Hyperreal board game

Elderly couple sitting hand in hand in the garden walking their dog and little granddaughter.

It is the quietest time in the afternoon, when most young people are attending classes and working. The neighborhood is very quiet with dense trees and long chirping of cicadas.

Suddenly, a rush of dog barking broke the quiet atmosphere, and the little granddaughter also called out childishly: "Butterfly—butterfly—" while pointing at the silver flying object in midair.

The old man and the old lady adjusted their reading glasses, squinted their eyes and looked at the strange object carefully. The old man shook his head in doubt: "It's not a butterfly."

The old lady laughed: "It's a kite. These days, kites are made in strange shapes, unlike when we were young..."

The silver "kite" stopped in mid-air for a while, and went around behind the building where the old people couldn't see.

Black Beer has long lost the freshness of encountering new toys, and complained while controlling the machine to fly along the designated range.

Yi Zai also persuaded him: "Finding two cats in such a large area is a bit of a needle in a haystack. Or I'll try my luck."

An Ge stretched out her paws and kept writing and drawing on the tablet. Hearing this, she finally showed mercy: "No, it's almost done, let's withdraw it first."

The two children cheered, quickly recalled the drone, and pushed the remote control out.

"Hands...wrong paws are about to cramp." Black Beer muttered, "Uncle, it might be useful for us to do this, right?"

"Well, it's quite useful." An Ge patted the cow cat on the head, motioning for them to come and take a look.

What was displayed on the tablet was a strange stick figure.

There are several flat circles, triangles and forks strung together on a few crooked lines.

Black Beer looked left and right, and said hesitantly: "This painting is... a caterpillar?"

Yi Zai said firmly, "It's meteors flying around."

An Ge: "...Neither of them."

Black Beer: "Then... is it a thrown cake?"

Yizai: "Is it the strangely shaped little tadpole looking for his mother?"

An Ge simply ignored them, and directly called up another layer, on which these lines were covered, and then began to explain: "Based on the observation of the community as a whole, I found an important clue."

He stretched out his claws, and lightly tapped the southernmost part of the map, where he drew the first cross, "This is the unfinished building in the third phase of Fenghua, which is also the place where Tong Jingjing was killed."

From that circle to the upper left, that is, a distance to the northwest, he drew another cross, "This is the pawn shop, which is also the place where the first shovel officer died."

A distance to the north from here is the villa area. He drew a third fork, "And here is Zhang Xiaoming's home."

Then to the northeast, the distance is much longer than before, it is Wang Baolin's home, and the dormitory of Hu Zhong, the black beer shovel officer, extends a certain distance from Wang Baolin's home to the northeast, and has reached the edge of Fenghua Phase I.

In addition, the homes of Ye Ci and Ye Lingyun are distributed in the southeast direction a little far from these locations.

An Ge connected these dots to form a strange and irregular strip shape, enclosing the first phase of Fenghua and some scattered houses outside the community, as well as part of the second phase of Fenghua.

It's just that a straight line should be drawn from Zhang Xiaoming to Wang Baolin, and the black beer shovel officer Hu Zhong to Ye Ci. In this case, the long strip is missing a large piece on the upper left and upper right, but what An Ge drew is The arc fills in the missing parts.

Seeing that the two kittens were confused, he continued to explain patiently: "When I was in the pot, I had hallucinations, as if I had penetrated the atmosphere and landed. Before I landed, I saw lights on the ground, but there was an area that was pitch black. Yes, that area is probably the shape drawn now."

Yizi suddenly understood: "So that's it! So, the two addresses we don't know should be in..."

"Yes, one is between Zhang Xiaoming and Wang Baolin, and the other is between Hu Zhong and Ye Ci."

Yi Zai continued to ask: "But, there is another problem in this way. Adam also lives in the villa area. Brother Clay, why don't you draw the location where he lives?"

An Ge said: "I guess this is also a trap to confuse people. Don't forget, Adam's shovel official doesn't live in a villa, and his home is somewhere else in the community."

Yizai suddenly realized.

Black Beer is more careful: "Uncle! I understand, drawing a cross means that the person is dead, drawing a circle means that the person is still alive, so what does drawing a triangle mean?"

An Ge was expressionless: "It means the circle is not round enough."

Black Beer: "...Oh."

You are too demanding of cat paws!

Yizai hastily changed the subject: "So, if you want to find Nangong Ergou and Shi Diudu, you don't have to run around aimlessly, just look for them in these two areas, right?"

An Ge smiled, with a rather smug expression on his face, "Don't be so troublesome, is there something else you haven't noticed?"

The puppet cows shook their heads together.

An Ge explained patiently: "Starting from the first victim, the location of the incident is getting farther and farther away from the murder scene. I have measured the straight-line distances from them to the murder scene, and no two locations have the same distance. "

And strictly followed the rules, first the pawnshop was the closest, followed by Zhang Xiaoming, after that Wang Baolin was much farther away, and even further away was Hu Zhong...

So the last long strip looks a bit like a dragonfly's wing at first glance. The root of the wing is the place where Tong Jingjing died, and the tip of the wing, the farthest point, is... Ye Lingyun's home.

Black Beer was envious: "Wow, Uncle Yizai is so safe! I'm so envious, so jealous!"

But Yizi shook his tail: "No, brother Clay, didn't we speculate that in order to complete the ceremony, the murderer should be the last one? Could it be Ye Lingyun? The pretender is annoying, but... he can rape Murder...isn't it? Isn't he still gay? Tong Jingjing is a girl, right?"

Black Beer: "Do you know about bisexuality?"

Yizi kicked him away.

Then he leaned over worriedly: "Brother Clay, I don't doubt your reasoning, I just think...is there any other explanation?"

An Ge nodded: "I also agree with your opinion, there may be other explanations. However, at least one thing can be confirmed, that is, the order of death happened according to the distance. So the scope of our search is limited. "

He clicked on the map, the area between the villa area and Wang Baolin's house, "Behind Wang Baolin is Hu Zhong. Hu Zhong hasn't shown any signs yet, which means that someone has shown signs before him. Then one of Nangong Ergou and Shi Diudu, the family Right here."

Black Beer rushed back eagerly: "Okay! Then let's continue searching!"

Yi Zai slapped him down: "Do you use the drone to look for it against the window? Be careful not to be shot down, or the cat used to be less conspicuous."

An Ge thought he was right, "Stay with Black Beer and take care of the air support."

Black Beer's tail hair exploded immediately: "Why me! Do you really think I'm a child who needs protection?"

Yizi: "Wake up, I'm definitely going to the scene. I have the best sense of smell and can save a lot of trouble. Then we also have to leave an air support. If we don't keep you, why don't we keep Brother Clay?"

Hei Beer's eyes slipped to the only drone on the rooftop that was so worn out that the paint was worn out, and he nodded in pain: "Understood, leave it to me, I will definitely do a good job!"

An Ge: ...You are so angry, but you have to keep smiling.

After the work was divided, they first ran to Ye Ci's house, picked up and ate the remaining rations from the timed feeder, and then started to act separately.

Black Beer went to the rooftop to guard, An Ge and Yi Zai went downstairs neatly, and after identifying the direction, they went straight to the destination.

However, things went even better than they expected, and when they reached the first residential building, Yizi sniffed the air.

An Ge asked in surprise, "What? What did you smell?"

Yi Zai: "Before I said this, I actually heard someone making braised mullet... Let's make a fish to eat when we go back."

An Ge: "...can you even smell the fish you use?"

Yi Zai: "Occasionally, occasionally, after all, the earthy smell of mullet is quite prominent, even with a lot of spices, it is impossible to completely cover it up."

An Ge: "Speak the business!"

Yizai raised his head and sniffed again, flicked his tail and ran to the side of the road: "Here, here!"

Residential buildings on the side of the road have a small yard on the first floor. Some people use railings and glass to completely seal it, while others only use railings and vines that wrap around the railings.

Yi Zai led him across two houses, and got in through the gap in the railing of the third house.

An Ge followed without thinking.

The living room is directly connected to the yard, and the door between them is also open.But because even the curtains were drawn, the living room was very dark.

As soon as An Ge jumped in, he saw a female body lying in the entrance.

He was stunned: "It shouldn't be..."

This corpse violates two laws—

First of all, Tong Jingjing's targets were all men. Even if Feng Qian bought the necklace, she still cheated Zhang Xiaoming in the end.

Secondly, the time is wrong, no victim should appear tonight, if the rules change as they say, then what is the point of existence?

When he was in a daze, he didn't notice that beside the dead woman, a pale black figure was staring at the back of a man with angry eyes.

When he came back to his senses, he happened to see the man kick up and kick towards the puppet cat.

Without thinking, he flew over to try to block it, and Yizi's exclamation "Brother Clay!" and the man's roar of "Go to hell!" sounded at the same time.

An Ge felt that he was hit and sent flying by a BMW racing at full speed.

Then it hit the glass tea table hard like jumping off a building, smashing the empty glass fruit plate.

An Ge's eyes turned black from the pain, and he almost passed out on the spot.The sharp incision of the shattered glass cut through the flesh, and Jin Jian lay motionless in a pile of glass slag, with blood gradually oozing from under the fur.

In his narrow field of vision due to the pain, a surging flame suddenly rose up, like a crimson beast that had broken free from its shackles, it rushed out ferociously, engulfing the shadow of the female ghost and the man who was wielding the knife crazily into the flames nautical mile.