Chapter 90: Hypocritical Parents

 

Gu Yi woke up again, finding himself seated in the back of his parent's car.

His mother was looking down at her phone, and his father was driving, not paying attention to him at all.

Earlier, he had passed out due to exhaustion, missing the opportunity to use the talent of infinite deductions.

His parents must be part of the enemy faction, and he couldn't trust them!

Gu Yi remained silent and kept his eyes closed.

(Deduction begins!)

(You open your eyes and sit up from the car seat.)

(Your movements catch your mother's attention, and she puts down her phone, looking at you with joy.)

(Mother: Are you okay, my child?)

(You: Don't touch me.)

(Mother looks at you puzzled.)

(You decide to confront your parents.)

(You: I know everything, the whole truth.)

(Mother: The truth? What are you talking about?)

(You: Do you want me to say it, or will you admit it yourselves?)

(Mother: I don't understand what you're talking about.)

(You: Human trafficking, do you really think I don't know?)

(Mother stays silent for a moment, and your father pulls up the handbrake, stopping at a traffic light.)

(Mother: We haven't done anything like that! Don't listen to rumors.
Your dad and I are honest people.
How could we do such a despicable thing?)

(You: Since I've said it, it's because I have solid evidence.
What were you doing at the southern dock yesterday afternoon? Was it for a transaction?)

(Mother: We've never been to that place…)

(You: Will you dare to go to the police station with me and check the surveillance footage?)

(Mother: You…)

(Your father releases the handbrake and presses the accelerator.)

(Your father: Enough, let's be honest with our child.
We are indeed involved in human trafficking, but we have no choice.
We're doing it to stay alive.)

(You: Hurting others to stay alive?)

(Your father: Child, we can't keep arguing about this.
Go home, get some rest, and everything will be fine.)

(You: I'm afraid that once I fall asleep…
I'll never wake up again, right?)

(Your father remains silent, and your mother's gaze keeps avoiding yours.)

(You know you're right.)

(As long as you go back home and go to sleep, the Cat-rat couple will definitely come and kill you.)

(Mother: My child, we love you, and everything we do is to save you.)

(You: Including handing me over to those monsters?)

(Mother: Sigh, you don't know anything at all.)

(Suddenly, you feel a palpitation, and you instinctively look out the car window and see Miss Cat's reflection on the glass.)

(Your head throbs and your mental world becomes turbulent.)

(The lucky pouch on your chest starts to heat up.)

(Your mind clears again.)

(You take out a hammer from your backpack, smash the car window, and shout for help.)

(Your mother quickly reaches out to grab you, and your father immediately slams on the brakes, locking the car doors.)

(Father: Are you crazy?)

(You: I'm fighting for my life.)

(You raise the hammer and smash your mother's head.
You receive the same injury.)

(The rule of not harming parents is still in effect.)

(You put away the hammer and jump out of the window.)

(Vehicles are speeding past you.)

(Your father jumps out of the car and chases after you.)

(You clutch your head and run straight to the other side of the street, shouting for help from passersby.)

(A passerby walks over and holds your hand.)

(You: Thank you, please help me! Someone is trying to kill me, call the police!)

(The passerby looks up, and their face gradually turns into that of a rat.)

(Mr.
Rat: Am I the one trying to kill you?)

(You gasp and accidentally bump your head on Mr.
Rat's pointed nose.)

(Mr.
Rat winces in pain.)

(You manage to break free and swing the hammer toward Mr.
Rat's head.)

(Mr.
Rat's head starts bleeding, and he opens his hand, throwing countless rats from his sleeves.)

(You run in any direction to escape.)

(The rats quickly swarm over you, causing you excruciating pain.)

(You cry out for help from the nearby pedestrians, but you notice that the people in the distance have turned into pixelated blocks, staring at you with dead fish-like eyes.)

(You shake your head, trying to stay alert, and the pedestrians return to normal.)

(Miss Cat walks over, looking down at you from above.)

(Miss Cat's eyes are red; she must have been burned by Grandma's lucky pouch.)

(Miss Cat: You can't escape, little brat.)

(Miss Cat and Mr.
Rat drag you up from the ground and lead you back to the car.)

(You feel completely drained.)

(The car continues driving and returns to the underground base.)

(Miss Cat picks up almond water and pours it into your mouth.)

(You find everything in front of you becoming blurry.)

(You fall asleep.)

(You wake up again and find everyone around you staring at you with dead fish-like eyes, and people in the distance turn into pixelated blocks.)

(Miss Cat walks up to you and pinches your chin.)

(Miss Cat: You being dead is best for everyone.)

(Miss Cat takes the White Bone branch and stabs it into your forehead.)

(Your vision turns blood-red.)

(You're dead.)

(The deduction ends!)

Gu Yi kept his eyes tightly closed, listening to the noisy sounds outside.

In this death scene, Miss Cat said a different line.

“You being dead is best for everyone.”

Based on this, Gu Yi inferred that “I” actually posed a deadly threat to Cat and Rat couple, his parents, and everyone in the base, so they had to kill him.

In the last moment before death, Gu Yi seemed to briefly return to the Inner World, where everyone's eyes turned into dead fish-like eyes.

It's possible that the last time he drank the almond water, he also briefly returned to the Inner World, and that's when Miss Cat killed him in the coffin.

Now it's certain.

The Inner World is the creation of his younger sister, and the giant tree is a manifestation of his sister's weird power.

The cat and Rat couple wanted to kill him, but the method to do so was crucial; they had to use his sister's power to kill him.

Either make himself return to the Inner World.

Or use the White Bone branch to kill him.

And furthermore, they were killing him not to sacrifice him to the giant tree, but because they feared him.

Could this be the key point to exploit?

Gu Yi entered the deduction once again.

(Backtracking begins!)

(Father pulls the handbrake and stops at a traffic light.)

(Instead of talking to your parents, you quickly observe the surroundings.)

(Recalling the direction from which the Cat and Rat couple appeared, you roughly deduce the position of the car they are riding in.)

(You secretly hold the knife, and when your parents are not paying attention, you immediately open the car door and run out the second the light changes to green.)

(Your parents scream.)

(You weave through the traffic.)

(A large truck was about to turn, and you rush up into its blind spot.
If you don't dodge, you would be caught under its wheels.)