Chapter 164
“Have you found the main plot?” Qin Zhou suddenly changed the subject and asked.
Lin Yi quickly put away his emotions and nodded. “Yes.”
He told Qin Zhou the main plot he had found. Probably because he wanted to talk to Qin Zhou more, although he knew Qin Zhou’s next move, he still asked, “Senior, what should we do now?”
Qin Zhou wasn’t lying when he said he was scared. He didn’t even notice Lin Yi’s little scheme. He took a deep breath and said, “We’re going to find it.”
Lin Yi asked again, “Senior, have you figured out how to find it?”
In fact, this was also superfluous. Qin Zhou just told the participants that there was a Monster among them, so he must already have an idea.
Qin Zhou gave an ‘en’.
Lin Yi thought for a while and asked, “What is it?”
Qin Zhou said, “There are books on the bookshelf.”
Lin Yi understood but he still asked, wanting to use this clumsy method to whitewash peace. “Senior, what about the books?”
The corner of Qin Zhou’s mouth twitched. He stretched out his hand to clasp the back of Lin Yi’s neck, leading him towards him. He noticed Lin Yi’s emotions and comforted him softly, “Don’t be afraid.”
The two of them were talking on the balcony. The participants in the living room were afraid and they cast their eyes on them from time to time but they didn’t dare to look more. They could only wait in agony for Lin Yi and Qin Zhou to finish their muffled discussion.
After an unknown length of time, the sliding door of the balcony was pushed open and everyone’s eyes immediately turned to them.
In fact, they had many things to ask Qin Zhou such as about the Monster hiding among them. But anyone with normal intelligence already understood the meaning of Qin Zhou’s words. They themselves were unclear on what they wanted to ask.
Qin Zhou walked to the overturned bookshelf and picked up a book.
Lin Yi saw the book Qin Zhou picked up, the masterpiece “One Hundred Years of Solitude”.
Qin Zhou flipped through it and reached page 152. Lin Yi went to find a pen and gave it to Qin Zhou.
Qin Zhou took off the cap of the pen and circled the first sentence of the first paragraph of page 152.
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After he finished marking it, Qin Zhou handed the book to Hua Hua who was closest to him and said, “Read the circled part once and repeat it to me after reading.”
Hua Hua didn’t understand. “What?”
“Do exactly as I said.” Qin Zhou walked to the balcony and closed the sliding door again.
Not only Hua Hua, everyone else was also confused. Although they didn’t know what else they wanted to find out from Qin Zhou, this — reading and reciting — definitely wasn’t what they were expecting.
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Lin Yi glanced at Qin Zhou’s back on the balcony and explained to everyone in a good-tempered manner, “We are looking for the Monster.”
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Lin Yi gently reminded, “Try to read silently.”
“Okay.” After Hua Hua read it once, Lin Yi took the book away without giving Hua Hua a chance to read it a second time.
Hua Hua opened her mouth to say something but Lin Yi said, “After reading the book, try not to talk.”
Hua Hua: “…”
Hua Hua had no choice. She opened the balcony sliding door, stepped through and then closed it behind her.
Qin Zhou said, “It’s time to start.”
Hua Hua tried to recall what she’d just read, “During nearly twenty years of military career…”
“That’s enough.” Qin Zhou said.
Hua Hua withdrew and the second one, Ah Shan came to the balcony and repeated to Qin Zhou, “During his nearly twenty years of battlefield career, Aureliano… Noah, oh no, Aureliano Bu… Bu… …”
“Okay.” Qin Zhou said.
One by one, the remaining participants came to Qin Zhou to recite the story.
“During his nearly twenty years of battlefield service, Orire? Oria…”
“Enough.”
“In a career of nearly twenty years on the battlefield, Aureliano Buyardi…”
“Enough.”
“’During his nearly twenty years of military service, Colonel Aureliano Buendía returned home many times but because it was always in a state of emergency, he was always accompanied by military attachés and surrounded by an aura of legend, um…I don’t remember the rest.”
“OK.”
Qin Zhou raised his head and glanced at this person.
The twenty-two other participants quickly completed their recitation and then waited in the living room for Qin Zhou to announce the answer.
Qin Zhou walked into the living room from the balcony and walked straight to Xixi, “I wish to do a Replay.”
Xixi’s face froze and then her expression turned ugly. “Wha…what?”
Seeing that something was wrong, everyone immediately stayed away from Xixi.
Xixi said with a strained expression, “You don’t think I’m the Monster, do you? Are you kidding me?”
Everyone stared at Xixi and then at Qin Zhou.
They couldn’t tell anything from Xixi’s expression. Although Xixi’s expression looked a bit ferocious at the moment, they felt it was reasonable.
They could only turn to Qin Zhou and wait for him to explain why he decided that Xixi was the Monster.
Lin Yi didn’t know how the recitations of the twenty-two participants went, so he followed everyone and looked at Qin Zhou as well.
Qin Zhou said, “Normal people wouldn’t be able to remember an entire paragraph of text in a short period of time. At most, they could only note down the general gist. It is difficult to repeat the original text word for word.”
Xixi defended, “I didn’t remember the entire paragraph! I didn’t remember the entire latter half. Don’t go throwing dirty water on me!”
“You didn’t remember.” Qin Zhou didn’t intend to spend any more time with her. They have been in this newly established Rule World for too long already and any further delay would only be detrimental to them.
“Chinese people have trouble with foreign names. The possibility of remembering the full name after reading it only once is very small. But you remembered it. Since you can remember it, saying that you don’t remember the second half is a lie. Your level is not low. You saw the people who went before you come out quickly, and you guessed based on the time that they hadn’t recited the entire paragraph. You imitated them and only recited half of the content. But you’re just a Monster after all and you don’t know what normal behavior would be for normal people.”
Perhaps because of Lin Yi’s confession, Qin Zhou vented his anger on Xixi and sneered unabashedly. “Monsters can only be Monsters.”
After everyone listened to Qin Zhou’s words, they all thought back to what they had recited to Qin Zhou.
What Qin Zhou said was true. They really couldn’t recite this passage word for word. They made mistakes in many unexpected places.
‘During his nearly twenty years of battlefield career’ was the simplest sentence in the entire paragraph, but they all made mistakes.
For example, referring to ‘military service’ as ‘battlefield career’.
Say ‘in’ instead of ‘during’.
Their usual speaking habits would directly affect the retelling. But speaking habits are just habits; they’re not memories. Monsters cannot spy on habits and they cannot use human memory to survive this identity test.
“You still won’t admit it?” Qin Zhou looked at Xixi coldly. “When the 0-1 Monster tamed you, didn’t it tell you the rules of the Replay?”
The words ‘0-1 Monster’ stimulated Xixi. She sank deep into the sofa and looked at Qin Zhou with a gloomy look.
Lin Yi took a few steps closer to Qin Zhou. Qin Zhou was too aggressive and he was afraid that the 17-1 Monster would be provoked and suddenly turn violent.
From their past experiences in Rule Worlds, Monsters can kill participants before the Replay proper.
After approaching Qin Zhou, Lin Yi stopped.
Xixi made no move to get closer. She seemed to be shocked by Qin Zhou’s words.
This was indeed the case. The 17-1 Monster had experienced two defeats in a short period of time.
Qin Zhou said, “Your name is Tang Fei. You have an older sister. You two have a very controlling mother…”
He still believed in Lin Yi. He had no doubts about the main plot that Lin Yi told him.
After the Replay finished, the knocking on the door stopped and the living room became quiet.
Qin Zhou stared at Xixi with a dark look on his face and said, “What you are doing now is no different from the constant surveillance your mother and the scumbags at Xiushen Academy did. Oh, by the way, do you know who’s most disappointed that you’ve become like this?”
This sentence made Xixi raise her head suddenly.
Qin Zhou said as if in retaliation, “Your sister.”
Xixi trembled all over. She glared at Qin Zhou, who remained completely uncowed. He said cruelly, “Knowing that her brother turned into a Monster that attack innocent people. Your sister must definitely regret protecting you. Or maybe she’ll be ashamed of you?”
Qin Zhou was different from how he was during previous Replays. He had too many personal emotions mixed in.
“Senior…,” Lin Yi called out worriedly.
They didn’t know how far the 0-1 Monster had tamed the 17-1 Monster. Lin Yi was really worried that Qin Zhou would provoke the Monster too much that it would break the rules.
“If…” Qin Zhou said, “If you don’t want your sister to be completely disappointed in you, you know what to do.”
No one dared to speak. They all sensed Qin Zhou’s anger. Qin Zhou’s anger almost surpassed the anger of the Monster.
Qin Zhou and Xixi faced each other.
After a long time, Xixi’s figure underwent other changes. Black mist poured out from her body and she slowly turned into the appearance of a boy. But the black mist still obscured her face, making it unable to be seen clearly.
It just sat silently.
“What is that!”
Hua Hua pointed at something behind it.
As everyone looked, a spot of light appeared behind it. This spot of light gradually grew larger, as if it were absorbed all the light sources in the room.
Lin Yi was more familiar with this white light than anyone else.
It was the exit.
The Replay had been a success and the 17-1 Monster had opened the exit to release the surviving prey.
The white light surged, drowning them instantly.
Lin Yi took a breath and boldly held Qin Zhou’s hand when the white light poured in.
He clearly felt Qin Zhou pause for a moment but fortunately, Qin Zhou didn’t break away from him. Instead, he grasped right back, holding onto him tightly.
When the white light subsided, they’d returned to the passage of the escape room.
But it wasn’t just the twenty-plus of them. There were more people here.
According to the program list of the escape rooms, there was more than one run of “Xiushen Academy” every day because of the set times. This showed that the 17-1 Monster didn’t eat one group before starting on another. It attracted prey during set times and opened an instance of the world for them. This meant that multiple 17-1 Rule Worlds existed simultaneously.
Lin Yi saw the students from the Purchasing Department in the distance.
Qin Zhou’s words really had stimulated the 17-1 Monster.
It thought of its elder sister, its elder sister who’d told him before, “Don’t be afraid, Xiao Fei, Jiejie will definitely find a way to take you away. Jiejie will always protect you.”
It couldn’t let its sister be disappointed.
In the entire world, only its sister loved it dearly.
And so, it released all the others that were still struggling in the other Rule World instances.
“Jiejie, Xiao Fei was wrong.”
“Please don’t hate Xiao Fei.”
🥺 I feel so bad for the two siblings
Thank you for the chapter! ☺️
Thank you for the chapter 😍 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
That’s too sad for the siblings. The mother suffered and make the children suffered as well.
So 01 monster is too powerful that he xan create a living person is that what it means?🤔