Chapter 104
After asking, Lin Yi regretted it. He’d been too anxious.
He quickly lowered his head again. He could only see the tips of Qin Zhou’s shoe with his downcast eyes. He suddenly felt that he now appeared too guilty.
Lin Yi was momentarily at a loss. He wanted to quickly get clues about his mother but he was also worried that Qin Zhou would notice something off. He didn’t know what to do.
Just like when his parents suddenly lost their heartbeat and couldn’t eat, he wanted to take his parents to see a doctor but was afraid that the doctor would judge them as dead.
This feeling of looking forward and backward for fear of taking a wrong step was the worst.
He felt a slight weight on top of his head, interrupting his chaotic thoughts.
Lin Yi raised his eyes. Qin Zhou had put his hand on his head, ruffling his hair. Immediately afterwards, the panic in his heart sank to the bottom as though being pushed down by Qin Zhou’s hand.
“Who did Senior say is the 170 Shunxi?”
Lin Yi quickly adjusted his mood, “I seem to have misheard the name.”
Qin Zhou felt Lin Yi’s anxiety, so he chose not to ask Lin Yi whose name he’d heard instead.
“Yuan Yuan.” Qin Zhou repeated.
Repeating his answer, Qin Zhou’s eyes wandered over. “You don’t know her, do you?”
Lin Yi heard himself whispering an ‘en’.
Afterwards, he felt that his ‘en’ had sounded too soft, making him seem guilty. So Lin Yi said louder, “I don’t know her.”
He schooled his face into an ‘I misheard’ expression. “Why makes Senior think that Yuan Yuan is the 170 Shunxi?”
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Qin Zhou told Lin Yi his deduction and Lin Yi listened carefully.
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But there was one thing.
Before Lin Yi could say anything, Qin Zhou beat him to it, saying, “According to the Student Union’s records, Yuan Yuan was once a Student Union vice-president.”
Lin Yi nodded.
In fact, he already knew and could guess what Qin Zhou was about to say.
Sure enough.
“You should be well aware of the responsibilities of a Student Union member.” Qin Zhou said, “But the 170 Shunxi seems to be helping the 4-4 Monster.”
There was a contradiction here.
Just having outstanding abilities isn’t enough to get you promoted to being a vice-president of the Student Union. Ability is only one qualification. To become a vice president, you need to secure other people’s votes; that is, everyone’s approval. Key positions in the Student Union are determined in this way.
For Yuan Yuan to have been voted vice-president of the Student Union, most of the members must have recognized her ability. The Unnatural Engineering University is different. If Yuan Yuan hadn’t taken the responsibility of being a Student Union member to heart, she would never have been able to get everyone’s approval.
In their many time rewind experiences, the 170 Shunxi appeared to lead the participants to violate the Rules of Death.
It was like a good person doing evil.
Herein lay the contradiction.
Qin Zhou made two hypotheses to explain this contradiction. He shared these with Lin Yi, “First, something happened to Yuan Yuan when she entered the 4-4 Rule World that caused her blacken.”
This was very possible; just like how Xu Xiazhi stole the wardrobe from Lin Yi’s room in the 7-7 Rule World in order to survive and also to prevent the Rules of Death from increasing.
It was also possible that Yuan Yuan encountered a similar incident of being stabbed in the back by her companions, causing Yuan Yuan’s beliefs to change.
Lin Yi: “En.”
Qin Zhou continued, “Second, Yuan Yuan may also have turned into a Monster. Although Monsters are bred from evil, it is hard to guarantee that one won’t be stained black from being near ink. She has been in the 4-4 Rule World for so long. It is uncertain whether she has been assimilated or polluted by the Monster.”
Lin Yi’s heart tightened. “Can participants be assimilated by Monsters?”
He hadn’t heard of this before.
Qin Zhou said, “I don’t know.”
Lin Yi nodded slowly, he understood what Qin Zhou meant.
Yuan Yuan’s case was very special. The Unnatural Engineering University has existed for so long, and according to the records of the Student Union, only Yuan Yuan’s body had disappeared.
Since it was possible for her to have been in the 4-4 Rule World while she disappeared from the Unnatural Engineering University, it was also possible she may have been turned into a Monster after staying in the 4-4 Rule World for such a long time.
After all, they didn’t have any evidence to prove that people wouldn’t be turned into Monsters after staying in a Rule World for too long. Since there was no such evidence, Qin Zhou could put forth his hypothesis that ‘Yuan Yuan has turned into a Monster’.
“Little genius.”
It took five seconds for Lin Yi to digest what he said. After five seconds Qin Zhou asked, “What do you think?”
Lin Yi scratched his nose, “Senior, there is another possibility.”
“En.” Qin Zhou: “Let’s hear it.”
Lin Yi tentatively said, “On the surface, the 170 Shunxi does seem to be leading the participants to violate the Rules of Death. But is it possible that she does so unwillingly? For example, she can’t control her body or she’s being threatened by the 4-4 Monster?”
Qin Zhou looked at him.
Lin Yi didn’t dare to look at Qin Zhou. He turned his head away. In his field of vision, this young man named Cen Qian, who looked exactly like him when he was young, stopped destroying the armrest of the sofa at some point. The knife had been haphazardly thrown onto the coffee table. Cen Qian was no longer in the living room.
Lin Yi looked into farther in again. The door was tightly shut; light leaked from under the door. It seemed that this Cen Qian had already returned to his room.
Lin Yi opened his mouth, but he was staring at the closed door and wouldn’t look at Qin Zhou. “Senior, we didn’t really see the moment when the 170 Shunxi led the participants to violate the Rules of Death. Is it possible that the 170 Shunxi, for some reason she can’t help, seemed to be leading the participants to violate the Rules of Death but was actually helping us?”
In Lin Yi’s opinion, his mother was a very gentle person.
His assumption was actually far-fetched but he didn’t want to agree with either of Qin Zhou’s hypothesis.
Lin Yi also used a few points to serve as basis for his hypothesis. “If the 170 Shunxi’s purpose for appearing in the time rewinds is to guide the participants to violate the Rules of Death, why does it only appear in the cat and press release time rewinds? Why didn’t she appear in the other time rewinds? Also, if no one dies tonight, there’ll be a fourth Rule of Death tomorrow.”
The appearance of four Rule of Death meant that there had been no deaths for at least three nights. Something that should be unlikely were it true that the 170 Shunxi was leading the participants to violate the Rules of Death.
At this point, Lin Yi turned his head and looked at Qin Zhou again. “Since Yuan Yuan is a vice president of the Student Union, she must have remarkable ability. Ou Ying Xue Jie is very capable. She realized what was up when she went to the 2-6 Monster for a Replay. And Yuan Yuan has been missing for ten years. If she really is the 170 Shunxi, she should know everything about the 4-4 Rule World after staying here for so long. There is no reason why we should have been able to spend three night safely.”
After he finishing speaking, Lin Yi found that Qin Zhou had been looking at him the entire time. He hurriedly said, “Senior, I’m just analyzing from another angle. I’m not trying to be contrary.”
Although his analysis had all been to excuse Yuan Yuan.
“I know.” Qin Zhou nodded slightly, and said, “Then, there’s only one thing to do.”
Lin Yi asked, “What?”
Qin Zhou said, “Take a look again in a time rewind.”
The main plot of the 4-4 Rule World had already been narrated by the 4-4 Monster itself. This time their target in the time rewind would be Yuan Yuan.
Lin Yi’s mood suddenly became uneasy.
He had a vague, bad premonition.
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