bayonet and rose

"What's the matter, do you think the risk is too high?" Hua Zhai asked.

"Not interested."

Hua Zhai's lip line raised a slight arc, he didn't comment on Lin Ziyu's attitude, and after taking a look, he simply looked away, "What about you?"

The security guard was a little terrified by Hua Zhai's gaze, and shook his head to express his opinion.

The little star bit her lip and her eyes flickered, noncommittal.Hua Zhai kept staring at him with great interest, and finally the little star nodded weakly under Hua Zhai's gaze to express his agreement.

The courier was not so entangled, and said without hesitation: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter."

"Professor Yi still objects?" Hua Zhai finally looked at Professor Yi.

Professor Yi's face was livid and speechless.

Hua Zhai added fuel to the fire: "Voting is so democratic, foreign juries also voted to decide whether to sentence the suspect to death."

"What democracy! You are simply trampling humanity under your feet!"

"That's fine," Hua Zhai shrugged, "Professor Yi, just keep your noble humanity and wait to die. Starving to death sounds a bit romantic, which fits Professor Yi's temperament."

The two broke up again. Three people present clearly opposed the vote, one was neutral, and only Hua Zhai and Xiaoxing agreed.At first, the security guard was a little worried about whether Hua Zhai would force the vote, but unexpectedly, Hua Zhai didn't say anything about it, as if he had never proposed it.

The night was getting darker. This was the second night they were trapped in the ruins. Compared with last night, there were three fewer people. Negative emotions such as fear, anxiety, and panic filled every corner, making them physically trapped to the limit. There is no way to rest well.

It’s not a big deal for Lin Ziyu to stay idle for a few nights. Working all night and going on business trips in Lin Ziyu’s life has almost become as indispensable as breathing. He wants to expand his career territory, and people around him have advised him not to work too hard to be careful of sudden death from overwork...

As a result, he never expected to be involved in an unnatural incident before his sudden death, and he might have died.

The next day, people who were seriously short of water found it difficult to open their mouths to speak. Under the advice of the security guards, they moved towards the artificial lake. Now it doesn't matter where the water comes from or what its quality is, as long as it can be drunk.

It turned out that even the artificial lake was dry!

The temperature was not so high as to be terrifying, not to mention that the artificial lake was so big that it had been thoroughly dried up.

Everything in the ruins cannot be judged by common sense. This dry artificial lake is more like a sword on their heads, clearly showing that they have no room for retreat other than clearing the customs.

I came here full of hope, but it was empty, no one was in a high mood, and the security guards were about to stare out their eyes. At the same time, I was a little thankful that I didn't hesitate to drink enough when I passed by last time.

They didn't bother to go back to their original places, so they found a place to sit nearby.

A few minutes after sitting down, Professor Yi touched him and sat down next to Lin Zi Prison.

Lin Ziyu was waiting for him to speak, but he and Hua Zhai did not speak when they reported their whereabouts, and because of the incident of Lin Nana and Feng Dalong, no one asked.

Now that Professor Yi wanted to find a breakthrough, he naturally came to ask Lin Ziqian.

Sure enough, Professor Yi asked, "What were you doing before the earthquake?"

"Before the earthquake? How far back is this time," Lin Zijuan said without wasting his saliva.

Professor Yi: "..."

Lin Ziyu: "I was at home more than an hour before the earthquake, and I also called Hua Zhai after receiving the courier. As for the matter ahead... I am with Hua Zhai."

As soon as the words came out, Professor Yi's expression became a little weird, and he paused for a long time before asking cautiously: "What is your relationship..." After asking, Professor Yi realized that it was inappropriate to inquire into this level of personal affairs, so he weakly asked Added: "I am Hua Zhai's father."

It turned out that they were father and son. When Lin Zijuan saw them for the first time, he felt that something was wrong, but seeing Professor Yi's embarrassed face, it is estimated that their father-son relationship is difficult to describe.

"They were lovers before, but now they have broken up." Lin Ziyu said lightly.

"Did Hua Zhai do something that I'm sorry for you?" Professor Yi blurted out without thinking, and said it quite firmly.

Lin Ziyu twitched the corners of his mouth, and his chapped lips were torn a little because of this action, "I didn't say the reason why Professor Yi is so sure that it's Hua Zhai's problem? Is it because Hua Zhai often causes trouble?"

Professor Yi's face was blushing, and finally he let out an angry "hmm", and didn't mean to give Lin Ziyu a detailed account of the past deeds of Huazhai.

Lin Ziyu didn't have the corresponding curiosity, "My whereabouts were like this before the earthquake, you can check with Huazhai."

Professor Yi shook his head: "I believe in you."

Lin Ziyu didn't make a sound.

Professor Yi sighed softly, and smiled a little lonely: "You don't bother to lie, I don't check attendance much in class, and other students will fool me no matter how good or bad their grades are, and I don't care about the reasons they give me. , only you didn't even find an excuse, just let me deduct the normal points."

"It's usually a trivial matter, but now it's a matter of life and death. It's not a wise choice to use fixed impressions to judge me." Lin Ziqian said.

"It's also..." Professor Yi's face was pale and bloodless, his eyes were sunken and blue, his face was fleshless, and he didn't know if he was hungry or sick, "I have a suspect."

He didn't continue to discuss the issue of fixed impressions with Lin Ziyu, and showed his cards directly, "I suspect that I am dead."

Without waiting for Lin Ziqian to reply, Professor Yi continued to speak: "I have been ill for a long time, and I am not surprised when I die. After being hospitalized, every day is the same. Maybe I don't know when I will die."

Lin Ziqian was silent for a moment: "Professor, what are you trying to do by telling me these things?"

Personal life and death are the biggest secrets among the ruins. Professor Yi's self-explosion in front of Lin Zi Prison is definitely not because he was bored and wanted to talk for entertainment.

"I don't know," Professor Yi's eyes darkened. "We can't sit still, but I can't be 100% sure that I'm dead. Eliminating me is still risky. I can't bet on others."

They were surrounded by broken stones. Lin Zijuan's hand rested lightly on the front of a gently raised stone. Blood scabs had already formed on his hands. These black and brittle blood scabs made the hesitation and fear at the beginning of the earthquake disappear. The struggle is covered up.

The rules of the ruins force people to advance and retreat, even if anyone is willing to abandon all the constraints of human nature and morality, they may not be able to pass the level smoothly.

Not getting any feasible results, Professor Yi stood up and went back to his original position.

"I, I'll come." The security guard who had been silently listening to the conversation between the two also stood up abruptly and said to Professor Yi.

Professor Yi didn't understand what he meant for a while, "Huh?"

"I'm here to eliminate you. I'm not afraid of being out." The security guard raised the volume, but it didn't seem like he was worried that others might not hear clearly, but more to cheer himself up.

Professor Yi was stunned.

"We can't..." The security guard scratched his head, trying to imitate what Professor Yi said before, "We can't sit still and wait for death."

They didn't hide anything. Everyone present heard the conversation between Professor Yi and the security guard, and looked at them with different expressions.

"You..." Professor Yi regained his composure, with mixed feelings in his heart, he couldn't speak for a moment, and could only stare at the security guard in a daze.

The risk of eliminating a 100% dead person like Lin Nana is very small. The situation forces many people to take action, but Professor Yi is not sure whether he is alive or dead. After all, everything is just his guess, and the risk of eliminating Professor Yi is too high .

Under such circumstances, the security guard is still willing to stand up. Although he himself may not have thought too deeply, he can afford to be brave.

It's just a pity that courage is not enough in the ruins.

"Don't worry." Lin Zijuan stopped the security guard, "I'm not in a desperate situation yet."

The security guard was pleasantly surprised: "Mr. Lin, do you have a solution?"

Lin Ziqian shook his head slightly, "I was just thinking about other possibilities."

The security guard didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, but he still temporarily gave up the impossible method of eliminating Professor Yi according to Lin Ziyu's statement.Professor Yi was vacillating at first, so he let it go after hearing what Lin Ziju said.

The original reversal was resolved by Lin Zijue with a sentence or two, and the rest of the people couldn't help but look at Lin Zijuan a few more times.

Among the ruins, Linzi Prison has never shown any conspicuous performance, but no one can label him as mediocre. As long as this person exists, it is enough to attract attention.

Hua Zhai's gaze scanned Lin Ziyu's whole body from top to bottom, and landed lightly on Lin Ziyu's hands and feet. Needless to say, his hands were full of scars, and his feet were not much better.Lin Ziyu was wearing house slippers, which were strenuous to walk on and were easily worn away by waste rocks. The light-colored slippers were already stained with faint bloodstains.

Hua Zhai's gaze was too deliberate, and it was difficult for Lin Ziju to ignore him, so he looked over, and Hua Zhai, who was caught upright, smiled at Lin Ziju.

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"Everyone who breaks through the level, please note that it is now [-] o'clock in the morning Beijing time, and now additional rules are added. The dead have a chance to blew themselves up. If you think you are dead, please throw away your bayonet. If you blew up successfully, you will be considered as a successful elimination. If you fail, it will be treated as out of the game, and the time limit is one hour, please make persistent efforts to break through the level according to the rules."

As soon as this extra rule came out, Professor Yi trembled a few times.

The surprise in Lin Ziyu's heart was not small. The timing of this rule was too coincidental. After Professor Yi suspected that he was a dead person, it seemed to be tailor-made for him... and the rule said "addition". The two even stated unabashedly that regulations can be formulated and issued at any time.

As Lin Ziyu had guessed before, there was some kind of existence monitoring their every move, watching them with enjoyment struggling to survive, mutual suspicion, fearful loss of hope little by little.

Professor Yi's panic was only for a very short moment, and he quickly calmed himself down, without looking at anyone and letting go of his hand without hesitation.

The bayonet fell to the ground and was bounced again. It rolled a few times before stopping.

The moment the bayonet fell, Hua Zhai's body moved a little, but the movement was not obvious, as if it was a natural reaction of the muscles that had been stiff for too long.

"Every check-breaker, please pay attention. It is now [-]:[-] am Beijing time. The dead Yi Zhi blew himself up and gave up his bayonet to confirm his elimination. Please make persistent efforts to follow the rules and pass the level."

Professor Yi's guess was correct, he was indeed dead, and as the notification tone fell, Professor Yi's body gradually disappeared... There was only one dead person left.

This self-destruction rule is effective, and it is obviously much more lenient than the previous rule-because it will not involve others.

Eliminating yourself and bearing the consequences by yourself will not affect the overall situation, but the question is whether everyone is willing to disregard their own life and death like Professor Yi.

The remaining five people did not speak, and no one came forward to try.An hour passed quickly, and the beep sounded to announce that the additional rules were invalid.

The temperature and weather in the ruins were the same as before the earthquake. It was especially hot at noon, hungry and sunburned. The little star had a tendency to suffer from heatstroke, and the others were more or less unconscious.

But today's sun seems to be nailed to the sky. It violates the laws of nature and hasn't moved for a long time.

Lin Ziyu's skin was also sunburned and reddened. His skin is prone to scars, and it takes a long time to recover after such a sun exposure.

The security guard felt that he smelled something, and he couldn't tell whether it was a hallucination or the real thing. He didn't dare to think deeply or say it out, and finally smacked his lips and said hoarsely: "I understand the feeling of salted fish."

If they continue to dry like this, they will become salted fish sooner or later.

After surviving under the sun for a while, the little star finally couldn't support himself and fell to the ground. They didn't have salt water to rescue him, and all they could do was the security guard handed him his coat to block the sun.

"Attention all passers-by, it is now 24:[-] p.m. Beijing time, and there are [-] hours left in the pre-selection. Please make persistent efforts to follow the rules and pass the pass."

When the notification sound fell, the sun that had been hanging high just now disappeared and was replaced by a dark scene, as if to confirm the concept of "night" mentioned in the notification sound.

Although the sun had set, the heat did not subside all of a sudden, it could only dissipate slowly.

By the time the heat is not so strong, the surrounding night is already very dense.

Lin Ziyu was groggy, and the temperature dropped to the point where he couldn't feel comfortable. There was a fire in his heart that couldn't dissipate, scorching him all the time.

He tried to breathe smoothly, not letting his consciousness and emotions get out of control. Lin Ziyu walked all the way under pressure in the mall, and this level was not enough to make him succumb to anxiety and panic.

Unable to fall asleep at this level, Lin Ziyu constructed a framework diagram of the rules of the ruins in his mind.The original rules and the extra rules are compiled based on elimination and elimination. They should be integrated, but they feel a bit contradictory.

The original rules restrained the passers-by, but the additional rules removed these constraints...

A hand suddenly covered the back of Lin Ziyu's.

This is Hua Zhai's hand, Lin Ziju is so familiar with this hand, he can be sure that Hua Zhai is here without turning his head to confirm.

Hua Zhai quickly moved his hand away, "How are you?"

"good."

"There are still about twenty hours, aren't you afraid?" Hua Zhai's voice was already rough, but he was still chatting nonsense with Lin Ziyu with great interest.

Lin Ziqian's lips were dry, "You are not afraid of anything I am afraid of."

Hua Zhai laughed dryly, "I recalled what happened after the shipwreck of the British ship Margaret in the 19th century."

This case or incident Linzi prison is known, it is an ethical problem like the trolley problem, the core point is whether it is possible to sacrifice a few people to save the majority in a crisis situation... and whether it is possible to follow the most primitive principles when faced with a choice Survival instinct.

In modern society, there is order and morality, and everyone is well-dressed and guards the bottom line one by one, but if the order is shattered all of a sudden, it doesn't seem to take long to return to the original instinct.

They have only been starved for less than three days. Although it is uncomfortable, it seems to be within the range of personal control... It's just that there is no absolute, and if it continues, someone's sanity may collapse one day.

"I won't." Lin Ziqian said.

"So confident in yourself?"

"If I do this, my own moral and ethical system will collapse, and I might as well starve to death."

Morality and ethics are things that cannot be seen or touched. Picking them up and putting them down are just a matter of thought. It would be ridiculous to talk about morality in this environment. However, Hua Zhai did not question Lin Ziyu. After a while he said: "I Nor will it."