Witch, Open Your Eyes
MAY 20, 2021~ 8ONI
Editor : reii
Four corners of the walls cracked open with a click, four automatic sniper rifles then slid out and pointed at the people in the hall. Ding Zihui’s shoulders slumped, there was fear on her face. Yang Song’s breaths remained unruffled but her face was pale. Fang Daichuan turned his head and glanced around, then hurriedly stretched his arms, sweeping the girl behind him, and stood on the periphery of the crowd.
“Please scan the ID cards one by one,” the machine on the wall said in mechanical voice.
Boss Du looked around, unbuttoned his cufflinks, and stepped forward. He slipped out his ID card, took a quick glance at the others, then swiped the card onto the machine.
With a beep, the machine calmly reported: “Identity reading is successful, number of survivors: 1.”
Boss Du retrieved his card, sat back at the dining table, and looked up at the sniper rifles in the corners of the room. “Don’t panic, it’s not time to use them.”
With someone taking the lead, the others gradually settled down and looked at each other. Yang Song took out her own card from her pocket. Her fingers trembled. She swallowed, quickly closed her eyes and reopened them. She was the second person to swipe her ID card.
Li Sinian stared at the screen on which the number of survivors was displayed. Every time someone swiped a card, the bright red number would change. After Fang Daichuan’s turn, the blood-red number jumped, finally settling to a bloody ‘11’.
The four sniper rifles rotated to aim at Li Sinian who stood in the middle of the hall.
“Why are you just standing there?!” Fang Daichuan turned towards him and yelled anxiously, “Come swipe your card! Do you have a death wish?!”
Li Sinian stepped forward and swiped his card, tilted his head, and mused thoughtfully: “Say, if we brought the corpse over and swiped the deceased’s fingerprints and ID card, what do you think would happen?”
Fang Daichuan felt cold hearing that.
“Impossible,” Yang Song shook his head, “look carefully at the place where we pressed the fingerprint just now. There is no glow, which proves that it is not a optical scanner*, but utilises capacitive sensing technology.** This technology, which uses silicon crystals and conductive subcutaneous electrolyte to form an electric field, causes a change in pressure difference caused by the high and low rise and fall of the fingerprint, and verifies the fingerprint based on the electrostatic potential on the concave and convex surfaces of the fingerprint. So whether it’s a corpse or a finger cut off from a living person, after it’s removed from the living body, the epidermal cells will die and there will be no charge flow. The machine will not read the fingerprint.”
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/fingerprintscanners.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
(T/N: I got curious so here, a link so you can read more about this)
https://www.livescience.com/62393-dead-fingerprint-unlock-phone.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/do-persons-fingerprints-change-after-death.htm
Ding Zihui opened his mouth and looked at her blankly: “You, how do you know such details?”
Yang Song laughed coldly: “I took courses in Instrumentation and Control Engineering (ICE)* for my undergraduate study.”
https://www.tees.ac.uk/undergraduate_courses/engineering_&construction/beng(hons)_instrumentation_and_control_engineering.cfm
Ok, she is an overachiever. Fang Daichuan felt embarrassed by his academic qualifications and IQ. He practiced national sports*, and finally started acting after taking the exam. He hadn’t even heard of ICE. He just thought it sounded difficult to learn.
(T/N: Ok so author use national sports and this can means a lot and personally I think this does not have much interference with the story so just imagine him playing any kind of sport you want to)
“You actually lost.” Fang Daichuan felt a little weird as he turned his head to look at Li Sinian.
Li Sinian smiled and ruffled the man’s hair in two quick motions. “What is weird about that? I’m not a Superman. I can’t know everything.”
“It just feels new to me,” Fang Daichuan reached up to smooth out his messed up hair, shrugged, and muttered in a low voice, “I thought you were omnipotent.”
He didn’t use hairspray today so the hair looked clean and smooth. Combined with his downturned and drooping eyes, his previous offensive look was now gone, replaced with an air of innocence. Li Sinian had endured it all morning, but he finally took the opportunity to touch it.
It feels unexpectedly soft.
It’s totally different from yesterday’s wild and rebellious hairstyle. Li Sinian secretly smiled.
Everyone swiped their cards, and then returned to their seats. The beef and stew on the table were still warm, but no one was in the mood to move their fork.
“Current number of survivors: 12.” The machine emitted without emotion, “Please take your place. All players, move to your initial positions at the beginning of the game.”
Fang Daichuan reluctantly shuffled back to his last position. He hadn’t chosen this position during breakfast this morning. Although the blood on Ol’ Chen’s side had been wiped off, the memory of seeing Ol’ Chen being shot, with blood splattered on his face was really terrifying. Facing the empty chair in front of him, he felt numb, and the bright sunshine pouring down from the large glass windows could hardly drive out the chill inside his body.
“Players, please speak, and make your statements, starting from the counter-clockwise of the deceased.” The machine instructed dutifully.
The unfortunate guy who died on the first night was sitting next to Yang Song. So the presentation started with her.
Yang Song took a deep breath and said, “I don’t know the dead, and I don’t know what is happening. Last night Ding Zihui was attacked. Fang Daichuan was the first to rush up and I was the second. After I went up, I supported her all the way. Then I didn’t go back to the room, and helped her come down to the first floor. The two of us stayed together from there until that person died. We can testify to each other.”
Sitting across Yang Song was the old lady Song. The old lady wiped off the splashed water on her face with a napkin, drank two more sips of tea, and calmly said, “I went to my room last night and fell asleep. I was confused when I heard movement outside my door. An old lady like me did not dare to open the door. Later, there was a loud noise and a boy knocked on the door so I opened it. After I heard the news, I closed the door, changed my clothes and went down. I never came into contact with that person. It’s not me, and I don’t even know who the deceased is.”
On the right of old lady Song was Zhao Chu, the man who patted the table last night. “Sister Xinran has said what I wanted to say! I second that!” He said very loudly, “It’s not me, I don’t think it’s anyone from the second floor! It was you who was on the first floor at the time that killed him! “
“Wait,” Li Sinian suddenly raised his head, his pupils facing the sunlight, a faint light flashed through them, “Who is Xinran?”
Old lady Song’s face changed.
Zhao Chu was taken aback for a moment, and pointed to his left: “That’s…Sister Song … Song Xinran.”
Fang Daichuan stared at him suspiciously, “Is that so? How do you know her name?”
“I…” Zhao Chu turned to look at old lady Song, then at Fang Daichuan, “Just now… just now, she introduced herself!”
“Did she now?” Fang Daichuan stared at his face, “She only said her surname, but didn’t reveal the first name. We don’t know the old lady’s full name. Brother, do you know?” He turned his head and asked Li Sinian.
Li Sinian glanced at him, with a smile in his eyes, and shook his head cooperatively: “I don’t know.”
Everyone shook their heads and said that they didn’t know, then they all turned to Zhao Chu. Zhao Chu was now the center of attention, and his hand holding the cup was shaking. He had broken out to a cold sweat and couldn’t say a word to refute.
The old lady sighed and put down her teacup: “I will tell you, we know each other from over ten years ago. But it has nothing to do with the deceased.”
Over ten years ago, Fang Daichuan subconsciously glanced at Li Sinian. He said his father was missing and that he had a miserable life as a child. He was used by fraudsters to steal small things as a child, so he must not have been too old. Should be no more than ten. Li Sinian looks like he’s in his twenties, so it can be speculated that his father went missing over a decade ago.
“I worked at a geological exploration* facility and was the director of that facility before I retired. So don’t think you’re high and mighty just because you studied some engineering. I also have a PhD in geology.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/geological-exploration
As she spoke, Mrs. Song glanced at Yang Song and continued, “More than ten years ago, I was a team leader, and Xiao Zhao was a member of my team. Then something happened to the institute, the old director left, I took over as the director, and Xiao Zhao also left. But a few years ago, I had some health problems and resigned as well. I was surprised to see Xiao Zhao here.”
That was reasonable and everyone accepted it. Li Sinian frowned and glanced at Zhao Chu again.
On Zhao Chu’s right side was Niu Xinyan. She lowered her head and used a fork to poke the cold mussel meat: “I have nothing to say. I was coaxing my child last night and I didn’t have the energy to pay attention to others. Nan Nan was scared yesterday and kept crying .”
The little boy lowered his head to play with the tassel under the tablecloth and said nothing. His right side, where the deceased was, was empty.
“Don’t let the children talk,” Ding Zihui sighed, “He is so young, what does he know?”
Hearing this, the boy was not only unhappy, but stared at Ding Zihui with hatred. Ding Zihui was frightened, she panicked a little. “What’s wrong? Am, am I saying something wrong?”
“I know everything!” The little boy lowered his head, his eyes wide open, “I can see him.”
The child’s face should have been the most innocent face, but Fang Daichuan felt cold at that moment. He turned his head and asked softly, “What did you see?”
The room fell silent.
As the little boy stared at everyone in the eyes, he lifted his chin triumphantly. He then pointed to the empty seat beside him and giggled: “The dead man that is sitting there… I can see him! “
(T/N: And now we know everyone’s full name. So here, the new picture. And Sinian, you like touching Chuan’er’s hair huh? Also, get ready for a creepy kid~~~ :insert I see dead people: meme here)
Chapter 13: CH 13
Editor : reii
Four corners of the walls cracked open with a click, four automatic sniper rifles then slid out and pointed at the people in the hall. Ding Zihui’s shoulders slumped, there was fear on her face. Yang Song’s breaths remained unruffled but her face was pale. Fang Daichuan turned his head and glanced around, then hurriedly stretched his arms, sweeping the girl behind him, and stood on the periphery of the crowd.
“Please scan the ID cards one by one,” the machine on the wall said in mechanical voice.
Boss Du looked around, unbuttoned his cufflinks, and stepped forward. He slipped out his ID card, took a quick glance at the others, then swiped the card onto the machine.
With a beep, the machine calmly reported: “Identity reading is successful, number of survivors: 1.”
Boss Du retrieved his card, sat back at the dining table, and looked up at the sniper rifles in the corners of the room. “Don’t panic, it’s not time to use them.”
With someone taking the lead, the others gradually settled down and looked at each other. Yang Song took out her own card from her pocket. Her fingers trembled. She swallowed, quickly closed her eyes and reopened them. She was the second person to swipe her ID card.
Li Sinian stared at the screen on which the number of survivors was displayed. Every time someone swiped a card, the bright red number would change. After Fang Daichuan’s turn, the blood-red number jumped, finally settling to a bloody ‘11’.
The four sniper rifles rotated to aim at Li Sinian who stood in the middle of the hall.
“Why are you just standing there?!” Fang Daichuan turned towards him and yelled anxiously, “Come swipe your card! Do you have a death wish?!”
Li Sinian stepped forward and swiped his card, tilted his head, and mused thoughtfully: “Say, if we brought the corpse over and swiped the deceased’s fingerprints and ID card, what do you think would happen?”
Fang Daichuan felt cold hearing that.
“Impossible,” Yang Song shook his head, “look carefully at the place where we pressed the fingerprint just now. There is no glow, which proves that it is not a optical scanner*, but utilises capacitive sensing technology.** This technology, which uses silicon crystals and conductive subcutaneous electrolyte to form an electric field, causes a change in pressure difference caused by the high and low rise and fall of the fingerprint, and verifies the fingerprint based on the electrostatic potential on the concave and convex surfaces of the fingerprint. So whether it’s a corpse or a finger cut off from a living person, after it’s removed from the living body, the epidermal cells will die and there will be no charge flow. The machine will not read the fingerprint.”
https://www.explainthatstuff.com/fingerprintscanners.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_sensing
(T/N: I got curious so here, a link so you can read more about this)
https://www.livescience.com/62393-dead-fingerprint-unlock-phone.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/do-persons-fingerprints-change-after-death.htm
Ding Zihui opened his mouth and looked at her blankly: “You, how do you know such details?”
https://www.tees.ac.uk/undergraduate_courses/engineering_&construction/beng(hons)_instrumentation_and_control_engineering.cfm
Ok, she is an overachiever. Fang Daichuan felt embarrassed by his academic qualifications and IQ. He practiced national sports*, and finally started acting after taking the exam. He hadn’t even heard of ICE. He just thought it sounded difficult to learn.
(T/N: Ok so author use national sports and this can means a lot and personally I think this does not have much interference with the story so just imagine him playing any kind of sport you want to)
“You actually lost.” Fang Daichuan felt a little weird as he turned his head to look at Li Sinian.
Li Sinian smiled and ruffled the man’s hair in two quick motions. “What is weird about that? I’m not a Superman. I can’t know everything.”
“It just feels new to me,” Fang Daichuan reached up to smooth out his messed up hair, shrugged, and muttered in a low voice, “I thought you were omnipotent.”
He didn’t use hairspray today so the hair looked clean and smooth. Combined with his downturned and drooping eyes, his previous offensive look was now gone, replaced with an air of innocence. Li Sinian had endured it all morning, but he finally took the opportunity to touch it.
It feels unexpectedly soft.
It’s totally different from yesterday’s wild and rebellious hairstyle. Li Sinian secretly smiled.
Everyone swiped their cards, and then returned to their seats. The beef and stew on the table were still warm, but no one was in the mood to move their fork.
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At a quarter past eight, the machine beeped again.“Current number of survivors: 12.” The machine emitted without emotion, “Please take your place. All players, move to your initial positions at the beginning of the game.”
Fang Daichuan reluctantly shuffled back to his last position. He hadn’t chosen this position during breakfast this morning. Although the blood on Ol’ Chen’s side had been wiped off, the memory of seeing Ol’ Chen being shot, with blood splattered on his face was really terrifying. Facing the empty chair in front of him, he felt numb, and the bright sunshine pouring down from the large glass windows could hardly drive out the chill inside his body.
“Players, please speak, and make your statements, starting from the counter-clockwise of the deceased.” The machine instructed dutifully.
The unfortunate guy who died on the first night was sitting next to Yang Song. So the presentation started with her.
Yang Song took a deep breath and said, “I don’t know the dead, and I don’t know what is happening. Last night Ding Zihui was attacked. Fang Daichuan was the first to rush up and I was the second. After I went up, I supported her all the way. Then I didn’t go back to the room, and helped her come down to the first floor. The two of us stayed together from there until that person died. We can testify to each other.”
Sitting across Yang Song was the old lady Song. The old lady wiped off the splashed water on her face with a napkin, drank two more sips of tea, and calmly said, “I went to my room last night and fell asleep. I was confused when I heard movement outside my door. An old lady like me did not dare to open the door. Later, there was a loud noise and a boy knocked on the door so I opened it. After I heard the news, I closed the door, changed my clothes and went down. I never came into contact with that person. It’s not me, and I don’t even know who the deceased is.”
On the right of old lady Song was Zhao Chu, the man who patted the table last night. “Sister Xinran has said what I wanted to say! I second that!” He said very loudly, “It’s not me, I don’t think it’s anyone from the second floor! It was you who was on the first floor at the time that killed him! “
“Wait,” Li Sinian suddenly raised his head, his pupils facing the sunlight, a faint light flashed through them, “Who is Xinran?”
Zhao Chu was taken aback for a moment, and pointed to his left: “That’s…Sister Song … Song Xinran.”
Fang Daichuan stared at him suspiciously, “Is that so? How do you know her name?”
“I…” Zhao Chu turned to look at old lady Song, then at Fang Daichuan, “Just now… just now, she introduced herself!”
“Did she now?” Fang Daichuan stared at his face, “She only said her surname, but didn’t reveal the first name. We don’t know the old lady’s full name. Brother, do you know?” He turned his head and asked Li Sinian.
Li Sinian glanced at him, with a smile in his eyes, and shook his head cooperatively: “I don’t know.”
Everyone shook their heads and said that they didn’t know, then they all turned to Zhao Chu. Zhao Chu was now the center of attention, and his hand holding the cup was shaking. He had broken out to a cold sweat and couldn’t say a word to refute.
The old lady sighed and put down her teacup: “I will tell you, we know each other from over ten years ago. But it has nothing to do with the deceased.”
Over ten years ago, Fang Daichuan subconsciously glanced at Li Sinian. He said his father was missing and that he had a miserable life as a child. He was used by fraudsters to steal small things as a child, so he must not have been too old. Should be no more than ten. Li Sinian looks like he’s in his twenties, so it can be speculated that his father went missing over a decade ago.
“I worked at a geological exploration* facility and was the director of that facility before I retired. So don’t think you’re high and mighty just because you studied some engineering. I also have a PhD in geology.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/geological-exploration
As she spoke, Mrs. Song glanced at Yang Song and continued, “More than ten years ago, I was a team leader, and Xiao Zhao was a member of my team. Then something happened to the institute, the old director left, I took over as the director, and Xiao Zhao also left. But a few years ago, I had some health problems and resigned as well. I was surprised to see Xiao Zhao here.”
That was reasonable and everyone accepted it. Li Sinian frowned and glanced at Zhao Chu again.
On Zhao Chu’s right side was Niu Xinyan. She lowered her head and used a fork to poke the cold mussel meat: “I have nothing to say. I was coaxing my child last night and I didn’t have the energy to pay attention to others. Nan Nan was scared yesterday and kept crying .”
The little boy lowered his head to play with the tassel under the tablecloth and said nothing. His right side, where the deceased was, was empty.
“Don’t let the children talk,” Ding Zihui sighed, “He is so young, what does he know?”
Hearing this, the boy was not only unhappy, but stared at Ding Zihui with hatred. Ding Zihui was frightened, she panicked a little. “What’s wrong? Am, am I saying something wrong?”
“I know everything!” The little boy lowered his head, his eyes wide open, “I can see him.”
The child’s face should have been the most innocent face, but Fang Daichuan felt cold at that moment. He turned his head and asked softly, “What did you see?”
The room fell silent.
(T/N: And now we know everyone’s full name. So here, the new picture. And Sinian, you like touching Chuan’er’s hair huh? Also, get ready for a creepy kid~~~ :insert I see dead people: meme here)
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