Survival Paradox [Infinite]

Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Cheng Shi hid behind the curtains, Wei Chi opened the door, and outside the door was the old butler with gray hair.

Butler: "Miss Si, I'm here to inform you that the funeral ceremony will be at twelve o'clock tonight, so please gather at the 'underground hall' on time at eleven o'clock."

Wei Chi: "Okay."

The butler took another look into the room and said, "Do you know where Eldest Uncle is? I just knocked on his door, but he doesn't seem to be there."

Wei Chi: "Sorry, I don't know."

Butler: "Then if you see the eldest son-in-law come back, please inform him about the 'Spirit Sending Ceremony'."

Wei Chi: "Okay."

Wait for the butler to leave.Cheng Shi came out from behind the curtain, and the two continued their discussion.

Cheng Shi: "Looking at what the butler means, it seems that he knows that we... 'Miss Four' and 'Master Uncle' are having an affair."

Wei Chi was silent for a while, and said: "Who will hold the 'Soul Sending Ceremony' at twelve o'clock in the evening?"

Cheng Shi: "Damn it."

"This is strange." Wei Chi said, "Let's go to the 'underground hall' to have a look."

Cheng Shi: "Where is it?"

Wei Chi: "I guess it's in the basement."

The two of them slipped out in the dark.

The corridors of the ancient house are dark and narrow, quite gloomy, and it feels like some ancient ghosts will fall from the ceiling or run out of ancient paintings every step of the way.

Maids and servants lined up and patrolled the old house like a group of walking dead.

Cheng Shi observed several waves, and unexpectedly led Wei Chi to bypass this group of patrols without making a sound.

This can't help but make Wei Chi look sideways, feeling that if he wants to do this kind of thing, he at least needs to draw a plan to analyze it, Cheng Shi actually did it out of thin air.

The two found the downward stairs, in a corner of the mansion, connected to the cellar below, two kerosene lamps hung on both sides of the iron door, and a large brass lock hung on the door.

Cheng Shi carried an ear pick on his body and picked the lock in less than a minute.

This guy can actually pick locks.

The iron door opened slowly with a slight "creak".

"Let's go." Cheng Shi turned around and smiled, his high nose was hit by the dark yellow candlelight, casting a sharp shadow, showing the ruggedness of his face even more, "I smell the smell of death. "

Wei Chi didn't want to show his timidity, and walked in first.

The dark corridor was winding and long, Wei Chi brought a candle, and it went out halfway, probably because of the oxygen.

Cheng Shi said behind him, "It's almost here."

Wei Chi felt nervous: "How do you know?"

Cheng Shi: "I smell it."

Wei Chi didn't want to talk to him more, he walked forward by touching the wall, walked for a while, and finally saw a little light in front of him.

They've come to an end.

At the end of the passage is a square room with a large stone platform in the middle, on which a coffin is placed.

A circle of colorful bowls was placed around the stone platform, and the burning fire inside was blue.

A golden cup was placed directly above the coffin.

"Is this the question of the 'Holy Grail'?" Cheng Shi walked over and walked around the coffin twice, and finally focused on the golden cup. "We are fighting for this thing?"

Wei Chi was also observing the room, not paying much attention to Cheng Shi's words.

Cheng Shi's voice suddenly rang in his ears: "How about we kill all the others?"

Wei Chi was silent for a while, then looked back at him.That look was thin and cold, and there was no emotion.

Finally he heard Wei Chi say: "It can be considered."

He thought of the information about Wei Chi that he had obtained before—the only son, a high-achieving student in a prestigious university, ranked among the best in academic performance since he was a child, and won numerous awards.No bad records, not even emotional experiences.His parents divorced peacefully, and he grew up in an above-average environment—the life experience of a top student who is lacklustre.

Such people, generally speaking, have selfishness and superiority in their bones, but most of them hide under the moral skin of "universal values".Even if they thought about murder and arson, at least on the surface they would show extreme disgust and avoid them like a scourge.

Quite interesting.he thinks.

"But if killing some key person prevents us from getting out, then the gain outweighs the loss." Wei Chi said: "Let's look at other clues first."

Cheng Shi: "Okay."

Wei Chi: "I found out that this house is not square."

Cheng Shi: "Oh? What do you mean? It looks quite square."

"It's just that one corner of a square has been dragged a little farther away." Wei Chi pointed to the northwest corner, "There is an acute angle, causing the other two corners to become obtuse."

Cheng Shi: "What do you say?"

"I don't know." Wei Chi raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, "Aren't you an embalmer? You should know something about taboos about the dead, right?"

"What era is this? Feudal/Jian superstition is not a good thing. We are all technical talents who believe in science." Cheng Shi said, "And even if I know, I know our own feudal/Jian superstition. Understand."

Wei Chi didn't bother to talk to him, so he turned to study the cup.

He swayed over again: "If you have to say it, I remember some old people told me...'the sky is round and the place is', 'the earth is safe', and it is naturally best to enter a square temple. This kind of crooked... ...probably leaking air."

"Where's the Holy Grail?" Wei Chi asked again, "Do you know the origin of the Holy Grail?"

"I've heard of it a little bit." Cheng Shi said, "It seems to be a wine glass used by Jesus."

Wei Chi: "The legend is that at the Passover meal before Jesus' crucifixion, Jesus sent Judas away and the remaining eleven disciples used a wine cup. Jesus once took this cup and told the disciples to drink the blood that symbolized him. red wine, by which the Memorial was founded."

Cheng Shi: "I know you still ask me?"

Wei Chi: "Try what you don't know."

Cheng Shi: "So?"

"The Holy Grail is a metaphor about the blood of Christ. The story of the original purpose of the Holy Grail—to collect the blood left by the crucified Jesus—clearly connects with the previous blood of Christ contained in the Holy Grail, and the true Messianic blood of Christ. It’s a metaphor.” Coincidentally, Wei Chi has never been interested in these literary and historical things, and he read it as a knowledge link in a book about wine when Wei Yuan made a fuss about going to the library, so he used it right away "And the position of the eldest daughter of the patriarch who died at the beginning is obviously the position of 'Judas' in "The Last Supper". So I think the story of this family fight should be related to the background of these stories,' The issue of 'blood relationship' is a key point."

"If you speculate according to your logic... probably the young master is not the child of the head of the family." Cheng Shi also began to think seriously, "You have his photo in your collection, so you can basically be sure that it is his real mother...then his real father... it's me?"

Wei Chi had given up on correcting him, and turned around to go outside: "Let's figure this out first."

The two returned to the room the same way, ready to check their belongings again.

Wei Chi felt something was wrong when he entered the door, subconsciously took a step back and grabbed the door that was about to close, and when he turned around, he saw a black figure standing behind the door.

He cursed "fuck" and lay down on the spot, dodging the blade swung by the black shadow.

Then Cheng Shi squeezed in through the open door and started fighting with the shadow.The porch is very narrow, and the battle ended quickly, Wei Chi only heard a few muffled sounds of the gun being hammered, and a "brushing" tearing sound.

When he turned on the lamp, he saw the black figure lying behind the door, with his own knife stuck in his neck, already dead.

He is the second younger brother of the Patriarch.

Cheng Shi closed the door. He had just stabbed someone to death, but there was no blood on his body.Crouch/body up and start examining things on this person.

Wei Chi calmed down his beating heart, and asked, "Why did he kill me?"

Cheng Shi pulled a silk scarf from the Patriarch's second brother and whistled: "He has an affair with my wife."

Wei Chi: "Then shouldn't he kill you?"

Cheng Shi: "Go to his room and have a look."

The two easily entered the room of the owner's second brother, and found the body of the second brother's wife on the bed, and the bloody weapon behind the curtain.

"It's a standard house fight script." Cheng Shidao, "Maybe everyone has a mission to kill. Since the mission of the second child is to kill you, there is a high probability that his wife was killed by someone else, and those murder weapons are not his."

Wei Chi: "Isn't it your first time playing a board game?"

Cheng Shi glanced at him and smiled suddenly: "It's just my first time going to board games. I used to like watching videos of puzzle game up masters."

"Thanks to you." Wei Chi said, "What else?"

Cheng Shi continued: "Also...their relationship must be very complicated, just like you and I have an affair, my wife has an affair with my second child, and the second child's wife probably has an affair with someone else."

Wei Chi: "The important thing is the blood relationship."

"You think that you are the sister of the Patriarch's wife, which has nothing to do with the Patriarch's blood relationship at all. The Patriarch insists on you, so obviously it has something to do with it, so you must be the young master's real mother." Cheng Shi analyzed, " It is now known that we are having an affair, so I may be the father of the child. But this kind of script often reverses, so the truth is still uncertain."

They found some things in the luggage of the dead second lady, which probably meant that it was related to someone else.

"It's almost time." Cheng Shi looked at his pocket watch, it was less than 10 minutes before eleven o'clock, "We have to go to the 'underground hall'."

"Wait." Wei Chi said, "Go get the wine."

"Miss Four" had a bottle of wine in her luggage.

The two arrived at the entrance of the "underground hall" with the wine. Except for the old butler, there were only four people - the young master, the young master's third uncle, the young master's uncle, and the young master's aunt.

With the addition of Wei Chi and the others, there were only six of the 12 people at the meal.

"It's time, please follow me."

The old butler held a candlestick, opened the big brass lock on the iron door, and led everyone in.

"I suddenly thought - isn't there thirteen people in "The Last Supper"? But we only had twelve people for dinner." Cheng Shi whispered to Wei Chi, "Is this butler actually a boss?"

Wei Chi glanced at him unexpectedly: "You just found out?"