Survival Paradox [Infinite]

"I understand... Do you think that man looking for me and me contacting you are two different manifestations of the same action logic?" Xu Wei nodded thoughtfully, "It's an excellent way of thinking, and I agree with your thinking."

Even when Ah Piao pointed his weapon at him, the calm aura of this man did not change: "But as far as that question is concerned, I don't think I have the action of 'finding', it's more like 'you' just appeared in front of me .”

Wei Chi's eyes lit up: "You mean..."

"That's right. When I received that photo, I was just staying at the gate normally, and I saw you when I looked up."

For some reason, after A Piao smashed the metal box for the magnetic test just now, the lights in the store could not be turned on, and the blackout curtains blocked most of the sunlight, and now the room is dark. In this case, the two The picture of the man with bright eyes discussing things with the weak light of the cash register computer looks like a conspiracy villain.

Feeling the change in the atmosphere, Ah Piao tilted his head in doubt, and held up the phone screen:

[Meow? ]

Wei Chi took out the terminal floor plan that he had copied earlier, and spread it out on the table.

Bajiao Airport, literally an octagonal building, is advertised as being designed so that passengers can walk from the center to any gate in no more than 8 minutes.The southernmost corner is the entrance and rail transit. There are a total of 57 boarding gates, which are divided into upper and lower floors and evenly distributed on the remaining seven corners.

“我的登机口是16,就是正对着安检口的位置，如果按你说的'一抬头就能看到我',那么你的位置必须在'12-15'或者'17-21'的范围里……”蔚迟一边画一边说道,“我能看下你的登机牌吗？”

Xu Wei took out the boarding pass.

"20." Wei Chi glanced at it, "If it corresponds to the map... Sure enough, 20 is on the right side of 16."

Xu Wei: "It's the same position as in the photo."

"That's right." Wei Chi nodded. He turned on his phone and found the photo they took when they first met the Scared Man. The time shown in the album was 13:40, but now it was 2:10, and the time passed normally.

"We are now in the middle of gates 18 and 19." Wei Chi marked their positions on the map, "From the time the man left for the first time to the time he came back, it took a total of 30 minutes. According to the time he stayed here Calculated from the time and the journey time we spent from 16 to 18 and 19, he can run up to 12 to 13 boarding gates, and 6 to 7 one-way, assuming that he stays at each boarding gate for the same amount of time , then the farthest distance he can reach is gate 25, and he turned back without running past gates 25-26 after gate 29. That is to say, he is sure that you are not after gate 25, and supports his thinking The reason can only be...he himself is 25!"

Wei Chi drew two rows of villains next to the map, and marked 16, 20, and 25 below himself, Xu Wei, and the scarred man respectively: "Because he is the last one in the first row on the photo, so you can only in front of him."

"So that's the case. At the same time, he turned back when he ran between 18 and 19, because he thought it was beyond my range to go any further." Xu Wei said quickly.

Wei Chi and him looked at each other, and they concluded together: "The location on the photo corresponds to the boarding gate."

A Piao was taken aback: [Meow? ]

"In other words..." Wei Chi raised the corner of his mouth, and made a cross on the corner of the map with a pen, "The location of Cheng Shi has been confirmed."

A Piao weakly raised the phone:

[honest? ]

On the other side, Aoi and Xingmao are at the security check exit.

The two girls sat on the ground, and Xingmao gnawed on the tail of the Snickers bit by bit.

"Have you eaten yet?" Aoi asked.

"It doesn't matter if it's good to eat or not?" Xingmiao lowered her head and scribbled on the ground with her fingers.

"After eating, let's move those... objects away."

"Objects?" Xingmiao grinned, "You mean those corpses? So what if you move them away?"

Aoi: "Move away to see if there is an exit."

"Are you kidding... Do you know how many corpses there are?" Xingmiao wrung his fingers, "20? 30? I think there might be 50. And how could there be an exit? There are so many dead people, the burial pit is almost the same... ..."

"It doesn't matter if there are 100 or 200, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, do it." Aoi stood up, patted the dirt on her body, and straightened her skirt. "We will definitely be able to get out from here."

Go back to Wei Chi.

They have arrived at the second floor of the departure hall and are heading towards the gate 2-52 at the end.

The three lined up, with Wei Chi walking in the middle, Xu Wei behind, and Ah Piao in the front holding a baseball bat like a hostess holding a flag.

Because there is no danger in the terminal, Wei Chi originally wanted A Piao to stay in the store and come back to him after they find the exit or find out the situation, but the other party refused to let go of Wei Chi's arm, so he just became the present situation.

Anyway, according to his own words: [Ah Piao is very strong]

Fortunately, because Ah Piao's appearance was too eye-catching, walking in front attracted all the attention, but no one noticed Wei Chi and Xu Wei who were some distance away from him behind.

"Gate 41, confirmed by male No. 9." Wei Chi lowered his hat and slowed down to Xu Wei's side.

Before leaving the clothing store, at Xu Wei's suggestion, they numbered the 12 people in the photo, from 1 to 6 in the first row from left to right, and 7 to 12 in the second row.Wei Chi is 4, Xu Wei is 5, Scar Man is 6, Cheng Shi is 12.

In the process of walking up from the first floor, they found three people, male No. 6 at gate 2 on the first floor, and female No. 30 at gate 1 on the second floor. She obviously did not stay in her original position. And what Wei Chi just saw, male number 41 at gate 9.

Adding themselves and Cheng Shi, Wei Chi has confirmed the existence of 7 people in the photo.

"Are there 5 more people hiding in the dark..."

Ah Piao, who was walking in the front, stopped, and the sign of boarding gate 52 was hung clearly above his head.

Wei Chi looked around, and led the two of them to the corner of the staff passage.

"What do you think?" Wei Chi asked Xu Wei.

Xu Wei: "The reaction of the crowd here is not different from that in other places. If there are dead people in the terminal, it will definitely cause large-scale chaos. Therefore, it is certain that if Mr. Cheng is killed in the terminal, the place where the crime happened must be Hidden location. I suggest prioritizing the search for bathrooms, staff rooms, and VIP lounges with partitions..."

"The bathroom can be ruled out. In an environment with so many people, the bathroom will definitely be discovered." Wei Chi said, and suddenly stretched out his hand to grab Ah Piao, who for some reason walked towards the interior of the passage without saying a word.

Wei Chi asked angrily, "Where are you going?"

Ah Piao scratched her head innocently, then took out her mobile phone to type.

[has a strange smell]

"Strange smell? Where?" Wei Chi asked.

A Piao pointed to the end of the passage, where there was a small metal door with the words: control room.

Three people approached the door.

Wei Chi confirmed the source of the smell to A Piao with his eyes, and the ghost stretched out a pitch-black hand, pointing to the door with certainty.

"and many more."

Just when Wei Chi was about to open the door, Xu Wei suddenly pushed him away, took out a flashlight from his pocket to light it up, swept the doorknob, and nodded at Wei Chi: "There is blood."

Wei Chi lowered his head, and sure enough, he saw a few dark spots on the metal doorknob.

Xu Wei put down the handbag, took out a pair of gloves from it and put it on, and then took out a box of cotton swabs and a sealed bag—these were all taken from the cosmetics store on the way up, with A Piao’s warning first, No alarm was set off—he carefully took a cotton swab from the blood on the doorknob and put it in a Ziploc bag.

"Why keep this?" Wei Chi asked.

"evidence."

Wei Chi raised his eyebrows: "You know that everything in this world will disappear after you go out, right?"

"That's right, just like this murder case, it won't leave any traces, it's a crime that couldn't be more perfect. But because of this, can you kill people casually? Don't be kidding. Even if what happened is erased It is also a fact that someone has committed an unforgivable crime here, this is an indisputable fact." Xu Wei knelt down and carefully packed the sealed bag into his bag. "The job of a forensic doctor is to prevent any life from disappearing inexplicably. I will find the murderer and let him know that there is no murder without consequences in this world. Even if you think you have covered everything up, someone will stand up and accuse you .”

"It's not me, it's them," Xu Wei patted his bag, then stood up, and unscrewed the bloody doorknob with his gloved hands, "And he—"

The metal door opened inward, and what came into view was a large character lying on his back on the ground with a dark hole in his chest and a pool of half-frozen blood under his body.

All three were silent for a few seconds.

Xu Wei spoke first: "Is that Mr. Cheng?"

Wei Chi: "That's right."

"I need to check the condition of his head, mouth and internal organs, and take samples from the wound. It may take half an hour to four to 10 minutes." Xu Wei said while taking out a few silver scissors from his handbag and pocket knives of different styles, respectively from the barber shop and cafe on the second floor of the terminal building.

Wei Chi shook his head: "We don't have that much time. You just need to determine the cause of his death and whether there are any traces of man-made. This is the most important thing. Others... Try to keep your body intact. He probably doesn't want his body to be messed up. Decent."

Xu Wei seemed dissatisfied, but agreed anyway.

Wei Chi seemed to want to say something, but after thinking about it, he still didn't say: "You operate as soon as possible, we will watch the wind outside."

While speaking, Xu Wei had already cut the first knife on the chest of the corpse: "Close the door, it won't be good if the smell spreads out."

Before the door closed, Wei Chi took a deep look.

- We will meet again.

—Is that what you mean?

Leaning his back against the door, listening to the sound of metal collisions and flashing lights coming from behind him from time to time, Wei Chi couldn't tell what mood he was in. He knew that in a few hours, he would see another "live and kicking" Cheng Shi, But as Xu Wei said, can things that have happened be erased as if they didn’t happen?

The somewhat mysterious and neurotic Cheng Shi in Avalon will probably never be seen again.

It wasn't until this moment that Wei Chi had the real feeling that Cheng Shi was really dead.

Ah Piao, who was standing by the side, seemed to have sensed something, walked over to Wei Chi's side, and raised his hand to touch his shoulder.

Wei Chi was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "You are very similar to someone I know."

Apiao was stunned.

Wei Chi continued: "But it's strange, I can't smell him on you."

This kind of Wei Chi looks completely different from before, as if the sharp-edged shell has been peeled off, revealing a trace of unknown softness, A Piao even saw a fleeting fragility in his eyes.

But soon, he adjusted back and patted the overwhelmed ghost comfortingly: "Don't worry, my suspicion is not aimed at you."

Ah Piao lowered his head abruptly, typing quickly on the phone:

[Lovebroken? ]

Wei Chi accidentally laughed out loud, but the smile froze after only a second. He pulled Apiao to the wall and squatted down.

"someone is coming."