The Grim Reaper Can't Be Tricked

The fourth and fifth are same-sex couples. The long-haired girl has a gentle temperament and is relatively timid. She snuggles on the shoulder of the short-haired girl the whole time, making small exclamations from time to time, which arouses the eyes of the two student sisters.

One of them complained: "I have played here, what are you pretending to do?"

The short-haired girl glanced at her, ignored her, and concentrated on coaxing her lover. After being urged repeatedly, she began to tell the story: "My story is called Heliu. I am a sanitation worker who manages the moat. I am responsible for picking up garbage on both the moat and the river bank every day.

Of course, I am not in charge of the whole section, but only the section of the bridge.

A few years ago, someone was in charge of this river area with me, but she felt that the sanitation workers were paid too little, so she was always lazy and didn’t work. One day, she told me that her child made a lot of money, and she was going to take her back to enjoy the blessings. Gone quietly.

I laughed secretly in my heart at the time, in fact, her child is not filial, and she doesn't want her to go back at all. She is just deceiving herself, but it is a good thing that she left.

A row of river willows are planted on both sides of the moat. Catkins fly all over the sky in spring, causing many complaints. The mayor’s hotline is almost exploded. They strongly demand to change other trees, banyan trees, mangroves, and mango trees. But you know Banyan trees and mangroves have well-developed root systems, which pose a relatively large safety hazard for cities with subways and trains.

In summer, the fruits of mango trees either attracted some citizens to loot them, or smashed to the ground, attracting flies and mosquitoes and affecting the appearance of the city, so in the end people still spent a spring full of catkins.

But the new mayor came to power, adopted the suggestions of the citizens for his political achievements, and decided to replace all river willows with mangroves before the end of summer.

As a sanitation worker who has managed the moat for more than ten years, I deeply love the rows of river willows. You don't know how beautiful they are.

The soft branches sway with the wind, like innocent children playing, and their graceful figure is more beautiful than the world-renowned stunner. They are quietly stationed by the river, living quietly, never asking, but it is a moat The most beautiful scenery.

Those people hate catkins in spring, why can't they see the people who enjoy the shade under their branches in summer?

I was angry and indignant, and wrote to the mayor's mailbox, with earnest words and true feelings, but until the tree digger shoveled down the rivers, my letter was never opened, and I could only touch it in the middle of the night with tears The most lush river willow tree under the bridge.

I recounted my reluctant parting feelings, telling it that it was the fault of those ungrateful people, the fault of that stupid mayor, and I said that if there is a spirit in heaven, let them all suffer what they deserve.

I touched the torso of this river willow, and touched its unusually smooth bark with my palm, as if I was stroking a woman's graceful figure, graceful figure, long hair like clouds, and the tree that grew bigger and bigger Tumor.

The tumor of this tree is like a human head, its facial features are becoming more and more clear and protruding, and it is becoming more and more beautiful. There was once a TV station dedicated to it for an exclusive interview, and piled up amazing and amazing adjectives on it. So expecting it to show its beautiful appearance, but when it really showed its facial features, the group of people began to be afraid.

I know they are just looking for novelty, and I also know that catkins are just an excuse, what they are really afraid of is this river willow.

Under the night, I found that Shu Tuo's facial features were distorted, and I was a little scared.

I held up its face and said: You are also afraid of being poached, right?

It didn't answer, but I knew it was afraid.

At dawn the next day, after breakfast, I went to the river to look at the big willow tree that was about to be shoveled away. I was depressed and full of thoughts. Even those innocent pedestrians became the targets of my hatred.

When I was approaching the bridge, I could see from a distance that there was a traffic jam in front of me, the crowd was noisy, the car was honking loudly, and everyone had strong dissatisfaction on their faces.

Well, to be honest, my heart was beating a little faster, and I felt what had happened. Out of curiosity, I went against the flow of people and accidentally bumped into a young man in a suit and leather shoes.

The man was carrying a briefcase, and the documents inside had been knocked out a little, like divorce proceedings.

I quickly apologized, the young man was very busy, so he ignored me and left.

I think he is a rare good person, because many people who walked on the bank of that river used to hate me, and if they accidentally bumped into it, they would be severely scolded.

I squeezed into the crowd and listened to their conversations, and I finally figured out what was going on. I dug up the largest river willow under the bridge this morning, and found that the roots underneath were extremely thick, and there were basketball-sized tumors growing under each root.

The outdoor worker was very surprised and immediately called his supervisor.

Surprised that it was a big news, the boss hurriedly sent a large truck to carry it, and the biological experts who heard the news came with their assistants along the way.

They couldn't wait to study this peculiar-growing river willow on the truck, study the huge tumors on its root system, and try to make a great discovery that shocked the world.

But I don't know what happened. When the big truck drove to the middle of the bridge, it suddenly lost control and hit several cars speeding on the opposite side. Both the driver and the passenger in the passenger seat of one of them died. The thick and hard rhizome of the willow pierced through the eyes, and the whole head was pulled out and thrown out of the car.

Pedestrians said: a large car accident, too tragic.

Someone else said: The person who died seemed to be a big shot, who had just returned from an important meeting.

They laughed: Could it be the mayor?He was the one who decided to eradicate Heliu, and this is Heliu's revenge hahaha... By the way, isn't Heliu a famous ghost tree in folklore?It's so cloudy, there are often cases of disappearances around here, maybe they were eaten by river willows.

I left in a daze, and unknowingly walked to the river bank. Looking at the place where the river willows were originally planted on the opposite side, it turned into a huge hole at this moment, circled by the yellow warning tape, and suddenly smiled.

The heavy emotions dissipated in an instant. "

If the story of Fu Riluo is that the supernatural element is greater than the suspense, then the short-haired girl is the other way around, and the suspense element is greater than the supernatural.

In Fu Riluo's story, the protagonist meets the old woman at the airport because of the reason, arrives at a friend's house, is smeared with corpse mud, and almost becomes a friend's scapegoat, sees the old woman again when he escapes, and gets the old woman's thanks is the result.

There is actually another causal line here. The protagonist disrespects the wizard and the dead, and will also be held hostage. Even if he is not regarded as a scapegoat by his friends, the dead and the wizard will find him and find friends along the way.

And the protagonist who helped the deceased by mistake, thus resolving his guilt of disrespect.

These are two causal lines analyzed from the perspective of the protagonist. If analyzed from the side of the wizard and the deceased, they are also logically self-consistent causal lines.

Second is friends.

Combining the conversations between the protagonist and his friends, the driver, and the witch’s thanks, it can be speculated that the smeared body slime came from the mummy carried by the witch. It is likely to be the woman in the photo, because the protagonist saw the girl’s fingers in the photo, It is estimated that he saw the silver ring worn on the finger of the mummy.

The wizard took the deceased home, but the friend obviously felt guilty, so he smeared the protagonist's face with the corpse mud that most likely belonged to the deceased, trying to treat him as a scapegoat. This is the reason.

It's a pity that by mistake, the deceased found his friend's house smoothly, which is the result.

The cause of the deceased's death being related to his friend, and the result of coming back to find him.

Wrinkles on the wizard's face are the result of witchcraft backlash, which means that she is either an experienced old wizard who has used too much witchcraft and accumulated a considerable number of backlashes, or she has a close relationship with the dead and forcibly used taboos in order to avenge the dead Witchcraft leads to terrible backlash.

Of course, all kinds of speculation on the wizard line are fine. After all, there is not much information. As long as the cause and effect form a circular line, the logic is self-consistent.

After Cen Jin's careful analysis, he was instantly horrified by Fu Riluo's meticulous logic. His story is actually simple. Compared with horror stories that are not clear about suspense and supernatural, his story is not scary.

It's very easy to speculate a complete story line, the real horror lies in the relevance.

In a simple story, several logical and self-consistent causal lines appear, and each main character in it has one or two self-consistent causal lines. No matter which side the speculation goes, the causal logic can be closed.

His thinking is really meticulous. His story is not about its own splendor, but its relevance.

This made Cen Jin very curious about Fu Riluo's identity.

Except for him, the other three stories will tell the protagonist's occupation. Only Buriluo hides it very deeply. At present, he can only guess that he may be a student.

Similarly, there are unresolved doubts in Fu Riluo's story, such as the function of the coffin, the word "卍" on the coffin, and the two Buddhist monks in the car, whether he was possessed by evil spirits when he was shrouded in the shadow of the coffin .

Since the corpse mud is not for praying for blessings, will the protagonist still be bewitched by evil spirits?

On the surface, his story does not overlap with the previous two stories, but at the end, Furiluo specifically emphasized the "卍" engraved on the front of the coffin, and the boy in the hat changed his face instantly, and Cen Jin guessed that the intersection point is here.

The front of the coffin is generally engraved with the words "Shou" and "Dian". The coffins of the Thousand Islands Kingdom are different from Huaxia, but they mainly believe in Bharatism, and a small number of monks believe in Buddhism, so the "卍" on the front of the coffin may correspond to the first 'Kusinara' in the story.

Cen Jin frowned, this meeting is a bit far-fetched, there should be other deep meanings.

It would be nice to know what Kusinara means.

The only supernatural element in the story of the short-haired girl "Heliu" is that the river willow has a tree tumor with distorted facial features that resembles a human head. According to folklore, the willow tree belongs to Yin. A tree tumor with facial features similar to the deceased will grow on the trunk.

The story does not directly name the willow tree hiding the corpse, but there are many hints before and after, such as the protagonist’s colleague disappearing without a sound, and another example at the end of the story is that people often disappear nearby through the mouth of passers-by.

This is probably the reason why the citizens protested and resolutely shoveled down the river willows. They probably thought that in summer, the large willows would cover the river bank, and it would be easy for robbery and robbery.

The protagonist probably has psychological problems for a long time. The reason she opposes planting mangroves is that their well-developed root system affects the construction of the subway. However, mangroves are built on the banks of the river and can strengthen the embankment.

She felt that the people who proposed to eradicate the river willows had forgotten the kindness of enjoying the shade in summer, but who would stay outside in the summer?In this damn weather, even if you don't blow the air indoors, you will get heatstroke, let alone stay outside.

It can be seen here that her excuse for self-contradiction is not because her mind is confused, nor is she really loving Heliu, but to hide Heliu's secret.

At the scene of the car accident, the protagonist bumps into the lawyer in the story of the elite man. The deceased in the car accident may be the lawyer’s client’s husband and mistress, which respectively echo the stories of the boy in the hat and the elite man.

But why is the protagonist relieved at the end?

Does she think that the higher social status of the deceased in the car accident (suspected mayor) can divert people's attention from the tumor on the root system of the river willow?

Assuming that the tumor on the root of the river willow is a human head, then this is a serious criminal case, and the attention can even surpass the serial car accident and the deceased. The protagonist's relief is self-righteous.

According to this logic, combined with the protagonist's identity as a sanitation worker with low education, and influenced by the deep-rooted outdated thinking of "officials are more important than civilians", it is not surprising to come to the conclusion that the case of the hidden corpse in Heliu can be ignored.

It’s just that under normal logical consideration, the protagonist in the short-haired girl’s story cannot live to the next story.

Is this her character line?She has figured it out?

The others looked at the short-haired woman with a more solemn expression. Obviously they felt that the short-haired woman's character line was almost over, but the short-haired woman's expression was not as easy as clearing the level, which showed that her role line was not complete.

Of course, it is also possible that she is acting, provided that her acting talent is excellent.

Otherwise, Cen Jin wouldn't fail to see it.

There should be something wrong with the short-haired girl's story—wait, lawyer.

When the sanitation worker saw some documents protruding from the lawyer's briefcase, he recognized them as divorce proceedings. First of all, she could read.

Secondly, there is a difference between literacy and a high level of education. For example, if you can say a more professional word like 'divorce lawsuit', you must have at least a high school or college level of education.

In the end, she knew that mangroves and banyan trees have well-developed root systems, and most people may not even know what mangroves look like.

The murder and burial has not been discovered for many years. The IQ must be high and the education level is not low. There will never be a wrong conclusion that "a high-ranking official died in a car accident with his mistress" is more concerned than "the corpse is hidden in the river".

Unless the resigned colleagues, the missing citizens and the hidden corpses in the river willows have nothing to do with the sanitation workers, she just simply loves the river willows, and the death of a high-ranking official means a change of term, and the original proposal to replace the riverside trees has been put on hold—

Still not right, hiding the corpse in Heliu will only speed up the process of this proposal.

Or the speculation about the hidden corpse of the river willow is wrong, and the tumor at the end of the root system is indeed a deformed tree tumor of the willow tree.

Cen Jin scratched his fingernails and thought, if Heliu's guess about the hidden corpse is wrong, then the short-haired girl's story has neither suspense nor supernatural elements, it's just a story about the protagonist's psychology is a bit weird and erratic.

If there are definitely supernatural elements in the later stage of the story, the story of the short-haired girl will be more difficult to complete.

Assuming that the speculation about the hidden corpse in Heliu is accurate, the logic of the front and back is weak, and it is easy to enter the vicious circle of illogicality and be eliminated.

There was almost no pause when Fu Riluo and the short-haired girl took over the storytelling. A group of people brainstormed until the short-haired girl's story showed an obvious logical cycle, and everyone had time to stop and think carefully about the two stories, so it took a lot of time. long.

About 10 minutes later, the elite man broke the silence: "Your keyword."

Short-haired girl: "Survive."

Everyone frowned upon hearing this, changed their positions, and felt a little restless.

The girl with red lips folded her arms expressionlessly, while the elite man tapped the table rhythmically. Obviously, everyone felt that the difficulty was too high and they became impetuous.

The student sister whispered, "Let's be next."

The next one was the long-haired girl among the homosexuals. She was still buried on the shoulder of the short-haired girl, and said in a low voice, "My story is called eyes."

For some reason, as soon as the name of the story came out, the temperature in the room dropped a bit, and everyone felt cold.

Seriously speaking, the more ordinary the name, the scarier the story must be, but the long-haired girl is so timid, she probably dare not tell horror stories.

Thinking about it this way, everyone relaxed. The long-haired girl is not a strong opponent.

Bie Riluo kept staring at the long-haired girl, but was caught by the short-haired girl who gave her a hard look before she retracted her gaze, typed a line on the phone and handed it to Cen Jin.

[Do you remember the look of the long-haired girl? 】

Cen Jin suddenly felt colder, gusts of cold wind hit his back, and when he looked back, he was indeed facing the air conditioner, so he moved to the side and did not answer Furiluo, but he couldn't help but focus on the long-haired girl out of the corner of his eyes.

It seemed that she hadn't seen the long-haired girl's face since she came in.

Fu Riluo typed another line: [I heard from others that this couple first appeared in the room, and I have never seen the long-haired girl look up.Are they NPCs pretended by the staff? 】

Cen Jin replied to him: [Only player NPCs. 】

Fu Riluo still wanted to ask more clearly, and the long-haired girl over there began to tell a story.

"Since I was a child, there was a painting bought by Liben hanging in my home. It is said that my uncle brought it back when he went to Liben to do business.

Speaking of my uncle, I really hate him.

As far back as I can remember, he always lived in the attic, wore thick and dense cotton-padded jackets in the summer, and then turned on the air conditioner from day to night.

At the end of every month, my mother always quarreled with my father and grandma because of the high electricity bill. "

The long-haired girl doesn't seem to be very good at telling stories, not only stutters, but also has a blunt turning point. She just cuts into "painting" and turns to "uncle" in the next sentence, a little confused.

"There is another reason why I hate my uncle, that is, the painting he bought was hung in the living room at first, but then my mother thought the painting style was coquettish and undeserved, so she hung it in my room forcefully, which caused me to hang up every night. Sleep under her gaze.

The painting is boldly colored, brightly colored, simple and unsophisticated, very Ukiyo-e style.

On the painting is a woman in a gorgeous kimono, with her back to the person looking at the painting, she is slightly turned sideways, her thick black hair is loose, her skin is very white, so white that it shines, although only a small part of her neck can be seen and cheeks, but I know she must be a beautiful woman.

Beautiful, and has a fatal appeal of pure lust. "

No one reacted at first, until the long-haired woman paused for a long time, and they carefully recalled her description, and suddenly realized something was wrong.

The woman in the painting is facing away from the person outside the painting. Why does the protagonist say that she sleeps under the gaze of 'her' every night?

"I liked her very much at first, she was really beautiful, but then I didn't like it." The long-haired girl didn't say the reason for her dislike, like a moody child, but she was indeed a child in her description.

This is the only story told from the perspective of a child.