Day of Imprisonment

Morning, 10:27 AM.

Floor 24.

Those who discovered there was no fire began to return to the 24th floor from the floor below, but they found that the entrance doors on both the east and west sides were 'locked' and could not be opened at all.

Knocking on the door, there was no response.

It wasn't until the firefighters ran up that Du Lei walked to the door and said through the door that only a few clothes had been burned and the fire had been dealt with.

The firefighters were confused, but Du Lei, as the manager and person in charge here, naturally knew how to deal with this situation. After sending the people away, facing the inquiries from other employees, Du Lei's response was only one sentence.

“You guys go downstairs first.”

No explanation, no clarification.

Turning big problems into small problems, and small problems into nothing.

The manager has this right.

Du Lei, who came back, sat down on the chair and wiped his sweat, his eyes locked on Luo Xi over there.

“Speak, what are we going to do next?”

Although Du Lei didn't want to admit it, the current situation was obviously under Luo Xi's control.

When did he take control?

Was it from the moment the other party deliberately started the fire, or when he calmly told everyone that Mao Ge was downstairs?

Or was it when this guy said the eight-person game?

When it comes to dealing with people and social experience, Du Lei believes that he is much stronger than these young people in the company. So, when he suddenly discovered that time had returned to that day's morning after a terrifying encounter, he didn't panic. Instead, he explored the truth of the matter, and after obtaining some key 'information', he tried his best to preserve his memory after each terrifying killing time.

In Du Lei's view, only preserving memory can be considered truly 'alive'.

In his eyes, amnesiacs are simply walking corpses.

In addition, he is very clear that only by preserving memory can he escape from this terrible 'nightmare'.

Du Lei is very conceited, and this feeling becomes more and more obvious as the number of times he preserves his memory increases.

Even at this moment, when the situation seems to be under Luo Xi's control, Du Lei still believes that he is the one who truly controls everything. For example, he feels that he has seen through the other party's tricks, and now he is just playing along.

“By deliberately setting fire, triggering the fire alarm, and using the Recollectors' fear of Mao Ge to screen out the Recollectors, everyone gathers together. Knowing each other's identities makes it difficult to kill, at least not in person... It seems that this guy really knows a lot. He must be hiding a lot. He is definitely not preserving his memory for the first time. This bastard is lying, he is lying, but I can play this game with him and see what he wants to do. Young people are inexperienced after all, and they don't understand the principle of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.”

“Feng Kai is my man, and Guo Zening can also be won over. Even without Guo Zening, we still have the greatest force. If we really fight, no one is afraid. Thinking about it this way, exposing everyone's identities also has benefits. For example, we don't need to bother to find the Recollectors like we did in the past.”

Du Lei was calculating the benefits in his mind.

He had even secretly discussed with Feng Kai that if Liu Mao started the killing time, they would take the lead in killing people.

Killing one more person means one more memory card.

“Heh, can't beat Mao Ge, but can't beat you guys?”

From just now, Luo Xi was silent, as if he was thinking about something.

Hearing Du Lei's inquiry, he showed the dazedness of someone who is immersed and focused on something being suddenly disturbed: “President Du, what are you talking about?”

Du Lei was a little unhappy and frowned: “I'm asking, what are you going to do next? You said before that you have a plan to clear the level, tell me about it.”

“Oh, right!” Luo Xi seemed to wake up from a dream. He looked at the time and then said: “Where were we just now? Right, cat and mouse. The current situation can be simply seen as a cat and mouse game.”

Just now, Luo Xi specifically told some things about the Day of Imprisonment and the known rules.

It was mainly for Guo Zening and Zhang Yanan, two newbies.

After hearing this, the two of them were struck by lightning and have not recovered from their stunned expressions.

“And the sad thing is that the mice try their best, even at the cost of killing each other, but the purpose is only to ensure that they are still the mice that need to hide in the next round.” Luo Xi's words were meaningful.

Du Lei and Feng Kai's expressions were not very good, one was smiling with a hidden knife, and the other was showing a fierce light.

Guo Zening and Zhang Yanan subconsciously moved away from Du Lei and Feng Kai, because according to Luo Xi's statement, under the premise that they cannot escape Mao Ge's killing time, the only way to preserve memory is to kill other Recollectors.

Obviously, according to what they said before, Du Lei has preserved his memory eight times, so he has killed at least eight people. Although Feng Kai has not revealed the number of times he has preserved his memory, it is definitely more than once, that is, he has killed at least one person.

“Just like I said before, as 'mice', we shouldn't kill each other, but should work together to find a way to break the situation. Otherwise, it is inevitable that the mice will have their memories cleared. Even if you have extra memory cards in your hands, it's useless. As long as Mao Ge comes a few more sudden attacks like last time, how many memory cards can you consume?” Luo Xi saw that Du Lei and Feng Kai showed signs of taking action and gave a 'warning'.

Because what he said was the truth, and it was the truth that even a fool could think of.

“Don't be so mysterious, just say what you have to say.” Feng Kai shouted.

At this time, Luo Xi glanced at Feng Kai. Although he had no expression, his indifferent eyes made Feng Kai's hair stand on end in the next moment.

“Luo Xi, just say what you think. If you don't have a way, don't waste everyone's time.” Du Lei obviously lost his patience.

After all, another subtext of preserving memory is death.

Only by experiencing death can there be the concept of preserving memory.

No one wants to be constantly killed by a monster like a ghost in different ways on the same day. People who have not experienced that feeling cannot understand it at all.

“What's the question, ask it.”

“Have you ever seen Mao Ge transform with your own eyes?”

“No!” Du Lei thought for a while and said very definitely: “He always suddenly starts the killing time, there is no pattern, and when he crawls out, he is like that, every time.”

“Then, every killing moment, does Mao Ge crawl out of the closet?”

“Closet?” Du Lei was stunned: “What closet?”

Feng Kai interjected at this time: “Brother Lei, the last time Liu Mao turned into a ghost, Gao Shengjie saw it. He screamed, attracting a lot of people. I went over to see it too. In the men's changing room, Liu Mao crawled out of the closet.”

“Is there such a thing?” Du Lei looked like he really didn't know.

After thinking about it, Du Lei asked uncertainly: “Do you mean that the key is the closet?”

“Yes, but this is just my guess, so besides screening, another purpose of setting fire in the changing room before was to destroy the closet in the men's changing room on the 24th floor.” Luo Xi said part of his thoughts.

“But, there are also closets in the women's changing room.” Zhang Yanan reminded at this time.

“It shouldn't be. Mao Ge is a man, and his monster form should only be born in the men's changing room.” Luo Xi just finished speaking when Feng Kai retorted: “How can you be sure? Besides, since you want to burn it, why didn't you burn the women's changing room too?”

“He is verifying his guess.” Du Lei said at this time, 'explaining' for Luo Xi: “If Mao Ge crawls out of the women's changing room in a while, it means he guessed wrong. On the contrary, the possibility is very high. Although the 23rd floor downstairs was not burned down, at least it is temporarily determined that the 24th floor is safe, right, Luo Smarty?”

Luo Xi is immune to ridicule.

In his opinion, ridiculing and mocking others is meaningless and is the behavior of the weak.

He only looks at the benefits.

“President Du, how much chance do you think we have of winning if we confront Mao Ge head-on?” Luo Xi suddenly asked a question.

Du Lei was stunned after hearing this, and then shook his head without hesitation: “If you want to die, don't bring me along.”

“Is the chance of winning very small?” Luo Xi seemed puzzled.

Du Lei suddenly became angry, slammed the table and shouted: “It's not small, it's none, there is not a trace of possibility. Don't say it's just a few of us, even if there are ten times more people, it's useless. Liu Mao in that state is not a human at all, he is not a human... Wait a minute, the meaning of what you said about solving that cat, shouldn't it be solving it by force? If that's the case, give up on that idea as soon as possible.”

“Understood, thank you for your reminder!” Luo Xi nodded. Just as he was about to say something, someone suddenly knocked on the west side door.

Du Lei frowned and took a few steps towards that side, but the next moment he seemed to see something. His steps stopped, and his whole person instantly became extremely frightened. His fingers trembled, and he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out and put it in his mouth, and then took out a lighter.

Feng Kai also saw the person outside, and was equally nervous, subconsciously reaching for his pants pocket.

As for Guo Zening and Zhang Yanan, the two of them didn't know who was knocking on the door outside due to the angle, but seeing Du Lei and Feng Kai's reaction, they immediately panicked.

At this time, Luo Xi got up and walked over, looking at Liu Mao outside the door through the glass, and Song Policeman and the others following behind.

He saw Liu Mao with a confused look on his face: “Luo Xi, what are you doing? Is the fire out? I just spent a lot of time talking to Song Policeman about some situations. I didn't even know there was a fire, it scared me to death.”