Excessive ferocity due to caution

The dark pebble pierced through the street lamp bulb.

It also pierced the head of the trial participant who was hiding on it.

Unlike Qin Bai, this person lay face down on the street lamp, and as the dark stone pierced through his skull, he also began to change.

After a period of intense and agonizing struggle, he too became a shadow, wandering aimlessly toward the lighthouse.

This time, a total of seventeen trial participants on the four paths turned into shadows and entered the interior of the lighthouse.

The green light turned red.

Sweating profusely, Qin Bai slid down from the lamppost.

He was incredibly glad he hadn't chosen the very top of the streetlight.

Otherwise, his fate would be exactly the same as those dead trial participants!

Too dangerous!

"Seventeen more people have died..."

Qin Bai quickly calculated in his mind, and then continued to walk forward with Zhao Yi.

The number below the lighthouse has changed from 2 to 1.

"One last time, let's calculate the distance, it should be just about right!"

Qin Bai felt somewhat relieved.

Zhao Yi remained as calm as ever, constantly analyzing the movements of the shadowy figure as he acted.

It's not hard to deduce from the motivations of those three children that what they feared had already happened.

These shadowy figures do not act according to simple logic.

When illuminated by green light, they are no different from humans, these strange and eerie creatures.

Simply put, it means that someone may appear perfectly normal on the surface, but could fall ill at any time.

You might think that someone who's taken their pants off will immediately crouch down and fly... but hey, they won't.

That brat was actually sitting on a stool typing away.

Once humans develop the ability to act out, their behavior becomes unpredictable.

Therefore, trying to understand them using normal human logic will greatly increase the likelihood of making mistakes.

The younger the child, the greater the likelihood of developing the disease.

The world of children is full of endless possibilities.

They're capable of anything.

On the street ahead of the two, an adult was chasing after three children who had just broken a light bulb.

The image freezes.

"It seems that these three children will no longer pose a threat to us."

Qin Bai felt a slight surge of joy.

Children can fall ill at any time.

The only exception is when their mother takes out the feather duster or their father pulls out the Seven Wolves sword.

These three children have fallen ill and are being chased by adults. They'll most likely be sent home, where they'll inevitably get a beating.

So they will most likely keep running.

Zhao Yi pondered the movements of the shadowy figure from before and said:

"That's what the person who climbed the lamppost thought too."

Qin Bai's expression froze.

"They're being chased, they're not going to stop, are they?"

Zhao Yi:

"It might be very small, negligible."

Qin Bai smiled and said:

"I knew it..."

Zhao Yi stroked his chin:

"But the adult chasing them will stop soon."

Qin Bai was somewhat surprised to hear this. He carefully scanned the street from front to back, but there didn't seem to be any shadowy figures interacting with the adult chasing the child.

"Brother Yizi, how did you figure that out?"

Zhao Yidao:

"As we entered the street, at the fifth alley corner, there was a pregnant woman splashing water and a man behind her opening a door with a keychain."

"When the woman splashed water, she didn't look at the man twice. After splashing the water, she went back into the house, while the man was still there unlocking the door."

"But she came out again very soon."

"She put her hands on her hips and yelled at the man a few times before going back inside."

At this moment, the man stopped unlocking the door, turned around, and walked towards the woman's house...

Although the shadowy figure moves when illuminated by the green light, it makes no sound.

However, based on their movements, it is still possible to roughly analyze what they are doing.

For example, if you see a short, plump old woman tracing lines on a piece of paper, you might think of:

"Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!"

Qin Bai simply didn't understand what Zhao Yi was talking about.

"Brother Yizi, what you're saying has to do with that middle-aged man who was chasing the child?"

Zhao Yi quickly scanned the street, analyzing where they should go next.

"That woman in the shadows has a very large belly; she's pregnant."

"And there are men's clothes on the clothesline behind her house."

"This means... she has a husband."

"The person who unlocked the door was carrying a key chain. Five or six rooms nearby were locked, and the doors were not ordinary wooden doors. It was not hard to tell that there were some valuable items in those rooms."

"Perhaps it's a woman's dowry, or something else."

"There are about 5 to 8 keys on the keychain. I only glanced at it, so I didn't see it very clearly, but I'm sure there are no more than 8."

"If the man is the woman's husband, then the lock can be opened in a very short time."

"After all, important items are locked inside, and a man or woman would definitely check it regularly, so they would naturally be familiar with using the key."

"But that man drove for a long time."

Qin Bai seemed to be deep in thought:

"So this person... isn't the woman's husband!"

Zhao Yi continued:

"But the woman went in and out twice without noticing."

"This shows that the man's back view resembles the woman's husband."

"And... he was wearing the clothes and pants that a woman's husband usually wears, and he had the same hairstyle as a woman's husband."

Qin Bai glanced back at the alley corner that Zhao Yi had mentioned.

From his position, one could still vaguely see that the door to the woman's room had been pushed open, with a small crack left ajar.

Qin Bai suddenly felt a tingling sensation down his spine.

"That man... killed the woman's husband and coveted her family's money."

"Although the woman didn't notice, her outburst with her hands on her hips showed that she didn't want her husband to open the door to that room at that time. If the murderer insisted on opening it, the woman would likely come out to stop him, and then she would discover that the person who opened the lock... wasn't her husband!"

"The murderer will be exposed immediately."

"Therefore, on a whim, he decided to kill the woman as well."

Zhao lit a cigarette and began to speak in a leisurely manner.

Qin Bai, who was standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded!

What kind of outrageous attention to detail is this?

"But if the process of killing the woman didn't go so smoothly, and the woman screamed; or if a few shadowy figures wandering around nearby happened to be the woman's friends and neighbors, wanting to go in to visit or borrow something, then the matter would be exposed immediately."

"People will scream."

"The adult chasing the child will stop and look back."

"Whether he's just a passerby or a town security guard, judging from his behavior of chasing after three children because they broke a streetlight, he must be a busybody."

"Compared to things like robbery and murder, breaking a streetlight is obviously insignificant."

"So the adults chasing the kids will give up on the three little rascals, and the three little rascals will be free again."

After listening to Zhao Yi's rapid explanation, Qin Bai almost knelt down before Zhao Yi.

What does "thigh" mean?

That's a thigh!

So fierce!

"But Brother Kezi, if we do that, won't the kids also go and join in the fun?"

Qin Bai analyzed.

Zhao Yi glanced at him:

"I probably won't go."

Qin Bai is like a curious child:

Why?

Zhao Yi:

"Because of this, their parents who live nearby are likely to come over to see what's going on or check on the situation, since loving to watch a spectacle is a common human trait."

"The three children knew they had caused trouble by breaking the light bulb, and they were afraid that the villagers who saw it would tell their parents and they would be taken home and beaten. So it was unlikely that they would go to join in the fun."

"At least... the kid with the slingshot probably won't go."

"What we need to consider now is not where those three children might go... but where they definitely won't go!"

Qin Bai suddenly realized.

"Holy crap... Brother Yizi is awesome!"

He admired him immensely.

"I've thought of a place those three brats probably won't go... their home!"

Zhao Yi praised:

"Well said."

"But that's obvious."

"We have absolutely no idea where these three brats live."

"And if we go back, we might not make it to the lighthouse by the next red light."

"If the lighthouse's countdown indicator turns red, and we haven't reached the area where the light doesn't reach us by the time it reaches zero, we're doomed!"

Qin Bai chuckled awkwardly and scratched the back of his head:

"Too……"

The red light in front of them started flashing rapidly again.

Qin Bai pondered, a hint of worry in his expression.

"Brother Yizi, we don't have much time left... Do you have any thoughts?"

Zhao Yi gazed at the ditch sloping down in the distance:

"We can't go into the house, it's restricted. Let's go there."

Qin Bai followed behind Zhao Yi.

"Why don't those three brats come to this place?"

"It's just that there's a high probability they won't come."

Zhao Yidao.

"Children are very curious. If something happens on the other side of the street, and they are too afraid to go there but want to know what happened, they can only go to higher places."

"This place is spacious, so even if they come here to play, the chances of them running into us are limited."

"We've done everything we could."

"From now on, it all comes down to looks."

PS: First update.