Kuai Anhe brought Ke Chun and Lang Qiu to the rest area on the second floor, which is a place where they can talk quietly.

Although Tuo's identity was seen through, Kuai Anhe still maintained his usual kind attitude, politely greeted Ke Chun and Lang Qiu to sit down, and finally sat down by himself, put his elbows on the armrest of the sofa, and asked with a smile: "who are you?"

Ke Chun quickly replied: "Ordinary contestants."

"Ordinary contestants would set up such a game to lure me into the bait?"

The smile on Kuai Anhe's face deepened, which made Ke Chun very puzzled, why was he so calm when his identity was discovered?

"You're not repairing your phone at all, are you?" Kuai Anhe pointed to Lang Qiu.

The person being questioned showed the same calmness as the questioner: "Yes, the phone can't be repaired."

Hearing this answer, Kuai Anhe was not annoyed, but asked calmly, "So what is your purpose?"

Ke Chun continued to rush to answer: "Stop this game."

However, Kuai Anhe shrugged, as if he was not very satisfied with the answer. He easily denied Ke Chun: "I can't stop. From the day we stepped into the castle, the gears of the game started to turn. In the end it just won't stop."

"How do you know if you don't try?" Ke Chun asked.

"Have you forgotten the records behind those cards?" Kuai Anhe said, "Those people must have tried many methods, even if they escaped...you can see the results."

What he was referring to was the couple who had escaped, only to find that the outside world had been turned upside down, and there was no place for them to stay, so they finally chose to end their lives.

"Do you know those experiments?" Ke Chun was very surprised. In his memory, this year is 2021. Although artificial intelligence is advanced, it has not popularized science in every household. Those human body transformations still exist in science fiction movies. .

Kuai Anhe shook his head: "I don't know about those experiments, but I know that the 'program group' has the ability to do these experiments. They are omnipotent and have no flaws."

"Who are they?" Ke Chun asked sensitively.

Kuai Anhe crossed Erlang's legs, leaned back on the back of the sofa, and said leisurely: "I have no obligation to tell you. I won't force you if you don't want to reveal your identity, because no matter what you do, it will have no effect on this game. But look at We are friends, and I still want to remind you."

Kuai Anhe's eyes fell on Ke Chun, with a kind smile in his eyes, and Ke Chun felt that it was not fake.

He said: "In this world, your own life is the most important thing. If you want to survive, you have to follow the rules."

Ke Chun doesn't like this kind of "resignation to fate" very much, it makes him feel like a marionette, just something for people to play with, but each of them has a "self", why should they be at the mercy of others?

But just as he was about to open his mouth to refute, Lang Qiu snatched the conversation away.

"What did they promise you?"

Kuai An and Tan Tan Shou: "No comment. Ah, but I can tell you one thing, I am not your enemy."

"You are helping them kill!" Ke Chun asked excitedly.

Kuai Anhe was a little helpless, he thought for a while, and changed his words: "In this game, I can not hurt you."

Seeing the unconvinced look on this stubborn guy, Lang Qiu explained to him: "What he means is that it doesn't matter to him whether he is eliminated or not. I'm afraid the organization behind him promised him that as long as he can promote The game is going on normally, no matter whether he wins or loses, he will grant one wish."

Ke Chun nodded half-understanding, and before he could ask any questions, Lang Qiu turned to Kuai Anhe and asked, "What's your condition?"

Kuai Anhe gave Lang Qiu an appreciative look, and he was not stingy with his praise: "You are really smart, and you can understand it as soon as you say it. My condition is very simple, as long as you don't hinder the progress of the game."

Ke Chun understands this sentence!

He quickly vetoed: "That's impossible."

But Lang Qiu pressed his arm that was tense with excitement, and asked Kuai Anhe: "What if we don't agree?"

"I remember that they are very curious about your identity. Can I tell them later that you are actually sent by the 'program team'. The task is to supervise each of us and ensure that we win to the end."

Ke Chun stood up abruptly: "You fabricated the facts!"

Kuai Anhe smiled resolutely: "Of course you can say the same about me, but it's hard to say who they believe."

Ke Chun's face darkened. Kuai Anhe was the most popular in the castle, while Lang Qiu... was cold to everyone. Comparing the two, the result is really hard to tell.

Seeing that Ke Chun did not refute, Kuai Anhe took it as his acquiescence.

He showed a satisfied smile, and his whole body relaxed. He asked Lang Qiu in a very familiar tone of talking with friends: "I'm curious, did you start to doubt me very early? So the second round of rehearsal Gathered me a group and asked me some embarrassing questions."

Ke Chun was inexplicably attracted by the "very embarrassing question", looked back at Lang Qiu, and found that Lang Qiu turned his head away in embarrassment, not daring to meet his gaze.

Kuai Anhe continued to sigh with emotion: "But you are really not good at communicating with people. No one will talk to people before they have a good relationship. Chun is much better than you at this point. He always makes people feel better. Let go of your guard, if you are not careful, you will... ah."

Kuai Anhe suddenly came to his senses, put his hands together and raised his head, "That's why you skipped class that day."

When he said this, Ke Chun also thought of the afternoon after Xi Wenyao disappeared. The first in-depth communication between him and Kuai Anhe was because Lang Qiu skipped class. "friend".

If this is the case, then did Lang Qiu plan to lure him into the group early on?Because Lang Qiu hadn't confessed these things to him at that time, the basement was what happened tonight.

Facing Ke Chun's astonished gaze, Lang Qiu didn't react at all. He replied to Kuai An and said: "It wasn't that early. At that time, you were just one of the few suspects."

Kuai Anhe asked curiously: "Then how did you lock me in? I went to find you just now, and you didn't show any surprise, which means you knew it was me in your heart."

Lang Qiu clicked his lips lightly, and answered simply and clearly: "I'm 100% sure it was just now. There are two doubts. First, you are too involved in the game. Second, you are hiding yourself."

These two points make Ke Chun confused. Aren't these two contradictory features?

Seeing Ke Chun's incomprehensible look, Lang Qiunai explained to him: "When every important decision is made, he will stand up and guide everyone's thinking. But seeing that he gets along well with everyone, but He rarely mentions his own affairs, do you think he has talked to you about his past?"

Ke Chun recalled several conversations with Kuai Anhe. When he mentioned his own affairs, he would lightly bring up the topic, and the same was true for the time when he played the drum and passed the ball.

"In the game of drumming and passing the ball, it was his turn very late. It may be that he and Hongyu colluded, and if he escaped when there were only a few people left in the end, he might be exposed, so he made up a perfunctory story. "

While listening, Ke Chun searched his memory for Kuai Anhe's suspicious behavior. He always felt that he had forgotten something.

The first time he and Kuai Anhe talked, apart from the first time they met and greeted each other, it should have been during the basement exploration.

He remembered that they were trapped behind the iron door at that time, and everyone proposed to use the ax in the torture room to break the door lock, so he and Kuai An returned to the torture room together. This should be the first time they have been together alone.

Wait, Kuai Anhe seemed to have said a very strange sentence in the torture room. Ke Chun remembered that he felt weird when he heard it. What did he say?

It should be after he finished yelling at the camera...

I remembered!

Kuai Anhe said at the time that there may not be anyone behind the monitoring, and even if there is someone, it may not be someone who has the right to let them out.

How did he know that there was an organization behind the surveillance?

At that time, Ke Chun always felt that the person monitoring them was the owner of the torture room—a certain individual, and he naturally thought that the owner was behind the camera.

But Kuai Anhe acquiesced that there was an organization behind the surveillance, and he knew it!

Thinking of this, Ke Chun was enlightened, if he had realized it earlier...

So, Kuai Anhe was also the one who drugged him on the day of the farewell party?

He thought so, and confirmed it with Kuai Anhe.

"That's right, you couldn't even open your eyes at the time, I just let you sleep more soundly. But that task was a bit hasty, and I only received instructions from Hongyu that day. Fortunately, I know that Ran Xiaoxin took sleeping pills I used the excuse that I couldn’t sleep at night and asked him how many pills he wanted.”

Lang Qiu added: "Also, although there is no evidence, stealing the black bag to Geng Yanbin should also be his masterpiece."

Ke Chun turned to Kuai Anhe for confirmation.

Kuai Anhe hugged his chest, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and nodded slightly: "Yes, he did not disappoint me. But you are wrong about one thing." He shifted his gaze to Lang Qiu, "The experience I shared at the farewell party that night I didn't make it up, it was indeed the most memorable moment of my life."

Ke Chun recalled the story shared by Kuai Anhe that night: "A family of three, go to the ancient town for a day trip?"

Kuai Anhe let go of the hands holding his chest, leaned forward slightly, put his arms on his legs, and clenched his fists with his hands to support his chin. He kept a gentle smile and said in a nostalgic tone: "That was the last time, the three of us Going out alone. A week later, my mother disappeared."

Ke Chun showed a look of surprise, with a trace of astonishment and pity.

"I told you, my mother is a singer."

Ke Chun nodded. When they were chatting in the rehearsal room, Kuai Anhe mentioned that sentence.

"She and my dad are in a family marriage, which sounds ridiculous. My dad's family is either a wealthy family, or a small shop in the town. My mother's family is similar, well-connected, right, and I ordered baby relatives since childhood. But my mother She is a strong person, and she likes to sing very much, even though my grandparents are against it. She married my dad when she was 20 years old, and they probably wanted to kill her. But in the end, they couldn’t keep her.”

"So she left you guys to learn singing?" Ke Chun confirmed.

"Well. I found out when I was about 15 years old. I saw a woman on an album that looked like my mother at my grandparents' house during the summer vacation, and then I asked them about it."

"Where is she now?"

Kuai Anhe shook his head: "I don't know. We haven't seen each other since she left."

"So, you want to let auntie see you through this competition and come to you on her own initiative?"

Ke Chun looked at Kuai Anhe quietly, although he didn't have much tone when he said this, and he didn't seem to have any emotion.But Ke Chun felt the faint sadness and... loneliness behind each word.

Unexpectedly, this sentence stunned Kuai Anhe.

He hid his mouth behind his hands, gently rubbed the tip of his nose with the knuckles of his bent index finger, and lowered his eyes a little bit.

"They promised you to help you find your aunt?" Ke Chun asked tentatively.

Kuai Anhe maintained that posture for a long time before raising his head, not seeing any loneliness, it was his signature kind smile.

He sincerely admired: "You are still amazing. This topic ends here."

Hearing what he said, Ke Chun was a little disappointed, not because he didn't ask the exchange terms between the program group and Kuai Anhe, but because he was unwilling to gain Kuai Anhe's trust, so that he was willing to share his troubles and think about it together. A way to realize wishes without relying on program groups.

But this is the end of the conversation, Kuai Anhe has already stood up, intending to take the initiative to end this conversation.

Ke Chun stood up and asked him a great doubt: "You said the game will continue, but Hongyu is gone, who will continue the game?"

Kuai Anhe answered lightly: "There will be someone."

"Not you?"

Kuai Anhe was amused: "At least I haven't received the task yet."

"Who is the person who contacted you?" Ke Chun asked closely.

Kuai Anhe put his index finger in front of his lips: "You ask too many questions."

Ke Chun cast a confirming look at Lang Qiu, he was wondering what to do with Kuai Anhe, should he subdue him now?Or follow him closely?

Kuai Anhe seemed to see Ke Chun's hesitation, and said freely: "Well, I'll go back to the house now, and you can lock the door from the outside. I promise I won't do anything tonight. But you have to promise , Let me out tomorrow."

Ke Chun and Lang Qiu looked at each other, and Lang Qiu nodded slightly.

"Okay, we promise you." Ke Chun replied as a representative.

Then, they watched Kuai Anhe go back to his room, took the key to the door, and locked Kuai Anhe in the room from the outside.

"This way... is it safe?" Kuai Anhe's cooperative attitude made Ke Chun worry.

"In theory, yes, unless there is a third person from the other side that we don't know about hiding in the castle." Lang Qiu said.

The two walked downstairs together, wanting to see the situation of the auction in the cafeteria.

Ke Chun walked this way absent-mindedly, and what happened to Kuai Anhe had shocked him too much, and he really had mixed feelings about Kuai Anhe.

On the one hand, they disagree with his approach, but on the other hand, they sympathize with his life experience very much.

Ke Chun grew up in a very happy family, and his parents loved him very much. He couldn't understand the mentality of a mother who left his own flesh and blood and had no contact with him for more than ten years, nor could he feel the mentality of a child who grew up without maternal love.

If he were Kuai Anhe, would he have made the same choice?

The answer to this question should be simple, but Ke Chun hesitated.

"Do you think Kuai Anhe is a bad person?" Ke Chun didn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and threw the question to Lang Qiu.

Lang Qiu didn't answer him directly, but threw the question back.

"I... don't know." Ke Chun thought for a while, and found that his thinking could not be unified.

"Do you think that a person who assists the evil is not a bad person? Or, as long as there are proper and reasonable reasons, crimes can also be forgiven?"

"I didn't mean that...hey, how should I put it...he did something wrong, but...well..." Ke Chun never found it so difficult to express himself.

"What kind of people do you think are 'bad guys'?" Lang Qiu asked.

Ke Chun didn't think about this question: "A person who intentionally hurts others."

After saying this answer, Ke Chun was even more confused.

What is intentional?Kuai An and he knew that this practice would hurt everyone, so he was doing it on purpose.According to this logic, he is a "bad guy".But Ke Chun couldn't hate him no matter what.

Maybe if it was put on a stranger, Ke Chun would sternly criticize him, but Kuai Anhe was a friend he knew, was familiar with, and once admired.

What is this kind of self?

With this unanswered question in mind, Ke Chun followed Lang Qiu back to the cafeteria.

In the cafeteria, the auction has ended.

One family is happy and two families are sad.

Geng Yanbin laughed until he lost his eyes, holding a piece of paper with "IOU" in front of his eyes and looking at it again and again, as if it was a love letter written to him by someone he admired.

The happy family is Ran Xiaoxin. For some reason, he stood on a chair, holding a pair of large scissors, and was working hard to cut the metal card in his hand.At the foot of the chair were scattered a few broken cards, which must have been his work as well.

Ran Xiaoxin won the five cards of No. [-] in the auction, and it is not difficult to know from his actions that Ran Xiaoxin and Kuai Anhe are the cat team, and the two people with mournful faces are the mouse team.

The outcome has been divided, and the mouse group lost.

Faced with this established fact, although Ke Chun was extremely disgusted in his heart, he was powerless to change it.

What surprised him the most was the change of Ran Xiaoxin, the way he stood tall on the chair, and the arrogant and arrogant way when he cut the metal card, it was really hard for people to connect with that timid and weak person.

What made him what he is now?

Fear of death?Hunger for victory?

Or...

"He's always been that kind of person, proud, conceited, and aggressive, but he's always disguised himself with a weak appearance." Lang Qiu seemed to know what Ke Chun was thinking.

Ke Chun didn't quite understand: "Why?"

"There are various reasons. It may be to gain the appreciation of others, or it may be because of the fear of losing someone's love. I am afraid that this depression is not even noticed by him, and he thinks that he is a cowardly person. It's just his skin."

Ke Chun responded with a half-understanding, and saw that the two people in the other group were listless and had turned into two wilting flowers, as if their breath had been drawn out of their bodies, so he hurried over and comforted him, "It's okay." Yes, we are the only ones in the castle now, and we are safe."

The two brothers glanced at each other, and then came back to their senses: "Yes, Hongyu is gone, who can do anything to us?"

Ke Chun patted them on the shoulder in relief and said, "It's been a tiring day today, let's go to bed early, and tomorrow we have to discuss how to escape together."

The two said "hmmm", said goodbye to Ke Chun, and left the cafeteria.

Bo Yiran, who was watching the play, suddenly walked towards Ke Chun, and asked casually, "Where's Kuai Anhe?"

This accusation made Ke Chun's heart tremble, and when he was about to speak, Lang Qiu answered for him: "He said he was a little tired, so go back to the room to rest first."

Bo Yiran stared at them meaningfully for a while, then left the cafeteria without saying anything.

Ke Chun turned his head and asked Lang Qiu: "What about us?"

"Go back to the house, I didn't sleep tonight."

Ke Chun didn't understand, so he said, "Huh?"

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