Chapter 85 Reasoning is all about bold guesses

Under the stunned gaze of the three people in the hotel lobby, a crudely made plastic doll crawled from under the table to the top.

He has a big head and a small body, brown hair, big light blue eyes, a small red and gray long-sleeved T-shirt and denim blue overalls, and his flesh-colored skin has the unique inferior texture of synthetic resin.

The big eyes of the plastic doll flickered, and it opened its small mouth. It raised its little hand and said to Fu Qinghai,

"Relax, relax, brother. I am also a reincarnation, not some evil demon or monster."

Fu Qinghai thrust the Broken Heart Sword, which had been pulled out a third of the way, back a little.

Zhang Yuning frowned and asked,

"Child's Play?"

"Bingo!" The plastic doll pointed at Zhang Yuning and said,

"Miss, you are very knowledgeable. I have been listening to your conversation under the table for a long time. I agree with you. For the horror movie universe, the most important thing is knowledge."

As soon as Zhang Yuning said that, Fu Qinghai immediately remembered it.

"Child's Play", a classic old movie from 1988, tells the story of a murderer's soul possessing a doll and continuing to do evil. It is considered the pioneering and original work of the "Child's Play" type horror movie.

Fu Qinghai put down the steel sword in his hand. Although this plastic doll had a crudely made round face, its voice was obviously that of an adult male.

The plastic doll continued:

"Guess how I did it. When I entered the Child's Play universe, it was exactly the beginning of the first movie. I secretly placed a recorder on the doll shelf of the supermarket where the villain murderer was before his death. After recording the spell he recited, I found a doll of the same model and recited the spell again. A bolt of lightning struck from the sky, and my soul entered the doll. Haha, don't you think I'm awesome? Am I smart?"

Fu Qinghai handed a glass of beer to the plastic doll. He picked up the beer and drank it. The beer mixed with foam overflowed from his little plastic mouth, wetting his long-sleeved T-shirt on his chest.

Just this scene made Fu Qinghai look at him with a bit of sympathy.

The plastic doll put down the beer glass that was half the size of his head, a sad expression appeared on his face, and without waiting for the three people to answer, he said to himself:

"I'm a big idiot."

The plastic eyes of the doll revealed anthropomorphic melancholy:

"I spent assimilation points on this body, and now I can't change back. I am trapped in this plastic doll forever. This body has indeed helped me through countless reincarnations, but now I can't taste fine wine or sleep with women."

The plastic doll stretched out its little hand to Fu Qinghai and said seriously:

"Let me introduce myself. My name is Upton Dupont, and I'm from the Child's Play universe."

"Jack Fu."

Fu Qinghai also stretched out his hand and shook the plastic doll's little hand.

"Uh..." Ron Bentham on the side wanted to interrupt and say why don't you try gluing the retractable and vibrating toys to your body, so that you might be able to experience the fun of oral sex... But when he thought of the lady present, Ron swallowed the words.

Ron quickly stretched out his hands and shook Upton DuPont's little plastic hands, and said,

"I'm Ron Bentham, and I haven't gained my own special abilities yet."

"Zhang Yuning." The world-weary young lady raised her chin indifferently, with no intention of shaking hands.

Fu Qinghai thought again and realized that Upton DuPont complained that he couldn't do this or that after being possessed by a plastic doll, but in fact, if he was given another chance, he would probably make the same choice.

Because, compared to these personal enjoyments, being able to survive in the world of reincarnation is the greatest guarantee.

A plastic doll, with no heartbeat, no breathing, no body temperature, no eating, no drinking, and no urinating. As long as it doesn't move around and lies down in a corner, it will be just a background object that no one will care about.

It was a dark night, and when he lay quietly under the table, even Fu Qinghai, a Space Marine, was unaware of his existence.

If he can cause trouble, he uses his small and concealed body as a doll to cause trouble, such as stabbing someone when they are not paying attention, throwing a socket into the bathtub, etc.

If you find that this reincarnation world is too intense and you can't do anything, just find a suitable corner and lie down until the plot line ends, and you will have survived a reincarnation world.

Fu Qinghai was amazed. The world of reincarnation was full of wonders. It was really amazing that someone could come up with such an imaginative idea.

"Well, Mr. Upton Dupont, it seems you have been lying in this village for quite a while. Tell me what you have discovered."

The plastic doll obviously wanted to join the gang, so Fu Qinghai asked.

Upton said,

"I listened to your conversation for a long time just now. I know the group you are talking about, Rusfan. I noticed them in the town, but I chose not to join them because I am used to traveling alone. I also did not follow you to the monastery because it would be too abrupt for me to appear in the wild."

"I arrived at Biertan Village at the foot of the mountain before you went to explore the monastery. I can assure you that your guess that there was another group of reincarnations who blew up the monastery and returned to Biertan Village did not happen at all! I have been staying in Biertan Village, and I have not seen any reincarnations enter Biertan Village. Only local villagers come in and out of the village!"

Fu Qinghai looked surprised and asked, "Are you sure? Could it be that a reincarnationist disguised himself as a villager and you didn't recognize him?"

The doll shook her head and said, "I am very sure. I secretly followed those villagers who returned to the village. They have their own houses, families, and local relatives. They cannot be reincarnations."

"This..." Fu Qinghai and Ron were both stunned. This result was completely inconsistent with the logic they had worked out.

The logical chain is as follows:

The monastery was blown up, and Fu Qinghai was very sure that it was blown up with C4 plastic explosives, which was not something that local villagers could possess. It must have come from the reincarnations.

Rusfan led the team all the way to the monastery. His people and his agents were also in the team, and they had alibis.

Someone had come to the monastery earlier, and the footprints and traces left behind all pointed to the village of Biertan.

The four people present were silent, leaving only Fu Qinghai thinking frantically.

His brain was working at full speed, connecting the various fragments along the way together.

Lu Sifan took the initiative to come to the door to form a team...

Rusfan arranged a support in the team...

The monastery was blown up by the reincarnationists in advance...

Ruthven attempted to murder Ron Bentham...

Ancient books buried in coffins in cemeteries disappear...

After entering Biertan Village, Rusfan and others disappeared...

Along the way, all the reincarnations were led by Rusfan and others, but they stayed with the reincarnations almost the entire time.

If Rusfan arranged all this, then there would be a dislocation in space and time.

The large group of reincarnations set out from the small town in the morning and headed for the monastery on the mountain. They arrived near the afternoon and the journey was not short.

How do they make up for the time difference?

The special abilities of reincarnationists?

Fu Qinghai closed his eyes and carefully recalled all the details after meeting Rusfan.

He was pale and liked to be called Sir, as if a noble title really had any use...

He has darkvision, but is afraid of sunlight...

He could sneak into Fu Qinghai's room on the second floor of the hotel quietly, but the front desk lady on the first floor was unaware of it...

The next morning, we had agreed to set off early, but Rusfan, the initiator, was late...

It's obvious, isn't it?

Fu Qinghai opened his eyes and said slowly,

"From what I can see, someone is setting up a trap, and the most suspicious ones are Lu Sifan and his gang."

Fu Qinghai said in a deep voice:

"The reason for suspecting them is very simple. Rusfan has been guiding all the reincarnations to act according to his plan. They also once intended to bury Ron alive and silence another person in the team who had watched the movie "The Nun."

"Then let's make a bold guess... the monastery was actually blown up by Rusfan and his men themselves!"

Ron asked, "He had a detailed discussion with us in the cellar last night, and we set out together the next morning. No one fell behind, and no one joined our team. How did they blow up the monastery?"

Fu Qinghai said: "The reincarnations have many ways to create a time difference, such as the mutants' teleportation and the Marvel wizard's dimensional gate, but we can't make blind guesses without any basis. Think about it carefully, whose hometown is Romania?"

"Count Dracula...the originator of vampires!" Upton DuPont answered immediately.

"That's right." Fu Qinghai nodded. "Look at Rusfan's behavior and manners. Don't you think he looks very similar? We are too used to the concept of sci-fi vampires in modern society that are re-deconstructed and re-set in movies. Let's think carefully about what abilities do vampires have in those early classical Gothic vampire movies?"

"Bats!" This time it was Ron's turn to answer. He said excitedly, "Yes, in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Van Helsing, Dracula Untold and many other classic vampire movies from the black-and-white silent era, Dracula in all of them turns into a bat!"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Fu Qinghai nodded with satisfaction: "That's right, in those magical vampire settings, vampires can transform into bats! By flying, they can create a time difference and blow up the monastery in advance!"

"But..." Ron Bentham looked puzzled again and said, "How big can the bat he turned into be? He could actually carry enough C4 explosives to blow up the monastery. The two reincarnations under Rusfan are not vampires. They stayed in the town before they set out."

"And the most important thing is that Valak left the monastery. The devil needs to possess a living person to leave the monastery. It's true. I've seen the movie and the setting is like this. Did Rusfan let Valak possess him? But Rusfan doesn't look like he's possessed by a devil. He even has the leisure to explain the plot of the movie to other reincarnations."

Fu Qinghai smiled and said, "It doesn't take a very large C4 bomb to blow up an ancient monastery with a brick, stone and wooden beam structure. Besides, we don't know how big the vampire bat that Rusfan transformed into is, so let's not discuss this issue for now."

"Regarding your second question, I have two explanations. The first is that Valak possessed Rustfan, but he only stayed in his body without taking away Rustfan's will. However, this possibility depends entirely on the personal will of the demon Valak. How can we pin our hopes on the thoughts of a demon?"

"Then the second possibility, have you forgotten that in many classical settings, vampires have another ability - through the First Embrace, they can make ordinary people become their lower-level servants."

Ron Bentham was surprised: "You mean..."

Fu Qinghai nodded: "That's right. To judge whether Rusfan is possessed by a demon, we cannot look at his external performance. Even if we assume that even if he is possessed by Valak, he will not be deprived of his will. However, as a reincarnationist, he would not dare to let a demon possess him without absolute certainty. Reincarnationists do not have immunity from mind control. If he dares to let a demon possess him, his body will be at great risk and he will not be able to control it."

"Upton Dupont said that no reincarnations have ever entered the village, but local villagers have. Who knows whether these villagers who returned to the village went to their own vineyards or to the monastery on the mountain?"

"But..." Ron Bentham frowned and thought, then asked a question: "You did conceive of a series of conditions under which Rusfan could blow up the monastery and possess the villagers to make the demon Valak leave the monastery. But why did he go through so much trouble? Isn't the goal of all of us reincarnators to seal the demon Valak? Why did he deliberately go against the reincarnation mission?"

Fu Qinghai looked deep in his eyes and said, "Good question. As for Rusfan's motive, I think... I'm afraid we have to find the answer from the pile of ancient books that disappeared from the coffin in the cemetery."

Hearing this, Ron Bentham seemed to be thinking about something.

Fu Qinghai raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said, "Now all of this is just my assumption. No one knows what Rusfan's plan is and whether he is a magical classical vampire. But we can still verify that the only blind spot in the entire village is the castle that Rusfan personally led the team to search. I believe the answer must be in that castle!"

Hearing this, Ron Bentham asked nervously, "So are we going to sneak into that castle now?"

Fu Qinghai shook his head slightly, turned his gaze to the plastic doll sitting on the table, and said:

"It's not us, but someone else. This person is more suitable than anyone else to infiltrate."

Upton Dupont was stunned and asked:

"You mean me? Let me sneak into the castle and find out what's going on?"

Fu Qinghai nodded: "That's right."

The plastic doll hesitated for a while and said, "It's not impossible. After all, this is indeed a job I am good at."

At this time, Zhang Yuning, who had been listening quietly the whole time and had not spoken, suddenly interrupted:

"Everyone, don't you think this killing has lasted a little too long?"

Hmm? What do you mean?

The three men (male dolls) were all stunned.

Zhang Yuning said calmly:

"In the entire Biertan village, there are only a few local people. Are they enough for the reincarnations to kill? This killing has been going on for several hours. Even now, we can still hear the sound of hacking and killing. The killing is still going on. Then who is being killed now?"

Hearing this, Fu Qinghai slowly widened his eyes.

Just now when the four people were sitting in the hotel and discussing, outside, there were still intermittent sounds of gunfire, shouting and killing, and screams of the dying.

Fu Qinghai ignored it at first, but after Zhang Yuning reminded him, he realized...

The reincarnations have started fighting each other!

And this is unreasonable. If they really follow the so-called "method of elimination" of the thin man, the reincarnations in the team should gather together after killing all the local villagers to discuss whether they have found the demon Valak or something like that, and then decide whether to start "eliminating" from the weaker reincarnations.

And now, the reincarnations have started killing each other directly. It has turned into a complete melee instead of a process of elimination to find the demon Valak.

The same thought came to the minds of the four people present at the same time:

It was Valak, the devil Valak had come, and He had begun to possess and kill people in the village...

The real villain of the movie "The Nun" is finally about to appear.

At this time, outside the hotel, under the dim moonlight, a staggering figure appeared at the door of the hotel.

It's the skinny man.

He held a Browning M1911 in one hand, his nose was bent and twisted, and his eye sockets were completely dark. In the dark eye sockets were two pale eyeballs like small white dots.

He slowly raised his head and looked at Fu Qinghai. His creepy little white eyes stared at Fu Qinghai's eyes tightly, and he spoke in a low and hoarse voice:

"I'm here to do the process of elimination with you, kid."

In the hotel lobby, the four people facing this thin man did not notice...

The black wooden cross hanging on the wall of the hall quietly began to rotate counterclockwise, slowly rotating 180 degrees and turning into a...

Inverted cross.

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　Thanks to Rimuru O Tempest, the book friend, for the reward.

　　I broke my promise... I overestimated myself. I thought I could write 8,000 to 10,000 words in one go today and end the dungeon world, but in the end I found that it was not possible...

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