TL: Cloe
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“Judging from the traces, the victim died at around 5-6 am so early in the morning. There are no rose teeth1It says in the raws 无玫瑰齿现象, so in English no rose teeth ( I searched it up on Baidu). Rose teeth are stained teeth due to capillary bleeding in the gingival mucosa caused by the lack of oxygen during the suffocation process. Rose or light brown-red may appear on the surface of the tooth neck. or suffocation marks. The murder was committed in a small room, there are no traces of the murderer entering or exiting, which means that…… it was a ghost who did it. Hmph, this ghost did quite a clean job, even patiently cleaned up the place……”
Ye Xian glanced at Lin Huai, who was speaking to himself in the corner.
Logically speaking, there’s nothing wrong with him trying to solve the case…… He thought, but… why do I feel like he’s a little too excited……
Ye Xian shuddered and decided to stay away from him. As he took a step back, he bumped into his other roommate, only to see him leaning forward to the sink, as if sniffing the mirror.
……Mom, help, both of my roommates are perverts. Ye Xian thought silently.
The trio were awoken by a sharp scream.
For Ye Xian, waking up in the morning to a scream is nothing special. In other words, for a person living in an unlimited-flow novel, not waking up to a scream is abnormal because this is the daily routine ah. Until he was changing his clothes, his thoughts were still wandering around the world.
He was about to head out when he realized that his two roommates were still sleeping next to him. One had a peaceful expression, like a corpse that had been sleeping for the past hundred years as he slowly opened his eyes and sat up. The other one was hugging his pillow and muttered drowsily: “There are cockroaches again?”
Ye Xian: ……
He pushed his glasses up a bit and decided to leave when a voice belonging to Lin Huai rang out: “Where are you going?”
“I’m going to see who screamed.” Ye Xian said.
“Oh……” Lin Huai muttered thoughtfully, “Will everyone go to check?”
“……” Ye Xian glanced at the duo, his lips twitched and said, “Well, normally… yes.”
“Alright then.” Lin Huai sat up on the bed, “If it’s like this then I’ll be more gregarious and go as well.”
With that said, he jumped off the bed and followed Ye Xian out of the room. When they reached the door, Lin Huai noticed that there was suddenly some extra weight on him.
He turned to look and saw Chu Tian, who was originally still asleep on the bed, fully dressed, and had his arm on his shoulder: “I’m coming as well.”
The moment they opened the door, Ye Xian speechlessly watched the two who were previously uninterested rush out like arrows as if they were racing who would reach the death scene first. Since being alone for 15 minutes is a death flag in the game, Ye Xian could only kick on his two legs to try and keep up with his two roommates who were running like wild dogs.
However, the two wild dogs were not exactly friendly with each other, at least when Lin Huai looked at Chu Tian who was running next to him, he2Lin Huai’s was thinking ‘Why is this guy so excited3In the raws it says 精神, which means mental but I thought excited would make the sentence make more sense when he heard that someone died.’
“Attention people, please give way.” said Chu Tian as he clapped his hands and walked in, he also grabbed Tang Wen, who was about to vomit, and moved him out of the way, “Ma’am please stop screaming, and this gentleman could you please find another place to faint?…… If you want to vomit please go outside, I don’t want you to ruin the crime scene with your puke!”
Actually, no one even wanted to enter the bathroom which was locked until everyone had gathered. He stared at the bathroom for a while before taking out a pair of gloves and shoe covers from his pockets and slowly entered the bathroom.
At the same time, Lin Huai also arrived at the bathroom.
He glanced at the terrifying scene in the bathroom. At the same time, Ye Xian who was next to him turned pale.
“Holy……”
To his surprise, Lin Huai, who was standing next to him didn’t seem to have much of a reaction. He simply watched as the meat sauce kept rolling in the toilet, with an obvious lack of interest: “This method… is a bit too dirty.”
“This…You……”
Lin Huai peeked at him.
After realizing that everyone except him had a look of fear on his face, he started to ponder.
Shouldn’t screaming be more in line with how ordinary people would react in this type of situation?
“Ah.”4This is a failed attempt of a scream… so I’ll call it a noise He made an apathetic noise, “So scary!”
Ye Xian: ……
“I was awoken by the flushing sound.” In the bedroom, Zhang Lu had already fainted, there was only the middle-aged woman Peng Xuan who was still sitting on her bed as she quivered. Perhaps she was too scared, even her third chin5Uh… so the author was probably being sarcastic or something. The third chin is like a second chin but make it so that there are three chins. was shaking, “I didn’t dare to go in, so I went to knock on Tang Wen’s door. When Tang Wen heard that something was wrong, he came over with the other two people, but then the door opened by itself. When I saw what was happening, she, she has already been flushed down halfway.”
Hearing this sentence and recalling the scene before, the pale Sha MaTe and the green-faced Yu Fu showed expressions of wanting to vomit again, even though there was nothing left to vomit in their stomachs.
“Flushed down halfway? How long did it take in total for you to hear the sound and find Tang Wen?” Lin Huai suddenly asked.
“I was sleeping deeply.” Peng Xuan said, “I was awoken by the sound of flushing water, but the sound should have started a while before I woke up. After that…… It should have taken around 15 minutes when I went to get Tang Wen. And when we returned, the sound appeared again.”
“The deceased Feng Yao was 160cm tall and weighed 57 kg. Based on the density of a human being and the density of water in the body, Feng Yao’s volume was approximately 0.057 cubic meters. Coupled bones which had a higher density, Feng Yao’s real density should be approximately 0.05 cubic meters. Usually, the toilet can pump 6 liters of water at a time. If you replace it with a toilet that flushes human… it will only take about 10 times and there only needs to be a 1 minute waiting time between each flush, so there should be no need for that guy to flush water for such a long time.” Lin Huai thought as he mumbled.
When he came back to his senses, Ye Xian, who was standing beside him was looking at him weirdly.
“So…?” Chu Tian, who was still looking around in the toilet, stuck his head out and asked him.
He was still wearing that mask, and didn’t look like a player in the unlimited-flow world, but more like a doctor or detective in a criminal investigation movie… Lin Huai was shocked by his own thoughts.
“This is a warning, a warning for the players. Otherwise, there is no point in spending so much energy on flushing if they just wanted to kill her, what a waste of resources.” Lin Huai analyzed carefully, even if he was complaining in his heart, “So the ghost wants us to know that Feng Yao had a terrible fate. What we need is to figure out which death flag Feng Yao triggered for the ghost to be this angry.”
So why do we need to analyze the murderer’s, no, the evil spirit’s psychological state…
After listening to the tragic death of Feng Yao, Ye Xian’s mental health was already on the verge of collapse, but Lin Huai’s words gave him some energy to complain.
Even though Ye Xian didn’t say anything, his thoughts were clearly written on his face. Lin Huai sighed, he was having a bit of a headache from these people’s stubbornness: ” Ghosts are not stupid and only know how to kill…… Ok, yes there are indeed some ghosts who are like that but some ghosts would not care about you as long as you don’t lift their restrictions or break their logic.”
“What kind of logic?’ Chu Tian, who had explored the whole toilet, stuck his head out again and asked.
He was still wearing a mask.
“For example,” Lin Huai listed, “The restriction on the grade one danger items that you guys mentioned before is shopping. Once you buy them, own them, their restriction would be lifted, and then start the killing; for another, a skin peeler, the thing they care the most about are their faces. If you anger them, the worst outcome is that they might snap your necks, but if you ruin their faces, they will slowly use their nails to peel your face……”
……The worst is that you’ll lose your head? The worst? This also really scary alright? Ye Xian forcefully controlled himself from cursing.
“How are you so skilled…” Ye Xian raised his eyebrows, “You are obviously just a newbie. When it comes to the game, I was the one who entered first…”
“Uh,” Lin Huai paused and made the same sound as Conan6A guy from the anime Case Closed when he was exposed by passers-by, “I read and watch a lot of novels and series, hehe.”
Ye Xian: ……
“So to sum up, the rules in this instance are very good.” Lin Huai quickly concluded his speech7Hm… Or maybe to change the subject… *Wink wink*, “Being able to encounter such a logical game is a blessing comparable to 9968This could have two meanings, I’m not quite sure, I’ll ask my friends later. 1. It could mean good karma, luck, balance, fortune. 2. it could mean a punishment of extra work hours from 9 am to 9 pm, 6 times a week which forms 996. I’m pretty sure it’s the first one tho , we should cherish it…”
Everyone: ……
Noticing the frightened eyes of some of the people present, Lin Huai felt that he should comfort them a little, “Actually, you don’t need to be so scared……”
“Everyone will die at some point in the end, some as light as a feather, while others as heavy as Mount Tai.9This could either mean: 1. Some will die without affecting others while some will be remembered after death. or 2. Some will die peacefully, while some will die painfully.” Lin Huai said, “Since everyone is gonna die one day, there’s no need to anger them when you could just die peacefully in their hands, this is also a type of luck……”
Huang Lu: ……
“So are you……” she hesitated mid-speech.
“Nothing,” Lin Huai took out his phone, “In the novels, people like me who can think broadly usually live the longest……”
Huang Lu: …… I wanna expose you right now.
She wanted to say something but decided not to. Her instincts tell her that Lin Huai isn’t a good thing, but her logic tells her that a real ghost definitely won’t be this naughty.
Several people had the same idea as her. So in the end, after some internal struggles, they once again classified him as ‘Safe’.
Chu Tian listened to Lin Huai’s words of comfort and nodded thoughtfully, “You’re right, in exchange, I’ll tell you a secret.”
With that said, he walked towards Lin Huai, hooked his arm onto his shoulder, and whispered in his ear: “…Now I no longer doubt that you are the ghost.”
“……Ha?10It’s another confused noise such as A? or ah? which means huh?” Lin Huai was struck dumb for a second.
“I have tested you before. Lin Huai, lacking the wood element, removes the three trees and the only thing left is the ghost.” Chu Tian smiled, “Isn’t it?”
Lin Huai looked up: “Ah?”
“Your reactions tell me that you don’t know anything about this.” Chu Tian shrugged, “Which means that you’re not hiding anything……”
“Wait……Can you please rethink the fact that you hinted it a little too implicitly11My brain at 1 a.m. cannot process this, here is the raw ‘你可不可以把你暗示得有点过于含蓄了这点’. I can understand everything separately, but when they’re placed together, my brain stopped braining… ……”
“But I no longer suspect you anymore, since……”
“There are no ghosts who are as obvious as you.” Said Chu Tian, “You’re almost afraid that we won’t suspect you.”
Lin Huai: ……
……Huh? Was I so obvious? He carefully thought about his past actions, feeling a bit confused.
Chu Tian looked at Lin Huai’s thoughtful look: “But I have a new guess about your identity. I smell something familiar on you, such as…”
He pinched Lin Huai’s cheek, “First experiment, it is real skin.”
Lin Huai: ?
After saying this random sentence, he turned and walked back into the bathroom.
Lin Huai, who got rejected to be the ghost and who got pinched twice was extremely tangled inside. Tang Wen looked at the two’s strange behavior and rolled his eyes as he walked closer: “What did Chu Tian say to you?”
Lin Huai paused for a second and said: “He said that he likes men.”
Tang Wen: “Ah?”
Lin Huai added: “He even harassed me.”
Tang Wen: “??”
Lin Huai continued: “He also wanted to date me, skr~12It’s an internet slang that means when someone is like simping or the ‘ Ahhh! I’m dead’ ”
After he finished slandering Chu Tian, Tang Wen, who was struck by lightning13Shocked/Stunned, bc like it’s related to electricity ykyk, was left alone to rethink about life. After recovering, he moved away from Lin Huai just like Ye Xian and Huang Lu. After a while, he heard a voice from the bathroom: “Third brother Mu14I think it’s some guy who gives quotes or sm? idkk, I am not caught up with the Chinese slangs or anything on the internet QAQ, feel free to give me tips…, come in and take a look at the scene.”
“……Who on earth is Third Brother Mu?”
As he said this, he walked into the toilet obediently. After noticing Tang Wen’s eyes, he turned and smiled innocently at him.
Then he gestured “shh” in a serious manner and closed the toilet door.
Tang Wen: ……
Only Chu Tian and Lin Huai were left in the bathroom. Chu Tian looked like he was fumbling with the sink. When he saw him coming in, he simply asked: “Why’d you close the door?”
Lin Huai: “Since you wanted excitement, then might as well follow till the end.”
He watched as Chu Tian fumbled around and couldn’t help but ask “What are you looking for?”
“I was looking for traces left by the ghost.” Said Chu Tin, there was some rarely seen seriousness in his eyes, “Look.”
He pointed at the foggy mirror: “It’s not rainy season right now and everywhere else in the bathroom is dry except this spot. Plus Feng Yao was flushed down the toilet, so I think that this is the place where the ghost emerged from.”
Lin Huai said in a daze, “Hm… You’re right.”
“Also here,” Chu Tian followed the water stains on the ceiling to the puddle behind the toilet, “This is the last trail of the ghost, which means that it came out through the mirror, crawled along the ceiling, and finally arrived behind Feng Yao. Maybe because of the different moving speeds, the water stains behind the toilet are obviously more than those on the ceiling. This means that it stood there for quite some time. The trails on the ceiling and behind the toilet show that it crawls on four claws, but it stopped behind Feng Yao. What would make a ghost wait behind a person for a long time without attacking? And what would a person do when squatting on the toilet?”
4 thoughts on “Chapter 7 – Don’t use your phones in the toilets”
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It’s because his name is 林槐. There are three 木 (Mu) characters in his name –> so it becomes 木三个/木三哥. When you take away the three 木 (Mu) characters in his name, what’s left behind is 鬼 (ghost).
*people on the toilet using their phones* 😰😬