What Are They Doing 2022 Chapter 22

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Liu Sang tried his best not to look at the darkness on that side, but his body language betrayed him.

The other party realized right away that he knew there was another person hiding in the darkness.

“Can you hear it?” 17 asked.

“It’s more conjecture than anything,” Liu Sang said.

When a person saw something flowing in the darkness, his logic would tell him that the darkness wasn’t pure darkness.

The same was true for ears—when you heard an unnatural sound in a certain direction, you would know that someone was hiding there.

Even the sound made by a mouse or a bug would be very easy to distinguish.

“We were delayed because of you,” 17 said. “I’m fine because I don’t have to do this, but ‘it’ isn’t fine. You should be able to tell that ‘it’ is feeling very uncomfortable right now.”

“Is killing me the only way to make ‘it’ feel better?”

17 laughed, “Do you think we can just kill anyone we want?”

“I can hear high-frequency sounds. Isn’t that why you choose your targets?”

“No,” 17 said.

“Then tell me, what’s the difference?”

“You aren’t afraid.” 17 looked Liu Sang in the eyes, “In fact, you’re actually a little eager. You don’t want to live at all. Do you think serial killers are people who go out and do good deeds?”

“You’re killing people who are afraid and want to live. Don’t you think it’s a little too easy for people with your skillsets?” Liu Sang wondered. “Compared to them, I’m more difficult. Why not challenge yourselves?”

17 touched his chin and thought about it for a moment, but eventually shook his head, “The first lesson we learned is to accept ourselves. If you can feel pleasure by abusing the weak but want to pee your pants when facing the strong, then you shouldn’t force yourself.”

Liu Sang laughed; this was indeed one of Tu Dian’s theories.

17 took out a piece of paper and said to Liu Sang, “However, now that we’ve met you, we have to start a special game. Here’s a letter he wrote to you.”

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One day before his death sentence was carried out, Tu Dian sat on death row, spending the day writing letters.

This was a benefit for those death row inmates facing special circumstances. On this day, he could write as much as he wanted, and the government would have to bear the cost.

Of course, it was difficult since few people in this world could remember addresses nowadays.

Tu Dian wrote bit by bit on the paper. Many death row prisoners sent numerous letters to human rights lawyers and various political figures the day before their execution, and some of them were even exempted from the death penalty because of it.

But Tu Dian didn’t need to. Instead, he wrote:

Hello friend,⁽¹⁾

I’ve prepared a very fun game for you.

This game was originally intended for another person. I met them earlier than you, but I think they’ve completely failed me.

This is a game that will enable you to understand me better. The logic of the game is very simple.

It’s a choice between saving yourself at the expense of others, or being like me and saving others.

I have a lot of children who are hiding in the world. If you can’t control your curiosity and investigate some of the things they’ve done, you’ll definitely meet them, and then you’ll see this letter.

If you don’t stop them, they’ll kill a hundred people.

They won’t stop until these people are dead.

Moreover, these people are the ones who should live the most. If you investigate, you’ll find that most of the dead are those who have survived a disaster or gone through terrible experiences and finally found peace.

Just think of how desperate they were when they died. Many of them made great sacrifices to survive, but the end result is that they lost their lives to us for no reason.

My children lurk around these people until one day, they find an opportunity to strike.

You can stop them, but the only way is to become like me. Otherwise, you’ll watch these hundred people die.

When we were kids, I told you some information that you may have forgotten but need to remember.

That information contains the reason why I became like this, as well as clues on how I would act.

When you see this letter, the game will start on a larger scale.

During the process of the game, you need to study me slowly.

We’ll meet again in hell.

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17 watched as Liu Sang finished reading the letter and then said to him, “Now, let’s play the first round. My partner and I are going to kill someone next; I need to quell its restlessness. You need to stop us before we can. We move very fast, so you only have half an hour.”

Liu Sang had a headache; he didn’t know whether it was from Tu Dian’s letter or the previous beating.

“It’ll be rush hour here soon,” 17 continued, “which means that you can only catch up to us if you can predict in advance where we’ll do it.”

“We learned everything from Professor Tu Dian, so please think of him and remember him. Otherwise, you can just wait here for tomorrow’s newspaper.”

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TN Notes:

(1) I don’t think it’s important but the “hello” was in English in the raw. 

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Sorry, updates will probably be iffy this week (if you couldn’t tell). I was going to try to do 1 a day but this project at work is wrapping up and we’re doing like supreme OT. Kill me now (╥_╥) I know the whole “it” thing was kind of weird but the author definitely used the character for that instead of the one vague character that can mean he/she so I just rolled with it.