I'm being held captive by a monster

Chapter 211 South City is being abandoned

"..."

Over time, Lin Xing'an's pace gradually slowed down.

But in the end there was still a one-minute error.

He returned to nine fifty-nine.

"call!"

Lin Xing'an sat up suddenly!

Then he lay down again suddenly.

"Junior, what are you doing? Do you still have the energy?"

Seeing this, Ke Ke, who let Lin Xing'an rest his head on her thighs, smiled.

"Gone……"

Lin Xing'an covered his eyes and breathed deeply.

The feeling of losing all his strength at the end of the rollback, combined with the exhaustion he had just felt in the gravity room, made Lin Xing'an's heart beat wildly.

"Senior, let's stop here this morning."

"I want to take a shower and rest..."

"I can't bear it anymore..."

After taking two breaths, Lin Xing'an said in a trembling voice.

"Yo yo yo! Can't even the King of Scrolls handle it?"

Hearing Lin Xing'an say this, Ke Ke's face was full of surprise.

Lin Xing'an shook his head silently.

It means that he is really no longer able to do it.

"Junior, other people use the gravity room for ten minutes and then rest for one minute. How can you train like this?"

"Next time, just listen to Senior!"

Ke Ke wiped the sweat from Lin Xing'an's forehead with a towel.

"it is good."

Lin Xing'an also sat up and drank a glass of water in big gulps.

"Alright! That's all for the morning then."

"We'll resume the plan this afternoon. I'll first tell you about the main composition of our committee, and then teach you how to control the ghost realm."

Ke Ke pulled Lin Xing'an up, rubbed his shoulders from behind and said.

Lin Xing'an also nodded repeatedly.

After returning to the room, he lay directly in the bathtub.

Then, while running hot water, he established a connection with Yin Hui.

"8% off on mango sago..."

Lin Xing'an checked the menu and looked at the discounts on the milk tea shop's special offer board.

Yangzhi Ganlu is the third one in the first row.

(1, 3, 8)

It’s the building where the milk tea shop is.

Lin Xing'an controlled Yin Hui and flew to the top floor.

Between the gaps between the two water tanks, he saw a cat exchanging meow punches with a calico cat.

"Meow meow meow?"

Noticing Yinhui, the cat kicked the calico cat down.

"I'm ashore in World War II, and I need to contact Taoyuan immediately."

Lin Xing'an said in a controlled gloomy tone.

The cat's expression suddenly became serious.

"follow me."

She leaped high into the air and transformed into a flying bird.

Carrying Lin Xing'an's gloomy face, he flew to a residential area.

After circling in the air, she turned into a flying insect in the shadows.

Lin Xing'an followed her into a room.

There are obvious signs of life in the room.

Judging from the family portrait on the wall, this family of three is a happy and confused bunch.

It's just that at this time, parents are at work and children are at school.

"Meow."

The cat brought Lin Xing'an to the child's bedroom and meowed at the Xiaoai speaker.

After five seconds, the speaker turns on automatically.

Yin Hui also turned into Lin Xing'an's image again.

It was just that because his physical strength was exhausted, Lin Xing'an was unable to control too much of his gloom.

The last thing he transformed into was the six-year-old him.

【How many times have you come ashore? 】

Taoyuan's voice came from the speakers.

"It's the second time."

【what do I need to do?】

The light above flickered and asked directly.

"One, call my sister."

"Second, immediately simulate the sound of my rewind ability ending to disrupt Xu Zhe's judgment."

"Three, kill Liu Xu. He will find my aunt's coffee shop at 4 pm and meet with Xu Zhe at 6 pm to exchange information. He must kill Liu Xu before 4 pm."

"Four, tell me everything you know about the Divine Palace, everything about Gu Xingxin, and why you were able to contact Gu Xingxin?"

"Five, enter complete hibernation before your South City mainframe is completely destroyed."

Lin Xing'an spoke directly to the point.

Before going back to the game, he had already planned it out in his mind several times.

"Wow."

The cat beside him raised an eyebrow and said, "Looks like there's melon to eat."

I'll leave first and ask my sister to come over.

[Then simulate the sound of your rewind ending]

After Taoyuan finished speaking, the smart speaker automatically turned off.

Lin Xing'an took a deep breath and looked at the time.

It was only ten-fifteen, about the same as he had planned.

"It's okay, just pretend I don't exist. I'll just listen quietly without making any comments or suggestions, and won't say anything."

Seeing Lin Xing'an looking at her, the cat hurriedly said.

"Do you know Gu Xingxin?"

Lin Xing'an asked directly.

"Um……"

The cat shook its head, but after a moment's hesitation, it nodded, but said nothing.

Lin Xing'an also lowered his eyes in understanding and didn't ask any more questions.

Three minutes later, the speaker flickered again.

【Xu Zhe is currently underwater】

[I have automatically set it up so that the sound will sound at several appropriate times to maximize the interference with Xu Zhe's judgment]

As Taoyuan was speaking, his sister also emerged along the Internet cable.

Blue light emerged from the speaker.

What happened after the console was destroyed?

Taoyuan asked proactively.

Lin Xing'an also took a deep breath.

Without hiding anything, he highlighted Taoyuan's plan to kill Xu Zhe, the subsequent appearance of Gu Xingxin, and the reason for his return this time.

Taoyuan is now full of health, so he has nothing to worry about.

"So now that I'm here, I'm going to kill Liu Xu and prevent him from meeting Xu Zhe and exchanging information."

"Taoyuan, you should know how far Liu Xu has investigated in Nancheng, right?"

"Without the information Liu Xu has gathered, Xu Zhe would have no basis for suspicion even if he didn't. This would only drive him even more crazy and expose more flaws."

Lin Xing'an asked after giving everyone a few seconds to digest what he had just said.

【I know】

[In fact, everything Liu Xu was able to find out was what I allowed him to find out.]

[The information he knew would arouse Xu Zhe's curiosity, making him suspicious, but unable to further confirm it.]

[I think getting stuck here will cause Xu Zhe to have a lot of internal friction, and will shift Xu Zhe's investigation of you to the six-year-old "dead you"]

[But now it seems that I underestimated Xu Zhe's associative ability]

Taoyuan seemed to be searching and calculating something as he spoke.

"Liu Xu's ability is a passive ability that is only triggered after death."

"After his death, a ghost domain will be formed. All abilities within the ghost domain will be ineffective. This will last for about ten minutes."

"So find a suitable time and place to kill him."

Lin Xing'an said after a moment of silence.

Taoyuan did not answer immediately, and Lin Xing'an did not urge him.

He knew that Taoyuan was calculating which of the two would bring the greatest benefit: killing Liu Xu or letting Liu Xu live but preventing him from finding out so much information.

[Understood] [I'll let Wang Xi go]

Then have Wang Xi and Yu Shi move to North City tonight.

"Why? Why move everyone to North City?"

"Relatively speaking, isn't South City safer?"

Lin Xing'an asked with a frown.

At first, he thought that Teacher Orange wanted to go to North City on her own initiative.

After all, given Teacher Orange's personality, she will definitely not stop exploring the truth about Taoyuan Village and the chicken coop.

But now it seems that Taoyuan is moving on its own initiative.

South City is being abandoned

"…Abandoned? What does that mean?"

Lin Xing'an frowned.

Although he has not yet officially joined the committee.

But during this period, Ke Ke answered almost every question he asked and analyzed the important matters of the committee with him without hesitation.

There is absolutely no news about South City.

The main dilemma facing gluttons right now is that there are too many gluttons and too few people.

[I deduced that one of the committee's solutions was to send all the people in South City to North City when they were deployed, and to send the excess gluttons in North City to South City.]

[The probability of gluttons using this method is over 70%]

[Because this trend has already begun, there are fewer and fewer core gluttons in South City, and more and more marginal gluttons.]

[When the time is right, they will conduct a major cleanup of South City in advance]

[So, before I go into hibernation, moving to North City is the safest option.]

Taoyuan's words made Lin Xing'an purse his lips.

Because this plan...if you think about it carefully, it really makes sense.

Zhang Guang’s idea is to reform the committee and reduce the number of its members.

But this reform approach is too radical and affects the interests of too many people.

Even if Zhang Guang became one of the committee members, it would be difficult to implement it.

But if we send all the retired members of the committee and the useless marginal people to South City...

It doesn't sound that unacceptable.

"Abandoning" the South City can indeed be considered a compromise solution.

"Taoyuan, finally, what's going on with the Divine Palace and Gu Xingxin? Why does Gu Xingxin have the Divine Palace symbol on her body? Why can you contact Gu Xingxin?"

[I am contacting Wang Xi to deploy a plan to kill Liu Xu. Please wait.]

The light on the smart speaker flickered.

My sister, who had been silent, cleared her throat.

"As for Gu Xingxin...she was a chess piece that my brother had laid out a long time ago."

"Ever since you met Gu Xingxin, I have been paying attention to her."

"Because she is special, there is a certain mathematical probability about her."

My sister's disembodied body said as she sat on a chair nearby.

Lin Xing'an only noticed it at this time.

The school uniform she was wearing was the same as the one the child was wearing in the photo.

"...before I met Gu Xingxin?"

Lin Xing'an looked at his sister suspiciously.

Although Gu Xingxin and he were classmates in kindergarten, they had played together in the yard before they started kindergarten.

In Lin Xing'an's impression...

When he first met Gu Xingxin, Gu Xingxin still walked crookedly.

"Yes, it started from the moment Gu Xingxin was registered as a new glutton."

My sister looked towards Taoyuan.

Taoyuan also took over her words.

[Twenty years ago, when I first fully invaded the Tao Ghost, I obtained a large amount of information about the Tao Ghost's abilities.]

[I got detailed information about one of the gluttons, but I still can't find the person who owned it.]

[At first, I thought this glutton was on some secret mission, because dead gluttons wouldn't be recorded in the files I hacked into.]

[Later, by chance, I discovered from paper documents that he had entered the Shrine.]

[This is the only gluttonous ghost I know of that was recruited into the shrine from outside.]

Taoyuan's words made Lin Xing'an nod.

Indeed, Keke also told him that the gluttonous ghosts in the shrine were all reproduced internally.

Although people from the shrine come out to investigate every year, they are rarely able to find suitable people.

It is almost impossible to enter the shrine from the outside.

I realized that this person must have a special place in the shrine, and this is definitely not a coincidence.

So I created a portrait of him based on his family background, abilities, personality traits, personal habits, etc.

[From now on, I will draw portraits of every glutton in the same way]

[But unfortunately, there was no portrait of a gluttonous ghost, and it was only related to this, until Gu Xingxin appeared]

Taoyuan paused.

The light flickered, as if replying to a message.

"Just now my sister said...you started paying attention to Gu Xingxin when she was just born."

"But at that time, she clearly had no awakened abilities, and even her personality traits were unclear. How could her portrait back then bear a resemblance to the gluttonous ghost that entered the shrine?"

Lin Xing'an asked with a frown.

【Yes】

[When Gu Xingxin was still confused, the portraits of the two people could be seen to have some similarities]

[In fact, this is indeed the case. The two people's family backgrounds, personality traits, and living environments are almost exactly the same.]

[Even... even their mother's death, their father's choice after her death, and their own changes in state of mind were exactly the same.]

"Did you ask Yu Yu to cause the death of Xinxin's mother?"

Lin Xing'an took a deep breath and asked.

[No, I did not actively interfere with or control Xinxin's growth.]

Everything is free to develop

"So the reason Yu Yu...killed Xinxin's mother...was just because she came to report me?"

Lin Xing'an was silent for a moment, then looked up and asked.

【Yes】

"she……"

Lin Xing'an clenched his fists slightly.

Then he just sighed.

At that time, Yu Yu's physical condition was already extremely poor.

Since Xinxin’s mother was able to adopt Xinxin’s brother, a “human-beast”, he must be at least Class C.

Killing a Class C glutton, and then using that kind of command on Xinxin...

If he had preserved this energy, perhaps Yu Yu could have persisted a little longer.

Hold on until I eliminate the mark and can protect myself...

A sense of complexity and heartache emerged in Lin Xing'an's heart.

[When Gu Xingxin's mother was still alive, her portrait had a similarity of 83.51% to that of the gluttonous ghost.]

[When her mother died, their portraits were 99.9% similar]

After arriving in North City, Gu Xingxin indeed entered the Divine Palace.

[So, mathematical probability is really amazing]

"How similar is my portrait? Do I have a chance to enter the shrine?"

Lin Xing'an asked curiously.

[You are human, this portrait is for the glutton]

"……really."

Lin Xing'an was stunned for a moment and nodded.

"Taoyuan, do you know what's going on inside the shrine?"

"How do you keep in touch with Gu Xingxin?"

"There shouldn't be any internet inside the shrine...right?"

He was silent for a moment and asked again.

Taoyuan did not answer immediately.

[Through Gu Xingxin, I only know that the Divine Palace is transforming the Tao Ghost, making it even more powerful, so powerful that... it is no longer a Tao Ghost.]

【Otherwise, I know nothing】

[As for how I contacted Gu Xingxin... it was through a ghost phone.]

"Ghost call?"

[Yes, this way of contact transcends the limitations of the Internet, just like the first time I contacted you through that abandoned phone in the underground garage]

[This method is more consuming for me, but also more secretive]

The speaker suddenly flickered.

Taoyuan's voice paused again.

[Just now, after I informed Yu Shi to prepare for evacuation, Yu Shi has been asking me about you]

[Do you want Yu Shi to know that you are still alive? ]

(End of this chapter)