow would be no less than the danger caused by the black cloth being unveiled. , and he just stuffed it into the black cloth like this and made no move to remove the black cloth. Thinking that even if there was danger, it would only be a heavy discount if it fell on him.

Not everyone has this kind of inspiration, but no matter how you think about it, letting Ye Ting see her head falling on the ground is a very unwise behavior.

If Ye Ting took the initiative to pretend to be a harmless ghost and was bound by some curse rules and could not directly harm the deducer, then she could just take this opportunity to attack - her head was on the ground and was seen, but she still Can't it be the reason why the ghosts tear each other apart?

If Ye Ting is a ghost who forgets that she is dead, then the deducer should also use such behavior to delay her remembering her identity and strive for greater safety for the deducer.

As for the game console, Ye Ting has already stated that she is not dependent on that game. She even promised to hide the game console and delete the game. However, the game is open at the moment and has no control over Ye Ting. In this case, the game runs automatically. Thinking logically, the most likely thing is that Ye Ting doesn't know that the game console is on her bed at this moment.

The black cloth appeared inexplicably, and Yu Xing still believed that someone died, but the dead person should not be Ye Ting, because Ye Ting who went to the toilet was just like Ye Ming in normal state, still moving in a human behavior trajectory.

Even if the head represents Ye Ting's death long ago, it is the same as Ye Ming's body. It may be that they are in the "other world". It is best not to bring the appearance of that world into normal time, which will easily confuse people. .

These thoughts all appeared in Yu Xing's mind in an instant. He acted decisively, and his hand had already reached under the black cloth with the game console. He put the game console away and was about to take his hand out, but at this moment , a slender hand suddenly grasped Yu Xing's wrist under the black cloth.

The hand was cold and stiff, and it felt exactly like Ye Ming's body. Yu Xing's eyes froze slightly, and he wanted to withdraw his hand quietly, but the hand inside was clenched too tightly, and Yu Xing lost his huge strength advantage. Can't break away as easily as usual.

He sneered silently, ignoring the severe pain of dislocated wrist, and pulled his hand out abruptly. Without the light of the game console, the surroundings were dim, and he could not see clearly what the skin on his wrist had become. He only knew His hands are now completely unable to use their strength and are in a broken state.

But Yu Xing has long been immune to this level of pain. He has also had his skull cracked. Didn't he say nothing at the time?

At this moment, Ye Ting also walked in. Yu Xing turned his head very naturally and said to Ye Ting: "I have put your things away for you. I also want to come out to use the toilet. You should be early." sleep."

"Oh, thank you, brother!" Ye Ting responded obediently, pushed away her pink quilt and lay down on the bed.

It was still summer, and even though it wasn't too hot at night, Ye Ting still wanted to stay cool, so she only covered one corner of her belly with the quilt.

Yu Xing leaned down and said, "Don't be greedy, don't you know you are not in good health?" Then he took the opportunity to help Ye Ting arrange the quilt and took a look at the color of the quilt again.

You know, before Ye Ting entered the door, the quilt was still black cloth, but the moment it lost the light of the PSP game console, it turned back into a small pink quilt.

It seems that the connection between many supernatural phenomena and the normal world in this deduction is completed by darkness?

Yu Xing thought about it, patted Ye Ting's head, and left her room to go to the toilet.

As soon as he walked out of Ye Ting's room, he paused on his feet because he remembered what Ye Ting had said to him a week ago.

On that night of power outage when the cable was broken, there was a candle between Ye Ting and him. At that time, Ye Ting begged him in a serious tone that she had never seen before, never let her be alone in the dark at any time. Because she is afraid of the dark.

At that time, Yu Xing could tell that there seemed to be something else mixed in the tone. Was it a sigh, a prayer, or sadness?

Those are not important for the time being. What is important is that when he just saw Ye Ting coming out of the toilet, Ye Ting was strolling in the dark eyes.

Neither the bathroom light nor the room light was turned on.

This is completely different from Ye Ting who told him in front of the candle that she was afraid of the dark!

Yu Xing's eyes lit up, and he went to the toilet pretending to find nothing, turned on the light, solved his physical problem, then turned off the light and returned to his room.

That's right. Ye Ting is the first person to come into contact with games. It's not that she hasn't changed. It's just that her changes are different from Ye Ming, who loves learning at first and is addicted to games at the end. It's more subtle and difficult to detect.

She was afraid of the dark, but after a few weeks, she wasn't afraid anymore.

Not because she suddenly overcame her fear, but because - she and Ye Ming were probably exchanged!

Perhaps the real them are experiencing being hacked and killed over and over again in that game?

The corpse in the bathroom, covered in blood from the axe, is probably the real Ye Ming; the head that just fell out from under the black cloth is probably the real Ye Ting.

Yu Xing, who had never found a definite idea to explain the two states of a person, suddenly put together the confusing clues in his mind and found the most likely truth.

This world should be formed by the resentful spirits after the death of the deduction subject. The cause of their death is certainly not an ordinary horror game. This game is just a concrete symbol of something in this world. .

The thing that caused Ye Ting to die first, followed by Ye Ming, was the female ghost.

What does the female ghost symbolize?

In the darkness, Yu Xing showed a slightly crazy smile.

If the female ghost symbolizes the mother who has never been seen in this house... that would be interesting.