Chapter 72 Lamb (Part 2)
"Okay, that's a shame."
The parents sighed and started eating the meat.
My sister took two bites and decided not to eat the mutton because she found it too hard to chew.
after dinner.
Gu Yi wrote a lot of rules and reasoning on the paper, and he added a new rule: "Don't eat mutton products."
Gu Yi has gradually understood the purpose of this copy.
This is a copy that requires you to reason, judge and summarize the rules yourself. If you are not careful, the death flag will be triggered.
Information asymmetry, time lock, and space lock are the biggest difficulties in the copy.
The only things that can provide text information in the entire copy are text messages and diaries, but the content of these two texts is vague, so the adventurer needs to rely on his imagination and reasoning.
During the day, Gu Yi was busy exploring the town and had no time to think carefully.
Now that he has some free time, he can slowly reason and think.
"Mutton... What does this thing represent? Does it refer to drugs?" Gu Yi touched his chin, "No, it shouldn't be. Lambs are living things, not dead things, so... mutton refers to... people?"
"Ugh—"
Thinking of this, Gu Yi couldn't help but cover his mouth, his stomach churning.
——No wonder the death flag was triggered directly after eating the "mutton"!
Gu Yi knew a friend who studied forensic medicine. He told him that human flesh would have a sweet and fishy smell when cooked, and its taste was similar to that of mutton.
In ancient times of war and famine, people were also called two-legged sheep.
If you treat sheep as living people, then everything you encounter during the day will be easier to understand.
Sheep dealers are human traffickers.
When the couple who bought the lamb saw it running away, they mobilized all the neighbors to chase it because it was a living person that they had bought with their own money.
After the lamb leaves the town, he will be torn to pieces by the void storm because he is unfamiliar with the place and cannot leave the mountains alone.
Buying and selling human beings is illegal and all the town's residents have participated in it, either as buyers or sellers.
As long as one family's "sheep" escapes, everyone will help catch the "sheep".
——They are simply committing evil collectively!
Letting the "sheep" run away was seen by other residents as a betrayal of the entire town, so he was beaten to death by everyone.
The mutton cooked by parents may not be real human flesh. The metaphor is: parents use the money earned from human trafficking to support themselves, so they are like "eating human flesh."
When he reasoned to this point, Gu Yi's inner anger had reached its peak.
In Gu Yi's opinion, the greatest evil in this copy is not the unspeakable evil , but the residents who collude with each other and traffic in human beings.
“Forget it, let’s go to sleep and see what kind of diary will be unlocked tomorrow.”
Gu Yi put away the paper and pen and lay down on the bed to sleep.
…
The next morning.
Gu Yi first opened his mobile phone to check the new text messages from the anonymous user.
[May 14, 2021, sunny]
[I had a lot of frostbite on my body, and my mother applied rat oil on my wounds. She said this strange thing could cure frostbite.]
[I had a fever, and it wasn't until the evening that my temperature dropped slightly.]
[I don’t want to write anymore. I’m so tired.]
"What is rat oil? Oil made from rat fat? So disgusting..."
In yesterday’s diary, my sister was tortured by my mother. The next day, she not only got frostbite but also had a fever and a cold.
However, not only did the mother not send my sister to the hospital, she also used a strange medicine called "rat oil" to treat her illness, and my sister's life began to become dire straits.
Gu Yi felt that something was wrong with the anonymous user.
Before, Gu Yi felt that the anonymous user was against him and wanted to trigger the death flag for him, but now Gu Yi felt that this was the anonymous user asking for help.
"See if there are any new clues in my diary."
[May 14, 2021, sunny]
【Last night, I dreamed of my sister again. I saw that she was suffering from torture. I still can't let it go. I always feel that it was my mistake that caused my sister to lose her life.】
[My parents left home early in the morning, saying they had something urgent to do. I asked them what they were going to do, but they kept silent.]
[Today when I was at school, I found that my classmates and teachers had become very strange. Their eyes gradually lost their luster. Chen Dong stared with dead eyes every day, and I don’t know what he was thinking. ]
[During physical education class, I heard the sound of whips and whistles coming from next door.]
【Did someone invite a clown to perform again? 】
Starting from May 14, "I" realized the illusion of the other world.
And there will be a clown passing by the school on this day.
Obviously, the clown in this copy plays a similar role to the pig-headed store manager in the previous copy.
This is a rare opportunity. I must find a way to avoid going to school, otherwise the flow of time today will accelerate again.
"What should I do? Can I fool my parents using that method?"
Gu Yi tapped the table lightly and closed his eyes.
(Deduction begins!)
(You slap yourself in the mirror until your cheeks turn red.)
(You took out the thermometer and baked it over the light bulb for a while until the temperature reached 38 degrees.)
(You lie in bed and pretend to be dead.)
(Mother knocks on the door.)
(You: “Mom, I have a fever.”)
(Mother opens the door and looks at you with a worried look on her face.)
(Mother: "You have a fever? How high?")
(You hand the thermometer to your mother.)
(Mother: "How about I take you to the hospital?")
(You: “No, I still have to go to school.”)
(Mother: “How can this be? I will ask the teacher for leave and take you to the hospital.”)
(You: "I'll be fine after resting at home for a while. I don't want to go to the hospital.")
(Mother: “This…”)
(Father walks to the door and urges Mother.)
(Father: “We agreed not to be late, why are you dawdling?”)
(Mother: “My son is sick.”)
(Father: "We have some antipyretic medicine at home, take it. Your mother and I are leaving first.")
(Mother didn’t say anything. She covered you with the quilt and left. Sister stood by the door, wanting to say something but stopping herself.)
(You are lying in bed and hear the sound of a car starting.)
(You terminated the game!)
Gu Yi opened his eyes and lay on the bed.
He used to heat the thermometer with a light bulb when he was a child, but it never worked because his parents would take him to the hospital first when they found he had a fever, even if it was an emergency.
But looking at the parents in the copy...
Gu Yi shook his head, found the thermometer in the drawer, and did the same thing.
After a while, my mother came to the bedroom as I had predicted.
"Son, what's wrong with you?"
Gu Yi lowered his head and looked at his mother, feeling that the concerned look in her eyes had become hypocritical.
Gu Yi suddenly remembered his grandmother's words before she left.
What she might want to say is - Gu Jianjun is not your father!
