sinovels Chapter 147 The Silent Singer
Chapter 147 The Silent Singer
Chapter 147 The Silent Singer
The director of the Investigation Bureau of Yuanmeng City is named Song Zhixing. Li Jiuhe had seen his information before coming to Yuanmeng.
The document contained a photo of Song Zhixing, so he immediately recognized that the person standing outside the room was Song Zhixing.
I've never met this bureau chief before, so why is he suddenly coming to the hotel so late at night?
And then, whether by coincidence or for some other reason, Luo Shuo, who was recovering his sequence energy through a deep sleep at this very moment, suddenly also experienced a problem with his body, which seemed to be the feeling of his abilities being taken away.
This made Li Jiuhe's heart jump into his throat.
"Two investigators from headquarters, are you asleep?"
Just then, Song Zhixing's voice came, "I'm sorry to bother you so late, but a very tricky case just happened, and I have no choice but to ask for your help."
Before Li Jiuhe could answer, his phone vibrated in his pocket. He took it out and saw that it was a message from Ma Li, containing only four words.
"Don't open the door!"
Li Jiuhe subconsciously took a few steps back, away from the door, and then sent back a question mark.
Shortly after, MaLi sent a message: "All the ant larvae I arranged to patrol and keep watch near the door at night are dead."
Every night before going to sleep, Mali habitually releases her swarm of black ants to patrol and guard the area, and tonight was no exception.
Although Mali, as the queen ant, usually enjoys taking a nap to maintain her beauty, her black ants rarely doze off.
It's worth noting that ants typically only sleep for about sixteen or seventeen minutes a day.
Suddenly, an ant died, which startled her awake, and she immediately noticed the strange occurrence outside.
In Li Jiuhe's room, Luo Shuo lay on the bed, his body covered in cold sweat, curled up in great discomfort.
He could feel the energy in his body draining away little by little, but he was powerless to stop it and was in great pain.
Li Jiuhe neither responded to Song Zhixing outside the door nor approached the door again.
Because he remembered the information he had seen about Song Zhixing, the director's sequence ability was "paralysis", which could paralyze any living organism he came into contact with, and could even transmit the paralysis state through multiple objects.
This paralysis is not measured by the strength of the target's sequential ability; any contact will result in paralysis.
If the other person is also touching the door from the outside the moment you open it, they will definitely be infected.
"So why would the head of the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau give me trouble?"
Li Jiuhe's mind raced. He recalled the suspicious points about Su Qin, and it seemed that there was more than one suspicious person within Yuan Meng's Investigation Bureau.
"Do they also know that You Hong is carrying that death pass, and now that I have it, they want to snatch it?"
Just then, he suddenly heard the door to Ma Li's room next door open.
He immediately peered through the peephole again and looked out into the corridor. He saw that Song Zhixing was no longer standing outside; he had most likely gone to the room next door.
Judging from the sound of the door opening just now, it was clearly opened from the inside, because there was no beeping sound when a key card is used to open the room.
Suddenly, Luo Shuo on the bed let out a scream. Li Jiuhe turned around and saw that his face was completely distorted with pain, and his whole body was trembling violently.
Luo Shuo opened his mouth, and a mouthful of blood gushed out: "It's not an ability—to seize, there's—there's a strange—sound—"
"Strange sound?" Li Jiuhe couldn't hear anything at the moment.
He rushed over and grabbed Luo Shuo, stabbing him in the shoulder: "What did you hear?"
The next second, Li Jiuhe was jolted, suddenly feeling as if his consciousness and body were separated.
It was as if I had instantly become an observer, watching everything from a third-person perspective.
He saw himself move his hands, which were supporting Luo Shuo's shoulders, up and grab Luo Shuo's neck.
Luo Shuo, his expression of fear and pain gone, became expressionless. He reached under his pillow, pulled out the silver dagger he had kept there, and stabbed Li Jiuhe in the stomach.
Meanwhile, a large amount of blood was flowing from Luo Shuo's five orifices. After being stabbed once, he could no longer hold on and was pressed down on the bed by Li Jiuhe, who grabbed his neck with both hands and strangled him tightly.
Li Jiuhe's consciousness wanted to release Luo Shuo, but he found that his body was not under his control at all.
His body was already very strong, and after a moment Luo Shuo stopped moving and lost his life. When he moved his hands away, dark blue finger marks were left on Luo Shuo's neck.
The silver-plated dagger was still stuck in Li Jiuhe's abdomen. Because his consciousness was separated from his body, he could not feel any pain.
Knock, knock, knock—the knocking on the door came again.
This time, because her body was out of control, Li Jiuhe watched herself walk to the door and quickly opened it.
Song Zhixing stood outside the door, along with Ma Li.
Ma Li was expressionless, seemingly also under control. Perhaps her senses were the same as Li Jiuhe's at this moment; she could only see but could not control her own body.
Song Zhixing walked into the room with his hands behind his back.
He spoke slowly, as if talking to himself.
"I never expected that there would be a non-human sequencer among you. When Moth Girl told me, I couldn't believe it."
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He walked into the room so casually that Li Jiuhe had to step aside, feeling like a puppet.
Even now, he still doesn't understand why this is happening.
It's important to understand that Song Zhixing's paralysis technique makes it impossible for their bodies and consciousness to be separated, or for their bodies to be completely out of control.
"So the 'Moth Woman' he mentioned refers to—Su Qin?" Li Jiuhe wondered to himself.
At this moment, he suddenly felt extremely tired. His consciousness, separated from his body, gradually could not hold on and he fell into a deep sleep.
In a daze, I saw Song Zhixing sit down, while I and Ma Li were kneeling in front of him.
Song Zhixing took out a small box and slowly opened it. At the same time, a series of footsteps sounded behind Li Jiuhe, indicating that someone was entering the room from outside.
The footsteps sounded like high heels.
Then Li Jiuhe's consciousness disappeared.
The scene shifts back to the moment when the two people and the insect have finished eating and are chatting in the room.
Li Jiuhe came to her senses and realized that her "survival" task had been automatically reset.
Having experienced being controlled by Guan Jikun before, he added two rules to the survival mission.
[Aside from natural sleep, if you lose consciousness for more than one minute due to external forces, you will be considered dead and a reset will be automatically initiated.]
If the mission is nearing its end during the period of unconsciousness, it will automatically reset before the end.
Clearly, more than a minute had passed since I completely lost consciousness, and the task was automatically reset.
Now that he thinks about it, he feels that the rule is still not very secure, so he quickly added another one.
[If consciousness is lost due to external forces, or if the individual becomes separated from their body, and this continues for more than one minute or beyond the necessary limit, the mission will automatically reset.]
This way, he doesn't have to wait until his consciousness completely disappears before resetting the mission, and the "necessary limit" allows him to obtain more information about the plot development for a period of time afterward.
Based on the time before the task was reset, Song Zhixing would arrive in two hours.
However, the world timeline is not affected by the reset, so the actual time is still past midnight, and Song Zhixing will not arrive until after 2 a.m.
Of course, those caught up in the mission wouldn't question the changes in time; even if someone was very perceptive, they would only feel that time was passing quickly.
Unless they are all high-ranking individuals, such as You Hong, who is second only to Li Jiuhe.
Even if You Hong were here, he would only feel puzzled and sense something was amiss early on, but he couldn't find the reason for the amiss.
"This meal was so enjoyable, even though it's so late," Ma Li said with a satisfied burp.
As she spoke, she got up to call the ant larvae back to the next room to rest.
Li Jiuhe stopped her and then asked Luo Shuo, "When you talked to Director Song today, did you notice anything suspicious about him?"
Luo Shuo grabbed a tissue to wipe his mouth, then shook his head: "No, Director Song just doesn't seem to have had enough rest, everything else is fine. What's wrong, Brother Li?"
"They've already got their eyes on us," Li Jiuhe said without hiding anything.
"What?" Ma Li's expression was exaggerated. "Is this Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau the same as your Wangchuan City Investigation Bureau?!"
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During her conversations with Luo Shuo, she had heard him mention some of Li Jiuhe's experiences, so she immediately blurted it out.
Li Jiuhe shook his head: "Not necessarily, we haven't figured out the situation yet. But what you said earlier is correct, I have already foreseen that Su Qin is most likely a sequencer of a moth-like creature."
"Just as I thought!" Ma Li exclaimed in surprise.
We can't say that all other types of sequencers are necessarily bad, after all, they've been with Mali for so long and they don't have that feeling.
However, the current situation is unclear regarding what the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau is doing and its motives. Li Jiuhe must find out the truth.
Moreover, Song Zhixing did not demonstrate the "paralysis" skill just now, and the power controlling their bodies was also very strange, unlike that of a controlled god.
Because Li Jiuhe had a deep understanding of the feeling of being controlled by Guan Jikun's mind. When being controlled, one's own consciousness completely disappears, and it is impossible to still see but be unable to control one's own body.
Therefore, he now even doubts whether Song Zhixing is really the bureau chief.
Thinking of this, Li Jiuhe sensed the Boundary Stone.
The new world inside the stone is still being formed and is not yet fully stable, so it is not possible to incorporate all these people into the boundary stone for the time being.
Even if he could do it, he didn't want to. Although it seemed that the other party had been plotting for a long time and had hidden some people, Ma Li and Luo Shuo would also be sucked into the boundary stone within the same room's coverage area.
Being alone in there is fine; I can find a chance to escape, or even fight back against the others. But with two other teammates, there are too many variables, and I can't let them take the risk with me.
Now we need to find a way to reverse the passive situation and turn the tables on Song Zhixing.
"Luo Shuo, have you ever heard of this type of sequence ability before? —"
Li Jiuhe described what had just happened to him, emphasizing the difference between himself and the controlled god, and it seemed to be related to the strange voice that Luo Shuo heard at the end.
Although Li Jiuhe never heard this strange voice from beginning to end, it was most likely the reason why their consciousness and body were separated.
Luo Shuo thought carefully for a moment, then shook his head: "Never heard of it. Brother Li, you may not know, but even after all these years of struggling in society, it's impossible for me to know all the sequence abilities. There are too many variations of these abilities, and the time cycle is very fast. In other words, all abilities are in an orderly evolution."
After learning about sequence capabilities and sequence lines over this period of time, Li Jiuhe also had this feeling.
He knew that Tong Cheng was probably here, but even if he tried to deduce what kind of sequence ability the other party had based on his previous experiences, he probably wouldn't be able to find out.
Then Li Jiuhe looked at Ma Li.
He remembered that at first, Ma Li clearly reminded him via text message not to open the door, but not long after, she opened the door to the next room first, allowing Song Zhixing to go over and subdue her.
No, that's not right.
It was Mali who was controlled first, and then opened the door, just like when I was later controlled and my mind and body were separated.
Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo, on the other hand, experienced a separation of body and mind later on. Before them, Ma Li was separated first.
Why was she "separated in body and mind" first? Song Zhixing was clearly knocking on her side of the door, meaning Li Jiuhe and Luo Shuo were his targets.
Li Jiuhe stared intently at Ma Li, his mind racing with thoughts.
Ma Li had always been straightforward and carefree. At this moment, unaware of what he was thinking, she was delighted by his gaze and burst into laughter.
"Handsome Li, have you discovered my beauty?"
She then turned to Luo Shuo and asked, "To be fair, have I become more beautiful recently?"
Luo Shuo looked embarrassed: "Uh, well, I mean, Brother Li was watching you—that's not what I meant."
"How could that not be what I meant?" Ma Li argued confidently. "I know you humans have needs too, especially since Brother Li has been single for three years. Hmm, but I still need to evolve; physical evolution is the most important thing. Brother Li, just bear with it a little longer—if it really comes to it, I just found a few small cards by the door of the room—"
"Ma Li?" Li Jiuhe suddenly spoke, clearly not having heard what she was saying.
As he spoke, Li Jiuhe moved closer to Ma Li.
Ma Li immediately became uneasy, instinctively moving her body to the other side while pleading with Luo Shuo for help: "Luo Shuo, help me hold down this handsome guy, I need to get away first—"
Before he could finish speaking, Li Jiuhe continued, "You ants don't seem to have auditory organs, right? You can't hear the sounds that we humans can hear normally?"
Ma Li was taken aback: "That's it?"
Li Jiuhe nodded and looked closely at her ears, which had evolved into human ears on their own.
Mali's two human ears immediately flapped, clearly indicating that she felt very uncomfortable, and that she could freely control every organ of hers as if it were her own arm.
Nodding, she replied, "Actually, I'm not the same as my ant larvae. I've evolved and can generate various human organs. So I can have an auditory system like you, but the ant larvae don't. They rely on the vibration frequencies of the air and the ground to perceive sound. Their perception range is far below the lower limit of your human hearing."
Luo Shuo immediately took out his phone and checked: "The lower limit of human hearing is 20 Hz. Sounds below this frequency cannot be heard by us."
Ma Li explained, "Anyway, ant larvae can't hear sounds traveling through the air; they sense vibration frequencies at close range, and these frequencies are below 20 Hz."
"This falls into the category of—well, infrasound." Luo Shuo put his phone away.
Li Jiuhe frowned and asked, "When you sleep, you release black ants to stand guard for you. Can I understand that at this time, they are mainly driven by the vibrations they receive? And you are also affected?"
Ma Li nodded: "That's right. After all, I also fall asleep, and sleeping is good for your complexion. They only sleep for ten minutes or so a day, and at night they become my loyal guardians."
By this point, Li Jiuhe had roughly deduced the answer.
No wonder Mali was controlled first; it turns out that her ant larvae were the first to be affected by the infrasound, causing her to be the first to "hear" it, and then her mind and body were separated, making her the one controlled by the other party.
"These people emit infrasound, far below the range of normal human hearing, so although we can't hear them, they can still have a dissociative effect on our mind and body. This should be a unique sequencing ability—"
Before he could finish his speculation, Luo Shuo's eyes widened, and he exclaimed in sudden realization, "I know! There's a type of Sequence Being who possesses this ability!"
"What kind of sequence user?"
"The Silent Singer," Luo Shuo explained quickly. "When I was lured and framed by the Ghost Eyes and others, preparing to commit a crime together, he mentioned it to me. There is a Silent Singer in their Spiritual Awareness Party. People with this sequence can emit infrasound by singing, with a frequency of about 16 Hz. Normal people can't hear it at all, but they will be affected silently."
"What impact will it have?" Li Jiuhe asked.
"There are many examples, such as unconsciously repeating a certain action repeatedly, or losing control of one's mind and body and doing some incomprehensible things, or committing suicide or killing each other," Luo Shuo gave one example after another.
Li Jiuhe slapped his thigh: "It's most likely the silent singer!"
He frowned, took out his phone, and checked: "Does the Yuanmeng City Investigation Bureau have silent singers?"
Before arriving here, he and Luo Shuo had studied the files of all the investigators in the city's Bureau of Investigation and remembered that there were no investigators with the sequence ability of the Silent Singer.
Luo Shuo and he checked together and quickly confirmed that there were no investigators in Yuanmeng City who were silent singers, nor were there any registered silent singers in the city.
It's clear that this type of sequencer is relatively rare, somewhat similar to food phobias and trackers like Luo Shuo.
"You just said that there are silent singers in the Spiritual Awakening Party?" Li Jiuhe asked Luo Shuo.
Luo Shuo nodded: "It was someone with the Ghost Eyes who told me this before, but the Spiritual Awareness Party was severely damaged by the Investigation Bureau and has fallen apart. I don't know where this person is now, or whether he is alive or dead."
Li Jiuhe looked towards the doorway and muttered, "We'll know soon enough. Let's go to Ma Li's room."
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