Chapter 44: The Only Son

"This is the truth about this island." As Mu Aisan came out with the parchment scroll, she handed it to Sun Jiamin. "This is? Uh, this skull?" Sun Jiamin was also horrified when she saw the parchment, while the rows of English on it were less clear. Previously in the room, although the windows were boarded up, there was still more or less some sparse moonlight cast in from outside, in order for Mu Aishan to see the English on the parchment clearly, but stepping outside into the dark corridor, Sun Jiamin couldn't see it clearly at all. "What is written on this?" Sun Jiamin asked in confusion. "It's like this ……," Mu Aishan told Sun Jiamin all about what was written on the parchment scroll. After listening to it, Sun Jiamin was horrified, "A demon that brings the plague …… This, this sounds like a ghost story ……" Just at this time, suddenly …… that flip phone, once again rang! In this dark environment, the ringing of the cell phone scared Sun Jiamin so much that she almost fainted, and Mu Aisan's heart also stopped for a beat, and she hurriedly answered her cell phone. She had already decided that if she could successfully escape, she must go to the hospital to do a heart ultrasound to see if she had been scared out of any heart disease. However, this time, after connecting the cell phone, the voice was changed. "Hello." "You …… "Mu Aishan froze, then remembered that this was exactly the phone call she received at the hospital's guide desk earlier! "You're the guy from before!" She looked around and said, "Listen to me, I can give you the intel you want, but we need to know what's going on with the island, and if there's a way for you to get us off the island." In turn, the opposite party replied, "I want you to figure out that you are in no position to bargain. If you do not give me the information, you will have to die of thirst and hunger on this island. I assure you that there is absolutely no other way for you to escape from this island. If you don't believe me, try it." "If you say that, I won't give you the information!" She grabbed the parchment scroll in her hand and said, "I now know what the root cause of the contagion on this island is, and I can give you the information you want to know about the remains of the apartment's occupants ……" "I hate being threatened." The voice on the other side was noticeably cold, "You should understand the leverage that can threaten me ……" "Wait ……" Mu Aisan suddenly froze, she always felt that this voice, was familiar? She quickly searched for this voice in her brain's memory bank, it was definitely a voice she had heard in the recent past. It was someone from the program crew! Was it a staff member of the program, or a member of the vegetarian group? She should have even said something to this person. But, for a moment, she just couldn't remember who the voice belonged to! "I repeat, I hate being threatened. Tell me the information and I will send someone to pick you up." The more Mu Aishan listened, the more she felt something was wrong. If the other party really had the means to save them, why did they say so? Could it be to deceive them? Right now, the information on hand is the biggest bargaining chip, the other party obviously needs this information, the only problem lies in the asymmetry of information in …… negotiations. She wasn't sure how valuable this intelligence was to the other party, and whether the other party desperately needed this intelligence. Once it was said, then the initiative would be completely lost. "Do you not like me threatening you, or …… do you simply have no way to take us off this island?" Right now, Mu Aishan decided to take a gamble. If she couldn't escape this island, she was dead! "Let us leave this island, then I will know everything. When we are in your hands, are you still afraid that we won't tell the truth? You said you hate being threatened, it's just an excuse, right?" Sun Jiamin was at the side but her heart was pounding as she listened, Mu Aishan was playing with fire! What if the other party got angry and refused to take them away from Blackwater Island? She didn't want to be trapped and die on this horrible island! "Hey hey hey, Mu, Mu Aisan, don't be like this ah, what if the other party gets angry ……" Mu Aisan stepped on Sun Jiamin fiercely, glaring angrily at this pig teammate. Negotiation is to let the other side can not feel where your bottom line is, that is, to use the asymmetry of information. Whoever showed weakness first, the initiative of negotiation would be lost. She had to hold the chips in her hand and force the other party to save them. If this information is really important to the other party, then it is definitely …… "Put Sun Jiamin on the phone." Mu Aisan's heart went cold when she heard the other party say this. Pig teammate ah! Still piggybacking herself! "You and I say also one …… thing." "I'll say one thing to her, and she'll know if what I'm saying is true or not." Mu Aisan froze, and looked at the anxious Sun Jiamin in front of her, hesitated for a long time, put her cell phone on speakerphone, and said, "You say it, she can hear you." With the speakerphone on, she could grasp the content of this person's call with Sun Jiamin so as not to lose the initiative. "I want to talk to her alone." "Don't you give an inch ……" Sun Jiamin snatched the cell phone over, pressed off the speakerphone, and asked, "Speak, I'll listen!" However, the other end of the cell phone, was at this moment, changed to another voice. "I know Mother Ziyi's current whereabouts." When Sun Jiamin heard these words, her entire body was stunned. She had repeatedly speculated about the various identities of the mysterious person on the other end of the phone before, and even the possibility of aliens had already been considered, thought of countless kinds of things the other party might say, but never thought it would be this kind! "What did you …… you say?" "I know the whereabouts of Mother Ziyi, she is …… not dead now." After all, Sun Jiamin is not yet a fool, said, "Where is the evidence? What is the evidence?" She is Mother Ziyi's best BFF in the entertainment industry, as long as she checks online, she can know that it is entirely possible for the other party to make up a story to deceive herself. "I'll believe you if you let her answer the phone!" The other party was silent for a while before saying, "Wax museum." The moment these three words came out, Sun Jiamin sucked in a breath of cold air. Ziyi had told herself before that the friend circles she had posted that involved strange and weird places had been set so that only Sun Jiamin, her best friend, could see them. After Ziyi had completely lost contact with her, all of those photos inside her circle of friends had been deleted as well. She didn't show them to anyone, and she didn't mention them to anyone, even Lu Yunxiu didn't know about them. So, if anyone knew, it would definitely be someone who had contacted Ziyi! "Where the hell did she go? What's going on with that wax museum?" Sun Jiamin inquired ten thousand times more eagerly, that wax museum's circle of friends back then was still fresh in her mind to this day. But then, the voice on the opposite side changed again. "Okay, now, information exchange, is that okay?" "You ……" "If you want to threaten, it can only be me threatening others, others want to threaten me, forget it!" "Okay, I say!" Sun Jiamin immediately took what was on the parchment scroll just now and said it. Mu Aisan was so scared that she was about to cover her mouth, but Sun Jiamin's speed of speech was strangely incomparable, and she desperately tried to stay away from Mu Aisan, and quickly told everything, and even talked about the dead body she saw downstairs and its location. "What are the numbers on the key?" The opposite party asked again. "It's ……" she reported the number. Just then, Mu Aisan rushed over and snatched the cell phone as she said to the other side, "Well, all said and done, get us ……" "We still need more information on the remains of the occupants." "Are you fooling us?" "This house is yours to explore. I'll give you the key information when the details are all reported back to us." "You …… "Suddenly, Mu Aishan remembered, "Black Ghost Fire! You're that web novelist Black Ghostfire inside the vegetarian group! It's you!" The opposite side was obviously a little surprised. "Who the hell are you? What you're doing is against the law!" Mu Aishan was enraged, "Did you plan everything? Was this reality show promoted by you? What is the purpose of your plotting this series of conspiracies?" "I want you to calm down …… I don't want anyone yelling at me. I'll be in touch ……" "Wait!" Mu Aisan continued, "Okay, I'll talk to you calmly. In fact, I received the show's information before and read the information of the people in the vegetarian group, and I noticed you at that time, and also read your introduction. Your parents died early, and you live with your sister. You did this kind of thing, did you think about your parents in the nine springs? Does your sister know about these things?" However, the voice on the other end of the cell phone said, "I think you're remembering it wrong, right? Yes, my parents did die early. But …… I'm an only child and don't have a sister at all!"