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Chapter 141

Chu Changge glanced at the fat man's hair: "Your hair is all messed up."

"Would you believe me if I said I felt terrified for the driver?" the fat man muttered. "I'm not saying this to be rude, but any driver would refuse to pick up a doctor carrying such a huge chainsaw on his back, right?"

"That packaging is for guitars," Chu Changge said, unfolding the small advertisement in his hand.

The fat man sensed that things were getting difficult: "How are we going to find a doctor? Although the phone recording said that the murderer buried the body according to the Big Dipper, and we can roughly deduce that the murder took place in one of the seven locations, we don't even know where those seven locations are now."

Chu Changge piled up his and Fatty's advertisements together: "You think our starting location when we enter the dungeon is just randomly generated?"

The fat man frowned slightly: "Isn't that right?"

“No,” Chu Changge shook his head: “There are six players in this instance. I suspect that each of us corresponds to a deceased person, and our initial location upon entering the instance is very likely the place where the murderer buried the body.”

"You correspond to Miao Qingxi, the fourth victim, born here," Chu Changge pointed to the fat man's spawn location on the map: "The location of the fourth burial site."

"Actually, based solely on the location of this fourth burial site and the distribution of telephone booths in the city, I can deduce the approximate locations of the other six sites..."

“However, I have another map. This is where I was born. I need to go to the Changsheng Plastics Factory residential compound, which happens to be Li Guofang’s home address. So I correspond to him, the sixth victim.”

Chu Changge pointed to his birthplace on the map: "So the sixth burial site is here. Based on these two burial sites, I can calculate the other five locations more accurately."

"Now we can go to these five locations to look for people," Chu Changge said as he stepped out of the phone booth.

The fat man quickly followed.

"Get in the car," Chu Changge said, opening the car door and getting in. He then turned to the driver in front and said, "Let's go to Yanshou Mountain first."

The driver didn't say much, and then started the vehicle.

“Yanshou Mountain…” The fat man plopped down inside, then stared blankly at the map in his hand: “To be honest, Brother Chu, I didn’t really understand what you meant just now.”

"It's alright," Chu Changge said, taking out a pen. "You don't need to understand."

Immediately afterwards, the fat man saw Chu Changge drawing something on the map with that high-end-looking pen. After a moment, he saw a pattern gradually taking shape on the map.

"A spoon...this is the Big Dipper pattern, isn't it?" The fat man stared at the map.

Chu Changge nodded: "Yes."

Then he marked seven dots on the spoon-shaped pattern: "Six of these seven dots are where he hid the bodies, and the remaining one is his usual murder location."

The fat man saw that one end of the spoon bore the name of the place Chu Changge had just mentioned—"Yanshou Mountain".

"Speaking of which..." the fat man paused for a moment, "Even if the doctor got into a living person's car, he wouldn't be in danger, would he?"

At this point, the fat man seemed to remember something: "Wait a minute, even though the doctor isn't afraid of ghosts, he's quite afraid of living people. I remember him saying that when he's sleeping, he's not afraid of ghosts hanging on his head, but he's afraid of a living person crawling up next to him and stabbing him..." "But he carries a chainsaw and doesn't sleep in the car, so he'll probably be fine." The fat man fell into deep thought: "But I also heard that phone recording just now. The murderer said that no one can hurt him, so the chainsaw probably won't work."

The fat man was conflicted.

At this moment, Chu Changge had already outlined the seven points, and then threw the pen in his hand to the fat man next to him: "This is a voice recorder, listen to it."

The fat man's eyes widened slightly: "It can't be..."

He glanced at the driver in front of him as he spoke.

Chu Changge nodded: "It's his."

The driver's name was Li Guofang. Chu Changge had heard the murderer's recording about Li Guofang before, but the fat man did not expect that he would actually record the murderer's recording, and even more depravedly, he wanted to play it in front of the victim.

Although the driver seemed gentle and harmless, he was still a ghost, and who knew if he might suddenly go berserk.

But the fat man was also eager to know about the murderer, so he turned the volume down to the lowest setting, covered his ears, and listened secretly, trying not to make a sound.

"Beidou, my name is Chen Beidou—"

A familiar opening line.

It was clearly the voice of a normal middle-aged man, but the fat man felt a chill run down his spine, as if this pervert was right next to him.

"I'm a taxi driver. This is the sixth person I've killed. He was a man named Li Guofang."

"I know this person well, but he doesn't recognize me. Let me tell you how I know him; I've known him since he was in middle school."

"He was a very diligent student. How diligent? In junior high, his school didn't require evening self-study, but he always studied until very late. It seemed like he lived quite far from the school, and every time I passed by the school gate at night, I would see him waiting for the last bus."

"Even while waiting for the bus, he would hold an English book and memorize a few words. Sometimes he would miss the last bus because he was so engrossed in memorizing words. I liked watching his bewildered look from a distance."

"He's very hardworking, and hard work is a good thing. I really like this kind of prey."

"I'm a psychopath. I enjoy killing. I kill to observe the expressions on people's faces as they die; I like their panicked state. But I also enjoy watching incredibly hardworking people fail in the end. I admit it's satisfying to see them fail."

"Why should hard work guarantee success? Some might say my values ​​are warped, but I can't help it, it's just my nature."

"I had been eagerly anticipating the day he would fail, but he disappointed me."

"He didn't fail; instead, he became increasingly successful. Later, I often saw him. He went from a top-tier junior high school to a top-tier senior high school, and finally, in the college entrance exam, he went to a school I didn't know about."

"I didn't see him for several years after that, until he returned here after graduating. I never forgot him, and I was still waiting for the day when this prey would fail."

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