LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 539 Loop
However, at the last moment, Chen Ze still caught a few subtle fluctuations blending into the air with his eyesight.
He took a deep breath.
The air in the room seemed a little fresher.
It seems that what Zhu Liankui said is true.
There is indeed no living person here.
"Actually, I wasn't sure before." Zhu Liankui still kept a certain distance from Chen Ze.
"But only after you come can I be sure that these people are all fake."
Although the old man repeatedly emphasized that he had used mathematical calculations to figure out Chen Ze's identity, he was still ruthlessly exposed - Chen Ze was wearing a T-shirt and trousers, and it was difficult to recognize the identity of a modern person.
In addition, Chen Ze also figured out at this time that the underworld was indeed lost to an unknown location, but the two treasures of "Xuan" and "Yellow" laws, together with the Dragon Son and Maitreya Buddha sealed inside, were still within the divinity.
It's just that it can't be called for the time being, just like Yuan Qi.
"There are a set of operating rules here." Zhu Liankui gestured to the surrounding walls without any openings.
"I can't see day or night, but I calculated that every twenty-four hours, a group of prisoners will be escorted in."
Naturally, there are no clocks here, but after the old man has been here for so many years, it is not surprising that he can even use his breathing or heartbeat to correct the time a little bit.
"Not only those who came in, I saw old and new prisoners being picked out by the guards and taken away to be executed."
The old man introduced his experience with a solemn expression,
"I secretly counted them, but I couldn't count them all, but at least several thousand people came in every day."
"There will be more cells, but the people inside will not change."
"It's like a cycle, with all falsehood surrounding the truth in the center! I guess the cycle can only be broken by finding the true prisoner!"
"Are you thirsty?" Chen Ze suddenly asked.
Zhu Liankui was stunned for a moment, then swallowed as if he had just come to his senses.
"It's all trivial."
"Just bear with it and it'll be fine."
"The most important thing is to find a solution quickly!"
"Okay." Chen Ze still looked calm and calm,
"But why have you been sneaking around?"
Just now, Chen Ze almost nagged the old man until his ears became calluses before he went to arrest people for experiments.
"Who are you afraid of being discovered?" Chen Ze raised his voice, causing the old man to say again and again,
"Keep your voice down, keep your voice down!"
“It’s not necessarily safe here!”
"Don't bring in the jailer!"
"How about recruiting the jailer?" Chen Ze lowered the decibel level in cooperation.
"There was another person who entered the Qinling Mountains with me!" Zhu Liankui himself became excited.
"Who?"
"My name is Nolan, he's a movie maker!"
Chen Ze was really surprised this time.
"It's a long story." Zhu Liankui didn't mean to say much, he just said briefly,
"I used to pretend to be a magician, and I went out as a magician."
"Jin Lingfu, have you heard of it? That's my stage name."
"It happened a hundred years ago, but a director dug me out more than ten years ago and made a movie about me."
"Deadly magic?" Chen Ze thought of the movie ticket stub he picked up in the ink bucket.
Zhu Liankui nodded repeatedly: "Yes, that seems to be the name."
"Not to mention much, he was very interested in these things, so he followed me into the Qinling Mountains, and then we were swallowed up here together."
"We couldn't figure out the situation when we first came in. We shouted to get out, but the jailer was summoned!"
"As soon as the jailer saw us, he rushed over and I wanted to save him, but... alas!"
"I had no choice but to hide in the chaos, wait for the jailer to leave, then come back, and in the end I couldn't even pick up a single bone!"
"I know that outsiders like us are like viruses and intruders, and their identities must not be discovered!"
Chen Ze nodded while listening, and he did not forget to comment on Zhu Liankui's outfit, which was the same as that of other prisoners.
"It seems like you've blended in."
"Alas." Zhu Liankui waved his hands repeatedly.
"I've gotten used to it after doing this for a long time."
"It's not just to survive."
"Because of this, I didn't dare to show my face in front of the jailers, so I only dared to walk quietly through the tunnel."
"Okay." Chen Ze also began to ponder,
"Then according to what you said, how can we break this cycle?"
"Since it is a prison, it must be for holding prisoners!"
Zhu Liankui regained his energy a little.
"I estimate that this entire prison, with countless rooms and countless dummies, is all trying to cover up the only real prisoner!"
"I have been watching for so many years. People come and go from this prison, and there is no shortage of people at any time."
"And there is only one jailer and he is too busy to do all the work, so the real prisoner is hidden among everyone!"
"There must be such a prisoner who has been hiding in prison for so many years."
"As long as we help the guards find the prisoner and execute him, this cycle can be broken!"
"Then the jailer can't execute everyone at once?" Chen Ze immediately asked after hearing this.
"No." Zhu Liankui shook his head repeatedly.
"The jailer is like a spinning top. He is busy arranging new prisoners."
"It's too late."
"Okay, I understand." Chen Ze emphasized the action goal again.
"So we are going to find the real prisoner in the prison without being discovered by the jailer, and then send him to the jailer for execution?"
Zhu Liankui nodded solemnly.
"Then what are you waiting for?" Chen Ze stood up immediately,
"Start now."
In a cell with nothing new.
In the corner of the wall where debris was piled up, a wooden board covered with dust quietly opened up a crack, and two pairs of eyes peered at the people in the room.
There were a dozen prisoners in total, all of them thin and thin. They were lying in a daze on the straw bunk in pieces, like ignorant lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Thump thump thump thump.
The sound of messy footsteps came, and a pair of eyes immediately disappeared from the gap.
"Come down." Zhu Liankui, who was short and bowed his head, grabbed Chen Ze's trouser leg.
"It's okay." Chen Ze responded in a low voice, but still did not squat down.
"I have my measure."
squeak--
The rusty door of the cell was suddenly opened, and another batch of prisoners filed in, filling the already cramped cell like a sardine can.
Without saying a word, the jailer locked the door and hurried away without looking back.
Like a tireless machine.
This time Chen Ze could see clearly that the other person was wearing a box-like hat on his head, with a whole piece of cloth hanging down from his forehead, like a mask covering his face, making his face invisible.
"Remember?" Zhu Liankui's deliberately lowered voice sounded again.
"Okay." Chen Ze responded, lowered his head and pulled the wooden cover in place.
"Let's go." Zhu Liankui quickly lowered his ears and listened to the heavy and impatient footsteps of the jailer chasing him through the ditch.
According to Zhu Liankui, this prison is a cycle, and the jailer will not choose to repeat the same cell every time he takes someone in. So just follow the footsteps of the jailer, recognize the faces of the prisoners in each room, and wait until the second cycle to filter out the people who survived the previous cycle.
Do this for the third time, the fourth time, and narrow down the scope again and again. Sooner or later, you will be able to find the "real prisoner" who has been hiding among them for many years.
The plan is simple, but requires a lot of memory.
At least a few thousand people are needed for one cycle, and they have to rush to follow the jailer's footsteps.
It’s almost equivalent to memorizing faces in an entire room with just one glance.
Don't say Zhu Liankui can't do it, I'm afraid no one can do it.
But Chen Ze can.
After all, he is no longer a human being in a sense.
squeak--
The rusty door was opened, and another group of prisoners were kicked in. The jailer in black robes and black hats didn't even have time to breathe, and rushed to the adjacent cell without stopping. He held the knife and threatened to take the entire cell to execution.
Under the cracks in the wooden planks of the original cell, Chen Ze was thoughtful.
"Let's go!" Zhu Liankui urged.
"It's not necessary." Chen Ze shouted loudly, which just caught the attention of the prisoners who were lying around in the cell.
There are many people looking here.
Zhu Liankui in the ditch became anxious and quickly came up: "If we don't hurry up, we will lose the jailer!"
"Just follow him." Chen Ze didn't care at all.
"It's useless to follow."
"What?" Zhu Liankui looked puzzled, then showed a look of surprise.
"What, you found someone?!"
"What time is it in this cycle now?"
"It's a bullshit cycle." Chen Ze said without any politeness,
"There's no cycle at all!"
Ever since he followed the jailer to recognize his face, Chen Ze had been thinking twice about timing.
I have been running around for a week now, and have recognized more than 100,000 faces, and I have not seen any duplicates at all!
There is no 24-hour cycle at all.
This prison simply continues to operate forever.
Zhu Liankui became more anxious when he heard this, but before he could say anything more, the gap above his head was covered by shadow.
"What is this!" Some brave people have already approached the ditch, raising their feet to step down.
Unexpectedly, before the smelly feet landed, the wooden board on the ground suddenly lifted up.
Bang!
With a muffled sound, the wooden board exploded into countless pieces and flew out, and a muscular figure jumped up from the exposed pit. Before anyone could see clearly, it punched the man who raised his feet in the face.
click.
The man flew backwards without saying a word, slammed into the earth wall behind him, and then hit the ground like a piece of rotten wall debris.
Silence fell.
"Don't lure people here!" Only Zhu Liankui, who was still hiding under the ditch, raised his upper body and looked around in panic while trying to pull Chen Ze back.
"The jailer has no time to pay attention to us." Chen Ze raised his foot to avoid Zhu Liankui's hand like a long eye behind his head.
"Don't worry, it's already gone."
"Who are you!" The prisoners who reacted began to scream.
Helpless, Chen Ze could only hold the sharp boning knife and comfort them one by one.
Puff. Puff.
In just a few blinks of an eye, corpses were strewn all over the cell, and there was so much blood that there was no place to stand.
But after a while, it gradually became thinner and was about to turn into an illusion and collapse.
"What are you doing!" Zhu Liankui finally jumped out.
hiss-
Chen Ze pulled off a piece of fabric from the corner of his clothes to wrap the handle of the knife.
"As long as there is not one left."
He walked towards the rusty prison door,
"Can't we find the person hiding?"
The jailer was unavailable, Zhu Liankui was old and weak, but Chen Ze had nowhere to use his strength.
After tearing off the iron door from the original cell and coming out, he started "sweeping" the cells nearby.
The old man named Zhu was afraid that Chen Ze's wanton behavior would attract the jailers, so he hid in the ditch again.
This just happened to be what Chen Ze wanted, carrying a sharp knife that had been wet and dry to kill all the way.
when!
Another iron door was kicked down and hit the grass bunk behind the door.
The few people who were close to him were pinned down and began to struggle and howl. Chen Ze jumped up, stepped on the iron door and jumped hard twice, and then there was gradually no movement under his feet.
When the other prisoners saw that the prisoners were evil, they all got into a mess. Some of them tried to escape but were kicked back by Chen Ze at the door. Some came up to fight and were stabbed to death as soon as they met. Many more were hiding in the corner, shivering, and followed. There is no difference between being slaughtered at the neck.
until.
"Don't kill me!" An old man in front of him turned around and begged for mercy. It was Zhu Liankui who had sneaked in at some point.
"Huh?" Chen Ze casually broke the neck in his arms,
"When did you come up?"
"You know me?" The other person's eyes widened.
Chen Ze frowned.
After a conversation, this man also called himself Zhu Liankui, and his past experiences were the same as those of the previous "Zhu Liankui No. 1" - for the sake of convenience, Chen Ze gave them all codenames.
Zhu Liankui No. 2 said:
"This prison will never stop!"
"Only if we catch that guy hiding in the gutter!"
"He is the real prisoner!"
"Nolan, who came in with me, just went after him and never came back!"
Chen Ze nodded: "I knew there was something wrong with that person."
Not to mention how Zhu Liankui No. 1 dug such a maze-like ditch with nothing but bare hands and only a knife.
Let's just say that during the previous week when he was following the jailer to recognize his face, Zhu Liankui No. 1 didn't get a drop of water or even a grain of rice.
He always looks weak and out of breath after taking only two steps, but that's all. He yells about his old arms and legs while burying his head in the ditch and driving for a long time without taking a break.
"He is just a fake!" When Zhu Liankui No. 2 heard that Chen Ze also agreed, his face showed joy.
"It's just right to have you. As long as we cooperate, then he will..."
Midway through his words, Zhu Liankui No. 2 suddenly stopped talking, lowered his head dully, and stared at the handle of the knife that was buried in his chest.
"Why, why..." His face was full of disbelief.
"I've wanted to try it for a long time." Chen Ze took out the knife without any care.
puff--
Columns of blood spurted out impatiently.
Zhu Liankui No. 2 was speechless and fell to the ground, clutching his chest. Soon he couldn't even cover his heart, and his soaked palms fell away.
Chen Ze's idea is simple.
Who are the real prisoners?
Since you all said that killing each other can break the prison, I might as well try the one who is closer first.
After a while, the body on the ground that had not yet cooled down gradually became transparent, like a cloud with blurred edges, and then completely dissipated.
Sizzling—
There was a crackling sound on Chen Ze's outstretched fingertips, and a faint but distinctly majestic breath escaped from it.
After a week of adapting, he was now able to slightly awaken the "Xuan" law, and he was about to stabilize this vision.
But the result was unexpected.
The corpse in front of him did not turn into a phantom and dissipate, but it did not remain either.
Instead, it melts into a puddle of translucent viscous liquid full of impurities, and then quickly seeps into the ground without leaving any trace. (End of chapter)