The author's diary of ghost stories

A person who obeys time.

After Yu Liang read the name of the task and its prompts, he stood at the door of the laboratory and did not dare to move. He neither entered the laboratory to observe his body carefully nor chose to escape from the building.

There's no point in running away.

He has triggered the side story of the ghost story and cannot find a solution to the ghost story. His corpse eighteen hours later will be his ending.

As for blowing up the whole building…

Yu Liang thought about it in his mind. The whole building was not small. It was about the same size as a teaching building. If you wanted to destroy this building, you definitely couldn't rely on bone machine guns. You would probably need a lot of goblin bombs.

Find the load-bearing columns, then use the accumulated goblin bombs to destroy the building in one go.

It felt like hitting a grave with cannons to physically exterminate demons, but now Yu Liang only felt that it would be that simple.

If you are really facing an evil spirit or something, at least you can see it, and you can try to use bombs, characters, bullets and the like to destroy it, or you can escape.

But now, he didn't even know what he was facing.

Is it the disrupted time and space or the internal logic of Cyber ​​City?

Or maybe he was simply involved in the strange story, and he had no opponent at all.

If you can solve the strange story, you will live; if you cannot solve the strange story, you will die.

Now, this problem was placed in front of him.

Standing at the door, Yu Liang shook his head gently. It was impossible for him to use goblin bombs to solve the problem. If he destroyed the building, he would obviously not be considered a "person who obeys time."

This kind of unconventional violent method can only be considered until the last moment, when he is unable to solve the problem.

"The body of the wolf head?" Zhong Chen muttered to himself as he was about to walk into the laboratory. The surprise brought to her by the scene in front of her made her forget Yu Liang's instructions, and the title changed to the original one. Wolf head.

It was clear that she couldn't understand what was happening.

Why could Yu Liang be hanged with bodyguards?

Didn't she protect Yu Liang in the future?

The prerequisite for Wolf Head's death was that the bodyguard died first. This was unquestionable, but she did not see her body here.

even……

Her future body was not seen throughout the building.

Could it be that she survived in the future?

This kind of result makes Zhong Chen, who has always been loyal, a little hard to accept. Isn't this just calling her incompetent and shameless?

She frowned deeply, and her words were filled with self-blame and confusion: "Why...why would you, Wolf Head, be hanged directly, and not me too?"

As if the skills he relied on for a living had been completely denied, Zhong Chen felt a little lost for a moment.

"Wait, don't go in yet." Yu Liang stretched out his hand to stop Zhong Chen. He always felt that he seemed to have gotten some clues, but it was just a sudden flash of inspiration. He still needed to slowly figure out this weak What exactly is inspiration.

And now, this faint inspiration is reminding him not to do what he shouldn't do.

Such as sabotage, such as letting Zhong Chen enter this laboratory.

perhaps……

Is this what the female monk called the Primordial Spirit Master?

Yu Liang thought about this flash of inspiration that flashed through his mind. He vaguely realized that the female monk's words seemed to have helped him to understand. Now he could occasionally receive inspiration prompts from the soul.

Looking at Zhong Chen again, Zhong Chen looked puzzled at this time, looking a little confused, as if he didn't know what the meaning of his existence was.

So Yu Liang said: "Don't be sorry. Some ghost stories in the world of ghost stories have a very high priority, even above your abilities. It's not surprising that they can bypass your abilities and inflict harm on me."

This bodyguard's thoughts are quite easy to understand, and it's not tiring to get along with him.

Well, except for some of the "Ares Bodyguard" parodies.

"Okay." Zhong Chen nodded. This statement did not satisfy her, so she secretly felt a little firm in her heart. One day she would become a bodyguard who could withstand the power of ghost stories. Only in this way could she be considered a qualified bodyguard. .

As for Yu Liang, when he started thinking again, he suddenly thought of Zhong Chen's words just now.

Was I hanged?

Eighteen hours...

That doesn't seem to be the case.

His eyes stayed on the corpse for a long time, or to be precise, on the corpse's feet.

The feet do not hang down, but are perpendicular to the body's main torso.

It may seem like it defies gravity, but it's actually possible for a corpse to do this.

"He wasn't hanged, he was killed by something else." Yu Liang said, making a quick judgment.

He had considered writing some mystery novels before, such as murder cases or secret room murders, so he found some information.

The feet of the hanged person should be hanging down, as if in a straight line with the body, but the current vertical state of the feet is obviously that the person was killed before being hanged.

The reason is also very simple and can be explained in two words.

rigor mortis.

After being killed, the legs of the corpse are perpendicular to the body and remain in this state to produce rigor mortis, so the legs will still be like this after being hung up.

From this information, we can clearly know that Yu Liang was killed by something, and was stored in the laboratory until rigor mortis appeared, so he appeared like this.

"Does this building only have nine floors in total?" Yu Liang asked Zhong Chen beside him.

Zhong Chen gave an affirmative answer: "Yes, the rooftop is upstairs. This is the highest floor."

"That is to say, this building can only show what it will look like in eighteen hours at most." Yu Liang said, and then remembered some of the logs of the female monk on the small computer.

The female monk said that there were more powerful ghosts upstairs, and there were some ghosts wandering around in this building, but Yu Liang had not seen them so far, which made him doubt his current situation. .

The first possibility is that the so-called powerful ghost upstairs is the female monk herself. She studies Taoism day and night, so she has a limited understanding of the outside world and does not even notice the difference between upstairs and downstairs.

The second possibility is that he has been controlled by some kind of ghost, and everything he sees now is a special space created by the ghost.

These disturbances in time and space are all fake, fake tricks played by ghosts.

If it's the latter, then there's no point in using goblin bombs. He can't blow up a false space.

Just find other ways.

There is only my body but not Zhong Chen's body, which means that Zhong Chen may not be dead, or he may have died in the laboratory. For the specific situation, we may need to enter the laboratory to find out.

Wait, let’s find out?

Yu Liang's steps stopped completely as soon as he took them, because he suddenly realized a mistake of his.

Those who obey time cannot violate the future.

The more you know, the more painful it will be.

There are Zhong Chen's footprints and the "ten" mark left on the sixth floor, so the seventh floor also has these things.

The time on the sixth floor is now, the time on the seventh floor is four hours later, the time on the eighth floor is ten hours later, and the time on the ninth floor is eighteen hours later. This is the pattern of the entire building.

Do the right thing at the right time.

The eighth floor has been cleaned and the entire laboratory has become very tidy, but there is no trace of cleaning on the seventh floor. This means that someone was cleaning during the six hours after four hours and ten hours ago, so that it can be equivalent. To replicate this.

As for the corpse and rotten smell on the ninth floor, other things need to be used to fake it.

Yes, fake.

This is a time of submission and a time of deception.

Let events happen gradually according to the planned situation, so that they fit the time perfectly.

Yu Liang wanted to understand the reason, and at the same time, he kept recalling the details he had just noticed in his mind.

This is the really disgusting part of this weird story. He must try his best to reproduce all the details of the future and make it happen step by step.

According to this logic, the more he knows before triggering the task, the more unfavorable the situation will be for him.

He discovered the mother's nest on the seventh floor, so he needed to order the mother to produce whistle beasts.

He found that the eighth floor was untidy, so he needed to clean it himself.

He discovered the putrid corpse on the ninth floor, so he needed to fake a corpse to fool around.

The future is immutable and destiny cannot be changed, so the more we know about the future, the less we can do.

This is the person who obeys time.

At this moment, Yu Liang couldn't help but regret, because he could have completely avoided triggering this strange story.

Just follow the adventurer and leave, then place an advanced whistle beast in the building, and then come back four hours later to collect the advanced whistle beast into the universe.

He has never been upstairs, so he knows nothing about the future. He doesn't need to adjust to time, clean up, or fake corpses.

The more curious and cautious people are, the less likely they are to complete this strange story, because they tend to notice more details, and some details cannot be completed in such a short time.

The result that cannot be completed may be that the "ghost man" appears physically and completes the timeline himself.

If you didn't clean the house between four and ten hours, let this "ghost man" clean it. If you didn't fake the corpse between ten and eighteen hours, then you would use your own life to supplement the logical chain.

The rules of this ghost are so simple. Its body may not be powerful, but it has a very high priority. It can even bypass Zhong Chen's alienated professional skills and take effect directly, because it represents "time". It's "destiny".

In this city, the Cybermen cannot go against time, nor against fate.

"Fortunately, Zhong Chen was not allowed to enter the laboratory to observe the body carefully." Yu Liang breathed a sigh of relief when he thought of this.

The more carefully you understand the corpse, the more difficult it will be to forge it. It is almost impossible to replicate the corpse one to one.

Fortunately, he doesn't know much about this corpse yet. He only needs to meet the following conditions: "Yu Liang's" face and figure, putrid odor, and rigor mortis.

As for the internal laboratory...

Yu Liang didn't even dare to set foot there. If he found something that couldn't be restored in the laboratory inside, wouldn't it be the end?

For example, Zhong Chen’s body.

If Zhong Chen's body is seen in the laboratory inside, two corpses will need to be faked.

In this weird story, the future is similar to quantum mechanics, and it is an uncertain state that has not been observed.

For example, just like now, he would not be able to see Zhong Chen's body without entering the laboratory, so there is no need to fake the body, let alone kill Zhong Chen to obey time.

As long as he didn't see Zhong Chen dead inside, it didn't matter. At most, he didn't know where he went.

but……

In this case, can he achieve the future he wants by changing the things in this room?

A bold idea appeared in Yu Liang's mind, but he shook his head because he suddenly remembered what he did.

He can deceive time, and then time can also deceive him. Everything he changes on this floor may be achieved in an inexplicable way by then.

In short, it won't be the way he wants, and it may even cause a catastrophe.

After all, he is a person who obeys time, not a person who overrides time.

This ninth floor is the top floor, and it is the future eighteen hours later. Let his understanding of the future be fixed at this moment, and don't continue.

If we learn more about it, we may really be able to draw out the ghosts involved in this strange story.

"Let's go, don't go in." Yu Liang asked Zhong Chen to leave, and he was going to go back downstairs to fill in the things on the timeline step by step.

Cleaning is a trivial matter, but forging a corpse is a top priority.

Yu Liang thought for a while and felt that he could start with the meat machine.

As for the meat machine, it should be able to forge the necessary corpses, right?

At the same time, you can also try making "corpse" characters, which may be easier.

Well, just try using "tail", "drawer", "lu" and so on. There is no need to use "shi", "pee" and so on.

Although I have to admit that it might be easier to extract the "corpse" with "shit", "pee" and "fart", but think about it.

Using these things to combine characters, doesn't this become "shit literature"?

not too good.

So next, Yu Liang returned to the sixth floor and renovated the entire laboratory on the sixth floor according to his expectations.

Within four hours, the Whistle Beast Mother was summoned to expand the laboratory's lair, making it similar to what he saw on the seventh floor.

Four hours later and ten hours ago, he started cleaning on the sixth floor, cleaning up the nest of the whistle beast's mother, and disposing of the egg shells of the parasitic beast, and also accumulating the bones.

Ten hours later and eighteen hours ago, a meat machine was used to fake a corpse.

First, he prepared enough "Yu Liang" corpses to make them exactly the same in appearance as his own, and then killed them at different time periods to control the time of rigor mortis, so that the feet of the corpses after eighteen hours would Just in rigor mortis, and vertical.

The state of rigor mortis for each corpse is not stable, so it requires a lot of energy and effort to slowly debug.

During this period, Yu Liang rested and debugged, and finally arranged the sixth floor to look like "Yu Liang's" body was hoisted eighteen hours ago.

After doing all this, he walked out of the laboratory on the sixth floor, looked up at the stairs going up, and inevitably became interested in the future four hours from now.

Unfortunately, if he went to see it again, the strange story would be endless, so Yu Liang restrained his curiosity.

Before "time", excessive curiosity will only harm yourself.

Eighteen hours officially ended, and Yu Liang also saw the prompt box that popped up on the page.

[Deadline, the branch line of ghost story has been completed - the person who obeys the time]

[Get the stamp-"The person who cheats time\