nightmare exec

Either it was the exasperation caused by the forced confession, or the forced therapy just didn't work.Anyway, Song Yin started to ignore Qi Zhengnan again.

But they didn't delay the serious business because of the awkwardness - there was the last paper doll left, and they had to help it find the remains as soon as possible no matter what.

This paper figurine is also a boy, and the paper on his body is different from that of the two children just now - there are sugar wrappers, kraft paper with biscuit crumbs, and even cardboard shells for food.

"Why are they all eaten?"

Song Yin was in a daze when he suddenly saw a chunky sago palm tree drawn on one of the wrapping papers, probably the outer packaging of a sago bag.

"Explain that the place where the child was killed has something to do with food."

Qi Zhengnan obviously had a clear idea: "Follow me."

He didn't take Song Yin far away, but turned a corner along the path beside him, and came to a row of unremarkable bungalows.

In fact, when Qi Zhengnan brought Song Yin here at the beginning, he had a very clear purpose.

"Before you had an accident just now, I have been expanding the map view around here, and let Erhu use the surveillance mode to investigate suspicious targets. Then Erhu discovered this."

As he spoke, he brushed away the dust on the wall with his hands, revealing a mottled wall painting—a picture of a few small yellow-haired animals with white spots on their backs.

"Isn't that a quoll?"

This kind of small animal, which just appeared in the superficial dungeon, has been deeply imprinted in Song Yin's mind because of its ferocious reproductive habits.

"But why is there such a pattern here?"

"It should be a decorative wall painting."

Qi Zhengnan took a few more steps forward, and patterns of many kinds of rare animals appeared one after another on the dust-free wall.Although the level of painting is very limited, it is enough for children's science popularization.

"So what exactly is this place?" Song Yin asked curiously, "Could it be that there is a zoo in this orphanage?"

"No, this is the cafeteria."

Qi Zhengnan shared the information that Erhu had found just now: "The children in the orphanage line up in this corridor for three meals a day, and they like to push and fight when they have nothing to do, and there have even been stampedes and injuries. So the hospital Someone painted animals on both sides of the aisle to distract the kids.

Canteens... and food wrappers obviously have a strong association.

Song Yin recognized this inference, and immediately prepared to follow Qi Zhengnan to the cafeteria to find out.But before he could take a step forward, he heard a shivering sound behind him.

It was the paper man, obviously afraid of something, grabbed Song Yin's clothes, and refused to take another half step forward.

Thinking about it, no one should want to go back to the place where he was killed.

Song Yin thought for a while, then looked at Qi Zhengnan: "Can you go alone? I'll just wait outside. Go and come back quickly."

"..."

Qi Zhengnan frowned, and suddenly felt that he was very much like a husband who had just got married and had not enjoyed the world of two, got pregnant by accident and had a child, and then was thrown into the sidelines.

Seeing that he didn't respond for a while, Song Yin suddenly became angry again: "Did you hear that!!"

"I heard."

Nianzai Song Yin's current state is not normal, and he should bear the main responsibility for bringing people into this dungeon, Qi Zhengnan chose to swallow his anger.

Of course, he didn't forget to take care of everything for his lover before he left.

"Ergou is not familiar with the surrounding environment yet, so let him follow me into the cafeteria. Leave Erhu in surveillance mode, responsible for vigilance of the surrounding movement. If the real beast comes, tell me immediately."

Speaking of this, Qi Zhengnan also repeatedly emphasized the key points: "The situation of this kind of stowaway is very complicated, you must not be impulsive, and absolutely do not attack without authorization."

"Understood." Song Yin suppressed his strength and pushed him lightly, "Hurry up and come back!"

It sounds easy to say, but both Song Yin and Qi Zhengnan understand that this "bone hunting trip" is undoubtedly much more difficult than the previous two - there is no specific target, and it must be in such a large building Finding the remains of a child is not easy.

Passing through the dim corridor filled with various animals, Qi Zhengnan came to the front hall of the cafeteria.The main function here is to wash hands and wash dishes before meals, so seven or eight rows of rough cement sinks are installed.Although the orphanage has been abandoned for a long time, many faucets are still dripping, and there are light ticking sounds everywhere, disturbing the attention of explorers.

"Two tigers." Qi Zhengnan called his assistant officer, "Scan the scene and look for targets: moving objects, fragments of the dream master's consciousness, stowaways."

As soon as he finished speaking, another voice that was not unfamiliar sounded in his ears: "Assistant Officer Erhu has been assigned by you to perform other tasks, and I will assist you in your investigation."

Almost at the same time, a conversation of a similar nature also took place outside the cafeteria.

"Gouzi, play Qi Zhengnan's synchronized video." After finding a clean place on the steps to sit down, Song Yin made such a request.

"I'm not Ergou." A clearer voice than Ergou appeared in his ears.

"Oh, Er Mi." Song Yin put his hands on his forehead, expressing his poor memory, "Then let me let it go."

"My name is Erhu."

The little cat corrected seriously.However, he still fulfilled his duty as a substitute assistant officer.

Song Yin waited for almost a second, and a small live broadcast screen appeared on the ground in front of him, which was exactly what Qi Zhengnan was exploring indoors.

It appears that the man has passed through the water room area and into the dining hall filled with tables and chairs, so far nothing has happened.

"I said little cat..." Song Yin, who was a little bored, asked Er Hu: "Explain to me what a real beast is."

"I'm sorry, I'm currently in the monitoring mode." Erhu tried to refuse, "Dialogue with the executive will break this mode, and in severe cases, it may even be impossible to observe potential dangers."

"It doesn't matter, that monster is so big, if you really want to run over, I can hear the footsteps alone. You don't have to be so nervous..." Song Yin insisted on breaking the casserole and asking the end: "I think, 'Know yourself and know your enemy ' is more important."

"...You and your assistant officer are like dogs of the same feather."

The kitty, who felt that he had no similarities with Qi Zhengnan, could not hold back Song Yin's persistence in the end.

"Believe it or not, for the dream master, the Truth Beast is actually a kind of gentle stowaway. The appearance of the young beast is like a group of transparent jelly. It is different from the vicious stowaway who devours and destroys the dream master at every turn. , under normal circumstances, it will parasitize on the dream host for a long time, maintaining a peaceful symbiotic state."

"Like Venom?"

Song Yin's reaction was quick, after all, it was the last movie he and Qi Zhengnan watched together.In the second half of the movie, Qi Zhengnan fell asleep leaning on his shoulder - watching any movie with this kind of person is particularly boring.

"Sorry, I don't have detailed data on venom in my database yet."

Erhu continued to speak on his own: "Smugglers like the Truth Beast can help the dream owner to force others to tell the truth. Therefore, it is also a very popular commodity in the world. It is said that the intelligence agencies of many countries , will hire at least one dream master who coexists with the Truth Beast as a senior interrogator."

"Such a powerful symbiosis? Doesn't it mean that there is only one hand, and there are no lies in the world?"

Song Yin always felt that something was wrong: "Wait a minute, what benefits did the Truth Beast get? Is it just the power to parasitize the owner of the dream? Even cancer cells consume the nutrition of the owner, such a big man Could it be the low-carbon and environmentally friendly water-hydrogen energy?"

"Of course not. Truth Beast does need to consume nutrients, a lot of nutrients."

Erhu didn't change his tone, but what he said next made people feel creepy: "Those who are forced to speak the truth will become the food of the truth-telling beast. However, the truth-telling beast cannot digest hard teeth and bones. That's why Suspect A's garden has such a big pit filled with human bones."

"Cannibalism?! Can that be considered gentle?!"

Even though he has seen all kinds of monsters in Purgatory, Song Yin still couldn't help feeling sick at the thought of someone being devoured in reality.

But his curiosity still overcomes his nausea: "I have a small question... Does the Truth Beast have an independent body in the human world? Or does it share the same body with the dream owner? If not, then it eats people..."

"On the surface, it looks like Suspect A is eating people." Erhu confirmed what he was worried about, "Then through a virtual channel similar to the umbilical cord, the nutrition is delivered to the Truth Beast."

"Can't you eat anything else? Cows, sheep, what?"

"No, what the Truth Beast eats must be the object of Truth. Unfortunately, only humans."

"Wait, let me sort it out..."

Song Yin once again complained in his heart about the good copy Qi Zhengnan chose.He raised his right hand, pressed his forehead and rubbed the circle: "Since the truth-telling beast lives in Suspect A's body, after he was arrested and locked up in a mental hospital for a few days, he suddenly started telling the truth...Actually Is the Truth Beast starting to attack him? Hiss...they are fighting among themselves?"

"It looks very similar. After all, the Truth Beast needs to eat every once in a while. In a closely guarded mental hospital, it can't find a chance to commit crimes, so it can only devour the dream owner instead."

"Eat yourself, like ouroboros..."

Song Yin curled her lips to show her astonishment, and then thought of some new questions.

"After Suspect A fell into a coma, he had a physiological reaction similar to a nocturnal emission. Moreover, his body was also castrated—how should these be explained?"

"I can't quite explain the castration."

Erhu said that this kind of behavior often involves human psychology, and their artificial intelligence is relatively powerless about it.

But he answered Song Yin's first half of the question: "As I said just now, the cub of the Truth Beast is colorless and transparent, and has no fixed form. The reason why it becomes the image you just saw is because It swallows up a lot of 'dirty truths'. There are no two identical truth beasts in this world, because there are no identical 'dirty truths' in this world."

Hearing this, Song Yin already understood.

"Swallowing and filthing the real, although it is a truth-vomiting beast. But the suspect A who is closely connected with it is also polluted. In this case, these pollutions are related to sex, so suspect A created it in a coma. I got this copy of Chunmeng!"

When he said this, he suddenly took a deep breath and stood up from the steps.

"...I understand!! I understand why suspect A's body was castrated!"

When he said this, his voice even trembled a little: "Because... because the filthy truth has polluted him, and made him uncontrollably produce those thoughts that he hates. He must not allow himself to become the thing he hates the most. look, so..."

"So he castrated himself." Erhu also deduced the result.

For several seconds after this, there was dead silence.

"When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you..."

At the end of the silence, Song Yin let out a long sigh: "Can I tell the truth? Actually, I don't really hate this suspect A. After all, what he is fighting against is much more hateful than himself."

"I do not know."

Erhu replied sternly: "Artificial intelligence does not have the feeling of 'hate'. In terms of social harm, killing and cannibalism are greater than sexual assault-this is determined by your human criminal law."

"Really? I thought you hated me."

Song Yin had no intention of arguing with him about legal and ethical issues, and curled his lips to signal Erhu to end the conversation and enter the monitoring mode.But he himself turned his attention back to Qi Zhengnan's real situation.

In just a few minutes of talking with Erhu, Qi Zhengnan had already checked the huge restaurant.There were no suspicious places to bury the bodies, although there were chairs and benches and broken tableware scattered here and there.

But at this moment, Qi Zhengnan had already opened an inconspicuous small door and entered the back kitchen.

According to the drawings provided in the background information, the back kitchen can be roughly divided into four parts: cooking area, side dish area, vegetable cleaning area and storage room.He first came to the cooking area, where there were two rows of huge integrated stoves and some other unnamed kitchen utensils.A strange turquoise flame was burning on the stove, making the whole room dark and chaotic.

For a moment, Song Yin couldn't help worrying about whether the child's body had been crazily cooked into cooked meat.Fortunately, Qi Zhengnan did not find any clues in this room, and soon entered the next side dish area.

As the name suggests, the side dish area is the area where the washed ingredients are subjected to secondary processing and wait for cooking.The main facilities in this room are two rows of long stainless steel cooking tables, with shelves for placing ingredients on the side.

Right now, there are moldy and rotten ingredients everywhere.The piles of green vegetables shriveled into prunes, the tan meat had long green hairs, and some vegetables with more moisture were completely covered by white mold, and it was impossible to tell what the original variety was.

But that's not the worst part.

Song Yin was a little thankful that he wasn't there anymore, but just sitting outside and watching the live broadcast could make him scratch his head for a long time.

There is no other reason—just because the room is full of insects, all crawling, flying, and jumping, big and small, of all kinds...