Volume 3: Death in Progress Chapter 060 The biggest trap in the mission
Li Xia told Chen Ping exactly what she had experienced in the past few days. In Li Xia's opinion, only the police could save her now. After all, it was difficult for a materialistic person like her to put her hopes on those cheating Taoist priests to squander.
After Li Xia finished speaking, Chen Ping had a rough guess in his mind, but for him now, he no longer believed that his guess was necessarily correct, because anything could be a trap set for this mission.
"It's already 3 o'clock, and we've been five minutes into Li Xia's death time, but the ghost hasn't taken action yet, which means the ghost hasn't had a chance to kill. So there's a high chance that opening the box will be the ghost's chance to kill. But this is too direct. It looks like Li Xia and the others won't open the box at all, and I also don't want to open the box. Is the real answer that the mission is the opposite of opening the box?"
Chen Ping glanced at Li Xia’s husband Tian Erxi. He felt that if the box was not an opportunity, then Tian Erxi was a ghost. What was the way to open the box without letting Tian Erxi kill people?
Chen Ping thought for a moment, then whispered to Zhao Liang, "Listen carefully. Take Li Xia out now. The farther you run, the better. I will open the box later. This is your only chance to survive. You should think carefully about what is more important!"
After hearing this, although Zhao Liang wanted to refuse, he finally gritted his teeth and nodded.
Seeing Zhao Liang nod, Chen Ping said to Li Xia and the others, "Miss Li, Officer Zhao will take you to make a statement now, and Ms. Tian will stay here. I have something to ask her. Don't worry, Officer Zhao will protect you. You will be safe."
Li Xia thought about it and nodded in agreement, then followed Zhao Liang out. At this moment, only Chen Ping and Tian Erxi were left in the room. For a moment, neither of them spoke, and time passed second by second. Chen Ping glanced at his watch. There were still 5 seconds left before Li Xia's death, but Tian Erxi still did not make any move in the room.
Chen Ping wanted to open the box, but after thinking about it, he decided not to because Tian Erxi did not show any abnormality. Finally, 3:05 passed. Chen Ping breathed a sigh of relief and said to Tian Erxi, "Mr. Tian, I have something else to do, so I will go back to the police station first. I will be sent back after your wife finishes the statement."
Tian Erxi was stunned by Chen Ping, but he still nodded in astonishment. After Chen Ping walked out of Li Xia's house, Zhao Liang called: "Chen, Senior Chen, Li Xia, Li Xia is dead!!!"
After hearing this answer, Chen Ping was shocked, but not too shocked. He asked in confusion: "How did Li Xia die?"
"I don't know either. I was walking and suddenly my head disappeared!"
Shortly after Chen Ping left, Tian Erxi opened the two boxes. One of the boxes contained Tian Erxi's head, while the other was empty. After a long time, Tian Erxi walked out. When he came back, he was holding Li Xia's head in his hand. Then Tian Erxi casually put Li Xia's head into the other box.
As for what motivated the ghost to kill Li Xia, Chen Ping did not figure it out . He also did not figure out how Chen Erxi killed Li Xia. Li Xia's death was very strange!
As Chen Ping was walking, Zhao Liang caught up with him from behind with a look of horror on his face. It was obvious that Li Xia's death had frightened him to death. After the two got in the car, Chen Ping did not return to the hospital immediately, but turned around and went to the home of the other deceased.
He also planned to follow Zhang Fengyu's example and kill the deceased in advance. However, Zhang Fengyu, who had already arrived at Shanxu's door, had a new time of death in his mind, and this time of death was Shanxu's: "Shanxu died between 3:06 and 3:16!"
After this death time, a new death time appeared: "Tian Hongtao died between 3:10 and 3:15!"
After two consecutive death events occurred, Chen Ping stopped the car and called Zhang Fengyu.
"Is Shanxu's residence far from yours?"
"I'm outside Shanxu's house now. I originally planned to kill him in advance. What about you? Are you far from Tian Hongtao's residence?"
"I was planning to go to Tian Hongtao's house in advance and kill him!"
After hearing Chen Ping's words, Zhang Fengyu groaned and said, "I have a guess in my mind now. I think you should have one. I will verify it now!"
"Okay!" Chen Ping agreed and hung up the phone. He took Zhao Liang and drove to Tian Hongtao's home.
After hanging up the phone with Chen Ping, Zhang Fengyu turned around and left Shanxu's residence, and took a taxi with Cheng En to the residence of another deceased, Zhao Jingyao. However, just as their car was about to arrive at Zhao Jingyao's house, a new time of death appeared in his mind again.
"Zhao Jingyao died between 3:22 and 3:30!"
New times of death appeared three times in a row, and they were all the victims that Zhang Fengyu and Chen Ping planned to kill in advance. Even a newcomer like Cheng En could see it very clearly.
"Feng Yu, does it mean that as long as we go to the deceased's home in advance, the time of death of the deceased will be announced?" Cheng En was obviously very surprised by this.
Zhang Fengyu agreed and replied, "Yes, the reason why I suddenly left Shanxu's house and went to Zhao Jingyao's house was to test this speculation. Now it seems that just as I speculated, the mission will not give us the opportunity to kill the deceased in advance! Whether it is the announcement of the deceased's death time or the interference of ghosts, killing the deceased in advance now seems to be impossible!"
"Not only is it impossible to do so, this is a trap, taking advantage of our desire to find loopholes to trick us into taking action against the deceased in advance."
Cheng En didn't understand what Zhang Fengyu said for a while, but after thinking about it for a while, he suddenly figured it out. He said in horror: "Could it be that the mission is using this to trick us into triggering the time of death of the deceased as soon as possible?"
"That's right! The purpose of the mission is to make the death time of these ten people appear as soon as possible. The sooner these ten people die, the more dangerous it will be for us to face the ghosts' pursuit in the end, because the ghosts have too much time to pursue us! I wanted to take advantage of the new death time to attack Shan Xu in advance, but when I arrived at Shan Xu's house, I had already entered Shan Xu's death time. When Chen Ping wanted to go to Tian Hongtao's house, which was closest to Li Xia's house, to attack Tian Hongtao, Tian Hongtao's death time was announced, and when Chen Ping arrived, he must have entered Tian Hongtao's death time. Now we are suddenly going to Zhao Jingyao's house, and we are still facing the same situation!"
"This is the real trap of the mission!"
Cheng En also figured it all out after listening to Zhang Fengyu's explanation. He asked with a gloomy face, "Fengyu, what should we do? The death times of seven people have already been announced. Even if we don't touch the three people, their death times will definitely not be announced too late."
Zhang Fengyu sighed and said, "There is no other way except to try to change the time of their death! Let's go back to Shanxu now."
Zhang Fengyu already had a very good understanding of this mission. Although this mission produced a death list of ten people and asked them to find a way to change the death time of these ten people, after his discussion with Chen Ping, he already knew that the mission had given them an ending from the beginning, which was that they could not change the death time of those ten people, and would eventually face the pursuit of ghosts without all restrictions. The real trap was the one that Zhang Fengyu had just discussed, because the faster the ten people died, the longer the time left for the ghosts to chase them, and the more dangerous they would be. This was the biggest trap in this mission!
