The Last Supper
Chapter 6: Hunter A
This ti, 922 stayed around for a while at the door after dropping the examinee off.
After the experience last ti, he was very curious about what You Huo would do. However, a few seconds later he regretted this decision. You Huo ca out again.
922 with a look of frustration: “What’s wrong now?”
You Huo: “I just thought of sothing.”
“What?”
“The rules here, are they based on the exams in reality?”
922 nodded: “Of course it is.”
You Huo: “There was a rule that wasn’t ntioned.”
922: “Which?”
“If an examinee encounters a problem, can they also find the invigilator?”
922: “………Yes.”
But we don’t want you to look for us.
To avoid trouble, 922 imdiately added: “It’s the sa as the exams in reality. You are forbidden to ask for the answer. We don’t and can’t help you with that.”
You Huo made a sound of recognition.
But he had always been quite little with words…….922 still felt skeptical.
“So when we encounter a problem, how do we find you?”
922 said: “Just…….Use the delegated pen and write on the answer wall——–”
He originally wanted to say ‘write the invigilators number’ but he felt resistance inside. His mouth changed and the words that ca out was, “Write 001.”
You Huo looked expressionlessly at him.
922 looked at him innocently and repeated: “Yes, write 001.”
“……………”
After what felt like a century, You Huo nodded. He then turned around and closed the door on him.
922 who had managed to make a big achievent happily went back.
·
In the cabin.
The fire was still burning strongly, and everyone sat around it in clearly separated groups.
Because of the knife incident earlier, the tattooed man was left alienated. Alone, he sat at the corner of the table with a sullen face.
The others sat far from him and would deliberately walk around him.
Seeing You Huo returning, Yu Wen imdiately jumped up.
“Brother! Did the invigilators do anything to you? What punishnt? Are you okay?”
He waved the knife around and fired out a succession of questions.
Everyone looked over.
You Huo furrowed his brows and moved away from the blade. He said: “It’s nothing.”
“You sure?” Yu Wen didn’t believe him.
He glanced at the corner of the room and asked quietly: “That person was taken away once and he beca like that. How harsh was the punishnt?”
You Huo looked over at the corner of the room. The bald man who was confined earlier huddled there with yellow and turbid eyes. He swayed his body back and forth nervously as he muttered incoherently.
He seed to have been scared mad.
You Huo saw the bald man and recalled the confinent room. He instantly felt a little sick.
“He has always been like that?”
“Yes. It has been three hours and he didn’t recover at all.” Yu Wen snorted coldly. He then whispered: “See him constantly mumbling? I even went over to listen in.”
“What did he say?”
Yu Wen shook his head and said: “I only heard sothing like ‘unfortunate life’. On there was also sothing about burning incense. I couldn’t understand the rest.”
You Huo made a sound of understanding and no longer asked.
You got punished more than him so why do you seem okay?” Yu Wen was very curious.
You Huo was lazy to explain. He answered perfunctorily: “thod is different.”
Yu Wen: “What punishnt did you get?”
You Huo answered briefly: “Slept. Gifted the invigilator a bucket of blood.”
Yu Wen: “???”
“Why did you gift the invigilator blood?”
You Huo looked coldly at him: “Who knows? He likes it.”
Yu Wen keenly noted that his brother said ‘he’, not ‘they’.
“Which one? Is he a pervert?”
“You Huo: “001.”
Yu Wen: “Huh…….”
·
You Huo and that invigilator were not in good relations and he didn’t want to talk about it anymore.
He glanced around, and frowned: “Were you just sitting around for the past three hours?”
“How can that be?” Yu Wen pointed at the answer wall and said: “Brother, your solution inspired
so I went and wrote a few things.”
You Huo looked at the answer wall.
On it there were densely packed scrawls made by by Yu Wen.
You Huo: “………….”
Yu Wen said: “My teacher said that we should write anything that cos to mind. Even if you don’t know, while you’re writing it down you might pick up a few points inadvertently.”
You Huo: “So, you wrote an essay?”
He tried to read the ssy scrawls. He pointed at one of the lines and asked: “What is this sentence?”
Yu Wen tried to read it with even more difficulty than You Huo: “I think…….We have a total of 13 people and there are 12 tableware.”
You Huo: “……..Why are you copying the question?
Yu Wen: “………When I don’t have anything to write in an exam, in order to increase the word count, I would try to emphasise the key point in the question.”
You Huo: “………”
Fuck you and the key point.
He pointed to another pile of circles: “What’s this?”
Yu Wen: “G=mg, g=9.8N/kg……….”
You Huo: “What does this have to do with optics?”
Yu Wen: “The thing is………I don’t know what kind relationship tableware has with optics.”
You Huo: “………..”
Yu Wen was afraid of his brother going mad with anger, so he quickly added: “There are also optics here.”
You Huo no longer wanted to look at the nonsensical scrawls. He asked directly, “Where?”
You Wen said timidly: “Here. I wrote refractive index, parallel lines, spherical surface, lens, focal length, imaging………Aren’t these words all optics related? I even drew a simple two mirror diagram.”
You Huo was expressionless. Yu Wen thought about it and then pulled his brother away from the wall. He changed the topic: “Let’s not talk about the unhappy things. Apart from answering the question, we also did sothing else.”
In fact, after the answer wall was updated, they turned the cabin upside down.
The question said that this was a hunter’s cabin and that he had 13 tableware but only enough food to feed 12.
But after searching through the attic, cabinets and various bottles and cans, they firstly didn’t see a hunter and, secondly, there weren’t any tableware. As for food……..They could only dream.
“We searched for two hours.” Yu Wen said dejectedly, “In such a small cabin, two hours! So you can imagine how much we’ve gone through. There really was nothing. What a shit question.”
You Huo asked: “You definitely went through everything?”
“In fact, we didn’t.” A stick thin man wearing a hospital gown coughed a few tis and interjected: “There were two places that weren’t touched.”
He raised his skinny fingers and pointed at the two locked rooms.
On the door of the rooms was the rooster and hen. Its necks were twisted, and their dark beady eyes looked out the window not moving an inch.
Perhaps it was because the chickens looked very strange and every ti, they called out it was either because of a violation or because it was ti to collect the answers, no one dared to touch it.
“We tried to find the key, but we couldn’t find it.”
You Huo nodded. He walked over and examined the two padlocks. He then turned around and looked at the walls.
Yu Wen was worried that his brother would take out the axe to break the door down. He quickly said: “Brother! I played these types of gas more than everyone else here. For locked doors like this, it’s best not to use force.”
You Huo coolly asked back: “Do I look retarded?”
Yu Wen shrank back. He didn’t dare speak.
After a mont he said timidly: “Then why are you looking at the wall?”
“Did anyone touch the hunting gear?” You Huo asked.
Everyone’s eyes moved to the tattooed man.
“Fuck, why are you fucking looking at
for!” The tattooed man saw this and was enraged: “Earlier you wrongly accused
of hiding the knife and now what are you going to wrongly accuse
of?”
“Wrongly accuse?” You Huo frowned.
“With so many people are grouped together, who the fuck knows where that knife fell from.” The tattooed man cursed. He said irritably: “I’m done! It’s no point explaining to you fools!”
You Huo looked coldly at him.
Tattooed man: “………….”
After a mont of silence, the tattooed man said: “Forget it. You……what do you want to ask? Ask!”
You Huo pointed at the wall with his chin: “Put the hunting gear back to where it was. I want to look at its position.”
The tattooed man glared at him: “Am I crazy? Why should I put it back after taking it down?”
??
Three minutes later, the tattooed man took out a bag of hunting gear and hung them back one by one.
You Huo crossed his arms and followed behind him.
“I’m not a dog. Can you not walk around like you’re walking ?!”
The tattooed man complained dissatisfiedly but he still placed the last one back before spitting in the corner and walking away.
“Brother, what’s wrong with the hunting gear?” Yu Wen asked.
You Huo pointed at the last wall and said: “There are two empty nails.”
“So?” Yu Wen was still puzzled.”
“What happened to the thing hanging from there?”
The room went silent.
Suddenly soone said: “That’s right………it’s missing two things. Is anyone hiding sothing?”
Everyone shook their heads.
Old Yu: “It was like this from the beginning.”
Everyone looked at him.
“That……….Before the exam started, didn’t I go out for a bit?” Old Yu said to You Huo. “You were sleeping so I didn’t call you. Before I went out, I wanted to see if there were any umbrellas in the cabin. At that ti the two nails were empty. I’m certain.”
“So, you an that from the ti we entered the cabin, two hunting gears were missing?”
“Then who has it?”
“The hunter?” Yu Wen guessed, “So……There really is a hunter and he is just not in the cabin. He probably went out hunting?”
Everyone was a little nervous: “We can’t go out, he can’t co in. How can we find him?”
You Huo: “Ti isn’t up yet, right?”
·
Everyone’s sense of ti was a bit off but You Huo had already dragged a chair over and moved to sit before the fire.
The others also sat down and went in daze as they looked at the fire.
Yu Yao supported her waist and carefully moved over. She looked at You Huo for a while. The other person’s side profile was lit up by the fire making him look gentler than usual, but his eyes were still cold and indifferent.
With a look of guilt, she said: “I’m sorry.”
You Huo looked over at her.
Yu Yao said in a small voice: “That ink…..Clearly I was the one who did it but you got punished instead. I have always wanted to apologise to you but you were taken away again before I could say anything.”
You Huo: “…………..”
Yu Yao said: “I know it’s useless to apologise. If there is anything next ti, I’ll go instead.”
You Huo: “…………”
He lowered his eyes and glanced at Yu Yao. He looked away and continued to warm his hands up: “No need.”
Yu Yao opened her mouth wanting to say sothing but in the end she didn’t say anything.
She sat there in daze for a while. Then she suddenly asked You Huo: “You’re not afraid?”
You Huo straightened one leg. The fire stove was too warm, and he was a little sleepy.
He was quiet for a mont before saying lazily: “Afraid of what?”
“Afraid of death, afraid of violating the rules…….or anything. Everyone is very curious. You are very strong. It’s like you aren’t afraid of anything.”
“What’s the point of being afraid?”
Yu Yao nodded and said quietly: “That’s true. But you can’t help it. I’m just very scared…….”
You Huo didn’t look up. He said: “You’re not too timid. You even had the courage to use that unknown ink to write on the wall.”
He spoke effortlessly. It was as if he didn’t want to even move his lips. His voice was low and cold but, while being baked by the warm fire, there was no tone of bla.
Yu Yao lowered her head. She didn’t know what to say.
She lingered for a long ti before saying: “I actually……….”
But she didn’t finish speaking. She saw You Huo with one leg on the edge of the chair and his arm on his knee. He seed to have fallen asleep again.
She was surprised for a mont and she swallowed her words back. She didn’t wake You Huo and just slowly moved back to the two old ladies.
“How did he fall asleep again?” The old lady whispered. “Didn’t he sleep when he just ca?”
Yu Wen heard this faintly and he looked at You Huo. Inside he answered: No, my brother is always sleepy even after sleeping.
Yu Yao didn’t say have much to say. She leaned against the old lady and her eyes looked into the distance. She seed to be in thought.
·
An unknown amount of ti passed and the clock above the cabinet changed.
Beijing ti, four o’clock in the morning.
The sudden cry from the rooster frightened everyone.
They quickly sat up and looked at each other before realising that they had fallen asleep.
Yu Wen slapped himself a few tis to wake himself up.
When he lowered his hands, he heard a strange sound.
“Shh———”
He gestured and asked quietly: “Do you hear sothing?”
“What?” Old Yu looked at his son thinking that he was speaking nonsense.
“Don’t you hear it?” Yu Wen asked, “That……crunching sound.”
The room fell silent. No one dared to move.
Everyone had a wary expression as they listened for movent.
Sure enough, after a few seconds the crunching sound was heard again. This ti everyone heard it.
It was like……sothing heavy being dragged in the snow.
The stick thin man in the hospital gown gestured out the window and mouthed: “Here.”
Before his mouth could close, the door opened with a creak.
A black shadow was cast in from outside the door.
Following that, a pale faced man holding a bundle of rope entered the cabin.
His figure was large, but he wasn’t very tall. His face looked like over exposed paper and his eyes were also very strange. The iris looked a little too large for his eyes and the white sclera only occupied a very small amount.
He bent down to roll the rope up. On his waist hung a wide knife and a small bell rang with his movents.
No one in the room spoke. Everyone watched him drag a sack into the house and then closing the door.
At this mont, he finally looked around at the fire stove. His dark eyes blinked a few tis: “Ah…….That’s good, there are guests.”
Everyone: “…………..”
·
The one who ca was the hunter that they had been waiting for.
He squeezed his hand and said: “Snow had blocked off the roads for the past few days so I knew that foo……I an, guests would co.”
Guests: “…………”
“It’s really cold outside.” He said slowly: “The snow is too heavy. Everything was hidden so I couldn’t find a prey. I spent a long, long ti to finally dig out one.”
He kicked the sack and smiled at everyone. His lips looked like they almost reached his ears: “You’re really lucky to be able to join .”
He sighed again and explained: “I can’t help it. There aren’t many things on the snow mountain, and it would always be a long ti until I co across a group. I have to tighten my belly to survive so I only have two als a day.
“Once in the morning at 4am and then in the afternoon at 4pm. There aren’t many chances to have a wonderful al with .” He looked at the clock above the cabinet and said: “Ah, it’s just the right ti. You must’ve waited long and must be hungry. I can hear your stomachs growling. Can’t wait?”
Guests: “……….”
“How many of you are there?” He held out his finger and counted them one by one, “Old woman, sick man, thug, alcoholic, alcoholic’s son…….”
None of the nas were nice but when he pointed at them, their faces all turned green.
When he reached You Huo, he paused and wasn’t happy: “Why is there one still asleep.”
“Forget it.” Hunter A was no longer interested. He looked at the answer well and said: “Looks like there are a total of 13 people but I don’t have enough food. Only enough for 12. What a pity.”
As he said that, he licked his lips: “I’m really hungry, but you’ll have to wait a little longer. I have to prepare. It’s my first ti having so many guests.”
Yu Wen: “………..”
It’s also my first ti seen such a girly hunter.
Hunter A bent over and picked up the sack.
The sack looked particularly heavy. They didn’t know what it contained and they also didn’t want to know……
He dragged the sack over to the corner of the room and stopped before the room with the hen hanging from the door.
The keys clanked and Hunter A picked one out. Using it, he opened the door to the room.
A rotten sll spread out.
It was a sll that was hard to describe. It was like rotten at, dust and decaying wood all mixed together.
·
Everyone had thought that the room with the hen hanging from the door was the bedroom.
Now they realised that it was actually a kitchen.
Inside was a long counter. It was no problem for soone to lie on it.
On the other side was a tall red wooden cabinet. Nurous locks hung from there.
Hunter A smiled at the people in the room and then made a small bow: “Please wait. It’ll be done soon.”
He then closed the door.
·
The people by the fire stove was silent for a long ti. One of them said with fear: “I don’t want to eat, I want to go ho.”
“Who doesn’t want to go ho!” The tattooed man had at so unknown point in ti joined the crowd. He was probably afraid of Hunter A, “Can we go back? If you have the ability, go and rush out through that door!”
Everyone fell silent again.
After a mont, Old Yu swallowed: “That hunter’s mouth was so big. It wouldn’t be a problem to swallow a human head. I have a feeling he eats humans……..”
Yu Yao muttered: “What’s in that sack?”
Putting those two sentences together, it was extrely terrifying.
Everyone’s eyes moved out the window.
The snowstorm outside still had not stopped. Before the exam, Old Yu went out to investigate and said that everything was covered in snow. There weren’t any people or houses within a hundred miles from here……..
Where did the prey co from?
What’s more, Hunter A said that the food was dug out.
When they arrived here in the afternoon, there was a man who didn’t listen to the radio and his body was soon buried under the snow…….
Everyone recalled that mont in unison. Deep fear ford on their faces.
Yu Wen was even about to vomit.
“If you want to vomit, turn around.” You Huo’s cold voice rang out, “Don’t get it on
again.”
“Brother you’re awake?!” Yu Wen cried out in pleasant surprise.
“What are you shouting for! Can’t you be a little quieter?!” The tattooed man shouted.
You Huo glanced at the tattooed man and said: “I wasn’t sleeping.”
Yu Wen: “Oh——— Then why do you always close your eyes?”
“Eyes are uncomfortable.”
Yu Wen rembered now that his father seed to have ntioned that You Huo has had surgery done on his eyes and that would be tired and uncomfortable after looking at bright things for a long ti. However, because he had never heard You Huo ntion it, he didn’t rember it himself.
“Brother, did you hear everything Hunter A said?” Yu Wen asked.
You Huo humd in acknowledgnt.
Yu Wen: “What do we do?”
You Huo said lazily: “I’m a little hungry. Wait for dinner.”
Yu Wen: “………..”
Who are you trying to scare?
KK has sothing to say:
LOL Yu Wen is
in exams. Just writing everything I can think of regardless of whether or not it answers the question.
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