040. Countdown on the other side
Qiao Xue lay on the ground, exhaling whimpering.
Xia Yu also leaned against the wall, so weak that she couldn't speak.
These two girls hadn't eaten for a whole day and night, and now there was only hunger left in their stomachs.
In the darkness, the premonition of death is like the dead, gently caressing the back of their necks, blowing the cold and cold air, which makes people tremble.
Kara—
Suddenly! A sound came to mind in the darkness! Immediately afterwards, a ray of light shone directly in from outside!
If it were normal, Qiao Xue would just jump up immediately. But now she was so hungry that she didn't even have the power to think.
Immediately afterwards, a man who was wrapped in a black windbreaker, wearing a mask and big sunglasses on his face, and a hat, appeared in front of the two girls with a flashlight.
The man swept the two girls with a flashlight. After confirming that Qiao Xue and Xia Yu's eyes began to move with the flashlight, he sneered, stretched out his glove-wearing hand and placed a basket in the room.
“Eat.”
The voice is very vague, and it seems neither male nor female. Maybe it is a voice changer?
However, Qiao Xue was not in the mood to care about the sound of the voice changer now. She could see the things in the basket at a glance. Isn’t it three baguettes plus two bottles of mineral water per liter, or something?
In an instant, Qiao Xue rushed over! She grabbed a baguette and took a bite. Then, she rolled and crawled to Xia Yu, who was already haggard and had no eyes, and stuffed a small piece of bread into her mouth. Then she picked up the water and fed her a bite.
After her mouth was filled with the fragrance of bread, Xia Yu seemed to finally come to her senses. She stretched out her hand, took the bread tremblingly, and bit it.
"Ha, is it enough? If not enough, I still have a lot of food. As long as you can meet my requirements."
Qiao Xue turned her head suddenly and glared at the guy fiercely. She took a sip of bread, took a sip of water, and chewed, saying, "What you want is just a way to crack the password! Do you need to hunger us? My mother is sick! If she gets hungry, she may die at any time!"
The masked man seemed to be stunned for a moment, but then he said, "Die? Are I still afraid of death? I have killed two people, what does it matter if I die a few more?"
In an instant, the person in front of him changed from a kidnapper to a murderer. This change made Qiao Xue's spirit tense suddenly! He began to become more vigilant, and he began to think through his brain to find words that try not to stimulate the murderer.
"You... killed two people? Which two...?"
"It's okay to tell you. The first one is He Xianya, and the second one is He Yinghao. I plan to kill another one tomorrow. I advise you to be honest. Don't let the number of people who die on this island tomorrow go from three to five, that's not good."
Qiao Xue suppressed the fear in her heart and clenched her fists unconsciously. But she still couldn't control her own trembling.
It turns out...when I really face someone who has been stained with blood in my hands, I feel this way?
It's this feeling of being naked and being left alone in the wilderness...
It turns out that in the past, I have always faced murderers because my father is present, so I don’t feel that it is so scary...
The terrifying level of those murderers should be no worse than this murderer, right? But for a long time, it was because the aura emitted from my father could suppress the murderous aura on those murderers more strongly, so I didn’t feel how terrible those murderers were…
But now, once my dad is not around... this feeling is really...indescribable.
Qiao Xue was so scared that she couldn't even speak, and her clenched fist began to tremble continuously. She turned her head and looked at her mother who was lonely and mechanically gnawing bread. She couldn't help but secretly pinched her thighs.
The severe pain made her slightly overcome the fear in her heart. She gritted her teeth and finally spoke-
"I... we know, we will be honest. Look... we have never seen your true face, and you still use a voice changer, and you still wear gloves, leaving no fingerprints. So we can't know who you are at all, right? So... By January 1, we will be useless, and then... you will let us leave here... right?"
The masked man snorted and said, "It depends on my mood. However, if you can crack the password, there will be a lot of room for negotiation. Perhaps, you can tell me a little about your cracking results now, how about it?"
Qiao Xue pretended to be aggrieved and said, "This... I'm sorry, we haven't cracked anything yet."
Masked man: "Hmph, I know you're playing tricks, but forget it, you can't delay it for long."
Qiao Xue: "Then... since that's the case, I hope... you can give us something."
Qiao Xue tentatively gained a goal—
"I hope you can give us a light source. It's dark here... there is no way to crack it at all. Then... give me another computer, I need to use a computer to crack the password. Then... please give us 'absolutely' sufficient food. At that time... we hand over the password and you can let us go immediately!"
After thinking about it, the masked man nodded and said, "This is OK. There is no Internet now, and you can't send a distress signal. However, I advise you to be able to unlock your password on January 1st, that is, two days later, at 11:00 noon. Otherwise... Humph! I don't guarantee how many people will die."
After saying that, the masked man turned around and closed the door very casually.
Although Qiao Xue knew that the door would open again in a short while, she watched the light gradually disappear again...
Her heart was still tightly pulled.
Two days later... January 1st, New Year's Day, before 11:00 noon...
If the puzzle on the will cannot be solved before that...
If you can't solve the puzzle...
What will happen?
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Mu Tiebing stared blankly at the body that was placed on his trolley and stayed for a while.
After that, he began to exert force and push the luggage cart.
Qiao Feng watched from the side. After he got on the bend again, he turned his head and looked at the gravel beach that was still engulfed by the sea.
Three days, three corpses.
They all fell off the cliff and died here.
And this time, Luo Ming, who is ranked fifth... This person who looks kind on the surface but is very scheming.
Back to the hall, the next thing was still autopsy. There was no doubt that he was still dead after falling down. The death time was between 7:00 and 9:00 yesterday.
This is not a time for death that makes people feel comfortable. Because many people are not sleeping at this time, it is easy to find evidence of their absence.
In fact, this time, except for Fu Qin, Mu Xinli and Gong Changzheng, almost everyone had absent proof. No one had more than thirty minutes of alone time. In other words, when the first person died, all those who had no absent proof this time had absent proof. Such a simple logical inference directly led Qiao Feng to two conclusions-
One of them, there are two murderers, and they commit the crime when the other party is absent.
Second... Is there really a monster like a sirens in this world?
Qiao Feng patted his head, and the headache made him feel that he was almost dying of anger!
What should I do next?
Qiao Feng asked himself.
The three murder cases, the absenteeism that occurred during the death period proved that there might be more than two murderers. But if the murderer was not intended to be classified as two, then do we need to suspect that there is something wrong with Bell's death identification?
No, once the police come up on January 1, the body will be checked. If Bell made a fake identification, the first person he suspected was her, and she shouldn't have done such a thing.
Chapter completed!