Chapter 064 Horror Mashup (19)
[I was so surprised that there was a basement! ]
[I'm so confused as to how he came up with this! ]
[Smash the glass or not, smash the glass, I seem to understand and I seem not to understand. 】
[Never mind, just follow Boss Chi and everything will be fine. ]
[This movie is too scary. ]
[I think I understand now. This film is about the opposite rules, eternal contradictions and harmful mindsets.]
[The clue is that being too clever may lead to mistakes. The problem is that if you are not clever, you will not be able to realize whether you are “clever” or “self-righteous”. To put it bluntly, you still have to be clever. I am dizzy.]
[No nesting dolls allowed! ]
[This should be the most critical link, right? ]
…
"Xiao Chi, I'm going down." Xie Xinglan said.
"good."
Xie Xinglan wrapped his hands with clothes, grasped the edge of the frosted glass that was sharp and could cut his hands, lowered his body, aimed his gaze at the landing point, and with a light jump landed on a leather-covered, dusty wooden table.
The basement was extremely dark, the temperature was extremely low, and the smell was damp and fishy. Xie Xinglan waited for his eyes to adjust to the darkness, then he felt his way to the wall, fumbled around for a while, and found the old-fashioned light switch. He gently pulled it down, and a dim light came on in the basement.
The basement was full of junk, dirty and messy. Xie Xinglan saw at a glance that both sides of the basement were lined with dead bodies. The dead bodies were leaning against the walls, most of their heads tilted limply, their eyes staring straight, dark and empty, like a whirlpool of death.
They had been dead for a long time, but because of the low temperature in the basement, they did not rot. They were lined up neatly, which was extremely creepy.
They should be the source of the strong smell of blood.
Xie Xinglan did not go over, but looked at a coffin parked in the middle of the basement.
This coffin was different from others. It was neither black nor red, but transparent. Xie Xinglan could clearly see that there was a person lying in the coffin.
"Crystal coffin?" Xie Xinglan frowned.
"Let's go and take a look." Xie Chi said.
Xie Xinglan avoided the debris under his feet, walked to the coffin, and touched the wall of the coffin: "Glass."
Although it is a sealed glass coffin, it achieves the same effect as a crystal coffin. The human body in the crystal coffin is well preserved without any signs of decay.
Xie Xinglan went to see the corpse's face, and Xie Chi, who was watching with him, was suddenly frightened.
He was a faceless man, his facial contours were deformed and distorted, his skin and flesh were glued together, his upper and lower eyelids grew together without even a gap, his nose was sunken, with only two small holes at the very bottom, his mouth was crooked to the side, and his lower jaw was protruding, like a balcony outside the plane.
Just looking at this face is enough to make one's hair stand on end and send chills down one's spine.
Xie Chi dug up information from his memory and said, "He should be a patient with facelessness."
Aface syndrome is a congenital disease caused by chromosomal mutation. These people have congenital facial deformities, often have problems with their mandibles, and their facial features are blurred. In severe cases, they may not even have eyes or noses.
Xie Xinglan thought thoughtfully: "Is he the corpse of the strong ghost?"
Xie Chi remained silent, seemingly lost in thought.
Xie Xinglan accidentally glanced and saw an old diary placed on the wooden table beside him.
He walked over and was about to pick up the diary when he scanned the table carefully, his eyes slightly gloomy.
There was a clear map of the maze on the table, and a few pieces of paper were nailed to the wall in front of him. The papers contained precise data on the length, width, and height of the maze, detailed information on the game of hide-and-seek and summoning spirits, and an experimental report on whether foggy glass could be broken by scissors...
It seems that the glass maze was deliberately built by the Faceless Man, and this dangerous hide-and-seek game was also planned by the Faceless Man and was preset.
Xie Xinglan looked at the diary in his hand.
The cover of the diary was hard, thick and brown. In the center of the cover was a painting of a short man without a head. A thumb Xie Xinglan was holding the diary, and the mirror just happened to reflect Xie Xinglan's face. At first glance, it seemed as if Xie Xinglan's head grew on the painting, merging into a whole with the short body of the man in the painting.
The implication is quite strong.
Xie Xinglan opened the diary.
The diary contained parchment that felt rough to the touch and was filled with words in extremely ugly handwriting, exactly the same as the handwriting on the note they had obtained.
Therefore, the clue "glass" was also intentionally provided by the Faceless Man. Every step of the puzzle was preset by the Faceless Man, and everything that is happening now is within his expectations.
Xie Xinglan could feel the faceless man's pride, the sense of being in control and toying with him, and the feeling of being superior.
Xie Xinglan glanced at the date on the diary and discovered that this diary actually recorded the Faceless Man's thoughts and feelings for more than ten years.
The innocent words and loss at the beginning:
"Oh, it turns out that I didn't come out of a crack in the stone. They abandoned me. I would rather I came out of a crack in the stone."
"I want to have a mom and dad, too."
"I really want to talk to them. Even though I can't see them, I know they hate me."
Later resentment and curse:
"The kids in the orphanage all bullied me. I wanted them to die. They all had no mothers, so why did they bully me? I didn't want to grow up like this."
"Why did you give birth to me, and then you don't want me? Why, why? Mom and Dad...? Sooner or later I will kill you! This is the price you pay for letting me suffer alone in this world!"
"Why don't I die? Haha, I won't die. You all haven't died yet, so how can I die? Just wait for me!!!"
The joy of successful revenge:
"Today I tricked that idiot into coming here and killed him. It turns out killing people feels so good. 'Dad' is such a beautiful word. You don't deserve it."
"So mom was pregnant, but she only cared about giving birth and not raising him. He deserved to die. I know that the probability of inheriting facelessness is very high. I really want to know if he also has facelessness, would you abandon him like you abandoned me? It's a pity, there is no chance. I also don't want my younger brothers and sisters to suffer the same pain as me. It would have been better to just do a cesarean section..."
There is a picture in the diary, in which a faceless man digs a child out of a terrified woman's belly.
Xie Xinglan looked up at the neatly lined-up corpses, and he seemed to know the identities of these corpses.
They are all targets of the Faceless Man's revenge.
Xie Xinglan continued to read on:
"Today I watched The Hunchback of Notre Dame. In it there is an ugly bell ringer named Quasimodo who has a crush on a beautiful and kind gypsy girl named Essenmeralda. Quasimodo is willing to give everything for her. So am I. Unfortunately, you only have a pretty face but a heart as poisonous as a snake and scorpion. So Quasimodo can only kill you reluctantly, so that you and I can be together forever..."
"People always exclude those who are different from them, probably because they want to show their superiority and find their sense of belonging. They are so ignorant and ridiculous. I pity them, but I am unwilling to forgive them. There is really no challenge at all. Killing people is so boring. I am almost done with revenge. What should I do next?"
"All the scum are dead. The basement is such a masterpiece. There are not a few dead bodies, not a few."
"People are born lonely. Being different is even more lonely. Being different and a genius is probably the ultimate loneliness..."
"I've been thinking recently, can I make a face for myself..."
…
"I found a way to have a face! It turns out that all I need is—"
At this point, a page was suddenly missing from the diary, as if it had been torn off by someone.
Xie Xinglan was stunned for a moment, put his doubts aside for the time being, and continued reading.
"In the future, I can have a face. I can have any kind of face, beautiful or ugly, male or female, as long as I want."
…
“I want to create a game.”
"Ah, the game I created is so fascinating. I finally finished it, it's perfect. Life is so boring. After I die, I will also play games with people. Human despair is such a delicious seasoning, invincible power, infinite world, infinite immortality, endless games..."
"Humanity's self-righteousness, self-righteousness, and self-proclaimed sense of superiority will eventually harm them. I will make them understand this truth in the moment of despair."
"The opposite rules, the fixed mindset, being too clever may lead to mistakes, hahahahahaha..."
"The world is cruel and indifferent, so of course I must respond with the greatest malice and ridicule."
"I will be watching all this happen from the shadows in another world."
"I have gained eternal life, and you will forever be as lowly as ants."
The diary ends here.
This game was created by the Faceless Man in order to take revenge on the world and play tricks on humans.
In the end, the Faceless Man had already separated himself from the human race.
Xie Xinglan turned to the last page and his pupils shrank.
The last page reads:
"You surprise me. You have come this far. You must be one of the smartest people in the world. I admire you. You will be my most satisfied slave."
"Are you running out of time? Get the 'glass' clue within an hour. Oh, after an hour, you will become my new weak ghost. Do you like it?"
"Are you clueless? Are you feeling hopeless?"
"So what if you're here? Can you... kill me? Even if I tell you clearly that there is a way to kill me, what can I do? Can you find it?"
"The smarter a person is, the more unwilling they are to accept this."
"Everyone thinks they are smart, but I am the only one who is truly smart. Just accept your fate."
The faceless man's words were full of mockery.
Xie Xinglan narrowed his eyes and clenched the edge of the diary.
[This person is so disgusting! ]
[It’s so scary. The newspaper is too scary, especially the high-IQ newspaper. He set up this situation all by himself. He was even so crazy that he said there was a way to kill him…]
[Do you think Chi Zai is smarter or the faceless man is smarter? ]
[If Boss Chi goes out, it must be because Boss Chi is smart. ]
[I'm so nervous, I have no idea what to do.]
Xie Xinglan looked down at his cell phone. There were still forty minutes left. After forty minutes, he would be controlled by the powerful ghost in the mirror that the faceless man had transformed into.
Xie Xinglan walked to the coffin, opened it, and checked everything inside, but found nothing.
The coffin lid was open, and he wandered around the basement looking for clues.
Xie Chi was silent for a long time, and suddenly said: "Brother, if you were in the faceless man's shoes and someone really walked here, would you be panicked, but deliberately leave that text to make the intruder confused?"
Xie Xinglan suddenly realized: "I know, it is 'too clever to be smart', no one can escape this saying, we are like this, and so is the faceless man. The contradiction is like this, the opposite rule is like this - the more deliberately you hide, the easier it is to be exposed, the more ostentatious you are, the more guilty you feel."
Xie Chi laughed: "Yes, brother, there is a page missing from the diary. He wanted to hide something to make himself invincible, but it just exposed the most crucial clue."
Xie Xinglan suddenly had an idea and immediately returned to his desk, opened his diary and found the missing page.
The first part of the article says "He found a way to get a face", and the second part is full of smugness and intoxication. The torn page is...
——is how he became the Mirror Ghost.
Xie Chi said calmly, "From the text, it can be seen that the faceless man is particularly arrogant and calls himself a genius. He said 'the loneliness of a genius'. He thinks his wisdom exceeds that of humans, and even unilaterally separates himself from the human race. He recorded the entire process of revenge in his diary, which is extremely detailed. We can even see the detailed process of his killing. There are even pictures in the diary. So he would definitely record such a glorious deed as 'how he turned himself into a mirror ghost' in his diary, but after he finished setting up the game, he tore up the page."
Xie Chi laughed: "Because he doesn't want us to see it, it will expose our method of killing him."
Xie Chi paused and said, "In fact, even if he didn't tear off that page and there wasn't this tiny flaw, I think I know how we can kill him completely."
Xie Xinglan looked at the wide open glass coffin, his lips slightly raised, he understood what Xie Chi meant.
Xie Chi smiled and said, "Outside the mirror, the strong ghosts are strong, and the weak ghosts are weak. The opposite rule applies. Inside the mirror... of course the weak ghosts are strong, and the strong ghosts are weak."
"The laws of everything in this world are fair. There is no absolute power. Everything is conserved. This is an eternal truth, and it is also the rule that this game has been hinting at from the beginning to the end."
"When possessing ultimate power, there is bound to be a fatal flaw. This is the Achilles' heel. Invincibility is relative. Everything has its reverse side."
"The Faceless Man is invincible to us in the real world, but in that world he is bound to be weak and humble like an ant. This is the price he needs to pay to gain the power to dominate the real world."
"So as weak ghosts, once we enter the mirror world, our identities will completely change, from weak to strong, with invincible power, and we can easily wipe him out."
“And the method is actually right in front of us.”
