Chapter 34 third chapter

Sajia's body trembled, as if she had been told something, but she didn't want to admit it, she could only bite her lips tightly, in extreme embarrassment. "She is the sponsor, how could she not know the password?" Ryoma said in astonishment, a thought suddenly flashed in his mind. "unless……" "You want to say, unless the sponsor is someone else?" The person who spoke was Chris who had been silent before.The words he said surprised everyone. The sponsor was someone else?Chris, what do you mean?Isn't Saka the real sponsor? "Qianqiu asked with wide eyes.

Chris didn't answer, he looked at Sajia, "I'm right, right, Sajia? You wanted to take responsibility for someone else and put the organizer's hat on your head, but you didn't expect the password to appear Locking this part made it impossible to continue acting.” "What? What's going on here?" Xia Houshen said in surprise, "Why did Sajia pretend to be the organizer!" "The reason is very simple - to protect someone. And who this person is, I don't think everyone has to guess. In these 14 days, who is Sajia's closest relationship with, and whom does she have a crush on - isn't that obvious? ?” Chris said.

What? Nan Tian's breathing stopped, and his blood seemed to stop flowing temporarily.What is he saying?Why is everyone looking at me now? "Nan Tian...you..." Goth took two steps back in horror. "No...you must have made a mistake." Nan Tian shook his head hastily, "I can't be the sponsor." "I believe," Chris said with a slight nod of his head, "I believe you really don't know you're the sponsor" "You said... what?" Nan Tian was dumbfounded, "I don't know..." "I remember I said several times that I probably know who the sponsor is, but I haven't pointed it out clearly. The reason is that I always feel that something is missing. But until just now, I finally wanted to understand how it all happened. It's up. The identity of the real sponsor, and all the mysteries, have been revealed"

"No..." Sajia shook her head violently suddenly, begging, "Don't say it, I beg you!" Chris sighed, "Sajia, I understand your feelings. If you just opened this iron door and let us leave, I'm afraid we will never know this secret. But the problem now is, you I really don't know the password. Because the only one who controls this last link is the real organizer. If you insist on keeping this secret, the final result can only be that we all starve to death here-this is obviously not you I hope." I said a little more, I hope Loulou doesn't mind. Shajia suddenly shook her head violently, begging: "Don't say it, I beg you."

Chris sighed; Shaka, I know how you feel, if you just opened the folding iron door and let us leave, I am afraid we will never know this secret, but the problem now is that you really don’t know Password, because only the real sponsor controls this last link. If you insist on this secret, the final result is that we all starve to death here. This is not what you want, right? Shaka bit her lips tightly, looking extremely contradictory, Chris further persuaded; I have already thought about it, there is really no other way, the food can only last until tomorrow, if you don’t want everyone to be slowly hungry within a week If you die, you still——he paused and said, "Undo Nan Tian's hypnosis."

"Hypnosis!" Everyone yelled, only Nan Tian couldn't make a sound. Chris's words poured into his blood like ice cubes, making his body stiff and his brain frozen, unable to perform No matter what he thinks, his world is blank at this moment, only some voices that make him terrified. No, don't say it... Shaka begged hard, but it was too late. When she heard Chris say the word (hypnosis), her whole body shook violently, and then covered her face, feeling pain, " Shaka, your plan failed, it’s a fact,” Chris said, “Now, if you really want to save Nan Tian and yourself, you can only tell everything, as long as you open the door, you still have a chance And back."

"No, as long as Nan Tian knows the truth, it's impossible to get away with it," Sha Jia said sadly. Nan Tian stared at Sha Jia dumbfounded. After a long time, he asked: "Sha Jia, what Chris said...is it true?" Sha Jia didn't speak, just shed tears and looked at Nan Tian silently. Nan Tian and her looked at each other for a minute, and read the fact in her eyes that he didn't want to believe.He gasped and said in disbelief; "God...if that's the case, then tell me everything! Tell me, what's going on with all this?!" Sha Jia knew that at this point in the matter, there was no choice, and everything was over, so she could only tell the truth: "A year ago, I met a very talented young writer on the Internet. Famous, but determined to be the most outstanding suspense novelist in China. I was conquered by his works and came to S City where he was located, wanting to visit him. However, when I found his home and met him , but found that she was on the verge of collapse, lying in bed..."

Sajia asked sadly and said slowly: "I was very shocked. I didn't know what happened to him. He didn't want to tell me at first, but told me to leave. But I was very worried about his physical and mental condition, so I insisted on staying. book of……" Hearing this, Beidou understood: "It means that this author was hacked by an unscrupulous agent!" "Exactly, and he is just an unknown little author, and there is no evidence. Even if he exposes this shady scene on the Internet, it will only make people think it is grandstanding and will not pay attention to it. Therefore, I can only watch myself His work has been processed by others, and it became very popular. But I can only swallow my anger, knock out my teeth and swallow it, and the injury and mental shock he received can be imagined."

Everyone was silent.As writers, they are very aware of this feeling. It is no exaggeration to say that anyone who encounters such a thing may become devastated and hate this world. Nan Tian stared blankly at Sajia.He didn't have the slightest impression of the things she said.God, who is she talking about? Sajia looked at Nantian sadly, and continued: "After I learned about this, I was very angry and helpless. I could only comfort him, let him look forward, and create a better work. But he said that he It can't be done. "This incident made him no longer believe in this world, and also destroyed all her creative passions, making him unable to write any more works. The only thing he wants to do now is to avenge those who framed him— - Use his way!” At that time, I fell in love with watching him deeply, and realized that if I didn’t help him, he might do more extreme things to retaliate against society.

"So, I had no choice but to follow his arrangement and cooperate with him to complete this revenge plan. "We drew up a list—including all the people involved in this matter. First of all, of course, the editor of the book agency——Yu Chicheng; and then the editor-in-chief of the publishing company who knew the inside story—Xu Wen—they are both editors. , is also the author of suspense novels; followed by the best-selling author who accepted this proposal-Moby Dick; and the great writer who wrote the preface to this book-Arakaki; and the famous writer who recommended this book on the girdle and back cover-Lake , Ryoma, Gothic. And the hacked author, whose pen name is Bingfeng, and whose real name is Nan Tian!"

Sajia's words made everyone fall into a shuddering silence, and all the people who were mentioned were dumbfounded and looked shocked.And several other people who were not mentioned, represented by Xia Houshen, said: "Then, if this is the reason, why are Dark Fire, Qianqiu, and Beidou and I also included in the 'invited' list?" "Qianqiu?" Sajia sneered, "I'm afraid she knows it herself. The first partner that the publishing company found was not Moby Dick, but her! But for some unknown reason, she rejected the matter." "Yeah, I refused! Then why do you still find me?" Qianqiu said in confusion. "You refused, but you knew the inside story, but did nothing! If you had a sense of justice, you wouldn't just refuse, but should stop and expose the matter!" Sajia sternly said. "I don't know the inside story. At that time, they just found me and said that there was a selected topic and asked me if I would like to write it. I..." "There's no need to explain." Sajia interrupted her coldly, "A smart woman like you can't figure out what's going on? What topic will provide such detailed content and sample chapters for your reference? Hmph, I think you refused at the beginning because you were afraid that you would get into trouble later on. But the irony is that this incident actually provided you with the inspiration to create the story of "The Covenant of the Hanged Neck"——Qianqiu, yourself Think about the plot of the story you told, and dare to say that you don't know the inside story?" Qianqiu opened his mouth, speechless.Sajia bit her lip tightly, looking extremely contradictory.Chris further persuaded: "I have thought about it, there is really no other way. The food in the cabinet can only last until tomorrow morning. If you don't want everyone to slowly starve to death within a week, you still ——" He paused, "Undo the hypnosis on Nan Tian." What about me? Beidou asked timidly, "I have nothing to do with this matter at all." " "That's right, you are totally fine." Sajia said, "But you should be able to think of the reason for 'inviting' you - think about your special ability." "Have a photographic memory?" Beidou said in amazement, "Could it be that you are looking for me because you want me to be the witness and recorder of this incident?" "Yes, your ability has been reported by the media. We considered that what happened during these 14 days and the stories everyone wants to tell, if there is no one with an extraordinary memory, I am afraid that no one can fully record this So—sorry, you were invited by us for this reason." "So, it's not because I'm an...excellent author of suspense novels?" Beidou said awkwardly. "No, this is also one of the reasons. The wonderful story you told about "The Secret of Dinon" is enough to prove your strength." Beidou scratched his head and smirked twice without knowing what to say. "So, what about me and Dark Fire?" Xia Houshen asked inexplicably: "We neither participated in this matter, nor have any special abilities that can be used. What is the reason for arresting us?" Sajia said: "It's a bit perfunctory, because you are also outstanding suspense novelists, but of course there are more important reasons." "what reason?" "Because of you, we can make up 14 people." "What, you arrested us just to make up the numbers?" Xia Houshen felt dumbfounded, "Is this the 'very important reason'?" "Of course," Sajia raised her head and said, "As you have guessed before—the number '14' has a special meaning." "What special meaning?" Darkfire asked. Sajia paused for a moment, then said: "The book in which Nan Tian encountered the shady scene has the same name as the story he told tonight." "'Fourteen Days of Fright'?" Xia Houshen exclaimed. "That's right, I don't know if it's a coincidence or an arrangement of fate..." Sajia pondered, then raised her head, "But that's why we have to gather 14 people!" She explained: "We found out that among the people involved in this matter, Yu Chicheng and Xu Wen undoubtedly knew the inside story. Shanhuang Muzhou, Longma, Lake, Goth and others have no way of judging—maybe they know the inside story , but it may also be kept in the dark. So, in order to avoid wrongful revenge, Nan Tian thought of an idea - get together 14 participants. "Of course, Yu Chicheng and Xu Wen are guilty of being thieves, and they dare not tell the reason even if they know the reason. If Shan Longma and the others know the inside story and then contact the number of kidnapped people, they will definitely realize that this time is related to that shady scene; otherwise, If you don't know the inside story, you won't know why you were kidnapped. Through these 14 days of observation..." "We are innocent." Ma Long said, "I just promised the editor of this book to write a recommendation for Moby Dick. How could I know the hidden code behind this book?" "I don't know either." Lake and Goth expressed their opinions one after another. "I believe you are telling the truth." Sajia said, "Because when Ryoma mentioned whether the invited people had anything in common that day, no one thought of it. If you are not acting, then It’s just that you really don’t know the inside story. But—” she turned around and pointed at the white whale, “it’s impossible for you not to know.” The white whale trembled in fright, his lips moved slightly, as if he wanted to explain something, but he couldn't speak. "The night after your story was told, that is, when the evidence of your foul was found in Xu Wen's room, you said: Someone must have deliberately retaliated against me in this matter." Sajia said coldly, " Since you can realize this, it means that you are very aware of what you have done. Did you conceive your best-selling new book "High Window"? You know it very well." White Whale said in horror: I... only know that editor-in-chief Xu Wen gave me a selection of topics and a brief introduction with pictures and texts, but I don't know that these are written by another author... "It's useless to explain these things now, save yourself." Sajia said: "Originally, you should die like Yu Chicheng and Xu Wen, but... the story you told saved you and made me give up. Kill your plans." "What?" Beluga said in shame, "The "Guest from the Tomb" I was talking about saved me..., why?" Sajia said dejectedly: "This story makes me feel a bit of warmth... I think, since you can tell such a story, your heart shouldn't be completely dark—hmph." She laughed at herself, "This Probably the benevolence of women." The white whale hung its head in embarrassment, with complicated emotions. "The reason why the rest of us were invited here is known, what about Chris?" Beidou said, "Why did he come here in a special way?" 'Special guest', the reason for inviting him is——Nan Tian proposed that he wanted to challenge himself, and he thought that the game he designed was a very delicate puzzle. In addition to being used for revenge, it is also a game A death game that tests wisdom and courage! He can no longer write any stories, but he can design such a wonderful 'game'. Nan Tian hopes to find a genius with a super IQ to participate in this game, and see if he can break the game— ——Chris became our chosen target. Then why were we kidnapped and Chris woke up?" Qianqiu asked. "Because Chris's whereabouts are irregular, and he has no fixed residence in the country. Therefore, I only have to design to deceive him." Sajia said, "I have contacted him through emails many times and told him that on April 22 In the evening, there will be a wonderful game at a certain place, and I look forward to his participation. I know Chris is a very curious person, and I know he will definitely come. Sure enough, he came to the designated place as agreed, and waited there The black car that brought him here." Chris tilted his head and stared at Saga, silent. Sajia let out a long sigh of relief: "This is our plan and the reason for inviting you here, everyone understands now." Until now, you are still talking about invitations?Araki Zhou said angrily, "This is an out-and-out kidnapping! But I'm also wondering—who the hell are you? How could you kidnap so many of us here at about the same time?" Saka was silent for a long time. "At this point, I don't have to hide it anymore." She raised her head and looked at everyone, "You should have heard of the Guo's Consortium in N City, right? I am the only daughter of the chairman of the Guo's Consortium." "What! You are..." Araki Zhou, who has always been steady, was not only tongue-tied, "No wonder..." The others had obviously heard of the name of the Guo Family Consortium, and they were all extremely surprised—this is the top ten largest consortium in the country by assets.At this moment, they fully understood—renovating the abandoned prison, building secret rooms, arranging everything here, and hiring the underworld to secretly kidnap 12 suspense novel writers... These seemingly difficult things are difficult for the Guo family who owns more than 30% of the shares. For the daughter of the Guo family, it was a piece of cake.When everyone was shocked, Nan Tian looked at Sajia and said, "No matter who your real identity is, I just want to know—how did you hypnotize me? Why did you do this?" "This is what you asked for." Sajia said sadly, "I just said that you designed this game for two purposes: one is revenge; the other is to challenge yourself. Before you encountered the shady scene, you always thought you were A suspenseful genius with different talents. But this incident made you lose your confidence in writing new works, but it did not destroy your arrogance. You told me that you will design and interpret the whole world in the county mayor. The greatest suspense novel, and as a participant, I challenge my own conception." Nan Tian stared at Sajia dumbfounded, his whole body went numb. "When you were in contact with me, you knew that I was not a suspense novelist, but a senior hypnotist. So, you designed all the puzzles and arranged everything. Then, on the day the game started, you asked me to Hypnotize you to make you forget your original identity and everything you designed. Participate completely as an invitee!" "On the night of April 22, I asked you to lie in a room here and close your eyes. I used hypnosis to make you selectively forget certain things before, and then hinted at you—your name is Nan Tian, ​​and you are a Single freelance writer, wake up according to his own biological clock in the morning, wash up, eat breakfast; then type in front of the computer until twelve noon; go out, go to a small restaurant nearby for lunch; go home to take a nap; Computer games; I ordered takeaway for dinner, and wrote articles until 11:30 after eating; after that, I lay on the sofa and watched TV-the TV program was boring, and you fell asleep after a while...Hypnosis is very successful. When you wake up When I came here, I couldn't remember the previous things at all, and then I devoted myself to this game..." Nan Tian stared at Shajia dumbfounded, his whole body went numb. "When you were in contact with me, you knew that I was not a suspense novel writer, but a senior hypnotist. So, you designed all the puzzles and arranged everything, and then the day the game started, you asked me to treat you Apply hypnotism, make you forget who you are, level 1 everything you design, pool bottom to participate as an 'invitee'! On the night of April 22nd, I have you lying in a room here, shut up Eyes. I use hypnosis to make you selectively forget certain things before, and then give you hints—your name is Nan Tian, ​​and you are a single freelance writer. Get up in the morning according to your own biological clock, wash up, and have breakfast; I typed before noon until twelve noon; went out and went to a small restaurant nearby to have lunch; went home to sleep; got up at three in the afternoon and played computer games; ordered takeaway for dinner, and wrote articles until half past eleven after eating; Then lie on the sofa and watch TV - the TV show is boring, and you fall asleep after a while... The hypnosis is very successful. When you wake up, you can't remember the previous things at all, and then you are fully engaged in this In a game..." Nan Tian trembled uncontrollably.All that Sajia said was indeed his valuable "memory" when he woke up - but there were only some vague impressions like a journal, and he couldn't remember any details.What scares him even more is that he only realizes now that although he remembers some people and things from the past, what happened in recent months, his mind is blank! Now, Nan Tian can no longer doubt the fact that he was hypnotized. The words Sajia said made him shudder. He widened his eyes and asked, "You said that everything was planned by me? That is to say, after Ling finished speaking The 'foul' of (some) people in the story, including the deaths of Yu Chicheng and Xu Wen, were all planned by me... in advance?" "You are a genius, Nan Tian." Sajia said with a complicated tone: "Many things are within your expectation and control. You once told me what to do in such a situation. I follow the The method you taught me has accomplished these...seemingly impossible things almost flawlessly." Nan Tian trembled uncontrollably.All that Sajia said was indeed his "memory" before he woke up - but there were only some vague impressions like a journal, and he couldn't recall any details.What frightened him even more was that he didn't realize until now that although he remembered some people and things from a long time ago, his mind was indeed blank about what happened in recent months!Now that things have happened, Nan Tian can no longer doubt the fact that he was hypnotized, and what Sajia said made him shudder.He widened his eyes and asked, "You said... everything was designed by me? That is to say, it was me who fouled (some) people who finished telling the story, including Yu Chicheng's and Xu Wen's deaths... ...Planned in advance?" Nan Tian still looked at Sajia in bewilderment, as if she couldn't figure out how to do all this, but Sajia kept her lips tight and kept silent. At this moment, Chris said: " Ka, if you don't want to look back on these heinous things, let me help you explain - of course you admit to 'hypnosis'" After this fact, many seemingly incredible things can be explained. "First of all, Yu Chicheng's story was fouled because of the 'Blizzard Mountain Villa Mode'. At this time, you realized the unforeseen-it should be that Sajia temporarily thought of finding this reason to kill him, and then, as No. 2 Xu Wen , is a key figure. If I guess correctly, the "secret room" we have been guessing before is actually not an independent dark room, but a "tandem type secret room" that can connect 14 rooms—that is, Said, in fact, through the secret room, every room is connected!" Chris looked at Sajia, saw her bowed her head and said nothing, and knew that she was right, and continued: "Be sure, and Sajia is a senior Cui. Secret Master, many problems will be solved easily. Xu Wen is the key person who caused the 'foul'! I think the whole process should be like this——After Yu Chicheng's story is finished, Sajia should go to him once. Remind him Foul, the point of this visit is actually to use some kind of recording tool to record Yu Chicheng's "some words". Therefore, we listened to Xu Wen's story telling the next night, and Yu Chicheng didn't come down, so Beidou went upstairs to call Only he heard him say 'I'm feeling a little uncomfortable, I can't come down'—in fact, Yu Chicheng in the room at that time had already turned into a corpse! And what Beidou heard was just the recording controlled by Sajia's remote control!" Chris's analysis made everyone's hair stand on end. After a pause, Chris continued: "After Xu Wen's story was finished, we went to Yu Chicheng's room and found that he was killed by Xu Wen with the plot in Xu Wen's story. Killed! We thought it was incredible at the time, but now we can explain it—there is no doubt that Sajia sneaked into Xu Wen's room through the secret room the night before Xu Wen told the story, and hypnotized him!" "I don't know the details of the hypnosis. Perhaps through some kind of suggestion, Xu Wen in his sleep can tell some important content of the story he conceived in the form of sleep talk. In this way, Sajia knows the truth in advance. Some plots in the story that Xu Wen was going to tell the next day. So, in the afternoon of the second day, she sneaked into Yu Chicheng's room, killed him, and arranged the scene to be the same as Xu Wen's story—— ——In this way, Xu Wen was fouled! However, the use of Xu Wen did not end. On the third night, when Xia Houshen told the story of "Mystery Dream", Xu Wen did not participate because he was frightened the first day. Rest in our own room. And after Xia Houshen finished speaking, we did not rate the story that night because of arguing about the "authenticity" of the story-this provided Sajia with another opportunity. Xia Houshen On the night after the story was told, Sajia sneaked into Xu Wen's room in the same way. Unlike the last time, this time she didn't want to extract any storyline from Xu Wen's mouth, but used hypnosis to hint at him .The implication is - 'He's been having the same nightmare since the day before yesterday and woke up at 4:18!'” "Ah!" Xia Houshen exclaimed, "So that's how it is! I understand... I misunderstood Xu Wen at the time, thinking that he was deliberately framing me, but in fact, he didn't experience any nightmares at all, just being loved Jia used hypnotism to add hints in his mind!" "That's it, but anyway, this trick makes your story 'foul' too!" "So, what happened to the person who committed the foul next?" Qianqiu asked. "I'll go on and say that there's no foul in Lake's story, presumably because he's cleverly used 'that method'—not pre-thinking the storyline—and it turns out, that's actually a smart move. Next, Dark Fire became the organizer's target again." Chris looked at Dark Fire: "I remember you said that there was a person who was with you the night before you told the story - this person is Saka --Right?" "...Yes." Darkfire admitted ugly. "Why didn't you just say it then?" "Saka said that she hoped that I could keep the secret of my secret contact with her. She said that if the organizer finds out, it may be against us." "Didn't you suspect her? Think she has some purpose in approaching you?" "I thought about it, but, I stayed with me all night..." "I see," Chris nodded and said, "It's this that confuses you. Now let me try to analyze what happened to you. Sajia came to find you the night before you told the story, And spent the night in your room. As for what you did, I have no intention of discussing it. But what is certain is that Sajia looked for an opportunity to hypnotize you. After you fell asleep, she deliberately went to the hall downstairs, Or play the sound recorded in the secret room - anyway, so that we can hear 'midnight footsteps'. Then he returns to your room, hints to you in your sleep, and makes you have a dream related to 'night running' , leading you to add this very suspenseful plot naturally when you conceive the plot of the story the next day." "That's right... that's it." Dark sweat dripped from his head, "The plot in this dream inspired me and made me conceive this story." "The thing is," Chris points out, "you wake up and find Saga still by your side, so you think it can't be her who's up to something—it turns out it's her."