"Judgement Knight Jigsaw? Is it a superhero that emerged again? Gotham...it seems to be the place where Batman is haunted?"

Varick returned home exhausted and was interrupted by the prompt sound of his cell phone just lying down before he had time to drink water.

Nowadays, rogue advertising and sales text messages are not too common, so the people of Miligan are still very "simple" and are worried that it is friends or customers to contact him. Although Varick is already very exhausted today, he still checked his phone.

However, it was not the text message he imagined, but an advertisement message popped up by some unknown software, and it also wrote some terms that he was very unfamiliar with.

Superhero… This word finally aroused his few remaining curiosity.

"Look at it."

Working and resting at 2:00 every day made Varick feel that he was almost becoming a machine or a walking zombie. It was rare that a ray of curiosity and expectation could arise in his heart. Varick didn't want to miss it, so he clicked in along the pop-up window of the advertisement.

After clicking, it will automatically jump, and it turns out to be a forum.

Unlike the forum that is very simple when browsing on your mobile phone, which basically only has white frames and blue and black text, this forum that automatically jumps over is obviously much more exquisite, with many more pictures and patterns, which makes Varick even more interested.

There are many posts in the forum, and a large number of posts appear every time they are refreshed, basically discussing around a person named "Jigsaw".

However, what attracted his attention the most was a post that was placed at the highest position, "Judgement Knight - Jigsaw; Author: Arthur Jackman"

This story is adapted from the author's real experience...

He ignored a line of inconspicuous small words. He glanced at them and found that it seemed like a novel that he was bored and quietly began to read.

Originally, he was just preparing to pass his leisure time with a picky look, but he never thought that this reading would become addicted to it. He could not stop reading the only five chapters before he came to his senses and sighed with satisfaction and regret.

This is a long-lost feeling of surging hearts.

When immersed in these words, the troubles of life and the numb and ordinary life seem to have left him. I am no longer an ordinary Varick, but instead turned into a superhero jigsaw, punishing criminals, guiding people to salvation, and fighting wits and courage with all kinds of people...

"What a magnificent life..."

A long sigh of envy, the text came to an abrupt end, and the boundaries between reality and illusion were clear again and became indestructible - he was still the ordinary Varick.

Click the reply bar, and Varick is ready to give this rare and good work some encouragement and urging.

Unfortunately, this post seems to have been set to limit that no one can reply or leave messages. The series of long texts he typed had to be deleted bit by bit.

After exiting this post, he was going to see other people’s discussions and comments, and by the way, he also re-established a post like them, leaving the author a little comment and encouragement.

"Hmm? Jigsaw's new secret room? Why are these plots different from what I've seen? Has the author updated it again?"

I clicked on a post published by a strange ID, and after taking a look at the content, Varick was stunned for a moment, then I was excited and expectant and found the post that updated the novel again.

However, there was no update, and it was still only the content he just read.

Unwilling to give up, he could only guess whether the author had created other posts, and he never let it go and clicked on every post in the forum.

But every time he read a post, his inner doubts increased a little.

"Why are these people's comments so strange? It seems that Jigsaws are real? Could it be that these people are so addicted to the point that they can't tell the difference between illusion and reality, right?"

Thinking of the feeling when I was reading it just now, Varick couldn't help but feel a little more suspicious in his heart.

Finally, after clicking on a post on Jigsaw and Jigsaw, his doubts instantly dissipated and his original doubts were resolved.

"A Jigsaw is a superhero that really exists in Gotham City?"

"The author of this novel is actually a scumbag who regrets after being punished by Jigsaw?"

Varick was shocked. Is the jigsaw in the novel real? Or was it written by a person who experienced it personally?

Isn’t this really a special promotional method for a certain movie?

With a feeling of excitement or panic, he rushed to his desk, turned on the computer, and entered the URL left in the post with a trembling hand.

All videos are recorded videos about jigsaws, and a large part of them are the experiences of Arthur Jackman, the author of the novel in the forum.

After hesitating for a moment, Varick temporarily gave up on the titles that had Arthur Jackman, and clicked on the latest one based on the date of the video.

When the video opens, what catches your eyes is exactly the same as the one described in the novel.

The puppet mask, a dark background, the dim lights in front of the camera, the weird atmosphere... The real scene is even more creepy than what the novelist described.

"Welcome to... Jigsaw Theater, I am the host of this program, you can call me - Jigsaw."

"First of all, since the recent lost lamb is quite special, the subsequent scenes may be a bit cruel and bloody. Children under the age of 18 and audiences with weak psychological endurance are asked to consciously leave the stage."

The jigsaw used a joke tone, but the hoarse and low voice, even as if rubbing wood chips, was really unhappy, and instead made people feel cold on their backs.

"As usual, let's first introduce the special guest of this show... Sheldon Louise!"

"Sheldon Louise is a successful businessman...at least once, and now, he is a weak man, a weak man who chooses to escape and commit suicide after bankruptcy and debt."

"The blow of bankruptcy and debt overwhelmed him. He wanted to escape all this and left his wife, children and parents and jumped down from the high building... Unfortunately, he was picked up by me."

"Next, I need to make him realize the value of life again, and welcome new life and redemption..."

At the end of a opening introduction, the scene also switched to a metal secret room, above a middle-aged man with a slightly fat body but a haggard face.

The whole video is not very long, but as Jigsaw said at the opening, it's very bloody.

The middle-aged man was placed in various deadly mechanisms by a jigsaw, and the key to lifting these mechanisms was hidden in a box of strong acids, various poisonous insects, and even implanted into the middle-aged man's belly through surgery.

Kidnapping! Force others to harm themselves!

If it were other moments, this vicious behavior would have already scared Varick. However, when he thought that the real purpose of Jigsaw was to guide people to achieve redemption, he still continued to watch the obsessive-compulsive disorder with numb scalp.

The middle-aged man kept begging, roaring, and hysterically. Faced with keys that he had to torture and harm him before he could get, the man was so scared that he didn't dare to move and cried.

However, as the various mechanisms on him approached the countdown on death little by little, he finally moved with the choice of death and injury.

The hand reached into the strong sour, and the pits were corroded and wailed in pain. It reached into the poisonous insect box. It was swollen all over when bitten. It held back the fear and pulled the suture on its stomach, and put its hand into its stomach...

This scene was shocking to everyone. In addition to disgust and fear, there was also endless despair as if facing an abyss.

"Wait, he... didn't he want to die? He obviously jumped from the rooftop..."

Varick couldn't bear to watch it and was about to turn off the video, but a thought that suddenly flashed through his mind made him stunned.

This choice between death and torture and self-harm is cruel and the picture is bloody, but why did Sheldon get the key?

He couldn't wait to die, and he had already jumped off the roof. At this time, he wanted to die and just lie on the ground and wait for the jigsaw mechanism to kill him. Why did he have to suffer torture?

Sheldon seemed to have completely forgotten this point. Now he is just subconsciously working for the "living" he had already given up, and even taking the initiative to experience very painful torture for the sake of living.

"The desire to survive! Jigsaw is inspiring and strengthening his desire to survive in this way!"

Suddenly realizing this, a bright color flashed through Valek's eyes.

Although these punishments for obtaining keys are painful, they will not cause death, and even the chance of being disabled is not very high. However, Sheldon's desire to survive has been completely aroused.

Will a person who can endure so much pain in order to live commit suicide easily? Or will he still want to die?

Most people who jump off a building and commit suicide are just impulse, and when you close your eyes, there is no room for pain or regret.

But after experiencing the long-term fear of dying and the experience of surviving all kinds of difficulties and tortures, I'm afraid no one will be willing to commit suicide, right?

After this, as long as Sheldon survives, he will welcome true redemption and rebirth!

"It's true."

With excitement of "seeing through the puzzle", Varick skipped all kinds of torture and fast-forwarded the video to the end.

Sheldon was covered in scars, but the deadly mechanism on his body had been taken off. He was facing a door with bright sunshine, his eyes full of luck and ecstasy of surviving the crisis of life and death.

"Congratulations, you have successfully passed the Jigsaw Room. It seems that you are not as eager to die as you imagined."

"Originally, you were not even afraid of death. Why should you be afraid of poverty and debt? The worst result is death..."

"I hope you can remember today's experience and welcome your new life."

Jigsaw summarized it with a low and hoarse voice.

Sheldon, who was originally immersed in the joy and excitement of successfully escaping, was stunned when he heard this, standing dumbly at the door of the secret room, without moving for a long time.

"I thank you for your redemption, but I also curse you, the devil!"

Sheldon grinned with difficulty, turned his back to the door of the secret room and raised a middle finger to the sky, then burst out of the secret room with a laugh.

The laughter is loud and the emotions contained are complicated.

Even Varick, who is not good at observing words and expressions, could hear that there is the joy of surviving the disaster, the determination and courage to face any difficulties, and the pleasure of indifference and revenge after experiencing life and death.

The screen is also frozen, and the video that is not too long has been played completely.

"I don't know if Jigsaw connection accepts independent registration?"

Varick was stunned at the computer for a long time, and a thought came to his mind that even he felt like he was crazy.

But this idea has been completely unable to be curbed since it came out.

He is an office worker, who is so ordinary that he can't be more ordinary.

Since childhood, I have been obediently following the trajectory planned by my parents and teachers, and I am a nerd.

After graduation, he lived according to the fate of the "most" people and became a screw on the big machine of human society.

When you go to work and go home, you will always be two points and one line. There is no entertainment, and your dreams and edges have long been completely wiped out by reality.

From some point on, he felt that he was dead and became a cold robot. He lived numbly every day, living like a walking corpse, without goals, passion, and expectation, and was tied to the machine of human society day after day.

This is the regular life of most people nowadays, but... it is not the life he wants.
To be continued...