The end of ten days

An old tungsten lamp hung by black wires in the center of the room, glistening dimly. The quiet atmosphere, like ink dripping into water, is spreading in the room. In the middle of the room stood a large round table, which looked very mottled, and in the middle of it stood a small clock with a very complicated pattern, which was ticking now. Around the table sat ten people dressed in different clothes, their clothes looked a little shabby, their faces were also covered with a lot of dust. Some of them were lying on the table, some were leaning back in their chairs, and they were all falling asleep. Beside them stood a man in a black suit wearing a goat's mask. His eyes peered out of a worn goat-head mask and stared with interest at the group of ten. The clock on the table rang, and the minute hand and the hour hand pointed "twelve" at the same time. Far beyond the room, the muffled sound of a bell rang. At the same moment, ten men and women sitting around the round table slowly awoke. As they came to their senses, they looked around in confusion and then at each other in confusion. No one seems to remember why they're here. "Good morning, nine." The goat head was the first to speak, "I am very glad to meet you here. You have been sleeping in front of me for twelve hours." The man's dress is really strange, in the dim light startled everyone. His mask seemed to be made of a real goat's head, with many hairs yellowed and blackened, knotted and stuck together. Two holes were cut in the goat mask's eyes, revealing his sly eyes. Between his gestures and actions, he not only exudes the unique smell of mutton on the goat, but also has a faint smell of decay. A man with a tattooed flower arm stared for a few seconds before finally discovering the irrationality of this matter and asked the goat head with hesitation: "You... Who said that about me? "I believe you all have this question, so let me introduce it to nine people." Goat head waved his hands in delight, as if he had already prepared the answer. A young man named Qixia sat farthest from the goat's head. He quickly surveyed the situation in the room, and after a moment, his face became serious. Weird. This room is so weird. There are no doors. There are walls on all sides. In other words, the room was closed all around, the roof and the floor, but in the middle of the room was a table. In that case, how did they get here? Is it a wall that you send people over and then you build it? Qixia looked around again. Whether it was the floor, the wall or the ceiling, there were horizontal and vertical lines, which divided the wall and the floor into many large squares. Another point that made Qixia care about was the "nine persons" that the goat's head said. All around the round table were ten men at any rate, and with the goat's head, there were eleven in the room. What does "nine" mean? He reached into his pocket and, as expected, the phone had long since been taken away. "No need to introduce us." A cold woman spoke to the goat head and said, "I advise you to stop your behavior as soon as possible. I suspect that you have detained us for more than twenty-four hours, which constitutes the crime of unlawful detention. Every word you say now will be recorded and will be used against you." As she spoke, she rubbed the dust off her arms in disgust, as if she hated being dirty even more than being imprisoned. The words of a cold woman really let everyone awake a lot, no matter who the other party is, dare to kidnap ten people, in any case have violated the bottom line of the law. "Wait..." A middle-aged man in a white coat interrupted the crowd's thinking, he slowly looked at the cold woman, and asked, "We have just woken up, how do you know we have been imprisoned for" 24 hours "?" His tone was smooth and forceful, but to the point. The cold woman calmly pointed to the clock on the table and replied, "The clock here points to twelve, but I have a habit of going to bed late. The last time I looked at my watch at home, it was twelve o 'clock, which means we have been imprisoned for at least twelve hours." After saying this, she pointed to the walls around her and continued: "You should also notice that there is no door in this room, which means that this person has spent a lot of effort to let us into this room, he said that we have been asleep for twelve hours, and now the clock is pointing to twelve again, which means that it has turned at least twice, so I suspect that" more than twenty-four hours, "is there a problem?" After listening to this answer, the white coat gave the woman a cold look, still with doubt in his eyes. After all, this woman is too calm in this environment. Would a normal person say that calmly in the face of such an act of kidnapping? Then a stout young man in a black T-shirt asked, "Goat Head, why are there ten people here and you say there are nine?" The goat's head was silent, and did not answer at once. "*, I don't care how many people are here..." The man with the arms scolded and tried to stand up on the table, but found that his legs were paralyzed and could not make strength, so he could only continue to point at the goat's head and say, "Powder Sausage, I advise you to be sensible, you may not know how serious the consequences of provoking me, I will really kill you." As soon as this was said, the expressions of the men present gradually became serious, this time it is really necessary to have a leader, if you can uniform this goat head together, the situation is still under control But they found that their legs do not know what is injected by people, at this time completely unable to force. So the man with the flower arm could only threaten the goat's head with words and shouted abuse. Qixia did not open his mouth, reached out and touched his chin slightly, and stared thoughtfully at the clock on the table. Things don't seem to be as simple as they seem. He knew that the goat's head had said "nine participants," and if there were ten of them, it would only prove that one of them was not a participant. Then who is he? There are six men and four women in this room. Is one of them the kidnapper? Goat head no longer spoke, slowly came to Qixia side, standing behind a young man. The crowd followed his gaze and saw that the young man in front of them was different from everyone else in the room. Although his face was dirty, it was filled with a happy smile. The goat's head slowly lifted the palm of his hand and laid it on the back of the young man's head. The young man's smile became more and more strange. He looked excited and looked at everyone. It seemed that he already knew something. There was a loud thud, and the Sheep-man slammed the young man's head against the table. Pink and white things like spilled paint, instantly spread across the table, everyone's face is splashed with blood spots. This young man's head was smashed on a table top. Outside the room, a distant bell rang again. Qixia was very close to the deceased, and he felt an unknown object sticking to his face, warm and sticky. He asked himself that his psychological quality was strong enough, but he did not expect to start shaking at this moment. The girl sitting to the right of the dead woman froze for three seconds and finally twisted her face and screamed. The scream tore through the psychological defenses of the crowd. Can you smash the hardest human skull into a tabletop with your hand, and that goat head is still "human"? How can his thin body be so powerful? The goat's head spoke slowly and said, "The reason why we have prepared ten men is that we need one of them to keep you quiet."