CH 45

Chapter 45

Seeing Qin Zhou staring at him, although Lin Yi was anxious, he didn’t dare to urge him too much for the answer. The more anxious he appeared, the more easily he could be seen through. 

Only after some time had passed, could Lin Yi once again ask, “What is one minus one?”

When he asked, he took another step towards Qin Zhou.

So Qin Zhou took another step back. Each time he had backed up, his step was bigger than the last. This time, his back was completely against the wall.

With no escape route behind him, Qin Zhou had no choice but to answer in order to prevent Lin Yi from approaching. 

Luckily, enough time had passed that he could ask the question again. Lin Yi asked, “What is one minus one?”

“0,” Qin Zhou said.

It came almost simultaneously.

After Qin Zhou answered, Lin Yi paid close attention to the sound coming from the corridor. The woman in red was still stabbing the door with her knife. Her mood though still seemed stable, she hadn’t gone into a frenzy because of Qin Zhou’s two ‘0’s.

Although he knew that it wouldn’t be so simple for Qin Zhou to trigger the Rule of Death and he hadn’t harbored any actual hope of succeeding on the first try, Lin Yi still felt his heart drop suddenly. If he didn’t succeed this time, the situation was going to become a bit worse.

There were three probably reasons why it failed to elicit a response from the woman in red.

Lin Yi couldn’t test the correctness of these three answers one by one but he could try to judge from Qin Zhou’s expression.

Qin Zhou’s expression could, to a certain extent, allow Lin Yi to verify where he had made a mistake. 

If ‘mentioning one of her friend’s name’ was the woman’s Rule of Death for this night, although the pronunciation of ‘0’ and ‘Lin’ were a little different, based on Qin Zhou’s memory, even while the 2-6 Monster was intimidated by ‘It’, once the Monster had given the answer, it would have immediately realized that Lin Yi was baiting it to trigger the Rule of Death.

It would have also quickly realized that Lin Yi was Lin Yi, not ‘It’.

If this were the case, in Qin Zhou’s words, Lin Yi would have just given his head to the 2-6 Monster.

Lin Yi looked up at Qin Zhou. 

Qin Zhou was still staring at him warily. Lin Yi has had a lot of experience observing expressions and it was easy to see what Qin Zhou was thinking.

After answering his questions, what was Qin Zhou still thinking?

Lin Yi already had the answer in his heart.

With that look of vigilance on his face, obviously, Qin Zhou still thought that Lin Yi was ‘It’. 

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Lin Yi silently breathed a sigh of relief. He then began to plan to how to get Qin Zhou to trigger the real Rule of Death – contact with the woman in red. 

When Lin Yi had silently been gauging Qin Zhou’s expression, he found that Qin Zhou had also begun to harbor thoughts of attacking.

Qin Zhou wasn’t simply thinking about why Lin Yi was asking such a question, rather he was also thinking about the problem itself.

Lin Yi knew why.

Monsters wouldn’t want something they couldn’t control intruding into their Rule World. So the 2-6 Monsters was using Qin Zhou’s memory to delve into Lin Yi’s problem. The 2-6 Monster wanted to, using this problem as a starting point, try to find ‘It’s’ weakness. 

This gave Lin Yi a chance.

Lin Yi didn’t go further into Qin Zhou’s room, he turned and left. He walked a few steps and then stopped, holding his head in his hands, “Ah———–aaaahh-uhhhhhh-”

It wasn’t like he hasn’t seen fantasy movies before. Right now he was imitating a movie protagonist fighting to regain the right to the use his body.

Qin Zhou: “…” 

While Lin Yi clutched his head in his hands, his toes were curling up, trying to dig a hole.

This was so embarrassing! So embarrassing!

Fortunately, there wasn’t anyone else here, only the 2-6 Monster. Otherwise, he would have rather died.

“Ahhhhhh——” After clutching his head in pain and letting out a drawn out howl, Lin Yi became expressionless once again. 

But in his heart, Lin Yi went on screaming,  ‘Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is just too f*cking embarrassing!’

But it was fine, it’s all over. Didn’t Cheng Yang say it? Upon leaving the Rule World, those possessed by the Monster felt as though they’d just been dreaming and they remembered very little.

But what if Qin Zhou remembered this little bit? The earth simply wouldn’t be able to stand the force of his embarrassment.

No one could possibly be that unlucky. The probability of it was very small. 

Oh but just thinking about it was too embarrassing…

Lin Yi’s heart was filled with hesitation and helplessness but he nevertheless put his everything into his acting. Pretending that ‘It’ had regained possession of his body, he straightened up and walked slowly back to the room where the woman in red was.

He deliberately lightened his footsteps. There was no light in the corridor, so he couldn’t judge whether Qin Zhou had followed through any shadows he might have made. His only way was to listen whether there were footsteps behind him.

Although the footsteps behind him were soft, Lin Yi still heard them. 

This made Lin Yi feel better. His acting skills weren’t too bad. When the Monster found that ‘It’ was about to go offline and Lin Yi was about to go online, the Monster really had followed.

It seemed that Qin Zhou was going to wait for Lin Yi to regain his body and then look for an opportunity to kill him.

With his life at stake, Lin Yi temporarily suppressed the embarrassment in his heart. He walked forward slowly, listening to the footsteps behind him and calculating the distance between him and Qin Zhou. He didn’t stop when he reached the room where the woman in red was, but continued to walk forward.

When he heard Qin Zhou’s footsteps pause, Lin Yi actually felt relieved. Because didn’t stop and went right past the room where the woman in red was, Qin Zhou was probably confused as to what he was going to do. 

Lin Yi couldn’t stop at the door of his room, otherwise it would have been too obvious what he was trying to do and it would have been all too easy for Qin Zhou to discover his purpose.

After realizing that Qin Zhou had continued to follow, Lin Yi dragged his feet and stopped at the door of the room two doors past. Based on the distance he had judged from Qin Zhou’s footsteps, if he stopped here, Qin Zhou would stop at the door of the room where the woman in red was.

As expected, Lin Yi stopped and counted down silently: Three, Two, One…

Bam– 

Under the women’s constant torment, the door of the room could no longer stand the onslaught and suddenly swung open.

Lin Yi turned his head immediately. He had calculated the time when the door would be broken by the woman in red. He’d also surmised that based on the woman’s strength, in her rush out of the room, she would inevitably collide with Qin Zhou standing outside. But Lin Yi had to make sure that Qin Zhou came into contact with the woman. They couldn’t afford any accidents.

This was their only chance to leave the 2-6 Rule World.

The moment Lin Yi turned his head, he saw things unfold exactly according to how he’d imagined it. The woman in red, had been stabbing the door with the sharp knife the entire time, so Qin Zhou’s defense has been greatly reduced. He wasn’t expecting for the door to be thrown open at this time and he didn’t have time to dodge, directly colliding with the woman in red. 

The woman in red was so strong that Qin Zhou lost his center of gravity. He fell back a few steps before he managed to stabilize his body, preventing himself from falling.

Lin Yi’s heart was jumping ‘thump, thump, thump’. He’d succeeded.

But for some reason, he kept feeling that something was wrong. Lin Yi delved into the source of that feeling. Perhaps the success came a little too suddenly? Or maybe it had come too easily?

In his field of vision, Qin Zhou, who had already had contact with the woman in red, looked at Lin Yi. This time, Qin Zhou’s eyes were no longer guarded and vigilant, but suddenly… 

Qin Zhou had come back to his senses.

But unlike the 7-7 Monster in Cheng Yang’s body, who was furious after being pushed out of the dorm building, Qin Zhou just shook his head at Lin Yi and then smiled darkly.

Lin Yi felt his blood freeze. Qin Zhou simply looked calmly at him after making contact with the woman in red. But the woman in red, sharp knife still in hand, didn’t go after Qin Zhou.

The woman in red turned around slowly and, just like Qin Zhou, looked at Lin Yi. 

These two malicious gazes made Lin Yi’s scalp tingle. The next second, the woman in red rushed towards Lin Yi with her knife.

Lin Yi didn’t have time to think about anything. He hurriedly opened the door in front of him and dodged into the room. His movements were fast but the woman was faster. Just as Lin Yi flashed into the room and turned to close the door, the woman in red was already at his doorstep.

Before Lin Yi could even close the door, the woman in red had already stretched her arm in. Lin Yi could only hold the door tightly, preventing the woman from rushing in.

He was completely surprised. 

Why didn’t the woman in red kill Qin Zhou?

Was ‘contact with the woman in red’ not the Rule of Death either?

Yes, the Rule of Death was wrong. Otherwise the woman in red would most certainly have killed Qin Zhou who was closer at hand.

But why was this Rule of Death wrong? 

Obviously, these were the only two things he’d done during the day that the others hadn’t done. Lin Yi kept thinking, quickly going through the things that happened during the day in his mind.

This time, Lin Yi was even more sure that he’d done only these two things. He was willing to bet his honor that he’d only done these two things.

The woman’s hand was constantly trying to grab Lin Yi. In order to prevent the woman in red from catching hold of him, he had to push against the door hard. Lin Yi’s physical strength was quickly disappearing.

And outside, through the crack kept open by this arm, Lin Yi saw Qin Zhou standing behind the woman in red. He made to step forward, as though he was going to help the woman in red, so that the woman could smoothly rush in and kill him. 

Lin Yi took a deep breath. In this few seconds of Qin Zhou’s approach, he went through what had happened through the day.

After he woke up during the day, Ou Ying and Cheng Yang returned to the room.

They’d failed to pour mercury into the dice but Ou Ying had gotten the photo.

They made a wrong analysis because of this photo and he was locked in the refrigerator. Ou Ying, in her eagerness to save him, almost fell into the trap of doing the Replay. 

Fortunately, Lin Yi managed to coax the woman in red to open the refrigerator. Ou Ying, at the critical moment, had a realization and decided not to go through with it.

This was all that happened during the day. Lin Yi was sure that he had no missing memories. ‘It’ hadn’t come out at all. ‘It’ doesn’t appear every time Lin Yi overuses his brain. There would be a long interval between each appearance.

Neither ‘mentioning one of her friend’s name’ nor ‘contact with the woman in red’ were the woman’s Rules of Death. So what is the Rule of Death of the woman in red!

Lin Yi couldn’t figure it out no matter how fast his thoughts turned. That was until he looked up and saw Qin Zhou slowly raised his hand with a gloomy smile and then push the woman hard. 

Looking at Qin Zhou’s face, Lin Yi’s memory suddenly flashed back to the 7-7 Rule World.

Through the wall, Qin Zhou had said, “Monsters make the rules of the game and they honor and enjoy these rules. But Monsters are Monsters and they don’t have an IQ of 143. The killing conditions it sets, or the Rules of Death, will always be seen through.”

Lin Yi asked: “So the Monster is a supervisor. It hides among us to supervise us to violate the Rules of Death it has set. If necessary, it can even guide us to violate these Rules of Death.”

Qin Zhou said, “More or less.” 

Guide us to violate these Rules of Death…

More or less……

Lin Yi stared closely at Qin Zhou.

He’s figured it out.