Absurd deduction game

Zhao Yijiu bought a portion of mashed potatoes. He originally went there because there was no meat, but when he brought it out, there were still some small pieces of minced meat mixed in the mashed potatoes.

He took it expressionlessly, stared at the chef's bright red lips, and found a suspicious red fingerprint on the mashed potato plate.

"..." Staring at the mashed potatoes silently, Zhao Yijius felt like he wanted to hit someone, such as the woman smiling at him in the partition. Why couldn't he just rush in and chop off this person's head?

"Go and grab a seat over there." Yu Xing's arrival interrupted Zhao Yijiao's dangerous thoughts, holding his arm and walking towards the corner.

Since the cafeteria was very empty at this time, they could be seen at a glance in the corner. If others had bought food, they didn't need to look for it. They could just go there. This location was the one with the best view after Yu Xing observed it.

They walked over there and sat down. Zhao Yijius picked up the spoon that was brought with the plate, frowning slightly with a look of disgust on his face.

Yu Xing said: "Mashed potatoes!"

"You're a hammer." Zhao Yijiu sighed, "The minced meat inside... I don't know what kind of meat it is."

"It's better than mine." Yu Xing opened the slice of bread on the top of the sandwich a little and showed Zhao Yijiu the severed finger inside. "The chef probably thought I was too pretty, so she gave me her own finger. Eat, I’m so touched.”

Wen Qinghuai, who happened to be walking over with a plate, said: "..." I didn't dare to move.

While they were talking, Qu Nianqing and Zhao Mou also came over. A table was big enough to seat six people. They sat down one after another. Everyone had different food on their plates. Zhao Mou also bought a glass of sweet water.

Since there was meat in the food, he took a sip of sweet water first, and his eyes trembled under the gaze of others: "It has a faint fishy smell."

The sweet water was mixed with blood.

If the drinks are like this, the ingredients added to the food are even more blatant. Aren't they just afraid that the food in the dungeon is related to "human flesh"? Since ancient times, ghosts using strange ingredients to disguise themselves as normal food has been something that every deducer can predict.

“I learned from history and political textbooks that people in this world, even if they have the same genes, will be divided into humans and discarded garbage based on their behavior in childhood. Those humans do not regard garbage as human beings and will buy and sell them. "Yu Xing took a bite of the sandwich with a normal expression and felt it, "It can be bought and sold, which means it can be killed. The ingredients in the canteen..."

He didn't say it clearly, but everyone knew what he meant. Will St. Jonis Middle School use the students who cannot be saved as ingredients for resource utilization?

"The taste is okay." Yu Xing commented.

Wen Qinghuai's eyes were a little horrified, after all, he saw with his own eyes the amputated human finger in Yu Xing's sandwich.

Qu Xianqing: "...Really?"

She bought a meal with a green side dish that looked like broccoli. Others looked into her bowl and found no trace of meat.

"Don't be too happy, my meat is in the rice." Qu Xianqing knew what others were thinking. She picked up a corner of the rice with her chopsticks, and when the rice grains rolled, the cooked diced meat was exposed.

"But yours is much better than ours. This is cooked meat. No matter what the ingredients are, the taste will not be too different after it is cooked, but we have to feel it..." Yu Xing still picked out the severed finger from the sandwich. , he would not really eat this food. Only the devil knows what the consequences will be after eating this food. The chef was obviously teasing him with confidence. Taking advantage of the school rules, he deliberately put his severed finger in front of him. Going in was a bet that he would not dare to violate school rules.

"The name of this dish is Falling Bird." Zhao Mou introduced the dish that Qu Xianqing ate, "I bought it at the same window as her. Hers was rice, and I ordered noodles. They were all marked with "falling bird". Bird meat.”

"Falling bird?" Zhao Yijius glanced at his brother and felt that this word seemed a little familiar to him.

"School rules." Yu Xing reminded.

The last page of the school rules booklet placed in the common area of ​​their dormitory contained a quote from the principal of St. Jonis Middle School.

The principal seemed to have great expectations and enthusiasm for his students, and was full of confidence in his educational career, so he said: "These birds haven't learned to fly yet. They are lazy or congenitally stupid. I want to do this." The only thing is to take them to the edge of the cliff, push them down one by one, and watch them successfully flap their wings or fall to death."

St. Jonis Middle School is not only a middle school, a garbage dump, but also has a more appropriate name - the Birdcage.

Successfully flaps its wings.

Or fall to death.

The falling bird is naturally the part that falls to death.

So what exactly is Drunken Bird Meat? It goes without saying. The difference is that among the food sold at this window, the "Drunk Bird Meat" is cooked, while at other windows, raw meat is basically added to the dishes.

"Fingers of ghosts, minced meat of unknown creatures..." Yu Xing smiled, "Compared with the so-called fallen bird meat, these things are more dangerous. At present, it seems that choosing food from the fallen bird window is the safest. "

"But that's-" Zhao Yijiao paused. It seemed that it was suddenly difficult to choose between ghosts and humans if they really wanted to use one of them as food.

"This is a copy, not reality." Yu Xing reminded him, "Brother Jiu, in a place like Dead Silence Island, we still wonder and hesitate whether it is a real world, but the copies carried by the buildings on the island are obviously from its past. It is a special copy that has happened or been distorted, and everything in the copy is illusory.”

"Rather than saying that the students here are humans, it is better to say that they are also NPCs, plague bodies, and what we call ghosts. The difference is that these ghosts do not have the consciousness of ghosts in this dungeon. They only serve the plot of the dungeon. Each background-like existence has been given the title of human being in this dungeon." He said slowly, "They are not companions, but available resources that give us a chance to pass the level. For example, at this time, if you eat ghosts If you eat the flesh of a fallen bird and you can live, will you choose to hesitate for the sake of these plague bodies that just look the same as us?"

Zhao Yijiu had nothing to say. He vaguely felt that such an idea was dangerous, as if Yu Xing was unknowingly running towards the line of depravity. But after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the truth was correct. All the creatures on the Dead Island, except Plague bodies are contamination bodies. The only difference is that they may be neutral NPCs and ghosts must be enemies.

Everything he is experiencing now is just a trick made by the copy to trigger panic in their hearts.

"Yu Xing is right. With this experience, we can directly buy food from the Bird Drop Window next time. At least we know what it is." Zhao Mou agreed with this, but he also pointed out what Yu Xing said. "But you can't judge whether food is dangerous based on the premise that the dungeon is full of plague bodies and pollutants. In this way, the dungeon's division of these things into camps becomes meaningless. Yu Xing, I suspect that your way of thinking has been affected to a certain extent and you haven’t adjusted back yet.”

Zhao Yijiu raised his eyes instantly, and what Zhao Mou said was exactly the same as what he had noticed before, which showed that this matter was not his hallucination, but a reality.

Yu Xing tilted his head and looked at the sandwich in his hand. Apart from the unappetizing fingers and a small amount of blood flowing from his fingers, the sandwich was really delicious and the ingredients were clean. He felt that he didn't mind. .

He even ate the water ghost Shi Wei.

It's not that he didn't adjust after being affected, but because his past experience gave him the capital to not care. Even if the situation forced him to eat meat that shouldn't be eaten by his own kind, what does it matter? He has broken this taboo long ago. He is not a pure person himself——

etc!

Yu Xing's pupils shrank, and the sudden awakening made his back feel numb.

How could he think so? He hasn't had such a radical thought for a long time. He obviously wants to become normal most, to become a complete person and live like that. How could he let himself go back to the past? way of thinking...

"I was indeed affected." Yu Xing admitted, his face looked unusually gloomy, "But after I went to the island, I obviously didn't experience anything that could change my thinking. Ha, I had doubts about one thing before. , I increased my vigilance for this, but I didn’t expect that I would still be affected unknowingly. It’s really… scary.”

"What's the matter?" Wen Qinghuai asked keenly but somewhat puzzledly, "It's an internal matter within your team, so I won't continue to ask, but if it has something to do with all the deducers, I still hope to know more about it."

"It may be relevant, it may not be relevant. I need to confirm again." Yu Xing did not tell Wen Qinghuai directly, but gave Zhao Mou a wink. The latter immediately understood that their team had not understood something from the beginning. It is related to the information from the experiencer.

Why did they choose Dead Silence Island? Was it the special nature of the event copy itself, or was it the team of experiencers from another timeline who wanted to tell them some information, or was it a conspiracy.

After they came to Dead Island, they continued to receive new information and settings. Only this issue was suspected from the beginning.

After Zhao Mou received Yu Xing's eyes, he realized that Yu Xing might have already made a guess about this issue, and this guess could not be disclosed to outsiders, so he had to interrupt the topic.

Zhao Mou rephrased Yu Xing's conclusion just now: "The food issue will be decided this way for the time being, and then we will grab lunch at the Falling Bird window, because in the setting of this dungeon, Falling Bird's meat is indeed a stable Edible things, they are not recognized as members of the human race, and those successful people who have passed the learning test only regard this meat as an edible resource. According to the dungeon setting, this is something we can eat ."

It was all said and done, and no one objected.

Zhao Yijiu, Yu Xing and Wen Qinghuai only need to deal with the strange ingredients they have received at noon today. As for the solution...

Yu Xing wiped the finger he had just picked out with the paper that came with him on the table and put it into his pants pocket.

"Isn't it something that can't be wasted?" Zhao Yijiu looked at this move and his eyes lit up slightly.

"Shh, if you don't say it, if I don't say it, who can prove that I wasted it? No one saw it." Yu Xing winked at everyone, "Just like Director Jean's hint, no matter it is cheating or something, as long as it is not If I'm caught, that means I'm not cheating. As long as I hide the food without being discovered, then I'm not hiding it, but eating it cleanly."

While he was talking, there was a sudden noise outside the canteen, as if a large group of people were talking and approaching.

Yu Xing continued: "I guess because it was the first day, it gave us the opportunity to try and make mistakes. We came early, and no one could report us even if we tampered with people. The window partitions of those selling food were very low. The chef can't see us at all. After that, we will enter the cafeteria with other students. Once we are discovered by other students without eating food, there is a risk of being discovered by the teacher. After all, no matter how oppressive the environment is, there will always be Those who break away from the group and gain privileges at the cost of betrayal.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhao Yijiu immediately lowered his head and carefully picked out the weird black meat foam. He had already heard the sounds of the students approaching the cafeteria. He had to pick out all the meat foam before those students entered the cafeteria. , wrap it up and hide it. As long as you can complete this step and bring the wrapped things into the dormitory, there are countless ways to destroy the evidence.

Wen Qinghuai had already thought of this when Yu Xing made a move to hide something. His movements were smooth, but Qu Xianqing and Zhao Mou didn't have to go to such trouble at all. Both of them had experienced strong winds and waves, and they mixed rice with noodles. There was no strangeness at all when it was delivered to the mouth. After all, it was cooked food, so the taste was not too bad.

Almost as soon as a few people finished their small actions, a large wave of students poured in from the entrance of the cafeteria. They were wearing the same school uniforms. At first glance, they seemed to have no personal characteristics. Everyone's face was mixed with strange expressions, numb and tired. There’s also a bit of a sense of eagerness and competition.

Their goal was clear, and the students running in front rushed to the window of Falling Bird. Just as Yu Xing and the others speculated, these students seemed to know what was edible and what was not edible. In the blink of an eye, Falling Bird There was a long queue in front of the window.

Those who were left behind showed disappointment and fear when they saw the long queue, and lined up to the side as if they were appointed. If you look closely, you can find that many students are even trembling slightly.

Zhao Yijiu had some doubts when he saw this: "Why don't you look for a queue?"

"Not enough time, or not enough portions." It was Wen Qinghuai who answered him this time. "The lunch break is only two hours. If they are too late in the queue, they may not have time to eat. Then there is no point in coming to the canteen and they will be hungry. There are also It may be that the share of ingredients at each window is limited every day, and students with experience in eating can know whether they have a chance to grab a meal as soon as they see the length of the queue.”

Those students were in such a hurry to grab the food that no one noticed the five strange faces sitting in the corner for a while. They were able to observe everyone openly.

Soon, students packed their meals at every window and found a place to sit down. The whole cafeteria was noisy. The students queuing in front of the window were very calm. Some of them were acquaintances and chatted with each other.

The students at the other windows were nervous, but as if they were used to it, they soon made a grimace, stuffing food into their mouths with their eyes closed, and peeking around with their eyes.

Finally someone discovered the new classmate in the corner.

There were six girls sitting at the table next to Yu Xing's table. They seemed to have a good relationship. They all had long brown hair and their faces were all tilted to the west. They noticed the corner and looked at him with changed expressions before they started discussing. Entrance to the cafeteria.

Yu Xing followed and looked over.

A group of students with red armbands strutted in. The noise in the cafeteria that had been unstoppable for a second was silenced for a moment because of these people.

Yu Xing thought, so that’s it.

He just mentioned the betrayer. Isn’t the traitor coming soon?