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Lin Huai: ……
He pursed his lips, retreated silently, and once again doubted his judgment on Chu Tian.
“Alright, just now, I found the cause of Feng Yao’s death, and I also know which rule she violated.” The next moment, Hazardous Waste, also known as Chu Tian concluded in a calm tone that was different from usual.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves1To have a big reaction, and everyone looked at Chu Tian.
He was still holding a wrench, wearing a plaid shirt and jeans. He was Leaning against the wall with a slender figure, but a cold and cynical smile on his face.
That smile was like a sharp knife, piercing the essence, or like a lion dormant as it hid in the shadows.
The fingers behind his back moved slightly, and Lin Huai’s breath was stagnant. He felt that the blood flow all over his body had accelerated a lot due to the rare sharpness of this man.
“…Actually, I really don’t want to be the person who says it. After all, it’s troublesome to waste words. However, I’m still afraid that someone will continue to commit suicide and cause the game to advance… Oh I mean, to affect other people.” Chu Tian said as he looked at Zhang Lu, “By the way, do you need to avoid it?”
“Huh?”
“Actually, it’s not a big deal. It’s just that if you start crying, it will be very annoying for me to handle.” A rare hint of distress appeared on Chu Tian’s face, “Maybe you will be criticized by others… Of course, there is also a possibility that you don’t know what is good and you might scold me angrily.”
Zhang Lu sat on the bed as she looked at the man leaning on the wall, her pale fingers gripping the quilt tightly.
She vaguely had a guess on what that person wanted to say… When she found out that her phone wasn’t in the usual place, she noticed something wrong.
No matter how much she was pampered in real life, she is still an experienced player after all. Even though Feng Yao’s death gave her such a big shock that her mind went blank, but right now…… she had a guess on the reason.
“……Just say it.” She said.
“I feel like you’re forcing yourself, forget it, we have already reached this point……” Chu Tian said, “But in a way, this can count as a good thing.”
And then, that guy still casually told her the worst possible outcome she had on her mind.
“As Zhang Lu said, Feng Yao doesn’t have the habit of getting up at night, so she wakes up not out of physical needs, but out of psychological needs. So the reason why she entered the toilet was to transfer money.” As he said that, Chu Tian picked up his mobile phone and clicked on the transfer page on the app, “I wonder if anyone has noticed this place?”
“I have tried this function already, and the message it prompted was that the transfer requires confirmation from both parties. In other words, two phones are required. As Ms Zhang Lu said, for two best friends, even passwords and sleeping habits can be shared. This means that Feng Yao knows the password to unlock Ms. Zhang’s mobile phone and has the ability to complete this operation. It can also be said that she was the only person present who had this ability.”
“But,” Huang Lu asked, “Why did she decide to do it last night? Last night was the first night of this game, and doing something like this on the first night… How stupid is she?”
“Because of that empty bottle.” Chu Tian added, “Zhang Lu sleeps very lightly and last night she took her last two pills, and Feng Yao realized that this would be the only time when Zhang Lu would be dead asleep. Otherwise, on the second night, it won’t be so easy to steal her phone anymore. For Feng Yao, the bathroom was a very safe place, that’s why she decided to take the two phones and hide in the toilet to start the operation.”
“Then……Then according to you, there would be two phones at the scene.” Ye Xian thought about it hard, “But why was there only one?”
“This you would have to ask the mole.” Chu Tian shrugged, “just now I noticed why Ms. Zhang was looking for her phone, she subconsciously reached under her pillow and after not finding it there, then she looked next to her bed. And there are indeed traces of dents from the phone under Miss Zhang Lu’s pillow on the bed.”
“Perhaps it was the mole, or maybe it was the ghost who killed Feng Yao. After he committed the crime, he placed the phone back on the bedside table next to Miss Zhang Lu.” Chu Tian said as he walked to the bedside table and picked up Zhang Lu’s iPhone. , “Look.”
There are dark red traces in the gap of the power button in the phone case: “This is evidence that it was at the murder scene.”
Lin Huai: ……So there really was physical evidence ah.
“What is their motive?” Ye Xian was a little anxious, he looked at Zhang Lu’s gloomy look and argued, “How do you know——“
“Motive? Do you really need a motive for killing someone?” Chu Tian shrugged, “There are already many cases of murder due to daily life conflicts in the real world, not to mention in this game. With the correct use of the game’s rules, one can easily satisfy their murderous and selfish intentions……Also. I’m not interested in what’s going on inside a murderer’s head when they’re planning to kill someone.”
After saying this, he stopped talking and looked at Zhang Lu, who was sitting on the bed with her head lowered.
“It turns out that Yaoyao she…… she wanted to kill me ah.” She murmured.
Even now, she hasn’t changed her habit of calling each other by nicknames.
“Maybe she never planned to kill you. Maybe she herself just wanted to survive, and to her, that is enough. To her, you might be just a stepping stone.”
Which one is better? To be a victim or to be a stepping stone? Zhang Lu didn’t understand, the only thing she could understand was that she was being used by her best friend, and this friend actually wanted to sit back and watch her die.
“It turns out that this transfer button has such a use.” Huang Lu scrolled through her phone with some lingering fear, “We almost… This is such a scam.”
“Rather than calling it a scam, it’s more like a form of protection. At least from this rule of no transactions, we can see that this time the game rule prohibits us from killing each other. Feng Yao’s death might be a form of punishment, but for us, it’s a warning.” Chu Tian said, “Follow the rules and you’ll survive.”
“PROTECTION?!” Sha MaTe screamed, “You call this ‘protection’?? Feng Yao’s death, and the deaths of the others, you call this protection……”
His eyes were red, and he looked extremely angry: “Who are you kidding? This game wants all of us to go die……”
Chu Tian shrugged as he placed his wrench next to him and said next to his ear: “Of course it’s protection, otherwise, it would be too easy to pass the game. We only need to choose one unlucky person and transfer everyone’s money to him…… Who do you think will die first?”
Sha MaTe took a breath: “You……”
Then, he heard Chu Tian’s quiet voice: “I don’t think that person would be me.”
He smiled after saying that and retracted his wrench.
“The game’s essence is the rules. We play the designated roles according to the rules given by the game, so that the ‘system’ is satisfied. At the same time, we are looking for loopholes in the rules of the game, in other words, looking for the remaining glimmer of hope.” Chu Tian said, “In the past, ghosts were already difficult to control, and now it is also difficult to completely eliminate them. As weak humans, the only thing we can do is to use the protection of the so-called ‘curse’2So the rules and use our brains to kill them. So if you want to survive, then play your role properly and play with the game’s rules instead of letting it play with you. Even a teenager who’s addicted to Honor Of King3A Chinese MOBA game (MOBA games examples: League of Legends, Mobile Legends, and Arena of Valor) would understand this right?”
After saying this, he patted Sha MaTe’s head and continued: “This is only a low-level knockout game, when you reach the mid-high level games, you’ll see the terrible taste of those game makers. If you’re still this impulsive then, it would be hard for you to survive.”
He left the room alone. Before leaving, he paused and looked at the girl who had her head still lowered.
“Sometimes discovering this kind of thing early is not necessarily a bad thing. It is better than discovering the betrayal when it’s too late……” He tilted his head and said, “This is for you.”
He threw a lollipop to the girl, who didn’t catch it.
Lin Huai thought about it and decided to follow him.
Before he left the room, he turned and glanced at the girl on the bed. She was holding the phone tightly as she desperately tried to rub the blood stains off with her fingers.
But it just won’t come off.
I wonder if she is doing that out of fear, disgust, or something else?
He found it very interesting for no reason, and what interested him the most was the guy who came up with theories in this unlimited-flow game.
Lin Huai found Chu Tian in the hall. A young man in a plaid shirt stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, staring out the window silently.
Heavy rain was pouring outside the window.
“…From the gray transfer button to the relationship between those two people to the reason for the murder attempt, it really was a marvelous theory.” Lin Huai stood behind Chu Tian and clapped somewhat insincerely.
“Actually,” the latter said in a deep voice. From this angle, Lin Huai could only see his side profile. Chu Tian raised his head slightly, and he looked like he was smoking.
It wasn’t until he turned his head that Lin Huai noticed that he was eating a lollipop.
Chu Tian held the lollipop between his fingers and breathed out.
Lin Huai: ……
“I only did a little bit of trivial work,” Chu Tian said, “If it benefits the team’s life or death, how could one avoid it due to fortune or misfortune……4This expresses the sentiment that one should not avoid commitment or responsibility to the team based on personal gain or loss.”
“So how did you manage to do it?” Lin Huai interrupted his complaints, “Were you looking for new evidence, before breakfast?”
“Yes.” Chu Tian’s eyes were bright, “Through a chain of evidence and careful reasoning, I successfully found a breakthrough in this incident, which is——”
Lin Huai pricked up his ears.
“The phone.”
“After we separated, I returned to the bathroom and found a hair dryer. After using the hair dryer for half an hour, I finally successfully repaired the phone and restored the transfer records in it.” As he spoke, Chu Tian took out the mobile phone that originally belonged to Feng Yao, “And the good performance of this mobile phone is the key to this reasoning.”
“…So you were repairing a phone for half an hour?”
“Yep.” Chu Tian flipped his hair, “Even if it is a ghost, you must follow the basic laws when using apps. There are no records in the world that can be completely deleted, and there is no truth that cannot be discovered…”
So this is your theory?” Lin Huai said absent-mindedly.
“Yeah.” Chu Tian said, “Relying on science, technology, and logic to find hidden clues, what’s wrong with that?”
LIn Huai: ……
“You’re such a……” He considered his words, “Materialist5a person who supports the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications..”
He paused again and said: “You…… Never mind, I shouldn’t have held any expectations from you.”
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Thank you for the chapter!!
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