[BL, MTL] Unlimited Cycles of Death (Unlimited Flow)

Chapter 32: Backtracking (6)

Mu Qin told Peng Zhe that those who hunted down and targeted Mu Qin, what they wanted from Mu Qin was this blank Tarot card.

After listening to Mu Qin's narration, Peng Zhe had an expression of "you seem to be teasing me", then took the Tarot card in Mu Qin's hand and looked at it carefully, and finally returned the card to Mu Qin, saying : "Anyway, I can't see the mystery of this card. It's too common, and it can be torn off with a single tap. Why do those people chase you for this card?"

Mu Qin smiled wryly: "If I tell You, 'they chased and killed me for this card' is completely conjectured by me, will you still believe me?"

"Conjecture..." Peng Zhe looked at Mu Qin in surprise, "What are you saying? Meaning, why can't I understand?"

"I don't have any evidence to prove that they searched my home, searched Zhou Yue's ward, and drove an Audi to kill me. This behavior is to find this Tarot card." Mu Qin tried his best to briefly express his meaning to Peng Zhe, "I mean, the idea of ​​'they hunted me down for this card' is my personal speculation and self-feeling, I think they came You came to me just for this card, although the idea is inexplicable, but I don't know why... I just believe in it."

"That is to say, it's just your intuition, you shouldn't know who those people are Who, you don't know why those people chased and killed you, but you somehow blamed such an ordinary white card for the reason why they chased and killed you, right?" Peng Zhe finally understood Mu Qin's point Meaning.

Mu Qin nodded: "Yes, it's amazing, right? Even I can't figure out why, it feels like...that kind of indescribable, something in the subconscious dominates my thinking."

Peng After listening to Mu Qin's narration, Zhe lowered his head and thought for a while, and finally came up with an idea: "Have you been hypnotized?

" Thriller: "Why do you think that?"

"I think this is completely a spiritual suggestion." Pengzhe said, "When ordinary people are hunted down, they will find out the reasons from various aspects. He will think that maybe it is because he has sinned against someone in the past, or it may be because of unintentional crimes. Some of the mistakes you made led to your death, but you didn't think about it, and you just thought that the reason why the other party was chasing and killing you was this card... Isn't this like some kind of spiritual hint?"

"I I don't think I've been 'hinted'." Mu Qin put the card in his hand into his pocket.

Pengzhe continued: "People who have been hinted by the spirit generally don't know that they have been hinted like this."

Mu Qin slightly shook his head: "I'm serious, Pengzhe. If you are Xu Haoyu's subordinate, you should Knowing what identity I had before, ordinary spiritual hints have little effect on me, and... no matter how magical the spiritual hints are, it is impossible for me to attribute all the reasons to a white card in a short time In fact, because this idea is very illogical, such illogical hints usually do not succeed."

Peng Zhe did know Mu Qin's previous identity.

As far as Pengzhe knows, some departments, occasionally those that are more mysterious and special, will specifically look for those soldiers who have no parents, no relatives, and no reason in the team. Mu Qin is the best choice. They Let these soldiers enter special agencies and train them for two or three years to become...spies.

This kind of person does not need to have excellent fighting qualities. It is enough to know several weapons and basic fighting methods. The key is psychological quality and some intelligence gathering skills, reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, interrogation and anti-interrogation, criminal investigation and diplomatic psychology, Acquisition of these skills will vary depending on the department you belong to.

Of course, even after receiving these trainings, some soldiers did not continue to serve in this kind of department in the end, such as Mu Qin, who finally retired and returned to his hometown to become an ordinary person in a small city.

However, the knowledge he has learned and the training he has received are still engraved in his bones, which will bring him various conveniences. As he said just now, Mu Qin's excellent mental quality is destined to prevent him from being Simple spiritual suggestion is defeated, so the conjecture of spiritual suggestion is not established.

"This is why you are always so calm." Peng Zhe sighed, "No matter how dangerous the situation is, you seem to be too calm."

"Too calm is not a good thing." Mu Qin said, "Sometimes the panic that should be shown is not shown, but it will arouse suspicion."

Pengzhe originally planned to chat with Muqin for a while, but when Pengzhe was about to say something, he suddenly walked away. A policeman came over and called Mu Qin's name. Mu Qin raised his head to respond, and saw a policeman in police uniform with his head bowed. He stood at the end of the corridor and called Mu Qin's name, and asked Mu Qin to "come here." Mu Qin didn't know what was going on, and thought he was going to be interrogated about the car accident, so he stood up and said to Pengzhe

beside him, "Wait for me."

The policeman passed by.

When Mu Qin just walked in front of the police officer, the police officer turned around and walked into a room, motioning for Mu Qin to follow. Mu Qin followed obediently. As soon as he entered the room, the policeman opened the door closed.

Mu Qin took a look at this small room. It should be the kind of room specially used for interrogating prisoners. Except for a door, there is only an air vent in the corner of the ceiling above the head. There is a table and a few chairs in the center of the room. Nothing else.

Mu Qin felt a little strange. It was just a car accident. As for bringing him into this interrogation room? Moreover, there was only one policeman who brought him in, and it seemed that he was going to have a private conversation with Mu Qin. The policeman

who brought Mu Qin in over there still lowered his head, opened the chair and said to Mu Qin, "please sit down."

Sitting down in the chair, the policeman acted a little strangely. He kept his head down, and the police cap on his head covered most of his face. He seemed normal, and Mu Qin didn't feel any discomfort from him. breath.

But the moment he sat down, Mu Qin began to feel that the small interrogation room was filled with coldness and gloom, making this narrow space suffocating.

Muchinton felt bad, and asked the police officer, "You called me here, what's the matter?"

The police officer put his hands on the table, still lowered his head, and said slowly: "I want to ask you to come here." I got something on my body."

Hearing this sentence, Mu Qin felt that his mind was a little confused, he vaguely guessed the identity of the police officer in front of him, he knew that those who chased and killed him were probably a group, But why does this group have such supernatural powers that they can sneak into the police station, or even have undercover agents in the police station?

"I want the card on your body, the card you got from Zhou Yue, I know it's on you, give it to me." The police officer's tone became a little hurried, he still lowered his head, Mu Chin could only see his lips moving up and down.

Mu Qin lied routinely at the beginning, and added questions to divert attention: "I don't understand what you mean, what kind of card? And...how did you know Zhou Yue?"

The policeman seemed to have no patience at all, Mu Qin As soon as Qin finished speaking, the other party yelled: "I said give me the card on your body! Are you deaf!?"

He yelled, and finally raised his head with a ferocious face. The face Mu Qin looked completely unfamiliar, but his eyes...

were a pair of pure black eyes!

No matter the pupils, irises or the whites of the eyes, they are all pitch-black eyes, as if the inside has been hollowed out, leaving only a black eye socket. The other party stared at Mu Qin with such eyes, which scared Mu Qin One jump, even though Mu Qin is so calm, after seeing something so surreal, he can't keep his usual calm.

So Mu Qin stood up suddenly from his seat, stood up and took a few steps back, and stepped back to the door behind him. His keen intuition made him feel that the man in police uniform in front of him... was like a man in a police uniform... A monster with human skin.

And the other party exuded killing intent. The man stood up and stretched his hand to his waist. Mu Qin saw that he had a holster hanging on his waist, which contained a standard police pistol. He moved quickly, quickly pulled out the pistol, and immediately pointed it at Mu Qin's head.

"You don't have to give it to me." The monster said in a low and hoarse voice, "I can take it from your body." The

other party obviously didn't intend to negotiate with Mu Qin at all. Mu Qin knew that he was determined to kill him by watching his movements. Immediately, his heart was in a bad mood. Mu Qin absolutely had no ability to dodge the pistol bullets at close range. The speed of the bullets was too fast. As long as the opponent aimed at Mu Qin's head, Mu Qin would surely die.

Therefore, at this moment, Mu Qin felt that his mind was blank. He didn't understand how things had come to this point, why he was easily driven to death and ended up at the end, obviously he didn't do anything, obviously he Just want to be with the people I love the most. On the other side, Pengzhe sat on a chair and waited for Mu Qin to come back. While waiting, another policeman came by and asked strangely after

seeing Pengzhe, "Where is your friend?"

It's a little strange: "Didn't you call him away?"

"If you want to call, you are calling him together. How can you call him away alone." The policeman was puzzled, shaking his head and said, "We just turned over the traffic on that section of the road. Surveillance video, I want you two to take a look together..."

The policeman's words made Pengzhe's face change suddenly, he stood up suddenly, and walked quickly in the direction where Mu Qin was called away just now, leaving the original The policeman on the ground was confused, and then quickly followed Pengzhe and said, "Wait, where are you going? Over there is the interrogation room..."

Pengzhe turned a deaf ear to the policeman's call, and walked directly to the door of the interrogation room. He yelled Mu Qin's name loudly, and just as he put his hand on the doorknob to open the door, he heard a gunshot from a distance.

The gunshot frightened Pengzhe and the policemen around him for a moment. Pengzhe reacted immediately and opened the door of the interrogation room, and saw the policeman who called Mu Qin away just now standing inside, holding a pistol. The muzzle was still smoking.

Peng Zhe stepped in and lowered his head to look at the door. Sure enough, he saw Mu Qin lying on the ground leaning against the wall, his body limp and motionless, his face covered in blood.

Pengzhe felt that his heart missed a beat, and immediately knelt down and pressed Mu Qin's shoulders, and shouted anxiously: "Mu Qin!"

The policeman who followed Pengzhe also recovered from his daze, followed He pointed his gun at the policeman opposite and yelled at him: "Axu! What are you doing!?"

And this policeman who was called "Axu" and just shot Mu Qin, His eyes are no longer as dark as what Mu Qin saw just now, they have returned to the eyes of normal people, and his expression seems to be very dazed. He stares blankly at the smoking pistol in his hand, and at He looked at Mu Qin who fell to the ground, and his companion with a gun pointed at him. He seemed to have no idea what the situation was like.

"I..." A Xu could only choke out one word, he put down his gun and scratched the back of his head strangely, "What was I doing just now?"

Out of professionalism, even though A Xu is a partner who has been working with him for a long time, But when the policeman next to Pengzhe saw him put down his gun, he rushed forward quickly, grabbed his arm, knocked out the pistol in his hand, and pushed him down on the table in the interrogation room.

Immediately afterwards, other policemen and staff in the police station who heard the gunshots rushed to the interrogation room following the gunshots.

...

"Welcome to the border world, here is the gap between hell and dreams."

Mu Qin heard a soft female voice resounding in his ears in a daze. He opened his eyes and found that he was standing in a relatively wide space white big room.

A square, white room with an area of ​​about a hundred square meters. The walls, floors, and ceilings are all white. There are no windows or doors. It is a completely enclosed independent space.

In the middle of this white room, there's a virtual computer like... a virtual computer in a surreal sci-fi movie, the kind that projects a 3D screen and floats in mid-air. Some pictures are being played on this projection screen. When Mu Qin looks carefully, he will find that it is the picture of his death.

On the screen, Mu Qin was sitting on the ground with his back against the wall, his whole body was limp, his body was covered with scars and wrapped in some gauze bandages, but his face was covered with blood.

Next to him, Peng Zhe knelt beside him, pressed Mu Qin's shoulder, and shouted at him anxiously and silently.

Looking at the picture played on this virtual screen, Mu Qin felt a little dazed in his mind. He said to himself in doubt: "I'm dead?"

"Only the dead can enter the marginal world." Just as Mu Qin said to himself As soon as the words fell, a soft... but mechanical female voice came out from the virtual screen, "This is the edge of hell and dreams."

"The edge of hell and dreams, what do you mean?" Mu Qin didn't quite understand, Question again.

The female voice answered Mu Qin calmly and patiently: "It means that this world is connected to hell and dreams."

Mu Qin felt a little confused: "It is connected to hell and dreams. Is hell that kind of hell? The kind of people who commit crimes Where will you go?"

"Yes." The female voice continued to answer patiently.

"What about the dream?" Mu Qin asked: "What does it mean to be connected to the dream?" The

female voice said: "People in the real world will peek into a corner of the marginal world in the dream, and we... can also observe reality through the dream. People in the world."

Mu Qin suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence, and he said in surprise: "It means that we 'dead' can carry out dreaming? Tell the people in the real world the message you want to express through dreaming, Right?" The

female voice said: "If you can do it, of course you can do it."

"Then how can I do it?" Mu Qin asked the female voice.

"I can't tell you this. I can only provide you with the services you need in the game and answer some of your basic questions." The female voice was still soft and melodious, like a bird chirping in spring, singing with a crisp voice A melodious and long song.

"Game..." Mu Qin recalled it in a daze, and he said in a trance: "Yes, it's a game... I experienced a game, I escaped, I should be teleported to the safe house... Is this a safe house?" The

female voice answered Mu Qin: "This is a safe house in the marginal world."

Mu Qin felt a little terrified, and he put his arms around his head, "No...it's not right, I was still in the real world just now Here, I was with Peng Zhe, we were at the police station, and someone pointed a gun at my head..."

Mu Qin couldn't help shaking his head, trying to clear his mind, he felt as if he had forgotten something, but As if he remembered all those forgotten things, he continued to ask the female voice: "All humans who have completed the game and escaped from the map should be sent to the safe house immediately, right!?"

"Yes, after escaping At the moment of the map, every player will be instantly teleported to this safe house."

"No way!" Mu Qin pointed to the virtual screen in front of him, pointing at the picture of himself dying on the screen, "I was just now There, I was there! In the interrogation room of that police station! I escaped from the map, but I returned to the real world, what happened!? Didn't you say that only the dead can enter this world?"

"Only the dead can enter the border world." The female voice did not reveal the slightest impatience, her voice was still sweet, but she repeated this sentence, "You are already dead, that's why you appear here, you have not returned to reality The world."

"I remember it very clearly!" Mu Qin was in a state of confusion and couldn't help saying loudly, "I advanced the game, escaped from the map and returned to reality, and then came to this safe house after being attacked! I I didn't die before!" The

female voice repeated unhurriedly: "Only the dead can enter the border world, you are dead, that's why you appear here."

Mu Qin almost laughed out loud: "Then you mean that I died twice, right?" The

female voice mechanically said: "I can't answer your question, you can ask about other events, or check what you got in the game Rewards, or buy the props you need in the mall, or strengthen your skills and physical fitness."

Mu Qin understood that this female voice was just an existence similar to artificial intelligence, and she would only answer some of the things that Mu Qin could answer within her limited range. The problem is that she will only serve Mu Qin for game-related matters, and she will not tell Mu Qin anything else. "

...

Mu Qin didn't immediately use this virtual computer to check the rewards he got in the game. The first thing he thought of was the agreement with Zhou Yue.

I don't know why, when he returned to the real world, he naturally forgot Everything about this marginal world, but when he returned to this world, he naturally recalled everything he had forgotten.

When he recalled all this, he immediately remembered the agreement between himself and Zhou Yue, Zhou Yue It was agreed that a code would be engraved on the wall behind the virtual computer for Mu Qin to see. However, due to Mu Qin's inexplicable return to the real world, his arrival at the safe house may have been delayed for a few days. Not being able to get in touch with Zhou Yue made Mu Qin very uncomfortable.

If he couldn't get in touch with Zhou Yue, what were the chances of them meeting in the game next time?

Mu Qin came to the wall behind the virtual computer. On the white wall, if you look carefully, you can indeed see a lot of scratches and the like. Some people wrote and drew some unknown patterns on the wall. According to what Zhou Yue told Mu Qin, these are other The marks left by the players in the safe house are only because the safe house has the function of self-healing, so these scratches will only exist for 1 to 2 hours before disappearing automatically.

It is obviously impossible for Zhou Yue to stay in the safe room all the time. Just now Mu Qin asked the female voice of the virtual computer system. The female voice said that the player can only stay in the safe room for three days, and these three days are rest periods. At 12 o'clock, the player must start a new game. If the player does not open it himself, the system will force the player to open it.

Mu Qin estimated the time. After he escaped from the first game map, he immediately returned to the real world. On the first day in the real world, he woke up from the hypnotic dream of the psychiatrist He Qiu, and then he went to the hospital to take care of him. Zhou Yue became a vegetative state, but unknown people invaded Zhou Yue's ward and searched it.

The next day, he took Zhou Yue out of the hospital under the pretext of trying to take him back to his home, only to find that his home had also been raided by unknown persons. After that, he contacted his old friend and asked him to take Zhou Yue away. The old friend left Peng Zhe as Mu Qin's helper, because they could not contact Zhou's family, they drove in the evening to find Zhou Yue's mother Xie Zhu, but were chased by the Audi driver, and then shot and attacked by a police officer at the police station .

After this series of events, Mu Qin estimated that he only stayed in the real world for two days.

Only two days have passed since the three-day rest period. If Zhou Yue is in the safe house, he still has one more day to rest. He will definitely write on the wall!