Paper lover

The first time Li Shuoxing saw this sentence, he turned to Su Mingqian.

But to his surprise, Su Mingqian's expression was very calm, and he didn't show any extra expression when he looked at this document.

Li Shuoxing asked tentatively, "Zai, do you know this document?"

Su Mingqian: "Me? I don't know. But I can guess. In fact, when I first started this project, John and George, I, and I had concerns about this aspect. Ask and ordinary weapons, and even mass destruction Sexual weapons are not quite similar. If it really gets out of control, the harm it can cause to human society is immeasurable..."

Having said that, Su Mingqian paused.

"I just didn't expect that they would secretly monitor us. But it doesn't matter. Ask did pass the test perfectly under very standardized operations. I didn't falsify the experimental results, even if there are more monitoring personnel."

Li Shuoxing bowed his head in thought for a moment, and when he raised his head again, his gaze was fixed on the things on the table.

In addition to the top-secret documents, there is also a code pad and a row of buttons.

This is a strong signal that no one can ignore.

Li Shuoxing: "I have a question."

Su Mingqian: "What?"

Li Shuoxing: "With the row of buttons in front of me and the password book, I can think of the secret communication channel between the security team and the outside world with my knees, but what I don't quite understand is that you are just a group of ordinary scientists, even if the security team Should you be tasked with secret surveillance, you don’t need to use this kind of contact method similar to Morse code, right? Isn’t it okay to call your superiors with your mobile phone?”

Su Mingqian: "No, it won't work. Although this town has a network, it's just a large local area network. This is actually a..." He sorted out the sentence, "A physically isolated box is a test box for Ask. A large, closed experimental field cannot communicate with the outside world."

Li said that Xing understood.

In other words.

Li Shuoxing: "This is the only electronic device in the town that can send messages to the outside world."

[Clue reasoning is successful, truth points +10]

The 10 points just obtained were used by Li Shuoxing for testing.

[Using detectors, truth points -10]

[Name]: external contact password device

[Remarks]: Someone sent a message through it.The message is: "27, 9, xx, xx"

Li Shuoxing didn't understand this note for a while.

He just rolled up his sleeves to crack it, when Su Mingqian said, "This is our evacuation time..."

Li Shuoxing: "Evacuation time?"

Su Mingqian shook his head slightly, so that he could remember more things: "Yes, the 27th is our evacuation date. We will leave here at 7 o'clock that morning. As for the latitude and longitude behind..."

Li Shuoxing answered, "It's obviously the latitude and longitude of the destination you arrived at at 9 o'clock."

After sorting it out like this, Li Shuoxing suddenly understood a lot.

Li Shuoxing first made the most basic reasoning: "The person using the cipher is Tom."

[Clue reasoning is successful, truth points +10]

Li Shuoxing went on to make follow-up reasoning: "But the person Tom used the cipher to contact is not the government."

The logic is also very simple and clear.

If the government thinks that Ask should be destroyed, of course it will be destroyed directly in the base they built. How could it be possible to let the team walk a certain distance first, and then suddenly destroy it, adding countless changes out of thin air?

[Clue reasoning is successful, truth points +10]

Li Shuoxing: "Tom took advantage of the government's emergency plan, stole dedicated lines and colluded with third-party forces, and his goal was Ask!"

[Clue reasoning is successful, truth points +100]

"And," Su Mingqian said suddenly, more and more pictures came into his mind. Among these cumbersome pictures, he searched for what he needed and explained slowly, "It's easy to commit crimes on the road. At that time Ask is stored in a hard drive. I keep this hard drive with me. Whether it is stolen or destroyed, it is very simple..."

At this point in the analysis, both of them had guesses about the final result.

Then, Li Shuoxing suddenly squatted down and tapped on the table in front of him.

Su Mingqian was stunned by Li Shuoxing's actions before he had time to brew his feelings. He asked, "Ximu, what are you doing?"

Li Shuoxing: "I'll check to see if there's anything else here. Normally...ha!"

A pleasantly surprised laugh sounded.

Li Shuoxing, who got into the bottom to see if there was a hidden space, didn't find the hidden space, but he found a new translucent hand icon.

He clicks on the icon.

[Name]: Hidden Safety Props Point II

[Requirements for opening]: Accumulated truth points of 300 and above

[The player gets a total of 470 truth points]

[The player meets the opening conditions]

【Props point open】

The bottom of the closed table slid open, and two sets of body armor fell into Li Shuoxing's arms.

He reached out to catch it, touched it subconsciously, and immediately felt the thickness and weight of the body armor.

Li Shuoxing's heart instantly settled down. Holding the bulletproof vest in his hand, he turned his head and looked at Su Mingqian with a smile from under the table.

Su Mingqian unconsciously reached out to touch the helmet, and suddenly felt more ominous...

***

After deciphering the murderer's identity and murder method, now, there is only one last question left.

What is the motive of the murderer.

If you want to know this, you obviously have to go to Tom's private space to check it first.

Fifteen minutes later, the armed duo returned to the hotel where they first appeared.

They went to the front desk to find out which room Tom lived in.

The welcoming lady didn't change her face about their attire, and handed them a room card very considerately: "Room 603."

The two went directly to No. 603.

Li Shuoxing first raised his hand and knocked, but there was no response.

So he swiped the sensor with his room card and opened the door directly.

A luxurious suite appeared in front of Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian.

Li Shuoxing looked around and found that the room was almost packed. The suitcase belonging to Tom was placed next to the big bed in the hotel. It was open, and there was a photo frame on the top. Tom's family photo.

In the photo, Tom is standing with his parents, smiling brightly.

Li Shuoxing bent down and picked up the photo. He looked at the photo and said to himself: "Placing it according to the general clues of mystery novels, this photo is very suspicious..."

He lost the test on the photo.

[name]: family portrait

[Remarks]: There seems to be something hidden in this photo.

Li Shuoxing stared at the note for a few seconds.

He took apart the photo frame and saw the newspaper clipping hidden behind the photo at a glance.

He opened it and found that the clipping was titled: "Intelligent Manipulator Runs Away on the Operating Table, Leading to Medical Accident".

Su Mingqian: "..."

The truth is about to come out.

The distance between the past and the present seems to be only a curtain.

He stood at one end of the curtain, looking at the chaotic shadows passing by on the other end of the curtain.

As long as the last curtain is lifted again, all these pasts can be retrieved.

Li Shuoxing: "Okay, the final piece of the puzzle has been put together." He couldn't help feeling emotional, "Sure enough, all sunny villains have a painful past, and all gentle and handsome villains have a perverted past... …In short, I speculate that there is a 99% chance that Tom’s parents were involved in similar incidents, so he began to hate all intelligent machines, especially superintelligence.”

"He wants," Li Shuoxing came to the final conclusion, "to destroy Ask."

[Clue reasoning is successful, truth points +300]

There was another "ding dong".

A semi-transparent guidance gesture icon appears at the head of the bed.

Li Shuoxing clicks on the icon to instantly unlock a new treasure chest.

[Name]: Hidden safety props point three

[Requirements for opening]: Accumulated truth points of 600 and above

[The player gets a total of 770 truth points]

[The player meets the opening conditions]

【Props point open】

The bedside table was open.

Two small props were placed in it. Li Shuoxing took a look and found that compared with the first two items, the props in his hand were treated differently, and there were additional item descriptions:

[Name]: Miniature Almighty Explosion-proof Shield

[Remarks]: Carry it with you, it can automatically defend against all damage.

Li Shuoxing was immediately moved by Ask's spirit of wanting to arm Su Mingqian to the hair of his hair.

He picked up one of them and put it safely in Su Mingqian's hands, and let Su Mingqian hold it properly before picking up the one that belonged to him, but he didn't put it away.

He made a wish to the system: "System, I don't need this kind of explosion-proof shield, how about you replace the explosion-proof shield with a bazooka?"

The system is silent.

Li Shuoxing continued his efforts: "The bazooka is more in line with my personality. Don't you think the scene where the other party draws a gun and I take out the bazooka is very handsome when you think about it?"

The system remains silent.

But the shield in Li Shuoxing's hands began to change.

A faint blue light enveloped the small shield, and gradually its shape changed, it stretched and deformed, and finally it really became the bazooka that Li Shuoxing wished for!

Li Shuoxing snapped his fingers: "Thank you!"

The system only gives the following response:

[The player has solved all the puzzles]

【Coming soon into the plot CG mode】

【Please wait……】

【Countdown, three, two, one...】

The scenery around Li Shuoxing and Su Mingqian began to change.

Clouds and mist came in, and they spun gently. In the process of opening and closing eyes, the hotel room disappeared. The smell of gasoline rushed into the nostrils, and the feeling of bumps came into his mind. Li Shuoxing took a closer look and found that he was with Together with Su Mingqian, sitting in a jeep,

Outside the jeep, the yellow sand is everywhere, and one or two clusters of cacti are disgraced in the long yellow sand. Fortunately, not far ahead is an oasis with lush vegetation.

Li Shuoxing had just seized the time to look around when suddenly, the sound of "bang bang bang" bullets sounded, and the jeep that was moving forward suddenly shook. Outside the window, the security team escorting the convoy and militants appeared out of nowhere Hand to hand.

The dust was like a yellow gauze, instantly covering the surroundings of the convoy.

In this blurred veil, the blood is like big and small flowers, blooming in full bloom from time to time.

The next moment, the door of the jeep was knocked.

Tom's face appeared outside the car door.

He looked nervous: "Professor, we have been ambushed, and it's not safe here, so hurry up and follow me!"

It's time to wait for you!

Li Shuoxing was about to move, but immediately found that his body was fixed in place and could not move freely.

The cutscene CG didn't end there.

Under the protection and leadership of Tom, Su Mingqian hugged his backpack tightly, bent down and fled to the oasis ahead with him.

During this process, Li Shuoxing was like a ghost, automatically following behind the two of them.

From a condescending perspective, he saw another wave of terrorists ambushing in the oasis, and also saw the coldness flickering on Tom's face, and the fear and panic on Su Mingqian's face.

And these are things that actually happened.

Anger turned into poisonous flames, melting Li Shuoxing's heart into magma.

Before the magma erupted, Tom stopped before the terrorists' ambush.

He turned around and aimed the gun at Su Mingqian's head.

Tom: "Professor, I regret to tell you that the front is not a way of life, but another ambush for terrorists. Unfortunately, you will become another young talent who died at the hands of terrorists...but I actually respect you You, I don't want to hurt you, as long as you are willing to sign Ask's failed test report and hand over Ask to me for destruction, I will let you go."

The black muzzle of the gun was right in front of Su Mingqian.

The shadow hidden behind the curtain suddenly jumped in front of the curtain.

The barrier between past and present was broken, and the same choice was placed before Su Mingqian again.

Su Mingqian's mind went blank, and he yelled exactly the same words as in the past: "It has passed the test, why are you still unwilling to try to believe it!"

Tom: "The machine, forever, cannot be trusted! Professor, you can only choose to let me kill it, or die with it, and then be pretended that its rampage caused the death of all of you!"

Su Mingqian started to back away.

Stumbling, stumbling, staggering.

But the muzzle in front of him is getting closer and closer.

He was extremely nervous, and the straps of his backpack were soaked with sweat from his hands. He had only one choice at this moment, whether to save himself.

Then, he hid the backpack behind him, and fear condensed into a firm shell on his face.

No matter how many times you do it again, the choice will not change.

Su Mingqian: "It's not wrong. I will never give it to you."

"boom--"

Gunshots.