Translator: Loachpearl
Translation Checker: Rin
Editor: DragonFae
“Xiao Bai wouldn’t deceive me.”
Bai Chunian lightly snorted. “This trick of pretending to be pitiful is useless against me. Tell me where Rimbaud is, I won’t kill you.”
Rimbaud stood upright in the center of the infirmary where a dead body lay, sat on a sick bed, slapping the ground with the tip of his tail, and obstinately argued with him, “Rimbaud is here.”
After hearing this, Bai Chunian tsked, eyebrows coming together as he frowned, considering the probability of whether the real Rimbaud might collide with the fake Rimbaud.
According to the installation of these rooms, once the passcode lock of the previous room was opened, the person would walk out and the door would close, and only then would the door of the previous room open.
He had never met anyone else, which proved that whether it was the real Rimbaud or the fake Rimbaud, they could only be in the room behind him. The imposter communicating with him just now only expressed doubt now, which proved that he might have found something in the infirmary that Bai Chunian himself had not discovered before.
Bai Chunian carefully recalled the surveillance video he saw in the bathroom mirror, the rooms where the two different Rimbauds were located were both restaurants.
So then there were two possibilities.
- There may be two restaurants with the same layout in this building, and two Rimbauds are in two different restaurants.
- There simply aren’t two identical rooms in this house, and there also aren’t two Rimbauds. The image of Rimbaud lying on the ground in screen C is actually just a video of Rimbaud before he awoke, someone is deliberately misleading his decision making.
Bai Chunian began to lean toward the second guess. He asked probingly, “Is coconut tasty?”
The other side hesitated for a while, responded, “Randi was thirsty after ai, so I picked coconuts for him to drink. I also dredged up shellfish for him to eat, poor Randi has never eaten big scallops, he said that the big scallops in the aquarium are too expensive, he couldn’t afford it. I scooped them for him to eat, ate fourteen every day, because in the patch of sea by my home can only catch fourteen a day, he drew four lines on his thigh to commemorate our eastern flower pork coconut, I asked him what is a flower pork coconut, he said it is a kind of coconut. I asked why it can only be from the east, he said the quality in the west is not good. I know he likes to do ai with me, he is just too shy, when doing ai he will stick out furry white ears, he doesn’t want me to touch his ears, I just touch the base of his tail, and he immediately came…”
“Stop! Stop!” Bai Chunian hurriedly called a stop, emitting steam like a boiler.
“Okay, for the time being I believe you are my wife.” Bai Chunian said so, but Rimbaud suddenly becoming smarter was not like him at all.
Rimbaud retorted, “I am not your wife.”
Bai Chunian squatted down, carefully scrutinized some barbell plates stacked in order in the fitness room, and simultaneously said to Rimbaud, “Fine, even if I want to kill you dead, we are separated by a door, and I can’t touch you. You tell me what you saw.”
Rimbaud replied, “The corpse of a researcher killed by you.”
Startled, Bai Chunian froze, helplessly explained, “It wasn’t killed by me.”
Rimbaud, “If you deceive me again, when I see you I will tear off your fingers and toes, your mouth and eyes, and tear you to meat shreds.”
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Rimbaud, “I didn’t say you were a fool.”
Bai Chunian, “…What kind of shoes is the corpse wearing.”
Rimbaud, “Plastic sandals.”
Bai Chunian, “Where are the socks?”
Rimbaud, “Not wearing socks.”
Bai Chunian, “What is his posture now?”
Rimbaud, “Laying in front of the cupboard, face on the ground.”
Bai Chunian, “What wounds are there on the body?”
After a while, Rimbaud replied, “There is a little blood on the toe. You killed him and you still ask.”
Bai Chunian ordered him out of habit, “Turn him over, have a look at his face.”
Rimbaud said disgustedly, “I won’t. He stinks.”
Bai Chunian, “The corpse rotted?”
Rimbaud, “No. I want to go out, open the door for me, Rimbaud wants to puke.”
Hearing his tone seemed to already be very impatient, Bai Chunian could only appease him, asking him to find the visible-by-water passcode on the calendar to open the passcode lock according to the method.
Rimbaud said the passcode on the calendar was 25137.
Bai Chunian was a little puzzled, the passcode he’d actually seen on the calendar was 25319.
Bai Chunian, “What date does the calendar have written as today?”
Rimbaud, “The eighty first.”
Bai Chunian, “Stop fussing… serious business.”
Rimbaud, “Why should I tell you?”
Bai Chunian rubbed his temples. “Forget it, since you found the passcode, then just try it to see if it’s right. I also found the passcode for the fitness room. It’s on the dumbbells, judging by the number of plates it’s 75948.”
Bai Chunian’s door successfully opened, and so did the door of the infirmary where Rimbaud was staying. It seemed like he also successfully entered the gym.
Bai Chunian looked around, and found that the room he was in was a dormitory, the wallpaper was the same as the previous rooms, there were three sets of bunk beds with iron railings in the room, there was a writing desk in the corner, and there was a computer monitor on the desk, a mouse was connected to the computer.
Bai Chunian held the mouse since it was at hand, trying to see if the computer could be operated. “Ha, I finally met a kindred spirit, it’s so convenient using the mouse left-handed.”
But the computer did not light up, looks like it’s unusable.
He gave up the computer and went to flip through the beds. The bedding on them were all messily strewn, no one folded the quilt, a mechanical pencil was placed on the bed sheet, a razor blade was placed on the railing.
Bai Chunian saw half a sheet of A4 paper pressed under the foot of the bed, so he forcefully lifted the foot of the bed, and carefully extracted the paper.
He casually sat on the bed, spread out the pages carefully, and attentively read the contents, the densely packed English was a headache to read.
It seemed that the contents had been encrypted, the text on it seemed recognizable, but also seemed to be unknown. After identifying the letters one by one, Bai Chunian confirmed that the words were reversed, and they were arranged from right to left.
This wasn’t much to an agent familiar with cryptography. After reading it, a fine sheen of sweat gathered on Bai Chunian’s forehead.
Special Operations Weapon No. 535: Satan
Status: Maturity Stage Omega
Appearance: Head has two horns
Cultivated Direction: “Inner Demon’s Reflection”, construct a reflection with the same shape as the target, and completely inherit the memory of the original body. The mirrored body will kill the original body and the lover and relatives of the original body; replacing the original body and eliminating the fetters.
Cultivate
The content only went up until here, the remaining half of the paper had been torn off.
So that was to say, there were indeed two Rimbauds in this ghastly room, one was the real Rimbaud, and the other was the mirror image Rimbaud created by the experimental subject Satan. Between the original body and the mirror only one could live, and self slaughter was inevitable.
If even memory could be inherited, then it made sense that he knew so many details about the relationship between the two.
This was too dangerous, the real Rimbaud might not know about it. Bai Chunian wrapped the mechanical pencil and razor blade on the bed in the half piece of paper and stuffed it in his pocket, so that Rimbaud would not hurt himself when he passed through this room, or be hurt by others.
While he was doing these things, a terrifying thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
Since two Rimbauds exist in these rooms, then there must also be two of himself. If it was the fake Rimbaud who was talking to him, then the person who was talking to the real Rimbaud must be an impostor.
Thinking about it carefully, Rimbaud, who had just talked to him, said that there was a corpse on the ground. It didn’t sound like he did it. If Rimbaud wanted to kill someone, the other party would definitely have bite marks all over his body.
Now there was only one possibility left, in desperation a fake Bai Chunian mistook the researcher behind the door for Rimbaud, only after killing him did he realize that he had killed the wrong person. Killing a person without leaving a wound, Bai Chunian was capable of this.
Bai Chunian suddenly realized that they were likely to be on different floors of the same building, and the rooms on each floor were arranged in the same order and arrangement.
Then Rimbaud who was talking to him encountered what happened in another room. The researcher died in the infirmary, but it was not the infirmary that Bai Chunian just passed by, this was a reasonable surmise.
Then, assuming that he himself was on the upper floor, and the Rimbaud he was talking to is on the lower floor, the corpse he saw was killed by the fake Bai Chunian, so the fake Bai Chunian is also on the lower floor, so the real Rimbaud should be on the same floor as himself.
Even if he couldn’t tell whether the person talking to him was the real Rimbaud or the fake Rimbaud, at least the fake Bai Chunian was definitely not on the same floor as himself.
Bai Chunian stood in the center of the room and calmed down for a while, then began to search every corner of the room.
Since he could see two Rimbauds on the monitor screen in the bathroom, and maybe Rimbaud could also see himself from the monitor screen, he had to think of every possible way to remind Rimbaud of his current situation.
He recalled the screen he first saw in the bathroom. The communicator was only turned on when the monitor screen disappeared. It was reasonable to guess that the communication will be interrupted when the monitor screen appears, so that collusion could be effectively avoided.
Bai Chunian pulled himself up onto the top of the closet relying on his skills, and found a round black hole at the top of the closet, looks like there were cameras installed in every room.
In this way, his face is unavoidably very close to the camera, but he can’t worry about that much now, Bai Chunian said to the camera, “Rimbaud can you hear me speak? I was not the one who communicated with you just now, only one person can get out of here alive, he wanted to kill you just now, don’t believe him. Don’t worry, as long as the surveillance screen lights up, the communication will be interrupted, the door is soundproof, he shouldn’t be able to hear me, don’t be afraid, wait for me to save you.”
Hope Rimbaud could see it, although he doesn’t hold out any hope. Bai Chunian jumped down, patted the dust on his hands, and began to look for the passcode to get out of the dormitory.
Rimbaud opened his mouth and hurried him through the communicator, “You hurry up and open the door.”
Bai Chunian’s heart was entirely filled with wife, he nearly forgot about him. “Oh right, go to the dumbbells…”
Rimbaud, “I have already pressed it correctly.”
Bai Chunian was surprised. “You found the passcode yourself?”
Rimbaud snorted softly. “None of your business.”
Rimbaud stood in front of the combination lock in the fitness room, with a row of dumbbell racks at hand, and a note was stuck on the dumbbell racks with Band-Aids.
On it was written: “Passcode: 95768. Rimbaud, I have fully understood what’s going on, next all’s left is to verify my guess. Rimbaud, be careful with everything. Dear baud.”
In order for Rimbaud to understand it, he had even meticulously marked it with merfolk pinyin, other than Xiao Bai, no one else would be this meticulous.
Bai Chunian didn’t speak for some time, suddenly opened his mouth and asked, “Rimbaud, are you sure you found the passcode for the previous rooms according to my method.”
Rimbaud, “En….”
Bai Chunian asked closely, “Did you take down the round mirror in the bathroom to reflect the passcode?”
Rimbaud subconsciously clutched the other two similar notes he had accumulated in his hand tight, and replied dishonestly, “Yes.”
Bai Chunian was still worried. “Is there anything special in the fitness room?”
Rimbaud said, “There is a little bloodstain on the ground, which has been smeared.”
Bai Chunian, “Blood? Okay, I know. Let’s go.”
I am so confused as to who the real ones actually are!?
+1 no clue what is happening, it’s too much for my dumb brain lol
I also though of something similar, but I thought that the other people are just some randoms 🤔 I still think that they talked with real themselves and the whole thing is just to mess their minds. Let’s see
Thank You for the new chapter (๑°꒵°๑)･*♡
I understand absolutely nothing.
OH, Omg, I think my theory might be slightly wrong!
If Bai Chunian can communicate with the past Rimbaud, maybe this Satan person and the Hourglass experimental subject are working together. It’s confirmed (supposedly) that there are duplicates of both of them, but perhaps the copies aren’t separate people but from slightly different timelines, like a time loop?
So when Xiao Bai loops back to the infirmary, he kills the researcher and realizes what’s happening, so in the weight room, he tells Rimbaud that he’s figured out what happened.
God…i don’t understand anything..I’m soo confused
i think they’re the real Rimbaud and BCN but… the satan make them confused??
My two last braincells self destructed
i am you, you are confusion, confusion are me, me is confusion, we are all confusion